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BY GUIEU & THOMPSON. AUGUSTA, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, ’IAY 31, 1838. VOL. XV—NEW SERIES, NO. 132.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
OFFICE IV MACINTOSH-STREET.
Third door from the ff. IV. corner of Broad-street.
Sales of LAND by Ad ninislrators, Executors, or
Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the
first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of
ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at
the Court-House in which the property is situate.
Notice of these sales must be given in a public
Gazette sixty mvs previous to the day of sale.
Sales of NEGROES must be at public auction, on
the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual
hours of sale, at the place ol public sales in the !
County where the letters Testamentary, or Ad- !
ministration, or Guardianship, may have been !
granted, first giving sixty days notice then of,
m one of the public Gazettes of this State, and at '
thedoorof the Court-House where such sales 1
are to be held.
Notice for the sale of Personal Properly must be
given in like manner, forty days previous to
day of sale.
Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate,
must be published for forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court ;
of Ordinary forleaveto sell LAND, must be pub
lished for FOUR MONTHS. !
Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, must be pub
lished FOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute
can be given by the Court.
is aes«r>M.-SRSHBIfi
THURSDAY MORNING, W AV 31,1838.
ON THE CURRENCY OF THE GOVERNMENT.
IN SEN VTE OF THE UNITED STATES,
Wednesday, May 16, 183 S.
Mr. Wright submitted the following
REPORT:
[continued.]
The second clause ot'thc resolution, proposing
1o make bank notes the currency of the public
Treasury, is in t he following words :
“And that, until otherwise ordered by Congress, ;
the notes of sound hanks,which are payable and paid
on demand in the legal currency of the TJ. States,
under suitable restrictions, to be forthwith preseri- j
bed and promulgated by the Secretary of theTrea- j
«urv, shall be received in payment of the revenue
and of debts and dues to the Government.”
The proposition here presented, also, lias al
ready received the definite action of the Senate j
«luriii<r its present session, but, not, like Ibe for- i
mer one, the favorable action of the body. A
reference to the journal will show that, on the
24th clay of Mar. lt last, the “bill to impose ad- j
ditional dulics, as d positaries, upon cctUiu pub
-I,c officers, to appoint receive!s general of pub- '
lie inonev, and to regulate, the safe-keeping,
transfer, and disbursement of the public money j
of the United states,” being under consideration, 1
the following amendment was moved, to stand I
as the 23d section of that bill, viz:
“Sec. 23. Add he it further evaded, That the j
revenue of the United States, whether arisingfrom
duties, taxes, debts,or sales ol public lands, shall j
be collected and received in gold and silver, or in j
Treasury notes, or in ihe notes of bai ks which arc ;
payable, and paid on demand,in the legal coin of
the United Slates, subject to such regulations and
restrictions, in regard to the notes of specie paying
hanks, as aforesaid, as Congress may, from tune to !
time, establish and prescribe; Branded, 'flint noth- |
lit" in this section shall be so construed ns to pro- j
hibit receivers or collectors of the dues of the Gov- |
•ernment from receiving for the public lands any i
’kind of land scrip, or Treasury certificate, now au- !
ihorized by law.”
The only substantia! difference between these ]
propositions is, that the one now referred to the i
committee leaves the restrictions and rcgnla- j
(ions, under which bank notes arc to be received, i
to the Secretary of the Treasury, while the one j
formerly offered to the Senate reserved to Con
gress alone the right of imposing those restric- i
lions. In all other respects both are substan- j
tially the same. The exclusive object, and pur- j
pose of both is to make the notes of specie-pay- j
ing ’.tanks receivable, by compulsion of law, in j
alf dues to the Government, and although the;
one last quoted enumerates also gold and silver, i
and Treasury notes, yet. the sole change it pro- j
duces in the existing laws, is as to the bank
notes, inasmuch as gold and silver, and '1 rcasu- ,
ry notes are, by the existing laws, expressly j
made receivable in payment of all dues to ihe
United States. The propositions, therefore, are
identical in substance, with the single exception
before named. A reference to the Senate jour
nal of the 24ihnf March last, will show that a
vole of the Senate was taken upon the last named
proposition, and that, it, was rejected, every Sen
ator being in his seat, and voting upon the ques
tion.
This part of the resolution,therefore, like the
former, is obnoxious to the objection that it is,
in effect, but a mere repetition of a proposition
before made to the Senate, and before deliber
ately and definitively acted upon by the body,
durittu its present session. The committee do
not mention this fact to prove that the Senate
either cannot, or ought not, again to .entertain
the proposition, or tiiat it will not be the plea
sure of the body again to act upon it. As in re
lation to the former clause of the resolution,
they do not feel called upon to express any opin
ion'upon these points. They are questions, as
it seems to t hem, addressing themselves to the
Senate itself, autl not to the committee, and
with the Senate they cheerfully leave their de
cision. They will, however, respectfully sug
gest that a practice of this sort, extensively in
troduced, could not [trove economical to the time
of a legislative body, or favorable to the certain
ty of its action. The same questions might
under such a practice, call for a repetition of
debate, and a repetition of votes, without any
material advance in business, and as the body
might chance to be toll, or thin, as to numbers,
at the precise moment of each vote, its decisions
of the same questions might be uniform, or con
tradictory. These, however, are considerations
which will not escape the attention of the Sen
ate in disposing of the propositions now pre
sented. .
