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jBcHHONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUOUSTA .
■ wfIDN KS DA V JIOUMNG, FIIIIUUAKV 2th
tSjffli It will bo remembered, says the Southern Rp-
that the late Legislature requested the
Governor, to appoint a commission of competent
H gentlemen to investigate the subject of our Slate
■ finances, and to report a financial system, for the
■ •■■. o.mUnn ,•,( the ensnintr legislature.
■ We understand his Excellency has performed
■ this duty by the appointment of the following
V gentlemen, to constitute this commission—John
| M. Berrien oi Savannah, Wm. W. HoltofAu.
f gusta, and Absolom 11. Chappcl of Macon,
I Esquires.
Siamese Twins.
We would notify our readers that Thursday
evening will be the very last opportunity of see
ing these young men in Augusta; since they were
in this city in 1834 they have been in France,
Holland, Belgium, the West Indies, and Canada.
They are in the enjoyment of most excellent health
and we see no reason to think that their lives will
be shorter than the average of mankind. From
hence they intend to visit the interior of our State,
where they will doubtless attract a good deal of
attention.
John Chapman, convicted of the murder of his
wife at the late Superior Court of Bibb county,
has been sentenced by Judge King to be hanged
on Friday, the 22d March.
U. S. Senator.—The Richmond Compiler of
last Friday says—“ To-day the election of Senator
comes on. It will be a close matter, and the
wisest of political prophets cannot augur the re
sult. It will be a doubtful combat—Greek meets
Greek, to “lances lances shields to shields opposed.’’
A letter received at Charleston, from Frankfort,
Ky., of the 7th instant, states that there is yet a
chance of the reconsideration of the Rail Road
Bank bill, in the House of Representatives, but
that a new danger has arisen in the threatened
veto of Governor Clark. A great excitement
however ,bno aim i- Unity inerensina
among the people in favor of the measure, which
will sooner or later sweep away all opposition.
The question is put by common consent, on il s
own hook, entirely disconnected with Presidcnlia 1
or other politics—Whigs and Van Burenitcs are
found among its supporters and opponents, and
it will thus have a fair chance on its own merits,
without check except from the local jealousy of
Louisville. Young Henry Clay is one of its
most zealous advocates in the Legislature, we
learn, from another source, that Senators Clay and
Crittenden, at Washington, have recently ex
pressed themselves warmly in favor of the mea
sure.
The agent of the State Bank of Alabama, now
at Liverpool, announces the shipment of one
million of dollars in specie, which is to go, in
equal sums, to the branches at Decatur and Hunts
ville.
The Baltimore Chronicle says, that James A.
Payne, Esq., of the “Jeffersonian,” published at
Warringlom, Va., whilst on his way from Wash
ington to Baltimore, was robbed of his pocket
book containing three thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars, and a letter to Messrs. Baltzell and
Payne, of this city, containing one hundred and
seventy five dollars. The robbery itself is not so
very remarkable, but that an editor should have'sj
much money about him is certainly wonderful.
New Yonk, Feb. 13.
The St. Andrew. —This ship was owned by
R. Kermit, Esq. and was insured in this city for
40,000 dollars—her freight list was also insured
for $lO,OOO. A letter written on the 9th, from
Thomas Sands, Esq. says,—“A steamer has ar
rived from the St. Andrew with ship stores, and
thirty packages dry goods, and we arc now send
ing oft’lighters to bring up as much more of the
cargo as can be saved ; should the weather con
tinue moderate we hope the greater part will be
saved, but of course in a damaged state. The
underwriters may rely upon every exertion being
made to secure as muoh as possible. The pas
sengers speak in high terms of commendation of
the conduct of Captain Thompson.
Captain Bursley, of the Cambridge, reports
that Mr. Sands informed him that all the cargo,
the ground tier excepted, would be saved.
The Pennsylvania.—This ship was owned
by Messrs. Grinnell, Minturn & Co. and was val
ued at $70,000. She was insured for $50,000.
Her freight bill was upward of $11,000; her car
go, of course, was very valuable, which, it
is feared, will almost be a total loss. Wc under
stand that the ship was insured in this city, and
the chief part of the cargo in England. The la
mented Captain Smith has left a wife and two
children. Mr. Blydenburgh, the first mate, has
loft a large family. The body of Captain S. had
not been found at last advices.
The Oxford was owned by Messrs. Goodhue &
Co., and was valued at #70,000, and was insured
in this city. A letter of the 9th says that the
whole of the cargo between decks had been landod
on the beach, and was not much damaged. The
hull did not appear to be much injured—it was
expected she would be got off.
