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m.i± "* -■ ■ —i ... ■'* ■ ——„—________ % WILLIAM E. JONES. AVGUSTA, «EO„ THURSDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 13, 1 83*. [Tri-weeklv.l-Tol. 11.-No 1«. -*JJ ' '- J.'JLI-i 1 J—',l., - £1!!- 1 . , "IJ-il-""’ 1 ■ . -- - - - #Ublll)S£l) DULY. TRI-WEEKLY AM) WEEKLY, At No. It road Street. TERMS —Daily papei, Ton Dollars per annum *1 iu ad •ance. Tri-weekly paper, at Six Dollars i.i ' advance, or Seven at the end of the/ear. Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance or Four at the cud of the year. > *•«*> y. ■jli.'Ug? CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUST A. Wednesday Morning', Peb. 14* Elkctiost.—An election was held in the town of Hamburg on Monday the 12lh instant, for Intendant and six Wardens of said town, and tho following persons were elected:— I Henry Shultz, Intendant; M. R. Smith, Joseph I Woods, M. Gray, B. F. Goudy, H. L. Jeffers ■ and A. Walker, Wardens. ■ HxJfDsoMF.DivinKNn.-Tho Ochmulgee Slenm ■ Boat Company has Aclaro 1 a dividend of thirty, -S per cent for the last year. Good business this* I The schr. Sarah Ann, arrived at N. Orleans H on the 7th instant from Tampico, whence she H sailed on the I si, bringing §103,000 in specie. ■ CrNctNNATi MAnkXT,—On the Ist instant 9 Flour was §5 25; Whiskey 28 CIS; Hogs 050 a S 4 50; tho weather cold and dry—canal closed— ■ money very scarce—specie advanced to 5a 6 ■ premium. ■ The Br. brig Grenada, Tuzo, from Trinidad H for Savannah went ashore on the south breakers ■ on the 13lh ult., tho weather being very thick.— H yhe vessel will probably be lost—crew saved ■ Latkst from Sr. Adoustine. —TheSavan- -9 nah Georgian of the 13th inst, says:—“The stea -9 mer Florida, Capt Nock, arrived yesterday from 9 St Augustine. We learn that the late skirmish of Gen. Jcsup, with the Indians, P' ticed last ■ week, is fully cenfirmod. Gen . 4> g . WO und, wo ■ are happy to say, is Captain N. brings ■ no news f rjm arr,y t pj ej howover, furnish* W rs the lollowin- intelligenoo. 1 he sloop Splendid, Capt Holms, arrived on Friday, 9th inst. at St. Augustine, having left Indian river on the 7th. Capt ft. reported that the schr. Lqr.dha. was ashore on Indian river bar, but iV!!l, probably, be got oil - . Tho schr. Stilly sliller was also ashore, on the north brea. aeri,ifsaiiio was considered doubt, 'ful whether she could be got off. The steamers Wm. Gaston, Charleston, end James Boatwright, were left a*. Indian river. The steamer James Adams left St Augustine «w» the 6th for the same river, and the Forester was to have kit for the same river on the 9th. Tho steam dredge boat’Balize, for New Orleans, touched at St Auguslino for wood, and was to leave on tho 9th for her destined port. Mail Ron nr.ns.—Tho Post Master General ha* offered a reward of six hundred dollars to . apy? person or_ persons *d'.o rhay preruolc the arrest and conviction of the robbers and murder* ers, or any of them, engaged' in tho late r.ffair near Stockton, Alabama. The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser of the 19th instant, quotes sales at the stock exchange as follows: SVtciK —American gold a4 i premium;— halt dollars 4 a do; doubloons §l7; Patriot doubloons 16 a 16 12J. Trbasprx Noth* —i discount a par; sales of $lOOO at tho latter rato. Fiva per cent notes j a 1} per cent premium. \ Excbakoe —Bills upon England 7 a7iprem. The following are ■’.he remarks of Mr. Tab. madge of New York, on the Sub Treasury Bill,; in .reply to Mr. ’Hubbard, of New Hampshire, who expressed the opinion that the New York election had been influenced by the Banks, Mr. FALLMADGE, ofN. Y. now took the floor and addressed the Senate for about one hour with distinguished ability. His remarks were partly foreign to the subject and in re ply to Mr. Hubbard. Mr. T. spoke at some length up oil the re mark in the /’resident’s Message that the New York Election was the result of the exertions of the New York Banks. He said New York has 56 counties. All but 13 have Banks; sos them were Anti-Administration, and 8 Admin istration. In these 8 counties where there were no Banks, the opposition gain—Whig rain—is nearly five thousand, and yet the President says that the Banks brought about the result of this election. In the counties where there were Banks, the gain was in pro .portion not one half. Sir, said Mr. 1 allmadge there may be an excuse lor this declaration, when it is maoe by the organ of the Govern ment —there mav be an excuse for it when it comes as it does'from the Eoco-f»co organs in the city of New York—but when it comes from the President of the United States, I hear the charge with astonishment. Sir, con tinued Mr. T. 1 repel it with indignation. I repel it although it comes from the President himself. He should have known the people of New York belter, and he did know them belter. I call upon every Representative from New York to bear witness to the falsity of the charge. Come from what source it may. be it high or low, from the F.xecutive or -from one of the least exalted, L shall repel it. What a situation do wc present to the world ? \ The President of the United States holding 'forth to the world the declaration that the Banks bribed the voters of lus own State to vote against his own measures. What a mes sage to' be sent to Em ope and the world—to England, where we are largely engaged in trade ! No, continued Mr. Tallmadge, this is not v the cause. Far from it. It originated with 1 the Loco-focoes—the English Radicals—who began a war against till Banks in favoi of misnamed equality— advocating hard money hard monev —exclusive specie payments — experiments,' &c, This party were opposed i to the U. S Bank—so were the Administra tion, and thus a union was brought about be tween the two parties. Ihe Message of the President in September —the squinting at a bankrupt law in that message —winch law the party with all its *erve has not yet had the courage to bring forth. It is these measutes, continued Mr. T., this war upon the Banks— this union with Loco-focoisra —this denuncia tion of meri who did not believe as the party did—it is this which lias prostrated the coun try, and brought Ms where wo are. Here is the cause of our distresses, Your specie circular, your iron-handed, griping l execution of the law has done it; and because all of its, do not do as we are told to do, and swear en mity to every thing not destructive, we ire proscribed—denounced—impeached and im paled There is to be neither freedom of speech nor freedom of thought without denun ciation—bitter, personal, vindictive—and we who will not walk, in the fool-steps of the il lustrious successor of the more illustrious pre decessor, are to have imprecations heaped upon our heads because we will not do what the Executive bids us do. In another part of his speech Mr. T. said— we are called Conservatives—whether in ho nor or derision I eare not. We are called by some “Conservatives,” and called so because our numbers are small. Sir, I must say that 1 think the name of “Conservatives” much better than “Sub.Servalives,” which name has been tendered to the friends of the Sub- Treasury. We have also been called, what wc arc, a Spartan Hand, and when my col' league asks me, as one of that band, to sur render my arms, I must give him the Spartan \ answer, “Come and take them” Had the [‘resident, continued Mr. T.,rc-.| commended the Slate Banks instead of the Sub-Treasury scheme, he would have found supporters. My honorable colleague would then h ive raised the banner of his country,— the stars and the stripes, instead of his banner of gold and silver. In conclusion, if these things are to be per sisted in here, continued Mr. Tallmadge,—if these experiments are “to go on—l warn gen tlemen to remember the Ides of November, when a voice will be heard in New York from the Atlantic to the Lakes, loud as the roar ing cateract which pours its torrents in tones of thunder over her western borders. [vuom oi:n comtEsroNiiKNT.] WASHINGTON, Feb. 9ih, 1838. Mr. Mi'.lilcnburjj of Penn., whose appoint ment as Minister to Austria, I informed you of ”e ! 'irday, resigned his seat as a member of the of Representatives. When the Speaker announced the fact, Mr. WISE made aome complimentary remarks upon the personal and private character of Mr. Mub- Ittnburg. He regretted that that gentleman If ad escaped the operation of the amendmcPt to the Constitution he proposed sortie ilhys ago, prohib iting the President from appointing members of (jongress to office; but he rejoiced that Mr. M. had been removed horn the scenes of turmoil and contest here, and in Pennsylvania, and found a haven of rest and reward in another country ! Mr. BELT,, from the Committed on Indian Affairs, reported the Senate Bill tocxlend the time of service of the Commissioners appointed to ad just the claims to reservations of land under the ■tro-tty with the Choctaw Indians of 183 G. After some discussion, it was made the special order for the morning hour bii Monday next. The House then jwent to the consideration ol private Bills: Among those passed, was the Bill for the relief of Iloliert Fulton’s licirs, (giving them a grant of$100,000.) The debate exceedingly animated. Messie. Owens, Haynes, Craig, M’fCay and Russell, op posed the bill, cliief’y oh the ground, that in mak ing up Mr. Fulton’s account with the GovcrmcrU the Secretary of the Navy had made 100 large an allowance for hi» services, and also for the use by the Government of his steamboat Vesuvius, dur in„ ,’..c attack on New Orleans. Mr. OGDEN HOFFMAN, the dislingushed New York barrister, and Mr. Lcgaro of South Carolina, resolutely and eloquently supported the measure. They dwelt with groat effect on the merits of the illustrious Fulton, —the debt of gratitude due him from the whole Ameiican pen pie; and the national reproach arising frbm i*><> destitute condition of his uiphan children. Mi. WHITTLESEY of Ohio, also Advocated the claim, in The most spirited manner, as a inut ■ ttl- of right, on the documentary evidence submit