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words, to make abstract reasonir ,c and the mdst
recondite principles of commerce, |tw, and politics
plain to the humblest capacity, is i privilege and
power, in which Mr. W ebster is quailed, proba
bly, by no living man. This si] iplicity, which
is apt to be thought so easy of att lament, is nev
ertheless, in this, as in most cas s, undoubtedly
the result of uncommon care. nke the great
Athenian orator, Mr. Webster ie always full of
his subject. Like him, when mo t simple in his
diction, he is yet admirably select Like him too
he can adorn when ornament is s ipropriate, and
kindle, when occasion calls, into i >e most touch
ing pathos, or loftiest sublime,
As a public man, Mr. Webste ; is eminently
American. His speeches breathe the purest spi
rit of a broad and generous patriotsm. The in
stitutions of learning and liberty, vsaich nurtured
and cherished him—is his manly irivilege to de
fend, if not to save.
In no emergency, on no occas in, where he
has yet l»een tried, have the hig i expectations
formed of his abilities, been do< ned to disap
pointment. The time-honored i >ck of the Pil
grims; Bunker’s glorious mound; i id old Faneuil
Hall, have been rendered even m re illustrious
by his eloquent voice. Armed at ill points, and
ready alike for attack and defence* he has been
found equally great, whether wreelling with the
champions of the Law, before its n ost august tri
bunal, or contending on thebroadi r field, and in
the hotter conflicts of Congressiona warfare. We
cannot say that it is matter of regn t to us that he
is no longer a candidate for offici r though that
office be deemed the highest. ' 'he Senate, —
the Senate is undoubtedly his tru ; sphere of be
neficence and glory. There ma; he long be
found, foremost amid the mighty names, which
are at once our crown of pride, md tower of
strength.
CHRONICLE AND SE sTINEL.
AIJGU S T A .
WEDNESDAY MORNING, Mj RCH IS.
The Mails.
For the last two days we have lad no mail
North of Richmond, or West c Columbus,
Georgia. Where or with whom fajiiures so fre
quently take place, we are 'unable ta say. It is,
however, astonishing to us that tie Northern
mail should ever fail at this season, now that the
tiansportation the whole route fron.jNew Y6rk
to this city, is by Rail Roads and Steamboats.—
It is, however, true that the failures from the
North are more frequent than frorp the West.
There is certainly culpable neglect j somewhere,
and we should suppose if the Post Master Gen
eral used ordinary diligence, the e> il of which
the whole country complains so much, might be
cor reeled, at least on the great N irthern and
Western mail route, which is certai ily the most .
important one in the Union. But nothing short
of such neglect of the public interesi is to be ex
pected of an Administration, who he ?d no com
plaints unless they are made by some loyal, rank
and file administration man. j
We are aware that it would be unjust, very
unjust, and illiberal to visit upon thej head of the
department the sms of all its agents! contractors
and sub-contractors. But when w# have such
frequent and repeated evidences of he non-per
formance of their obligations to the ] üblic, with
out any appaient effort to correct he evil, we
must believe that there is a want of j roper atten
tion on the part of those who controi this impor
tant branch of the government.
Geul. Ilarrrison.
In redeeming our pledge to preser. t the views
of Genl. Harrsion on the subject ol Abolition >
we give place to-day to a long articb from the
Charleston Courier, in which the Editors of that
press, who are supporters of the present Admin'
istration, admit that Genl. Harrison n<lw “ stands
before the republic “ redeemed, regerterated and
disenthralled" from the diabolical genius of nor~
i hem abolitionism. We proclaim t7,j as we pro
mised, and sound it trumpet-tongue\l,that echo
may take it up, and send it, from hilltop to hill
top, with loud and joyous peals, xn triumph
ihrough the land"
We cannot take leave of the subject without
inviting the attention of the Van Bunn press in
Georgia to the article from the Chari rston Cou
rier. It will, we hope, give them some new
lights on the subject of Gener 1 Harri son's opin
ions on abolition, and will probably eiable them,
with some effort no doubt, to exhibit a more strict
regard for truth.
In the first article which we introduced to our
readers, on this subject, we expressed? the opin
ion that Gen. H. was unstained with the doc
trines of Abolition. We think, we havt; establish
ed conclusively to the satisfaction of >all unpre
judiced minds, the truth of our assertion, with
which we shall, for the present at anj rate, close
the articles on that subject.
Should it be necessary, however, in o ar opinion,
to open again our columns, to vindicate him from
the slanders of a press that stop at not ling which
stands in the way of their party succe; s, we shall
most cherfuhy do so.
Prof. Davis’ Lectures.
We are requested to state that the i iclemency
of the weather on Monday, prevented the com
mencement of the course on the evenin • specified
It will be opened this evening at 8 o’c ock, at the
Medical College, by an Introductory to which
the public are respectfully invited.
