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FRIDAY MORNING| FEBRUARY 14.
mail north of (' qarleston last night.
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In the last Federal UnijKii we find a long edi
torial article in relation f 5 the Central Bank,
intended we presume a ll sort of ante-justifi*
tion of the large issues o bills of that
which it is supposed t|j directors intend to
make. It is stated thtS alter the payment
of the debts due by thatsi nstitulion its capitaj
will be $1,655 000, upon |’ iich it will be au
thorised to double tlfit amount. But wha t
is this capital ? Nothing|»ut tie notes and bonds
of a multitude of debtors 1 it is urged that th e
directors ought to issue upwards of three millions
of dollars,with no other gu * antee fortheir redemp
tion than notes which can sot bfc collected at the
rate of more than 20 per rlr t per annum ! What
then is to prevent the bil| of the bank from be
coming depreciated 1 T faith of the State may
be most ample for their redemption, but
all past experience proves |hat immediate conver.
tibility alone can keep thi bills of any bank a
par. Nobody doubts thl ultimate ability of |
the Darien Bank to reiiem its bills, because
the State owns three fir irths of its stock, and
yet its bills have been ‘flirty per cent under
par and are now fror* fifteen to twenty !
There is scarcely a doubt fiat the Bank of Rome
will finally redeem all its iLites and yet they are
50 per cent discount! JHiereforc, when the
Central Bank issues an antiunt so vastly beyond
its ability to redeem withiil any reasonable time,
nothing can prevent its bils also from falling be- |
low par, and causing a to holders.
The issue of a large animnt by the Central
Bank will no doubt be a* alleviation to those
who get discounts andlcan use the money
whi'c it is at par, but _nust finally result in
heavy losses to the people! No one can be more
desirous of seeing money|,i}enty than ourselves,
but oui judgment does nollsanction the proposed
step. We can stand the!operation as well as
others, as we never keep|ioney of any sort on
hand. If it is the pleasurf of the Democracy to
fill the land with irredeen|ible bank paper, be it
so; on their own mischief will be
visited. \
The New York Heralds states that the whole
amount of fetate loans, on Arhich the interest was
due at the Bank of Pennsylvania on Saturdav the
Ist inst., forms an aggregaif- of upwards of $28,-
000,000. The interest raises from 4$ to 5 per
cent, per annum, and the amount due and no*
Paid on Saturday, was s6< ),860 78. The loan
of 1821, for $930,000 at per cent., and a4J
per cent loan for $200,00C are the only ones for
which funds had been proi Jed.
The New York Cit j Banks.—According
to an official statement, til; loans of twenty-two
New York city banks, on {the Ist of January,
1839, amounted to $35,#47,375. Same time
this year, $26,900,173. fecrease, $9,047,202.
Specie in January, IB3l| $5,008,353. This
year, $4,495,137. Decrea#*, $513,216. Circu
lation in 1839, $5,494.243.| This year, $4,028,- ’
737. Decrease, $1,465,501.
Suffrage ix contains 33
millions of people, and has 2200,000 voters. No
man can vote who does not*ay 200 francs annu
al tax. There are now thr.|? parties opposed to
this system. One goes for |mversal suffrage, but
the delegates to be chosen l|r electors. A second
is for a moderate extensiol of the right, and a
tnird contends foi universaisuffrage without anv
restriction. |
From the Charleston Mijcury of yesterday.
From St, Augustine.
By the Steamer Southc-Jer, Capt. Budd, ar*
rived yesterday, we have rl-eived the St. Aueus
tineNews of the 7th instarl, from which we copy
the following paragraphs ; f t J
The Bloodhounds from Cuba
haue been subjected to mfttj experiments, the’
results o which have bee| very
They follovy a trail twenbS four hours old with
rapidity and accuracy. So|e of them are to be
employed by tne troops nowficouring the country
between the mouths of the/Wacassassa and Su
wannee rivers, Micanopy, sc.
th ** DIANS ‘ *\ n attac k w 4 made, by a party of
he enemy, on the tram frcl, Pilatka to Fort No
10. on Sunday last. 3 soljers were wounded’
and a serjeant missing. 5 ’
The Military District, of* which Fort No 10
is the radiating point, is on ihe Western banks of
the St. Johns, and its NeriL.m boundary com
mences nearly oppo.-ite to iSirolata.
The distance between Pirfuku and the Fort is
not over 10 milesi. but as M of the posts Ire
mua'ccl in a bend of ,hc ri|.r, the trai? has to
take the Fort Hetleman l„d, cross,,,, three
branches of the It-tun-wak frock.
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Correspondence of the Clyieston Courier.
