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WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1839. y OL ni — No 37
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A CUCS T A.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARC II 29,
A paper was recently circulated in this city for
the purpose of getting signatures, requesting the
Directors of the United States Bank to establish a
Branch of that institution here. Almost every
business man in the city, to whom it was present
ed, signed it, embracing perhaps nine-tenths of
the community. The article which follows these
remarks, is from the Constitutionalist, and has al.
lusion to that paper and the object sought to be
effected by it.
We had, certainly, but little expectation that
the movement would meet the approbation of the
editors of that print, and were therefore agreeably
surprised at the tenor of the article below. It is
explicitly declared by the Constitutionalist, that,
either from a want of ability or want of will, on
the part of our Banks, we have not a sound cur
rency. It is also declared that our banks have
departed from a regular course of banking busi
ness, and that if Mr. Biddle will bring them back
into the track, his branch will be welcome among us.
It is well known that we are the advocates of a
National Bank, and we have always contended
that the great end to be attained by such an in
stitution, was the establishment o. a sound ami
uniform currency, by its influence over state m.
stitutions. The currency of Georgia is m a des
perate condition, and it must be desperate,
indeed, when the editor of the Constitution
alist, who has uniformly opposed a Nation
al Bank, “from time whereof the memory of
man runneth not to the contrary.” is brought to
yield his acquiescence to the establishment of a
Branch of the United Stales Bank among us —
yea further, to base that acquiescence upon the
plef-ge that this Branch so to be established,
wil exert its influence in establishing a sound
currency, by bringing the State Banks to their
pcaper senses!
We look upon the stand taken by the Consti
tutionalist ns a new feature in the political cha
racter of the times. Wc gladly hail it as such.
All experience proves that when brought to the
(test, the State Banks cannot or will not give us
ai sound curicncy, and that when distress comes,
men will overleap the barriers ol party feeling
and look to a National Bank as the sheet anchor
of our safety.
»* The remarks wc made in our last paper should
have created no surprise with a few ol our citizens.
We said, and say again, that wc cannot blame |
our merchants for seeking relief where they can
find it. If Mr. Biddle establishes a branch of his
bank in this city, with pledges, honorably kept,
that the operations of such a branch will be con
fined to tile principles ol banking; that those op
erations will be based on strict impartiality ; that
the 'branch will abstain from meddling directly or
indirectly in the politics of tho country and of this
state in particular; and that it will co-opprale with
all ritiosc banks in the state which arc prudently
and creditably managed, in establishing a sound
currency among us, which wc have not, and in
bringing back all banks to a regular course of
bin king business, from which they have so essen
tially departed : with such pledges given and hon
orably kept, and all engagements punctually tul
fillcd, we say to such a branch of Mr. Biddle’s
bank, he welcome among us, notwithstanding our
opposition to a national bank, and the danger vye
apprehend of foreign and moneyed intlurncc,
our state concerns. We arc prepared.aNve now
to give our reasons for tho deciqtve it to those
make to tb» public ; an. 4 pressure in our money
•>vb-» arc beuclUtijjJe’mont of our state currency,
• market, f|]jbarrassmentß of (be, community, to
*3(te"whal comments they please upon those de
clarations.”
From Maine.
The Eastern advices continue to hoof a pacific
character, the war fever having ceased to rage,
apparently, every where hut in he House of As
sembly. Wc give such extracts from the Boston
papers as have any interest.
Correspondence of the Boston Morning Post.
Auocsta, March 19, 1839.—“ Grim visaged
war hath smoothed her wrinkled front” a little, of
late, in this quarter. The aspect of alfairs touch
ing the N. E. boundary dispute, is not altogether
so bellicose as it seemed to be a few weeks since.
Things however remain nearly in slat. Our
troops retain peaceable and undisputed possession
of the Aroostook country, while Sir John Harvey
contents himself with the occupation of the To
bique (within her Majesty’s unquestioned domin
ions) by a military force of about 125 men. He
has also, it is said, two regiments quartered at
another point lower down.
The resolution which passed the Senate, (au
thorising the Governor to withdraw the forces
whenever satisfied that no hostile movements are
to bo apprehended from Now Brunswick.) was
still under discussion in the House. Various
amendments had been proposed by gentlemen
who had war speeches on hand, and wanted to
» deliver them. Mr. Delesdernier moved to amend
so as to provide that the military force shall not
he withdrawn, until the Lieut. Governor of New
Brunswick shall have abandoned his claim of
jurisdiction over the disputed territory. This
was debated one whole day ; and on the next Mr.
