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WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY -MORNING AUGUST »4 1811 ' ' ‘ ' Vox.. lII.—No. 97. tub chroxicijE and sentinel • PUBLISHED, daily, tri-weekly, and weekly, At No. Broad-street. terms: Daily paper. Ton Dollars per annum, In advance. Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or Seven at the end of the year. Weekly pap-r, Three Dollars in advance,or Four at the end of year. CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23. (Lj’ The steam ship Liverpool had not ar rived at New-York on Saturday, at 4 o’clock, p. m. The News and the Market. The New York Journal of Commerce of Sat urday, 2 P. M. says:— The news to-day has induced holders of cotton in general to withdraw. They will not sell as low as yesterday. Stocks improve. 11. S. Bank sold at the Board at a decline, hut afterwards 108 J was offered. Gennessce flour at $6,37. Sales— Ohio $6,12 and small parcels at $6,25. The New York American of Saturday after noon, says : Things looked brighter to day at the Stock Ex change—there was a better feeling and more bu siness—and prices fully' sustained irom those oj yesterday, except Bank of the U. S, Stock which fell a little. The St. Louis Bulletin mentions General John B. Clark, as the Whig candidate for Governor of that State. The Whigs of Maine have again nominated Edward Kent as their candidate for Governor. John Quincy Adams recommends that the in terest of the Smithsonian Bequest, for seven years should be devoted to the establishment of a Na. tional Astronomical Observatory. Illinois Canal Fund .—The Springfield Journal says :—“ We have understood that the second instalment of 100,000 dollars from the Bank of the United States, has reached the branch (|at Chicago—saving 4,000 dollars, which Gov. Carlins Commissioner, the lion. Senator Young transferred to his own pockets for pin money for himself and family on their trip to Europe ! ! ! The New York Star says “Owing to the de struction of the Mulberry plantings last year, and the unpleasant fact that many of them were not Mulberry, the demand now is very great, and the prices rapidly advancing beyond fifty cents a piece. More Sun-TiiEAScnnsM. —The Rushville, Illinois. Phoenix, of the 27th ult., says'The postmaster at Huntsville, we learn this morning i has been arrested upon the charge ol purloining from the mail, goods and chattels which did not rightfully belong to his office. Further comment is unnecessary. From the Natiuhal Intelligencer. To the Cotton Planters of the Southern States: Fellow-Citizens :—You arc on the eve of a very extraordinary revulsion in the financial couorns of vour section of our country, which c am ,ot fail to act on other portions of the Union w;th intense severity. With a crop exhibiting a deficiency of SUO.OJU bales, the surplus in Eu rope is likely to he nevertheless larger on the Ist of January next, than it was on the first of the present year. Reclamation* to the extent of ten or fifteen millions are likely to fall on our com mercial enterprise and capitatal, which must lie provided for before the Ist of March next ensu ing which are likely to produce extensive bank ruptcies, and a suspension of specie payments on the part of our hanks. Should the surplus in England and on the Continent be met by extensive shipments from this country early in the ensuing winter, not on ly thcsurplus of the crop of 1838 will he sacrific ed, hut that of the present year depressed to six or eight cents. These consequences, with the universal distress that will spread thr mghout the country, will complete the picture of the prostra tion ol the prosperity of our country. It will be asked, may not these calamities be either averted or essentially mitigated 1 We be lieve they may. by a system ol hrmness, sagacity, and wise precaution. The true policy of the country is to keep the cotton crops back from for eign shipment until the Ist January next. The consequence will be, that the surplus of the Ist year’s crop will he worked off without serious loss, and the crop of the present will come to a market not overstocked in excess, and move of at fair remunerating prices. The interests of the present holders of cotton and growers are alto gether identical. But this result, combined with the ability of consignees in Europe to hold can on lv bo consumated by an organization which has been recently suggested in the Cotton Circu lar which is avouched by Southern planters of the’highest personal respectability in the city of of the South! Come forth and sustain the proposed Macon Convention.— Elect delegates from every part of the cotton States to attend. The hanks have been invited , 0 SL .