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• » I i - »-[•! —i —nrrnr-^— — CHRONICLE jiND SENTINEL. A ujti USTA. • ——l ' • THURSDAY ;V.i )RNING, APRIL 16. ’ (Tj* No mail north jf Charleston last night. Our is—Delinquents. In another part ofltl is clay’s paper will be found a Prospectus of this Chronicle & Sentinel, we hare thought propeijtc issue, by which it will be seen we contemplate,, 1 1 no distant day, a consid erable improvement in our weekly sheet. I his is imperitivcJy demand'd, as well by our daily in • creasing patronage, a* « proper regard for our in terests. We therefore solicit our friends in the various sections of the State, to aid us in making the improvement, by ;w licit, they not only contri bute to their own meht 1 enjoy men*, but alike to the diffusion of the pHi ciplea we support. To enable us to do tJ is, two things are essen tially necessary ; the fu it, is an increase of our circulation, which we'aijj sure can be easily effect ed if our friends will ailkc a !-mall effort in our behalf, in procuring; t|ie names of responsible subscribers. The sector d depends upon those for whose gratification wo lave so industriously la bored, as yet, without.& tompensati-ou. To such, we desire to say a fevf \ "ords, to induce them to do us even handed tncK. While many of our subscribers pay ijs promptly in advance or during the year, there;*!; a goodly number who seem to forget our notes iities, and let their bills run from year to year w thout paying a cent; to the Ja.ter«class our rerji r ks are alone applicable. Know ye then that our xpenses are very heavy, equal to twenty-five drill; rs per day, every day, every cent of which hi)s; to be paid in cash, to meet which, great as it b we are dependent upon those who are indel *3d to us. Our terms contemplate payment i;ti idvance, or at farthest at the end of the subscript ion year; but unfortu nately for the interest of both publisher and pa tron, they have not beck as rigidly observed as duty to ourselves require!. It is impossible, there fore, that we can permit i i*ch an unlimited credit business to go on, it mas: be broken up sooner or later, and although we dc not intend, in -he pre sent state of monetary ass irs, to enforce an exclu sive cash business, yet iv« must approach it as near as possible. We at s therefore sending out daily, the accounts of Ue inquent subscribers in the form of circulars, tel tl ose who are too remote to be visited by an agenjtl They will therefore be placed in possession of it:!: j amount of their in debtedness to us, and lot longer justify them selves by saying, “if IA ', ew how much I owe, 1 would pay” j As an additional indue ;ment for them to pay forthwith, we have detej n ined that all delinquent subscribes, whose subspri itions w,;re due prior to the first day of January: |i st, who pay previous to the first of July next, unless their papers are discontinued, J will; be permitted to settle their bills at our advanrV; price, of three dollars for the weekly pape.-, and six dollars for the tri weekly paper. But if ta *y do not pay befor e the first of July, the hig-fe* st price will be charged in every instance, that bt ;i our dollars, for the weekly and seven boliL; s for the tri-weekly.— This rule will be strictly i nd rigidly enforced in every case, without respcc: to persons. All money handed to |?< st Masters for us, will he at our risk. i j il - The New Sfork Kvciji ig Star says :—One good result may be anticic Red from the present depressed condition of ada rs. We are yet to go through the revolution-j-ii iany have not ye* reached the bottom of bill—many yet hope, however forlorn, that hopi! may be, —many hold on. eating up the little tkjij have left; trusting to the doctrines of charce-Milit this they all seem s ; { ed determined to act upoiri uereaJter, viz. sell less and trust less. It will nlotlanswer for customers from the far west, from »bi» south, and from the numerous new states ant! c ties on the borders of the great lakes and riveni, t|> come to New York to purchase goods with a |rtf -e letter of recommen. dation, setting forth geni?r: 1 integrity of charac ter, great respectability, ejtt aordinary enterprize, flourishing presoects of Ijktown, landed posses sion, &c. &c. Once «uc|i ii letter, duly authen ticaled, could have c.iabhkT: |the bearer to have purchased fifty thousand dollars on credit. Those • i limes are pa-t—something; jiore substantial and positive is now required Ih|l >re a merchant part 3 with his goods. Money,! & »od endorsed notes’ fair security and good chahv ter, will be asked for. We shall grow wise in liitjt, after we have pass ed through the storm. W 3 shall import less— make fewer bad debts—hr- b intent with reasona ble and sure profits—livf| moderately, and not look for brilliant fortunes so be made over night. From Flail ida. St. At-gi stine, April 10. The long talked of expedit on has been up the Ocklawaha, and again rned to quarters.