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1' --l b ~ li)NT ' S ' AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY \IORNIN6, DECEMBER 13, 1845. . VOL. IX—NO. 149.
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FRIDAY MORNING. DEC. 12, 1845. j
Manufactures iu ssouth Carolina.
Wise Legislation.—A gent eman who left
Columbia yesterday morning, informs us that i
the Legislature have granied liberal charters to j
All the companies appl\ing to h° incorporated !
lor manufacturing purposes—that they were!
granted without the odious restriction ol indi- I
vidual liability ot the stockholders, and passed i
by large majorities ! What a commentary is j
this upon the action of the Senate ot Georgia I
upon the same question ! However fruitful the !
theme, we forbear comment upon the extraor-!
.Jinary position assumed by Georgia Senators I
upon this’important question. I r Is, hott'ever, j
a remarkable fact, that wl lie the majority of i
the Senate affect such a hoh horror at cur heir g j
dependent upon the manufacturer* ol the North '
inr our supplies of don estic manufactures,
they withhold from capitalists and all who have
funds to invest, such charters as will induce
them to embark in an enterprise which would
relieve ns from that dependence. Verily. Geor
gia seems doomed to grope her wav in darkness,
h r energies crippled, and her capital restricted
by her legislation!
j
Things In Milledgcville.
Correspondence, of Ike. Chronicle <f- Sentinel |
MILLS DGRVILLFt, Dec. 9, 1M45. |
I.v Senate, Mr. Wofford moved to reconsider |
the vote of yesterday on his amendment to Mr
Miller’* Canal bill, making the private property
of stockholders liable, &c yeas 19, nays 19.
On this occasion the President voted against a
reconsideration of the amendment, i certainly
have no objection* to arse against his vote on
this particular bill, farther than to note a seem
ing moral proclivity in his mind towards incon
sistency. This may find its origin in s peculiar
touch of Mr. Calhoun’s sublimated transcen
dentalism. However, this may possibly he con
sidered an imputation beyond the record; and 1
will therefore content mvsclf with remarking
that the hill to incorporate h ■ Cana! Company
at Augusta, for the pappose ot supplying water
power to manufactories, is to toe full as local in
its character as those “petty manufacturing
corporations”— to use his own words— which
Mr. Chappell has so inveterately opposed during
the present session of the Legislature, and ot
which he has spoken with such undisguised con
tempt, when comparing them with Railroad in
corporations.
Mr. Jackson introduced a biii to exempt from
garnishment, the daily wages of Mechanics in
the city of Savannah. The objects of this bill
are humane and just, upon the soundest and
most enlarged principles of justice and humani
ty. But such enlarged principles should not be
circumscribed in their application lo s sing'e
town or city or Slate; they should embrace and
protect the journeyman mechanic, and hired
d lily or monthly or yearly laborer, everywhere i
These comprise what is termed the great mass 1
of mankin I, among which numerous thousands >
are compelled to
<• Peg a bro'hor of the earth
To g 've them leave to to.I!”
Shall the aegis of liberal and enlightened law— ;
law which can be respected and permanently |
upheld—not extend its protecting shield to guard !
their struggles for their daily bread 1 In ac-|
cordance with these sentiments, I trust that a,
substitute for Mr. Jackson’s bill,,will be offered j
and received. Mechanics and laborers of Au-!
gusta ! —demand it, not for yourselves only, bu; i
for your class everywhere! It will encourage '
honesty, cheer the efforts ot industry, and raise i
your moral and social wot : > ! o their true eleva-!
lion.
Mr. Lewis offered a resolution, that the Trea"!
surer be requested to iurnish the Senate, with a ;
statement ol ail monies drawn in lator of the j
Penitentiary, in each year since its establish-1
mem, lo D e present. In compliance, the fob;
lowing is the Treasurer’s rep v :
In 1312, cost of erecting s’o 000
1313 do do 5,000
iS!4. do do 6 000
1815; do do ■ •••• 10 010
1816. do---- do 25 (Q)
1817. do do 29 000
1818, do Jo 30 000
1819, do lo 25 0 0
1520, appropriation 4 000-5144,000
152,?, expenses sio Ofo
1*23, ••••do 10/00
1824 10 000
1=325, do 1 0 000
1826, ..--do *- 10 000 i
1827, ••••d 10 000
1828, ....do 5 000
1829, ..--do 5 000
IH3O, ...-do 3 000 I
1831, do 8.0-0
1832 ••• •no 12 00
1833, -...d0 .5,000
1834, -...d0 8,.00
IF3 do ',OOO
Irt36, ....do f, 000
1837. do 1'00)
1838 do 10 000
1839 -...10 3 OiK)
18.0. ...-d 0 010 |
18 1, .... o 10 0 0
1842 rto 9 500
1843, --- d 32 0(0
1844, n bid ding 9( 00
1845, expense $1 3-3 —2?6 5’3 j
Total $370,5-3'
The president announced the tallowing as a |
•elect committee of eleven, appointed in ac-j
curdnnee with Mr. Lee’s resolution, agreed to j
yesterday, in reference to ihe Report on Central
Bank;—Messrs. Lee, T. F. Anderson. Chas-1
tain ( Siell, Jones, Crawford, Smead, Hardeman, 1
Bong, Re\n Ids, and J. M. King.
