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[From the Washington Union of the 20th iust.]
The Revenue.
We publish a letter from the Secretary of
the Treasury in reply to a communication of
Mr. Barksdale, by which it appears from the
liooks and accompanying statement of the
Register of the Treasury, that the nett proceeds
o f the first nine months, from duties under the
tariff of 1816, exceeds hy more than three millions
of dollars the nett proceeds of the corresponding
nine months under the tariff of 1812, It appears,
also, the rate of augmentation is progressive;
and that if the nett revenue from duties for
the remaining months of the fiscal year closing
on the Ist July, 1848, is in the same rate for the I
tinexpired term as sot the first two months of !
July and August, then the nett revenue from
duties-lor the first entire fiscal year under the
tariff of 1846, would be $45,344,468. It may
not he so large as this, but Mr. AV’alkei?cstflfcfc
ted it at the sun of at least $28,000,000; and that
minimum estimate was declared hy whig sen
ators to be ridiculously large. Their estimate
was from sixteen to twenty-one millions as s
maximum. The most important part of the cKholc
result is, that the e.rports have increased in a cor
responding rate; thus verifying the theory of the
Secretary,that the exports mould equal our imports.
Treasury Department, Sept 16, 1847.
Sir: The enclosed statement, prepared in the
office of the Register of the Treasury, is trans
mitted in compliance with the request in your
communication of the 26th ultimo.
The new tariff went into operation on the Ist
December last; and the nett proceeds under if
(after deducting all expenses of collection)
actually paid into the treasury during the first
nine months of its operation, is as you per
ceive, $22,961,333 28 —being greater by the
sum of $3,176, 018 57, than the sum paid into
the treasury during the same period of nine
months under the tariff of 1842; and exhibiting
a gain, at the same ratio of increase, tof $ 1,234, -
691 42 of the first twelve months under the
tariff of 1846 as compared' with the tariff bf
1843.
The gross proceed received by the collectors
is much greater, as the expenses of collection
are deducted before the money is paid into the
treasurj' and recorded by the Register.
Most respectfully, your obedient servant.
R. J. WALKER,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Toßi Barksdale, Esq.,Yazoo city, Mississippi.
Treasury Department.
Register's Office, Sept. 15, 1847.
Statement of the Receipts into the Treasury, from
Customs, during the undermentioned periotls.
From the Ist October, 1845,
to Ist July, 1846, $17,850,735 73
From the Ist October, 1846,
to Ist July, 1847, 17,504,038 08
From the Ist December, 1815, to 31st Au
gust, 1816, and from the Ist December,
1846, to 31st August, 1847, to wit —
During the month of Decem
ber, 1845, $1,289,484 97
From Ist January, to 30th
June, 1846, 13,657,944 96
During the months of July
and August, 1846, 4,817,884 78
19,795.314 71
• *
During the month Dec., 1846, $1,451,076 00
From Ist Jan., to 30th June,
18 47, 1-3,952,845 86
DuringArthe months of July
and August, 1847, 7,557,411 42
$22,961,333 28
DANIEL GRAHAM, Register.
[From the NO. Delta 19 th inst .]
infecting - of the Bar.
At a meeting of the Bar of New Orleans,
held in the Supreme Court Room, on the 18th
dav of Seutember, 1847, the meeting was called
to order by M. M. Cohen. Esq., and on his
motion John R. Grvmes, Esq., was called to
the Chair, and Arnold Bodin, Esq., was ap
pointed Secretary.
The Chair having explained the ob'cct of the
meeting in a few fueling and eloquent remaiks,
the following resolutions were proposed by
Greer B. Duncan., Esq., and second by Robert
ITeaux, Esq., and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That when a man, distinguished
among his countrymen and amongthe members
of thejprofession to which he was allied, is call
ed away by death, it is the mournful privilege
and duty of those who survive him to give ex
pression to that feeling of public regret which
clusters around the tomb of the departed.
Resolved, That in the life and character of the
Honorable Richard Henry Wilde, we recognize
eminent talents and acquirements, such as
adorned the profession of which he was a dis
tinguished member, and that as a statesman, a
scholar and jurist,he had attained a well-found
ed reputation at home and abroad; that in his
death by a stroke from the invisible pestilence
which has carried dismay and despair into the
of so many of our fellow-citizens,
the New Orleans Bar has been deprived of one
of its most illustrious members; society of one
of its most amiable ornaments; the country of
one of its most distinguished citizens, and his
immediate family has met with an overwhelm
ing calamity.
