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CHRONICLE AND SKMTiISEI..
AUGUSTA.
IT ESDAY MORNING MAY 5.
01/’No |naiJ north of Charleston night.
A Vord to those who Know.
W« hat'ij the natives of a few individuals who
4i« in the habit of receiving our papers from our
carriers, ard paying them fur them, to whom we
shai* as suo i as our enquiries are completed present
bills. -Others, if (here he any whose names we
have not -et received will do well to keep a
bright eye hut, or they may attain an unenviable
notoriety livrough our columns. Our orders to
the carricri are to deliver papers to no one but
subscribers- and if we find any individual in the
city purchi iiag a paper from them we shall pub
lish them, be toe consequences what they may.
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| The Reformer.
One of ihe most favorable evidences of the
cause of llarrison and Reform, is the truly cor
dial ret with which our Prospectus of the
Reforme , las been greeted in every section of
the couutfc*, from which we have yet heard.—
Almost ef’ry mail brings us our Prospectuses,
freighted \.ith names and the ready cash, assur
ing us of |he progress of reform, and welcoming
us to the labour. Changes are going on every
where, in* the cry, in every county, from which
we have brand, “is still they come.” Daily the
old supporters of Jackson and Van Buren, are re
nouncing their former faith and rallying under
the standard of Harrison and Tyler.
Even in South Carolina, the people arc begin
ning to mo ve, and the day is not far distant when
we expect to number on our list of subscribers to
the Reformer, hundreds of those genuine State
Rights men, by whom we stood in the memorable
Era of 32 a .i 33.
This a gratifying evidence, that the
people, tfi! henest unsophisticated people, will
n ‘ long slay boon the standard of the old re-pub
lican principles of Jeff rs »n and Madison.
To tho|’ of our.friends who have a fiord ed us
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such g ati|ving evidence of their zeal in the cause
of reform r*nd our behalf, we tender our most sin
cere ackmi-vledgments, and assure them that such
has been |the unparalleled success of the work
thus far, |iat we shall issue tlie, first number on
Friday m*t, or sooner if possible. Those there
fore who *»sire to obtain the first numlics, should
call and ifive their names entered upon the list.
2 Virginia Elections.
Prior to iiis important event in the Old D >min
ioa, theVln Burea press were confident of suc
cess, and fissured their friends throughout the
union thal this election would settle the affairs
of ihe rStnf'. and show the country that the Slate
was thorlughly Van Baren. Such was their
conSdenc| in their strength that they sought,
aye, evenjlinvited a contest based upon National
politics, IThe Whigs nothing daunted at their
boast me |them fearlessly, and routed them even
in so ne their strong holds; and throughout
the Stateifrom one extreme to the oilier, ihere is
scircely f county where there was a conte
that the .yVhig strength has not been largely in
creased. that the eiec ion has terminated,
and theTiccess of the Whigs placed bey ond a
doubt, Van Buren party and press are hard
pul to it,sto find excuses with which to justify
lhamsel' |s.
Some jissert, after having sought a contest
upon thes.nwHts ot National pditics, that this
election * no criterion ; in many instances it baa
been casied upon local questions, and by the
personal|populanty of Couruy men. Others
stg un i, fieri Uiat the people have been deluded
and deceived by the Whiga.—that the hue and
cry about Mr. Van Buren’s standing army of two
hundred thousand men, and thecnormous expen
d.ture of'thirty-nine millions of dollars by this
economical adminisleation in one year, have
alarmed |he people into the support of the Whig
ca ise. | r eri!y, we think that they had sufficient
cause to |»e alarmed for the fate of their institu
tions, \vi|’n such disclosures as these are made,
and the idminktration not able to satisfy the peo
ple upowthc subject.
But i*ey console themselves, rather in a des
ponding|ooe, we confess, with the reflection that
these ill ngs will all lie satisfactorily accounted
for befi i the Presidential election, and that the
Old Doj union will again rally under the standard
trf Van Burciysm. Delusive hope, think we.
You slid ild recollect, gentlemen, it has been wise
ly said, “revolutions never go backwards.”
} From the New York Times.
\ Don't let him Resign.
Aflet |Col. Brant, of the U. S. army, had been
tried, ci * v icted, and sentenced to be cashiered. Mi*.
Van Bilen. it is said, in order tosa v* the nephew
o/Cul ienton from public disgrace, permitted
hi nto fisign. Mr. Van Buren, we trust, will
not avail the ignominy which the people have
ueterni fed snail fallow his defeat in November
next bvjresigmng. —Let the Baltimore locofoco
canveii'on place him at the bar of public justice
to rece.|e the sentence which an indignant na
tidn.wii pronounce against him at the November
eleclioil— Don't let hmi resign.
A SI) Picture. —A letter from Paris says:
“The i genial situation of France is not improved.
Baukn ten's are lamentably numerous, and trade
ia d deplorable condition. Tltis applies in a
peculiah manner to the cotton manufacture.
There ilno demand for the raw material. Hun
dreds i.|iy thousand.-- of families engaged in that
-branch manufacture are thrown out of employ
ment, a|d are consequently starving A great
stir basiicen ma le aliout the importation of Bri
tish hull cloth yarn, and it is likely that farther
severe il>as ires will he taken to prevent it, for
thehoij# manufacturer s ffers exceedingly. The
last accounts from those parts ot the country in
widt h liix is raised, state that, owing to the win
ter, flat-hud all perished.”
