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AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 12.
(Tj> No Mail from N ortli of Charleston received
ast night.
Judge Rosen’s Opinion, in the Presbyterian
case, is piotested against strongly by the pastors
and ruling elders of the Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th Pres
byterian Churches in the city of Baltimore. One
of the resolutions states that they “are fully pre"
pared, and llnnly resolved, to stand fast by our
ancient faith, discipline and order; and to carry
out, in whatever circumstances Providence may
place, such ecclesiastical action, heretofore begun,
or hereafter to be instituted, as shall separate the
tr ue Presbyterian Church from all foreign ele
ments, and vindicate and maintain her scriptural
standards.”
Tar, Senate.—The scats of 18 of the pre
sent U. S. Senators will be vacated in 1841, viz ;
Brown of North Carolina. Calhoun of South
Carolina, Clayton of Delaware, Crittenden of
Kentucky, Davis of Massachusetts, Hubbard of
Ncw-Hampshirc, King of Alabama, Lumpkin of
Georgia, Knight of Rhode Island Roane of Vir"
ginia, Nicholas of Louisiana, Robinson of Illi'
nois, Ruggles of Maine, Walker of Mississippi
Wall of New-Jersey, White of Tennessee.
Proceedings of Council.
Council Chamber, April 6, 1839.
Present —His honor Samuel Hale, Mayor; Al
dermen, Nimmo, Dugas, Crump, Warren, Bis
hop, Parish, Jackson, Dye and Kirtland.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
The Committee on accounts Reported that they
had examined the Annual statement of the Col.
1 ector & Treasurer, and that the balance of ac
counts, $8,610, was the correct balance on hand
Whereupon it was ordered that the statement be
printed.
The following cases were called and tried, for
violation of various sections of the general Ordi.
nance.
B. F. Kenrick, 40th section, fined, $lO,OO
Samuel Holcomb, 48th “ “ 5,00
Mr. Hill appeared and took his seat.
M. Deverin, 18th section, fined, 1,00
John Doyle, 1,00
Edward Dalton, “ “ “ 1,00
Mich’l Ryan, “ “ “ 1,00
D. Hogan, 16th “ “ 1,00
Elizabeth Body 4lh “ and stand
committed until paid, 10,00
Jane King, 4th “ “ and stand
committed until paid, 10,00
James May, 18th, “ and stand
committed until paid, “ 25,00
Nancy Thompson, 4th “ “ and stand
committed until paid, 20,00
C. Batty, 48th “ “ 10,00
Matthew Crawford, 18th in two cases, fined
in each, and stand committed until paid, 50,00
Elizabeth Wood 4th “ “and stand
committed until paid, 20,00
Caroline Perkins, 4th “ “ 20,p0
John Hccry, 18lh “ “ 20,00
John Maguire. 18th “ “ 10,00
Wm, Phillips, 18th “ “ 5,00
W. H. Crane, 48th “ “ 5,00
W. Shear, 48th “ “ 5,00
Col. 11. H. Gumming and I. Lee, were each
fined $5 for not appearing as witnesses.
A petition for a Pump to be placed at the in
tersection of Green and Marbury streets, wa,
granted.
The following reports from the different Officers
were received.
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas, with Col
lector and Treasurer receipt for $216,18
City Marshal and Capt. of Guard, ““““ 31,50
Clerk of Upper Market, ““ “ “ 5,10
Clerk of Lower Market, ““ « “ 98,22
Jailer, ““ “ “ 44,82
J. S. Hutchinson, for Auction Stales, the
quarter ending Ist April, 293,42
W. E. &J. U. Jackson, “ ‘ “ “ “ “ 260,73
The Sexton Reports 17 deaths during the past
month, of whom 12 were Whites and 5 Blacks.
The keeper of the Hospital Reports 3 persons
remaining under his charge.
The Proposals for Fencing the African Burying
Ground, were then opened, and the offer of Mr.
Milchel Nelson being the lowest was accepted.
Council then proceeded to ballot for a person to
keep the Roads, Drains and Ditches in good re
pair within the corporate limits of the city, for
one year, and Mr. William Wright was elected
at one thousand dollars per annum.
Council then adjourned, to meet at three o’clock,
P. M.
AFTERNOON MEETING.
Present—His Honor the Mayor; Aldermen
Nimmo, Bishop, Dye, Hitt, Crump, Kirtland ;
and Warren.