Resolved, That, in the judgment of the New
Orleans Bar the deceased, in his professional
intercourse with his brethren, was distinguish
ed by a refined and urbane dignity, a calm and
unpretending deportment, and an honorable
and delicate sense of professional propriety;
that in all these particulars his example illus
trated the principles of his action, and furnish
ed a model worthy the imitation of the junior
members of the profession; by whom his worth
was appreciated, and to whom his talents and
jiis virtues formed an object of veneration; that
especially is his loss to be deplored at the pres
ent time, when his late acceptance of a Chair
in the University of Louisiana promised a
career of distinguished usefulness to the pro
fession.
Resolved, That while it does not become us
to trespass upon the sacredness of private sor
row, yet we cannot refrain from tendering to the
relations and family of the deceased the ex.
pression of our profound sympathy in their
immeasurable loss.
Resolved, That as a token of our respect for
the character of the deceased, we will wear
the usual badge of mourning for the next thirty
• davs.
Resolved, That while we thus express our
sincere sympathies upon the death of a dis
tinguished member of our profession, we avail
ourselves of the occasion to say how sincerely
we sympathize with the relatives of the many
others of'our profession who have fallen vic
tims to the insatiate disease which, has visited
our city find covered it with a mantle of mounl
iiig. .. ..
Resolved, That the Attorney General be re
quested to present these resolutions to the
Supreme Court at the opening session of that
tribunal iu November next, and to ask ou be
halt ol the Bar, that they may be entered upon
the records of that Court; and that the District
Attorney ot the United States for the District
of Louisiana* bo requested to present a copy of
the same to the Circuit Court of the United
States ol the said District, with the same re
quest.
On motion of IT. R. Denis, Esq., as amend
ed on motion of H. St. Paul, Esq., it was
Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be
inserted in the English and French languages
in the gazettes of this city.
On motion of Ed. Rawle, Esq., the meeting
then adjourned.
JOHN R. GRYME3, Chairman.
Arnold Bodin, Secretary.
[From the Neir Orleans Picayune, 19 th inst.]
The Epidemic.
We write at the close of another week with
somewhat lighter spirits in regard to the epi
demic, for though it still prevails to an alarm
ing extent, its ravages have been very much
diminished within the past ton days. The
report of yesterday is the most favorable we
have had to make in many weeks. Compar
ing the results of the whole week’s reports
with those of preceding weeks, we have to note
that the returns of two cemeteries, (the Catholic
! and Cypress Grove) for one day have been lost
! through some negligence. With this excep
tion the results arc as follows;
The total number of interments in the city
for one week from Saturday morning, the 11th
inrt., has been 249, of which 161 have been of
yellow fever. The corresponding figures for
the preceding week were 542 and 402. Even
making allowance for the missing returns of
two cemeteries for twenty-four hours, this
shows a vast diminution of the mortality both
bv'yellow fever and other diseases. The Lafa
yette report shows a like decrease, the num
ber of interments from yellow fever being only i
5i against 115 the previous week. At the |
Charity Hospital, the returns exhibit a strik- !
ing improvement alfco. The admissions have j
been 2/6, against 350, while the deaths of yel- ,
low fever have been only 56 Against 100 the ;
previous week. The discharges of .yellow fe- !
ver have been 218) against 188.
Iu the earlier part of the week, the weather 1
was unsually cool —quite like the autum,
weather of the North, but within two days it
has moderated, and at the moment Os Writing
it is quite mild and summer-like. We are
assured that within the last day or two the
number otc-ases of fever in private practice has i
decidedly increased. The type of (he fever is |
also more distinctly marked than during the j
earlier portion of the epidemic; at the same time i
it is generally more manageable. If absent !
unacclimtited friends and those who design ;
coming to New Orleans during the fall or win
ter, can be induced to keep away till we have
had a sharp frost, we can hope to pass the few
intervening weeks iii comparative exemption
from the horrors of pestilence; but if, as is
usually the case, they will crowd into the city
unseasonably,the mouth of October, may yfet be
the most fatal of the year. At present every
thing indicates that it can only bo rendered
so by the folly of those who would become the
certain victims.
The Whig’s and the Central Bank.
For years past, the Whigs have been untir
ing in their efforts, to make capital out of the
Central Bank. Gov. Crawford after having
done more than any other man living to de
preciate its bills, because they could not be i
kept down after the truth was made
is now heralded forth by his friends ns the
great founder!! In his famous report iu 18 P 2,
when a member of the Legislature, he pro
claimed to the world “ The Bank if now left to
its own resources, would he utterly insolranf—
it cannot pay its liabilities out of its assets .”—
Has time proven this declaration to be truer
In our last number wc shewed, that according
to his OAvn statement of the assets and that of
his committee in January last, that there
should be an excess of assets after paying all
liabilities of $105,130 24.
