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«H * vaoßaaasßas maeoammsmßam CHRONICLE ANI SENTINEL. AUG 018 ' A. • FRIDAY MORNtNC MARCH 13. (Xu* See Jint page. PennsykH tia. Last night’s mail brougl) us no later intelli gence direct from Harrisbur . We are however induced to believe from the spirit of the intelli gence received indirectly, lh;|: a better feeling is likely to prevail in the Legislature towards the Banks of the State than we fSired some days ago, The anti-bank men had expii ssetl a willingness to submit to the views of the 'an Buren Conven tion,which is said, by those h ailiar with the sen timents of the delegates, to be Jecidedly conserva tive. We hope they maybe orrect- If so, con fidence will be restored to evi y clasr of business, and the public mind will b« relieved from that painful anxiety under which ‘ has been laboring for some time past. I The Rac Which came off ycsterdayljver the Lafayette Course between Gano andlOmeiga, four mile heats, is said to have been {lnformed in better time than any two heats ewr made over this course, which is thirty three let over a mile.— The purse was taken by GaXo, who performed the first heat in 7m. 485., and* he second in 7m. 49i5., with great ease, withlut being touched with whip or spur. I Destructive Fire alitfeirark. The New York CommerciaßAdvertiser of Sat urday says:—W e are informi! that there was a very large fire at Newark, N. If. last evening, in Mechanic street, near Market! street, by which from fifteen to twenty houses v!>re destroyed. A part of the property, we are ini! r med, was owned in this city. 8 From Harris bl rg. A letter from Harrisburg, gift's the Philadel phia Inquirer, informs us, th J the Van Buren State Convention rejected botllsets of Delegates from Philadelphia, by a vote 0:|74 to 43. The \ an Buren members of the Leßslature from the city and county, were then sublituted by a vote of 97 to 23. Mr. Van Buren las unanimously nominated to the Presidency, Bind the vote for the Vice Presidency stood thus! R. M. Johnson, 8 107 W. R King, I 22 Manhattan Bank.— The Nel York Express of Friday, 2 P. M. says— I The Manhattan Bank Commatee begin at the right end by counting the specil the bundles of bank notes and other assets. lln the kegs of specie there has been found a dliciency of some thousand dollars, which with lie cash short in the hands of the first teller, is iiund to be sixty one thousand dollars, and whichlias been chang ed over by order of the Directol to the loss ac count. Thus we find one iaile item before coming to any losses, on stocks ield, on individ ual paper. 8 The falling off in the revenueljf our Custom House, for the last five months, ai* astonishingly great. The amount received i| January and February, 1839, was about onj million each month. This year, from corresflnding months, it is about one quarter, or two hlidred and fifty thousand dollars each monfh. indeed, the de bentures on goods exported ha I been mostly equal to the receipts, leaving ill; government almost minus. Since March carl in, there has been more imports. The packet! from Liver pool and Havre have brought fair argoc The Boundary Troubles. -The Bangor papers say that the statements m le by Govern' or Fairfield, and denied by the 11 itish Minister, m relation to British works and o. :upancy in tne disputed territory, are ,rue to thi letter. Two young men, who were sent by Go ;rnor Fairfield to Lake Temiscouta, to ascertain v bat operations the British were carrying on in t at quarter, re present that there are nearly or q*i ■ two hundred British officers and soldiers at the ake, and that the works erected there are much t are extensive than hitherto reported to be 1 For the Chronicle 4- Mb. Editor. Permit me, th olgh your col umns, to remind the community I the popular course of Lectures on some subjeits in Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, which s announced by Professor Davis, of our Medici College, to commence on Monday evening 0 next week. The established and well earned deputation of Dr. Davis, furnishes the best pled e of a rich entertainment to those who shall at >nd the pro. posed course. But it is for the purp. ie of appeal ,ng to a motive somewhat less selfis that I ask ■pace lor these few remarks. I can .ot but sup pose that every intelligent member o aur commu. mty feels, if not a pride, at least, a eep interest in our Medical College; and unde this persua •ion. I would respectfully suggest, t it they are now furnished with an appropriat. opportunity of testifying t..e sincerity of that « aliment, by extending their countenance and thi r patronage, on the present occasion, to a incmbei afits Facul ly, and one, in whom the institu :m so justly prides herself. It was at the special solicitation ftbe Board of Trustees, that these Lectures wc e originally undertaken Ly Dr. are no continued. The T rustees were therein influence by a desire that not only the Medical students in their at tendance on the regular course, but ur commu nity, in these more brief and popu »r lectures, might derive valuable instruction and stional en tertainment from the exhibition of th< ample and costly Chemical Apparatus of the Co. ige, by so accomplished a teac her as Professor Davis. I would