Delesdernier withdrew it, and offered another, in
the words following, to wit:—
Resolved, That the right of this slate to exclu
sive jurisdiction over all that territory claimed by
Great Britain, which lies west of the line due
north from the monument to the north-west angle
of Nova Scotia, (usually denominated the dispu
ted territory,) lias been constant and indefeasible
since her existence as an independent state; and
no agreement which has or may be entered into by
the Government of the Union, can impair her
prerogative to be, the sole judge of the time when,
nod tlie manner in which, that right shall be en
forced.
Re/tnlved, That this state, in view of the meas
ures recently adopted by the Government of the
Union in relation to this question, and particularly
the provisions made for a special minister to the
Court of St. James; and actuated by an earnest
desire to come to an amicable adjustment of the
whole controversy, will forbear to enforce her ju
risdiction in that part of her territory, the posses
sion of which is now usurped by the province of
Mew Brunswick, so far ns she can do consistently
with the maintenance ol the resolve of the 24th
January last—but she has seen nothing in recent
events to cause her to doubt that it is her impera
tive duty, as well as her invariable right, to protect
her public domain from depredation and plunder
up to the cxlremest limits of her territory, and
that no power on earth shall drive her from an act
of jurisdiction, so proper in itself, and to which
her honor is so irrevocably committed.
Resolved, That the public measures of the Go
vernor of this stale, in relation to the disputed
territory, meet the cordial approbation of this Le
gislature; that they concur in the doctrines and
sentiments contained in his recent message; that
they will sustain him in carrying into effect the
resolve of the 24th January aforesaid; and that
whenever he shall be fully satisfied, by the decla
rations of the Lt. Governor of New Brunswick or
otherwise, that the latter has abandoned all inten
tions of occupying the disputed territory with a
military force, and of attempting the expulsion of
our party, that the exigency which called for the
military having ceased, the Governor be, and he
hereby is. authorized to withdraw the same, leav
ing the land agent with a sufficient posse, armed
or unarmed, as the case may require to carry said
resolve into effect.
Mr. Vose offered the following, as additional to
the resolutions of Mr. Delesdornier.
Resolved, That as the practicability of running
andmaiking the North Eastern boundary line, in
accordance with the provisions of the treaty of
1873, is indubitable—to consent to another arbi
tration, in pursuance of the recommendation of
the President of the United Slates, would be a
virtual abandonment of the rights and interest of
Maine.
Resolved, That a crisis has arrived when it be
comes the duty of the General Government forth
with to propose to the Government of Great Brit
ain a joint commission for the purpose of running
the line in accordance with the treaty of 1783
and in case of a refusal on the part of Great Brit
ain, it iz the duly of the United Slates to run the
line upon her own authority, and to lake posses
sion of the whole disputed territory without un
necessary delay.
All these were adopted, in committee of the
whole yeas IGS, nays 1. And thus the matter
stood on the 20th, which is the date of our latest
from Augusta.
Tallahassee, March 20.
Postscbipt.—We slop the press to tell anoth
er taleof Indian fighting, blood and murder. We
shall be brief, for we arc sick at heart upon even
an approach to this subject.
On Monday while Capt. Rowell’s company
■were scouting, they fell in with an old negro man,
who told them he had just seen Indians, and di
rected the soldiers where they might find them.
The scouts charged on, and soon came in sight
of two Indians, who were quietly sealed upon a
fence, and who beckoned the whites in a friendly
manner to approach, which the latter did fearless
ly, and upon nearing the fence, were fired on by
a large party of Indians who were concealed by
the Hammock, supposed to number from 50 to
60.
Two of Capt. R's. company were killed on the
spot, and two badly wounded. One dead Indian
was afterwards found on the ground.
The affair happened in Patterson’s Hammock,
a few miles east of the Ocillia.
Capt. Rowell and his men are said to have
fought bravely; but had not sufficient force to
contend successfully with the foe.
The New York Express of the 23d states, that
the Steam Boat New York, one of the largest ami
finest boats on the East River, was burnt at tie
dock in New Haven on Thursday rv-' . .
, . -.o fives lost. It
nothing Irom her was sn>-., .
...e accident occurred. The
is not stated , ~ ,
, , - ooard was wholly lost,
free-'
The whig members of the legislature of Ken
tucky have appointed a State Convention to be
held on the 4th Monday of August, for the no"
ruination of President and Vice-President.
