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iljrcmicle anb Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, Ga.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOV. 19.
Mississippi Senator —The Governor of
Mississippi has appointed Joseph W. Chalmers
to the seat in the U. S. Senate, vacant by the re
signation ofMr. Walker. '1 lie Southern lie
former speaks in very high terms of the ability
and character of Air. Chalmers.
New Hampshire.— Gov. Steele has appointed
Benjamin W. Jenness, ofSpaffurJ, to be Sena
tor in Congress until the meeting of the Legis
lature, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the re
signation of Levi Woodbury,
New York Postage Deficit.— The New
Votk post office yielded (or the quarter ending i
the 30;h June, 1844, $70,166; for the quarter i
ending the 30;h June, 1845; $45,254. Deficit
$24,912.
The N. Y. Express says There is an ac
tive demand for vessels to take rtou r to Live rpool,
and freights have advanced to three shillings
and nine pence sterling a barrel. The news of
cold weather at the North has induce;} holders
of bread stuff to advance their rates,
A >hip was taken up in New-York on Thurs
day to load with flour for Glasgow a!4 shillings
sterling.
The Minister to England. —The Washing
ton Union of last Friday night contains the fol
lowing article:
Mr. McLane at London. —The wholly false
report that this gentleman is dissatisfied in his
present position, and that he wishes to return to
this country, because he is not. intrusted with the
settlement of Ike Oregon question, has run the
rounds of the whole Whig press. It is reite
rated again and again in everv variety of form,
and we notice that it is this morning repeated in
the Intelligencer.
We now reply toil for the last time. We
slate, of our own personal knowledge, that Air.
McLane, when he went to England, considered
it highly expedient that the Oregon negotiation
should be conducted at Washington, and that
he entertained this opinion, too, on conclusive
reasons growing out of the natiue of the ques
tion itself, and wholly independent of any inti
mations from tl e administration as to me line
of negotiation to be adopted.
We say further, that Mr. McLane was not
charged, with the Oregon negotiation , an 1 that he
was perfectly satisfied with that arrangement.
And we add to these statements the fact, that if
Mr. AlcLane desires to return from his mission,
no intimation of such a desire has been receiv
ed here. That he wishes to return, in a spirit
of dissatisfaction and disgust, we learn from the
best authority, it is wholly gratuitous and un
true.
The Union may be right it all that it says.
In regard to the point whether Mr. McLane
wishes to return, the Baltimore Patriot says,
we know nothing from personal knowledge,
but have reason to believe that it is his present
intention to return, if so please the government,
in June next.
The Canal tolls in the State of New-York
will it is supposed, reached this year the sum of
$2,500,000.
A Young Lady Horribly Scalped. —A
daughter of Lucius Shaur, of Valatie, Colum
bia county, N. Y., while attending her loom in a
mill one day r last week, got entangled by the
hair of her head with the machinery. The en
tire scalp was torn from her head, and as low
as the left eyebrow, which, with her ecalp, came
of in one entire piece. The scalp is now in the
Albany medical college. Dr. Marsh has but
taint hopes of her recovery. A similar accident
happened at a mill in the village a few years
ago.
German Population of Cincinnati. —A
German paper in Cincinnati states that there are
between 4,500 and 5,000 German voters in that
city. If this estimate is correct, says the Ga
zette, it would make that part ol our population
amount to from 30 to 35,000, equal to the whole
extent of the city ten years ago.
Cornelius R. Suydam, Esq , of the house of
Goremus, Suydam & Nixon, at
died on Wednesday, of bilious fever, in the 53d
year of his age.
An arrival at New-York from Rio Janeiro,
brings advices from Montevideo to the 7th nil.,
confirming the account of the taking ol Colo
r,ia by the French and British forces. Gen.
Cribe had ordered a general recruiting of
all who could bear arms between the ages of 14
and 50.
The capture of Colonia is ascribed, by a let
ter from Montevideo, to rigorous measures
adopted against the French and English resi
dents by Gen. Uribe. The men were com
pelled to withdraw some leagues into the inte
lior, and their families were conveyed to an
uninhabited island, where they suffered great
privations until relieved by the English vessels,
[communicated.]
We were one among the number who at
tended Prof. Richards’ lecture on Monday eve
ning. at the Masonic Hall. The subject, “The
and Solar System,” was handled in an able
and masterly manner, evincing a familiar knovv
'e,lge of the science ol astronomy. His dia
grams were comprehensive, and well calculated
l ° convey to the minds of his hearers a correct
a, ‘d concise idea of the subjects illustrated. We
Consider the gentleman’s efforts well worthy the
patronage of this community, and we cordially
wish him success. M.