A petition from R. A. Reid, was road and re- |
ferred to the Collector and Treasurer, to report
at the next meeting.
Mr Dugas appeared and took his seat.
1 lie Collector and Treasurer, wan instructed
to pay Rachel Salmon, a poor woman, 10,00
R. Blaylock and family, 25,00
The following accounts were severally read and
ordered to be paid :
Richmond County Academy, 600,00
Summcral & Blodget, wood for Jail, 35,00
W. D. Broom, on account of Trees, 700,00
Do. Lamp Contractor, 350,00
A. Gardellc, Powder for 22d February, 14,90
Wm. Thompson, Desk, order, R. Allen, 14,00
Isaac Taylor, building Bridge, 24,64
Henry Johnson, boarding paupers, 91,00
E. Martin, Street Officer, 500,00
Do. Extra work by order, 15,00
Mrs. Hargreaves, Keeping City Hall, &c., 57,50
G. F. Parish, on account, pumps, &c. 89,00
Jno. Milhouse, balance for putting up clock, 01,40
Hollicn & McDonald, for cleaning City
Hall Lot, 13,50
Ann Crawford, for boarding a pauper, 17,62
Four City Constables, 240,00
Samuel Hale, postage for City Council 12,00
H. Caffin, 3,50
J. W. Meredith, Clerk of Lower Market, 175,00
J. H. Mann, Collector & Treasurer, 300,00
Moore & Davis, Iron for Market Lamps, 16,80
• W. J. Hobby, Sen. Stationary by Mr.
Walker, &c. 7,25
Win. Moody, Sexton and Keeper of Hos
pital, 56,12
W m. Keener, Clerk of Upper Market, 15,00
C. B. Hitt, 4.00
W. Lawson, Jailer, 66,67
S. H. Oliver, Clerk of Council, 125,00
O. Danforth Keeper of Magazine, 62,50
F. Blodget, City Marshall and Capt. of
Guard, 500,00
F. W. Lacy, for Hogs sold by City Mar
shal, 15,50
Chief of Engine No. 2, for Carriage and
Hose Reel (if so much be necessary,) 75,00
12 Watchmen from 2d of March to 6th
April, 381,00
Wm. Philip’s, for his Plans submitted to
City Council, 25,00
H. Johnson, Keeper of Poor House, to re
move a Pauper, 10,00
$4,708 00
On motion, it was Resolved, that the Street
Committee be authorized to place a Lamp at the
corner of Mclntosh and Ellis street, near the
Post Office.
On motion, Resolved, that the Committee on
Engines, instruct Mr. M. Wagner to sell an En
gine reported unfit for service, and pay the pro
ceeds to the City Treasurer.
The business of the meeting being closed, his
honor, the Mayor, remarked, that “as this was the
last time he should preside over the deliberations
of Council, ho wished to present them his un
feigned thanks for tne uniform support which he
had received from them, during the past year, and
hoped that the same harmony of feeling which
had marked their relations, would hereafter con
tinue to exist. He should not, perhaps, ever
meet them again in a public capacity, but he
would ever continue to feel the deepest and most
lively interest for the welfare of the city over
whose councils he had so often been called to
preside, as well as for the individual prosperity ol
those gentlemen who had been associated with
him in the discharge of arduous public duties,” —
and bidding them a courteous farewell, he reti
red.
On motion of Alderman Bishop, M. M. Dye
was then called to the chair, and Alderman Nim
uio offered the following resolutions, which were
unanimously passed.
Resolved, That the thanks of the City Coun
cil be tendered to his honor, the Mayor, for the
able and impartial manner in which he has dis
charged the duties of his office, and presided over
the deliberations of this body, during the past
year.
Resolved, That the sum of (5140 be appropria
ted for the purpose of obtaining a portrait of his
honor, the Mayor, and that the same be-present
ed to him as an evidence of the respect with
which we, the representatives of the city, regard
him, and of the estimation in which we hold his
past services, as chief Executive Officer of the
city, for a number of years past.
Resolved, That a committee of one member
from each ward be appointed to wail upon with a
copy of these resolutions, and request him to
name the time he will sit, and the artist ho will
select for the occasion.
