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•gain recommended It, and tc-rccommended it,
and urged it upon Congress and the people, till the
▼ery agitation of the question, with tho execu
tive crusade which has been carried on, undef
color of it, against the currency of the country,
has deranged and broken down and ruined the
business of the country from one extremity of
the Union to the other. Yes. sir, flvetimes, and
in five different shapes, I believe, has this meas
ure been rejected by Congress. What monarch
in Europe could stand up and resist, or would
dare attempt to resist the representative voice so
often and so potently expressed? Not one. No,
sir, not one. Neither the Ministry in Franco nor
England ever went for a second negation, by the
representative branch of the Government, of any
leading measure which they had brought forward.
Its rejection is a signal for their retirement from
olfice, and a new ministry comes in of opposite
sentiments. An attempt in the Commons of
Great Britain or in the French Chamber of De
puties to resist such an expression of the repre
sentative voice, would lead to revolution, ami
shake the very foundations of the throne itself.
—But whst do wo sec here, under our boasted
freedom, and in the youth-time of our republican
institutions? The leading measure, and I may
say, the only measure of tho administration, is
rejected over and over again by the representa
tives of the people, and still the cabinet not only
remains in office, but the executive himself ur
ges it with renewed energy and nnremitted per
severance ; and seems determined to dragoon the
people into submission to it. Huch an outrage
upon the rights of the people, and upon tho
very spirit of our free institutions, I have never
known in this or any other government having
tho least pretension to a participation in tho re
presentative principle.—And docs my colleague
suppose that I, a representative from a State con
taining some three millions of people, am to sit
quietly by, and not resist these usurpations of
their right? Does ho suppose that lam to be
mealy mouthed in speaking of the Executive,
who has thus attempted, in its practical opera
tion, to subvert the fundamental principles of tho
Government? It ho does, ho will find himself
most cgrcgiously disappointed—and let me tell
l.im once for all, that us long ns I have the honor
of a scat in this body, I will defend, with bold
ness, the rights of those who sent me here, and
repel with energy, every effort to usurp the pow
ers of the government, and every attempt to un
dermine the foundation of our free institutions.
CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 21.
The following letter signed by a large portion
of the Southern members of Congress, which
we copy from tho Charleston papers of yester
day, contains suggestions of considerable impor
tance to the city of Augusta, ns also all that por
tion of Georgia through which tho proposed mail
route will pass. That tho route suggested will
eventually become the groat thorofnre for travo
and transportation of Merchandise to a portion
of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, no one
can doubt who has investigated the subject. And
the sooner this direction is given to the travel,
the better for all the interests that arc now, or
may be hereafter, connected with it. To the
city of Augusta and her commercial interests,
we regard it of paramount importance, as tho
■first step in the great work of her future comincr’
cial importance, to which we alluded a few days
since, in connection with the Hail Roads, &e.
Wo therefore, think they would be consulting
their iiiloirsts in no small degree, by acting at
once on this measure by a unanimous petition
in favor ot its adoption.
To the towns in the interior of tho Slate that
will bo bcnefitted by increased mail facilities,
wo would also suggest the propriety of uniting
in advancing this object, by petitioning tho de
partment.
We deem it wholly unnecessary to enlarge
upon u subject, the advantages of which are so
prominent to every reflecting mind. If the proper
exertions are used,there can be no doubt that the
route will bo established ; and in proportion as
the facilities of travelling ore increased, in the
same ratio will the whole country bo bcnefitted.
Wasihnotox, 1840.
Sib —Tho undersigned respectfully represent
that, by reason of the great amount of Rail Road
and Steam Boat line now in use, between this
point and Memphis, Tennessee, byway of
Charleston and Augusta, through the Tennessee
Valley, this route must shortly become tbs
principally used by tho inhabitants of the South
ern portions of Tennessee and Northern portions
of Mississippi and Alabama, together with those
from a great part of Arkansas, in the transporta
tion of their mails and in travelling to and from
the Eastern Cities and the seat of the General
Government.
We deem it a matter o! great importance to the
Citizens, along this very extensive line of travel,
that a good and comfortable tine of Post Coaches
be established to run daily, connecting the Wes
tern end of the Georgia Hail Road with tho Ten
nessee River at Gunter's Landing, where steam
boat travel commences, and that a like lino of
dally coaches be established from Tuscumbia,
through tho Northern Counties of Alabama and
Mississippi to Memphis.
