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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA,
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 5.
dj* See first page daily paper.
Mr. Stanly’s Speech.—Abolition.
The very excellent speech which this gentle
man delivered some time since on the subject of
Abolition petitions, in reply to Mr. Watlcrson
from Tennessee, who had in the course of his re
marks endeavored to fix upon the Whigs of the
North all the sins of Abolition, and thereby re
lieve the Administration party from any portion
of the offence against the peace of the South,
we had designed to publish, but its length for
bids, a* least for the present. In defending the
Whigs, however, Mr. Stanly did not pretend to
assert, but that some were obnoxious to the
charge ; but in defending the great body of the
party, he proved most conclusively, us well by
documentary evidence ns the conduct of tacn on
the floor of Congress, that the Vdministrntion
party were equally obnoxious to tbe charge of
being Abolitionists us the Whigs. He asserted
and proved most satisfactorily to any unprejudi
ced mind that the Abolitionists belong to no party
particularly, but that there were Administration
men and Whigs both to be found in the ranks of
the Abolitionists. This is the true stale of the
case, and every man who has travelled through
the Northern and Eastern States knows this to
be the fact For our part we have always felt it
our duty to denounce Abolitionists, no matter to
what parly they belonged, and in doing so we
have never felt justified, by facts, in charging one
party with being more infected with these danger
ous doctrines than another. Unfortunately,
however, for the dissemination of correct infor
mation, this course has not been observed by
many who have charge of the press at the
South, and particularly in Georgia. We
have witnessed with feelings of melan
choly, the prostitution of the dignity of the press,
in treating of this subject. There are a few hon
orable exceptions among the Van Durcn presses
in the Mouth, (we know of none in Georgia,)
who have on this as almost all other subjects,
deported themselves as became the organs of
Freemen. Hut the majority, wo confess and con
fess with shame, persist, regardless of the abun
dant evidence which is daily spread on their ta
bles, in endeavoring to make the impression on
the minds of their readers, that the Abolitionists
arc exclusively confined to the ranks of the
Whigs. Wc have forhorn to notice these ell'urts
to produce an erroneous impression on the minds
of the unsuspecting portion ot the people, whose
opportunities of obtaining facts are not as great us
those who seek to deceive them, with the hope that
a sense of justice, if a regard for the dignified and
imperial t station which they occupy as conductors
of public journals did not exercise a proper influ
ence, would eventually induce them to pursue that
course, which is sustained by truth. Hut wo
have been disappointed. And lost our silcncc |
might lie construed into an acquiescence in the
trull) of what they assort, wo have endeavored
in tills short article ts disabuse the public mind.
For tbe large majority of the abolitionists, wo
fool more of pity than contempt. It is only
against the leaders of the deluded many that wo
have ever directed our censures. They merit all
that has ever been said of them; —hut that por.
tion of them who are ignorant of the true state
of those whom, in the excess of their sympathies,
they would relieve, although censurable for uni
ting with designing and base men, are neverthe
less much loss censurable than their loaders.—
They arc prompted by the noblest feelings of our
nature, tbe wieh to relievo human misery ; but
uufortunately in this they are misled. Tne cause
js obvious : they arc not infoimed of the facts;
they only bear one side of the question, and that
is highly distorted and perverted. They hove
not at their command correct information, nor is
it possible, in the present stale of affairs, for them
to be supplied.
Washington Notional Monument Society.
By a report of the Treasurer, exhibiting the
state of the funds of this Society on the Itilh of
October last, it appears that the whole amount
of the funds received by the Society since its or
ganization in 1834, up to October, ’B3!>, is $34,-
208,32; of which $33,105,04 has been expended
in Pennsylvania and Washington (,'ity stocks.
The remainder, except $174,50,n0w on deposits
i n Hunk, has been consumed in incidental ex
penses, or remains on hand in unavailable, un
current and counterfeit Hunk notes; the two lat
ter of which amount to SIB,OO.
We confess that wo look with feelings of mel
ancholy rather than pride upon this report, when
we reflect upon the time, six years neatly, which
has been consumed in raising this contemptible
sum. It is true the fame of Washington needs
no such monument to perpetuate it to the very
latest civilized man, in whose bosom the vestal
flame of Liberty finjs a congenial altar. But
the rearing a monument worthy the name of the
“ Father of his Country,” would he a most noble
monument »f the gratitude of a free people, which
will, we fear, 10-.se much of its dazzling brillian
cy, by the time required to collect a sufficient sum
for its structure.
The New Orleans Sun thinks it is full as im
pertinent to ask of an editor the names of his
correspondents, as of an old maid her age ; and
you’ll get the truth about as soon. ‘ Them’s onr
sentiments.”
