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Nautical Romance. —The following roman
tic story of real life is copied by a Northern
pap3r from the Bombay Telegraph and Cou
rier. The heroine of the affair truly exhibi
ted unusual qualities of mind. The Telegraph
says:
The Rainbow, from Southampton to Aden,
arrived there about 16th ultimo. Captain
Arnold, her late commander, died ten days be
fore the ship reached that port, and the chief
mate was so hibituated to drunkeness, that
he had been confined to his cabin several times
during the passage. The captain’s daughter,
about sixteen years of age, was on board, and
after her father's death, the second mate, who
had assumed the command, made a daring
and insidious attempt to entice the young
lady and run away with the ship. She indig
nantly and successfully repelled all his base
and dastardly attempts, and although suffer
ing under a painful bereavement, at once
rushed on the quarter deck and made, a pub
lie appeal to the ship's crew, as British sea
men, and threw herself on their protection.—
This well judged resolution had 'he desired
effect; the seamen (except two of their num
ber, who were led away by the second mate)
declared, with that manly feeling which sai
lors so often display, that they would to a
man protect her from all harm, and told the
second mate and their misguided ship mates
in very plain terras, that if he (the second
mate) gave the slightest molestation to their
late commander’s daughter, they would pitch
him overboard, and any one else who dared
to follow his example should share the same
fate.
Miss Arnold then, with great presence of
mind, begged the ship’s company would grant
her one especial favor. Her character, her
manners, and the well-timed appeal which
she had already made, induced the crew to
declare their assent to any thing she might
ask. Miss Arnold them said that the safety of
the ship and her own security from insult
could only be insured by throwing overboard
that instant every drop of spirits in the ship.
Without hesitation the seamen consented, and,
having no time for reflection, they forwith got
the spirits on deck and threw every drop
overboard. From that time Miss Arnold had
her screened cot secured near the wheel, and
slept alongside the binnacle, and three of the
orew kept a faithful watch around her during
the remainder of the vovage; and these faith
ful gardians of our be'uved country 1
never failed to evince the utmost respect, and
preserved the m >st rigid docorura, honorable
in every point of view to themselves and to
that charge which they had pledged them
selves to undertake.
Miss Arnold wrote a statement of all these
occurrences, and forwarded it to Capt. Haines,
on the ship’s arrival, when the second mate
and dissatisfied men were immediately arres
ted and sent to prison. The chief officer had
indulged himself to such an excess, that after
the captain’s death, and in the absence of all
means of resort to his favorite stimulent, he
was perfect useless.
Miss Arnold became the welcome guest of
Capt. Thomas at Aden, and every possible at
tention was shown to this noble-minded lady
by the whole society there.
Subsequently to Miss Arnold’s chargeagainst
the second mate, Capt. Haines applied to her
for a circumstantial statement of what occur
red on board the Rainbow after her farther’s
death. The lady complied with his request
immediately, and her narrative was so well
and ably written that it excited admiration on
all sides. At her solicitation, her father’s re
mains were preserved in a cask of spirits, and
w’ere hurried at Aden the day after the ship’s
arrival. She had always kept his accounts.
The second male navigated the ship, but sever
al of the crew knew the proper course to
Aden, and all his proceedings were narrowly
watched.
A Doctor in California. —Letters from the
Gold Region and from points along the route
continue to appear. One from the pen of Dr.
Cory, dated at a farm near the Gold Diggings,
says that at first he charged $8 a visit to his
patients, and a very high milege if he had to
travel and very great distance. He' had
seen flour sold in the mountains as high as
$2 per pound; tea $4; sugar $4, and candles
$1 apiece. He says:
“This is the richest gold country on the
face of the globe. Gold almost looks to me
like a worthless toy—l have seen such vast
quantities of it. A man here in the moun
tains, \yho has not ten or twenty pounds of
it, is looked upon as a poverty stricken man.
I think the gold here is quite pure; it must be
worth at the mint $lB or sl9 per ounce; the
lowest value of washed gold is sl6 an ounce;
but gold here, on account of the scarcity of
coin, and the rifeness of speculation, is selling
at from $5 to $lO an ounce. If I had SIO,OOO
of coin I could convert it into $30,000 in two
months. The first month I was in the mines
myself and partner dug but $3,000 a peace,
calling each ounce only sl6, the digging then
became poor; a man had to work hard all
day for only an ounce or two, so hundreds of
people left and went to exploring, and I among
the rest. I spent about two months exploring
the mountains, found gold everywhere, but
we did not stop to work, we wanted to fine
places where we could pick up without
much labor S2OO or S3OO per day, but we
were not lortunate enought to find such places;
but such places have been found and are still
to be found.
Several men got into a ravine where they
got from $15,000 to $20,000 in two or three
weeks; most beautiful gold in round and fiat
massess, weighing $1 to $2 each piece. I have
seen several pieces weighing 1, 3 and 8 pounds.