The Silk Culture. =
The National Silk Society has offered numerous
bounties, varying from SIOO to$100(j each, for
the best specimens of raw silk, to produced
during the coming summer. The wh|»le araouut
ol the bounties is $16,000.
The merchants of Havre, are raising a sub
scription to build a line of Ocean Si earners, to
run between Havre and New \ ork. The
French Government subscribes a larj je amount
of their stock.
Naval.—The U. S. Gazette says: We under
stand that Capt. M. C. Perry has berin appoint
ed to the command of the steam frigatjs building
at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, and has: in charge
the superintendence of her equipment! &c.
The experimental gun practice commenced
last season by Captain Perry, will be continued
during the present year. The steart er Fulton,
under the command of Captain John T. Newton,
will still be engaged on that servic*, together
with several commanders and lieutena its, in ad
dition to those of last year, the whole obe under
the direction of Captain Perry.
Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce. j
Montevideo, Dec. 26,1539. j
We continue without any alteration in the |
state of the country politically, except the arrival
of Admiral Du potkt, with one frigate, one cor
vette, and six small brigs of war. fitted as bomb
vessels. This makes the French force in the river
La Plata near thirty square-rigged vessels. It is
understood the new Admiral will not take any ;
other steps than those of Admiral Lk Blanc, j
and the bomb-vessels are employed cruising in ;
shoal water, which their light draught adapts
them for. There will not be any thing like the
bombardment of Buenos Ayres, as the French arc
aware they could not take possession of the town,
and the property of foreigners only would suffer
to any amount; so that here we are, and no more
prospect of the removal of the blockade than there
was a year ago. The port is full of vessels, some ;
of them have been here a year, all waiting for
some movement, which has been hoped for “in
a month or two” for a year past.
The last news from the army of General La
value was rather unfavorable, he having had
several small parties defeated,and some desertions.
In this province there has been no movement of
note —both armies remain within a day’s ride of
the city, and within sight of each other.
Habeas Corpus Case.— On Saturday morn
ing the RecordeU'gave his final decision in the
case of Ottaway, claimed as a fugitive slave, by
Mr. Hatcher, of Chesterfield county, Virginia.
In giving his decision the Recorder stated that
the constitution and the laws of the United States
authorized the return to a slave holding state, of
a slave who escaped therefrom, but did not au
thorize his return to that state, when brought
therefrom by his master into a non-slave holding
state. But inasmuch as the slave Ottaway had
been brought by his master fiom Virginia, to
Pennsylvania, from whence he escaped to this
state, and as the laws of Pennsylvania authorised
a master coming into that state with his slave, to
hold the said slave to labor and service for six
months in that state, it was right and proper and
in conformity with the laws of the United States
of Pennsylvania and this stale, to authorize the
said master to take his slave with him back to
Pennsylvania, whence he escaped—and to give a
certificate accordingly. The Recorder therefore
gave a certificate to Mr. Hatcher to take his slave
Ottaway back to the state of Pennsylvania whence
he escaped, and he will be taken accordingly.—
Express.
A Liverpool letter writer says:—“You can have
no idea of the ferment of “loyalty” which has
agitated England. Ireland and Scotland, on the
recent “happy occasion.” From London, the
modern Babylon, to the pettiest p illage, Monday,
the 10th of February, was kept as a general
holiday. For the British people are exceedingly
“loyal” —to the latest occupant of the throne."
WILMINOTON AND WELDON RaIL RoAD (
OPEN. —We mentioned last Thursday (says the
Wilmington Advertiser, of the 12th inst ) that
the cars upon this road would run over the en
tire line on Monday the 9lh inst. The road in
fact was completed on Saturday morning, but as
some preparations had been made to celebrate
the event on Monday, it was determined not to
run the first engine from one terminus to the
other, until that day. Accordingly on Monday,
at noon, the first car ever propelled upon 161
miles of continuous railroad arrived at Wilming
ton, N. C., from Weldon on the Roanoke.
This proud day in the annals of our State, was
signalized by thundering demonstrations of joy.
The great cannon did tell it to the clouds in peals
of earthly thunder.
One hundred and sixty one guns were fired—
being one for every mile of road completed. The
guns were managed with such skill, that we have
no accident to record. In the afternoon a general
invitation was given to go up to the depot and
witness a mixing of the waters of the Roanoke,
Tir, and Neuse, which had been brought down
for the purpose, with those of the Cape Fear.
The union was cemented with the best “ Old
Nash”—to the most perfect satisfaction of all
the bystandeis, who hailed it as a consummation,
or rather as a combination, highly honorable to
themselves. At night the town was illuminated,
and the houses of Messrs. Gw ynn, M’Rae, Cow
an, and Owen were the theatres of revelry and
mirth until a late hour of the night.
