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i CHRONICLE AN if SENTINEL. 1 ; A U G U S|T A . WEDNESDAY MOTE liNG, MAY 27. (Cj’No mail north of Cl arleston last night. An interview isdesTcd with Bon Shout, Jr. before we can give plucjf so nis article. Loco Focos fprnered. The Loco Foco party oii Louisville Kentucky recently deputed Messrs.! l Chambers and Van Buskirk, a committee to wj.il on Gen. Hairison at his residence, and ascertain his views on the subject of Abolition. Thi'y accordingly called on the General, and made known the object of their visit, whereupon the (General referred them to his Vincennes speech its containing “ a full and unequivocal exposition of his views on that subject.” The delegates |eplied they “ had no copy ot that speech,” give yon one,” said the General, and begzfrv them one according ly. Whereupon the gent*; men took leave of the old General and returned ft to Louisville to make their report. Public Meeting, At a meeting of the ci zens of the 3d Ward, friendly to the election of , Urrison and Tyler, held at the Lafayeite Hall, on jjViday evening, the 22d inst., Win. M. D’Anngnacirvas call'd to tiie Chair, and John S. Hutchinson appointed Secretary. On motion, it was Resolved, That we nov* organize a Club, to he called the Third Ward Tihpecanoe Club, pledged for the support of Harris Toler and Reform. and that a committee of three be appointed to recom mend officers for the Clubt The committee appoinit !: in pursuance of the above resolution, after retiring for a few minutes, reported the following nari. s lor officers, which re port was unanimously adii-aed : John Carmichael, ifi.j. President. Dr. Paul F. Eve, S I. Vice-President. Dr. F M. RoberUcti, 2d do. Israel Bond, ■ 3d do. John S Hu’chi.iso ~ Secretary. A. G. Ball, Trea.su ;r Samuel .Milling, St ndard Bearer. (in motion, it was Resolved, That a Com lit tee of Vigilance be ap pointed, consisting of sc t>j htysix. Under lliis reso lution, the following pejeons were appointed to com pose that committee, jig; C J Jenkins, Ft Wallace, John Wilkinson, If S floadly, John Hill, l«;orge Wyman, Francis Midhcn, I dm Mcßride, James B Bishop, |i. ; Y Harris, J J Roberson, U’errance Doonan, JI W Kisiey, uces McCaflferiy, • Janies Hulbert, J H Kennon, John P -Seize, \ Lammd. J W Walker, W ti Rowland, W F Adams, lamas Hubbard, I S Beers, Pater Houtet, 0 E Carmichael, W PRiihbone, Ji \V Force, Philip McCan, B F Kennck, J R Crocker, Robert Douglas, .UWKing, 1 A Hibler, |R V Clarkson, G F Dome, r A W Smith, J S lead man Clarke, G; VV Walum, Win Unties, fJbhu Milieu, Louis Cress, iJi.unas M Harris, George Rackett, fJohn C Leiiner, F 11 Cooke, fjfi nj'ram Ctmly, faul F Eve, * ipaniutl Milling, Hays Bo.vdre, J .1 H Clarke, Joseph A Eve, X John Timmerman, W H Crane, I L Bostwick, 'Vil.iam Fowler, § H 11 Hiehman, W Robert-on, J John Finn, William O Eve, I William Host wick, E Foster, f -11 D Carmichaid, Isaac Henry, I L D Ford, S G Colt, I ;c Low, Robert Nichols, I *A Baker, c U Peaa, 1 -FC Hills, I’H Karl, , J M Parks, Charles Lindsley, pi Wilkinson, A B Mallory, J A fcdinruons. On motion, it was i Resolved, i’tiat a coi ir|iittee consisting of ciglsf., be appointed to present the pledge to the friends of Harrison and Tyler in , be 3d Ward. ■ I he Ctiair appointed the following persons on that committee : j • John Hill, T. S. Moll a,lf. Samuel Milling, I. A. Hibler, O. E. C,annu li y!, John VV. Walker, J S. Jlutciimson, A. B Mainly. cefi u'V er Esq. limn a Committee from the but d:h District, annoutCr;;;d to the meeting that Mat district had organized :f .'ippecanoe Club, and was ready to co-operate will ns, for the promotion of the cause ol Harrison, Tjlnr and Reform. j»lr. J. G. Dunlap, fnjm a committee from the Tip pecanoe Associa-ion 0,-Ward No. 2, made a similar report m behalf of .htfe Ward. On motion,it was i Resolved, 1 hat a ctfnrn.ttec of three he appoint «“.to announce the on uiizationof the Third Ward 1 ippecanoe Club tot! ; other Clubs and Assoeia «tions of the city, an i extend to ihem the right haad of fellowship 'j' l .'® Khair appoint* I Messrs. D’Antignac, Bond and Dibier, on tlmt U irnmiitee. After able and elaqa|tA addresses from T. W. Mil ler Esq. Maj Ghana 't Immpson, Mr. J. VV. Walker, Wm. T. Gould, Ftsq Jks. Gardner, jr. Esq and Jas. W Jones, the Club tuncd to meet again at the call of the President. #; r o M B|iBERTSON, Vice IWt. * John b. Hutchinson. Secretary. State Rightsllfleetiug in Troup. According to previLjs notice, a large, respectable and enthusiastic mee| ;g of the Siate Rights party of J roup county, wtJ add a- the Court Hou e m LaGrange, on Tuesuly, iho s(h inst., for the pur pose of selecting snits de Delegates to attend the CM«:e Rights Convenli u,to ho held in iMiUedgeviPe on Monday, tiie lir.-ljjav of June next. On motion, Mr.j. jlTel IGariy was called to the Chn r, and G. VV. J{li appointed ISecretary. The object of lher|eeling having been explained, the following resoitkion was offered by Robert Dougherty, Esq. Resolved, Thai rh- iChair appoint a committee of nine to ascertain the jrise ot ihe meeting. (Intend ed by preamble and . ikoltri uis ) The motion was c posed by Gen. Haralson, as being exparte from i d usual course of the State Rights association, aP I addressed the meeting in a very eloquent mnnne ' blazi-:ga line of dem in ation, which, (.arc irditig h his views,) the State Bights pm t> should pursK ■, A relation to the subi c t which now begin- to apitaif; the whole Union, which is in opposition to ihe uftMce of either of the promi nent candidates noN before the American people lor t;:c 1 ie,ideivy *< il.e United Slates He was followed | v ; Robert Douglierty, Fsq. in a very able arm address, m ooposUiun to the course recomiml'icd hy /J© i. Haral-on—show ing MU th * timean|i hriris had arrived, when 've should no longer s tj. i al-iuf, but rise to the rescue of o r country f.ornL rum ms and disastrous Ad ministration, to op,- Li> the present incamlvnit in supp in of Gen. WH I lAM HENRY H AIIIU SON. After the close < the debate hy the nforem :i --tioned gep-iemen, ih following resolattoo,as a sub stitute to the one of 'UOvI hy Maj. Dougherty, was proposed totheuire i ;g; Resolved, That if se use of the meeting be token upon I lie motion c-fTi d. VV hi-h, being ad toted, Hie motion first offered was then put to the- khuso, and carri -d by a la-go maj >ri;y. Iho Cnair then a (painted the following gcnllo iumi to compost tin : irominhte ', viz. Robert D( ngiiert . Ts j.,Maj. J din C. Webb, Dr. L. A. Lend, I . Jhhosou, S. T. Cmrig ik .M j. Jn) E. Marga ~ J vff M. Ghtvers, John Phillip and dr. llav.ti, 'rn| I commit! a I dred, and after-a fe-.x minutes relumed uni o?Ft He following prnaml'dj an 1 resol utoTH lor the ,ns;d- ratio noh !>e VVliereos ri ; pn ,a ( adwhistration ot the '"’Gen eral Dovcru no ; i.ui ac n inuari.m of the pri i pte-S pi >ui anu me sa-os o: ih -1 it; and wh.-reis. in 1.ue0.-in.oii a. 11 's Hie;;;ih iso mei-uau aad principles have le tL j, in a ro.t degree to uro due,; ih.; in .->1 runs and di< a -tiro.i.A ffbets, * M „ t vutj upon fevery > .n-ncui o uo.RmjrEo, out iron n iividn.il credit *; d eoterpiinl destroying punh- and private credit; and whereas, we believe a change of rulers is indispensabls to a restoration of anything like firmer prosperity. Resolved, That we will use any hon arable exer tion in oar power to defeat the re-election of Mar tin Van Baren. Resolved, That we elect five Delegates to attend the Convention to i>e held in Milledgeville in June ! next, and that said Delegates be instructed to use j iheirbest efforts in foiwarding any plan or scheme, | said convcmion may adopt to oppose the re-election ot the present Executive of the United '-tales. Which, after having been read, the House was again addressed by Gen Haralson, in opposition to tiie Resolutions, -. q! was followed by Robi. Dough erty , F.sq„ in a very able and enthusiastic manner, in suppon ol them and his former views. The meeting was also addressed elaborately by Dr J E Bcolt, in support of the Sub-Treasury and Martin Van Buren, and offered, for tlie adoption the Hou >6,iho late Resolutions ct Mr Howard of Muscogee, ns a substitute to those under considera tion. Maj. O. A. Bull then addressed ihe meeting in opposition to both the original Resolutions an : the substitute, and in suppoit of the views already expressed by (Jen. Haralson, and offered the flow ing as a substitute to boih the foregong resolutions : Resolved, That the Delegates to the Convention be instructed nut to nominate either Martin Van Buren or Gen. Harrison, for the Presidency of tiie United States. The meeting was then addressed by Robert Dougheuy, Esq. and Dr. L. A Bond, in a yo yabie, eloquent and elaborate manner, in o position to the substitutes offered in lieu of the Resolution of the Committee, and in opposition to the present Ad ministration, and in support of (Jen. VV in Heurv Harrison. At the close of the last address by Maj. Douginer ty, the question was called for, and the resolutions of Maj. O A. Bull being first in order, they were put lo ihe House and lost almost unanimously. The Resolutions of Mr. Howard of Muscogee, offered by J. E. Bcotr, as a substitute, came up nyxt in order, and the question being put, they were lost unanimously with theeiception ol two or three affirmatives. Tiie first Resolutions proposed by the Committee, were then read and almost unanimously adopted. The House (hen proceeded to ihe election of five Delegates, pursuant to the above Resolutions, by ballot, and on counting out the votes, the following gentlemen were duly elected, to wit.— Kobt. Dough erly, E s q , Dr. L A. Bond, Maj. Jarrel Beasly, S. T. Cutriglit, Dr. Wm. P. Beasly. On motion, it was Resolved, That the Delegates elect shall have full ; power to fill the vacancies, should any occur, to ; attend said Convention. On motion of Robert Dougherty, Esq. Resolved, That tha proceedings of ibis meeting be signed by (he President and Secretary, and pub lished in the Macon Messenger, Columbus Enquir er, and Augusta Chronicle. JARREL BEASLY, President. G. W. Hill, Secretary. A Gigaxtic Duel.—The New Orleans Pic ayune says the preliminaries of the duel be tween the Belgian and Kentucky giants have fi nally been settled. They are to fight with thir ty-two pounders, distance three quarters of a mile, and are to fire between the words one. and forty-five ! From the Lexington (Kj.J Intelligencer. Facts from History, We take great pleasure ia presenting to our | readers the following extracts of two Orignal j Documents now in our possession ; winch were i found among the papers of the late Governor { Scott, of Kentucky, and politely handed to us, by a highly respectable gentleman of this city, who is connected to our late gallant Governor by marriage. Those who have seen the Decla ration of Independence, (and what American has notl) will instantly recognize the handwri ting of Benjamin Harrison, Esq., one of the signers ul that sacred instrument, affixed lo Iris letter lo General Bcott, which we now copy. I nis letter proves a tact, of which \vc were not before apprised, that Gen. William Henry Har rison first entered the service ot his country as a PRIVATE SOLDIER. Extract of a letter from Benj. Harrison, Esq., to Major Charles Scott, dated “October 10, 1793. “DearSir; —And now, before I lake my leave permit me to tell you, my son, a youth of nine teen years of ago, I have sent forward in the char acter of a private soldier under Captain Roll ins. His youth and inexperience, I make no doubt, will stand in need of your friendship, therefore, I pray you, teach him the duties of his station, and if any accident should happen to him, pay some attention lo him. “ Your obedient and humble servant, “ BENJ. HARRISON.” It seems that young Harrison’s merits soon caused his promotion by Gen. Washington, as will appeal from the following extract of Gen. Wayne’s general orders, dated “Head Quarters, “ Greenville, Dec. 28, 1793. 