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• : ! CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. I WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 8. Stella is received, and will appear to-morrow. Portrait of Gen. R. Y. Ilnyne. We emitted to notice yesterday, tb jita gentle man is now in this city, obtaining subscribers for the Portrait of this distinguished Patriot and Son of Carolina. He carries w'ith him tlje Original Painting, from which the engraving Is to be ta ken ; which we regard as a very excellent sketch of that truly great man. Those of our citizens who wish to preserve some memento of oi.c of the purest men of the age, will do well to enroll their names on the list. Theatre. j This evening, that deservedly favourite son of Moraus and A polio takes his benefit.! We can not presume to advance his claims, aij they must ever be sufficient in themselves, to wjirrant a re turn from any community, possessed ipf disonmi nation and discernment, as our citizens proverbi ally are. Mr. Latham offers a bill of entertain ment, attractive and various, in vvbiijh he per forms his celebrated character of NarfTieck, in “ The Swiss Cottage,” sings “ Tea in the Ar bor,” which created such a lively sensation at Nib Id's in New York; and last, “though not leant,” Mrs. Scgain, Mr. Horncastle elad Mr. Se guin, contribute their powerful aid in Fra Diavolo and the Marriage of Figaro. New Jersey Election. | The House of Representatives hjave finally adopted the Resolution of Mr. Rice garland, to print all the testimony in the possession of the Committee in this case. The question may therefore be considered as settled, for iitinie. The final vote on the adoption of the resolution, was 147 yeas to 3 nays. | The Fire in Louisville* The Louisville Journal of the 28jt!| ult. gives the following account of the destructive fire in that city. There was a most destructive fire in this city on Thursday. It broke out about 12 o’clock on Pearl (formerly 3d) street, in the chair manufac tory of Mr. Jno, Haw-kins. From .his point it spread with fearful rapidity in all directions, run ning South to within one door of thti post office, corner Pearl and Market streets; North to the corner ofMain and Pearl, West dclvim Main to within two houses of the Bank ojf f Louisville; crossing Main and consuming on tjhp East side of Main, between Wall and Pearl streets, 9 stores and a boarding house occupied by (Jaßt. Bacon. The total loss of houses and goods Is estimated at §300,000. Most of tha insurances were by the offices of this city, the greatest t|n«ount taken by any one office being §41,000. |N;O doubt is entertained that the losses will be promptly paid. __ . L» n The following just censure of the 1 course pur sued by the present AdministrationJ is from the Apalachicola by Cosir;|i E. Bartlet. We have been informed that Judge Randall, the talented and upright jurist, and jvho has for some years past, occupied the Bencbiof the Mid dle District of Florida, with great ejedic to the Territory, and to the satisfaction of hie people of that District, has been recently displaced, to make room for a political partizan of the .present ad ministration in Tennessee. i This is one of the most degrading circumstan ces connected with our present state of Territo rial vassalage. Our interests, our Laws, and our credit, are all bartered away in exchange for a few votes in a doubtful sta ; e or district. The of ficers, in whose hands are placed <‘»ur dearest rights, and most important concerns, ;are selected —not because they are known to be \kise and up right— not because they possess, or lire entitled to, the confidence of their fellow-cilizqns—but be cause they may have been active qu|l unscrupu lous in some electioneering campaign. But we trust the day is not fur distant, when people of Florida will have the selec|ion of their own officers; and when wisdom fiiid integrity, and attachment to the interests of {Florida, will he considered as recommendations if ar high sta tions ot honor and trust; when the emoluments of office will no longer be regarded jas the spoils of the victor—with which he may! : ’.ward his unprincipled adherents, i Pennsylvania Legislature. The bill from the Senate, legalising the sus pension of specie payments by the jianks of that State, till the loth January, 1841, ajid requiring them to loan to the Common wealth (in sums pro portioned to tlveir capitals, if the | State should want it,an aggregate not exceeding three mil lions, at 5 per cent, passed third reading jin the House, on the 31st ult., by a vote pf 46 to 41. Its approval by the Governor was confidently ex pected, . \ ■ - 1 —• \ ißoijfiA.—The term of servicij of the patri otic and high-minded Governor Gariphell having expired on Monday last, he that day retired from the station he has occupied with so 5 much credit to himself, and Thomas W. Gilmer, Esq. the Governor elect, was duly installed «jg his succes sor. Norfolk, April 2— Shipwreck.