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I rvin till Huuthtrn Recorder.
To Abolish Hie Uetailing of Spirituous
Liquors.
To our FeHoir-efazOns vs Georgia-:
The undersigned were appointed a Committee
at a meeting ol a iexpectable number or the peo
ple of Pulliam county, to address you upon the
subject of I lie evils which afflict our whole com
munity, originating from the practice of retailing
intoxicating liquors in our Stale. We know that
in comiug|forwaril to address you, that we stand
exposed to all prejudices which usually assail at
tempts at the reformation of great and prominent
evils. The advocates and the victims alike rally
to their perpetuation, and proscription places its
band upon oil who daro to raise or assemble
around the new standard. The imagination
is set most most actively to work, to hunt up
spectres to alarm the inconsiderate, and to bias
and influence their judgments. The ever active
vigilance of Liberty and Freedom is aroused
least some great constitutional right shall bo in
vaded. The “union of Church and Stale,” the
right of the poor to do us they please, their sub
jection to the dominion of the rich, sonic trick ol
a political parly, a sectarian measure, and many
other cant phrases are the notable argument!
which are ever and anon opposed to the march
of reformation. Hut, fellow-citizens, we feel that
you have too long known the crying evils to
which the retail of intoxicating drinks has given
birth, to listen for a moment to such aspersions
upon motives. We represent upon this occasion
a constituency composed of the Christian and the
sinner. The Methodist, Haptist, and Presbyte
rian—the Union and the State, Rights man—the
lawyer, the politician, the doctor, and the divine
—the rich, the poor, and those of competency —
the temperate ami the intemperate—the retailer
and the purchaser—the farmer and the merchant
—all these compose that portion of our fellow
citizens who lately assembled at Ealonton, and
prepared and signed a memorial to the next Legis
lature of our State, to prohibit the traffic by retail
in ardent spirits, and appointed us their Com
mittee to invite you to co-operate with them
in the great and good work. W'e approach the
task with unfeigned pleasure, fortified by the con
viction of our rectitude, and the unanimity of
those in the midst of whom we reside. We
cannot but believe that the same moral sense
which has awakened hero the energies of this
great reform, will not slumber in the bosoms of
other communities, ns respectable for their virtue,
intelligence and moral worth. On Sunday the
241 h day of February, a portion of the citizens
of Gutonton, assembled at the church for the
purpose of considering upon the subject, and out
of a congregation of about 120 persons, 103
signed the memorial. Another meeting in ano
ther part of our country has been held, and with
corresponding success and equal unanimity.—
Upon a subject so vitally interesting to all, could
there ho otherwise than unanimity ! Wc invite
you, fellow-citizens, and individually, to look to
the neighborhood of a retail grocery, to the con
dition of those who frequent them, and satisfy
yourselves, whether the retail there curried cm
has produced most good or burin. If the quan
tity of harm prevails over the goqjl, ought not
the evil to he suppressed, and will you aid in its
suppression ! Look to your Courts of Justice
and see how many of the affrays and riots which
engage the lime of the county, happened in or
at a gr ig shop.
L ink to the many murders and manslaughters
wh ch are almost every where to be met with, and
see how many arise from feuds engendered while
the parties were at the grocery. Against the in
fluences of these retail shops the law frowns with
in lignation. The keeping of a tippling shop for
the encouragement of drinking, is an offence
against our laws, and punishable with loss of lib
erty and property ; and yet these same laws licence
the community to retail the intoxicating spirits
which are there drank. Drunkenness is made no
excuse for crime, and yet \vo_makc it lawful to re
tail the intoxicating draught, which turns reason
from her throne, and while in that overthrow,
crime is perpetrated. Could we ask a stronger ar
gument for our cause than that which your own
laws furnish 1 Look around you, fellow-citizens,
and see how many objects of charity have been
made so by frequenting these retail shops. How
many widows and orphans, pennyless ami help
less, whose husbands and fathers were the 100 fre
quent visitors of them. Look at these things ami
answer candidly to yourselves, whether the evil
ought not to he exterminated. Massachusetts and
other States at the North and East, have adopted
a similar course. Our sister and adjoining State,
Tennessee, has acted likewise. Other Southern
Stales are now moving in the matter. The ball
is rolling onward, and gaining at every turn ; and
though we cannot claim the high gratillcation of
having first put it in motion, let us, fellow-citi
zens, participate in the pleasure, as well as the
honor, ol having added to its revolutions and its
magnitude,
Y our follow-citizens,
Myiks Carr yr,
John E. Dawson, 1
Thomas Coopeu, > Com.
John C. Mason,
James A. Mkiii wktiieu, J
The following is the form of a petition which
has already been signed by near 300 persons, in
Putnam, and no subject can produce more una
nimity :
State of Geohoia ;
Tu the Senate and Jiuuoe of Representatives of
this Slate,Jar 1839.
The undersigned, citizens of this State, behav
ing that the retail ot spirituous liquors is an evil
of great magnitude among us, come iule the Le
gislature by petition, and ask you, in your wisdom,
to pass such a law ns will effectually put a slop to
it. We do not here attempt to name the mis
chief that Iras been done in this State, by quarter
ing upon our cities, towns, villages, and high
ways, retail shops. They are so manifold as not
to have escaped the paintul notice of every mem
ber of your honorable body, Vour petitioners
come with the more confidence, because several
Stales in this Union have already passed such a
law as to make penal the retail of intoxicating
drinks. Surely a traffic which is full of evil, and
only evil should be banished by law, if it can not
be done otherwise. Let it be done, and your pe
titioners, ns in duly bound, will ever pray, &c.