Mr. H dderness reported a bill io amend me j
;2ws in relation lo wiits and scire facias.
On motion of Mr. Wofford, the unfinished
business ol yesterday was passed over lor to-day.
On motion of Mr. Hardeman, the special or
4*tof the day (the hills incorporating maculae*
1 Hiring companies) was made the special order
| for to-morrow.
In the Rouse a tedious debate arose cm a
' motion to reconsider a rejected bill forthe relief
| ol Mr. I>. T. Betiiune, as an endorser on a note
due the Central Bank. The principal, (Mr.
Deioney, deceased.) borrowed from the Bank a
sum in Darien Bank bills, when they were sel
| ling at 40 cents on the dollar. Me. Betiiune
j now seek* to pay the debt in Darien Bank bills,
1 their preset.', value being stated at 60 cents on
j the dollar. The House finally agreed to recon
j sider,
’ ?»lr. Robinson, of Early, introduced a resolu
j tinn, informing the House of she death of Mr.
j John H?nz, a representative from Baker coun
j tv. and proposing an adjournment to prepare for
I 'he funeral, which took place a* 3 o’clock this
! afternoon,
! Accordingly no further Legislative business
j - as transacted to-day.
j The Governor holds a ievee this evening on
the free p; ioeiple, when the Latin’and drinkin'”
will he Iff f railv discussed—save the “villain
ous liquid’' of “ Movnard and Nmcs” —which
is positively prohibited on account of former
mishap. A.
Adjournment op S. C. Lfoislatcfr —Both
Hou*es of the Legislature ot South Carolina
have agreed to adjourn on Monday next. This
j Session will therefore be an unusually short one
I —only fh~ce weirs nv.d one dot;!
j The New York Evening Post objects to some
| portions of the President’s Message, and par
{ticolarlv to that part which recommends liberal
gr nts of lands “to the patriotic pioneers” who
made early settlements in O egon. It very
«ageiy questions whether she first settlers of
Oregon ore more patriotic than their brethren icho
remain at home?
A a-oval or the Telegraph. —The N. O.
Picayune of the 6 h inst. says: We are pleas
ed to have to record the r nival of the steamship
Telegraph. Caps. Penn oyer, Pom New-York,
which ?. few da vs since was reported wrecked
on the Bahamas. By the card of some of the
nassengers we learn that the second day out of
Key West the Telegraph encountered a gale,
and sprung a leak. About midnight of the 28th
nit. she broke some part of her machinery,
which crirp’e-t her This was partially repair
ed, hut on the 30th she encountered another gale,
which increased the leak. The barque Dm
iel Webster now took off the passengers and
part of (he crew, Capi. Pennoyer himself and
volunteers remaining by the Telegraph. The
tow-boat Star went to her relief some 40 miles
out at sea as she was coming in under canvass,
and brought her up to the city. She is now un
dergoing the necessary repairs, and will take
her intended p! ice in the Galveston trade. The
passengers who went on board the Daniel
Webs'cr have also arrived here.
Proceed lugs of the C tty* Councilor Augusta.
Adjourned Meeting, Dec. 10—7 p. m.
* Present —Hon. M. M. Dye, Mayor, and
j members Harper, Cohen, Ford, Kitchen, Con
| ley, Bishop. Parish.
i The minutes of the last meeting were read,
i 0
’ when Dr. Fold moved that the Resolution ap
; preprinting one thousand dollars, to enable his
| Honor the Mayor lo obtain the control ot the
i judgment against the Honorable Allred Cum
i ming, he reconsidered, with a view to alter the
: preamble of said Resolution only—which nio
| lion was lost; and on motion, the minutes were
i confirmed,
A communication from Committees of Sec
! tions No. I and 6of the Augusta Fire Com
i pany, was read.
The Special Committee to whom, by Resolu
-1 lion of Council, was referred the subject, made
j the following Report, which was read and re
ceived: and on motion, the same was adopted,
! and the Resolution passed, unanimously:
The Committee to whom was referred the
I Resolution of the City Council, charged with
! the investigation ui the difficulty between the
: Augusta Fire Company, Report: Thai they
i have had Sections No/ I and 6 convened at
1 iheir respective Engine-houses, to see whether
I they would engage to come under the orders of
> the Chief Engineer ol the Augusta Fire Com
■ pany, and they tegret to say, that they have not •
so tar, given the Com i.ifee any assurance of j
iso doing. Section No. 4 is not organized at |
i this time, with any regular Company.
They conclude, by recommending the follow- j
; ing Rest. Union, viz:
R solved, That the Engines and apparatus of
| sections N«. 1, 4 and 6, he \\ithdrawn from the
! charge ot the present Companies, and that the
I Mayor and Chief Engineer of the Augusta Fire
! Company, be requested to form three new sec
! tions in take charge of the same, under the rules
and regulations ol the Augusta Fire Company.
James B. B shop, '|
G F Parish, I Committee.
B. F. Chkw, 1
Wm. K. Kitchen, J
Mr. Harper offered the following Resolution.-
i vhich was on motion, ordered to lie upon the
I table.
Resolved, That his H'>nor the Mayor be re
quested 10 employ rbe leisure lime of the hands
| emplotcd by ihe city, in planting in the unoc
. copied portion « f the Grave Yard, and other
| portions of city lands, if deemed expedient, one
I thousand flowering locust trees, between this
j time and the first of March nrxi, or so many of
I said trees as there may be time and room to
j plant, at the distance of fifteen feet apart.