—' The schr Wilrnot, Joseph Marshall, master,, of and from Boston, with an assorted cargo, bojmd to Savan nah, was driven as lore on Lynhavisn Bay, about 2 miles from the Light House, liiji the blow oi- f Monday night last. We learn that Capt. Mar shall had put into this Bay to repair damages sus tained by his vessal in the gale of the 26th ult. Marine Blaster and loss of Llies. —The brig G. B. Lamar. Risley, from Savannah, bound to New York, has put into this port i|n distress, ha ving been dismasted in the gale ;of the 25th— was knocked down on her beam etuis, and in or der to right her, cut the lashing oi| the deck load of cotton, which fell over, and; Mr. Dudley, mate, a native of New Haven, %vi|s unfortunate ly precipitated overboard with the ijales, and lost; two steerage passengers w'ere also missed, suppo sed to have perished in the same w|iy ; one of the hands was killed by the falling of the main rig ging* The Large Otster—The large oyster taken by Xavier Francois, while •ystcring on Monday last, was brought up from the wharf on a dray last evening. An oyester measuring three feet one inch in length and twenty three and a half inches cross the widest part of iti. is a curios If y. Mr. Ayres, the purchaser, will exhibit it at the Alhamb-a this Jay at 11 o’clock, when it will be opened and served up in his usual good style.— Mabile Advertiser. jv In m t From the Baltimore American. Credit Abroad. There has been a great deal said of late res pecting American credit in Europe. It has suf fered some depression certainly—a depression however which will be but temporary, and which has resulted more from accidental causes than from any permanent ground of distrust. The Paris correspondent of the National Intelligen cer speaks thus in a recent letter: “To establish the highest credit for the several Stales nothing more, in my humble opinion, is required than that they maintain social and con stitutional order, and pay, punctually and fully, the dividends on their bonds and stocks; and that Paris and the continent, through the French and German presses, he made acquainted with their growth, condition, undertakings and prospects. — It has happened to me, particularly, to learn and note how little is known here, in any walk, of the matters just mentioned. The social and po -1 litical disorders that occur in the divisions of our I Union, are alone presented and regarded, and | have of course, a doubly mischievous effect. The scheme of an assumption or guaranty by the General Government of the State bonds and stocks is, I judge beset with insuperable difficul ties. Let the Slates be true to themselvft, and it will be superfluous.” The allusion here made to the ignorance wh ; ch prevails in European countries in reference to the United States, and to the proneness of foreign writers to exaggerate every little disturbance or disorder that may take place here, is worthy of consideration. It is not be disguised that much jealousy exists in monarchical countries on the other side of the Atlantic, on account of the prev alence and steady growth of republican principles in Am rica. There are not wanting suspicious watchers ever on the look out to descry symp toms of anarchy in our system of government, and to seize hold of every pretext to raise a tri umphant cry at the hoped for dissolution of our free institutions. A disposition to disregard contracts is imputed to the American people as one of the consequen ces of a popular condition —an imputation utter ly unfounded. Yet it is this very charge which has been most industriously circulated in Eu rope, and the one which has operated the most j injuriously to our interests. Mr. Walsh enters , into some statistical statements to show that com mercial faith in the United States is regarded as sacredly as in any other country in the world—a fact which nobody doubts at home, hut which has been wantonly denied abroad. In compari son wi’h this country, Mr. Walsh says—“ln France, I arn sure, there is less, proportionably, of commercial honor, punctuality and knowledge, notwithstanding the greater severity of the laws.” The number of bankruptcies declared to the Tri bunal of Commerce in Paris, from (he Ist of January, 1839, to the Ist of January, 1840, is one thousand and thirteen, and the aggregate of sums upwards of sixty millions of francs. These arc total failures and do not comprehend private arrangements, compositions, &c. Mr. Walsh adds; • “The experience of our custom-honses as to frauds, of what kind soever, accomplished or at tempted, may, I believe, be cited in favor of the native traders. It is conceded in Europe by en lightened and candid observers, that no other commercial communities would have struggled so hard, submitted to such sacrifices, and succeeded in standing so firmly, as ours have done under the crisis with which they have been visited since 183 G. Wherever I have been, in the three years past, on this continent. I have had occasion to remark the absence of all scruple or shame in getting money by any mode other than direct theft. On tr.e contrary, in the United States, fair dealing in evey particular and sense, and respect to truth and right, have seemed to me to prevail in the main body of Americans engaged in traf fic ; of the mechanics of every denomination, the venders of whatever merchandise, the inn keepers, the laborers for wages, including domes tics. Although the correspondents at New Yo.k and Philadelphia, of the London papers, com monly relate as peculiar and wonderful Western enormities in lynching and murder, be assured that, in France and England, which place them selves at the head of civilization and }>olice, mob violence and barbarous homicide are greatly more frequent than in our