ted to the committee of claims. The American people in the mass, will, I am sure, approve this act of simple justice to the representatives of a msn who has conferred the greatest and most lasting benefits on his country, and his race. In the Senate Mr. CLAY presented a number of petitions from workmen of different classes, formerly employed by lire United Stales at Brook lyn, N. Y.; but now out of employ, braying that Congress should cause two vessels of war, the Subine and Savannah, now lying at Brooklyn to be completed; so as to afford them employment and the means of suppolt, without detriment or disadvantage to the public. Mr. CLAY very feelingly rcmaikcd on the distressing evidence these and similar petitions from Philadelphia, furnished of the derangement of the c-rrency, and the consequent paralysis which had seized upon every branch ol industry Embarrassment, dislrtss, ruin, the most poignant individual wretchedness, were the results of the series of experiments the Administration had been making. He entreated them to pause ! He implored them in the name ofjustice, of humanity, of their suffering countrymen, to stop in their mad and destructive career!—to collect the ma terials of our former groalncss, now crumbling in ruins around them, and reconstruct the edifice of National Prosperity on a tried, sure, and solid basis! When ho looked at the condition of the country, he entirely concurred in the sentiment expressed ala very large and respectable meeting rn Now York, that the question before the people is not “Bank or no Ban#'— but ‘•Bueaii on so Biieaii!” Mr. Wi lister’s motion to refer to the Commit tee on Finance, the Secretary of the Treasury’s report in answer to his call for information re specting the payment oi pensions and fishermen’s bounties, was taken up, and carried. The debate on the Sub Treasury Bill was re- j sumed. Mr. Smith of Indiana made a very sen- j siblc and vigorous speech against this scheme for I a Government Bank. Mr. Niles has the floor for Monday. The Legislature of Pennsylvania are debating on a series of resolutions against the Sub-Trcas- ! ui-y Bill; and for inslrUtling their Senators to op- 1 pose it. It is generally believed they will p SB ., : 1 and if so, Mr. Buchanan will go against it. The 1 luss us lu-t vatu to tho Suli-Treuxuiy ml vacate/ will settle the mailer in llio Senate. I think, the measure will ho rejected there; and that Mr. Rives’ substitute will be adopted with some modi ileal ions. Both Houses Adjourned over to iVlonday. M [Correspondence of the JV. V. Courier A Enquirer] WASHINGTON, Jan. 3tl, 18.18. I must ask your indulgence while I notice an editorial article in The Georgia Constitutional ist. This is not my wont, and shall not soon he repealed. In my letter of the 271 h December last I referred to certain proceedings «f the Georgia Legislature, and, ns 1 thought, trot itr discourte ous terms. This reference, however, has drawn forth a torrent of angry and vituperative remarks, accompanied with charges of «iliul misrepresen tation. I am at loss to account for this excite ment, Unless indeed, the saying of the late Mr. Widgery, of Portland, is applicable in the present case. On similar occasions, the old gentleman would quietly say —" You may always know the wounded pigeons by their fluttering” I now proceed to give the charges, in lire language they are made, with such explanations as 1 hope j may prove satisfactory ; or at least lead to restore t the equanimity of lire ‘Editor's temper, if it yet re-1 mains rutiled, He says— ‘•To show how reckless this writer '( The Spy 1 in Washington’) is, in his perversion offsets, wo sir dl quote a few of his assumptions, to which we w ill adil a few brief remarks. This writer says that ‘tho Jackson Van Ilmen party succeed ed in their last, local election so far as to carry n majority of ten in lire Senate and Cen In the House of Representatives, This is not ‘the fart. If tho writer had intended to tell the truth, ho would have said, that the majority of the repub lican party in the Senate was ten and in tho House twenty.' [My reply is, that I did intend to tell tho truth. And does not this captious gentleman perceive, that the greater tie makes the majority of the Van llnren party, tho greater the triumph of the opposition in defeating tho friends of power 1 They attempted to prevent, hy law, the circulation of the notes of the United Stales Bank, and their proposition was rejected by ft majori'y of forty. I represented thirl this occur red in a legislative body composed, nominally of a majority of ten Van Burcn members. It now appears dial this act was performed hy a house having a majorly of twenty Van Burcn members. I stand corrected ; hut I must ho allowed to re peat my question—“ Call ye this bucking your friends The Constitutionalist adds—“ The writer” (Tho Spy ) “says that an effort wire made to endorse the Sub noifury scheme, by legislative action. The question was laid on tire table. A morion was made to reconsider and lost, ayes 32—noe* 20.