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in defence of his country, to repel the
am i s and fleets of an ungrate!tii moth
er, who had so long and rapaciously;
goaded his co mtrytnen to the midrufl'. \
by the vulture fangs of persecution, he i
was never known to be unfit for duty!
throughout that whole severe and trying i
contest. Not so with many of his offi
cers. By his sobriety, courage and pat
riotism, he rescued his bleeding country.
Arnold, from drunkenness, attempted to
betray both his chief and country. I
wonder this fact docs not make some of
the young men of our day tremble when
they consider their debauch and drinking
habits, when all eyes arc upon them as
their guardian and protector. May not
this, too, should occasion offer, lead them
to act against and betray their country?
If its effects on the human mind are ca
pable of leading it to the commission of
such a deed of infamy, is it not a sin
of the greatest magnitude ? —S. C. Tem.
Advocate.
A Uiimseller’s SoHiloquy.
I dontcare what these cold water men
say. They may abuse and denounce me
as much as they please. It’s all envy.
They would be glad to grow rich as well
as anvbody, but they wont stick at the
means. Neither do I care for what the
minister says. lie may repeat the sixth
commandment, “ Thou shall not kill
every Sabbath, and look right at me.
I can stand all that. And these drunk
ards, it is not they that worry me. I did
not make them drunkards. It is their
natural appetite; it runs in their blood ;
and I may as well have their money as
other men. Nor do I feel as I once did
about their wives pnd children. The
town will take care of them; and if t hat
dolorous member of the church would not
keep coming and begging me not to seli
her husband any more ruin. I could get
along well enough. But that Charles
Hewitt, since he has left off drinking rum
and whiskey is my eternal torment. 1
can’t endure the sight of him; ho looks
so healthy and so cleanly ; is such a con
trast to what he was when he brought
me all his money for whiskey ; and he
forms such a contrast to all the drunkards
around mo that he casts an eternal stig
ma on mv business. He’ll make more
converts to the Teetotal cause than all
the spcecitiliers in the country. And his
wife; I used to think she was a clever
woman, and I had some pity on her, and
sometimes gave her a little flour; hut
now, she dresses so well, and looks so
happy, nnd won’t come and trade at our
store. I hate the very sight of her.
And when she comes with Charles and
all her brats to meeting on the Sabbath,
and seems to he so happy to seo him lis
tening to the preaching, and her children
along with mine in the Sabbath school, it
goads me so I can't bear it. And when
the minister says any thing about “ brands
plucked from the burning” and “sinners
delivered from the snare of the Devil,”
it seems as if the eyes of the whole con
gregation were fixed on him, and then
on me. I can’t bear it any longer. I’ll
entice him into my “shop,” and laugh
him out of it. But then there’s that
meddling little imp that prints the “Re
former”—what if h€ should get hold ol
me and my actions. I dread the very
idea. Oil, my! only think how he blazed
away at two or three of our most fashion
able hotels; and worse than all that it
was every word true. Dear me! what
Jf ho should find out that Tom Haslelt
was carriraUmt of my ten-pin alley dead
drunk: trtlf I have sold no less than
three quarts of rum to that poor woman
whom he in the gulb r: and
some things he says are two true; for 1
made Bill Hamnil drunk last Sabbath,
when I know if I had cf&ed my Bar
and went to church, Bill would have gone
too, in company with his wife and child
ren. I djttt know exactly what to do.
If I qpntfWiic the liquor business, I must
have my name published in a
Temperanafejiaper, alongside of two or
three men, —and after all may
be I’ll have to give up the business, for
this new fangled idea of .teetotalism is
likely to take all my customers from me :
if I give up now, they may raise the re
port that I became afraid. Oh, Bacchus!
but this business of your’n is dreadful—
but a lucky idea just struck me. I’ll get
thick blinds to all my windows and a
screen before my door, and then go ahead
with the liquor business in spite of the
“Reformer,” his “reporter” and our
minister to boot!!!— New Orleans Star
of Temperance.