The gold in the rivers is very fine, like small
fish scales. I have never worked on a river:
I like lo see the gold as I dig, and have work
ed in dry gullies and ravines. The first
month I worked, my partner and myself
hauled our dirt three miles to water, where
we washed it in a trough made of boards.—
We could wash five wagon load in a day. The
dirt of course varies much in richness; we
washed one load m which we got pounds
and in other loads we would only get five or six
puncea, but it was quire common to get a
a pound in a wagon load. If wehai dug and
hauled dirt the raontli we dug, we would
have much more gold, but we did not load our
wagon half of the on account of our oxen
atrayingi Sic.’, as it is, have only cleared in
the mines about 200 ounces of gold. My ex
penses have been great; horses from SIOO to
to S2OO each, and everything elae up to the
ultimatum.”
He adds that he would not leave the country
with less than SIOO,OOO, which he expects to
realize before three years. The Doctor had
slept in the open air every night for fri e
months. _____
First Meeting of Napoleon Axp Jose
phixe.—ls it a scene at Athens r 1 here are
lamps of graceful oval, which give a mellow
and shaded lustre. There are double handed
goblets, such as Socrates used to drain, when
vying with Alcibiades. There are servants
who bear fruits and wines, to the sound of
softest music. There are lyric songs,
“ With such as these
Aspasia won sweet smiles from Pericles.”
Thei-e are beautiful women, with slender fore
heads, and tresses delicately braided round
their small heads. There are broaches, and
fibulae, the deep-bosomed tunic, and the san
sal, with its becoming strings. There is the
red bonnet of Phrygia, and the grasshopper in
gold. Surely, this must be some Athenian re
vel, with ItA accomplished citizens and travel
led foreigners. It must be the “ at-home” of
some Hetoera, the resort of the most polished,
the most learned, the most renowned of man
kind. The symmetry, the elegance, the lux
ury of Greece are all here. The quick, rapid
manner, the ceaseless impulse, the visible sud
denness of thought, the magnetic interchange
of feeling, these things also are not wanting.
The conversation, too, is of liberty and art, of
philosophy and the theatre. There are groups
of politicians, who, rare thing! are speaking
of the people. There are others who are dis
cussing victories over tyrants, and the heroic
devotion of republicans. But there is among
them a man far greater than any Athens ever
saw. See him, with long hair far down, wav
ing on his shoulders, with dark eyes flashing
with genius, with features regular as those of
an Antinous, with lips comp-essed and dis
dainful, with a mein superb as of a God!
But the lady who is at little intervals speak
ing laughingly to him, seems all unconscious
of his greatness or divinity. She is a sun
burnt and coquettish brunette, with large lan
guid eyes and an air of the most indolent repose.
There is something, however, of command,
even in her indolence. The mystics of her
own land have foretold that she shall be a
Queen, and she loves to remember the prophe
cy. It might be an Egyptian, who had come
to see all the arts and wonders which had for
saken her country, to grace and embellish
Athens. Gentle reader, I have, perhaps, be
trayed you by ray guesses. It is a soiree at
the Citoyenne Tallien’s, in 1794. It is the
first meeting of Napoleon Bonaparte and Jo
sephine Beauharnais.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler. —We clip the
following bit of gossip from the New York
Sunday Morning News :
We have read a great deal about the eccen
tricity of Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler, and we
have lately had proof of her decided eccentri
city. She is now hoarding at the Battery
Hotel, entirely unattended, excepting by a
very nice lady’s maid, and we have met her
several mornings, taking her equestrian exer
cises quite alone. Her favorite ride appeared
to be through West street, directly 0,1 the
North river, and a more dirty and disagreea
ble thoroughfare can scarcely be found, even
in this nasty city. A few mornings since, she
strolled down among the boatmen at pier No.
1, North river, dressed in a close straw bonnet,
a white dress, and a check josey, (something
between a sack and a jacket,) and although it
was a cold, bleak, windy morning, we saw
her embarked and rowed out in the stream by
one waterman. We understood afterwards,
that, attracted by the painful scene of a ship
load of emigrants, she went on board, and
divided all the money sue had with her among
the poorest and most distressed of the families.
God bless her for it!
The Mohammedan Commandments. —There
are six commandments in the Mohammedan
religion, viz : 1. There is no deity but God.
2. There is no Prophet but Mohammed—he i
God’s Apostle. 3. To fast during Ramada
every day. 4. To pray and practice ablution ,
five times a day. 5 To apply two and-a-hal 1
per cent, of their property to the poor. 6. To
make a pilgrimmage to Mecca and Mount
Ararat. This religion is so general that it has
nearly one-fitth of the population of the globe
as its followers. Its most important duties
are prayer, alms-giving, fasting and pilgrim
mage. The hours of prayer are five, viz : Ist,
at sunset; 2d, when the evening has closed,
and it is quite dark ; 3d, at day-break, on the
first faint appearance of light in the East; 4th,
at noon; oth, about mid-time, between noon
and nightfall.— Mr. Tnomas Kay , (Medical
Times.)