On motion. Council adjourned.
W. MILO OLIN, Clerk.
i The sentence <1 the C<-.uil Martial upon
I Capt. Vorhees, lor capturing tire Bueno*
j Avrcan squadron, and for taking his ship, th
1 Ci ngre.ss Ingate, up to Annapolis, instead ot
1 stopping at Norfolk, as ordered, is stated to have
been dismissed from the service, with a recom
mendation of the Court to the m p rcy of >h’
President, who, after consulting his Cabinet
commuted the sen ence to five year’s suspension, (
without pay or emolument.
,. awaiaaMj nrrrr—n —a— i,
Ft on Wilmcr & Smith's Jauropecm 'Civics, f
Further Sjoreiga Extracts.
Domestic AJ}ai-s.~ The state of England, i
since we last addressed our readers, has been 1
very peculiar and extremely exciting. The
feeling then was, that, pressed on all hands by
the cries of the country and the urgency ot the
case, Ministers would have opened the ports by
an order in Council lor the free admission of
every description of grain. Everything, in
lact, indicated sue ha result. The cabinet had
protracted, and, it was said, angry sit ings; ihe
(ears of the public we»e becoming serious; the
accounts of the potato crop from a!! pans of
rhe country— v.e had almost said from all part*
of the world —especially from Ireland, were
really alarming; the price ot grain, until check
ed by toe leeling that the com laws would be
suspended, was rising daily. All this, combined
with the panic in the share market, and the
utter prostration of the buoyancy and specula
tion which existed, only a short iirue previously
in rampant impetuosity, caused the opening of
ihe ports to be looked to with hope and witt
certainty, as a tuing that must be. Bu: the
quidnuncs have been dot) •ed to disappoint
ment—the ports mil not bs opened! Secrets,
j inrmetiic iiv sealed, sometimes ooze out, no
one can tel! how ; and tho>e who profess to be
wise in the working* of Cabineis. declare rhat
the opposition came, noi ffomthe First Minister
ol ihe Crown, but bom ihe Conqueror of Na
poleon ; that the < omrnercia! spiiii ol the Pre
mier was ovenuled by the cnnstitinional pre
judices ot the sol.tier; and that She old motto,
cedant arm. a In par, was in th s case reversed.—
So runs the gossip of ihe clubs,
j Bu when rhe Government determined to bra v r e
the storm—and a storm based u on the (ears o*
a public famine must he “ no juke," even to so
impassive a personage as a minister of state —
it was confidently expected that Parliament
would Iv ve been immediately c lied together,
in order that the nation might have the benefit
ol the nation’s wisdom insu .han emergency.
The expeciaiiou was premature, it is now'in
timated, in a semi-official journal, that the
‘collective wisdom” will not meet much, if any,
belore the usual time —certainly nut before the
beginning of the year, and that meanwhile, as
•• Culprits hang, that jurymen msy dine,”
the country mast lake the best care it can ol it
self.
The inference from all this clearly is, that the
danger has been exaggerated, and that Govern
ment is in possession of information whi:h de
monstrates that matters art not so bad as they
have been represented. The newspaper press,
when it doe* bring its fears to bear upon a
given question, more especially when the ques
tion ‘s not imne iaiely connected with party,
and has a dash of the philanthropic in it, can
raise a monster, as the Scottish Thane ex presses
it “ which might ap:al the devil!” Theory
of “short commons” comes h me to everyone’s
feelings; every person has a selfish interest in
rhe matter, and porting out of view the ordinary
feelings of humanity, a calamity pregnant with
evils so horrifying in themselves, is, of all other
circumstances, rl.e most calculated to bring
down on the devoted head ot an obstinate 01
wrong-headed minisier, the general, sweeping,
unmitigated hostility of the commonwealth.
It may, therefore, be not uncharitably ir/erred,
that bad as thing* are, they are not quite so bad
as ihey have been represented. Whatever may
be thought of Peel’s partiality for his own sli
ding scale, his interest, his position, his strength
as a minister, is certainly not mixed up with
its continuance, in fact, on rhe score ot party
tactics, his interest would seem to point the
other way. The time would have been oppor
tune for his giving up what he will at last, and
speedily, be obliged to concede It is tolerably
evident, then, that Sir Robert Peel does not
think the “crises” has arrived, and that, sensi
tive as he is to the gales of popular favor, he
muskstem th current in deference to his own
judgment. Tire world regards him as a prac
tical man, and whatever may be thought ol the
abstract merits of sliding scales and prohibitory
duties, no one would suspect him of producing
so monstrous a calamity as public starvation,
either bv his obstinacy ot his passiveness.