The following instance in the proceedings of
the British Association for the advancement of
Science at Newcastle, is a striking illustration of
the occasional fallibility of the luminaries and or
acles of science :
“(August26,) Dr. Lardner spoke at considera
ble length on the subject of steam navigation.
He acknowledged that he had been in error in ex
pressing his opinion with respect to the practica
bility of navigating the Atlantic by steam vessels,
but expressed his opinion that they could not 1 e
profitably carried on.” The case of the Great
Western seems to prove that the great Cyclop,c
>dist was, a second time in error.
From the New York Herald of the 23d.
Money Market.
At the opening of the Board of Brokers a little
less depression was apparent than usual. This was
not, however sustained, and stocks gradually went
down. Alter the Board, quite a flutter was crea
ted in Wall street, by the appearance of a specie
draft on Government account, to the amount of
§llO,OOO, for the use of the Mediterranean
squadron. There were rumors of other specie
drafts, and the excitement continued to increase
until the second Board, when Vicksburg Bank
fell 7 per cent, in consequence of intelligence re
ceived by mail; other stocks were affected by this
and a perfect panic prevailed at the close of the
day. Such is the condition of the money mar
ket, that the demand for even a small sum in spe
cie is sufficient to create a sensation. The neces
sity for the demand evinces the situation of the
financial affairs of the country. The government
it seems, is without credit in Europe even for the
smallest sums, and the smallest expenses of the
navy on foreign stations must be immediately
drawn from the banks and shipped in specie.
This is the more unfortunate, in point of financial
management, when we consider the large amount
of cotton now held buck on this side. It has
been the policy of the southern banks to hold back
cotton for a rise, notwithstanding the acknowled
ged shortness of the crop. To keep the balance
of trade good, exchange has been drawn against
stocks. This movement has been frustrated in
the outset, ns before explained, by the mismanage*
merit of its conductors. The returns of these
stocks and protested hills, which may be expected
m the Great Western about the 1 Oth or 12lh
proximo, will have the effect of causing the cot
ton on hand to he thrown into the market; the re
sult of which cannot he otherwise than a heavy
depreciation of prices, and a suspension of the
southern banks. The gloom imparted by this
state of things, was a little increased to-day by a
rumor, that intelligence fiom England had been
received, privately, in the I’ocahontas, at Philadel
phia, ol a disastrous nature; the mere suspicion of
such a fact, in the present exciteable stale of the
market, is sufficient to have a depressing effect.
From the Silk Grower.
Monts Multicnulis.
The Silk Culture is not attended with more
risque than ordinary farming pursuits, and prob
ably not ns much. The mulberry leaves will ap
pear and grow should the weather prove wet or
dry, warm or cold. This tree is not liable to be
injured by the many accidents to which farm crops
are exposed. The silk which can be made the
first summerafter planting will with common pru
■ deuce and skill, prove a rich revenue, and season
. able help, and the profits of the propagation oflhe
Multicnulis, is an additional dependence that mav
be relied on, and that will continue a lucrative
■ business for a long time to come, so great is the
demand for it, and so vast the country to be sup
plied. Thus has the silk cullurist two sottrccsof
; revenue that will not be likely to fail him. We
are acquainted with many persons who have cul
tivated the Moms Multicaulis for two or three -
years and every season have realized a gain of
[ 1000 per cent, on the capital invested. The
production of the tree will prove highly advanta
geous, and help us onward; yet the “main chance”
i should be kept constantly in view, viz: to make
silk, and by so doing, advance our own and our
: country’s fortune. Let this be the ultimate aim
i of all our exertions and labors. Who can calcu
f late the riches and comforts that will spread over
. our broad republic, when, instead of buying silk
f i and silk fabrics of other countries, we shall not
, only supply ourselves, but export many millions
f of the article. We arc confident that silk will
become one of our staple productions as we are
. that the sun will rise and shine a few years lon
. ger; because our soil and climate, and the taste
. and genius of our people arc completely adapted
r to it. T.oiig have we labored in the cause, and
. have had many obstacles to encounter, but they
. have passed away, one after another. Many per
, sons who put on a wise look, attended with a
. slight action of the risible faculties when we first
. conversed with them concerningjlhe silk culture,
have now become able co-workers in the good
. undertaking, and should this branch of industry
r take root in our soil, we shall console ourselves
t with the agreeable rcllcction that we have feebly
aided the enterprise.