In the Senate, 7 '
the, ineffectual attempVto 1| m, U " r Tt JOO
- the Secretary of'le £ 1 ’. rcsolutl0 "'
whether the appropriation K- , h e
road was embraced in the eli nsm.,l . d
of .wen, v million, fa, the
discussion again, took plan,lon the subject if i
♦ »aa contender! that the adn»ai s ,n,„o„ J as * pl ‘
mg fast and loose reg.rl so the Cumberland
Road, that they were far it !a the west. and a
go,"St urn,he south. It As conceded. „„ aU
sides, that the app,opr, at,onleferred to was 1
in the estimates, and that thf money for the wo-k i
must he borrowed, or raised!.., an issue of Tree I
sury notes. The Senate rinsed to tab,
resolution by a largo nngpijL r
uu! l \\ hc House ; t he rules r>rc suspended to on
aole Mr. Jones the Committee of
ati 'Twn d STS l ° ** of his appropri.
Committee ot the wh .’l F J i ?°" lSe went in t<>
Garland moved “amf* b ‘"- ?!! d Rife
money for the payment of ,1. pro ' l<lln S ,hat the
placed in the hands of the , '4‘ P ensioners be not
than one month prior to agents more
The object of this was to Pa-Vment—
from using the mo
thereby li.u irdmg :ts safely.? J B !®** 1
of t<. C. pointed out the
m )de adopted in the payment of
the principles of the adminiJaaliM. ‘"S " i ' h
fesaed to be oppo«ai to UM of
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j money by banks, and had even advocated a law
| to make it felony in any public agent to use any
of the public money ; but, m regard to the Pen-
I sion Agents, we were told here, by the friends of
1 the administration, that the Pension Agents must
j have the use of the public money for half a year,
i as their compensation.
W hat was the reason why the use of public
money was prohibited! It was the
chan eof its loss was thus increased. Would
not toe money be safer if deposited with the banks
than with individuals, —especially if it was to be
used ! Individuals might become defaulters and
, their securities fail; hut, in regard to a bank, we
i had the security of their whole stock. But these
1 Pension Agents were, in fact. Presidents and
i Cashiers of Banks, and the public money, in their
hands, was kept in bank, to their individual ac
! count, and used by them instead of by the Bank.
! So, nothing was gained by withholding it from
! tiie Bank—and the only difference was that we
got individual security for it. instead of bank se
curity. He adverted to the call of the President
upon Congress for money, and to his prediction
at the commencement ot the session, notwith
standing the professions of the message, that we
i would be so called upon to meet a deficiency.
The means by which it was to be raised were not
j indicated to us. We had no means but a tariff,
‘ and the President was playing fast and loose up
i on that question, as he was in relation to the
j Cumberland Road. He went on to discuss the
J question of means to meet the deficit pointing
' Jut the disadvantages of the Treasury note issues.
| After a very long debate, the House adjourned
without coming to any conclusion on this quos
j tionl
Correspondence of the Savannah Georgian.
Ox Board Steamboat Florida,^
St. Johns River, Feb. 7, 1840. 5
Another Indian Murder in East Florida.
To the Editor of the Georgian.-
As a military train consisting of 12 wagons,
when returning from station No. 12 to Garcy’s
Ferry, on Wednesday, the slh inst., and when
within 3 miles of the 7 mile house, and 10 from
the station at Garey’s Ferry, one of the principal
military stations in Florida, they were attacked by
1 a party of Indians, that lay in ambush in the grass
near the road and fired on, killing one of the dri
vers said six mules.
As soon as they commenced firing they set up
their yelling as usual, and frightened the mules
so that they became unmanageable, and the teams
scattered in all directions; generally, however,
running but a short distance before hitching the
wago is against trees.
The drivers extricated themselves from their
teams, as well as they could, and made the best
of the ir way to the 7 mile house, and the wagon
master proceeded to Garey’s Ferry, coming up 5
miles from the place of attack, with Maj. Bennett,
who with his escort of 10 or 12 mounted men,
turned immediately back, and reached the place
within one hour after the attack was made, but
the Indians had plundered the wagons of all the
articles of value to them and made their escape.
Col. Twiggs on hearing the intelligence order
ed Lieut. Darling, with a detachment ot Dra
goons, who proceeded to the place of attack, but
night coming on, they returned to their quarters,
to spend the night, and take a new start the next
day, but with what success, was not known on
Friday.
Since receiving the above, Capt. Nock, of the
steamer Florida, has furnished the following:
About ten miles from Garey’s Ferry, Wednes
day sth Feb. at 2 o’clock, P. M. a train of wag
ons was returning from the interior, and were at
tacked by from twelve to fifteen Indrians. who,
firing on the train, killed one man named Farson
Camell—he having five balls in him—two mules
shot and four wounded. The wagons were plun
dered of the covers and provisions belonging to
the train. The wagon master arrived express at
Garey’s Ferry, and the quarter master’s men were
immediately sent in pursuit, but could not discov
er any signs of them whatever.
Near Fort Brook, on the Ist February, a de
tachment of men were sent in pursuit of desert
ers, and were fired on by a party us Indians.—
Three men were wounded and the Sergeant mis
sing; on the attack, his horse being shot under
him, he disappeared and is supposed to be shot.
