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CiIKOMULE aSI> SKNTIM3L. A I* (« I' S T A • WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16. FOR CONGRESS. HIN ES HOLT, Jr. or MUSCOOLK. Election on Fit-.I Monday in January. Hampton Course* TUESDAY. Purse S4OO. Entrance $20 —1 wo mile beats. Col. Crowell’s h, f. Nancy Clark, by Bertrand, out of Morocco Slipper, by Timoleor —3 y’rsold I 1 G. Edmonson, James Lamkin’s ch. f. Mary Elizabeth, by Andrew, data by Gallatin, 4 years old 3 2 F. TompkifcSjC. i.ewis’ ch, I, Nancy House, by Imp, Leviathan, dam by Stockholder, 3 years old 2 di«. Time —Ist haat 3m Vis—id heat 3ra .335. It i> pioper to remark in justice to Nancy House, that the result of the second heal was produced by the slipping of her -addle. in the early part of the bant. WEDNESDAY —SECOND DAY, Pur>e SSO0 —3 mile heats. ENTRIES. (01. \\ . ch. h. Foidham,by Eclip-e liain by Sit Archy, .3 years old. ('u ! . VV. Hampton s ch. 1, Fanny, by Eclipse, out j •i Maita West, (the dam of Wagnet and Marion,) ; 4 ye*;s old. C’ougie>*ioual. House of Representatives, 2 ; December 10 IS4O. C \ ; SIR-TREASURY BILL. Mr. Ti.liughast ode red a resolution—calling ou ■ the Secretary us the Treasury to ;«po:t howfai,- and iu what manner the Sub-1 reasury Bill had j been carried into execution, ixc.—what number of j persuiib had been employed under the provisions \ of that act —whether each and every one of the-e j officers had given bonds, and who, it any, bad not. j After a brief conversation Mr. Tilliughast moved that it he on the table and bo printed—which was ! negatived —Ayes 7.3, nays SI. (in tnotmi* of Mi. Cranston, it w<ra ordered tnat i all petition* presented at the last session and not i disposed of. be referred according to the direction of the members by whom they were respectively presented. Mr. C alvary Morris, of Ohio, gave notice that on to-morrow, or some subsequent day during the present session, he would ask leave to introduce a bill to repeal An act* utilßd an act to provide for tiie collection, safe keeping, and disbursement I ol the public revenue, approved Juiy 4, 1840.” I [The Sub-Treasury.] NATURALIZATION LAWS. Mr. Hand gave notice that he would on Monday next ask leave to introduce a Bill establishing a | Uniform System of Naturalization, and repealing all laws now in existence on that subject. Mr. Duncan gave notice that to-morrow. or at some subsequent day of the session, he would ask leave to introduce a bill to am* nd the naturaliza tion law's. NAVY PENSION FUND. The Speaker communicated the following mes sage from the Piesident of the United State- : To the Hon. R, T. M. Hunter, Speaker of the House if Representatives: Sir:—l herewith tiansmit a le.ter from the Secretary of the Navy Pen-ion Fund, to which the attention of Congress is invited, and recommend ! an immediate appropriation 0f5151,352 39 to meet the payment of pensions becoming due on and af ter Ist January, 1811. M. VAN BUREN. The letter of the Secretary transmitted in the above message slates that the amount of money on hand to pay pcii-ionsis $18,647 61 ; and that there will t.e required in addition, for the year IS4I, 1 •8131.352 39, ot which $31,476 73 will be wanted on the l<t of January next. That tho nominal value of Hock- owned by the fund is $158,739; I that the stocks have greatly deptcciated, and that the best ui them i> to be sold un the 18th of this month to re unburst money borrowed Lorn tire Bank of Amerh a and for payment of pension- to become due Ist January . | The Speaker al-u communicated a letter from the Secretary of tne Navy, transmitting the annual statement ol the expenditures tor contingencies for his office and lor tiie ofhee or the Commissioner* of : the Navy for the year ending the 30th September t last, which amount, for Hie office of the .secretary, L> $.323 46, and lor the office ot the Commission- 1 ers to $1,732 9). Laid en the table and ordered to be printed. After the presentation hv the Speaker of Annual > Communications liom toe Executive Department, none of which were real, the House adjourned to Monday next. .\rw V Oku Dec, W—b P. M. 1 he t * real Western sailed to day ut one o’clock with a full freight—slo2,ooo in specie— 70 i possengers—a letter bag yielding $llOO at the Exchange, and probably SI4OO at the agent's of- j lice. She could not wait longer for the Presi- j del.t* Message. It will he seen, therefore, that ; the movements in specie still goes forward, in the lace of resumption here, By the strainer and the other packets, this week, nearly $400,000 specie has gone to Europe.