Under the head of Marriages, we find the fol
. [owing paragraph in the Boston Ccntinel and
' Gazette.
i “We received through the Post Office last
evening, a lettercontaining a notice ofa marriage
' and a one dollar bill of the Dedham Bank, to de
, fray theexpenscs ofinserting it. Wchaveasccr
■ tained that the money is "noil, but the marriage
■ spurious The dollar will be expended for oyS
t tors, and the scoundrel who has attempted to im
r pose upon us a fictitious marriage, will remember
y the old adage—“a fool and his money arc soon
i- parted.”
y
y State Indebtedness.
0 The Albany Argus of the 19th instant, con
tains a statement prepared by Mr. Flagg, late
c Comptroller, showing the amount of Stock is
n sued, or authorised to be issued in the different
states in the Union. Eight states, it appears,
” have kept themselves clear of such indebtedness.
Maine is in for $551,976 00
1 Massachusetts, 4,200,000 00
0 Ncw-York, 18,262,406 84
Pennsylvania, 27,306,790 00
Maryland, 11,492^J>
,t Virginia, 5,753,770 12
d South Care 10,800,000 00
|P J.ouisiana, 23,735,000 00
t Tennessee, 7,148,166 66
t Kentucky, 7,360,000 00
Ohio, 6,101,000 00
1 Indiana, 11,890,000 60
Illinois, 11,600,000 00
Missouri, 2,500,000 00
Mississippi, 7,000,000 00
, Arkansas, 3,000,000 00
Michigan, 5,340,000 00
$170,806,179 35
If to the above be added
p the amount deposited by
. the U.S. in the Treasuries
of the several states lor safe
f keccping 28,101,644 97
It makes the aggregate debt
of all the states, existing
- and authorised $198,907,824 32
• The table of which the above is a part, is fol
• lowed by a second, classifying the objects of cx
• penditurc :—Thus
. For Banking, $52,040,000
> For Canals, 60,201,551
; For rail roads 42,871,084
For turnpikes and M’Adam roads 6,618,958
For miscellaneous objects, 8,474,684
$170,806,277
The third table shows the amount of debt au
thorised to be created by the eighteen states, in
each period of five years, from 1820 to 1838.
The total sums authorised in each period are as
follows, viz:
From 1820 to 1825, $12,790,728
“ 1825 to 1830, 13,679,689
“ 1830 to 1835, 40,002,769
“ 1835 to 1838, (say 3$ years) 108,223,808
$174,696,994
Several millions of the stock issued by New
York since 1820, and embraced in the above,
have been redeemed ; and a small sum borrowed
1 by other states before 1820, is excluded from the
above footing.
Shootino at the Qceex The news from
Maine is of very little importance. It is evident
enough that there will be no actual collision on
that frontier, and that the Palatines will retire from
the debaleablc ground with whole skins, and with
out any amount of homicide upon their minds.
Neither Yankee, Blue Nose, nor Red Coat, will
have that sin at any rate to cumber his conscience
withal. Nobody will have been killed and nobody
hurt. It is true that some of the sharp-shootcis
have mustered valor enough to fire at a likeness of
the young Queen-of England, and doubtless think
that act of gallantry enough to give them ever
lasting fame. If Sir John Harvey’s veteran mili
tiamen had chosen to shoot Mr. Van Huren in
i
fligy, we should have thought the exploit foolish
enough and unsoldicrly enough, in all conscience;
hut for men, men pretending to call themselves
such, and claiming the attributes of manhood—
lor them to put up the effigy of a young and lovely
woman as a target to fire at with their rusty
muskets, is to pul them in the category of savages,
i ho paltroons who did that act, would dodge the
flash ol a Nova Scotia priming—they would have
fun from the shake of an apron from a female
passenger in a British baggage wagon. We arc
rejoiced that it was hut a few of the Maine war
riors who diil this disgraceful deed, and that their
tlficers promptly reprimanded it. — N. Y. Gazette.
Chronic Bronchitcs.
We conceive the annexed remarks of Dr. Goo"
per, of sufficient weight to recommend them to
the consideration ol those who labor under this
direful disease. They are taken from the N. Y.
Com. Adv.— Ed. If, Mess.
The lute lamented death of Dr. Rush from that
form of consumption known as chronic bronchitis,
painfully reminds me of a duty the subscriber
owes to his profession and to society, of making
known a simple form of treatment that has never
tailed him in curing this form of consumption, so
destructive to the clerical and literary profession;
this treatment is of nearly equal efficacy in carhal
phthisis,and is a valuable remedy for consump
tion in all its form when in its chronic stages,
and free from any inflammatory symptoms. This
treatment is based on the pathology of consump
tion, as the generic name for disease.
