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WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCHS, 1839. Vol III—No. 26.
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AUGUSTA.
’ ' MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 4.
Nine days Later from Liverpool.
ARRIVAL OP THE LIVERPOOL.
By the New York Commercial Advertiser of
the 25th ult., wo learn that the steam packet Liv
erpool, Capt. Fayrcr, arrived at New York on the
morning of the 25th February, from Liverpool.
Captain F. left Liverpool at half past !I o’clock
on the afternoon of the Oth; consequently she
has made her passage in eighteen and a half
days.
The Royal William arrived out at Liverpool
on the 3d of February.
From the London Standard if the evening of Fell. 5.
The business of the second session of Parlia
ment during the reign of her present Majesty was
opened to-day by a speech from the throne.
The doors of the House of Lords were opened
at 12 o’clock for the admission of Peeresses, and
others who had obtained tickets of admission
from the Lord Great Chamberlain to the body of
the house and Painted Gallery ; and shortly after
that time the equipage of the nobility and gentry
began to arrive in rapid succession. No lady was
admitted into the body of the house except in
full court dress.
The yeomen of the guard, in their splendid
unifo' ms, arrived at the House of Lords at 11
o’clock, and took their stations in the lobby leading
to the Painted Chamber.
In St, Margaret’s Church yard, Parliament
street, and along the line of road through which
the royal procession passed, scats and platfoams
were e ected as usual, and considerable interest
existed to obtain a view of ouryouthful sovereign.
Her Majesty was enthusiastically received by the
assembled crowd, throughout the whole progress
from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords.
Shortly before two o'clock a discharge of cannon
announced that her Majesty, accompanied by the
great officers of state and the household, had left
the Palace, and was proceeding to the House of
Lords. The line through which the procession
, was lined with two regiments of the Guards
ROUSE OF LORDS,
The Queen arrived at the House of Lords about
two o’clock, which was announced by a discharge
of cannon. Shortly afterward her Majesty at
tended by the great officers of state entered the
house, and took her scat on the throne. The
foreign ambassadors wore the full costumes of the
countries they represented.
Her Majesty having directed their lordships to
bj seated.
The Lord Chancellor directed the Usher of the
Bhck Rod to .summon the Commons to hear her
Majesty’s speech on the opening of Parliament.
In a few minutes the Commons appeared at the
bar, headed by the Speaker. The space below the
bar was crowded with members. After silence
had been obtained, her Majesty in a clear and au
dible voice read her speech.
The condition of the navy was still discussed
with great eagerness in the London papers. A
semi-official statement had been published, show
ing the the number of frigates, ships of the line,
&c., in commission, or in such a state as to be
quickly brought into employment, if necessary';
and making out a very favorable case for Eng
land. as compared with France and Russia. The
particulars oflhis statement, on the other hand,
have been vehemently attacked by the Times,
and other opposition journals, and by officers of
I the navy, all contending that “ the wooden-
I wall of old England” arc wretchedly inefficient,
I and that either Russia or France, with their
I large and well-appointed marine, might at any
I moment sweep the coast of England without op-
I position.
I A provincial paper says, that Sir Robert Peel
■ will support Lord John Russell in his advocacy
■ of a modification of the corn laws.
I Letters have been received in New York stat
ing, that the packet ship Oxford will sail from
Liverpool on the 18th instant.
S' J A letter from Constantinople in the Times of
if January 29, states that Mr. McNeill, the British
£ ambassador at the court of Persia, had again found
it necessary to break oil’all communication with
the government, and leave the capital for the Turk
ish frontier. The Shah is said to have manifested
a spirit of the bittefesl hostility to England ; and
a rupture between the iwo countries was regarded
as inevitable. Many nf the British merchants
were preparing to leave Persia, in the confident
expectation of hostilities, it Wils reported that
the sale of British merchandu ) la q been prohibited.
A memorial had been P rcs \cd t 0 ,i lc Q llP eii
in Council, from the ChamberV Commerce of
St. John’s, Newfoundland, prayy,, f or the aboil
m tion of the House of Assembly, \ t h c ground
’jb that its members are the nominees a»a, o ('atholic
S clergy. ..... , . .
An iron steamboat, 145 feet long vj 5 f C pt
wiJ • was launched at Dumbarton on\ e yj n f
January. She is intended for Soulh\\ lmiea
and is fitted up for passengers only, ol 'Van :, c
can carrv 1000. When launched she diV un ,
18 inches water,and with her machinery a 4 c ai
1 go is to draw but three feet. ini
b The Duchess Countess ot Sutherland died j
the 28th of January, in the 74th year °‘ ,cr |
She was Countess of Southerland in
richt, and Duchess by marriage.
On the same day, died Sir W ilium Bceehey,
lof .... « Mr. f
nnt Wilde being applied to by the Canadian
prisoners, for his professional assistance, waspro-
Ed from acting for them by the government.