In August 1845, the Recorder harping uprtn
the same subject, with the view of advancing
the claims of this same financier to the Exe
cutive chair, figured out the deficiency of as
sets at $1,683,210 75, and then broke forth in
the exclamation “nearly two millions to he
paid by taxation!!” That was a wide shot
indeed!
The Savannah Republican, has now taken
up the cudgels against this ill-fated institu
tion, and its figures are about as wide of the
mark as those of the Recorder. Its state
ments have been too often refuted to demand
attention.
While, however, that print is telling of the
millions the Bank “made way with,” will it
tell its readers how many of these millions
were “made way with” to construct a rail !
road, to throw into the lap of its city the rich I
products of the West, which by its own supine
ness will never reach it* Will it tell its readers '
by whose votes these large sums were “made !
way with:” In short, will it tell them the j
whole of the truth; or will it continue to illus- |
trate upon this as upon other subjects, the |
motto “all’s fair in politics*” —Federal Union, |
inst.
[ Correspondence of the Neic Orleans Delta.]
The Crops, &c.
Linden, Marengo Co. Ala., )
Sept. 13, 1847. 5
Eds. Delta . —l have just come out of my
cotton farm, and as I notice you are asking
information of you patrons, in the different
counties, in the different States —I will tell you
how it is with us. None of us made last year i
half our usual crop of cotton —I know of no
one who will make as much this year as last.
We have had almost continued rains for the
last sixty days, some of which were excessive
ly hard, washing and inundating lands, and
filling our creeks higher than they were any
time last winter. The weather suddenly
changed much colder two days ago, it is now
seemingly settled, but much too cold for the
season-producing much chills and fever among
our people—but it does not in the slighest de
gree affect the cotton worm; they are as busy
as ever, boring into every square and form of
nearly every half-grown boll. Our corn crops
not near as good as many think them—much
com sprouting upright on the stalk and near
ly all that is down on the ground is rotting.
Respectfully* yours, R. J.
Forgery. —Wc are scary to say that to-day
we have what is worse than bankruptcy.
Mr. Francis Bartlett, stock broker, has been
detected in forgeries of the name of his broth
er, Mr. Edwin Bartlett, a merchont in South
st.’, to the amount of more than s4o*ooo,
The paper was considered unquestionable,
and was negotiated readily in the street, and
with the Banks. Mr. Edwin Bartlett has beeri
in the habit, as we understand, of aiding his
‘ brother by endorsements to some extent, so that |
he fraudulent paper passed without exciting
tuspicion. The forger has disappeared.
Dr. Cooper Safe. —By a letter received in
this city from Lieut. Scars, of the second ar
tillery, dated 24th August, we learn that Dr.
Cooper and the twelve dragoons who left
Capt. Well’s command, for the purpose of |
joining Major Lally, and informing him of the
approach of reinforcements, and who were
supposed to have fallen into the hands of the
Mexicans, reached the train at Cerro Gordo in
I safety ori the 23d ult. This letter is the only
one received that mentions this intelligence,
which, we arc sure will be gratifying to the
relatives of the Doctor, and the dr a goons (
as well as the whole American people.—l'.
Herald .
Augusta, Georgia,
SATURDAY MORNING. SEIPTi 25.
FOR GOVERNOR
H3H. I* ¥/. TOWNS.
| __ OF TAEBO T.
Democratic Nominations for Senators.
2d Dist.— Bryan and Liberty—.l. M. B. Harden.
3d “ Mclntosh and Glynn—T. M. Forman,
Ith Camden and Wayne—Elia* Fort.
•>th 1 Lowndes and Ware—(Jen,T. Hilliard.
7th “ Tattnall and Biißorh—John A. M attox
| Bth “ Striven and Effingham—W, J. Lawton.
; 9th “ Burke ami Emanuel—VV. S. C Morris.
| 12th “ Thomas and Decatur—Wm. If. Reynolds.
l.fth “ Baker and Earl}' —Dr. Wm. J. Johnson.
i 1 tth ** Randolph and Stewart—William \ej.*on,
17lh “ Macon and Houston—John A. Hunter.
liHh “ Dooly and Pulaski—Geo. M. Duncan.
