this institution, and to whom the State is most indebted, are Abraham Baldwin and James Jackson.-The memory of their names will ever be sweet to genius and the lovers of science.

The Legislature has testified its respect for the memory of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Oglethorpe, and Lafayette, by ornamenting the Capitol with full length portraits of those distinguished individuals.

It is not conceded that he who liberates the bodies of a people from tyranny and oppression, is entitled to more gratitude than he who rescues their minds from the darkness of ignorance; or in other words, the patron of liberty has not greater claims on mankind than the patron of education: Because an ignorant people cannot long retain their freedom, were a wise leader by the prowess of his army to bestow it on them. The alumni of this College will ere long evidence that they have not conceded the point, and that they consider the founder of their Alma mater as worthy of regard as he who may have discovered a country, liberated or governed its inhabitants.

On the Campus, we shall discover, before long, a neat monument erected to perpetuate the memory of Baldwin and Jackson.

Augusta city and cap. Richmond Co., is the second town for size in the State. The Savannah river here has a large bend, so that the town stands on the S. W. bank, 88 miles E. N. E. Milledgeville, 127 N. N. W. Savannah, 140 N. W. Charleston, 83 W. Columbia, 23 S. S. W. Edgefield, C. H., Lat. 33° 33', Long. 5° 18'.-The town is well laid out, the streets are wide, meeting each other at right angles, and ornamented with trees, and many of the houses are spacious and elegant. The public buildings are an elegant City Hall, 120 feet by 60 feet, 3 stories high; a Masonic Hall; a spacious Academy, the main body of which is 45 by 40 feet, with two wings 934 by 32 feet; containing commodious rooms for the Rector and other instructers; Court House, Jail, Theatre, Arsenal, Hospital, Female Asylum, building for Free School, two Markets, four Banks, and seven houses for public worship, viz: 1

for Presbyterians, 1 for Methodists, 1 for Episcopalians, 1 for Baptists, 1 for Roman Catholics, 1 for Unitarians, and 1 for Africans.

The City Hall is a most splendid building, and a beautiful ornament to the city; the cost was $100,000. The houses of worship for the Baptists, Methodists, and Unitarians, are on Greene street; the Presbyterian, which has an excellent clock, on Telfair street, and the Episcopalian near the Bridge.

The Methodist house was built about 1805, Presbyterian 1808 or 9; Catholic about 1815; Episcopal about 1820; Baptist 1820; Unitarian 1828.

Among the benevolent institutions of Augusta ought not to be forgotten its "Poor School," which has been supported a number of years by private liberality, and has now one hundred pupils. Lately it has become a fortunate legatee: Dr. Anderson Watkins, well known as a gentleman of great benevolence, has bequeathed to it $5,000, and Mr. Campbell a similar sum.

In the Academy are seventy pupils. The salary of the Rector is $1,500, and that of the English teacher $1,000. A branch of the Academy is located at the Sand-hills, and the salary of its teacher is $200, besides the tuition money. The annual income of the Academy is more than $4,000, arising from rents, tuition money, &c.

The United States and Planter's Hotel, Globe, and Eagle and Phoenix, are all splendid establishments for entertainment.

Augusta is a place of much trade. More than 150,000 bags of cotton are annually deposited here, and thence carried down the river to Savannah and Charleston, for the European and Northern markets. From Oct. 1, 1825, to Oct. 1, 1826, there were 143,633 bags of cotton stored in this place. Here are 20 ware-houses, large buildings, from 300 to 500 feet long, and 40 broad, to secure the immense quantities of produce and merchandise brought to town. Broad street, where the greatest part of the produce is sold, is 180 feet wide, and two miles long, passing nearly through the centre of the city.

There are ten to fifteen steamboats on the river, which perform a trip in four and five days, and carry passengers, and from 800 to 1,000 bags of cotton.-Beside these, there are pole boats, which take from 500 to 800. Daily stages are also constantly running between this and Savannah, Columbia, Milledgeville, and to Athens. They go also to Greensboro, Madison, and Louisville.

Augusta supplies all the up-country, east of the Oconee, and a good deal west of it, with merchandise; she also sends many tons into Tennessee, and into N. and S. Carolina. Recently, however, Hamburg, a small town opposite, on the South Carolina side, founded in 1821, has supplied some goods for the Carolinas. A bridge, 400 yards long, connects the two towns.

Three papers are issued from the Augusta press.

The first house in Augusta was built in 1735, by General Oglethorpe. Near the spot where the Episcopal Church now stands, a British fort, commanded by Col. Brown, was surrendered to the Americans.-Gen. Pickens, and Cols. Clarke and Lee commanded. The Legislature met here in 1776.

The city is governed by a Mayor and members of Council. Population is about 5,000.

Cotton received in Augusta and Hamburg for six months, ending in April, were, bags, in 1824, 121,525; 1825, 103,607; 1826, 137,087; 1827, 136,602.

Freights to Savannah are from one dollar to 371⁄2 cents per bag; to Charleston $1 50 to 75 cents. [See lists of roads, for fare to these cities.]

Olden History.-In the fall of 1776, there were not more than 40 to 50 houses-most of these log. The river was then crossed by a ferry-boat, owned by Mr. Hicks, just where the bridge now crosses. Families remembered to be there residing were, Messrs. Bug, Glascock, Walton, McLean, &c. Harrisburg was then a plantation, but houses were raised there about 1794. Soon after the termination of the Revolution, people flocked here in scores: Ennis, Jack, J. Wilson, Connell, Bush, Fox, &c., were merchants; Criswell, DeAmmon, and Leigh were mechan