' I > The publisher of the Times has been sen
tenced to a fine of two hundred pounds, for
. Üb ?hTg S ovemment°has y iet on foot an investiga
if u *. 1 t g , • whether the ate rise in the price
I by a deficiency m the crop.
I tub CAS*niAN pbibosbus.
I The case of the Canadian prisoners was not j«
i JL. ■ 0,.,
| 55.W5 r C"“" J**ss 1
i writs of habeas corpus having been granted
| 68 In' the Court of Queen’s Bench the ease wj
H argued in parton the 28th ; but on the 30th N
|| Hill, of counsel for the prisoners, >u<ormedt
l| Court that proceedings were going on in the L
I
chequer, and, with his consent, the chief justice
dclcrmiiuMm iiosinonc the farther consideration
ttnlif flic. nccrSlon of that court should be made,
Ihe argument in the Court of Exchequer was
deferred until the next term,
It appears by a letter from Capt. Rathbone,
that the ship Oxford is but little damaged in her
hull, ami that the probable cost of repairing her
will he about jC3500 or .£4OOO. It is supposed
that about three fourths of this sum will fall on
the underwriters.
The Pennsylvania and St. Andrew, it is sup
posed will he total wrecks.
Win. M. Price, late District Attorney at New-
York, and one of the most distinguished locomo
tive sub-treasurers, has addressed the following
letter to a friend in Ncw-York, by which lie
would have it appear that the “ scandalous conjec
tures,” regarding his sudden visit to England
were without foundation. It’s no go Mr. Price—
you must prove it by “facts and figures” before
we can believe you an honest man.
London - , Dec. 26, 1838.
! My Dear
1 By the arrival of the packet Independence, I
have the New York papers of the 7th instant
abounding with the most scandalous conjectures,
in respect to my visit to this country.
The circumstances inducing it were wholly of
a private nature, and would not on pain of (he
. most unsparing obloquy, seem to require a hill of
particulars.
But 1 deem it to he my duty to state to you,
that the charge of my being a defaulter in office
is wholly unfounded. 'That in the last five years,
millions of Government claims have been deposi
ted with me for collection, and that upon the ad
justment of my claims upon Government for their
prosecution and collection, the balance will be ad
judged to he against the Government.
It has been too much the fashion of the times,
to condemn public agents upon cxpnrle statements.
At least two memorable cases in the Union arc
recorded, of district altornirs of the IT. 8. held
up to public execration ns defaulters, who after in
vestigation of the charges against them, were sig
nally rewarded with a public expression of their
, fellow citizens.
It is not exactly fair to precede trial by condem
nation, and I can only for the present assure you,
that if my just claims are allowed, the Govern
ment will have as little cause as. I think, individ
uals ever had of complaining of my administra
tion of the office I have recently resigned.
I am, dear,
Yours, .
Theatre.
Our theatre has been, during three nights of
the last week, the resort of fashionable circles, to
1 witness the vocal powers of Madame Otto, Mrs.
Timm, Mrs. Hardwick, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Brough
and several other operatic performers of consider,
able talent. Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, and A
milie were the operas performed; and itisexpres
-1 sive of no compliment, to say, that their repre
. sentations were never equalled on our boards—in
1 truth, they may he regarded as forming a new
order in dramatic exhibitions among us, to which
we may fondly revert in subsequent time, and
3 claim them as a happy advent to the legitimate
■ purposes of histrionic effect in Augusta. Trage-
I dy, comedy, and the opera, all have tiicir instruc
, live moral—and should be ever appreciated, as the
happv vehicles of correcting as well as of clera
’ ting human nature.
Mr. Bishop takes his benefit thisevening—and
the truly grand opera of Fra Diavolo will he pro
-3 duced. Wherever this opera has been performed
’ in Europe or in the United States, it has excited
(’■ the most unqualified approbation. And when it
is remembered, that wc now have vocal talents Os
’ the highest order to give effect to Fra Diavolo, we
r
feel confident in predicting that it will be repre
sented this evening to the satisfaction of every
connoisseur of vocal effort.
! The exertion which the manager has made
and continucsto make (o gratify the public, should
not go unrewarded. And the individual perform
-1 ers who have delighted ami instructed us by their
j- fine acting and talents should likewise be remem
bored—and wc hope all will remember Bishop
fi to-night.
■' By the way, Mr. Jamison appears this eve
j ning in the drama of Mons. Jacques. Mr. J’s.
1 personification of the character of Mons. Jacques
' cannot he surpassed,
s
t CCj" Nothing new from the North Eastern
I. Boundary.
a
(jj» By the latest advices from Michigan no
j Senator had been elected.
Richard K. Call has been re-appointed Go
vernor of the Territory of Florida,
Communicated.
