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J. W. &W. S. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING- FEBRUARY 18, 1840. Vol. IV— No. SO
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CHROMCLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17.
Four or five mails were received last night,
and we understand there wore about seventy mail
bags brought here by the Northern route. We,
of course, have a flood of papers, but we do not
find much of interest in them.
The Hon Waller T. Colquitt, one of our Rep
resentatives in Congress, passed through this city
last evening on his way to his residence, whither
he is drawn in consequence of sickness in his fam
ily. .
Congress.
There is nothing of much interest from Wash
ington city. We are unable to bring up the de
t as of proceedings received last night, for the
four or five days in arrear by the failures ot the
mail.
On Saturday last, Lt. Col. Samuel C. Wilson
was elected Colonel of the 10th Regiment of
Georgia Militia, embracing the city of Augusta;
and M. A. Stovall was elected Major of the up
per Battallion of the city.
The Columbus Argus takes us somewhat to
task about our remarks on the vote of Messrs >
Black and Cooper for Printer to the House of
Representatives. We applauded the course of all
our members on the New Jersey question, be
cause wo thought they acted out sound principles
in voting as they did. We have an equal right
to censure, when any of them vote against our
wishes and what we believe to be the feelings and
wishes of those who elected them, and we shall
always take the liberty to do so. We do not
support or countenance the present administra
tion, because we believe its poli-y has brought
upon the country the wide spread ruin and mise
ry which mei’t our eyes in every direction we
look. The Globe is the organ of this administra
tion, and is a greater di.grace toil than any thing
else connected with it. High minded men who
support the measures of the administration are of
ten made to blush for having such an organ. It
is the very last thing connected with or attached
to the administration, to which we ever could give
support, and we believe this to be the feeling of
the great body of our party in Georgia. We arc
mortified, therefore, to see any of our members
supporting it, and while we conduct a free press,
we shall not hesitate to express our opinions
frankly and independently.
The fifteen gallon law of Massachusetts has
been repealed.
Virginia Election of Governor.
The Richmond Whig of Wednesday last,
says:—
“The General Assembly yesterday,after a pro
tracted session of 11 hours and much speaking,
succeeded in making an election of Governor.—
Thomas W. Git.mek, the Speaker of the House,
was elected on the Bth ballot. We congratulate
the Whig party on this auspicious result—indeed
we may extend the congratulation to the whole
people of the State, for, in Mr. Gilmer, they have
obtained a Chief Magistrate of high public and
private worth, and zealously devoted to the true
and substantial interests of the Commonwealth.
We never saw a contest waged more gallantly
on all sides. The spirit displayed would have
gone far to redeem even a worse cause than that,
which (according to our estimate) some gentle
men were supporting.
We shall have something to say upon this sub
ject in a few days. If the tide-water people do
not roast some of their delegates for attempting
to put into the Gubernatorial Chair ono who has
gone as far as Arthur Tappan ever went in favor
of abolition, we will give up our judgment.”
I rom the New York Star, Feb. 8.
Two Days Eater from England.
By the packet ship Philadelphia, Capt. Mor
gan, from London, we have Portsmouth dates to
Dec. 28.
The London Times of the 27th says that mon
ey, without being in any great request, still com
mands interest at the rate of six per cent per an
num at the stock exchange.
The Herald says that the Chartists have
again commenced holding secret meetings in
London.
Franck. —The Journal du Havre of the 23d,
announces that the Minister of Marine had order
ed a general levy of seamen throughout the fifth
maritime district, including all the seamen em
ployed on land and in the arsenals. This meas
ure was to complete the manning of the squad
ron in resenc, of which the minister ordered the
preparation with all possible despatch.
Espartero has come out with a published dec
laration of his principles, hostile to the ministry
and rather favoring the exaltados. It is thought
the cabinet will be dissolved.
Fighting is going on with great activity at Al
giers, and the results seemed rather disastrous to
the French, as no private correspondence came
by the steamer which reached I oulon.
The passengers who arrived in her, however,
stated that hostilities continued incessantly from
the 14th to the 16th, all along the line between
Koleah and Foudouk. On the 14th the Maison
Carree was vigorously attacked by 3000 or 4000
Arabs, but without success. The French, how
ever, lost 60 men in the affair. In the mean
time. General Rulhireres defeated the Arabs, near
Douera, with considerable slaughter. On the
I4th the Amazon frigate landed 550 men of the
3d Regiment of Light Infantry, who were imme
diately sent to the Maison Carree, and on the
15th the two battalions of the 58th, landed from
the ships of the line, proceeded in the same direc
tion. The next day the French army took the
offensive along the whole line, and beat the ene
my in every direction.