country. Ido not mean to dwell now on the statistics of crime which I have collated. I will merely say that the American calender falls lar short of the European in both heinousness and amount. It is to be hoped that the close proximity into which Europe and Amerca are now drawn by means of steam navigation, the facilites of which will go on increasing until they will come to be regarded as close neighbours, will have the effect of diffusing more accurate knowledge of our country, its character and resources, than has yet prevailed in the old world. The consequence, we may reasonably beleive, will be to correct the numerous errors and prejudices which abound, no doubt, mutually in both continents, but which are particularly inveterate in the minds of Eu ropeans on account of their ignorance respecting this country. Capitalists abroad will find that here is the great region for profitable investments ; and that a sacred regard for contracts must ever remain a characteristic of the country in its deal ings with people abroad, from considerations of interest even if no higher motive were concerned. They may rest assured that whatever commotions and divi-ions may at times disturb the public tranquillity in the excitements of political dis cussions, these are temporary in their nature as well as superficial, and can never reach the funda mental principles of society, which are based upon an intelligence continually increasing and a moral sense strong in its attachment to the right. Remarks of Mr, Black ofGeorgia. Mr. Graves here spoke at great length and in the course of his remarks adverted to the course of Mr. Black in relation to the election of public Printer; to which Mr. Black of Georgia said he did not rise for the purpose of making a speech on the merits of the bill now under consideration, but for the pur pose of putting himself right before the commit tee and the country, in a matter which may well be called a “ vexed question ” and about which a great deal had been said elsewhere; he alluded to the part he had taken in the election of Prin ter, and the disposition made hy the House of Congressional printing. It, in so doing, he pla ced any man in the wrong, it was not with the intention of prosecuting an offensive warfare, hut simply in justification to himself, and those who had acted with him. This much he felt himself imperatively called on to do, from the manner in which the honorable gentleman from Kentucky [Mr Graves] had spoken of that transaction, and trom the distinct allusions which had been made to him in the course of the debate. If he under stood that gentleman correctly, he hid deprecia ted the election of Francis P. Blair to the office ol Printer; pronounced it permature and precipi tate ; in consequence of which a previous inves tigation into alleged frauds had been superseded and precluded by the House; and that, too, said the gentleman when we were getting along very well and smoothly by letting out the printing on con'ract. Sir, said Mr. B. the gentleman from Kentucky, the Whigs, and others, who voted with that gen tleman for a certain resolution, to which I shall presently refer, effected indirectly and covertly, hy its adoption, that which I did directly and openly, in the election which followed. That, and that alone, after ail that has been said, is the d ff. rcuce between us. Sir. let us look to that resolution fora moment, and recur to its origin and history. It was in troduced into this i louse, and advocated on its I passage, by my colleague, [Mr. Dawson.] By 1 it, the Clerk of this House, a confirmed Demo crat, was ordered “to supply some suitable per . sonjor persons, to execute the necessary printing . of this House, in the manner prescribed by the ( joint resolution of 1819.” I will not assert that i the gentleman voted for this resolution; but ; this much I will say, that if he voted or raised > his voice against it in this hall, I was not present . and did not hear him. So far as lam imt'ormed he sat by and suffered that resolution, introduced 1 by a gentleman who usually acts with the Whig i party, to pass this House, sub silentio, not only the first, but tire second time, if I remember cor rectly. What, then, was the purport, the effect, the consequence of that action of the House ? It was that a Democra ic Clerk should select, at his option, some individual to execute the prin ting of Congress upon the terms fixed by the resolution of 1819. This proposition came di ' redly from the Whig ranks, a..d was supported alike by Whig and Democrat. This, then, was the generally received sense of the House, and was acquiesced in by the gentleman for Kentucky himself, who, if he was present at its adoption, . said not one word, as I have heard, in opposition to it. What, sir, was the natural and necessary consequence of all this? Every man here, w r ho had his senses about him, knew, or ought to have known that thisjsame Francis P. Blair, who has been vilified ami abused through all the avenues by which detraction can reach the character of a man. whether justly or not I will not stop to in quire, for lam not his champion. The same hein ous and iffensive Blair, upon the proposition, and by the votes of the Whigs themselves, was indirectly made the Printer of this House, with out any limitation as to price, save that imposed by the joint resolution