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CHRONICLE AN > SENTINEL. A IT G U S T a. TUESDAY MOIIMM FEBRUARY 18. Wc aik the candid attr ilion of every friend to the permanence of our frr institutions, to the ar ticle which follows these -marks. Vv e have ot ten told our readers that he fearful spirit ot Ja cobinism was rapidly and stealthily undermining our institutions, and tbs i, nless arrested in its progress, we should end if here all the tree g.»\ ernmenti of the world ha^; ended, first in anar chy and finally In JespotCn. We have often warned the n thatt the teudjmy of the doctrines, principles and practices of jhe last and present ad ministrations of the genenl government, was di recllv to mobocracy, and wLuld ultimately uproot the very foundations of civjl society and prostrate the last hope of lilicrty on-earth. How fast our predictions are fulfilling, >n’ay he “read even by him who runs,” in the conduct of the Ohio Legis lature as depicted in the Ur icle below. When before in the history of an \ State in this Union have candidates for high judicial offices been re quired to give pledges hefoi* the election, to decide political questions according to the will ofthe do minant majority in the Legislature by which the office is to be filled? L ven iiii England, there is no example ofthe kind since ihe days of Jeffries ? What were the questions; to be decided, is not stated, nor is it for the principle is equally as had, he (lie pjuestions what they may. Our ire a'l becoming mobs, and they arc humming the judicial de partments at 'their feet, hv refusing to appoint any but those who willjl»pcome the subsers vient tools of their purposes. During the day ofthe French Revolution, the Courts only regis tered the edicts of the Assembly, and that body itself re-echoed the derisio: is of the Jacobin club. We arc rapidly approach! )g the same state of tuings in the United Stt es. Democracy run mad bidsdefiance to public aw and private right* It is this spirit, engendered "joy (fen. Jackson and made subservient to his wis, to which Van Bu ren now Javors and pays court, to sustain him in power. j From the \ew York Commercial Advertiser. Repeat. of CiiAUTKUs.|-The Legislature of Ohio have decided, by a Solemn vote of both Houses, that they have the! light in repeal any act of incorporation. The preamble and vcsol t ; on setting forth this doctrine were adopted by t ic House on the 20th of January.— American. But this is by no means th deepest plunge which the administration maj irity li the Ohio Legislature have made into the whiilpocj pfjacobinism. There is, or was recently, a vacarj'y upon the bench of the Supreme Court of that 'ate. The appointing power is vested in the Legis it.ure;& before th : ma jority would proceed to the appointment, they ad dress a series of questions to the several candidates lor the station, demanding o know, in the event ofthe appointment of eithe ,how they would de cide certain pending cause .iThe applicant knew full well, that unless they ret urned replies coin cident with the views ofhe party,” they would have no chance of success. To their everlasting disgrace, therefore, be it re 'ended, that everv can didate but one gave the rqi bed pledge. That man should be honored. “ Amo >g the faithless faithful only he.” According tot ie Ohio State Journal, he repelled with indignatic i the idea of giving ex tra-judicial opinions, and considering honesty, integrity and disinterested ss in our legal tribu nals above all (he honors a id emoluments within the gift ot the Legislature, n died that hecould not answer the interrogatories nthout doing violence to Ins own sense ot honor ml moral obligation, and to the spirit ot the c nstitution. In sober earnest we would inquire, t what will such things lea i t Are not these appallii * strides toward the fi nal consummation of anar hy greatly alarming! ! rue. the New \ ork reado endeavors to comfort himself with tue idea lha it is only in Ohio— and that Ohio lies a great \ ay off. So it docs: but the spirit o' anarchy is the ame every where; and the doctrines now in the vourse of adoption in Ohio, are hut fruits springing from the princi ples disseminated from Ta jit many Hall, i i Con grass* The proceedings of th|s body still continue devoid of interest. In tlf ? House, a debate is going on in relation to :i|, appropriation for the Cumberland Road. The fjoinmitleeon printing, of which Mr. Black is Chairman, ere not yet ready to report, and have obtained further time to prepare their report. We have received the: Speeches of Messrs. Alford and Colquitt, on the Abolition question, anil shall lay both ot them befoie our readers at as early a day us possible. Repeal of Charters. —The Legislature of Ohio have decided, hy a solemn vole of both Houses, that they have thu Right to Repeal any Act of hueorporaiim. TaU preamble and resolu tion setting forth, this doctrine, were adopted bv the House on the 20th of January. i Tbve Ameiucax Office, N. Orleans,Tuesday Feb. 11,9 A. M. S St. Louis Exchange Destroyed!—Eire K aging j 1 tie St. Louis L\ hanpe, with its magnificent dome OOst 1,700,04*0, is, |»t the hour we write, one mass of rums. The |rc broke out this mor ning at 4| o’clock, in the! fifth story, from the •park* escaping through j cracked chimney.