On motion that the Chair name the committee
to carry out the above resolutions, and that the
Chairman act as one of the body, the following
gentlemen were named:—Messrs. Parish, Nim
mo, Hitt, the Chairman making the fourth, at
request of Mr. Bishop.
On motion of Alderman Parish,
Resolved, That the committee on streets be
authorised to have twelve new lamps made for the
use of the city.
The Council then adjourned.
Apbij, 9th, 1839.
S. HALE, Ea p in the Chair.
The Mernl < ra e -ctcd—
Messrs. Par.th, Bush and Crump, from Ward
No. 1 ;
Messrs. Wa tan, Dye and Thompson, from
Ward No. 2 ;
Messrs. Bishop, St. John and Rankin, from
Ward No. 3 ;
Messrs. Harper, Nelson and Hitt, from Ward I
i No. 4;
Attended, were qualified and took their seat*-- 1
On motion, Resolved, That a committee of
three I'e appointed to wait upon the Mayor elect,
and inform him of his election, and that the City
Council are ready to receive him.
Messrs. Warren, Harper, and Dye, were ap
pointed a committee for that pm pose, and having
performed that duty,
A. GUMMING, Esq., Mayor elect, attended,
was qualified, and was introduced to his seal by
8. Hale, Esq.
On motion, Resolved, That his Honor appoint
the standing committees for the ensuing year.
Council then adjourned.
The following are the Standing Committees,
appointed by the Mayor, for the year 1839 and
40 :
Accounts —St.John, Warren and Harper.
Streets —Parish, Rankin, and Hitt.
Magazine —Hitt, Crump and Dye.
Hospital —Dye, Hitt and Thompson.
Drains —Harper, Crump and Parish.
City-Hall —Rankin, Hilt and St. John
Pumps and Wells —bishop, Rankin and Dye.
Market —Bush, Nelson and Thompson.
Police —Warren, St. John and Parish.
Jail —Crump, Nelson and Bush.
Health —Nelson, Hitt and Parish.
Engines —Thompson, Nelson and Harper.
South Commons —Hitt, Crump, and Dye.
Charity —Bishop, Crump, and Rankin.
River Bank and Wharf —Bishop, Warren
a nd St. John.
RECAPITULATION.
St. John.—Accounts, City Hall, Police, River
Bank and Wharf.
Parish.—Streets, Drains, Police and Health.
Hilt.—Magazine, Hospital, City Hall, Health,
and South Commons.
Dye.—Hospital, Pumps and Wells, Magazine,
and South Commons.
Harper—Drains, Accounts, and Engines.
Rankin.—City Hall, Streets, Pumps nnd Wells,
and Charity.
Bishop.—Pumps and Wells, Charity, River
Bank and Wharf.
Bush—Market and Jail.
Warren.—Police, Accounts, River Bank and
Wharf.
Crump.—Jail, Magazine, South Commons, and
Drains.
Nelson.—Health, Market and Engines.
Thompson.—Engines, Hospital and Market.
S. H. OLIVER, Clerk of Council.
The Globe contains the following letter of
General Scott, announcing the amicable adjust
ment of the North Eastern Boundary dispute :
Head Quarters, Eastern Division,?
Augusta, Maine, March 20, 1839.5
Sir;—l have the happiness to enclose herewith
two copies of the arrangement entered into
through my agency, between the Governor of
Maine and the Lieutenant Governor of the Pro
vince of New Brunswick.
The copy of my official note to Sir John Har
vey, with his acceptance of the arrangement, is
in the hands of the Governor of Maine, and ano
ther copy of the same official note, followed by
the acceptances of the Lieutenant Governor and
the Governor, was yesterday transmitted by me
to Sir John Harvey. At the sumo time 1 sent
him copies of two orders which were yesterday
issued by the Governor of Maine—the first dis
banding the thousand detached militia which bus
been held in reserve at this place, and the second
recalling the military force of the Slate from the
disputed territory, and directing the organization
of the civil posse that is to be held by the State
in that territory. The papers so transmitted and
which bore the signature of the Governor of
Maine, or that of bis Adjutant General, were offi
cially certified by me.
I trust that the arrangement between the Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor, together with my
humble agency in bringing it about, will be satis
factory to the President and the department. The
arrangement, I have no doubt, will be executed
by the parties to it in good faith and in cheerful
ness.
In haste, I have the honor to remain, with
high respect, your obedient servant,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
Hon. J.R. Poinsett, Secretary of War.