Colored Popui*ation of New York. — The
umber of colored persons living in the city ol
- e w York is 11,939 —of which nnmber 11,570
re not taxed, 255 are taxed, and 108 are entitled
0 Vo >e under the property qualification.
For the Chronicle Sentinel.
Vo Parents and Teachers.
Permit me to cal! your attention to a series
of elementary works on Natural History, pre
pared by Dr. Ruschenberger, lor the use of
Schools, and published by Gi igg & Elliot, Phil
adelphia.
These are what they are truly styled, the
1 Fiist Books of Natural History.” They rre
the opening door to a clepaitment of knowledge,
high as heaven, and broad as the universe itselfj
but which has, until these our times, been seal
ed up against the inquiring mind, as it God had
reserved “to us and to our children,” this vast
field for intellectual enjoyment and mental
exuatiatK.ii. No exercise of the intellectual fa
culties is more calculated to give correct per
ceptions of God, the author of all tilings, than
a study of His woiks.
What we cal! natural productions, are but or
ganizations in the material wot Id, which are
directly the handiwork of that universal, ail
pervading Spirit, who is the grand architect of
every organized body,—not only of those vast
globes ti:at float in immeasurable space, suns,
and s\ s.cms of worlds, —but He is also the
maker c f the smallest thing that moves. He is
the God of the living. The animal kingdom
and the vegetable, may be truly said to be but
the wot k of His “fingers.” The feathered tribes,
the finny races, and the branching families of
the reptiie and insect orders, are but the lore
ground, the beginnings of Creation. But how
little is our knowledge of these beginnings!
We fee them to exist, and recognize their
external forms, but of their places in the great
scale of organized existences, and ol the va
rious parts which they act in the progress of life,
and of their internal structures, we know but
veiy Hole ; —of the science of their organizations,
the general knowledge is next to nothing.
Here then is a field now opening to us, where
the mind can revel in fatness, and feed on truth
unalloyed with fiction. It is, indeed, one of the
most important fields for intellectual investiga
tion that has ever been presented to the human
mind for its exploration; and the mind trained
up in thestudv of nature’s organization, is pre
pan! to receive those moral influences which
correct tire judgment and purify the heart. But
■iiis work must begin in mental infancy, when
the seeds of character which determine the fu
ture man, are planted. How highly necessary
is it then, that, before the mind becomes pre-oc
cupied by those things which are purely fanci
ful an f abound in error, it be presented with a
system of truth, one which embodies only
lac's,— for a mind nurtured with truth, can ne
ver receive that which is fictitious.
This work ol the author, therefore, cannot be
too highly valued. Like every other work of
science, it is a system of facts, developing the
wonderful mechanism of organized beings from
man down through all the order, genera and spe
ci s of animated being, to the tiniest insect that
moves. It is a work that should be in everv
family, and studied by every member of it. No
libtary should be without the whole series, and
it these be no library in the family, these books
should at once be the beginning of onm No
child should be without them, whose mind is
beginning to act. The study of Natural History
should be considered as important an I necessa
ry a branch of school instruction, as Geography
or Arithmetic, —for the reason that it is destined
to exert a great and leading influence in the
formation at the future character of man.’
Not a word need be said of the talents and
character of the author, Dr. Ruschenberger. He
is too weli, and too universally known to re
quire any recommendation from me. He has
long been a surgeon in the U. S. Navy, and has
reflected honor upon the service.
The same publishers, have also prepared and
published a new series of School Readers, in
which their great aim seems to have been, to in
struct the moral as well as the intellectual fa
culties of the mind; and well have they succeed
ed. There is not, perhaps, now any series of
School Readers, so well adapted to prepare the
mind for a proper reception of the first Books
of Natural History, as those of Grigg & Elliot.
They have the highest recommendation?, and
Teachers and Parents will be but discharging
a duty to their children asid pupils, and to pos
terity. by obtaining them.
AN OLD TEACHER.
Another Great Fire.
Sag Harbor in Tillius! One hundred houses, two
Holds, and!he Bonk burned!
The New York Express of Saturday morn
ing says:
By the Long Island tram of last evening,
we have inhumation of a most disastrous fire
at Sag Harbor, equal in extent, in comparison
with the size ol the town, to the fire at Pitts
burg, tiuebec or the New York conflagration.