The Mobile Examiner says:—The law “to
prohibit unlawful Banking Associations,” passed
at the late session of the Legislature of Alabama,
makes the manufacture, issuing or circulation of
nny bond, check, note or bill of any description
03 m ' mc y 01 circulation, by any unchartcrcd bank
or individual company, n misdemeanor, punish
able on conviction by fine not less than $lOO, nor
more than $5OO for every offence, every indivi
-sua *JL n firm or association being separately liar
. * lO Person who signs the bills in any capa
city, are also liable to indictment and the same
penalties on conviction; and after the 3d of July
next every person in the slate, offering or
circulating any such bills, will lie indictable for a
misdemeanor and subject to fine not less than $2O
nor more than $lOO. The partners, limited and
general, in any association which have issued
these bills, are declared responsible individually
foi e\ery note issued, and all persons paying
them away between the date of the law and the
3d of July (when the penal clause begins to ope
rate,) are to be deemed endorsers and made liable
without any protest or demand.
fho law does not include bank notes of char
tered banks of other states above the denomina
tion of Jive dollars.
Mississippi Hanks.
• b<. Grand Gulf \V hie elves the following gloo
my picture oftho-state of affairs in that quarter.
“As we anticipated, all the evils ofa partial re
sumption have come upon us.
“Hard times the men do cry
Hard times the women sigh
lluin and misery,
No cash is here !”
_ And the times are hard as the flinty heart of
Gen. Jackson. Not ten per cent can be collected,
the most solvent men in community arc unable
to meet engagements which three or four years
since would not have homo upon them more than
the lightness of a feather. Many merchants hard
ly venture to ask for money lest the debtor refuse
to give his note in settlement. And mid the pres
sure of the present, wo feci that a long future of
distress is before us.”
Fire.
The Huntsville Democrat of the 9th says:
About 4 o’clock on Sunday morning last, the citi
zens of this town were alarmed by the cry of fire;
which when first discovered had completely en
veloped the extensive workshop of Messrs. Mitch
r,u kl '"ated hi the rear of the Cum
berland Church. The shop with its whole con
tents was entirely lost, together with a large quan
tity ofvaluableplankstorcd in itsvicinity. Messrs.
M. & W. were contractors to build the Court
House in this place, and all the fine work intend
ed for that building, including a large quantity of
costly flooring and cedar plank, besides a great
deal of work intended for private buildings, bad
been stored or packed in the shop until it was lit
erally filled. The whole loss including tools to
the value ofa thousand dollars or more, is estima
ted at near ten thousand dollars. The loss will
he severely felt by those industrious and hard
working mechanics, and the completion of the
Court House will, we fear, lie delayed much be
yond the time at first contemplated. The fire is
supposed to have been accidental.
We are glad to learn that a public meeting wa
immediately called, and committees appointed to
wait on the citizens of each ward, to receive .*l.l
for the relief of the sufferers.
From ,h * J %fl£^ffk lt £fflrJer£'£nquirer.
The committee appointed by the citizens of
Savannah, in June last, to procure plans and
erect a monument, commemorative of those who
perished in the ill-fated Pulaski, have unanimous
ly adopted the plan furnished by John Frazee,
esq., of Ncw-York. The citizens of other States,
who were common sufferers in this melancholy
catastrophe, arc invited to co-operate with the citi
zens of Georgia in the ercciion of the monu
ment. The following extract from the letter of
Mr. Frazee, which accomponied the plan will
convey an idea of it to our readers:
“ The structure of the Monument in square in
plan and equilateral; it commences with three
steps, the top of the upper step forming a platform
supporting a rusticated pedestal, after the order of
the most chaste Grecian Doric. The pedestal is
crowned with an entablature, terminating in low
pediments at each face of the Monument. On
the tympan of each pediment is sculptured the
winged hour glass, emblematic of the rapid flight
of time, and over each angle of the cornice is
raised the tragic mask, an appropriate symbol
found frequently upon the tombs and sareopliagic
of ancient Greece. The frieze is enriched with
series of ornament, composed of the honeysuckle
flower. A plinth now rises from the plane of the
terrace: on one side of the plinth is sculptured in
bold relief the wreck of the Pulaski, sinking
amidst the overwhelming waves of the ocean ; on
the side opposite the wreck scene, is intended to
be inscribed a record of the melancholy disaster.
Wc now come to the most important feature of
the monument. A female figure seated on a cliff
of the sea immediately over the wreck, with a
weeping youth leaning upon her knee, present an
imposing group ol grief i she is designed to por
tray that intense sorrow and awful agony of soul
among the survivors and friends of those that
perished. Nothing of this world can assuage the
grief, and in the depth of heart broken anguish
she lifts her weeping eyes heavenward, looking to
God alone as the only source of hope and 'Conso
lation.”
From the Pensacola Gazette.
The establishment of n line of armed steam ves
sels between Pensacola and Ghagres, or some
convenient port of the Isthmus of Panama, would
accomplish many interesting objects;
Ist. Opening a direct and quick communica
tion witli our commerce in the Pacific Ocean.