Reduction of the Cotton Crop.
We extract the following from a report
made by a committee, {of which Col.
James S. Deas was Chairman) to a
meeting of Planters recently held in Mo
bile, Alabama.— Camden Journal.
Their next recommendation will be on
the culture of cotton. They regard all
attempts to limit the cultivation of cot
ton to a given number of acres, or to a
given time for its gathering, as impracti
cable. Agricultural associations, how
ever numerous and however diligent,
would be unable to carrying it into use-!
fill effect. To those who would not en
ter into the general agreement, or who
having entered would be faithless to its
performance, it would operate as a bene
fit and be a premium on their labor.—
We believe the present price of cotton to
be neither accidental nor temporary, but
that it proceeds from the fact that more
labor and more land in suitable climate
in the world is applied to it than the
wants bf mankind require, and that the
kind of labor applied to its cultivation
cannot be very easily transferred to oth
er channels of production. The price
of from 5 to 7 cents the pound may be
regarded as the fixed price for the article,
for so soon as it advances beyond these
prices it will stimulate the production in
India nnd other countries, and pay lor
its freight to its European market of con
sumption. If it be then true that the
production has overreached constm p
tion, and the present price is as much as
may be reasonably calculated on, it pre
sents the strong necessity of finding out
new channels for the application of our
labor and for the increase of consump
tion of cotton. The following are some
of the most prominent means of doing
so.
The first point will he to plant only
what cotton we can gather and send to
market in very good order, and apply the
rest of our labor to larger corn crops and
raising all the meat we can possibly
want and to the cultivation of wheat as
far as our own wants, and to all the
articles of family consumption. Though
many profess to do this and think that
they have done so, they have been too
nice in their calculations of just what
would answer their probable wants, and
their over-nice calculations result in the,
necessity of applying a part of their cot
ton crop to the purchase of com and
meat. The person to whom this remark
is not felt as a rebuke, has been a very
prudent planter.
The next and probably the most im
portant matter to which field labor may
be applied, is manufactories, which may
and ought to be of our own wagons,
ploughs, leather, &c. &c.; but that to
which attention is more particularly call
cd, is the manufacture of cotton, into the
coarser fabrics. -There are throughout
the State in the falls of our rivers and its
numerous other water courses fine water
powers, and if steam is preferred as the
motive power, cheap, abundant and con
venient fuel. The health of situations
commanding these advantages is general
ly good. The charge is about 1 1-2
cents a pound to place cotton in a facto
ry in any of the Eastern States, and here
not half a cent. A contract can now he
entered into to place the cotton in the
factory and the manufactured product
in this city as the market of sale, at half
a cent, including both charges, thus giv
ing an advantage of at least a cent a
pound at the market of sale, with some
incidental advantages in the opportunity
of cheaper purchases, as in sample cot
tons, of which it is said there arc more
than fifteen hundred bales annually sold
here. To give some idea of the profits,
the following statement is made, aware
that it is predicated on a manufactory
being well conducted, and surely skill in
the superintendence, is not beyond our
reach to procure: A pound of cotton at
4 cents, 3 for manufacture, will yield two
yards of coarse shirting or osnaburgs
worth 10 cents the yard, that at 8 cents
yields of 12 cents, provided the invest
ment in machinery is not small; as the
advantages here will be in the lesser
price of the raw material,the manufacture
should be confined to coarser articles—
cotton osnaburgs at two yards to the
pound, cotton blankets at 4 pounds each,
cotton mattrasscs at 30 and 40 pounds
each, and comforts made in our families,
will add very much to the consumption
of cotton. Cotton bale rope at G pounds
to the hale, easily made at home, will al
so he a largo consumer. One of your
committee baled his crop for 12 years
with this kina of rope and made it on a
simple machine, some improvement on
the usual plough line twister, a diagram
of which will be at the service of any
gentleman.
The increase in the consumption of
cotton very much depends on ourselves.