Mr. Tucker, the conductor of the Long Island
road, who obtained all the information practi
cable in lire confusion, stales that the lire broke
out Thursday night, about 9 o’clock, at which
time the wind was blowing a gale. The fire
originated in a wooden building, and soon ex
tended to more than one hundred houses, (one
account says one hundred and seventy) which
were entirely consumed. Among the buildings
burned was the Suffolk Co. Bank, and both of
the Hotels,
The loss in buildings is vatiously stated at
SIOO 000 a $150,000, while the loss in merchan
dize cannot yet be estimated, but must be very
large. The portion burned was the best busi
ness part of the town, and lias cast a shade over
its prospects that will not, we fear, soon be re
moved. Among the greatest sufferers we hear
the names ol Messrs. Huntley and Alulford, so
extensively known in the whaling trade, in New
Yot k. We do not hear that any oil was burned,
or that any damage was done to the shipping, ol
which, however, there was fortunately but tew
sail in’porl. So great a calamity has not visited
a small town in a long lime, nor one that will
cause more distress to its mercantile citizens.
The train of to-night will bring the particulars,
which will be looked for with much interest, as
(the property is insured here, and the business of
Sag Harbor more closely connected with thi*
city than «U*wh«r*.
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1845.
From, the Baltimore American.
The Chinese at Canton—No. 2—Part 2d.
General Appearance of the People. —We have
given some description of the summer dresses,
so well adapted for a binning climate, and
which are worn till quite late in the autumn.
But towards November, when in the square
the broad ensign of America waves in the blast
of the Northwest Monsoon, there is a univer
sal and simultaneous change in the costume.
The chief officer of the province puls on a win
ter dress, assumes the skull cap with its scarlo
button, and all the inferior millions follow his
example. The appearance of the lower order
is little changed, hut in the upper the difference
is apparent. The loose gown is now drawn at
the waist, by a sash with fringed ends hanging
down behind; and over this is worn a large cape
of figured sitk, or cloth, but usually ol furs. A
mantle, made from the skin ol a lamb taken
from its dam before birth, is very highly prized.
Now it is that the fan case, watch, and "purse,
are seen to the best advantage, and the blue can
and scarlet button give a finish to tlie winter
garments, which those of the summer want :
for none but government officers wear hats du
ring the latter season, excepting those labourers
who ate exposed to the snow. The summer
habits of the officers we must notice fora mo
ment. Oiieri a long gown of blue gauze con
fined at the waist, black satin boots, and the de
corated apendages belore mentioned, make a
sirikingshow; their hats are then of white braid,
conical in shape, surmounted with a ball indi
cative of rank and adorned with a falling plume
of shining scarlet hair.
During the winter their state-robes are stiff
with glittering magnificence, those of the high
est mandarins are worked with brilliant hues,
and their shoes are ornamented also, one of the
principal figures being the imperial dragon.
On the breast and back of some dresses is an
embroidered bird; and the necklace at one hun
dred and eight large court beads, ol bright a
gatc, quanz or rare wood, always accompanies
a state costume. The yellow girdle is allowed
only to members ot the Imperial family, of
whom we shall speak hereafter. The manda
rin’s winter cap is utterly different from the one
now described; it is usually of dark blue velvet,
fitting close to the head, with a broad edge turn
ing up all ar<>und, and instead of the hair plume,
it is furnished with one of scarlet silk. The
ball, always worn except in case of mourning,
is red, blue, while, chryslal, or gold, according
to rank, and these varieties, with some other
insignias, distinguish lire nine'grades of manda
rins.
The peacock’s feather is an honor granted
for signal merit, and it is worthy of note that
such marks of favor are seldom or never be
stowed unKss well deserved. The privilege of
wearing a state dress may indeed he purchased
for an immense sum, but ibis confers no rank
or honor. The aristocracy of talent and not of
wealth, bears sway in China.
Judging f rom the few specimens of splendour
to be seen in a city so remote from the Court as
Canton, there must be a vast deal of wealth
and magnificence at the Capital ; and the ac
counts of ol ! tiavolleis, and later embassies,
speak of state and pomp worthy of so immense
an empire.
Never was there a country in which tailors
were kept so mack in check as they are in
China; no one of the class ventures to originate
a fashion, for the costumes of the nation are
regulated at Court, by a board of officers, from
whose decree no one dares to dissent.