|id their representatives. Much may be done to improve the exchanges and to invigorate the currency of the country. If this Convention k was recommended by no other consideration, this * would give it a deep and pervading interest. The signers of the Circular have no such ab surd and wicked idea as to propose to give ta the country an irredeemable spurious post note cir culation. but a medium that shall circulate, with the mere uilference of interest on time, from one portion of the Union to the other. F ore.gn com bma'iun, and the unfavorable action ot the Bank of England, threaten our great staple with utter prostration. Toe London Times, tbeorgano l this great engine, announces, on the -d ol July, that the restrictive measures of theßank ot Eng land ‘are aimed alibis commodity [co tm , and he speculations in it.” and an officer c mnected Bank of England has asserted “thai cotton is too high and must be brought down 21 i»« !■■■! t i 'nnw !■■■■■■ imuu_~.li- —'im ■ gc mrnmmmmmm per cent. more.” Those are serious facts ; look i to them !! Let the talent, enterprise, and capital of the South rally at Macon and all will yet he safe.— Come forth, then, men of the South, and save the highest interests of your country from the ruthless and malevolent blight which threatens to r blast them. Meet on the 22d of October at Ma con. and rescue from annihilation the most im t portant branch of your industry with which Clod has blessed our highly favored country. A COTTON PLANTER. P. 8. The papers South of the Potomac will please publish the above. An Awful Fire. ONE HUNDRED AND THIUTT-TWO HOUSES I>E STHUTRII. An English paper (the Taunton Courier) re ceived hy the last arrival at New \ ork, and kind ly forwarded hy our attentive friend, furnishes the particulars of an awful and destructive fire, by which the town of Callumpton, Devonshire, was recently visited. We condense the chief particu lars :—Philadelphia Inquirer. n “At nearly one o’clock in the morning flames were observed issuing from the roof of a thatched tenement on the western side of the principal k street, in the lower part of the town, which com i municated with desolating activity to the contigu ous habitations, most of which being also thatch ed, were, owing to the influence of a brisk wester ly wind, consumed with fearful rapidity. " The fire then extended across the principal street, where it occasioned the destruction of a ,- great number of shops and dwellings ; the un fortunate inmates of which were glad to escape 1 without being able to save, in many instances, •f even the least portion of their goods or property, h The flames then reverted to the opposite side of the street, and soon reduced to ashes a long line of cottages and houses, many of the latter being occupied by respectable individuals. Great cx n ertinn was used to stem the pi ogress of the de ,f vounng element; the paiish engine was, as usually is found to he the case in provincial sta tions, quite inadequate for useful service ; but one from the neigbouring village of Bradninch, aided d by the arrival of the lire engines from Tiverton, assisted in combating the destructive course of the flames. The scenes of distress attendant on this occasion bullies description, but may in * some degree he imagined, when we state that s 132 houses and cottages, many ol them occu pied hy respectable tradesmen, have been re duced to ashes. The account concludes: The authorities of the town exerted themselves I with laudable solicitude in rescuing the property e and providing for the unfortunate owners. The Bank is uninjured, although the flames contigu ous to it spread fearfully around it. The whole 1 of New street is destroyed, and a melancholy chasm now presents itself where a few days ago , were to he found the comfortable abodes of a mul titude of individuals, many of whom hy this ca r lamity have been made to recognize no canopy beneath which to find a shelter hut that of hea ven. and no resource but in the hearts of the charitable. One life only has been lost on this j sad occasion, and that hy the sudden prostration of a wall. A large portion of the property de -1 stroyed is not insured. 3 * Large Cocoonery. —The following interest ing description of a visit to the Highfield Cocoo nery. near Philadelphia, owned hy Philip Phys ’ ic. Esq., is given by the Philadelphia U. S. Ga e zette : “The building (says the editor) is 120 feet ’ long, and 30 feel wide, three stoics high. The ’ basement contains a steam engine for propelling 1 machinery, a repository for mulberry leaves where t they are kept dry without withering, and an apartment for culinary purposes. In the upper stories, there are the hatching room, in which 35,000 worms were hatched in one morning, and the feeding room, in which the spinning was i done, an immense room supplied with shelves, hurdles, galleries, ranges of shelves on rail-ways, f and locomotive steps for reaching the different I hurdles. In this great room there are feeding , one million four hundred thousand worms. Near , the building was growing four hundred thousand j Mullicaulis trees. On the top of the house was a reservoir of water, from which pipes descend to t every room. The water is pumped from a well s in the yard, and conveyed to the house top, a dis , tance of 63 feet, hy dog power /” 3 The Ohio.