— Among its results acccomdl shed, have been the killing of two Indians, lhe ;va iture of six or seven ponies and horses, the wo\;u ling and capture of another Indian, and a destiii i tioa of several spots of planting in high cultivakji i«. These are un important events, to be ted by so large a force as was employed, at;c tosser no particular reason for any interchange jof compliment. It has, however, demonstrated i few things which, until lately, have been witHoi t solution, although past experience had tally <«st Wished the correct ness of its data. We allmje ! o the fact, that In dians can he found when t t if j are hunted for.— It has shewn that a reliance * n dogs is not essen tial to the discovery of ading places of the enemy—for the dogs in th i |s xpedition, gave no evidence of scent, and red all anticipations of their usefulness. It estht ished the fidelity of the Indian Billy, who, tho<is i closely confined at Black Creek ever since his; c ipture, on this occa sion behaved so as to deser vs the commendation of the whites, and whose fu ure services migfjt, if properly used, be eiainclm y valuable in point ing out locations now had U the enemy. This expedition consisted of nearly 300 men —a large portion of them; i ounted. Major Childs, and Lieut Tompkins, of the Artillery, arrived in the isf anaer Wm. Gaston from the Southern posts. 'i»he garrisons are all ,in good health. The long.; fought, it is feared, may operate against the ; examination of Phil haiokee, or Grass Water, ijuj. {inteneded by Lieut. McLaughlin, U S. Navy;; jlndian fires are nu merous, and the confidence If the enemy contin ues the same. • ‘ | f Indians at Fort Hanson.—On Tuesday morning last, about 4 o’clock, the sentinel on post near Moccassin branch a small stream running within a short distance of Fort Hanson, was fired upon by the enemy. The sentinel saw two men and fired; pursuit was made, but the Indians es caped. One moccasin track was distinguisha ble. Jamaica. A file of late Jamaica papers has been received at this office. Their contents are all local.— Preachers are levelling through the parishes, and wherever they go, the negroes refuse to work. One hundred and twenty-six owners and agents of estates have addressed a letter to Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor, setting forth their grievances in the single parish of Manchester. *1 hey say ; We lieg leave to assure your Lxccllency that the present agricultural stale of this parish is tru ly deplorable, and our Coffee Fields gene, ally present a neglected and ruinate appearance. On but very few properties has there been any land fallen for coiTee since that planted in 1837 ; and where any further attempts have been made, they have, except in one or two instances, pro ved (from the determined opposition of the labor ers to any thing like continuous labor) abortive. In field labor four days a week is the utmost we receive, and that only from five to seven hours each day. Crime, both in stealing produce and stock, has lately increased to an alarming and unprecedent ed extent. Much of the present crop of the Coffee and Pimento has been lost for want of the necessary continuous labor during the picking; and we con sider, from the present appearance of our fields, the total independence of our laborers, and con sequent impracticability of extending cultivation by falling and planting fresh land without almost a certainty of being unable afterwards to get it regularly cleaned, that the crops of Coflee will still more rapidly decrease; and unless some deci ded change very shortly takes place, the cultiva tion of that article must on many if not on most properties, be of necessity abandoned. So much in contradiction of the boasted results of the apprenticeship system. The Governor, who has been making a tour of the Island, says: i ‘•My hopes of increasing prosperity at an ear ly period, are less sanguine than they were before I commenced this tour round the Island.*’ So, so ! we shall get the truth at last!— N. Y Star. Interesting from Bermuda. —The Balti more Sun states, that a letter received in that city, from Hamilton, Bermuda, mentions that an affray had occurred at St. Georges, between the troops and the inhabitants ; that the former were confined to the barracks until the excitement should subside, to which end the colonel of the regiment was exerting his influence. On the morning of the sth ult., at about three o’dock. the brigantine Bee, Capt. Adams, laden with West India goods, and which had been waiting the amelioration of the weather at the north, she was bound, took fire, burnt to the wa ters edge, and sunk. The captain and mate were hots ashore, and it is not stated that any one per ished. Another letter from the same, of the Bth speaks of the loss, on the Somerset, reef, of an American brig, bound home from Havana, with a large quantity of cigars. Her name, or port of destination is not given; nor is any mention made of her crew or officers; but the cigars were picked up in large quantities on the beech ; and the Bermudians were supplied with smoke at less than cost. Remarks of Mr. Habersham, OF GEORGIA, On the Resolution from the Committee on Commerce directing the publication of Lieut. Wilkes' Chart of the Harbor of Savannah, in Georgia, delivered in the House of Repre sentatives, March , 1840. The question being on the following resolu tion, reported by Mr. Habersham, from the Com mute on Commerce: Resolved , That the map of the Southern coast, from Tybee island to the Hunting islands, inclu ding a chart of the mouth of Savannah river, which was made upon the survey of Charles Wilkes, of the United States navy, be printed un der the direction of the Committee on Commerce; and that five thousand copies be published, one hundred of which shall be deposited in the Navy Department for the use of the navy. To which resolution Mr. Clifford, of Maine, had moved the following as an amendment: “That the publication be made by order of the House, under the superintendence of the Topo graphical bureau, and that four thousand copies stiould be published, two hundred to be deposited in the Navy Department, and two hundred for safe keeping in the Library of Congress.” Mr. Habersham addressed the House as fol lows : Mr. Speaker: I have myself no objection to the amendment now offered by the gentleman from Maine, my object being to obtain the publi cation of the chart, and in such way that it may be done with as much accuracy and at as small an expense as may be practicable. The honorable gentleman, will, however, per ceive that, as I am the mere agent of the commit tee in reporting the resolution, I have no power, however willing I may be, to accept the amen ]. ment. Individually, however, Ido not object to the amendment, but will vote for it; my great object, as I have said, is to obtain the publication of the chart, it being of great importance to the safety of vessels entering into, or departing from, the port of Savannah, the great commercial em porium of our State. When the subject of this resolution was brought before the committee by me, it was be lieved by the committee that the publication could be made with more accuracy and at less cost, if done under its superintendence, than in any oth er mode, and the chairman having consulted a lithographer, it was ascertained that a contract could be made with him to lithograph the chart, and publish five thousand copies for a cost not exceeding live thousand dollars, and the resolu tion as reported to this House, was in committee without a dissenting vo ce. Since Saturday, however, when the resolution was reported to the House, and objected to by the honorable gentleman from Maine, (Mr. Albert Smith.) I have examined the journals of the House, to ascertain the course which has been usually pursued in such cases, and find that the course has varied even during the same session ; in a single session of the twenty-filth Congress, no less than seven charts of surveys of harbors, made under the same law, and under like cir cumstances as this, were ordered to be published. (See the Journals of the 2d session of the ;wen ly-filth Congress.) In one case the printing was ordered to be done unuer the superintendence of Lieutenant. Wilkes; in one under the direction of the Clerk; in three other cases there was a mere general order to print; and in the remaining two it was directed to be done under the superinten dence of the Topographical bureau; in one case 5.000 copies were ordered; in another 4,000, and in another 2,000. Such were the various di rections given at a single session of Congress, so that it would seem there is no established rule.— As I have said, it is immaterial to me, what mode of publication is adopted, provided the publica tion be made. Upon reflection, lam inclined to think that the Topographical bureau is the proper department to which the superintendence should be committed, as that department is best inform ed on the subject, and most competent to super vise the publication, and conect errors in the printing. That the printed copy should be pre cisely correct in every particular is all-important. A change of a single figure in the soundings, may cost the loss of a vessel and perhaps of lives. This survey, together with a great number of others, have been made by skilful officers of our navy, under the authority of a general law of Congress passed in 1824. This is but one of a series of surveys which have been made since that time, and which are still continued under the orders of the proper department. Under this law almost all the harbors, of any importance, on the coast of the United States have been sur veyed, and the charts published by older of Con gress. Surveys, also, of harbors on the lakes have been made, and the charts published at the expense of the United States. Nay, one of the very charts above referred to is that of St. Louis harbor, nor can I find a single instance in which , on a resolution to publish these charts, an objec tion has been made. Such is the favor with i which such resolutions have heretofore been re j ceived, that in one case the House set aside the j older of the day to admit the resolution, and it i was passed without objection. Yet, on this reso ! lution to publish a chart of one of our most im ! po-tant horbors, an honorable gentleman from I Portland, in Maine, (Mr. Smith.) did, on Satur day. object to the publication altogether, or ra ther. perhaps I should say, did intimate his in tention to object. This objection, Mr. Speaker, did indeed sur prise me, and the more especially coming from the q.iarter which it did; and the contstitucnts of