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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
..An Indian Death Song” and “The Faded
Violet” in our next.
OCR CORRESPONDENT “ Q*”
We can only answer the interrogatories of our
correspondent Q. by saying, that as we are not in
the Cabinet of Secrets, we cannot say what has
been the determination of Mr. Lumpkin. A itho
we do not profess to be of the ‘ knowing ones, we
can say, however, from the creditable authority of
the Augusta Constitutionalist, contained m the fol
lowin-r paragraph, that it is more than probable
, t N i’ r . l. will canvass the ensuing gubernatorial
election* And, if he does so, we can also say,
that it is in violation of an unequivocal expres
sion to the contrary.
[ Mr. Lumpkin, as a politician, has certainly the
1 • ile(re of “amending his writ ” as often as he
■ teases— but whether such capriciousness is cha
f-cteristic of an enlightened and independent
Fstatesman, is a different .question which we leave
L others to determine. We are not led to this
remark from any apprehension that Mr. L a can
didacy will interfere with either of the gentlemen
who are now before the people. On the contra
J we conscientiously believe, that a retirement
from his present station, with a view to tlwf Chiei
Magistracy of Georgia, would only result m the
abandonment of an honorable post, which he now
tills with the approbation ohll parties, for a con
tingency, w hich it seems to us, he cannot possi
bly realize. . -
.. \Ve cannot longer doubt that Mr. Lumpkin
will be a candidate for Governor, we have infor
mation that convinces us of the fact, and we are
assured he will be warmly supported by the Clark
party. It well behoves Messrs. Gilmer A Haynes
to think of these tilings.”
HR. RANDOLPH.
The ridiculous statements of the opposition pa
pers, in relation to the conduct of this gentleman,
whilst at the Court of St. Petersburg, are finally
contradicted and put to rest by the letter of our ex
cellent and amiable countryman, Washington
Irvin, published in the Advertiser of to-day.—
From a personal acquaintance with Mr. Randolph
we not only felt convinced that he had been shame
fully calumniated, but that there were few men,
if any, who w ere better qualified to represent the
patriotic character and simple dignity of the Ame
rican Republic. He stands too high to be suc
cessfully assailed by the petty slanders of the
Press.
CONTROVERSIAL.
Tn our last number wo regaled our readefs a£
well as ourself, with many of the good things
that were said of us, by our cotemporaries. After
l -amg indulged in this innocent gratification of
our vanity, and sought repose upon our pillow,
we enjoyed a sound and sweet slumber, arising
no doubt, from the satisfaction we felt in the pub
lic approbation which so flatteringly smiled upon
us. Such things have a wonderous tendency to
tranquilize the mind, and make one very much in
love w ith one’s-self. “ But who can tell what a
day may bring forth.” Yesterday morning after
consulting ©ur toilet with more complacency than
usual, we hied to the Post-Office w ith buoyant
utep and front erect—received oun budget of let
ters and papers, and conned them over with fill
th’e self-importance of a three-tailed Bashaw. But
imagine, reader, if you can, pur astonishment, af
ter having opened and read the communication of
friend Robertson, w hich we present you in ano
ther part of our paper. Had we been a Catholic
Priest, a Bull of F.xcommunication, thundered
frdm the Papal Chair, could not have astounded
us more. However, after a little reflection, and
lecollecting the old maxim, that “ lie who at
tempts to please every body will please no body”
we recovered our usual philosophy, and conclud
ed we would give Mr. Robertson a hearing.
Now, then, seriously to the subject. It will be
recollected, that iti our fourth number, we publish
ed some strictures from a northern paper, severe
ly reprehending the ridiculous and intolerant
course which has been pursued, and is still pursu
ing, by the Sunday School Missionaries for the.