— No river in the word rolls for a thousand miles a current so smooth and peace ful. Its tributaries wind through as many val , leys in ten different States. The Tennessee, the first in size, having passed a navigable course > through three Stales, for more than one thousand , miles, falls into the Ohio river fifty miles above its mouth ; the Cumberland, five hundred and seventy miles—being navigable for steamboats to c Nashville, and for keel-boats three hundred miles e further; the Wabash,two hundred miles; Green 5 river, two hundred and eighty miles from the . mouth of the Ohio river—navigable two bund ed miles, and two hundred yards wide at its mouth; b the Kentucky, five hundred and four miles—na vigable one hundred and fifty miles; Great Mi ami. four hundred and eighty two miles—naviga -3 blc sixty-four miles to the Salines, where annual ly is made from five to seven hundred bushels of s salt; the Great Muskingum, nine hundred and t fifty miles. These are the principal auxiliaries s which give substance and strength to the Ohio. 1 In its course of more than a thousand miles it t washes six states, and with its tributaries has B more than five thousand miles of navigable wa ters. Its mean width is six hundred yards, with 3 the exception of its lowest fifty miles, the aver -3 age width of which is one thousand yards. The 3 average rapidity of its current is three miles an hour. It rises fifty or more feet. At low water ,f its surface at Cincinnati is supposed to be one f hundred and thirty feet below the level of Lake Erie, and four hundred and thirty above the tide 3 water of the Atlantic. Such is ihe Ohio. i Kixo William and the Magistrates of I Leyden. —Last month the burgomaster and sher e iffs of Leyden waited on King William, to in e form him of a misfortune which had just befallen a their city. Their worships informed him that * the municipal collector had absconded with the large sum of 120,000 florins; that, trusting to '- his long tried integrity, and his apparent solven e cy, they had been gradually led to relax their j control over his proceedings; and that his srpecu h i lation was consequently imputable to their own e J blind confidence. They had come, therefore, to i* I inform the King, that with due Dutcli honesty, k they had resolved to bear the loss lieiween them, •t i and to beg that his Majesty would accept their d j resignation of functions which they could not I, 1 with propriety continue to fulfil, after the negli p i gcnce they had so unfortunately displayed. The d King alier mildly animadverting upon their want d of caution, exhorted them to make up for the de it licit as soon as possible, according to their honora b I ble determination, but he declined accepting their v resignations, observing that they rouhl not be tendered and accepted but after the stolen sum s should have been restored to the municipal coders On their return to Leyden, the burgomaster s and his companions agreed to assemble some days f alter, in order to pay into the city’s treasury, their i respective portions of the 120,000 florins. On - the appointed dav 1 one of them arrived somewhat - after the others, and apoligized for his delay by 1 depositing upon the table a rather voluminous letter, and observing he had just received it from an unknown person, who had insisted upon de -1 livering it into his own hands, and declaring he had no explanation to give, had requested the magistrate to open the letter in his presence, and give a receipt for its < ontents. It was a mere en velope containing 120 notes of the Netherlands Bank, each of 100 florins. The magistrates were not long in guessing what exalted benevo lence it was, that thus mysteriously retrieved a disaster which would have fallen heavily upon B more than one of them.— English paper. s Marriage. —The matrimonial covenant is an ordinance of Heaven. Immediately after the creation of man, ‘the Lord God said. It is not I good that man should be alone; I will malic for him a help mate.’ This domestic constitution is 1 a distinguished characteristic of Christianity, is essential to the elevation and happiness of our race. Every young man should, therefore, if possi ble, contemplate being married. It is a Christian duty, as well as a privilege to have a companion to share with you the responsibilities, interests 1 and enjoyments of life. If a man is in circum stances to he married he is usually less useful to society, and perhaps always less happy for re ’ remaining in the single state. That he ‘may ho • perfect and entire wanting nothing,’ he must have a wife. When a man lives single beyond the proper ’ time for being married, there is a prevalent sus picion among the other sox that he is addicted to vice. Ido not know but this judgment is a little ’ severe—for there are some bachelors of unques tionable virtue. But there is a foundation for a I general suspicion of this sort, will hardly be questioned; and the vicious tendency of celibs ’ eyi in communities, are very generally known ' and acknowledged. 