London, Friday, December"? half past twelve.
Now that those commercially connected with
the United States have had time to compare notes,
the feeling is pretty general that the accounts re
ceived per the British Queen are much more fa
vorable.
Two o’clock.—The money market is in a ve
ry tranquil state, and the only occurrence likely to
disturb it for the present is the occurrence of the
4th January, which, when commercial affairs are
in a thriving condition, is generally what is term
ed “a heavy day.” Although the payments to be
made at the beginning of next month will be
comparatively insignificant, we must recollect
that the resources of the mercantile community
have also been materially curtailed, and that con
sequently they may have as much difficulty in
now meeting small engagements as they had for
merly in borrowing largo ones. The funds are
not affected to any extent by those temporary
pressures, which only proves the abundance of
wealth in the midst of a scarcity of money.
The news carried out by the British Queen
wag considered favorable.
M. Sauzet is elected President of the French
Chamber of Deputies, by 172 votes over Odillon
Barrot, who received 94.
The bureaus or committees chosen, arc gener
ally favorable to the Ministry.
The Moniteur states that by the last reports
from Africa the numbers of sick in the various
hospitals had diminished. The number, which
was on the Ist Nov. 2,390, had been reduced to
1,778 on the Ist inst.
Correspondence of the North American.
Nkw Yohk, Feb. 7, 3 P.M.
We have a quiet sunny day. The chiel move
ment is in the snow Banks. The packets have,
howevc , gone to sea. The George Washington,
for Liverpool, takes over $50,000 in specie. The
rates of Exchange on England remain high, say
8 a 9 prem. Bills on Philadelphia, 6J a 6J ;
Baltimore, 6$ a 6£; Richmond, 7a7s ; Charles
ton, 3i a 4 ; Savannah, 6$ a 7£ ; Augusta, 8J;
Macon, II a 12 ; Mobile, 7 a 7$ ; New Orleans,
4 a 4£.
The sales of Cotton so far to-day, ore reported
at 300 bales. In bread stuffs nothing is doing.
There is a very heavy feeling in the market.
People are beginning to look out earnestly for
the steamer Liverpool. The day of sailing was
January 20th. But whether she comes, is some-,
what doubted, though the agents expect her.
V. S. I have just seen Boston papers, brought
by Hamden, of yesterday morning. They seem
to be short for flour in Boston, for the Atlas says
the market has further improved; 1200 barrels
common Genesse have been sold at $7 25, and
$7 J a J are generally asked ; $7 cash is offered
for Howard-street, and refused.
New Yohk, Feb. 10, 3 P. M.
The talk about the Manhattan Bunk grows
louder and louder, and the difficulties in the bank
are found to be somewhat greater than was at
first supposed. The trouble is, that for years
' past, Mr. White, the cashier, has been in the
practice of making loans on stocks, which stocks
in these bw times look, are insufficient security.
Many of the loans are said to have been more or
less influenced by personal friendship. The direc
tors say they have not known of these loans at all,
though some of them are of several years standing.
The whole amount is said to approach a million of
dollars, tho’ the loss will be but a small percentage
on this amount. The affair has made a quarrel
between the Cashier and the President and Di
rectors, about who shall bear the responsibility
The Bank has during the last summer erected an
elegant granite house on Wall street. The stock
has fallen from 113 to 100, and at the close of the
Brokers’ Board to day, 80 was the best offer.
Our slock of Cotton is so low that very little
business can be done until we get more.
Flour there is nothing doing. Domestic Excha
nges are just about as they stood at the close of last
week.
Flour. —The Zanesville (Ohio) Republican
of the Bth mst. contains the following doubtful
item :
“Wo hear from good authority that proposi
tions have been made to an extensive mercantile
house in New York, for delivering in that city in
June next, ten thousand barrels of flour, at four
dollars seventy-five cents per barrel, which have
not been acceded to.”
Notice of the British respecting Ame
rican Slave Property. —Lord Palmerston,
in a letter of the 2d May, announcing the pur
pose of the Cabinet to recommend an appropria
tion for the payment of the slaves liberated at
Bermuda, refers Mr. Stevenson “to the correspon
dcnce which has already passed between them on
this subject for the reasons which will prevent
i the BriiishGovernment from admitting either now
or hereafter, any claim for compensation in re
speclto slaves thrown within British jurisdiction,
| after the period when slavery was abolished in
| the British dominions.”