This line could diverge at Salem, Miss, by
Holly Spriugs and Hernando to Memphis, or go
directly to Memphis, conceding with tno Lag
range and Memphis Road, or it could be made to
alternate running every other day along each of
those routes from Salem, and thus accommodate
a larger community.
Tnis route, on account of the great amount of
Rail Road improvements going on, has already
become the one which gives most speed to mails
and travellers, and in consequence is coming ra
pidly into use.
We therefore think it due to so extensive a
population as are directly interested, that it bo
placed upon a respectable footing by giving speed
to the mails and comfort to travel, nor should an
exact estimate of the proiits arising to the mail
service, be made the basis in the estimate for de
termining upon the propriety of making the ex
tension here desired—but the present and future
convenient e of the people growing such valua
ble products, in obtaining the earliest informa
tion of prices, should, in our opinion, also cuter
into the estimation.
We have the honor to be, 4,c. &c.
The attention of our readers is respectfully di
rected tj a sketch of a debate, which will be found
in this day’s paper, between Messrs. Tallmadge,
W right and Strange of the Senate.
Theatre.
The very attractive bill of fare which Mr.
Forbes presents to the admirers of the drama,
to-night, will certainly secure a full house.
Sir Astlcy Cooper’s maxims for preserving ol
health were temperance, cleanliness, exercise and
early rising
The New Jersey QueHicn.
e Yesterday wo.gave qnr readers the address o
• the minority of the Committee of Elections, 01
this agitating question, and to-day, to cnaule then
to form a more correct idea of the course of pro
f ceedii g, which the Hou-e and the majority o
1 the Committee have pursued, we copy the follow
i ing article from the National Intelligencer. Wi
| candidly confess that the wholo’proceedinga.fron
• the beginning of the session to the last flagran
' outrage, by w hich the Va., Ourcn claimants wen
permitted to take their seals in the hall, uppea
to us the most high handed usurpation of th<
rights of a sovereign Sta;e of the confederacy, ol
wtiich the history of this country furnishes a re
cord. And we have been, and are still, at a loss
to suggest any other motive on the pin of the
majority, whocommitted this act, than a reeklcsi
determination, regardless of all consequences tc
the constitution and the laws, to secure to tin
Administration a majority in tlio House
We wish we could see in it, some more land!
ble and honorable motive; but when we reflecl
that the house had before it, no evidence othei
than that in its possession when the committee
was appointed—that the report was received and
adopted without being printed or investigated,
and that the report of the minority was refused
a reception, the conclusion is irresistib'e to our
mind, that (hey were determined to suppress all
testimony, in order to secure their base purposes
If they desired to bo correclly'informed, why
not have recommitted he report, with instructions
to tho committee to report the whole matter to
tho House, that they might bo capable of doing
justice to the respective claimants? We will not
now say that justice was all they feared, but cer
tainly no impartial, investigating mind can come
to any other conclusion from all the circumstan
ces which have been developed. Something,
however, may yet bo disclosed, of which we know
not, that may justify the majority. Wo hope, for
the honor of Congress, and the character of our
country and its cherished institutions, that such
facts may bo produced. For although wc are
among those who believe, that there has been a
moral prostitution of the representative character
of this government, which has been manifestly
increasing, ever since the utterance of that de
testable sentiment, “1 lake the responsibility ,”
yet we are unwilling to believe that the majority
of tho House of Representatives of Congress,
men in many instances (and should he in all) se
lected for their intelligence and sterling integrity,
are so heedless of their obligations to tho coun
try, as to perpetrate such an outrage upon the
rights of the people.
Wc have received last evening the report of
the minority ofllie committee, which wc shall, if
our limits permit, give our readers on Monday.
The New Jersey Election.
To afford to tho People a distinct view of the
tortuous course of the majority of the House ol
Representatives, and its Committee of Elections,
by which the purpose of unlawfully bringing per
sons in as members of the House has been accom
plished, we publish below as follows.
First —The resolution of the House of Febru
ary 28th, directing the committee to report on tin
lawful votes.
Second. —The evidence of tho rejection of a
resolution offered by Mr. Fillmore in committee
to take up the evidence then before "the commit
tee for that purpose.
Tint'd. —A resolution adopted by the commit
tee, directing, the chairman to take and consider
certain votes "as the lawful votes."
' Fourth, — The resolution adopted by the
House, reciting that the committee has reported
on the "lawful votes.”
The report of the journal of its proceedings to
the House by iis Committee of Elections enables
ns to obtain these facts, and lay, them before the
People; and they are a curiosity, as showing how
a plain resolution of the House was perverted,
and the fact then falsified in the recital of a rcso
1 jlion based upon that report — Nat. Ini.