1 The time for marrying after the period indiea -1 ted by nataie has arrived, must of course vary * somewhat with circumstances. As u general rule, early marriages arc desirable; but then they should he under one or two conditions, either that ol property inherited, or already acquired, ade quate lo the usual expense, or that of simplicity 3 and frugality in the style of living, suflicient to ’ reduce the expenses within the present earnings. B The latter is always the best. It is the happiest and most virtuous state of society, in which the husband and wife set out early together, make 1 their property together and with peifeet sympa -1 thy of soul graduate all their expenses, plans, calculations, and desires, with referenea to their present means, and to their future and common r interests. Nothing delights me more than to enter the neat little tenement of the young couple, who 1 within perhaps twd or three years, without any 1 resources hut their own knowledge and industry, have joined heart and hand, engaged to share to gether tiic responsibilities, duties, interests, trials and pleasures of life. The industrious wife is . cheerfully employing her own hands in domestic . duties, putting her house in order, or mending . her husband’s clothes, or preparing the dinner, . while perhaps the little darling sits prattling up on the floor, or lies sleeping in the cradle—and t every thing seems preparing to welcome the hap , picst of husbands and the best of fathers, when r he shall come from his toil, to enjoy the sweets of . his little paradise. This is the true domestic , pleasure, the ‘only bliss that survived the fall.’ r Health, contentment, love, abundance and bright , prospects are all here. 1 But it has become a prevalent sentiment, that 4 a man must acquire his fortune before he tnar t rics;—that the wife must have no sympathy, nor , share with him in the pursuit of it, in which most I of the pleasure truly consist; and that young r married people must set out with as large and ex r pensive an establishment, us is becoming those | who have been wedded for twenty years. i This is very unhappy. It fills the community i with bachelors, who are waiting to make their fbr | tunes, endangering virtue and promoting vice; it makes the true economy and de.-igns of the do mestic institution ; and it promotes idleness and inefiicaey among females who arc expecting to be t taken up by a fortune, and passively sustained without any care or concern on their part —and thus many a modern wife becomes, as a gentle , man once remarked, not a ‘helpmate,’ hut a help . eat. There is another unpleasant evil attending . this, especially as it bears pretty severely on the ! fair sex. When bachelors have made their for , tunes and become some forty or fifty years old, . they do not usually take wives of their own age, , but they then abandon those with whom they , have hitherto associated, requite all the pleasures I which their society has afforded them, with utter neglect; they then select for their companions the , young and blooming, and thus leave to their fate . a numerous class of worthy maidens. Great disparity in matrimony is an evil in ma . ny particulars; and what is more unnatural than C to see a young Miss wedded lo a man old enough I to he her father 1 He ought to have sense enough , to know, that unless she is an exeentric charac ter, she never married him for love; and she I ought also know, thatin consenting to marry him, , she in all probability consented to make herself a . wretched slave—to pul herself in the power of , a man mho hud already expended his first and . warmest !o»e upon others; and who, by hissupc , rior age. his matured habits of pleasing himself , and of having his own way, and the self impor r tanee which property gives, was well qualified to 5 act the part of the tyrant, rather than that of the , husband. 3 If a young man has property, he may of course marry at a suitable age, and adopt the style of living, which is justified by his means. But if , he it destitute of property, he has three alterna tives, and he can take his choice between them. Selecting a prudent industrious person for his , w 'f e . he may marry young and live in a style of simplicity adapted to his income ; or he can wait . ''ll he has acquired a property, so as to he able to , . support a family in the more modern and fashion . el’le s 'yle tor he can marry at any rate, launch r fearlessly out into all the expenses of a fushiona _ hie establishment, and run his chance of bringing , his wi, e and children to want. The first is the j best, the second is the next, and the third is bad enough.— Winds low. » r Winchester and Potomac Kail Road. It . t is staled in the report lately made by President - Bruce at the annual meeting of Stockholders of 8 'bis Railroad, that in 1836 the number of barrels '■ t ot flour transported on the road previous to ' - | August, was 15.000. In 1837, it was increased '• - j to 24,000 ; in 1838 it was 42.000 ; and this vear ; r i it was 108,000. —Baltimore Chronicle. Colonkl Juiinbos —The Madisonian says: ‘•1 he friends ot Col. Johnson, in this eily, (now tliat tilt' elections (roin the \V esl are supposed to have resulted somewhat in favor of Van Huron,) confidently assert that he is to he the parly can didate for the Vice Presidency. They do not scruple to say that it was the understanding with the leaders, that if the Colonel could secure a part ol Kentucky, and in any way influence a ■change in Indiana, that he was to be continued •on the ticket.” Noslk GuNKnnsiTT.