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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Ohio; The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican — the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. JOHN TYLER, Os Virginia; A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B— —of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and patriot statesmen. FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.’ JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark. SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin. ANDREW MILLER, of Cass. WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb. C. B. STRONG, of Bibb, JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. FOR CONGRESS, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham. JL T LIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup. EUGENICS A. NISBET, of Bibo. LOTT WARREN, of Sumter. THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn. ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson. JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam. THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. FOR SENATOR, ANDREW J. MILLER. FOR REPRESENTATIVES, CHARLES J. JENKINS, ® GEORGE W. CRAWFORD, WILLIAM J. RHODES. Lost. The file of the “State Rights Sentinel” for 1836 has been borrowed from our office by some person who has omitted to return it. We would therefore thank the individual who has it in pos session to send it home. In the event that we are 'unable to obtain our own, we should be glad to * purchase or borrow a file for that year, and also of the one of the Augusta Chronicle. Vermont Election. & The New York Journal of Commerce of the sth> fays“ We are enabled to present this evening a yearly complete view of the Vermont election. The Whig majority in the State will vary but little ■from 10,000. The Senate will consist of 28 Whigs and 2 Van Buren men ; and in the House the i Whigs will be in about the proportion ol 3 to 1, Four Whig Congressmen are certainly elected, and probably five ; that is, the entire delegation. From the .Sew Orleans Picayune of the 6th. Sugar. Cotton, Corn and Sickness.—A of this city, who has been for the last 1 two weeks sojourning in tin- parishes ofLafourche * Interior and Terrebonne, informs us that the sugar cane in that region, which wa; rather back ward in the early part of the season, has improved since the rains in August, and now promises a ■good yield. The cotton, he says, on the contrary, is nearly entirely ruined by the ravages of the “ army worm.” One planter, who has six hundred ar pents in cultiva ion, informed him that he did not expect to lealise 70 bales. Os corn there will not be more than one-third of a crop, made, owing to the drouth in the first of the season. Added to these misfortunes, he tells us it is un usually sickly this season ; many of the planta tions not having more than half their force able to work. The diseases prevalent are generally intermittent and bilious fevers, which however seldom terminate fatally. Shameful Avowal.— Gen. Jackson, in his second abusive letter concerning Mr. Clays speech at Nashville, says ; “It would be easy to show from the life of Mr. Livingston that the default here alluded to was one which did not prejudice his moral character or lessen the high standing which he enjoyed at the time.” Here is hones ty and patriotism for you ! ! Edward Livingston while in office, makes vvay with SIOO,OOO of the people’s money, and ox-President Jackson at this , day declares that this monstrous defalcation , ■** did not prejudice his moral character!!” Here’s , a precious commentary on honesty among public ] servants. The President of the United Slates , saying in effect to public officers, “ rob away, fill your pockets with the people’s money, run away j or stand your gound, as you please,—your moral , character will stand as high as ever. If Gen. Jackson has a friend left in the world, he ought to prevent his writing letters, or he may betray his real principles to the world ; and for the sake of our country and disown military services, such facts ought to be buried with him. He cannot stop the current which is every where rushing to produce reform. —Xciv York Times. The Conservative Campaign Opened.— The Conservatives of Steuben have held their County Convention to appoint Delegates to their Slate Convention at Auburn. It was numerous ly attended by the staunch old fashioned Demo crats who contributed by their votes and efforts to sustain Gen. Jackson and to elect Mr. Van Bu ren. They cannot, however, go for an Alexan der Hamilton Treasury Bank, nor a John Adams Stanuing Army. Federal measures are not the less odious when they emanate from prnfessed , Democrats. Men may and do change, but prin ciples are immutable. The convention was addressed by Edward Santord and Joseph Blunt, of New York Strong Resolutions, setting-iorth the reasons which had impelled a separation from the Fede ral Administration party, were adopted. One hundred Delegates were appointed to the Conser vative State Convention. —Albany E. Journal. A Texas newspaper notices the arrival lately, at Matagorda, in the rig 5-usan. of “An Episco pal Church —a handsome and well-finished build ing, with pulpit, pews, &c., complete.” Proceedings of Council. Council Chamber, ? September 7, 1840.5 Adjourned Meeting—Monday, 3 o’clock, p. m. Council met pursuant to adjournment —Present, Hon. D. Hook, Mayor—Aldermen Crump, Parish, Harper, Flemming, Robertson, and Dunlap. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The Chairman of the Committee appointed, re ported the following Ordinance, which was read three times and passed : Be it Ordained b}' tire City Oum i l of Augusta that from and after the passage of this Ordinance, and until the Ist of Novemoer next, and between the Ist of April and the Ist of November in each and every year thereafter, all dogs found at large in the City of Augusta, except such as may wear such a collar, as the City Council may authorize sale of, as provided in the 2nd Section of this Ordi nance, shall be liable to be killed by the City Mar shal, or such person as he may authorize and ap point for that purpose. Sec. 2nd. \nd be it further Ordained, &c., that the City Marshal be, and he is hereby authorized to provide such a number of Metal Collars, suita ble for Dogs of different sizes, marked C. A. and numbered fiom No. 1 upwards, and dispose of the same for the sum of three dollars each, to such per sons as may apply for the same, which shall pro tect, until the Ist day of April next ensuing, such Dog as may wear the same, fiom being killed, ex cept during an alarm of Hydrophobia in the City, or in the event of any Dog wearing such Collar being dangerous to the life or safety of any per son. Szc. 3rd. And be it further Ordained, &c., that any Collars furnished by the City Marshal, and paid for between the time of the passage of this Ordinance and the Ist of April next, shall protect any Dog wearing the same, except as before ex cepted, until the Ist of April, 1841. Done in Council the 7th September, 1840. The following bills wore severally read and or dered to be paid: P. H. Mantz, on ac’t. of sts. and engines, sl9 70 M. Grady, do 37 50 S. L. Basford, do 65 62 J. J. Cohen, (order,) do 1 25 Robt. Philip & Son, do 11 00 A. Cunningham, do 73 50 J. J. Cohen, do 162 00 F. Blodget, Guard House, 22 12 do City Hall, 15 00 H. Caflin, Hospital, 17 50 J. Simpson, do • 18 00 Wm. Sindersine, do July, 18 25 do do August, 54 75 W. Manate, do 3 50 Hurlbert & Roll, Incidental, 6 50 W. J. Hobby, sr. do 8 37 John Phinizy, (col’d.) Engines 5(50 D. Leopard, Streets, 15 00 Mrs. A. McKinnc, do 15 00 Est. M. Nelson, do 193 60 Win. Harper, do 39 50 Chas. McCoy, bal. extra ac’t. drains, S9O 29 The following bills were referred : P. H. Mantz, on acccount Streets, slll 88 To the Committee on Streets. J. H, Spencer, on account Drains, 300 00 To the Committee on Streets. Jas. Harper, on account Freshet, SO 00 To the Mayor. The following Resolutions were offered and passed: By Mr. Ciump. Resolved, That the Committee on the South Com mon, be authorized to have the new' portion of the Grave Yard laid out in a proper manner, with Stone Blocks, at the head of each and every section, with avenues and walks throughout, and also to have the present yard cleared out under the direction of the Sexton or some other competent person. By Mr. Parish. Resolved, That the Mayor of the City of Augus ta be, and he is hereby authorized to use all legal means to possess himself of all property belonging to the City, wherever it can be fully identified. By Mr. Harper. Resolved, That his Honor the Mayor be author ized and requested to have Tucknet Spring and the ground adjoining, as well as the logs between the upper Reservoir and the Spring, put in good order and such other improvements made thereon as he may consider expedient. Council adjourned. K. H. OLIVER, Clerk. From the Baltimore Patriot. Union and Harmony.—During the Pennsyl vania electioneering campaign of 1835, the Rich mond Enquirer spoke of the “two Democratic parties,” which existed (under the lead of Wolf and Muhlenberg) in the Keystone State. From certain symptoms vve should Judge that them are going to be “two Democratic parties” again in that State. The thoroughgoing Van Buren, and the Portermen, cannot coalesce, no way they can fix it. They do not trust each other quite so far, as such fast professing friends should. And as the test of sincerity comes on, in the case of one parly, many months before it does in the case of the other—there lies the difficulty. The Por ter men are in the first category. They are expec ted to support Mr. Van Buren tlrs fall, on the in timation that the Van Buren men will support Porter next fall. But they hesitate in this, be cause they have had many demonstrations of ill feeling from that Democratic party, towards Gov, Porter, and because thay know that political or party men are more likely to forget their intima tions or promises, than their animosity. The cunningly devised plan of the Porter men, t) get up county meetings and elect delegates to the 4th ot March convention “with instructions to nominate Governor Porter for re-election,” is likely to prove a failure. The Van Buren men, proper, will “intimate” their intention to support Porter, but they wont appoint the delegates “with instructions” to that effect. This might turn out to be rather an inconvenient committal. To show the actual, as well as to foreshadow the probable, state of things, among the faithful in Pennsylvania, we may mention that the“ two Democratic parlies” have already got up two se parate tickc s for State and county officers, in Philadelphia county. —For the third Congression al District, Charles J. Ingersoll is the Loco Foco- Van Buren candidate, and Morton McMichael the Loco Focb-Porler candidate, for Congress. There are other portions of the State, in which the union and harmony feeling between the Por ter men and the Vanites, »s not much better. In a word the signs denote that there will be again exhibited, the spectacle of “ two Deraoratic par ties” in Pennsylvania. Moke Changes in Maine.