Letters from Portsmouth, N. H. state,that Se
cretary Woodbury, has given directions for the
sale of stocks held by him in the Eastern Banks.
He is said to be one of the largest holder* in that
quarter of the country!
From the New York Commercial Advertiser,
Maine. —The Portland Daily Advertiser con
tains the following extract of a letter from the
capital of that State, where its Legislature is now
in session. It must he borne in mind, while
reading it, that the Government of Maine is tho
roughly Sub-Treasury—its theoretical belief be
ing for hard-money, and nothing else. This let
■ i ter shows what is the practice :
j “I have some very gratifying intelligence for
I your readers. The prospect begins to brighten
that money will soon flow in abundance up and
down the Kennebec. The Treasurer of the State
has just received four reams of beautifully engrav
ed blank notes, with a spread eagle upon them.
They run as low as $5 and up to SSO, and noth
ing is wanting but the name of the Treasurer, and
> then the ‘ aching void' in our circulating medium
! ; w iil be filled. They are ‘in hmc verba.'
“ 1 The State of Maine promises to pay, at the
. Treasury office in Augusta, in one year after date,
i i or sooner, if notice be given, to the holder of this
i note, Five Dollars in current Bank Bills, of said
i : State, with interest at the rate of six per cent.
* per annum.
f Treasurer of the State of Maine.
i “It is to be hoped that the members will now
r go about in right good earnest, as there
is a prospect of their getting their pay for their
services. It is true they will not receive it in the
‘ constitutional currency,’ but they must not bo
particular these hard times. Neither will they
receive it in current bank bills of the State, but
in the Treasurer's promise to pay them such .JJ
This seems to be a great way off from the yel
low boys.”
From the New Orleans Bulletin of the 6 th.
Texas.
Through the politeness of Captain Wright, of
the steam packet New York, which arrived yes
terday in 32 hours from Galveston, we are in
possession of papers of that city of the 3d instant.
They contain little of interest. Letters received
from Mexico, make mention of an expedition be
ing fitted out, destined for Texas, to be headed
by Bustamente. The ohjeet of the expedition is,
no doubt, to protect Matamoras from the assault
of the Federalists. Both Houses of Congress
have voteU for the adoption of the Common Law
of England, as the basis of the system of juris
prudence to be reared in Texas. A British sloop
of war had appeared at Velasco, supposed to be
the bcarei of despatches from the British Gov
ernment. The papers announce the election of
General Felix Houston as Major General of
Texas. The state of business and trade in Texas
remained without alteration since previous advi
ce*.
From the New Orleans Bulletin, 6 th inst.
By the schr. Ulysses, arrived yesterday, we
have received our Havana papers to the 29th ult,
An extract from a Vera Cruz journal of the 28lh
December, gives an account of the formal land
ing from a Spanish ship of war, of Don Angel
de la Barca, Minister Plenipotentiary of her Most
Catholic Majesty, near the government of the
Mexican Republic; and of his subsequent arrival
at the capitol. A terrible conflagration occurred
in the city of Mexico, on the night of the 27th,
and the editor complains loudly that the authori
ties take no steps to prevent their frequency.—
The Mexican editor of the Diario, informs his
readers that the New Orleans Bulletin openly
expresses its sympathies in favor of the Tcxians,
and makes odious comparisons unfavorable to the
Mexicans, without distinction of descent or color.
Tampico, Dec. 22.—Huzzah for the great
Tenoxtillan, from Acapulca to the Sabine, from
Vera Cruz to California!
From Metamoras. —Last evening about 100
artisans and people from the neighborhood pre
sented themselves at the state house, and formed
a company of infantry to defend their property
and the integrity of the soil, against the united
Federal and Texian anarchists.”
From the New Orleans Bee of the 8 th.
I * From Texas.
By an arrival from Texas we have received
Galveston papers to the 3d instant inclusive. A
letter from our officcis engaged in running the
boundary line between the United States and
Texas, states that the commissioners have been
unwillingly detained by the want of instruments
and the absence of some who are connected with
its operations; but that the line will be run in a
very few weeks.
The bill to detect fraudulent land certificates
has passed both houses of congress. It provides
for the appointment of commissioners to examine
all certificates, that no titles shall be issued upon
any certificates not approved by the board, and
that no title shall be issued to any assignee.