—At a meeting of an association of a Methodist Episcopal Church in the South, preparatory tocclehruling the Centen nial anniversary of Methodism, and for the pur pose of estah ishmg a fund, the interest of which, a part is to he applied to the support of superanu ated ministers, their widows and orphans, and the balance to the support of Missionaries, and the cause of education. Col. Win. C. Preston, whig member of the U. S. Senate, Irom South Caroli na. being one of the audience, rose in the con gregation and briefly staled that he did not belong t> the Methodist Chinch, neither did any of his family, nor did he expert they ever would, hut added that ho considered himself under peculiar obligations In that branch of the Christian church, it Ix-ing mainly through the instrumentality of his grandmother, who was a sister of Patrick Henry, and a member of the Methodist church, and had the charge of his education, that he oc cupied the station he now held in the United States, and then added—Mr. Secret ary put my name down for iink tiiousan n holla us!! which was promptly done, and ns promptly paid. —Getlysburgh Star. The New York Journal of Commerce has a long article under the editorial head on the subject of “immigrants,” in which the writer has taken great pains to show the number of foreigners that have arrived in this country within twenty years. From the data here given it would seem that, commencing with the year 1819, there arrived at thepwt of New Y'ork previous to 1829,93,153 and between 1828 and 1838, 392,078, making in all 486,030 passengers. The writer calculates that, including the large seaports, the number of arrivals within the last ten years has been 800,- 000, and, ns he thinks, within the last twenty years not exceeding one million. Os these, be supposes about one half to have been Irish and one third Germans, and therefore that not more than half a million of the last named people have arrived within twenty years. The calculation was made in consequence of asnpposi ion on the part of a correspondent that the number of Ger mans in this country amounts to 5,000,000, or 6,000,000, more than one half of whom have ar rived within the last ten years. He the number what it may, the Germans are, in the main, a most valuable population.— Bull. American. We have copied the following memoir in regard rco the early history of this place, from the origin al plan of Pintado, now hungup in the City Hall. Pintado was for many years Surveyor General of West Florida, and was a man remarkable for his accuracy and research.—The memoir may he re lied on as strictly correct :— Pensacola Gaz. Chromic us.—The Bay of Pensacola was discovered liy Panpilu de Nu.,aci, i,, mar.. Va rious adventures gave it different names—ns Port of Ynchuse. Wain! Mary’s Hay, but that of Pan zaeola, or rather Pensacola, which has prevailed, was the true name among the Indians or natives of the country. —The first establishment was made in it by the Spaniards, in 1696 and its first Governor wat Don Andrew Arivalu, who made a small enclosure, picketing or fort, called Fort St ■Charles, nml a Church, on the broken ground [Barancas] at the entrance of the port. The French took Pensacola in 1719. the Spaniards re-took it, and the French again took it in tin l same year, and kept it until 1732, when it was restored to Spain. The Spaniards in the mean time removed to St. Joseph’s Hay, and in 1726, formed a small town at the west end of the island of St. Rosa, about the present ruined fort, which was originally made by them, although improved afterwards by the English General Haldemond. The establishment remained there until 1754, when being partly inundated, the town was re moved to the place which it now occupies. It was ceded to the English in 1763, and they laid off the town with regularity in 1765. It surren dered to the Spanish arms in 1781, and since then H. C. M. has possessed it. On the 7th Novem ber of the present year, the American army, un der the command of Major General Andrew Jack son, entered into said town, and in the evening of the same day and morning of the Bth, the English in the Bay robbed and destroyed the forts of St. Charles of Haraneas and St. Rosa. Pensacola, 9th December, 1814.” We haveseen in the newspapers a great many foolish statements concerning the Queen ofEn gland’s household. The following is a list of the ladies about her Majesty’s person, with the amount respectively of their salaries, which we publish for the information of those who arc interested in surh matters.