the honorable gentleman will owe him but small thanks, if he succeeds in preventing the publication. His constituents are probably as deeply interested in this publication as mine are. The trade of Savannah is of vast importance to the ship-owners of Maine. The gentleman can not be aware of the number of vessels belonging to Maine, which annually enter the port of Sa vannah. Our very boys learn the names of all the ports, in Main •, by merely walking along our wharves. Passatnaquoddy, Madras Penobscot, Wiscasset, Bath, Saco, and Portland stare them in the face in large letters, along the whole line of shipping. Let the gentleman walk along those wharves, and he will at once learn the im portance of this chart to the ship owners and mariners of Maine. Let him go to the bluff of { Savannah on a November evening. A noble ship is sailing up the river; she comes from Portland, in Maine. She has no cargo, but comes to take a load of cotton to Liverpool or Havre; landing that cargo in England or France,she returns with full freights to Boston or to New York, and again in the spring she is found in Savannah, lading a new cargo for Europe ; disposing of that, perhaps she makes the India voyage; battles with the storms olf Cape Horn; hears the missionary song among the Archipelagoes of the Pacific; spreads our broad banner on the coasts of China; catches the sweetly scented breezes of the spice islands; shadows her white canvass on the wave of the Southern ocean ; lands her rich freight in a nor thern port of this Union, and again, after a lapse of two years, is found entering the port of Sa vannah, to receive another cargo, and once more to spread her sails on the broad bosom of the At lantic. Is this chart of no value to her owners or her mariners ? Again ; a sloop is coming up the river from Wiscasset, in Maine; hercaigo of potatoes, plaster, and deal boards ; her deck crow ded with carpenters, masons, shoemakers, tailors, and almost every description of mechanics. Os these, some find profitable employment in the city; others go into the interior of the State; a portion pass by steamboats, by a navigation of i two hundred and fifty miles, to Augusta, take a ! railroad one hundred and fifty miles into the heart of our State, and find full and profitable employment for their skill and industry among the beautiful villages of Georgia. Others take a railroad of a hundred miles from Savannah, in the direction of Macon and Columbus, and there in the western part of the State, realize rich re wards of their labor. Why, sir, the gentleman cannot be aware of the vast importance of the trade of Georgia to the State and people of Maine. Sir, he must be wholly ignorant of the great and growing importance of that State; depressed, it is true, for the instant, by the general pressure of the times, and by the tinkering of the Admin istration with the currency, but still rich and powerful, and still moving onward in her great system of internal improvements, with a zeal and an earnestness which the commanding position in which she is placed by nature, amid her sisters of the South and West, not only authorizes, but demands. Sir, the gentleman must be wholly uninformed as to the vast trade and vast resources of Georgia. Equal in terrritorial extent to almost any State in the Union; unsurpassed in the fertility of her soil, and in her varied and rich productions; her cotton, her, rice, her lumber, her iron, her gold mines—enjoying in her different sections, almost every variety of climate known on the face of the globe; and capable of producing the vegeta bles and fxi.its of the tropics as well as those of the North. She communicates with the shores of the Atlantic and the Gulf, by means of her great navigable rivers. She is stretching her railroads to connect with steamboat navigation on the Alabama river, on the south, with steam boat nivigation on the Tennessee on the north west, and the Mississippi on the west. She is daily opening her direct communications from her Atlantic ports, by interior transportation, with the shores of the great lakes, and the fur trade of upper Missouri. Such are the advanta ges of her local position ; such her present situa tion and future prospects; and all this immense trade must find its vent through the port of Sa vannah. Does the gentleman from Maine, (Mr. Smith,) then mean to say, that it is not all-irn portant to the mariners and ship-owners of his State, that they should he furnished with lull and correct charts, by which they may be enabled, at all times, to enter with safety and without risk in to the harbor of Savannah 1 Sir, the gentleman from Maine will better un derstand the extent and importance of the com merce of Georgia, by a comparison with that of his own State. In making this comparison, I mean not to disparage the State of Maine —with a soil of comparative sterility, with a climate of great seventy, she has obtained prosperity and wealth by the enterprise, the livelihood, the dar ing and irresistible energy of her people; but sir, a? the matter before us is a question of com merce, I make the comparison to enable him the better to judge of the importance of my own State to the commerce of the world. By