2Utb •* Twiggs and Bibh—W. VV. Wigoins.
21st “ 1\ ik-kiiigtoH ami Jelforsuu—B.f*. Carswell,
24th M ll;mrocW and Baldwin—-S. Buffington, Jk.
25th “ Jones and Putnam—James M. Gray.
2«th “ Munroe and Pike—Col. Allen Cochran.
2Sth “ Merriwether and Coweta—Obe. Warner.
31st “ Fayette and Henry—Luther J, Glenn.
32d “ Jasper and Butts—CoJ. J. C. W aters.
j 35th “ Wilkes and Lincoln—lsaiah T. Irvin.
j 33d “ Newton and Waiton—Warren J, Hill.
j 3dth “ Clark and Jackson—Samuel- Bailee.
flh “ Gwinnett and DeKalh—Ja*. P. Simmons.
Hi “ Paulding and Cass—Francis Irwin.
1 41st “ Cobb and Cherokee—Wm. H. Hunt
43d “ Habersham ami Rabun—Edw’d Cofiek.
44th “ Lumpkin and Union—Elihu S. Barclay,
Col. Johnson's Letter.
We invite the attention of just and liberal
{ minded men of the wliig party as well as of
: the democratic party to this letter. From bc
j ing personally present at one of Col. Johnson's
speeches, and a very able one it was, we can
| vouch for the correctness of his sketch so far
l as that one is concerned. Unless all his j
| other speeches were wholly different in tone, |
which have abundant evidence is not the !
j
fict, the supporters of General Clinch have j
no just cause bf complaint. Gen. Clinch has;
been treated with great forbearance by Col.
Johnson. Ifhehas been subjected to some
: ridicule, and some dispassionate comments on
his capacity fbr the high and reponsible office
j to which he aspires, not by Col. Johnson alone,
: but by the democratic speakers and editors, i
and newspaper correspondents, it is an incident I
of his position which he should have antici
pated. His friends might have known R— j
must have known it. They rife to blame for |
placing their amiable but weak minded friend
in so prominent a position, where his mental
calibre would certainly be canvassed. Were
he the intellectual giant, the renowned war
j rior and the brilliant military genius his friends
; would fain represent him, he and they would
not be so ridiculously sensitive to these com- j
ments. They would never have deemed it !
necessary to resort to his defeated wvul, Judge
Dawson, for a certificate that he was a man
with “abilities vast]-v ABOVE the requisitions ;
; of the office” i
I The public however arc difficult to convince \
; of the correctness of that certificate.
MILLEDG EVII,LE, So P t. 22d, 1817.
To (he Editor of the Constitutionalist:
IVT-Mi Sin : —The Chronicle is Sentinel of the
Ist inst., contains two communications pxtr
porting respectively to be faithful descriptions
of the Democratic meeting at Dalton on the |
24th, and that of Westfield’s, near the line of
Gilmer and Murray, on the 25th ult. They are
referred to in the paper of that date, and also, ■
in the issue of the 2d inst., by the editors of j
that journal, with evident gusto; and 1 am j
represented as having abused Gen. Clinch—
-1 as having cotnc down upon him without j
mercy—as having said he was forced into the j
; battle, &c., &c. Distorted as are these ac- I
, counts, I should not have noticed them, but
for this endorsement of the Chronicle Senti-
I nel. But to permit its comments to pass un
noticed, is calculated to place Lie in a false po-
I sition before the public.
i
j Towards Gen. Clinch, personally, I have j
; not, nor ever had, the first unkind feeling; \
neither have I ever made an insinuation a
gainst his integrity or gallantry. There is no j
temptation to do so, if I were disposed. — ,
There is enough that is vulnerable, inviting to j
fair and honorable attack, in the political ;
principles which he maintains, without resort
to personal detraction.
I have spoken of Gen. Clinch as a states
man, and have sought to expose his deficiency
in those high civil qualifications requisite to
discharge the duties of the office to which he
aspires.
I have spoken of Gen. Clinch as a politi
cian; and in contemplating him in this char
acter, I have considered it enough, to insure
his condemnation before the people, that he is
a Whig —identified with that party, in its sen
timents upon the Tariff, Internal Improve
ments by the General Government, the Dis
tribution of the proceeds of the sale of the
Public Lands, a National Bank, the modifica
tion of the Veto Clause of the Constitution of
the United States, and the pending war -with
Mexico.
I have spoken of Gen. Clinch as a military
chieftain, but have not said that he was forced
into any battle. I have compared the battle of
Withlacoochee, with those of Monterey and
Buena Vista, and have ventured the opinion
that it was not so brilliant an affair as either.