— Nat. Gaz. Principal Lady of the Bedchamber, Marchion ess or Normandy, 500/. Ladies of Hie Bedchamber —Marchiones of Breadalhane 500/. Marchioness of Tavistock 500/; Countess of Charlemonl 500/; Countess of Bur lington 500/; Lady Portman 500; Lady Littleton 500/; Lady Barham 500/. Maids of Honor —Hon. 11. Pitt, 300/; Hon. M. Dillon, 300/; Hon. Miss Cocks, 300/; Hon. Miss Cavendish, 300/; Hon. M. Paget, 300/; Miss Murray, 300/; Miss Lister, 300/; Miss Spring Rice 300/. Bedchamber Women —Lady C. Barrington, 300/; Lady H. Clive, 300/; Lady C. Copely, 300/. Viscountess Forbes, 300/; Hon. Mrs. Brand,3oo/; Lady Gardner, 300/; Hon. Mrs. J. Campbell, 300/. Total, 8,500/. sterling. Give us the New Hampshire Argus for esprit du corps —there is no mistake about it—here is a sample : “The man who will strap his razor on his biblc and wipe it on his newspaper is neither a Chris tian nor a patriot, and deserves to be strung with out benefit of clergy, or the sympathy of the corps editorial—yet we ha'e seen an individual do that same who made pretensions to both godliness and patriotism.” AnrKßTisTso Flour —At what is called a “Protiacted Religious Meeting,” held in a neigh boring city, Brother W , a staid, respecta ble man, engaged in the flour business, rose to exhort. Unsaid—“ Brethren and sisters,it isour duty to attend immediately to the ensuring of our salvation, and in order to do this we must believe in the Scriptures. Brethren, I fully believe in them, as fully as I do that I shall receive for sale to-morrow, 200 barrels Howard street flour, and very good flour it will be. loo." At this mo ment the good old parson present, rose and said "tut, tut, brother W , do not nilverliscyour flour here, if you please.” i Fiumthe Jucknn (La.) Republican, August 10. 1 li»CAL Nkw»,— Rain every day—Faronhoit's ; t manometer too short to measure the heat—and the Musquitors !—■“ cousin ! cousin ! cousin ! 1 s,n K| sing! sing!’—Zounds! they’re enough | to ilrnii a follow mod ! There was a small hole mom bar the noisy little imps poured through ! it like an army through the breach of a beleaguer ed lortress— cleared cm’ out again, and pasted a Intel paper over the spot ns a make-shill—no go, that they were through it as merrily as a troop o young niggers 011 a Irolie in less than no time, Mane a second clearance—gathered the dilipidn t( ‘ u K l lnt 111,0 something like a pucker, and took a turn round it with pack-thread, after which slept. N't our Devil to work in the morning, killing oIV such ns were hanging hy the head, like herrings in u gill-net, in the meshes ol the har. Devil lies a little at times, hut suva he butchered sixty-five dozen, h.txer Stocks i\ Walt, Street. —Slate °f Trade. —The N. \. Literary Gazette has the following humorous remarks in relation to some of th e fancy stocks of that city. Dealers in Hardware say they never found things as hard as now ; that, tinplates arc fiat, . lend heavy, iron dull, spades not trumps, and more rakes in the market than inquired after; brass, is, however, in demand for politicians; brads are also in request, lint holders cannot he got ta fork them out. Nails won’t go hy pus h ing, ami have to be driven, i'he Timber trade is pining, and holders have to rest upon their oars to stave oil the pressure. There is no spirit in the Hum trade, and hold ers ot \ inegar look sour; Champagne, however, is brisk. 1 Rhuhark and Senna are quite drugs, hut there is a consumption of Brimstone for matches; ma -1 ny having lately been made. Hold ers of Indigo look blue, hut those deep read are not green enough to think that a symp tom of the trade is dying. Starch is stiffening, and Paper is stationary. The Grocers have got along pretty gingcily, but some, having tasted spice at times have be -1 come peppery. There is no life in dead Hogs, but some ani mation in old Cheese. Bills of Exchange are wanted; those which have crossed the Atlantic twice are inquired af ter. PILLARS FOB THE New VoBK EXCHANGE. —These immense columns, eighteen in number, arc nearly completed at the quarries in Quincy. They are the largest that have ever been obtain ed ; each weighing about thirty-three lorn. — They arc tinted, and finished in the most perfect manner. Nothing can surpass the beauty of the carved capitals. The work is equal to chiselled marble. The first of the columns will he moved this day, from the quarries to Long wharf, at Quincy Point, a distance of three or four miles. The carriage which has been built for the pur pose, is truly a solid affair. It weighs between cighland nine tons, and cost fifteen hundred dol lars. Seventy oxen are to he employed in drnw ■ in the load. It will he passing through Quiney during the afternoon; and those who have Ids -1 ure can hardly spend the time more agreeably i 11,,,, liy riding nut, ami vl f wit if* il« |si Uftjrt. nrv. Cost of lire pillars four thousand dollars each. • —Huston Transcript. A Patron. —The Steubenville Herald says: ’ —“A subscriber who has been patronizing us for nearly ten years without paying, and whose 1 lovely wife, not longsmee, brooms! icked ourcol lector out of the house for presenting the bill, wanted to know of us, last week, why we stop ped bis paper.” A fire at Cincinnati on the 13th inst. destroy ed the upper stories of two hrek buildings in Cov ington, Ky.