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Young men are in general but little aware
how much their repution is affected in the view
ot ihe public, by the company thev keep. Ttie
character of thei’ a-sociatcs is soon regarded as
their own. Ii they seek the society of the worthy,
it elevag's them in the public estimation, it is
s»n evtu| co ih.t th y respect others. On the
contrar | intimacy with persons of bad character
always inks a young man in the eye of the pub
lic. I
| An Inquiry*
■ We should like to learn from the friends of
Mr. Van Buren on what occasion, during the
whole course ofhis public life, he gave even one
vote, or expressed even one opinion which was
friendly to the institution of slavery. His histo
ry is redolent of facts Which go to shew his hos
tility to slavery. Now, it is nothing hut a fair
requisition on his friends, that they should pro
duce some vote be gave, some act he performed,
or even some opinion he once expressed, which
was calculated to advance the interests of slavery..
Some such vote, act or opinion, although it
might fail to give him any positive claim to our
confidence or affections, might at least lend to re
but the force of the many wounds which be in
fl.ctecl on the institution of slavery, during Ids
public career. His friends, however, will strive
in vain, utterly in vain, to p-oduce in his behalf
any such vole, net or opinion. For such vote
neve* has been given, sue!) net never has been
performed, arm such an opinion never lias l>ecn
expressed by the Sheep Candidate lor the Fresi- ;
deucy. —Raleigh Star.
A Pure Metallic ('rnnr.xrr. —Benton
Hi mbit. about France. — I’he Tribunal Com- ■
mere e(~Vide Le Commerce J announced du
ring the month of February sixty-seven failures |
in the city of Paris alone. The excels ot the
joint liabilities over nil the property assigned j
amounted to five millions of francs. One firm
alone remains a defaulter to the snug little :
amount of $1,800,000 francs, another to the)
amount of 100,000 francs. In the month of j
January sixty failures were announced, not aver
aging less than five millions of doUais! What j
a nice thing a purely metallic currency is ! And
what a nice place Paris is for a pure currency
man like Swartwout to live in.
Not a Bad Idea.— -The Washington Torres
pomlcnt of the Baltimore Clipper thinks it would
not he a had idea to have a cross-eyed Speaker |
elected for the House of Representatives, as
there would then be no wrangling and fighting j
among the mem' ers as to who had caught his eye
first in their endeavors to get the floor. He
would most certainly give them the “cut celes
tial,” and the wranglers would twist off their un
happy necks in trying to catch the focus, as did
the owl in attempting to look alter Davy Crock
ett all around the tree.
Produce in O no.—The Zanesville Gazette,
of the 21st ult, says;— *• heat has gone down
the last week from 50 cents to 4-1, and thence to |
40 els. per bushel, at which it now rests. Fleur
is retailing at $2,79, no wholesale i»rice. Gorn
j remains at 26 els Oats to 16 cents.”
General. Harrison's kindness to an
Irishman i n distress—About two or three
years since, a young Irishman, named John Han
ley, of respectable parents, emigtated to Gincina
i ii. Ohio, with his wife, whom he hid married for
love, against his father’s wishes, which was the
! the cau»e of his leaving his country. Some
short lime after, Hanley , wJk» had kepi a small
store ,n Cincinnati, heard of the death of his i
| father, who was a man of much projteriy. Ha
ving also been informed that he wool 1 thereby
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come into a conlortable independence, he sold
out every thing and emboked w.lh his wife for j
Ireland. On arriving l!ie:e, what was his sad '
J disappointment to learn that he was let five!
pounds, or in oilier words, disinherited. He im
j mediately raised a small sum of money to pay his
passage and that of his wife, end returned to
Cincinnati, where the wile who was an accom
plished and interesting woman, end'-avored to
j obtain a livel hood for tier husband by leaching
music.—General Harrison hiving heard ot the
peculiarly distressing circuinstances above rel »-
ted, heca ue warmly interested in behalf of the
family, with whose touching and somewhat ro
mantic history he sympathised with that benevo
lence of bean which has ever been c!ia aetcris
tic of his n >blc and chivalrous disposition.—
There was the berth of a Clerkship in Ins office
vacant. It was worth five Hundred dollars a
i year. Ma ny personal friends of tire General so- \
hcited it of him in behalf -of their sons. He re- (
: luctautly refused them all. and gave the place l«
me poor young Irishman, Hanley. And let aftl j
I true hearted Irishman remendier, anuwhat Irish- !
I man has not a warm and true heart that II miry
held to tne office to the hour of his death, and
; was paid up to that moment, though for the last |
six months of his life he bail been ill and unable j
jto perform the duties of his station. For author- |
j dies of the. above statements, we refer you to the !
three following persons at Cincinnati, viz;
i Bishop Purcell, the Rev. Mr. Montgomery, and
Dr. Bonner.