From the N. O. Bee, of the 9th.
From Texas.
By the arrival of the steam packet New York,
we have received the Galveston Gazette of Feb.
Ist. It is almost totally barren of intelligence.
The sleam boat Putnam struck a snag in the Sa
bine a few days since, and sunk above her guards.
She will be raised, but with some |difficulty and
delay.
The treaty with Franee has been ratified by
the senate of Texas. Accounts received from
Mexico speak confidently of Bustamente’s head
ing an expedition against Texas.
From the Savannah Georgian.
Shipwreck.
The brig Edwin, of Baltimore, a packet be
tween this port and Baltimore, was wrecked off
Jekyl on the sth inst. She was bound to this
port from New Orleans.
Capt. Fitzgerald with the crew has arrived in
this city in the steam packet Florida from St. Ma
ry's. and furnishes the following statement;
; ‘Total loss of the brig Edwin of Baltimore, H.
Fitzgerald, master, from New Orleans, bound to
Savannah, with a cargo of Sugar and Molasses.
Blowing heavy from the eastward, struck a shoal
ofi Jekyl Island, about 5 o’clock on the morning
of the sth inst.—immediately stalled the deck
load to relieve her—a high sea running unship
ped tu* rudder and started her counter—thump
mg violently she soon bilged, the sea making a
| complete breach over her ; we were compelled to
1 take the boats, and with difficulty reached Little
Cumberland Island, through the breakers. Capt.
F. despatched a boat to St. Mary’s for assistance ;
but the wind blowing heavy, she went to pieces
the night of the sth. Nothing saved but two
boats—vessel and cargo a total loss.”
From Canada. —lt was rumored in town yes
terday afternoon, that a despatch had been re
ceived horn Toronto, announcing that Sir Geo.
Athur •'.aJ ceased to b; Lieutenant Governor of
I pper Canada, and thattheHonorable Mr. Chief
J usuce Stuart had been swsrn in administrator of
the Government; also, that one half of the pro
ceeds of the Jesuits’ estates and of the Seminary
ot »t. Suplice was to be appropriated to Upper
Canada Catholics from the date of the Union as
the grants were originally given for the support
of the Roman Catholic religion “in the Province
of Queiec,” which then included both the Piov
inces or the Canadas.— Montreal Herald.
GKAVDiLogrExcE.—‘Feller citizens,” said a
stump orator lately in Wisconsin, who was run
ning for office in the territorial legislature “fel
ler citiz ens, if you elect me mv opposition to banks
shall be so strong that it will break the track of a
herd of buffalos ! Volcanos may pour out their
lava, relucmg cities to smouldering ruins— earth
quakes may engulph in the vortex of premature
Jestruc ion large and populous islands -cataracts
may dugow their aqueoua contents, making na
are t.emWe w.th the continuous effort-lhc
thunders s stroke tusy prostrate the mightiest of
monuments ever raised by the combined aid of
artand labor-,he vtv.d and gla.ing flash of
lig ttnirg may rend -he sturdy oak of the f orpst
an I mate the hon-souUd and the iro ~hearted
■ lutte e: tu tear; but do you think felle, citizen
that all this would make me rote in favor of a
bank . d—d dear afit.”—Neu Orlean, Picay.
I The Army.
The army of the United States should number
1 all told, 12*539, officers and men. It is thus
computed:
2 Regiments of Dragoons, 1500
4 Regiments of Artillery, 3000
8 Regiments of Infantry, /500
Ordnance Department, 820
Engineer Corps,
Topographical,
General Staff,
Medical Department, 83
But at the latest return, accompanying the Re
port of the Secretary of War, the total effective
rank and file, present for duty, was less than half
the nominal force, mz : 6220.
In Florida there are six Regiments, viz: 2 Dra
goons, about 400 strong; the 3d Artillery; and
the Ist, 2nd, 9th and 7th Infantry, which average
about 200 men each ! ?
; An abstract attached to the Sarg ton General s
I Report, giving the number of cases treated dur
ing the year, and the number of deaths, seems to
us to indicate a high state of the Army, and much
more than ordinary skill.
The number of cases of all sorts treated was
22,248, out of which there were only 214 deaths
Gen*. Jackson’s Bedstead. — The bedstead
used by Gen. Jackson, during his stay in New
Orleans, was sold at auction in the French Ex
change, ('La Bourse, Jon Wednesday evening,
the 15th inst. It was bid off at one hundred and
thirty do lars. It was plain, but rich and mas
sive.—Natchez Free / rader.
It is said ;hat twenty-four manufacturing estab
lishments at Vattrsvn, have entirely suspended
their operations, and that the men, women, and
children who wore lately employed in them, are
entirely idle, and very many of them literally de
pendent upon charity, for their very scanty allow
ance of daily food. —Newark Daily Adv.
It is estimated that there will be one hundred
thousand emigrants to Texas this fall and winter.