— Herald. Office of the Herald, Ai.w York, Nov, 10—1 o’clock, S One tiny later from CTuim. The ship Xianlic. C.ipt. Doty, arrived yester day from China. She brings only one day later. Wn give below ail the news. It ;s seen that noth ing very extraordinary occurrcfi after the sailing «if lliclilok J 'he principal intelligence is the detention of the ships Adelaide. Stnfcbs, end Washington, lieuson, at the Hocca Tigris, by the blockading 5 rcc, ilkmj under t’apfain Warren, in the Vin tage. Application lor their release being made by their ugeiiu to CApt. Smith, then at Macao, he replied that “ order** should be immediately given for them in proceed in charge of .in officer bi (.'up Siiuy Moon anchorage, where their c«#e would l*e promptly investigated.” As these ships were laden prior to the 29th, And an they were furnished with proof fhereof, under the ('ousnlar Seal, it is presumed (iiat they will n-it have beeti long under detention. The Resident, st Anjcr, reported to us that ac counts hid i eeti received at Kata via from siaiga |>or«* to the middle of Auguet. aucl that news of tiie failure ol nogociationa by Admiral Elliot had reached that port from China, and that hostilities had commenced «n the coast, between the Bri tish forces uml the Chinese. J'i ora the Sassdu (S. P.j Observer. SiurwßKcK.—The ship Spartan, (ofJVawhu ryport) Capt. Knight, from Liverpool. forHavana, with a cargo of Machinery, hard ware and crock ny, went ashore on Harbour Island, A ov. 23. j \ easel totally losl—the crew and a*por;ion of the cargo saved by wiecßers, and taken to Nassau •and sold. W e an; furnished, by an arrival from flagged Maud, with an account of the loss of the brig Alary Ann, i hompsou, master, from Charleston, (in ballast) bound to Ragged Island, for a load of salt, at vv Inch place, on iSundav. the 22dinst. she was totally wrecked. Her materials together with what other articles w>re on board,have, we under slant, been saved. N ass.il, (N. !*•) A*ov. ,is. ['he Fr. ship J.ps IT ux Amis, of Bordeaux, from on* of the Windward Islands, homeward bound, with a car go of fustic, was lost on the 14th instant, on the reel near the Memory Hock, off the West end of (IranJ Bahama. Tne captain and crew have arrived at this port. PuiiLn Execution.—Francis Lawrence was hong in T.ilbotton, in tbi-* .State, on the 4th insf. i u rite murder of a rn in by the name of Ford. mgmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Proceeding* in Council* COCKCU. CHAMfiER, December 12, IS4O. Saturday £ past 6 o’clock, P. M. Council met pursuant to adjournment: —Present Hua. D. Hook , Ma>or, Aldermen Warren. Parish, Bishop, Miller, Jackson, Flemming, Crump, Har per and Duniap. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. During the reading of the minutes Mr. Richards appeared and took his seat, and after the reading Mr. Bones appeared and tooc his seat. The Committee on toe water works, on the ap plication of sundry citizens reported favorably,— andoffeieti the following resolution which passed Resolved, That the Committee on the Water Works be authorized and requested to contract with the Habersham Iron Works Co. fora sufficient number of cast Iron pipes of 6 inches calibre, with all the necessary appendages for hydrants, and branch pipesjand stop cocks, tojexteud from the Reservoir down Broad Street, to the intersec tion of Jackson St, and a sufficient number of such pipes of 3 inches calibre, with he same appendage, i to extend from the termination of saii.fi inch { pipes, to Green Street, and down Green St. to Cen | tre Street; and down Broad Street from Centre St. | to Hospital St., or further if the rcquilPe number, 1 of persons apply for the water. The following are the proposals received by the i City Council from the agent of the Habersham : Iron Works Co. | Proposals for furnishing the» ity of Augusta with 1 Cast Iren Pipes for conducting water, warranted to ; sustain a pressure of fifty pounds to the -qnaie | inch. August a, Dec. 9th IV4U.1 V 4U. Pipes u inches calibre $1 16 “ 4 « “ 80 « 3 “ ** 60 “ t “ “ 4> Bunches, cresses and elbows, measuring all the pipr- 6 inches calibre I 60 Jo. 4 •• I 10 do. 3 “ 90 I <Jo. 2 * ; “ 60 Stop cocks or halves, 6 in.diamtter. .$lO 00 each. *« “ *• 4 “ « ... 10 00 “ “ “ 3 « “ ... 800 “ “ “ “ 2 “ u ... 500 *- We agree to furnish castings of the above di j mentions at the pi ices put opposite each size, dene in a workman-like manner, and agree to the fal lowing terms of payment. Castings to be deliver ed in the city of Augusta free of any extra charge, viz; Term* of payment —Twenty-live per cent, in current money in the city of Augusta, and the balaoce in city Bonds bearing an interest of six psr ceot. payable annually and redeemable at the expiration of teuyeais. J. VAN BURE.V, Agent for Habersham IW. Co. , The Spec.al Committee appeared at the lasi j meeting of Council to report on the salaries of the i officers of Council fur the ensuing year, submit ted the following:— Collector and Treasurer, SI2OO Clerk of Council,(including Digest,).... !200 City Marshal and Capt. of Guard,....... 