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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. T | 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 V 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.” -* 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 J“. J ! 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^