T‘ e lead from which “ pencil points” are
made, comes from the principal plumbago
mine in the world, at Barrowdale, Cumber
land, England. It is situated in a hill, and
instead of being worked constantly like other
mines, is opened only once a year, when a
sufficient quantity is taken out to supply the
world for a year to come when it is closed with
strong doors, bars and locks until the next
annual supply is required. From the time of
Queen Elizabeth it is said that all the fine
pencils in the world have been made of the
black lead of this mine. •
The Editor of the National Intelligencer,
having charged Mr. Polk’s administration with
proscription, a writer in the Union thus retorts
upon them: —“With how much justice they
can chaige the late administration with pros
cription, may be interred from the fact that
Columbus Monroe, a Whig, and son-in-law to
Mr. Seaton, one of the editors, was permitted
to hold one of the best clerkships under the
government during the whcle of Mr. Polks’s
term; and that a Mr. Schrededer. another son
in-law of Mr. Seaton, was appointed to an of
fice in the coast survey within the last two
years.”
New York letter in the Philadelphia
Inquirer says :
“ I understand to-day that Mr, Henry Wy
koff, formerly editor of the Republic newspa
per of this city, and latterly the principal man
in the Pekin Tea Company, has recently suc
ceeded in making a contract with the present
Government of France, to supply the array of
that country with all such India Rubber arti
cles as they may require, including horse co
vers, cartridge boxes, pontoons, overcoats, and
other things. Under this contract, it is ex
pected that Mr. Wykoff will make a very hand
some sum. Mr. Wykoff has been for a num
ber of years past on terms of great intimacy
with the present President of France, and was
in his confidence when he was prisoner in Ham
under the orders of Louis Philippe.”
Mr. Clay.—lt is said that at the recent Clay
Dinner in New York, the following extracts
from two of General Taylor’s letters were read
amid undisguised indignation in his letter to
Joseph R. Ingersoil, dated August 3d, 1847,
he says: “Would now prefer seeing him
(Henry Clay) in the office of President than
an\ individual in the Union; certainly much
more so, at any time, than myself!”
In his letter dated April 20, 1848, to the
editor 01 the Richmond Repub ican , he says: “Z
do not design to withdraw my name if Mr. Clay,
be the nominee of the Whig National Convention'x’
This is one of the relics of the late campaign;
and is illy calculated to preserve the temper’oi
those who swear by the Kentucky Senator.
Macon Telegraph,
Military Resources ofTuekey. —The de
signs of Russia on Turkey have not escaped
the notice of politicians, on the Continent, and
various speculations on the subject have been
made touching the readines'and the ability of
the Ottoman Porte to make an effectual resis
tance. Though the odds arbin favor of Russia
owing to the vast resources and prodigious
population at the disposal of the Czar, still i
Turkey is by no means so helpless as is gen- (
erally supposed, and would not yield without
a protracted and bloody conflict.
Besides the Intervention (armed or pacific)
of England and France, both of whom could
not consistently stand by and allow Russia so
greatly to increase its already gigantic power
by the absorption of the Turkish Empire, the
country itself is not entirely devoid of means
of protection.
The London Times, in a late article upon
the Russian question, says that although it
does not entertain a very lofty opinion of the
military resources of Turkey, it would be an
error to estimate them no higher than they
were during the campaigns of 1828 and 1829.
“At that period, says the Times, “the fleet
of the Sultan had just been destroyed at Na
varino, and Admiral Greigh was completely
master of the Black Sea. The reforms of the
Turkish army were in their infancy, and Egypt
contributed little to the defence of the empire.
At the present time the Turkish arsenals w ill
send out forty ships, of which eight or ten are
three-deckers; the army now in preparation
to three hundred thousand men, of which about
half are irregular, who are already on their
way from the Asiatic Pachalic to Constantino
ple; the revenue of the Ottoman empire has
prodigiously increased since the abolition of
monopolies in 1826; and there is every reason
to believe that Abbas Pacha, now hereditary
ruler of Egypt, who has just received his in
vesture at Constantinople, would place the
whole naval and military force of that depen
dency at the disposal of the Porte, his suzerain.
Such a force, animated by religious fanaticism
in the defence of the cities and provinces which
they have occupied four hundred years, is not
to be despised, even by the great military
Power of Europe; and we still infer that the
Emperor Nicholas will not push this contest
to extremities.