Mn. EatTon—Allow me through the medium
ofyour valuable journal loculi the attention of the
honorable the City Council, to a subject dear to
he feelings of a large portion of the citizens of this
l v—I mean the breaking, trampling, and other-
Wl destroying the shrubbery of the grave yard
* ll •'ity. I need not enlarge on this subject’
\e proof be wanting, let any member ol
it the spot on any Sabbath evening
, . cn l "ng the week, and the evidence is as
plain V ,hp v"
, , 1 'at noon-day. The writer of this
has had J
three year, x P crlcncc on thls subject, bor
11 1 ‘ has planted trees and othc r
shrubbery v v *
of a near deV ' s P ot " h, ’ rc lle the rcma,ns
instance becdjj, !' J ; a "'' thr - v have in onc
and at other 4’, 1 a,, ' , P !an,cJ rlßEwherc
t on and enumer^ hn \ dea hoycd. I could go
s vate j than my o\ lor tenfa >d more aggra
,f pppse has been spV-“ Vre no pains or ex
~ w ho in life they lovV (,L ‘« / y 'hc spot oftliose
1 light to honor. The iHv* ' v!l1 in death they de
-18 itself especially to the a yts on that commends
T- 1 hope the subject will ro c i, n ol ’ouncil, and 1
x ‘. ous attention; it is not >■ a »d seri-
Vty .cling, but
w
one in which all can engage with honor to them—-
selves and with gratifying feelings to the rommu
munily. As this is the time for transplanting and
making other improvements, I hope the Council
will do what it has to do quickly, so that those in.
revested may have some security against future de
predation and desecration at the Grave Yard.
Communicated.
Lines suggested upon hearing Mrs. Hardwick sing
‘‘John Anderson my Jo.”
Sing ! Sing ! bring back the days that arc past,
When my feelings were ardent,icy liojk's they were
blight;
K’le youth’s flattering visions, too brilliant to last,
Had sunk in the dream of a morruwless night.
For thy voice, breathing sweetness, a feeling
reveals,
Alight renew the heart’s verdure, tho’ wither’d for
years;
And tlie thought that the world’s chilly maxim
conceals,
Can atone fmdexpression in song or in tears.
Augusta, February 20. J. 0. L.
Goon News from Missouri.— Even Mis
souri, will not go the sub-treasury. What will
the great “ Humhugger” do next! The St. Louis
Republican, of the 16th ultimo, announces the
defeat of the sub-treasury, or as it was called, the
“Currency bill,” in the following language.
The Currency bill was rejected in the Senate
by a vote of 16 to 141. Tho dose was too severe
for “ grave and reverend signors, our most appro
ved and right good masters,” who compose that
body. We congratulate the State, particularly
our pure democracy, and very particularly the
great head of modern Loco-focoism, who graces
the Senate of the United States upon this triumph
over the honey fungling and dumfungling of the
great master of the Locos, when he hears, that for
once, those whom he supposed his slaves, have
rebelled. Take it coolly, however, Colonel!
This is nothing to what you will see in less than
two years from this lime.
On the 27th of December the French transport
ship La Desiree, Captain Flessix, on going out
of the harbor of Brest, struck, about six o’clock
in the evening, on the north extremity of the
bank Des Balrines. The wind was at N.N.E.,
the weather fine, and a bright moonlight. Sud
denly the shallowness of the water, and the swell
of the sea acquainted Captain Flessix with the
terrors of his situation. He made known his dis
tress to the inhabitants of Brest hy numerous
shots, and fires lighted at the mast-head. The
danger was hut too imminent, and at tho sixty
ninth discharge of the cannon, every thing on
board was lost. The ship was swallowed in the
breakers, men and furniture—every thing was de
-7 strayed in less than two hours! A small num
, her of bodies came ashore the next day, and
hopes were entertained that a part of the crew
might have reached the coast of La Vendee in the
■ boat, of which no traces had been seen on the
shores of the island. This hope was false—
nearly fifty bodies were driven ashore, forming a
sad spectacle and a mournful repetition of the
similar event which happened in 1829 to the
■ Royal Charlotte.— French Paper.
i
1 Extract from “ Warner Aurundell,” or the Adren
i tures of a Creole.
1 An Adventure in Trinidad,
e “ Can you please direct me to the road across!”
. inquired 1.
“Certainly,” said Brumlow. “Pass through
yonder canuco (small plantation), and then keep
b in a northward direction until you come to four re
. markable pal miste trees, which grow in a row; here
cast your eyes across the savanna, and you will per
ceive a bluff point olland—a spur of tlie northern
1 mountains, which terminates in the plains. Here
- the difficulty of the route commences. You will
have to force your way through the fox-tail grass
j and the tush-rushes, which will coveryourscll and
horse; but steer hy the mountain, in a direct line,
t for about three miles and a half, and you will come
j- out at the Carotiy, which you may easily swim,
ami get to St. Joseph. 1 would, however, advise |
you to borrow or buy a cutlass, as you may meet
* with snakes in the way. I would lend you mine,
i but I want it myself, having to survey in the woods
to-morrow. You can buy a cutlass of any of the
free people about here.”