I. Resolution of the House, Feb. 28, 1840.
Resolved, That, the Committee of Elections be
authorised to report to this House such papers and
such of their proceedings as they may desire to
have printed by order of the House; and that they
lie instructed also to report forthwith whicji trvo
of the ten individuals claiming seats -from the
State of New Jersey greatest num
ber of Lawful votetfiSm the whole Slate for
tho Congress of the United
—".States at the election of 1838 in said State, with
all the evidence of that fact in their possession :
Provided. That nothing herein contained shall
he so construed us to prevent or delay the action
of said committee in taking testimony, and decid
ing the said case upon the merits of the election.
11. In the Committee, Feb. 29, 1840.
Mr. Fiu. mu in: moved to amend a resolution
then depending by striking out all after the word
“ Resolved,” and inserting the following:
“ That this committee, in obedience to the res
olution of tho House adopted yesterday, will
forthwith proceed to take up the evidence now
before Hie committee to ascertain which five ol
the ten individuals claiming seats from the State
of New Jersey received the greatest number o!
lawful votes from the whole State for Represen
tatives in the Congress of the United Statesal
tho election of 1838 in said Slate.”
Upon this resolution tho votes were as fol
lows :
Ayes —Messrs.FiLLMoiiK,CuAßii,and Smith
—3
Noes —Messrs. Rn ks, Mkiiill, Biiown, ami
Fishku —4.
111. The original resolution teas then adopt
ed under which the report was made as follows :
Resolved, That the chan man prepare a reporl
in pursuance of the House resolution of voster
day, and that in doing so he take and consider tin
i voles adjueged to have been given to the severa
i claimants by the Governor and Privy Council u
1 New Jersey, together with thqso returned by tin
i election officers of the townships of Millville, ii
1 Cumberland county, and South Amboy, in Mid
dles>-x county, to die clerks of said counties, re
spcctively, as having been polled in said town
i ships, as the number of lawful votks given it
■ the said Stale.
On this resolution the vote was as follows:
Ayes —Messrs. Rives, Medill, Brown and Fisli
cr—4.
Noes —Messrs. Fillmore. Crnbh and Smith—£
The committee then, without adopting an
further resolutions, adjourned to enable the Chaii
man (Mr. Campbell) to prepare his report inpui
1 nuance of ibis resolution.
, IV. Resolution of the House moved on th
coming in of the report, and adopted under th
previous yueslion, March 10, 1840.
Whereas it appears by the report of Hie Con
inittee of Elections that Philemon Dickorsot
r ‘ Peter D. Vroom, Daniel B. Kyall, William J
•» Cooper, and Joseph Kille. received the greate:
number of lawful toti.s cast in the State (
New Jersey, at the election holden in that Stai
for Representative;, in tho twenty-sixth Congres
, Resolved, That Philemon Dickerson, Peter 1
Vroom. Daniel B. Kyall, William R. Coope
and Joseph Kille, are entitled to take their sea
! Initio House of R- pre entailvr# a* mein of
of the twenty-sixth Congress, and that the Hpeaker
of the House on their presenting themselves,
m qualify them as such : Provided, 1 hat nothing
m herein contained shall prevent the investigation
into said election from being continued in the
of manner heretofore authorized by B majority of
the Committee of Erections, on the application
of the five claimants for said seats.
’e
Correspondence of the North American.
nt
re Jitw Yobk, March 16, 3 P M.
, ir The cotton market remains precisely as it
ir closed last week. In flour there has been a move*
ment in Genesee to-day, which has tnr dea little
c . belter feeling. Two or three thousand barrels have
;i been bought at 5,37 a .5,50. As the Erie canal
e is to remain closed until the 20th of April, in
5K order that the work of enlargement may go on,
[o we arc to have hut small receipts until that time,
le nor is there much stock of flour on hand in the
p interior. The millers have been idle mostly, as
j. the farmeis have refused the offers they felt able
, t to make for wheat—a great favor to the millers
, r by the way, as it has turned out.
ie The Southern mail came through yesierday,
j over the direct railroad from Baltimore to Phila-
I delphia.
,j The Directors of the Manhattan Bank have
r been in very earnest deliberation over the report
II made for them by the committee of invesliga
, lion. The report must very speedily be printed,
f and in the meantime, the great question lobe
„ determined is, whether Mr. White shall retain
„ his office of Cashier and Manager.