2d. The transportation of specie and passen
gers.
3d. Affording protection to our commerce on a
lino of 1500 miles, embracing a portion of the
Gulf of Mexico; its outlet between Cuba and Flo
rida; the pass between Cuba and the Spanish
Main; and the Caribbean Sea.
4th. Forming an excellent school in which our
naval officers and men may acquire knowledge of
steam machinery and navigation.
sth. Making experiments by which may be as
certained the best form and qualities of steam
vessels.
The importance of the above objects to the na
val and commercial interests of the country is ob
vious and requires no comment, other than to state
that a direct communication with the Pacific will
not only afford great facility and support to the
commercial enterprise of our citizens in that sea,
but have a tendency to increase it. That permit
ting the vessels to transport passengers and spe
| cic, under certain regulations, will at once draw to
the United States a large amount of specie and
1 travelling that arc now diffused through many and
uncertain channels. It is calculated that the
journey from Panama may be performed to Pcn
> sacola in 7 days, to Charleston in 12 days, to
I Ncw-York in 15 days: and that letters can he rc
, ccived in New York, (by express mail from Pcn
f sacola) in 13 days from Panama.
Ti e protection afforded to our commerce on
the line stated, would, in itself,justify the expense
incurred. The steam vessels would constitute
the most efficient portion of the West India
Squadron.
England and France are paying great attention
to their steam marine, not only in the construc
tion ot vessels, but in keeping a certain number in
active service, in order to make their officers fa
milial with a power that is working great changes
in the relations between nations, both on the score
of defence and commercial intercourse. It is
quite clear, then, we should do something in the
promises, especially as in the plan proposed, we
ean combine scientific instruction and experiment
with commercial facilities.
I will add, that Pensacola designed as the great
naval arsenal of the South affords thereby impor
taut advantages to the fitting out and employment
of steam vessels of war in the way proposed. Coal
can be obtained readily at New Orleans and a de
pot established at Key West, if it should lie de
termined to use coal exclusively; but I think it
would be preferable to use the fat pine of Florida,
arge quantities of which can be procured from
the public lands in Pensacola Bay. The neces
sary flic] can also be obtained at Panama.
Ihe number of vessels required to keep up a
weekly communication would be three; a fourth
vessel might be held in commission to take the
place of defective ones, and render harbor service
in lowing vessels over the bar.
I have briefly- brought this subject before the
public, trusting it will take some interest in it;
and that at some time or other, it may receive the
attention otthc head otthe navy department, who
is represented as enlightened and liberal, and en
tertaining a far viewed policy' in relation to the
great arm of our national defence.
Yours respectfully, WM.H. CHASE.
Pensacola, Jan. 8. 1839.
A New wat op Reasoning. —The editor of
a western paper, an old bachelor, refuses to pub
lish marriages, unless paid for as advertisements.
He says, that “he sees no reason in being obliged
to expose the folly of his fellow creatures gratis.”
The Dead Alive.— lt is stated by a corres
pondent of the New Orleans Sun, that Desha, (he
“ f a , former Governor of Kentucky, who
murdered a man named Baker, and was reprieved
and who afterwards murdered a man in Texas'
but died in prison before the day of execution
came, is since discovered to be alive. His exis
tence is accounted for by supposing that he did
not absolutely die in prison, and that a log of wood,
a counterfeit body, was buried instead of him.
“Love Draw.-v Out,” by Steam A Lon
don paper says that “one pound of cotton, which
formerly could only be spun into a thread of one
hundred and eight yards long, can now, by the
application of steam, produce a thread of one hun
dred and sixty-seven miles in length 1” This is
“spinning a long yarn.” and no mistake.
Daniel Sweatman, of Albany, one of the
?iV c ."k,te “OYimlsor, has been pardonc-.l
lo he hung or shot. When he was captured Col.
Prince ordered him to he shot immediately; at J
VlVl'l, b r r yprvjvvpllv t'njdgd b.'S-Srms and said, “s/ioot 1
the desired effect, a gallant officer of the British
forces at Malden interfered, and his life was saved.
Toledo li/ade.
. .. ——■ • —. /«.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives,
by a vote of 330 to 81, have ordered to its third
reading a hill making highway robbery and bur
glary punishable by imprisonmenl for life, in
stead of death.
Lynching in Ohio. —The Canton Reposi
tory of the 31st. Jan. records the following outa
ges.
We regret that Judge Lynch has commenced
operations in Stark county. A few nights since
50 or 60 persons assembled at Berlin, and caught
a'German doctor, stripped him, led him about
some distance, and tarred him.
In Huron, Huron county, Ohio, a few days
since two negroes were arrested on a charge of
committing a rape on a German women. On ex
amination, one was committed, the other released.