— The keeper of the Hotel |had been shown this flaw in the chimney, it is; fid, some days am. At 5 o'clock, it was sccg that the fire was ra ging between the slating find the plastering, and that it could not be arrested. The alarm tvaa now general, and the lodgers many of them, barely escaped with their clothes, so rapid was the progress the flames. About six. the great Ba|l Room fell in with a tremendous crash. t At S o’clock, the lofty ilomo of the rotunda wa on lire, the flames mou tmg to an immense height. While we write, the buildings on the o iposite sule ot St. Louis street fritting the Exchange, arc Beginning to bum. ficie the flames will 1 e arrested is hard to say, Ibe Citizens Bu.nk in th rear oi the Exchange, it is hoped, will escape. A,- it ls fire proof and stands separate from ill ot tr walls. The wh »le cost ofthe 1 xehafcge was >1.700.- 000. and it is under moil; \g e f or >l,}i;u i s oi) ’ rh " 1 oB m f which the budding h d, ti is hi ci cului i< s-oiue S‘JOti.l t.u m bilU, an J aaredj any spo con hand, '(’he O leans Insurance Co. of th s city, and the pfi e - C' v nix. of London, have small risks. There may he others, but we cannot stop to ascertain. The loss of this building will prove disastrous in the extreme to the Ist Municipality. The ro : tunda was the m >st magnificent structure of tae kind in the Union. From the Savannah Georgian of Saturday. From Europe—Direct. Bv the ship Courtenay, Capt. Brown,from Li verpool. we are furnished with dates to 30th Dec. ; being four days later than those previously receiv ed via New York, per Patrick Henry. Capt. Brown sailed on the evening of the Ist Jan., but we regret to say, brought no papers. For the Chronicle Sf Sentinel. Mrt. Editor In your country paper of the 20th December last, you do great injustice to some of the members of the Union party. I al lude to your remarks upon the election of Rail road Commissioners, in which will be found the following sentence. “We presume there was no good reason for turning out Doctor Hamilton, who is a highly intelligent man, unless it was to make a majority of the Board of the right com plexion of politics. As that had to he done , we knew of but few Union men better qualified than Mr. Liddell.” Now the truth of the matter is, that nearly all the votes Major Hamilton received were Union votes, and had you been personally at Milledge viHe, during the last session, you would have been satisfied that there was more management than party management, used in regard to the West i ern ai d Atlantic Railroad. How else do you account for the fact that Major Crawford, a State Rights man, received a large majority upon the first ballot, when there were several candidates, and the Union party had upwards of 30 majori ty! Do you think the Union party did it in a spirit of liberality ? If so, they did not deserve the hit yo i gave them in the above paragraph.— But the truth is, there were many influential men , in the Legislature, who, for their own reasons, thought if necessary that the road should be graded immediately to Ross’s Landing. O-VE Who Knows. Correspondence rs the North American. New York, Feb. 11,3 P. M. Very erroneous statements have been put forth j • I in some of our morning papers respecting the affairs of the Manhattan Bank. The matter is not very perfectly understood in the street, nor j perhaps in the bank, but the statements which j i foot u a $1,200,000, are too large by at least onc -1 half. The loss will not be such as to impair the I cred't of the bank, er even stop its dividends, or j even exhaust its surplus. If the thing had happened in any other bank it would have made little noise; but the Man hattan is such an old-maidish super-prim affair, that any little slip attracts every one’s attention The affair was talked of quite seriously yesterday, but is laughed at again to-day. Stocks have not varied materially to-day.— Manhattan, 90bid. The sales of Cotton are 500 bales at steady prices. Small sales of common Southern flour at $6 25. Corn 60 a 63 c 56 lbs. Exchange on Philadelphia 6J a 6f; Charleston i 3A; New Orleans 44 a 44. ! - Correspond nee of the National Intelligencer. New York, Feb. 12. The Manhattan Bank business continue to en‘ gross attention. James G. King, of the firm of Prime, Ward & King, it is stated, now holds the proxies of the heirs of the Marquis of Cacrrnar- I then, and if the Cashier does not resign, or give a better account than he is now giving of bis stewardship, they will be used, it is not improba ble, to compel him to resign. The newspaper press now is taking strong ground against Banks making loans on stocks , but the practice of loan" ing upon Treasury notes is equally detrimental* The incidental propositions of the Government’ | hy the way, looking to a new issue of Treasury 4 notes, are steadily watched in this business com. , munhy. The absurdity of denouncing credit i and sack a resort to it, strikes many as an incon j gruity. Again, such is the state of business, and >o Utile is the hope ot a healthy revival of trade undei the existing state of things, as connected j with the currency, that there is a general disposi tion to hold the greatest merchant of the country ] —that is, the administration of its Government— !to its piofessions in finance—its bona fide disuse of banks—its real hard money; the conviction j being general that, if the Administration is com pelled to practice its professions upon itself, it will be the first to change respecting them. Upon the presumption here that the hard money times are at hand, property and labor are accommodoting themselves to the Cuba and the Chida standard. Real property is quite unsaleable. Investments in houses and lands will pay but a nominal inter est. The rents of some stores have fallen one. i half, but it is more difficult now to raise the one half than the quadruple of it in times gone bv.