Valley of the Mississippi. The strictures allud-:
ed to, were published by request; but let it be un-!
dorstood that in making this aektiov. ledgment, we j
do not disown similar feelings and sentiments. :
By their own admission, the object of the Mis
sionaries appears to be, not to establish Sunday
Schools in the Valley of the Mississippi for any
■intrinsic advantages which may abstractedly grow
out of them, but for the purpose of preventing the
introduction of the Catholic Religion in that weal
thy and interesting section of our country. This
evidences a spirit equally selfish and illiberal, un
constitutional and intolerant. It is an intolerant
<t:id unconstitutional spirit, because it is a bare-fac
ed and shameful attempt to make public benefac
tions subservient to sectarian popularity and ecclesi
ostkal prejudices , and is therefore an indirect vio
lation of one of the most beautiful features in our
1 appy constitution; which secures to evory man
an unrestricted exercise of his conscience—and,
because, if any other mean is used to establish a
religious creed, other than that which'coines from ■
I he Word of Truth, it is, to say the least of it, an \
'-ct of pious fraud and moral circumvention. It is
a selfish and illiberal spirit f because ii leaves its
own resources untouched, and moving out of its
proper sphere of action, goes to remote places,
and attempts to put under contribution the purses
if people whoso charities are generally insuff.ei
-1 at to supply the wants of their own community.
And this is j}one for the purpose of fostering for*
' *gn instituting, strengthening Christian Tarty
’m, and bc'dizzening a few'splendid paupers,
a idle the poor and illiterate of our immediate cir
'..e are left to suffer all the mental and physical
’.is consequent upon their unprotected situation.
* iiese, and similar reasons, together with the rc
•l' cst, induced us to give publicity to the stric-,
;r “* beaded. “ Urtatiaeticrt Politic."
THE MACON ADVERTISER, AND AGIUCLLTLitAIi AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER.
Before we conclude, we are forced to say, that
there is a bitter and acrimonious feeling prevailing
throughout the communication, which we fear,
was engendered under a feverish excitement of
sectarian zeal, and u liieh, in moments of more dis
passionate observation, we hope, would not have
been indulged in. To stigmatise the Catholic
Clergy, as savages and infidels , in this enlightened
era of Christian toleration, evinces too much of an
uubrotherly spirit—even such an one as would
support or enforce its doctrines by the faggot
and the stake. Phe Catholics can boast cf a cler
gy as learned, as eloquent, as eminent, and (as far
as we know,) as pious, as that of any other reli
gious denomination—& however others may dif
fer from them in some of their opinions and cere
monios, yet they are still as much entitled to the
respectful attention of the community as are the
opinions and ceremonies of any—even those who
hug themselves in the belief of an exclusive or
thodoxy.
It is not to be presumed from what we have
here said, that we are opposed to Sunday Schools
or to any other institution, which aims at improv
ing the morals of the vici< us, or relieving the dis
tresses of the poor and needy—much less is it to
be understood that we would question fora mo
ment, the tenets, or offend by a single remark, the
peculiar formalities of any one of the numerous
sects which have sprung from the bosom of the
Christian Church. We have too much tolerance
to indulge in the one, and too much charity, we
hope, to decry the other. But we cannot remain
silent when we see the beneficence of a kind
hearted community which should go to the support
of our own household, wrested from them by cun
ning and interested appeals to their humanity—
neither shall we Tefrain from speaking out when
we see one denomination of Christians publicly
endeavoring to put another down, by interesting
the people in ecclesiastical squabbles, or embroil
ing them in a sacerdotal warfare. If this consti
tutes infidelity, be it so.
SOUTHERN REVIEW.
U e have received the April number of this va
luable periodical. The following are its contents:
1. Byron’s Letters and Journals.
2. Beranger’s Poems.
3. The Life and Times of Daniel De Foe.
4. Murat’s Letters on the United States.
5. History of the Fine Arts.
6. Steam-Engine and Rail-Roads.
7. The Siamese Twins.
8. Irving’s Voyages and Discoveries of the
Companions of Columbus.
9. The Family Library.
The most interesting article contained in this
V #
number, is the Review of Col. Murat’s ‘ Letters.’