I he Committee ask that some dozen of active
citizens of each county, will present it to the citi
zens ot their county, both male and female, for
signatures. We ask especially that the clergy
would get some active man to present it in every
religious meeting, and that the same be carefully
kept until the session of the next Legislature,
when it shall be presented by the members from
the several counties they represent.
The Committee ask it as a favor, that every
Newspaper, both religious and political, publish
the above at least twice.
Last or ttif, Chehokees.— The Little Rock
Advocate, of the 4th ult. says—“ On Saturday last
2SB emigrating Chcrokees, arrived at this place
in the steamer Victoria, under the charge of Capt.
Drew, on their way west. Those are the last of
the Cherokee emigrants. Most of them are those
who were unable to go by land; and nine deaths
have occurred since the commencement of their
journey ; but in general they look well and enjoy
good health. In the company is the celebrated
Chief John Ross, who buried bis wife in this city
on Sunday.
A JcniciAt Opinion. —The Antigua Herald
says tnot the Chief Justice of Grenada, in hancu
has called the inhabitants of that Colony a set til
Holonnus liars from mte end of the Island to I/!,
other.
» ItniONICLB Alp SENTINEL.
" AUGUStA.
e THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH ‘-’l.
ts \Vc were shown yesterday «omc handsome spec
irmniK of sewing silk. produced and manufacture!
® iby Mr. Ross of Lincoln county, in this State. Th<
d mulberry used was the common mulberry of thi
I* 1 South. Mr. I’, gives it as his opinion that it cai
y I be made a vastly mure profitable business than tie
n ! raising of cotton.
n | ft /* Wc are reipiosted to stale that the sale o
! Laud, advertised to take place this day, by Georg
1 A. 11. Walker, is postponed until Saturday, 23
I, instant.
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0 From the New York Star of the 1 (ith.
’* Latest from Maine.
The Eastern Mail brings nothing of much in
y ■ tcrest, except that affairs decidedly wear more an
more a pacific character. Wc give a paragrapl
1 of Gov. Fairfield’s message to the Legislature :
1 “Under these circumstances, I would recoin
‘ mend that, when we arc fully satisfied, either b
I the declarations of the Lt. Governor of the Pro
H vince of New Brunswick, or otherwise, (hat h
II has abandoned all idea of occupying the disputci
r territory with a military force, and of attemptin)
an expulsion of our party, that then the Governo
0 be authorised to withdraw our military force, leu
1 ving the Land Agent with a suflh ient/>o*jre, arm
cd or unarmed, as the case may require, sufflclcn
r to cirry into effect vour original design, that 0
1 driving oil or arresting the trespassers and preset
’ ving and protecting the timber from their dopred
ations.”
He concludes by saying that we ought not I
do wantonly more than In necessary. All tha
we want is that the marauders should he drivel
off and the timber protected. Maintaining ai
honorable and just position, Maine will not, h
P thinks, be accused by her sister States of unnccet
sadly provoking hostilities, nor by the Uritisl
Provinces of entertaining hostile or illiberal feel
s
j Col. Jarvis, commanding the Maine constabu
lary armed force, has arrived at Augusta, lie lei
’ his encampment at the mouth of the Aroostook
two miles from the line of the State, on the 9th
Not apprehending any attack from the trespasser!
or from New Brunswick, he had discharged abou
j 400 of his men. The remainder (100) are con
structing a boom across the river to slop the dm
her coming down. Col. Jarvis is come to Au
gusta to advise the Governor toomploy the milita
ry force in constructing roads.
Gen. Hodsdon, wc are surprised to hear, |aftci
the pacific overtures made from Sir John Harvey
hns been ordered to the mouth of the Presque isle
river, on the Aroostook, feu miles from the en
campment of Col. Jarvis.
The Kennebec troops are ordered to No. 4, on
the Aroostook road, and there ;o wait for orders
from General Hodsdon.
The Augusta correspondent of the Boston At
las, under dale of March 13th, says :
I have no doubt the Legislature will sustain
the views of the Governor, and authorise him to
keep a sufficient force on the disputed territory
In protect the timber from depredations. If Sir
John Harvey consists to this, and it is generally
supposed here that he will, there will then he an
end to our present difficulties.
Gen. Scott was still at Augusta on the 13th,
(Wednesday) and to remain there.
The Message of Gov. Fairfield has appended to
it the following note :
Note, —Since the foregoing message was pre
pared, I have received a note from Sir John Har
vey, a copy of which is herewith communicated.
From the spirit manifested, I shall entertain the
hope that he will lake such a course ns will ena
ble Maine to pursue that indicated in the foregoing.
The communication from Sir John Harvey here
referred to, expresses his acquiescence in the agree
ment entered into between the British Minister
and the American Secretary of Statp, and his
readiness to enter into such negociations ns may
be necessary to carry it into effect.
The Montreal Herald has now something to
occupy his time besides arranging the gibbet for
patriots. The Maine news has struck him all
aback. His columns teem with abuse of the
Americans, hut his tone is quite subdued now,
seeing the unanimity of the feeling here, lie
thus breaks out :
“The American papers received since our last
breathe nothing hut war to the knife with Great
Britain, couched in strains of prospective and ex
ulting triumph. We know not which to wonder
at most, the apparent national rejoicing at the
prospect of a war, or the certainty expressed of
the stripes and stars waving over the red cross
standard of Britannia. It would appear ns if a
thirst for blood were an instinct of human nature,
else the necessity which calls for war would not
be hailed with pecans of rejoicing.”