I thanked him for his minute direction and »d
--1 vice. We separated, and I now entered a dense
. mass of vegetation, the like of which I never he
r held. The inundations of the Canary, the im
mense fertility of the land, and the intortropical
sun, produced a growth of rushes each thicker than
3 a man’s arm, and from fifteen to eighteen feet in
height. Those grew so close, that it was with
great labor my horse could force his way through
them. The diffi ully of our progress became so
* great, that recollecting Brumlow’s love for quiz
s zing, I was about to return ; however, I still pro
ceeded at the rate of a mile an hour, hoping every
minute to come to where tho vegetation was less
gigantic and dense. Having crossed from Alla
> Gracia to Esscquiho, I fell ashamed of turning hack
from a journey of four or five miles; for I knew
hy tlie form of the hills, of which 1 sometimes got
a glimpse, that every laborious step the horse made
1 brought me nearer to St. Joseph. The poor beast
fairly groaned under his exertion amid the tough
tusk-rushes, which seemed to grow taller and taller.
- I now perceived with astonishment a great num
ber of fallow-deer rush past me, for these animals
never herd together in Trinidad. Presently a
quantity of agoutee (Indian ponies) leaped past
me, running as though for their lives in the same
i direction; yet I heard no dog bark, nor any sound
. of a chase. An alco (wild dog) or two, and se
veral racoons hounded past, hut seemed not in the
* pursuit of the agoulces. Again, as my horse pro
s reeded, he put his hoof on a laud tortoise ; tlie
■- slow animal drew his short legs and small head
j into its tough shell, over which a wagon might
have passed without cracking it; and no sooner
h was the horse’s hoof off the tortoise, than he look
>1 his tardy way in the same direction that the mini
, her of animals were going. A flock of quank, or
or mush-hogs, and several lapes, now rushed hy,
s grunting and squeaking. Presently a large tiger
8 cat, followed hy six or eight kittens ran past me;
ir and I now perceived a large boa constrictor gliding
, r among Ihe rushes. I g'asped my cutlass, and dis
mounted to defend myself from the enormous rep
s tile; hut it passed on, followed hy several other
e snakes; it neither wished to attack nor avoid me.
, What could all this mean 1 Was Im my proper
’ senses, or were all the animals of the. island at
0 peace with each other, and about to meet in grand
t- congress'! I remounted my horse, who, to my
:- amazement, followed in the track of the large boa,
r and, although the poor beast was jaded, it plunged
forwatd, using exertions which astonished me, un
'* til the animal was covered with foam. A breeze
s shook the heads of the gigantic rushes. What
] could those roaring and cracking sounds mean—
and that smoke, too! Gracious heavens! the
1 truth now Hashed on my mind —the savanna had
J been set on fire !
~.. - -
■. My suspicion at once pointed to ■mithson, and
I was right in my conjecture, a.- I afterwards
found. The (light of tlie various animals was at
otu’c explained; they were rushing from the de
vouring element. Hopes of escape amidst this
immense mass of inflammable vegetable matter I
had not; yet I spurred my horse. It was need
less, the poor animal seemed instinetly to know
our danger before I did, and plunged through the
rushes with all the strength lie was master of,
taking the same route as the rest of the animals.
On, on, good steed ! If the conflagration, which
roars ami cracks with a deafening sound in our
ear, catches us before we get irom amongst these
accursed rushes, we shall he reduced to cinders in
a few seconds. I closed my eves, on account of
the smoke which rolled onward, and which nearly
choked me. The tlatncs pursued us on the wings
ol the wind; hut, merciful Providence, I see a
chance ol deliverance before me! The rushes
decrease in size, and tho ground becomes humid ;
yet the devouring element pursues us. Wc wore
saved! A few desperate plunges of the horse
brought us into a muddy perrcnniul lake, to
which all the animal of the savanna had sped, or
were speeding. Had we been five seconds later,
the roaring and cracking flames would have
caught us; and as my horse plunged into the
middle ol the pool, which teemed with animals and
serpents, the lire absolutely passed over our heads
from the sides of the lake. 1 dismounted—stood
to my breast in muddy water, which steamed
from the heat—the animals groaned from the
effects of the insupportable caloric; none attacked,
none seemed to fear another. 1 saw several poi
sonous snakes, that were overtaken hy the flames
on tlie banks of the pool, turn round, and with
stupid rage, attempt to fight with the fire. As
they felt it burn their extremities, they erected
their slender forms, opened their wide jaws, ele
vated their baneful fangs, and darted at the
flames; in a few moments they were reduced to
black cinders.