The fine weather, too, which has ruled in
this country during the last fortnight, bascuabled
the farmer to take the best precautions (orar
resting the disease to which the potatoes ate
subject, and much good has been done in the
way of saving what was thought to have been j
irrecoverably lost. Nevertheless, it is clear, |
from all that has transpired, that the injury to !
the escuient has been very serious, and as far as j
the poor of Ireland are concerned, the evil \
must cause hardship, and its concomitant die- |
ease. |
The present is the period for the annual col
lection ol the “O’Connell rent.” This impost ,
has subjected its recipient to much abuse, and ;
the application of ugly terms—which may date 1
from the time when the “Liberator” first deigned j
lo accept the national arms—is, at the present |
moment, showered upon him most prolusely j
and unpoeMcally. The tax is certainly volun- j
lary—in this respect very unlike all other taxes; t
but its exaction, ir. the present distressed condi
tion of the Irish peasantry, does really seem ■
harsh. Il the funds of Conciliation Hal! were j
applied to the necessities of the public wants — j
in purchasing lood lor the people, or procuring 1
them employment—the step would not only be ‘
1 charitable, but, on the lesser grounds of pm 1
! deuce and policy, would answer the purpose of !
i the agitarors.
j Admiral Oliver suggested such sn appropria- |
j lion of the Repeal funds, at a public meeting, ;
i the other dav, in Dublin, hut it was harshly rc- I
ceived, and indignantly scouted. At the same j 1
lime, it is only fair to state, that O’Connell has j
never labored under the imputation of being a j 1
parsimonious man; if he lives upon the public i
bounty, he spends it gaily, and even profusely ;
and as to hoarding up wealth, it is a notorious I
fact that he lives from “ hand to mouth,” and
sinsasainst Poor Richard’s advice of pioviding
tor a “rainy day.” But, notwithstanding the j
outcry which his been raised against the “Hi- | 1
bute” by the anti-O’Connell section of the j -
press and the public, the amount subscribed last j <
Sunday in Dublin and the neighborhood, is far
above the average of former years. The JVa- I
turn, al'uding to ibis subject, says: “From no ’
man whom the famine could particularly reach
will anything be sought or accepted.” We <
rn yaddihat the Dublin Evening Mail contends,
and quotes p speclahie proofs for rhe correctness -‘
ot the asse lion, that the cry about the injury <
done to the potato crop has been greatly and
wilfully exaggerated I
On 'he same day, in the same part of the 1
country, another assemblage, with a very dis
f.-r.-nt object, was busy carrying nut its destiny.
The per.; leol Birmingham envious to
their attachment to the fiee trade Mr. Vtlliers,
whose annual motions for the repeal o( the corn
laws are as familiar to every one as an old al
manac, gave him a dinner in that u etropoli- of
•he midland counties, al which upwards ol GOO
eenilemen riisciisspii the prt’srni prcsppcis and
position ol the cause over their wine and (rub. 1
[1 was a great gathering, whether measured b\
iir- respectability or its intellect Th? o.d free
made orators were there the guests, Cohden
Bright Fox and the greatest merchant in the <
world Mr. William Brown the representative
if the great American house of that name in
Liverpool. The speeches present little in the I
| waj’ of novelty, but they were exulting—a proof
| that the speakers think their cause is progress
j ing. Mr. Cobtlen, the f;- ther of the free trade
I movement, anti a man of commanding talent,
spoke well, but looked ill; indeed, the constitu
tion of rhis gentleman, at all times feeble, ap
pears 10 be crumbling away rapidly under the
wear and tear ot too active intellect. Elis
friends have feais for his health, and consider
ing the rapid strides which, in a comparatively
brief period, Mr. Cobdea has made,
“Amongst the foremost men of *ll the world,”
by the unaided force of his own genius—with-
out wealth, without station, without even a pre
possessing exterior, ac. ompar.ied by an inter
absence of ail jealousy on the part rs his con
temporaries at his extraordinary rise —every
lover of the indomitable power of genius, be he
free-trader or monopolist, must grieve at the
hare prospect ot so bright a light being dimmed.
Such a catastrophe, wc trust, is very distant,
bin “coming events cast their shadows before.”
The hostility to the new colleges in Ireland
has no* ceased. Ii is in.w fin .Uy determined
that Galwav is lo have one, Cork ano her, and
Behas! the third. Some names are heft.re the
public as having been appointed to the direc
torship of me latter establishment, but it is use
less to repeat them here, as some uncertainty
hangs about the correctness of the various and
conflicting statements. Professor Kane, it is
• fficiallv stated, has been presente r wi h the
Presidency ot Cork college, and Dr. Kirwan
with that ol G.lway. The first is a Roman
Catholic layman, the other a dignitary of that
church. Ihe appointments, by ail who wsh
well to the colleges—all who think tha' a mixed
education in that land of dissension will soften
sectarian hostilities, and bring out the more
humanizing tiaits of the national character—are
considered judicious and excellent. But they
have leen fiercely assailed by both ’xiremes of
opinion— by the Orangemen on the one hand
and the Repealers on the other. Mr O’Connell
has publicly expressed his“snrpnse that Dr.
Kirwan should have accepted the appointment
of the Galway institution. Neither of the
gentlemen have been before Ihe public in the
character of professional agitators; and, as re
spects their qualification—-albeit, that ol the
clergyman has been assailed-—there seems no
reason rn doubt mat they will be found fully
equal to the duties of the station; and it seems
equally clear, that the “godless scheme of edu
cation” is likely tosurvive the senseless clamots
by which it has been attacked.
Ireland*
The Government Commissioners have made
a second report to the Lor 1 Lieutenant on 'he
state of the potato crop. They reject as im
practicable several means that have been sug
aesledof safely converting the diseased pota
tocs to some use —in the application, acids,
atk-dis, and lime, have tended to accelerate the
process of decomposition —but the cxj erim. n>s
with lime are n< t decided. While siigltlv
affected, and after boiling or steaming, the po
tato may be used for food ; hut not when the
root has acquired a disagreeable smell.