5 “ The Commander-in-chief returns his most grateful thanks to Major Henry Burbock and to every officer and private belonging to ihe de tachment under his command, for their soldiery and exemplary good conduct during their late arduous tour of duty, and for the ready cheeiful ness with winch they faced and surmounted every difficulty at this inclement season, in re possessing the field of battle and erecting there on Fort Recovery, (a work impervious to the sav age foe) as also for piously and carefully collect ing and interring the bones and pay ing the last re spect and military honors to the names of the he roes who fell on the4lh of November, 1791, by three time three discharges from the same artil lery that were lost on that fatal day, but now re covered by this detachment of the Legion. “ The commander-in-chief also request Ma jor Mills, Captains Butler and De Butts, Lieu tenant Harrison, and Doctor Bcoli, to accept of his best thanks for iheir voluntary aid and servi ces upon this occasion.” It appears from the letter of the elder Ha; ri sen, that he himself had received an appoint ment under General Wayne, and intended ac companying him in the expedition against the Northwestern Indians, but was unable to do so, from “ having,” as he says, “ three of his ribs broken near the back bone, also loosened from my breast, and one broken near the middle. As there is not the smallest probability of my being serviceable on an active campaign, and moving would put me in great danger, it is prudent to stay at home.” Unwilling however, that an op por.unity for the Harrison family to render some service to the country should pass he determined to send his son there, as be says a youth of only nineteen years ot age. Where were the Van Burens at that time, and all other times, when fighting for their country was to be done I Melancholy Event.—We announce with heartfelt sorrow the sudden demise of James B. Anderson, editor of the New Orleans Sun. Ho was seized with a paralytic strode, while in his office, at an early htur yesterday morning, and died at 11 o’clock, A. i\L Mr, Anderson will be deeply regretted by all who knew him. He was eminently endowed not only with the sociaLvirturs, but with those in- j teilc-ctual qualities which give raciucss and spirit to a public journal. As a writer, he was bold, independent and vigorous. His style was con spicuous for its quaintness, genuine humor and occasional infusion ol keen and biting sarcasm. IT- was a man ol quick apprehension and ar dent feelings. —New Orleans Bee of the 21*7. The loco focos seem to have the same opinion of old Tippecanoe, that the people have of Air. Val, ouren. Tiie locossiy, that old Tip declines re plying to their questions, and wo know that the people have made do their minds that.Mr, Van Buren won/ answer at all. — Prentice. From the Chariest « n Courier. Political Paradoxes. The late meeting in Charleston, furnishes the most extraordinary example of political paradoxes on record. It was mainly and emphatically an anti-Bank meeting —and there was as much bank stock, debt, hank direction and bank salary, as could be well collected in the city of Charleston. The two Presidents of the two largest banks comprising half the bank capital of the State, conspicuously assisted—both these gentlemen arc accustomed “jurare in verba magisl re,” and the master has said,‘ the first and indispensable step is a thorough reformation of the currency. With out a solid, stable and uniform currency, you never can fully succeed. The present currency, is incurably bad. It is impossible to give it soli dity or stability. A convertible bank currency, however well regulated, is subject to violent and sudden changes, which must forever unfit it to the standard of value.” This i s the creed of the Presidents of the Banks. Now how do they re concile political profession with official duty, their ; party with their perquisites'? Do they preside j over banks that they may perish or be preserved? j Is it their intention to use their position to abate j a nuisance in obedience to party, or cherish that nuisance according to trust. If banks are bad tilings, why take charge of them?—if they be good tilings, why assail them? Is it right In mock the meat one feeds on? The meeting was anti abolition, and for this purpose, selected a native of the North, and rejected a native of the South, selected as the defender and guardian of slave pro perty, Mr. Van Buren, who sustained Rufus King in his opposition to the admission of Missouri, and rejected General Harrison, who sustained Mr. Lowndes in obtaining that admission. It was an “anti-internal improvement” meeting, and proposed to continue in pown a party, whose 11 year’s domination, have appropriated more mo ney to “interna! improvement” than the aggregate of all other administrations. It was an anti-tariff meeting, and advocated that man and that dynasty whose vote and whose pow er perfected that system of abominations, and presented the bayonet to the bosom of South Caro lina to enforce it, which denounced and continues to denounce the compromise act, that great char ter of peace, between which and nullification, lot me tell Judge Huger, he will have to choose; and this anti-tariff meeting rejected and denounced Gen. Harrison, who