Under the name of consumption are included
that variety of diseases of the lungs attended with
expectoration of purulent matter from the breath
ing surface of the lungs, connect' 1 with emacia
tion, hectic fever, and its concomitants, night
sweats, colliquative diarrhtc, <S>:c. All the forms
of consumption act on the general health from
’ o e common cause—the presence of mat ter acting
upon absorbing surfaces, and thus producing
those symptoms known as hectic fever. It is the
presence and violence of this symptom of con
sumption, that prostrates the patient until it more
or less slowly ends in death. It is the conse
quence of this hectic fever, and not the immediate
disease of the lungs, causing it that forms the
source of fatality from consumption.
The treatment I now with reluctant diffidence
submit, I have successfully used for more than 12
years, and during that period of medical practice,
I am not aware of having lost more than four or
five patients from all the various forms of con
sumption, and these were mostly passed to that
stage of disease where the structure of the lungs
had been i'e so extensively diseased as to preclude
the use ol more than palliative treatment.—Cases
of chronic bronchitis were in every instance cured
by it, even when the purulent expectoration
amounted to pints daily, with hectic fever, diar
rh:c, cold sweats and entire physical prostration.
The treatment is the administration of sulphate
of coppcrin nauseating doses combined with gum
amoniac, given so as to nauescate but not ordin
arily to produce full vomiting; the usual dose for
this purpose is about Haifa grain and five grains
of the respective ingredients, in a teaspoonful of
water, to be taken at first twice, and in the con
valescent stages once a day.
In cases of chronic bronchitis a gargle of the
sulphate of copper alone is suporadded. In this
latter form of consumption, this treatment al
most invariably suspends the hectic symptoms in
a few days, and the disease rapidly advances to
its final cure.
In cases of the more proper forms of consump
tion the treatment must he intermitted frequently
and again returned ; and whenever soreness of
the chest, or other symptoms of inflammatory ac
tion exists, the treatment should he suspended ;
as it is in the chronic slate alone that the remedy
is indicated or useful—that state in which the
condition of the general system ns sympathetical
ly involved becomes the more prominent symp
tom, and the success of the treatment depends
chiefly on the breaking up this sympalhectic ac
tion of the diseased lung more houltliy
to.-- ’ Momacn, and increasing its digestive
powers, and likewise causing, during nauseating
action, a more active and healthy circulation of
blood through the lungs. Its curative powers
are more immediately attributable to these effects
ol its action. But theory apart, the treatment
presented is based on more than ten years expe
rience of its curative advantages, in tho proper
treament of mucopurulent and purulent expec
toration.
Having left n profession that more nearly than
any other approaches the pure duties of humanity,
but which has nearly ceased in this country to he
honorable or profitable, I have little motive in ex
posing myself to that certain ridicule that follows
the annunciation that consumption may be cured,
hut the assurance of practical experience, and
the desire of making public a means of saving
life, in one ol its most frequent and unwelcome
cxits - EDW. C. COOPER, M. IX
The Army and Navy Chronicle of the 21st inst.
says;—“MajorGeneral Macomb will leave Wash
ington this day to take the chief direction of af
fairs in Florida. His stay there will depend up.
on circumstances which cannot he known until
after his arrival in the Territory.
Gen. Taylor will remain on duty in Florida.
Mn rdf. ii,—(’apt. Arnold Horton, as we learn
by the Albany Evening Journal, was murdered at
Greene, in Greene Co,, a few nights since, by a
party of locofocos it is said, who were carousing
in a tavern the day of the town meeting, and who
on Capt. H.’s entering the ball-room, hustled him
out as a whig intruder and threw him down stairs,
by which his neck was broken, causing his death
a few days after. The Jury returned a verdict
that this outrage caused his death, He has left
ft wife and eight children,—A r eiv York Star.
Bin I'mvos.—An unfaithful servant, a smo
ky house, a stumbling horse, a scolding wife, an
aclilng tooth, an empty purse, an undutiful child,
an incessant talker, hogs that break through in
closures, a dull razor, musketocs, a fop, and— a
subscriber that want pay f„r his paper.
