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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. , FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28. Our Reading Room. Some weeks since we n. oar friend* that we were making arrangements to Ijavethis estab lishment handsomely fitted up and we!! supplied with Papers and Magazines, und»r the impres sion that it would receive such patronage as it merited. In this, however, we have thus far been disappointed, as there seems to bf little disposi tion to sustain an establishment :of the sort in the city. The indiflerence, however, is pvbbably the re sult of an impression among mi>ny 'who have heretofore been subscribers, that tljey are still so, which is erroneous, unless their S übscription be renewed. The object of this notice therefo|fi is to inform those who wish to become subscribers to the t i Room, tl at our Book will be kept* -tpen and the Room lighted during the present weak. at the ex piration of which, we will determine* whether it is prudent to ir-cur greater expense, j>r discontinue altogether. : j The price o {"subscription to each as Fiva Dol lars per annum, invariably in advance For a Firm of two or more mem'fit’rs Ten Dol lars. I| tj Virginia Legislature—New Jersey, The following resolutions, which;<|onclude the report of the Committee appointed || f the House of Representatives of V a., to whoa Was referred |he resolutions of the Legislature of Hew Jersey, speak the language of freemen wh > duly appre ciate the value of our institutions, and feel justly indignant at the late violent assart which the elective franchise has received by tl.e recent pro ceedings of the House of Reoresent atives, in ex cluding the New Jersey members from their seats. The frequent outrages which this branch of the National Legislature have committed upon the laws and constitution, call loudly forVedress; and we trust that the day of reckoning: is near at hand ; when the people, aroused froth the lethar gy which has so long spell-bound! them, will assert the dignity of their station, and teach those who are their servants their duties tofthe country, its laws and constitution. They ha*£ hut to wilj it, and the work will go bravely c|a, until the national councils will be freed frotrj the malign / influence of men, who seek no distinction but that of the brawling, vulgar partisan, Advocate no cause but that which promotes the vkjws of their party leaders, and pursue that ccidrse which promises a reward for their humiliating degrada tion, even if it sacrifice the best intd ests of the country:—and in their places will be found those who, rising above the paltry consider! lions which vibrate through the souls of such met , (if indeed they have souls,) will stand forth no! y and fear lessly in defence of the constitution s ad laws.— Phis is no chimera. There are to be 'found men, rare we confess, in whose bosoms thetfires of ’76 still burn, who would most nobly sacrifice all personal and party aggrandizement for the pub lic good. Virginia Legislature. House of Delegates, February 19. Mr. Southall, from the Select Comniitte, made a report on the New Jersey case, concluding with the following resolutions : 1. Resulted, That the late acts of & portion of the Representatives from the several by wuich five of the persons who weredey commis sioned under the great seal of the State of New Jersey, as her Representatives in the -€th Con gress of the L nited States, were prevented from exercising their rights, and discharging their du ties as such Representatives, were a flagrant a buse of power, a palpable violation of ihe Parlia mentary law established by reason aif d unvary ing usage, a precedent of most ahirming and * dangerous character, and an outrage upon the rights and feelings of the People of New Jer sey. • 2. Resolved, That each State of this Confed eracy should make common cause with, her sister State of New Jersey—should deem Ihe injury to all and should use their best efforts to restore the said Slate to her constitutional jxsition in the Unu n. , Resolved, .That each State, as the law now is, has the sole, absolute, and unqualified right to prescribe, the mode and manner of it j elections of members to the Congress of the United States, as well as the form and character of th* commis sion or return, which its repective Representatives should bear wiht them to that body, r 4. Resolved, That the Governor of Lais Com monwealth, transmit a copy of the for.* oing re port and resolutions to the Senators a;.d Repre sentatives in Congress from this State, 4rith a re quest that the same belaid before thetWo Houses of Congress—and that he be requested to com municate a like copy to the Executive, of each State in this Union, with a request to submit the same to their respective Legislatures. Mr. Southall moved that the report arxd resolu tions be laid on the table and printed— tvhich was agreed to. IMr Chapman said that he had no objection to printing the report-but that the minority of the t!!!