stands pledged to sustain that compromise. It was a State Rights meeting, led by Mr. Memminger, and advocating the proclamation and force bill dynasty. It was a democratic meeting, at which Judge Huger and Mr. Deas were na med as parties. It was a Van Buren and Calhoun meeting. The latter said of the former (amongst other things) that he was morally unworthy of a for eign mission on account of his connection with tiie Eaton affiir, and Mr. Van Buren through his accredited organ declared, that Mr. Calhoun I would not tell the truth when a falsehood would serve his purpose. If these gentlemen told the , truth of each other, it is an odd alliance—if they slandered each other it is hardly less so. The common ground on which the meeting put these two gentlemen, is assumed by the meet ing to exist in Mr. Van Buren’s inaugural decla ration on abolition. Mr. Calhoun, in a public meeting in the city of Charleston.in March 1837, denounced these “inaugural declarations” as hy pocritical and insufficient, if I have not forgotten the report of his speech in the Mercury. UP COUNTRY. From the New Orleans Picayune, May 25. Lutest from Texas. The Neptune arrived from Galveston last eve ning, bringing papers to the I6th. Wc feel in debted to Captain Pennoyer for the courtesy which he evinced in sending files to our office. General Canales and Colonel Carbajal, of the Mexican Federal Army, h%ve arrived in Houston but report no late movements of their party.— Their army on the frontier, they say, now num bers 800 Mexicans, independent of foreigners who have enlisted in their ranks; besides which, the whole population of the frontier Stales is ready to co-opcratc with them the moment (hey can be supplied with arms and ammunition.— The Centralists are about 3000 strong, stationed at Matamoras, Monterrey, and Laredo. Gen Canales has submitted an official report to the Provisional Government of Mexico, of the late encounter he had with Arista on the Hio Grande. He estimates the number of killed, wounded and missing, on the part of the Fedeial ists at 81, and on the off.or side at 600. The schooner Champion, from Velasco for tiiis city, was blown ashore on the night of the 13th inst. about 18 miles below' Galveston, on the gult shore. The vessel it is believed will be a total loss. Passengers, baggage and cargo all saved. The theatre at Galveston has re-opened—Mad ame Thielman is the card. Mr. Candy is sweetly concert-ising there. They are out of ice in Houston ; a chance for speculators in the article. A man named Rowe attempted to desert from the navy yard in Houston; he was pursued; he drew' a knife on his followers, one of whom shot him. Ihe reason he gave for his desertion was, that they (the navy) “had sapped his grog.” The invasion of Texas by the Mexicans—O, no, we never mention it. Tue condition of Affairs at Washihg tox seems to be ethical for those now entrusted with the Administration. However bravely they may talk, and by a swelling port endeavor to keep up their own courage, and impose upon the anxious fears of others, their dependents—it is pretty clear to calm observers, that they have seen the hand-writing on the wall, and that they feel that in a few brief months their rule will be ended. It is to be anticipated, that, in such a state of things, bickerings and recriminations will occur, and that the Laiit will, by degrees, be broken in to fragments. Our apprehension is, that as the hour approa ches which as we verily believe, will unveil scenes of very gross corruption and malversation—some accident may occur to the public papers, or the public buildings, at Washington that wall oblit erate, not all the traces perhaps, but most of the proofs of such corruption. Then, again, we dis trust such retiring from office, ju>t at this junc ture, as that of Mr, Kendall, and would think it highly expedient that the House of Representa tives should immediately institute a close inquiry at*3 examination into the condition, pecuniary and otherwise, of the Post Office department. This could do no w rong to any one; and, if all is right, would be of more real advantage to the late Post Master than any one else. It may be, that the rumors from Washington of dissatisfaction and difficulties in the Cabinet, and discouragement in the broken phalanx ofihe Administration troops, are exaggerated— yet we suspect there is truth at the bottom and that be fore t.ie close of Congress, the <S 'uuve quipent panic will manifest itself too plainly to be mista j ken. Meantime the Whig cause advances steadily and assuredly.— N. Y. American. From fie New York Conner and Enquirer. Massachusetts. — The election of a Loco Fa co Governor by a majority of one vote has roused a spirit in Massachusetts which exceeds every thing-that wc have witnessed in the way of po litical excitement. We shall be disappoitud if the Whig majority in that State at the next elec tion should fall short of 20,000 votes. The last j sign from the Bay State is a popular Conven- I lion in Little Franklin, at which 10,000 indi- viduals were present. The Greenfield Courier says: As a convention we believe it was the largest and most spirited one ever held in the Cay Stale, and, with the exception of the assemblage on Bunker Hill on 17lh June, some years since, when Lafayette visited this country, we can re member no greater gathering called forth by a political or national jubilee. Its decorations and outward trappings passed away with the day ; but the determined spirit and fiery zeal, which was developed and strengthened on the occasion must grow and extend itself till the 9lh % of No vember next shall record i.s results.” Log Cabixs. —The Buffalonian newspaper, speaking of the Log Cabin excitement, says in future Chronicles it will read thus:— “ And, behold, there were log cabins in those days. “ And those who built them did drink hard ci der exceedingly, from the rising of the sun even unto the going down thereof, and into the far watches of the night. “And for those who clave un'.o Harrison there was given com dodger to ea r , and they feasted upon it many days. “ And upon the gable, ends of the log cabins were ’coon skins, and the likeness and similitude thereof was sent over the land, from the cast even unto the west. “ And it came to pass, that many did enter the log cabins, and the glory of Harrison did increase, for that he never pulled in the string of his door latch.” Log CabiN Raising.