Every planter should put this single re
solve into an undeviating principle of
action, “that he will given preference
to a cotton fabric whenever it is as cheap
and as convenient.” This resolve firm
ly acted on is worth the consumption of
more than a hundred thousand bales of
cotton. It is mischevious and false to
say, my example is not of sufficient con
sequence, or I would do it.”
Another subject worthy of attention
the rearing of mules, sheep, and other
stock, not so much as a diversion of la
bor from the culture of cotton as a
means of lessening the expense of living,
and of aiding rather than deducting from
the market crop.
Fatal Occurrence. —There seems to
be no warning of fire arms that can
prove effectual. On Sabbath morning,
the second March, Mr. Evnrd, a silver
smith at Pittsylvania court house, Vir
ginia, stepped into the back room of the
bar of the “ Rising Sum,” and picked up
a musket loaded with turkey shot, and
pointed at the bar keeper, Francis Comp- ‘
ton, son of John Compton, of said coun
ty, aged about eighteen years, a boy of
industrious, prudent and enterprising ha
bits, who begged him to desist such idle
acts, when, at that moment the musket
discharged, sending the entire contents
into the body just at the point of the
breast bone some of the shot passing
through the body. The young man stag
gered into the front room and dropped
upon the very identical spot upon which
little Sheed fell, who was similarly killed
by Roberts two years ago. Evnrd has
been committed to jail fur the killing.—
Lynchburg Virginian.
Dr. Franklin's Printing Preset. —Th s
interesting relic will soon be placed in
the gallery of the National Institute at
| Washington. There is no doubt but
that it is the same press which he used
one hundred and nineteen years ago.
The case is of Oak and on one side are
the remains of the caked up printing ink
used by Dr. Franklin. The die is 20
inches long, 12 inches wide and the beu
125 inches long and 20 inches wide. It
was presented by Messrs. 11 arild & Son
London, to John B. Murray, Esq., New
York, who has presented it to the In
-1 slitute. —South Carolinian.
A Freak of Nature. —Tlicre has been
found at Oyster Bay, on Lang Island, a
singular animal production of the sea, it
is nothing more nor less than an oyster
united to a crab, of the kind commonly
called sea spider* The oyster has grown
! upon the spider's back, and consequently
I should be classed as an animal of the
: quadruped tribe—here is truly one set ol
limbs grovelling their mundane course,
with two distinct hearts and bodies, with
no evident affinities. The oyster is a
line plump one, and its growth has doubt
less been materially advanced by trie
moving propensities of the spider, which
are now rendered nearly stationary by
its heavy burden.
Santa Anna, was at the latest dates
still in prison at Perote. Letters which
he had written to different Merchants at
Vera Cruz, directing them to hold on to
his cash, had been intercepted by the
Government.
R EMEDY for WORMS— The Coin
■®‘*/ pound Syrup of Pink Root, prepared try the
subscriber from the original receipt of the late Dr.
M. Antony.
This pleasant and safe preparation is recom
mended, as one of the ell’eetual remedies for ex
pelling Worms fri in the system. For sale in
quantities tosuit purchasers.
July 20 1 tf] WM. HAINES, Jr.
i 0S& WM. HAINES, Jr. (Successor
/ to Garvin & Haines,) Whoiesalc and
lllga retail Dealer in Drugs, Medicines,
I Paints, Oils, Glass, Dye-Stuffs, Per
fumery, Surgical Instruments, &c. &c., has now
on hand a select assortment of the above articles,
for sale at low prices and on moderate terms. —
All orders executed with neatness and despatch.
WM. HAINES, Jr.
No. 232 Broad-street, Augusta.
July 20 1 ts
GUN AND LOCK SMITH.
| riIHE undersigned respectfully informs
the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity,
that he has taken the store on Macintosh-street,
near the Post Offiio, (in the rear ot Mr. J. B.
Murphy’s Jewelry Store.) where he is prepared
to execute all kinds of REP AI RING in tiie above
line, and solicits a portion of patronage. His
prices will be in accordance with the times.
