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• Hull Hoad, UuT
fi>Ho*ving melancholy intelligence of a destructive
fire which broke out in Crawfordsville, Taliaferro
county, on Sunday morning last, and destroyed a
number of buildings, all nearly new.
FIIIE AT CRAWFORDSVILLE.
The entire rnnge of handsome buildings, on the
north eido of our village, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday morning lost, tho 9th inst., together wit»
the stocks of goods of Messrs. Baker & Welborn, E.
C. Laurence, Q. O. Neal ACo , and M. Little, (most
of these buildings were nearly new,) and the fine
corner house of the square, occupied by James M.
Callaway, Etq ns a hotel, was also consumed
Vlr. C. lost most of his furniture, books, <fcc. The
large store-house nnd dwelling, owned by Battle
& Dickinson, on the west side of the town, was
on fire in several p laces, but the untiring exertions
ofour citizens rescued them and a stock of goods
from destruction.
This fire is a source of much calamity, as the
losses fall on some of our most industrious and de
ssrving citizens, and will be severely felt by them
for years In come. It is supposed the fire was the
work of some base incendiury, whom, it is hoped,
will be detected and punished. We are pleased to
hear that Messrs. Baker & Welborn were insured
in Augusta for übout $5090 on their stock in trade.
tublic meeting'
At a meeting of the citizens of Augusta, con
vened attlie City Hall, on Saturday the Bth day of
September, 1833, for the purpose of receiving the
report of their Delegates to the Convention of Mer
chants and others, held in said city, on the first
Monday in April last,his Honor Samuel Hale, was
called to the chair and Dr. F. M. Robertson, was
appointed Secretary.
Judge Ilolt, in behalf of lhe Delegation, report
ed to the meeting the proceedings of the Conven
tion; which report, on motion, was received and
agreed to.
On motion of Col. Henry H. Cumming, second
ed by N. W. Cocke, Esq.,it was
Resolved. That lhe eh lirmnn of this meeting be
authorized to fill any vacancy which may occur in
the Delegation from Augusta to the Convention ot
Merchants nnd others, the adjourned meding of
which, will take place in this city on the 3d Mon
day in October next.
On motion of N. W. Cocke, Esq., seconded by
Judge Warren, il was
Resolved, That a committee of ten be appointed
by the Chairman, to extend to the Delegates of the
Convention the hospitality of this city, in such
manner as said committee may deem most suitable.
Uuder this resolution the Chairman oppomted
Messrs. A. Sibley, Wm. T. Gould, Wm. G. Nim
mo, B. B. Kiriland, Sami. Bones, A Gould, Thom
as Barrett, Sami. Clarke, J. P. Greiner, and James
P. Stuart.
On motion of Judge Holt, seconded by M.M.
Dye, Esq., it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
be signed by the chairman and secretary, and pub
lished in the papers of this city.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
SAMUEL HALE, Chairman.
F. M. Robertson, Secretary.
As the Convention in April last adjourned to meet
in this city on the third Monday in October next,
the Delegates from Augusta will remain the same.
They are as follows : Messrs. 11. H. Cumming,
G. W. Crawford, Charles J. Jenkins, Wm. W. Holt,
A. J.- Miller, Peter Bennoch, Adam Johnston, John
Bones, Edward Thomas, Paul Fitzsimons, Hubert
F. Poe, N. W. Cocke, John Kerr, James Harper,
Samuel Hale, B- 11. Warren, E. B. Beall, J. M.
Adams, D. W. Si. John, Wm. M. D’Antignac, F.
M. Robertson, L. A. Dugas, John P. King, A. B.
Longstrect, J. W. Wilde, James W. Davies, and
John Phinizy.
NEW WORKS.
We have received from Mr. Thomas Richards,
No. 4, of “ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas
Nicholby," by Boz, with two plates; also, the se
cond number of Oliver Twist, by the same author.
HEALTH OF CHARLESTON.
The Charleston Board of Health report the
deaths of sixty-five persons in that city during the
week ending 9th inst.— of these 52 were whites and
13 blacks and colored. Forty-one of the whites
by Stranger’s Fever. j
We are gratified to leam that Messrs. Miller,
Jenkins, Crawford and W. J. Rhodes, the gentle
men who served Richmond county in the last Le
gislature with so much credit and fidelity, have all
consented to be candidates for re-election this year.
—Sentinel of 11/A inst.
NEW COTTON.
New Cotton begins to arrive pretty freely— since
the first inst. there have been received about one
hundred and twenty eight bales, which met with
ready sale at prices ranging from 10i to 12 cents
—principally at lli. With what was received
previous to the first instant there have reached this
maikct about 140 hales of tho new crop. We
have been informed by judges, that the staple nnd
color so far have been generally good.