The population of Austin, Texas, is now eight
hundred and fifty. Five months since there were
scarcely eight citizens upon the site of this new
city.
A steam carriage lately accomplished the dis
tance between Cambridge and London, in Eng
land, 52 miles over a common road, in four hours
and a half.
A tailor who died lately, was found in his last
moments cabbaging a piece of the blanket which
covered him.
Barber-ous March or Intellect. —At a bar
ber’s shop, in Drury Lane, a bill is exhibited in
the window which states that “L »dys can have
their hair dressett in the Victorier fashion at this
shop-charge only 6d. Gentlemens hair dressett
intheMelburn style—charge only 3d. N.B.A
varryetty of fancy combe and bares greas.”—So
cial Reformer .
Speaking of suits at law to recover damages for
slander, the Boston Daily Advertiser makes the
following observations, the sound sense of which
commend them to the attention of every reader:
“In cases of this kind the parties are not on
equal ground. To one the verdict may be years
of misery ; to the other a matter of mere dollars
and cents, or at most a forced acknowledgement
that he was wrong, which does nobody much
good; for, after all,
‘He that’s convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still.’
“One of the lessons taught by a knowledge of
the law is its utter worthlessness in healing the
wounds of the moral feelings. A slight acquain
tance with the proceedings in our courts of jus
tice will demonstrate that, however firmly the
balance of justice is held, in cases of dollars and
cents, when the sensibilities of man or woman
are to be healed, there is no medicine to be found
there; and to patch up an injured character,
judges and juries, and lawyers to boot, are the
worst cobblers in creation.”
The New Postage. — lt is quite amusing to
witness the undisguised ill homor with which
many of the principal Post-office agents receive,
weigh, and charge the numerous letters which
pass through their hands under the new regula
tion. We speak advisedly in asserting that the
receiving-houses in all the large thoroughfares
have a quite sufficient accession of trouble to in
duce them to employ clerks expressly to superin
tend the Post-office department. Yet they are to
have no additional allowence for extra labor. Se
riously, it is palpable that the present arrange
ment cannot last long. —London Herald.
The Blessing of Ignorance.— Sir William
Berkekly, who was 38 years a distinguished Gov
ernor of the Lolony ot Virginia, in answer to the
inquiries of the Lords ot the Commissioners for
the Colonies in 1671, sixty-four years after the
settlement of the Colony says : “ I thank God we
have no free schools nor printing, and I hope we
shall not have, these hundred years. For learn
ing has brought disobedience and heresy and sects
into the world ; and printing has divulged them,
and libels against the government.”
Fortunes of the Grenadier Moreau.
No Arabian story-teller ever dreamed of invent
ing such things as were .seen to take place in real
life, during the victories of Napoleon, and of this
tru h the city of Tours, in the year 1829, wit
nessed one striking proof, in the history of the
grenadier Mqieau, whose name is prefixed to the
present narrative. It was in the year 1806 that 4
this individual, then a youth of twenty, was sent
from the recruit ng depot in his native town of
lours towards the Prussian frontier, where the
Emperor Napoleon was at the time concentrating
his forces, and preparing for the opening of a
great campaign Eugene Moreau was descended
from a family which had been one of high provin
cial respectability, but had become latterly so
much decayed Ihr.t his immediate progenitors
hclJ the humble position of small farmer?, or to
speai more plainly of peasants. As regarded
personal appearance, Eugene would have done
honor to the noblest ancestry. To say that he
was merely handsome, would be disparaging and
unjust. His person was tall and beautifully
formed ; his features remarkably fine and regular
and his eye dark, sparkling and animated : while
his air and ga.t were at once pleasing and noble
In short, a sculptor would have but to cover the
youth’s black and glossy locks with a Greek head
piece, to have in him a perfect model of the cod
dess-born Achilles, or the more graceful Antinous'
The eyes of the Emperor was too searching
and discriminative not to alight soon on stich a
figure as that of Moreau. On reaching Bambero
a Bavarian town where the first head quarters of
the grand army were established, the y u un- re
cruit chanced to fall in Napoleon’s wav 4f ter
momentary glance of admiration, the’ Emperor
turned to an inferior officer behind him and
pointing with his finger to Moreau, excised
“ 1 hat stnpphng is for my guard.”
The French army ran over a portion of Pros
sia, and came to the vast plain of J Pan Th ‘
as every one knows, was fought a mighty battle’
which delivered over Berlin to the Emperor of
France. 1 his great, onflict has nothing to do
with the particular history of Moreau but it is a
m liter of jnst.ee to say that he fought i„ it like
a hon, and ne.ped well to maintain the fame of
tue guard of which he was a member. Subse
quently to the engagement the main army march
ed upon the Prussian capitol, with a small divi
sion to which Moreau was attached, was ordered
to take station temporarily at Weimar-^
In the distribution of billets at Weimer, our
young soldier got one fixing him singly upon a
little chatteau about a mile distant from the town.
