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BANK REPORTS.
B*mk or Sr. Maiivs, >
Sr. Marts, 3d April, 1839. 5
Sin ;—I have the honor herewith to transmit
to your Excellency, a ntalcment of the condition
of this Hank, on Tuesday morning, the 2d inst.
Respectfully your ob’t. servant,
D. L. CLINCH, P. B. St. Marys.
To his Excellency (tioHot R, Gilmer, Gov
ernor, Millcdgevillc, Ga.
Statement thawing the condition of the /tank of
St. Marge, on Tuesday morning, "J April,
1839.
Dh.
To Capita! Stock paid in, $80,795 00
“ Notes in circulation, 52,020
“ Individual depositors, 28,215 40
“ Due to other Banks, 5,350 63
“ Bills payable, 18,390 CO
“ Profits and surplus, 2,129 85
“ Dividends unclaimed, 3C5 20
2,495 05
$193,860 58
Cn.
■By Cash on hand, viz
Gold and Silver
coin, 27,924 38
Dra/ls, 6,966 64
Treasury
Notes, 200 00,-7,166 64
Notes of other
Banks, 12,615 06
47,706 02
“ Due from other Banks and
Agents, 13,189 80
“ Drafts in transitu. 1,191 24
“ Banking House and Lot, 6,269 72
44 Notes running to
maturity, 97,577 36
44 Notes over due and
notin suit, 9,437 66
107,015 02
“ Bills of Exchange, 16,644 32
“ Protest aept.do 50,prcm. 45 14, 55 64
“ Over Drafts, 1,285 95
“ Expenses, 608 87
$193,806 58
All debts due the Bank arc considered good.
'Osono i a , Town of St. Marys.
Personally appeared D. L. Clinch, President,
and A. .1. Bossent, Cashier, who being duly sworn
deposes and says, that the above and foregoing
statement of the condition of the Bunk of St.
Marys,on Tuesday morning, the 2d April, 1839,
is just and true to the best of their knowlcdgeund
belief,
D. L. CI,INCH, P. U. St. Marys.
A. J. BESBKNT, Cashier.
Sworn to before me this 3d April, 1839.
S. CLARKE, Intend, of St. Marys.
List of Stockholders in the Hattk of St. Mary's.
Names. Shares. Paid in.
Horace S. Pratt, 100 4,800
Do tr. H.S. Pratt, Jr. 5 150
Do tr. June Pratt 5 150
Do tr. L. G. W. Pratt 50 1,600
Do guard. J. W. Pratt 50 1,500
Do guard. 1. J. Pratt 50 1,500
Sarah Drysdalo, 50 1,500
Francis Rudolph, 5 350
Do tr. M. C. Rudolph 5 350
Du tr. E. F. Kudulph 5 350
Do tr. M..M. Rudolph 5 350
Du tr. J. J. Rudulph, 5 350
Do tr. It. L. Rudulph 5 350
Do tr. V. M. Rudulph 5 350
Est.J. Humber, by M. 11. Heb
linrd, ad. 5 150
John Hebhavd 5 150
Sarah Club 4 400
John Bachloll 2 200
Do tr. 11. M. Bachlott 2 200
Do tr. J,L. Bachlott 2 200
Do tr. M. M. Bachlott 1 100
Do tr. Jos. C. Bachlott 1 100
Do tr. R. 11. Bachlott I 100
Do tr. C. O. Bachlott 1 100
Alfred Doolittle 20 600
Do tr. M. A. Doolittle 1 30
Do tr. J.S. Doolittle 1 30
Do tr.J. H. Doolittle 1 30
Do tr. M. J. Doolittle 1 30
Do tr, M. A. Doolittle 1 30
Henry Bacon 20 1,000
Do tr. G. A. E. Bacon, 2 100
Do tr. 11. S. Bacon, 2 100
Do tr. E. M. Bacon 2 100
A. J. Bcssenl 32 1,600
Do tr. Eliza Viesseiil 10 500
Do tr. Win. Bessent 2 200
Do tr. E. M. Bessout 2 200
Louis Dufour 144 7,200
Do tr. Louis Uesclaux 30 3,000
Edmund Atkinson 50 1,500
John Bessout 2 60
Do tr. M. O. Bessent 2 (HI
Do tr. M. A. Bessent 1 30
Do guard. E. W illiams 5 150
Do Adm’r. cst. C. Spriggs 5 250
Joseph Arnow 2 60
Do tr. C. Arnow, 2 60
