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Eotjon at Penfield, to whom was refer-;* Kd the propriety of holding another Con- I ■ention of the friends of Temperance, s fcme time during the ensuing fall, be re- : tested to select Eatonton as being the ( tost eligible place for holding the same Land appoint such time as they may leem most suitable. Resolved , That the citizens of Eaton ; jn freely extend an invitation to all the elegates, of said Convention, and that »ey will throw open their houses lor their sception and entertainment. Resolved, That we request said Com littee to publish the above resolutions,,' igether with their report and address. 1 WM. A. HOUGHTON, President, j Robert F. Trippe, Sec. pro. tem. i’ fn answer to the above invitation, and a behalf of the recent Penfield meeting,; ie undersigned Committee do invite a Convention of the friends of Temperance,; o assemble at Eatonton, on the forenoon >f Thursday, the *23d of November next. | t is earnestly hoped that Societies in all! tarts of the State will be represented in hat meeting. P. H. MELL. J. M. ASHURST. J. 11. CAMPBELL, j O. L. SMITH, ?ept 13th, 1543. G. M. PAINE. OCT Editors in the State favorable to lie cause of Temperance will confer a favor, bv giving this a few insertions, and noticing it editorially. Drunkards I.ook at This. “When I signed the pledge,” saida etbrmed drunkard, “I put away my grog noney in silver five and ten cent pieces, md continued to do so until winter came n and I could not work. Then I began o take it for market money. It has last 'd me all the winter, and the last market lay I took the last of the deposite. 1 lave enjoyed more happiness in the last i?w months than I ever did before—l vould’nt for any thing go back to my old labits.”—'Multiplied scores, reclaimed from swift and almost inevitable destruc tion, bear similar testimony in favor of fthx salutary and beneficent tendency of •lie total abstinence cause. To every drunkard in the land we say, “Go thou; and do likewise.” Don’t stand doubting.; Hie brilliant results which have thus far, ittended the experiment of all who have Iried it. furnish the most ample grounds; lor confidence in your final success, if you make the effort. More than two him- Ired thousand of the common and occa- ; sionab drunkards of our country, have; been reformed by this new movement..j furnishing a mass of thrilling and over whelming testimony in proof of the prac tical efficiency and utility of total absti nence, which silences at once and forever the voice of the objector, and removes 4ho last remaining doubt of tho skeptic. Highland Messenger. Melancholy >uiclde. On Thursday last, the dead body of one llkxrv W. Johnson was found in a field of Mr. George Mosteiler, about four miles South of this place. The head was half disengaged from the body, his clothes and the ground around him were dyed in blood, and by his side lay a dull pocket knife with which no doubt the desperate deed was perpetrated. A Coroner’s In quest was immediately held, and the ver dict of the Jury was, that he came to his death by a wound or wounds in the throat, inflicted, in a state of mental derange ment, by his own hand. The circumstances of the case as de tailed to the Jury are briefly these : Mr. Johnson was a Book-binder by trade, and lad for several months past been carrying on his business at the Paper Manufactory of the Messrs. Mosteilers. A week or two since, he left the Paper 3liil, got into a fit of drunkenness, {which it appears was a periodical thing with him,) and did not return until Monday morning last. He hen left off drinking, and lay about the >remises the two succeeding days in a very melancholy mood. On the night Jrevious to his death, he became maniac al, paced the floor of his room incessantly, talking and gesticulating in the wildest manner. The witness stated, that his words and actions resembled, more than any thing else, those of a tragedian on the stage. But it seems he was determined that “the last act” should be performed in the sight of no human spectator; about he dawn of day, exclaimed with much mergy of manner, ‘ I will have at least i drink of cool water, 5 and left the room. ls witness supposed to return in a short ime; but he was never more seen until ie was found a bloody, mutilated corpse ! i Mr. Johnson, we understand, was ana- I five of Scotland, and worked at his trade i several years in that county. He after- i wards settled in the city of New York, and for a time carried on an extensive business there in his line; but the firm ol i which he was a member, failing, he left New Aork and came to the South, and ; Iras been working in Charleston, Colum- i bia and Greenville, South Carolina, until t within a few months back, when he came [ to this