Nkw York Militia.— lt appears from the
annual report of Adjutant General, that the mili
tia of this State now numbers 184,531 men, viz ■
horse artillery, 9142; infantry, including light in
fantry and riflemen, 162,457; artillery attached
permanently or for inspection to infantry brigades
3990. J h
Utility of Lavoictkr.—A hearty laugh is 1
occasionally an act of wisdom; it shakes the cob
webs out of a man’s brains, and the hypochondria
from his ribs, far more effectually than either
champagne or blue pills.
i he Legislature of Wisconsin met at Madison
on tho 23d ult. The Governor delivered his mes
sage, which touches among other things, the sub
ject of the W innohago ludiatis. It is anticipated
from sundry indications that there will he difficulty •
this spring, ns they arc determined not to leave
the country at the time stipulated in the treaty,
iliey arc making hostile preparations. The
Governor recommends that the War Department
he immediately memornliscd for arms and ammu
nition, and for five companies of Dragoons. The
governor will take the responsibility, in ease of
emergency, of raising volunteer companies, which
he will head in person for the protection and de
fence of exposed settlements.
Little Hock.— Major Noah says: — “Little
Hock, the capital of the prairie State of Arkansas,
already in the 20th year of her existence only,
has the refinements of an old community. They
have a theatre, well regulated, and begun we
should think, on good moral principles, judging
by a bumper of a benefit generously given to Dr.
Sprague, who had lost his house by lire a few
nights before. By the bye, why not look to the
useful, also, as well as the agreeable—Little Hock
has no fire engines! yet wo see “Splendid Fire
Works” announced ! If they have no moans
in a town built of wood, to extinguish fires, it’s a
bad place for pyrotechnics.”
Oranuilouvknt.—“Gentlemen,” said a stu
dent, “it is extremely insalubrious to inhale the
obnoxious effluvia which arises from the cadaver
ous carcase of a defunct horse.” On another oc
casion, when asked “where he was walking,” he
replied. “ merely perambulating miscellaneously
through space.”
From the Boston Post.
The Meteor Flag.
BY A BLUENOSE,
Our ‘meteor flag’ controls the seas,
hesistnnee is in vain ;
Unfurl it to the flowing bieeze,
And let it wave o’er Maine !
Tho main is surely ruled by us,
Os course each line we draw ;
Then why this noisy rowdy fuss,
Kicked up by Jonny Haw?
Dash dow n yon tree of liberty,
Destroy it, root and branch ;
Great Britain sways the conquer'd sea,
And her right arm is stanch !
Answer.
BY A BLUEJACKET.
Avast! Bluenose, or rue it,
You'd belter quiet bo;
For if you try to do it,
you’ll stars by daylight see !
Tho spangled flag ot azure,
Which vou so little prize;
Our Engle had the pleasure
Os rending from the skies !
Just too the line ! don’t shove us !
For you’ll surely lose the day ;
And onr “stare” will float above us,
While your "meteon" runs away !
From “ Wild Sports of the Far West ,” in the last
Number of Tail’s Edinburg Magazine.
Buffalo Hunt.
On the way I received many instructions as to
how I must conduct myself during the hunt, I
being quite a novice so far as regarded Buffalo
hunting.
Mr. U related many anecdotes of the
escapes he had from the enraged or wounded bi
son bulls.
On one occasion he and three companions
’ went out for a hunt. It was early in July, when
' the bulls arc very furious. They rode boldly up
among the herd, and selecting a fat cow with a
calfby her side,all fired together, and broughther
1 down. “ The herd,” said he, “ had not seemed
to lake much notice of our party, but as soon as
' we fired, they floundered off in all directions.—
We dismounted, and having hoppled, the calf,
which affectionately remained to witnessits moth
" cr’s decease, we proceeded to bleed and dissect the
’ oow. While thus engaged, I observed a buffalo
disengaged from the herd, approaching us. On
calling my companions’ attention to the circum
. stance, one of them insisted on going to meet,
and have a shot at it. We expostulated with
him, pointed out the danger of attacking, single
handed, an animal which, from its manner of
approach, seemed to have no amiable intentions;
but he would have his way, and we contented our
selves with re-loading our rifles, and preparing to
follow him. We were on one side of a small
elevation, and therefore could only see one side
of the prairie, and'if was on the other side that
our friend and the bullido were. While mount
ing our horses we heard a shot, and immediately
after a loud cheer. We proceeded up tho slope
at a canter, but had not gone a dozen yards
when we heard the peculiar thundering noise
which heavy feet made upon the prairie. Just
as wo reached the top, a fearful sight presented
itself—our friend Jjje hunter galloped furiously
past, about an hundred yards distant from- us.—
We could hear the loud panting of his horse, and
sec the flakes of foam dropping from his mouth,
as with convulsive energy he bounded along.—
. About twenty yards behind him was the buffalo,
apparently an enormous bull, bellowing with
rage, and tearing up tho ground with his horns,
as he madly rushed on after our poor friend, late
ly the hunter, but now the hunted. Not a mo
ment was to-be lost: we galloped on keeping at
a wary distance on one side, and ready to (ire
the moment we got within shot. One of the
hunters, a halfbrother to our apparently devoted
comrade, Pierre, kept up within two hundred
yards of the buffalo; the other hunter and I, find
ing the distance increasing rather than other
wise. began to despair of getting up in time for
a rescue, when suddenly Pierre changed his
course, and made off nearly at right angles for
his former direction, thus getting the start of the
buffalo, and giving us the opportunity to ride
across to meet him. We spurred on our horses,
and in a few minutes were considerably in ad
vance of Pierre and his pursuer; we each took
our station at a few yards distance on either side
of the course,and raised our rifles ready to fire.