The common order of the females dress
much like the men, but the visiter who walks
from the foreign factories towards the western
part of Canton, passing through retired streets,
only occupied by the houses of wealthy Chinese,
will often see ladies walking, beautifully attired
in rich silks, with children or servants in com
pany. Their dress conceals the person entire
ly; the long gown or toga fits close around the
neck, and has loose sleeves enveloping the
hands. Their heads are uncovered, and their
style ot head dress is singular, and usually
thought becoming. The front hair of unmarried
females is combed straight back, with the ex
ception of a small portion, hanging over the
forehead nearly to the eye brows, and cut square;
this same custom is observed among some re
mote tribes of North American Indians. The
rest of the hair is combed and braided into the
tail, like the men’s; but no part of a female’s
head is shaved. When married, or shortly be
fore, the whole hair is combed up, and a false
piece set on the back of the head, fastened by
clasps ant! pins of gold, or other less precious
material, according to the wealth of the fair
one A beautiful ornament is sometimes worn
by rich women, tepresenlinga bird with extend
ed wings, which, formed of gold or silver fila
gree, studded with pearls, and supported by light
wires trembling with the slightest motion, seem
to hover over the head of the lady.
What need of the long wide pantaloons of
the upper Chinese ladies '! To conceal their
feet? They have none for service, and hobble
along more awkwardly than a child first learn
ing to walk. Soon as the female child is born,
its feel are thrust into shoes, and bound firmly
round and round, so that no growth can ensue.
Nature, endeavoring to have its way, can only
produce exquisite tort fire as each attempt proves
abortive. How these females ever learn to
stand or move is strange, yet, as we before ob
served, they may sometimes be seen in the
streets, supporting their trembling steps with a
staff. Models in clay of the contracted fed,
painted flesh colour, and set into shoes of the
same size as those actually worn, are sold in
Canton as curiosities. The large toe fits into
the point of the shoe, and the others, instead of
being in their natural positions, are jammed and
driven into the side of lire foul, appearing one
directly behind the other. It is as though the
foot were cut oft just at the ankle joint, and the
slump sharpened to a point. This custom is
exclusively Chinese, and is not followed even
by the Mancbou Tartars, who, being the last
conquerors of China, have adopted many of
its customs, and whose Emperor now wields his
despotic sceptre over one half the human race.
It would be a vain effort to attempt to describe
all the scenes and individual objects of the
streets of Canton. One might look (or years,
see something new everyday and in describing
forget to speak of many. “ Why did you nut
mention this ?” and “why did you not mention
that'?” —would be asked bv various persons,
but the same things do not fix the attention of
all observers. Never were a people in all
probability more happy than the vast bulk of
the Chinese. Their faces arc not expressive
ot lively pleasure, but the more lasting, quiet,
contended enjoyment ot the good things of life.
But they are energetic in gesture, and as there
is a severe punishment for fiahting, two angry
Chinese offer an amusing sight, for they ran
sack their language for terms of vituperative
harshness, without coining to blows, A shop
keeper of whom we purchased some fans gave
us some trouble in altering them. He always
endeavored to throw the blame on his inferior
workmen, and pretended to lash himself into
an uncontrolable rage at the carelessness, when
ever we reproved him for the neglect. He
would stamp up and down his shop, whisk
about his tail, and burst out with—“ I have
speakee that man, I have speakee him, he one
grand foolo, Shalt make alia proper, can do,
«»a do.” The Ciiinm are also as extravagant
in courtesy as in anger, and at new year, espe
ciallv, their politeness is carried so far as to
render them perfectly ridiculous.
V. e see in the open streets, proofs of the
general diffusion of the common elements of
education, judging from the number ol the
lowest cooleys who stop to read the chops or
placards, pasted upon the walls of the houses,
and to see them congregate around a vender oi
books, who sits upon the ground with his little
collections before him, offering, showing, and
explaining.
One old man in China street was always
surrounded, fie had a little table with a cage
containing two canaries, and had also a pack of
cards. He would cover the cage completely,
allow a bystander to choose any card, and then
shuffle it ivilli the pack so adroitly that it was
impossible, no follow. He would then open the
cage, the 1 itrie bird would hop out, and select
the card at once, never failing to pull the right
one. 1 never could observe the slightest com
munication between the bird and the man, who
was one of those minor jugglers so frequently
seen in Chinese cities and villages.