of 1819. All parties here knew, as well as I did, that Hugh A. Garland, the Domocralic Clerk of the House, to whom the selection of a Printer was thus referred hv Co!. Dawson’s resolution, would appoint Mr. Blair, his politically ally, and who was every way compe tent to the charge and execution of that tiust. — Did this appointment disappoint any one here ? No, sir! Every body well knew who would be made Printer, as soon as the Clerk was entrus ted with the selection of that officer. Under these circumstances, when Mr. Blair : was comfortably seated in his newly acquired of -1 lice, for which he was perhaps more indebted to ( the Whigs than the Democrats, I had the honor to come foiward and unsettle this state of things, so pronit : ous to the Editor of the Globe, and to arrest the official patronage which had been in directly cast upon that functionary by Col. Daw son’s resolution. Is not this so ? I appeal, said Mr. B. to the resolution which I subsequently of fered upon this subject, and which was adopted by the House; by which it will appear that, in stead of making the Editor of ttifi Globe the sure and certain recipient of the printing patronage, under the prices of 1819, he was subjected to all the contingencies and uncertainties of an election, where parties are so nearly balanced, and restric ted in the remuneration he was to receive for ser vices to such terms and such a tariff of prices as the House, after the investigation of the subject, might think proper to adopt. |H Sir, said Mr. 13.1 have nothing to urge against gentlemen for their support of the Editor of the Globe. I supported him myself, not only upon the occasion referred to, but subsequently, at the election, openly and fearlessly, while others hid themselves behind the responsibility of the Clerk’s appointment. I voted for him viva voce, because I believed, all things considered, he was more en titled to ray support than the Editors of the Na tional Intelligencer. For this choice between two contending candidates, I am ready and willing, as I will do upon some future occasion, to answer to my constituents, to whom alone I hold mvseif responsible for my acts here. But, sir, this is what I complain of, and herein have I been badly and unjustly treated, and proscribed b)' some, without even a hearing of my case; that while I am rebuked and condemned by the gentleman Irom Kentucky, and those with whom he is as sociated, for having participated in the election of Mr. Blair to be the Printer of this House, those who voted for Col. Dawson’s resolution arc eith er applauded for their patriotism and consistency, or at least passed over in commendatory silence. es, sir ; “let it be written on the wall” that this identical Blair, who has been denounced bv the Whigs for every thing odious, both morally and politically, was made the happy recipient of Government patronage, by a resolution emana ting from the Whig ranks, and supported by that party, while I have been rebuked and condemned fordoing that openly, which they thought proper to effect indirectly and covertly ! “Think of that Master Brook!!” Shipwreck and loss of Life.— The brig Escambia, Capt. Dunham, belonging to Messrs. E. D, Hurlbut &, Co, was lost at sea on the 25th of March while on her passage from Charles ton to ix cw \ ork and out' of sixteen persons who were on board only one is known to be sa ved . The E. left Charleston on the 25th. On the next day while under bare poles, and being be tween Fryingpan Shoals and Cape Look Out, the wind commenced blowing from the N. E. and increased until 7 o’clock, when she was knocked down on her beam ends. In this situation the brig continued until 9 o’clock, when she began to go down. The wind blowing violently, and the sea riming very high and making a complete breach over the vessel. Every one was washed from the wreck. The mate clung to the taffrail, and after the vessel had entirely disappeared, he succeeded in reaching a part of the poop deck, which had been disenga ged by the violence of the sea, upon which lie >-e --mained until Saturday the 28th ult. at 3 I\ M., when he was at th it time taken off by Capt. Whil den. of the schooner Marietta Ryan. T he persons on board were Capt. Rufus Dun ham ; the mate, Wm. Bulkley; 2d mate, Edwin Hull; J. Chamhe-lain, cook; and steward, Isaac I radle; Henry Johnston, John Williams, John Peters, James Lucas, and Allen Jackson, seaman ; Mr. VV fiber, of Newport, R. 1., and two others, nsmes unknown, passengers. Vessel insured in this city for $16,(00. — Com. Adv. [The Escambia had a cargo of 483 bales of Cotton, and 244 bbls. Rice. The Cotton, we learn, was wholly insured at New-York, and it was believed that the Rice was also insured at that city. The seamen, seven in number, were all black men.] — Ed's. Charleston Courier. Another Fire. —Just as our paper was going to press about half past 11 o’clock, a fire out in the new brick building owned by Mr. Wilkins, occupied by Wm. H Kelly, on St. Fran cis street. The row of brick buildings adjoining were all destroyed, and the building on the corner of Water street, and two or three south of it were much injured. A large amount of property has been sacrificed. The fire destroyed the Carriage warehouse of A. P. Howell, on St, Francis st.. in the rear of which was a warehouse of W, & E Smith Crockery dealers, which was also