Is there any thing illegitimate in this? Has
not the federal press provoked the compari
son, by placing his name in juxta position
with that of Gcu. Taylor, at the head of their
columns? Who that has any sense of the
ridiculous, could suppress a smile at the a
mazing contrast? Still, I have, on all occa
sions, admitted that Gen. Clinch acted well
his part on. that small theatre; that he did his
duty, and was entitled to a degree of public
gratitude, equal to the merit of his perform
ance. But I have insisted that, this achicvc
‘ ment, neither entitled him to the Executive
Chair of Georgia, nor proved that he was
qualified for its duties.
I have spoken of his ‘ 'whole souled and gener
ous patriotism,” as his furnishing supplies to
the soldiers in 1830, has been termed. I have
said he received $25,750 25 at the hands of the
Government, in consideration of this consump
tion of his private stores; and I said at the
| same time, that it was right he should have
received it—that there was nothing dishonor- |
able or r6p rehensible in his so doing; but hav- j
ing received the compensation, the Whigs j
should cease to boast over it as an act of gen- I
erosity, which created an obligation on the
part of the people to elect him Governor.
Ido not remember but once, in a public
speech, to have alluded to the St. Mary’s
Bank affair.- But I did not do so, to impugn
the integrity or honesty of General Clinch,
but to show his utter destitution of business
capacity, and the facility with which he can
be used to answer flic schemes of others, I
regard the argument as legitimate and forci
ble. But it is really so ugly a transaction that
it looks like an affectation of charity, to attri
bute the part which he took in it, to mere
gullibility. Therefore, believing as I sincere
ly do, that General Clinch was actuated by no
dishonest purpose, I have kept silence, lest I
might not get credit for candour, where I
should disavow any intention to assail feis
moral character.
In speaking on these topics, I have indulged
i in playful ridicule, founded on facts, which
usage, at least, sanctions as a legitimate mode
|of party warfare. But I have done so with-
I out acerbity of temper, and on all occasions,
; have ascribed to General Clinch horror as a
i gentleman, and gallantry as a soldier,
j These anonymous communications have |
been made the basis and pretext for many un
kind and unprovoked remarks by tlie Chroni- j,
etc S; Sentinel, which have bwii copied into
other Whig papers, and indeed, have intro
duced me very generally to their attentions. 1
; But I shall leave it for time and circumstances !
to work out my vindication.
Respectfully, yours, &c„
11. V. JOHNSON.
Chatham County,
| The Democracy of Old Chatham is in the
field with an able ticket. For the Senate,
Thomas Purse. Representatives, John W. j
Anderson and R. 11. Griffin. We wish them 1
every success, and if they arc active and all
pull together, we look with confidence to see ;
j displayed at the head of the columns of the (
i Georgian, on the Ist Tuesday in October,
1 the welcomed old motto—“ Stand aside and
let old (Democratic) Chatham speak.”
The Democratic Tariff of 1846.
We copy from the Washington Union of the
20th inst., a letter from the Secretary of the i
Treasury, giving the receipts under the above
Tariff for the past nine months of its operation.
It must be gratifying to every Democrat and
Free Trade man in the United States, thus to
i sec the predictions of Whig leaders happily
! falsified. Instead of the Democratic Tariff
producing less revenue to government, it will
be seen that it already exceeds, by more than
■ three millions of dollars-, the "V big Tariff of
1 ’42, during the same period last year —that in
} stead of reaching only sixteen to twenty mil
; lions, as predicted by the M higss Should the
1 remaining months yield in proportion to the
i last two, the receipts will reach FORTY TO
I FORTY-FIVE millions.
Facts like those speak volumes in favor Os j
Democratic Legislation —of low duties and an
active foreign trade instead of high duties
! and prohibitions. If after such evidence as
this Ls exhibited to Whigs who are at heart
j opposed to a protective tariff, which trammels
the energies of our people for the benefit of a
! few monopolists, we can only say to them that j
—“they would not believe though one were to ;
i rise from the dead.”
East Tennessee Volunteers.
J A slip from the office of the Knoxville Tri- ;
j bune, dated 20th inst., states that with a
promptness unsurpassed, Bast Tennesssc has
made Up and reported fifteen companies for
the war. This docs not tally well with the |
! assertion of the W higs that “Mr. Polk and ;
his war” arc unpopular in his own State. In ;
. patriotism, Tennessee cannot be surpassed by i
! any of her sister States. It is enough for her j
people to know that their country wants i
! men to fight her battles—and whether Polk I
, qj. Clav were President, it would make but
I little difference to them, when called on.—
Huzza for East Tennessee. Five companies
wanted and only fifteen volunteered.