O’ All work warranted to give satislaction.
JOHN D. SMITH.
Augusta, March Bth, 1845. 34 4t
"'{£y> Dr. JOLIN MIL LEM
has removed his office to the lower tenement ol
the large brick building on the corner ot Kollock
and Broad streets, near the upper market, oppo
sitethe store of Messrs. Hand & f lemming, and
tenders his utmost devotedness to all those who
mav require his professional services.
Augusta, March 15 ‘‘s 3t
W/'INDOW^ ILASS. —300 Boxes of
’ * Window Glass, assorted sizes. For sale
very cheap. WM. HAINES, Jr.
July 20 I
Ifomig Ladies Seminary ,
/Conducted by Miss L. R. Williams,
from the British Provinces. — I lie Course
of Instruction in this Seminary, is the same as
in the best institutions ot Europe. Miss W.lias
been long in the pract ice of Teaching, and with
perfect confidence invites parents and guardians
to place their daughters and wards under her
care, pledging herself to give the strictest atten
tion to every branch of education, as well as to
morals and manners.
One of the most approved Music 1 etchers is
engaged for that department: those who wish to
attend Music, without joining other classes, can
do so.
O’ A number of Boarders will be received
with advantage to themselves.
For terms, apply at the Seminary, Broad-st.,
first door above the Bridge Bank Buildings, Au
gusta, Ga.
References —Hon. M. M. Dye, Rev. E. E.
Ford, Dr. D. Hook.
Sept 28 11 9 m
DENTISTRY,
VI,-M. H. PRITCHARD, on Broad
" * street, below the lower raarkt*.
Augusta, March 29.
AUGUSTA MARKET:
COT I’ON.—‘The favorable advices
p;r the slctimer Cambria from Liverpool,
U ) to the 4th inst. which we received via
Boston, soon after owr last publication,
has had the effect of advancing the price
of cotton about |c. per lb. in this mar
ket; and at this advance a large business
has been done. The demand however,
was not quite so brisk yesterday as it
was early in the week. We have a good
river for steamers with tow boats, al
though it is a little too low for those
which carry their own cargo.
BAGGING.—We have no alteration
to note in our market for this article;
prices remain as lust quoted.
GROCERIES.—We have had but a
limited demand for the articles under this
head since our last report, though the
prices, if any change, have un upward
tendency.
JDIEIJ,
In this city, on tile 231 in-t., after an illness of
sixteen days, LAURENCE N. JAMES, in the
21 st year as his age.
(Kr THE WASHINGTON TOTAL
ABSTINENCE SOCIETY of tins City, will
Hold another Meeting, on 'THURSDAY nitilit
next, (April 3rd,) at the City Hall, commencing
at half-past 7 o’clock.
Several interesting Addresses are confidently
expected.
An election for Board of Managers will also
be held.
/he public generally are invited to attend.
WM. HAINES, Jr., Secretary.
March 29 it'
Ladies of Augusta, Haraburi & the Cjuiitry
NOTICE THIS!
EVERY LADY HER OWN DRESS-MAKER FOR
THREE DOLLARS.
T&YRS. S. W. RUSH, through this, in
forms the Ladies of the above places, that
she has returned to this city, with her new pa
tent right for cutting Ladies Dresses, Habits,
Sleeves, Yokes, Ca|>es, Collars, &c. Ac. of any
descr ption, size, fashion, and style, by which
system any lady is enabled, with less than three
hours instruction, to cut any of said articles--
not only in the very best manner, but also in an
economical way, without any risks or misfiis
The subscriber will be found from 9 in die morn
ing until (i in the afternoon, on Broad-street, at
No. 237, one door above the old bridge-bank
building.
For the above price, Ladies will be instructed
in classes of from one to ten, and each Lady will
he entitled to a Book ot Instruction with the
Chart.
Tjiis is no mathematical theorem, but an im
provement on any thing of the kind eve' taught
before.