This wofk, so far as our information extends, has
not been either translated or published in this
country. Judging from the extracts with which
the Review in its commentary, has furnished us,
we should cal! it a rapid, but faithful and neatly
executed sketch of the manners, habits, and ge
nius, both civil and political, of various sections
bf ouredunfry.’ In analysing our character, the
author exhibits that discriminating nicety which
marks the. man of profound observation. The
common place jargon of the fashionable tourist,
which delights in colloquies of chamber-maids,
scullions, and hackney coachmen—which revels
in the memorandum and memoranda of converses
tionez in Coffee-houses and Reading Rooms, are
not to be' found in this interesting volume. It
soars above such literary frippery, and strikes at
once into the business of real life, and into the
component parts of human character, displaying
at one and the same time, its vices and vir
tues, its beauties and deformities.
The first extract We shall make is graphic e
nough. It is a bold outline portraiture of our
Eastern brethren—and let them not be offended,
if the author notices rather sharply some of their
little peculiarities—for the censure is more than
counterbalanced by the complimentary manner in
which he speaks of their morals, education, and
enterprise. He says:
“ The character of the people is very remarka
ble, and cannot be compared to that of any other
on earth. The most gigantic enterprises do not
alarm them, nor arc they disgusted by any details;
they carry them on with a spirit of order and mi
nuteness altogether their own. The men seem
born to calculate pence and farthings, but by this
they rise to a calculation by millions, without
losing any thing of the exactness of their ordinal
views. # • • •
Their capitol, Boston, nevertheless, abounds in
men of letters: it Is the Athens of the Union, and
was the cradle of liberty, producing many of her
most zealous defenders, as well iu the cabinet as
in the field. Education is there much more dif
fused than in any other part of the world what
soever. In fine, they have all tlie constituents of
greatness, if they could only elevate their views
apd abandon that sordid spirit of detail which fol
lows them every nil A re. You may always disco
ver a Yankee by the cunning way in which he
asks questions about which he knows; and by the
evasive manner in which he answers questions,
without even affirming any tiling. It is tlierethe
commercial interest hasher seat, though for some
years past they have turn >d their views towards
manufacture*, with the success which foilowall
they undertake. The country, is well poopled and
well cultivated; und the capital employed in ag
riculture is as great as that which is- absorbed in
commerce.”
For the present, we shall close this article by
another extract. It relates to a subject which
has been much misrepresented both at home and
abroad—occasionally by ignorant tourists, but
more frequently by false philanthropists and dis
honest politicians. We allude to the general
condition of our domestic population. Before we
in troduce this extract, we beg the reader to feeol- 1
lcct, that Col. Murat is himself, an extensive
planter; that he is from actual observation, fami
liar not only with the slaves in the Southern and
Western States, but equally so with the condition
of the Operatives, both in the Northern and East
ern states, as well as in Europe. We appeal to
any man of observation and unbiassed partialities,
for tho critical correctness of his statement*. He
observes:
“In all countries and in nil times a great i
majority of tin human race is condemned to
live by manual labor, and I have no doubt,
that this portion of society is happier and
mefe useful in a state ol slavery than other
wise. Compare the condition of our negroes
well clad, w ell fed, with no care for to-mor
ro<v, no anxiety about they families - compare
it, Ido not say with the degraded race of free
negroes and mulattoes pressed down with the
burdens of freedom wtthout its advantages,
but with the white operatives of Europe,
working twice or thrice a much, and they and
their families alu ays on the eve of dying with
hunger. Ido not hesitate to say that our ne
groes are happier, not only than the workers
of the manufacturing towns of England, but
even than the peasantry generally throughout
Europe. Do you reply to me that the idea
alone of liberty counterbalances the privations
and inquietudes to which this same liberty
gives birth ? I will answer you that this is
true for you and me ; but a certain degree of
education, and a certain energy of moral life,
are indispensable to the enjoyment of the no
ble idea of liberty. Take an Austrian,Hun
garian or Bohemian peasant, transport him to
America, and tell him that he is free. The
first Sunday we will find no one to waltz
with him; he will curse the country, her lib
erty and her elections, and will prefer to re
turn to his Schatz, his Vervalter, his Wirth-
Haus and his Roborth. On the other hand,
the idea of an obligation to recognize a supe
rior, would render one of our squatters wretch
ed if you carried him to Europe, even if you
gave him every advantage imaginable. They,
who by destroying the feudal system in Aus
tra, supposed they were ameliorating the con
dition of the peasant, deceived themselves
egregiously if they did not begin by enlight
ening him. This change of condition would
be necessary to him, for he could not live
happy and feel hia moral degradation. This
is pretty much the case with the free negroes
and mulattoes in some parts of the United
States. But our slaves are happy, and do not
desire any change. Whatever is said to the
contrary, the negro is indisputably of an in
ferior race of men to the white, and appar
ently incapable of the same intellectual en
joyment. Why have they remained savages
from the beginning of the world to the pres
sent day ? Why do they relapse into sav
ageism as soon as they are left to themselves,
as has taken place at this very moment in
Ilayti? Their happiness is limited to the hap
piness of the animal, and that they enjoy
more freely as slaves than they would as free
men or savages. This picture, doubtless,
docs not not agree with that painted by Mr.