Kentucky.
TheSouthernßanncr says-“By the official re
turns of the recent Congressional election in
Kentucky, we learn that the democrats have a
majority of 17 votes, in the aggregate vote of
the State, over the Whigs, counting out 3,
143 Native Americans! The banner-State of
Whigery is thus shaken to her centre —half
of Rhode Island is redeemed—and even Ver
mont is quaking under the onward march of
Democratic principles! People of Georgia,
while light is breaking over the East and scat
tering the clouds in the "\V est, will you not be
true, to the cherished principles of your an
cestors—and vote down, once and forever, the
whole system of Whig measures, at which you
revolted in times past, and which were so
signally defeated in 1844!
Prime, Ward £c Co.
The New York Correspondent of the Wash
ington Union under date of the 20th inst. says
.«The acceptance ofPrimeWard,& Co’s drafts*
■jjy Overend, Gurney & Co., of London, to the
amount of £70,000, and of some others on
other houses to the amount of £30,000 more,
have given marked satisfaction in W all street,
and greatly relieved the feeling of those who
had bought the drafts for remittance. The
fear that those very drafts would not be accept
ed, was the immediate cause of the suspension
of Prime, Ward & Co. They could have had
' ample means to enable them to go on, but if
those draft were to come back upon, them, it
was thought unjust to the creditors at large to
attempt it. Now it appears that from those
drafts nothing was to be apprehended.”
From an intelligent correspondent—a citizen of Mur
ray county.
SPRING PLACE, Sept. 21, 1847.
Mr. Gardner: —Dear Sir—The editor of
the Chronicle Sentinel, seems monstrously tic
kled at a communication signed “Murray” pre
tending to give the particulars of the Cohuttah
barbacuc, and of the speeches of Cols. Towns
and Johnson. Not having been present my
self, and having to rely as I do on the informa
tion of my friends who were, I pronounce the
communication alluded to grossly, wilful
ly and essentially false—in the main, and if
the writer, whoever he may be, will unmask
himself and hazard his reputation for veraci
ty, before the people of Murray, whose know
ledge of the facts have been so shamefully
outraged, he shall be placed in bis true posi
; tio»-
I The career of Democracy is hotiyant, march
i ing forward conquering and to conquer in the
Cherokee country, despite the wishes, the
falsehoods and misrepresentations of a few
scribbling- whigs to the contrary. A long and
intimate acquaintance with this part of the
State ehables me to know, and you have the
assurance accordingly that the Democratic
party are freely and frrrrdr united cm the main
issues. They will give to Col.- Towns a tri
umphant majority, aar?d send men to the Lcgis
| lature firmly opposed to the Federal Senator,
i John McPherson Berrien, he who has so often
misrepresented the people of Georgia in the
National Councils. “We know our rights and
knowing dare maintain them,” our principles
are good, our cause is just, and We mUst and -
will succeed.
Respectfully yours. Sec*
Private Mail
It is announced in the New York papers
that a private mail has been organized be
tween Boston and Philadelphia, and that no
charge win be friatlc 6'xccpt a penny post de
livery in the places of destination. It is in
l tended to beat the mail half a day. It is pro
; posed also to supply the citizens of Philadel
i phia and New' York with a mail so early in the
morning that letters can be replied to in both
cities, after business hours, on the same day.
001. Fremont.
The Charleston Mercury, of the 24th instq
says—“We regret to learn that Col. Fremont,
| whose departure for Aiken we noticed a few
I days since, did not reach that place to see his
| mother alive. She died but a few hours be
fore his arrival. lie accompanied her remains
the next day to this city, and after witnessing
the hist sad rites, left here the evening follow
ing (Wednesday) on his return to Washing
ton. In his affliction, rendered do ably poig
nant by his deep disappointment in not re
ceiving her parting look of recognition after
i his long and eventful absence, he has the sym
pathy of our entire community. ”
Col. Louis D, Wilson, of the 12th Infantry,
who lately died in Mexico, bequeathed to the ;
“chairman of the county court of E Igccomb,
(his native county,) in North Carolina, and
to liis sucessor in office, forty thousand dollars,
to be applied to the support of the poor of
said county.”
Post-office Arragncments.