New Steam-vessel.—Experiments are in
the course of being tried with the model ofan •en
tirely new form of ste .in-vessel, and, as far as they
; have yet gone, with every prospect of a sti'cess
lul result. At present vve can only state of lids
j remarkable invention that there are no paddle
i wheels, nor external wmks of any kind. The
whole machinery is in the hold of the vessel,!
where a horizontal wheel is moved by the power
of steam, and, acting upon a current of water,
admitted by the bow an I thrown offal the stern, i
propels the mass at a rapid rate. — By a very sim
ple contrivance of stop-eocks. Ac, on the appara
tus, the steamer can be turned on either course,
reta-ded stopped, or have her motion reversed.
This will be literally a revolution in die art of
steam-navigation.— Liverpool Paper.
From the Louisville Letter.
Poland.
Poland!—at the mention of her name what
mighty associations come thronging upon die
mind ! Poland—the land of Stthieski, of Kosci
usko, of Pulaski—the land of patriots and of
heroes—Poland, who of old went forth, steel
clad, the champion of Christendom, and rolled ‘
back from the plains of Europe the tide of Mos
lem conquest—Poland, the apostle of toleration,
who laughed at the hulls and anathemas of Popes,
wher. the haughty kings of England and France
did homage for their crowns, and kissed the toe
of his Holiness while he graciously trampled
their diadems in the dust—Poland in whose L>-
som the persecuted, of all creeds, found shelter
and protecti »n; though long since strangled be
neath the grasp of tyrants—beheld now rising
and bursting her chains— trampled in the
dust, weltering in her blood, —her locks clotted
with g >re, her brave sons in exile and chains,
her daughters in sack cloth and woe—Poland,
though trodden to the earth, thank God. is, in the
language of her battle song, ‘not yet wholly
dead!’ She lives in the fame of her deathless
heroes; —proud memories of her speak to us from
every page of her history ; her blood cries to us
from a thousand battle-fields. She lives in the
sympathies of the friends of liberty, iu whatever
clime they are found. She lives enshrined in the
hearts of tier exiled sons, and in that invincible
spirit ot the nationality which hinds togetlier her
scattered children, from the snows of Siberia to
the savannas of the West. She live* in the re
tribufive justice of the God of nations, whose
wrath, though long restrained, shall not always
slumber. Already are his h»H« forgi d. and his
arm is bared for vengeance. The cloud gathers
iver the devoted thrones of her oppressors ; and
ihe lightning red with th wrath of accumulated
wrongs, shall burst with seven-lnld fury upon the
heads of her despots. God of justice, pour out
the vials of thy wrath, and teach the nations that
there is a P wer above vv .tch still minds the as
fairs of men !
England and France are at length opening their
f-yos to the intrigues of the autocrat of the North
Already sensible of theirshamc in having looked
tamely on, while Poland, struggling bravely with
her late, fell unaided before the myrmidons of
despotism; they now wait only for a plausible
opportunity to "redress her wrongs; for they see
in her rc-esMbffchment us an independent nation
iheir only sure bulwark against the Ci*€roach
ruenls ot Russia. . .
Let Poland la te courage. Let her exiles gird
on the sword, and be ready, when Liberty shall
again, from the battlements ol Warsaw,
‘tinfuri her standard to the breeze of morn, #
Peid her loud drum and twang her trumpet hoin,
to draw for their country, and
‘Strike for their altars and their fires,
For the gieen g.aves of t .eir sires,
turd ! and their native land !’
The Itulbnnd, Wile, and Lover.— A 1 ruo
Mory ol the orient.
BT MISS PARUUK.
An eminent merchant of Slambal, extremely
| weallhv, and considerably past the middle age,
| became the husband of a very young and lovely
I woman. As Turkish females never see the in
j dividual* whom they wash to marry previous to
the ceremony, hut are chosen by some matronly
i relation of the person who finds it expedient to
1 bestow himself on a wife, and who ha ing seen
and approved the lady, arranges all preliminaries
with her patents; soil may well he imagined
| that the bride is frequently far from congratula
| ting herst It on b r change of position, and such,
as it would appear from the result, was the case
with the young wife to whom I h ive just refer
red. and who was dest ned to become the heroine
ot a frightful tragedy.
Two years passeu over Fatima Ilanoum and
she became the mother of a son ; but her heart
was not with its father, and, unhappily for tne
weak victim of passion and disappointment, it
had found a resting-place elsewhere.
The merchant’s house was situated near a
m sque. from the gallery of whose minaret all
the windows of the harem were ovei looked. The
| sun vas selling on a glorious summer evening,
when the Imauni ascended to this gallery, to utter
the shrill erv of the mctizzin. which summons
the faithful to prayer. Ere he commenced the
invocation, he chanced to glance downwards,
and he started as he beheld a man, ringing to a
shawl winch ha J been flung from above, and ma
king his way into the harem of the merchant
through an open window. Nor was this all, for
the quick and jealous eye of thr [mauin at once
assured him that the delinquent was a Greek
that the wife of a Musstemaun had stooped to ac
cept the love of a Christian —and lie well knew
that, in such a case, there was no mercy lor the
cu'p'it.