Added to this is the following very friendly and
gentlemanly letter of Sir John H arvey :
Government House, J
Freiierickton, March 23, 1839. 5
My Dear General Scott:—Upon my return from
closing the session of the Provincial Legislature
this day, I was gratified by the receipt of your
very satisfactory communications of the 21st in
stant. My reliance upon you, my dear General,
has led me to give my willing assent to the pro
position which you have made yourself the accep
table medium of conveying to me, and I trust that
as far as the Province and State respectfully arc
concerned, an end will have been put, by it, to all
border disputes, and away opened to an amicable
adjustment of the national question involved. I
shall hope to receive the confirmation of this ar
rangement on the part of the State of Maine at
as early a period as may be practicable; and it is
my intention to proceed to Woodstock early in
the ensuing week, I request you to have the good
ness to address it to me at that place.
I shall certainly use my best endeavors to protect
the timber on the valley of the St. John within
the disputed territory, from depredators, and shall
probably place, for this purpose, a small civil force
at the disposal of the warden.
I grieve to learn that there is so little chance of
my seeing you upon the present occasion : but I
wish you to give me some ground for holding that
I may have that high gratification at as early a
period as may be compatible with your many im
portant and arduous duties.
Believe me to remain, my dear General, with
sentiments of warm esteem, regard and respect,
your faithful friend. (Signed) J. HARVEY.
P. S. I readily consent to all my letters to you
being considered as semi official, and thank you
for the suggestion. (Signed)
JOHN HARVEY.
Major General ftcott, &c. &c.
Vert Mysterious. —lt has been very cur
rently rumored in town to-day, that a man named
Flood, a sergeant in Maj. McGrath’s corps of
lancers, has been taken up, charged with being
in correspondence with the “Patriot Hunters.”
We believe that a plan of the city, garrison, &c., |
was found in his pos'-ession, and letters offering i
him a reward for firing the Government House,
and other putilic buildings, It is said that he was
holding out for a higher sum than that offered.
The papers, were discovered accidentally. He
was examined yesterday before the Executive
Council for a considerable lime, and has been
committed to jail. The affair is creating a great
deal of excitement.— Toronto Examiner,
From the N, V. Courier .S' Enquirer.
Humiliatino Contrast 1794 AM) 1838
—Mr. Senator King, of Georgia, in the best
speech which he ever delivered in Congress, re
marked that more grey hairs had grown upon the
head of our Republic within fifty years, than
ought to have grown there in centuries of peaceful
and constitutional administration. We believe
that he spoke sincerely, and therefore we cannot
credit the report that he has again allied himself
with the defaulters and plunderers now in power;
the men whom their friend Mr. Pickens—the
chivalrous Mr. Pickens, of South Carolina—de
scribed as the most corrupt and profligate set of
wretches that cverc.awlcd into power.
We were never so forcibly impressed with the.
truth of Mi. King’s remarks, as we have been in
perusing the letters of General Hamilton and Mr.
Wolcott, in relation to some of the early defalca
tions in the department of the Treasury. Any
one who will read these letters, which we icpub
lish below, cannot fail to be struck by the hu
miliating contrast which they present, with the
letters of Mr. Secretary Woodbury, written under
similar exigencies. It will be perceived that the
rule adopted by General Hamilton and President
Washington, in regard to defaulters, was per
emptory. It admitted of no evasion or exeuse.
When a public officer so far neglected his duty,
as to suffer a draft of the department to be returned
protested, after ho had given notice of funds on
hand to meet such draft, he was forthwith dis
missed from office.
If Mr. Woodbury had but followed the prece
dent thus established in the better and purer days
of the Republic, our official records would not
now exhibit the endless catalogue of speculators
and defaulters, which is published in the docu
ments of the Department.
Treasury Department, Feb. 10, 1798.
Si u: The enclosed letter of the 27th of last
month, from the collector of Tappahannock, re
lates to a subject equally delicate and disagreea
ble. It is my duly to add, that bills have returned
protested to the amount of $3OOO.
This conduct, though I trust proceeding from
no ill motive in the collector, is of a nature so fatal
to the punctual collection of the revenue, and at
the same time so vitally injurious to the public
credit, that I cannot forbear to submit it as my
opinion that the public good requires the super
■ ceding ot the officer.