How, then, will the clause cf the resolution
now under consideration, if adopted and made
part of the law of the land, change the law as
it exists? And how will it affect the Treasury
and the public, funds ? In the opinion of the
committee, it will make a medium of payment
for public dues, to wit: specie-paying bank
notes compulsory, which have heretofore been
merely permissive; and it will force upon the
public'Treasury a currency which has proved,
upon various occasions, to be unsafe and dan
gerous, when its receipt rested in the discretion
and, therefore, to some extent, upon the official
responsibility, of the fiscal officers of the Gov
ernment ; and which, if made the legal curren
cy of the Treasury, and compulsory upon it,
will subject the public revenues to fluctuations,
hazards, and Josses, highly detrimental to every
important interest, public and private.
Arc the committee right in supposing that this
propositions involves the change ot the existing
laws which they have mentioned ? As con
densed an examination of our legislation upon
this subject as can be made shall answer tins
inquiry. . .
The first law passed, after the organization or
the Government under the present Constitution,
touching upon the currency, or medium of pay
ment, in which the public dues should be col
lected and received, was an act passed on the
31 st day of July. 1789, entitled “An act to regu
late the collection of duties, imposed by law on
the tonnage of ships, or vessels, and on goods,
wares, and merchandizes, imported into the
United States.” The 30th section of that act 1
prescribed the currency to be received under it,
and was in the following words :
“Sec. 30. And I>e it further enacted. That the du
ties and fees to he collected by virtue of this act
shall he received in gold and silver coin only, at
the following rates, that is to say ; the gold coins
! of France, England, Spain and Portugal, and all
i other gold coins of equal fineness, at eighty-nine
'■ cents for every pennyweight; the Mexican dollar
at one hundred cents; the crown of France at one
dollarand eleven cents; the crown of England at
1 one dollar and eleven rents ; and all silver coins of
: equal fineness at one dollar and eleven cents per
ounce.”
This established “gold and silver coin only”
as the currency of the Treasury, so far as I lie
revenue from customs was concerned. This
act was repealed by an act passed on the 4l!i
day of August., 1790, entitled “An act to pro
; vide more effectually for the collection of the
duties imposed by law on goods, ware and tner
dise imported into the United Sta es, and on the
; tonnage of ships and vessels.” The 56th sec
| tion was in the same words with the 30th sec
tion of the act of 1789 above quoted, with the
following addition at the end of the section, viz :
“and cut silver of equal fineness at one dollar
| and six cents per ounce."
f l he next law which affected the currency of
j the Treasury was the act passed on the 251 h day
' of February, 1791, entitled “An act to incorpor
ate the. subscribers to the Bank of the United
| States.” The lOt It section of this act was in
the following words:
“Sec. 10. Andhe it further enacted. That the bills
| or notes of the said corporation originally ma le
payable, or which shall have become payable, on
demand in gold and silver coin, shall be receivable
in all payments to the United States.”
j These laws constituted the currency of the
Treasury “of good and silver coin only,” or of
the hills or notes of the Bank of the United
States, originally made payable, or which had j
become payable on demand, in “gold and silver
i coin ;” which currency was made receivable in
all branches of the public revenue, and for all
debts and tines of the Government,
With the exception of the legislation as to j
the currency, or media of payment, receivable j
for the public lands, before noticed, the commit- :
tec find no act of Congress changing this slate
of the law, until the passage of the act of 2nd
May. 1799, entitled “An act to regulate the col
lection of duties on imports and tonnage.” This
| act. repealed the act of 1790 above referred to,
! and all prior ads and parts of acts conflicting
with its provisions, and its 74th section is in the
words fid lowing :
“Sec 74. Amt he it further enacted. That all du
ties and fees to be collected, shall be payable in
money of the United States, or in foreign gold and
■ silver coins, at the following rates, that, is to say :
; the gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of the
! standard prior to the year one thousand seven hun
l dred and ninety-two, at the rate of one hundred
I cents for every twenty-seven grains of the actual
t weight thereof; the gold coins of France, Spain,
i and the dominions of Spain, of the standard piorto
j the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety j
two, at. the rate of one hundred cents for every
i twenty seven grains and two-fifths of a grain of the
actual weight thereof; Spanish milled dollars, at
| the rate of one hundred cents for each dollar, the
actual weight whereof shall not be less than seven
i teen penny weights and seven grains, and in propor
: portion for the parts of a dollar; crowns of France
' at the rate of one hundred anti ten cents for each
crown, the actual weight whereof shall not he less
than eighteen pennyweights and seventeen grains,
| a ,i,l in proportion for the parts of a crown : Provi
\ ,ted. That no foreign coins shall be receivable,
which arc not, hy law, a lender for the payment of
all debts,except in consequence of a proclamation
of tlte President of the United States, authorizing
; such foreign coins to be received in payment of the j
| duties and fees aforesaid.”
Bv an act passed on Dili day of February,
1793, entitled “An act regulating foreign coins,
! aru l for other purposes,” it is provided that the
’ foreign coins above particularly named shall pass
current, “as money," within the United -States,
and he a tender in payment of debts, at the rates
above specified, which explain* the proviso of the
section; hut what is the true legal construction
of the terms “ money of the United States," used
i in the first part of the section, may require some
i examination.