— Labor roams about the city in search of employ and in many cases it can he obtained at almost any price—the price of mere subsistence. If but such an approach to a hard money currency brings such a string of troubles, what arc we to do when the t übaor Chinese elysiurn is reached ? Manhattan slock sold to-day at 94. Exchange on E rgland is 1684 and 109; on France, 5 25. It seems to be concluded that the Liverpool steam ship did not leave at the time appointed, and will not, therefore, leave till March. The Tost Master General and the Phil adelphia Railroad. We learn from the Baltimore Post, that in re | ply t communication, addressed by the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad Company, to the Post Master General, that officer has made a proposi tion to the Company which is likely to bring this ’ matter to a satisfactory arrangement. The prop osition is in suostance as follows: 1. That the Company transport the Southern I and Northern mails, and wav mails, between : Philadelphia and Baltimore, under charge o: afient." ot the Post Ossie Department, 'o leave Philadelphia at hours to be fixed by the Post Master Ge. ral. 2. The Company to transport a second daily 1 ; mail and way mails under charge of the conduc -1 j lor, nine moths in the year. : .nd as much lon .-or as the Co.npaiiy -uns two trains of passenger cars; this second mail to connect with the morn | inn mail from New York ; the hours in other rc- i sports to be selectco by the Company. 3. The compensation for this service to be S3OO a mile, about $30,000 per annum, with ad ditional allowance for carrying the mails between the Depots and Post Offices in the two cities ;* the compensation not to be increased, in case the Department should deem it advisable to put the western mail on this route. - Respecting the affair of the Manhattan Bank die Yew \ ork Commercial Advertiser ol Monday 1 afternoon, the 10th says— Thoe is considerable excitement in Wall street 1 this morning upon litis sbbject. It is understood ) that on Saturday the President made oath that | I certain large loans, made upon securities not now I considered adequate, (though believed to he am i pie when the loans were made,) were made with : out his knowledge. There is, at all events, great dissatisfaction on the part of the directors, which has increased by farther investigation. The discount line of the bank, is about 2.200,- 000 dollars. Os this amount, some 1.108,000 dollars has been loaned upon stocks and other se i cu rities, as referred to above. It is not supposed, however, that the loss ot j the bank will exceed three hundred thousand dol lars. and possibly not more than one hundred and fifty thousand. It is reported that the directors will insist upon j at least a partial change of officers. Bridges over the Potomac. The Long Bridge, we regret to say, after re sisting the running ice for thirty hours, gave way I about 11 o’clock on Monday night, with a tre mendous crash, owing to the pressure of the ! immense bodies of ice which floated down the I river. We are also sorry to learn that about two hundred yards of the bridge have been entirely I swept away, including the draw and the buildings I occupied by the bridge-keeper on the Virginia : side of the river. By this untoward occurrence, ! travelling to and from the South will be seriously impeded, and much inconvenience arise to the 1 citizens of this District especially. We arc also sorry to learn that the Chain J Bridge above Georgetown, which was supposed to be beyond the reach of injury, has been co«- | siderably damaged, and that it will probably be ; impassable for a short time.— i\ut. Intel. From the N Y. Commercial Advertiser. New Brunswick.—We have before us the I St. John Gazette of January 3l)th, containing the speech of Sir John Harvey at the opening of the Parliament of New Brunswick. It contians, however, very little that can be interesting to readers in this country. The Lieutenant Governor informs the Pa liga ment that measures are in progres for a canal to j connect the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St. I Lawrence. Some of the frontier battalions of j militia have received a certain degree of training, 1 in view of possible future contingencies, and fora portion of the militia force suitable uniform : clothing has been provided. The only allusion to the boundary dispute is i ; that made in the following paragraph: I will not conclude tins address without ex pressing to you the confident expectation which 1 entertain, that the result of the exploration ot certain parts of the disputed territory which has been made by commissioners appointed by her Majesty for that purpose, will enable her Majes ty’s Government to advance such propositions to that of the U. S., as the basis of the settlement of the momentous question involved, as must lead to its early, amicable and final adjustment. In the mean time I would express my hope that sen timents of moderation and forbearance may pre vail on either side. A Sad Picture.