—The Argus Re vived contains cards from T. H. Wardwell, and seventeen other citizens ot Rumford, in Oxford county, David M. Twitchell, and 16 others in Montville, Waldo county, and of David Jordon, of Olisfield, all renouncing their allegiance to To ryism, and coming out in favor of Hairison and the true democracy. Among other reasons as signed, we find the following: “We are the more encourged to vote for Harrison, because the greatestest objection the prssenl Administration bring against him is, that he is imbecile, in his second childhood, &c.” Now if this he the fact, which by the way we do not believe, still we have the brightest prospects of having the administra te n ot our government restored to the old demo cratic track; from the fact that old people re- ! member very perfectly what they learned when I young, ami Harrison being a disciple of the im mortal Washington, and an intimate friend of Thomas Jefferson, must of course know what they considered democratic.” Col. Johnson’s Testimony.—We presume that after Col Johnson’s testimony, published by us a few days ago, there will be no father lying on that score, or, indeed, with regard to Gen. Harrison’s military character and conduct. Shame upon the revilers of the patriot hero, who have no more regard for the honor and fame of their country, than to traduce and slander one of her ablest defenders !— Alex. Guz. The Credit System.—Congress, at the last session, appropriated 60,000 dollars for repairs of Fort Adams, and the same sum on the public works in Boston. Instructions from the War Department direct the work to progress, if the laborers will give the Government credit until April! In another item of an exchange paper, we see it stated that the Government have Treasury shin plasters in circulation for so small a sum as two dollars and sixty-two and half cents. Well done, hard money, better currenry, credit-hating govern ment ! Consistincy is a jewel!— Baltimore Pa triot. From the Charleston ( ourier. To the; Hon. George McDuffie : Sir—The letter which it was your plasure to address to the recent Van Buren Convention in Georgia, has arrested very general attention. It has met with the singular success of having been gratifying to all parties alike, and whilst it has delighted your friends, it has been the occasion of triumph—l will not say to your enemies—but to your present opponents, the enemies of the pre sent administration. The supporters of the ad ministration have adopted you as their witness — they have endorsed your honesty of character, and extolled your matchless wisdom. Until now, you were no authority wi.h them, and we might in vain have quoted from those productions which from your present fixed aversion to political life, I am sorry to think, will be y®ur only, though sufficient, monuments ol greatness. You have now ceased to be ‘ bank bought.” Mr. Kendall has vouched for the purity of your character; Mr. Woodbury stands ready to affix his official seal to your financial wisdom ; Mr. Van Buren is satisfied with the elevation of your spirit, its Ro- I man constancy, its haughty independence, its sullen contempt of suppleness and sycophancy. You are a new man. Such as you are, and such as they now say you are, we are willing to ac cept of you. \'ou come before the public to tes tify for the administration. W r e know we speak the feelings of the opposition, when we say we are glad to see you on the stand, and to hail you as their witness. The country has lead with startled interest, the deposition you have made against William Henry Harrison. Before any comment is offered upon the specifications ot that deposition, permit me to bring before the country —the great jury of the nation—your sworn con victions as to the character and policy of our pre sent rulers, their folly and their wickedness, the nefariousntss and the destructiveness of their spirit and their policy. When I tell you that I heard the language which 1 am about to quote, when it burst from your lips, I need not tell you it was heard never to be forgotten. Then might have been fully realized the saying of f’icero, that “ to be a perfect orator, the orator must be a per fect man. However else imperfect, the honest feeling, the essence of that perfection the great orator meant, you possessed pre-eminently. Mighty indeed, and awful, was the righteous in dignation poured out against the deliberate be trayers of their country. Inexpressibly mourn ful and solemn the expression of the desolating conviction, that the people had been, ever, and were ever to be the victims of imposture. Pro foundly sorrowful and saddening to the spirit those words and tones, which bade a final fare well to all hope for mankind and your country ! Surely, sir, that hot and phrenzied indignation of an honest heart, against brazen fronted imposture —that holy grief of the patriot for his country, and the philanthropist for his kind—it could not all have been a moving pageant, a pathetic pas sage of a play, and I the simple victim of the ait of a well graced actor, and the skill which comes of‘the bar or the theatre.’ No, sir, it was pot, it could not be. You have told us what you have thought of Gen. Harrison, his party and his policy. Let, then, the nation read that which you have honestly spoken, and believe, of Marlin Van Buren, his parly and his policy. “In the present calamitous condition of the country, we have a melancho’y exemplification to prove how small a share if human wisdom is re quisite to produce the greatest conceivable extent ot human misery'. The meanest pigmy, armed with a sceptre , can destroy, in a single day, the great fibric of a nation's prosperity, which all the intel lectual giants of the land cannot build in a and laborious course of years. I will not tell the people to look fur salvation to those who have in volved them in this calamity, No, sir, this storm has been produced by a species of necromancy, which is endowed only with the faculty of mischief ’ and which, having raised the elements, has no pow er of exorcism to lay them. The Proserpo, whose fatal wand has conjured up these elements into tins wild and fearful and disastrous commotion, lias no magic power to call up the ministering spirits of the stormy deep, to rescue the sinking fortunes of a whole people, rashly and wicked y exposed to the rocks, winds, and quicksands of the most desperate and wicked experiment. “ The experience rs the last few years has entire ly changed my views as to the destiny of the human race. My youthful visions of the perfectibility of mankind, have vanished before the sad tealities of the times. They ate gone forever. lam now constrained to believe that, with all the lights of reason and experience, and the political improve ments o r countrymen are still the idolatrous and predestined victims of imposture. Before that God to whom lam responsible for what I say here, I do believe that the annals of human idolatry and delu sion cannot furnish an eximple of more impudent, audacious, and monstrous imposture, than that which the Administration is attempting, and I fear with too much success, to palm upon the people of the Lnited States, under the flimsy and delusive guise of returning to the primitive simplicity of a 'hard money Government. ’ Nothing that 1 have read, among all the superstitions of the world, tran scends its monstrous audacity. “ It is an eventful crisis in our history, and it remains to be decided whether the people’can be madethedupes of this monstrous scheme of ambition, covered over by the pretence of going back to a sil ver currency. Sir, it is not the first time in the history of human idolatry when the horrid features of a foul and unnatqral mo ,ster have been con cealed from the eyes of his deluded followers by a silver veil. You have no doubt read, sir, the in structive illustration of the weakness of human de lusion and the boldness of human imposture, the ciled Prophet of Khorassan, Deprived of Nature’s fair proportions, the bold impostor covered his de tormity with a silver veil, and hoisted a broad white flag, upon which was insciibed in words of sun shine, • i reedom to the world.’ Holding out the alluring promise that he would set free ‘This lettered world from every bond and stain, And bring its primal glories back again,’ he drew’ millions of devoted folioweis to his ban ner. And, alter he had prevailed upon them to sacrifice their souls and bodies to his unholy rites, he raised the veil ; and instead of disclosing the’ promised visions of heavenly light, exhibited his foul lineaments ‘ in grinning mockery.’ exc.aiming to his wretched victims, 1 hcie, ye wise saints, behold your light vour star* \ e would be dupes and victims, and ye are.’ May the honest devotees of a hard money currency’ take warning flora the example of the voluntai v victims ol a daring imposture, and avoid then fate' Tne v here beheld their fate accurately prefiguied. ii tncy do no’ use up and resist the S(‘h< me of im postu.e which i have attempt d to expo e. i, is t.. ;. o lead the future histoiy of the couiii.y, i. uic t-t. hemes ex the reigning ynusiy are not dfeatei by the people. Anaichy is the highway to despotic power , whether it be a banking or po litical depot ism. When the bank of the U. States shall be destroyed, the currenry will be thrown in to such derangement and confusion that the coun try will be prepared to submit to any National Rank rather than endure the prevailing evils Then the Administration will come forward in that ‘ spirit of improvement ’ of which the President speaks, with their grand scheme of a ‘political Bankfounded on the checks and balances of this Government. “I fear, Mr. Speaker, that