—Absentees 21. No magician is necessary to explain the reason why so many were absent” “If the le ter writer had intended to 101 l the truth he would have said, that these 21 Senators were absent from Milledgevillc; that to the disgrace of the Georgia Legislature, there are always absent from tire scat of government, at least fitly members of troth branches of the General Assem bly, especially after the second week of the ses sion.” [My reply is,that I did not know, that any thing was done hy tiro members of that honorable body ‘to the disgrace of the Georgia Legisla ture,” an A if I hid known the fact, I should have paused before I gave it publicity. I take it for gian ted, wit rout any information on the subject, that tire absentees did not belong to the opposition, os their presence, if they did belong to it, would have increased the majority. The Constitution alist has a perfect right to apply to his political friends such epithets as his knowledge of them enables him to judge whether they do or do pot merit. But he will pardon me, if I decline fol lowing Itis example.] Tho Constitutionalist says—“ With regard to what the letter writer says about the proposition to prevent tho circulation of the notes of the late bank of the United States, he is also wide of the truth. The proposition was not opposed’ because a majority of forty was in favor of “ national bank.” [How am I "wide of the trulhV’ I have not said Ilia - any ol the l ” were favourable to such a bank- I anow nothing of their opin ions or wishes, and, therefore, have said nothing about them. I have only stated a fact, as quo ted in the second paragraph of Ik is letter. May I ask you, Mr. Constitutionalist, are you not con stitutionally a little pelulent ?] The Constitutionalist proceeds—“ The Spy in Washington says] that it is due to Gov. Gilmer to say here, that much of the change in Georgia is to he ascribed to his intelligence and zeal in the cause of tiro people.” “We will inform the letter writer, that Mr. Gilmer Iras operated no change in the sentiments of the people, with regard to a na tional hank.”.—[And who in the name of Heaven said he had 1 Not the Spy in Washington. I do not know whether t c Governor is for or against a bank ; nor do I care. But Ido know that he was a most useful, efficient, and faithful representative of Georgia, in the Congress of the United States. And Ido believe, that llio tal ents and untiring industry of such a man, in the service of his country, must be prod ctive of great good ] The CoiistilutionaliiitcontinueB —"The Spy tells us. that, the Georgia wings have nomina ted their Congressional ticket, and that at presenttbere are in tire House of Representa tives eight administration members, and one whig, Col. Dawson.” “We cannot tell wheth er Col. Dawson will be pleased to find him selfciusscd among the wlr gs, along with J. Q, Adams and Mr. Slade.” Now, a word as to the classificat ion of the wings. Call them opposition men, if you please. Call them any lit ng but Vim Burett men. Mr. Adams and Mr. .Slade arc fanatics on tiro exciting Question of the day. 1 do not stop to inquire into the r motives. But they are encouraging on agitation in the country, winch would uproot its institutions and sever the Union,if they were not checked as they most effectually are, by their thinking and patriotic neighbors in the North. On this question, I do not, class Mr. Dawson with them. They are antipodes. Cel. Daw son, and I regret to say it, with all Iris fine talents, and the doliglitidll social qualities, winch ire is said to possess, (for personally I do not know lire fact) is a Southern fanatic. Whatever maybe his language or policy at home, in Washington, Ire is a whole hog Southern man. 1 speak it respectfully,—He is a Georgian, I had al most sa'd, more than an American 1 have now (lore. The charge against me a wilful misrepresentation” 1 have stated every specification, in the language of my accuser. I have replied to each. In doing this I have occupied more space than I have pre viously occupied for years in defence. If the Constitutionalist dbes not feel and acknow ledge tlris condescension.! shall be compel! cd consider him ungrateful, and will never airim reply to any thing be niaf deem it ex uendleal or proper to say, respecting, i P THE MW IN WASIIIGTON. The Right Soax or Eloquence.