—The N. York Signal says —“ The prostration and despondency existing among our mercantile community appears to be wholly without parallel. Indeed, those only, who are brought in immediate contact with the com mercial classes, can form an adequate idea of their depressed condition. Business appears to he wholly paralyzed. Enterprise is torpid, and exer tion utterly checked. During the last two or three weeks heavy failures have taken place among persons who were b lieved to be secure against financial fluctuations and contingencies. Some of our oldest and most firmly established houses have been swept to the ground. The dif ficulty of making collections—the immense de preciation of real estate securities—the ruinous rates of Exchange—and a combination of all those causes, which tend to destroy commercial prosperity,seem to have united to bring about the ! present disastrous state of things.” A case was tried last week in the District Court . j of Philadelphia, which should operate as a cau tion to anonymous letter writers. John Hays ’ brought a suit against Joseph Baker for a libel, which libel consisted in an anonymous letter I written by the latter to a third person, charging > Hays with dishonest practices. The authorship I of the letter being made out, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff of $2496. Naval Defence.—ln answer to a resolution? • of the Senate last year, calling for a report from , the President, on the military and naval defences , required for the country, the Navy Board report 1 ; that— -1 In respect to steam vessels of war, looking 1 j at our numerous and exposed harbors, and liabili > | fy to attack by the same species of force, not less I then forty armed steamers, ..f different sizes and 3 ; power, would lie required. r j The average cost of these is estimated at $3-33,- , | cac.i. making lor the whole forty a gross sum , | ot ' thirteen and a half millions of dollars. - In respect to vessels of war—tUe present force - lit for service, or worthy of repair, excluding a . -nip ot the line partially built at Sackett’s Har _ | bor, consists of 11 ships of the line, I razee, 14 j frigates, ~l sloops and 6 smaller vessels; and they ' , estimate, that to complete the force that they r.«p. , j P ose couW be manned upon the occurrence of t war, an addition would he required of 14 ships of t tbe illie > 15 frigates, II sloops, and 24 smaller j vess °ls over and above the steamers referred to under the first head. The cost of building and i arming this additional force is estimated at <l9 260.r0t). ’ s : 3 F °r rile completion of the Navy Yards, 3 Docks, &c. at the different stations, the sum: of $24,000,000 would be required, in addition to 1 which a new naval establishment, in the waters of Narragansett Bay, is recommended as indifjpen ’ sable in time of war. ? * - The motives which have operated on the Chinese government in endeavoring to break up at all hazards, the Opium trade with that couri - try, are made apparent by the annexed article, j copied from the New York Star; t Few persons have any idea of the nature and - extent of the opium trade in China. Os the hor s rible events of the drug more may be known - He who begins taking opium habitually at twen ty, must scarcely expect to live longer than to the i age ot thirty, or from that age to thirty-six* the i latter is ihe utmost age that, for the most part is : attained. Tocqueville, in his “Travels m the Morea,” stales that the class of opium pate s t known under the name of Theriakis, after some years, accustom themselves to lake doses of a - drachm each. Then comes on a frightful paiid - ness of countenance; and the victim wastes r aw ». v in a kind ot marasmus, that can be com r pared to nothing but itself. Alopecia, and a to - | lal loss ot memory, with rickets, are the never failing consequences of this deplorable habit. • 1 But no consideration —neither the certainty of j ; premature death, nor of the infirmities by which it must be preceded—can correct a thcriaki; he < answers madly to any one who would warn him of i.is danger,” that his happiness is inconceivable when he has taken bis opium pill. It he lie ask ed to define this supernatural happiness, be an swers that it is impossible to account tor it—that pleasure cannot be delmfd. Always beside themselves, the theriakis are incapable of work ; they seem no more to belong to society. Fowaid ( the'end of their career, they, however, experience j violent pain, and are devoured by constant hun ger; nor can their paregoric it; any way relieve j their sufferings; become hideous to behold.de prived of their teeth, thcii eyes sunk in their j