commend the present opportu sty to the young of both sexes, who are abou finishing their education, and to all of every c iss ,n the community, who have any taste for th 3e beauti ful and useful studies. Oxx or tax Tbvstxs* or tux C uxes Forty. Four Days Later from Europe. ARRIVAL or THE BB*AT. WESTIBX. The steamship Great Western which left Bris tol on the 2010 February, arrived at New V'ork on the 7th, bringing Ixmdon and Liverpool dates to the 20th, and Havre of the 17th. From the New York Herald, Extra, smd the Star of Satur day afternoon, we copy the following summary ofinlelligence by this very late arrival. Money matters are slowly reviving—interest is reduced to 5 per cent —circulation is increased. The Queen of England was married to Prince • Albert of Saxe Coburg on the 10th February. The sales of cotton in Liverpool, on the 19lh Feb., amounted t 02,500 bags, chiefly American. In Manchester, 14th Feb. prices of cotton weie as low as they were six months ago. The rate of interest is reduced to five per cent. The Newport Chartists. —Frost, Williams and Jones have been found guilty and sentenced to transportation or labor at the hulks, at the Queen’s pleasure. They reached the hulks at Portsmouth Feb. 15th. The packet ship Stephen Whitney has arrived at Liverpool. The packet ship Havre was burnt oft the coast of Cork, Feb. 10th; she had 1564 bales of cotton on board. Twenty souls were saved; the rest lost. She was from New Orleans. The Duke of Wellington has had two or three alarming fits of illness; so much so as to be con sidered hopeless.—Daily bulletins are issued from Apsley House. The steamship Liverpool arrived out safely Jan. 10th. Parliament met Jan. 10th, and was still sit ting on the 19th February. The packet ship New York left Liverpool Jan. Bth, and put back into Cork from stress of weath - er. The packet ship Sheridan arrived out on Feb. 12th, a passage of 18 days. The latest dates from China, in Liverpool, on the I9lh of February, were up to Nov. 21st, from Singapore. Prince Albert was appointed a Field Marshal of the British Army. His commission was dated Feb. 8, 1840. Mr. Raffles’ celebrated chapel at Liverpool, has been burnt down. The Britannia, the first of the Royal Mail Sieam Ships from England to North America, was launched Feb. 6lh. The circulation of the bank for the quarter ending on the 4lh February, nad increased £l4O, 000—the bullion had increased £510,000. China. —The fighting between the English and Chinese continues. The Canton Press of Dec. 2, reports that accounts have been received from the west coast of an affair between opium smugglers and the Mandarin boats, L* which one of the latter was sunk, and seven of the survivors sent hack with their tails cut off? India. —The fighting here between the Bri tish and native waxes hotter and hotter. The British stormed Khelat Nov. 13th, took it, killed Mehrab Khan, the chief, all of whose principal Sirdars were killed or taken, and hunrdeds of other prisoners. Anticipated Changes. —Lord Melbourne re tires from office with Lord Lansdowne. Lord J. Russell is to be first lord ot the treasury, and Lord Durham joins the cabinet, with Mr. Ward and Mr. C. Duller in office. Parliament wil lbe dissolved, and the repeal of the com laws and ballot will be made cabinet questions. On the last Monday in JanuaryAthe Ministry were defeated on the question of the allowance to Prince Albert. Lord John Russell moved that the allowance be £50,000 per annum, to which Col. Sipthorp moved as an amendment, to make it £30,000. The amendment was carried by 104. Strength of Ministers. —On certain divisions in parliament the ministerial majority after the Queen’s marriage had increased considerably. U. S. Bank shares were sold at £lB to £lB 10, equal 10 70 percent. American Currency. The negotiations pending between France and Holland are also, according to the Debats , dew ing io a close. Holland lias demanded that her vessels be treated in French harbors on the same footing of reciprocity as the English and Amer ican shipping are, and France has acquiesced in that demand on condition that Holland open her markets to various prvductions of the French soil and industry, excluded therefrom at the time when Belgium formed part of that kingdom. Holland, it appears has likewise consented to open to France the navigation of the Rhine and Moselle; “Strasburg,” Metz and Shierckare to be assimilated for the importation of foreign pro ducts. to maritime harbors.” The British Ambassador, Lord Palmerston, at Constantinople, has refused his assent to the proposition of Russia, to send 50,000 of her | troops into Asia Minor across the Taurus. Af i fairs look'warlike between Russia and the other I powers. At Tois in France, 40 lives were lost in a con flict between the troops and the country people, growing out of the high price of corn. Mebemet Aly is fortifying Alexandria. There were 900 of the Chinese killed by the British ships of war that fired on the Junks. Captain Elliot returned to Macao after the ac tion ; the Chinese were fortifying Hong Key Bay. Great Britain intends to send a land, as well as a naval force against the Chinese. Spain. —The Cortez, it was belie> ed, would j meet Feb, 18. Madrid was quiet. In the Ga j