Two impoutant Facts for Anti-Bank
Mxn.— The Butler, Ohio, Democrat stales, that
within the last twenty years, no bank charter
has been granted by the Ohio Legislature, when
the Whigs had the majority. The same paper
alto affirms, that the charters of all the Banks
of Ohio were granted by the Legislature when
that party which now supports Martin Van Bureu
had the majority. Such facts as these are worth
volumes of declarations in determining the pre
tensions of a faction to the title of “anti-hank
PMty.”
Mons. Adrien.
This celebrated Magician continues to exhibi 1
his unrivalled powers in Legerdemain, Magic
Physic, Ac.—aye! and tricks of all sorts, tha
are calculated to interest and amuse. To-nigh
he promises an entirely new exhibition, whirl
has never before licen performed to an August!
audience; and really, if wc were to judge fron
what wc have seen of his powers, he might pro
misc any thing within the chapter of possihili
ties, without fear of failing to accomplish it; un
less he should offer to relieve us from the pressun
in the Money Market.
We are requested to call the attention of tin
public, to the sale of on k million of burnt Brick
which will take place this day, at 1 i o’clock, ai
the yard of J. K. Kilhurn.
A proposition for an asylum for inebriates ha)
been made in the Legislature of Massachusetts
Correspondence of the Philadelphia N. American
New Yoiik, Feh. 28, 3 P. M.
The cotton market continues active. The
sales to-day will reach 1000 hales again, at stea
dy prices. Flour remains very dull at the prices
quoted yesterday. Three or four cat goes of
southern corn have been sold yesterday and to
day, the last at 58$ cts. 50 lbs. Domestic Ex
changes stand precisely as quoted yesterday.—
The cotton shipping points, now that so much of
ths staple is going forward, rather look better.
To-day is the first start for Boston via Nor
wich, Ct. on the new Railroad to Worcester.—A
daily line is to run hcreaficr on that route by
which passengers will he taken through as quick
as by the way of Providence, and a very sound
competition will lie kept up. Before long there
will he a third route by the way of Hartford and
Springfield, all the way by steam.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of Saturday, says:
“The intelligence from Harrisburg, published in
the morning papers of yesterday, together with
the general advices of the week, have had an un
favorable effect upon public feeling inour Money
and Stock Matkets. Although a hope is still in
dulged that no destructive measure will become a
law, the continued agitation of the subject, and
the votes in both Houses thus far, have excited
the apprehensions of the timid, and thus again
retarded the confidence that was beginning once
more to appear. As to the final result, it is in
vuin to speculate. The Spring Trade has com
menced, hut with less activity than heretofore.—
Still, the lapse of each day seems to improve the
prospect, and a belief is entertained that the re
sult will prove more satisfactory than was at first
believed.
Flour has been pinning in from the West in
very large quantities. As many as 3000 barrels
arrived in Broad street from the interior, on Wed
nesday last, and sales to a large amount have
been effected, us low ns $5 per bbl. The money
rales have undergone no change.”
Tim Eastkdn MAtL Ahaiin.—Extract of a
letter to the Editor of the Baltimore Patriot dated
Wasaisoton, February. 28.
I learn from a correct source that the Commit
tee from the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad
Company, had a meeting to-day with the Post-
Muster General, and that they had agreed upon
all points as to a restoration of the mail upon their
road, except one, of seeming trilling importance
to the Company. It is this—the Department
claims the right of changing the schedule ns to
the time of departure—which is resolutely object
ed to by the Company. This is regarded as ab
solutely necessary, so that a complete connection
may be preserved in the great Mail route —they
were told the Post Mauler General had no inten
tion, nor did ho think it probable, that any altera
tion would be made. Upon this, point, however,
the Committee made issue, and refuse to con
tract to carry the wail\ I still hope they will
yield the jioint and come into the measure—or
if this is not done, that all further negotiation
may be brought at once to nn end, that the public
and all parties concerned may know what to do
and act accordingly.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
New Yoiik, February 24.
‘•The work goes bravely on.”
It is impossible for you to conceive the excited
state of public feeling, and the rapidly increasing
strength In the Empire Stale of “the old Hero of
Tippecanoe.” The Whigs of every city and
village are wide awake, determined, in the lan
guage of Scottish song, “To Do, or Dio.” They
of ’7O battled against a foreign foe; the ‘more
modern Whigs” have decland “uncompromising
hostility” to domestic nsu'pation. We confide,
like our gallant ancestors, in the justice of our
cause, and firmly Iwlievc that Heaven will aid us
in the roming contest.
The present condition of this great commer
cial city is indeed distressing. The man who
has seen New York in the full tide of her pros
perity, when her vessels were crowded with mer
chandize from every clinic—when her streets
were thronged with buyers and sellers—when
trade was brisk through all her channels, cannot
hut he struck with the melancholy change. Many
a gallant ship, that
“Walk'd the waters like a tiling of life.