the lessons of expe rience a;e lost upon nations. No people have been more severely schooled by’ this teacher, than the people of the United States have been upon this subject. And I never reflect upon our present con dition and prospect, without recurring to the fate of the Italian, who, possessing a strong, lobust constitut on, sacrificed it to the tampering of ex perimental quackery. His epitaph was brief, and contained an instructive lesson: “I was well: I would bo belter: lam here.” May it never be the painful office of the historian to inscribe the same yearning epitaph on the mighty ruins of our na tional prosperity ! “Ifear, sir, that we have not sufficiently realized the importance of a sound and stable currency. All our civil institutions combined, are not more important than this, as a guaranty’ foi the secure enjoyment of the right of property. In vain do we boast of our laws and the incorruptible purity of our judges, as means of protecting property’, if you take away the very’ substratum upon which the whole superstructure must rest.” It would seem indeed, sir, that in losing all j hope, you had parted with all respect for your j countrymen, when you could commend such con- I summate, deliberate, audacious impostors to their j confidence. You have lorn the silver veil from j the prophets, and his heinous imposture stands j exposed! And whatisthe punishment you pro pose—what terrible example will you make, as a signal warning to all betrayers of the kind ? You have written it, or it could not have been believed, i You would have your countrymen, your equals, the hope of the world ! again fall down before i the idol, your own hands have stripped, renew j his altars and multiply his temples ! Thus, sir, I would you have a wronged, cheated, betrayed people—the dupes of imposture, so “ impudent, ■ monstrous and audacious,” as not to be surpassed ■ in the gloomy history ofthe world’s superstitions thus, would you have them vindicate tneir self respect and this the vengeance, upon their betray ers—incense and crowns all honor and glory I Your present counsel to your fellow-countrymen hut too well attests the deep sincerity of your be- J lief, that “ men are still the idolatrous and I PREDESTINED VICTIMS OF IMPOSTURE.” It is only too evident that you have adopted the dis mal faith that public virue is a phantom, and liberty a dream —that the republic is already at an end, and you have abandoned it, in despair, to its destroyes. As citizens and men, we can alone retain a respect for your character, by sup posing that you have lost all respect for ours. Upon this principle alone can we reconcile your honesty with your advice —the counsel < f an hon isf man, to put faith in knaves, to (rust impos ters and to crown with the highest honors ex posed fraud —“impostures, monstrous, impudent and audacious!” Sir, this counsel necessarily j supposes that the republic is rotten to the core— i as if it were not, and it were adopted, it would ! make it so. You may lie assured, sir, thai vou have put too low an estimate upon your country men, and are too despondent for your country. 'The republic is not yet rotten to the core. Your fellow-citizens arc yet capable of self govern ment. 'They a - e not yet th e proper prey for im postors. They are not yet so dishonest that they cannot be dishonored by doing honor to dishon esty and glorifying “ monstrous, impudent, and audacious imposture.” 'They are not yet pre pared to reverse the good old maxim, that “hon esty is the best policy,” and make the:r chief ru ler the standing witness of their shame. They j will not yet write upon the front of our beauti ful presidential mansion, as a— permanent in scription — “The residence of the GRAND I.VIPOS -lOR THE FIT RULER OF A DEGRADED PEOPLE, HORN TO HE ENSLAVED AND PREDESTINED TO he duped.” Crawford. St. Louis Shot.—During a recent visit to the shot tower, a few miles below this citv, we obtained some particulars with regard to the manufacture which may be interesting to our readers. Our statement may derive additional interest from the fact, that some of our merchants have, during the present season, had the lead of Missouri coined at the St. Louis Mini, under the management of Mr. Stine, and have used it as an eastern remittance, finding it to answer a bet ter purpose than either eastern exchange, hank bills, or gold and silver. The following are among the details of the manufacturing operation : The shot tower is 150 feet in height, the lead is drawn up from the river by horse power to the top, and then incited. It is taken out in ladles and run through a single row of small holes in a horizontal line, which forms it into drops, and cools before it strikes the water contained in a large cistern below. It is then ladled out, put in a large sheet iron pan, and dried over a hot fire ; when thoroughly dried, it is put into what is called a polishing keg; a small quantity of black lead is added, which by turning some two or three hundred times, gives it a bright, glossy ap pearance. It is then screened on tables and sized. I he factory has been in successful operation since the middle of April last, during which time there has been manufactured upwards of 400.000 lbs. of shot, a majority for the merchants of this place. The manufacturing price is $1 per hundred lbs.; the same weight ot shot returned as lead receiv ed. from seven to eight hands are required when in full operation.