From the Plattsburgh Republican, if March 9.
The Northern Frontier.
We understand that Lieut. Reeves’s company,
(with the exception of a small guard which is to I
remain near Lyman’s, and another on the Green- !
wood road), has been ordered to join Capt. l)i
-mick, at Rouse’s Point.
The meeting of citizens at House’s Point, report
that after two days’ laborious examination of the
subject, no conclusive evidence has been produced
implicating any particular individuals or persons,
in the burnings in that village,
jgj I'he report published in the “Plattsburgh Whig
extra,” on Monday last, that the “British authori
ties in Canada have taken formal possession of
the strip of land m dispute on this frontier, inclu
ding the site of the old fort at House’s Point, by
erecting a flag and stationing patroles within the
jurisdiction of this state,” &c., is incorrect, and
without the slightest foundation in fact. We
have it from persons who were there yesterday,
that there are no troops at the fort, or on the ‘stiip
ofland in dispute.’ All was quiet at our last
advices.
In relation to the movements of the British
troops on our immediate frontier, which have
caused much alarm among the citizens as well as
the refugees at Champlain and along the line, wt
l learn from undoubted authority that Sir John Cob
I borne has increased the guard in close vicinity U
! the boundary line, by regular troops and ordnance
! and but a small Indian force. This posture o
1 | affairs, in connexion with the troubles on th
I Maine frontier, has excited considerable alarm.
t
The British ship Britania left the port of Phils
1 dolphin on the 13th inst. with a cargo of 8500 bbb
{ ■ flour, 60 hhds. bark, 7 hhds. tobacco, and 10
t tOO hhd. staves. She is bound for Liverpoo
’’ | The packet ship Algonquin is to lake 400 t
,(• bids, flour to Liverpool, and the barque Minerv
e is loading principally with Hour, for the same dei
s filiation.
r
j From the New Orleans Ret of the \6th.
From Tews,
By the arrival of the steam packet Columbia
1 in forty hours from Galveston papers to the Btl
and Houston papers to the (ith March, both inclu
d sive. There is little intelligence respecting tbi
'• Indian difficulties, w hich, at our List dates, threa
f i tened the country with sanguinary ravages. A
e few days since a party of Wacom and Towacra
nies were discovered near Gonzales by the Ton
' a purly of llicciumu, accompanied b-f a
few Tonkewa warriors surrounded them n a
. thicket and killed the whole. They were all on
' , foot and had evidently ventured near the town to
• steal tbe liofses ot the citizeiid.
companies of volunteers from the < oun ies
- Os Harrisburg. Brazoria, Matagorda, Colorado,
3 . Liberty and Galveston are tube drafted, to serve
six months on the frontiers. . .
1 The celebration at Houston of the third ahm
1C versary of the national independence of J exas
ic was highly interesting and appropriate, . alutes
in and feux dc ini were fired, processions were lor
med and an eloquent and impressive oration was
delivered by judge Thompson.
The Galveston Gazette states that there is
scarcely a branch of industry common to t ic
of country, which does not afford constant °3"
merit and high wages. Three or four dollars a
® L day are paid to common laborers; mechanics wa-
ges are much higher, and the army is open for all
such as are more fond ol the pomp and circum
stance of war than the arts of peace. It adds
“ Loafing is the only trade which is overdone.
n- The Boston Daily Advertiser of the 14th states
that twenty four pieces of cannon with their car
riagos, from Albany, destined for the Eastward*
n . were brought down or* the Worcester Rail Road
»y on Monday.
o*
1)0 .
[1( l Tim Vicn-PntsiDKJfcv.—The Madisonian says
ig that the Richmond Enquirer and the Washington
or Globe are engaged in efforts to persuade Col. John
son to retire from the next canvass for the Vice.
nt Presidency ( hut that it has “ reason to know Col.
of J. is not willing to retire.” and is only “ willing
! r " that Mr. Van Buren should take the responsibili
ty of having hint dropped from the ticket,contra
to ry to the usages of the Republican parly fur the
at last forty years.”
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From Nassau.— By the brig Franklin, Capt.
" Hitchcock, we have Nassau papers to the evening
1’ of the 27th ult. On that day a Special Court was
B1 held for the purpose of naturalizing several of the
American negroes and others. Forty-three were
naturalized. We presume they are some of the
*j.j quondam slaves who were driven into Bermuda
. by stress of weather a few years ago, and liberated
’ there by the British authorities. The vessels con
‘ veying them were hound from Charleston to N.
Orleans. —Journal of Commerce.
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From the Richmond Whig.
Parties and Prospects in Virginia.
a- The Sphino Camfaion.— The Whigs have
no humbug convention on foot, expressly dcsign
jr cd to impress the near and distant public with the
y, imagination that the great deep of popular opin
le ion was stirred to its foundations—that the people
i- wore moving—that they were up —and, in the
magnificent language ol Anna Comnena, that “all
n Europe seemed about to precipitate itsclfon Asia.”