destroyed, from which the fire was communicated to the Drug store of Woodruff & Watkins, on Water street, which was entirely consumed. Here the fire was unexpectedly arressted by the extraordinary exertions of the ffiemen. We are unable to give particulars this morning. The total loss cannot fall much short of $70,000. Too much praise cannot he awarded to the Fire men for the skill and activity they displayed in subduing the devouring element. The fire is attiibuted entirely to accident. Thieves and pick pockets were busy in tbe crowd and twenty or more of them were arrested. —Mobile Advertiser, Is/ instant. Extraordinary Marriage. —On Thursday ’ last, “young Doctor Lamb,” as he is commonly designated but properly’ described F. Augutus Lamb Handcock, a quack worm doctor, aged 22 ! was united in the silken band of matrimony, at St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury, to Miss Winford Foulkes, of Trelydan, near Welshpool, aged 83 years! The lovely and blooming bride being extremely deaf, caused great interruption to the ceremony, and when asked if she would take Mr. Lamb as her “weded husband,” she made no reply, when tholoving bridegroom shouted with ail his strength of lungs, “Say yes! say yes!” The Rev. Mr. Yardley stopped him, and informed the anxious youth that tr.c lady must answer of her own free will. The blushing damsel guessing i doubtless at the cause of the pause,exclaimed in I mostmelodious tones. “Oh yes, I will ! certainly 1 will ! I will.” The Rev. Divine, however, considered it imprudent to go on with the cer emony. as none of the lady’s relatives were present to sanction the bestowal of her person upon tbe charming young Adonis, and it was thought advisable to send for the attorney who prepared Miss Foulkes’s marriage settlements, in whcii she had endowed Mr. Augustus Lamb with about Thirty Thousand Founds.'/ The gentleman of the law arrived, and having vouched that tbe marriage settlements, &c., were correctly prepared, and also (hat the bride was capable of execu’inga legal deed, the remainder of the ser vice was proceeded with. Immediately after which, the happy couple, with the papa, mamma, and a brother of the fortunate Augustus, set off for Balb, where the turtle doves will enjoy the honey moon in sweet repose.— Cheltenham CEng.J Journal. Lafayette in the French Revolution. Lafayette was, also, a prominent member of the States General, which met in 1789, and as sumed the name of the National Assembly. He proposed, in ibis body, a Declaration ot Rights, not unlike our own, and it was under bis influ ence, and while he was, for this very purpose, in the chair, that a decree was passed on the night of tbe loth and 14th of July,— at the moment the Bastile was falling before the cannon of the populace,—which provided for the responsibity of members, and thus furnished one of the most important elements of a representative monarchy. Two days afterwards, he was appointed comman der in chief of the National Guards of Paris, and tints was placed at the head of what was in tended to he made, when it should be earned in to all the departments, the effective military pow er of the realm, and what, under his wise man agement, soon became such. His great military command, and his still great er personal influence, now brought him constant ly in contact with the throne. His position, therefore, was extremely delicate, especially as the popular party in Paris, of which he was not so much the head as the idol, was already in a state of perilous excitement, and atrocious violences were beginning to be committed. The abhor rence of the queen was almost universal, and was excessive to a deg r ee ot v Inch we can have no just idea. The circumstance that the court lived at Versailles, sixteen miles from Paris, and that the National Assembly was lu Id there, was ano ther source of jealousy, irritation and hatred on the part of the capilol. The people of Paris, therefore, as a sign of opposition, had mounted their municipal cockade of blue and red, whose effects were already becoming alrming. Lafay ette, who was anxious about the consequences of sucli a marked division, and who knew how im portant are small means of conciliation, added to it, on the 26th ot July, tlie white of the royal cockade, and, as he placed it in his own hat, p.o phesied that it ‘would go round the world; a prediction that is already more than half accom plished, since the tri-colored cockade has been used for tbe ensign of emancipation in Spain, in Naples, in some parts of South America, and in ! Greece. Still, however, the tendency of every thing was to confusion and violence. The traublas of the times, 100, rather than a positive want of the moans of subsistence, had brought ou a famine in the capitol; and the populace of fauxbourgs, the most degraded certainly in France, having assembled and armed themselves, determined to go to \ ersailles ; the greater part with a blind desire of vengeance on the royal family, but oth ers only with the purpose of bringing the king from \ ersailles, and forcing him to reside in the more ancient, hut scarcely habitable palace of the Tuilleries, in the midst of Paris. The Nation al Guards clamoured to accompany this savage multitude. Lafayette opposed their inclination ; the municipality of Paris hesitated, hut support- ; ed it; he resisted nearly the