zecte we find the report of an engag ment which j took place on the 28lh ult in Catalonia, betwecni I Carho’s division and 3000 men under Brujo. The latter, driven from their position, left. 43 kil led on the field. The Christines had only six killed and about 30 wounded. Cabrera is not dead but recovering The Arabs had not a ipeared in the plain ot Algiers since December 31. There were 59,000 French troops in the neigh borhood of Algiers preparing for the expedition against Abdel Kader. The Queen held a court at Buckingham Pal ace Feb. 18th, and received the addres.se> of both Houses of Parliament to Victoria and Albert, to which they l>oth briefly replied, and promises to fulfil the favorable hopes expressed from their union. The Alexandria letters of 17th ult. describe the great preparations for hostilities on the part of Mehemet Ali, and his determination not to give way in the dispute with the Porte The Board of trade has decided that teas taken from China in foreign ships and put aboard Brit j any where will lie considered as having been imported in British bottoms. Whitehall, February 6.— The Queen has j be* o I ),eas ed to declare and ordain, that his Se i rone Highness Francs Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel, Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, shall henceforth, upon all occasions whatsover, be styled and called ‘ His Royal High ness,” before his name and such titles* as now do, or hereafter may, belong to him. And to command, that the royal concession and declaration be registered in her Majesty’s College of Arms. London Money Market, February 18—Two i o’clock.— The price of Three per cent. Consols has not varied to any extent since our first report. I Spanish Active Stock is at 27. Liverpool, February 17. Tea. —ln the early part of the week small sales wcie effected, and these were at a decline of 3d to 4d per lb on previous rates. Yesterday news having been received from China that an engage ment had taken place between two of her majes ty’s vessels stationed'there, and the Chinese war junks, a reaction had again occurred, and prices have advanced from 3d to 9d on all common and good Congous and Twankeys;the market closed firm, with more buyers than sellers. I I We hear in Wall street, that as Mr. Newcomb j was leaving the Manhattan Bank on Monday, at 3 o’clock, he quietly insinuated his hand into the drawer of the second Teller, and helped himself to about $9000; with which in his pocket, he proceeded to Delmonico’s, and endeavored to kill time pieviously to answering the summons of the Commissioners, by playing three games of dominoes with all the serenity of conscious inno cence. Having thus composed himself, he re turned to the bank, and finding his fate sealed, made the best of his way to the afternoon train of the Philadelphia cars, and proceeded as far as Brunswick, when all trace of him was lost. — New York American. Cotton Trade. —The condition in which the trade in this staple is at the present time, is thus referred to in the New York Express:— The Cotton business has entirely changed this year. Last year a large portion of it was in the hands of speculators, who in many instances, with small means, were able by advances, to con trol a vast amount. The season turned disas trous, and swept this class away. The facilities that was afforded by the Southern Banks indu ced large shipments, which in most cases turned out ruinous. The consequence is, that the sta ple is now left to its own intrinsic value; shippers buy and export as appears most for their interest; manufacturers purchase to meet the demands and the business is thus perfectly regular. The ar ticle has fallen to a very low point; quite as low as we have ever known it—ami quite as low, when the value of the currency is considered, as it ever has been at the South. Flour Trade. —Our Report of the Markets, in another column shows thai the Flour inspec tions of the present week are upwards of twenty seven thousand barrels, of which about twenty one thousand were Howard street Flour. This is, we believe the largest weekly inspection ever made in Baltimore. One of the Inspectors performed a great day’s work in the course of the week, having inspect ed between sun rise and sun set no less than "2700 barrels of Flour. The brig Neptune loading at this port with Tobacco for Germany, has aiso on board a small shipment of Flour. Last year, it will be recol lected, considerable quantities of Flour were sent from Germany to the United States.