Do tr. Prudcutia Arnow 2 60
Do tv. George Arnow 2 60
Do tr. Jos. A mow, Jr 2 60
Willis Lang, 3 90
Do Ir. G. Lung 1 30
Do Ir. Mary Lang 1 30
Samuel Clarke, 69 1,780
Do Ir. Ethan Clarke 2 60
Do tr. O. A. Clarke 2 60
Do Ir. E. M. Clarke 2 60
Do tv. H.P. Clarke 2 60
Do tr. L. C. Clarke 2 60
Do tr. M. S. Clarke 2 60
Do tr. J. F. Clarks 2 00
Do tr. S. Clarke, Jr. 2 00
Do tr. K. B. Clarke 2 60
.'David Seubury 10 200
John Chevalier, 2 60
Do ti. Betsey Brewer 1 30
P. M. Nightingale 100 2,000
Sylvester Silva 20 1,000
Jacque Vocclle 20 1,500
B. Barralte 10 1,000
Do tr. A. Barratte 10 1,000
Samuel Flood 2 60
Do tr. Rebecca Flood 1 30
Do tr. Ann V. Flood 1 30
Do tr. Elizabeth Flood 1 30
•Whipple Aldrich 10 300
Duncan L. Clinch 149 3,980
Do guard. J. 11. M. Ma
dison 51 1,520
William Proctor 5 250
Do tr. Margaret Proctor 5 250
Do tr. Margt, Proctor, Jr. 2 100
Do tr. Virginia Proctor, 2 100
Do tr. Wm, Proctor, Jr. 2 100
Do tr. Daniel Proctor 2 100
Do tr. Louisa Proctor 2 100
Do tr. Theodore Proctor 2 100
Do Isabella Proctor 2 100
Lemuel Church DO 1,560
Do guard. Harry King 33 1,350
Do guard. Tilley King 3 150
Do guard. Harry King, Jr. 2 160
Henry H. Sadler 10 300
Do tr.H. R. Sadler, Jr. 2 00
D> tr. Eliza M. Sadler I 60
Do tr. Oath. Ann Sadler 2 60
Do tr. Houston M. Sadler 2 66
Do tr. Mary A. Sadler 2 60
Do tr. Nidi. B Sadler 2 60
Edmund Rirhardsen, ; )no
Do tr. Eli/.. Richardson 2 100
1 O. M. Dorman 10 300
: F. J. Juilson 10 300
, Samuel R. Williams 1 30
I .lolm Warren ‘3O 000
Ross <St Merrick 40 1,-00
Julia A. Monk 15 450
Arch. Clnrk 10 300
j Ralph King 100 3,000
■ William King 100 3,000
j Bayard E. Hand 100 3,000
! 1,, L. F. Poincey 10 300
j 11. & W. King & Co. 42 1,200
Stephen McCall 10 300
Carter <A Tracey 10 300
John Johns 10 300
Jeremiah Johns 5 100
Alacnnder Kean 6 150
John Bailey 90 2,970
George W. Thomas 50 1,500
Janies Moore 5 100
James M. Smith 10 200
George I.ang 5 150
Nancy I.ang 10 300
Do tr. Isaac I.ang 5 150
Do tr. Catharine I.ang 5 150
Do Isabella I.ang 5 150
Susan Hopkins 50 1,000
Wm. T. Hopkins 108 2,160
Do tr. E. H. Hopkins 2 40
Do tr. W.T. Hopkins, Jr. 2 40
Do tr. Susan A. Hopkins 2 40
Do tr. R, H. Hopkins, 2 40
Christopher Brown 25 750
Comm’rs. Camden Co. Academy 20 2,000
Hannah Oossby 40 1,200 |
Harriet Ann Elbert 20 1,400
Robert Stafford 100 3,000
Elizabeth P. Magill 3 300
Helen /. Magill 3 300
Mrs. Eliza Melntosh I I 520
Mrs. Mary Sadler 15 525
George W. Woolley 10 300
2,500 $86,705
Wkstkhn Mask or Gcoiioia,?
April 23d, 1830. 5
To his Excellency Gkuiiuk R. Gilmkii;
Sin:—ln compliance with the law, I hereby
transmit to your Excellency a statement of the
condition of the Western Bunk of Georgia, on
the Ist day of April, inst, together with a list of
the Stockholders of said Bank.
An apology is duo for the late forwarding of
these documents, which has been occasioned by
my absence fur the Ist month.
With high consideration and respect,
Vour Excellency’s most obcdientser’rt.
WM. HARDIN, President.
Statement of the Condition of the ’Western Bank
of Georgia, on the Isi day oj April, 1839.
mi.