On the 2d day of April, 1792, an act was pas
sed entitled “An act establishing a mint, and rc- j
cnlating the coins of the United Slates.” This
act made the first provision for our national
coinage and for our national coin. Its provi-
I sions arc numerous, but it is sufficient for the pre
sent purpose 1o say of them that they designate
the coins of gold, silver, and copper, to he coin.
! ec [ a t the mint, being the saute designations
which the coins of the United Slates still bear ; j
that they regulate the value of the coins; and;
! that the 16th section is in the following words:
“Sec. 16- And be it further enacted. That all the
gold and silver coins which have been struck at,
and issued from the said mint, shall be a lawful ten
der in all payments whatsoever; those of full weight,
according to the respective values herein before
declared; and those of less than full weight, at
values p.oportioned to their respective weights.”
| The Constitution gives to Congress the power j
to “coin money, regulate the value tltereof, and !
• of foreign coin;” and the two acts last referred to
are an exercise of that power; the latter nrovid.
ing for coining money by means of a Mint of ]
tlte United Slates, and regulating Ihe value of
the money so to be coined; and the former regu
, lating the value of foreign coin. This power is
i exclusive in Congress, as the Constitution of
the United States expressly prohibits the Stales
s from coining money. What, then, is “the mon
ey of the United Slates here intended?” In the
. opinion of the Committee, it is the coin of the
j United States; the product of the Mint of the
i | United Slates; the money coined by the authori
■ ty of Congress. In this opinion, they do not
i suppose U possible they can be mistaken. The
j construction seems to them too clear to admit of
■ i argument or question. The collocation of the
t words “money of the United St ates,” as used in
: the section of the act of 1799, above quoted,
t would seem to confirm this, as the construction
; intended to be given to these words by Congress,
, in the passage of tiiat law. The provision is,
- “tiiat all duties and fees to be collected, shall be
, pavable in money of the United Slates, or in
I foreign gold and silver coins;" thus, as it would
- seem to the committee, contemplating a curren
cy of metal only, and using the words which arc
, used, to distinguish between the coinage of our
, own country, and foreign coinage.
r It has been seen that, prior to the passage of
this law, the revenue from customs was, by law,
s collectable in gold and silver coin, or in the bills
r or notes of the Bank of the United States. If
’ the construction which the committee have giv
i en above to this act of 1799 be correct, the bills
5 or notes were excluded by it from the collections
of the revenue from customs, inasmuch as the
f 112th section of the act of the 4th of August,
1790 and further declares that “all other acts,
’ an d parts of acts, coming within the purview of
this act, shall be repealed, an 1 thenceforth cease
to operate.” That branch of the revenue was.
therefore, from tiiat time forward, receivable in
coin only; that is to sav. “in money of the United
Slates, or in foreign go! 1 and silver coins.”
Between this date and the year 1811, no
I changes are found to have been made in tlte law
prescribing the currency, or medium of payment,
in which any part of the public dues should be
received, other than such as have been noticed
under the firmer head of this report, being such
as afflicted that branch of the revenue derivable
from the lauds oul". On the 3 1 dav of March,
1811, the charter of tlte old Bank of the United
Slates expired, and. bv an act passed on the 19;is
of March, 1812, the lOlli section of that charter,
making the bills, or notes, of the corporation re
ceivable in payments to tlte United Slates was
repealed. This left the act of 1739 the unques
tioned rule as to tlte currency receivable in pay
ment of the revenue from customs.
In this same year, however, and the three
years succeeding, the various la .vs before refer,
red to, of 1812, : 13, ’l4, and ’ls, authorizing
emissions of Treasury notes, were passed; ail of
winch made the notes receivable in all branches
of the revenue, and for all dues !o the G ivertt
ment. They, therefore, were added to the coin,
as a medium of payment, in the collections of
the duties and fees, under the act of 1799, and
the other acts regulating the collection of the
revenue from customs.
On the 10th day ol April, 1816, th law passed
(o incorpoiate the second Bank of tlte United
States, entitled “An act to incorporate the sub
scribers to the Bank of the Unite 1 Siates.”—
F.ne 14lh section ot this act was in the words
following:
“Sec. 14. And he it farther evaded. That the
hills, or notes, of the said corporation, originally
made payable, or which shall have become paya
ble, on demand, shall be receivable in all payments
to the United States, unless otherwise directed by
act of Congress.”
If this last clause of the section referred to
“acts of Congress” thereafter to be passed, and
not to acts of Congress then in force, then this
bank charter added a new medium of paymet^
] for all public dues, and made receivable, in all
branches of the public revenue, by the ilieu ex
isting laws, “gold and silver coin,” “Treasury
notes.” and “the bills or notes of the corporation
i payable on demand.” This seems to have been
j tlte construction given by Congress !o those laws
j in tiie language used in the joint resolutions of
| the 3J‘h day of April, 1816. This resolution,
it will be seen by its date, passed but twenty
days after the passage of - the bank charter, and
made a change in tiie legislation of Congress,
in relation to the currency of the public Trea
sury, much greater than any which had ever be
fore been known to our laws. Indeed, it must
strike the attention of all, at this day, as some
what remarkable, that, during the existence of
the Government under the Constitution, the two
bank charters alone excepted, no law, or resolu
tion, or expression of Congress, had recognized,
in any form, or to any extent, bank notes as a
medium of payment at the Treasury; and that,
even during the existence of the firs 1 hank char
ter, and notwithstanding the receivable charac
ter given to its bills and notes by its Khh section,
before quoted, the law of 1799, before referred
to, in relation to tlte i -flection of the revenue
from customs, arfd the law of 1890, referred to
under the former head of this report, in relation
to the sale of the public lands, were both passed,
and both confined the payments, in these respec
tive branches of the revenue, to “specie,” “mo
ney of the Unitec Stales,” “gold and silver com,”
or “evidence of the public debt of the United
States.” These laws, too, remained in full and
unquestioned force, as to these provisions, during
the whole remaining life of that bank charter,
and up to 1 lie lime of the charter of the second
bank, in 1816.