/ HEALTH OF SAVANNAH
The city sexton reports the intermen ol seven
persons in the week ending 4th instant, five white
and two blacks.
HEALTH OF MOBILE.
The report of the sexton ol Mobile, for the month
of August, shows the number ol deaths to he thirty
two whites, and thirteen blacks. Total 45.
POST OFFICES IN GEORGIA.
The post office at Millville, Early county, has
been discontinued.
The following postmasters have recently been
appointed.
John Cunningham, Double Branches, Lincoln
county.
Isnac A. Williams, Mount Zion, Hancock county.
Jared B. Roberts, Byron, Baker county.
TEXAS.
The New Orleans Bee of the Ist instant says—
We have dates from the Republic, to the 18th inst.
The journals contain little of material interest.—
The Houston Telegraph of the IBth says—“We
henr no further news of troubles on the western or
norihern frontier: tranquillity prevails in every sec
tion of the Republic. The crops every where are
unusually fine and abundant.'’
CHARLESTON & HAMBURG RAIL ROAD.
The report recently made to the Stockholders
of the S. C. Canal & R. R. Company, discloses
th« following facts :
From the Ist of January to the 30thof June, 1833,
there were conveyed on the Charleston nnd Ham
burg Ra 1 Road, up and down, 23,608 passenge rs,
producing $80,612. The number of hales ol cot
ton carried down was 17,972; nnd the amount of
freight, up and down, was $78,04G.
GOVERNOR TROUP.
The following from the Standard of Union, cor
robarates what we stated in our last, respecting a
letter of Gov. Troup, upon the question of a Sub-
Treasury and National Bank.
'•Upon the all-absorbing questions of a Na
tional Bank and Independent Treasury ; it is a
source of unallayed gratification, to those who
maintain the genuine old fashioned doctrine of
State Rights, that GOVERNOR TROUP is
avowedly on the side of the Constitution.
“ VVc have it upon the highest authority,
that lie has recently written a letter to a friend,
in which he expresses his warm approval of the
Sub-Treasury scheme, and denounces a Nation
al Bank as not only unconstitutional, but as tend
ing directly to merge Slate independence in one
great consolidated Government.
“ The project of Mr. Clay, of a fifty million
Bank, he considers a mere feeler, and predicts,
that if such an institution can be carried at all,
tlic capital will not be less than one hundred
millions; thus establishing a money power,
which will be too strong for the Government
itself. He regrets to see his parly divided upon
a question involving the fundamental principles
of the Government; and looks upon the oppo
sition to the Sub-Treasury, and the support of
a National Bank, as opposed to the Republican
doctrines of ’9B, and as cooperating with the
Federalists of that day.
“ Although we have not given the precise lan
guage of Governor Troup, we have stated his
views and opinions, fairly and substantially, and
we exceedingly regret, that lie has not author
ised the publication of his letter, which has been
I read by many who can attest the correctness of
our ■tatements.”
[From the Washington Chronicle.]
MR. CLAY AND THE STATE RIGHTS
PARTY.
“I interfered to save you from the gallows
was the complimentary reason given by Mr.
Clay for the part which he took in the compro.
mise wliich settled the tariff question. It was
not because ho saw the error and oppression of
the protective policy ; it was not for the purpose
of healing the wounds of a distracted nalion on
the eve of a civil war; it was not even now from
devotion to the Union of the States, as has been
so often asserted by his admirers and partisans.
“No,” exclaims he insultingly, “it was but to
save you from the gallows.” And this is the
man whom intiiguing politicians would persuade
the Sia'c Rights men of the South to advance
to the Presidency, and that at the expense of all
their cherished doctrines and opinions ! “The
force of folly can no further go.” Those who
entertain this beautiful project must calculate
rather too largely, upon the weakness and pas.
sions of the enlightened South. These are pretty
Slate Rights men, forsooth ! They put us in
mind of the conspirator who shouted “long live
the King!” as he was drinking from the cup in
whiah the flatterer had instilled poison.
There is something comical in the idea of a
State Rights man voting for .Mr. Clay, and from
mere devotion to one who openly insulted their
party, swallowing, without ohoaking, National
Bank, Internal Improvements, protective Ta.
riff, and the whole progeny of federal usurpa
tions. If they intend to do so, they must adopt
some other name, or invent some more plausible
pretext. There are some things a little too
strong even for party gullibility, to use the fa
vorite phrase of Dr. Johnson. Huzza! for the
Clay, Webster, Hartford Convention, Democra
tic National Republican, Abolition, Tariff, In
ternal Improvement, National Bank, Whig,
Slate Rights parly! What a comprehensive
compound.