And seemed to dare the elements to strife,”
now lies dismantled of its beauty, a chained pri
soner at her shore. The receipts at the custom
house during the last throe months are compara
tively nothing. All classes sutler in this unex
ampled prostration ol trade. The merchant, the
lawyer, the mechanic, have all fell the disastrous
consequences of the ruinous policy of a mad Ad
ministration. Why is tliial Is there no remedy?
Is there no “balm in Gilead?” Is there no phy
sician to honl our diseased country? Yes! Hah
uison is the man. We will apply to him for re
lief. A MKHCHAMT.
The Hon. W. C. Rives, of Va., holds this olo
quent and forcible language in a letter to a friend
“Regarding Gen Harrison, for reasons 1 liavi
mentioned,as the true Republican cundida'ofo
(lie Presidency of the two now presented to tin
choice of the country, I shall unhesitatingly givi
him my suoport 1 shall do so with the inon
cheerfulness because, while best consulting there
by. as I honestly believe, those great Kepublieai
principles which 1 have ever considered tobeinsc
parablv united wil l the happiness of my country
1 shall assist to confer its highest meed un at
eminent citizen who has rendered it the mustsig
nal and important services at a time, when to sera
meant something far other than merely to receivi
the emoluments of office—on one who, having
successively enjoyed the c mfidence of Washing
ton, Jetfersun and Madison, would he naturally
prompted to emulate their high example—who
in all the various and delicate trusts ho has held
has ever shown that he preferred bis country u
himself, and has retired from all, amid file nunier
oas and alluring temptations they presented to
it private gain, with clean hands and unsuspected
honor, neither guilty »f infidelity himself, nor
c ’ winking at it in others—and who now in the
honorable retirement of private life, combining
it the ennobling pursuits of the agriculturist, the
h scholar, and the patriot citizen, is emphatically
one of the people, knowing how to appreciate
la their interests, as well as to maintain and defend
rr» their rights.
r) . I cannot doubt that the principles we have held
I in common will have brought us to a conclusion;
but whether this should be the case or not, you
will, I arn sure, do me the justice to believe that
re in forming the judgment I have done, upon the
most deliberate and careful reflection, I have been
actuated by no personal feeling, by no mere party
views, but by a sincere and anxious wish for the
lfi liberty, happiness and honor of my country.”
It,
it The following report was received in the House
of Representatives on the 19lh instant from the
Post Os lice Department:
|a Post Office Df.paht.mevt, February 14.
Sin ; In compliance with the 2d and 451 h sec
tions of the act to change the organization of
the Post office Department, &c. approved July
2, 1836, I have the honor to report the expendi
tures of this Department for the year ending 30th
c June, 1839, set opposite the estimates under
each head of appropriation, viz.
Estimates, Expenditures.
s Transportation of the
|f mail, $3,529,000 $3,194,201 25
Compensation to post
masters, 1,091,000 987,573 51
. Ship, steamboat, and
way letters, 35,000 41,961 30
■ Wrapping Paper, 25,000 23,196 97
f Office furniture, 6,000 4,940 31
Advertising, 38,000 35.316 10
Mail Hags, 48,000 45,909 28
. Blanks, 34,000 30,728 28
Mail locks, keys, and stamps, 12,000 9,275 64
Mail depredations and spe
cial agents, 15,000 20,273 28
Clerks of offices, 208,000 208,932 S 3
Miscellaneous, 67,000 52,409 67
, $5,100,000 $4,654,718 42
I send, herewith, a statement, from the Audi
tor’s office, exhibiting the revenue, expenditures
and general financial condition of the Dep irt
ment for the last fiscal year and giving also the
information required by the 4th paragraph of the
22d section of the act of 1836,
It will he perceived that the expenditures were
$445,281 58 less than the appropriations, and
yet they exceeded the revenue of the year about
177,009. The funds on hand at the beginning
of the year enabled the Department to meet the
excess of expenditures over the current revenue.
The expectations entertained when the appro
priations for that year were made, that the speedy
and entire recovery of the country from the revul
sion of 1837 would bring a large accession of
revenue to the Department, have not been real
ized.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
AMOS KENDALL.
Hon. R.M.T. Hujttkh,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
N. 13.—The Revenue, as now shown by the
Auditor, is over S9OO more than was slaed in
my annual report to the President. The Canada
had not been received, and was estimated. Ha
ving since been received, it shows an increase of
more than S9OO over the estimate, which, with a
few other slight corrections, accounts for the dis
crepancy.