place. He has two brothers in the j United States, who are chemists, and re-fi side either in Montpelier, Vermont, orir about Lowell, Massachusetts. —Lincoln i (N. C.) Courier. c Duriiin g of the Penitentiary. A gentleman from Milledgeville, who ( passed through Madison yesterday, gave !us some particulars of the burning of the j State Penitentiary. Five convicts were J engaged in the perpetration of the deed. By them a rope, saturated with turpen- ( tine was drawn round the roof of one of I the work shops, and secured under the !eaves, sometime on the Monday previ ous. To this rope slow matches were at tached, in five different places, on Wed- 1 nesday evening, which they intended ‘ should communicate the fire to the rope 'under the eaves, about nine o’clock at ! night, but which, owing to a miscalcula tion, ignited about half past seven. The scene within the yard was terrific. The , light from the blazing buildings revealed the prisoners within their cells—the roofs | of which had also taken fire—screaming and shouting, and thrusting their arms through the gratings in piteous supplica tion to be released, that they might not; j perish in the flames. The cells were fi iiially thrown open and the prisoners per mitted to pass out, when they were plac ied under a strong guard. One of the icoiivicts has since made a full confession, implicating four others in the cornmis- I sion of a crime, which, by our laws, for feits their lives. Madison Miscellany , 1 Ith inst. Suicide. —The Greenville Mountain-; . eei’ol the 10th inst. says: —We learn! from passengers in the Augusta stage, , that on the morning of the 2d inst., Mr. ■ Posey committed suicide at his residence in Abbeville Village, by cutting his throat • with a knife, during a fit of temporary in i sanity. Mr. P. had for several years been the proprietor of a Hotel in that : town. He has left several children, and a large number of relatives and acquaint- I ances to lament his truly sad and tragical I end. Another shower of flesh and blood oc curred in Laurens district. We are in ! formed that it lull on the plantation of ! Mr. Wm. M. Inlow, near Enoree river, j about two miles below Musgrove’s mill, dßeports say, that various opinions and conjectures exist in the neighborhood . j about the matter. Some consider it a I natural occurrence, while others view it ■as a sign from heaven. If such an occur fence did happen, perhaps some one will J explain the cause to us before very long. Hamburg Journal. 0 ■ Mr. Preston’s liutogy. The Charleston Courier, in a notice . of the ceremonies in that city on Tuus -5 day, in honor of the late Hugh S. Legare, thus alludes to the eulogy pronounced by the Hon. W. C. Preston. The eulogy was pronounced by the Hon. William C. Preston, who, for near ‘ an hour and a halfj enchained the atten- I tion of a deeply interested audience, with > one of the richest feasts of both mind and heart, it has ever been our priviledge to s enjoy. It lias been often remarked that i eulogy is a most difficult species of com i position, and one in which the great ora ■ tor frequently fails to achieve a success • corresponding with his previous fame; • but on the present occasion, the eulogist i was signally felicitous, coining up to the . full measure of public expectation, raised • to the highest point by the well known triumphs of his Senatorial eloquence.— • It is but echoing the universal sentiment to pronounce Mr. Preston’s performance a masterly effort; chaste and simple in ; style, yet glowing with fine imagery and pervaded by a touching pathos and win ning tenderness; in its narrative full ot 1 the charm of biography, and in its more i reflective portions replete with all and tho higher requisites of the funeral ora tion ; at once just, generous in its esti mate and delineation of the character of the deceased, and elegant and discrimina ting in its criticism of his productions and performances as a writer and a speak er. It was indeed a worthy tribute to the illustrious Legare, as a scholar, a ju rist, an orator, a writer and a statesman, and to his character as a man of gentle virtues and pure and noble nature—and, when published, as it will doubtless be, we hesitate not to say that it will take the highest rank as a literary performance, and be regarded as a model for future ef forts in the same line of composition. True Prosperity. You talk of the prosperity of your city, i I know but true prosperity. Does the human soul grow anu prosper here ? Do ! not point me to your thronged streets. I ask who throng them? Is it a low mind ed, self-seeking, gold worshipping, man despising crowd, which I see rushing through them ? Do I meet in them, un der the female form, the gaily dressed prostitute, or the idle, wasteful, aimless woman of