*iI^ eei L eC * < L days to make a coun ter-report, which he should also ask tc; U prin- Mr. Rives. The Richmond Whig of the24th in. tl contain the£rst part of a long letter from this gentleman, . in eeply to the letter of a friend, who requested his views on the subject of the pending faction for President; and what course he thought ought to be pursued by those Conservati es -who op pose the leading features of the pre« at Admin istration. As the length of the letter precludes its insertion, we extract the following Police of its contents from the W hig ; Mr. Rives.—The Tories* The last Jeffersonian Republican Contains a long and splendid letter from Mr. Rivc|i, fully de fining his position, (of which no man ’-within the twelve month has entertained a doubt) knd avow mSfVn opposition to the re-election ""““““'‘S’oipomioo O. ihe bene ful meaeure. and amtauoa, Je* lgn , „ M , v , e Bursn. He could not consistently with the R publican principles which he has e vet cherished fail to oppose an Administration, whicn has net’ severed against the voice of the people! in uririn* upon the country schemes the most WinoiL to j j the national prosperity and utterly destructive of ' our Republican institutions. He demonstrates the present Administration to be Federal—ultra Federal in all its leading measures, and on ac count ofthat and its hypocritical professions, to be wholly unworthy the confidence and support of a free people. He takes a review of the opin ions and acts of Gen. Harrison as shown by the records of the country, and he pays the old F armer of North Bend a high tribute of praise, which a grateful country will delight to echo. He runs a parallel between Gen. Harrison and Mr. Van Bu ren—contrasts their opinions on many important subjects, and their acts at several critical periods of our history, and awards, as every impartial man must, the crown of merit and the badge of Republicanism to the retired chief and calumnia ted patriot of Ohio. He refutes, by the record, many of the Tory calumnies upon Gen. Harrison, and pronounces him emphatically, as he is, the “ Republican candidate .” In reference to the charge of Abolition, he says : “ The most prominent of these charges, wh?ch is still wantonly repeated, is that Gen. Harrison is an abolitionist. I have recently investigated with care, all the evidences of his principles and con duct on this as well as other important public questions, and I am thoroughly convinced that if there be one man who has entitled himself to Ihe gratitude of the South beyond all others, by the noble and disinterested zeal he has at all times manifested, the sacrifices he has freely made, the single-heartedness with which he has exposed himself to persecution and political proscription in defence of the Constitutional rights of the South and the peace and safety of their firesides, against all interference, whether of fanaticism or political ambition, that man is Wm. Henry Har rison of Ohio.” Spirit of the Times. The last number of this valuable Chronicle of Sporting and Agricultural Intelligence, comes to us richly freighted, in addition to its usual quan tity of matter, with two beautiful steel plate en gravings, portraits of Shark and Hedgeford, in excellent preservation. To the admirers, and who is not 1 of that most noble of all animals, the horse, this enterprise on the part of the Proprie tors, must form an acquisition to his work, as interesting as it is beautiful and valuable. Mods. Adrian. This Prince of Magicians reached this city yesterday evening from Charleston, where he has been delighting the good citizens for some time with his inimitable and unrivalled powers. Mons. A. assures us that he has recently re turned from France, whence he brought the richest and rarest cabinet that has ever been introduced in this country, with which he contemplates giving an exhibition as soon as he can prepare for the reception of visitors. If there are any who have never witnessed his very extraordinary exhibi tions, we commend them as well as those who have seen, to go. And we promise them that if he does not show them a trick, by which they can ward off the pressure of the times, he will at least so interest them as to relieve their minds for a time from the cares of business. Messrs. Black and Cooper The admirer, as we have always been, of an independent ,untramelled press, it gives us pleas ure to lay before our readers the following article from the Southern Recorder, on the subject of the vote, these gentlemen gave for Printer to Con gress. Although the article meets our unqualified ap probation, we confess that, we should have been more pleased, had it made its appearance at an earlier day. For the delay savours a little of a wish to consult the popular current. “To ourselves, and we believe we say not too much when we add, to the great body of the State Rights party of Georgia, the vote of Messrs. Cooper and Black, for the Globe, broke upon us like a thunder-clap from a cloudless sky. These gentlemen are representatives of the State Rights Party of Georgia—the contest was between a paper which had done more injury to the Stale Rights Party than any other; which had heaped more abuse upon the members of that partv, than came from any other source; which had denoun ced State Rights principles as treason, and State Rights men as traitors ; which has warred upon our party in Georgia, aiding our opponents by every means, even ia our State elections—and doing all that the most active and untiring per severance and malignity could do, to keep in the minority, and