, Bills on England 8a8J; France Cf. 25.
I Domestic Exchanges—Philadelphia
. Baltimore 5 ja5J ; Richmond?; Charleston 3iJ:
e Savannah G ; Augusta 7$ ; Macon
, 6; New Orleans susj.
»
r The Weekly Report of Interments in the
r City and County of New York, from the 7th
r day of March to the 14th day of March, 1840,
, arc—32 men, 36 women, and 33 girls—total
B H 3.
1 The mills at Great Bend. Jefferson county, N.
r Y. owned by Charles E. Clark, Mr. Poller, and
Mr. Carter, were destroyed by fire on the sth
inst. Loss about $20,000.
I For the Chronicle Sentinel.
' Mh. Biiitoh:—l see by your paper, that our
present Mayor declines being again a candidate
for the office he holds, and I have seen it with re
b gret and sorrow. Sir, we must not part with
him now. We owe him too much. We have
j. too much need of him. We have too much gra
p titude for his past services. We shall have too
much need of his future services. We cannot,
must nut part with him now. I use strong terms,
because on this subject I feel strongly—because
Ij- strong and powerful motives dictate these terms,
and influence those feelings. The people of Au
r- gusta are criminally ungrateful, if they can for
1_ gel the services of Alfred Cummino, to ourcity
during the past summer, and if, for the sake of
ie what to the city is a paltry sum, a few hundred
dollars, they fail to reward those services in the
* most effectual way, viz: by continuing him in
t- office. I have been informed that he has said he
cannot, in justice to himself, continue to dis-
l * charge the duties of the oflice, as they should
T • •
be administered, (thus neglecting his private af
c fairs to a great extent,) for the small salary
d which is attached to the office. Let us increase
the salary to $2,500, or $3,000, if that can retain
s his services. It will bo to the city comparatively
e hut a small sum ; and by his vigilance, his
v watchfulness, his extraordinary and almost unex
’ ampled efforts last summer, when the town was
so nearly depopulated; he saved thousands and
thousands of the property of our citizens. Since
e then, as every man acquainted with the (acts,
must know, by hi* skill and industry, he has
f saved much to the public purse of the city. Du.
o ring his administration, the streets have been im
-0 proved, and the police brought to a system which
has wrought a great and powerful change in the
j order, quiet and welfare of Augusta. Will it bo
It replied, that others may be found with equal abil
: ities, who will accept the office with its present
salary ? Suppose so; yet others cannot be found
|. who have done, what ho has done for us. Others
*• cannot ho found, who can so well carry out the
labours in which ho has been employed. Grali
(l tude requires us to retain him, if we can, upon
reasonable terms —policy bids us not to part with
’■ hint now, if by a proper compensation for his
duties, wo can still have his services. If by a gen
,l oral understanding, thar such compensation for
e the labours of the office shall be appropriated, wo
’* ran keep his name before tbo people, as a candi
date for the office, I have no doubt the other can
didates will retire. Ifthey do not,there is too much
I- sense of justice among our citizens, for them to
| fail in giving him a majority of their suffrages;
let those oppose him who may. I hope these sug
d gestionswill be thought of, discussed by ourcit
( izons, and acted upon. We owe it to ourselves,
and to our characters, as men of hearts and
rt heads. For my part, I will gladly join with others
r- in calling a town meeting on the subject, or I
*j will unite with them in the determination to
u ; nominate and support such a ticket in each of
ie the Wards, for Aldermen as will pledge them
selves to give an increase of salary to the May
e. orally. A majority of such tickets, Ido believe,
n- can be elected ; and, I have no doubt, if we wil*
l,# organize such tickets, with a strong voice, Al
fred Cummino will be again a candidate, and
h- again—what bis merits, and our gratitude de
mand for him—the Mayor of Augusta.
3- Recompense of Reward.
ay
ir
ir- Dead Men’s Bones.— The Legislature of
Ohio having passed an act to prevent the digging
he up of dead bodies for the purposes of dissection
he —making it a r Statc prison offence, we believe
—thirty-two physicians of St. Clairsville and vi
cinity have published a “card,” to the public, in
‘ which they state that they “ believe it a duty they
jj’ owe to the public, and to the profession of which
‘ they arc members, to refuse medic d attention,
o j. if called on, to any one who shall vote for tho
Ue final passage of the bill, and to all members of
the presenter succeeding Legislature, who shall
jj’ not, in future, if the bill pass into a law, use their
’ best endeavors to have it repealed.” —New Or
learn Sun.