the re port of the Secretary of the Treasury, made on the 18th of May, 1839, the following statistics appear: The whole domestic exports of the U. States, for the year 1838, are stated to be in round numbers, §96,000,000; ot these Maine, exported one ninety-sixth part, or §960,000; Georgia, one-twelfth or §80,000,000, nearty the whole of which was shipped from the port of Sa vannah, besides several milllions exported coast wise to the North, and afterwards entering into the general foreign export of the United States, as above stated. [Here the gentleman from Maine interrupted Mr. Habersham, and called upon atm to state what was the difference of imports from foreign countries, into the ports of the two States.] I cannot answer directly to the question of the gentleman from Maine, said Mr. Hal»ersham, be cause I have not the statement before me; but I will reply to his question, by saying that the amount of imports into the port of Savannah, ought to bear a large proportion to the foreign export. In former days it did bear that propor i tion, but now it does not, and is comparatively small. It is not the proper occasion to enier in i to the discussion of the causes of this change; it is sufficient now to say, that it has proceeded from causes in which the gentleman has, perhaps, had > a hand—oppressive restrictions and onerous du . ties. We formerly imported direct from abroad. We are now forced to import through New York; but I will say to the gentleman, that the amount of goods imported directly and indirectly into the pot tof Savannah is immense. That port not on ly supplies the wants of Georgia, but portions of east Tennessee, Alabama, North and South Car olina, and Florida; and by our daily increasing facilities of transportation, her market is opening wider and wider into the vast interior of the West. Has the gentleman his answer 1 But, sir, to teturn to our statistical comparison. In the year 1838, the whole amount of tonnage, foreign and domestic, which was cleared from Portland, was 46,761 tons; the amount from Sa vannah, 80,581 tons. The amount of tonnage owp,' . in Maine was, 270,234 tons ; that in Sa vannah, only 16,668 tons —difference in favor of Maine, 253,566 tons ; and Savannah owns near ly all the tonnage owned in Georgia. Now, let me call the attention of the gentleman to this vast difference, and ask him how this vast surplus tonnage of his Slate is sustained I Pripcipalty, I say, by tHe carrying trade of the South, to which Savannah contributes about one-eighth. Why, sir, close the mouth of the Savannah river, and strike Georgia from existence, and you will find the shipping of Maine rotting at her wharves. Refuse to furnish good charts of that harboi — refuse to publish this only correct chart of the port, which is now extant, and you will subject them to the danger of rotting in our sand beds. Sir, the gentleman did not know the vast impor tance of this chart to the mariners and ship-owners of Maine. He did not know its importance to the commerce of the Union ; he did not know its importance to the safely of our national vessels. To use a common and familiar, but somewhat vulgar phrase—he has been barking up a wrong tree. Thus have I endeavored, Mr. Speaker, to main tain the cause or my native city before this House. From my youth upwards, I have en deavored to maintain her cause both at home and abroad. True, Mr. Speaker, she has rejected me and thrown me off; true, she has, by her vole, preferred strangers who know not her interests, and who, perhaps, have never been within her walls, to me, her own and devoted son. But a son ought never to complain to strangers of f,Le unkindness ot his mother. I do not complain, sir! lam here , and here and elsewhere, lam al ways willing and ready to stand forth in behalf other interests, her rights, and her good name. Sir, I do not complain of the people of Savannah ; for while the mouth-piece of the Administration in this city—l mean the Globe—is daily pouring forth, into every corner of the Union, its slanders and its misrepresentations, the people must be, and cannot but be, deceived. Sir, it was only nrr this very morning, that, in that broad sheet, which is now wending its way into every nook and corner of the nation, I, and other gentlemen of the South, acting with me in this House, have been denounced as cats-paws of the abolitionists. Sir, the people must be deceived, and they must continue to be deceived, while a Goule is permit ted to wander daily about the lobbies of this Hall, satiating his monstrous appetite upon the charac ters of henest and faithful representatives. I The N. E. Boundary.