utterly powerless, the very party whose representatives these gentlemen are—this was one party, in this contest. The other was the National Intelligencer, which although op posed to us in many things, and our peculiar views of State Rights among the rest, yet has al ways treated the State Rights party with respect and courtesy ; has never used its influence to aid our political opponents in our State elections; and whose character and standing is infinitely above the vulgarity and billingsgate, the favorite weapons of the other. The one commanding at least the respect of all parties, by its dignified conduct—the other has ever been the object of the contempt and scorn of all parties. Between such, we should have supposed there could have been but one determination on the part of the Georgia Delegation—and extreme has been our astonishment that it should have been other wise. But there are yet other, and if any thing, stronger reasons for surprise and mortification on the part of our party, at the vote of a portion of our delegation for the Globe newspaper, than those to which w«* have alluded. The State Rights party have been, are now, and will con tinue to war with the present Federal Adminis tration, should it even pretend to a creed thor oughly republican, even in the State Rights view of Republicanism, because they believe the Ad ministration to be thoroughly corrupt, and be cause it exacts the influence incident to it, to the corruption of the country, and totho destruction of the public morais and virtue. f Fbev believe it to be as notorious in its system of bribery, for po litical power, as was the administration of Robert Walpole of England. They believe that the corruption of the Federal Administration must be overthrown, with its authors, or that our free institutions will remain to us only in name. The Globe is, and has been, the great advo cate, and we may add, the most potent upholdei of this rotten Administration ; the boldest advo cate of all its iniquities; the successful champion of all its abuses. The Intelligencer has, on the other hand, been fearless and faithful in the ex posure of its iniquities, and in setting before the people the array of its enormities. Surely the State Rights Party had reason to expect, that in a choice between the friend and the opponent oi government corruption, its representativescoufo have spoken but one language. No one can wonder that there seems to be but one feeling ol surprise and disapproval, that any of their mem bers should have been found voting for the Globe On personal grounds there seems to ne as little apology for the course of those who thus voted Even the friends of the Administration, although they use it for their purposes, unite pretty much in the sentiment of Mr. Forsyth, in designating it the “dirty sheet,” and with Mr. Calhoun, it declaring that “it will nrv* r be caught telling f .the truth, if falsehood will answer the purpose.” i I The Globe baa no claims, political, personal, or i any other way, to countenance from the State • Rights Party, but every thing to call forth their i strongest condemnation ; their utter and indig t nant repudiation. “Had the members who voted for this most > malignant and unprincipled enemy of State r Rights and State Rights men, even thought it im i proper to support the Intell.gencer, the party had i a right to expect that they would have followed ■ the course of the State Rights Speaker of the t House, and others, in voting for White, or some i body else. As it is, we can only express to those 1 ; gentlemen the regret and mortification of the f great body of those they represent, and their ut ter disapproval, so far as we can ascertain, of , their course in this matter. W hen Francis P , Blair and his Globe are supported by th| State ; Rights Party of Georgia, it will be when they > have lost all remembrance of the insults and the injuries which that man and his paper have heap i ed on their principles and on themselves.” 3 1 Public Meeting in Charleston. Our readers were apprised some time since of [ the visit of the Founder of Hamburg to Charles ton, to submit to its citizens various weighty mat ters connected with the interests of the two , places. In the Charleston Courier of yesterday, | we have the report and resolutions of the comnart i tee appointed by the meeting, the latter of which ! is subjoined. ’ Resolved, That it be recommended to the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, to consider the expedi ency of establishing, with the least practicable de lay, capacious ware houses, both in Charleston and Humbuig, in furtherance of the measures suggested in this report. > Resolved, That it be recommended to the sev . eral Banks of this State, to take this subject into consideration, and if consistent with their inter ests, to establish Branches or Agencies atHam -1 burg, with a view to aid in the object propos » ed. . Resolved, That we do recommend to those of our Fellow-Citizens, who may be disposed to make partial investments of their capital, to take 5 the several matters, contained in this report into their serious consideration, and particularly so much of it as refers to a line of water communi cation, in aid of the means of transportation of fered by the Railroad. Thomas Bennett, James