Stock Account.
Amount paid in, 133,852 50
Notes issued, 381,450
on hand, 257,590 1
In circulation, *123,860
Balances due to other Bks. and Cor
porations, 11,321 29 ‘
“ “ individual deposi
tors, 11,965 53 1
Suspense account, 4,030 51 •
Discount account*!, 18,499 97 j
>303,529 31 (
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rn. 1
Discounted Notes run
ning to maturity, 43,132 12
Discounted Notes due
and unpaid, not
in suit, all con
sidered good, 117,697 71 '
Discounted N' otes in 1
suit, considered 1
good, 16,092 42 1
Discounted Notes in
suit, considered '
doubtful, 0,517 04
186,439 19
Exchange running to
maturity, 2,130 63
Eying over unpaid,
considered good, 10,964 50
In suit, considered
good, 3,000
16,095 13
Balances due by other
Banks in this
State, 1,082 91
Balaricesdueby B’nks 1
and Factors in I
New York, 604 81
1,747 72
Silver Coin, 3,946 25
Gold Bullion, 45 08 i
3,991 33 |
Balances due by Agents, 53,065
Do “ individuals, 1,879 01 1
Notes of other Bonks, and sundry
rash items, 27,442 52 I
Expense account, 9,775 01
l.oss on Gold Bullion, 694 87
10,469 88
Banking House and Lot, 3,000
>303,529 81
* The amount in circulation has boon reduced
since Ist April, by redemption at the counter, and
by the President abroad, 15,995
Amount known to be withdrawn, in
hands of Agents, 10,875
Amount handed to responsible
agents for disbursement, and not
yet returned, 13,250 j
Which amount, deducted ftvmi the amount
above >40,120 will leave >83,74 ', as the present (
circulation.
List of Stockholders of the Western Bank of
Georgia.
Names. No. Shares. Ain’t paid.
Nathan Anderson, 10 350
G W Ambrister, 5 175
G W Anderson, 5 175 ]
WII Bailey, A D Hodges, 20 700
Thomas Bryan, 40 1,100
Francis Burke, 6 210
J C Burnett, 1 35
■ R U Benson, 5 175
W K Briers, ft 175
James Buys, ft 175
J S Burnet, 10 350
A Hrinlcc, 2 70
A E Barry, . 10 350
James Brison, 10 350
W H ('leghorn, I ft 525
John Caldwell, 74 2,590
M .1 ( ’amden, 20 700
Chunn, Patton & 00. 10 ‘350
J 11 Cavcnder, 5 175
John Clayton, 2 70
Colthorp J McSpadden, 100 3,500
J E Cobb, ft 150
R Cession, ft 175
George Cliftlon, 20 700
G W Copeland, 10 350
Asa Dickson, 18 630
Nathl Davis, 10 300
George J Dikes, 5 175/
John Dawson, 85 2,97 ft
Dickson, Hoag, & Kelly, ft 175
O R Forter, ' 11 330
Samuel Farris, 24 840
Samuel Finley, 10 350
Tomlinson Fort, 130 4,550
lobn Fricks, 5 150^
tm
Win Fain, *0 I®®
Thomas F Gordon, 5 W 5
E L Givens, 20 800
VV & O Hitchcock, 39 3,070
1 WG Harris, 10 350
Harris & MeSpoddeo 20 '<oo
1 William Henry, 10 350
1 i A M Hamilton, 6 175
' I E Hoyle & Co. * 10 350
! A Hoyle, 10 350
1 ’ Hoyle & Jones, 10 350
1 ! Thomas Hendricks, S 175
1 I L W Hays, 2 70
1 ; Thomas Howeth, 2
i j TT Hopkins, 14 490
Win Hen Jin, 17 5 0,125
j A T Hardin, 75 2,150
| J G Holland, 10 300
! F S S Hunt, 1 35
I Z II Hargrove’s estate, 400 16,100
| James Hemphill, 56 1,960
| Hubbard and Eidson, 20 675
! A H Harrison, 50 1,750
| Edward Herndon, 20 600
| David Irwin, 15 625
j A H Johnston, 21 630
| 8 J Johnson, 20 700
John Jacobs, 10 325
WmKing, 22 660
| Kerrs and Hope, 40 1,500
I R I. Lane, 10 300
W Lay, 20 700
James Liddell, 30 1,050
Thomas Lloyd, 10 350
[ Lane and Perry, 30 700
B McConnell, 10 350
D It Mitchell. 10 300
M Montgomery, 30 1,050
I Robert Murphy, 1 35
j 8 Marsh, 20 700
D Morrow, 6 150
J C Miller, 2 70
John McConnell, 5 175
| A Miller, 20 700
8 C Newman, 33 1,155
Newman & Cunningham, 6 210
L M Nicholson, 1 10
Lewis Edwards, 4 20
Joshua Philips, 10 350
Samuel Poo, 6 175
Elijah Patey, 10 350
John Pyle, 20 700
A M Rawlings, * 10 300
Job Rogers, 10 300
8 W Roden, 2 60
"J B Roden, 2 70
M L Rufl; 10 300
J and A Scott, 10 350
Wm Scales, 5 175
J ’J’ Storey, 21 735
Win Smith, 200 7,000
CL Storey, 2 70
J M Spullock, 162 5,070
John Smith, 110 3,f50
A D Shackleford, 5 25
E It A Smith, 65 2,275
C D Tcrhuac, 20 700
LHWalfhal, 63 2,205
G and S Williams, 25 1,225
N B Wheeler, XO 350
John Word. 3 175
J Whorton, 30 1 050
J Walters, 30 PO5O
W Withron, 10 350
G Winn, 25 875
John A White, 20 700
W C Wyly, 5 175
Hugh Wilson, JO 350
George W Williams, 200 6,000
Samuel Williams, 150 5,250
Robert Ware, 200 6,135
Do. tr. for RNC.