The Times thinks that the real advantage of
the Russian party, at this moment, lies in the
“division of the European powers, and especial
ly in the want of confidence between the two
most pacific of them, Austria and Great Bri
tain.”—Savrnnah Republican.
Frost — lnjury to the Crops. —Last week,
as we went to press, all nature around us was
smiting—the corn had shown a fine promise
as the husbandman could have desired, and
the cotton had come beautifully out of the
earth and taken such a stand as might well
have filled up the anticipations of a line crop
in the mind of the planter. Clear skies ami
genial sunshine nourished the ‘plants and
beautified the prospect. We felt, for the time, j
as if realizing in our own reelings that Spring \
was indeed the magic season.
On Sunday night, alas ! “ A change came j
o’e»the spirit of” our delightful revellings of
fancy and anticipation. A severe frost visited
us and covered many of our cotton and corn
fields with the evidences of its desolating pow
er — while there are few fields of cotton, either
in Louisiana or Mississippi* within many miles
of us, in which severe injury has not been
done. The disappointment of .the planting
community, whose hopes had been so strong- j
ly enkindled, was intense; and the disap- j
pointment is not mitigated seeing that we i
have had but little else than cold winds and
and freezing weather since the untoward visit
ation of Sunday night.
Cotton se d has been in much demand this
week, and the plough-share is again busy in
the fields. The late cotton which had not
come np at the time of the frost is now fur- :
thest advanced. This frost has given new
force to arguments against early planting.
f Vidalia (La.) Intelligencer , 21 si ult.
Connecticut. —Gov. Trumbull, of Connecti
cut, delivered his inaugural message,on Thurs
day afteroon. Among other topics which he
touched upon, is the question of the extension
of slavery into the new Territories. lie says I
it becomes New Englanders to approach this
delicate subject in the spirit of forbearance and
regret, rather than that of animo.ity or com
plaint, ever keeping it in mind, that though
their ancestors were among the first to discov
er, and apply the remedy for slavery, they were
also among the most active in its introduction
into our country. ‘ «
The Governor commends to public care the
interests of the State military, and suggests for
consideration whether some facilities may not
be granted to its officers in the organizatian of
’ that military science and practical skdl, indis
pensable in modern warfare. The interests of !
education and the various institutions of learn
ing are also alluded to.
The capital of the school fund is equal to
$2,077,641 19—and the sum divided during
the year among the school districts, is $133,-
366 50 —and the number of children between
the ages of four and sixteen, attending the
schools, is 88,911.
The balance of money in the State Treas
ury on the Ist of April, 1849—including $14,-
000 borrowed within the year from the School
fund was $20,241 96. The whole amount of
indebtedness from the State to the Schood
Fund, for money borrowed at various times, is
equal to $46,21l 43.—A. F. Journal of Com
merce.
Another Crevasse. —We learned late last
night that the river had made an irruption in
to the grounds of Mr. P. Sauve, a planter, re
, siding in the parish of Jeffefson, about fifteen
miles above the city, on the left bank of the
river. The levee caved in at about 3 o’clock.
P. M., yesterday, and, before it attracted the
notice of the proprietor, the crevasse was 20
feet wide.
( A gentleman who left Mr. Sauve’s last even
ing at 7 o’clock, states that the water was then
running through with great rapidity, and as
the plantation is backed by the Metairie bridge,
the flood, in his opinion, if the crevasse be not
. immediately stopped, will be in the city in
forty-eight hours. Trie levee at the spot where
l the breach occurred is ten feet high. Mr.
Sauve and his neighbors have been diligently
employed since the misfortune happened in
: arresting the farther widening of the crevasse.
The gentleman to whom we are indebted for
the above information, has apprised the city
authorities of the danger with which we are
menaced, and they have taken due measures
for our protection. Instant aid has been, or
will be, forwarded to Mr. Sauve to close up
■ the breach. — Picayune , 4 th tnst.
The City. —Notwithstanding the general
dullness of the city in a business point of view,
we perceive that much building is going on.—
In the Second Municipality particularly, many
vacant lots are being covered with elegant and
substantial buildings, and many of the un
sightly shanties which have deformed our
most frequented streets are giving room to
more stately edifices. The other Municipali
ties, though perhaps to a less extent, show
the same signs of improvement. The sales >f
real estate are generally well attended, and
lots every day sell at advanced prices, in parts
of the city which but a short time ago were
covered with impenetrable swamps. These
facts show that whatever transient causes may
momentarily retard the progress of New Or
leans, her own illimitable and incomparable
natural resources, must carry her forward in
spite of every obstacle,— .V. 0. Crescent, 4 th.
THECON ST 1 TUT IONA LI ST.
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Augusta, Georgia.
THURSDAY MORNING, IWAY 10
rF“ We understand there will be an exten
sive sale of Building Lots in the neighborhood
of the Factory, in the course of the present
month. Plans are now being prepared, and
as soon as ready, full particulars will be given.
