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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 * 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 $lO. W. B. BRICKETT, SepVl 3* - 3$