No charge is to be made unless satisfaction is
given.
Ladies not wishing to lie taught, can be fur
nished with a full sett of Patterns for 50 Cents.
O' Take Notice. — All Ladies who have been
taught, and do not understand it, let me beg them
.o return and accomplish the undertaking.
S. W. RUSH.
October 12 13 ts
|)UNHAM & BLEAKLEY, Augusta,
Ga. has now on hand, and will continue to
receive during the Fall season, a choice and well
selected assortment of Paper, Books and Fancy
Stationary, which will be sold to Printers, Mer
chants and the citizens generally, at a small per
centage on New York cost. Cash customers
will receive fair value for their money, by giving
us a cull. * [July 20 Ily
OLEACIIEI) WINTER OlL—War
ranted Pure Sperm— l,ooo Gallons, in
licrcosand barrels, a very superior article for line
machinery, and for family use. For sale low, at
wholesale and retail.
Also, good SUMMER LAMP OIL, $1 00
a gallon, by
HAVILAND, RISLEY, & Ca
July 20 1 ts
B JOSEPH E. MARSHALL,
Successor to
Tliomas I. Wray,
At his old and well known stand,
above MeGrarTscorner, Augusta,
Ga , wholesale and retail Dealcrin
Ski.f.cted FAMILY DRUGS
ASD MEDICINES. (Bull’s)
Gold Foil and Leaf—Perfumery,
Brushes, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs.
Window and Sky Light Glass,
&C.&C
CHEMICALS prepared at shortest notice.
August 17 5 tJ2O
tijV .’u.i.viir.itToie it
HPINNER’S Work of every description
made to order, at short notice, such as
Untiling Tubs,
Factory tans,
Cylcnders,
Oil Stands, (from 1 up to 100 gallons,)
Patent Coflee Pots, of all sizes, to suit ho
tels or private families.
Jjp All the above mentioned articles made o
Double Tin.
A regular assortment of TIN WARE kept
constantly on hand, to suit merchants or pedlers.
All kinds of ROOFING and GUTTERS
made and repaired low for cash.
The above business superintended by
E. E. SCOFIELD,
Next door above the Insurance Bank,
Broad-street , Aucusla.
Sept. 21 10 tt
LOGICAL VIEW of the TESTI
MONIES TO CHRISTIANITY,—
By E. Starnf.s. Prepared at the request of the
Franklin Literary Society oftbis city. Just pub
lished and for sale at this offieo—Prirt 37} Ctsi
Aug. 3,1844.
AUGUSTA PRICES * . a
t 1 |
'-ntfrur Corrected WritLf.
ELoii Nd, i iu.ujj yarn 17
Tow “ «, is
Gunny. ... ” 0;
Bu.g Rope..-.-. Ib. 6} jo
Bacon, Hog round *...... “ f> 7
Bains “ 7} pv
Shoulders... “ 61 gi
Sides “ 0 7l
Beep, Sinokrd *< *
Better, Goshen *« 18 20
North Carolina... “ 12 18
Country •* £0 25
Coffee,- Green prime Cuba “ 8 <j
Ordinary to good.. “ 7 9
St. Domingo “79
Rio “ 7} 9J
J- a gu*r\- “ 7; 91
Porto Rico “ 7. 91
Tiva “ 14 15
Mocha, “ ]8 20
Candles, Sperm. “ S 3 37$
Tallow, Georgia. “ 12} 18|
do. Northern. “ 10 18
Cheese, American.. “ <1 JO
English...,., .... <<
Crackers, Augusta made.. “ 9 121
Northern “
Cigars, Spanish M. 15 00 20 00
American “ 500 12 00
Corn hush. 45 66}