General Armstrong arrived from Liverpool
in the Britannia, intending to return to his
duties at Liverpool by the steamer of October
Ist* This gentleman is the bearer of dispatches
Frofn OUr Minister at London. The most in
.
tercstiilg subject at present under discussion is
i in reference to the transatlantic postage; the
j letters carried out by the Washington having
| been charged the same as those sent by the
i “Canard line.”
[ COM M UNICATB D.]
The Pric6 of Sprees-
Sprees are a luxury peculiar to a state of ■
: civilization, and the gefieral style, quality and i
j complication of the same depend very much
j upon the advance of society lit refinement ami
taste. In the modern acceptation of the term,
.
: sprees are enjoyed chicfiy in cities,- Some
times they spring np within the corporate
limits, and diverge into the surrounding coun
i try to a moderate distance. As a tariff is
usually laid by corporate authorities on the
article, it is advisable that publicity should
1 bo given to it for the benefit o\ the un
wary citizen, and the casual visitor. The table
: of prices should not be posted up high on
I street corners and in small letters, as was the
fashion in olden time with a famous tyrant, so
; that the passer by could not decipher the sig
nificant characters. Nor ought the prices in
all cases to be left within wide limits to the
discretion of the Police Magistrate. For here
is room for betrayal of imbecility, or shrinking
from responsibility, or partiality to favorites,
or a culpable propitiation of the politically in
fluential in city elections. All this may hap
pen—perhaps sometimes docs happen, and
will perpetually be liable to happen where the
price is never known until after the article is
enjoyed, and then can vary so widely accord
ing to the caprice of the assessor.
Sometimes a snatch of a song, or a swelling
chorus, indulged on the quiet street, in “the
silent watches of the night” by robust lungs
stimulated by a generous glass too much,would
be called a spree and cost five or ten dollars
to the musical amateur. Or perhaps an extra
shout or two, to w'ork off the exuberant steam
engendered at a convivial meeting, which dis
turbs some drow’sy watchman on his post, or
reaches the ear of some skulking constable ly
ing in w'ait for fees, may subject the luckless
pedestrian to a similar infliction. I his i§ a
very grave offence. It disturbs the peace of
the city in a petty way, as the near buzz of a
muquitQ is more annoying than the grow 1 of a
bear at a safe distance. Sometimes a little
puerile impertinence in the day time to an or
derly citizen passing the street will come un
der the classification.. The anxious mama, or
papa may not know’ that the young oixe is out,
until called on to pay into the City Treasury,
the price of the aforesaid luxury. Sometimes
an insult is passed and a blow follow's between
two citizens, and both are found guilty of a
spree and fined accordingly. The idea that
one may be an innocent and an aggrieved party
never suggests itself in passing sentence.
There is a higher species of luxury, how -
ever, occasionally enjoyed in our community,
which is more favored in the eye of the Law
as administered. This is not a vulgar, com
mon place affair, like any of the above des
cribed. It is of a more patrician order, and \n
viewed with more favor, perhaps to encourage
improvement in knightly prowess, in feats of
horsemanship and cudgel playing. This con
sists in riding on a high mettled horse through
the crowded market house with brandished
stick, knocking down unoffending citizens,
upsetting old women and emptying fruit and
vegetable baskets, charging along the side
walks, and into bar-rooms —shouting, yelling
and cursing like a wild Indian, and bidding de
fiance fo* a train of supplicatory constables,
who in the mildest manner imaginable entreat
the valiant knight to be nos q trite so boisterous
in his sport. An enjoyment of this stirring
luxury, which has no name in the ordinary
nomenclature of frolicking, is charged by tlur
Police Court of Augusta, ox* dollar. Thi*
is, probably, the cheapest luxury of the hind
to be famished in this market. It is at the"
rate of about 60 cents per hour of good, hard/
steady frolicking. One is sure thus to get
the worth of his money. And s JMcft are re
commended, for economy's sake, when they
Misfit to take - a regular burst, to go it on horses
back, b(x>ted and spurred. If they happen to*
occupy the attitude, towards the powers that
be, of 'fear, favor or affection” they stand a
good chance of having the onerous penalty of
oue dollar remitted. T&ff experiment has been
successfully tried- EQUAL RIGHTS'.-
Special Notices.
O’NOTICE.—There will be Preaching in
the Presbyterian Leetart' Room, To-Morrow Marts'
ing, service to commence at half-past 10 o'clock.
There will be Divine Service in the Baptist
ClfirrCh, To-Morrow Morning and Afternoon.