As the conflagration spread its pyramidical
arms above the steaming and muddy waters, my
situation was almost insupportable ; yet I thank
ed Providence for my deliverance. If was true
I was in a purgatory, hut for miles around me
raged a lull. At length the wind, which was
Mowing with violence, remitted, and shortly af
terwards died away ; the flames shot up in a ver
tical direction, and my aching eyes were blessed
with the appearance of the cloudy sky. The fire
now burned with a steady roar for about five mi
nutes, when anoti er breeze sent the flames over
the yellow lake. I stooped until my chin touch
ed the water, to avoid the heal; finally, I ducked
my head underneath for a second to cool it, when
the wind lulled, and 1, with my hand, sluiced
water over the head of my groaning horse. The
fire slackened, and in about half an hour after I
had taken refuge in the perrcnniul 1. k, it had
burned out. But the surface of the earth was
calcined like a brick, and too hot to be passed over
by the foot of any animal. If the rain did not
fall, I had the uncomfortable prospect of spending
many hours in my present situation, and with my
present company of reptiles; who, although now
at peace with their neighbors, might soon recom
mence hostilities.
I made my horse wade its way to where stood
the branchless trunk of and old crooked savanna
tree, which, being in the middle of the water, had
escaped burning. I buckled the bridle to this
tree while I went to reconnoitre, in order to as
certain where I could most conveniently throw
water on the calcined earth, to get room for myself
and horse on terra firma until Ihe rain or dews of
evening should sufficiently cool the ground to al
low our passing over. I had not left the horse a
minute before it uttered a neigh of distress. I
grasped my cutlass anil ran to its aid. I found
that an enormous mackawell, or bon constrictor,
of about twenty five feet in length, had caught
the poor beast in its fold; a part of the reptile was
knotted around tlie old tree, and two coils were
about the beast. The serpent had passed his body
between the fore legs of the horse, and was in the
act of seizing it by the throat, when a thrust from
my cutlass pierced its eye, and entered right into
his head. The fury of the mackawell was now
turned on me; it elongated its body so that six or
seven feet of its neck were clear of the horse,
I which, however, it showed no disposition to relin
quish. It rose its head above me, its double tongue
quivered in its mouth, the jaws opened until they
seemed to be dislocated, and it breathed on me
with its infernal breath, the odor of which is un
like aught else lever smelt. It hesitated to lower
its head for the attack; I stooped into the water;
it also stooped, until, judging it within reach of
my arm, 1 rose and made a cut at it, which divided
its lower jaw.
The boa now turned from me; 1 made a blow
at the part which was coiled round tlie tree, and
divided the tail from the rest of its body. This
seemed to he a coup de grace; it appeared to loose
all power; its bleeding head fell into the water,
and tlie poor horse uttered a note something be
tween a snort and a groan, at being relieved from
the strangling convulsions of the serpent, although
they were still about it, until I divided one of the
coils near the saddle with my cutlass, and the
reptile’s severed body fell writhing into the water.
A most welcome shower of rain, such ns oc
cursoccasionally in Trinidad during the dry sea
son, now fell; the burning earth absorbed it, while
it hissed and sent up clouds of steam. 1 got my
horse nut of the pool, hut he was too much ex
hausted to carry me; I therefore led him to the
Carony river, where I bathed him and myself, go
ing into the water with my muddled clothes.
Crossing the Carony, I came to the plantation of
the worthy Baron de , a gentleman horn in
Grenada, of noble French blood, whose lather
look the right side of the civil war of that islsml—
that is to say, the side that was eventually suc
cessful. When ho that evening found that I was
a countryman of his, hospitality was warm in the
extreme. This was fortunate; for my savanna
adventure, and the broiling and slewing which I
got in the muddy hike, brought on a slight inflam
matory fever, which confined me to the house of
the worthy Baron for twelve days. My fine cre
ole galloway took a cold, and died two days after
our escape from the fire.
New.—From an Old Paper.— lt is well
known, probably, to most of our readers, that
formerly people feared to touch the carcase of a
dead mail dog, for fear of becoming rabid. Wc
did not know, howevci, that there was such a
fuel on record ns the following, cut hy the editor
of the Boston Mercantile Journal, from a paper
published in that city in 1818:
Pill-field, Mass., June 10 Hi. —The blood of
the mad dog, mentioned in our last, which was
killed in the. chamber of a house in the Shaker
village, judged to lie about a quart, was taken up
and buried about four feel from a large pear tree,
in full bloom, and very thrifty. The third day
after, the tree was completely wilted to the high
est branches ; and continues to wither as fast as if
it were rut down. In digging the hole, some of
the small roots were cut off, which enabled the
poison to mingle with the sap, and convey its
deadly influence into every part of the tree.
Number or Murders in Kentucky.—Bis
hop Smith in a long letter to the Hon. R. Wick
lillc says it has been ascertained that there have ;
been from tin ty to forty homicides in Kentucky
annually for throeyears past, and not a single exe
cution. There have been within the three years
but Jive or six penitentiary convictions for murder.
He inscribes this impunity in crime to the law for
capital punishment, and recommends that impris
onment be substituted for hanging.