The joint resolutions of 1816, bore referred to,
! is entitled “A resolution relative to the more
effectual collection of the public revenue,” and
is in the following words:
“ Resolved hi/ the Senate and. House of Represen
tatives of the United States of A merira, in < on err ess
assembled. That the Secretary of the Treasury be,
and he is hereby, required anil directed to adopt
such measures as he may deem necessary to cause,
as soon as may he, all duties, taxes, debts, or sums
of money accruing or becoming payable to the
United Stales, to be collected and paid in the legal
currency of the United States, or Treasury notes,
or notes of the Bank of the United States, as hy
law provided and declared, or in notes of banks
which are payable, and paid, on demand, in tlte said
legal currency of the United States; and that, from
I and after the twentieth day of February nest, on
such duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money accru
ing or becoming payable to the United States, ns
aforesaid, ought to he collected or received other
wise than in the legal currency of the United
States, or Treasury notes, or notes of the Bank of
the United States, or in notes of banks which are
payable, and paid, on demand, in the said legal cur-
I rency of the United States.”
Such was the resolution of the 39: It April,
1316: a resolution called into existence by the
derangement in our monetary system at that
particular period; a resolution winch, its form
and its terms, as well as the circumstances at
tending it, all conclusively prove, never was in
tended, by the Congreass which passed it. to be
a permanent regulation for the currency of the
Treasury, but a temporary aid in an attempt to
j recover from the wide departures from the law,
| which the practices of the Treasury Department
: had introduced; in an attempt to bring back,
i to a tolerable slate, a practical, not a legal, cur
rency which had become intolerable. And it
I should be carefully borne in mind that this reso
-1 lulion was not designed to release the standard
• | of currency for the Treasury from the operation
! of sound and wholesome laws, but to relieve the
I Treasury from a depreciated currency, which
: had been, and was being, received into it against
law.
The committee are not to be understood as
speaking in teims of censure of the stale of
tilings existing in 1816, in relation to our mone
tarv affairs, but merely as relating facts as they
' appear upon the face of the statute book. We
had just then emerged from a state of war. Our
contest had been with a rich, and powerful, and
skilful, and experienced enemy. Our resources,
both in men and money, were vastly more limi
ted than they now are. A heavy balance of the
debt ofthe Revolution remained unpaid, and our
credit as a nation bad become but partially es
tablished, either with our own or foreign capital
ists. We were unprepared for war, and the ex
■ penscs of making the necessary preparations,
in the midst of hostilities, soon exhausted our
• Treasury, and depressed our credit. In that con
dition, the country sought aid wherever it could
f be obtained, and, among other resources, availed
, itself of that which was offered by a certain por
s tion of the State banking institutions. In this
f W ay it became their debtor, and, being unable
- to pav, was compelled to wink at, and finally to
3 countenance, their suspension of specie pay.
s ments Hence, also, arose the compulsion to
; make their irredeemable notes the currency of
, the Treasury; a compulsion stronger than the
, law; the compulsion upon the debtor not to re
f fuse to honor the paper of his creditor. Surely,
then, the committee are not disposed to cast cen
s:u-e npo'i the aide and worthy, and patriotic pub
lic officers, through whom these acts were ; r.
formed, but to mourn as they did, over that de
pressed condition of our beloved country which
forced :ts faithful public servants to these ex
tremities,
r I o extricate the Treasury from these embar
rassments, and, as far as might be, to reclaim
the currency generally from derangements thus
brought upon it, was the design and object of
the resolution under consideration: and who,
that lias examined our previous legislation, will
believe that, but for these derangements, grow
ing principally out of loans and advances to the
Government in the hour of its utmost nec 1, the
resolution of 1816 would have ever met the ap.
probation of a Congress of that, day? And who,
in view of all these considerations, will believe
that the Congress which did pass that resolution
Tnieruled to render it compulsory "as to the re
ceipt of the notes of Slate banks in payment of
all phblic durs, and thus fasten upon the public
| Treasury, as a permanent and obligatory medi
' i uni of payment, for all future time, t hat very
| currency from which the country had suffered,
| and was then suffering, so severely?