Sept. 23
AUGUSTA FIRE COMPANY.
There will be a regular Quarterly Meeting of
the Company on Saturday Evening next, at eight
o’clock, at the City Hftß
By order of Chief Engineer; ...
Wb-maji Phhaws, i F. LaMBACTK.
Sec’y A. Fire Co. £ Sept. 23
Jayne’s Expectorant.
Cure*! Cures! Cukes! are constantly being
performed by Dr. Jayne’s Family Medicines. Mr*,'
Sabra,wife of Capt. John Dunham, No. 6 Galbraith's
Court, Philadelphia, had a very bad cough, sore
ness of the breast and side, sore throat, costive hab
it, lowness of spirits, with weakness and pain in
the small of the back. Spitting of blood and l Aci‘V
rnirtplaiat has been entirely cured, By dking- Dr.
Jayne’s Sana?ire Fills, Alterative and Expectorant:
[From the Great Falls, ( N. II.) Northern Light.)
It is with pleasure that we give place to the fol
lowing letter fiom Mr. Ira Huchi.vs, of TardO
worth, who was supposed to be past cure of Con-*
i sumption, hut was restored to health* bV the tbse of
! u Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant.” We can speak wit&
! confidence of this medicine, as we know of many
i of our friends who have been greatly benefitted
by it- Enitb’fi.
Tainworth, N. H., Dec. 10,
Dear Sir—l feel it my duty to intake known to
you, for the benefit of {lie public, the aid I receiv
ed from the use of a bottle of Dr. Jayne's Experto
rant, which I purchased of you/ i had sick
between five and six month's, caused by the lung
fever, which left me in a very low state of health,,
with a very bad cough, and for about three months
I could only speak in a whisper. My friends all
thought me in a decline. My physician said he
had done all for me he could. About this time I
fortunately saw advertised in the papers, “ Ur.
Jayne’s Expectorant,” for sale by you. I immedi
ately sent to you fora bottle,and in two days after
using I began to feel better.—-in a6h*t fCU days f
recovered my voice and coukl speak tolerably tfcell,
and before using the whole botfhV I was nearly a»
well as ever. My health rs good.
! attribute my cure wholly to Dr. Jayne’s med -
cine. Ira Huchiss.
I To Mark Noble, Esq., Great Falls. N- 11.
Prepared only by Dr. D. Jayne, Philadelphia, and
sold on agency by
* W. K. KITCHEN, August*,
Where may be had all the other valuable prepara
tions of Dr. Jayne.
Sfpt.2s 1c
Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry.
Has the great Afßhor of Nature provided u»
with no remedy for Consumption—and the disease*
leading thereto which are so fearfully common in
our country? Has He lett us to find reliet from*
that fatal scourge by ransacking other lands? No,
it is not so. The best—Nature’s own remedy, is
ready at our hand. The Wild Cherry and the
Pine furnish us with a cure, where a cure is possi
ble. Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry. formed
by chemical extracts from Wild Cherry bark and
tar, relieves all cases of consumption, and effectu
ally cures it where it has progressed so far as
to be beyond cure —subdues the most inveterate
cases of the Asthma, even of 30 and 40 years stand
ing—slops raising of blood, after other remedies
fail—and removes every kind of affection of the
Lungs and Liver which our climate induces. The
remarkable efficacy of this wonderful medicine, in
many diseases hitherto deemed incurable, has ex
cited among physicians great curiosity as to the
precise nature of its ingredients, let purchaser#
beware of imitations and counterfeits.
None genuine unles* signed I. BUT PS on the
wrapper.
For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail, by
II AVAL AND, RISLEY & CO.,and also by THOM
AS BARRETT & CO., and Dealers in Medicines
generally in Augusta.
Sept. 22 ° •
W. MUSGROVE 8080,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMBURG, S. C.
Office opposite Smith & Benson’s old Warehouse.
June 9 IT J 2l !
STEAMBOAT COMPANY OP GEOR
GIA.
Hjp This Company having been re-organized
and placed in an efficient state for service, are pre
pared to send forwarded without delay all freight
that may offer.
Goods consigned to W’jVU P;. WILLIAMS, Agent
at Savanquh, will be forwarded free of ( ommxs-
Sl °The connection of R. M. Goodwin with, this
Company has terminated. r GUIE(J
June 6 1-y Agent at August
O’ DR. J. aTsTmiIIiGAN, will at
tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgery. »«
Augusta audits vicinity.
Office in MctoalPs Range, up stairs. Entrance
one door below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drag Store.
June 13