Ware, 175 5,250
A N Hargrave, 176 5,280
Geo iroiA, Floyd county.
Personally appeared before me Robert Ware,
Esq., a Justice of the Inferior Court for said coun
ty, William Hardin, President, and William P. |
Beers, asstsioui Oanliioi vs the Bbis*.
Georgia, who being duly sworn, say, that the
foregoing statement of the condition and list of
Stockholders of said Bank, is just and true to the
best of their knowledge and belief.
WM. HARDIN, President,
WM. P. BEERS, Asst. Cashier.
Sworn to before me 23d April, 1839.
CIIKONICLK AND SKNTINEL.
A IJ <; U STA.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 18.
(’ It has been suggested, that at the target
firing of the Augusta Artillery Guards, this day,
persons who have not received invitations, will
not be expected to attend. Wo are requested to
state that this in a mistake. Arrangements could
only be made for a limited number of invita
tions, to join the company, on the water; but the
corps will feel honored hy the .presence, at the
firing, of any, on all, their fellow citizens, of
both sexes.
Post Office, 'Col«jmhus,7
"Wednesday Evening, May 15. 5
The Steamer Siren arrived this evening from
Apalachicola, brings information of a horrible
massacre committed by a party of Indians on
Friday night last, on the Apalachicola river,
about 50 miles below the junction of the Chat
tahoochee and Flint Rivers. Seven or eight in
dividuals of both sexes were murdered, and their
bodice burned. The Siren stopped at the spot
i on Sunday, and the crew and passengers interred
the remains of the murdured.
> tv. k xt a v the Purism ext.—John C.
Nicoll to be Judge of the United States for the
District of Georgia, in place of Jeremiah Cuvier,
, deceased.
\ M ore Indian Murders.
The Apalachicola Gazette of the 11th slates
that a party of Indians, recognised to be Creeks,
simultaneously attacked the settlements of Rob
erts, at Stefanulgee, and John and Nathan
Smith's, Rico's BlulT. They burned Robert’s
houses, killed a little boy, and wounded Roberts
himself, who, with his wife, a man named Al
drich, and 1 children, escaped.
; At Smith’s settlement, it is supposed that Na
than Smith's throe children, a Mrs. Richards
and her five children and a man named White
were murdered.—N. Smith, with his wife, ano
j (her woman, and two men escaped. John Lamb
| was severely wounded, he recognised the Indians
to be Creeks. Sixteen of the fugitives, men, wo
| men and children, caine down on the mail boat
and are completely destitute. Several of the In
i dians were seen on the banks of the river, as the
1 boat came through the narrows 7 miles above
For.t Gadsden. v
f Conkbcticit U. S. Sssatob.—The Hart\
find Cour.mt says that the Hon. Dennis Kimber
j ley, United States Senator, has resigned his of
[ free, on account of ill health. It will devolve
upon the Legislature, now in session, to fill the J
1
1 1 u,hour Correiforuichl.
Milleogf.ville, lOlli May, 1839. i
Tiio Convention adjourned sine die this day, j
1 between 12 and 1 o’clock. The report of the |
Committee of the whole was adopted without j
material amendment, and comprise the amend
ments to the Constitution to be offered to the peo
ple for their ratification or rejection.