G. W. Horton, esq. has been appointed recor
der of the supreme court.
The Pilot, a British sloop of war of 18 guns
has reached Texas bringing an agent of that gov
ernment from one of the West India Islands,
who demands a surrender of certain black subjects
of Great Britain, said to have been inveigled into
the country and sold for slaves.
Congress is expected to adjourn about the mid
dle of the month.
A letter from Austin, dated January 19th, says:
“Judge Robinson was tried for murder before
judge Shelby—committed for trial—taken before
Jones, Rusk and Mills, on habeas corpus and dis
charged,—He has resigned, and John Hemphill,
esq. by an almost unanimous vote elected to fill
. the vacancy. J#
1 ‘
Correspondence
Between the Governor of New Jersey and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives U. S.
STATE or NEW JERSEY.
Executive Department,
Trenton, Jan. 24.
Sir: I herewitii transmit a copy of a preamble
and resolutions passed by the Legislature of the
Stale of New Jersey at their present session, and
request that you will lay the same before the Rep
resentatives to the 26th Congress from the several
States, now assembled at Washington.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, your
obedient servant, WM. PENNINGTON,
Governor of New Jersey,
Hon. R. M. T. Hunter,
A Representative from Virginia.
House of Representatives or the U. S. J
Wasuinbton, Jan. 30. 5
To His Excellency, Gov. Pennington.
Sir: I huvo received, through you, the resolu
tions of the Council and General Assembly of
New Jersey, a copy of which was ordered to be
transmitted to “the Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, a
Representative from the State of Virginia,” with
a “request that he will lay the same before the
other Representatives from the several States,
now assembled at Washington,” As an individ
ual, or as a member from the State of Virginia,
I should always esteem it a distinguished honor
to lie selected as the organ through whom the
sovereign State of New Jersey might be pleased
to express its wishes and opinions. But as I
have no right to suppose that the Council and
General Assembly of New Jersey have designed
thus to distinguish me individually, and to the
exclusion of the honorable member from that
State who with others constitute tho present
House of Representatives, I feel bound to con
clude, upon this consideration, and from the gen
eral tenor of the resolutions themselves, that they
were sent to me on account of the station which
I at present occupy.
Under these circumstances, I beg leave moat
respectfully to decline to lay these resolutions
liefore the House over which I have the honor to
preside, as virtually they seem to deny my title
to the office of .Speaker, and the right of those
who have invested me with that trust.
The House of Representatives of the United
States of America, having elected a Speaker, has
a right to expect that alt communications made
to it through its organ, should be addresssed to
him m his official capacity. Under this view of
the case, it would seem that I cannot comply with
the request of the Council and the General As
sembly of New Jersey, with a due regard to the
dignity of the House, or without admitting by
inference that it had conferred upon me authority
which it had no right to give, and that I myself
am discharging the functions of an office to which
I have no title. These are admissions which I
am not prepared to make.
In thus stating my views in reference to the
request made of me, I raise no question as to the
propriety of the resolutions themselves, or as to
the right of the Council and General Assembly
ot New Jersey to adopt them. I only refer to
them as they relate to my official station, to show
that I am influenced by no want of respect for
the constituted authorities of the State of New
Jersey, but governed entirely by a sense of duty
to the House, of which I am the organ, mid
which may expect that I shall not lay before
them communications which refuse to accredit
me as such. lam not disposed to cavil about
mere matters of form, nor do I imagine that a
personal disrespect was intended to lie offered to
me by those whose station and dignity alike for
bid such a supposition. But when an omission
of form seems designed as a mode of denying the
rights and privileges of the House es Represent
atives, of which I am the organ, it becomes my
duly to do nothing which may recognize the pro
priety of such an omission.
I have retained the copy of the resolutions
transmitted to me, until I shall be further advised
by your Excellency of any other disposition
which it may be proposed to make of them.
In conclusion, 1 beg leave to express my regret
that I should be unable to comply with any re
quest made of me by the Council and General
Assembly of New Jersey.
I have the honor to be, with great respect,
your obedient servant, R. M. T. HUNTER.
Savannah, Feb. 13.
Melancholy Accident. —Four horses were
returning with the omnibus from the railroad depot
with five passengers, (two ladies and three gen
tlemen inside,) yesterday afternoon, when the
horses, neat the store of Mr. A. Champion, Mar
ket Square, became frightened and unmanageable,
and we regret to state that while at full speed near
the store ol Messrs. Hamilton & Houston, Mr. B.