The joint committee of the legislature of Mis
sissippi, to examine into the condition of the Un
ion Dunk, have made a report, from which it ap
j pears that the nll'airsof that institution are in a
| most perplexed condition. The committee report
1 that the losses of the bunk on cotton notes will
1 be immense; that of post notes of the bank fall
i ing due in May next, there will bo over $3,000,-
- 000 more than the bank, by any probable ar
il rangoments, can make provision fur; that the
- losses from bills receivable will exceed $500,000,
a and that an agreement of the board of directors
r to allow ibeir debtors 1,2, 3, 4 and 5 years’ ere
e dit upon good security being offered, will pre
t elude the possibility of the bunk meeting her cn
i gagemonls in any reasonable time. The indebt
- educes of the president and directors of the bank
- to the institution ns drawers, and endorsers and
i members of commercial linns is, $1,046,965.
■ N.O. Bee.
Moke Smuggling Mails.—The New York
, Star of Saturday says:—This morning, very ear
ly several bales of merchandise came down to the
1 steamboat Hunker Hill, bound for New Haven,
r The captain, a remarkably sly Yankee, having a
i curiosily to know what merchandise was shipped
; so early and suspecting that some smuggling was
> going on in British goods, slipped his penknife
cautiously in one of the bales, to have a peep,
and discovering they were Amos Kendall's Let
ter Bags!! in the bales. The worthy captain
said to the agent, “ Deliver this merchandise
free ; the poor devils at Washington have no mo
ney to pay their own way, and have to smuggle
i their mails ” Heaven deliver us! into what
; hands has our Government fallen !
f
1 Rocky Mountain Flax.—A species of Flax
- has been found growing spontaneously in the
I country adjacent to the Rocky Mountains, simi
a lar in many respects to the ordinary flax, but per
; ennial in its growth. It may be mowed like
i grass, and need not be pulled up every season.—
r Mr. Oakley, who travelled through the country
s on the head waters of the Platte, last year, de
scribes a vast piairic, thirty miles long and three
- miles broad, covered with a thick growth of this
■> flax. It is said to he of a strong, tenacious fibre,
• j and it is used by the Indians to make fishing
- nets. If this plant should be found to be equal
s | to the flax which is now cultivated in the coun
ii | try in respect to fineness and strength, its peren
-4 nial nature will give it a decided superiority, and
y render the culture of it far more easy and produc
tive.
Disastkhs at Ska.—ln a late number of the
[. Sailor's Magazine there is a statement in refer
„ once to disasters at sea during the year 1839, ta
.. ken from a record at the office of the American
. Seaman’s Friend Society. The statement in
-0 eludes such disasters as far as they could be as
s cortained. The whole number of vessels lost is
|_ set down at four hundred and forty-two. Os
1 these there were seventy-four ships and barks;
brigs, one hundred and twenty-four; schooners,
one hundred and ninety-seven; and nine steam
boats. Thirty-two are not classed. Some of the
above named were lost towards the close o; 1838,
but were not reported till within the past year.—
i In addition to these known losses, thirty-seven
> missing vessels have been reported during the
J: year, which with their crews were most probably
ro lost. The number of lives reported lost is five
,>r hundred and thirty-seven, which fulls considera
re bly short of the real number.
'e This statement shows that notwithstanding
re the improvements which have been made in tire
e- art of navigation and in the construction of ves
m sols, within late years, the loss of life and pro
e- petty at sea is still very great. Moral means arc
y, needed, in addition to the helps of science, for
>n b -tier security against the perils of the deep.
’- The practice of abstaining from spirituous li
•e quors, which prevails on board of many rner
rc chantmcn, is greatly in favor of their superior
g safety; not only because the positive evils of in
;• temperance are thus avoided, but also because a
ly greater degree of rare and watchfulness is thereby
o, ensured. The Coast Survey, when completed
J, under the direction of Mr. Hassler, will tend
to atuch no doubt to diminish the number of ship
r- wrecks on our own Atlantic shore.
Pennsylvania Banks.
The bill to compel the Banks of Pennsylvania
to resume specie payments immediately, passed
the Senate by a vote of 16 to 11.
Verbal Plagiauists. —There is a numerous
race of dolls in the world who may he denomi
nated verbal plagiarists, persons who do not
think with their own faculties hut with those of
others; who borrow your brains as they would
borrow your umbrella. They may be divided
into three classes. The first species atnonglhem
is the man-monkey, who speaks when you speak,
and holds his tongue when you are silent. He
is a mere echo. If you say, “Peace is an excel
lent thing when it docs not cost more than war,”
he answers, “more than war.” The second spe
cies is the man-parrot, who every morningcollccts
here and there, or from the mouth of some cle
ver man, a scries of thoughts, which he retails,
as long as the day lasts, in every house he en
ters. He is like the hand organ, which, at the
corner of every street, repeats the same dull tune.
The third species is the man-vulture, who fattens
upon you. It mailers not with him whetheryon
be one of the unknown, or the possessor of a cel
ebrated name; if in his presence you utter any
thing good, it is like taking out your watch before
a pickpocket. You arc robbed of your idea, and
you may bo sure that before the morrow all the
city will know it by heart. If you should after- |
wards repeat it, you are heard with a smile, and
considered as the plagiarist. He is frequently so
obliging as to repeat to you your own idea, in or
der that you may he better able to understand it.