Was the resolution imperative as to the rccei-
I validity of he notes of the local hanks? Such is
| not, the construction which the committee give
to it. The resolution names four distinct media
of payment for the public - dues, viz: the legal
currency oftlie United States, (gold and silver
com,) Treasury notes, notes of the Hank of the
Uni ed Slates, and notes of banks which arc pav
j abft- and paid on demand in the legal currency
of the United Slates. The first three are men
tioned as currency, or media, “as bij laic provi
ded and declared as it has been seen they were,
while the. committee look upon the enumeration
of the last, it not, being a. currency, or medium
of payment for the public Treasury, “by law pro.
vided and declared,” as, in substance, granting
a permission to the fiscal agents of the Treasu
ry to make it, such, if payable and paid on de
mand in the legal currency; as, in effect, saving
to the receivers of public monej 7 , in all the de
partments, you may receive the notes of the lo
cal banks in payments to the United States, pro
vided they are redeemable and redeemed, on de
mand, in coin; you arc now receiving them while
they are irredeemable; but after the 20ih day of
February next, you “ought” not to receive them
In that state.
[to be continued ]
TIISUBSCRIBER,
SJ3 WING commenced business m the receiv
-102 mar and forwarding GOODS AND 31 HU
GH VNDIZE to and from Augusta per the Georgia
Hail Ro id, hogs leave to acquaint his f riends and
the public, that all Goods consigned or addressed
to him, shall meet with strict attention, and foward
ed to their destination with the utmost promptitude.
ELI PH A LET HALE.
Warrenton, March 27, 1338 ts [3l ay 12
£TI RFC r 1 7,1 PORT AT! <> A OS'" itl, A -JK
BURN’S MADEIRA WINE.
undersigned, agents for tlie house, G. <&
la R. Halckhtirn & Co. of Madeira, are now re
ceiving orders for their superior Wines; the list will
ho closed the Ist. May. Those persons who wish
to secure a supply of this favorite brand; will please
to leave their names on or before that time. The
wine will he shipped to arrive here early next fall.
G. K. JESSUP & CO.
April 10 110
" gTrT 7fEssup & co.
Os nr for sale on reasonable terms.
DUDS of very superior SUGAR
*2O hlids second quality Sugar
10 hltds low priced Orleans Sugar
50 casks superior Malaga Wine
100 bags prime Cuba Coffee
All southern importation. 120 May 3
PETIT GULF LUTHf.t Mmu.
SHAVE a few hundred bushels of the above
Cotton Seed, which is genuine. Planters who
desire to improve the Cotton crop, would do well
tocall immediately. Also, a small lot of unmixed
Nankeen Cotton Seed, for sale.
Fob. 13 8G A. GUMMING.
ON CONSIGNMENT.
-ta /[">.PIECES best Hemp BAGGING.
For sale by
Jan. 20 ts 76 11. C. BRYSON &CO
ZTeoTTL r.““& Dkg. go. stock.—
I ’IJS’ 20 shores for sale. Apply at this office,
j Feb. I _ ts 81
BQST —\ NOTE drawn at 60 days after date,
_& dated 21th of May, 1838, for 9225. to the order
I of John B. Guieu, and indorsed by him; but the
said note was not signed by any body. Should
| the note be signed by any one, and offered for
I trade, this is to arive notice that the indorser will
j not he responsible. As the note cannot be of any
j value to any one, the finder will leave it at the of
fice of the Constitutionalist.
Chronicle & Sentinel will cany three times.
May 26 3t ‘ 130
fjSNITE CO-P \ RTN ESS J1 i p heretofore condoc-r
--ed under the firm of J. <fe J. Mcßryde. will for
the future be carried on under that nf J. & J. Mc-
Bryde&Co. JAMES McBRVDE,
JOHN McBRVDE.
ALEX UNDER WALL ACE.
31 ay 15 6 125
WOTICS. — The subscriber has sold out his
i ImH present stock of GOODS on hand, to Ste-
I jihen B. Roll, and solicits the same patronage to
i him, that has been heretofore extended to me, and
i who will dispose of them on as reasonable terms at
i wholesale or retail, as any boose in the oitv.
j May 1 119 ’ CHARLES RALL.
| t^TOTICE. —All those indebted to the late firm
I , Vi of HALL <fe BOSTICK, or recently CHAS.
| r\LL. are solicited to call and settle their notes
| ani ] accounts; and all those having demands against
| them, arc requested to present them far a settle
j ment to me, as 1 am desirous of clnsinsr up mv bu
! siness. CHARLES RALL.
i j May 1 119
mTOTICE. —The subscriber has taken the
i j_%| No. 254 Broad street, under the United
• 1 States Hotel, formerly occupied by RallA Bostick,
] anc ] recently by Chas. Rail, and has purchased his
. 1 entire slock of GOODS, where he would he happy
• i to receive the same patronage, that has heretofore
j been extended to them.
STEPHEN B. ROLL.
May 1 119
1 —Proposals will he received by the
’ j ci t y Council, on the first Saturday in June
1 ' next, for keeping the roads, drains, and bridges,
. within the corporate limits of the city, in good or
derand repair for one year. Propositions
* securities,) to be handed to the clerk.
Bv order of Council, passed the 12th May, 1333.
r 11 GEO. 31. WALKER, Clerk.
‘ - May 24 129
mjOTiCE.—'l’he co-partnership heretofore ex
idling in this city, under the firm REICH
’ -,t\v PE \.Y & CO., was dissolved on the 12th
'' of May, instant. JOHN REICH3IAN.
J May 19 127
06 CSTERN H ANK OF ROME 310-
IV NEV taken at par for GOODS.
- w E. D. COOKE,
5 3lav 10 123 No. 197 Broad-street.