[From the Globe.]
RESUMPTION WITHOUT A NATIONAL
BANK.
The experiment is over, and the country has
triumphed. The banks have resumed,not only
without the aid of a National Bank, but in dc.
fiance of the whole power of the Bank of the
United Stales and of the whole Federal partv to
prevent it. * The resumption is general, the
Bank of the United States, and its parasite in.
stituiions, being the last to yield. This great
event kills the last argument of the Federalists
in favor of a National Bank. Their last argu.
incut was, that nothing but a National Bank
could compel resumption ; that Congress could
not aet upon the local institutions of twen'y-six
States; and these twenty-six States would never
act conjointly on the subject; and thus rio re.
sumption could ever be effected. This was the
Federal argument; and upon this argument
they contrived to make an impression on the
minds of many Republicans. This impression
was strengthened by the recollection that the
war suspension continued until a National Bank
was created ; and as this creation of a National
Bank and the fact of the resumption was simul
taneous, and the whole power the Federal party
has ever since been exerted to present the two
events as cause and effect. This delusion has
now vanished, and vanished forever! The New
York banks has dispelled tiiis illusion ; and m
dispelling it have killed the last argument in
favor of e National Bank, and have rendered an
iucalculablc service to the cause of the Consti
tution and ofthe country. The last argument in
favor of a National Bank, which was producing
any effect upon the Republican ranks, is ex.
punged, and no man, except the “Macedonian
phulanx,” of the Bank, can ever repeat it.
Fact, inexorable fact, the actual existence of
the present state of tilings, expunges and ex
plodes the argument; and henceforth Federal
ism with all its mendacity will be forced to omit
this topic —the best cow they had in their pen —
every tune that they plead for t he revival of their
darling monarchical institution.
[From the Savannah Georgian-]
BANKS OF SAVANNAH.
The Banks of Savannah have been charged
with making “an exaction unusual in its char
acter,” for requiring the banks ofthe interior to
redeem their notes in this city. This is an er
roneous assertion. Such an arrangement exists
in New York, Boston, &c. and with regard to
Charleston, the same requisition is made by the
banks of that city, upon the interior banks of
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South Carolina, which Stale lias, it is believed,
not more than five banks in the interior, while
Georgia has upwards of twenty. The direct ob
ject oFthis measure it., to establish a sound cur
rency, and equalize exchange—for without the
former, the latter cannot take place.
In order to prove beyond all controversy, that
Charleston arid Savannah pursue the same
course towards the interior banks in each state,
we have been permuted to make the following
extract of a letter from unquestionable authority,
dated “Chaiu-eston, Aug. 25, 1838.
“In reply to your favor of the 22d inst. I beg
leave to state, that our banks receive in payment
and on dcposilc only the notes of two ot our in
terior banks, viz : the Commercial Bank of Caro
lina, and Bank of Camden ; and the notes of
these banks are received in consequence of their
having made arrangements by wliich they arc
redeemed in the city, and transmitted to them
at their own risk.
“Our banks do not receive the notes of any of
the Georgia banks.”
I From Galignani's Messenger.]
A piece of mechanism has been invented by
Dr. Lardner, and constructed for the Steam
Navigation Committee of the British Associa
tion, which must tend in a great degree to re
move the causes which have recently produced
so many lamentable accidents in steam vessels.
Tlie object of this machine is to keep a self-act
ing register of the state of every part of the
working machinery and boilers, so that not only
the Captain and Engineers can at all limes by
the mere inspection of a sheet of paper, ascer.
lam tlie state of every part of the machinery
on which its safety and efficiency depend, but
the owners of the vessel will have a faithful
and accurate record preserved of the state and
performance of the engines every hour during
the voyage. On the return ot tlie vessel to port,
this scroll or self.written journal being taken
out, any neglect which may have been commit,
ted cither in feeding the boilers, tending to fires,
or, in a word, any omission of duty on the part
of any person employed about the machinery,
will be there noted with the exact time at
which such neglect or omission occurred. If a
register, thcretore, he kept of the succession of
men employed in the several departments the
culpable party will be made known. Tlie me
canistn is enclosed in an octagonal case, to be
locked during the voyage, and inaccessible to
any one on board the vessel, the keys remaining
ashore with the owners. A casing of plate glass
surrounds the paper scroll on which the per
formance of the machinery will be written, so
that those in. care ofthe vessel may see what is
written, but cannot interfere with it. The me
chanism is now completed, and will be shown
during the present week to scientific men and
others, who feel an interest in such matters, af
ter which it will be placed in the Peninsular
Company’s steam ship the Tagus, for which this
particular machine has been adopted.