This is pleasant.— N. Y. Mirror.
American Aborigines —The region assign
ed for the permanent location of all the Indians
residing within the territories of the United
States, is hounded as follows:
Beginning at the source of the Puncah river,
thence down to the Missouri river; down the
Missouri to itsjunction with the Kazwau river;
thence south on the western lino of the State of
Missouri to the state of Arkansas; thence south
wardly on the westerly line of that state to Rod
river ; thence up Red river to a point two hun
dred miles west of the state of Arkansas; and
thence northwardly to the beginning. Making
a tract of little over six hundred miles long, from
north to south, and two hundred miles wide from
east to west.
So little is known of the remote tribes, that
we cannot safely attempt to state either name or
th.iir numbers. The estimate of their numbers,
given below, has been made with much care by
comparing the whole region inhabited by them
with nearer districts, wUtin which the numbers
are well known, making allowances for climate,
&c.
Population of the tribes indigenous with
in the district, 21,660
Number of emigrants is 73,200
Total within this district, 94,860
Within the territory above described, which is de
signed for the permanent residence of the Indi
ans, it is contemplated to accommodate all the
tribes and remnants of tribes east of the Missis
sippi river, and the portion of the Sacs and
Foxes west of that river, and north of the State
of M : ssouri. When all shall be thus located,
the aggregate will be 140,682 souls.
Twenty three tribes have already received as
signments of land. These assignments are de
scribed by the surveying of the exterior bounda
ries of each tract. A large portion of these sur
vey s have been made.
To each tribe, a patent, in due form, signed
by the President of the United Stales, will issue
from the General Land Office. The Cherokee
patent is the first ever given to an Indian tribe.—
Patents at once change the tenure by which In
dians hold their lands. A patent secures to ev
ery individual of the tribe, an equal right in the
land, and the right of one cannot be alienated by
another. —Baptist Advocate.
Beet Suoah. —We were not aware of the
extent to which the manufacture of Sugar from
the beet has been carried in Europe. It is staled
in the New York Journal of Commerce that the
quantity of beet sugar manufactured in France,
Belgium and Germany, in 1838, amounted to
150,00(1,000 lbs.—and it is confidently expected
that the crop of 1839 will reach 200,000,000
lbs. or 200,000 hhds., which is nearly four times
the average crop of Louisiana. It has become
no longer a matter of experiment, but is now con
sidered as a regular business, affording a profita
ble means of investment.
The sugar beet is also valuable as food for
stock, particularly milch cows. Its productive
ness is great, and the crop docs not exhaust the
soil. The sugar beet is cultivated to some extent
in this country, and it might become a prominent
article of cultivation generally, since in point of
soil and climate no region is better fitted for it v
growth than the United States.
Commodore Hull.— The New York Ameri
can says that there has been much talk in that
city during a few days past, of a mutiny on board
the United States ship Ohio; and sundry exag
gerations have been circulated, that it is perhaps
as well that a plain tale should correct. The
facts, as the editor understands them, are these:
The crew had not been ashore on leave from
the time of their departure from the United
States. Anxious for some liberty, at last, when
in Port Mahon, one bright morning, some three
hundred of them went forward in a body to the
break of the quarter deck, asking to speak to the
Captain. The lieutenant on duty, possibly not
reflecting that the very fact of such a body apply
ing to address the commander, was in itself an
act of gross insubordination, instead of ordering
them back, sent for llte Captain.
On his appearance, and perceiving what was
the condition of things, he sent for the Commo
dore. The old man, the Hero of the Constitu
tion, did not slay to he twice hid. He was in
stantly on the quarter-deck, and as instantly told
these sailors they were committing an act of mu
tiny that “might hang some of them.” He then,
after rebuking them sternly for the breach ofdis
cipline, ordered them instantly to disperse and go
below. They dispersed upon the word, and went
below. He then ordered all hands to be piped
to quarters.—All bauds were in a trice at quar
ters They were then piped below—and again
all went below.—This was repealed throe or four
times, and always the same alacrity and promp
titude in obeying orders.
Finally, the order was given to get up the an
chor. The ship was got under way, and for 10
or 12 days she cruised about the Mediterranean.
At the end of that time—the men conducting
themselves perfectly well—the Commodore re
turned into port, piped all hands, told them he
was much satisfied with their conduct, and that
he would let them go ashore; and, accordingly
leave was given to them, which was not abused,
for a frolic on shore. Discipline was preserved
on hoard, and the old Commodore came out, as
usual, bright and true as steel.