whole of the sth October, while the road to Versailles was already throigcdw.th an exasperated mob of above a hundred thousand ferocious men and women, un til at last, finding the multitude weie armed, and even had cannon, he asked and received an or der to march fiom the competent authority, and set off at four o’clock in the afternoon, as one go ing to a post of imminent danger, which it had clearly become his duty to occupy. He arrived at Versailles at ten o’clock at night after having been on horseback from before day light in the morning, and having made, during the whole interval, both at Paris and on the road, incredible exertions to control the multitude and calm the soldiers. ‘The Marquis de Lafayette at last entered the Chateau,’ says Madame do Stael, ‘and, passing through the apartment w here we were, went to the king.—Wc all pressed round him as if he were the master of events, and yet the popular party was already more powerful than its chief, and principles were yielding to factions or rather were beginning to serve as their pretexts. M. de Lafayette's manner was perfectly c alm; no body ever saw it otherwise; but his delicacy suf fered from the importance of the part he was call ed to act. He asked for the interior posts of the Chateau, in order that he might ensure their safe ty- Only the outer posts were granted to him.’ This refusal was not disrespectful to him who made the request. It was given simply because the etiquette of the court reserved the guard of the royai person and family to another body of men. Lafayette, therefore, answered for the Na tional Guards, and/or the posts committed to t hem but be could answer no more; and his pledge was faithfully and desperately redeemed. Between two and three o’clock, the queen and the royal family went to bed. Lafayette, too, slept after the great fatigues of this fearful day! At half past four, a portion of the populace made their way into the palace by an obscure, interior passage, which had been overlooked, and which was not in that part of the Chateau intrusted to Lafayette. I hey were evidently led by persons who well knew the secret avenues. Mirabeau’s name was afterwards strangely compromised in it, and the form ot the infamous Duke of Orleans was repeatedly recognised on the great staircase, pointing the assassins the way to the queen’s chamber. They easily found it. Two of her guards were rut down in an insta it, and she made her escape almost naked. Lafayette imme diately rushed in with the national troops protec ted the guards from the brutal populace, and sa ved the lives of the royal family, which had so nearly been sacrificed to the etiquette of the mon archy. The day dawned, as this fearful scene of guilt and bloodshed was passing in the magnificent palace, whose construction had exhausted the revenues of Louis Fourteenth, and which, for a century had been the most splendid residence in Europe. As soon as it was light, the same fu j r «ous multitude filled the space, which, from the rich materials of which it was formed, passed un- | I der the name of the Court of Marble—They call |cd upon the king, in tones not to he mistaken, to ' i l°!° * a r* s ’ called fur ;he queen, who j had but just escaped from their daggers, to come out upon the balcony. The king, after a short ' consultation with his ministers,announced his in tention to set out for the capitol; but Lafayette was afraid to trust the queen in the midst of the blood-thirsty multitude. He went to her, there fore, with respectful hesitation, and asked her if it were her intention to accompany the king to Paris. ‘Yes,’she replied, ‘although lam aware of the danger.’ ‘Arc you positively determined!’ ‘Yes, sir. Condescend, then, to go out upon the balcony, and sutTer me to attend you.” Without the king !—she replied, hesitating—‘Have you observed the threats !’ ‘Yes, madam, I have; but dare to trust me.’ He led her out upon the bal cony.—lt was a moment of great responsibility and great delicacy; but n Hiring, he felt assured, I could be so dangerous as to permit her to set out for Paris, surrounded by that multitude unless its feelings could be changed. The agitation, the tumult, the cries of the crowd, rendered it impos sible that his voice should he heard. Il was ne cessary, therefore, to address himself to the eye, and, turning towards the queen with that admira ble presence of mind which never yet forsook him, and with that mingled grace and dignity, which were the peculiar inheritance of the ancient court of France, he simply kissed her hand before the vast multitude. An instant of silent astonish ment followed, hut the whole was immediately interpreted, and tha air was rent with cries of •Long live the queen !’ Long live the general!’ from the same fickle and cruel populace, that, only two hours before, had imbrued their hands in the blood of the guards who defended the life of this same queen.— Ticknro. Mr. Van Suren is called, by the Southern loco foeo papers, *‘the northern man with southern principles!” We think it should read, ‘-the northern man ff.elino for the South.” —67. Louis Build in. Absence. of Mind.— The following is the last instance of absence of mind. A man thinking he was at home a few evenings since, laid down in the Square, and put his boots outside the gate to be blacked in the morning. Singular Physiological Case.