Rose, Hesrt L. Pincknet. Tristram Tupfer, Franklin H. Elmore. Dr. T. D. Mendenhall. The enterpising founder of Hamburg, Mr. Henry Schultz, addressed the meeting, and in a brief and feeling ruannar expressed his acknow ledgments for the consideration of the citizens of Charleston, and especially for the countenance and support he had received for his enterprise ■ from the Hon. Mr. Bennett, while Governor. ( On motion of Alex. Black. Esq., the report and p resolutions, and the proceedings of the meeting, were ordered to be published. Theie being no further business, the meeting adjourned- H. L. PINCKNEY, Chairman. C. B. Northrop, Sec’ry. Correspond nee of the National Intelligencer. New York, Feb. 22, 1840. Money on good paper now goes below the le gal rate, 7 per cent., and the best of paper can command money at 6 per cent. This is a rate now about as Tow as in England. Capitalists, finding but little disposition to borrow money to do business, are looking about for investments, and real estate has got almost low enough for them to snap it up. When it teaches the real hard money valie, there is no doubt that they will put their dollars and cents into houses and lands. The domestic exchanges grow better upon some States and worse upon others. The recent legislation upon banking matters in Alabama has shattered confidence very much as to that State.— | Nobody here approves of such finance as is so , consistently adopted by the powers that be there* The forwarding of the cotton crop gradually me- borates the condition of the exchanges; but we all know that without a National Bank, as soon as the crop is forwarded, the exchanges grow worse. 1 There is a general disposition in this State, in I the absence of any probability of a National Bank, . to make a quassi New York National Bank sys ; tern, equiviilent to the Suffolk Bank system of r New England—that is, to compel all the New i Yosk banks to redeem their bills in the city of . New York. If his be done, the Northern States r of the Union, as regards themselves alone, will t have a paper currency every where at par, and in [ Boston and New York redeemable in gold and sil* ; ver. As it regards our intercourse, that is highly desirable, but it will avail nothing as a national , measure. New Yorkers suffer less, however, | than any of the Southern or Western States, be s cause the centralization of trade here makes our 1 bills passable every where, and there is, therefore .... 9 , a general disposition to better our own currency, r as much as it can be done by State legislation, until the South has enough of their system— Brandon money, Alabama post notes. &c. to their i heart’s content. New York and New England f will be about the last parties now to move for a I National Bank. Northern capital will keep itself . at hf>me as much as possible. Northern credits - will be limited to States with a currency as sound as ours. Trade, of course, will suffer sadly under _ limited system, but people who want goods - will have to pay cash for them. The spring trade e opens here with such rules of action, and though | it will be very short, it will be very safe. The _ greatest sufferer in the end will be the Treasury tof the United States,and $ 5,000,000 of Treasury e notes will be but a bagatelle, judging by our Cus £ tom-house, of what Mr. Woodbury will want. A dozen European packets are now due. It is i- singular that we have no later news. Bills on • r London are from 7£ to 8. Manhattan Bank stock ha; gone up to 85. e The News and the Market. e e The New York Express of Thursday, 2P. M. „ says— ,f The news from Liverpool is to 4th, and had a d most favorable influence in Wall-street. Advi n ces are that Cotton had advanced j c . money was ,f plenlier, nd the rate of interest was lowered at . Liverpool. The news is calculated to have a . very happy effect. Later advices will be wait c ed for with great anxiety. I. ——- h Question and Answer— An editor in h Connecticut had the following question nut to g him recently : n Canamaneathay ? To this he replied— g Nobutanassean. The following is a copy of the new Treasury 1 Note Bill this day prepared by the Committee Ways and Means, and now depending in the House, Feb. 19 : An additional act on the subject of Treasury Notes. Sec. I. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer ica in Congress assembled. That the regulations and provisions contained in the act passed the 12th day of October, in the year 1837, entitled “An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes.” and in the subsequent acts in addition thereto, be, and the same are hereby, renewed and made in full force, excepting the limitations concerning the times within which such notes may be issued and restricting the amount thereof, as hereafter provided. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That un der the regulations and provisions contained in said act, Treasury notes may be issued in lieu of others hereafter or heretofore redeemed, but not to exceed, in the amount of notes outstanding at any onetime, the aggregate of $5,000,000, and to be reedeemed sooner than one year if the means of the Treasury will permit, by giving notice sixty days of those notes which the Department is ready to redeem —no interest to be allowed thereon after the expiration of said sixty days. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That this act shall continue in lorce one year, and no longer. An interesting case has been recently under ex. animation in the Supreme Court of the U. S. in relation to a boundary line between Massachu setts and Rhode Island. Mr. Webster make 8 the argument for Massachusetts, and Messrs. Whipple and Kazakh for Rhode Island. Rhode Island makes a claim of 11 miles of territory on the North boundary. From the Savannah Georgian , of February 25th- Latest From Florida. By the steamer Wm. Gaston, Capt. Poinsett’ we have received the St. Augustine, News of 21st inst., from which we extract the following; St. Augustine, February, 21. Numerous signs of Indians have been seen in the neighborhood of the river Santafee; and large trails have been seen extending northwardly, sup posed for the Okee-fee nokee Swamp. From New Smyrna. —On the 24th ult., a party of wood cutters belonging to the garrison atNew Smyrna, wpre fired upon by the Indians, half a mile from the fort.—They wounded one man captured three muskets, and a spare jacket or so- A sally was made by the garrison, and as usual, no succees. While the troops were pur suing them, one Indan had the temerity to ven ture within sight rs the garrison with a soldiers jacket on, and in range of three six pounders. Capt. Mickler,ofthe Volunteers,proceeded from his post, at Hewlett’s Millson Monday morning at daylight, and trailed the Indians totheTomoka river. Why was information delayed in being sent to Capt. Micklcr on Saturday night, and whose duty was it to have done so ? Sergeant Cercopoly and his command, recov ered a large portion of the Northern Mail on Mon day last, which was delivered to the Post Mas ter.—Some of the letters we-e torn. They were found about a half mile from the road, whither the Indians had dragged the wheels and frame of the light wagon, and left some remains of a hog which they had slaughtered, belonging to the mail carrier. On Wednesday last, a party of gentlemen star ted in quest of the lost Jacksonville Mail. Pro ceeding to the scene of the murdei of its carrier, they trailed the Indians about two miles in a northwesterly direction, and came to a small clus ter of trees where they had rested for some time, as their horses had lain down, and where they emptied the contents of the mail bag. But one letter was injured, and a few packages of news papers. The gentlemen who volunteered to search for this public property, are entitled to the thanks of the country, as well as any remunera tion which the Post Master General might award. Its reception would be appropiiated to a benevo lent object; and as far as money can go, would al leviate the sorrows of one who has been a severe sufferer by the murder. The Indians are supposed to have amounted to twelve or fifteen; and the inference drawn by these gentlemen, all woodsmen and familiar with the character of the enemy, is, that but a portion have gone off with the horses, as no foot trails are visible proceeding South. The Oomulgee Bank.. —The bills of this In stitution, as is known to our readers, have been for some time past, in a depreciated state, even to a considerably greater extent than most of the other suspended Banks. Whatever the reasons may have been for this state of things, we are happy to believe that the reasons do not now ex ist. By information derived from the best possi ble source, we understand that this Institution has only bills in circulation to the amount of about two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. That to meet this the Bank has of cash and bills, (which only await the opening of the river to make better than cash) to within some nine thous and dollars of its whole circulation. In addition to this, the instalment recently called for has been paid in cash; not by running notes in the Institu tion, but a bona fide payment in cash to the Bank of one hundred and fifty thousand more. Shewing as we would suppose nearly the latter amount of cash means over and above its circula tion. We say nothing of its assets, its notes and other property, the further security of its entire solvency; we only speak of its cash means to meet its circulation, and surely with such a showing, there is no proper reason why these bills should be depreciated below those of any other sound but suspended Bank in the State. Henry G. La mar has been placed at the head of the Institution, who is widely known as a man of high integrity as well as capacity, and a sufficient guaranteeffiat this Bank will do its duty to the public, as faith fully as any other institution, and with these facts, we believe that these bills will be no longer de preciated to the injury of trade, and the interests of the people.