The leading provisions are substantially as
follows:
Ist. The Senate to consist of 48 members
from Senatorial districts of two contiguous coun
ties each.
Each county in the state is to be entitled to one
member in the House of Representatives, without
regard to population.
Those counties having a representative popu
lation of 6000, arc entitled to two members.
Those counties having a representative popula"
tion of 12,000, arc entitled to thiee members.
The number of members in the Legislature
never to be increased beyond that number which
the last census will give under the above ratio'
except when a new county shall bo created.
Such are the provisions of the amendments to
the Constitution,now before the people fortheir
decision. Ido not hesitate to pronounce them
unequal and unjust, as the smaller counties will
have a predominant influence in both branches of
the Legislature. Except in the mere matter of
reduction, lessening the number of members in
the Legislature, they arc worse than the Consti
tution as it at present stands. To this may be
added, that the Senatorial districts arc laid off so
as to give the Union party, who are in a minority
in the State, a majority of eight or ten in the
Senate, which in a reduced Senate, is equal to a
majority of 16 or 20 in that body, as at present
organized. It is well known that in the last
Senate, the. State Rights party had a majority ;
their indignation then, upon being thus, by a
party manoeuvre in the Convention, thrown into
a minority of 8 or 10 in a reduced Senate, may
be well imagined.
The particulars of the two last sittings of the
Convention I will give you hereafter.
Florida. —Returns for member of Congress
from eleven counties in Florida, giving Ualtzell
594 votes over Col. Downing, the present mem
ber. It is said that Col. D's. majorities in the
Eastern counties will overbalance this vote, if the
number of votes polled equal those of 1837—the
result, however, is doubtful. It is believed that a
majority of votes has been cast in favor of the
new constitution.
The New York Journal of Commerce says that
three Companies were chartered at the late ses
sion of the York Legislature, for the purpose
of navigating the ocean, viz: the Atlantic Steam
Navigation Company, with a capital of $2,000,-
000; the Ocean Steam Packet Company, with
a capital of the same amount; and the North
American Steam Navigation Company, with a
capital of §2,500,000. It is not known when
any of these Companies will go into operation.
At the elections to be held on Thursday, the
23.1 instant, throughout the State of Virginia,
there are to be elected twenty-one Members »f
Congress, eight Senators, and one hundred and
thirty-four Delegates.
At the election in Indiana, which takes place
in August, seven members of Congress are to bo
chosen.
Extract of a letter received in New Orleans,
dated
Tampico, May 3.
We have just understood that the Central Gov
ernment has issued a decree declaring the port of
Tampico closed to all trade or commerce whatev
er. A copy of the decree in Spanish has been
handed to the Consuls here; but we do not know
what course these consuls will advise their coun
trymen to pursue.
General Moxia is on his march to Pcubla and
Mexico.
The government army under Dustamcnte, it is
said, has taken up its march from Victoria for
I this place. Their arrival here may be looked for
I in Ioorlsdays. The federal force here is small,
and they arc in want of money. There is no tel
ling how things will turn out.
From the New Orleans ISee, May 13.
Tennessee. —The prospects of the wings in
this large and gallant state are most cheering.
In the whig districts, ten in number, every sign
looks promising. Several of the candidates will
walk over the course—others will beat the loco
focos by substantial majorities. In only one or
two do the Van Huron men entertain a faint hope
of victory. On the other hand, in the three loco
foco districts, the wings have manifested the most
determined opposition, and nothing short of the
most active ctforts on the part of the administra
tion leaders will prevent a change. The party
may possibly succeed in holding on to one or two
of the delegation out of the thirteen, and even
this, as we learn, will not be effected without the
strongest and most indefatigable exertion.
Governor Cannon, the present whig executive
and candidate for re-election, is winning ‘‘golden
. 'opinions” in his tour throughout the state. The
honesty and plain sense of the Tennesseeans baf
| ile even Colonel Polk’s political sagacity and ma
-1 noeuvering. The popularity of the latter in west
I Tennessee, will probably secure him a number ot
| partisans, and the district lately represented by
I him in Congress, will no doubt poll him a heavy
majority—but nothing within the limits of pro
bability can prevent the success of Mr. Cannon
by a majority of from five to fifteen thousand
votes.
From the Montreal Herald.
Court Martial. —The finding of the court
martial in the case of Mott has been confirmed
bv his Excellency the commander of the forces.