3 « « ANT EI > TO II» R E • —A negro WO
o MAN, a good Cook, Washer and Ironer,
-for which, liberal wages will be given. Enquire
o a t this office. 1’ 29 May 3
f ir'BL VCKS3IITH FOR SALE—A likely
e Hj) young BLACKSMITH for sale. Also a fe
i. ma le servant and Boy to hire. Apply to
h m April 21 ts 115 , L. C. DUGAS
GEORGIA INS’E. & TRUST COIIP'V.
AT AUGUSTA,
CAPITAL. ONE 31ILLION OF DOLLARS,
Os which 5527,000 is paid in, and invested in Bank
Stocks, and the balance in a course of payment, Uy
1 monthly instalments. ,
BY the act of Incorporation, the property of
each Stockholder is bound, to Ihe amount of
his stock, for all contracts made by the Company,
, while he is a Stockholder, and for six mouths after
wards : which mokes the actual responsibility of
’. the Institution equal to two millions of dollars.
The present number of Stockholders is Two
Hundred.
. Extract frotn the Th/e. Taws.
“In settling losses, if the right of the assured be j
clear, advantage shall not be taken of any mere j
legal objection.”
Insurance, against fire, and on 3Tarine and In
land Navigation, may be effected by application,
personally, or by letter, at the office, or to any of
the Company’s Agents. The terms of Insurance
will be as favorable as those of other good offices.
()nrisks taken by Agents, losses will be paid, where
' the premiums are received.
THOMAS 8 METCALF, President.
DIRECTORS.
Samuel Half., Artemas Gould,
Amory Sikley, Joh.v 31. Adams,
j Solomon Kneeland, William H. Morgan,
j Moses Ross, Jun. Elisha Manton,
i Adam Johnston, William P. Rathbone,
i David W. St. John, Benjamin H. Warren,
i Jacob 3Toise, James P. Stuart,
Hays Bowdre, Samuel 11. Peck,
Andrew J. 3liller, George Parrott,
Edward Padelford, Francis 31. Robertson.
WILLI A3l T. GOULD, Secretary.
AGENTS.
Savannah, Padelford, Fay & Co
Darien, P. R. Yongk &. Sons.
Milledgeville, Iverson L. Harris.
Macon, Charles Day.
Columbus, Arthur It. Davis.
Hamburg, S.C George Parrott.
Chaleston, S C. John C. Holcombe.
New York City If. Thomas, 43 Pine st.
| New Orleans, Francis Ganahl.
i Mobile, Ala. Fielding Bradford.
1 Baltimore, John G. Proud & Co.
i Fayetteville, N. C. Starke & Pearce.
Wetumpka, Ala, Seth P. Storks.
Montgomery, Ala. Stickney &, Wilson.
I Irwinton, Ala. Field &. Morgan.
Tallahassee, Florida Robert J. Hackley.
Apalachicola, “ J. Day &. Co.
December 14 62
NEW GOODS.
,7,4 'JES ANDEIISO. Y $ CO.
HAVE just received from New York, by the i
way of Savannah, a great variety of Staple
DRY GOODS, which, they will sell on their usual ,
low terms for cash, viz :
; 5-4 Black Ma'teoui Italian Lustring Silk
1 Parasols and Ladies’ silk Umbrellas, asst, qualities
I Gentlemen’s brown and black silk do. large size
6-4 striped and checked Swiss 3luslins
; 6-4 Jaconet and Nansook Muslins
; 6-4 plain, superior and common Book 3luslins
Persian and Swiss col’d 3lnslins, very handsome
| Small sprigged do. Jaconet
I Small printed Calicoes, forChildren's wear, agrea*
I variety of patterns
1 6-4 plaid and check Muslins, for Ladies’ wear
| Striped fancy Cassimers and brown Linen Drillings
! Striped and mixed Cotton Florentine
Long lawn and birds eye Diapers, very fine
Hair cord and plaid Ginghams
i Rich furniture Calicoes of entirely new patterns
j Ladies’ English black and white Hose
i Hoskin Gloves, Paris made
Plated and common white Hooks and Eyes
Taylo-’s Persian Sewing Cotton, white and assorted
colors
Apron checks, P.ed Ticking and Jlarlhoro’ Stripes
Linen and Herringbone Ticki g, yard wide
4-4 and 6-4 Hamilton blchd Sheetings and Shirtings
4-4 York Mills Sheetings and otherapprovedbleach
Russia Crass and Diapers
Super Flaxen Osnahtirgs
4-4 and 7-8 cotton do. assorted qualities.
With a great many other desirable and seasona
ble DRY GOODS, all of which was selected early
in the spring at low prices and will be sold at a
moderate advance. 106 3farch 31
CHARLESTON COMB MANUFACTO
RY RESUMED.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends
and customers at a distance, that lie has been
prevented by ill health from attending to business,
for several years past, until this season, and know
ing that many of his country friends have not been
aware of his resuming again, before making their
purchases elsewhere, he with pleasure informs
them, that his health has been so much restored
that he will attend to them again, in the manufac
turing, altering and repairing of every description | ,
of COMBS, and has now and intends always keep- ;
iiig on hand the most extensive assortment of Combs, j
of every description, that can be found in any other .
house in the southern market, both of his own man
ufacture and imported, and all orders for Combs,
1 from merchants at a distance, will be as faithfully
j filled as if they were present in every respect.