Passbi iv»NJA B-ine Bill. — The
burg Telegraph of Monday states that the com-T
mittee of conference, on the Bank Resumption
bill, have not yet, reported, and are not expected
to report immediately. No progress had been
made, as yet, by the committee, in coming to an
understanding ; and the Telegraph inclines to the
opinion that the majority (in the Legislature)
do not wish to act definitely on the Resumption
bill, until something has been done with the Im
provement bill.
The following outrageous proceeding is rela
ted in the Little Rock Times of the 24th ult.
Outbaokous. —We are informed by n gentle
man from Fort Towson, that two or three weeks
since, a citizen of the Edited Stales, at the head
of eight or ten men, had occasion to go into
Texas, for some purpose, where he came across a
party of Cherokee Indians on the borders of Tex
as, who kept in sight of him for two or three
days, without manifesting any hostility. One
mgkt after the Chcrokccs had encamped, the
whites stole upon them and killed seven or eight
of their number, when the Indians returned the
fire, killing one or two of the whites, and then
fled. The cause assigned hy the commander of
the whites, fur attacking the Indians, was that he
was afraid they intended to attack him, and
therefore took the start of them. If this is the
true slate of the case, we think the U. States
should punish the aggressors, and prevent, if pos
sible, any further outrages ot the kind. Our in
formant stales that the officers and agents at Fort
Towson consider it an outrageous and unprovok
ed murder. Will they not then have the matter
investigated, and justice rendered to the Indians'!
Resumption In Viuginia.—We learn ver
bally from Richmond that the bill, passed by the
House of Delegates in January last, respecting
the suspension by the banks, had just been taken
up by the Senate, who added fifteen or twenty
amendments, to the original bill; most of them
were promptly rejected by the House. Upon its
return to the Senate, a disposition was manifes
ted to concur with the House, which induced
‘•Extra Billy Smith” and two other leading Loco
Focosto leave the Senate chamber in high dudg
eon with their brother Loco Locos. Their defec
tion, however, increased the probability that the
bill would pass the Senate in the form in which
it originally passed the House: providing that the
banks shall resume the payment of specie after
the end of next session of the Legislature, and
suspending, for the time, the penalties incurred
by suspension. —Baltimore Patriot 17 th inst.
Death of John Lowell. —The Hon. John
Lowell died of apoplexy, Friday morning, at his
residence in Roxbury, aged 70. Mr. Lowell has
occupied an exalted rank among the distinguish
ed men of Massachusetts. As a lawyer, a states
man, a politician, and a writer, he has had few
equals in this country. — Boston Com. Gaz.
A Shockino Thaoeuy. —A bloody Tragedy
recently occurred at Hopkinsville, (Ky.) in which
a m in by the name of Guvillier, formerly connected
with the Orchestra of the Theatre in Nashville,
amLtho Vocalist, Barclay, an Englishman, were
the principals.
It appears that Cuvillier recently ran away
with and married Miss ceach of Hopkinsville—
the same who figured in the Conceits of Nash
ville last winter—but previous to accomplishing
this purpose had opened an illicit correspondence
with the wife of Barclay. On detecting some of
his letters in his wife’s possession, Barclay went to
Cuvillier, armed with pistols to demand the return
of Mrs. Barclay’s answers, Cuvillier on this
demand, pulled one of the letters from his pocket
and destroyed it in bis presence, when B. insanity
shot him through the body. Cuvillier expired in
a few minutes, and B. surrendered himself to the
civil authorities.
Robdkuy of the Westkun Mail. —lt ap
pears from the Columbus (Ohio) Journal, that
the robbery of the mail recently committed, near
Springfield, (Ohio) was perpetrated by persons
who deal only in New York funds. The Journal
says that the stolen mail bag has been found, and
it appears that the robber took nothing from it
but the letter packages 'directed to the city of
New \ork. The packages of letters from Colum
bus, Wheeling, Baltimore, etc. were all left, and
have since been forwarded to their proper desti
nations.
An Accomplished Family. —The Coburg, a
Belgian paper, makes the following observation
upon the accomplishments of the Princes of Co
burg in the Fine Arts: “The husband of tho
Queen of Portugal is a skilful engraver—our
King a most capital violin-player—Prince Albert
a distinguished poet—and Prince Ernest sets his
brother’s poetry to music.”—All we can say is,
that they would form a tolerable company of
wandering minstrels.