As the light-hearted Eugene walked from the
town to his desired abode, scarcely feeling the
weight of his arms or his knapsack, his thoughts
ran back over the changes which had taken place
during the last six months of his life, in May, a
peasant, laboring on his father’s little field ; in
October, a soldier —a member of Napoleon’s
guard, and one of the conquerors of Jena ; and
who knew how grand the next chance might be 1
His company had lost many men, and had per
formed many prodigies ot valor. The hour ot
reward was yet to come, and then his arm might
be decorated by.the corporal’s or serjeant’s stripes
the only honorable kind of them—and even the
cross of honor might be planted on his breast. —
Such were Moreau’s imaginations as he drew near
the chatteau, pointed out to him as the place de
signed in his billet. He rang the gale bell, and
the door opened instantly. Stepping forward into
the court, he saw no human being, but two furi
ous dogs met him in the face, and threatened to
tear him to pieces. In fact, the servants, seeing
the soldier approach, had thought this a fit way to
receive and repulse an enemy. But Moreau was
not one to beat a retreat on such grounds as these.
Keeping the dogs at bay with his musket, he cried,
“Hollo!—down, you vicious brutes! Hollo!
you, inside there ! call off the dogs, else I shall
be obliged to hurt them !—Hollo!”
No one choose to hear the cry, however, and
Moreau struck one of the dogs lifeless at his feet,
by a blow from the butt end of his piece. The
other animal he dexterously contrived to seize by
one of his hind legs, and swinging it above his
head with a powerful arm, dashed out his brains
against the court wall. He then tranquilly ad
vanced to the inner entrance of the chatteau,
which was half open. As he pursued this door
to the wall, he saw a whole posse of domestics
flying out at the opposite side of die lobby hall.
Eugene thought to himself that a soldier of the
Emperor’s guard had a right to better treatment
than this, but he was patient and sweet tempered,
so he said nothing, but marched forward. Apart
ment after apartment showed him no living per
son, and he began to grow wearied of this style
of reception, as well as a little irritated thereby,
when all at once he heard the sound of a female
voice. Following the direction, he soon found
himself in a retired chamber, face to face with a
young lady who was seated with her harp by her
side, and her fingers in the act of touching its
chords.
“ Meinhrrr ,” said the startled young lady, and
then paused ; for her eye had caught the tri
colored cockade in cap, indicating
that he belonged to the hostile army and had in
vaded her country. “ Monsieur ,” said she, chang
ing her address from her mother tongue to that
of her visitor. But she carried her speech no
farther. Her fingers quitted her harp, and she
remained motionless before the young soldier of
France.
Often, often did Moreau in after years describe
that first interview, and always with a degree of
tenderness that affected the hearer, though cir
cumstances might make him doubtful at the time
of the narration. All Moreau’s anger fled at the
sight of the lady ; his fusil trembled in his hand ;
and that fair-haired beauty of the north, with her
blue eyes and snow-like skin, appeared to him
far to surpass all the pictures which his older
comrades had drawn of Egyptian loveliness.—
Her eye was cast on him with an expression at
once of entreaty and kindness, as if beseeching
his protection and proffering a friendly reception.
It would appear as if she had noticed his impa
tient look on entering the room. “ My servants,”
said she, when after a pause, she followed up her
first word Monsieur, “ my servants have received
you inhospitably ; but they are grieved at late
events, and grief does not reason.” But floor
Moreau was already so far from feeling anger,
that he could almost have knelt down and asked
pardon for having killed the lady’s dogs, though,
had he not done so, they would probably have
tom him to pieces.
The Countess Diana de Drucken was the name
of the lady in whose chateaa Moreau now took
up his residence. She was a widow, and still
extremely young, having been married almost in
childhood to a wealthy old Noble, at the wish, or
rather the command, of her proud and ambitious
brothers and kindred. Her husband soon died,
leaving no child to inherit his wealth. The young
Countess lived alone at the time when fortune
brought Moreau to the chatteau. Whether from
the lady s desire not to provoke an invading ene
my, or from other motives personal to Moreau,
(whose ancestral respectability she soon learnt
from conversation with himself,) certain it was
that he was entertained, during his stay of seve
ral weeks, like an honorable guest. He occupied
the apartments of the late master of the mansion,
and the same domestics who had lately received
him so currishly now became his devoted slaves.
In his simplicity, the young soldier was no whit
astonished at all this, he found it natural to live
in a beautiful chateau, to walk (not alone) every
morning in a magnificent park, to mount the
finest horses for an evening ride, to be served by
laqueys covered with embroidery, and to dine on
three courses daily with a countess. Had not he
heard at the bivouac fires, that such was the sol
dier’s common fortune in Egypt 1 Moreover he
loved the countess, and, remembering the ancient
honors of his family, more than his present con
dition, he thought not of concealing his love.