heads, in a constant tremor, they cease to live long before they cease to exist. The dealers in opium are little aware of how much harm they are the instruments of doing, by carrying on this demoralizing and destructive traffic; but the difference between the increase of the Chinese people, before and after the intro- | duction of opium ought to open their eyes, and | lead them to ask themselves whether they are not j accountable for the diseases and deaths ot all j those who have suffered by its introduction. It is authentically stated, that the Chinese increased | at the rale of three per cent, per annum before j the commencement of the traffic, and at the rate of one per cent, per annum since. j The efforts of the Chinese government i.un ig ■ the last ten years to arrest this inhuman traffic , have been of the most energetic and persevering ; descriptions; but their praiseworthy attempts ; have been continually baffled by the ingenuity ol j English and American dealers. The Emperor i appears now to be exasperated to the last degioe , again-t the abettors of the trade. Never was a ; weak and pusillanimous government more Go- j lently roused then the Chinese authorities appeal ; to be on the subject o f the illicit traffic in opium. [ That the traffic is demoralizing, cruel, and onti christain, there appears to he no doubt. A dis tinguished missionary has told us that almost the first word uttered by a native Chinese, when urg ed to believe m Christ, is, “Why do Chris'ians bring us opium, and bring it directly in defiance of our own laws ?” Alas, for the g’ory of England, should she stoop to take sides with the venal hucksters and pedlars, who are enraged at being cut oil from a profitable t' ough impious traffic by the temper- | ance reform of the Pagan “brother ot the sun and uncle of the moon !” New Atlantic Steam Fine. — The United States, intended as a companion to the Liverpool, the property of the Trans-atlantic Steam Ship Company, is nearly ready for launching. She will, it is expected, take her place in the line to New York, on the 29th of April. Halifax Steamers. — Mr. Cunard’s line of steam ships between Liverpool, Halifax,and Bos ton, will commence plying in the month of May. These steamers will keep up a communication, I once in a fortnight, between Europe and Ameri | ca. ! The woollen factory of Pierce and Cook at Ko ! chester was discovered to be cn fire on the 4th instant, and narrowly escaped destruction. Da mage about S2OOO. Insured S6OO. A Warning.—A rase of some importance to travelleis and steamboat proprietors, was recently decided at Cincinnati. It seems that during the last season, the steamboat “Stephen McFar land,” when on her passage from New Orleans to Cincinnati, was run into by the steamboat “ Danube,” by which, there was not only a to ! tal loss of the McFarland, with her cargo, <Vc., but the loss of a number of valuable lives.— Caotain Strader, the owner of the McFarland, immediately instituted a suit against tne owner of ihe Danube, for the full value of the boat.— The trial took place the week before last, in the Superior Court of Cincinnati, his Honor Judge I Este, presiding. When, after a full investiga tion of the case, the Jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, of $23,000. and interest being the full amount claimed by him. The Cincinnati Gazettee thus remarks upon this case : The property which has been destroyed, and 1 the lives that have been sacrificed by such‘steam boat accidents’ as that by which the McFarland was lost, and similar ones, within the past ten years are quite beyond ready computation.— I Were the injured party always to act with the decision of Captain Strader, there is no doubt but that steamboat collissions would he much less frequent than they are. V reckless pilot or com mander does not particularly dread the crack of i a pistol and the smell of a liitle gunpowder; but touch his pocket smartly, or make it the fashion to send to the Penitentiary all those who are proved guilty of sporting with human life, and the effect will be found marvellous. From the St. Augustine Herald. The Blood-Hounds. Thinking it quite probable that the newspapers would soon magnify the blood-hounds brought ' from Cuba into creatures about the size of an°el ephant with teethlike a shark’s and jaws longer than an alligator’s, I galloped over to Magnolia yesterday and passed the day with the amiable animals. So various are these dogs in color, shape, size, and age that at first sight they appear like an or j riinary pack harking about a planter’s dwelling, bur examination proves them quite another thing! To describe a dog so as to he understood is diffi cult. I must tb retore convey a general idea by requesting you to imagine a short-haired, black, red. yellow, brindled, or spotted dog, or any color that ever bedecked the species. 