A mandarin, who took much pride in appear
ing with a number of jewels on every part of his
robe, was once accosted by an old sty bonze, who,
following him through several streets and bow
ing often to the giound, thanked him for Ins
jewels. “Whatdoes the man mean!” cried the
mandarin. "Friend, I never gave thee any of
my jewels.” “No,” replied the other, “hut you
have let me look at them, and that is all the use
you can make of them yourself; so there is no
difference between us, except that you have the
trouble ol watching them, and that is an employ
ment I do not much desire.”
Industry ok Eminent Men.— When we
read the lives of distinguished men in any depart
ment, we find them almost always celebrated for
the amount ol labor they'could perform. Demos
thenes, Julius Ciesar, Henry the Fourth of
France, Washington, Napoleon,—different as
they were hard-workers. We read how many
days they could support the fatigues of a march,
how early they rose, how late they watched, how
many hours they spent in the field, in the cabinet,
in the tho court—how many secretaries they kept
employed—in short how hard they wokred.
Friends. —When we see leaves drop from
the trees in the beginning of autumn, just, such
think wc, is the friendship of the worlu. While
the sap of mainlainance lasts, our friends swarm
in abundance; but in the winter of need, they
leave us naked. Ho is happy that hath no need
of his friends.
¥
Great Minds.—How many minds, almost all
the great ones, were formed in secrecy and soli
tude, without knowing whether they should ever
make a figure or not ! All they knew was, that
they liked what they was about, mid gave their
whole souls to it.
Constancy.— Suffer not your spirit to be sub
dued by misfortunes—but, on the contrary, steer
right onward, with a courage greater than your
fate seems to allow. It is by such efforts, that
you will in time overcome every obstacle and
enjoy at first the fruits of constancy and pci se
verance.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 16th Inst,
says: Nothing definite had transpired at Harris
hurgh nt the last dates, in relation to the decision
of the Committee of Conference on the Bank
Question.
feon. a 'Ai>ilin\theHic of uneirVnPnl
TWHWhc LocSWos, UjatMhc pVto opposed to N
the men in power is numtfitrioiS in"h% natflfes. 1
A great many poor jokes have been cracked on
the subject. Our party sometimes, say they, are
called Whig, sometimes Democratic Whig, and
sometimes something else. The Providence
Journal proposes even another. The Journal
says that a project is maturing for giving the
Whig party a new name on the 4th March next.
It is then to be called the Administration party,
— N, Y. Gazette,
Reauino.—The good Fenelon said, “If the
riches of both Indies—if the crowns of all the
kingdoms of Europe, were laid at ray feet, in
exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn
them all; —an hour spent in communion with
the wise and the good, is of more real value than
an age amongst the selfish and ignorant.
Happiness.—Fortune depends entirely on ex
ternal causes—but happiness depends almost en
tirely on ourselves. Its principal ingredient? are
a manly mind, an affectionate heart, and a tem
perance of imagination. The first has the pow
er of disarming affliction—the second of doub
lingevery enjoyment—whi “ ti e last guards us
from wild wishes and incon : ,nt expectations.
An Arkansas paper tells a story of a young
man from the country, who, visiting Little Rock,
concluded he must go to the Theatre before leav
ing town. Having never been inside of such a
place he mistook the door entering that establish
ment and walked into a billiard room, some wag
receiving tne proffered ticket. The best of the
joke is that he never discovered his mistake, but
sat until the house was closed, professing to be
highly delighted “to sec a lot of fellows knock
ing about a parcel of little balls.”
A New Mode of Gettino a Livino,—
We yesterday saw one of the oddest tricks em
ployed to “raise the wind” that ever entered in a
mortal's head. We were sauntering about the
Levee, in the vicinty of the lower market, when
our attention was attracted by a Dutch woman
who stood directly before a bag of coffee, with
her toes within six inches of it. What excited
our curiosity was, that she kept ever and anon
looking first over the river, then down at her feet
and then round about. Observing this, we ap
proached her as stealthily as we could, when we
saw, snugly concealed beneath her dress, a child
of some five or six years, with a casekife in its
hand, boring into the coffee-bag, as industriously
as a ben, and pouring the avails of its predatory
occupation into a kind of receiver, prepared by
its mother for the purpose, in the front part of its
dress !—A*. O. Sun,
Sharp Work for thf, Lawiers. —The re
nowned Peter the Great, being at Westminster.
Hall in term time, and seeing multitudes of people
swarming about the courts of law is reported to
have asked some about him, what all those busy
persons were about ? and being answered, “they
were lawyers.” “Lawyers!” returned he with
great vivacity, “why 1 have but four in my king
dom, and I design to hang two of them as soon
as I get home.”