— On Saturday last, at Jackson, Miss,, about seven hundred people as sembled, composed of Whigs and Locofocos, to witness the raising of a log cabin in honor of General Harrison. The Hon. S. S. Premiss (Whig) and Gen. Foote (Locofoco) adJresied the crowd, and five hundred signed their names as Harrison men. They drank cords of hard ci der on the occasion.— Picayune. Reverse of fortune. — r i’hc following state ment should teach us a salutary lesson. The changes of a day arc indeed wonderful: A subscription has been opened at Paris for I the benefit of Richard Lcoir, once, - it is stated, i the first manufacturer in France, now, an old man of 74, ill and destitute. He once possessed forty manufactories in different parts of France, em ployed 10,648 workmen. “My property,” he says in his memoirs, the first volume of which has been lately published, “ was on the 22d of April, 1814, about eight millions of Trance (or near 320,000/.) On the 24th I was a ruined man.” The only cause of this reverse, he states to have been the sudden suppression of the du ties on cotton by an ordiance of that date made by the Count d’Artois, since Charles X. then Lieut. General. —London Meehan. Mag. I Cm xa and England.— i’he well informed in England are by no means desirous of carrying things to extremities in relation to the Chinese! They are aware that a power possessing one third of the papulation in the world—one-third of all the money in the world—and one-third ol the fighting men in the world, is not so very eas ily subdued. Ihe Chinese are a cunning, vvclf informed nation. They know that if England obtains a fooling in the Celestial Empbe, they will hold on, as they did in India. The appeal, therefore, will be made to the patriotism ot the Chinese, to protect the independence of their country; and although in a contest by sea, their junks will be destroyed, and on land they may sutler severely, yet they move in such immense masses, and-live so abstemiously, that no foreign power can ever hold possession of anv part of their territory for any length of time. If there is any door opened to negotiation finally, there will be no war.— JV*. Y. Star. How is this? The Washington correspon dent of the New V ork Evening Post says : “Mr. Van Buren, is daily suffering at the hands of a body of unprincipled scape graces, who are in an incendiary manner daily engaged in cutting bis throat, whilst they profess for him the warmest friendship, and avow that they would do aught to protect and advance Isis interest.” What con this mean ? Which of Van Hu ron friends are “ cutting his throat ?” We have supposed .Mr. \an Buren whotild save the trouble by cutting his own throat. At any rate, between friends and foes, he is “ a gone coon.”— JV*. Y. American. BEstonian Policy —How it works in E:> ropk.— Extract ofa letter from an intelligent Amcr can'gentleman, travelling in Europe:— “ I read Senator Benton’s speech, in which he eulogises the hard money countries ofFranceand Holland, as evidences of the success of his schemes, He says France has a specie basis of £500,000,- 000, but he does not st.Ve that, after wiping off two-thirds of her national debt, she still owes upwards of $700,000,000, which is nearly onc thiru more than ad the specie in the country, and that, at this very moment, they are about expan ding their paper circulation by reducing the low est denomination of bank notes to 250 fr. instead ot oOOfr.; and, as for Holland, her debt is about 1.800,000,000 off!:rins, although, by an act of arbitrary injustice, the King, when ho re-ascended the throne, aficr the downfall of the Bonaparte dynasty, declared two-thirdW the whole debt to deterred, and now only pays interest on the one third , and so hllle faitn have capitalists in the public faith, to it lie was as hard run as Secretary Woodbury the other day, until he complied with te requisition of the States General that he should renounce his proposed marriage with an old countess, whom he had fallen in love with, and account for the money they gave him last rear, before they would let him have any more.' In both countries wooden shoes and rope traces are the fashion, and as they accompany ihe hard money system., the Colonel had belter set the ex ample by beginning to wear the one and use the ! other, as a token ot his admiration of the immu table principles of which they are the symbol.” Ax Opium Eater.