— Lord John Russell in the course of some remarks upon the estimates and the army, stated : ‘•That the whole difficulty with respect to the boundary question in America was the failure of his noble friend and the Government to make a reply to the ultimatum sent from the United Slates. His noble friend, in the course of last year, had transmitted a project for the purpose of finally settling this question with the American Govern ment. After the lapse of a considerable period the American Government sent back a different one, called a counter-project, with various provis ions of their own. At American Government. There was another question—namely, of claims made by citizens of the state of Maine to parts stated to belong to this country, which had led to proceedings between the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, and the authorities of the state of Maine. That had led to some correspondence which had appeard, and it had led to the necessity of protecting'the road and the shores by which our troops moved from N. B. the same lime that these provisions reached this country there at the same time arrived gentlemen who had been ordered to make a survey of the part of the country in which this disputed boundary existed. These gentlemen were now employed in making a report of their survey, and as soon as their report was received, an answer would be given to this counter-project of the American Government. That was the state of things at present, which would show hon. gentlemen that there was not the want of any attention in making an answer to ultimatum, as the hon. member called it, of the Brunswick to Canada, and which it was necessary to provide against, as gangs of persons roved about on parts held not to belong to either party. He would not go now into the general statement which his right hon. friend the Secretary of War would pre sently make, and bethought that he (Mr. Macau lay) would show that they were not liable to be charged with asking for two great an estimate if they were to retain the means which were neces sary for preserving this great empire in its state of safety, and at the same time of resisting aggres sions, from whatever part they might come. Hens axd Furt. —Hear how a country editor talks about his biddies. Some confounded villain has been robbing our hen roost. Every old bird gone—he ones and she ones—those with families and those without—leaving some dozen little orphan biddies to pick their way alone and mammy less through a tender and delicate chicken hood. O, that the feathers of the abducted might be forever stuck fast to the scoundrel, with tar, assafeetida, lunar caustic and melted brimstone. Then let him incubate red heated grape shot, “till the cows come home.” AsToxisHMiG Curiosity. —Our attention was called yesterday to witness one of the greatest na tural curiosities we have ever seen—it was no less than a living snake in the eye of a living horse. The snake is, we should judge, between three and four inches in length, about the diameter of a common darning needle. The left eye of the horse, where it has taken up its abode, is blind, though perfectly transparent. When we saw it, the snake seemed to be in quite a playful mood, and was performing various evolutions, similar to the animalcule of water, or the worm so frequent ly discovered in stagnant pools. How it came there, is more than we can divine. It is the opin ion, however, of some scientifical gentlemen who have examined it, that a small egg has by some means been deposited in the stomach, and con veyed arterially through the blood vessels to the eye, where by a natural process it was hatched Be this as it may, it is certainly a great curiosity. We suggest to the curious and men of science to go and witness for themselves. The horse may be found at the stables attached to the hotel of Mr. Whitback, Front street, directly opposite the American Amphitheatre.— Bal. Cliper. Fossils in New Brunswick. —Great stores of fossils have been brought to light in this Pro vince by the late Survey. Mr. Gesner, the Geo logist. in his second Report, speaking of Tante mar Marsh, in Sackville County, stales that large trees of different kinds, collections of shells, and bones of fish, are found buried at different depths. The vegetable productions have evidently been drifted and marine animals have been covered in this recent deposit. The rapidity with which the alluvium collects, is proved by the discovery of pieces of cord wood, of peculiar dimensions, and which are known to have been cut by the French in the early settlement of the country. * An In-' dian harpoon, and other relics of the untutored Aborigines, were found at a depth often feet be low the surface. Mr. G. says it has been remar* ked, by persons of observation, that the tides in the Day of Fundy are gradually rising, and ac cording to his own enquiries into this subject, during the last twenty years they have attained a great annual elevation in the Ba ; in of Mines, and other parts of Nova Scotia, during that period. In the great marsh of Westmoreland, there are layers of stumps standing in their natural posi tions and situated above each other in the allu vium, in a manner that proves the fact of their having been buried from time to time, and suc ceeded by new races. Thk slander recoils upos its Author.— The Raleigh, N. (J. Star says .