— I “That rhetoric,” says Selden, “is the best, 1 which is most reasonaVle and catching We (lave um ustuncj m that old, blunt comman der nt Cadiz, who showed himself a good orator, though not much accustomed to public • apeakirg.” “What » shame,” cried he to his soldiers, when obliged to make a speech to . them, “will it be to you Englishmen, who feed upon good beef, to let those rascally Spaniards beat you, that have nothing to live upon bet oranges and lemons.” The following upimlo from this celebrated Cotton JMalior, cannot fail to bo read with great interest, as well for the quainlness of the style as the fuels it ielates: [AN liqiUUL) SNOW.] Sr Boston, 10th Dec 1717. Tho’wo are gott so far onward as the be ginning of another Winter, yutt we have not forgnit ye last, which at the hitler end whereof wo were entertained and overwhelm ed with a snow which watt attended with some things which were uncommon enough to affhrd matter for a letter from us. Our Winter was not so bad as that, wherein Ta citus tells us t hat Corhulo made liisexpidi lion against the I’urUiiana' iVir that which proved so fatal to ye IA-asht rid Birds in ye days of ye Emperor Justinian, and that | the very F alien were lulled under ye freezing sea, when i’hocas did ns much to ye men whom Tyrants treat like yc Fishes of the sea. lint ye 'conclusion ol our Winter was hard enough, and was too formidable to be easily forgotten, and of a piece with what you had m Europe a year before. The | snow was the chief thing that, made it so. For the’ rarely does a winter passes, .vbore in w.e may not say with Pliny Ingens Hyenie Nins apud nos cop in, yet our last W inter brought with it a snow ’ns true, not equal to that which once fell and lay twenty dilute high about the beginning of October, in ths parts about ye Euxine Sen: Nor to that which, ye French Annals tell us, kept tailing for twenty nine weeks together: Nor to sev oral mentioned by Boethius, wherein vast numbers of people and of Cattle perished: Nor to those that Strabo finds upon Caucas us and Ithodiginua in Armenia; but yet such an one, and attended with such circumstan-' ce» as may deserve to be remembered. On the twentieth of Inst February there name on a tnow, which being added unto what Itad covered the ground a few days be fore, Blade a thicker mantle for our Aether than was usual; And ye storm with it was, for the following day, so violent as to make all oonnnunicDtion between yc neighbors every where to ceas-. People lor some hours could not pass from one side of a street unto another, and yc poor Women who hap pened in this critical 'tine to lull into Travail were pul into Hardships which anon produ i ced many odd stories lor us. Hot on ye Twenty Fourth day of yc month comes Poll, un upon Ossa; Another enow came on which - almost, buried the Memory of ye former, with 1 a Storm so famous that Heaven laid an In -3 teidict on ye Religious Assemblies through out. ye country, on this Lord’s Day, ye i ke 2 whereunlo had never oeen seen be'oru. The " Indians near au hundred years old affirm 1 ihat their Fatliera had never told them ]of any thing that equalled it. Vast numbers of c'ftltlc were destroyed in this ca ’ Ismity. Whorecf some there were, of ye, 'I Stranger sort, weic found standing dead pii thoir leg's, ns it they hod been alive many weeks after, when yc snow mehed away.— And others had their eyes glazed over with ice at such a rate that being not far from the sea, their mistake of their way drowned them there. One gentlemen, on whose tanns were now lost 1100 sheep, with other Cal tell , were interred (shall f say) nr Innixed in the snow, writes me word that thcie were two cattle very singularly circumstanced. For - no less limn eight and twenty days afier the ■ storm the people pulling out tho ruins of an ; hundred sheep out of a Snow Bank, which ■ lay 10 foot high, drifted over them, there was two found alive, which had been there all tins time, and kept themselves alive by eating the wool of their dead companions. When they were taken out they shed thoir own Fleeces, but soon golt into good Case again. Sheep were not the only creatures that lived j unaccountably, for w hole weeks without their usual sustenance, entirely buried in ye Snow drills. The Swine had a share with ye Sheep in strange survivals. A man had a couple of young Hoggs, which he gave over for dead, but on the twenty-seventh day after their Ifu fid/, they made their way out of a Snow Bank at. the bottom of widen they found a little Tansy to feed upon. The Poultry as unac countably tifrvivcd as these. Hens were found alive after seven days; Turkeys were found alive after five and twenty days, buried in the Snow, and at a (balance from yc irround; and altogether destitute to feed ihem. The number of creatures, that kept a Rigid Fast, shuit up in SnoW for diverse weeks altogether, and when found alive after ulljhavo yielded surprising stones unto us. ’i’he VVild Creatures of the Woods, yc outs goings of ye Evening, made thoir Descent as well as they could in this Time of Scarcity for them, towards ye Sea-eids, A vast multi tude of Deer, for yo same cause, taking the same course and ye Deep Snow Spoiling 1 them of their only Defence, which is Inrun. 1 they became such a prey io these Devourers, ( that it is thought not one in 20 escaped, lint hero again occurred a Cunosiiy. 