The Disputed Territory in Maine.—
The Augusta Age states, on the authority of
a report lately made to the Governor of Maine,
by Benjamin Wiggin, Esq., who has visited that
territory for the purpose of obtaining information,
under instructions from the Governor, dated Feb
ruary 6, that a house has been built and fitted
up for barracks, on the South side of the river St.
John, 23 miles below the mouth of Fish river,
and nearly opposite to the Madawaska river.
This house is 60 feet long, 30 wide and two sto
ries high. It is built of hewn timber, and is fit
ted with bunks sufficient to accommodate 100.
It is now under the charge of one man. Along
the Madawaska river a tow path has been con
structed on each side of the river, a distance of
26 miles. At the head of this tow path, about
two and a half miles below the foot of Temiscouta
Lake, barracks were erected last season, 80 feet
long and 30 feet wide, with two small out build
ings. Here is stationed a guard, consisting of a
corporal and five privates of the 11th regi
ment.
On the Western shore of Temiscouta Lake,
fifteen miles from the lower end of the lake, eight
j buildings are erected, consisting of barracks foi
. soldiers, quarters for officers, a hospital, magazine,
store house and commissary’s house, the whole
surrounded on three sides by ditches, breastworks
and stockades, —the works on the fourth side be
ing unfinished. These works were commenced
last Spring. The present force there consists of
175 men, exclusive of their officers and servants.
—The officers are Major Chambri, commanding,
one captain, two lieutenants, and one ensign.
The British have also built on the lake the last
season, a number of flat bottomed boats, suited
for the transportation of ordnance, and a number
of keel boats, capable of carrying fifty men. A
road has been laid out between ihis post and that
below the foot of the lake, a distance of 16 miles,
and put under contract, and about 10 miles, are
finished. The road from the lake of the river de
Loup, on the St. Lawrence, a distance of 34
miles, has been repaired the last season.—Bos
ton Patriot.
Tuscaloosa, (Ala.) March 9th.
Fatal Occurrence. —-A difficulty between
Washington Moody, Esq., and Maj. John Cani
ly, both ot this city, led to a|most tragical issue on
Thursday last, sth instant. It is said, that Major
Cantly had threatened the life of Mr. Moody, and
was near the door of the latter, when Mr. M. pre
sented a double-barrelled gun and lodged the con
tents of one barrel in the stomach of his adversa
ry ; and as Maj. C. turned to make his escape,
the other barrel was discharged, which took effect
in the back of his head, when he instantly fell to
the ground.
Mr. Moody delivered himself up to the civil au
thorities, and without a prosecution or warrant
against him, entered into a recognizance before
Judge Williams and A. B. Meek, Esq., in the
sura of four thousand dollars for bis appearance at
the next Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County.
Maj. Cantly died of his wounds in tenor
twelve hours after receiving them. As the facts
will soon undergo judicial investigation, it is pro
per that public opinion should remain unbiased
that the accused may, as he no doubt will, have
a fair and impartial hearing. We shall, therefore,
not enlarge on this melancholy affair.
} The funeral services were performed on F ri
j day afternoon in the Episcopal Church, by the
i Rev, Mr. Knapp, attended by the Masonic Frater-
I nity ; after which the deceased was buried with
| the usual solemnities of that ancient Order.
Owing to his misfortunes in business. Major
{ Cantly left his family consisting of a wife and
I seven children, in a very destitute situation. Pub
lic sympathy is much enlisted in their behalf, and
j we have every reason to hope, that all necessary
! kindness will be extended to them in their heavy
affliction.
From the Charleston Courier.
The candor, which you have shewn, in regard
to the charge, attempted to be fixed upon Gen.
Harrison, of favoring the movements of the Abo
litionists, induces me to suppose you will do him
j the justice, to insert the following extract of a let
ter of his to a friend, accompanied by some evi
dence from a newspaper of the day.
I am one of those who thought with you, that
it was important he should hold a plain and deci
ded language on that subject. Not that I think
the South ought to count in the smallest degree,
upon the professions of any man, in regard to that
matter. She must defend herself; she must rely
upon herself; she must lean on no foreign aid
whatever, and above all, she must reject and spurn
the idea of patronage and protection. With the
principle of instructions, universally received and
acted upon, nothing is more empty than a profes
sion of the kind, on the part of most public men.
It holds good, just so long as it is not required to
be put in practice, and not a moment longer. So
long as public opinion at the North is against the
wicked movements of the Abolitionists, nothing is
safer there, than to declare war upon them, but
should they get the upper hand, and instruct their
Senators and Representatives, you will see them
do, on that subject, what they did on the Tariff
in 1828—vote most reluctantly, no doubt but
still vote, against their professed principles, and
their Southern friends. The yeas and nays, at
such a moment are the only test to be relied on.