•s They have no need for a resort to this trickery
and humbug. They scorn it. Their trust is in
1- the sober judgment, the rational convictions, the
patriotic attachments of the People to their Con
n stitulion, their laws, and their institutions, their
a hatred of corruption, their love of economy and
y simplicity, and their resolution to remain free.
r The Whigs have a real -aitli in the intelligence
' as well us the virtue of the People, ana believe
i them not only desirous of doing right, hut capa
ble of seeing abut is right, and of detecting the
, elaborate chicanery and indefatigable artifices by
which the minions of the Executive and the cun
i ning veteran, the Editor of the Enquirer, at their
head, strive not only to excite fheir imagination
■ with false alarms, and to entrap their judgments
• by false issues, but to overawe their senses by the
. show and pretence of an overwhelming strength k
i To this latter purpose how industriously is every
• wire pulled! How scrupulously is every scrap
. gathered up, and how ostentatiously paraded !
i Not an individual letter is written, but it is nosed
■ out and clapped into the Enquirer! Not a half
dozen Locofocos can meet any where, with barely
enough for a chairman, a secretary, a mover, and
a seconder, but straight the important event is
heralded in the Enquirer, and -magnified as a
great popular movement !
Now, we proclaim all this to ho utter humhug
gery, cunningly, possibly, hut yet clumsily, con
trived for a deceptive purpose—for cilect—to
gammon the unlimited Public—to persuade them
that that is strong which is weak—that that is
acceptable and desirable which is hateful; in short,
that Locofocoism is the prevailing temper of the
times; when the people of Virginia loathe and
abominate it !
Some twenty or thirty disciples of this school
meet in a county on a public meeting. Their
proceedings arc published. The distant reader
imagines, from the pomp observed, that the whole
county was present, when only the expectant
politicians or the loose hangers-on upon society
were there. What is the elfect 1 To induce
tlio general reader to conclude that full surely
such is the direction of public opinion; and this is
the very r effect for which the whole humbugging
proceeding was instituted, and the hurabuggers
arc rewared by finding their traps full of game !
This is Van’s way of manufacturing public sen
timept to order.
Now we say to the Whigs, in a confidence
inspired by twenty years’ exp donee, and by a
particular scrutiny ot nearly every county in the
Commonwealth, that all is well , if the Whigs
choose Vint to use common, ordinary exertion.
That they will do so we have no doubt; and,
. upon this assumption, we proclaim the entire
certainty of Whig triumph at the next elections,
t Wo say it not in a braggadocio spirit—the
• Locofocos will be swept. West of the raotm
f tains there will be a large Whig gain. East of 1
the mountains there will lie no loss. So far
■ from sinking the present Whig majority in the
3 House, that majority will be increased. All
1 the reliable signs proclaim it, and the artificial
e ; and manufactured signs do but confirm it. Nous
, verrons. We will see what we shall see.
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The correspondent of the Natchez Free Trader,
1, writing from Vicksburg, details the following of
e an individual named Dukcy or Duquet, who, about
ls two months ago, was brought before one of the
, , magistrates of Natchez, on a charge of being of
j. African blood, for the purpose of annulling his
„ marriage with a rich widow of that place. How
cc j the Investigation terminated is not stated : About
0 f a month since, however, he appeared in Vieks-
U1 lung, and put up at the Mansion house, where he
passed for a French doctor: having contracted a
bill of $4O which he was unable to pay on pre
sentation, he removed, after some arrangement, to
another house. He was then lost sight of until
Is, recently when lie returned in company with a
D,. j beautiful girl, Miss Foans of Vicksburg, her molh
, ier and mother’s children; took lodgings at the
Vicksburg hotel, arid was legally married to Miss
'O. | Foans.
va Reports to the disadvantage of the doctor, were
jg. soon bruited abroad, and some of the barbers, by
whom he was in the habit of being shaved, pro
nounced him to ho a negro barber from this oily,
and that they had known his mother who was
an ebonite of the first water. This induced some
kind gentlemen to pay him a visit at his hotel;
la, and in the bar-room they disclosed to him their
th | surmises, together with the information obtained i
u- ! from the peruqmers. In the midst of his half !
JC J- reneh halt English explanations, tears and whim*
ape rings, Ins lady entered ; and, like a “lady who
A , oved her lord -said that he was -her own dear !
a- , husband, whether black or white, red or yellow- i
i- , ,hat she would live with him. die with him-and
to li—ll with him!" This proof of conjugal I C
fidelity satisfied the gentlemen, and they left; lust
advising her “gude man" to leave the place. Ihe
lady’s mother and the children took the hint and D
quit the enamoured pair. Monsieur Uukay,pru- S.
clehtU endeavored la procure a cabin passage for '
himself and lady from Vicksburg, hut was refused g
auv,other that a deck passage. What has since &
become of them is not known —hut it is more than
probable the colored gentleman and his pretty and g
innocent wife, as she is represented to be, will l
soon visit our city and the knight of toe razor as
tonish his curly headed compeers, by the exhibi
tion of his “ladye fayre." —Louisiana Adi\
- Norfolk, March 15.
Firu.—A fire broke out between three and (
four o’clock yesterday morning in the brick ware
house on Newton’s wharf, occupied by Messrs.
Nash & Co. as an auction store, and hy Mr. C.
Hatcher, which was wholly consumed, but not i
until the flames had enveloped the adjoining tone- ]
ment on the north side occupied by Messrs. U. S. ,
Hutching <A Co. who, we regret to learn have ;
experienced a heavy loss, their insurance falling
far short of the stock on hand, the greater portion
of which was consumed. The ware house of
Messrs. Butler and Camp next caught, and was
totally destroyed. The amount of goods lost was
great, but most of them were on consignment.