The one released was taken by a mob, whipped
and emasculated in such a manner as to cause
his death. And all the negroes in the town hud
been notified to leave in a few hours.
Test of Good Flock. — Mr. John Babcock,
of London, gives the following rule to ascertain
the quality of flour.
“Flour which is pure and unadulterated, may
he known by your seizing a handful briskly, and
squeezing it half a minute; it preserves the form
of the hand in one piece, although placed rudely
on the table. Not so with that which contains
foreign substances; its adhesive property is weak,
and falls to pieces immediately. The whiteness
of flour is no evidence of its goodness; the differ
ent materials used in adulterating flour, have a
tendency to whiten it.”
There is Death in a Slight Cold.—Wc
extract from the third number of a series of essays
on health and disease, being published by Dr.
Alexander C. Draper, of Philadelphia, the follow
ing paragraph, full of eloquence and warning truth:
“And here let me impress upon my fair readers
the necessity of guarding against a cold by warm
stockings, furred shoes, and an adequacy of wool
en clothing. Beauty is only to ho preserved with
health, and the highest slate of health is always
accompanied with the most attractive personal
charms- Neglecting those salutary precautions
which common sense dictates, many, very many,
fall victims to their imprudence. We have seen
the young bride, blooming, as it were, as the bird
of Paradise and the fair flower of Hope—the pride
of her father and the joy of her mother—her check
flushed with anticipation, and her eye beaming
with the soft expression of love—the gay dreams
of life dancing on her fancy with the rich anil va
riegated tints of the rainbow’s promise;—we
have seen all this—changed—aye, the wedding
garment for a shroud, and the bridal chamber for
the sepulchre of the dead—and all this rfom ne
glecting a common cold.”
Boundary Trespassers.— The surmise of
our correspondent in relation to the business of
the secret session of the Maine Legislature, ap
pears to be confirmed.—Wc learn from Bangor
that an expedition was on foot at that place,
which as may well be supposed, caused some ex
citement. For the purpose of driving off, and ar
resting the trespassers on the public lands in the
disputed Territory, whether from one side or the
other of the boundary line, the Legislature has au
thorised the employment of an adequate force, to
be immediately despatched on sleds, fully equip
ped for the purpose, under the direction of the
Sheriff of the County of Penobscot, Hastings
s Tm» —
Strickland, Esq., and the Land Agent, Mr. Mc-
Intyre. One hundred men were, to be enlisted at
Langor and fifty at Old town, under Stoner Hines
0 * lO „ tl ®!i l’* ac °, 1,9 Captain. 'l'hey are picked
men, all able bodied, and it is said arc to receive
a dollar a day. The .State furnishes horses, sleds,
arms, ammunition, &e., and the expedition is to
be mady to start on Wednesday.-7, Won Daily
J' votti the Detroit Free. Press,
Our Country*
Our eastern borders behold the sun in splendor
nstns from the Atlantic, while the western shores
arc embraced in darkness by the billows of tint
1 acme. Our country has indeed a vast extent of
territory, with the diversified climates of the
p 0 )L * 11 tnf one hand is the ever sinilinyr ver
dureof the beautiful and balmy south, and on
the other the stpnlc lulls and sombre pine forests
o the dreary north; and intermediate, the out
stretched regtoi, where the chilling blasts of winter
are succeeded by the zephyrs, and the flowers of
summer.
The snow-clad summits of her mountains look
down upon the elemental war of the storm-clouds
floating above the sin übless ~...1,1., vW vc; „ Ur ,„
the obsolete notion of the earth being an immense
plrti|j; and, towards the* ocean on the east and the
we*, upon the broad rich valleys where the father
of waters, the “ endless river,” and the majestic
Columbia with its hundred branches gently wind
along or rapidly rush on to mingle their waters
with the waves of the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico,
or the magnificent expanse of our northwestern
Caspian seas.
Could the power of visional once extend over
our whole wide domain, what a grand ennobling
scene would he presented to a spectator standing
upon one of the lofty peaks of the Kocky moun
tains. or, as Washington Irving aptly denominates
it, “ the crest o) the world.” And then to take,
upon a summer day, a hirds-eyo view of nil (he
roads, canals, railroads, lakes and rivers—the in
numerable post-coaches whirling along over onr
130,000 miles of post-road; our steamers gliding
magically along our waters; our locomotives shoot
ing oil like the comet upon its track; our rapid
intercourse between the sen-hoard and the inland
maritime cities; ami our peaceful armament ap
proaching and departing with the commerce of
the world; with all the various complicated move
ments of country, town ami city ; and then, like
Prior on Granger Hill, to hear all the different
musical and discordant sounds coming up to this
“crest of the world”—if they could come from
the entire scene—from the bellowing of the buffalo,
loading his shaggy hundreds over the prairie, to
the roar ot the cataract as it shakos the earth with
its stupendous plunge—with all this beneath the
eye and upon the ear, well might the enraptured
spectator exclaim, what a sublime panorama!