Gen. Harrison, in voting for the admission of
Missouri, in the face of the opinion of his own
constituents, and forfeiting his place in Congress
rather than violate the Constitution, and shake
the foundations of the Union,gave thestrongest,
because a practical pledge, of what he would do
in future. He shewed himself, at once, a brave
man, and a good citizen.
But, although I think, so far as our peace and
interests are concerned, neither his declaration,
nor Mr. Van Buren’s, on this subject, are likely
to prove of much practical utility, yet I agree that
a public man, aspiring to the Presidency of this
great country, ought to speak out, on a subject so
fundamental, and so important to its future peace.
It is an issue no one ought to shrink from meet
ing, on whom any share of public responsibility
is cast, least of all, he that asks to be trusted with
the chief Executive authority of the land.
Gen. Harrison’s declarations have been suffi
ciently explicit to repel the idea, that he has any
objections to make them, at a moment when they
may be turned against him by an equally skilful
and unscrupulous foe. He stands as fully com
mitted as his competitor; and whether his prom
ise is not at least as much to be relied on, he puts
himself upon the country to decide, on the evi
dence of their past coduct—the Missouri restric
tion, and the Tariff of ’2B.
But I am far exceeding what I had in view,
when I sat down to write these remarks—l will
conclude by copying from a late letter from Gen.
Harrison, to a member of Congress from this
State, the following passage. You will see that
it has particular reference to you.
“I saw some time since an article from the
Charleston Courier, statingthat my Vincennes’
speech contained all that the South had a right
to expect on the abolition question. In a subse
quent article, however, the Editor says that I had
concealed my sentiments, on the subject, after I
had been brought out as a candidate for the Presi
dency. In this the Editor gieatly errs. The
speech was delivered at Vincennes, in June 1835.
At that time my name was upon every anti-ad
ministration paper in Indiana, as the opposition
candi late, and upon most of those in Ohio, and I
had been nominated, in a very considerable num
ber of public meetings, many months before. My
first nomination at Harrisburg, Pa. took place in
the fall of 1835. I enclose you an Albany pa
per ofFeb. 7, 1835, to shew how extensively I
was then regarded as a candidate for the Presiden
cy*” A Subscriber.
Gen. Harrison. —We cheerfully give place
to the remarks of our correspondent, “ A Sub
scriber” ; and he would have been just as wel
come with any other title or any other name.—
It has been rendered manifest, we trust, by our
course, hitherto, that we are not among those
who, merely because we favor another candidate
for the Presidency, would vilify Gen. Harrison,
misrepresent his views, or rob him of the laurels
he earned so well, by his skill and prowess in
the wars of our republic, both against the ruth
less savage and the haughty Briton, or the civic
wreath to which he has so well entitled himself
by his eminent services in the civil line. We de
clare, in all sincerity of heart, that it aflbrds us
pleasure to do justice to Gen. H., or to any other
distinguished man to whom we may be political
ly opposed. It is with gratified, and not with
reluctant feeling, therefore, that we open our col
umns to the vindication of that tried and veteran
patriot against any charge affecting his fame, and
especially against the foul charge of abolitionism,
of which ever since our knowledge of his Vin
cennes’ speech, we have believed him, and still
believe him, to be as innocent as we are. No
one is more ready than we, to extol the conduct
of Gen. H., in Congress, on the Missouri ques
tion, when his sense of duty to the Constitution,
the Union and the South, induced him boldly and
fearlessly to oppose the infamous Missouri re
striction, against the sentiments of his constitu
ents of the Cincinnati (Ohio) District, and at
the hazard of political martyrdom, which was, in
fact, subsequently inflicted upon him for his
course on that memorable occasion and perilous
cn&is. So, too, although we cannot but con
demn, and still do condemn the doctrines and
spirit of an oft cited extract, from his Cheviot
speech of 1833, in which he expressed himself
in favor of appropriating the whole surplus na
tional revenue, with the assent of the slave-hold
ing tales, to the united purposes of emancipa
lion md colonization in inseparable connexion,
and broached the dangerous heresy that such a
measure, if assented to by the slave-holding
States, would be within the constitutional com
petency of Congress, without an amendment of
the Constitution which is equivalent to giving
Congress constitutional and therefore full power
over the abolition of slavery-the qualification
proposed by him being one, not, of right but of
expediency merely; yet we have always admit
ted and proclaimed that the extract in question
was an isolated one—found in the midst of an
address, replete with sound doctrine on the ques
tion of Slavery, and its constitutional inviolabili
ty in the several States, save by their own volun
tary action; and when we read his Vicennes
speech, of 1835, reiterating those sound doctrines
lashing the abolitionists with merited severity’
for their fanaticism, folly, and infidelity to th/ir
constitutional duty, and taking the high ground