The ware houses of Messrs. Charles A George
Reid on the north, and that of Messrs. Gary &
Drummond,South, escaped, after they were fairly ]
given up by all. The Market House was on lire
at various times and in many places at the same
moment, but by the greatest exertions, it was sa
ved with slight damage. The wind blew strong
in the beginning of the fire from the South Cast.
The prompt visit of the Portsmoutli Fire Com
panies, and the force from the Navy Yard gave
great assistance lo our own firemen; and there is
scarcely a doubt but that the fire would have been
most destructive, had it not been encountered
with great resolution and perseverance. The
houses were insured. The sufferers by the fire
share strongly the public sympathy.
The fire was unquestionably the work of an
incendiary, as on its discovery the store door of
Dr. Nash was open, and the house was on tire in
three different places.
The Collector of the Customs despatched yes
terday the Revenue Cutter in pursuit of a small
schooner which was lying in the County Dock
during Wednesday, but had disappeared when
the fire was discovered. We learn that the two
white men who were apprehended on suspicion,
were examined before the Mayor yesterday morn
ing, and committed for farther examination.
The Steam Boat Old Dominion, which also
went down in quest of the schooner stolen from
the Dock, returned last evening without seeing
the object of the search.
(jj-We authorized to announce Dr. Nathan
Crawford, Rev. Thomas H. Dawson, Rev. Juriah
Harriss, and Isaac Ramsey, Esq. ns candidates to
represent Columbia county in the Convention to be
held at Milledgeville in May next. mar 21
(fjr’We are authorized to say that MOSES
ROFF will not be a candidate for member of Coun
cil in ward No. 2. mnr 21
TURTLE SO Ul*
Served up This Day, at 10 o’clock, at the
CORNUCOPIA, opposite the Post Office. mar 21
M1 N T JUIAPS
AT THE CORNUCOPIA,
mar 20 4t Opposite the Post Office.
(£/■ BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the relief I
of the Sick Poor of this city and vicinity. —The
Visiting Committees for the ensuing month are as ,
follows : ,
Division No. 1. —Mr. J. W. Meredith, Mr. Jas.
Godhy,Mrs. C. Smith, Mrs. Waterman. (
Division No. 2.—Mr. Wm. Haines, Mr. Wm. E. |
Jackson, Miss Morrison, Mrs. Dr. Robertson.
Division No. 3.—Mr. E. Heard, Mr. P. Flem
ming, Mrs. I leant, Mrs. Unit.
Any member of these committees can obtain the
requisite funds hy calling on the President, Wm.
W. Holt, Esq. at his office, Cumming’s Piazza,
mar 20 C. F. STURGIS
rfj ■ We are reques ed to say that the subscribers
to the Ncw-Vork Vlbion can be furnished with the |
plate of Queen Victoria by calling at the store of ,
the Agent, Mr. Wm. B. M’Kee. Persons who are
not subscribers and desirous of supplying themselves
with copies, can do so by making early application ;
as above. mu 19-Ct
iky The following gentlemen will be supported *
for Members of t ouncil in Ward No. 2.
JOHN BONES, MUSES ROFF, Jr. 1
B. H. WARREN. mar 19 1
Sky The following gentlemen will be supported ,
in Ward No. 3, for Members of Council: ,
FOR MAYOR, ,
A. GUMMING.
FOR ALDERMEN, ,
BENJ. BAIRD, D. W. ST. JOHN, i
JAS. B.BISHOP. mar 19 i
SC? The following gentlemen will be supported
for Mayor and Members of Council, in Ward No. 1. 1
FOR MAYOR,
A. GUMMING.
FOR ALDERMEN,
W.E. JACKSON, G. F. PARISH, 1
PHILIP CRUMP. mar 13
ffij' The following gentlemen will he supported
for Mayor and Members of Council in ward No. 4, i
by Many Voters,
for MAYOR.
WILLIAM W. HOLT.
FOR ALDERMEN.
MATTHEW NELSON, JAMES HARPER,
LEON P. DUGAS. _ mar 4
tO' We arc requested to announce RICHARD F. I
BUSH, Esq., as a candidate for member of Council i
in Ward No. 1, at the approaching election, mar 12 |
(Jj™ The following gentlemen will be supported j
for Mayor and Members of Council, forward No. 4. i
FOR MAYOR,
W. W. HOLT.
FOR MEMRERS OF COUNCIL,
JAMES HARPER, E. B. BELL,
mar 8
Cjr* The following gentlemen will be supported
for members of Council for ward No. 4, at the en- j
suing election, by Many Voters. !
JAMES HARPER, Maj. E. B. BEALL.
mar 4
Wo are authorised to announce the follow- J
ing Gentlemen as candidates for Members of |
Council, for Ward No. 1.
WM. E. JACKSON,
G. F. PARISH, D. L. HOLLIDAY,
mar 2
(£/• The following gentlemen will be supported
tor members of Council in the Third Wards
D. W. ST. JOHN, JAS. B. BISHOP,
WILLIAM RANK 1N mar 1
, dj” The following gentlemen will be supported
lor members of Council in the Second Ward :
MARTIN M. DYE, JOHN HiLl,
SAMUEL THOMPSON _ mar 1
The following gentlemen will be supported
for members of Council, for Ward No. 2.
M. M. DYE, B. H. WARREN,
fe6 26 JOHN HILL.