MILITIA TITLES.
[From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.]
We have been made glad within a few days
past, by reading some very sensible comments, in
four or five journals, upon the absurd practice so
very common among us, of tacking a major, or
colonel, or a general, to any body’s name, who
has happened, at any time of his life, to show in
a public life with a cocked hat and a suit of re
gimentals. Tlie thing is sc generally done, that
ninety-nine in the hundred do not perceive the
folly of it—having got used to it, like the cels to
skinning. But it is preposterously ridiculous,
nevertheless, and a reform of this evil would be
a filling subject for national congratulation.—
Just take up a list of names appended to any
proceeding of a public nature—a political meet
ing, for instance, or one for getting up a theatri
cal benefit—aye, or even a meeting to organize
a peace society—and about every other man is
chronicled as an officer of rank, being mean
while a very respectable merchant, or grocer,
or physician, or tailor—or perhaps one of the
Globe’s cobblers or tinkers. We do not remember,
indeed, to have ever seep a clergyman put down
as a colonel or a major, but there really would
be nothing very wonderful in the occurrence, 60
plentifully are these warlike titles besprinkled
over the land and its inhabitants.
We have certain information that those mili
tia titles jjavc a bcen sported to a reprehensible ex
tent this summer, by American tourits in Lower
Canada ; and that in some cases military atten-
tions have been tendered by British officers, and
accepted by Americans who were not officers,
to ail extent of which our countrymen have rea
son to be ashamed, and our Canadian neighbors
have a right to be angry. In one case, a very
honest, well meaning grocer, of a Southern city,
was actually received with the honors due to a
major-general in the army, in consequence of
presenting himself at Quebec with a letter of in
troduction as General , from no less a per.
sonage than Mr. Poinsett, the Secretary of War.
A review was got up expressly for him, and the
worthy gentleman was paraded along the lines
in company with Gen. Clilhcrow, and other
officers of rank in the British army, who imagin
ed that they were rendering the courtesies of
the profession to a military brother, and would
have been considerably astonished if they had
known that their fine troops were wasting their
evolutions upon one who was much more fa
miliar with figs and raisins than with cannon
balls and muskets—who could speak much more
learnedly about gunpowder tea than gunpow
dcr.
SSr On the 3d inst. a public dinner was given
at Coosawhntchie, S. C., to Mr. R. B. Rhett, the
representaiive in Congress from that District.
On the following sentiment being expressed, Mr.
Rhett, arose and addressed the assembly for more
than an hour, with much eloquence.
7. Our gitesl and Representative in Congress, the
lion. R. Barnwell Rhett —The zeal, intelligence,
and patriotism wliich he has exhibited in advocat
ing Retrenchment in the National expenditures, in
his efforts for the regulation of the currency, and
in the defence of Southern institutions and South
ern honor, have fully justified the high trust re
posed in him. We this day offer him a cordial
welcome home, wi h the full approbation of his
manly, dignified, and high toned bearing in the Na
tional Councils.
The following sketch of his remarks on the great
question of the day, are taken from the Charleston
Mercury, to which paper the proceedings of the
dinner were furnished by a gentleman present.
On the subject of the currency, Mr. Rhett
espoused the Sub-Trcasnry, with his accustomed
vigor of intellect. Tlie writer of this sketch, is
neither a politician nor a speculative financier
of the day, and not having had this difficult and
complex subject, familiarized by any previous
study, it is not of course to be expected that from
memory lie can do justice to this part of Mr.
llheU’s remarks, or indeed to any o her, so ably
handled by tiial gen lonian. He must be per
mitted however to express his bumble opinion,
that Mr. Illicit showed conclusively, (and the
enthusiastic applause of his auditory, evinced
their concurrence with him,) that the framers of
our government intended it to be a “hard mo
ney” government. That nothing is more pro
per or less unreasonable, than that it should ap
point its own fiscal agents and officers for the
safe-keeping ol its money, in its own way, which
it has as much right to do as anv individual of
the community has with regard to his own. He
illustrated by plain and familiar examples which
addressed themselves to the common sense and
common understanding of every one within his
hearing, the absurdity of requiring the Govern
ment to endorse the notes of institutions, not
created by it, and amenable only to that power
from which they derived their existence. He
mentioned a case in point. A hank in Massa
chusetts payed to some of the Government pen
sioners their usual stipends. Immediately alter
payment, the bank exploded, and the pensioners 1
now call upon Congress for reimbursement for
the loss sustained by them in the failure of the
bank whose bills they held. Mr. Rhett asked
whether the payment of the claims (which he
had no doubt would be effected by the mean*,
and in the appropriating spirit described above) 1
would not be virtually endorsing the notes of
this State institution. He effectually ridiculed 1
the slang so prevalent in the discussions of ti c
opponents of the Sub. Treasury measure, viz:—
“ One currency for the government, another for
the people.” He showed that the requisition on
the part of the banks to be allowed the use of the
public money for their own operations, was as
unreasonable and as objectionable, as the use of
it by the Government in banking operations
would be dangerous and subversive of the liber
ties of the people.