— Southern Recorder. Jonathan Slick, Esq. and Mad. Celeste. Jonathan, it appears from the Now York Ex press, visited the Park Theatre, while Madam Celeste was playing her engagement, and the unsophisticated young man’s description of her performance is really amusing. We dare swear that he never saw any thing at all like it in Weathersfield in all his born days. The follow ing is a part of his account of the evening’s per formances: r That minute a bell tinkled ; the picture rolled up agm and the fiddlers begun to put on elbow grease till the music came out slick enough. In stead of the garden there was a great long ball room with rows of great shiney pillars running all through it. It was as light as day, for there seemed to be candles out of sight among the pH lars, besides a row of lamps that itood along the pen where the musicianers sot. I was staring with all the eyes I had in my head when the harnsomest critter I ever sot eves on, cum into the middle of the room, and there she stood on one foot with her arms held out and her face turned towards us, looking as bold, and a smiline so soft as if She’d never done nothing else all her life. I was so scared when she first in that I raly didn’t know which end my headVas on. The darned critter was more than half na ked,—she was by golley! To save my Us e I could ot look at her right straight with that blue eyed gal a sitting close by me At first I was so struck up that I could’nt see nothing but an alfired harnsom face a smiling from under a i wreath of flow res, and naked legs and arms and bosom a flying round like a live wind-mill- I thought I should go off the handle at first, —I felt sort of dizzy, and as il I was blushing all over. I dont think I ever was in such an etarnal twitter in my hull life. I partly got up to go out and then I sot down agin as streaked as lean pork and covered my face with ray yaller gloves, but somehow I could’nt hold my hands still all I could do,—the fingers would get apart so that I could’nt help but look through them at that pla gupy, darned handsome, undecent critter, as she jumped and whirled and stretched her naked arms out toward us, and stood a smiling and coaxing and looking to the fellers. It was enough to make a feller cuss his mother because she was a woman; but I’ll be darned if there ever was a feller on arth that could help looking at the critter. I’ve seen a bird charmed by a black snake, but it was nothing to this, —not a priming. One minute she’d kinder flutter round the room soft ly and still like a bird that’s jist a beginning to fly, then she’d stand on one foot and twinkle loth cr out and in against the ankle so swift you couldn’t but jist see it. Then she’d hop forward and throw her arms up on her bosom and stick one leg out behind her and stand on one toe for ever so long till all on us had a fair sight on her that way. Then she’d take another hop and pint her right toe forward and lift it higher and higher till hy-am-by round she’d go like a top with her leg stuck out straight and whirling ■ round and round like the spoke of a broken wagon with a foot to it. It raly did beat ah that ever I did see. When she stood up straight her white frock was all sprigged off with silver, and it look ed like a cloud of snow, but it didn’t reach half way to her knees and stuck out dreadfully behind where her hump was. I hadn’t dared to unkiver my face yit, and was sort of itching all over in a dreadful pucker, wondering what on arth she meant to do next, when she gave a whnl, kissed her hand and hopped away as spry as a cricket, jist as she came in. I swan if I didn’t think I never should breathe straight Again, I raly wouldn’t a looked in that purty blue eyed gal’s face for anything ; but somehow I happened to squint that way, for I felt kinder anxious to see how red a gal could blush, but there she sat a smiling and a looking as if she raly liked the fun. She was whispering to a young feller that sot tother side, and sez she, “Ainl it beautiful 1 oh I hope they’ll call her back !” “She will cum I daresay,” sez the feller a lar fing, and beginning to stomp and clap his hands with the rest of them that were yelling and a hootingas if the devil had kicked ’em all on end. “She treats the Americans very much as a lover does her lady.” “How so'?” sez the gal looking sort of puzzled. “Why, she can’t leave them without coming back again and again to take farewell •” sez he, larfing, “but here she cums!" True as a book there she did cum, and begun to sidle and whirl and cut up her crancums ail over agin, by little and little. I let my hands slide down from my face, and when she give her prime whirl and stuck out her toe the lost time, I sot a staring right straight at her so astonished I could’nt set still, for as true as you live, the nice little French gal that was so sweet and modest and the bold beautiful critter with her foot out — her arms a wavering around her head, and her mouth just open enough to show her teeth, was the same individual critter and both on ’em were Madame Celeste. I went hum. But I’ll be cocked if them legs and arms and that fan with the flowers over it did’nt whirl round in my head all night, and they aint fairly out yet. Extraordinary Case. Many years ago two respectable seafairng men arrived late one evening at an inn in Gravesend, with the intention of going aboard their respec tive vessels as soon as the tide served on the fol lowing morning. Although strangers to each ocher, their similarity of pursuits and intentions induced them to join each other’s company. They supped together, partook of a bowl of punch, and agreed to sleep in the same cham ber. In the middle of the night the youngest of the two travellers was afflicted with a fit of cholic which obliged him to go down to the common convenience. On his reaching the