that the discussion of the abolition of slavery
in a non-slavebolding State, was an abuse and
vio alien of the constitutional privileges of speech
and the press—we at once admitted and announ
ced, that the anomalous passage in the Cheviot
speech, the particle of chaff in the bushel of
wheat, was amply atoned for—and that it would
thenceforth be unfair and unjust to attempt to
identify Gen. Harrison, with abolition, or the
abolitionists, especially as those vile wretches had
then vilified and repudiated him, through the
Emancipator, their leading organ, and the anti
slavery Almanac, one of their insidious publica
tions, to abuse and excite the public mind of the
North, against the rights, institutions and inter
ests of the South. With unfeigned delight then,
not because wc have at all abated our political
opposition to Gen. H. for the Presidency, but
because we love to do justice, and we take sin
cere pleasure in arraying the distinguished men
of the Union in favor of the constitutianal rights
of our own loved and cherished South, do we
this day, in the communication of our corres
pondent, give place to an extract of a letter from
Gen. Harrison, dated a few days since, and ad
dressed to a distinguished member of Congress
from this State, (and which we know to be gen
uine) record his full and unqualified indorsement
of his Vincennes’ Speech. We said, a short
time ago. in one of our editorial articles, that but
a line was needed, from Gen. H., to clear his
skirts, so utterly and thoroughly from abolition
ism, as to disarm even his bitterest foes of that
weapon against him, and to render them asham
ed to wield it any longer. That line has been
given ; and Gen. Harrison stands before the re
public “redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled”
from the diabolical genius of northern abolition
ism. We proclaim it, as we promised, and
sound it trumpet-tongued, that echo may take it
up, and send it, from hill top to hill top, with
loud and joyous peals, in triumph through the
land. We, at least, rejoice to be assured that
whether our own favorite candidate, Mr. Van
Burcn, or his opponent, Gen. Harrison shall
succeed, overwhelming discomfiture and defeat—
that isolation of them far the scorn and indigna
tion of the republic which the gallant and gener
ous Henry Clay declared should be their merited
doom—awaits them ; and the rights of the South
will stand uninjured, unimpaired and in panolpy
of safety, under the sacred banner of the constitu
tion. We oppose Gen. H., therefore, not as an ab-
Oiitionist, but as a tariff and internal improvement
man,, and one whose views of the constitution,
generally, are too latitudinarian for our creed of
“Union and State Rights,” and especially and de
cisively because he is in opposition to an incum
bent, who boldly and generously came to the aid
and rescue of the South, at a moment when her
rights or the Union were imperilled by the fran
tic efforts of criminal fanaticism, and because no
bly planting himself on the constitution, he free
ly and unequivocally, staked his political fortune
on the maintenance of the institutions of the
South, in their whole constitutional integrity.
Here the Courier assigns the reasons which
influence it in preferring Mr. Van Buren to Gen*
Harrison for the Presidency, and defends itsel
against the impression of Gen. H. that he w a
charged by it with seeking concealment, both of
which we exclude as not necessary to our pur
pose, and then concludes in the following manly
strain:
We repeat, however, that Gen. Harrison now
stands rectus in curia with the South—he has
nobly scorned all concealment and thrown off all
reserve,and,occupying a position, by the side of
Mr. Van Buren, on the platform of the Constitu
tion, he is justly and honorably entitled, so far as
the slave question is concerned, to compete, on
equal ground with Mr. Van Buren, for the votes
and favor of the South. Let either be elected,
and the Constitution is safe, the South is safe,
and the Union,—the b'ood bought Union—the
temple of Liberty—is safe and sanctified.
Samuel Arams’ Conriner Rifle axr Shot
Gun. —We have had presented to our notice the
above named ingeniously contrived improvement
in fire arms. It possesses the grand requisite of
all useful improvements in such things—perfect
simplicity.
The piece when used as a rifle, resembles ordi
nary arms of that description, and may be load
ed as usual, or at the breech by a metallic car
tridge. A small piece is unscrewed at the muz
zle which loosens the inner or rifle barrel. This
is kept in its place by means of an enlargement
at the breech in that portion of the barrel in
which the metallic cartridge is fitted. The space
thus left when the inner barrel is removed, leaves
room for a larger metallic cartridge for the shot
gun, which may likewise be loaded in both ways.
The rifle sight turns on a pivot, and may be
put out of the way when the smoothbore is used.
T. he perfect adaption of all the parts, renders the
united barrels quite as firm as if in one entire
piece and as a rifle it is not heavier—or as a
shot gun, lighter than common arms of those
kinds.
We consider it as completely supplying the
place ot two distinct pieces, and combining econ
omy of space and money. For travellers such a
gun would prove invaluable—while the hunter is
thus enabled to command game of all descrip
tions by a single gun. The change may be made
in half a minute, from a rifle to a fowling piece.
—Hail Hoad Journal.