A legislative blunder is related by the cor
respondent of the Natchez Courier, which gave
rise to no little mirth at Jackson, Miss. Nearly
three hours were consumed in the Senate on a
bill to increase the revenue of the State by a tax
on bank stock. The debate was going on very
gravely, until some knowing one in the lobby
cried aloud, that ho had always been of opinion,
that bills touching the revenue of the Stale must
originate in the House of Representatives. When
forthwith the bill was laid upon the table—thus
affording a bright example of legislative wisdom
J \\ V
I Kentucky Banks.—Thecomnimce dllbanks'^
in the Kentucky Legislature have made their re
port. It proposes to restore charters to those in
stitutions, with some slight amendments, which
had become forfeitable by their suspension of
specie payments, and fixes tiicir lime of resump
tion on or before the day of jhe meeting of the
next Legislature, viz: the first Monday in De
cember.
■ - ~ *“ “SC
William Pitt. —Pitt, tall and •slender, had
an air at once melancholy and sarcastic. His
delivery was cold, his intonation monotonous, his
action scarcely perceptible; at the same time, the
lucidness and fluency of his thoughts, the logic
of his arguments, suddenly irraciated with flash
es of eloquence, rendered his talent something
above the ordinary line.
I frequently saw Pitt walking acro-s James’
Park, from his own house to the palace. On his
part, Oeorgc the third arrived at Windsor, after
drinking beer out of a pewter pot, with the far
mers of the neighborhood ; he drove through the
mean courts of his mean habitation in a gray
charriot, followed by a few of the horse-guards.
This was the master of the kings of Europe, as
five or six merchants of the city are the masters
of India. Pitt dressed in black, with a steel bill
ed sword by his side, and his hat under his arm,
ascended, taking two or three steps at a time.—
In his passage he only met with three or four
emigrants, who had nothing to do; casting on us
a disdainful look, he turned up his nose and his
pale face, and pa-sed on.
At home, this great financier kept no order;
he had no regular hours for his meals, or for
sleep. Over head and ears in debt, he paid no
body, and never could lake the trouble to cast up
a bill. A valet de chambre managed his house.
11l dressed, without pleasure, without passing,
greedy of power, he despised honors, anil would
not be any thing more than William Pitt.
In the mouth of June, 1822, Lori Liverpool
took me to dine at his country house. As we
crossed Putney Heath, he showed me the small
house where the son of Lord Chatham, the
statesman who had had Europe in his pay, and
distributed with his own hand, all the treasures
of the world, died in poverty.— Chateaubriand.
A new Steam Frigate sou Russia We
understand that a steam frigate, to be about the
same dimensions with the Great Western, is to be
immediately built at Jersey city, under the direc
tion of Mr. Schuyler, of this city. Mr. Bell is to
be the builder. This frigate is for the Russian
government, and when completed, the keel of ano
ther will be immediately laid at the same place,
also for his Imperial Majesty.— N, Y. Com. Adv.
2 itk ult.
Sister Nance(aud the Ager.
We were travelling not long since in Illinois,
and called at a house near the road side to soli
cit aslrink of water, when the following conver
sation occurred :
• Well my hoy, how long have you l.vcd here l
• I don’t know, sir but mother says ever since
I was horn.
1 Have you any brothers or sisters!
‘Yes a few.’
‘ How many V
‘ Ten or ’levcn, I reckon.’
‘ Pretty healthy here, is'nt it!’
‘ Y'es but sometimes we have a little ager.’
‘ Any of you got it now ?’
‘ Yes a few on us goin’ to have the shakes this
afternoon,’
‘ How many !’
‘ Why all on us except, sister Nance, and she’s
sich a darn cross critter, the ager won’t take on
her ; and if it did, she is so cussed contrary she
would’nl shake, no how you could fix her!’— St.
Louis Pennant.
‘When Tamerlane had finished building his
pyramids of seventy thousand human skulls, and
was seen standing at the gate of Damascus, glit
tering with steel, with his battle-axe on his shoul
der, till the fierce hosts, filled to new victories and
carnage, the pale on-looker might have fancied
: that nature was in her death throes—tor havoc
i and despair had taken possession of the earth,
and the sun of manhood seemed setting in seas
of blood. Yet it might be on that very gala day
of Tamerlane, a little boy was playing nine-pins
in the streets of Mentz, whose history was more
important to them than twenty Taraerlancs!
The Tartar Khan with his shaggy demons of the
wilderness, passed away like the whirlwind, to bo
forgotten forever—and that German artizan has
wrought a benefit, which is yet immeasurably
expanding itself and will continue to expand
through all countries and all lime. What are
the conquests and expeditions of the whole cor
porations of captains from Walter the Penniless
to Napoleon Bonaparte, compared with the move
able types of Johannes Faust!’
There is a country in Virginia, where the land
is so sterile that when the wind is at the north
west, they have to tie the children to keep them
from being blown away; when the dogs bark they
have to lean against the fence; the grasshoppers
cry themselves to death for the lack of food; the
horses are so thin that it takes twelve to make a
shadow; and when they kill beef they have to
hold the animal up to knock him down.