24 inches high and 36 inches long (or thereabouts) with a head, breast, fore-legs and shoulders like a light-made j mastiff, and snout somewhat elongated, cars erect like a grey hound (mostly cropped where they bend) and loins, croup haunches, and tail, like a grey-hound, only thicker set. This combination you may conceive produces an animal of great nerve, strength and agility, and such, to all ap pearance, aie these blood-hounds. They are 34 in number—s or 6 old dogs well trained—the remainder younger—some 1 should think not a yen* old; one ol these, a lady olood hound. walked about the village with me as la rmliarly and lovingly as a spaniel; but her kind ness was inoperative upon the rest of her clan for such a set of ferocious beasts I never before saw. That modern Daniel, Van Amburgh who goes among the lions, would stand no chance among them. \\ hen any living thing approach es one ot the older dogs, his eyes flash, he roars with rage, and twists like a serpent to escape from his chain; the keepers have them under sub jection, but have frequently to maintain quiet or oer 1 y inflicting heavy blows with a cudgel, when the dog lays down with an air which seems to say 1 W] ff be civil to accommodate you ; but d n your stick, for they neither wince or howl. A few days since as an experiment, a negro was sent a mile into the woods to chrnb a tree and in an hour afterwards a dog was put upon the trail—he followed it direct through all the windings of the hu-hes without faulting The only question is, will they follow the trail of an Indian 1 It tney will they will he a great acquis- j itiontothe country, for as to fighting I am satis- I fied they would grapple with any thin**.—The wav two or three of them would rattle a’ dozen Indians out of a scrub, or a bay-gali would be no bodys business. I can only add that lam much pleased with the blood hounds, and would like no better fun than taking a hunt with them Four Ueepo's have come with then, Cu ba. The elder a very respectable sort of man as 1 believe a runaway negro hunter by profession, and lie has such confidence in his dogs that he is ready to lead their way against Indians, wherever ordered —there is nothing of the fiinchcr in ids appearance. Great Ship Rack.—The packet ship South America, Capt. D. G. Bailey, sailed on the 3d inst. for Liverpool, taking out an account ot the doings of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in re lation to compelling the Banks of that state to re sume specie payments. Immediately after the S. A. had sailed, the Governor of Pennsylvania issued his message, in favor of granting the Banks further time. This important document was sent out by the Philadelphia Banks on the sth inst., in the crack ship Rochester, Gapl. Woodhouse, with directions to Capt. W. to engage extra hands and to heat the S. A. if possible. We understand that the suspended banks in Pniladeiphia have contributed a fund ot $ 1,000, to be tli\ ided amongst the crew of the Rochester it she arrives Liver pool first. —New York Morning Chronicle. The Deer at the Falls.— We learn from a correspondent at the Falls, that the Deer which attracted so much attention the other day by his voyage down the river on a cake ot ice, was on j Saturday driven from his place ot refuge, and ; forced to take the tremendous leap. He was frightemd from the Island, on which he had re | rnained so quietly for the last week, by some per j sons coming on the ice that had lodged on the 1 bead of his island, and between that and Goat Island. Seeing these unwelcome guests invad j ing his quiet abode, he retreated to the farther ; side of the island and leaped into the rapids. At ! ter swimming about twenty rods towards the j Canada shore, he tacked about and swam lirect ly for the precipice. He was instantly dashed ! down the perpendicular height ot one hundred j and sixty feet, yet came up to the surface oi the 1 water aide. He made several attempts to swim but in vain. O ercorne by the plunge and chill ed by the coldness of the water, he finally sub mitted to the mercy of tie current. He is still to be seen floating in an eddy at the foot ot Goat Island.— BitJfalu Journal. Rvii.noad Inox.—lt seems, from a report made by the Treasury Department to tho House of Kepiesentatives, that the amount of duties remitted on iron imported for railroads and steam boats, exceeds the very large sum of three mil lions and a half of dollars. This, certainly, - gives some claim to the U. States to require that railroads should transport the public mail upon better terms than they transport freight or pas sengers. From the New Orleans Picayune. 6i My Name is Haines.” There are thousands of people in this country who make use of the common expression “ My name is Haines,” when they are about leaving a place or party suddenly, yet few know from whence the expressson is derived. A more com | raon saying, or one in more general use, has ne ver been got up. We hear it in Maine and in Georgia, in Maryland and in Arkansas; it is in the mouths of the old and the youug, the grave and the gay—in short, «My name is Haines,” enjoys a popularity wcich no other slang or cant I phrase has ever attained. “ Fin o-p-h,” “ I must j mizzle.” “ I must make myself scarce,” arc fre- I quently used, but the expression which heads this i article leaves them all out of sight. Having said ! thus much of the reputation of the phrase, he it ! our next cure to give its origin. Some thirty-five years since a gentleman named j Haines was travelling on horseback in the vicini | ty ot Mr. Jefferson s residence