No time TO READ PAPERS.—AII men find
time for every thing that is really a gratification
to them ; and hence the complaint of no time is,
in fact, no taste for newspapers. Every man has
time to read a paper during a rainy day, or a
long evening, or sometimes when waiting "for his
meals. If he isijot a slave, he certainly can find
time to improve his mind. The most industrious
people always find time to read, and it is the
idle and lazy only who have no time.— Raleigh
Register.
Single Women.— Chambers’ Journal says it
is among the most vulgar of errors to consider
women useless because they are single. Only
look round your acquaintance—who is the one
universally useful, the one applied to in every
time of difficulty and trial] The single sister of
the family.
Carter, at the last dates, was making a clear
profit of SISOO per week in Paris. Van Am
burgh had experienced another misfortune At
Rouen, a lion bit him in the wrist, and has ren
dered him incapable. The lion he took out origi
nally, died ; and was sent over. It was this that
bit him. 3 his is the second serious accident
which has befalleu him.
Large Cargo.— The ship John Bolton, Caps
Toulon, cleared at New Orlerns on the sth insf
for Liverpool, has on board 2013 bales, or I 276 -
408 pounds of Cotton. This is said ’to be~ the
largest cargo ever shipped in one vessel from that
port.
SONG.
Air “ The Light Guitar.”
Oh . leave that dull and prosy book
Here’s Wine that’s sparkling bright
At these “ Regalias” turn one look/
And ring Tom, for a “ fierht!”
Then as we sip the social glass.
Os “ Sillery” ‘ Vic,” or “ Star”—
Quick, with the Wine, rich jests will pass
And smoke the light Cigar ! *
I’ll tell thee how a maiden slept
Who quaff’d this nectar plain.
I’ll tell tnee how she woke and’wept
And quaff’d and slept again ;
And how her gentle “!Ha” cried “A/e”'”
How darkly frown’d her Pa '
But here’s the “ stuff '” let’s both get hieh
And smoke a light Cigar! 5 ® *
Then, as the circling wreathes ascend
„ The Wine’s bright bubbles rise *
The song and joke iu mirth we’ll blend
With humor’s sparkling dyes *
We ll drink—“ The Queen”—in foaming- Vic—
Swear “ Vic ” shall be our “Slar”— g
“ Down” to the logues who live on tick
And smoke the light Cigar ! *
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, March 15
Cleared. —Ship Hamilton, Kiiham, Liverpool;
Ship Argo, Farely, Liverpool; Br. ship New York
Packet, Downing, Liverpool; Br. ship Ben Nevis,
Burns, Liverpool.
Arrived. —Brig New England, Colley, New
York ; Brig Augusta, Sherwood; Steamboat Chat
ham, Wray, Augusta; Steamboat Hamburg, Wood,
Augusta.
Charleston, March 17.
Arrived. —Ship Duchess d’Orleans, New York ;
1 Schr. Mary, M’Curdy, Maracaibo; Schr. America,
Somers, Richmond.
Cleared. —Brig Tybee, Kerbest, Havre ; Brig
Delaware, Ross, Havana ; Schr. Virginia, Antoin
, ette, Place, Uavanna.
Went to sea —U. L. brig Moses, Loveland New
York.
At Quarantine. —Ship Adrian ; and barque Po
tomac, Gorham, from Boston, and Schr. Emma, from
Philadelphia.
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. H. OVERBY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
Mr. Editor ;—Sir, I see a notice in your paper
of the 12th instant, stating that our worthy Mayor
declines being a candidate for re-election to the of
i fice he has so worthily tilled, and as it is time the
citizens should fix on a suitable person, to repre
sent them as Mayor for the next year. Allow me
to recommend the name of MAR TIN M. DYE, as
. a suitable person, and who will serve if elected.
Many Voters.
Messrs. Editors —Seeing from j our paper
of yesterday-, that the Hon. A. Gumming declines
a re-electiun for Mayor of the city, at the approach
ing election, we. therefore, take the liberty of sug
gesting the name of JOHN PHINIZY, Esq., as a
person well calculated to fill the office, and he will
be supported by (mar 13) Many Voters.
TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS.—
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’Drawing Academy,
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to visij
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. M. At night the rooms
will be well lighted. dec 19
$3rW. G. NIMMO, General Commission Mer
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the
Constitutionalist. nov 7
EXCHANGE ON NE W YORK—A t sight,
- and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by
nov 23 GARDELLE & RHIND-
P RAIL ROAD FREIGHT REDUCED— All
articles usually carried by- weight to Hamburg, will
be charged at 40 cents per 100 pounds (instead of
50 cents, as customary-,) till further notice,
mar 2 JOHN KING,* Jr., Agent.