—“General Har rison, like pure gold, shines the brighter the har der he is rubbed. The people have never yet set their hearts upon a purer patriot, a sounder repub lican, or a more spotless man. The base slanders invented against him by the Van Buren office holders and subsidized presses melt before the light of truth like a few feathery snow banks in warm sun shine. The charges of his want of competency, his being a federalist, an aboliti onist, and in favor of selling white men for debt; have all been clearly and triumphantly proven to be false aud unfounded, and have recoiled with the scathing influence of lightning upon the pates of their unprincipled authors, who write under a sense of public indignation like worms on coals of fire. Verily, there is truth in the old Arabian p r overb, ‘Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost.” Giants. —The appearance of Monsieur Bihin, reputed to be the biggest man in the Bowery Theatre, has naturally made the subject of gi ants one of some interests at the present moment. This great man is in height eight feet six inches, handsome and well-proportioned. He was born in Westphalia in 1807, from which it may be deduced by any one with a genius for “ciphering,” that he is now thirty-three years old, and a very tall lad of his age he is, truly. We will not carry back our reseaches so far as the old Testament times, although from the follow ing passage in Numbers xiii, 33, it may be in ferred that Monsieur Bihin was not a “circum stance” compared with the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” In more modern ages, men have been known to attain extraordinary height; and if we place im plicit reliance in the description authors have left of them, they have exceeded twelve, fourteen, or fifteen feet. Hector Beotius, in the seventh book of his History of Scotland, states, that some bones are still preserved of a man who, in derision, was styled Little John, and who was fourteen feet high. Platems, who was a man of great celebrity in the medical line, avers, that at Luzerne, in Switzerland, he saw the skeleton of a man above nineteen feet in length. He farther says:—“l saw a young man at Lunenburg, called Jacob Damman, who, for his extraordinary stature, was carried through Germany to be seep. Anno, 1613, he was brought to us at Basil; he was then twenty-three years and a half of age ; beardless as yef_ strong of body and limbs, save that at that time he was rather sick and lean ; he was nine feet high complete : *lhe length of his hand was one foot six inches.” The giant Ferragus, slain by Roland, the ne phew of Charlemagne, was eighteen feet high. Pliny mentions that “the tallest man that was seen in his age, was one named Gabara, who, in the days (-laudius, was brought out of Arabia ; he was nine feet nine inches high.” Most people must have heard of Walter Par sons. Fuller, in his “ Worthies,” says that “he w r as born in Staffordshire, was first appren tice to a smith, and he grew so tall that a hole was made for him in the ground, to stand in there up to his knees, so as to make him adequate with his fellow workmen. He afterwards was porter to King James, because gates being higher than the rest of the building, it was proper that the porter should be taller than other persons. He was propotionable in all parts, and had strength equal to his height, valor equal to his strength, and good temper equal to his valcr, so that he disdained to do any injury to a single person. He would take two of the tallest yeomen of the guard in his arms at once, and order them as he pleased. He was seven feet four inches in height” He was surpassed, however, in altitude though not in bodily strength, by William Evans. “ who was porter to Charles L, and succeeding Walter Parsons in bis place, and exceeding him two in ches in statute, but far beneath him in equal pro portion of body, for he was not only knock-knee’d and splayfooted, but also halted a little, yet he made a shift to dance in an antemask at court, where he drew little Jeffrey, the king’s dwarf out of his pocket, to the no small wonder and laugh ter of the beholders.” This anecdote of old Fuller suggests one of a similar character, though far more amusing and astonishing. At the time the republic of *the Valois, in Switzerland, renewed its solemn alliance with the seven catholic cantons, a drama in the German style was got up. and performed at Lu zerne, for the diversion of the honorable deputies. At the end of the performance, a man of gigan tic stature and amazing bulk made his appearance on the stage—he walked about for some time nimbly, went through several pantomimes, and at last seeming willing to disencumber himself of something he had about him, dropped severally from* the fold of his cLthes no less than eight boys. These youngsters, thus freed from their prison, paid the company several light compli ments on the occasion, and turning round, with a very civil parting bow, made their exit alone with their big papa. Let Monsieur Bihin beat this if he can !— New York Signal. Gen. Harrison and Mr. Web b ter. — Mr Webster has written a letter to tne editors of the Harrisburg Telegraph , pronouncing it utterly false that there has been any disturbance of friendlyrclationsbetweenGen.il. and himself, and warmly sustaining Gen. H’s. nomination for the Presidency. American Sick Ribbons.