W ith perfect respect, &c.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
To the President of the United States.
Treasury Department, June 16, 1794.
Sin; It is with regret that I inform you that
another collector has suffered Treasury drafts to
return unpaid, which were drawn upon moneys
reported by him to be in his hands—Abraham
Archer, Esq. of Yorktowu. Enclosed arc letters
of apology on the subject. All the draffs which
were at first declined were afterwards paid.
I perceive nothing substantially to distinguish
this case from that of the collector of Tappuhan
nock, who was lately superseded on a similar ac
count. Nor can I Ibi bear, however palnfUl the
task, to submit it as my opinion, in this ns in that
case, that the good of the public service requires
a displacement of the officer. Punctuality in this
respect is too indispensable not to be made the
invariable condition of continuance in office.
With perfect respect, &c.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
To the President of the United States.
Theasuuv Department, Feb. IS, 1795.
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor
respectfully to submit to the President of the
United States certain documents, by which it ap
pears that John Muir, collector for the district of
Vienna, in Maryland, has neglected his duty in
failing to collect, or to institute in season, suits
for the recovery of bonds for duties due to the
United Stales.
The collector has moreover failed to pay certain
drafts drawn on him by the Treasurer of the Uni
ted States, for moneys appearing, by returns to
the Treasury, to be on hand; and in this respect
he is found to be in the same predicament, as the
collector of York and Tappahannock, who were
superseded.
The Secretary is firmly of opinion that the good
of the public service requires that this officer
should be displaced ; and, from inquiries which
he has made of Mr. Murray, of the House of
Representatives, he is induced to believe that
James Frazier is a fit character to succeed to the
office.
All which is most respectfully submitted.
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
(Secretary of the Treasury.
To the President of the United States.
Here we see no cavilling, no paltering with
delinquency. Nothing is said of the political or
personal connections of the defaulters, or of their
ability to serve or injure the administration. A
just rule is strictly applied without reference to
persons or consequences.
Can Loco Focoism peruse these letters in con
nection with those of the present Secretary ofthc
Treasury, to the scores o* 1 defaulters in his em
ployment, and say that Levi Woodbury does not
richly merit impeachment I
The Conservative Loco*Foco.
The Warrenton (Va,) Times “shows up,” af
ter the following ludicrous and laughable style, the
venerable Conservative-Loco Foco of the Rich
mond Enquirer.
“When he first came upon the stage, bundled
up in his conservative over-coat, ill concealing the
loco foco figure, his actions were dubious, his
blows were awkward, his position was wretched.
There he stood between his divided parly, a pro
■ fessed conservative, but practical loco foco: the
connecting link between the rowdy outright and,
the dcmi-gentleman. He vas sco ned by the lo
co focos, and derided by the wings.
This halt-way business, we saw, could not last i
long. His conversation we knew must go to pot.
Accordingly we have seen him. on the late occa- 1
sion, in full assemblage of the whole Htate, like 1
Billy Hr slon in the Flying Wardrobe, cast off i
first his conservative great coat —then his long- I
tail blue—then his waistcoat—then his sham— I
his sham again—anothersham—another—anolh- i
er—another yet—a sham again—again—a sham i
Heavens! what a mass of sham disguised his.
fair proportions! Behold him now denuded of ; I
his cumbrous conservatism ! How free his mo- j '
lions! How natural and unconstrained ! With S 1
the buoyant spirit of youth, he bounds into the ; t
box of his sub-treasury coach ; and with a light
heart and thin pair of breeches, this most accorn- \
plished whip rattles his machine over the nation,
reckless of its “destructive properties,” and “re- t
volutionory tendencies.”
How strange! A professional conservative
driving the sub-treasury stage ! Imagine a poor
way-faring whig trying' to stop him in his mad 1
drive, with holloa driver! you have dropped your
way bill, handing him u paper which reads thus:
From a Richmond Enquirer of lost fall,
“We (Mr. Ritchie) can have no alternative,
we dare not hesitate between our country and our
party. 1 his odious sub-treasury scheme must
be resisted at all hazards and'every sacrifice.—
We view it with a holy horror! Whilst it will
prostrate the best interests of our country .[its ten
dency is subversive of every principle of repub
licanism. It is ruinous and revolutionary.”