Fodder cwt 75 «■;
Fish, Herrings box ! 75 100
Mackerel, No. 1.... bbl IIS 00 l 5 00
do. No. 2.... “ 1100 13 00
do. No. 3.... “iBOO 11 00
Flour, Canal “ 050 700
Baltimore “ 000 650
Western " 575 625
Country “ 450 500
Feathers lb. 25 28
Ginger “ 10 15
Gunpower, Dupont’s ffp.. keg 6CO 28 00
B asting “ 40026 27
Glass, 10* 12 box 300 450
Bxlo “ 225 350
Iron, Russia cwt. 450 500
Swedes, assorted.... “ 450 550
Hoop “ 700 500
Sheet “ 700 800
Nail Rods “ 700 800
Lead, Bar lb. G 800
Sheet 11
Leather, Sole “I 23
Upper side 1 50 200
Calf Skins doz. 18 00 36 CO
Lard lb. 71 10
Molasses, N. Orleans.... gal. 33 37
Havana “ 31 35
English Island.. “
Nails lb. 5 6
Oils, Lamp gal. 1 15 125
Linseed “ 100 125
Tanners “ (JO 75
Oats hush. 35 40
Peas “ 50 62
Paints, Red Lead lb. 12} 15
White Lead keg 200 250
Spanish Brown... Ib. 4 12}
Yellow Ochre “ 5 8
Pepper, Black “ 12} 18
Raisins, Malaga box 200 250
Muscatel “ 200 2£5
Bloom “
Rice, Prime ; cwt. 350 500
Inferior to good “ 250 400
Sugars, New Orleans lb. 6 8
Havana white.... “ 11 12}
do. brown.... “78
Muscovado “ 7} 9
St. Croix “ 9} 11
Porto Rico “79
Lump “ 12 14
Loaf “ 13 15
Double refined.... “ 14 17
Spice « 15 18}
Soap, American, No. 1 “ 6} 9
do. No. 2.... “ 6 7
Salt, Liverpool ground... hush. 40 45
do. do sack 1 37} 1 02
Steel, German lb, 15 10
Blistered “ 8 12}
Shot, all sizes bag 150 200
TorACCo, N. Carolina ll” 8 15
Virginia “ 15 50
Twine " 25 33
Tea, B jbea “ 62} 87}
Souchong “ j 60 75
Hyson “ | 80 125
Gunpowder “ ! ICO 125
EXCHANGE TABLE. —Specie Basit.
Corrected by John O. Winter.
Augusta Notes.
Mechanics’ Bank par.
Brunswick Bank “
Bank of Augusta “
Augusta Insurance & Banking Co “
Branch Georgia Rail Road “
Branch State of Georgia “
Savannah Notes.
State Bank ‘
Marine and Fire Insurance 8ank..... “
Planters’ Bank “
Central Rail Road Bank 3 dig'
Country Notes.
State Bank Branch, Macon par
Other Branches State Bank “
Milledgcville Bank “
Georgia Rail Road Bank, Athens “
City Council of Augusta “
Ruckersville Bank "
Branch Marine & Fire Insurance Bank "
St. Mary’s Bank “
Central Bank
Bank of Hawkinsville 5 dis.
Merchant’s Bank, Macon 5 “
City Council of Columbus £5 “
City Council nt Milledgeville No sale.
City Council of Macon “ “
Insurance Bank ot Columbus, Macon.. “ “
Commercial Bank, Macon No circulation.
Monroe Rail Road Bank Broke
Exchange Bank of Brunswick “
Phoenix Bank, Columbus “
Bank ofDarien and Branches “
Chattahoochic R. R. and Banking Co.. “
Wc«tern Bank of Georgia “
Bank of Columbus “
Planters & Mechanics Bank Columbus “
Bank of Ocmulgec “
Georgia 6 pr. cl. Bonds for specie, 92
Georgia 8 pr. ct. Bonds, 102
South Carolina Notes,
Charleston Banks.... par.
Bank of Hamburg “
Country Banks “
Alabama Notes 8 the-
Checks.
New York Sight par.
Boston “
Philadelphia.... J “
Baltimore “
Lexington “
Richmond, Va “
Savannah '*
Charleston • *