XT THE FARMERS’ REGISTER, a monthly
publication, devoted to the improvement of the
practice, and support of the interest, of Agricul
j ture; published at Richmond, Va , at $5 per year,
Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. m 6
| J. W. TONES, is my authorised Agent for the
I adjustment of my unfinished business.
mar 3 WILLIAM E. JONES.
| p > NOTICE. —From this date freight on Cotton
! per S. C. C. & Rail Road Co. is reduced to forty (40)
cents per hundred for square bales, and fifty (50)
cents per hundred pounds for round.
A. B. STURGES, Agent.
Hamburg, March 4,1540.
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DR W. EVA NS’ CELEBR A TED SOOTHING
I SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.— This
j infallible-remedy has preserved hundreds of chil
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul
sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. The preparation is
; so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that no
, 1 child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it.
’ : When infants are at the age of four months, though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to open 4he
! pores. Barents should never be without the Syrup
i in the nursery where there are young children ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
pores and healing the gums; thereby preventing
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold onlj- at Dr. Wm.
’ Evans’ Medical Office, 100 Chatham street. New
1 York, where the Doctor may be consulted on all
diseases of children.
i PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP.~To the Agent
, of Dr. Evans ’ Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir —The
jreat benefit afforded to my suffering infant by
tour Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
lainful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
-1 enthow essential an early application of such an
ivaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
; orture. My infant, when teething, experienced
. mch acute sufferings, that it was attacked with
:onvu!sions, and my wife and family supposed that
death would soon release the babe from anguish,
till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp ; which as
I soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change
was produced, and after a few applications the
, child displayed obvious relief, and by- continuing in
, its use, lam glad to inform you the'child has com
t plctely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful
, complaint has since occurred; the teeth are ema
nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health.
I give you my cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, andwill gladly give any
information on this circumstt nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
EVANS’ FAMILY APERIENT PILLS am
purelj' vegetable, composed with the strictest t iv
; cision of science and of art; they never pro,line
nausea, and arc warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from Impurities of the blroX,
viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, ('aids'.
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, Asthma, ( ho
■ lera, Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnics and
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of whatsoever kind to which him an
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans’ Camomile
; Pills are such, that the palpitating heart,the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mind,
vanish before their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sun.—
Thej- have long been successfully used for the cine
of intesmittents,together with fevers of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous complaints,
■ eneral debility, indigestion and its consequences,
■ or want of appetite, distension of the stomach, acid
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
■ the mind becomes irritable,desponding,thoughtful,
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondriaoism, con
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all othei
nervous affections, tjhese pills will produce a safe
and permanent cure.
Evans ’ Camomile Pills were first introduced i ito
America in 1535.
More conclusive proof s of the extraordinary effi
cacy of Dr. Wm. Evans’ celebrated Comomile .m i
Aperient Anti-Bilious Pills, in alleviating afflicttd
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 10). Bowery. -
Disease —Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody Flux -
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels, se
vere griping,frequent inclination to go to stool, tu
uusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fie
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of a po -
culiar foetid matter mixed with blood .great debilitj ,
sense of burning heat, with an intolerable beniing
down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying pot
ect health, and returns his sincere thanks for tlu
extraordinary benefits he has received.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta
J. M.& T. M. TURNER, Savannah
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston.
SHARP & ELLS, Milledgeville
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN, Forsvth
2fit- Athens
MARK A, LANE,Washington.
juiy 23
A CARD.
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER
It is truly unpleasant to the subscriber t
pear before the public again, an d so Soo n
purpose of apologizing for a delay. Bnt jJ ° r tlle
that the circumstances causing a
the forthcoming number of his peri ol ii, a]
known to his patrons, will render his . ’ Wtlen
and satisfactory. They are briefly these-lu
been waiting, until a few days since f or * Cllas
ply of the paper upon which the’ yj/ Sup *
is printed, the vessel in which it Wa , SSen^er
from Boston having been detained by a(iv h ' Ppeil
cumstances sixteen day-s—bein >■ on ho- rsec * N
■» ** ucr passi ''a •
all, thirty days. That essential article
received, he is prepared to go on, and r* Co,r
rapidly with the publication of the number ° D
pects to be able to deliver it by-the 2
month. He flatters himself, that as
ger has generally been brought out with t ,seD '
ness, the hindrances\which have recently otn^'
will be kindly overlooked, and he hopJs ° CC f ,,rre d>
to get it through the press, and to present ■. UlJte
public with its customary despatch and p h,, |
T - w WHITE * y ‘
Office of Southern Literary Uesm
Richmond, March 13, 1840.
Mr. Editor, please announce
named gentlemen as candidatesf foere w U " ing
members of the city council fro n ward uo i as
approrching election in April next lat
GAREYPARISH. WM. E. Jir^nv
mar 18 PHILIP CRUMP .
Messrs. Editors The following -
will be supported for Members of Council bw”
No. 1, at the approaching election- * " ati^
G. F. PARISH, W. E. JACKSOK
m IS Dr. W. E. JOHNSTON.