Near the end ot old China street, a number
of poor women may be observed at any time,
sewing and mending clothes. They nearly all
have small feet, and it is an error to suppose
that this beauty is confined exclusively to the
upper classes. As '.he rich women are not ex
pected to work much, and go out but little, they
universally follow the custom ; but as the poor
females toil like men, it is absolutely necessary
that their limbs should be uniestrained. These
seamstresses wear enormous spectacles, giving
them an owlish appearance. And that old fellow
opposite to them looks more owlish still, as he
wears them while tinkering upon a broken lamp
shade. He has the a;t of riveting glass, or
earthenware, not understood by a barbarian, for
the iivets appear on one side only. They are
seen through the glass of course, but broken
crockery is so neatly mended that the cracks
are hardly perceptible, and the metal rivets are
visible only on the back ot the plate. He drills
a number of little holes half through the sub
stance, hammers in tne tacks, and !o, the broken
article is sound again. So neatly does he work,
that the fragments of the chrystal of a watch
may be joined. Close by are a squad of game
sters gambling for confectionary, and a vile
bigolied looking Budhist priest is watching
them with intense interest. So after passing
through the cal market, where numbers of
doomed quadrupeds are crying in wicker
baskets, we go to the factories, for a cun of
Shinqua’s most delicious Ouloong. T.
Frightened at a Gong. — We have heard a
funny story told of a young fellow, residing in
one of the tobacco-growing counties ofVirginia,
who recently made his first visit to Richmond,
the capital of the “ Old Dominion,” for the pur
pose of selling his crop, seeing the sights, and
rubbing off some of the rust which his back
woods “fetching up” had thrown upon his man
ners.
Ele reached Richmond about the middle of
(he forenoon, and was fortunate in selling his
crop at an advantageous rate and almost imme
diately. Meeting with an old school-fellow—
one who had lived in the city long enough to
know its ways—he was advised to take up his
lodgings at Boyden’s, the crack house of the
place, and thither he at once went with bag
and baggage. Just before dinner iy's country
friend called upon him, and found him com
fortably located in a room just at the head
of the first stairs. It was close upon dinner
lime.
“Supposing we take something to start an
appetite,” said the chap who had “just come
down.”
“ Agreed,” rqoined his city friend, “ a glass
of wine and bitters lor me.”
“Lei’s go down to the bar and get it—din
ner’s most ready,” continued the tobacco grow
er.
“We might as well have it up here,” was the
rejoinder.
“Good lick; but how are we to call for it"?”
“ Ring'ihat bell there.”
“ What bell?”
“ Pull that rope hanging there.”
The young fellow If id hold of the rope and
gave it a jerk, and just at that moment the gong
sounded for dinner. Never had he heard such!
a sound before, and the rumbling crash came 1
upon his ear with a report that stunned him. |
He staggered back from the rope, raised both
hands in hon or, and exclaimed,
“ Great Jerusalem, what a erash ! I’ve broke :
every piece of crockery' in the bouse! There;
aint a whole dish left! You must stick by me, 1
old fellow,” addressing his friend, “don’t leave
me in this scrape, for my whole crop won’t half
pay the breakage. What did you tell me to j
pull that cursed rope for?”
Hut before his friend, who was all but burst
ing with laughter, could answer, a servant en
tered the room with
“ Did you ring the bell, sir?”
“Bell, no, d—n your bell; I never touched a
bell in my life; what bell? 1 never saw your
bell.”
“Somebody rung the bell ol this room, that’s
certain,” continued the servant.
“ No they didn’t there’s nobody here that ever
saw a bell”- and then turning to his friend he
exclaimed, aside, “Let’s lie him out of ii; I
shan’t have a cent left to get home it I pay the
entile damage. What do they set such rascal
ly traps as that for, to take in fo.ks from the
country ?”
After a violent fit of laughter, the friend was
enabled to explain that it was only the gong
sounding for dinner—a simple summons to
“walk down to soup” got up on the Chinese
plan. They made their wav to the dining room,
but it was some time before the young tobacco
grower could set over the stunning and awful
effects of that dreadful gong—“lt was a God
send,” fie said, “ that the crash did not turn his
hair grey on the spot.”— Pic.
Foreigners in New York. —The number ol
inhabitants in New York born in foreign coun
tries, is as follows:
England, Ireland, &c 95,373
France 3,763
Germany 43,416
Other parts of Europe 3,173
Mexico and South America 477
146,202
The whole number of inhabitants of thecifv
is 371,102.
Singular Sights.— Several ships, recently
arrived, are reported as having passed large
ice islands in the middle of the Atlantic. The
packet ship Liverpool met with one, and the
Silvie de Grasse saw another on the Ist inst. in
lat. 43 30, lon. 48 59, which was one hundred
feet high, and four hundred feet long! It is
very rare that these immense boulders of ice are
to be seen at this late season of the year.— N. Y.
Herald.
Curious Fact in Commerce. —The greater
pnrt of the skins sold bv the Norwegians are
obtained from the Hamburgh merchants, who
buy them in London from the Hudson’s Bay
Company; the Norwegians convey them to
Finmark, from whence they are taken to Mos
cow, and there sold to the caravan traders, for
the purpose ol being bartered with the Chinese
1 for tea of Kiachta.