in \ irginia. Par : ly spirit was running extremely high in those days. Mr. Jefferson was President, and Haines was a rank federalist, and, as a matter of course, a bitter opponent of the then existing administra tion and its head. He was not acquainted with Mr. Jefferson, and, accidently coming uu with that gentleman, also travelling on horseback, his party zeal soon led him into a conversation upon the all-absorbing topic. In the course of the con versation Haines took particular pains lo abuse Mr. Jefferson, called him al! sorts of hard names, run down every measure of his administration, poked tne non-intercourse and embargo acts at him as most outrageous and ruinous, ridiculed his gun boat system as preposterous and nonsensical, opposed his purchase of Louisioua as a wild scheme in short, took up every leading feature ot die politics ot tne day, and descanted upon them and their originator with the greatest bitter ness. Mr. Jefferson, all the while, said but Utile. There was no such thing as getting away from his particular friend, and he did not exactly feel at liberty to combat his arguments. They finally arrived in front of Mr. Jefferson’s residence, Haines, ot course, notacquanted with the tact, Notwithstanding he had been vilified and abused ‘-like a pick-pocket,” to use an old saying, Mr. Jefferson still, with true Virginia hos pitality and politeness, invited his travelling com panion to alight and partake of some refreshment. Haines was about getting from his horse, when it came into his head that he should ask his com panion’s name. “Jefferson,” said the Presinent, blandly. “'J he d—l ! What, Thomas Jefferson I” ‘A es, sir, 1 homas Jefferson.” 1 icsidenl f homas Jefferson ?” continued the astonished federalist. J lie same, rejoined Mr. Jefferson. “Well, my name is Haines!” and putting spurs to his horse he was out of hearing instant” ly. 1 his, we have been informed, was the origin : of the phrase. Dreadful Explosion of v Ship. — \ letter from Tunis, dated the 16th ult. contains ths par ticulars of the explosion on board the barge Santi - | siino Christo, in the Goulette, alluded to in the | Malt s , lcttprs of the 26th ult. Nothing could I P( l ual thesPelle of desolation and horror offered by La Goulette after this disaster. There were 117 I barre,s ot gunpowder in the vessel, and the com- I motion was so strong that all the houses were sha ken—not a pane ot glass left entire. The lustres I T f rysVdh ° f * he B °y’ s P alace were broken, and r hC Christo was blown to atoms, heads ' frightfully disfigured, fragments ofhuman bodies ; pieces ot flesh so mutilate.Miat it was impossible to discover to what part of the body they belonged • arms, legs, and hands lay scattered here and there |on the shore. A poor wretch with broken limbs was the only victim who survived awhile the dis ; aster ; and to questions addressed to him vespec j tlu . s lts cause he replied, in a faint and dvin" I y o,^ e “We were all on deck, and the boy had just gone down into the cabin with a light when suddenly felt myself uplifted into the .ir JS was shortly afterwards plunged into the water” expired. SCaiCe y the ‘ se words when he The Attorney General of the State of Michi- U K e are forty-three Banks he tale, which proceeding have been insti itu to Procure a dissolution of their corporate lie a i thmy ' four of these owe the pub i- 1 ln^e h te dness of more than a nii'- hon and a half of dollars. Repatitee.—The recent election of Mr. Hun- I , er as S P eaker of the House of Representatives being announced as the election of a Sub-Tren*' ur V W/u 'ff a fri end of the Administration a ked what ki«d of whig a Sub-Treasury Whi L r could >e . •• I don’t know,” replied the person address ed, ‘ unless it is a Sub-Treasury man , steal?-Western Journal. * who wont Mr. Richard Hildreth has sued us for Tioenfi Thousand Dollar’s damages for expressing o g r belief that he is insane! If suing a printer f or >20,000 is not sufficient evidence that a man crazy, there is no use in having the Worcester Hospital. —Boston Post. Ism a Cotton. — A Bombay paper of 16th, received at this office, says—“ We under stand that the Court of Directors have engaged twelve Americans to proceed to this country f or the purpose of improving the cultivation an j cleaning of Colton, and that they may be short!.. I expected to arrive at Bombay.— Jour, of Coni Order of Celebration of the corn! of February, 1840, The Committee appointed to make arrange, ments for the celebration of Washington’s birth day, have appointed Capt W. T.®Gould. Mar shal of the day. At 10 o’clock A. M., the procession will be formed in front of the United Stites Rote!, and proceed to the Presbyterian Church, under the command of the Marshal of the day, whui. abet divine service, Washington’s Farewell Address f 4 will be read by the Rev. C. Stcrges. and an Ora tion will be delivered by Wm. R. McLaws, Esq ORDER OF PROCFSSION. ’ j) Ist. Augusta Artillery Guards. 2nd. Clinch Ridemen. 3d. Major General and Staff 4lh. Brigadier General and Staff, g sth. Colonel of 10th Regiment and Staff and Officers of the 10th Regiment. 6th. Officers of Army and Navy. 7th. Orator and Reader. Bth. The Reverend Clergy. 