— An East India Magazine describes an opium eater in the following terms: i nose who begin its use at twenty inav ex pect to die at thirty years of age. The counten ance becomes pallid, the eyes assume a wild bright ness, the memory fails, ff e gait totters, mental and moral courage sinks, and frightful marasmus ot atrophy reduces ths victim to a ghastly spec tacle who has ceased to live before he has ceased to exist. J here is no slavery so complete as that of the opium taker; once habituated to its do ses as a fictitious stimulant, every thing will be endured rather than the privation ; and"the un iiappj being endures all the consciousness of his own degraded state, while he is ready to sell his wife and children, body and soul, for the contin uance of his wretched and transient delight transient, indeed—for at length the utmost effect I produced is a temporary suspension of agony; and finally, no dose of the drug will remove or relieve a slats of suffering, which it is utterly im possible to describe. The pleasurable sensations and imaginative ideas arising at first, soon pass away ; they become fainter, and at last cive place to horrid dreams, appalling pictures of death, spectres of fearful visage haunt the mind tne light ot heaven is convened into the g! .om of hell, sleep, balmy sleep, hasT.ed forever, night suc ceeds day only to, be clothed with horrors, incessant sickness, vonutting. than ha-T and total cessation of the digestive functions cm! sue and death at last brings iff it annihilation ol the corporal structure, ff e sole rffief D ll- I victim of sensual and ciimin d indulgence.” " j From the New Orleans Picayune , oj tke%\st. Natchez. * For the purpose of procuring the fullest and most correct particulars relative to the late tarnado at Natchez, and the extent of its ravages,one of the editors of tho Picayune has passed a few days in that city, from which place he returned last eve ning. 'i he former accounts which we have given, ta ken from tlie newspapers and private scources, con veyed most that is important The statements of the tremendous force ol the storm, as well as the downfall and destruction of buildings, we are sorry to say has not been ex tggerated. The once beau tiful “City of tire Bluffs,” with its thousands of oeautiful buddings arid green trees, is emphatical ly a “nti; cd pile !” There are many houses which are but slighth injured, and more that were Rot blown down ; ! nt scarcely one is left that escaped without some damage. Tho loss of property in houses, goods provisions, Arc , is not so great ns •has been estimated ; it is ascertained and staled by competent judges, who hate taken pains lo inform themselves on the matter, that the loss does not ex ceed two millions of dollars ; nor is the number killed and wounded supposed to he so great as was at first believed. Bit this, however, modified m numbers, is the most melanc holy part of the ca lamity. Hundreds of poor human beings were in stantaneously hurried into eternity. Whilst some were in an instant crushed to death, olho s wete mangled and lacerated, and after lingering in agony tor hours, expired. Scores were as suddenly strangled in ti c ang.y waves of thi river, whose ueen and muddy current still holds and sp-rts with them as its victms. What the number is, or what is near the number of deaths caused by the tornado, must forever retrain unknown. The present situation of Natchez cannot bo d >- scribed, nor can the awfullury ot the whirlwind I e conveyed by a description ; to be te.alized it mj>t be seen It looks ns il an enemy, in retreating irutu ; it, had blown it up with powder. t here is not a single street or avenue oi any deserip ion which is not blockaded up with rubbish; rows and groves of summer trees,once the pride and ornament of the devoted city, are uprooted, torn limbless, or swept away. Nothing is as it was. Temples of the Al mighty have trembled and hill n Inf <re tlie power of ilts .treatlt. The storm and whirlwind have passed over Natchez and her proudest monuments ot architecture now iie before the eyes of her citi zens piles of crumbles ruins. The course of the tornado was from the. Southwest, striking Natcnez Island, about five miles below the city. The island, w hich was once a dense forest, has not a standing tree upon it. Those w Inch were not uprooted, and it appears that very few were, were twisUd ctfand splintered in the most remarkable manner, and not a particle of bark is left upon the remaining s urr.ps From the Island the storm passed up the river, lev elling houses and every thing in Us way on each side, until it struck the city, where the work of death and destruction was completed—and all in lb*- shot space of tiro minutes I The < it zens ot Nat, hez are an intelligent, warm hearted and generous community, and they bear their calamities w ith a cheerfulness truly asiuiti h ing. They have hearts to feel, and the gratitude they evince for New Orleans and utlvcr places from which they have received assistance, is a golden reward to the hen. volenl donors. Those unfortunate persons w ho were wounded by the tailing of walls and taken out alive, are carc luily and t nderly nursed, and ir is thought that ail but one or two will recov. r. They are placed in the city Hospital and 'Fremont House, under the care ot Uoclo’s Polla-d and Johnson. On many of them operations had to be performed”, and every case ol anVpuiation is doing wed. The physicians and citizens generally express great gratitude tube belief t.omraiiiee and medical get tlenien from this city, for the assistance which they render-d. Already the uo*k of clearing the streets and re pealing buildings Ims commenced, and die inhabi . tants appear al-nost to have forgotten their losses ; | hut it must be long ere Natchez is again herself. ■ One of the mot extensive and splendid edific es was j i\ir. Father's exchange, which was entirely demol j ished. i lie damage to Noah Barlow's Hotel, as i well as to the Mansion Home was very considera | bio, but to each tepnirs arc being made, in a law weeks the mot of the City Hotel will be repaired. 