In the two numbers of the Houston Telegraph
wc have looked over (and it is quite a large, well
looking sheet,) we do not find, in the multitude of
its advertisements, a single one of a school, or the
school-master:—
“ l f,e Town of Swar/wout. —Shares or lots
may be had,” says the Telegraph, “ on accom
modating terms. It is on the Trinity river, and
has a fine steamboat navigation.”
A Benton Poser. —The same paper gives the
: following account of a debate in the Texas Se
i ante, on a bill “ fixing the value of coins:”—
“ Mr. Dunn said, he saw no use in passing
this bill, ns it was evident that the precious metal
was scarce ;in fact, wc have none Mr. Dunn
was interrupted by Mr. Wilson, who produced a
silver dollar! byway of correcting the gentle
i man; whereupon Mr. Dunn sat dnvn and the
bill passed.”— N. Y. American.
Ihe Schoolmaster Abroad.—YVc have a
fancy for the improvements of the age. * Here is
one in orthography and epistolary style, which is
altogether unique. It is a dateless epistle from
some wood yard proprietor on the Ohio, to the
master ol one ot our steamboats now in port, ap
prising him where to call and plank the ready for
“ BU m wood,” which the boat hud taken and could
not pay for, because no owner appeared. We
suppress tlie name of the boat only.
“Stccmboate you have takinG some
YVood Irom the foot of loGtown liar Ami you or
maneGcrs of Sad boat desired to Cll at the Wood
yard At bed of Cross island On the left hand Sid
as you Cum npthc river Cep by Jo.siah ami me.
Who “me” is the writer does not say.—Pitts
burg Advocate.
Consignees per.South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, March 2, 1839.
Reese & Real), Gould & bulkier, Morriss St Cos
tello, A. Gumming, liathbone ft Baker, Platt, J. St
Co., Stovall, Simmons ft Co., I). McCormick At Co.,
J. McClusky, .1. L. Dixon, Thos. Dawson, Moore
ft Davies, T. J. Parmclcc, G. R. Jessup, Clark, Mc-
TiciftCo., W. Woodbury, Hopkins, Jennings At
Co., Hand St Scranton, Dr. Nesbitt, P. Fitzsimmons,
A. Frederick, W. Smith, R. McKinley, U. W.
Force & Co., Porter, Fleming St Co., Scranton A
Smith, J. S. Hutchinson,.l. Stewart, J. W. Mere
dith, Band At Rowland, Kernigan St Rooney, Goo.
Parrott, H. W. Sullivan, Perritt ts Y oung, H. L.
Jeffers, J.F. Benson, R. barber, Thomas ,T. Wray,
j. McGaw, S. M. Thompson, W. K. At J. U. Jark-
I son, t. H. Sanders, G. W. Mason.
, - B
l COMMERCIAL.
Liverpool, February 4.
i There has been a better attendance this week of
C the trade, but their operations were confined chiefly
C to the supply of their immediate wants; tbe pur
chases by speculators have also been on a limited
scale, but tbe recent accounts from tbe United
1 States being more confirmatory of a deficient crop,
I have given holders increased confidence, and they
I decline selling unless at full rates ; the market lias
, consequently closed firmly for all kinds, except
; Brazil and Egyptian, which arc rather ower. The
. business of the week amounts to 19,240 baies, (of
, which 0,700 American are on speculation,) and
comprises 120 Sea Is and at 20d to 28 ; 5,060 bow
ed, 7Jd to 9Jd ; 1,960 Mobile, Alabama anil Tennes
see at 7ti to B.id ; 0,820 (Irleans,7d to 9Jd > 720 Pcr
natnbuco, Paraiha. Bar., 9} to lOjjd; 420 Bahia and
Mamin, Sjd to 9/,d ; 470 Maranham, Si d to 9,( ; 140
Peruvian, B£d ;60 Laguayra, Hi ; 20 Cartbagena,
6d ; 00 Demarara, lld to 13d ; 789 Egyptian, 12;jd
to lOjcl; and 080 Surat at o|j to 6sd per lb. About
3.000 bags have been sold to-day; of this quantity
1,200 are American on speculation. There is no
change in prices, the market being steady. On
Saturday 2,000 were sold.
Liverpool, February 6.
Colton. —Our cotton market is very heavy, and
about jjil per lb lower than on tbe 26th ult., the dale
of our last circular per Great Western. The state
' of trade in the manufacturing districts is still dis
couraging, and the consumers continue to coniine
their purchases to the supply of their immediate
wants, having taken since the first of the year only
at the rate of about 14,600 bales per week. The
decided accounts of the great deficiency in the crop
of the U. Stales, the limited supplies into their ports
at the last accounts, anil tlie high import, continue
to give firmness to holders pretty generally,so that
there has been no largo quantity pressing on the
market. The sales for the week ending Ist inst.,
amounted to 19,240 bales, of which 8,060 were Up
land at 7} a 9:(||; 3,820 Orleans at 7j aD} ; 1,960
Alabama and Mobile at a 8;(, and 120 S. Island
at 20 a 28d per lb,; about 6(000 bales were taken on
speculations. The business for three days ended
last evening, is estimated at 9,000 bales, and
2.000 of it to speculators
Charleston, March 2.