door of the place he found the string of the latch broken, and he had no alternative but to return to the chamber to fetch his clasp knife to lift up the latch. There being no light in the room, and the night very dark, he by mistake took a knife from the waistcoat pocket of the elder man, and returned to the place of convenience, whe%e he was detained a very considerable time in acute pain. Early on the following morning the wai ter knocked at the chamber door and called out that it was time to rise, the tide serving—The younger man got up and dressed himself, some what surprised that the elder did not respond to his inquiries, but supposed that he should find him below. On arriving in the parlor he asked the waiter after his chamber-fellow. The waiter replied that he best knew, having slept in the same room with him. It being usual foi travellers to pre sent the waiter with a trifling douceur, the youn ger man drew from his pocket some loose silver and a knife with a King William’s guinea stick ing in the haft. The waiter immediately recog nized the guinea as having been ; n the possess ion of the missing man when the latter dischar ged his quota of the supper bill on the preceding night. A suspicion then arose that fi-ul play had taken place, and the man was detained and a constable sent for; an examination followed, when the hands of the younger man and the knife found in his possession were discovered to be smeared with blood. He was then accused of having murdered the elder man, and taken before a magistrate, who committed him to Maidstone Gaol, and at the ensuing assizes he was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to be hung and gibbetted. The morning of the execution was ushered in by all the terrors of a winter’s storm. The place of execution (the accustomed heath,) far distant from the gaol, was scarcely approached by the procession when the sheriff gave the fatal signal and left the body stiffened with cold, to the at tention of his officers, who following his exam ple, one by one, proceeded home; the blacksmith, who had contracted to put the corpse in chains, with his men, alone remaining, who commenced their operations long before the legal term of suspension expired. In the course of the suc ceeding nigut some friends of the fellows cat the gibbet down, disencumbered the body from the chains, and took it to a lone public-house fre quented by smugglers, and whilst they were standing around it one of the friends discovered the region of the heart yet warm. Friction and cordials were administered, the man recovered, and by the aid of the smugglers before daybreak was placed on board their sloop in the river, which immediately proceeded to Holland, whence he took a birth in a merchant ship to the Indies, hich vessel was taken by pirates, who carried him to their rendezvous, on an unfrequented is land, where amongst many other captives, he met with the man for whose supposed murder he had lost his civil rights, and had on his account been hung and gibbetted. Explanations on both sides followed. The el der man said, that when sleeping in the same chamber at Gravesend with the youngest he was awakened by his groans, and apprehensive, from his remaining below stairs so long, that he was suffering sevdVely and he requi.ed assistance, he slightly dressed himself, and proceeded down stairs through a doorway which opened into a lane. At that moment a press gang was passine who, supposing that he was endeavoring tT es cape from being pressed, took him with th em notwithstanding his representations, and carried him to the receiving ship, where he was drau ? h u ed to a frigate which proceeded to a foreign station where he found an opportunity to escape, on which he engaged himself on board a merchant man, which was almost immediately taken by the pirates. The two friends determined to endeavor to es. feet their escape from the prates, which, a ft er much difficulty, and experiencing many priva tions, they effected, and landed in England, where* under legal advice, the younger applied to the Court of King’s Bench at Westminster, for a re vision of the judgment passed upon him at Maid, stone, which was granted, and the records of the aourt bear witness to his having in thismhacu. lous manner recovered his civil rights and liber, lies. —Liverpool Mail. Lingering Delay.—From a resolution offer ed in the Upper Canada House of Assembly, appears that certain gold and silver medals, sent out by the British Government for distribution among the officers and privates of the militia. 1 who distinguished themselves in the war of 1812 1 have remained ever since in the province, undis- I tributed, and are now deposited in the Bank of I Upper Canada; and in the meantime, it is more than probable, most of the parlies who ought so have received them have gone to a world where there are neither enemies to fight nor military achievemants to be rewarded. — N. Y. Com. Adv. Affecting—Just read it.—A Liverpool paper accompanies a notice of the death of a lit. I tie child of one of its Welsh friends with the fob I lowing beautiful lines:— Nychod, nes gwywodd i gyd yn gynnar, 0 gauol ei by wyd ; A chiliodd drwy yineh welyd 1 dy’r bedd gan a do’r byd. Steamboating.