— Evening Gazette. The Sponge Fishery.— “ When at the island ot Rhodes says M. Madmont, I went to the sponge fishery, which is curious and interesting. It is a laborious and tLngerous employment, but so • lucrative, that five or six successful days afford I those engaged in it the means of support for an j entire >’ car - The sponge is attached to rocks at i the bottom of the sea, serving as a retreat to rny ! riads of smaH crustaceous animals, which occupy its cavities. The fishermen dive for it to the depth ot even a hundred feet, and sometimes continue for five or six minutes under water, unless the quantity of sponge they may have collected be comes inconvenient or unmanageable, when they are hauled to the su. lace by the crew of the boat to which they belong. The divers occasionally fall victims to sharks that attack them under wa ter, The sponge is prepared for the market by being pressed to dislodge the animalculte it con tains, and afterwards washed in lye to deprive it of mucilaginous matter.” Lett again—Aq.uf.duct Blown up. The aqueduct of the Wdland Canal, winch crosses Chippewa Creek, was blown up, early on Satur day morning, with a terrible explosion, while two schooners were in it; one of which settled down in the chasm made by the explosion, the other fell over on her beam ends. The navigation is of course stopped, until the damages can be re paired. There is every reason to suppose that : it was the work of the miscreant Lett, who re ! cen /'y uiade his escape while on his wav to the I residence of such scoundrels at Auburn. — Roches ter Democrat. Montreal, 2d September. Assassination of Lieutenant Farquhar by Captain McAdam— We regret to have announce an event, which happily for the race and the country to which we belong, isof rare occurrence among us. Yesterday morning, at I hilipsburg, (Missisquoi Bay,) Capt. Mc- Adam, ot Col. Dyer s corps of Volunteers, accoM. d Lieutenant Far juliar, of the same corps m the streets, and alter a few words, drew a load clmh ° ’ ", h, r h u e “ ad kt T l conce akd under Ins clothes, and discharged its contents in the body ol fits unfortunate victim. » Aii Important Rumor. The Paris correspondent of the National In telligencer, writes under date of July 9lh. A rumor has floated, during the fortnight past, that Louis PhHippe means to abdicate in favour ot the Duke of Orleans, with a view to establish the heir to the crown and radicate the dynasty-—t ie measure to be executed after the “sublime thoug.i somewhat perilous, ceremonial of the final conse cration of the Napoleon remains. I cannot vouch (or this story, but the radical carpers argue that the measure is the best which the King could take, now that he is supplanted in power by his President of the Council The Legitimists are charged with demanding the simultaneous trans lation of the remains of Charles the Tenth to the Bourbon vaults of St. Denis; and not a few of the more fervid Bonaparlistsrequire that the Austrian Emperor be requested to surrender the bones ot Napoleon’s son. We have endless new histories of the mighty conqueror ; collections of his bulle tins ; poems of every denomination ; and, besides, a monthlv journal, (at a filth ot the London price.) entitled L'ldee Napoleonienne, with this motto — ‘lt is not the ashes alone, but the idea? of the Emperor, which was a mortal foe to ideaology of the republican or constitutional vein. Russian Exploring Expedition —A late number of the London Foreign Quarterly Review make known for the first time to English readers some of the paiticulars of the Ru-sians Explo ring Expedition to the northern Arctic Ocean. It was conducted by laud —that is by land con veyance, sledges and dogs, over the ice, and often a considerable distance from the shore, under tlie charge of Lieutenant Van Wranzel, and occupi ed nearly five years, amidst ihesevereslhardships. The result of the expedition may bo generally stated as having traced the boundaries of Asia in their highest northern latitude, and connecting with the English discoveries and examinations, as demonstrating a continuous sea or expanse ot water of indefinite extent bounding the conti nents on the north, and entirely round the world. 1 The problem remaining to be solved is, whether ! there be instill higher northern latitudes, beyond j the belt of ice which skirts this coast, a Polar j continent or large body of land. It has been found in all latitudes, that beyond a comparatively small distance, from the coast, the Polar, sea is always open and free of ice. 1 he distance rarely exceeds sixteen English miles and tne concurrent report of the natives of these j frozen regions, of different tribes in the high Si j beiian, as well as in the American latitudes, lead j to the impression that there is land, and inhahi : ted land, not many miles across the water, and around the pole of the earth ! One of the nature!, curiosities which this region has presented to every traveller, is particularly noticed in the accounts ofVan Wranzel’s expedi tion. It is the prodigious quantity of the bones of the mammoth which are found.