The Iraaum was a stem man; for one moment
only he wavered; and during that moment lie
rai-ed the ample turban from his brow, and suf
fered the cool r veiling breeze t> breathe lovingly
upon his temples ; in the next he bent over tSits
ladlings of the gallery, and spat up m the earth
as he murmur* d to himself, “ The dog of an in
fidel—may his father’s grave be defiled I—M «y
his mother eat dirt !”—and having so tes ified
hislcontempl*and abhorr.mce of the ill-fated lover,
he lifted his gaze to the clear sky. and the ring
ing cry pealed out—“ i a Allah, ilia Allah! Mu
hammed Resoul Allah ! ’
Jl.s duly over, the Imauni descended the dark
and tiHirow stair of the minaret, and left the
mo que, and in another instant he had put oil'ins
slippers at the entrance of salemlick. and stood
berore the sola, at the upper etn! of which sal the
merchant, smoking his clnlbouk of jasmine
wood, and attended by two si ives.
The Turks are not fond husband*, but they arc
jealous ones. They are watchful of their wo
men, not becat.se they love them, but bemuse
(hey are anxious for their own honor; and no
instameca ' be . d iuced in who h an Osmanli is
wilfully blind to ihe errors of lus wife.
Here the offence was not to be so-given. The
young and beautiful Fatima Hanouin had wrong
ied h:m by loving a Greek ! Tue grey bearded
| merchant, treiubiin; between rage ifnd grief, rose
fromlii-s seal arid rushed into the harem. The
Ule was tiue--for one moment the aged and un
releniing husband looked up the young and
haml-o. • lover, and in the next tlie agile Greek
ha 1 flung Up the lattice and sprung from the open
! window. — bre longthe house was filled with the
relatives of tin* wife, ami its spacious apartments
I were loud with anguish and invective; but Fa
tima Hanoum answered neither to the s hiring
grief, nor to l lie reproach of worn ; she sit doub
led np upon her cushion*, with her eyes riveted
on the casement by which her lover had escaped.
The merchant, stung to the heaitembittered in
spir.t bv the knowledge that bis rival was a ('h
tian.and not altogether forgetful, it may be of the
grace and beauty of the mother of ins child, sal
moodily apart; and all the reasonings and be
seechings of his wffe’s anxious family only
wrnn.i from him ihe unyielding answer, that he
would never we her-more.
And the hectic loverg where was lie ?
Like an arrow shot by a strong arm, he had
sped lo the home of his widowed mother, and had
hurriedly imparled lo her the fearful jeopardy in
I which he stood. There was not a moment lobe
lost; and hastily snatching up some food that had
Ireen prepared for his evening meal, he flung him
self upon the necK of his weeping parent, and
then disengaging himself from her choging.arms
rushed from tbe house, no one knew whither.
Hut thelmaum meanwhile was not idle. He
had aroused the neighborhood—be had raised the
cry ofsace c e—he had brui.ed abroad the inju
ry of the oslem—and ere long a Tmkish guard
was on the track of the young Greek. But no
tra-'e of him could he discovered,and the lair Ha
noum wits removed to the harem of one of her
husband’s ref lives, where her every look and ac
' tion were subjected to the most rigorous observ
ant'®, before the faintest hope had been entertain
ed ot securing her miserable lover.
Three wretched days were past, and on the
morn ng of the fourth the pangs of ItDtiger be
came too mighty for the youth to support. He
st *le limn his concealment, he looked around
him. and he was alone ! He ventured a few pa
ces forward; rich fruits were pendant from the
branches of rhe tall trees beneath which ho mov
ed, and ha seized them will) avidity; hut, as he
raised his hand a second time to the laden boughs
he heard near him the deep breathing of one who
wept. He glared towards the spot whence the
I sound came, and his heart melted within him.
It was his mother ! the guardian of his youth,
the friend of his manhood, the mourner over his
blighted hop s. He rushed towards her, mur
mure her name, and for a moment the parent
and child forg t all save each other! It wastlie
watchful love of the mother which first awoke to
fear; ami in a few seconds the secret ol her son
was confided to her, and she was comparatively
happy. She could steal to his hiding place at
midnight; she could insure him against hunger;
she could hear his voice, and convince herselfthat
he yet lived;and with this conviction she hurried
from his side, and bade him wait patiently yet a
few hours, when she w-ould bring him food.
The young Greek stole back to his hiding place
and slept. Tue sleep of the wretched is heavy—
slow to come, and weighed down with wild and
hitter dreams; and thus slumbered the criminal.
The night was yet dark when he awoke, and
heard footsteps, ami then he doubted not that his
watchful parent was indeed canoe to solace the
moments of his trembling solitude. Had be pau
sed an instant, and afforded lime for the perfect
awakening of all his senses, he would have dis
covered at mice that the sounds of many feet
were oil the earth; but he had a! cady passed sev
eral days without cause q! alarm, and his passed
safety betrayed him into a false feeling of securi
ty- - * -
I The unhappy youth had not wandered beyond
the spacious gardens of his home, which, rising
the height behind the house, were divided into
terraces along whose whole extent had been pla
ced avenues of orange and lemon I ices, planted
in immense vases of red day. Several ot these,
in which tfie plants had failed or perished, had
been reversed lo protect them from the weather,
and one of them, dragged in the first paroxysm
of terror to the mouth of an exhausted well, had
served to screen the culprit from the gaze of nis
pursuers. But on this night, when by some ex
traordinary fatality, he forgot for an instant the
caution which had hitherto been his protection,
he clamheied to the mouth of the pit as he heard
the coming footsteps, and pushing aside the vase,
sprang out upon the path.