On him the passion took its usual effect; it soft
ened his manners, gave inspiration to his tongue
and every action. The sincerity of his love was
too obvious to be doubted for an instant. He was
young, (in truth almost a boy-soldier,) beautiful
and a conqueror. The Ceuntess Diana could
* " ot " e *P berself. Though seeing their true rela
tive position much more clearly than Moreau did
the passion of the soldier found an echo ere long
m her bosom. She had none about her to keep
her pude of rank awake. An old infirm chap
lam, verging on the grave, was her only present
friend and counsellor, and he was too much at
tached to her to make any annoying opposition to
her wxshes. The issue may be guessed.
Lhe happy Moreau saw nothing in the future
but visions of pleasure and joy. He loved too
sincerely even to cast a thought on the fortune of
the countess but he had other ambitious thoughts
11 ui trUe ,V said he ’ “ that l am only one of the
humble soldiers of the emperor, but it is from a
mong them that he chooses his captains, and I
feel assured that I shall become one of them ”
V‘ e C °™ tess less hopeful of the future,’but
t:r l ir c r\ d ™* ° ver tw
tions And when the period of Moreau’s sav
came to a close, when his detachment was order
ed to join head quarters, she did not express to
the young soldier the fears that filled her own
mind, whenever the thought of her haughty rela
tives, and of her re-union with them, crossed her
memory. The last words of Moreau were “It
is hut necessary that I should speak to the empe
ror all will be arranged. ’ The countess swore
to Ire ever faithful; and Moreau promised that he
would be careful of h.s life, and return with the
cross of honor and the epaulettes of an officer
Bathed with the countess’tears, the young sol
cher then took his way from the chateau, but of
ten cast back his eyes, and gazed, as long he c Ln
see it, on the hand of his lady love
handkerchief in token of reiterated farewells 05 *
Soon afterwards, Moreau’s regiment a I , i
PalMkm, only some hours before the expected '
n.rival of the emperor, and was drawn ..nf -j !
the palace of Sans-Souci. to be reviewed^’T 6 1
as he passed. Napoleon’s visage was Idaml U !
smiling as he moved slowly on his wh f ? an , d ;
horse along the ranks which h J 1 1
ly fought at dene. When'I |
spot where Moreau stood, the ’alter who baa
made up his mind to plead his own cause, stood
forward from the ranks, presented arms, and beg
ged permission to a word. “Speak,” said the
emperor, who encouraged such personal appeals.
“I wish to marry sire, if it be your good pleasure,
said Moreau. “What! in the middle of a cam
paign!” replied Napoleon; “what sutler gi\ sey
has decoyed y< u to this!” “Sire!” said the
simple-hearted Moreau, “it is no sutler, but a la
dy near Jena, who is beautiful as an angel, and
rich as the Mayoress of Tours.” The emporer
smiled, and the young soldier continued—“ She
had sworn her faith to me; and for me, I have
promised to her to have one day the cross of hon
or, and the epaulettes of a captain.” “Her name! ’
said the emperor. “The Countess Diana of
Drucken,” was Moreau’s answer.
At this name the emperor showed a degree of
displeased surprise. In a second or two he ex
claimed, “Fv ! you a soldier of France, to forget
yourself, thus, and wish to degrade j ourself and
your comrades by an alliance with a stranger, an
enemy of France'? Think no more of it! Re
turn to your place in your ranks.” As he spoke
he gave the spur to his charger, and flew at lull
gallop to another regiment.
The campaign went on, anti Moreau fought
bravely throughout it. Another and another
campaign followed, and he was still in the guards
of Napoleon. The fearful invasion of Russia,
found him in the same position, and he was with
his master till the abdication at I 1 ontainbleau.—
By this time Moreau had won the cross of the
legion of honor, and had risen in the service,
though not to a commission ; —but hard toil and
wound: had done much of the usual work of time
upon him. The remembrance of the Countess
Diana, however, remained ever fresh in his mem
ory. He had written to Weimar, to Madame the
Countess of Drucken, but either the post or the
lady was faithless. He received no reply—not a
word—not a token of reminisencc. When the
Bourbons finally brought with them a general
peace, Moreau revisited his aged father and his
native Tours. There he found many old friends
and they would have had him to marry a young
and pretty girl, and settle himself lor life, but he
was the chosen bridegroom of a countess, and be
refused all proffers of this kind ; waiting always,
with undiminished anxiety, for the coronetted
carriage, which he confidently expected to come
one day and carry him to his beioved.
In the year 1829, Moreau still remained at
Tours, having revisited Weimar and the chateau
of the Countess, without learning tidings of her—
the chateau being occupied by strangers. Still
he found the chief solace of life in the hopes
which all who knew him considered vain and
del isive. The summer of the year mentioned,
however, was signalized by the arrival in Tours,
of a superb German travelling-carriage, drawn by
four horses. A young man was the sole occu
pant of this, and scarcely had he entered the town,
when he left the carriage, and made inquiry, “if
Moreau, a grenadier of the old imperial guard,
was still alive, and still resided in Tours !” The
answer was still in the affirmative, and the young
man requested to be guided to his residence. A
person readiiv offered to execute this task, and
walked towards the veteran’s dwelling, the car
riage as well as the owner following. “Yonder
is Moreau,” said the guide, “seated on his stone
bench.” The young man moved forward alone
to the side of the soldier, who was indeed basking
his still noble-looking head in the rays of the
eveningsun. “Are you Moreau of the old guard!”
said the stranger, with a faltering voice.