bor variety, beauty, grandeur and sublimity of
scenery, what country can surpass our own!
v\ hat country can equal the life sustaining power
that slumbers in her soil 1 With-all her wealth,
improvements and intelligence, and with our twen
ty million* of inhabitants, still wc have but just
commerwsAd the settlement of our country and ar<*
Oldv borders of the, «•*<••> ; — ,
- — ono hundred
'.■. .iinrv hence, in nineteen hundred
million**!'.., the United .Stales ol' America, with j
J.oj- hammr, at thrl
,r iiiat new ycar’B-iftorn,- no less than
one hundred and twenty millions of happy free
men- How exalted may then be the intelligence
and virtue of the people. The success of our
efforts in the improvement of our schools and the
general diffusion of knowledge, enables us to
make an estimate of what our posterity of the
third generation arc likely to become.
Active must be the ardent imagination that can
picture the scene at a glance. The ideal land
scape cannot equal the reality, however lively
may be the fancy. The idea of such a view as
we have fancied to he beheld from the mountain
top a hundred years from this day, can never he
conveyed by words—the picture must he painted
by the wonder-working power of the pencil of
ideality.
■ Our country! such is thy physical greatness
and such the intellectual and moral ,povver that
now give promise of a glorious destiny, fur be
yond all parallel in the annals of the World. For
such a destiny may thy institutions he well sus
tained; and may a halo of glory play about the
mime of every man who honestly labors in behalf
of his fellows and posterity, to uphold, purity, per
petuate and extend them.
We, talk of severe winters, but what would we
say to the eliinate of Scandinavia, where frost
continues from November to May, and the crops
are cut green to prevent them from being covered
with snow 1 Dreary and comfortless as such a
country would appear to us, the inhabitants find
in their domicils decked with icicles, and their
vast plains of ice, enjoyments which they would
not barter fur all the Hewers and fruits of the sun
niest regions. To them their robes of fur ami
well planned stoves supply the place of sunlight
skies, whilst the merry tinkle of the sleigh hells,
as their courstri hound along the spotless waslc<
of glistening snow, furnish pastimes more delight
ful than those presented to the victims of sloth
and inactivity, by the flower-decked hills of the
South. In all this we seethe wisdom of the
Creator, who widely adapts his creatures to the
circumstances under which they arc placed, and
makes the Icelander as happy in his hovel, as the
children of ease are, amid the vine elad vales of
favored Italy. To he satisfied with our lot is the
great lesson taught by all that we see, and to ac
commodate ourselves to our condition is the first
precept of wisdom. Let us then recollect, when
wc shudder in the northern blast, that it gives
strength ami activity, whilst it chills our frames,
and that without its innovating influence, we
should become the willing victims of soul degra
ding indolence and sloth. —Baltimore American.
Tim Great West.—WiscoNStx, Michi-
OAN, &c.—Gen. Dearborn, of Boston, is travel
ling in the West, and publishing a scries of letters
in the Boston Courier. Wc have seldom read
communications of more high wrought interest for
new and accurate statistical details touching the
states and territories that lie on that favored region
embraced by the chain of Great Lakes, the Ohio
and the Upper Mississippi.
Wc say nothing of what Michigan, a state of
yesterday, is doing to open rail road and canal
communications; the works projected already by
the infant territory of Wisconsin, in the extreme
northwest, are of magnitude sufficient to astound
if not humilitatc some of our oldest states. Legi
timately is “the Great West” entitled to the ap
pellation. Ship and Steamboat Canals, millions
for rail roads, &c. are talked of asplaylhings. For
one word only have wc room for Michigan.
Though a small peninsula, nowhere 200 miles
from sea navigation, this newly-created State,
which was not admitted in the Union until 1826,
with a population not one third as great as that of
Massachusetts, has undertaken the construction
- ol varioiw lino* of intercourse, whoso aggregate
ength is 1100 miles, and involving un expendi
ture of more than $8,000,000— If »arly two mil
lions of which have already been appropiiatcd, al
io\ig i the act for establishing a board of comniis
. sioners on interim! improvements, was not passed
’ until March, 1837.
In addition to the public works which are tube
executed nl the expense of the State, twenty-four
companies have been ineorporatedfor establishing
as many different lines of rail roads, whose united
length is over one thousand miles, and the estima
ted cost so,Boo,ooo.—iV. Y. Shir.
Finns iv New Vouk i.v 1838—According
to the report ot the Secretary of Engineers, there
were 154 fires in New York in 1838. The loss
by fire and water, in stock, was $.'150,043; in
buildingss333,0 17; total $003,500. In January
occurred more fires than in any other month 83-
m February 20; in March 8; fn April 13; in
May 11 ; in June 11 ; in July 8; in August 13;
m September 14; in October 7; in November 10;
n December 13.