The moonlight fell on him a* he emerged from
his concealment, pale, and haggard, his dutk lucks
dank with the heavy atmosphere of his hiding
place, and his frame weakened by exhaustion.
As he gained liis feet and looked around him, his
arms fell listlessly at his sides, and his head
drooped upon his breast. He had no longer ei- |
therstrength or energy lo wrestle with his fate ; I
and he put his hands into the grasp of the armed
men among whom he stood, and .-offered himself
to be I d away from the home ol his hoy hood, and
the clasp of his shrieking mother, with the docili
ty of a child.
The trial followed close upon the discovery of
the lover. There was no hope for the wretched
pair! Against them appeared thelmaum. stern,
uncompromising, and circumstantial—the Furious
husband, callous as marble—the faith which had
been disregarded—society which had been scan
dalized. For them th»*re were none to plead,
save the gray-baited and widowed mother who
wept and knelt to save her only son; hut who
a-ked his life in mercy, and not injustice. Alas!
it only remained for them to die !
It was at this period that my friend the .
first became connected with the affair. The fami
ly of the condemned woman, knowing h : s influ
ence with the government, flung themselves at
liis feet, and implored his interference. They
expatiated on the beauty of the misguided Fati
ma—on the want of affection on the part of the
husband—on the personal qualification of him
whom she loved—ihey left no theme untouched;
and he became deeply interested in her fate, and
resolved that while a hope remained he wou’d
not abandon her cause. But he was fated to
plead in vjbn; every Turkish breast beat high
witn in liirhalion that a vile Greek should sup
plant a true bel ever; my fiiend urged, supplica
ted, and Irosoughl unheeded; and at length found
himself unable lo adduce another argument in
her behalf.
When re'u'’lantly convinced of the fact, he
discovered that through Ins exertions to save her
life, his feelings had become >-o deeply enthralled
by the idea ot the miserable woman, that ho re
solved to « ndeavor to see her ere she died ; and
he w,«s startled by the ready acquiescence that
followed his r» quest, as well as by the terms in
which it was couched. “We shall v sit her at
midnight, to acquaint her officially with the re
sult of the trial,” was ihe answer; "and should
you think proper, you may accompany us; for
you will have no Umber opportunity of indulg
ing your curiosity.”
LTider these circumstances he did not hesitate;
and a few in miles before midnight he was at the
door of the harem in which she had re-ided since
her removal from her husband's house. 'The of
ficers of justice followed almost immediately; and
it stru k him as they passed the threshhold, that
they were in greater uumlters tlian so simple an
errand appeared to exact; but as he iostanJy
remembered that others mig.it Icel the same
means of gratifying it, he did not dwell upon the
ciirunwiance.
All was hushed in the harem; and the fall of
their unslippered feet awoke no echo on the mat
ted fl >ors. One solitary slave awaited them at
tile head of the stairs, and moved slowly before
the party wnh a lamp in his hand, lo l ie apart
ment of the * ondeinned woman.
She was sleeping when they entered. Her
cheek was pill.wed upon her arm; and a quan
tity of rich dark hair which had escaped from be
neath the painted handkerchief that was twisted
about her head, lay scaltetrd over the pillow.—
She was deadly pale, but her eyebrows and the
long siUen lashes which fringed her closed eyes
wore intensely black, and relieved the pallor of
her complexion ; while her fine and delicate fea
tures completed as lovely a face as ever the gaze
of man lingered on. At times a shuddering
spasm contracted for an instant the muscles of
her countenance —the tenors ol the day had ting
ed her midu gh‘ d reams: and at times she smiled
a fleeting smile, which was s .cccded by a sigh,
as if, even in sleep, the memory of paG happi
ness was clouded by a pang.
But her slumbei was not destined to be of long
continuance; for the principal individuals of the
party, suddenly trending over her, grasped her arm
anil exclaimed, “Wake, Fatima, wake ; we have
tidings for you !’’
The unhappy woman stated, and looked up ;
and then hurriedly conceal ng tier face in the co
vet lets she gasped out, “Masliallah ! what means
this I What would you with me that void steal
thus upon me in the dark ? Ami not a Turh sh
woman ? And am I not uncovered?”
“Fear nothing, Hanoum,” pursued the official;
“we have tidings for you winch we would not de
“GoJ is great!” shrieked the unhappy one,
raising herself upon her pillow. “You have par
doned him—”
But the generous, self-forgetting prophecy was
false. In the energy of her sudden hope she
had sprung into a sitting posture, and ere the
words had left her lips, the fatal bowstring was
about hor throat.
It was the horror of a moment. Two of the
executioners flung themselves upon her, and held
tier down—a couple more grasped her hands—a
heavy knee pressed down her heaving chest—
there was a low girgling sound hushed as soon as
it was heard—a frightful spasm which had al
most hurled the strong men from the convulsed
frame - and all was over!