Agricultural Association of Georgia.
Mii.ledgeville. Nov. 10, 1845.
The Agricultural Association of Georgia met
this afternoon at 3 o’clock. The President being
unavoidably absent, on motion ot B. S. Jordan,
President ol the Baldwin County Agricultural
| Society. Richard S. Hardwick, President ol the
Hancock County Agricultural Society, was
called to the Chair.
The Constitution, as adopted by the Associa
tion at its first meeting, held in April last, to
gether with all the proceedings of the meeting
on that occasion, were read.
The President then requested the delegates
present to report themselves to the Secretary,
when it appeared that the following Societies
were represented by the lollowing named gentle
men :
Hancock County Agricultural Society. —R. S.
Hardwick, A. E.' W" Brown, VVm. Terrell. I.
P. Whitehead, N. C. Sayre, E. H. Baxter, W.
H. Brantley, D. VV. Lewis, T. Vinson, R. P.
Sasnelt, and B. T. Harris.
Putnam County Agricultural Society. —S.
Pearson, E. Callaway, O. S. Crediller, "Wm.
Turner, and Thomas G. Sanford.
Burke County Agricultural Society. —James
Grubbs, John T. Brown, J. W. Jones, M. J.
Reynolds, ami Wiiglit Murphree.
Burke County Central Society. —Mulford
Mar.'h.
Oglethorpe Agricultural Society, (Bowling
Green) —VVm. Lumpkin, and F. Phinizy.
Baldwin County Agricultural Society.— B. S.
Jordan, Thomas F. Given. James Dickson, R.
M. Orme, Benjamin A. White, S. K. Talmage,
H. V. Johnson, W. H. Mitchell, and R. H.
Ramsey.
On motion ol Mr. Sasnett, it was
Resolved, That an Executive Committee be
appointed by the Chair, in accordance with the
provisions of the Constitution. The Commit
tee named were—R. P. Sassnelt, B. S. Jordan,
Thomas F. Green, R. M. Orme, and B. T.
Bethune.
On motion of Dr. T. F. Green, the Associa
tion then adjourned until half past seven o’clock
this evening.
Half past 7 o'clock, P. M.
The Association met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
Governor Crawford, President of ths Asso
ciation, being in attendance, took the Chair.
On motion of Judge Sayre, an invitation was
extended to any gentlemen present representing
Agricultural Societies, whose names have not
been previously enrolled, to come forward, fur
nish their names to the Secretary and take their
seats as members of this Association. Where
upon the following gentlemen presented them
selves:
14 T arren Agricultural Society. —John Harris,
President.
Clark Agricultural Society.— Wm. L. Mitchell.
Chatham Agricultural Society. —Wm. P.
Bowen.
Walton Agricultural Society. —William Ru
therford, President, and James Jackson.
Jefferson Agricultural Society. —J. B. Todd.
The President then called for the reports ot
the Committees appointed by him, under a reso
lution ol the Association at its organization in
April last, when the following reports were pre
sented and read:
Report on the Agriculture of Georgia, by
VVm. Turner, Chairman.
Report on Grains, by R. S. Hardwick, Ch’m.
“ Stock, by VVm. Terrell, “
“ Manures, by J. W. Moody, “
“ “ by I. P. Whitehead, one
ot Committee.
Ail of which were referred to the Executive
Committee.
On motion of Judge Sayre—
Resolved, That the Executive Committee
cause so much, and such parts of the reports of
the several committees and of the proceedings
of the Association, as they may deem expedient,
to be furnished to the publishers of the “South
ern Cultivator” and other gazettes that may be
willing to receive them, for publication.
The following preamble and resolution were
introduced by Mr. Sasnett;
Whereas, in the opinion of this society, Agri
culture is the paramount business of the State;
that upon its resoutces and improvements, ail
other classes and interests mainly depend lor
subsistence and for wealth; and that upon the
virtue, intelligence and skill ot those who direct
its labors, comprising as they do the mass of our
population, must materially depend our moral
and intellectual character as a people.
That it is consequently of primary importance
to the merchant, mechanic, manufacturer, and
to all other members of society, that this great
branch ol industry should be especially honored
and encouraged, and that the Agriculturist him
self should receive all those mutual aids, and
that stimulus to industry which are calculated
to make him more prosperous in his business,
and more useful to society.