A l)ir»Tii-Rirn Confession op a Murderer.—
Atx.ui tony years ago. a great sensation wuserenied
111 Liverpool l.y the murderof a gentleman, of high
respectability. The body was found by a walcli
m.in, man upright position, supported by railings
winch fenced a shipwright’s yard, on land now
forming pan of the east quay oflbn rrinee’s dock.
n exaiiuiiaijon it was discovered that llio deceas
e*( bad met with bis dcnlb by a fracture ol the skull,
executed vnili n blunt instrument A reward was
ottered by ihe mayor, and, in consequence, inlor
malion was given to the pollen tlins the (Incensed
gent toman was in the habit of visiting a lemule in
llio neighborhood oftbe place whore lire body was
lonml ; and on the apprehension of that female, a
wairdi was taken from her person which was proved
to be the property ot the deceased, and so snlislae
lory was tins tael, with some corroborant rirctim-
Metiers, that the prisoner was committed for trial.
A Hlablekeeper or groom who was in the habit of
going, by the deceased's ordt rs, to fetch Ins watch
w Inch he had on some occasion forgotten or pur
posely left with I lie prisoner, having casually read
m a newspaper that part of the evidence rcspeclirg
llio watch, gave such information to the magistrate
that (he prisoner was released. The constables
were on the continual lookout to discover the mur
tlcrer, hut without effect; and from that lime to fids,
me mends of the deceased, vho are new oftbe first
standing , n Liverpool in point of wealth and res
pectability, are ignorant el the cause oftbe murder
and ol ihe murderer. The person who confessed
he murder was the widow of the murderer, who
had been dead many years. The confession was
to the following effect—That she was standing at
[lie door of her house, and the deceased passing by,
being hi a stale of intoxication, caught hold ot her;
She ran into the front parlor, and he with her ; she
called out, and her husband, who was u pilot, has
pemng to eotno in nl the moment, look up the poker
and killed Iho deceased atone blow; when bo saw
the dreadful effect ofllie net, he wept most bitterly
In the course of on hour, he and his wife began to
think bow. lire body should lie disposed ot, when \
ino wife hit upon i; — 7-*- - r —— ujhy
between 12 nncl 1 o’clock at night, bung \ l '6tv
ami renrinp it against the rntlingSjWhere i*Trk, \
, A, y th c wairhman. She Viiml
| her hushnnd’H hack* and ho curried it u distance I* 11
300 yards. They nut out all tUe y
. i'Htt'rp on that nor lor ninny nighia
, I police examined nil the hownm about, and -o/jp l
1 / ocramon theira, hut fortunaXctU to beti, oottroi
/ hand wna out on duty in Tri.do
she iliiwifs.'Wlus terror was so great be would ht»«.
Oiscovcrcrt >v\s gutU \>y Ul» ngiiated manner. <MJt.
often determined, after her husband died, to confess
nil 1 ho chrumstaners to the relations oftbe deceased
who was a singte’inan, but she was afraid site would
he deemed a principal in the murder, and put upon
her trial. She died en the same day she related
ihese fads.— J.iverpool Standard
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Hoad.
Hamduro, February 19, 1839.
Silcox & ffrotbers, A. Dantfortb, Baird & Howland,
Geo. K. Hoad, J. k A. .1. Dunn, .1. F. Chisholm,
Stovall,Simmons & Co., W. H. Oakman, Reese &
Beall, J. Norton, M. T. White, G. L. Twiggs, T.
White, G. Lott, Gould <fe Bulkly, T. Dawson, T.
If. Plant, J. M. Hannington, H. F. Lyon, .1. W.
Martin,F. Lamback, D’Antignac & Hill, lb W.
Sullivan, G. Parrott, J. F. Henson, 11. L. Jeffers.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, February 18.
Cleared. —Ship Gaston, Whittlesey,New York ;
. sebr. Konnawah,Cook, Providence.
Arrived —Ur. ship Enterprise, Vaughan, Liver
pool ; steamboat Chatham, Wray, Augusta; steam
boat .1. Randolph, Lyon, Augusta.
Went In sen —Ship Gaston, Whittlesey, New
York ; brig Romulus, English, Boston ; brig Nectar,
Lunt, Boston ; brig Poland,Gardner, Havana ; schr.
Eagle, Wylie, Havana ; hr. sebr. Pamona, Miller,
Nassau ; sebr. Dusky Sally, Kldridge, Havana.
Chahlf.ston, February 19.
Arrived yesterday. —Steam packet Gov. Dudley,
Ivy, Wilmington, N. C.
Cleared. —Ship Courier, Duggan, Marseilles.