.Northern Comments on Southern Im
provements-
The amount of ill-nature rankling in the
bosom of the writer of the following, which
we copy from the New York Evening Post,
must constitute a burthen very uncomfortable
to carry. It is in character with much that
emanates from the same source, in reference
to everything Southern. But it is because it
displays the festering ill-will of a large class—
not the atro-bilious tempera neat of a single
individual, that it becomes of sufficient con
sequence to notice.
We have heard of nothing for weeks past
through the southern states but non-inter
course and resistance to northern aggression.
We have often wondered and occasionally
asked how the resistants would get on with
out intercourse with us, where they would get
hats to cover their heads, shoes to protect their
feet, doth to cone al their nakedness, imple
ments to till their plantations with, steam
boats and stages to travel with, instruction for
their children, newspapers for their pohticians,
guns and fiddles for the gentry, and books for
all that can read r
It has occurred to us that a system of non
intercourse would be, to the southern states, a
system of privation which would not prove
very popular, when it came to be tried, and
certainly far from comfortable. The Constitu
tionalist, of Georgia, has considered these diffi
culties, and like Caesar, conquered them as
soon as they came in sight.
This journal announces “ with all the hon
ors,” and upon editorial responsibility, that
an iron foundry in Augusta had turned out
“ a steam engine of twenty horse power, which
for strength and beauty of finish is not to be
excelled.” The editor added that it would
be put together in the course of the day, and
would then well reward the curiosity of such
of the people of Augusta as would pay the
phenomenon a visit. An engine of twenty
horse power, and all put together ! Think of
that ! But the end is not yet. The editor
had his particular attention called to the po
lished brass plate, with the name of tho ma
kers marked upon it, which was “ done in
a style that will vie with the skill of northern
engravers.”
Some idea of the vastness and power of this
J engine may be formed by those who have an
| imperfect appreciation of the capacity of twenty
1 horses, when we add, that the monster is in
tended to drive a saw and two run of stone in
in a saw and grist mill. But with a deter
mination to astonish the civilized world, that
is quite indifferent to consequences, the edi
tor takes one’s breath away with the follow
ing facts, if possible more startling than the
statements which preceded it :
“In addition to the steam engine, Messrs,
i Taliaferro & Torbet, have cast all the gearing
1 and shafting for this extensive mill, and it is
1 done in a style which will donbtless prove sa
tisfactory. The heavy gearing and shafting for
the two extensive merchant mills of Messrs. J.
L. Coleman and John Cunningham, have also
been cast at this foundry, which demonstrates
that it is not necessary far citizens of Georgia to
j send beyond our own state for such machinery."
When Xerxes saw some Spartan soldiers
breakfasting on black broth, he is said to have
admitted the folly of attempting to subjugate
such a race to the Persian yoke. When we
hear of engines of twenty horse power being
constructed in Georgia, gearing and all, and
the name of its architect engraven upon it in
a style that will vie with the skill of northern
engravers, we give up all hope of being able
any longer to say any thing, to make any
; thing, or to do any thing, which can render
further intercourse with the northern states
an object to a state which produces such me
chanics and such saw mills.
Northern men are welcome to sneer at the
incipient and as yet feeble struggles of the
’ South to emancipate herself from the thraldom
of dependence on Northern workshops. It
will do us good, and hasten the day of deliver
ance. We will take pleasure in publishing all
such editorials as the above, as the best possi
ble stimulus to Southern pride and Southern
I enterprise. There is an abundance of both
among our people to drive the products of
Northern manufacturing labor out of our mar
kets by fair competition—the only effectual
and rational system of non-intercourse.
We will not take time to enumerate the tri
umphs the South has already achieved in man
ufacturing and mechanical enterprize. Htr
progress is marked and striking, The evi
dences are around us, and new indications are
springing to view every day. In the course
of a few years of attention to the manufactur
ing of coarse cotton goods, she has driven the
products of Northern looms almost entirely
out of her markets, and has competed success
fully with them in the Northern cities. In a
few years more, our steam and water mills
will be greatly increased, and the effect of
their products upon the great interests of trade
in this country will call for something more
than sneers and ridicule. Even our home
made steam engines, of twenty horse power,
will be numerous enough to become a theme
of some importance to intelligent minds
throughout the country. Sensible men can
sometimes see, in the beginning of a move
ment, however small, results worthy of grave
attention. But, the writer of the above arti
cle, like many of his anti-slavery brethren, is
“ a man of one idea.” Hatred to slavery and
slaveholders is tbe beginning and ending of
his political creed.
Let our people pursue their destiny, steadi
ly and coolly. It will be their turn, in time,
to retort the sneers and sarcasms of the arro
gant opponents of her institutions, who now
look upon the South as a helpless tributary
to the North, and as doomed to perpetual vas
salage.