That the exhausted and worn out state of
much of our lands, the low price of our great
staple production, and the great scarcity and
high price of bread stuffs and other provisions,
particularly admonishes to put forth all our ef
forts to enliglivn its labors and increase its pro
ductions.
That to the Legislature ot the State as the le
gally constituted guardians of the public wel
fare, especially belongs the duty of fostering this
great source ot our wealth and happiness.
That from the experience ol the past, at home
and abroad, this association is confident that the
patronage of the Government may be advan
tageously extended, (and without detriment to
the financial operations of the treasury) to this
great object.
Resolved therefore, That a committee of five
be appointed by the Chair, to wait upon and pe
tition the Legislature to lend its aid in promoting
and improving this branch of industry in which
the Stale is so universally interested, by the ap
propriation of such a sum, and under such re
strictions and conditions as may, in their wis
dom, seem most advisable.
Which were, on motion, adopted.
The President requested to be allowed until
to-morrow to make the appointment of said
Committee.
The Association then adjourned until 9
o’clock to-morrow morning.
Tuesday, Nov. 11 th, 9 o'clock, A. M.
The Association met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
The President having taken the Chair, pre
sented the following as the Committee appointed
under the preamble and resolutions of Mr. Sas
nett, adopted last evening : Messrs. Sasnett, B.
S. Jordan, Harris of Warren, Todd, and R. M.
Orme.
Mr. Sasnett, from the Executive Committee,
to whom were referred the communications re
ceived during the recess by the Corresponding
Secretary, reported that they have examined
those papers, and find them to contain informa
tion of the organization of auxiliary societies in
different parts of the State, to the number ot fif
teen, (including those represented in this meet
ing,) with lists of members, and expressions ot
desire to co-operate heartily with this associa
tion.
VOL. IX- —NO. 139.
The committee recommend that those com
munications be preserved, and record made of
the names of societies and their members by the
Recording Secretary ot this association.
On motion of Mr. Hardwick,
Resolved, That the President appoint Com
mittees ot three to report at the next anttftal
meeting on the following subjects:
Ist. The best method to prevent the washing
of h illy land by the frequent heavy tails of rain.
2d. The practicability of reducing to a pro
fitable stated cultivation, the wet lands on the
margins ot our creeks and branches, and the
best method of ditching the same.
3d. The best method ol preparing land lor the
planting and cultivation ot Indian Corn.
4th. The best method of preparing land for
planting cotton, and method of culture, with
suggestions as to the practicability ol reducing
the number of acres, and attaining an equal re
sult as from a greater number.
sth. The best method of preparing the land
for wheat, oats and barley—the method ts sow
ing the same, and the variety most likely to suc
ceed in this climate,
Gth. The ptacticability and importance to the
State ot growing our own bread stuffs, raising
our own horses, mules and pork, and whether
the wealth of the State would not be augmented
by pursuing suclt a course and cultivating less
Cotton.
On motion of Mr. Hardwick,
Resolved, That the President, Executive com
mittee, and Recording Secretary procure the ser
vices ol some gentleman to deliver an address
on Agriculture, at the next annual meeting ol
this association.
On motion ol Mr. Turner,
Resolved, That the Constitution be so amended
as to require the annual meetings ol this Asso
ciation to be held on the third instead of the
second Monday in November.
On motion of Mr. Lewis,
Resolved, That the President and Executive
Committee be authorised to appoint the next an
nual meeting of this Association to be held in
Milledgeville, or any other place in the Slate,
which in their discretion they may deem proper.
There being no other business, the Associa
tion adjourned to meet on the third Monday in
November, 1846. Benj. T. Bethune,
Recording Secretary.
Loss of the Steamboat Reindeer.— On
Tuesday morning the llthinst., at 11 o’clock,
as the steamboat Reindeer, Capt. Paxton, from
Louisville to New Orleans, was rounding to at
Sweeny’s wood yard, about 12 miles below the
Mouth of Red River, she struck a snag, and in
a few minutes afterwars sunk. The vessel had
a mixed freight of cotton, hemp, slock, Ac.
The slock was principally saved, as were a lew
hales of cotton stowed above decks. There
were some sixty or more passengers aboard,
who all got off safe. It is believed that none of
the deck passengers were lost. At sundown the
boat lay with her bow nearly on a level with the
water; at the stern the water was several leet
deep in the ladies cabin. She was settlingdeep
er every hour, and had careened so much that
it was feared she would turn bottom upwards
during the night. The snag upon which she
swung was below the surface, and wassupposed
to be a cypress knee projecting at right angles
from the bank. It struck her about 20 feet from
the stern. The Reindeer was a new boat—this
was her second trip. She was built at a cost ot
$19,000, and was insured for SB,OOO. The prin
cipal loss falls on the captain. The cabin fur
nishing was mostly and the captain
thought that the engines might be got out. The
vessel is a total wreck, and every thing beneath
the hatches it is supposed will be lost. Before
she went down she was made last near the
shore by large hawsers. Should these part, it
was thought she would careen and slide into
deep water. The passengers of the Reindeer
were taken off by the Rodolphand J. M, White.