I He intends also to keep the varieties of Bone But
i tons, and Needles of all the different qualities,
! Brushes, Looking Glasses, Soaps, low priced Jew
! elry, &c. with many fancy articles, which will be
I disposed of at wholesale, upon reasonable terms,
i and which he invites all to examine before purcha
j sing elsewhere, a* the old stand, 156 King-st., sign
j of the Mammoth Ox Horn.
W. W. WILBUR.
Charleston, 3lay 8 luG 122 ■
: Cheap Clothing, Ijv Wholesale fix Retail,
No, 180 East flay, one door south f rom Market si. J
fTjIHE SUBSCRIBER takes this method of in
-12. forming his customers and the publicin gener- ;
' al, that he intends disposing of his stock of READY j
3IADE CLOTHING, at such reduced prices, that i
no other establishment of the kind in the city will I
I he able to cope with him. He does not offer this |
‘ as a puff, hut requests those that wish to purchase, )
to call and give him a trial, ills stock consists of,
i V!Z:
Dark, brown, green, adelaideand bine Bom
basin Frock and Dress COATS s>l2 CO !
I Black, brown and green Silk, Camblet and
3lerino Dress and Frock Coats, 10 00 |
Grass Linen Frock and Coatees 3 00 j
Brown Linen do do 2 75 j
Grass Linen Jackets 1 75 I
Brown and white do 1 50 |
Stripe and Rouen Cassimere Jackets 1 00!
Blue and white Jean do 1 00 j
PANTALOONS.
.Merino, various colors, from 2 50 a 5 00 j
j Camblet do 2 00 a 5 00 j
i Bombasin do 2 75 a 6 00 ,
: While Linen Drill 2 00 |
i Brown twilled do 2 75 j
I Black Lasting do 3 00
i j Colored do 4 00 a 6 00
■ i Crape Drill do 2 00
, ’ Drills, assorted, from 1 75 a 2 50
VESTS.
: i 31erino, Bombasin, Camblet, Marseilles, Valen
! cia. Silk, Toilinet, and a great many others too nu
merous to mention.
Shirts, Gloves, Stocks, and Suspenders.
LEVINE L LEVY.
Charleston, May 11 «tn 3 May 12 124
G ENIGRAL AGENCY.
7EH HE subscriber will attend to the renewal of
1 R all Notes in the CENTRAL BANK, that
may be entrusted to his care for the customary
- fee of one dollar for each renewal. Also, to the
■ taking out and forwarding GRANTS, for fifty cents
each.
Letters enclosing money and notes, (POST
PAID,) will be promptly attended to.
JOHN R. ANDERSON.
3lilledgeviile, 20th April, 1833.
e May 1 5 ftulO 125
AGRICULTURAL NOTICE.
7 rWNHE regular meeting of the AGRICU LTLRAL
I J. SOCIETY, of Richmond county, is postpon
ed to the fourth Saturday in June. 1
May 15
CIRCULAR.
TSHE UNDERSIGNED take pleasure in being
able to state, to Merchants of ibis State, Geor
gia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, who
have hitherto made their purchases in this city, that
although many of us have lost a part of our Goods,
by the fire of Friday night. 27th nit., others have
been so fortunate as to save all. and in the course
of two or three days will resume business as usu
al. We invite all who have contemplated a visit to
this city, this spring, to come with the certain cal
culation of being able to replenish their assortment,
quite as well as they have been able to doit at this
season of the year.
L. M. Wiley, Parish A S. & J. Watson.-
Co. J. A. C. Lawton.
Fort, Townsend & Stevens, Henderson
j Mendenhall. & Adgkr.
FT. W . Conner. Farrar & Robinson.
C. A G. 11. Kelsey AW Timmons & Son.
Jlalsted. Elisha Carson A Co.
llarral, Lyon & Co. Howland, Ward &
Bannister & Lanneau. Taft.
Jackson, Caters A Co. Casimf.r Patrice.
Boorakm A Co. |C. Hhrckmvf.r & Co.
Miller, Ripley & Co. |Geo. B. Locke A Co
Haviland, llarral A D. Crocker A Co.
Allen. S. Chadwick A Co.
Weed & Fanning. Jno. L. Pezant & Co.
Gilliland, Son & How- S. Mo wry, Jr.
ell. Kdw. Winslow.
Hyatt, Mcßur.net & W. Jones & Smith.
Co. Otis J. Chafee.
J. W. Y. Walton. .William Millikin.
E. H. Stoddard. Millikin & Walton.
11. Stoddard, Miller Dorrance & Bigi.ow.
A Co. Fas Bancroft & Co.
John Van Winkle. J. R. Simonton A Co,
Wm. C. Oakley. (Hillard A Wade.
Hatch. Fleming <Sr Co. Nathan A. Cohen.
Hayden, Gregg A Co. N. H. Wildman A Co.
Baker, Fry A Co. Starr A Williams.
James R. Stevens. F.Day.
James J. McCarter. Lord At Stocker.
Taylor A Kennedy.
May 3 thsß 120
EXTENSIVE STOCK OF HEADY MADE
CLOTHING.