Childes, of Burke County, a contractor on the
railroad, in attempting to get out was thrown
against a tree, and received a very serious wound
on the right temple, from the effects of which he
tied last evening. The other passengers left the
omnibus in safety. The horses proceeded with
the vehicle through several streets, until ap
proaching Judge Berrien’s residence, one of his
men servants nobly attempted to stop them, hut
he was run over and seriously injured. The
omnibus was soon after upset and the driver
thrown from his box, but escaped uninjured.—
Some hales of cotton, it is thought, alarmed the
horses and caused them to start.
> Roubery and an Attempt to set Fire.
—The store of Messis. McCartney & Gordon,
in Broad-st, was entered last evening, by some
person or persons unknown, and after ransack- 1
ing the draws, and abstracting five hundred dol
lars therefrom, the villain or villains set fire to
the desk, which commenced burning rapidly,
when it was fortunately discovered in time to pre
vent any serious damage. Information was im
mediately lodged at tho Guard House, when
search was made, but nocl ie could bo had, to the
robbers.— Charleston Courier of Saturday.
The Secretary of the Navy estimates the num
ber of steam vessels of war requisite properly to
defend our sea ports at forty, the cost of which
would be 13 and a half millions of dollars—the
completion of the requisite number of ducks and
navy yards 24 millions, and to put the navy
proper, on a war footing, would cost 19 millions
being a grand total of fifty-six and a half
millions of dollars.
Election of Bishop.— We learn that the
Rev, Dr. C. E. Gadsden, long the pious and es
teemed Rector of St. Paul’s Church, in this city,
was yesterday elected, by the Episcopalian Con
vention, in session in this city, B.shop of the Dio
cese of South Carolina, by a majority of one vote
among the Clergy, and of seven votes among the
lay delegates, who were members of the Conven
tion. Dr. Gadsden’s competitor for the office was
Rev. Stephen Elliott, the gifted, admired and
pious Professor of sacred literature in the South
Carolina College.— Char, Cour. of Saturday.
Printer’s error. — A rather green village ed
itor of a country paper was desirous of gaining the
good graces of the new parson, and in describing
his first entrance into the church the other Sun
day wrote—“He is a most venerable sample of
antiquity.” To his astonishment, however, and
to the amazement of the inhabitants, it came out
the next fnorning in the paper—“ He is a most
venerable sample of inicjuily."
Jonathan Slick's ideas ol Love and Ladies.
[From Jonathan's New Year’s calls in New York.]
Getting in love is somewhat like getting drunk,
the more a feller loves the more ho wants to, —
and when the heart gets agoing, pity put, pity
pat, there is such a swell, that it busts up all
the strings, so that it can’t hold the grit real at all.
When Judy White fust took hold a my arm I
coat sleeve a real hearty smack, where
her hand took hdU, and that coat I really did love
better than any otiifet I ever had on; but I never
think the better of my yaller gloves for shaking
the hands of all the gals in York. I’ve only got
Miss Miles out of my head, to get a thousand new
shining faces in. Lord knows what’ll become
of me, if I go on to be bedivillcd arter tho women,
as I have been this new year’s day. When a
feller is made any thing on by ’em he must have
been brought up under good preaching in Weath
ersfield to stand it here in New York. I feel as
if I shouldn’t tie good for much afore long, myself,
the way I am going on, but to skoot up and
down Broadway like that ere Count, and to
hang round gal’a windows with fifes, and bas
soons, and drums and gilars at night. When
they heigh ho me so there’s no help to feeling.
I can’t look full into a purty girl’s face all a
flushing so, without being kind a dazzled and
scorched. It wakens me up in this cold weather
and kindles such a pulse in my heart, that the
blood runs through it as hot as if it had run
through a steam-boat pipe. And then all-fired,
the things have so many sly ways of coming
over a feller with them are crinkum crankums of
them, that I don’t think much of their party
months work, and not feel his work too. If they
sidle up, I cant help sidling too if I died : and
when them black eyes fall flash on me, I wilt right
down under ’em as cut grass in Wealhersfield on
a hot summer day. It is natur all this, and I
can’t help it no how.
If women do snarl up a feller’s heart strings,
though, they keep him out of other scrapes; any
body will tel) you that. A man that is in love a
let-tie is not always a running into rum holes, and
other such places. He don’t go a gambling, and
isn’t a sneaking round nights.