On the last and most momentous question of '
the day, in comparison with wliich the Currency
discussions and Public Revenues, &c., are but
dust in the balance—l mean of course the move
ments ofthe Abolitionists, Mr. Rhetl’s effort was
peculiarly happy. It was remarkable for a de
gree of fervid eloquence, the'spontaneous ebulli
tion of that lofty patriotism and highsonled de
votion to his native State, and all institutions
connected with her, for which Mr. Rhett is so
conspicuous at home and abroad. To have fully
appreciated the effort it would be necessary to
have heard it. He described the taunts and re
vilings so continually lavished upon the south by
their Northern brethren , and the daily insults to
which our Representatives arc exposed on the
floor of Congress, in a manner which aroused
the honest indignation of every one within the
sound of his voice. He described the simulta
neous rusli ol Southern members from the House
of Representatives, during the debate in which
they had been subjected to unusual contumely ;
their assembling in Convention, and their want
of unanimity among themselves on this vital
question. He had seen enough in the meeting
which adoptod Mr. Patton’s Resolution to satis
fy him, that the whole South could not be relied
upon for concert of action, even in defence of
their household Institutions—lnstitutions so in
terwoven into the texture of our body politic,
that the eradication of this constituent clement,
must terminate in the destruction of the whole
fabric. The apathy and lukewarmness of Ken
tucky and Virginia, and other States, had given
him great reason for apprehending, that as far
as these institutions were involved, in ten years,
South Carolina in reference to them, would be
come the Frontier Stale of the South. Mr.
Rhett said that he looked for no relief and no se
curity from these impending evils but in South
Carolina, and in South Carolina alone. To her
patriotism and her energies he turned, for the
only hope of any salutary and final check upon
the efforts of these misguided incendiaries. He
said therefore, that ho would be pleased if the
Legislature would take measures for the with
drawal of her Representatives from the Nation
al Legislature, in case of a pcrsistancc on the
part of these fanatics, in their efforts before that
body.
Seldom has it fallen to our lot to listen to any
thing so eminently successful as Mr. Rhett’s
Address was on this occasion. From his exor
dium to his conclusion, he riveted the attention
of his auditory, and what is very remarkable in
similar addresses to a popular assembly, their
interest and their attention never flagged for
one moment, and both were evidently more en
grossed when he finished than when he began.
It was an account of his stewardship—ana the
frequent and enthusiastic plaudits with which
he was interrupted during his progress, assured
him that the response was that well earned ap.
proval to which his character and his services
lay such just claim.
Mr. Rhett has received less than justice at the
hands of the writer of this hurried sketch. It
is written from memory entirely, after the in,
icrvcntion of nearly a week, employed in the
cares of business, and when his recollection is
not freshened by any notes or memoranda what,
ever, nor from any interchange of opinion with
any one upon the subjects discussed by the
speaker.
AN ORDINANCE for the future regulation
of Slaves and free persons of color, within
the limits of the city of Augusta.
Section 1. lie it ordained by the City Council oj
Augusta, and it is hereby ordained by the authority
of the same , That no slaves or persons of color shall
smoke a pipe or segar in any street, lane, alley, or
public place in this city; nor walk with n cane, club
or stick, except such as are blind or infirm, under
a penalty of not exceeding twenty-five lashes to be
inflicted by any officer of the city, by order of the
Mayor, or any member of Council.
.Section 2. And be it further ordained, That all
ordinances and parts of ordinances, militating against
this ordinance, be, and the same are hereby re
pented.
Hone in Council, the Ist day of September, 183 S,
SAMUEL IIALE, Mayor.
By the Mayor,
Geo. M. Walker, Clerk.
Sept. 6 2 34
ENGLISH SCHOOL.
THE subscriber intends opening a SCHOOL
the second Monday of Septetnber, in the
room recently occupied by Mr. Bike, near the
corner of Ellis and Centre streets. The regular
quarters, of ‘wclve weeks each, will commence
on the first Mondays of October and January
Tuition, in advance, as follows: For the elemen*
tary branches $7, the higher branches $lO.
W. B. BRICKETT,
SepVl 3* - 3$