— About four years ago Thomas Bradley, of Dcighton, near Huddersfi 'ld, remained in a trance for forty weeks during which lime the only sustenance he receiv ed was a little g uel put into his mouth at inter vals. 1‘ rom this stale of stupor he recovered his usual health, and resumed his labour as cloth dresser. After his recovery he stated that though he could see no one, nor had the power to move a fi er, or even a single muscle, he heard dis tinctly all the remarks made about him at his Led side by his family and others who visited him. He is now again reduced to the same state, and has been so for fourteen weeks last Monday, He has only spoken once during this long period, and that was on the sixth of November last, when he very feebly said “give me some parkin.” From this circumstance Ids mother supposes that he hears all that passes near to him, the same as when he was last in this lamentable state. He is in his twenty-third year, his pulse is hardly i perceptible; the only motion observed, and that rarely, is in the eye-lid, and he is reduced in a most remarkable degree.— Leeds f Eng.J Mer | cury. Birth-day of Washington. BY G. D. PRENTICE. Why swell a million hearts as one, With mem’ries of the past ? Why rings out you deep thunder-gun Upon the lushing Mast ? Why hold the beautiful, the brrve, The Jubilee of earth ? It is the day that gave Ourpatiiot hero birth. We otter here a sacrifice Os hearts to him, who came To guaid young Freedom’s paradise Willi sword of living flame ! To him, who, on war’s whirlwind loud, Bode like an argel form, And set his glory on the cloud, A hale of the storm ! A hundred years with all their trains Os shadow, have gone by, And yet this glorious name remains, A sound that cannot die! ’Tis graven on the hill, the vale, And on the mountain tall. And speaks in every sounding gale And roaring water-fall I * No marble on his resting spot Its scuptured columns rears, But his still a nobler lot, A grateful nation’s tears '■ Old time, that bids tiie marble bow, Makes green each laurel leaf, That blooms upon the sainted brow Os our immortal chief! His deeds were ours—but through the world That mighty chief will be Where g ory’s banner is unfurled. The watchword of the free ! And, as they bend their eagle eyes On Victory’s burning sun, Their shouts will echo to the skies— “ Cur God and Washington !*” From the News Letter. Lines, WRITTEN ON HEARING A TUNE OF OLDEN TIME PLAYED ON THE GUITAR. O, touch it gently, it breathes the tone, Os hopes, of feelings, long since gone, Th it come with the freshness of the hour When lirst we felt their magic power. O, touch it lightly; for it wakes again r i houghts that have long in silence lain ; When the heart was light, as the zephyr’s wing. And bright as the opening buds of spring. O, touch it softly ; o’er memory’s track It sends the wandering spirit back. O’er each love’d spot it fondly strays, To muse o’er the 4 light of other days.’ O blame me not if the timid tear Steal o’er my cheeic for those so dear ; ’Tis nut the tribute which memTy pays To the parted friends of other dsys. F. M. C. Minerva, Mason Co. Ky., Hair Tonic.—Dr. Jayne’s Hair Tonic has not merely excited great attention, and been exten sively used in Philadelphia, but here and through out the Union generally. We expect that some of the Philadelphia editors have used the Tonic and become dandyfied, they speak so warmly of it. It holds a high, and we believe, deserved reputation, wherever it has been used. It is sold by A. & B. Sands, 79 and 100 Fulton street.— N. Y. Sunday Morning Atlas Very true, Mr. Atlas, many of our editors have used .his valuable Hair Tonic and therefore speak knowingly when they commend it to public notice and we say no gentleman or lady should ever be without it, and if your hair be thin, harsh, and unheaKhy. or is falling off, you have hut to apply the Hair Tonic, and it is again restored to health and beauty, if you are so unfortunate as to have a bald head, a few months use of this valuable Tonic will, without doubt, restore to you that valuable covering—the Hair.— Alexander's Mes senger. This valuable remedy for the growth, preserva tion, and restoration of the Hair, can he obtained wholesale and retail, from WILLIAM K. KITCHEN, Sole Agent for Augusta. i MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, April 5 Cleared —Algonquin Smith, Providence; bri<* Commerce, Head, Liverpool. Arrived —Ship Charlotte, Graham, Havre; Er ship Ruby. Westcott, Liverpool; ship Chevalier Prince, Havre; ship Tamerlane, Theobald, Liver’ pool; brig Wm Taylor, Hoev, New York; bug Ceres* Blanchard, Havre; schooner Holder Borden, Rhodes Providence; steamboat Oglethoipe, Williams, Au gusta. Below —an English ship and a brig. Went to sea —Ship Amazon, Stinson, Liverpool- Br ship Perseus, kovven, Liverpool; baik Zenobia’ llemmington, Boston; brig Pandora, Sheppard, Pro-’ videuce; brig Clinton; Lyon, New York; bri ’- Jane Fitzgerald, Baltimore. ° ’ Charleston, April 7. Arrived yesterday.