“ Yes,” cried he starting up, “I am Moreau, of
the third regiment of the old guard.”
“ It is you whom I seek,” said the youth, clas
ping the old man’s hand, and seemingly strug
gling to conceal his emotions from the public eye;
“enter this carriage. lam come to conduct you
to the chateau of Drucken.” Half embraced by
his conductor, Moreau ascended the vehicle, and
the postillions, at a signal, drove rapidly away.
Moreau, the grenadier of the old guard of Napo
leon, was no more seen in Tours, or his native
France.
Diana Countess of Diucken was not unfaithful
to the young soldier. But when rejoined by her
family, after the terrors caused by the French
visit had a little subsided they threatened her
even with death if she attempted to prosecute her
engagement with Moreau. Effectually to mar
her purpose, they strove to induce her to marry
again, but this they could not effect. It was only,
however, when the truth could not be longer con
cealed, that she dared to fell them that the cere
mony of marriage had already passed between
Moreau and herself, the old chaplain being the
officiating minister, and also the sole witness, on
the occasion. Bitterly as the kindred of the
countess cursed this secret connection, they a
greed, on condition that, she solemnly swore nev
er to disgrace them by sending for Moreau, to
torment her no more with schemes of re-marriage
and to permit herself to bring up the boy to whom
she gave birth, under the character of her nephew
and avowed heir. The nan e of Moreau was
sentenced to oblivion. The fear of endangering
her son’s welfare caused the countess to keep her
engagement unbroken, though her unchanged af
fection for Moreau would often strongly tempt
her to an opposite line of conduct. But, on her
death bed. the countess revealed for the first time
to her son his true history and parentage, and
laid her dying commands upon him to go to Tours,
ami to render comfort able the old age of his fath
er, if he stiil lived. Her own heart, at that truth
displaying moment, was wrung w ith remorse at
the reflection that she had permitted any engage
ments whatever to separate her from one to whom
she had solemnly and lastingly bound herself.
Arrived at Drucken, Moreau could only weep
over the tomb of her for whom he had yearned for
twenty-four long years. But the tender cares of
his son, who had taken him from Tours, render
ed the veteran’s latter days happy. If he had not
the object ot his life’s dream beside him, he had
at least the satisfaction of knowing that she had
not been unfaithful to him.
Consignees per South Carolina Kail Uoad.
Hamburg, February 13*1840.
TII Plant; W E Jackson; E Mustin; Garvin
Haines; T Dawson; F Lamback ; C A Greiner;
L Dwelle ; Clark, Rackett & ( o ; Moore & Davis •
B W Force ; G T Dortic ; T Davis ; S Kneeland &
Son ; J AV Houghton ; W Hattier; Stovall, Sim
mons &Co ; Adams & Burroughs ; J F Benson.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
„ Savannah, February 11
Cleared.—-Ship Eli Whitney, Harding, Liver
pool, schrs Potomac, Crowell, Boston ; Kite, Mai
tin, St Augustine ’ dr
Arrived. Br ship Ben Nevis, Burns, Liverpool -
Br ship Anna Liifey, Stewart, Liverpool • *
S;,to? rg ’ N ° rriS> A "S" Bta . OgleLrpe! wul
If ent to sea. —Brig Independence Pn,,. u
Erbrij King Henri, Lcitch, TrSd
sequibo, Lamont, Glasgow ’ x hug Es
gu"r r '^~ StCamboat Gspatch.Guilmartin. Au-
Arrh-ej j Charleston, February 13.
non Rtrif y e^er d a V- Br ship Harriet Scott, Bey-
lf jS ; shl P Robin Hood, Proctor. Boston
the Offing. Ship Victoria Lennox Liverpool
Cleared.- Packet ship Chicora, Rogers Liver,
pool; I r barque Mexico, Beuscher, Havre • TJ L
Mainer"’ C ° bb ’ N VO, t 5 Schr S —, Hardy!