It is stated that 100,000 copies of the new
story by Boz, will be published in London. The
receipts, if they all sell, will amount to SO,OOO
per week, or $312,000 per annum.
A Vahiaulk Sensei her. —“ I want to sub
scribe for your weekly paper.”
“ What name, sir 1”
“O, just lend me a pen, I’ll write you the di
rection myself.”
Paper and pen was furnished, and this was
the direction handed to us.
“ Post Mastf.ii at tows, ■ state,
When read, please foi wardlo Hiram Jenkins,
with a request to send it over the creek to Uncle
Perkins, who will send it hack to the Post Office,
directed to lead Screwhard in the next State."
A .ew more such subscribers, and our fortune
will be made.— Picayune.
Anti-Tobacco. —A law has been recently pro
mulgated in the Swiss canton of the Valais, pro
hibiting all persons under 25 years of age from
smoking, under a penalty of fine and imprison
ment.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Feb, 20
Latest dates from Havre Feb. 17
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Cotton. —For the last two days our market has
been very inactive, and since our report on Thurs
day but little has changed hands. Holders are
still very firm and unyielding, while buyers ap
pear coy and unwilling to make investments at
the prices demanded. Yesterday the market was
said to be “ very flat,” and very few sales were
made at any price. Buyers seem unwilling to take
hold freely, in consequence of the high price of
freights to Liverpool, and when they are da ly ex
pecting later accounts, which some fear will be
unfavorable. Wc feel justified, however, in con
tinuing our last quotations.
Ordinary to middling, lo 7
Fair, 7i to 7J
Good Fair, 7| to S
Prime and choice, Sj to
Freights— To Savannah, 75 to 100 cts. per bale ;
to Charleston, by rail road, 36c per 100 lbs. fo r
square, and 45c per 100 lbs. for round bales.
Groceries. —\Vc have no change to note in this
branch of the trade j the supply is equal to the
demand, and the assortment varied and complete
with all descriptions, at former quotations.
Exchange. —On Ncw-York at sight, 7 a 8 per
cent, for current funds; Charleston at 4 a 5 per
cent; Savannah 1 a 2 per ct.; Philadelphia 2 a 3 per
ct.; Lexington, Ky. \i u per ct.; Richmond 3j per
cent; specie commands 6 per cent, premium.
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Banks, 1 a 1 $ per cent. prem.
Columbus Insurance B’k 2 “ “ ««
Commercial Bank, Macon, 2 « «« «i
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ “ «
Agency Brunswick, “ 6 “ “ «
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 2 “ « (ji S-
Milledgeville Bank, 2j a 3 “ “
Ocmulgee Bank, 3 « «
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 4 “ “
Hawkinsville Bank, 3 “ “
Chattahoochic R. U.& B’k
Company, 10 “ « «•
Darien Bank, 15 « « «
Bank of Rome, 25 “ << •«
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks.— -Mechanics’ Bank, Dank
of St. Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com
mercial Bank of Macon, and Brunswick Agency in
this city.
Macon, March 17.
Cotton —Since our last quotations an advance of
J took place, but the market came down to former
rates, say 5j a7J after the reception of the late
unfavorable advices by the Great Western.
Cur river is again up, and navigable for steam
boats. Freight to t-avannah, in boats, *2 50 in
boxes, $2 25. To Darien, 50 cent* less/
Col. Ja«E3. Gadshkn was, on Wednesday
President of the Louisville’
GiucTtfcati arfWdharleston Rail Road Company.’
OBITUARY.
Departed this life on the 10th instant, Mrs Ada
line Brodnax, wife of Wm. E. Brodnax.for many
years a worthy member of the Presbyterian church
in this city. She has left a large circle of friends
to mourn her sudden exit. Modest and unassuming
in her manners, kind and affectionate in friendship
with a heart alive to all the best feelings of our
nature, she won the love and esteem of all her
acquaintance. Among her numerous friends, she
was a tender and kind nuise in hours of sickness
and was ever ready to sympathise with them in’
sorrow and bereavement. To her family the loss
is irreparable, fulfilling all the duties of wife and
and mother with truth and fidelity. Cut iff in the
prime of life, and the season of usefulness, wc can
not but mourn the loss of a friend who breathed
around us an atmosphere of parity and love.
“Adaline, thou wastmild and lovely,
Gentle as the summer breeze;
Pleasant as the air of evening,
When it floats among the trees.