By it, the prisoner is found guilty of the first,
second, and fourth charges preferred against him,
viz: Ist. for levying war against Her Majesty’s
Government. 2d. for aiding and assisting in the
rebellion, and 4th. for being present at, and abet
ting in the murder of Robert M’lntyre, a loyal
volunteer, who was killed at the battle of Lacolle.
lie is acquitted of the third charge, that of murder.
With this trial, the court finishes its labours,
after a session of five months and a half, during
which 110 prisoners have been tried, of whom
have been executed 12; acquitted 9. The re
mainder are now in jail, under sentence of death.
Cask of Samuel L. Governkub.—The
j District Attorney opened this case on the part of
i the Government by stating that the difficulty had
/ arisen out of a dillcrenee between the accounts
' | of the department at Washington and the defend-
I ant, the late Post Master at New York, who was
v- . \
iraiAsi lo IfeyV if-
j Tucsday says:
i A suit was instituted against the defendant in
1 1837, and the balance at this lime claimed by the
! government was between >183,0110. The allow
| ance claimed ♦y the defendant reduced the bal
‘ anco to SIuG,SGG 59. From this was to be de
ducted of a charge SGOOG which not being made
until after the bill of particulars had been furnish
ed, was ordered by the court to be stricken out,
leaving a balance due the government of §100,560
39.
The account involves transactions during the
whole period the defendant was in oll’ice; and al
though they were confined exclusively to receipts
and disbursements, yet the defendant frequently
called upon from time to time, as Post Master, to
act as agent for the department, rendered other
aceounts unnecessary.
In the years 1838 and ’34, the Post Office be
came greatly embarrassed, and was compelled to
borrow large sums of money to defray the ex
penses of the department, and the defendant be
ing was called upon to assist. Several transac
tions of that kind took place, which rendered
the account more complicated. Some of the mo
ney thus raised came into defendant’s hands, and
was diidfursed byjiim under the direction of the
department., t ,Thcsc receipts and disbursements
were charged and-ere3tted to him, which made
another account. The parties also labored under
some difficulty in consequence of the great fire
in this city, at which many of the documents
were destroyed.—Also, some of the books and
papers belonging to the department were deslroy
. ed by the burning of the public buildings at
Washington; and to these causes might probably
be ascribed the existence of the difference in their
accounts.
Fhom Mexico. — The brig Comet arrived yes
terday from Vera Cruz, which place she left on
the 2d inst. Adndral Baudin with the remainder
of the French fleet, left Vera Cruz on the 28th
ult. 'The federal troops with Cen. Mejia were in
the neighborhood of Tuspan. There were no
rumorsof any action having taken place between
the federal and government troops.— N. (J. lice.
May 13.
Mautiniu.ce. —The brig Edward arrived here
yesterday in twenty days from Martinique. The
news which she brings, however, is not of much
interest. Affairs in st. Pierre were in a very de
plorable condition; sugar had no price, and sales
were very hard to effect. The people were ac
tively engaged in building wooden houses, to sup
ply the place of those which were destroyed by
the recent earthquake.— N. O. liec, May 13.
Thk National Expenses in France.— Mr.
Walsh furnishes some interesting information on
this head in one of his recent letters. He says:
Some of the political arithmeticians of Paris,
Legitimist on one side, and Liberal on the other,
haye earnestly disputed which of the two gov
ernments —that of the B.WjrttJmßqfJwation or
I that of the Revolution of July,—was the most
costly to France from year to year. The details
furnished by both show how much has been
uniformly extorted from the people beyond and
against the exigences of their own welfare. It is
an extraordinary and appalling recrimination, of
which a critical third parly might take signal ad
vantage. Millcret, in his La France Depuis 1830,
proves that the sums levied on France by the Res
toration, in the sixteen years of its reign, (extra
ordinary charges independent of the regular and
ordinary budgets,) amounted altogether to the im
mense cipher of two thousand seven hundred and
thirty-four millions five hundred and thirty thou
sand francs. It is proved besides, that the incal
culable contributions paid from the pockets of the
people to the government of Napoleon, were far
from being repaid by those which he forced from
other nations; that France was not in the small
est degree enriched by the foreign spoliations
of the conqueror.
The ordinary budget now presented is the lar
gest which the country has ever known, but it is
not likely that extraordinary demands (except for
internal improvement) will be made, unless a
general war should take place. The appropria
tions of 1837 and 1838, for public works were
very considerable, and to execute what it is now
admitted the Government alone can accomplish,
much more will be needed : —A heavy contingent
is inevitable to enable the Companies that have
undertaken the three great lines of railroad, to
achieve their enterprise.