.on ,y Uvo^. ! '^ r<fai ' ~ SWp RCpUMic > Th»"-P
--OJVW I''NOTH E-D* Mv s
Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has removed
his operating rooms to one door below Mii tn l .
eriefs Confectionary, and opposite
Bank Building. opposite the Br dge
feb 10 ;
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c O CjJbCH RIFLEMEN, ATTENTION, I
Appear on your parade ground this even'. . «
o’clock, equ pped foi drill. By older of 7 k
M raAZEK.’Sfr |
Y « nmsts “aSdWMe* t fo™oZ"e C u/ ! [ oP ®r |
Regiment Georgia Militia. Ile 10th I
feb 14
Qjt’Messe Editors Please announce j
W. G. NIMMO as a candidate for the office fCapt
jor to command the New City Battalion * A
feb 13 mwvSsj* I
JKrWe are authorized to announce iT ""
SAMUEL C. IVILSON , as a candidate fo,rS l I
ONELoi the 10th Regiment Georgia Militia
jen 21 td
CT Vr- lv - FLINT offers his scrviceTto thT- I
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of ?'
profession. He may be found at all hours \ .
late residence of Mr. A. M. Mger ton, second* a
Iromthe corner of Mclntosh and Reynold street? 01 I
'(o*'TO THE JhE
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’Drawing Acad-t" ft!
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to F I
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening f* M * I
2 o’clock until 9 o’ciock p. m. At nDht ti,« ro:T1
will be well. lighted. _ _ ° :
G. AJ3/MO, Genera] ('omtnission Vler
chant, ofiice on Mclntosh sheet, next door to th I
Constitutionalist. |
CT Doctor J. J. WILSON i
sional services to the citizens of Augusta Lh 9
vicinity. He will be found at his residence f I
first brick building above Guedron’s stable oa Vir I
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams * * *
* u g l7 *tf
(xj^NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave - I
follows: " 1
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 700 \ M 1
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30 Ip
“ “ Georges’, - “ - io 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30«
* “ Blackviile, - “ - 100 M
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 4no 0 i
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 600a. M » 1
“ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730 *»
“ “ Blackviile, “ - . 930 ®
“ “ Midway', “ - - 10 30
“ “ Branchvill “ - - nOO
“ “ Georges’, “ - -1200 m.
‘ “ Summerville,“ - - 2 OOp. m I
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance —ISGmiles. Fare Through—Jlo 00. I
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 2; I
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not I
longer than 0 minutes for wo** and water at anr I
station. I-
To stop for passengers, when a white fiagis I
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also at ]
Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T.O
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons’ I
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers uv will breakfast at Woodstock and I
dine at Blackviile; aoicn, will breaklast at Aiken I
and dine at Summerville. may 21 |
(fj'C. M. CURTIS, House, Sign and Ornamtn* I
tal Fainter, 187 Broad street. —Sign and ornamen- I
tal work done at short notice, deco
(Tj’Dr. B. HARRIS offers his services in the I
practice of his profession to the citizens of Angus- I
ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive prompt I
attention if left at his drug store in Broad street,or I
at his residence in Ellis "street, below Washing. I
t° n - nov 7 fl
(£/* EXCHANGE ON NEW FORA—At sight! I
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by 1
nov 23 GARDELLE & RHIND.
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS. 3
DR. W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOGTHISG i
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.— This
infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of chil- i
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul- B
sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. The preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious and ao pleasant, that no i
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it I
When infants are at the age of four months, though |
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the i
Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the *
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup P
in the nursery where there are young children; for 1
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the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the Jj
pores and healing the gums; thereby preventing I
convulsions, fevers, tsc. Sold only at Dr. Wm. I
Evans' Medical Office, 100 Chatham street, New I
York, where the Doctor maybe consulted on all I
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY Os I
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of Dr. Evans' Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir—The I
great benefit afforded to my suffering infant bt fl
mur Soothing Syrup, in a case of protfactedtanil I
tainful dentition, must convince every feeling pa- fl '
ent how essential an early application of such an I
ivaluable medicine is to relieve infant miseryaa I
arture. My infant, when teething, experience I
inch acute sufferings, that it was attacked will I
convulsions, and my r wife and family supposed tlu: 1
death would soon release the babe from anguiw. k
till we procured a bottle of yeur Syrnp ; which s
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change I
was produced, and after a few applications the P
child displayed obvious relief, and by con timing m I
its use, I am glad to inform you the child lias com- M
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful I
complaint has since occurred ; the teeth arc etna* I
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I give you my cheerful permission to make thin I I
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information on this circumst; nee. |
WM. JOHNSON. K
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ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mini!, I
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of intesmittents,together with fevers of the irregn- I
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceial c • j
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous j
eneral debility', indigestion and its consequences,
or want of appetite, distension of the stomach, aci I- j
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise j
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when j
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Evans' Camomile Pills were first introduced i >itf 1
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EVANS' FAMILY APERIENT PILLS air I
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest \'W I
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those diseases of whatsoever kind to which hun k 1
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More conclusive proof sos the extraordinary 4’ I
caey of Dr. Wm. Evans' celebrated Camomile ,l '
Aperient Anti-Bilwus Pills, in alleviating ap' l "
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowen-' I
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extraordinary' benefits he nas received.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in August® ■
J. M. & T. M. TDRNER,Savaiin*' 1
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston. ■
SHARP ELLS, Milledgevil o
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN, Forsyth
Wm. E. WELLS, Druggist, A then-* «
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
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