9th. The City Authorities. 10th, Magistrates of the City and County. 11th. Fire t-ompanies of the City. ]2th. Mechanics’ Society. 13th. Medical Faculty and Students. 14th. Citizens. The pews on the right and left of the centre hie, will be reserved for the procession. The Authorities of the City and County, the Reverend Clergy, the Members of the Fire De partment, the Mechanics Society, and the citizens generally, are respectfully invited to join the pro cession, in the above order. Salutes will be fired at sunrise and at noon, by \ the Augusta Artillery Guards. Committee of Council. G. F. Parish, Chas. B. Hitt, Wm. E. Jackson. Augusta Artillery. Clinch Rifiemen. John N. Raiford, Wm. M. Frazer. O. E. Cashin, John A. Snyder. Daniel W. Dill. Wm. McLean. COMMERCIAL. Latest dates from Liverpool, Dec. 30 i Latest dates from Havre Dec 19 Liverpool, December, 27. Cotton —The demand fiom the trade has been ! to a fair extent, and in the early part of the week 1 prices were firm, but since the arrival ot the British ; Queen with accounts,fully confirming the previous l estimate of the crop, i olders have offered their I stocks more freely, and the market closed without "1 animation at last Friday’s quotations. Brazil, Egyptian and Surat arc heavy of sale and previous rates aic barely supported. Exporters have taken 1000 American, and Speculators 500. Sales of week ending 27tii Dec. 19,270 bales —60 Sea Island at 20d a 22d ; 4920 Bowed, s,fd a bile, 6d a 7jd ; 6890 Orleans, 6d a 9d. ( Evening) Dec. 30. The accounts by the British Queen, have induced holders of Cotton to be more anxious sellers, and prices are rather lower, and have a tendency tode cline. Sales since Friday, the 27th Dec. are 700 U bales. New York, February 12 Cotton —The transactions in Colton for the last three day s have been to a fair extent, without any material change in price. 75 ) bales of Upland, were taken at 7k a 94; 600 bales New Orleans at S a I 10L 150 Florida at a and 200 bales of Mo bile at a 10 eents. Coffee. —Sales being still confined to the wants of the trade, operations are necessarily limited— I 700 bags Brazil were sold at 10 a 12 cents* 360 St. Domingo at 84 cts.; and 60 bags Lagnira at 11 cts.; on the usual credit—at which rates holders are firm. i Sugar. —The demand has been quite moderata since our last —50 hhds only of New Orleans liav- { ing been sold at 5 a 54c.; 100 hhds Porto Rico at 7; I : 50 hhds St; Croix at 9; and 250 boxes of brown I I Havana at 6 ■} a? 4 cts. Molascs is dull at last I week’s prices. P Flour. — The market still remains very dull, and nc sales of consequence have been made since our last review. Western is held at $6,374 a j Georgetown and Howard street, $6,3?4 a $6,50; Alexandria and Richmond country $6,25. —TPS7 - -AP-fc.-ETg-r ax- 1 r..» ?: - - MA KINE INTEIJJGENCE. Savannah, February 14. Cleared —Br bark Mary, Godfrey, Liverpool; Br brig Iris, Dickson, do. Arrived —Br ship Courtenay, Brown, Liverpool; schr Emeline, Gates, New Orleans; steamboat Hamburg, Wood, Augusta. Went to sea —ship Stirling, Saunders, Liverpool; , brigs Clinton, Lyon, New York; Omar, Snow, Bos ton; Planet, Knowlton, Portsmouth, N.C. Charleston. Feb men’ 17. a Arrived on Saturday —C L brig Dimon, Mathew?. New York; schrs John Enders, Bell, Richmond; 5 ..I Rockwell, Walpole, St Augustine. Arrived yesterday —Br barque Mary' Muir, Payne- Newcastle, (Eng.) Cleared —Barques Sardius, Thatcher, Glasgow; Verona, Bogardus. Amsterdam; brig George Henry Gould, Apalachicola; schrs Doris, Perry, ho; M®* darin, Burrows, Baltimore; Olcron, Harthom, * | bile. Went to soa yesterday —Packet ship Chico ra, he- . I gers, Liverpool; IT barque Mexico, Beuscher, ID* d I vre; brig Oceanus, Smith, Antwerp; Br brig W oo- f ! bine, Shaw, Grenada; U L brig George, Hull, f * York. C3= Doctor J. J. WILSON offers bis proses- I sional services to the citizens of Augusta and f vicinity. He will bo found at his residence, the first brick building above Guedron’s stable on ElH= street, recently occupied by John L. Adams, aug 17 7* SFrW. G. NIMMO, General Commission Mer- | chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door tot..e onstitutionalist. nov 1 (JJj'Dr. B. HARRIS offers his services in I practice of his profession to the citizens of Augus ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive prorup attention if Iclt at his drug store in Broad street. 1 " at his residence in Eliis street, below Washing* ton. nov i GC/* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— U sight, I and at one to tw ty days sfiffit For sale by nov 23 GAUDELLE & KUINP- | C-ff" Dr. ; W. I LF\ r offers his services to the f tizens ol Augusta in the different branches ol h" ( ! profession. He may be found at all hours at the late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second dooi from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets. ncv29. * ly ffr TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS'' 1 iie Paintings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Academy (Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to vi’ 1 * tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, iso 2 o’clock until 9 o’clock r. m. At night the room s will be well lighted. dec 19