; £/■ We are authorized to say that ALFRED
j GUMMING, Esq., will,at the approaching election,
be a candidate for the office of Mayor of the city of
j Aug'isto. feb 18
1 J I 3P V< ‘ aro !UlthoriseJ to say that WILLIAM .
i W. HOLT, Esq., will, at the approaching election,
I be a candidate for the office of Mayor of the city of :
| Augusta. td ’ feb 7 j
CCf V e are authorised to announce P. CRUMP
I as a candidate for member ol Council for Ward No •
1, at the approaching election. mar 12 j 1
! . ~ n/ ' A E. Martin has returned J«•
ito the city, and can be consul tec at thcU. S Hotel s
private entrance on Broad-street—Room No 15 i »
fcomt feb 11 -if ’!
RESIDENT DENTIST. —Dr. Mun*ok>j |{]
operating rooms, second door from Broad-street on n
. leintosli-sf., opposite the Constitutionalist office i in
march 13 I
i
—w-
:oii»iguee!> pe‘ r Sontli Carolina IS nil K° a l
Hambi’ko, March 20,1839.
D’Antignac & Hill, Herbert & H., Durden, T.
)»wson,J. S. Martin,J. 8. Hutchinson, R. Dentan,
; Kneeland k Son, Mis. Sera, Rankin, Boggs &
JM fe \V. Adams, Gould & Bulkley, A. Spen- (
:cr' Baird k Rowland, 1. S. k Co., A. Gumming.
Snowden ft Shear, HopkiMjJcnnings & Co, Reese
Sr Beall, Stovall, Simmons £&o., C. Hoffman, I hos. 1
Richards,M. H. Smith, RatflWnp & Baker,Mrs. In
graham, George Parrott, HL. Afters, J. 1 ■ Benson, t
Dciidy k Key, N. Jerome, I’errttt it Young. •
COMMERCIAL. !
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Colton —The great scarcity of money and the
uncertainty of the effect that the next accounts from
Liverpool, will bring of the shortness of our crop,
has caused almost a cessation of business in tins
article, but little is offering and but little is sold—
holders not being willing to submit to a decline,
and buyers not wishing to pay former rates-wh-.it
sales are made are at a decline of at least i a 1 cent
P er *
Exchange— Checks on New-York are still held
at 2J per cent, prom, for current money. Checks
on Charleston and Savannah, are 1 per cent, and
and city bank notes are worth 1 per cent prem. over
current money.
New Vouk, March 16.
Cotton. —The demand has commenced again and
shippers are actively at work. Prices have been
growing a shade better although there is not much
advance. Shipments are active ; all the vessels up
get full readily. The sales of the week have been
as follows; —2,200 Uplands 14 a 16,2,100 Mobile,
14 a 16i ; 3,700 New Orleans, 14 a 16-1; 2,000
Floridas, 10 a lot.
Export from the United States since
Ist of October last, 361,169
Same time last year, 662,892
Same time year before, 571,642
Coffee. —There is a fair business doing by the
trade as the season advances, but no alteration in
price -, sales as follows: —11 a 12t'0 bags Brazil, at
10 a 11| ; 700 do Laguyra, lit a 12; 10U do Ma
racaibn, 10 ; 400 do old Java, 12$ a 14; 500 do
St. Doming;, 9 A a 10 ; 250 do Porto Rico, 12$.
Flour. —The market is in a very depressed state.
Heavy buyers hold off for a considerable reduction,
in the mean time small lots of Western common
brands are run oil' at $8 50 a 8,6.2, and Southern
with the exception of City M 11s, at $8; Ohio, via
New Orleans, at §8 a 8,25. Rye Flour has declined,
sales $5,25. ( orn Meal $3,75. The stock of
Western Flour is large for this seasbn, and the
opening of the river wi I no doubt give us addi
tional supplies. The following are the operations
of the week.
Baltimorp, March 15.
Coffee —The sales of the week arc between 45'>0
and SuOO bags. The lending transnclion was ih«
auction sale ot Wednesday, at which 3704 bags Rio
were sold at i1 i a 12} cenls. This comprised the
entire quantity offeted ; the sale was well attended,
and the market lully sustained. Sit.ee then about
400 bags Kio have been taken at 11} rents; and
im derate parcels oi La Gtinyra at 111 al2 cents,
and St. Domingo at 91 a 10 cents.
Cotton. —Wo note sales of 100 bales Upland in
lots at 15, 16, 164 and 17 cents according to quality.
Alsonsalo of 40 hairs U| land at IPi eonls.
Howard Street Flour. —ln the early part of the
week sales from stores were made at $7,50 a $7,62},
hut since than the store prico has settled down to
$7,50, at which tales have been made and are mak
ing. The wagon and rail road price is uniform at
$7,25
City Mills Flour. —We have heard of no sales
forseverul days past Wcquolc standard at about
§7,50 —stock vry small.
Susquehanna Flour Some parcels have leached
the market byway of the River, and sales have been
made at $7,50 '
T he inspections of the week, ending on Thursday
evening last, comprise the following kinds and quail
tines.
bbls. half-bbls.
Howard street, 7263 33
City Mills, 152 1 704
Susquehanna, 694 00
Total, 9477 737
Besides 3'4 bbls. and 50 half bbls. Flour from-
Frederickshutg; and 268 barrels Rye Flour.
Molasses —At auction on Tuesday, the cargo of
brig Tariff, from Trinidad, consisting of 218 hhds.
was offered, but only 12 hhds. sold at 33 cents. By
private contract wo nolo sales of 200 hhds. Trinidad
at 32 a33 cents and of 100 birds, tew crop (Juba at
305 a3l cents.
Provisions —The provision market generally is
dull, and we have no change to note in prices.