In a third report, the Commi-sioners give
very elaborate and minute directions as to the
best way of converting the diseased potatoes to
use. The suggestions are not novel, and what
is peculiar to them is chiefly of local charac
ter
The folioiving letter from the Prime Minis
terto Lord Cloncurry, the chairman of the Man
sion House Committee in Dublin, who had
been requested ry the body, to stale their views
ir. a letter to the Minister, willcomrnardatten
tion at. the present moment. Sir Robert’s reply,
which cites the specific suggestions submitted
to him by the Committee, is as follows:
“ Whitehall, Nov. 10, 1845,
“My Lord—l have the honor lo acknow
ledge the receipt of the communication of the
7'h November, which bears your lordship’s
signature, earnestly calling the attention of her
Majesty’s Government to the calamity with
which Itelsnd is threatened by failure, through
disease, of the potato crop, and suggesting (or
the consideration of the Government the follow
ing measures:
[We omit the measures here recommended,
as they were published by us yesterday.]
“ I give full credit to the assurance that in
making ibis communication, your Lordship and
those who are parties to iiare influenced by no
other motive than the desire to aid ihe Govern
ment in the efforts which they are making to I
avert or mitigate the impending evil.
“ I shall without delay submit this, as I have
i snbmitied all other representations which have
| reached me upon ih is painful subject, to my
colleagues in the service of her Majesty.
“Although considerations of public piolicv
and of public duly prevent me from entering, in
this acknowledgment of your Lordship’s com
munication, into a discussion in respect to the
advantage of the particular measures recom
mended for immediate adoption, yet I beg to as
sure your Lordship that the whole subject is
occupying the unremitting attention of her
Majesty’s confidential advisers.
“ 4 have the honor to be, rnv Lord, your most
obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL.
The Lord nioncim v.”
Report of the Postmaster General.
The correspondent of the New-York Tribune |
says;
The Postmaster-General believes there will j
be a failing off of forty-five per cent, in the re
ceipts of the current year, and that there will be
a diminution of the means of the Department
of $>1,388 997.
The saving from former rates in New-Eng
land and New-York in transportation the
current year, is $232 738.
The Rail Road service is oniy one tenth u!
the whole whiie ihej r charge one-fifth of the
whole.
Should there be a similar saving in letting
the contracts in she other districts to that effaced j
in the N nhern, it will amount in 1847, ’4B and j
’49, to SI ,005,73 1
Compensation to Postmasters and the Post j
Offices ’ iring year ending 30ih June, 1815, was j
$51,409/ 518 O'/et 2000 Postmasters tesigned
on acco- mi of the new law.
The Postmaster General mentions a case of
fraud on t* e Post Office where one envelope on
which 51 60 had been pai l there were counted
100 letters enclosed, which would have amount
ed to S'lo.
Th? P. M.G thinks th? single sheet system
should he reston d or reduced to a quarter of an
ounce for a single letter
The great weight ot the mail is by carrying
piloted matter. It composes nine-tenths oi the
mail, yet pays only one tenth the expenses,
He proposes the following reform :
5 cen's each single letter under 50 miles.
10 “ “ over 50 and under 300
15 “ “ over 300. This to continue till
1818 when the present rate should be restored.
He recommends the formei rates of Newspa
pers, Periodicals, &e. with right to send them
out of she mail. He urges a pre-payment of
letters in all esses. He advises a limit to the
number of exchange papers between Editors.
He recommends the restriction of franking
privileges to theo ! d ground.
The number of letters not cal'ed for, the first
quarter, nnderthe law, was 300,000.
Morse’s Telegraph to Baltimore, with Pro
lessor Morse’s salary, costs 33,244, and the re
ceipts oulv 3413.44.
From the A’. Y. Herald.
i Line of Steam Packets between New
j York and Charleston, S. C.—The travelling
i public, our Southern friends particularly, will
; be gratified to learn that Messrs. Spoffbrd,
j Tiicston & Co., one of the most enterprising
. and succe*sful mercantile houses in this city,
; in connection with several merchants ofCharles
j ton, contemplate establishing next spring, a
■ b ne °t first class steam ships, between that city
\ and New York. These ships are intended lo be
; constructed upon the most approved plan ol
the most popular ocean steamers now afloat,
with si ch modifications and improvements as
experience amt close observation may suggest
to ihe intelligent and scientific gentlemen—her
captain and owners—under whose direction
they are to be built.
The keel of the first ship has been laid, at the
yirdof Mr. V/. H. Broun, foot of 18th -treet.
We have seen the model ot her, as prepared by
-Mr. Brown, and do not hesitate to say, that it
promises every thing that carrbe desired, so far
as regard* beauty, strength and speed, and am
ple accommodations for passengers. She is to
be eight hundred tons burthen, about two hun
dred feet long on deck, thirty feet beam, and
when loaded, w ill draw about eleven feet. The
length ot her keel will be one hundred and
eighty feet; her hows are sharp, and beau ifully
rounded, and her run is as clean and symme
trical as n lady’s waist, when under a high
state of pressure. Thai she will sail fast, there
cannot be a doubt. She will be a full-rigged
ship— will have two engines of four hundred
horse powe each, a fifty-six inch cylinder, and
a ten feet stroke. Her wheels are to he guard
ed by the strongest and most compact work,
that can be made with hard wood and iron.