1 heso car* hivorous Sharpers, and especially the Foxes; I would make their noctural visits to the Pens, where the people had their sheep defended from thorn. The poor Ewes big with young j wore so terrified with 'lie approach of ye Fox- i es, and the terror had such impression on 1 them, that most of ye, Lambs brought forth | in ye Spring following, were of /ifonsieur ( Rrinard’s complexion, when ye dams were either White or Blark. It is remarkable that immediately after ye Fall of ye Snow’ an in finite number of Sparrows nude their appear ance, but then after a short continuance all u »ippci red. It is incredible how much Damage was done in ye Orchards. Fur, the Snow freez ing ton Crust as high as the boughs, of yo tiees, anon Split ym to pieces. The catlel also, walking on ye crusted Snow a dozen foot from ye .round so ted upon ye Trees as very much to damnify them. The Ocean was in a prodigious Ferment, and after it was over, vast heaps of little shells, were driven ashore where they were never seen bo,-ore. M glity shoals ot Porpoises also kept, a play dav m the disturbed waves of our Harbours. Thcold Accidents befalling many poor pop ple, whose Cottages wen; totally covered w.th ve very tops of their Cb/mnies to be ’ seen, would afford a story. But there not bomg miy Relation iu I'lnlospliy in them, 1 forbear them. And now lam Sails Terris Navis. And here is enough of my Winter Tale. If it , w?rvo to no other purpose, yett it will servo an opportunity to tell you That nine months ago 1 did a thousand times \Vi»h myself with you in Gresham Colleilge, which is never so , horribly snow’d upon. /Jut instead ot so {{real a Satisfaction all I can atlain to is the pleasure of talking with you in this Epislo lary way and subscribing myself. Syr Yours With an affection that knows no Win er. COT TON MATHER. A Great Yield of Cohn. — lt seems tojbc a difficult matter to convince our farmers, that, with proper cultivation, one acre ot ground is capable of being made to yield as much as eight or teu acres, tended in the common way. \V cso,-’ itataled, that Chief Justice Duchon* an, of Maryland, raised the past season, sev en hundred barrels of Corn on filly acres of land—being 14 barrels to the acre In this section of country, such a product will hardly be credited; yet, if our Fanners would try experiments on a single acre, ploughing&, .manuring it ns it. ought to !>•• done, lliev will find that equal success will attend their exer tions —Ruleigk Uegislcr, A Queer Way to Mknd Matters.— Said a viscount to a knight, “Is it true, air, that in the house where 1 am thought to be witty, you said that 1 had no wit at all 1” Replied the knight to the viscount. —“My lord, 1 nev er was in a house where you were thought to he witty, and I never had occasion to 101 l any body that you bad no wit at all.” Short isn Swkkt.—"l can’t speak in pub he, never ilonn such a thing in all my life,” said a chap the ullier night at n public meeting, who bad been called upon to bold forth, ‘ but if any body in iho crowd will speak for me I’ll hold his hat." V Oi>iM ERCIAJA MOBILE MARKET, EKII U. Remarks —The heavy rains in die early part of the week, the cold weather that succeeded, anil the want of three or four absent mails, ludotlier, have contributed to render the business of die last seven (lays less than was anticipated, and instead of animated and bustling times, a comparative quiet Ims reigned in every department. At this advanced stage bl bur fnjaibess season such diilness was unlocked for, and unless we adopt the opinion we hazarded some weeks since, that our business is becoming general rnlhor than periodical, as heretofore, it is unaccountable. But low supplies have thus far gone into the interior, in consequence of which extensive demands from that quarter may yet bo looked for soon, unless past,experience Ims tailed in teaching the mer chants of the interior the evil of procrastination. Tim lesson taught them lust scisnn, wo opine, however, is too recent ta bo soon forgotten; mid we trust in soon seeing them or theirorders, while our slock.of every description of inercnoiidizo re mains fresh and unhroKcn. Cotton —Since our last F sue, tip to Monday, the market has been flat, and a deduction of { to I cent is noticed, and n great anxiety on ’ho part of holders to realize at this decline. Yester day sales to from f> to 6000 hales wore effected at an advance of about iof a cent. Sales of the weak about 9000 halos; Receipts, 13,000; Kxports 3,f>03, leaving n stock on hand of 81,37’J halos. The subjoined quotations are defined to ho in accordance with the transactions; .Liverpool Classification, Good and fine, 11. a 13 Good fair, IU Fair, lot s 101 I Middling, «J a tfl Inferior and ordi nary, 01 a If —PS—w—i !