Love, according to my notion on it, is a good
anchor for us on this ’ere voyage of life !—it
bring* up so all standing when we put on too
much sail. It puts me in mind, now I think on
t*’ ° r ° U f fruise lhrou « h Hell Ga ‘ e 'n Uaptin
Doolittle s sloop; for jist as the tide and the wind
was a carrying us on the rocks, we dropt anchor
and kept off. I look on the uses of women purty
much as I look on tho freshet that in tho spring
brings down the Connecticut tho raa) rich soil
for (he meadows in Wealhersfield, They make
a great deal of splutter and fuss in their spring
time, with their rustics and their ribbons, and
their flotillas, I know; but when they light on a
feller for good, they arc the raal onion patches of
his existence. Put us together, and the soil will
grow any thing; but keep us apart, and we are all
thistles and nettles,— New York Express.
\\ o do not recollect that we have seen any il
lustration of the extravagant more transcenilently
ludicrous than the following, (a mere invention,
evidently) copied from a Buffalo paper, said to
have been uttered by a live Housier.-
Stranger—l expect you arc about the tallest
kind of a coon there is in these diggins. Your lit
tle Buffalonian walks straight into things, like a
squash vine in a potato patch.
I come down the other day in the ateamboat
Cleveland. She’s a pretty fixin; golly ! ain’t she a
smasher? Once eomigdown, a streak of lightning
followed throe miles and better. The Captain see
it was gaining on us a little, ao he told the man
to starboard the helm and let it go by. It did
go like a horse, and we were so near it that the
deck passengers smelt brimstone.
The Captain felt a little cheap, at first, about
letting it beat him, and said tho steam wasn't up,
but I told him he did perfectly right to (urn out,
as there was so many women on board, anil then
there wan so much iron that it drew the lightning,
and helped it along, so it warn't fair play. You
should have heard tho thunder that come a long
after it. It would have given you a new idea for
one of your articles.
Perhaps you don’t know where I came from.
Give us your fist now, and I’ll tell you all about
it. When I’m home I stops in the Chuckahokee
diggins, in the State of Indiana we raised an al
mighty crop of wheat this year I reckon nigh upon
four thousand bushels, and a sprinkling of corn,
oats, potatoes, and garden sass. You could hear
the earth groan all round our scttlomenl; the crops
were so heavy, and that’s what gives rise to the
stories about the earthquakes. It was enough to
make a young earthquake to near corn grow as it
did, and ns to the potatoes, I’ll he skinned alive if
over I saw any thing like if, Wi.y, any one ol
tnem warm nights, you just go out into a litllo
patch of fifty acres, close to the house, and hold
your ear down, you could hear the young pota
toes quarrelling, and the old ones swearing at
them because they didn’t lay along and atop
crowding. I calculate you didn’t raise such
crops in these parts.
Why, one day, one of our squash vines chased
a drove of hogs better than half a mile, and they
ran and squealed as if the old boy was after them.
Pill Advertisements. —ln common with
most other papers in this State, (and out of the
State too,) the Patriot admits into its columns
advertisements of patent medicines. Some of
our readers make complaints, which no doubt are
well founded, that too much of a good thing, in
the line of pill advertising, makes them sick.——
What would be their situation, if instead of the
advertisements, they should be compelled to take
tho actual pills ?
To tell ths truth, we ourselves nauseate some
what at the frequent sight of these pill puffs, and
should utterly refuse to take them, were it not
that we arc thoroughly convinced of their excel
lent effect upon our wholesome. It requires no
Esculapius to convince us of this, our lean and
consumptive pocket-hook testifieth to the fact; —
they impart life, and health, and strength. And
the secret of their virtue is, that (he pill doctors
pay us for advertising—thus making a contribu
tion to our slender stock of the main chanee,
which is by no means to be sneezed at! Is not
this satisfactory, all round ?— Greensborough
Patriot.
“Arrah, Teddy, an’was’nl your name Teddy
O’Byrne .before you left old Ireland 1" “Sure
it was, my darlint.” "But, my jewcll, why then
do you add the s, and call it Teddy O’Byrnes
now T” “ Why, ye spaleen! haven’t I got marri
ed since I kem to Amcriky ? an’ ar you so igno
rant of grammatics, that you don’t know that when
one thing is added to another, it becomes plural?”
Two citizens courting the daughter of Themis
tocles, he preferred the worthy man to the rich
one, and assigned this reason : “ I had rather
she should have a man without money, than
money without a man.”