— Phil. World. Did our friend of the World ever hear of the dozen brick buildings destroyed in New Yorkhy the fire in Mobile,— Cin . Republican, Or of the dose of Peters’ pills the man took for the fever and ~gno which cured a brother ol his, living on the next block, of a chronic rheumatism] — Picayune. Steamboat statistics. — la the United Kingdom of Great Britain and in its dependen cies, there were at the commencement of the pre sent year 810 steamers, with an aggregate of 157,840 tons and 03,250 horse power. This is exclusive of government steamers. 'J he number of steamboats in the United Slates about the same time, was 800, with an aggregate tonnage ot 160,000, and 57,019 horse power. Within the last ten years there have been 92 accidents to British steamers, with the loss of 034. In the United States,22B steamboats have met with ac cidents of some kind or other. Whole number of lives lost, about 2000. Noiiony,—Blackwood says that every on’s ex perience must have convinced him that there was no such arrant tascal in existence us Nobody. The fellow is never easy hut when in mischief. Is the street door left on a jar at midnight, a plate chest ransacked, a jewel box stolen or mislaid, a window broken, an orchard robbed, or a slander spread abroad, ten to one Nobody is the guiltv party. Os all offences that are daily committed against society, one half is committed hy that in corrigible scamp. Reasonable decision 'l’he French Col lege of Physicians in Paris, after a long discus sion, and philosophical observations, have at length decided that the cause of ladies’ teeth de caying at an earlier stage of life than those of the other sex, is the continual friction of the tongue upon them. If we do not make a chronological error.it was in the year 1063 that an assembly of philosophical barbers in London, discovered that the reason why the farnale chin is destitute of beard, is on account of the conlinual motion of that part of the face. These are highly im- I portant discoveries, and have rendered unneces- j snry a great deal of warm argumentation and nu- | merous speculative inferences. Watermelons,—The Richmond Compiler I says:—Watermelons are with us as plenty as I blackberries. They are a mere drug; and al- J though not retailed hy the druggists, they haic 1 given a spur to the drag husmess. It is estimat ed that the pestle and mortar make ten per cent. upon all the watermelons sold in market. Consignees per South Carolina Kail Hoad. Hamburg, August 22, 1539. W. H. Turpin, Kerrs & Hope; Rees & Beall; Stovall, Simmons & Co.; Cress Sr Turpin; Antony & Haines; W. flgtlier; W. Ac J. Catlin; Itankin, Hoggs ft Co.; E. J). Cooke; T. H. Plant; Marshall Ac Co.; A. '/,. Hanta, Haviland, Hislcy It Co.; T. DftW- I son; S. Kneeland Ac Son; Snowden Ac Shear; Gould Sc Bulkley; E. Adams; Jeffers 4c Hoiilvvare; T. G. Dickson Sc Co,; J. F, Benson; George Pa.roll; J. P. Hutchinson, iVIAKiM'. IiVA’EfiLIw.KKCE. nt j ~, i Savanwah, August 21. tlfnred— Ship Trenton, Simpler, New York -fV Mdyesterday— Brig Clinton. Lvon.N. York. Snilfri— Ship Trenton, Shapier,New York. , Charleston, August 22. Arrived ycsfcr.hy—Hc lir Susannah, Brooks, i' roa(>nckslmi’^.(Vß.) Cleared (trig Catharine, Rose,New Orleans . n *' a Hiucc, Greenwood, Baltimore; schr Um pire, Southwiek, St. Augustine. “’waeaowiw^unw,nnwnnw, —Mmcm |»« -owmr r»• | |>| C. j* Doctor J. J. WILSON oilers his profes sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity. He will be found at the corner of Centre an, l Icl fair streets. trwlm aug 17 (./ Al GUBTA THEATRE.—The tuhicribei having again become the lessee of the Augusta Theatre, has the honor most respectfully to inform the ladies and gentlemen of Augusta, that he will commence his dramatic season early in October next. It is his intention to present a cojnpanv, possessing the highest order of hiltronic talerit. ’Hie management of the theatre, will devolve per sonally upon the lessee, and every exertion will be made to merit a emiiimiar.ee of the patronage whieh was so liberally bestowed during his former management. WILLIAMC. FORBES. A' l ;-'-* dBt&trwlm SUPPER HOUSE OBf THE GEORGIA RAIL-ROAD FOR SALE. The undersigned having removed from li*j| will Sf ‘" hi» largo Hotel in Craw- J“lM,fordville, situated at the Georgia Jtail- Uoad Depot, on accommodating terms. After No vember next, this will bo the Supper House for the descending daily train, and will be continued per manently as such. Cor further particulars apply to J. F. Mims, residing on the spot. aug 83 trwam H. n. thump son. STRAYED Oft stolen (Wgfe IT'om the residence of Sirs. Dart, c/tJSL-- 14 miles from Augusta, on the Mil ro»d ’ 011 the night of the Cth inst ,a small white PONY, with J* t-'JJ' a l° n K mane and tail, and one glass «*Tk.