—John Neal soys that if vou build a steamboat nowadays of brown paper and lueifer matches, so that you let il be known you are bound to make a quick trip you are sure of a crowd of passengers. The wealthiest mer chants the most active and siirring politicians, the most prudent man, the cautious and calculating will be the first on board. John Neal is right, A German priest walking in procession at the head of his parishoners, over uncultivated fields, in order to procured blessing on their future crops, wtien he came to those of unpromising appear ance, would pass on saying, “ Here prayers and singing will avail nothing ; this must have ma nure.” There has been a destructive fire in Springfield Ohio, by which property to the amount of sso,* 000 was destroyed. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, February 25. Cleared—S hip Sabina,Matison, Liverpool; brigs New Hanover, Carty, Philadelphia; Lexington, Candler, Glasgow. Arrived —Br ship Super's, Hamilton, Demarara, Went to sea —Ship loway, Bell, Havre; Br ship J Moran, Feiguson, Liverpool; Br bark Spence, Nieoll, Greenock; brigs Excel, Nichols, New York; Grandee. Gilchist, Boston; New Hanover. Carty, Philadelphia; St Simons. Packard, Boston; Sea Isl and, Otis, Boston; Br brig Lady Douglass, Logan Liverpool; brig Wilson Fuller, Tha f cher, New York; schrs Sailors Return, Norton, Falmouth, (Jam); Hudson, Wynn, Boston; Emeline, Gates, New Orleans. Charleston, Feb. 24. Arrived yesterday —€ L brig Ashley, Pike, New York; U L brig Moon, Sturgis, do. At Quarantine —Line ship Leland, Miller, Bos ton ; Brig Commaquid, from Boston. Cleared —Ship Stephen Phillips, Thomas. Lon don; brig Uncas, Russell, Antwerp; schrs Lebau non, Stockbridge, Providence, (R I); Daniel Web ster, Weeks, Philadelphia. Went to sea yesterday —Br barque Greenhow, Ogilvy, Liverpool. B. H. OVERBY, ~ A TTORNEY AT LAW , fob '25 Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga. CJ * L>r. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci tizens of Augusta in the different blanches of his profession. He may be found at all hours at the late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second door from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets. ncv29 iy (£/* TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS.— The Paintings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Academy, (Masonic Hall.) will hereafter be opened to visi tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from \ 2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At night the rooms | wilHre well lighted. ,iec 19 Ojr* TOTAL ARSTINENCE^SOCIKTY. —Rev. Mr. Sewell will address this Society, and the public, in the Methodist church, on Friday eve ning next, (28th inst.) feb 26 C. F. STURGIS, Secretary. dj" EXCHANGE ON NE W YORK—-A tTight, I and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by “O'! 23 GARDELLE & RHIND. (fj'PUBLIC NOTICE. —Dr. Munroe, Surged 1 Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has removed his operating rooms to one door below Martin Fred erick ’s Confectionary, and opposite the Br dge BjmkJJuilding. f eb iq rff LAW XOTICE. —The undersigned practi ces in the Superior Courts of Columbia, Washing ton, Scriven, Burke, and Jefferson counties * feb 19 2w CHARLES J. JENKINS. (J "fT Doctor J. J, WILSON offers his profes sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the fust brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis street, recently occupied by John L, Adams. *»g 17 ts HKrfF. G. NIMMO, General Commission Mer chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the Constitutionalist. nov 7 Kr BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.— For the bene fit of the sick poor of Augusta and its vicinity. Ihe visiting committees for the ensuing month, * | are as follows : Division Ao. I.—James Godby, J. W. Meredith, Mrs. Crump, Mrs N. Jones. Division No. 2.—W. H. Crane, W. F. Pember ton, Mrs. Taliiafarro, Mrs. M. A. Holt. > Division Ao. 3. —C. E. Latimer, James Panton, Mrs. B. MtKinnie, Mrs. Julia Snead. J- W. WIGHTMAN, Secretary. (xjT NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave a* follows: UPWARD. Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a n. “ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30 “ “ Georges’ - “ - 10 00 “ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00 “ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m * “ Biackviile, - “ - iOO .u. “ “ Aiken, - - “ _ 300 Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400 DOWNWARD. Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. m. “ “ Aiken, - “ - 730 “ “ Biackviile, “ - . 930 “ “ Midway', *< » - 10 30 “ “ Branchvill “ _ - 11 00 “ “ Georges’, « _ _ ]2 00 m. ‘ “ Summerville,“ - _ 2 OCp. m- Arrive at Charleston not before 300 Distance—l36tniles. Fare Through —$10 00. Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20 . minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not longer than 5 minutes for wo * ’ and water at any station. To stop for passengers, wßcn a white flag hoisted, at either of the above stations; and alsp at 'Mnealhs, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. 0., | Rives’, Grahams, Willcston, Windsor, Johnsons, and Marsh’s T. O. Passengers wo will breakfast at Woodstock and dine at Biackviile; aotvn, will breauuvst at Aiken and dine at Summerville. may 21