Advantages of an empty Purse.— People
may talk as they please about independence.—
Your only independent man is he of an empty
purse. What is the rise or fall of stocks to him ?
What cares he for commercial failures? What
for high or low prices ? What for taxation or
national debt ? What for commotions or revolu
tions, the decline and fall of empires? Nothing.
He smiles at the robber by night, and the tax
gatherer by day, and regards the exciseman and
pickpocket with equal indifference. He is your
free philosopher, worthy the eye of Jove, one
who stands
“Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.”
Shinplastirs. —A law has been made in Mis
sissippi, which will he a death blow to small notes.
It imposes a. fine of $2,090, and several months
imprisonment in the penitentiary, upon all indi
viduals issuing “shinplastcrs,” or notes for a
small amount.
A New Project. —Home wag recommends
as every other project has failed to subdue the
Seminoles, that Government plant the rnorus
multicaulis all over Florida, as it has been ascer
tanedthat every branch contains two hundred and
forty two shouts!
We see it stated that oil can l>e procured from
Indian corn in the proportion of half a gallon to
the bushel, which burns as well in a lamp as sper
raacety, and emits no bad odour. The same com
will yield the same quantity of whiskey.
Two of a Trade. —A Physician being sum
moned to a vestry to reprimand the sexton for
drunkenness, dwelt so long on the sexton’s mis
conduct. that thelatlerindignantly replied:—“Sir,
I was in hopes you would have treated my failings
with more gentleness, or that you would have been
tbe last man alive to appear against me, as / have
covered so many blunders of yours!"
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Bank of South Carolina, on Wednesday last,
John S. Cosdell, Esq. was unanimously re
elected President.
“ Well stranger, where are you out’nl” aoid a
landlady of Arkansas to her guest. “Why, madam,
I am now from Baltimore, Maryland, but I was
bom and brought up in Massachusetts, near Bos
ton,” said the gentleman. “ Aint that whar rite
Yankees Use,” said the lady. “ Yes ma'am,” re
plied the gentleman. “ Law me I you are the
very man I have been looking arter this long
time—my clock it out of fix," ejaculated the lady
in ecstacies of joy. —Arkansas pap.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Dee. 26
Latest dates from Havre Dee. 19
Liverpool, December 36.
ft! Cotton. —There has been a good business done in
the Cotton market to-day ; about 4000 bales, prin
cipally American descriptions, have been sold—so
change in prices. The transactions are wholly to
the trade.
London, Dr ember 37.
The latest advices from Havre give the review
of the week ending the 21st instant, from which it
appears that business had not been very active of
late, and that there had been but very little altera
tion in prices.
Charleston, February 15.
Cotton —The unfavorable anticipations which
arc now generally entertained respecting the forth
coming advices from Europe, together with the ad
vanced rates of freight, have tended materially to
uepicss the operations on Uplands, and to excite
caution and distrust in buyers, in many instances
holders were compelled to yield their ground j and
operators this week have the advantage, which
they will probably maintain, until a decline is
tablished, or a more favorable state of things, op
erates to the contrary. Our stuck of all descriptions
is ample, and the receipts from different quarters
continue abundant. The transactions comprise
about 5060 bags, viz: 30 at 6c; 28 a6j; 23 a 6j;
697 a 7| 38 a 7*; 300 a 769 a 7}; 35 a 74; 649
a8; 65 a 8 1-8; 221 a 8}; 75 a 8j; 989 a 8]; 176
a Bjf; 989 a 8j; 31 a 8|; 490 a9; 68 a 9}; 107 a
9j; and 30 bags a 10c per lb.
Long Cotton —About IS7 bags were disposed of
since our last, at from 20 to 25 cts per lb, and 20
bags stained at 7 to 10 cts.
Hice —A considerable depression has existed for
sometime past in this staple. We notice a decline
of 25 cts per c wt. on inferior and middling qualities,
whilst very prime is not to be had. Little or n*
•hipping in harbor are now taking Rice, and to this
cause, is the decline mainly attributed.
A large proportion of the sales were taken for
domestic use. The stock in first hands, is small,
and the receipts are light; operations embrace 1821
tierces, as follows; 136 at s2s; 433,2 j; I|B, 2
13-16; 496,2}; 30, 2 16-16; 396,3; and 223, Sit
perewt.
Rough Rice —s9oo bushels sold at 79 to 80 eta
per bushel.
Flour —3so barrels Baltimore, sold at s6} a 6J
per bbl; and 100 at s6} a 6}.