—The farther north the greater is the quantity, and some of the Asiatic Arctic islands are found to be com- j posed of little more than a mass of mammoth bones. For eighty years Siberian traders have been conveying them away by ship loads, and they arc stdl apparently undiminished. The like phenomenon of the existence in this inhospitable 1 clime of immense mull tides of these herbivor ous warm-blooded animals, appears along the whole northern coast of Ada and America, and affords scope for a great deal of scientific specu lation upon the natural history of the ea.tb, and the most curious brandies of geology. Destructive Fire—Six Horses Burnt to Death. — On last Saturday night, about 10 o’clock, a frame stable and carriage-house, occu pied by Mr. Albert Parris, hack-driver, and situ ated in the rear of the six buildings, in the First i Ward, was discovered to been fire, and so rapid | were the flames, which communicated to the hay &c., that, notwithstanding the immediate alarm by the engine bells, and the speedy arrival ot the : file companies and apparatus, the building was quickly destroyed, and, sad to say, six valuable horses burnt to death, and two hackney carria- j ges destroyed. We are informed that the loss to Mr Parris, by the destruction or this property, is estimated at between £3,000 and £3,000; and, we are sor ry to add, that, from Mr. Parris’s own statement, ■ and that of other respectable ritizens residing | near him, no doubt is entertained that this fire and barbarous destruction of valuable animals were the work of an incendiary. —National In telligencer, of the 7th. Frog Found in Coal. —On Wednesday morning, as two colliers, George Ross and James Gardner, were in one of the rooms of the Old Muirfield Pit, at Gargieston, they found a living trog embedded in the solid scam of coal, at least twelve fathoms beneath the surface of the earth. The niche in which it had lived was perfectly smooth inside, of the exact shape of the frog, and without a crack or crevice to give admittance to air. The hind legs of the animal are at least a third longer than usual, the fore legs shorter, the toes longer and harder, and its general color is of a moment that it was excavated from its narrow cell. How many centuries it has been shut out from light and air and entombed in its dreary dormitory, it is impossible to say—certain it is, that although diminutive in form and with great brilliancy of eye, it has a most antediluvian as pect. —Edi n burg C our ant. Mart’s well at Nazareth.— A quarter of a league distant, is a well called Mary’s. It is now enclosed in the church of the schismatic Greeks, who have erected an altar close to if. 1 raditlon relates, that Mary was accustomed to go thither for what she wanted, and to convince one’s self that this must have been the case, it is sufficient to consider, as I have already remarked, the water is very scarce, both at Nazareth, and in the environs,—The road leading thither border ed with Nopols and fruit trees, forms a charming walk, which tne p ospect of the neighboring Hills and the fields, covered with corn, renders still more picturesqe. The water of this well, increas ed by that of other springs, constantly over flows. and runs into a spacious reservoir, con structed a hundred paces further off. called Mary s lountain ; it is thither most of the inhabitants go to fetch it. Unfortunately, it is not very abun dant, and a week seldom passes but the eagerness of the t hrong occasions quarrels and broken pitch* ers. The pitchers are enormous earthen vessels, of disproportionate height. The women of Nazareth carry them on their heads; and, under this heavy load, sometimes having also a child in their arms, they walk with a lightness that is astonishing. Father Perpetuus, was with me, a few days since at the fountain • he wished, out of devotion, to drink of its water’, and asked a women for some, who readily gratified’ him. 1 drank in rny turn, and I thought it t i»ht to express my thanks by offering this woman* a piece of money.—She peremptorily refused it. and appeared ollended, to judge from the signifi cant jestuies which she addressed to her neigh bors. I was i he more surprised, as it was the first tune I met with a refusal fr. man Arab \t first I admired her behavior, and remarked its delicacy to the good father not doubling that she had complained because I could think her capa ble of taking payment for a draught of water ier airThrirl 16 tonlinU l cd 10 grumble, and as ter a,l the politeness with which I had made my ufler seemed to furnish a good excuse. I determin edl to; ascertain what it was, that caused her to ? Ch an l animated tone - We called an . \ Pf. ter .’ , and soon Earned that she imagined I had offeree! her my pitcher, which she valued at a great deal more. When she was informed that my lutention merely was to give her a b .ksk . ch, ranger was chanced into thanks.— G err mb's Pilgrimage. ( ' Hidden Treasures.—The New York K press states that in Lambyaque, Peru, are (o .