-*»e«O 0VC) , m(1 lhe | etters s c branded on her ham. Any person delivering said Pony to the subseriherat Mrs. Darts’, or giving such infor mation that I may get her, will be liberally re warded. \VM. 1). BERRY. a “g 88 trwlw [jtOUR months after date, application will be made to the honorable the Inferior court of Burke county, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell all the negroes belonging to the estate of Abram Cook, deceased, of said county. for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate. EDMUND PALMER, Adm’r. August 23,1839. ITtOUR months after date, application will ho made to the honorable the Inferior court of Taliaferro county, when sitting foe ordinary pur poses, for leave to sell tile real cstataof Thomas J. Shackelford, late of said county, deceased, for the bcnclit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. LLOV D \V. SHACKELFORD, Adm’r. August 23, 1839. ADM I \ IST R ATO US’ MALE. ON tlie first Tuesday in November next, agree ab'c to an order from the Inferior court of Taliaferro county, will be sold at the court House door in Crawfordville, Taliaferro county, the lands belonging to the estate of Owen I la lliday, deceased, lying in said county, consisting of oiie thousand acres, more or less ; to be sold in parcels to suit purchasers. Terms made known on the day of sale. A. H. STEPHENS,? . , , A. W. CRIER, Adm rs. August 23, 1839. 171 UR SALE—Seven excellent Road Wagon* .- ; and Gear. Apply to J. A i). MORRISON. july 17 4tw fjj IURNIP SEED. —A quantity of Large Fla t X White Turnip Seed, warranted fresh, for sale at a reduced price by July 8-»wtf HOPKINS, JENNINGS &Co SI I CATION WANTED, by a young man who has had some experience in business, and pos sesses a competent knowledge of Book-keeping and Accounts. Good references can be given. Any person wishing such an assistant will make application to Mr. Robert Lambert, aug 14 w4t* TEN DOLLARS REWARD. RANAWAY from the subscriber, a negro hoy named GLASGOW, between 19 and 20years of age, about feel high, stout built, very dark complexion, with a very thick head of hair. He is supposed to be lurking about Augusta or upon the Sand Hills. The above reward will be paid for his delivery, or His being lodged in any safe jail so that I get Dim. JAS. W. CLARK. au g 10 tnvtf for.-.Jk TO RENT, from the lirst of October next, the two brick Stores next below G. J... jSJiaR- Jessup St Co’s, occupiid by Messrs. G. il. Noble & Co., and Hungerford, Frisbie St Co.— For terois apply to A. N. VEHDERY July 29 swtoct or LEON ?. DUGAS.’ Ml he subscriber oilers for sale his resi dence near the Turknelt Spring. '1 he ,House is very commodious and in good repair the lot of about five acres is well shaded and lias a large garden, which is good at ail seasons’ with an abundant supply of the purest water. Fi om its situation anil advantages, it may bo made one of the most desirable places in the neighborhood of Augusta,fur a winter as well as summer residence. There is also adjoining it about thirty acres of wood land, a part of which would be excellent for cultivation and pasturage. Also, Five Thousand trees of Morns Multi caulis, some of which arc now 9 feet high and 4A inches circumference, from single cuttings p’anted in February last. W. GATLIN. 16 _ trwlm riNHE undersigned continue slotrans art a gen end 1. FACTORAGE AND OMMISSION BUSI NESS, and solicits a continuance of patronage. JOHN C. HOLCOMBE. Charleston, S C., August 19, 1839. swim NOTICE TO CREDITORS. f |NHE subscriber requests ail persons to whom A he is lawfully and justly indebted, cither by note, endorsement, or otherwise, to present the same legally to Messrs. A. J. & 'J'. M. Miller, or to the subscriber, at Augusta, Georgia, on or before the lirst of Octobernext. The ohjcctof theundcr eigned is to ascertain who bo is lawfully and justly indebted to, and to obtain their consent to the sub scriber’s commencing business on his own account, and in his own name, for a term of years, not ex ceeding ten years, and the profits arising out of his business during that period, or before, if be can re alise an amount sufficient to pay off all the said claims against him, that the same will be honora bly delivered up for that purpose, but the same ~ shall not be demanded until the expiration of ten years, unless at the wishes of the uudeisigned M*.- have the same settled previous to the upon by said creditors. It is needless here to state the reason why the subscriber wishes to do busi ness in bis own name, has sufficient causes lias led him now to the present course, of endeavoring to pay all his lawful debts, as he should justly do and not allow himself again to be deceived in busi ness, as this community well knows to have taken place to the serious injury of the subscriber, while acting as a; ent for others. VVM. C. WAV. Augusta, Georgia. July, ISS.9. dj" The Charleston Courier, Augusta Sentinel, and Constitutionalist, and the New York Cornier and Enquirer, will p'ease give the above two inser tions weekly for three months, and forward their bills for payment to the subscriber at Augusta. Ga. aug 2 sw3m W. C. WAV.