Wilberforce and his saints. What! you will
exclaim, can a negro be happy underthe lash of
a driver, constantly liable to sec himself sep
arated from his family, or to witness their dis
honour through the libertinism of a master or
overseer? All this is pathos misplaced. I
hire a white workman ; he breaks open the
door of my store-house, robs me, is discovered
and condemned to work on the public high
way, by which he is disgraced for life, and
loses the little morality and honesty which re
mained ; his misery is perhaps aggravated by
that of* his family to whose support his labour
was necessary. Let one of my negroes do as
much ; he is whipped, and mends his manners.
Corporeal pain once over he perceives no oth
er bad consequence, and his innocent chil
dren are not punished for the fault of their la
ther. Whatever may be said, cruel punish
ments are not practised, for they would be
contrary to the interest of the master. If a
workman whom I hire does not work, I send
him away ; but I cannot do this with my ne
groes, ami lam obliged to make them work
by corporeal punishment. In large planta
tions, where several hundred negroes are col
lected, discipline and police rules, more or
less rigorous, are necessary, or every thing
would soon be destroyed or stolen. As to
their separation from their families, it is first
necessary that they should have one. Gener
ally they attach themselves to one wife and re
tain her; but they are exceedingly prone to
change ; they who are religious get married,
it is true, at church; but as often as they
change their wives they do so again; and I
have known them receive the sacrament a
dozen times, and have as many wives living,
inch of whom has as many husbands. Al
though their masters try to encourage mar
riage by allowing a great many little advanta
ges to the contracting parties; it is rare that a
negro marries on the plantation where he lives;
he loves better to go among his neighbors.
“A well regulated plantation is, in fact, a
very interesting spoctacle ; every thing pros
pers there, and goes on in perfect order*—
Each negro has a house; in general they arc
placed in a regular order ;he has his poultry
and his pigs; he raises vegetables which lie
sells. At sun-rise the sound of a horn calls
him to his work; cacli has his task proportion
ed to his strength an 1 his skill. Commonly
this task is finished by three or four o’clock in
the afternoon ; at noon the work is broken oil
by dinner, the task done, no further service
is required of him; he cultivates his garden,
or hires himself to his master for extra work,
or visits his wife or mistress on the neighbor
ing plantation. On Sunday morning he puts
on his best clothes and goes to the barn to re
ceive his weekly rations; lie passes the day as
he pleases, often in dancing. The driver has
only to give them their tasks in the morning,
and see that they are finished in the evening.
The master takes a ride on horseback over
the fields and give 9 his general orders; all
this is regulated like a regiment; and I have
seen six months glide away withont having
even to scold. Nevertheless, from time to
time quarrels and thefts arc to ho punished.”
We shall continue our extracts.
'rtie Governor has issued his Proclamation, of
fering a reward of S2OO for the apprehension of
Joseph Bellovho recently escaped from the Jail of
Mclntosh county, where he had been confined on
a charge of murdering Matthew Sapp.
Miseries of a Rich Man —Who is dogged
in the streets and knocked down at midnight ?
The Rich man’s. Whose house is broken
into at midnight 7 The Rich man’s. Who
has his pockets cut out, and his coat spoiled
in a crowd ? The rich man ? Who is in doubt
whether the people are laughing at him in
their sleeves when they are eating his din
ner ? The rich man. Who adds to his trou
ble by every story which he adds to his house ?