— Baltimore American. A late letter from the Paris correspondent t/ the National Intelligencer has the following items: At the stated meeting last week of the Acade my of Medicine, Dr. Chervin resumed the read ing of his comprehensive memoir on the origin and nature of the Yellow Fever, which is men tioned in the official report as replete with inter esting facts and sagacious reasonings. No man alive has so widely pursued and so rninuteiy stu died the pestilence as the Doctor, whose indefa tigable labors in the United States cannot be for gotten. lam g'ad to learn that ie intends to em igrate t« New Orleans, in order to practise his proiession on that theatre. His general science i and skill, special acquirements, predilection for the American People and their institutions, excel lent spirit and temper, will assure his success in every respect. The recent ravages of the yellow fever in our South, and Hs invasion of Texas, im part an additional importance to his designs. Here, our climate in general has been nearly as much discredited by the reappearance and diffu sion of that scourge, as our credit by the suspen sion of specie payments. At the same sitting of the Academy came un der consideration the premium of three thousand francs, which a member, Burdin, had offered in 1837, with reference to Animal Magnetism, to the person who, in the opinion of the Academy, I should succeed in reading, without the aid of the eyes, in books provided by a committee; any light to be allowed, &c. Several candidates for the premium were presented, but all failed in i their repeated attempts, and among them the fa i mous damsel Pigeuire, about whose wonderful pe-formances of sight when somnambulized so j much has been published in journals and pamph lets. Dr. Burdin stated that, as in two years the magnetizers could not win the prize by what they : represented as one of their most common and simple achievements, he would give it to any person, magnetized or not magnetized, asleep or awake, who should, in the opinion of the Acade my, accomplish the task of reading with the eves open, and in broad daylight, througli an obaque body, such as a tissue of thread, silk or cotton, placed at a distance of six inenes from the f»ce, or even through a sheet of paper. At the late annual silting of the Academy of Medicine, Dr. Pa.iset delivered the appointed “historical eulogium” of Laenncc, the celebrated author of the Treatise of Auscultation. All the importance of his process for the affections of the chest, and even others, has been known and ex perienced in our country since the appearance in 1819 of his two volumes upon his discovery. Pa riset observes : “ There was, at first, some oppo -1 | sition; hut the method has been universally adop ; ted. It soon traversed the ocean, and physicians | came from the L nited States to learn uuscu/ta ’ | fion under the direction of the master. His hook I was translated into many languages and passed many editions. ’ Bouillaud, an eloquent profes sor of the f acuity, has greatly enlarged and per fected the application ot Laei.nec’s conceptions ‘ a,,d P r °cess. It may be noted, that the discover er was carried off, in 1826, by pulmonary eon sumption—the malady to which his researches and new practice were so successfully and pecu liarly directed. The principal parts of Pariset’s ; eulogy are now extant in the Gazette Medicale. Antiquities OF South America.—lntelli gence has been received from Mr. Stephens and Mr. Gather wood who have arrived safely at Gua ' temala.and finding no possibility of transacting of | ficial business, have proceeded to ex plore the ruins of Palenquc—one ot the greatest objects of curiosi ty in < Central America. Both travellers are familiar ; with Egyptian antiquities,and consequently.in ex -1 am ning the temples, heiroglyphics, pyramids via ’ ducts, and military r.ads, wtiich are every where encountered in that interesting country, will oe 1 able to decide promptly what agency the Pheni cians had—those builders of Babylon, Tyre and 1 Carthage—in the erection of those vast'edificts scattered abunanlly throughout South America ; Both travellers are inured to fatigue, and have given evidences of patient historical research 1 h °ld out great promise of successful labor. Catherwood will probably be the only artist of eminence who has visited that country, and we may have a panoramic view of the ruins of that extraordinary city. European travellers have become tired of Egypt, Thebes, ami Memphis and are directing their attention to Peru, Mexico’ and Central America. Publishers are also fiaing out travellers for jourmes in those countries, and we are h*.ppy that circumstances have givgn to Mr. Stephens and Catherwood the advantages of an early and close research of those antiquities.. The late Mr. Dewelt must have exaimined and written much on that subject during his residence in Guatemala. He was an industrious, inquiring and ready writer; and if his executors have any manuscripts of bis which may not be prepared for publication, we would he happy to see them or hear of them. In a few years, and when po litical affairs are more tranquil, the governments of Europe will send expeditions to those coun tries.