Ihe Frost, &c.—From all portions of the
country we hear that the recent frosts and
cold, dry weather has been in almost every
instance destructive to the growing crops of
corn, wheat, &c. In the lower part of this
State and in Alabama, and in fact many of the
Southern States, the accounts are truly dis
tressing. Ihe cotton crop is cut short, and
the op nion is, that planters will not have
seed enough to replant. The wheat in this
section of the country is entirely destroyed,
from, all accounts; and the corn, which had
barely come out of the ground, is nipped
smooth off. From present indications, we
may be thankful if we are blessed with half
crops this year. —Ringgold Repub., oth tnst
Advertising. —The art of advertising, is
the same to a tradesman as the art of dressing
is to beauty. The great secret with both is to
expose enough to excite curiosity, and to con
ceal enough to leave curiosity ungratified.
Nothing increases the business of a town so
mu-'h as advertising. People look to the
advertising columns of papers to see the im
portance of places where published, and if
they find their columns destitute of advertise
ments, they come to the conclusion that the
country is also destitute of business, and not
of much importance. Then, Physicians, Mer
chants, Hotel Keepers, Mechanics, etc., should
advertise, not for the especial benefit ot those
engaged in publishing a newspaper but for the
benefit of all. Advertise that the importance
of our town may go abroad, in a proper light,
and not present the appearance of being de
prived of all kinds of business. It will cause
hundreds to visit them, and greatly increase
the importance and business. You will lose
nothing by the adventure. See what colossal
fortunes some have acquired by advertising.—
Dr. Jayne, this year, has published for gratu
itous distribution, and at an expense of morfe
than one hundred thousand dollars, two or
three million copies of an Almanac for 1849,
containing advertisements of his patent medi
cines, and also furnishes the distributers of
this Almanac, advertisements to suit their
respective business. Ah, you say he can
afford to do it. Why so ? Because adverti
sing has made him able, and will make ail a ale
who practice it. Yet we will not expend a few
dollars for the promotion of our own interest,
our neighbors and our country. — Expositor.
Iron Stores in New York.—The New
York Tribune describes some large and supe- :
rior iron-buit stores lately erected in that city.
It says :
At the corner of Murray and Washington
streets, these buildings, which have attracted
considerable attention during their erection,
are the only ones, with the exception of one
going up in Centre street, made of this new
material. They were commenced about the
25th of February, and are now complete, the
whole five stories, each 20 by 56 feet, having
been built in a little more than two months,
with scarcely any of the bustle and inconve
nience attending the erection of brick or stone
houses. The effect is exceedingly light and
elegant. Each story is supported by rows of
fluted pilasters, the courses between which
are completely bolted, and the seams of panels
entirely covered and concealed from view by
an ornamental cornice. Thus the walls are in
fact one solid iron block, capable of support
ing an immense weight. There are about 150
tons of iron in the buildings. The entire cost
is about $20,000.
Daring Burglary. —The office of the Clerk
of Council was broken opon on Sunday night j
by some daring villain or villains for the pur
pose of robbery. The door was violently forced
in by blows dealt with a heavy piece of plank,
and a large portions of it scathed off. The
only two drawers looked in the oftiefc were
broken open. We are happy to say that the
ruffian or ruffians, secured only a few brass
coppers in return for their disinterested efforts.
Sav. Georgian, B th inst.
Sporting Intelligence. —We have been
favored by Mr. Oliver with the result of a
match fora silver cup, which took phee at his
shooting gallery, at the Phoenix House, last
week. There were ten chances, each tiring
ten shots. The cup was won by Mr. W. M.
Davison, his ten shot measuring inches.—
The shots measured respectively, 14£. 13,
12, 12, 11|, 10|, 9J, 94. Aggregate of the
100 shots inches. — lb.
The Season. —For the last week we have
been favored with delightful Spring weather,
attended with refreshing showers of rain. It
is a tine time now for farmers, if they wi I but
improve it in the right way. /Although the :
late frosts played “ smash” with the growing
crops, yet it is not too late for planters to do
much good towards making a tolerable fair
crop of corn, if nothing else. The season is
now fine—then, properly improve it,— lb.
A New York letter in the Philadelphia In
quirer says —
Mr. Cornelius R. Mahony, well known as
the particular friend of Father Mathew, the
apostle of temperance, arrived here yesterday
ill the Sarah Sands. He has come for the pur
pose of making arrangements tor the visit of
Father Mathew, who will be here in about a
month, as he states in a letter to a friend.
Singular Cause of Death. —The Syracuse
papers announce the death of Dr. Roberts, a
highly promising young physician. The Star
says his death was occasioned by touching a
pimple on his forehead winch was bleeding,
with some matter from a vaccine scab whicri
he had just removed from the arm of a child.