The rich man—for the higlier he ascends tho
colder is the atmosphere. A bank breaks,
and who suffers ? The rich stockholder and
depositor. War blows his lntrn, and who
trembles ? Death approaches, and who fears
to look Him in the face 1 Why the rich man,
and yet all the world envies the rich. De-'
pend upon it, the length of your face will al
ways be proportioned to the length of your
purse. If you live in a two story house, be
thankful, and not covet the loftier•. mansion of
your neighbor. You but dishonor yourself,
and insult your destiny, by fruiting aud re
pining.—Boston Courier.
Tor the Macon Advertiser.
Not long since there was manifested a
strong disposition by certain politicians, no
doubt to further their own party views, to
bring forward the Hon. Wilson Lumpkin, as
a candidate for the Executive office of Geor
gia. For reasons satisfactory to the people,
lie declined the relinquishment of his present
station, for the gratification of such views.—
It is understood that he has again and again
declared his wish to remain in Congress.
But it has been whispered, that the recently
partly self-created Trustees of Franklin Col
lege, at their late meeting at Athens, nomi
nated him as a Clark candidate for the Exe
cutive Chair, and told him in language not to
be misunderstood, that, unless he consented,
he would be ABAftDONDED by them and their
perty —that, he finally did consent, but for a
certain reason it was resolved, that THAT
fact should hot- be announced at that time
and place.
We, the people, rely upon the knowing
one’s, (the Editor's,) who set up to enlighten
us, for information. Some of your brethren,
<Vho extolled Mr. Lumpkin’s to the skies, for
the disinterested patriotism evinced by his
declining the farmer call, have some itching
to have him now the tool of their party.
There is some apprehension that there
was a certain assemblage of the new Trus
tees, which formed a body known by a very
hard, (and to some heretofore) terrific name.
Wc know there was a KING, and some ap
prehend there was a CAUCUS* And to avoid
the talismanic effect of the presence of His
Majesty, Kinc Caucus, upon the popu
larity of their measures, the announcement of
the result of their decrees, was postponed to
a more politic time ami place. Ido not pre
tend that such is the fact. Indeed, Fhad
rather it should turn out that Mr. Lumpkin,
acting upon principle, adhered to his deter*
urination as expressed in his published letter,
for which he was justly applauded by botli
parties. But,* Mr. Editor, pu lie curiosity is
on tip-toe, and wc look to the Press for in
formation.
Far the Macon Advertiser ,
- Mr. Slade, 5
In your paper flf the 29th April is a piece
which you have headed Ecclesiastica I Poli
tics : and which seems to have been originally
published in a Rahway, New Jersey Paper.
Jam not surprised that men are to be found
in Ncw-Jersy—nor should I be surprised if
men were to be found in Georgia, so desti
tute of benevolent feelings as to render them
capable of such a production. lam not sur
prised, sir, that men are to be found ready to
embrace the sentiment that if the people of
the Valley of the Mississippi prefer being
Roman Catholics,it is notour business to in
terfere. The sentiment that if they (or any
other people) prefer being Infidels, it is not
our business or our. province to interfere—
that if they prefer being Savages, it is not our
business to interfere. For by parity of reas
oning the writer might as well say one of them
as the other. But lam surprised, sir, that
you should have given your sanction to such
sentiments by giving them publication. If
tho column in your paper that contained the
article had been cut out and handed to me
for perusal, with a statement of the fact from
whence the slip was taken, I should have re
pelled the charge as a slanderous attempt to
saddle you with Infidelity. But finding it in
the “Intelligencer” with your own proper
name attached to it, 1 was obliged to acknow
ledge it as a piece of your own selection* 1
think, sir, that you cannot be ignorant of the
fact that all the Sabbath Schools in the Uni
ted States, in connexion with the American
School Union, (which alone is making the ef
fort to supply the Valley of the Mississippi)
are conducted upon a plan, and with the sole
view, to give light to the minds of the rising
generation without in the least biasing their
minds in favor of, or against, any of the Ortho
dox Denominations. If so, I cannot see how
you can justify yourself in giving pub.icity to
the slang of every anti-religious Writer who
chooses to scribble Iris opinions aud his false
hoods against Sunday Schools, and Bible,Mis
sionary, and Tract Scieties.