Small sales of Mess Pork at $24 ; No. I at $2l to
$B2; and Prime at $l9 to $19,50. Mess Beef at
$l6; No. 1 atsl4; and Prime at 812 to 812,50.
We continue onrquolalions for Baltimore cured Ba
con, « hu h in the absence of transactions, are to be
considered merely nominal, viz. Hams 134 to 14*
cents,and middlings at lilto 125 cenls. Sales of
Western Bacon have been made to some extent du
ring the week at 10 cents, cash to 3 and 4 months,
for'assort d. There is a considerable stock iu
market, hut it is principaliyilimiled at 105 to 11 cents-
Baltimore Lard is hold at 125 to 13 cents without
sales to any extent, and Western at 12} to 125 cts.
Butter is doll at last quotations, viz. Glades No I.
from stores at 26 to 28 cents; ami No. 2 at 24 to 25
cents ; Western No. 2 at 18 to 20 cents, and No. 3
at 15 to 16 cents. —The inspections of the week com
prise 336 harm's Pork; 18 barrels and 5 half bar
rels Beef; 118 kegs Butter; and 21 33 kegs Lard.
Spirits —Large sales of New England Hum were
made this week at 42 cents in barrels from the
wharf, and at 43 cenls Iron stores. Wo quote
lihdsi at 41 cents. Sal. s also of Domestic Brandy
from the wharf at 68 cents m half pipes, and 60 cts
in qr. pipes. There is no apple Brandy in market.
New Orleans, March 16.
Cotton. —Received Irani I3ib to loib inclusive
5,116 bales, exports 8, 75, slock on band not cleared
128,978 bales
Our las' review showed a disposition on the part
of both sellers anil buyers to enter into contracts,
anti on Wednesday sales to the extent of 10,000
bales were effected at a 4 cent per lb. advance in
most instances on the business of the two days
\ previous, on Thursday 3.000 bales were sold at full
' puces, and yesterday only about 1,000 were disposed
of owing to the exalted pretensions of holders, who
j taking advantage of the good demand and the small
] quantity sampled and teany for sale,asked very high
rates. The sales since the 9th inst will sum up to
| lull 30,000 bales, end Irom v\ hat we ca i learn prtees
' are about the same . a they w ere before the decline
i caused by the Liverpool’s accounts from England,
we have annexed the particulars of the sales ol the
week as (hr as we could obtain them, 57 3 Mbs.
and La.at 12a 151 rents,46o Mobile and La 13 a
145 ; 2500 I.n. —; 3622 Miss. 135 a 16, 407 Miss and
La. 13a 14}; 146 La 185 aB7 do 125 ; 200 do 12}-
19 do 12}; 139 La.and Miss 13; 117 do 13}; 651
do 135; 187 Miss. 13*; 1866 M iss. and La. 14; 321
Miss. 141; 705 La. and M iss. 14}; 8574 La and
Miss. 145; 206 Mobile,and Miss 145 ; 2349 Miss,
and La. 14} ;1 61 do. 14}; 1806 Miss anil La 15;
6do 155,403 .Miss, and La. 15}; 18e4 Miss, and
15*; 300 do 165: 20 Miss. 17; 117-p enn 13. 88l ;
T'cnn. 13}; 73 Texas 135 and several lots prices not
transpned.
Liverpool Classifications.—Louisiana and .Mis
sissippi ; ordinary 12$ a 13$, middling 13} a 14$,fair
15$ a 15$, good fair 16$ a 17, good and line 17$ a
—. Tennessee and North Alabama—Ordinary,
middling,fair, good faitqjgood and line, 12} a 15.
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
1838, Oct. 1, stock on hand, bales 8900
|839, Mar receipts since 12th 5116
do do do previously 375397 350513
, . . , 389413 |
do do exports since 1 -th 8875
do do do previously 251565 260440
Leaving a balance of stock of 128973
including all on ship board not cleared.
Molasses—'ihe supply on levee tince our review
ot lulnnsf. has become som -what limit d; we note
sans of about 400 Mil . from lauding at 31 ecm-i
wmli n go.-d and atendy dcinnnd
Sugar—- Since our h s t we note soles on planta
tion ot 230 hhds at 6 . i-n s- ar „i j u || IB ( .j lv ;ls pj.
lows: 30 hit Is at 5 a 5} els. 120 do 55 a sj; |7d do
at 6 a 6.; 50 do 6} uni 3i do at 65 rents; with a
jood demand- -prime and choice parcels scarce and
nuch enquired for
- _l ■
marine intelligence.
Savannah, March 19.
Cleared—V rig Clinton, Lyon, New York ; echr.
Orbit, Harden. Bosom. .
Arrived yesterday.-Tit. bark Quern Victor.:,,
Chambers, Liverpool ; st.camboet Oglethorpe, " tl-
Orbit. M... New V.rft
ship Unbin Hood, Holmes, New York - hr ba k Ir
vine, Ueed, Liverpool; br. bark Richahucto, Gan
sing,* Liverpool; brig Clinton. Lvon, New• York i
brio Morning Star,Stone, 'Vest Indies; brig An
gNMii, Crabtree, West Indies;_ echr Columbia, Stott,
Aew York ; scl.r Casket, King, New Orleans.
Charleston, March 20.
Arrived yesterday —Scbr Orbit, Robinson, Hava-
Br ship Roger Stewart, Gordon, Gree
nock; Fr barque Josephine, Andre, Havre; schr
Ajax, Wheeler, St. Jago de Cuba.
Went to sen yesterday —Ship Florence, Lndicott,
St. Petersburg. , „ ...