In another moment. Pierre dashed by between
us. We both fired at the maddened animal, be
hind him. Whether wounded by my ball or not
I do not know, but in an instant it rushed on me.
My eyes began to darken, I felt a severe pain, and
then berime unconscious of what passed until 1
was recovered by the usual remedies of brandy
ami cold water, and then found that my left arm
and three ribs were broken. I had been lifted off
my horse on the bison’s horns, and pitched up in
the air. My poor horse was gored terribly—it
died on our return. Pierre’s brother, on corning
up, fired at tin: monster, on which it left us and
j trotted off to the herd, probably mortally wounded;
but we were in no condition Bo pursue it. Pierre
never stopped his furious career till within the
shades of the forest. When his half brother got
him up, he found that extreme terror had deprived
him of speech. He however recovered his speech
before night, and informed us of the circumstances.
He had fired at the animal; it tottered and fell,
which was the occasion of the cheer we heard;
he. then trotted up to it re-loading as he went on,
when in the twinkling of an eye. the buffalo was
on hifi legs, Pierre threw down his rifle, and the
chase began. I, concluded Mr. C . was as
sisted home, and was confined to bed for several
weeks after; however, Pierre and £ have shot
many buffaloes since then.
Jared Scaurs, thk Historian.—“ The
world indeed moves on apace ; and Time, in the
moment of agony, or the hour of pleasure, when
both have passed, seems like an enchanter, whose
passion and nature arc change; whose wand has
empire over events and destinies, but it is defied
by the human spirit, which with the breath of life
is transmitted immutable through ages; for sixty
years after Washington, from Cambridge directed
the movements of the American army, then be
sieging the British in Boston, one of the ensuing
generation, a faithful historian and impartial biog
rapher, aided by the numerous records of his ac
tions, which the hero seems purposely to have be
queathed to his country, indites his life, amidst
the scenes of his early glory ; in the presence of
the very trees and hills, among which then arose
the weather beaten tent of the continental, and
where now, from a thousand free and happy
hearths, the peaceful smoke ascends to heaven.
For ten years anil more, Mr. Sparks has dwelt at
Cambridge, and toiled unremittingly at the pious
work ol rescuing from forgetfulness the memories
of our forefathers. In that space of time, more
authentic materials of history, more illuminated
questiones vexatoe. more of biography and of
verified narrative, have left his hand, than perhaps
any other man has gathered in a life. And he
who, in the face of the tumultuous cares and in
terests of this ardent generation, invites them,
when the future seems within their reach, to
pause and contemplate the past, and unmoved by
-their thirst of their indifferences, holds history up
to their view, is no ordinary chronicler of events.
— Knickerbocker,
A Goon Idea.—The Baltimore Sun gives th»
account of an old woman in Connecticut who is
collecting all the locofoco papers she can lay her
hands on, to make soap of. She says they are a
“desput sight better than ashes—they are most
os good as clear lie." — Picayune,
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, March 28, 1839.
Stovall L Simmons, T. Dawson, Baird & Row
land, Gould & liulklcy, Rankin, Boggs & Co.,
Brocbon &H , T. W. Parrott, Reese & Beall, W.
Rattier, C. Bignon, Clarke, McTicr & Co., R. An
derson, H. W. Sullivan, T. Goldsmith, George Par
rott, J. Benson,
COMMERCIAL.
* New York, March 23.