If you have better reasons for doing so
than I am aware of, I shall be glad to see
them. Yours Respectfully*
M. ROBERTSON.
Rank of ( lintßslioorlisv.
I N pursuance of the Charter, Books ofSubserip
. tion for 200 Shares of the Stock of the Farm
er's Bank of C'nattahoochie, will be opened in this
place, at the Court-House, on the first Monday in
June, at 10 o’clock, A. M.
J. T. LAMAR, A
J. r. ROWLAND, CCom’rs.
J. S. CHILDERS, S
Macon, May 13, 183*. £MM
i'KI.WIAG
Of every dencrijtHon,
<A/ Me -AM^r/ijcr
The Eagle Phatnix Hotel has its third sto
ry ready for the roof. The erection of this
gigantic building lias been delayed from the
difficulty of getting brick.* We perceive
preparations are making nearly opposite the
Hotel to build three brick Stores. Those old
Rookeries just below Sibley As Morrison's
corner are about being pulled down by Robt.
A. Reid, Esq. to make room for more credit
able dwellings. There will not be the same
building going on this summer that there was
the last; tho’ some good houses will be erect
ed. Directly adjoining the Eagle and Phoe
nix on the West, Mr. George R. Rountree is
building a brick Store and Dwelling* John
P. King, Esq. is completing a handsome
house adjoining the large brick building of
Mrs. Gordon, so long occupied by Mr. Car
ter as a Drug Store ; and on the Northeast
corner of Broad and Center Streets, Mr. Hale
is building two large Stores out of the Stone,
&c. that composed the old Jail. Mr. Grei
ner, also, below the market and nearly oppo
site the beautiful house of Col. Gould, erect
ed last year, is huiiding ail elegant private
dwelling on the former site of Dr. Barney’s
house. Besides, Messrs. Musgrove Ai Bus
tin on their old site are building an exten
sive Fire-Proof Ware-House and Stores.—-
We understand also, that Mr. Campbell will
build tfiia summer, for Messrs. Slaughter
Labuzan, where they are at present situated,
an xtensiv - Fire-Proof Ware House, in this
city, not excelled for thedurabilitv,cxtent and
safety by any in the Union.—-Auu. Corn.
“ Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights.*
COTTON.—We still quote as our last, 3 to 8;
though selections of prime will command BJ.
From Liverpool we have no later accounts
than Ist April. The Savannah and Charleston
markets remain as quoted in our last.
Our river is yet low, though beatable with
light craft.
Freights are, nominally, $2 25, to $2 75.
Pori of Tlat*on.
_____
Boat. Planter, P. R. Young & Sons, owners,
from Darien, with full cargo of merchandize to
sundries.
William Penn, Mr. Blair of Twiggs, owner,
full cargo salt to B. N. Griffin.
DEPARTED,
Boat Stranger, Day& Butts, owners—soo bags
Planter, P. R. Young & Sons, owners—4oo
bags cotton.
iFj&taiaa <swiiuiaisrJb
FOR MAY 18 1831.
ARTICLES. | | PRICES.
Axes,.. eaeh $1 25 2 50
Bacon, .* lb. 8 @ 9
Beeswax, lb. £0
Butter lb. IBj 20
Candles, Georgia.... lb. 15 @ 17
“ Sperm, lb. 80 35
Castings lb. 7
Coffee....* lb. 15 lfi
Corn Meal. bush 75 87J
Cotton, lb. 5 @ 8
Cotton Bagging yard Nominal.
Domestics, Shirtings yard 8 10
“ Shirtings, bleach’d yard 9 ® 13
“ Sheeting, j brown, yard 10 (ttj IS j
Fish, Maekarcl, No l, bbl. 10 00
“ “ 3, bbl. 9 00
“ “ 3, bbl. 7 00
Flour, Northern, bbl. 10 00
“ Domestic, bbl. 700
Fruit, Raisins, bunch, box 4 00 @ 4 30
“ “ Muscatel box 3 50
“ Lemons, hun. 400
“ Prunes, * lb. Scarce.