Messrs. Editors .—Observing in
names of several gentlemen suggested 7
dates for Mayor at the approaching electing
teke the liberty of proposing the flame of’T
DANIEL HOOK, as one well qualified to fiu
office and who will be supported bv
jyarcb 18 <£ Many Vobu.
, (TT The SALE OF BANK STOCK
by \\. E. Jackson, will take place THIS D\v t
12 o’clock precisely, and a credit given if
of 60 days for three-fourths the value for .JJj
er ~ mar 18
rp Dr. J. 11. MURRAY offers his professional
services to the citizens of Hamburg and the vi«
ity. Office at H. R. Cooke’s Drug Store
marl7 ‘ la
p Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his pro%
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at his residence the
hrst brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
street,recently occupied by John L. Adams
ai, g |7 t s
(fj' Dr. W. I-LINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
profession. He may be found at all hours at the
• ate residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second door
from the corner of Mclntosh and Remold streets.
ncv29 ' \y
(p'PCBLIC NOTICE. —Dr. Munroe, Surgetr
Dentist, has relumed to Augusta, and has removal
his operating rooms to one door below Martin Fred
crick’s Confecticnarj-, and opposite the
Hank Buiiding. feb 10°
{ffj* NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave ss
follows:
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a ji.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’ - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branch ville, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m
* “ Blackviile, - “ - 100 .m
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a.m.
“ “ Aiken, - “ - 730
** “ Blackviile, “ - • 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ “ Brauchvill “ - - ]l 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - -1200 m.
‘ “ Summerville,“ - - 2 00p.«.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance—l36miles. FareThrough —$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 anj
station.
To stop for passengers, when a white flag is
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also at
Sincaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. 0.,
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons,
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackviile; aown, will break last at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. may 21
OTICE. —All persons indebted to the estate
J3l of Charles M. Curtis, deceased, late cf Chat
ham county, but formerly lesident of Augusta,
Richmond count', are requested to make payment
to the undersigned, and those having claims agaimt
him. are requested to hand them in, duly attested,
within the time prescribed by law.
JAMES R WEBSTER,
March 11, 1840. Qualified Executor.
CURLING FLUID, &c.—Blending with a grate
ful and refreshing perfume, the desirable
quality of strengthening and promoting the growth
of the Hair, without giving to it the greasy hue &
Pomatum, or the volatile moisture of the Oils. 1®
utility is confirmed by the most extensive con
sumption. ;
Also, the Genuine Maccassar Oil, and Ward)
j Celebrated Hair Oil. For sale by
mar 13 GARVIN & HAINES.
Odoriferous compound—For laying i»
drawers, among linens, laces, furs, cloths,
&c., imparting to them a pleasant perfume, and pre
venting the ravages of the moth For sale by j
mar 13 GARVIN A HAINB&J
THEATRE.
IK/S R. VV. C. FORBES respectfully announcesv;
the ladies and gentlemen of Augusta, th* l
he will re-open the Theatre in the course of th*
ensuing week. He takes great pleasure in an
nouncing the engagement of Airs. FitzwillU*’
the celebrated Comic Actress, from the Drury LaM
and Covent Garden Theatres, London, who
make her first appearance in the part of Peggy is
the Country Girl and of Widow Wiggins, in>
dramatic entertainment of that name, written ex
pressly for her, in which she will sustain six differ
ent characters. mar 16
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
THE Letting proposed to take place on the 7th
proximo, of the Grading of the Georgia Rai' - .
road above Madison,is postponed until the 24th«
October next. Proposals f or grading a few of tire
heavy sections crossing the valley- of the Alco'7
river, will bejreceived at this Office at any
after the 10th proximo.
J- EDGAR THOMPSON, C. E
ngineer’s Office, Greensboro, >
___ Feb. 22, 1840. j „
THE TRUE POMADE DIVINE*
EXTENSIVELY used in Europe, neverbefoj
introduced into America, an infallible c’-,
and a delightful preventive of Chapped Hands
Lips, &c. This elegant article gives a delicacy
fragrance and that natural healthful appearance t
the skin no other preparation of the kind has W*P
known to produce. It immediately removes TU
PLES and other disagreeable ERUPTION^, P*,
vents BRUISES from turning black,cures BVW
and SCALDS, alleviating pain, and P rev snc|
blisters, it is also exceedingly useful for ■ , .
BREASTS. So invaluable is this com P o
every inconvenience to which the skin IS J ere r
that none who have proved its benefit s w ’
willingly be without it. h
Sold in Glasses at 25 and 50 cents e ac
full particulars, and directions for use. 501
ROBERT CARTER,
Broad st. anj at
T. H. PLANT’S
Where certificates of its successful a PP‘‘
may be seen. June 21