—Br ship St. Andrew, Lehch London; Br barque Ganges, ( oikon, Liverpool; schr Daniel Webster, Weeks, Philadelphia; schr £ p Cohen. Cromwell, Baltimore. At Qaarantine. —Ship Corea, Jackson, Havre Cleared. —Fr brig Gieenouiße, Harnouiny ; New Orleans; schr Elizabeth, Bell, Boston. Went to sea yesterday. —Ship La Duchess D’Or leans, Richardson, Havre; brig Lancet, Clark An- * twerp. <Xj“ We are au horised to say tint Wlill\ 1/ M. FRAZER is not a candidate fur ri.einh> r it - Council in Ward iNo 2. OCT* We arc requested to announce TRo\[\s W. MILLER as a candidate for Council in War-i 4 ; aprii 7 We are requested to announce the name of tu M. FRAZER as a candidate for election to the City Council for the 2d Ward. aprii 7 PT Messrs. Editors—Seeing in your paper of yesterday, that the Hon. A. Cummins declines a re elcctian for Mayor of the city, at the approach ing election, we. therefore, take the liberty of su - gesting the name of JOHN PHINIZY, Esq ■ person well calculated to fill the office, and lie’ [ be supported by (mar 13) Many Voters.' Messrs. Editors :—Observing in your paper the names of several gentlemen suggested as candi dates for Mayor at the approaching election, we take the liberty of proposing the name of Dr DANIEL HOOK, as one well qualified to lilt that office and who will be supported by March IS tl Many Voters. Mr Editor—The following named gentlemen arc recommended as suitable persons for Aldermen of Ward No 4, for the ensuing year; JAMES HARPER, ROBERT PHILIP mar 21 EDWARD THOMAS. PT We are authorized to announce the folJow ng gentlemen as candidates for men bers of Coun cil in Ward No. 2: B. 11. WARREN, JOHN BOXES, mar 31 JOHN G. DUNLAP. Mr. Editor—Please announce the fol’owing gentlemen as suitaul; persons to represent Ward No. 2 in the next Council; B. H. WARREN, A. READ, mar 31 S. M. THOMPSON. Mr. Editor, please announce the following named gentlemen as candidates for election as members of the city council fro n ward no lat the approrching election in Aprii next. GAREYPARISH. WM. E. JACKSON mar IS PHILIP CRUMP. '7* We are authorised to announce JAMES B. BISHOP, THOMAS RICH ARDS, and Dr. F. M. ROBERTSON, as candidates for Members of Coun cil in Ward Mo. 3. mar 21 Mr. Editor —You will please announce Dr. F. M ROBERTSON, JAMES B. BISHOP and F. , H. COOKE, as candidates for members of Council, at the approaching election, in Ward No. 3. m 23 i Mr. Editors—The following named gentlemen arc recommended as suitable persons lor members of Council for the Upper Ward:- JAMES HARPER, C. B. HITT They will be supported by Many Voters. mar 2U Messrs. Editors: —The fol’owing gentlemen I will be supported for Members of Council in Ward ! No. I, at the approaching election: G. F. PARISH, W. E. JACKSON, mar 18 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- v lice he has so worthily filled, and as it is time the citizens should fix on a suitable poison, to repre sent them as Mayor for the next year Allow me to recommend the name of MARTIN M. DYE, as a suitable person, and who will serve if elected. Many Voters. {t y~W. G. NIMMO, General 1 ommission Mer chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the Constitutionalist. nov 7 Pf Dr. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his profession, lie may oe found at all hours at the I late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second dooi I from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets, j ncv29 ly J. W. JONES, is my authorised Agent for the i adjustment of my unfinished business. 1 mar 3 ' WILLIAM E. JONES. WILLIAM ii. Ale LAWS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, dec IS No. 4 Constitutionalist Range. (ry EXCH INGE ON NEW YORK— At sight and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by nov 23 GARDELLE & 11 HIND. PT Dr. J. H. MURR IY offers his prof.-ssional servlves to the citizens of Hamburg and the vicin ity. Office at H R. Cooke’s Drag Store, mar 17 lm PfTr. GARDNER. formerly resident surgeon : the New noik Hospital, and physician at Beh'c ue Hospital, New York, tenders to the public his professional services. Office in Washington street, between Broad and f Ellis streets. Residence, U nited States Hotel. fpp 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 D will he well lighted. dec 19 * Doctor J. J. HILSON offers his profes sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its J vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the S first brick building above Guedron’s stable o:i Ellis street,recently occupied by John L. Adams. aii s l7 ts M Pf NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Tram I between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as | follows: — UPWARD. Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a m. “ “ Summerville, “ - -S 30 “ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00 “ “ Brancbville, “ - 11 00 ** “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 ji * “ Blackvi.’le, - “ - 100 .R “ “ 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 “ “ Branch vill “ - - ]1 00 “ “ Georges’, “ - -1200 M. * “ Summerville,“ - - 2 OCT. m- I Arrive at Charleston not before 300 S Distance—l3(i miles. Fare Through —$10 00. ■ Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain J 1 I minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and no longer than 5 minutes for wo 1 acJ water at an/ station. » j( fe To stop for passengers, when a ichne ji- o - ■ hoisted, at either of the above stations; aim J Sineaths, Woodstock, luabiuel’s, 41 mi e • " w Rives’, Grahams, Willcston, Windsor, Jo msu and Marsh’s T. O. t . j Passengers uo will breakfast at VS oudstot ' • ■ J dine at Brackvnlc; aoicn, will orcaKiasi at •f, J and dine at Summerville. ma y *