“Damn the way-bill I” shouts this reckless dri
ver, and crack goes the whip, and round the
wheels.”
The London Times of the 21st February con
tains a chapter from the forth-coming work of
Captain .Marryatt, on America, in which the au
thor treats ol the armed and commercial marine
ot the United btates. It may well be supposed
that the naval allairs ot this country would at
tract the especial attention of uuob ~,,,,, „
Captain Marryatt, and, whatever wo may think
of some of his views, it must be admitted that in
the examination, he has manifested much min
uteness ot observation. After giving a tabular
statement of the various classes of our ships of
war, and their respective nominal armaments, the
captain goes on to insist that there is no equality
whatever between them and vessels of the same
denomination in the Dritish Navy, the superiority
being very great in favor of the Americans, in
weight of metal and heaviness of scantling. He
says ot our line of battle ships, that they are the
most perfect in model and workmanship in the
world, and alludes to the Ohio as being the very
perfection of a ship of her class. He alleges
that one of our frigates of the first class is equal
in point of armament and number of men to a
British 74. A statement is given of the number
of oilicers in our service, and the rales of their
pay in sterling money are annexed, showing a
great disparity between the compensation which
they receive and that which is allowed to British
officers of the same rank. Wo furnish the com
parative statement, believing that it will be read
with interest:
Officers. Americans. Eng.
Half-pay Post Captain, senior on £ £
leave, corresponding to Coni.
or Rear Admiral in England, 730 456
Post-captain off duty (that is,
duty on shore) 630
On leave, 526 191
Commander, of sea duty, 440
In yards, and on duty, 3HO 155
Lieutenants—Shore duty, 315
Waiting orders, oron leave 250 90
Passed Midshipmen—Full pay 156 25
Half-pay 125 0
Whilst the writer approves of the large pay
given to our officers, he is not willing to attribute
it to any feeling of liberality, of which ho re
gards democracies as incapable, hut refers it to
necessity, as, were not the officers well paid, no
person would enter the naval service in a country
v here the facilities of obtaining a genteel subsist
ence are so great. In speaking of his intercourse
with the senior officers in the American Navy,
the captain pays n just tribute to their liberality
intelligence, and gentlemanly deportment, which
he compares with the intolerance displayed by
persons on shore, —who, us he says, do not un
derstand what they talk about,—not much to the
advantage of the latter. The following are his
remarks in which we think he has done no more
than justice to the brave and enlightened class of
men of whom he speaks :
“ During my sojourn in the United Stales I
became acquainted with a large portion of the
senior officers of the American navy, and I found
them gifted, gentlemanlike, and liberal. With
them 1 could converse freely upon all points re
lative to the last war, and always found them
ready to admit all that could be expected. The
American naval officers certainly form a strong
contrast with the majority of their countrymen,
and proved by their enlightened and Liberal ideas
how much the Americans in general would be
improved if they had had the same means of com
parison with other countries which the naval offi
cers by their profession have obtained. Their
partial successes during the late war were often
the theme of discourse, and conducted with tan
donrand frankness on both sides. No unpleasant
feeling was ever raised by any argument with thorn
on the subject, while the question raised among
their “ free and enlightened” brother citizens who
knew nothing of the matter was certain to bring
down upon me such a torrent of bombast, false
hood, and ignorance, ns required all my philoso
phy to put up with apparent indifference. Bull
must now take my leave of the American navy
to refer to their merchant marine.”
From the national, our author passes to the
commercial marine of the United States, and en
ters into an elaborate calculation to shew that our
ships are, for the most part, manned by British
subjects. In proof of this assertion, he states
that during his sojourn on this side of the Atlan
tic lie had been frequently visited and accosted by
seamen who had served under him, and who told
him, on being asked how it was that they had
left the service of their native country, that it was
the pay of eighteen dollars a month which indu
ced them to do so. In further support of his po
sition he adverts to the circumstance that in this
country youths never enter upon a sea-life with a
view of remaining “ firremoet men," nor can they
be expected to do so whilst the time consumed in
making them able seamen would enable them to
become independent or wealthy men on shore.
'l'he captain aniit adverts on the ease with which
British subjects can become luma fide American
citizens, the language of the natives of America
being the same as that of persons born in the
British Islands, The estimate he makes is that
America employs 30,000 British seamen who
would, in the event of a war, be taken from her,
provided that measures to that end were adopted.