Peaceful be thy silent slumber,
Peaceful in thy grave so low;
Thou no more wilt join our number,
Thou no more our sorrows know.”
MARINE INTELLIGENCE'
Savannah, March 16.
Cleared— Brig Savannah, Shapter, New York
schr Index, Chase, Providence.
Arrived— Br brig Margaret of Lcven, Smyth
Leith, Eng. ’
Went lo sea —Ship Hamilton, Killam, Liverpool-
Br ship Ben Nevis, Burns, do; schr Index, Chase’
Providence.
Charleston, March 20.
Arrived yesterday —Schr Francis Canady, Smith,
Port Royal, Mart; schr Ceylon, Merrill, Richmond!
In the Offing —Ship Coromando, Pierce, Liver
pool.
At Quarantine —Barque Potomac. Gorham, Bos
ton. »
Cleared— Brigs Catharine, Rose, Havana; Es
cambia, Durham, New York.
Went to sea yesterday —Schr Reaper, Barker, N
York.
THE It FADING KOOJI
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock.
Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more $lO.
r Or. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
profession. He may be found at all hours at the
late residence of Mr. A. M. Egcrton, second dooi
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets.
ntv29 ly
U. H. OVIiRBV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
(fff Doctor J, J, WILSON oilers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams.
augl7 ts
BCT BENE VOLENT SOCIETY.—For the bene
fit of the sick poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
The visiting committees for the ensuing month,
are as follows:
Division No. 1. —James Godby, J. W. Meredith,
Mrs. Crump,Mrs N. Jones.
Division No. 2.—W. H. Crane, W. F. Pember
ton, Mrs. Talliafarro,,Mrs. M. A. Holt.
Division No. 3. —G. E. Latimer, James Panton,
Mrs. B. McKinnie, Mrs. Julia Snead.
J. W. WlGHTMAN,Secretary,
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DR W. EVANS’ CELEBRATED SOOTHING
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.—Tim
infallible-remedy has preserved hundreds of chil
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul
sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. The preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that no
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it.
When infants are at the age of four months, though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are young children ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
pores and healing the gums; thereby preventing
convulsions, fevers, &e. Sold only at Dr. Wm.
Evans’ Medical Oflice, 100 Chatham street. New
York, where the Doctor may be consulted on all
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP.—To the Agent
of Dr. Evans’ Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir—The
peat benefit afforded to my suffering infant by
rour Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
talnful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
ent how essential an early application of such an
medicine is to relieve infant misery and
arture. My infant, when teething, experienced
mch acute sufferings, that it was attacked with
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed that
death would soon release the babe from anguish,
till we procured a bottle of your Syrup; which ns
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change
was produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by continuing m
its use, 1 am glad to inform you the child has com
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful
complaint has since occurred ; the teeth are ema
nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health.
I give you my cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, andwill gladly give any
information on this circumst; nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
EVANS’ FAMILY APERIENT PILLS ate
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest pre
cision of science and of art; they never pro.lin c
nausea, and arc warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the blood,
viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, Colds,
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, Asthma, ( ha
leru, Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnics and
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of whatsoever kind to which him an
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected.
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans’ Comom ilt
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart,the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mind,
vanish before their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sun,—
They have long been successfully used for the onto
of in tesmittc-nts, together with fevers of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
T his tonic medicine is for nervous complaints,
encral debility, indigestion and its consequence?,
or want of appetite,distension of thestomach, acid
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noire
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, wli.-n
the mind becomes irritable,desponding,thoughtful,
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondiiueism, con
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all other
nervous affections, Uliese pills will produce a safe
and permanent cure.
Evans' Camomile Pitts were first introduced into
America in 1535.
More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary effi
caey of Dr. Wm. Evans’ celebrated Camomile an I
Aperient Anti-Bilious Pills,in alleviating affli. tid
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowen. -
Disease —Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody Fhi\ -
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels, se
vere griping,frequent inclination to go to stool, tn
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fre
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of a pe
culiar foetid matter mixed with blood .great debility,
sense ofburning heat,with an intolerable hennog
down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying pen
cct health, and returns his sincere thanks for lln
extraordinary benefits fie has received.
Sold by AN TON V HAIiNKS,
Sole agents in Augusta
i J. M.& T. M. TURNER,Savannah
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP & ELLS, Millcdgeville,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A.W. MARTIN, Forsvth
Wm. E. WELLo, Druggist, A them
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
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