A Fandango at Nachitocres. —On the
n ght of the 6th ult. a row took place ala fan
dango at Nachitochcs, La.; the fight continued
for some lime without weapons, but one of the
combatants being hotly pressed, drew a bowie
knife, and, it is said, al one single cut wounded
4 persons of the parties engaged, one of whom,
a Mr. Manor, soon died. It appears that the de
ceased had nothing to do with the quarral, but
lost his life in attempting to separate those who
were fighting.
“You’ll SCARCE.EXPECT ONKOFMT AGE.”
The tSpringli* Id (Mass.) Journal, makes mention
of a Mrs. Barrit, who had twins at the age of
sixty!
'l’ho Vicksburg Sentinel of the 10th ult. states
that the agents of the United Stales’ Dank are
endeavoring to get the rights and privileges of the
rail-road from Vicksburg to Jackson, made over
to the Pennsylvania institution, so as to secure
the claims of the latter in preference to other
creditors of the Commercial and Rail-road Bank
of Vicksburg.
Go it Boots!— A Mrs. Boots of Pennsylva
nia has left her husband, Mr. Boots, and strayed
to parts unknown. We presume that this pair
of Boots arc rights and lefts. We cannot say,
however, that Mrs. Boots is right, hut there is rio
mistake that Boots himself is loft. At the last
accounts he was pursuing her with all his might.
Go it, Bools !— N. 0. Picayune.
Theatrical Criticism. — A good anecdote
is the following, from the Sunday Allas of New
York, Two gentlemen in the pit of the Bowery
1 theatre, on the occasion of Kean’s opening, made
the following remarks on his Richard the Third :
“ I say, he’s a screamer, isn’t he !”
“ Fine!”
“ Capital! How he gets the steam up !”
“ Woods up at every stopping place.”
i The Allas says that a more forcible compli
ment than the last novel expression cannot be
conceived.
• Talk about soft sodder—there’s nobody on arth
1 can put it into a chap so smooth as a handsom
1 gal. Somehow they melt it with thek smiles,
! till it sinks into his heart afore he knows it.—
1 Jonathan Slick.
NV /
CoTisJguecw per South Carolina Rail Rond.
Hamburg, March 4, 1840.
Rees & Beall; Stovall, Simmons & Co; S Knee
land & Son; Hudson & T; Sandford & L; Hand &
Scranton; Scranton & Smith; J Tobin; D’Antwnac
& Hill; W Hatlier; Clarke, McTcir & Co; K & j
Snider; W Sealy; C Brooks & Co; P Flemming; \
Frederick; Haviland, Risley & Co; IS Beers A
Co; W Butler; W Johnson; T Dawson; J ff Har.
well; T Richards; G Parrott; J F Ben-on.
MARRIED,
At the residence of Mr. John Eve, in Jefferson
county, by the Rev. T. M. Dwight, Mr. J OBHU "
Key to Miss Rachael Eve.
COMMERCIAL. ~~
Latest dales from Liverpool, Jan. 7
Latest dates from Havre Jan. 10 >
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Cotton Our maikct still remains in a very qui
et state, with but little disposition manifested on
the part of holders to realise, or pur hasers to take *
bold. The market is therefore very flat at our
last quotations, on Tuesday, though we believe
they were sustained for the last two days. Sales
during the week, closing yesterday, amount to
1254 bags of all descriptions as follows: 3 a s}.
69 a 6; 4 a 6}; 13 c 7; 50 a 7}; 54 a 7f; 56 a 7}|
1G a 7g; 307 a 7,f; 60 a 7J; <373 a 8; 159 a Si; 118
a Si; and 2 Nanken a 17. We quote the following
as the state of the market yesleiday:
Ordinary to middling, 5} t 0 7
Fa,r . 7i to 7|
Good fair, 8 to 8}
Prime and choice,
Freights —To Savannah, 75 a 100 cents per bale.
Groceries —The < ontinued depression in this
branch of our market, renders it somewhat diffl.
cult to speak with much certainty of its state, as
we hear of so few sales, and those only for limit
ed amounts. The market is however generally
well supplied with all descriptions, (Irish Potatoes
excepted,) which the dealers say they' offer ex
tremely low for cash. We have therefore no
change to noteas to prices sin e our last quota
tions.
Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 7 a 8 per
cent, (or current funds; Charleston at 4 a5 per
cent, Savannah 1 aljper ct.; Pbiladelphia2 a 3 per
't.; Lexington, Ky. 1 per ct.; specie commands 6
per cent, premium.
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Banks, 1 per cent, pretn.
Columbus Insurance B’k 1 “ “ “
Commercial Bank, Vacon, 1 “ “ “
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ “ “
Agency Brunswick," 6 “ “ “
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 2} “ “ dis.