At day-dawn on the morrow, the young Gre« k
was led from his prison. For several days he had
refused food, and he was scarcely able to drag Ins
fainting limbs along the uneven streets. Two
men supported him, and at length he reached the
termination of Ins painful pilgrimage. For a
moment he stool rooted to the earth ; he gasped
for breath—he lore away his turban—and clench
ed his hands until the blood sprang beneath his
nails. She whom he had loved was before him—
her once face was swollen and livid, and exposed
to the gaze of a countless multitude, fehe was
before him—and the handkerchief from which
she was suspended, beside the spot marked out
for himself, was one which he had given her in
an hour of passion, when they looked not to per
ish l bus!
Paper Milt, Burnt. — We learn that a valua
ble paper mill in Camden, Me., was destroyed by
fire on Wednesday last. The origin of the fire
is not known. Loss estimated at §l4 000.
There was insurance upon the building to the
amount of §OOOO, and upon the stock to the
amount of SIOOO. — Boston Advert.'ner.
Tub Jews. — \ Hamburg paper, the Dorp,
zeitung , says, “the Jews of Constantinople have,
with their R ibhi, declared that they will not wait
any longer than another year for their Messiah.
If wilhin th *t time he does not appear, they will
conclude that he has already come, and then they
will try to discover hy what religion he is already
recognized- ’The Rabbi is entirely of this opin
ion, and has sveil proposed to his congregation
to profess Christianity forthwith ”
Major Noah says there is not a panicle of truth
in this—the Rabbis never engage in Reforms.
Melancholy Accident,—The Maysville, n
Ky., Eagle savs: “We learn from a gentleman 0
just from Greenup county, that while a Mr.Al or
ris and his nephew, a Mr. Hannah. Were engaged
in hunting turkeys, the hitler, heating his uncle
calling turkeys, and having but a partial glimpse £
of him, supposed the noise to proceed from a
turkey, fired and instantly killed Mr. Morris, his
neck being broken by the shot.
Westebs Eloquence.—“lf. said a lawyer
pleading for his client whose garden had been
sadly disfigured by his neighbor's pigs—“if law
is so far gone out of our free and enlightened I I
country, that our neighbor's pigs must go with
out poke*, then in vain did our"fathers bleed at 1
Bunker Hill and die at Yorklown.”
If wc were Yankees we would guess that he
was a lull hloo 'ed Jackson man going the entire
swine, and rather a pig-m y orator. —Houston
Times. I
Natchez under theHammeb.—The Unit hi
| States Marshal advertised the City Hall with the
i Market House and Public Square of the city of
| Nalcluz for sale, under an execution for the pur
chase ot some lots, by the city, a few yeais since.
Jean- Jabuf.s I.autiok, Roman Catholic 1
i Bishop of Montreal died on Sunday, the 19th ult. I
j His corpse was exhibited two clays in the Chapel;
j dressed in pontificiul robes, and then deposited in
j one of the vaults :
I Wandered by the Brook Side. ' j i
BY R. M. Ml IN EB.
I wandered by the brook-side,
I wandered hy the mill,
I could not hear the brook flow.
The noisy wheel was still.
There was no burr of grasshopper,
No chirp of any bird
But the beating ot my own heart
V\ as all the sound 1 heard.
I sat beneath the chn tree,
1 watched the long. long shade,
And as it grew still longer,
I did not feel afraid; |<
For I listened fora foot-fall,
I listened for a word—
But the beating ot rny own heart
W as all the sound I heard.
He came not—no, he came not,
The night came on alone,
The little stars sat one by one,
Each on his golden throne ;
The evening air past by my cheeks,
The leaves aiwve were stirred,—
But the beating of my own heart
Was ail the sound I heard.
Fast, silent tears were flowing,
When something stood behind,
A hand was on my shou'der,
1 knew its touch was kind ?
It drew me nearer—nearei
*V e did not speak a word, i
But the beating of our own heart
W as all the sound we heaid.
MARRIED. I .
In Hamburg, S. C , on Sunday, 3d inst., by the
Rev. Mr. Durham, Mr. Natsakiel Gre.n, of
.\ugusta, Ga., to Miss Mary A. Mil w make, of
i Burke County, Ga.
. J ’,
DIE D,
At his residence near Athens, on Sunday lad,
i Henry Jackson, LL. D.for many years a iiustee
01 Franklin • otiege, and once a distinguished Pro
| lessor in that institution. As we presume an obit-
I uary nutite will be prepared for pub icalion, we
dec.ine commenting hett on las distinguished his
tory. i
BANK REPORTS.
Commetcinl Hank.
Macon, A,rHßih, 1840.
To Ilis Excellency, Charles J. .UcDon id.
(•iivenor otlGeorgia.
Sir:—ln cons i/tuity With the reipinemeni of ihe
General Asmmbjy, i hen with forward a scan an
nuii Kepon of tti> cuiulnion of itns Bank to .Won
day tie* bill list., inclusive.
Very respectfully,
Vour obeiiienl servant,
N C. Mu .NR or, I’res’t.
R port of the Condition i f (he Commercial Bank ot
M .ton , on Mi nd.y , Ap.il tth, ,Bb>.