Grom—2 cargoes Com arrived this week, and
were disposed of at 65 cts per bushel. No Oats or
Peas came to hand.
hay —A cargo arrived and brought 81 cents per
cwt.
Groceries —Few sales to any extent were made
during the week at private sale, business generally
remains flat. 80 bids Attakapas Molasses, brought
28 cts per gallon, and 40 do at secret prices. The
following sales were made at auction, 1336 bags
prime green Coffee, at 10} to 10} per lb;- tOObbls
Orleans Molasses at 37 cts, 312 hhds N O Sugar at
a 4}; 13 bbls N O Molasses at 27cts per gal
lon.
Lard —ls worth from 10 to 11 cts per lb.
Racon —There is a large stock of old Bacon re
maining on hand, and very dull prices of which are
nearly nomihal. Little or no new has arrived this
season.
Salt —l2oo sacks sold at prices not transpired,
and 1000 at $1 40 to 1 41 per sack.
Spirits —2shhds Bali Whiskey sold at 27at 40r
bbl Monongahola 37 at 37.
Exchange —On England 8j a 9 per ct premium,
France, 6f 15c a 5f 2oc.
New York and Boston, Sight are taken at 3 per ct
premium, 30 days, time off.
Richmond,6odays, I percent.
Bank of Charleston rates of Exchange, on the
North.
New York, 3 per ct premium.
Philadelphia, 2 per ct discount
Columbia and Camden, 1} per ct.
Savannah Hank notes, 4 per ct discocnt.
Spanish Doubloons, sl6}; Mexican 16.
Sovereigns, $4 86; Spcie, 1} peretprem.
Freights —To Liverpool,} to Id per IbforCot
ton; to Havre, IJ cts per lb; for Rice. sl} per tierce.
New York, for SCotton, 7 cts and $1 per bag.
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
S. I. Upl’ds.
Stock on hand Ist Oct. 1973 3733
Received this week, 987 8256
do. previously, 9533 119634
12493 130633
Exported this week, 600 6188
do. previously, 4395 104406
On ship board, 100 4895
4995 115489
Columbus, February 12.
Cotton has come in slowly during the past week,
and commands from sto 6}c per lb. Some tales of
choice lots have been effected at 7c. Onr river if
now in tine boating order, and holders are shipping
rapidly.
Columbia, S. C. February 14.
Cotton —The supply during the week haa beta
limited, and the sales, also; and prices, since the
receipt of the late accounts from Liverpool to Dee.
26, have declined fully } a cent. We now quote
them at 5 to 7}c extremes —principal sales at 6} to 7.
B"JL”L J.' LJ ■■■.WHSWBBM
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, February 14.
Cleared —Schr Profit, Gould, Norfolk.
Sailed— Brigs Clinton, Lyon, New York i Oscar,
Snow, Boston.
Went to sea —Schr Profit, Gould, Norfolk.
Vrparted— Steamboat Oglethorpe, Wllliams, Au
gusta.
Charleston, February 15.
Arrived yesterday —Fr barque Mazeppa, Leloup,
Havre ; Swedish brig Helena, Hediund, New York ;
brig Cervantes, Tufts, Boston; Br sebr Admiral
Colpoys, Tucker, Hamilton, (Bermuda;) achr Cur
lew, Young, Attakapas, (La.)
Cleared —Brig Canon, Pettingale, Stettin ; schrs
Rienzi, Wright, West Indies; Majestic, Sweat,
Eden ton.
■ ■we—g-aas * "mis
ADMINISTRATRIX’);) BALE.
WILL be sold on Friday, the twenty-seventh
day of March near, at the Livery Stable*
lately occupied by John B. Guedron, deceased, the
entire stock of Carriages and Horses belonging to
that establishment, with a number of Bridles, Sad
dles, andsettsof Harness Also, sixty-uineshare*
of the capital stock of the Peoples’ Line Stage
Company.
Also, the interest of tj;e said John B. Guedron in a
contract for the transportiun of the mail from Au
gusta to Savannah, via the Central Rail Hoad; to
gether with stock of horses and carriages of differ
ent kinds employed on the route; also, 25 share*
of the capital stock of the Georgia Insurance and
Trust Company.
At the sane time and place the Stables, lit. Will
be leased from the first of April next to Ist Octo
ber, 1841.
ELLEN B. GUEDRON,
Administratrix of John B. Guedron.
February 14, 1840. swtd