—Hull I mure American.
Flouiusiies.—lt is amusing to observe how
much the world is taken by flourishes. Fair,
simple, candid statements of facts do not gsdown.
They attract no attention—get no hearers, and
consequently no believers. Whoever then has a
point to carry, a new business to establish, or the
introduction of himself to the public to effect,
must come down upon the nation at once with
the announcement of his own celebrity and con
sequence ! He must be “ celebrated” at the com
mencement, or he never will he afterwards.
This mode of proceeding strikes us as a very
little better than lying—but us it is the fashion,
where is the help for it 1 Cannot some of the
abundant philanthropy of the day let itself off in
an “Anti-Humbug Society I” —JV. V. Sun,
Lot Turner is advertised in the Vermont States
man as “a brute, a drunkard, and a vagabond.”
Lot'* wife is rslher salty, — Prent’re.
Vol lII.— No. 43.
Dkat Ting who can I—A cow, six years old.
fatted liy Col, 8. Wyman, of Shrewsbury, Wor
cester county, conveyed to Hoston on the Wor
cester Rail Road, and thence to Dedham on the
1 rovidenco Rail Rond, slaughter by Oliver
Peirce, and sold to Edward Knight, of Boston*
weighed as follows:—Hide, 90 lbs. Tallow, 134
lbs. Quarters, 221 11m—210 d0—227d0—259 do.
Whole weight 1,111 lbs.-
Kkv. J. N. Maffitt.—Some hundreds, it is
said, have been converted to the Christian religion
at Louisville, and Madison Indiana, during the
last nion ;h or two, under the preaching of this
eloquent divine. Among the Louisville converts
we have heard the name of Mr. C. U. Parsons,
the tragedian. —Lexington Intelligencer.
Ins Familt of Smiths is Inchkasino.—
1 he wile ot a Mr. Smith, residing at Dccring, in
New Hampshire, lately gave birth to four children.
Consignees per South Carolina llailTloarC
Hamhuro, April 11, 1839.
A. Frederick, A. fl. Mallory, W. E.& J. U. Jack
son, Davis, (trim*. * Co-, M. Roll', 11. W. Force,
Konkin, Hoggs (Si Co., H. I’arsrns, ou.i r> McTeir
Si Co., It. Richardson, Antony & Haines, L. Dwehe,
E. D. Cooke, A. W. Walton St Co., F. 11. Cooke, J.
Si S. Bones, ,T. S. Hutchinson, C. A. Greiner, T.
Dawson, \V. Allen, Hand Si Howland, Stovall, Sim
mons & Co., Ileesc & ileal 1,-Anderson & Adams, N.
Jen me, A. 11, Church, J. F. Henson, G. Parrott, H.
L. Jetlers, J. K. Bowen.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, April 10.
Cleared. —Bark Georgian, Spencer, Philadelphia-
Arrived yesterday. —Schr Dexter, Mason, Now-
Orleans ; steamboat Cberokee, Norris, Augusta.
Sailed. —Ship Millcdgevillc, Potter, Ncw-Vork ;
brig Eleanor, Jones, Baltimore.
Cii ari.esxon, April 11.
Arrived yesterday —Hr ship Georgetown, Tooles,
Liverpool; sebrs Holler, Borden, Baltimore; Chili,
Saunders, do.
Cleared —Ship Hanover, Sheldon, St. Petersburg;
brig Globe, Fcssender, West Indies; U L brig
George, Hull, New York.
STOCKS, COLLARS, HOSOMS, Ac.
FBIIIE subscriber lias just received a full s.-pply
1 of Stocks, Collars, Bosoms, Shirts. Hosiery
and Gloves for gentlemen. Also superior black
and eo ored Crape Camblet for summer coats ; ex
tra white and colored Linen Drillings ; super Lon
don Wettings, and Marscills Vesting, with a com
plete supply ot gentlemen’s goods.
Boys’ white Leghorn Hals and Tissue Caps.
Gentlemen’s white and drab Leghorn Hats.
Also 9-4 and 12-4 Linen Sheetings.
4-4 and 6-4 heavy Straw Mattings, white and
colored.
Fine Parasols, and some extra superior Umbrel
las —Willi a first rate assortment of ladies and
children Shoes. Also daily expected, an invoice of
Wire Safes on consignment.