—New York .'Star From the New York Express. Extract from Jonathan Slick’s descrip tion of a Grand Fancy Ball. m: Why dont’t you give Mary yoerarm ?” spz John to me, jist as I was poking along toward the door. “If I’m to play Injun to-night,” sez I, “I’ll doit according to my own notion if you’d jist as lives. I never see an Injun and squaw a Hooking arms yet, —so cousin Mary may jist walk behind m e, if she aint too stuck up.” With that I tucked the woodchuck under my arm, and walked right straight ahead as stiff as a crobar. Gracious me ! what a smasher of a room, that was, it was all sot off with yaller and blue setees and benches, and every sich thing, eenamost as slick as my pussy cousin’s room, and the darndcst set of critters were a dancing and a sidling about that ever I did see. There wan’t no carpet on the boards, and if they’d a been a mind to, they might have shinned it down about right, but instead of that they wentcurchying and and scooting about, jist like so many tom-tits on ihe bank of a river. It . aly made rav grit rise to see a set of folks come from all the four quarters of the globe, to a party, that didn’t know how to dance an eight reel or munny-muss as it ought to be done. They didn’t seem to mind us when we went in. or else I should a felt awful streaked a standing up there like a darned injun with Mary by me. I was purty sartin of not being known,and so I kept a purty stiff upper lip, and looked on ji-t to see how foreign gent.iv acted when they were to hum. There was a swad of tarnal handsome women in the middle of the room cur chying and twistifying and wriggling about one another,and making believe like all natur. But, oh forever! how they was dressed out! One on ’em had on a great long black sick cloak, with sleeves to it, and a sort of a white bib hanging down l»efore, for fear she’d spill the wine and sweet sarce on Xo her dress when she eat, I spose, and she l.iokej sort a like a nice handsome chap, and sort a like a gal kinder a half and half, like a fence politician. There was a gal close by her dressed out to kill, her shoes was tied on with red ribands over a leetle stuck up foot, that looked good enough to eat; and she had on three open dresses, over t’other, made out of white silk and thin shiny stuff', bound and trirned off with strips of gold; the sleeves hung down like a feller’s shirt, but there want no risband to ’em, and they hung wide open, so that her pesky white arm shone out enough to dazzle a feller’s eyes. She had twoalfired great breast pins.one on ’em spread out like a sun on her bosom, and another down to her waist, all sot chuck full of stuns, that kept a glistening in the light, like a hand full of sparks out of a blacksmith’s chimney. She wore anoth er of these glistening leetle suns on her hand some white forehead; her long shiney curls hung down on her shoulders, and a white veil, that looked like a cloud with the sunshine pour ing into it, dropped over them. I wispered to my cousin Mary, and asked who the darned like ly critter could be. She said she came from Peru, and was a pr.esless, or something, of the son. Before I could get a chance to ask whose son it was that she preached to, and to say that I shouldn’t grumble if such a critter as that should preach a leetle easy to Mr. Zepheniah Slick’s Son—up come a leetle black eyed gal, about knee high to a toad, with a stick in her hand, and curls a hanging all over her shoulders. ‘•Hellow, sez I, none of that are,” as she hit my woodchuck a dab with the stick, and run oft* iarfing, ready to burst her leetle sides. Before I knew which eend my head was on, uo come an other sot of leetle queer looking gals, so young that they didn’t seem much more than babies, that ought to have been spanked and put to bgd, instead of being there. They were dressed off in short frocks, and glistened like a hail storm; but where they came from I couldn’t tell, for they all had wings on their shoulders, and I never read of such winged critters on this arth, and it didn’t seem as if children would be sent from tother world to a York ball. Before I could say Jack Robinson, they made themselves scarce,and then sich sights of men and women cum a walk ing about, some dressed like angels jist dropped down, some in regimentals, and all sorts of wavs, that evej a feller dreamed of. I swan, if I didn’t begin to git dizzy looking at ’em. I kept by the door yet, a hugging my wood chuck, and a wondering how on arth the man that gave the party made out to send round to all parts of the world to git his folks together, when I happened to give a squint toward cousin Bebee, and I burst right out a larfing, all I could do to help it. There he stood with his mouth sort of open, and both hands dug down into the pockets of my old pepper and salts, a staring about like a stuck pig. Arter a minit, he went up to a slick leetle gal, right from Spain, with shiney black hair, eyes as b ight as a hawk’s, and a great long black veil a streaming down her back, and he made a bow and asked her to dance as genteel as I could a done it myself. Pokehontas! but did’nt he make the old cow hides flourish a hout. The way he balanced up and played heel and toe back agin, was Weather field all over.— The old blue and pepper and salts had put the grit into him about right. I don’t believe he'd felt so nat’ral afore since he left Connecticut. I thought Marv would a gone off’the handle, she was so tickled, and I had to go away to keep from haw-hawing right out. Sweet Sensibility.