Prom this port—C. L. brig Perry, Hamilton, I .
York; L L brig Moses,brown, do; schr Chase,Her
ry, Boston.
("i ENUINE PRInSTpE SEGARS.—A few qr
K boxes of old genuine Principe Scgars, just
received, and for sale at 246 Broad street by t,
mar 21-6 t WM.G.MMMO.
(' 'I OSHEN BUTTER.—IS firkins superior Go\
H shen Butter, just received and for sale by
| -1. S. BEERS & Co.
1 mar 21
"mamaiotii scheme.
To comment would bo wa-te of time. Ibis
truly Magnificent and Extraordinary Scheme
speaks for itself. All I would say, is, call or send
your orders soon. Remember the old proverb, ‘ Pro
crastination is the thief, &c.” Recollect that lam
the only authorised agent in the city of Augusta,
and be Very particular in addressing your letters to
I), r. TvU So LL L.
p. s. Bonds for the sum of §170,000 are given by
the Commissioners in Savannah for the pay ment of
prizes.
CAPITAL PHIZES.
$8 0,0 0 0!!!
95, ®0®, 90,000, 115,00®.
GREENE AND PULASKI MONUMENT
L O T T K R Y.
Class No. 17, so 1839.
To be drawn in the city of Alexandria, D. C., on
Saturday, April 20th, 1839.
BIMM.It AIT SCHEME.
1 Prize of $BO,OOO - is - $BO,OOO
1- - - 25,000 .... 25,000
1- - - 20,000 .... 20,000
1 - - - 15,000 .... 15,000
1- - - 10,000 ... - 10.000
1- - - 9,000 9,000
1- - - - 8,000 .... 8,000
1- - - 7,500 7,500
1- - - - 7,016 .... 7,016
2 Prizes of- 5.000 arc - - 10,000
3 - - - 4,000 12,000
4 --- - 3,000 .... 12,000
5 - - - 2,500 12,500
10 ... - 2,000 20,000
20 - - - 1,500 30,000
50 ... - 1,000 .... 50,000
50 ... - 750 37,500
133 ... - 500 ... - 66,500
65 .... 250 16,250
65 --- -200 --- - 13,000,
65 --- - 150 9,750
65 ... - 100 6,500
65 --- - 80 5,200
130 60 7,800
130 ... - 50 6,500
4485 ..... 40 --- - 179,400
27040 .... 20 - 540,800
32396 Prizes amounting to - - $1,217,216
78 Number Lottery—l 3 Drawn Ballots.
Whole Tickets $2O ; Halves $10; Quarters $5.
Office No. 264 Broad-street, under the Ma
sonic Hall. D. P. RUSSELL, Agent,
mar 2,1
Georgia. Burke county :
WHEREAS Payne Lovell applies for letters
of administration on the estate of Abram
B. Cook, deceased ;
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear nt my office within the time pre
scribe by law, to show cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office in Waynesboro,
this 21st of March, 1839. T. H. BLOUNT,
March 20 D. Clerk.
Georgia, Burke county :
WHEREAS David Tinley applies for letters of
administration on the estate of Thomas
Gabard, minor, deceased;
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to he and appear at my office, within the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, L
why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office in Waynesboro,
this Ist of March, 1839. T. H. BLOUNT,
March 21 D. Clerk.
Georgia, Rnrke county:
VSTHEREAS .lessee P. Green applies for letters i,
f T of administration on the estate of John De
loach, deceased:
These arc therefore to cite and admonish all
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceas
ed to be and appear at my office within the 1
time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they
have, why said letters should not he granted.
Given under my hand at office, in Waynesboro,
this Ist of March, 1839. T. H. BLOUNT,
March 21 D. Clerk.
Georgia, Burke county:
XMT’HEREAS Nathaniel L. Sturgcs applies for
V V letters of administration de bonis non on
the estate of Samuel Sturges, deceased; j
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and :
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased
to be and appear at my office within the time pre
scribed by law to show cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, in Waynesboro,
this Ist of March, 1539. T. H. BLOUNT,
March 21 D. Clerk.
Georgia, Burke .county;
WHEREAS James Martin applies for letters
of administration on the estate of Thomas
Martin, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kii dred and creditors of said deceased, ■
to he and appear at my office within the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not be granted.
Given under ray hand at office in Waynesboro,
this Ist of March, 1839. T. H. BLOUNT, W.
March 21 D. Clerk.
rVYg-?, MO HUS MULTICA ULIS. One f
thousand Trees genuine Morns Multi- .
caulis may be had by an early applica- 3
_iL tion to A, GUMMING.
mar ip If
A. VV. WAIiTON & CO.
ARE now receiving a large and general assort-*
ment of SPUING GOODS, to which they
j respectfully invite the attention of the public.
N. B.—Country Merchants will do well to call
j and examine their stock. mar 19-dtkwlm _ r
I FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOOHsI
EORGE H. NOBLE & Co. are now opening
Jf their Siring assortment of Fancy and Staple
Dry Goods, to which they would respectfully in
vile the attention of the public. We have many
scarce and desirable Goods. ts mar 19
MOUBTbW GOODS'
rpHE subscribers have just received additional
| supplies to their stock of Dry Goods, and are
now prepared to oiler them for cash at prices much
lower than customary.
Their stock embraces a general assortment of
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, and those in want
may depend upon finding the prices satisfactory.
G. H. NOBLE & Co.
nov 9 opposite the Planters’ Hotel.