DR
. ■ Capital Mock, 345,0',5
C- mmerci&l -Notes in circulation, 28,1 T-r
Surplus fund, 11,858 15
j Dividends unpaid, 132
Pr.-fits since February last, 10,9u4 74
j Amount dueoiher Bunks Corporations 27,633 55
ludiv dual deposilots, ] i 4,825 33
$538,853 83
CR
Notes !>iscoimfet!,
, Running to maturity and con
sidered good, 149,770 49
I'nder protest, “ “ 18‘,13‘d 67
I “ “ “ bod, 9,104 5i
“ •* in suit “ good, 7,183 49
■ 177,509 17
1 Rills discounted
I Running to maturity and con
sidered good, IC9T?S 30
i Under protest, cons, dnuhtful, 2.000
In split “ g»ud, 5,75 4
Do “ doubtful, 5.000
' Amount due from other Ranks, 4 i,i67 37
“ *• “ Agents, 3.106 43
Banking house and lot, u/ioo
j Pro esl ncrount, 35 75
I Incidental expenses, 832 98
Salary account, 541 74
Notes of other Banks, 83,584
Specie, 36,996 10
■ 120,580 10 ,
$538,952 83
2 Georgia, \ Befote me, I 11. Taylor, a Public
Bibb C aw.'y, S No-ary, for 1 lit? county aforesaid,
personally ap|*eared, N ( Munroe. President, and
G. If. Catbart, Cashier of the ( ommercial Rank ul
Macon, vyho being duly sworn, say Dial the lore
going statement of the condition of the sa.d Batik,
and ti>t of its Stockholders annexed, is correct to
the best of their knowledge and belief, errors in
Books only excepted.
N. C. Munrok, Pros’l.
G B Caßll > RT, Cuah’r.
Sworn to and stibscibcd, before me, on tats Bth
day of April, iß<
Ira 11. Taylor, Notary Public.
Thomas Napier, 930 SIOO $23,000
N. Miinrue. 3'»o 1 0 3t),u«o
“ 135 75 10,125
“ Trustee for D C.
Bird, 12 100 1,200
Amory Chapin. 50 ICO 5,000
Samuel Gi is wold, 10 75 75')
G. B Cadiart, K 0 75 7,5t'0
Thomas Taylor, 75,0 80 60,uc0
David Flamlers, 50 75 3,750
J. VV Armstrong, 50 75 3^750
Lerov Mnpier, 778 75 58.350
Anthony Dyer, 259 100 25,000
Wißinm Fort, 50 '5 3,750
Joseph L. Moultrie, 50 75 3,750
Thomas W. Baxter, 100 100 10,M)0
Um Hamilton. 50 75 3,750
1 1 amiltoß and Reynolds, 100 75 7.500
Skelton Napier, 190 100 19,(R 0
“ 4.H) 89 35,600
John R Dyer, 50 75 3,750
. John D. Btell, 115 100 11.500
O. VV. Cox, 95 ICO 9,500
|M. Bartlett, 85 100 B,SsKJ
4,000 $345,025
1—
Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank.
Columbus, Ga , April 8,1840,
. To his Excellency
j Charles J. McDonald, Governor,
Miiletigeville.
Sir Herewith I have the honor to transmit to
1 you a statement of the condition of thw Planters’
and Mechanics’ Bank of Columbus, together with
a list of Stockholder in said Bank, on Monday GtH
of April, 1840. * ’ 1
Very respectfully,
YourobU. Servant,
D. McUougald, Preat.
General Statement of the I 1 la: tors' and Mechanic*'
Hunk oj Columbus, on Munauy mormon Aonl
6. 18 fit. b
DR.
Capita! stock. _ $260,000 00
Notes of Ihe Bank issued, $621,600 00
“ on hand, 177,610 00
“ in circulation, 446,390 o*o
Individual Deposites, 39.030 61
Surplus fund,and Discount account, 53,391 05
Duj tj 1 thor Banks, Corporations, and
Agents, 108,556 41
Unclaimed dividend, 621 Os)
$9b7,995 17
CR
Notes Dicoanted, riming
to ma unty. $23f,7T0 62
Do. uid er Protest, not j
in suit, 4,919 67
Do. lying ov rnof protested, 250 00
Bills ol Exchange running
to tnatnritv, ISUO9B 33
Do. under Protest, I,'U)4 88
Incidental expen ea, 121 61
Due hy other Banks, Corporations, and
Agents, 33?,695 44
Salary account, 1,8i4 99
Banking bouse and lot, 23,870 95
No es of oilier Ranks, 54.732 Oii
1 hecks and certificates in other Bunks, 1a,415 Oil
Change bilk, 236 s>j
Specie, 51,035 txi
$907,995 07
Georgia, ) Personally came Drtnic] Mo-
Muscogee County. } Dougald, l’r< sidenl, and Vial.
d»ew Icobertson, Ca-lner of the Planters’and Me
chanics’ Hank of Columbus, before me. a'd being
duly sworn, say. dint die above statement t xinbisu
ihe true eorilifi in of said Bank, on Mondav morn,
mg. 6tb of April, 1840; and the atm* xed is a cor.
red list of die stockholders,agreeably tu tlie hooka
of said Hank I>. Mc4>*-i;gald, I'r.sideut.
M Cashier.