— All the quack doctors —we beg their pardon—the patent medicine ben efactors of their species—who guarantee cures for every evil that flesh is heir to, say that coun terfeits of an article are proofs of the excellence of the genuine thing. Estimated by this rule, genuine “ sensibility” must be one of the seven cardinal virtues, and the chiefest among the se ven ; for there is more mock sensibility in the world, than mock modesty, and that is saying a great deal. It is exceedingly pretty to “ Die ot a rose in aromatic pain”— To shriek at the agonies of a disembowled spider, and go into tears at the thought that pigs and poultry must be -killed before they are eaten. I W e certainly should be the last to cavil at true : mercy. But these sympathy-mongers, because “ The quality of mercy is not stra.neu”— would fain filter it ail through the threads of a i linen handkerchief. If there were any sincerity in these proiessions; and real care for the hap piness of others, one might put up with their little tender weakness and affections. The truth is, that they are made up of inordinate selfish- ' ness and heartless cruelty. Their sorrows and sympathies are ail wasted on air, and they have none left for service or use. A young lady who shall oh dear! through every line of a trifling narrative of mock sorrow, | would not give up an article of supeifluous or- I nament to save a family from starving. A young gentleman who belongs to this exceedingly sen sitive class, sheds tears over the fate ol the In- i dians, and all other miseries, in relief of which he cannot possibly be called upon, but when any thing practical presents itself, he is not at home Prominent and active talking members of all so cieties for speculative phi anthropy are these very I tender hearted people—but their acute sensibility keeps them always at a distance from any scene of the real gnef, which might shatter their deli- ( cate nerves. In a word, iheir benevolence Is all speculative—not active—all show—no service— all talk, no performance. It is a'matter of congratulation to the world, that there are so many people left in it who have no sensibility. Such hard hearted animals are very useful when a house is on lire, as they make no hones of plunging into it. for the res cue of life and properly, while •* sweet sensibili ty” is faint and prostrate. Heartlessness goes directly into the hovel of the destitute—sets the children to work, gives relief to the parents, and advice to all; while sweet sensibility is holding his nose at the door, and talking about repre senting the case to our society. In short, bluff, blunt, hearty uselulness docs the labor of this working day world, while the finer feelings are kept in lavender, to be sported like a fifty dollar handkerchief upon the pave in public. Useful ness is the democracy, “ sentiment” the aristo cracy—one is the “ bone and muscle ” the other the “ fancy work.” —Dispatch and Tatlcr. Dramatic Effkct. —ln a drama recently pre sented in the Theatre at Berlin, lh*’head of a victim of the tyrant of the piece was to be pre sented him in a dish, on a table, and covered with a napkin. All the preparations were most inge niously made for this awful spectacle. The head was to be a real one, and the actor who was to perform the part of the decapitated person had to thrust his head through an aperture in the back scene, and lay it in the dish, painted so as to make a ghastly appearance. This was done; the tyrant had raised the napkin, and the audience were all becomingly horrified, when the tffad man’s head replied to the tirade which his mur der was in the act of delivering, by a violent fit of sneezing, which at once turned the scene into a ludiciou-farce, and the house rang with laugh ter. Some wag who had admission behind the scenes had sprinkled the blood-stained dish with a quantity of snuff. THF. WAY TO ENSURE AX EARLY DELIVERY. Numerous are the expedients adopted by letter writers to expedite the delivery of their letters ; but the following memorandum, written on a let ter addressed to the Natchez Post Office, caps ev ery thing of the kind we have ever seen : “The postmaster will confer a favor by inform ing Mr. W e of this letter, or sending it to him by the first opportunity, as he moved into your country about the first of December last, and I think lives at a distance from your post office. If you are a single man, it will be worth your trouble to go, as he has a very pretty daughter!” Affecting Incident. — At the great Con vention of the } eoplc of Ohio, at Colombus, on the twenty second, the last of the Life Guards of ofthe Immortal Washington, appeared as a del. egate. In the procession he rode a white horse, and led another, which was caparisoned with one of the sadc les and housing that had been in actual use by the Father of his Country. The spectacle must have been one of deep interest. He that falls into sin is a man ; that grieves at it. is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.—f~Ful ler.J Praise is no match for bl ime and obloquy; for, were the scales even, the malice of man -ind would be thrown in as the casting-weight.—Fame is the inheritance, not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for future flight.—l will show thee a way to increase love without philtre, herb, or en chantment. If thou dost wish to be beloved, love. —Seneca. Slave-Ship Trocbles. —Captain Green, of the schooner Arabella #om St. John’s, Porto Ri co, informs us that when he left there was diffi culty between the United States consul and the Governor, which it was expected, would lead to a demand of passports by the former, and departure from the island. The trouble arose from the presence of two slavers, under the U. S. flag.but undoubtedly Spanish property, which the consul endeavored to prevent from sailing. The frigate Macedonian and sloop-of-war Levant were daily expected at St. John’s.