Cotton. —We have but few remarks to offer in
relation to the operations of the past week in Up
land. The sales have been about 3000 bales at
prices ranging from 13J to I7J cents, and at fully a
decline of i a cent per lb on all qualities except
strictly choice, which it is gcncral'y believed, would
command last week’s price. The market has been
very unsettled since our last. (lurquotations which
follow was the nominal value of the article, at the
close of the market yesterday. Liverpool classifi
cation , ordinary and inferior, I3j a 14,middling to
middling fair, 11 j a 13J, fair to good fair, Hi a 11> A,
good 17 al7 i, choice none. The business of the
week in Bea Islands was confined to about 30 bags
from 40 to 43, with 37 Stained do. from 10 to 23
cts. per lb.
Rice. —But a limited business has engaged deal
ers in Rice during the week,chiefly for coastwise
shipment. The transactions are 1701) tierces at the
following prices; 321 tierces at $4 ; 293at4i); 143
4 9-16 ; 616 at 4fj ; and 342 tierces atTJ per 100.
drain. —The arrivals of Corn, during the week
have been about 8000 bushels from New-Orlcans,
and sold at 83 a S 3 cents per bushel. Several par
cels of North River and Virginia (tats have also
been received and sold. We quote the former at
I 60, and the latter at 36 a 60 cents per bushel. Peas
arc worth about 83 cents per bushel. Sales of Hay
at a fl j( per 100 lbs.
Flour. —Sales bavebcen made in Baltimore,Phila
delphia and Virginia, at a decline on former rates.
These descriptions of Flour we quote at $9 per bbl.
• Canal is worth a per bbl.
Salt. —About 3000 sacks Liverpool have been re
' reived during the week, the greater part of which
I has been disposed of at per sack,
j Baron. —The following quotations arc a criterion ;
of the market for this article: Hams 12 a 13; :
Shoulders 9 : and Sides 11 cents per lb.
Spirits —Small lots Baltimore Whiskey, in bbls. j
' at 46 cents, do. N. E. Hum in bbls. at 43 cents per j
- gallon.
Ixird. —The last sales of Lard were made at
pr lb at which price we quote.
Coffee. — About 270 bags I üba brought from 11 j
to 12 ; and 360 bags do. from 11 j a 12 Jc pr lb.
•Sugars. —There was a good demand throughout
the week for most kinds of Sugars. A small lot of
Muscovado, Victoria brand, brought 10J all; and
about 130 hhds Muscovado, within our quotations—
-7.1 aKi jc. per lb. St. Croix has been selling at 10c.
About 100 hhds. Attakapns, (Louisiana) brought
7 a 8c per lb.
Molasses. —\Ve quote New-Orlcans 32 a 36c. per
gallon, and would remark that Attakapas (Louisi
ana) has also been sold about these rates. Cuba
has brought from the wharf 28 cts pr gallon.
Macon, February 2S.
Cotton. —There is hut little coming in, and it
meets with ready sale, at 14 to 16 cents, principal
sales from 14A to 134 cents.
Savannah, March I.
Cotton. —Arrived since the 22d ult. 4867 bales
Upland aval 727 bales 8.1. Cotton, and cleared at the
tame time, 3064 bales Upland and 178 hales S. I.
Cotton ; leaving a stock on hand, inclusive of all on
ship board not cleared on the Ist inst. of 29231 bales
Upland amt 1660 bales Sea Island.
For two days after receipt of the Great Western’s
advices the market was dull, and prices of Uplands
ia A ct; lower, hut on Tuesday the demand improv.
id, and yesterday it was particular y animated, en
abling holders to obtain nearly the rates current last
week ; the sales of the week arc 6222 bales, at 14
to 20 cts. per lb. In Sea Island the transactions have
been very limited, embracing only 5 bags at 40, 17
at 44, and 11 at 32, with 24 Stained at 16 a 20.
Rice. —There has been but a moderate busines do.
ing in this article during the week. The sales have
been from if 1 a 4j, with a light stock and prices firm.
Flour. —The transactions confined to city con
sumption. Sales of Baltimore at f9A a 9ft ; Canal
at $lO.
Corn. —No cargo sales ; retails from ship-board by
the 100 bushels and upwards at S 3 a 90, from store
96 a 100.
Groceries —ln Coffee, Sugar, and Molasses, the
sales have been light during the week. Sales of
200 bags Cuba Coffee at 12A a 13 ; 100 hags Rio do.
alio cts. ; 100 hhds. Cuba’Molasses at 31 a 32 ;N.
Orleans do. at 36 a 38.
Baron —This article is dull, with a fair supply.
Sales of 14,000 lbs. Hog Round at 12 cts.; 200
Baltimore Hams at 13J.