Sworn lonnd subsr rihed Irelore me, ibis 7th,^ a
of April, H4i». J nos. J. Shivers, N. p /
Statement of St chh< hl r- in the Plautus' and \j e
chuvics' /ei. kof Columbus, G , April 6, ] 9p>
Stockholders. No Shire*. Am't pd.tn
John Batiks, 20» 75<m
Thonias K Gold, 50 J 250
Maibw*. Robertson, 138 3450
lames N. Beth one, 188 47;)0
VVilev K. F-ctnr, * 2 0 5000
Abraham Key, 20 s<x>
James B. cficnt, 5 ) jgjo
A. O , H- A. <V T. N. Blackrr.ar 2 50
Hush A Harrison, 50 J 250
.las F. Foster, 50 P2sj
Thomas
W illiams Herring, *2OO 5 ion
Daniel McDougald, 1573 3J225
John Page, 100 go 0
Hardy t raw ford, 50 U 5.)
Thomas Morris lo t 2500
Doner 'I h niton, j tin. 476 }|9,o
John Peabody, 575 14 375
I.liras <te Brooks, 11M> 25tKJ
Matthew Robertson Marks, 4 IcO
Henry H rrw, I H> 25 K)
A!ex J. Robertson, 575 14375
James * f . ( handlers, 25» 6250
tieorge .Sinilli, 2(X) 5000
Jacob fugle, oJ 1250
.VI. W . Perry% trustee of Mary
AlrEendon, 2 5o
James C. W atsun, 1033 25825
Thomas VV. W aison, 400 fi u 0
Shadrack Perry, G 0 150.10
U B. Moody, 30u 75;H)
Holt At Persons, ]OO 25 0
David P. H.llliousr, 400 2tH<o)
Abner H. Fleweilen, 200 5»'()0
Joel Hun. sen. JUJ 10 H)
James VV. Calo, 2o 500
W m Boyd, 50 ]250
VV 11. field W . Robinson, 69 1725
Abx. >jieer, : - 4 85»
** *’ guardian for fr. E. Grant 33 B^s
“ “ “ “ VV. F. <»ranl, 33 B^s
V\ m. Boyd, guardian for Sarah t.
Clvmenis, 50 125) I
Alex. Me Dougald, 475 ll^Tj
Robert Watson, 300 750)
James A. feiatun, 30.) 7 ouo
1000 i s26;k-O0
COM.MERCTAIa.
Latest dates from Liverpool March 3
Latest dales from Havre March. 2
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Cotti n. —Owing to a mis .onception of our info
rnation at the time of making our enquiries for ti
report on Saturday, we were led into an enor i
saying ti*c business of Friday was heavy. 11
market Saturday and yesterday was very quit
and but few sales transpired tiiat have come too;
knowledge, the prices however of our last icpo
were fuly sustained y< s ter day, and we contiat
our quotations the same.
Ordinary to middling, o to 7
Bair, 7i107*
Good Fair, 7J to 8|
Prime and choice, to 8|
Groceries. —The Market is very quiet, an 1 litt
doing in any disciiptioi s, except to the count
trade which is very light. Hence it is difficult
the absence of any- heavy operations to give d
tails, we believe however, that the market wiJi n
materially vary from our quotations.
Freights —To Savannah, cU cent* per lal
to Charleston, by rail road, 25c per 100 lbs. 1
square, and 35c per 100 lbs. for round bales.
Exchange. —On New-York, at sight, 11 /
cent, for current funds; Charleston at aSp
cent; Savannah 2 a 3 per ct.; Philadt ipiiiaoa 6 p
r t.; Lexington, Ky. 2a 3 per ct.; Richmond 5 a
cent; specie commands 7 a 10 per cent, premiui
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Hanks, 2 percent, prer
Columbus Insurance B’k 4 “ “ “
Commercial Hank, Macon, 4 “ “ “
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 8 “ “ “
Agency Brunswick, “ S “ “ «
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 2} 45 « dis.
Central Bank,
Milledgeville Bank,
Oemnlgee Bank,
Monroe Rail Hoad Bank, 4 “ “
Hawkinsvil e Bank, 3j “ “
Chattahoochie R. R.dcß’k
Company, 5 “ “ “
Darien Bank, 16 “ “ “
Bank of Romo, 50 “ “ “
All other Banks now' doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks. — Mechanics’ Bank,ln<a
ranee Bank of Columbus, Commercial Bank of M ;
on, cand Brunswick Agency in this city.
New < iRi.E \ns, April 2P.
Cotton. —Arrived* since the 241 h in*t of Lou'
iana and Mississippi 7297 bales, Tennessee 21
North Alabama 6168, Arkansas IIS, vlobiie D
Texas 133, together. 13869 bale*. Cleaied in £
same t'm*e, for Liverpool 5362 bales. Havre Pf
Bremen 111, Gibraltar 12, Trieste 241, Havat
178, Boston 9, PhiDdelphia SO, together,G d 1 bak
making an addition to stock of 695> l ales, ac
leaving on hand, inclusive of all on shipboard n(
cleared on 28tb inst. a stock of 214.631 bales. ;
The demand for Cotton, which w as vety iinid*
at the lime of closing our report of lad Satunia
morning, revived a lilt e on that day, ana
35JU bales were disposed of at rates uoi mateuab
varying from those previously cuiicnt. On M®'
day the market exhibited a tolerably live V»t
pearauccjthe demand having still furlhe. impro«i
and sales were made to extent of fully 5^