1 Milledgeville bank, 2} “ “ “
Ocmulgee Bank, 2* “ “ 4
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 2} “ “ 5
Hawkinsville Bank, 2} “ “ 5
Chattaboocbic R. R.&B’k
Company, 10 “ « “
Darien Bank, 16 “ “ *«
Bank of Rome, 25 « “ “
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, Bank
of St. Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com
mercial Bank of Macon, and Brunswick Branch in
this city.
New Yomc, February 29.
Coffee —There has been some demand for Cuba
for export, but for other descriptions it is exclu
sively for home use. The market is in a dull
state, although the supplies are moderate. Sales
since our last as follows: 1200 bags Brazil, 4 mos,
9jall}; 25!) Laguira, do, 11; 700 St Domingo,
cash, 8} a B|.
Cotton —The market rather falls off, and prices
are full } cent lower than last week The gene
ral impression is that the supplies will be large.—
The last advices from Havre were rather favora
ble. Sales larger and prices well sustained. The
sales since our last have been as follows: 3100 bags
Uplands, 7} a 94’; 1250 New Orleans, 7} a 10}; 700
Florida, 7} a 8}; 200 Mobile, 8} a 10}.
Exported from U. S. since Ist Oct last, 571,252
Same time last year, 301,70 p
Same time year before, 665,580
Flour —Since the North river has opened the
price has fallen off 50 cents a bbl. Philadelphia is
freely offered at 5 50; comnon brands Western and
Howard sheet, were sold to-day at 5 87. The
asking price is $6, but this price cannot be had.
Molasses —There has so little airived this week,
that there is none in first hands except Porto Rico.
Prices are stiller. Sales of 300 hhds Matanzas at
24c ; 100 do Porto Rico at 29.
Sugars There is no improvement in prices.
The poor qualities are dull and low. Stock of N.
Orleans and Box small. Some new crop of the
latter have arrived, ami is held at 7}. The sup
plies of Porto Rico are quite sufficient for the de
mand.
Boston, February 26.
Coffee. —Arrived since our last report, 800 bags
St Domingo ; S 3 do Porto Rico. Another week of
activity has been displayed in the market, and sales
comprise 450 bags Rio, bleached and green, 10 a
lie.; 600 do St Domingo 9} a 10c per lb; 300 do
Government Java, 14c, and some common, of an
old importation, 13c per lb. By auction, 229 bags
St Domingo, SB,BO a B,‘>'7 per 100 lbs, cash ;60 bags
Rio, at 9} a 10c per lb. 4 mos cr.
Cotton. —The imports of the week have been
5000 bales. There has been a further decline in
prices, and sales of about 700 bales, at 8 a !2c for
New Orleans and Mobile, and Salic for Uplands,
6 months.
Molns.es. —Arrived since our last report, 2000
casks Havana and Matanzas and 200 do Porto
Rico. But little has been done in market for dis
tilling qualities. A sale has necn made of a lot of
old crop from store at 23c 6 ms. The operation*
in retailing comprise 250 hhds Trinidad, old crop,
25} a 26e and new do 28c 6 ms ; 650 hhds Havana
and Matanzas, new crop, 25c ; by auction 90 hhds
AuxCayes, 24 a 25c ; 30 tcs. and 7 hhds Trinidad,
01d,25 a 26i-; 26 hhds Maracaibo,23l a 23|c 4ms j
100 bbls New Orleans, 27} a 29c, cash ; 72 hhds
Mansanilla, 261 a 28c 4 mos cr.
Nails. —There have been very considerable sales
the past week at 5c per lb, cash, and s}c on 5 and
8 months credit.
Oil. — The operations of the week comprise small
sales Olive, 1,08 ; Crude Sperm, of a recent impor
tation, 1,05 a 106; 500 bbls Whale, 31} a 32c per
gal. Very little doing in Linseed, and prices nom
inally the same.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, March I.
Arrived —Schr Queen, Arcy, Boston; steamboat _
Oglethorpe, Williams, Augusta. - r
Charleston, March 4.
Arrived yesterday —Schrs Ostrich, Ellis, Porto
Cabello; Only Daughter, Knowles, Richmond.
At Quarantine —Line brig Paul T Jones, from
Philadelphia.
In the Offiing —Schr Carpenter’s Three Sons
Cleared— Hr ship Occur de Lion, Webster, Liver
pool; ship Olympia, Gray, Havre; Br barque Ma
zeppa, Lcloup, do; Swedish brigs Snell; Oilman,
Stockholm; Helena, Hedlund, Hamburg; schooner
Mountmoriah, Rogers, New Orleans.
I Vent to sea yesterday —Brig Ark, Flanders, Bre
men.
(fff Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at bis residence, the
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams.
aug 17 m ts
(Tj= EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight,
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by
nov 23 GARDKLLE & KHIND.