■ —m BA TO TBMMI JPVUIjIC. PAYNE & JANUARY’S Patent I.cver Press, Fur Railing mid Cain pressing Cotton. tl’llK attention of Flankers and Shippers ii res- S. ivßVlfuHy invited to the uliovn valuable inven tion, " ilk the confident boliel that it will bu found superior to every improvement ot the kind yet of fered to the public. The comparatively trifling expense required lor its erection and successful op eration, together with the quantity of cotton tt is capable ot packing, (six or eight hands being able to turnout 60 bales per day,) give it an importance which they trust, a liberal community will appre ciate. As somoovidencß of the favotahlo opinion al ready excited iu lire public mind, the proprietors beg leave to introduce the lidluvving report and ro solulion ol thu select committee appointed by the House of Representatives of the stale of Missis sippi. " Che select committee to whom was referred the memorial of Messrs. Fnyno and January, have had the same under consideration. The committee have examined the model of the cotton press pre sented by Mr. January ; from sir id examination, and tiro statements of several gentlemen who havuseoii the name in operation, the coiriiiiiltco believe it u valuable improvement, and ouo well worthy ofihe patronage of the cotton planter, both for packing and compressing cotton. The committee therefore reeornin-nd the adoption ol tiro following resolu tion • Rt solved hy the Legislature of the Stale of Mis sissippi, That Messrs, f’nyno <V January, by tho le vel -lion ol their new patent Cullen press, have con- in an essential manner to improve (he operation of coitm pressing. Adopted hy the House ot Representatives, on the Clh day of May, 1837. Recommendations. —'Iho undersigned mem bers of the Senate of the State of Mississippi, lake great pleasure in recommending to the cotton plant ers al Mississippi and the adjoining .Stales, I’uyne & January’s f'atent Lever (lotion Frees, for pack ing and compressing cotton. From the examina tion we have bad time to make cf tho model exhi bited to us by tbo paten.oes, and also from llie re port of a committee of tho House ol Representa tives of tins >tulo, we have no liesifaiimn in saying that the general use ol the patent It ver cotton press will ho highly beneficial to lha cotton planing in terest of the .Southern states. (Signed,! A. (J, McNutt, Stephen C< eke, Jehu Wall, franklin WaUJioht. 11. Buckner, 11. A. Har gis, James Mcßaveu. I do certify that I have one of Messrs, Payns,and January’s patent lever cotton presses erected on my plaimcion, and find it in every respect superior to any thing ol the kind 1 have over seen, and would recommend the adoption of it to every planter in the tsoutU W ith eight hands, 60 hales par day 1 can he easily baled, and when erected, will, no 1 doubt, last from twenty to thirty years. Hinds county, 7lh April, 1837. A. STONY, [f’opy.) Natchez, Jlth F. h 1837—1 have wit nessed the operation of Air- January’s paient lover cotton press m compressing a halo ol cotton from the sire ol 37 inches to llie size of 3D inches, and do with pleasure state, that I believe it a cheap and durable machine for packing or compressing cotton. NOAH Barlow. [Copy.] Natchez,37th Feb. 1837, Having wit nessed the operation of the Inver press lately put up iu this place by R. W January, Lsq. for the purpose of compressing cotton, i have grea, pleasure in say ing that 1 was fully satisfied of its efficacy, and would earnestly recommend it to tho notice of planters who are warning presses at their gins for packing cotton. S. M. STEDAIAN, (Copy.) Natchez Oil Mill, Fob. 27, 1837 -W f| the undersigned, having examined the patent lover compress nf Mr. January, and seen i’ iu operation, are perfectly satisfied that when the machinery is properly adjusted, it will not require more lhaa tho power ul two men to compress 9 h*\ c of cotton; mating it ns am ail in dimensions ns I bat from tho usual screw press. We would cordially recoia niomi it id all, mid more particularly to those deter mined upon erecting a compressing machine, as ! being preferable on ninny accounts, and certainly i two ot tl.e greatest importance, viz; expense ami power. . DAN’L A. BALCOM, JAMKS MU NS ELL, 1 JUILV AMBLER, ! SETH YOUJVG. I have examined the compressing machine ot Mr. January, and lolly concur in opinion with the above. 1 , D. c. ambler. lie, the undersigned, having seen the above named machine in 0,-Miration, lully concur in the i statement expressed by the above named gentlemen. WiW, RAMSEY, THUS. J. SIIROYER. 1 ■ [Copy. 1 Natchez, Feb. 21, 18j7.—Mr. Rob’t ■ January—dear sir; las an uninterested person,have ■ witnessed, while the ship Montpelier, ot which I have the command, was lying at the cotton press landing, the power ol your compressed lexer press, and ran attest it has redo ad one of my largest bales ol the lot of col tun marked “Elios duffs,” as small e.s any that I have ever had Irom I lie me tin press ot llie same size; and it is my opinion that your press can reduce cotton bales into ns small a Compass ns any steam press, as 1 was convinced from the trial made with the cotton halo above rcleired to. 1 wits ~>«» of the three individuals that compressed said I ale. To nil Planters in want of presses, w ho make large crops of cotton, w hich they are in llie habit of shipping to Europe, const W ise, I w ould unhesita tingly recommend the adoptionof this press,' ns it would enable them to have their cotton carried at less rales of freight; and the compression ran be (Juno by their own p' otuil ms while ginning. lam very sorry Una your press had not hoen in operation hphire my cargo was press* d, as you would