E. ©. COOSCE,
A r O. 197 BROAD STREET,
HAS constantly on hand, and continues daily
to receive from his own manufactory, fresh
sttpoltes of the most
FASHIONABLE A WELL MADE CLOTHING,
Which he offers Wholesale and Retail, on the
most liberal terms, and invites his friendsand cus
tomers to call and examine
Great pains are taken in the selection and work
manship of his Goods, and his assortment is not sur
passed in any market. His Stock comprises every
article in his line, among which are the following,
DRESS AND FROCK CLOTH COATS, of su
perfine and common Blue, Black, Brown, Olive,
Green, Invisible Green, Dahlia, Purple, Claret,.
Gray, &c.
OVER-COATS, first rate and common Blue, Black,
Brown. Drab, Olive, Green, Daltlia, Mohair, Steel
Mixt, Pilot Cloth, Peterslmms, Ac. Also, superi
or German Goatshair Camhlet.
GENTLEMEN’S SUPERIOR CLOTH CLOAKS :
Blue, Black, and Brown, fine and common Cam
blet. of Blue. Brown, Ac.
L A DIES SU P ERFIN E AND C OMMON C L OTH
CLOAKS, Bine, Brown, and Olive. Also, fine
and common Camblet, Merino, Circassian, Bro
chelles, Ac. Ac.
PANTALOONS, of superfine and common Cloth..
Blue, Black, Brown, Olive, Drab, Grey and Buffi
ftne Black, and other Rib’d Cassimeres of all des
criptions and colors. Also, a variety of Plaid
Cloth and Cassimeres, Cord and Beavertines.
VESTS, superfine and common Blue # Black Cloth
and Cassimere, Plain, Plaid and Fig’d Silk Vel
vets, Plain, Plaid and Fig’d Merinoes and Valen
tins, White and BuffCassimere, Plain, Plaid and
Fig’d Silk. Plain and Fig’d Toilenet and Merino.
Plain and Fig’d Quilted Silk, Plain, Fig’d and
Striped Marseilles, Plain and Fig’d Cotton Velvet!
Swan down, Ac. *-
SATINET CLOTHING, fine and common Frocks
Coatees and Round Jackets, Plain, Plaid and
Strined Pantaloons.
YOUTH’S AND BOY’S CLOTHING, Blue, Blk.
Brown and Green Frock and Dress Coats, Pan
taloons and Vests, do. Satinet Frocks, Coatees
Round Jackets, Pantaloons and Vests. Cloth ana
Petersham Over-Coats, and Camblet Cloaks,
Also, a variety of Negro Clothing.
GENTLEMEN’S FINE LINEN AND COTTON
SHIRTS, Striped and Plaid Gingham, do. Wooler
and Cotton Under-Shirts and Drawers, Collars
Bosoms, Suspenders, Stocks, and Ildkfs.
Also, a general assortment of
FUR, SILK AND BEAVER HATS AND FUT
CAPS. 125 Jan. 24
COGNAC BRANDY, 11. GIN, &c.
pipes 4th proof COGNAC BRANDY
104 pipes do. do.
44 do. old Champaign do.
12 do. Holland Gin
3 hhds 4th proof Jamaica Rum
] do. Irish Whiskey
30 bhls. Alonongahela Whiskey
75 do. Ist proof do.
70 do. N Gin
CO do. N E Rum
10 do. Peach Brandy
25 do Peppermint cordial
59 do Malaga Wine
12 do Cherry Brandy
25 qr casks Teneriffe Wine, L P
40 do Sicily .Madeira
25 do Marseilles do
23 pipes sweet Catalonia Wino
25 h casks Muscat do
2 pipes old Maderia do
I butt superior old Port do
For sale low by CLARKE, McTIER A Co.
April 17 115
GROCERIES. "
THE subscribers having received a large lot of
goods, offer for sale, on reasonable terras, ihe
following:
40 hhds prime St. Croix Sugar
10 hhds Porto Rico do
12 hhds New Orleans do
100 bags prime Green Coffee
175 hags Rio do
75 bags Java do
15 boxes double refined loaf Sugar
10 bbls single do do
10 bbls lump do do
25 bbls soft shell Almonds
25 boxes Sperm Candles
20 boxes Hull A Sons mould Candles
20 boxes Soap No. I
10 boxes- Hyson Tea
12 boxes Gunpowder and Imperial Tea
6 cases 2lb Caddies
40 whole and half bbls batter Crackers
5 tierces Copperas
20 bbls No. 1 Mackerel
15 half bbls No. 1 Mackerel
25 hhls and half bbls No. 2 Mackerel
50 bbls No. 3 Mackerel
30 bags Pepper, Spice, and Gingef
200 reams wrapping Paper
10,000 best Spanish Segars
8.000 best Principe Segars
,0,000 half Sp.nW.Rjj™£ , IcTn , R * co
On hand a large assortment of castings, iron and
nails. U-t A P nI 19
RICH EMBROIDERIES.
CJNOWDEN A SHEAR, have just received
from New York, a large supply of LADIES
r?ch embroidered capes and COL
LARS, embracing a great variety of styles and all
of the latest pattern-., also, Ladies Embroidered
Muslin, and Linen Cambric Cuffs, and a large sup
ply of Needle Worked Muslin Edsings, and Insert
ings, (some of thin Muslin.) to which they respect
fully invite the attention of the Ladies.
April 12 111
HATTAHOOCHEE MONEY WAN.
TED. Enquire at the Georgia State Lottery
Office. 82 Feb. 3