Which, with a full assortment of Staple and Fan
cy Dry Goods, will be sold very low.
WILLIAM CLAGETT,
No. 23S Broad Street.
April 11 tw 4t
Wholesai.E Hat WAivE-a^cslT,
No. 201 Market street, Philadelphia.
1 THOMAS EVANS hr Co., (late Ran-
I kin (Si Evans, Augusta, Ga.,) take p cast
ure in informing their friends tbrougbou-
Georgia, Carolina, and Alabama, that
they have located themselves in Phila
delphia,where they manufacture and keep on band
a large assortment of Hats and Caps, of all descrip
tions, which they wi'l sell at wholesale, at such
prices and on such terms as will satisfy those who
r(!!se(slu9fv <*«!<*«. 'They would
northern markets, to give them a call, as they feel
conlident their stock will attract the attention of
buyers. THOMAS EVANS <V, Co.
dee 24 swtf
(Jjr' The MiliedjgeviUe Journal, Mobile Chronicle,
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser,and CharlcsUn C ou
rier, will publish the above twice a week for wo
mouths, and charge this office. Each paper is re
quested to send a paper containing the advertise
ment t« the advertisers in Philadelphia.
-fealk UNITED STATUS HOTEL;
Broad-sl. opposite the Bank of Augusta.
JjjlML The subscriber, (recently from the Globe
Hotel,) bogs leave to Inform his friends and the
public generally, that he has taken possession, and
is now the proprietor of Hint well known stand
called the UNITED STATES HOTEL, situated
on Broad-street, where he hopes, with strict atten
tion to business, to receive a liberal share of public
patronage. I) MIXER.
N. H.—for particulars of the order of this bouse,
viz: bed-rooms, table, servants, Sic. Sic., he leaves
wholly for his guests to detid •.
march 19 stvaw3m
Notice, .-The firm of a. f. Thompson f
Co., was dissolved on the first day of Janu
ary last, by selling out the entire Stock of Goods.
The business of the concern will be attended to by
A. F. THOMPSON.
Indian Springs, .March 30, 1839. w3t
A NEW LINE
IN ROM Greensboro, North Carolina, via Salem,
' Poplar Camp, Newborn, Gray Sulpher Springs,.
Red Sulphur Springs, Salt Sulphur Springs, to
White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, in
FOUR HOUSE POST COACHES.
Passengers coming to the Virginia Springs can
enter through from Greensboro, N.C., to the White
Sulphur Springs, Va.
Passengers coming this Route to the Virginia
Springs, w-ill find it about 85 miles nearer; a good
road, good stages, good teams and steady drivers.
Our Stands will be found at the best houses the
country can afford,and all attention will he paid to
passengers, for their accommodation and comfort.
Passengers leaving Greensboro, North Carolina,,
will reach the Virginia Springs in three days.
dj? Passengers coming from the South wishing to
take this Line will take care not to enter further
than Greensboro.
JOHN & EDMUND WlLLS,Proprietors,
maj 23 w3m
dj’The Charleston Courier Savannah Georgian,
Columbia Telescope, will copy the above once a.
week for three months and send their accounts to
the proprietors, j. & E. W.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD
Jjk RUN AW A Y from the sub
aS i scriber about the 10th instant,
iffW aNegro fellow—a jobbing car
fMPL m%/ PfGO r—named DICK, or
/ UICHAUD, about 25 years of
age, and five feet nine or ten
inches high ; be is a good look
ing Negro, of black complexion ; has a grum look
and speaks very impertinently; and was, when a
buy, accustomed to house work. It is supposed he
will make for Charleston, or Georgetown, where
his father (named Abraham) is thought to be; he
having been sold in Charleston some years ago.—
Richard has been for the last 12 or 18 months ta
king carpenter’s jobs on his own account, both in
the city and neighborhood, and is well known in
Burke county, and at the Richmond Baths, where
he was engaged all last .summer. I will give the
above reward if taken out of the State, and brought
tomcat Augusta,or fifty dollars if lodged in some
safe jail, where I can get him, and a suitable re
ward if taken up in this neighborhood on either
side of the river. JOHN CARMICHAEL.
Augusta, March 26. sw tf
BrThc Charleston Courier and Savannah
Geutgitw will please give the above five weekly in-
NqftiolKjand forward their accounts to this office for
payweM.