1 lie following may be considered the most moderate I and perhaps ihe film si estimate of the damage done by the tornado:—Loss of property |>3,U Jb,OOU; number of killed in the city 48; number of wound ed 72, these so far as found; and from 375 to 3 0 are to have per shed in the river. When wo consider that all ►his done in a few moments, wc may Imea taint i lea of the fury of the storm. Many astonishing anu all but incredible circum stances are related oi p-rsons cs well as cows and horses being blown to great distances, and escaping with but iittle injury. In some instances the very clothing was stripped trout persons, and iadins’ dresses were literally split into ribbons. One lady in particular, rushed into a house after the heaviest of tire storm, divested of every thing hui her corsets. But the tempest his passed away, the noise of the loud ihund ris hashed, and Natchez wall yet rise like a Pham x from ner ruins. May the hright ' cst days of her prosperity again dawn above her i lien cd.lici .*, and the smites of j rosji-ruy ar.d [ gladness again light up the hearts of her citizens. Circs ! Do You hear that —The war depart ment has declared, in respect to the appointments in the army, that “no candidate will be ex'.mined who is married ” Exceeding wisdom, gallantry, and patriotism all com' ined ! Brand recipe for makfng excellent soldiers' Verily it wound seem that there is to be no ma ter under the sun which is net to become a subject of experiment with Mr. Van Dttrcn. Not let a young officer in the army take to himself a wife from among the brave daughters of the land, who would follow him to the cannon’s mouth — bind up his wounds, inspire him with courage—live for hint and with him—and if needs be, die with him ? Was it ever known ' before that a man’s wife and children made him a worse soldier in the hour of battle ? Have they not heretofore been considered the best pledges for a man’s fidelity to bis country ? And what is the | reason for this extraordinary order ? The reason j assigned, that the pay of a lieutenant is not suffi cient to enable him to support a wife ! The dc | partment considers that S7BO a year wont do A young officer and his young wife can’t live upon : $789 a year.' Now it might so happen that the young lady could add a little from her own patii roony to the stock —>f she could not do tha:. she | could make the c othes, sew, knit, and sing and ko: p the young officer in good heart while he is a't I his ’or.ely Hatton in the Western forts. Bho could ! keep him from becoming a brute, a drunkard, and ; the whole routine o 1 military vices, where the rc | fining influence of females is withdrawn. Where is the authority in law or constitution for this ! stretch of gaHnntry ? We believe that the ad miubtiatioa is now afflicted so terribly with the ! ticmoi- ti.at it has got afraid even of the women. t hey think that they deserve to he “hrairod with | their ladies’ fans,” and they are, therefore, for 1 keeping them off at Jic point of the bayonet.— j Lo k e i:sed t 0 ™le the court (and Mr. Van Hurcn sutlers it lo remain there still)— it u cd also “to rule the camp,” but Mr. Van Huron means to dis lodge it horn all the foitificntions which have been time out ot mind its strongest defence. ‘•‘■Barney, I CI gwls alone.”—Frankfort Commonwealth. . ’ 'i’ttK Sc: ocLMASTKit Aiuioad.— The School ! master can certainly not have wandered so (ar I Jrom London as Windsor; nor have the “Society i fur the Diliusion ot Useful Knowledge* any ( agent there, it the following he a correct traftsla j lion. It purports to he a copy of a notice, posted I on the two doors of the church in Burnham near j Windsor ; “Burnham, Feb. 29, 1840. Tne Inhabcnts is requisted to meat in I he vestery roome on Fry day next at 10 o Clock To Insplct the Mapp and Plann Os the parish By requist of the rev. T. Carter, Vikar.” Ini: late gale ox Lake Michigan.— By yesterday’s western mail, we have received fur tucr information tespccting the disasters font the iv.o £ai e on Lake Michigan. The steamer Cham}! iain is ash >re four miles south of St Joseph high and dry, and broke amidships. Several trunks belonging to passengeis lost overboard, lhe schooner Minerva Smith lost nearly all her dt\ k laid, and pm into St. Joseph in distr-ss. She arrivcd-ai Chicago on the 6tb, with captain an i crew of the ChamijJpin. 'Fisc steamer G >v. .'Bason went ashtfre in a ga!o< n the first, at ihe i v'.‘.V' 1 /■•» •“ a , wrct «-— 3cw j lOi !i, C fJiilCiC *>J / it U 2 I commercial! Latest dales from Liverpool , . Latest dates from Havre. ... * All Apriii j New Orleans at-, Gotten —Arrived since the 15th last off. f O, and Mississippi 4384 bales, Tcnncsso ai)( i bama 374, Arkansas 78, Mobile 125 T together 6094 bales. Cleared in the santer* 3 i 3 Liverpool, 10855 ba'es, Glasgow J.6U5 it llrr ‘ G br Marseilles 1300, West Indies 264,’xe ®. V , l * 40 3l ) Boston 67, Baltimore 310, other p oi ts p f 0 *'* i 1 8329 bales —making a reduction in s t 0 y! bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive o f* shtpboan' not clcatcd on the 19th i-.st 1 aii 0: 17GG73 bales. ' a st °ck oi Since our review of Saturday raomin»i a has been only a moderate bus iness but the market has continued remarkably 1 - COlto ", every grade, and prices for the fine quaiip rui improved a quarter of a cent. Theodor k Jv * some days past has tieen principally f or for cottons for the Continental markets,but the ' l0 ' T . T so been a very active inquiry forstrictly fit*^ ilas a: " of superiot staple, botit for England and o -, Parreis . factories at the North. The market com be very | o rly supplied with the better s the great demand for these has caused scV 1 ' 5 to be re-soid, so that a portion of the bu^' luls the last three days consists of cla-sed r f CSS °‘ strictly fine parcels can scarcely be procu !?'