Hay —Sales of 400 bundles, on the wharf, at slst
sales from store at $1 37 a $1 50.
Salt —3ooo bushels loose at 37; 1300 bags at
$1 50 a $ I 70.
Spirits —ln domestic liquors sales of 130 bbls.
N. E. Rum at 43 to 46; Whiskey at 48; Gin at 48
a 60.
statement or cotton, march 1.
UPLAND SEA J.
Stock on hand, Ist October, 3164 35
Received this week 4867 727
Do. previously 133426 2060
141457 2822
Exported this week 3064 175ft,.,,„ r
Hu. previously 107162 9S4y u '“ uw
Stock on hand, including all on~\
shipboard, not cleared, March}- 29231 1609
1, 1839 3
! JU-J1 _g—
MARINK INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, March 2.
Arrived yesterday. —Brig Richard Henry, Sturtc
vant,Grand Gulf, ( Hiss;) steam packet Gov. Dud
ley, Joy, Wilmington.
Went to sen v eslerday. —Ship Casco, Hall, Mobi’e;
ship Lyons, Agry, Mold c ; ship Superb, Gatche 1,
Liverpool; hr. ship Scotland, Black, Liverpool; hr.
barque Verona, Wilson, Liverpool; br. barque John
Anderson, Miller, Liverpool; br. barque Florist,
Andrews, London ; U. L. brig George, Hull. New
Y ork ; schr. Guess, Ward,New York ; schr. Berry,
Kelly, New (T’eans; schr. Premier, , Balti
more ; schr. Stephen is Francis, Magee, St. Augus
tine.
Savannah, March 1.
Cleared. —Brigs Clarissa Baymore, Havana;-
Woodstock, Bragdon, West Indies.
Arrived yesterday. teamboats Lamar, Cres
wcli, Augusta ; Thorn, Roth, Augusta.
Went to sea. —Biig Wi liam Taylor, Hocy, New
York ; schr. Antelope, Gifford, Philadelphia.
Departed. —Steamboat Lamar,Creswcll, Augusta
A. LAFITTE & ItROTIUER,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
CHARLESTON, SOUTH-CABOLINA.
(1 RATEFUL for the liberal patronage extended
H towards them by their friends in Georgia and
Alabama, respectfully renew the offer of their ser
vices ; one of the concern will devote his undivided
attention to the RECEIVING AND FORWARD
ING BUSINESS, and therefore hopes to give gen
eral satisfaction. swim feb27
WHOLESALE HAT WAHE.IIorSR,
No. 291 Market street, Philadelphia.
THOMAS EVANS * Co., (late Ran-
I kin k Evans, Augusta, Ga.,) take p’east
me in informing their friends throughou-
Carolina, and Alabama, that
they have located themselves in Phila
delphia,where 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 & Co.
dec 24 swtf
Cj" 'Hie MillcdgeviMc Journal, Mobile Chronicle,
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, and Charleston Cou
rier, will publish the above twice a week for two
months, and charge this office. Each paper is re
quested to send a paper containing the advertise
ment to the advertisers in Philadelphia.
AUGUSTA SEED STORE,
Removed to six doors above the Rail Hoad Bank.
RRANTED GARDEN SEED just received
I T from the Shakers by I. H. SERVICE.
A fresh supply of Garden Seeds, Bird Seeds, Clo
ver, Lucerne, Potato Unions, Onion Setts, BADEN
CORN, Ac.
The usual allowance made to country dealers.
A lew Brushes,Sieves, Swifts, Ac.; also, a beau-,
tiful collection of Bulbs, Plants, Flower Seeds, Ac.,
novdA 4in.72w w
I AND TO KENT. —The subscriber offers for
j rent the land attached to his residence, ad
joining the corporate limits of the city, very well,
adapted to the cultivation of the Mulberry.
CHARLES CARTER,
mar 2. law2ws
AUGUSTA FEMALE SEMINARY.
f|IHE duties of this Seminary will be resumed
1 by Mrs. 11. L. Moise, with competent assis
tants,on 'Tuesday, the 2d day of January next.-
The following aic the terms :
First Course. pr quarter.
Orthography, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic,
and Elementary branches of History,
Grammar and Geography, $8 00
Second Course.
History, (Modern and Ancient,) Geography,
Grammar, Parsing, Otheopy and Dictation’, 10 00
Third Cnorse.
Comprising every branch of an English edu
cation, as taught in the principal Acade
mies of the United States, 15 00
French,Spanish and Latin Languages, each, 10 00
| Drawing, l 0 00
Painting in water colors, 10 00
Music on Piano Forte, including Vocal music, 20 OO
I Music on Guitar, includiug Vocal, 10 00
Use of Piano Forte, gratis. •
Mrs. Moise can accommodate a limited number
of young ladies in her family with Boarding and
Lodging, where, being under her immediate charge,
strict attention will be paid to their morals and de
portment. Boarding and Lodging per quarter S6O.
December 2S-6trw
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