The poison appeared to operate instantly, as
in a few hours he was delirious.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
HEAD-QUARTERS, 10th REGIMENT,
G. 31.
An Election is hereby ordered to be held, at the
Globe Hotel, on SATURDAY, the 19th inst.,
for a CAPTAIN «o command the 398th District
Company. The poll will be opened at 10 o’clock. A.
M., and closed at 12 M. Suitable persons as the
law requires, will be appointed to hold said elec
tion. JOHN J. BYRD,
may 10 1 Lieut. Col. 10th Regime nt, G. 31.
TO THB PATRIOTIC.
Such persons as feel disposed to form a plain
Uniform Volunteer Corps, will meet at the Globe
H .tel, on SATURDAY EVENING NEXT, 12th
inst., at half-past seven o’clock. may 10
ART UNION ENGRAVING AND
DARIA ’S ILLUSTRATIONS OF “ RIP VAN
WINKLE/’
Given to the subscribers for 1848, to be deliver
ed in May. A specimen of each just received,
and can be seen at Chas. Gatlin's Jewelry and
Music Store, a few doors below the United States
Hotel.
Subscriptions received by the undersigned for
1849, $o per annum. Those subscribing early in
the year will get their Engravings sooner, and it
is very desirable, that the Institution collect their
funds at an early day. The Engraving for 1849.
will be the plate of “ YOUTH,” being the second
Picture of Cole’s celebrated scries o( the “3oy
age of Life,” an etching of which can also be seen
as above. As an extra inducement to early sub
scription, every member is entitled to receive gra
tuitously, copies ot the Bulletin, which are issued
after the payment of his dues, provided he signi
fies his wishes to that effect to the officer who
takes his name. H- W. tARGO,
a , )ri l 26 Imo Hon. (sec’y.
DR. sT e. IIABERSHAM
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Augusta and its vicinity. Ofilce on Broad-st. im
mediately under the Washington Hall.
March 29 3m*
INSURACE COMPA
ny of new-jersey.
J. V’. Voor’hees, Sec’ry Wm. Thompson, Pres
B. S. Whitney, Gen’l Agent, 69 Wall st., N. V
Fire and Marine Risks are taken in this Office
on the most liberal terras, by
JOHN HILL, Agent,
Next door above the Mechanics’ Bank.
Sept 2 ly
GEO. R. R. A BANK’G COMPANY, f
Augusta, May 3d, 1341*. y
The next Annual Meeting of the Stockholder*
of this Company will be held, in accordance with
the Charter and By-Laws, at the Banking House
in Augusta, on TUESDAY, the 13th inst., being
the *• the Tuesday after the second Monday in
May,” J. W. WILDE, Cashier.
O’ Trams of Cars will leave Covington and
Athens at 6 o’clock Monday Morning, the 14th in
stant, for the conveyance of Stockholders and
their families tree of charge, and of other per
sons at half the regular charge.
Stockholders residing above Covington will be
conveyed in the regular trains to Augusta, free of
charge, at any time within four days of the meet
ing.
N. B.— Ihe families ot Stockholders will be held
to consist of wives, children and necessary ser
vants —constituting the usua^iousehold.
The Agents at the different stations will furnish
Tickets, without which, all passengers will be
charged the usual rates. td may 3
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY OF NEW YORK.
. .(tintktson, Pres’t. 1 Saml. Hawnav,Sec’v
I .
Applications received bv
GREENVILLE SIMMONS,
Nov. 24 ly AgfcJtt.
PIANO FORTBS.
! EXCELLENT SECOND-HAND PIANO
; FORTES, tor sale cheap.
JR. S. JACKSON.
First Room over Gustav Volger’s Segar Store,
jan 24 6mos Broad street.
R. ~J • A 7cL EV eT AND, has re -
tin ned to this cit}'. and may he consulted at the
Rooms ot Cleveland Al Spears, fer a short time,
feb. 14 18
TLEVELAND & SPEAK,
SOBSE3N DENTISTS
NO. 215 BROAD-3T.
(Over Aldrich 6o Green’s Shoe Store.)
Nov. 1 I ly
QZPDr. GEO. W. WEST respectfully yen.
i ders his PROFESSIONAL SERVICES to the
| Citizens of Augusta, Office, as heretofore, in the
lower front corner of the Eagle and Phoenix Hotel,
ap 18 3mos
E. A. SOI LLARD,
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
SAV ANNAH. GA.
Nov. 8 d&-wl v
Visiting - Cards
Equal to the best Engraved, executed at
this office, where specimens can be seen,
ian 4
m ni z x c i a i.
33n JHagnetlc vtclegrapl).
Reported lor the Constitutionalist.
Charleston, May 9, 8.15 P. M.
Cotton. —Sales to-day six hundred bales, at six
to seven one half. No change.