Cotton. —Our market continues to present a very
inactive appearance, the sales for the period subse
quent toour lasthavingcxtendedonly to about 1600
bales of all descriptions, equally for home use and
exportation; holders, however, have not exhibited
a disposition to concede, and there has therefore been
hut little if any variation in prices. The stock has
become large by the extensive receipts for some time
past, though but a comparatively small proportion
is offering in the market. The sab s comprise 700
bales Upland at 14 a 154; 200 do Mobile, 14} a 17
200 do New Orleans, 14} a ; and 500 do Florida,
14} a 15} cents, forming a total for the week of ful
, ly 3600 bales.
The arrivals have been—from
Pernambuco, 1224 bales..
New- Orleans, 367
1 , Mobile, 1495
1 North Carolina, 321
> ——
i Total, 3,397
r Total import, since Ist inst. 32,403
I Export, from Ist to 20lh March 16,531
, Export from U.S. since Ist Oct. last 400,732
Same time last year 701,294
Same time year before 592,610
Flour. —The market continued very inactive,
with a farther considerable reduction in prices of
Southern up to the close of Monday, a sale of 1500
bbls Georgetown, to arrive within 30 days, being
made on that day at $7 25 ; though in parcels of a
few hundred bbls each, sales of the same imme
diately followed at $7 50, with some at $7 62}. —
There were yesterday, however, decided indica
tions of a belter state of feeling for every descrip
tion, though without resulting in any activity.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, March 27.
Cleared —Brship Chester, l.awson, St Johns; schr
Extra, Wilson, Philadelphia; schr Diadem, She
phard, Philadelphia.
Arrived yesterday— Ship Millcdgevillc, Porter,
New York; brig Romulus, English, Boston; steam
boat Lamar, Craswell, Augusta; steamboat Che
rokee, Norris, Augusta.
Chari.eston, March 28.
Cleared. —Barque Emma. Theresa. Lorantz,
Cowes and a market; Prus. barque Charlotte Caro
lina, Scbnlutow, Amsterdam c C L brig Asblev
Pike, New-York.
Went to sea yesterday.— C L brig Ashley, Pike,
New-York; sebrs Columbia, Stott, Philadelphia*
llcgulos, Ball, Philadelphia; William, Miller,
Providence,(R..l.)
CORN AFLOAT.
onnn bushels shell corn,just re-
MII r ceived'and for sale at the wharf iik
lots to suit purchasers.
IN STORE,
2500 bushels Ear Corn, for sale by
JOHN B. GUIF.U.
mar 13 trw6t
WILLIAM CLAGKTT,
No. 238 Sroadstreet,
HAS just opened his assortment of SPRING
G (Mills', which will be found to comprise
every article in the line.
He begs leave to state, that having closed out all
his old stock, his present assortment consists exclu
sively of FRESH 1 AND NEW GOODS, which he
will sell as cheap as at any other store in Augusta.
’I he public will please call and examine for them
selvcs. trwOt mar 22
fiPKIlVti GOODS.
»a:H Fig’d and plain fancy colored Silks, new
style ; rich printed Lawns, Plaid, Mull, Cam
bric and Jackonct Ouslins, printed Jackonet and
French Muslins, second mourning Muslins and
Calicoes, fancy col’d Gloves, Hoskin, Pic Nic, Sic.
linen Cambric Hdkfs., fancy dress Shawls, and
Scarfs, Victoria Skirts, corded ditto, 6-4 blk Bomba
zinesand Cliallys, Light Prints, in great variety.
ALSO,
A large assortment of Goods, suitable for men
and boys’ spring and summer wear.
EDGAR & CARMICHAEL.
mar *** sw3ws
TAX NOTICE.
TX, T E WILL attend at the office of J. W. M»ri-
WT deth, Esq. from the hours of 10 A.M. to
1 P. M., on Tuesday, the 2d, the 9th and 16th of
Aprilnext.and atthc Eagle & Phcnix Hotel on
Wednesday, the 3d, the 10th and the 17th of April
next, and at the Globe Hotel oa Thursday, the 4th,
the 11th and the ISth of April next, and at the
Kichmoad Hotel on Friday, the sth, the I2th, and
the loth of April next, for the purpose of receiving
the Tax Returns for the present year, (1839, and
of collecting the taxes due forthe past vear,MB3S).
GEORGE M. WALKER, R. T. R. R, C.
WILLIAM KF.NN'EDY, f. R. C.
mar 23 jwlra