—The editor of the Philadelphia Ledger has been shown some spe cimens of American ribbons, made from native silk, by Miss Gertrude Rapp, of Economy. Beaver county, Pa. The ribbons are of satin, richly figured, or flowered, and pearl edged, equalling in appearance any imported article of the kind. The loom in which these ribbons were woven was made under the direction of Miss Rapp. The success of the experiment is most complete and highly gratifying. Mary. ’Twas morning, and Mary rose, Her stockings and garters put on ; Instinctively followed her nose, And walked with her back to the sun. She smiled, and the woods were illumed ; She sighed, and the vales were depressed ; She breathed, ana the air was perfum’d ; She frown’d, and saw nature distress’d. She nodded, the trees nodded too ; She murmur’d, and so did the rill; She wept, and the evening dew Fell in tears on the neighboring hill. She stept, and the fair flowers sprung up; She blushed,and the rose looked more red; She was hungry, she went home to sup ; She was tir’d, and so went to bed. marine intelligence. Charleston, April 16, Arrived yesterday— Br ship Belvidere, Stephen i son, Belfast; ship Cassander, Madigan, New York; i brig Perry, Hamilton, Boston. Cleared —Brig Sea, Allen, Hamburg, i At Quarantine —Line ship Lelahd, Kendrick, from Boston. married, On Tuesday evening thp i itu inn* v. Mr. Suel, Mr J. Norm’s, 0 f Hamburg > Miss Mart Ann Zynn, u s this citv. U >*o By Rev. Mr. Cunningham on Tuesdav « April, 14th Mr. Robert Anderson, to >L' arine Sullivan, both o f Edgefield • A **f. In Georgetown, D. C. on •’> t, by theßev. Dr. Johns,HisExcel!encVA,r Apri ', I De Bodisco, Chamberlain of his liaiiUt, .u AI, ° E t peror of all the Russias, his Actual Mate, Envoy Extraordinary and MinU* C ”° r °t potentiary to the United States, to Pleci * Williams, daughter of Brook Williams DIE D , f At his residence in this city 0 n t ing, the 14tb instant, after a lono- even. ness, Mr. William H.Cojc on painful ilj_ months. ’ 3 years and 5 Consignees per South Hamburg toad - Scranton & Smith; Stovall, Sim,’,,', } S4 °- J Carmichael; W H Crane; Baird l i U; 0 A Antignac & Hill; T J Parraelee; MolnTn D ' S K ncelnml & Son; Rankin, Bog., & Co . „ „ Vlsl . W Fuller; Wright, Bull & Co; Cm, Reese & Beall; A Sibley; T Dawson; \v C \j I s Beers & Co; I Davidson; Jeffers St BouiT'' G Parrott; J F Benson. COMMERCIAL. Latest dates from Liverpool Latest dates from Havre Mari' AUGUSTA MARKET. Cotton.—The market on Monday and Tuesdi was dull at a slight reduction from our quotations on Saturday. Yesterday the stock on sale was light with a better feeling and more purchasers at rates from 5$ to 8 cents for round bales, while a prime article would command in square bales S’ to 8* The sales of the week amount to 754 bales viz :1 at 61 at?*; 20 at 7s; 44 a 7*; sSa7f ; 380*7j iJ2 J a 8 and 1 bale nankin at 16 cts. Ordinary to middling, * air ’ . fitoli Good I air, 7itoß Prime and choice, gi to Groceries. —The stock on hand is very complete and equal to the demand, which continues quite limited. We hear of but few transactions of anv note- Coffee. —Recent arrivals have rendered the slock on hand very general at prices not varying from our quotations. Sugar. —The continued demand for Sugars, pat ticularly the lower qualities have very much re dveed the stock o» hand, and they arc in fair de mand at quota tions. Bacon —is in greater demand than previously and sales are made readily from wagons at 9 rent? cash, hog round. Molasses —has been quite in demand for the spring trade, and a slight advance has taken place; We quote last sales from the wharf at 32 cents. Flour. —The heavy arrivals have rendered the article quite dull at our quotations. Butter. —Has become very scarce, but little Northern in the market, and arrivals from the coun try are very limited. Domestic Liquors —Are as usual very Mat our quotations. Salt. —We have no change to note since our re port of last week. Freights —To Savannah, 50 cents per bale; to Charleston, by rail road, 30c per 100 lbs. for square, and 40c per 100 lbs. for round bales. Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 9 per cent, for current funds; Charleston at 6 per cent; Savannah 2 per ct.; Philadelphia 3* a 4 per ct.; Lexington, Ky. per ct.; Richmond 4 pe f cent; specie commands 6 a S per cent, premium. Bank Notes. — Savannah Banks, 1* per cent. prem. Columbus Insurance B’k 2* “ “ “ Commercial Bank, Macon, 2* “ “ Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ “ “ Agency Brunswick, “ 6 “ “ “ Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Columbus, 2* “ “ dis. Central Bank, 4 “ “ “ Milledgeville Bank, 4 “ “ “ Ocmulgee Bank, 4 “ “ Monroe R,ail Road Bank, 4 “ ** Hawkinsville Bank, 4 “ “ Chattahoochie R. R. & B’k Company, 6 “ “ ** Darien Bank, 16 “ “ “ Bank of Rome, 33 “ “ i All other Banks now doing business, at par. | Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, Bmk * of St. Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com mercial Bank of Macon, and Brunswick Agencyia his city. OF THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. The Chronicle and Sentinel is devoted to Commerce, Politics, and General Intelligence. Its location in the principal mart of the State, gives it decided advantages over the papers of any other part of the State, in presenting the earliest and most important commercial news. 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