** seen the stupendous graves of the Indian Km/ who must have died in the time of the 1 S ’ These stupendous mounds of earth are ; ust I/ 8 * the outside of the city, and are built of SUn j • . brick, and are of the most gigantic dimension some ot them are 3000 feet in circumference i over 150 in height, and must have required and a deal of labor in their erection—one 0 f ,/ C was opened in Truxillo, and silver arid gold f-:- 1 Ul from it amounting to over 2,000,000 dollar/ company of merchants have b eu organi/.j are about opening several other? i n ' ' ’ , an '* tii ; 1,1 search „t more hidden treasures. 1 ThcN. Y. State Comptroller has advert’, for a further loan of £1,000,000 to aid in if-, largement of the Ede Canal. Proposals will?' received until the 15lh of October. >c Nantucket.— The New York Sun states the valuation of property in the island of]\’ a . et, was by the last valuation, seven niillir Utk *, dollars, five millions of which were owned* / one hundred and twenty-one persons, and k two millions by the remainder ; there i tween nine anil ten thousand inhabitants ° bC ' Destructive Land Slide at —A destructive land slide occurred at Plaque/* on the evening of the 3d inst. It destroyed ah/ four hundred yards of the Levee in front of / town, and took with it four buildings. Amo ! them was the warehouse of Orillion & Bisuj/ New Orleans Picayune. Judge Bigger —A report was in circulation last week, that Judge Bigger. Governor elect of Indiana, who had been ill, was dead. W e ™ but little credence to the report at the time, and are happy to learn from the Greensburg Adverti ! ser, that he has rec iverrd. — Cin. Rep. The Lost Pleiad: OR THE STAR OF NEW JERSEY. ’Tis done ! Our glorious >tandarj Droops blotted on the air: The star that earliest rose and shone Is veiled in vapors there. Prom that bright constellation Whose rays illumined tiie world One Pleiad sue is quenched in gloom One ancient orb is hurled. The light, that like a beacon First cheered oor fainting ?ircs When rushing tempests shook their bark, By impious hands expires. The State, that suffered sorc-t When Freedom was unchained. With all her venerable scars Denied the prize she gained. The battle-ground of Freedom, The brunt of war that braved. Dishonored with a broken seal— Disfranchised and enslaved. Was it for this at Trenton Was drawn the avenging sword ? Was it for this o:i Monmouth plain Heroic blood was poured? Is this, great shade of Mercer! The harvest o' thy strife ? Was it for this thy wounds were borne— For this was paid thy life ? Rise, sons, of gallant fathers .'— Dia foreign foe invade, I know each breast would barehis march— Each hand would find its blade. What matter who th’ oppressors That on our rights have trod ? Rise ail! —with just, yet bloodless arms, Redeem your native sod ! Away with paltry jarrings When mivs are oveithrown ! Each true son of a sovereign State Should make her shame his own. Take nobler ground than party When Freedom is y our plea ! It little boots who reigns or falls Let but the State be free. Then speak ! —one voice of thunder Will rend the gloo.n in twain. And ’mid the broaei. clouds reveal (Jur anGent star again ! COMMERCIAL. Latest dates from Liverpool, August 4 Latest dates from Havre, July 31 AUG UST A MARK ET. Friday Evening, Sept. 12. Cotton. —Our Cotton market is without chang? since our report of the 10th inst. The demand is good, sa ! cs G a 9j, as extremes. One new bale Cotton only% received thus far this sea«on. The late and present good weather, is favorable for picking out the growing crop. We look next week for new Cotton to a moderate extent. Freights —To Savannah, $1 bale; to Charles ton, by rail road, 35c lUO lbs for square, and 3-5-' & lbs for round bales. Exchange —C n New York, at sight, — cent for current funds; Charleston at O7 V cent; Savannah p- cent; Philadelphia cent; Lexington, Ky. — (a) decent; Richmond/ cent; Specie commands (d cent prem. Bank Notes. — Savannah Ranks, 0 _ c t. prem. Columbus Insurance 8ank....4 (cv - “ “ Commercial Bank, Macon, 4 (a) - “ “ Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 5 (d - “ “ Agency Brunswick,“ 5 0- “ “ Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Columbus, 5 0 - “ disenb Central Bank, 8 0 - “ “ Milledgeville Bank, S 0- “ “ Ocmulgee Bank, S 0 - “ “ Monroe R,ail Road Bank, 8 0 - “ “ Hawkinsville Bank, S 0- “ “ Chattahoochie R. R.& B’k C0..0 0- “ ‘‘ Darien Bank, ..35 0 - “ “ Bank of Rome, 40 0 - “ “ Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank, St. Josephs, Florida, 5 0- “ Union Bank, « 50 0- “ “ J Southern Trust Co. « '6O 0- “ All other Banks now doing business, at par. specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank,lDSU' ranee Bank of Columous, Commercial Bank ot M* 1 on, and Brunswick Agency in this city. MAHIiNE irsTKUJuLM t- Charleston, September H- , Cleared —brig Cohansey, Moo:c, New Y ork; £C^r ’ I United States, ilalwerson, Jacksonville. | Went to sea yesterday —ship Gaidner, Jacks° n » a Liverpool; brig North America, Goodrich, 80-tom | D. L. schr. Mandarin, Wallace, Baltimore; scM I i hames, Ax worthy, Boston. AUGUSTUS REES, attorney at la iv, scpto-ly Madison, Morgan county, b<’*- JullS H. STANFOU >, ATTORNEY At' LAW, jy 17] Clarkesville, C:'. J A>» if o O t i. iiiii , A TTORNE Y A T L A W , feb 25 Jcllcrson, J atksen ecunty, f- a -p|