‘ ,ns " and. when olfercd, will command prices A. , 1|1 h bly above our highest quotations. UoKu ceedingly firm lor every description, and it mainly to the high rates which they are that the business has not been larger. ' of Saturday amounted to 3000 Dales anti ( °', J ** day and yesterday to about 2000 each'da v!! ‘‘f 08 ’ in all 7000 for Hie three day s. * ’ ll^s LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS, Louisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary ’ > Middling, Gj a 7; Fair, s| a9; Good Good and line, 11 a—. Tennessee and A 'a, 1 ma— Ordinary, —a 5; Middling, 51 a 64- rii - 7-j; Go»d fair, 7;J a8; Good and Fine, OA SI'ATF.iIEXT OF COTTON. 1539. Oct. 1, stock on hand, * ~ Jleceipts three days 5094 '' fiieviousiy, 856754 86iq. Exports last three days, 18329 do. previously, G 8.3650 70f i: Stock on hand jT? Sugar Louisiana —The improved demand ticca in our last has since continued, and a V lair business has been done on the Levee y tlic last lew days, genera Jy at an itnprovemm'- auout a quarter of a cent at witich udvante hnu are firm. We however, do not alter our hi 4! extieme, r.s wc arc riot aware of any that rate. Our quotations are now 3-a ** Un plantation several further sales have among which are 313 hhds. at 3|, 70 at 4 55 ® to at 4, and 205 at 4 cents, iiavana Sucr. rsr .s tinuo dill, without change in prices. lu Mola ses—Thc slock on the Levee rontim, moderate,and the juices last quoted are ' taincu say 19 a2U cents per ga.lon fer bar e" Ihe rates on plantation aic 11 a 15 ctsper n u wlu , c “ &ome further transactions have been up-. wtt jin tne last few days. The latter prices jiaid for a iot below the c4y. r 1 our ~} n uuusiial degree of dullness hasefea actenzed this artic.o, during the period which b elapsed since our las: report. Ihe entire wit dravva! of buyets for the English market, andtk absence any demand of importance for West K dta j aits, have toarmed the business of the Ir few days to very limited sales for the consume ot the city and of places in the immediate borhood. In tio mean time more liberal sudJis iia\ c ccusiJerab.y increased tit stock on sale a 1 holders yesterday cou d find no purchasers of iag parcels at $3 8/A tor Superfine, which figure'tie quote as the current price for the limited tram* tions that take place, temaiking that the nuc has evidently a downward fendenev Bacu \Vc have nochange tomake in our ci tations for the dilfereut varieties of this artiu wUuh are ilor-canvas.scd Hams 10 cents,uncam; - ea do S a 9, , $ a 8, Shoulders 44 a sc. The receipts have been light for some days past,bah market has a goad supply, considering the Unite demand. Whiskey- —The supplies have somewhat iccm cd within the last few days, but prices arc < maintained at 33 a 24 cents per gallon for Kecti: with a moderate demand Exchange We have no alterations to male Sterling Exchange. The supply continues litni'e: and the demand mode rare, at t' p rates lastiyt-. stj Ido 13 per cent pi . for the best priv ■ bins. On r ranee, there arc at the moment,nob oHaring, and <<ur ([notations, therefore, are men nominal. Limited sums could ’probably bediqcu ot at oi a 6fdj. flic demand for Northern L change continues moderate and the rates lun slightly given way—6o day 1 ills o.t New Yeti have been sold at 4; a 5 percent prem. —30 dr ! s! §ht bills 04 aC4 per cent, prem.wit scarcely any transactions. Freights An American ship lies been taken! Liverpool at 16-lGd for cotton, and British vtv* are obtaining the same rate. 'J he ships nowut engaged claim a further advance bince writing tiie foregoing, wc •learn that r .American bark has been taken far Liverpool at ; for cotton. MAUfiNE INTEfiLIGESCE. Charleston. Mav26. Arrived yesterday. —Line Ship La Fayette.K' cy. New i oik; ship Catharine Jackson, Ferre do; ship ( hicora, Rodgers. Liverpool; srhrGw? Washington. Miller, Providence. ‘ In the Offing —sJiip Troy, Wood, New York, days. At Quarantine— brig Howe 1 !. Leslie, from IV Indies; Line brig Cervantes, Tufts, front Boston. (p* AUGUSTA BENE VOL EXT ' SOVIET i lie following are the Committees for thcfl'T month .- Ward A T n. 1— P. H. Mantz, J. P. Hendrick,N & P. ( rump. Miss \lary Wightman. V/a-d l\o. 2—Bennett Harris, J. P. Garvin, f Latimer, Mis T. S. Stoy-, Mrs. Sarah 'i’alJft JMrs. Cornelia Cohen. Ward Ao. 3 —John Cashin. Jam:s Panton, ’ J* C. Snead, Mrs. Ijannah ! hotnpson.* Cfl/’ 1 lie giTitieraan who botrowed a Gun accoutrements from \Vm. G. Nimmo, last le« : , ber, will confer a favor by returning the same. j may 25 21 t C fj MISS TRAIN commences her Su’i-- j 1 errn, at the Hand Hills, cu slonda} - , June Ist , mAy 3.) j CM Ir- W. S. JONES tendei 1 ser\ i cs to the citizens of Augusta ami its 'i'-; He may be found at his office, No. 214%0d ; c 01 at !:is residence,United States Hotel. ? F J • . Cj" Vector J. J. li IISON oilers bis p sioaal servkcs to the of Attguda at-- viwnUy. lie will be found at hte rcst.ieocc ( lu st brick building above Gneuron's stable on street, recently occupied by John L. Adams. ; a ug 17 * (ffT During my absence in the interior o* State, Force, Btotlicrs & Co. are rny culv- a y j, sed attorneys. ENGCIi W.SPOI'KV 1 11"' 1 " npril 21 C j’-Lr. GARDNER, formerly n the New York Hospital, and physician at vue Hospital, New York, lendcis io the pub-** p professional services. ... J; Office in Washington street, between g, Ellis streets. Residence, LniteJ Mates Hot* ei _ My- p Cj' I^ r - FLINT offers his services to tizccs of Augusta in tiie different brancho w..; j profession. He may Le fasind at all liouj> ■ • utoresidence of .Mr. A. M. Egerton, sco | la from the corner of Mclntosh and luivnold sfi- ; nev 29 DR. SIOMiOE, Surgeon Dec 1 *^ 1, Office on Washington t-trcc I, hear KUi-S ;f '“( at the house late’y occupied by Mrs. ha-V april 20 i r*r THE FARMERS' REGISTER- ;1 n ‘- i w publication, devoted to the improvement practice, and surpoit of the iittcrcst, <4 (-T •ii oi pufilijhod at iiiidimond. va,at $6 J ! *- ; C 1 Kdsiuno ! ufmx, editor and proprietor. I