MACON, May B.— Coilon —'The market exhib
| its no specially new feature. The week past ha*
been rather quiet, the sales amounting to a few
hundred bales only. We quote today 3] a().)c.
The produce and provision maikets hava some
what improved and prices slightly advanced.
MOBILE, May 4 — Cotton —Sales since this day
week reach 10.000 bales, the market.closes quiet
at 6gc. for middling. Received since Friday last
4.200 bales, exported 20,331 —leaving a stock on
hand of 79.327 bales.
Fxchnnge —A steady business has been done dur
ing the week, without change in rates. Sterling,
I however, is in demand ml has advanced £ per
1 cent.
Ft eight —But little has been done, and rates are
declining. Br lish and American ships on the berth
! have accepted |d. Coastwise, engagements have
been made at gc, and $2 per hale for Boston, and
to Baltimore.
NEW ORLEANS, May 3 — Cotton. —There has
been a good inquiry, but factors and buyers can
not yet come to terms, and in consequence I o
sales are confined to 2300 bales, of which 1400
bales consisted of Middling Fair and Fair. Mid
dling sold in small lots at 6|c., and freely of
fered, but refused. We quote ;
Inferior 5 I Good Middling.. .6|a6^
Ordinary 3i|a6 | Middling fair.... .6|a7|
L. M. to Middling.. ( Fair 7^aS
Tennessee and North Alabama average lists 6 a6£
Sugar. —The demand has been more active, and
300 hhds. were sold at steady prices, say fair 3£ a
4ic.
Molasses. —Sales 300 bbls. at 12iJ a 17c., and 18 a
U)c. for Reboiled.
Flour* —Market quiet bu f prices firm. Sales 200
2d St. Louis, and 200 extra Illinois at $4 374; 9-'»
choice Missouri at $4 75. and 200 Illinois at $4 13.
Freights. —Colton shipped to Liverpool at 13-32 d
to till up.
Exchanges —Demand steady. London, f> a 7 per
cent, prera.; Paris, 5f.35 a New York, 60
days,2 a per cent dis.; do. sight, per cent dis
to par.
si)ipping intelligence,
ARRIVED,
Iron Steam Boat Company’s Boats 9 and 12—
Mdze. to A. VV. <Sc W. P. Carmichael, C. J. Cook.
Dye &, Robertson, W. M. Rowland, agt., H. F.
Russel, F. C. Arms, agt., D’Antignac & Barry,
J. & C. Williams, F. Lamback, J. Si dey, B. S.
Dunbar, T. N. Poollain & Son, \V . H. & T. 11
Roberts, L. Hopkins, L. C. Warren A: Co., C. A.
Platt, A. J. Creighton, J. Milieu & Co., Eaker A-
Hart. W. & J. Nelson, Grenville A: Batty, Z.
McCord A. Co., C. A. & M. H. Williams, Baker,
Wilcox Co., Adams & Fargo, Hand. Williams
& Co., and Hand & Fleming.
arrivals from charleston.
Bark A1 media. Chapman, Havana.
Schr. Adelaide. Mitchell, Havana.
Schr. Charles Edmondston, Vincent, New Orleans.
MEMORANDA.
Steam ship Cherokee, and bark Texas, to sail
for Savannah on the 9th, and brigs Macon, Selma,
and schr. Columbia, do. on the 3th, were up at N.
York on the 3rd inst.
Schr. Vandalia, Mclntyre, for Savannah, clear
ed at New York on the 3d inst.
Schr. Gazelle, Rogers, to sail for Savannah first
vessel, was up at Philadelphia 3d inst.
Schr. H. N. Gambrill,to sail for Savannah with
despatch, was up at Baltimore on the 3d inst.
Schrs. If. L. Scranton, and Midas, to sad for Sa
vannah with despatch, were up at New Orleans
on the 28th ult.
Brig L. Whipple, to sail for Jacksonville on the
sth, and schr. Samuel, do. with despatch, were up
at New York on the 3d inst.
The bark Marcia, Wilson, for Gottenburg via
Charleston, cleared at Boston 4th inst.
SAVANNAH, May B.—Cld. bark Isaac Mead,
Brown, New' York; brig Lady of the Lake, Hinds,
Boston.
CHARLESTON, May 9. —Arrived steam ship'
Southerner, Berry, New York.
Cld- hng L. Baldwin, Smith, New York; schr.
Viper,Foxwell. Baltimore
Went to sea. ship John Baring Baily, Liverpool;
hark Elvira, Harbeck, Dixey, Antwerp; schooners
Brothers, Hosmer, Sagua la Grande; Isabella
Gage, West Indies.
CLOTHING ! CLOTHING!
Received this day, April i3th. ot
, of new and superior sti/les.
april 13 WM. O. PRICE & CO.