have hud a heller chanco to have exhibited llie performance of your press before my departure Wishing you all iho good success that you just ly mom lur your industry, 1 remain, your sincere Irieml, JAMES MEIGS, On board ol the ship Montpelier. Uurkk County, Geo. dip. 31st, 1337. I certify I inn I have packed seven or eight hags of cotton on Payne <V. January's patent lever press, and (ind it in every way superior to any thing of Iho .kind J have over seen, and can with pleasure recommend the adoption of u to every plainer, and I litya no douhl when creeled, will lust twenty er thirty years. JOHN G. HATCHER. JJutiKK County, Geo. Jan 31st, IS3S. 1 do certify that 1 huvuone ot Payne A. January’* patent lever presses on my plantation,'the fuel that has over hoen erected in this Kioto, and can slate with pleasure to the public, that it surpasses any thing of the kind I have ever seen in point of speed, cose and oonvonienc :, and 1 sec no danger in pres sing cotton w ith proper care, and it i nn he attacked to the gin-house, so as to ho secure from all weath er. The cost of w Inch may bo covered w ith s<76 or s3l)Uat farthest, and when limit of good materi als, will no doubt hist Irom twenty to thirty years, and I believe it is calculated to press two Dales in Ike lime any screw can press one, and would rccem liu ml the adoption ol it to all planters. KUW. 11 ATCHER. GEORGIA, Ihirkr cfmnty: We the undersigned do certify (hot we Were pre sent and withea-ed the operation of'Mesara. Payne A January's patent lever cotton press, erected an the plantation of Mr. Edward Hatcher, and lAk# pleasure in saying that we helievo it will answer the purpose most admirably, and will be a decided advantage to every cotton planter. The Colton bale pressed in oor presence, «as five lost long, twenty live by seventeen inches, which weighed feur hun dred pounds. The sale wan pressed will* lonr hands. A. J. LAWSON,- JAS. W. JONES, A PEMBERTOJV, i. JO.SEIM I M.'REY NOLDS, L). W. CLAYTON. Feb. 7, 1833 1 concur with the above named gentlcrocuj; h WM. iIAVCHEB. J I concur with Hie statements of the above named gentlemen. WM. ti. C. MORRIA'. GEORGIA, Tlurkf enunty ' I do hereby certify lh.it I was employed hy Mr. Edward Hatcher to build ono o I'nytre A, JaoWt ry‘s cotton presses alter a 1 model produced by'Mr. John [‘eirin, which I completed end saw in opera tion, which performed beyond my expectation*. Further 1 believe two good mechanics c»n eotnplele one in three weeks, timber and iryn famished; I also think it worthy the consideration of all colt#* planters, also all those who wish to compress cotton bales. JAMES NELSON'. Feb Slh, 1838. GEORGIA, Tiurfie ciiunh/: I certify 1 have seen the performance *f Messrs. Bayne A Junor ry’s pstent lever press and can say with pleasure that it surpasses any thing 1 havegv cr seen or known to pack colt mi with, ahd is ridl surpassed in point of speed, ease and convenience, and ttlien erected, will no doubt last twenty or thir* ty years, and do most heartily recommend the adop tion ol n to all planlcts. , Given under my hand, this Bih Fob 1888 • james mcallister. I do heartily eoncur with the above certificate. SAMUELS. LOVELL. I most earnestly concur with the above certificate. Feb. 9th, 1838-1 JOHN OWEN. ! Persons desirous of obtaining Ihn above named Patent Press, either for Georgia or Florida, will please address John Pkhri.v, Waynesboro’ Burke < onnty, Georgia. 1 T In offering the above namrilPrcsa fir sale to the citizens of Georgia and'Florida (its utility having already been proven) we hesitmu net to say. that, in every instance where i trial of itn power is made, that it will bn found greatly superior tunny thing ol the kind ever offered. I,lie public. Wo hope for, and oonfid Hilly expect, th* patronage ol the pnblis. A. BRVNE, JOHN PERRIN, fob H Smdtrw&w 37 MACON SPRING R ACES. HE annual spring races over the Centra 0, Course will eommcnce im Tuesday the 20th ilav ol March, when the following purses will be offered: ... First day, mile heaths, purse Second day , two mile heats, purse 350 i Third day, three mile heats, purse 500 Fourth day, four mile heats, purse 750 ? Fifth day .mile bents, best 3 in 5, pUrse 300 Weights agreeable to the rules of ibe trnrk. •' Jan Tfi P?;w4t MISTI AN A MOTT. , 13. V.icJ. lIICC, ATI' OUM i’.S AT LA IT, * Moticello ami Eatenteu, C.Vofgm, tlf ) LL practice in the several courts ot the conn- Vr a ties of Jasper, Junes, Morgan, Puinnin, Bald win, Bulls, Henry, Newton, .Monroe, Walton, and in the Federal Court for the district ol Georgia. REFERENCES. Aigutla.— A. JAT W. Miller; Webster, Par maleo A Co , Hnrvilarid.Ki.dey, A Co. ' Macon. —Poe A Niabil, Henry G. Lamar, Ckarle* J. McDonald. ” .S'otvin nnh. —Berrien and Cuyler, G. B. Lamar, Jo seph W. Jackson. : Churlit oii —James L. Pctigrue, Weed $ Fannin, C. A G. H Kelsey A //alsleud. 1 i The Charleston Courier and Merenry, and New York Courier and Enquirer w ill publish the above twice a week for 6 months ami forward their accounts to this office.j nov 17 wfim 259