— Com. Adv. Extravagance. —Mrs. Walker, of Newark, Ohio, presented her husband with twin boys, be ing the third pair since their marriage in 1837. No matter; wheat at cents abushel, and pork at two c ntsand a half per pound in Ohio—plen ty to eat —they may go on ; all that we have to say is, that it would be deemed very extravagant here in New York.— Eve. Star. The Greatest Max.— “ The greatest man is he whochosesthe right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest buidens cheerfully; who is the calmest in storm and the most fearless undtr menaces and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God is most un faltering.”—Dr. Cbanning. Consignees per South Carolina Rail RouJ. Hamburg, March 13, 1840. C A Greiner & Co; D’Antignac <fe Hill; W E Jackson; Claike, McTeir&Co; W K Kitchen; S H Peck; W Hat tier; Bones & Carmichael; Gould & Bulkley; J Bridges &, Co; Baird & Rowland; Rus sel! & Hutchinson; E B Glascock; P Carrie,Stovall, Simmons & Co; T M Simmons; Rees fr Beall; S Knecland;G Parrott; Anderson &, Young; J F Ben son; Jeffers & Boulware. C3‘ Consignees will attend without further no tice. COMMERCIAL. Latest dates from Liverpool, Fed. 20 Latest dates from Havre Feb 17 Manchester, February 14. Things have again become exceedingly dull, and both Cloth and \ am are to be had to-day on lower terms than on Tuesday, and no disposing of either to any extent. It is only the low pi ice of the raw article that gives the least encouragement to keep theii hands in full employment at the present mo ment. Prices are now as low as they were six months ago. Liverpool, February 17. Cotton —There was a fair attendance of the trade jin the early part of the week,and full prices were I obtained for all descriptions of American; and ,ho’ the demand rather abated on Wednesday,owing to the reports of the dull state of the trade in terior, yet the inqui-y has since revived, and the i market has closed at rather higher rates for the let ter classes of American, whilst Brazil and other I kinds continue heavy, at previous paices. The sales amount to 27,0b0 bales (of which 3 - 300 American are on speculation, and 1500 Amesi can foi export,) and comprise 60 Sea Island at ni ,o2Sd, Ji 6d l«d. °h to 6|, 4 600 Mobi e, Alabama and Tennessee b x to7d 13,500 Orleans s|d to 7£d, SOO Pernambuco 4 , Pa raff a, a c. Sfd to 9sd, 370 Bahia and Myceio 8 i | to 140 Maranham 7Jd to S^d,Carthagen a s*d, | 20 common West India 6£d, 416 Egyptian 9d to j lid, 1,090 Surat 4d to and 70 Madras at 5d i per ib. Aboutsooo bags have been sold to-day at steady prices, SOO American have been taken for export. The sales consist of 500 Surat at to sd, 150 PernamSfd, 159 Bahia S£d, the remainder American s£d to 7d. On Saturday 3500 were sold. Liverpool, February 19. The stock of Cotjon in this port is estimated at 208,000 bales, of which about 152,000 is American being very neatly as it was at the end cf last year’ The import since Ist January is 175,000 bales of which 144,000 is fiom the Knifed States and the j sales of all kinds during the same time have j amounted to 190,000 bales ; 160,000 of ff lak 1 consumers, 20,000 by speculators and 16 ftn. 1 ? 1 y exportation ’ JUIJ for Though the business has been rather exten • and the demand nearly all the time steady; the tendency of the prices has been / and wards, and dining January they declined abm.^! per lb Since the Ist instant the complexion n f T market has not changed—the demand bein™- sufficient to maintain prices about as th ,Ust were—and at present the state of the Manch then market would not seem to warrant higher there is consequently little o* no speculative 5: mand. ' e de- Infeiior qualities still maintain relatively v v rates than the better classes—as s|d is ab i* r lowest quotation for any merchantable a!! - tbe cotton; while 6| is about the highest oriel I*? obtained for good Upland, and 7d for -mod Or ° be and Mobile; there is nothing sel imr 1 eans rates except fancy lots and brands. Vat I® 6g a per lb. ‘ r Qualities 1 he saies for tlie week * to 30,500 bales, and for , h ,, were 27,670 do; of the latter 6SS 4th ! n ' 1 they 51 a 6id, 15.500 Or eans a," raa and Mobile at 6S a7d- and 5(1 4e6l ’ AI ‘ta a 22d with 40 stained a, 6 a lofwHb day the loth instant the tr ib ‘ ° n Satur ' bales. On Monday ’the 1 7th about' f°° terday about 3000 bales The V .’ ,u! - ves ' to-day but the accounts of T^ Y market are gloomy. * re ‘ aa -> s Manchester i he duty on Wheat is now 2t~ c a and on Flour 13s id per barrel!! Sd PPr qUarter ’ present any indication of o I R ° r s , t)ieie at part of last month the mnet clla 'ige. The latter then in the market was disposed m bond—since when the nrV eV 3 . . tween 20s t.d and 30s 6d, and it is now rXr do at 30s per bbl The future course of be I„ „ markets must depend mainly on the p.ospi, ft the next crops. h 1 101 T . , „ Havre, February 1 Though our Cotton sales were less numerous in V a V , C preceedin S week, consisting of on ! zObb bales Louisiana, Georgia, Mobile and Vi lf 2 on the spot, as well as on delivery, vet n r . c S more regular Louisiana went off at 73 to lOhf at B°lff! fl ° M ° bile at and Virginia Cur cotton prices have again this sveekmn von irregular, and our sales were composed of 3307 bales Louisiana of very ordinary to good current quality, on the spot, as well as on delivery at 734 to and 84 3 to 87f, 768 do ordinary to’ good or* dmwy Mobile at 82* to 83;, 1695 do’ ordfnarv to current Georgia U. S. at 78 to 87. Cur present stock consists of acout 68,000 bales, of which 60 060 bales are from the United States, 5 n .. . , , February 12. Cotton remained neglected since Saturday last and our sales ih s day took 1045 bales Louisiana and Georgia U. 8. out ofthe market. In Colonial sugars as our holders decline sei ing, nothing oc curred. Coffee on the contrary continues in re quest, and92B bags Rio were placed at 6.4 to6B} fr. in bond. * February 14. The transactions in cotton particularly duringthe first part of the week were again carried on with a great deal of activity, and from the Mh to the 14th inst bales on the spot as well as on delivery were on the following terms disposed of—inferior to o.dinary and good ordinary Louisiana at 7b, 81 84 to Georgia at 74 to 84, Mobile at 81 toSs* 149 bales ordinary to good ordinary Pernambuco at 102£ to 105, ana 135 bales do do 8t Domingo at St) to 90f. It must, however, be observed that our inaiket still has a very uncertain appearance, and many holders to whom present puces seem too low not to leave room for an improvement,decline to sell altogetf er. Fresh imported weie during the week 19941 . bales from Mew Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Ac. and out present slock, as far as we aie able to as certain, may be estimated at about 78,C0G bales of which 70,000 are from the United States. Hamburg, February 14. Cotton remains still neglected, and those from the Lnited Btates, of which very little is now ie mainingmour market, only sell in small parcels tor local consumption. 200 ba es Surat, however, were taken at 5 sch, against which ws. received2oo ba'« s Ceoroia. from Charleston. .a AiiiA I j irN TLiiLIGEINCE. Savannah, March 10 Arrived. —Bark Lagrange, Doane, New York; j Schr. Mary Reed, Gray Philadelphia; Ship Celiar’ Poner, N. York ; Ship Persius, Rowen. Havre; Br.g Mary Ann, Curtis, Providence ; Steamer Cherokee, Gould Augusta ; Steamer Lamar, UTesswell, Au gusta. Cleared. —Ship Burgundy, Lines, Havre; Schr. Crescent. Short, Philadelphia. Gens to Sea. —Schr. Foster, Colcold, Boston; Schr. Crescent, Short, Philadelphia. Charleston, March 12. Arrived yesterday.— Brig I eoman, Gooding, To basco; C L brig Buenos Ayres, Stuart. New York; schrs Joseph Marsh, Poland, Attakapas, (La.) Mes sengei, White, Bath; Mandarin, Webster, Ba’ti more. At Quaranti) e —Line ship Congaree, Doane, Bos ton. ( I eared —Brigs Monaco, Wording, Marseilles; Emma, Fernald, Havana. THE READING ROOM Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and strangers introduced by them, every day and eve ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock. Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more $lO. B. 11. OVERBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW , feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga fcr BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—F or the bene fit of the sick poor of Augusta and its vicinity. The visiting committees for the ensuing'month, are as follows: Division No. 1. —James Godby, J. W. Meredith, Mrs. Crump,Mrs N. Jones. Division No. 2. —\V. H. Crane, W. F. Pember ton, Mrs. Tal iafarro, Mrs, M. A. Holt. | Division No. 3. —G. E. Latimer, James Panton, Mrs. B. McKinnie, Mr«. Julia Snead. J. WL WIGHTMAN, Secretary. (ZjTFUBLJC NOTICE. —Dr. AJunroe. Surged 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 Bank Building. feb 1U (TJ MRS. INGRAHAM has just opened new French Printed Muslins and Lawns, Scotch Ging hams, light prints, and elegant French Capes. La dies are invited to call. Found at Mrs. Ingraham’s store, a Gold thim ble, which the owner may receive by paying for this advertisement. mar jo L./*r. C. IV. WEST offers hi? professional services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity His office is in Me in tosh-street, opposite the office of the Constitutionalist: residence at the Eagle and Phcenix Hotel. feb 13—trwlm (O - Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity. He will be found at bis residence, ‘he first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Lilis street,recently occupied by John L. Adams. *ug n t s *3 THE FARMERS' REGISTER, a monthly publication, devoted to the improvement of tne practice, and support of the interest, of Agricul ture; published at Richmond, \ a , at $5 pel year. Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. m 6 J. IV. JONES , is my authorised Agent for th adjustment of my unfinished business mar 3 WILLIAM E JONES^ (Ls AO7 ICE. —From this date freight on Cotton per 8. C. C. & Rail x\oad Uo. is reduced to forty (fO cents per hundred for square bales, and fifty cents per hundred pounds for round. A B. STURGES, Agefi“ Hamburg, March 4,1840. (p RAILROAD FREIGHT REDUCED —AU artic es usually carried by weight to Hamburg, v' l * be charged at 4U cents per 100 pounds (instead ol 50 cents, as customary,] till further notice, mar 2 JOHN KING, Jr., Agent.