Her dejilh of hold will be fourteen teet. She
will carry 800 bales of cotton, or the bulk ol
3000 barrels. Her saloon, on the main deck,
will he 90 feet long, and will contain a large
number ot elegantly furnished state rooms,
with sixty single and double berths in them.
On the lower deck there will be six'y open
berths, fined up in handsome style, with the
best of bed* and bedding that can be procured.
She will be able to accommodate 125 passen
gers comfortably, and, in ease of a rush, 60
additional cots can be prepared at short notice.
Her top-galian:-forecastle, for the accommoda
tion of her steerage passengers, the crew, and
for o her purposes, will be thirty feet long, and
fitted up with good berths.
ii is intended to make the passage betwe n
Charleston and New York in 70 hours ; a steam
er I aving each place every Saturday, and ma
king her port of destination on the fol'owing
Tuesday. By this conveyance, travellers leav
ing Charleston on Saturday noon, can reach
Boston on the following Wednesday morning,
in less than four days, and be able to transaet
considerable business in New York before they
take the afternoon steamer tor the east.
The new steamer, the first of the line, wilt
commence her trips in June. The fare is fixed
at $25, for cabin passengers, who will break
fast, dine and sup in the saloon. She will eos l
about 3120,000, nnd be under tiie command ot
Cant. Barry, an experienced seaman, a skilful
navigator, and an intelligent, gentlemanly com
mander; who has been engaged in the New
York and Charleston trade some twenty five
years. There is no comfort or luxury which
may be desired by the passengers that, will not
be readily furnished.
'We have not spoken of her intended embel
lishments, which will he of a high order, and
in a good degree resemble those of the saloon
of the splendid steamer Hendrik Hudson which
runs to Albany, a most magnificent specimen
of marine architecture, literally a floating
palace. The Oregon is of the same class; it
would seem impossible to excel Ihe beauty and
grandeur, and general appointments, and con
veniences, of that boat.
Cherokee Murders. —We gather from the
Arkansas Intelligencer, of the 22d uit., that
Joseph Swimmer and Stoain, two Cherokees,
were most inhumanly murdered near Evans
ville on the 20th ult. by a party of fifteen Ross
men. The first was shot five times, and the
latter stabbed twice through the heart A friend
near the place writes to the editor—“ The Che
rokees belonging to the Treaty pany and 010
Settlers are running, daily across the line into
the State, in order to save their lives, leaving
behind them all their property of every descrip
tion. There is no telling where this will end,
should the United Stales Government be as dila
tory and timid as usual.”
Another.— On Friday night, the 14th ult., Tom
Watie, a Cherokee, was murdered in the most
barbarous manner, about twelve miles north of
this, in Ihe Cherokee nation. The circum
stances are, as we are informed, as follows :
A police party of Cherokees came to the house
of Arch Gurtrey. *• here Watie resided, about
the time he was going to bed, and one of them
told him he was their prisonerand that he should
go with them. Watie replid that he wished to
dress himself, and then he would go. As he
raised himself in bed he was shot dead, his head
j split open with a tomahawk, and his body hnr
| ribly cut and mangled with knives.
; The greatest excitement, adds the editor, nre
| vails, and we should not be surprised lo hear
j that the citizens of Washington county, on the
1 line, had crossed info Ihe Nation to put a stop
to these foul and disgraceful murders. That
they should in tipped is evident to all, as our
ci'izens arc justly alarmed lest the Indians
should cross the line and commit depredations.
The e is now more excitement, and greater
danger than ever before, and the Cherokees are
now more troublesome *hin they have ever
been. We hope that the authorities ol the
State will interfere and stop the proceedings,
which tend so much to injure our Slate.
i Snow. —The Richmond Times ol the 4th inst.
I savs : “ We had. yesterday, what people often
I term an ‘chi fashioned snow storm.’ It com
mened snowing at 2 o’clock, and continued
when our paper went to press. Il promised to be
the heavist fall of snow we have had for a long
time.”
r« 71 71 BRf 1 4 «,.
New Orleans. December 6.
Cotton —Arrived since the d instant, nl Louisian*
and Mississippi 71"2 bates Tennessee 330 ft, Arkansas
410. Florida C: together II 318 bale«. fleared in the (
same lime for Livr-ipool 324 S bales.Havana2of»|. Koston
733 • together 5' 79 bales— making an addition lo stock .
of f'339 bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive of all on
shipboard not e'eared on the slh inst., a stock of 120,402
# ,
The mirket opened on Wednesday with a rather im
proved demand, which appeared to inctease as the
day advanced, nnd the sales at the close of business
amounted In about 62(H) b.vcs. with prices, in general. ‘
ruling much the same as on the day previous, abhough
wiin considerable more slearlinrss in the market, and
a confident feeling on the part of holders. On Thurs- j
day a still more active demand prevailed, in conse
quence of which the market continued gradually to
stiffen, and before the day closed holders were able lo
realize prices nearly as high ns were current previous
to the receipt of the steamer Biiti.nnia’s account*.