According to the “Journal des Debats,” the
sum expended in 1837, by the local treasuries
in the interior, on the departmental and cross
roads, was seventy millions, and in 1838, nine
ty millions of francs. You may judge from this
sample what is the weight of the whole local tax
ation.
Bank Notes in New Youk. — It is stated
•that Now York docs not pay less than $3,000,000,
jlfej annum, discount, on uncurrent money. A
New York correspondent of the Boston Allas,
has quite a chapter in relation to the Banks and
money matters of New Aork. The writer con
tends that the great evil which alilicts our mone
tary system, since the destruction ol the National
Bank, is the impunity with which every Institu
tion does what is right in its He adds:
Os course, the most adventurous and unscru
pulous nearly monopolise the circulation, leaving
the community almost destitute of the notes of
the soundest and disercctest Banks. This evil is
a flagrant one. At this moment nine-tenths of
the Circulating Medium of New York is “un
current,” —that is, not received at our Banks,
and only converted into bankable funds at a loss
of one half to two or three per cent.—No man
discounts it but when he must; and in two hours
thereafter it is. lent out by the broker to some
needy dealer or mechanic, who gives a check to
pay “current” for it to-morrow or next day.
! Thus it is again thrown into circulation, to travel
its hurried round, until it accumulates in the
1 hands of a grocer or other business man who has
1 a note to pay, when it is ground over again, and
starts on a now round.
t The Baltimore Sun relates an amusing anec"
( dote of a stranger of genteel appearance and ad
, dress who lately made his entry into Baltimore
, in the character of a Western merchant, and gave
orders to several of the wholesale dealers for mer
, chandisc to large amounts: While on their part,
) they supposing that they had a customer worth
nursing, treated him with extraordinary attention
and hospitality, invited him to dinner and supper
parties, feasted him upon every kind of luxury in
, and out of season, and drove him about in their
j carriages to every place worth s eing. At the
end of a week the merchant suddenly became in
visible; audit turned out that he was nothing
’ but a loafing journeyman tailor, who had resort
’ ed to this expedient to enjoy the luxury of a
* princely living for a season, free of cost.—Nur
' folk Herald.
I
JHE WAY THEY “ 1)0 THINGS AT THE West.
—The St. Louis Commercial Bulletin announces
‘ the marriage of a Mr. Ira Butler, of Connecticut,
’ to Miss Mary Curry, of Jefferson county, Tenn.,
| after a protracted courtship of thirty-eight minutes,
. during which the following scene passed between
them. They first saw each other in church, and
their eyes meeting, Mr. Butler nodded knowing
ly to Miss Curry, who returned the signal. They
‘ met at the door—l’m a nodder, said the gentle
man, I’m a noddee, replied the lady. Here’s the
church, said the gentleman—there’s the priest, re
plied the lady—how lovely those little children
look, said the gentleman. The lady began to
count her fingers. I’m not married, said the gen
| tlemah, arc you ! no, replied the lady—l wish
said she—looking at the parson—that you were
married 1 interrupted the gentleman, then marry
me. Just as you please, said the lady. And
suiting the action to the word, their marriage
closed the exercises of the day.—xV. Y. Sun.
There is a manufactory of pins at Derby in
Connecticut, which, it is said, takes the shine otf
from all the pewter button manufactories in that
Stale, and will make a new chapter for the clock
pedlers. Hitherto John Hull has had nearly a
monopoly of the pin business; and his patient
subjects were, content to make pin heads for six
ponse per diem snd go supperlcss to bed. This
Derby manufactory saves more than nine tenths
ol the labor, and makes belter pins—inasmuch
as the heads are formed out of the same wire with
the pin, and therefore cannot come oft'. Instead
ol seeing a stalwart John Bull moving the wire
with his clumsy fingers, we have a curious ma
chinery by which the pins arc manufactured by
one process from the wire, faster than one person
can count them.— Huston Times.
American Tract Socxety.— The fourteenth
annual teport states that during the year jnew
publications have been stereotyped, making the
whole number of the society’s publications 941,
of width 58 arc volumes. In addition to these,
673 works, including 50 volumes, have been ap
proved for publication abroad. Os some tracts
more than 100,000 copies have been printed with
in the year; and of one 184,000 copies. Total
printed during the year, 350,000 volumes—3,os7,
000 publication—l34,744,ooo pages.
Singular Sentence. —Last week a man
named Nicholas I'. Robinson, was convicted at
W ilmington, N. C., of manslaughctr, and Judge
Papons, after denying his prayer for “ the benefit
of clergy,” passed upon him the following singu
lar sentence.