fashion ? Do I meet the young « man, showing off his pretty person as the perfection of nature’s works, wasting his golden hours in dissipation and Bloth, and * bearing in his countenance and gaze the mark of a profligate ? Do I meet a gasp ing multitude, seeking to thrive by con- | cealments and fraud'/ An anxious mul titude caring nothing for others, if they may themselves prosper or enjoy? In j the neighborhood of your comfortable or splendid dwellings are there abodes of squallid misery, or reckless crime, of bes tial intemperance ; of half famished child ren, of profanencss, dissiluteness, of temp tation for thoughtless youth? Are these multiplying with your prosperity, and outstriping and neutralizing the influence of truth and virtue ? Then your prosper ity is a vain show. Its true use is to make I a better people. The glory and happiness of a city con sists not in the number, but character of its population. Os all the fine arts in a city, the grandest is the art of forming noble specimens of humanity- The cost liest productions of our manufacturers are cheap compared with a wise and human being. A city which should practically judopt the principle, that man is worth inure than wealth or show, would place it :at the head of cities. A city in which I man should be trained worthy of the j name, would become the metropolis of the I earth.— Dr. Charming. Benjamin Fkanklin left a donation Ito the town of Boston, ‘for the encour iagement of the young married mechan ics.’ The estimated value of this fund on the tirst of January 1843, was $33,- 1085,01 —an amount to which he proba bly, never dreamed it would accumulate. | His object was to provide an easy way j which ypung mechanics, just cornmcnc ing business might obtain a small capital to assist and enable them to prosecute their business more advantageously than they otherwise could. We believe a suc cessful applicant can obtain S2OO, at re gular interest, and have ten years to re- I pay it ; but the applicant must be a m«r rted mechanic, and must have served a I regular apprenticeship at his trade. In Franklin’s time, a person served a seven years’ apprenticeship at the trade he wish ■ ed to learn, but now trades are mixed up • and divided, and two or three years are ' deemed enough to give to learn the branch , desired. Few can now establish a claim , to this fund, in consequence of this change I in the times —in the modes of doing bu- I siness, and, as is said, the fund has accu i mulated to over thirty-three thousand dol lars.—Christian Watchman The New York Courier states that the amount of specie exported from that city to Europe this fall is comparatively small. No silver has been shipped to England, and that taken to France will not tar ex , cced $900,000, of which 100,000 will go by the next packet. The premium on silver has therefore declined consider ’ ably. _____ Dr. Beckman, in his late Address be* • fore tho New York Agricultural Society, r stated that England, with a territory little . larger than that of tho Slate of N. York, i keep a stock of 10,000,000 of cattle, and 1144,000,000 of sheep—nearly twice the i [ number of sheep in all the United States ; I I that the farmers of England harvest 262,- . 000,000 bushels of wheat, while those of . New York raise but about 51,000,000 i bushels. So much for scientific farming. | List of Payments to the Washingtonian. : Augusta—.Vl. N. Copland,F.Blodget,to June | 10, ’44. E. R. Jolinson, to Oct. 15, ’44. Lagrange —Owen B. Arnold (§2) to June 10, ’44. Pools -1 ville—James Caldwell, to JNuv. li, ’44. Rock ■ Mills, (S. C.)— VV. A. Lewis, to June iO, ’44. Home Industry Store. | Depository of this Institution has been removed on the square above its late 1 location, two doors west of tile Insurance Bank, where they have now, and wdl constantly keep on hand a full supply of . FALL dj- WINTER CLOTHING , on the most reasonable terms. Cutting and making all kinds of Garments will be attended to by the Agent, on the most favorable terms. As the Institution is for benevolent purposes, and the more work sold, the more will have to be given out to the poor, it is hoped, that all who feel disposed thus indirectly to assist the poor, will tavor the store with a call for such articles as they may want. J. B. COURTRIGHT, Agent. Oct. 7, 1843. 18 ts "CHARLES E. GRENVILLE & CO. ~ and Stationers, 244 Broad-street, offers for sale, at wholesale and retail, a large assortment of School,Classical, Medical, Law and Miscellaneous Books; togeth er with Blank Books, Paper, Paper Hangings, GLuilis, metallic Pens, Fine Cutlery, and Stationery of every description , Music, Musical Instruments, and every article usually called for in a Bookstore. Law and Medical Libraries furnished on the most liberal terms. Schools, Academies, and Literary Institutions , i supplied at the lowest prices. 