“ A1m0nd5....... lb. 15 @ 20
“ Figs lb. 15 @ 20
Fodder..... hun. 100 @1 25
Grain, Wheat bush 1 UK)
“ Corn '. bush 62$ (gj 75
“ Oats bush 50
“ Rye, bush Nominal.
“ Beans-.... .. bush None.
“ Peas, bush 1 0(5
Glass, Windowßxlo 50 ft 450
*- “ 10x12 50 ft 500
“ l2xlB 50 ft 800
Gunpowder ....... * keg 750 I
Hides lb. None
Iron, Swedes lb. 5J
“ Square lb. 6J
“ Sheet lb. 11
“ Hoop lb. 11
Lead, Bar, lb. 8
Lard lb. 9 ® 10
Lime, Thomaston,. ••• cask None.
“ Rock,.. cask 400
Slack cask 250
Lumber, Plank, yM 12 00
•* Scantling.. t> M 12 00
** Timbers... sq ft 3
“ Shingles... M 200
Molasses, gal 40 @ 50
Oils, Linseed...... gal 125 @1 37J
“ Sperm, ... v. * gal 1 12V 125
Osnaburgs, yard 10
Paints, Red Lead... lb 20 25
“ White Lead . keg 350@4 00
•* Olive lb 8 @ 15
“ Litharge ib 21) © 25 .
“ Whiting, ... lb GJ 10
Potatoes, Irish, .•... bush 75
“ Sweet,.. . bush 60
Pork, ........... bbl 15 00 @IG 00
Plaister Pari3, .. . . ton 12 00
Paper, Letter ream 350 @6
“ Foolscap.... ream 200 @,5
Rice*.... hun. Scarce.
Salt, Liverpool,.... bush 100
Salt Petre . * lb 15 @ 25
Spanish Sugars, .... P M 20 00
Shot, keg 200 a 225
Spices, Cassia, lb 37
“ Ginger,.... lb 15
“ Pepper,.... lb 22
“ Pimento.... lb 28
Spirits, Brandy Cog. gal 175 @2 95
“ “ Apple . gal 47 5O
“ Peach. gal 90 100
“ Rum, St. Croix gal 150 © 1 G2j
“ “ Jamaica. gal 175
“ N. E. . . gal 55
“ Gin, Holland... gal 140 @I 50
“ “ Country, . gal 55
“ Whiskey gal 50
“ Cordials,....* hot 75
Steel, German,.... Ib
“ American.... lb 12J
SuGAfts, St. Croft,. . lb 10 (qb 13
“ New Orleans, . lb 9 11
L0af.....*.. lb 20 a 25
“ Lump........ lb 18
Tallow lb 8
Trace Chains, ..... pair G2i @ 1 00
Tobacco, lb 1G u 25
Tea lb. 2 00
W i nes, Madeira,.... gal 400 (3J, 500
“ Tcneriflb,. .. gal 175 a2 50
“ Malaga,.,.. gal 75 a 87£
“ Port ...... gal 2GO
“ Georgia, .. . gal 2 i>o
Weeding Uoes, .. . . each s7j a 50
lly thin morning •tletif.
“ We come, we *ve hasten'd.”
BANK STATE OF GEORGIA.—On the
2d instant the following gentlemen were re*
elected Directors of this institution, for the
ensuing year, on the part of the Stockholder*.
John Stevens, Frederick Dcnsler ,
Thomas Butler, William Taylor,
Joseph Jackson. Joseph B. Herbert.
And the following gentlemen were clecte*i
by the Legislature at the last session, Direc
tors on the part of the State i
W. 11. Bulloch. Mordccai Myers,
Ceorgc Schley , A. B. Fannin.
The resignation of Mr. Berrieh, Attorney
General of the U. States, is spoken of in tho
newspapers as an event which has actually ta
ken place, and two or three persons arc nani*
ed as likely to succeed him. We hope he has
not resigned, or if he has, that his resignation
will not be accepted, unless he should partic
ularly desire it. To find an individual pos
sessing his legal acquirements, industry, and
fitness, in every respect, for the important
station he fills, would not be an easy matter*
As it is understood that the Attorney Gener
al has kept aloof from the bickerings in which
some of the members of the Cabinet, were en
gaged, we arc at a loss to discover the reason
if any there be, why he should retire from of
fice—or how the public interest could be pro
moted by a change. Wc shall therefore be
slow to believe, until conclusive evidence to
the contfary shall appear, that Mr. Berrien
will not continue to fill the office of Attorney
General.— Mill. Recorder .