“ That the prisoner be taken to the jail whence
became, be brought into court at 4 o’clock, P.
M., he branded on the brawn of the left thumb
with the letter M., and that he be confined in jail
six months. It appearing to the satisfaction of
the Court that he is a lawless and dangerous
man—the circumstances of the trial of a highly
aggravated character, amounting in the opinion
of the Court, to murder—ordered that lie enter
into recognizance with two good and sufficient
securities in the sum of §5OO each, for his good
behavior for five years from the expiration of his
imp isoninent. And that should he remain in
the state at the expiration of five years, he shall
then come into Court at the first term of the
Court for this county, and make his recognizance
null and void, and stand committed until costs are
paid.”
Boxes of a Mastodon.— Our reulers will
recollect of reading some time last summer of tho
discovery ol the bones of a gigantic animal, in
Crawford counly, Ohio. These bones are now
in this city, and will he exhibited in all the pre
sent week at Concert Hall, Penn street. The
bones ot the head, including a number of grinders
arc in a remarkable state of preservation and
some faint idea of what the living animal was,
may he formed, when we state that the scull and
under jaw are 3 feet 3 inches in length and weight
16(1 lbs. the lower jaw 77 lbs—the whole head
337 lbs. of dry bones! There arc many other
bones—legs, ribs, vertibra;, &c. all in a good state
of preservation.— Pittsburg Advertiser,
The Last Labor Sating Resort. —The
New Orleans Times gays of the President of the
‘ Lazy Club” in that city, that he carries a kitten
under each arm to breathe tor him. Wonder
how he gets along with his eating 1 One of the
most promising of the Club’s members was lately
expelled for expressing the opinion that he
thought it allowable to run down hill !
The Nantucket Inquirer publishes the follow
ing article from a London periodical of 1783, as
corroborative evidence of an often asserted fact,
that the first vessel which displayed our National
flag on the waters of Great Britain, was a Nan
tucket ship:
The Thirteen Strifes. —The ship Bedford,
captain Moores, belonging to Massachusetts, ar
rived in the Downs the 3d of February, passed
Gravesend the 4th, and was reported at the cus
tom house the 6th instant. She was not allowed
regular entry until some consultation had taken
place between the commissioners of the customs
and the lords of counsel, on account of the many
acts of parliament yet in force against the rebels
in America. She is loaded with 487 huts of whale
oil, is American built, manned wholly by Ameri
can seamen, wears the rebel colors, and belongs
to the island of Nantucket, in Massachusetts
This is the first vessel which displayed the thir
teen rebellious stripes of America in any British
/port. The vessel is at Horsleydown, a little be
low the Tower, and is intended immediately to
return to New England.
An Extraordinary Charge. —The New
York American mentions a striking instance of
the uncertain tenure of earthly goods in a case
lately reported in the London papers. It was a
prosecution for perjury, in the course of which
it was given in evidence, that the prosecutrix,
Lady Parker, becoming security for her sister,
Lady Lake, for the sum of £19,000, in conse
quence of legal proceedings for its recovery, be
came an inmate of the King's Bench Prison,
where she officiated as cook to the more wealthy
portion of the prisoners.
03= The Gentlemen invited to attend the Tar
get Shooting of the Augusta Artillery Guards this
day, are requested to be at the Steam Boat Compa'
ny’s Wharf, before nine o'clock , at which hour the
corps will take the boat.
John N. Raiford,^
Wm. G. Mealing, {-Committee.
James M. Papk, J
Augusta, May 15th,1839.
iKrNOTICE —Augusta Artillery Target Firing.
—An Omnibus will leave the U. S. Hotel, a
10 o’clock, for the Sand Bar Ferry, if a sufficient
number of passengers offer. It
OC/* MR- BUCKINGHAM being unexpectedly
detained on his road from the south, will most
likely not reach Augusta until this evening, in
which case his Lectures will commence on Monday
evening, May the 30th ; but ot this due notice will
be given.
may 18 j t
J-J I he 7oung Ladies of the Athenmum design
holding a FAIR on Tuesday, the 21st May, above
the dry goods store of Messrs. McKee & Dow, No.
369 Broad street. Sales to commence at 4 o’clock,
r. m. Tho public are respectfully invited to attend,
may 16
(&'RESIDENT DENTIST..— Dr. Monroe’
operating rooms, second door from Broad trect, o
Mclntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist office
march 13
Cj’ BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—' The next
regular meeting of this society will take place a
the Presbyterian Lecture Room, on Friday evenin
next. C. F. STURGIS, Secr’v.
may 15