Went to sea yesterday.—hr. bargue America,
Mackie, Liverpool; Sw. brig Lafayette, Sahlberg,
Havana; brig Washington’s Barge, Williams, Gib
raltar; schr. Medium,Magee, St. Augustine.
WHOLESALE HAT WAKE-lIOUSE,
Ao. 201 Market street, Philadelphia.
—-J THOM Asj:Va NS 4 Co., (I ate Ran-
Wg I kin St Evans, Augusta, Ga.,) take pleast
WsL urr in informing thei r friends llirongliim
m(Georgia, Carolina, and Alabama, that
Ve" they have located themselves in Pbila
delpbia.wbcrc they manufacture and keep on hand
■ a large assortment of Hats and Caps, of all descrip
tions, which they will sell at wholesale, at such
prices and on such terms as will satisfy those who
may favor them with their orders. They would
respectfully invite those merchants who buy in the
northern markets, to give them a call, as they feel
confident their stock will attract the attention of
buyers. THOMAS EVANS As Co.
dec 24 swlf
(Tj' I he Milledgcville Journal, Mobile Chronicle,
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, and Charleston Cou
rier, will publish the above twice a week for two
months, ami charge this office. Each paper is re
quested to send a paper containing the advertise
ment to the advertisers in Philadelphia.
JUST RECEIVED BY WM. HOBBY, at the
Augusta Book Store,
Rob of the Bowl, by the author of Horse Shoe
r Robinson, &c.
’ Oliver Twist, by Hoz, in 2 vols., Althea Vernon,
i Mary Raymond ami oilier Tales.
> Oliver Twist part 2d, No, 4.
The British Senate, Romance of Vienna,
f Duty ami Inclination, Young Pupil’s First Book.
, Young Wife by Alcott, Young Mother by ditto.
Christian Keepsake, Blair’s Lectures 8 vo.
' Helen, by Miss Edgeworth; Butler’s Hudibras.
1 Burnett’s Geography of the Heavens.
I Life of Christ, Carey on Domestic Happiness.
- Tucker’s Lights of Nature.
- Stanley on the Recollections of a Alan of th
s World.
r Pai ley’s Christmas Gift, Parley’s Universal His
tory, Pickwick Papers, Shipwrecks and Disasters.
' Bible Atlas, Christian Melodics, Mercer’s Cluster,
* Baptist Harmony, &c.
> Also,
i A hendaome variety of superior Paper Hangings
f with an assortment of Bordering, Steel Pens, Sil
i | er Pencil Cases, ike. jan U-3lw
I
' iNO. *6l,
8 1 T H V II !? W .! RD insurance company
• I ,trcc . NewTmk. f *“
;: by Firc ’ an<l the h
]i ~ dibectobs.
lr. Haven*. President, Cornelius W. Lawrence
WJ’*™* Wm. Couch, ’
•I. i billips Phenix, j ohn Morrison,
f WmWT’n. Caleb 0. Hal.ted,
Vwn, W.Todd, Jchiel Jaggar,
Sfi’t n"’. K. L. Woolley
Mu-ah Baldwin, Joseph Otis,
Tn“h"n m .1 W m , ' < ' kcr ’ D • Benjamin,
Jol n Rankin, John D- W ol4.
u. \ anuim,
T . . LEWIS PHILLIPS, secretary.
The subscriber is prepared to take Fire and Hive
risks, as Agent of the above ompany, at the cur-i
rent rates of premium.
„„„ 91 JAMES B. BISHOP, Agent
nov 21 bmw of the H. Ins. Co.
A CARD.
r|sllE citizens of Augusta and its vicinity are
J. respectfully informed, that the undersigned
contemplates opening a SCHOOL, for a select num
ber of pupils, to be taught in the primary, com
monrand higher branches of an English education,
at his former room, south side of Ellis, a few
doors below Centre street.
Exercises to commence on Monday, the Ist of
April next.
Special arrangements wfU be made to admit pu
pils of both sexes; each having departments for
study and retirement wholly distinct from the oth
er.
N. H. The school room is now opened daily at
the usual hours, and at night,on Monday, Tuesday
and Thursday of each week, for such young gen
tlemen as wish to receive private lessons.
feb i-law ts CYRUS PIKE..
COUNTRY SEAT,—SOMERVILLE
f|MIE subscriber oilers for sale a House and Lot,
, on the Sand Hills, one of the most desirable
locations in Somerville. The Lot contains ten
Acres, Harden, Orchard, and Arable Land. On thet
prcmises are Dwelling House, Extensive Kitchen,
with Dormitories for Servants, Stable, Carriage
House \V ash House, with furnaces. Smoke House,
a Well of line Water, Grape Vines, Fruit Trees,
Arc. <fce. All of which will he sold a bargain, and
on Hie most accommodating terms, as to payment.
nov I t Iwtf A. I. HUNTINGTON.