Ihe sales reached to fully 8000 bales. Ihe favorable '
change in the mitket having caused holders to part I
with i heir stock more freely 1 hen they did before. \ e»-
teiday there was again a very good demand, though
owing lo the greatly reduced stock which was offering,
nnd to the inneasing firmness of holders, the market
exhibited less activity than mi the day previous. About t
Atl’Tl bales, h- wever, changed owners, price* at the I
close beingan eighth of a cent higher for a'l descrip
tion* below good fair, than on Wednesdiy morning;
or, in other words, they are just where 'hey were
thia day weak, and our quotations have bean alter-
ed accordingly. Exchange has continued doll, and
the sales have generally been at rates a shade low
er, but the unfavorable influence which this was calcu
lated to have upon the market, has been more than
counterbalanced by the slight decline which has taken
place in the rates of freight. The business continues
to be, in a great measure, confined to Lirglish opera
tors, though Northern buyets are beginning to pur
chase rather more freely than before, and occasional
parcels are taken for France and Ppain. The receipts
of Cotton are quite moderate, and they must continue
so until a rise in Red and Yazoo rivers, and numeious
other smaller streams, will let out more abundant sup
plitrs. The sales of the week amount lo 26,1100 bales,
of which 13,200 were sold during the past three day*.
N ORLEANS CLASSIFICATION. Lotos’ OOnd ttftSSli'OJ-i.
Inferior (a) 6 | Middling fair 74 IS 7t
Ordinary fa) 6| | Fair 7J Cd> 71
Middling... 6| ®6j Good (air 8J (S S#
Good middling. ,6j (a) | Good and fine... 9 (a) 10
Comparative prices of Cotton at this date, in the
fallowing years.
_ 7 IMS. 1844. 1843 1842.
Interior -(d) 6 34 (® 3f 6* (a) 64 44 (a) 4f
Ordinary 6JfS) 6| 4 (a) 4 6f (a) 7| 5 ®si
Middling 61 (a) 65 / .. .T „ „ *
Oood middling 6Jr® 4f (a) 5| 74 f® 85| (a) G
Middling (air,, 7J® 7J 54 (a) 5j *=4 (a) 84 6* (a) 6|
74 rd 71 6 (d 61 *4 (® 9 7J (a) 7#
Good fair g| 6f fg> 74 94 ®lO 34 ®Bs
Good and fine . 9rd>lu&— 74 8& 11 lU4@ li 9* fd
STATEMENT op COTTON.
Stack on hand Ist Sept., 1845, bales 7556
Arrived during Ihe past three days 11318
Arrived previously 299903 311221
~ . . . 318777
Exported during the past three days 5979
Exported previously 192396 198376
Stock on hand and ship-board .ba1e5.120402
Comparative Statement op the Receipts of cotton from the
Is/ Sept, in each year to dates, and also the Stocks on
hand at t'le following places at the dates annexed,
Rec’d since Sept. 1, Stock on hand.
Places. 1845. 1844. 1345. 1844.
N. Orleans, Dec. 5...309934 278219 120102 129259
.Mobile, Dec. 2 6,1316 57920 35227 45025
Savannah. Nov. 28... 33028 47284 14622 18265
Charleston, Nov. 28.. 61560 101901 24197 35166
Florida. Nov. 22 5561 4317 2407 325*
Virginia, Nov. I 2400 2350 750 2500
N Carolina,Nov. 15.. 1934 525 540 400
New York, Nov. 25 21600 20107
Other Ports, Nov. 22 3456 3583
Total, bales 474733 492816 226231 258559
Total to dates 1844.. 49251 C 258559
Increase this year... 18083 Decrease.. 33328 in stock.
D3r“ VVehavc taken frem N. Orleans the amounts
received from Mobile and Florida. Also,from Charles
ton the receipts from Savannah—and from Mobile the
receipts from Florida.
Flour— When we closed our inquiries at a late hour
on Tuesday evening ihe market was in »o unsettled a
sia<e that it was impossible, as we then rematked, to
give quotations with strict accutacy. All parties were
looking anxiously for further advices from the North,
respecting the effect of the intelligence by the Britan
nia upon the markets there, but no mail boat had aniv
ved ala ve.-y late hour, and the market closed in a very
unsettled state, without any transactions of c-nse
qnence, the general asking rates being (ot Ohio and
similar brands S 3, though we heard of no sales above
S7 75, (except one lot of SUO bbls, very choice, taken by
a baker at 68,) nnd tor choice St. Louisßß 25rtf)
nbl 01 above On Wednesday morning the mail came
through and the accounts proving to be of an unfavo
rable character all speculative action was immediately
arrested, and sellers were plenty, without finding buy
ers lo any impo taut extent. Indeed since the receipt
of the advices above alluded to there may almost be
said to have been no mitket, as speculators and ship
pers evince no disposition to buy, and the few sales that
htve taken place have been almost entirely confined to
the choice brands for bakers’ use
Sag .r, Lou siuna—tSi< ce our review rs last Wednes
day morning he transactions in Sugar on the Levee
have been on a rather limited scale, but this has been
as much, if not more owing, perhaps, to the light re
ceipts and small stock on sale, and to the higher prices
which have been asked, as to the ab ence of demand.