1 June 10 Its | JOHN B. MURPHY. , has removed to the Store 3d door below the Post It la Vs Office corner, No. 214. _ ' \s> I -.jwgSi Broad-street, sign of the Large Golden Spectacles I Clocks, Watches and Jew I elry, carefully repaired and warranted. I A continuance of former patronage wil 1 I be thankfully received. : Augusta, June 10th, 1843 Ily ( AUGUSTA PRICES * to a. CURRENT, | a CiBEn'ILT CORRECTKD WtHLT. f Bago.ng, Hemp f. Tow | ' Gunny | Bale Rope Bacon, Hog round Hams Shoulders Sides Beef, Smoked Butter, Goshen North Carolina... Country Coffee, Green prime Cuba. Ordinary to good.. St. Domingo Rio Laguira Porto Rico Java | Mocha | Candles, Sperm : Tallow, Georgia. | do. Northern.! Cheese, American English Crackers, Augusta made.. Nurthem ! Cigars, Spanish American Corn Fodder Fish, Herrings Mackerel, No. 1.... do. No. 2.... i do. No. 3.... j Flour, Canal I Baltimore Western Country Feathers G INGEN GunPOWER, Dupont’s FFF .. Blasting Glass, 10 x 12 8x 10 Iron, Russia Swedes, assorted.... Hoop I Sheet Nail Rods ■ Lead, Bar i Sheet Leather, Sole Upper Calf Skins • Lard . Molasses, N. Orleans.... ( Havana English Island.. 1 Nails I Oils, Lamp Linseed Tanners 1 Oats ■ Peas i Paints, Red Lead i White Lead Spanish Brown... \ ellovv Ochre ■ Pepper, Blaok . Raisins, Malaga Muscatel Bloom Rice, Prime Inferior to good 1 Sugars, New Orleans Havana white.... do. brown.... Muscovado \ ’ St. Croix Porto Rico | Lump I Loaf Double refined.... 1 ■ Spice i Soap, American, No. 1.... do. No. 2.... ■ Salt, Liverpool ground... , do. do , Steel, German Blistered. - ’ Shot, all sizes 1 Tobacco, N. Carolina ; Virginia ; Twine ’ Tea, Bohea Souchong I Hyson ) Gunpowder EXCHANGE TABLE. —Specie Basis. Augusta Notes. Mechanics’ Bank par. ’ Brunswick Bank “ L Bank of Augusta “ Augusta Insurance & Banking Co “ Branch Georgia Bail Road “ Branch State ofGeorgia.... “ Savannah Notes. ; State Bank “ > Marine and Fire Insurance Bank “ ’ Planters’ Bank “ Central Rail Road Bank 5 dis. i Country Notes. State Bank Branch, Macon par ! Other Branches State Bank “ t Commercial Bank, Macon “ Milledgeville Bank “ , Georgia Rail Road Bank, Athens • City Council of Augusta “ I Ruekersville Bank “ I Branch Marine & Fire Insurance Bank “ St. Mary’s Bank “ Branch Central R. R. Bank, Macon... 8 dis. Central Bank C a 7 “ Exchange Bank of Brunswick No sale. Insurance Bank of Columbus, Macon.. “ “ Piirenix Bank, Columbus “ “ Bank of Havvkinsville 5 a 10 dis. City Council of Milledgeville Uncertain. City Council of Macon 4 “ City Councilof Columbus 20dis. Monroe Rail Road Bank Broke Bank of Darien and Branches “ Chattahoochic R. R. and Banking Co.. “ Western Bank of Georgia “ Bank of Columbus “ Planters & Mechanics Bank Columbus “ 1 Bank of Ocmulgce “ 1 Georgia (i pr. ct. Bonds for specie,.... 76 pr. GcorgiaS pr.ct. Bonds, 1)4 cts. South Cahot.ina Notes. Charleston Banks par. Bank of Hamburg “ . Country Banks. “ Alabama Notes 11a 12J is. i Checks. Xcw York Sight i prem 7 Boston i “ Philadelphia i “ la Baltimore i ‘‘ Lexington i “ n Richmond, Va par. e Savannah , “ q Charleston PROSPECTUS or THE Southern CUtartevln lUiilcto. TN commencing the fifth'volume of this publication, the Editor wishes to urge, with earnestness its claims upon the patronage anil support of the citizens of the South. Its circula tion, always respectable, but never large, requires to he, and, it is believed may tie much extended and the work be thus rendered a more efficient organ in maintaining the rights and sustaining the literary reputation of the Southern States. The discontinuance of other periodicals, which have divided the public pationagc, renders the present time a peculiarly appropriate one lor pre senting such consideration as will awaken a new interest in it, and for making such efforts to ex tend its circulation as will place it on a permanent basis. It may be proper to state, briefly, the leading objects which such a Periodical proposes to at - complish, and also the reason, which show the importance and ncees.