AUGUSTA AND WAYNESIJOROUGH
RAIL.ROAD COMPANY..
\ * of th# Commissioners appointed
£■- °y th ® |:|s ; t Legislature, to open books for the
reception of subscriptions for stock in the “An
gusta and Wayncsborough Rail-ltoad Company”
w II take place at the Eagle & Phcnix Hotel in this
f 011 1 u< ‘ S(la y. <be 26th mst., at which time and
place, a full meeting of the Commissioners, is re
spectfully solicited.
Augusta, Feb. 15. UwW
. <p" 1 he Constitutionalist and the Savannah and
Athons Editors arc requested to give the above one
insertion and charge this office. 6
AUGUSTA & WAYNESBORO RAIL-
Hoad.
Vi r nllio' .ing gentlemen are the Co"-- w
c\ ifead'and' j\ffinC.Tofthre”TChatham county,
n I Gazaway B. Lamar, Joseph Washburn and Edwaid
ulla Anbury Hull. wil '
They are requested to meet on Tuesday, the 26th
jn.st., lit the Laghi & Blmuix Hotel, Augusta, to
as may be necessary.'
By request of the Commissioners of Burke county.
February 20 It
tfj* The Savannah and Athens papers will please
give the above one insertion and forward their ac
count to this office.
GEORGIA LIME WORKS.
THE subscribers respectfully infoim the public
that they have commenced the manufactory of
LIME near Jacksonboroughjin Scrivcn county,Ga.
They have extensive quarries of Limestone, which
is considered by professor J. R. (lotting, State Geol
ogist, to whom the proprietors are indebted for the
information which induced them to embark in the
undertaking, to boos the very purest kind. They
have consequently erected large and substantial
Kilns in the most approved manner, and procured
men from the North who are perfectly acquainted
with the business. A portion of the Lime is now in
marxi't and lias been pronounced' by the principal
builders in the neighborhood of Augusta, and others,
to be of excellent quality. The subscribers take
pleasure in inviting those who take an interest is
the developement oif the internal resources of Geor
gia, to examine it, being convinced that the whole
United States cannot produce amore beautiful arti
cle.
They have now a quantity on hand, which they
will deliver at the mouth of Brier Creek on toe Sa
vannah river, or at Augusta. Having extensive
preparations in progress, they expect to be able du
ring the next winter and spring to supply orders to a
very large amount; and they have every reason to.
believe that they will entitle themselves to the favor
and patronage of the public by producing a cheaper
and better article at home than can be found
abroad.
Orders will be received by D. Kirkpatrick & Co
or by Tbos. L. Smith at Augusta, or Jacksonhoro’.
CORNELIUS feSMITH
May 7 2awd&w t
AUGUSTA SEED STORE,
Removed to six doors above the Hail Hoad Bank.
WARRANTED GARDEN SEED just received
from the Shakers by I. H. SERVICE.
A fresh supply of Garden Seeds, Bird Seeds, Clo
ver, Lucerne, Potato Onions, Onion Setts, BADEN
COHN, A c.
The usual allowance made to country dealers.
A few Brushes, Sieves, Swifts, Ac.; also, a beau
tiful collection of Bulbs, Plants, Flower Seeds, &c.
novdA 4ra.72w w
NOTICE. —The subscriber intending to remove
from the county in a few weeks, earnestly
requests all persons indebted to him for professional
services rendered prior to first January last, to
make payment by the first of April next.
J. P. GARVIN.
Waynesborough, February 16, 1839. w2t
, Geo. K. Road & Ranking Co. >
Branch at Augusta. J
DKPOSITKS in sums of five hundred dollars
and upwards, bearing an interest of six per
cent, per annum will be received at this Office,
for periods not less than ninety days, subject to the
. order of the depositors on receiving ten days notice
of their intention to withdraw.
. nov 20 wtf J. W, WILDE, Cashier.
xH A (51 WAN T E D.—Wanted to
/Jj 1 •*/ vlvl borrow 812,000, for the term
of two years ; as much as ten per cent., and no
more, will be given—interest and principal payable
at the same time, and the whole secured by land
* and negroes to twice the amount. The property to
be pledges! is untramcllcd by liens of any descrip
tion. Apply to the editor of this paper for informa
tion. _w4t_ jaua
lAND FOR SALE.—I offer for sale a tract of A
I land four miles from the city of Augusta,
taining between ten and twelve hundred acres ; twwfl
hundred of which is pine, the balance swamji laqJHj
well timbered with cypress, oak, and other
About 100 acres of the pine and 100 of the
land, are cleared and in good order for planting,
all necessary buildings. To an approved purdßHU
a credit of one, two, three and four years
; given, and immediate possession, If ’
JOHN PHUjfli
Augusta, Feb. 9.