The sales have only averaged about 200 hhds per day,
and ihe business has been partly for shipment to tk«
Western markets. As to prices theie has been some
irregulari y, but ihe result is that wc have had to ad
vance our quotations about an eighth of a cent—say
for inferioi to ordinary 4 (a) 4|. common 4f (d) 4J, fair
54 (d) s|. prime 5f (a) 6, strictly choice in small lota 6*
(a) cents lb.
Molasses - When we left the market on Tuesday even
ing last there was but a limited stock on the Levee,
and a good demand at 20 cents & gallon. since, the
transactions have been more circumscribed, on ac
count of the limited supplies, but ihe den and has con
tinued pretty fair, however, and holders have in conse
quence succeeded in obtaining improved prices. On
Wednesday the marke went up 10 21. and at the close
of the day on Tuesday had further advanced to 22 cents
gallon, and 'hi* was the prevailing rate yesterday,
though in some few instances small lots brought 22£
cents 4F gallon.
Bacon —There is not much improvement in tha de
mand. but the modeiate stocks, and the advanced rates
for Pork have enabled holders to obtain slightly better
prices for some descriptions, our present quotations
being for uncanvassed Hams 8 (a) 8J cents, canvassed do
8 (d) 6. extra sugar cured 10 (a) 11. Sides 8 (a) 8R Phould.
ers 7J (d) 7£ cents lb There is a scarcity of Should
ers and uncanvassed Hams.
Lard —The Lard market has remained in every quiet
statesince our last report, and we have not been able
to learn of any sales beyond Ihe limited parcels re
quired for home consumption, in which small Iran, ac
tions the range of prices is S (ed cen’s for fair to
choice. The extreme range for very inferior to choice
is 7 Co) 8* cents.
Bagging and Bide Rope —We hear of no transactions
lo much extent in these articles, though we understand
that mere begins to be rsiher more inquiry, particular
ly for Bagging alone. Our quotations are as before—
say for hand-loom Bagging 9 Id) 9J cents according to
quality and quantity. Rope ranges from 3 to 4J cents
extremes, though the sales are mostly at 4 (a) 4$ cents.
The general asking price for power loom Bagging is 10
cents cash, but one very choice brand is held firmly at
Id* cents, an offer of 10} having been refused.
Whiskey— In the early pail of the week, as we fully
explained in.our last, speculation seized upon this ar
ticle. running it rapidiy up from 25 lo 35 cents gal
lon, with only a few small sales, however, at the latter
rate, though when we left the market on Tuesday even
ing the rales were altogether unsettled, some holders
declaring that their stocks were not at present in mart
kel, at any pi ice, while others were asking 3Ssnd4o
cents 4F gallon. On Wednesday the market suddenly
gave way again, on the cessation of speculative action,
and some 300 bbls of Rectified were sold at 30 (d) 31 cts
gallon -Since then there have been no sales of con
sequence. and we found the market yesterday in so un
settled a stare that no accurate quotations could be
arrived at. The transactions were only in limited par
cels, and the tates, so far as we could ascertain, were
28 (d) 30 cents for Rectified, though the principal hold
ers ask higher. A sale of lUObrrrels common was
made at 32 cts gallon.
Exchange —Since nut last the Exchange market has
continued very dull, and particularly since the pur
chases iravc been completed for remittance by the Bos
ton steamer of the Itith inst. The principal sales of
-Sterling Bills, perhaps, have been at 6. but the range is
from 5.J /5)6} cent prem. The last rate could hard
ly be obtained now, as the tendency is downwards.
Francs remain without much demand, and the range is
now from 5f.35 (d) 5f 40. Notthen- Exchange is also
declining—N York 60 day Billsare selling freely at2J (®
2}, and occasionally as low as 34P cent discount; Bos
ton t-Oday Bills arc 2},and Philadelphia and .Baltimore
2} (d) 3 cent discount. Sight Checks on N York and
Boston 1} fd) li dF cent discount.
Friights— Ftetghls have given way a little since our
last report, and we have lo notice the engagement of
six ships for Liverpool at 17 32d one for Cork and a
market and one for Europe at the same rate, and two
for London at 45s for Tobacco The rates Coastwise,
also, nro not fully sustained, there being very little
freight offering at the moment.
MARINE la IST.
Savannah. Dec. 10.
Arrived —Steamer Hamburg, Philpor, Augusta; slmr.
Chatham. Gould. Augusia.
C/c -red-Ship-Solon. Hackman, Havre ; ship Hart
ford. Sannerraan. N York: brig Vand-liet, Pendleton,
Portsmouth. (N IL): brig Vi>ginia. Jordon, New Or
leans ; brig Macon, Hayden, N York ; schr Wascogns.
Wass, New York. ...
Charleston. December 11.
Arrived— Schr Forest King. Kel'y. Baltimore ; schr
Andiew J Horton. Conson, Philadelphia; schr Pampe
ro.Sillim n. Philadelphia.
Cleared— U L ship New York. Hull N York ; barque
.Tiloi'e'' Carter H »”rn.
RICHMUN L) County, Georgia:
Whereas William Longstreet applies 10
me for Jotters of administruion, de borrs non,
with the will an: exed. on the estate of Hannah
Longstreef, decease);
These are therefore to cite and admonish nil
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to be and appear at my office, within the
t-me prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they
have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office in Augusta. »■
LEON P. DUGAS, Clerk.
December 13, 1345.