.
The Creek Indians in Alabama, near the
borders of this State, arc represented to us by
a gentleman from their neighborhood, as be
ing in a most pitiable state, little short of star
vat ion. They made scarcely any corn last
year, and have no better prospects of a crop
for the present one. They derive a misera
ble and precarious subsistence from eating
wild roots, the inner bark of trees, and steal
ing cattle and hogs from the white settlers on
tiie frontier. Many of these people declare
they had enlisted to emigrate wesfwartliy, and
therefore made no provision forthe future, re
lying on the promise of the government to
have them removed at tho public expense,
and subsisted at their new homes until they
could make a crop. Relief should be afford
ed to these people by Government, if by a
change of its policy, in determining not t%
send away any more emigrants nntil the
whole tribe should consent to remove, their
present distress has been producod or aggra
vated ; and this we have reason to believe
is flic fact. It is impossible for a small rem
nant to coefce the balance of the tribe, and
if the faith of the government has been irt
any way pledged to these people, of should
they have been misled by its acts, common
humanity, if not strict justice, would plead in
their behalf.— lb.
The Clerks in the War Department have ad
dressed the following letter to Mr. EaTon on his
resignation: ,
Detartment o‘t War, )
April 20 1881. <
Dear Sm: with emotions of unfeigned re
grot, we have learned that you are about to
retire from this Department. The relation
we have sustained to each other, will tlierio* e
soon be dissolved.
Permit us (in v iew of this anticipated sep*
aration) to say, that your uniform acts of kind
ness*your bland and courteous deportment, in
all our intercourse with you, both private and
official, have made a deep impression upon
our hearts, and that, in your retirement from
the onerous and important duties you have
been called upon to discharge, as the head of
this Department, you will carry with you our
best wishes for your present and eternal hap
piness.
An advertisement has appealed in this, and
in most of the newspapers in South-Carolina
and Georgia, for some weeks past, hearing
tho enticing caption, “ Monev ! Money !!
Money !!!” and having the nethermost end
thereof bedraggled with Geo. W. Everett,
of 33, Philadelphia. To the original adver
tisement, by which so many of us have been
duped, was attached a request that the news
papers in South-Carolina aud Georgia, would
publish the same for one month, and forward
their accounts. Needing the precious metals
orthoir ragged representatives, more than wo
loy e, value, or honor either, we ac.oOrdingly
dif] ‘ forward’ our * account’ to a friend in
Philadelphia, asking of him the favor to pre
sent and collect it. It now becomes a duty
to put our friends and the public on their
guard by advertising this advertiser of money,
as a pretty particular villain and * pickled
rascal.’ Read what follows from the r< ply of
the gentleman to whom we sent our bill top
collection, and say if it is not even so. *
“ The only remuneration I can promise you, is,
the pleasure of advertising said man as a miscre
ant and impostor. He is not tobefonnd, and
this is the endorsing which your bill must re
ceive, non e.st inventus. On calling at the place
1 learned that about twenty bills from disappoint
ed editors had been sent in, and met the same fate.
You have then-fore the comfort which arises fumr
oompauy in affliction.”
IluricvJt .idvcrt . es
The Cameleon. —A paper his been issue i
at Chnrlottsvillc, Ya. bearing the above tith ,
edited by a Committee of the Students of tho
Virginia University at that place, fr is said
to display much spirit anti talent, as a paper
printed at such a place and with such editors
could liardly fail to do. We wish such a
tiring could be done at our University ; for
there are few better modts of improving tho
mind of a young man pursuing fiterary stu
dies, than the opportunity of writing,to w hich
the establishment of s ich a paper, at a such
a place, would lie a constant excitement.
The great match race for SIO,OOO, be.
twocn (Ldiah and “'I he Bonnets of Blue.”
took place ou the : #oth May, at 1 o'clock
P.M.