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carrying 750 bales of cotton each. Upwards of 100 persons 

 are employed during the working season. 



Iron Steamboat Company of Georgia, plying between Sa- 

 vannah and Augusta. Capital, $100,000. Has three steamers, 

 with 15 tow-boats of 150 tons each, and capable of carrying 

 750 bales of cotton each. The company has a boat yard and 

 engine shop in Savannah, and employs 100 persons. 



There are five or six steamers employed, not belonging to 

 any regular line. 



The steamer Isabel, of 1100 tons burthen, touches at Sa- 

 vannah on the 1st and 15th of every month, for Key West and 

 Havana ; returning, touches at Savannah about the 12th and 

 26th of every month. 



Under an arrangement of the Government, steamers will 

 touch at Savannah, with the United States mail, on their way 

 to California and Oregon, via Havana, New Orleans, Chagres, 

 and Panama. 



Steamship Line between Savannah and New- York. — In 

 this line there are two new superior ocean steamers, the Chero- 

 kee and one building, each upwards of 1200 tons burthen, unsur- 

 passed in strength, beauty of model, and solidity of machinery, 

 and with all the latest improvements in them which experience 

 has suggested. 



Washington and New Orleans Magnetic Telegraph 

 Company. — Communicates with the following places: Augusta, 

 Macon, Columbus, Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, Washing- 

 ton, New- York, Boston. 



Savannah Fire Company. — Formed in 1824, consisting of 

 35 members, and existing under the auspices of the City Coun- 

 cil. It has under its control seven suction receiving and dis- 

 charging engines, two receiving and discharging engines, and 

 two suctron and discharging engines, each with its complement 

 of hose ; two hose carts with 2,000 feet of hose ; hook, axe, 

 and ladder company, and bucket company. 



Savannah and Ogeechee Canal Company. — Capital, 

 $160,000 in shares of $50 each. This company was formerly 

 the Savannah, Ogeechee, and Alatamaha Canal Company — ca- 

 pital, $199,225. It expended $246,693 on the work, and suf- 

 fered it to go down. In January, 1846, the present company 

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