— Picayune . 13 lh inst.
Dr. Durbin, in his “Observations in the
East,” just published, mentions that in some
parts of Egypt, to avoid the conscriptions ol
Mehemit Alt, the women have been in the habit
for years back, ol maiming their children so as
to unfit them lor military service. The destroy
ing of one eye was a common operation. Bat
the Pacha has taken an effectual way to put an
end to this cruelty, by forming two regiments of
one-eyed soldiers. The evil is said to be al
ready much diminished.
CO M *3 ERCI AL.
New York, November 14—» M.
In money matters all is easy. Exchange was in mo
derate demand. London IBS* to 109, and France 5 26*
to 5 25.
Cotton —The sales to-day are some 600 bales, a por
tion of which has been taken for export. The market
is still in favor of the buyer. A lot of 200, fair Upland,
in square bales, was sold at 7* cents. Spinners are still
buying but lake only small lots from day to day, and
of the better grades. Freight remains without change.
Upland <y Florida. Mobile New Orleans.
Inferior 6 (id 6* (3)
Ordinary 6* (d) 6* 6* (a) 6f
Middling 6| (a) 77 (3) 7*
Middling fair 7* (id 7| 7* (id 7f
Fair 7* (id 7$ 8 (® 8*
Good fair 7* (id 8 8* (a) 9
Fine (id — ........10 ®Il
Flour —The demand has not been so good to-day, and
the receipts having increased and a large quantity being
near at hand, the market has been scarcely so firm.
The price of Genesee, however, continues at $6 50, and
in store 3000 bbls for England have been taken at 6 56*,
with some privilege, we believe, in regard to storage.
Ohio and Michigan, common brands, are quoted at
$6 37* (id 40 44. Fancy brands are in good demand.
New Orleans, Nov. 12.
The letters by the Caledonia arrived this morning
at an early hour, bringing dates to the 19th nit. from
Liverpool, and to the ISth from London. This news
has not yet manifested its elfect in this market, most
people being busy in receiving their previous purcha
ses, and as ii generally takes a day to digest un
favorable advices. The sales do not exceed 1000 bales,
including one lot of 300 bales, fully middling,'supposed
at 7c.
COTTON STATEMENT,
Stock on hand Ist Sept. 1845 Bales 7,706
Received since 220,456
Received on the 12lh Nov 3,911
222,072
Exported up to the 12lh Nov ...100,645
Exported on the 12th Nov 4,053--104,696
Stock on hand and on ship-board not c1eared...127,374
Sugar —The fine weather has much assisted opera
tions, and sales have amounted to fully 400 hhds at pre
vious rates—say for common 4 to 4*, middling 4* to 4|,
fair 5, prime 5* to s*c. ,
Molasses continue to meet a fair demand at die.
Flour —The Caledonia’s news confirming the pre
vious unfavorable accounts of the grain crop, and ad
vising an advance of 2 to 3s per quarter in wheat,
caused quite a stir in our flour maiTtel Some 6000
bbls changed hands at «o 50 ; some 1500 bbls at |a 62.
and «nme 900 bbls are said to have Been sold at So 70.
Unon the whole, sales may sum up about 10,000 bbls.
'Freights--'l'hete is no change, the news being rather
against an advance.
Fxrhanges— Bills continue without change. Lon
don 7 to 7* per cent premium ; France, 5f.32* to 5f.35 ;
New York. 2 to 2* per cent discount.
11AR1IVK LIST.
Savannah, Nov. 17.
Arrived— Ship Celia, Thatcher, New York; barque
Baring Brothers, Crocker, Boston; brig Shamrock,
Rogers, Philadelphia.
Cleared— -Schr Henry Jenkins, White, New Orleans-
Charleston, Nor. 18.
Arrived— Ship James N Cooper, Varney, Liverpool ;
Br brig /Somerset, Williams, Demarara ; brig Hodgdon ,
New York ; schr T C Mitchell, Kruse, Havana.
In the Offing— Br ship Frances, Corkhill, Liverpoe 1
Cteiffd-Bri* Lucy inn, 9aew, New Orleans,