-ity of sustaining one with energy, at the present time, at t! %■ South. The general objects of such Periodicals are pretty well understood. They serve to embody the opinions of enlightened minds on all great questions in which tire interests of the arts, sci ences, letters and politics are involved, at certain periods in the history of the country. Their aiui is, not only to review hooks, and, in the spirit of |thorough and impartial criticism, to decide upon j their merits, but also, in the performance of this iduty, to discuss important subjects in such a tnan jner as to make deep and permanent impressions upon the character of the people and the desti nies of the age: to diffuse knowledge not to fos ter prejudices : to create, direct and controul not to echo opinions; and finally, to canvass princi ples and maintain truth in a calm and dignified [manner, and in a style chaste, luminous, nervous | and appropriate. The offspring of a high state lofcivilization, they furnish evidence of intellcctu ! ;il advancement, and are the objects of a just and honorable pride, regarded as the exponents oflhe j literary standing and character of communities. The importance of sustaining such a work at i the South, with ahility and effect, is equally obvi ous. The South, like the North, and the other sections of the Union, owes a duty to the age and to the country in behalf of her literature. She requires an able and heightened Periodical, that is fitted to nourish, and call into active exercise, the literary talent of our Southern Common wealths. But, more than this, our institutions are peculiar, and require a distinct organ through which they may be defended with power and spirit, when assailed, as they often are, by other sections of the American Confederacy. This aggressive conduct on the part of our countrymen, so prejudicial to the general harmony, requires to he met and repelled by argument., first, and by action, if necessary, afterwards. The South is an agricultural country, and her position is differ ent from that of other sections more particularly devoted to commerce and manufactures. Her views of her peculiar interests should he known, and require to he maintained and defended with ability, through some such channel. The Southern Quarterly Review is issued at Charleston, in January, April, July and October. Among its pledged contributors, are —Dew, Bachman, Burnap, Davezac, Upshur, Cushing, Tucker, Simms, Cartwright, Elliott, Garnett, Thornwell, Grayson, Holmes, Everett, Brecken ridge, Brantley, King, Stevens, and other distin guished American scholars, residing chiefiy in the Southern States. The style of its typograph ical execution is not surpassed by any work for eign or domestic, An appeal is confidently made to the generous an patriotic feelings of Southern citizens in its behalf. TERMS.—SS per annum,payablein advance. No subscription taken for less than a year, ami all notices of discontinuances to be forwarded be fore the first of October of each year, or the sub scr plion will he binding for the succeeding year. DANIEL K. WHITAKER. Charleston, Oct. 1,1543. Wo arc authorised to announce 2SS? Dr. JOHN MILLEN, as a Candidate for Tax Collector of Richmond County, at the Election in January next. Oct. ‘2B 21 td | AW NOTICE.—The undersigned ha , B * ving associated themselves in the practice of Law, under the firm of S N E AD & M 1 L • LEDGE, will devote their unremitting atten tion to the duties of their profession, and solicit for the firm the business of their individual friends. They will practice in all the counties of the Middle, and Lincoln and Warren Counties of the Northern Circuit; also, the Court of Com mon Pleas of this City. One of them may at all times during business hours, be found at their office in the Law Range, over the Post office. JOHN C. SNEAD, JOHN MILLEDGE- Augusta, Ga. August Bth, 1843. Aui; 12 10 ts | U AMU EL T. CHAPMAN,A ttorxby ! at Law, will attend the Courts of Law anil Equity in the Districts of Edgefield, Orangeburg ! and Barnwell, S. C. Also, the several Courts of . I Richmond and adjacent Counties, Geo. I3r Office, Constitutionalist Range, Augus j ta, Ga. Sept. 2 13 ts HAVILAND, KISLEY «Ss CO. Star the Mansion House, Globe, and U. States Hotels, Augusta, Ga. dealers is {Choice Drugs and Medicines, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, t Surgical & Dental Instruments Perfumery, Brushes, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, Window Glass, &c. &c. June 17 2'ly tWM. HAINES, Jr. (Succes sor to Garvin & Haines,) Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Drugs, Medi cines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Dye-Stuffs, [ Perfumery, Surgical Instruments, &c. &c.—Has 1 now on hand a select assortment of the above ar ticles, for sale at low prices and on moderate terms. All orders executed with neatness and despatch. W.VI. HAINES, Jr. N 0.232 Broail-street, Augusta. June 18 1 ts |AR.JOHNMILLEN,()ffice NoTllr, North side Broad-street, below Eagle and Phoenix Hotel, Augusta. [June 10 lv liEMEDY FOtfc WORMS. HP HE Compound Syrup of Pink Root, prepared by the subscriber, from the origin al receipt of the late Dr. M. Antony. This pleasant and safe preparation is recom mended, as one of the effectual remedies for expelling Worms from the system. For sale, in quantities to suit ptnehasers. July 1 4 ts) WM. HAINES, Jr. yard 17 20 . 15 18 “ 18i 19 lb. 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