1600 | Jailor, 700 City Constables. each, 600 Clerk of Lower Market, 660 Clerk of Upper Market, 50 Keeper of the Magazine, CfO j Keeper of tne City Clock, 70 City Sheriff,.. Fees t Clerk of Mayor’s Court,. do City' Surveyor, do Which being read separately were adopted, aad tne Clerk diiected to advertise the Elections at the usual lime. r Tne Committee on Accounts reported an Or dinance amendatory of the 6lh clause of the 36th 1 section o the General Ordinance, which wa> or dered to a third reading on Thursday evening next. Tne following Ordinance, from the Committee ou the Wate Work ß , was lead a third tune and parsed. Ax oanixAxcfi t« legulate the collection oi the annual dues for Hydrant water, and to define the privi’eges of persons uvlng the same, j he it ordained by the City Count it of Augusta, ; That the ones lor Hydrant Water, for the year en ding ou the 30th September la»t, shall be collected , of the occupants of the lot* into which it is takea as heretofore, and that to make up for tire time surd occupant’ were deprived of Hydrant Water, during the past summer, no charge shall be made fur the la*t three months of the present year. Sec. 2. And be >t further ordained by the au thority aforesaid, That after the first day of Jan. next, which .said dues shal ! l>« the same 3s ha\ c bt'C* heretofore established, shall be paid in ad mcc, k tlif mm of the lot* iati which Hy. droot Water shall be taken at or before the time of paying the City Taxes, and that executions bo i'soed ag»in*; portions in default for Hydrant dues, in the paune manner a 8 is now provided in theca- t of pers'T.- who neglect o. refuse to pay their I i’y Tax* . See. 3 And .’■» if further ordained'by the ou tho ity aforesaid. That it shall be the duty of all the lot owners, into which Hydrant Water is, or shall be introduced—lo use due diligence and care to keep the pipe*, which convey water into their lot*, a- well a-* the Hy drants and founts attached thereto, in order, so that water may notoe wasted. Sec. 4, And be it further ordained hy the au thority aforesaid. That it shall be the duly of all ;>ei=*on»- occupying lots, in whif.h Hydrant water is. or ?! all be taken, to take care that more water i.- no* drawn from the Hydrants on the premises they occupy tiiau is require ! for tUc use of them telvcs, their families, servants and dependants.— Any person violating any *»f the provisions of this section may be lined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every Qjftnce. Sec. o. And he it further ofdulnji by the ,/u. tbority aforesaid. That no occupan* of a lot, into which Hy drant water is taken, shall permit any person, not belonging to his or her family, or win is not one of his or her dependants or guests, to take Hydrant water from his or her premises with out the consent of the City Council first be had or obtained, under the penalty of being fined not ex ceeding twenty dollars for every offence. Done in Council, this 12th day of Dec., 1840. The Committee on the River Bank and Wharf made their report agreeable to resolution of Nov. 11th, which was road a.nd ordered to be filed. The communication of H. Hutchinson was read and, on mottos, the request thciein contained wav not granted. The following reso utlons were pissed : Resolved, That Edward CampfieM, K*q. M Augusta cf tktt St*am Boat Com; any of Geor sia, have perimmsion to move the Lower Wharf 1 Office to such point on the wharf as he may select’ at the expense of saia Company : it being under stood that said Office shall continue, when moved, the property of the City as it is at present, and that it shill be located under the direction es the Com mittee on the River Bank and Wharf. Resolved, That the Committee on the Bridge be authorized lo advertise for proposals for the lights of a Ferry ovei the Savannah river, at or near the site of the upper Bridge, for 12 month* from the Ist January neat; the contractoi to have the use of the City Ferry flat and its appendages, and to give bond, with approved security, to keep a Ferry at all times, except when the stale of the rivet may prevent; and to charge neither mete nor less than the same rate for passing the City Bridge; and also to give bond to return the Ferry flat in good order as received, at the end of the year. * The following bills were ordered to be paid : George Schley, for legal services, soo 00 Richard Riley, for work on Lamp Po*ts,... .22 00 W. Glendenning, on account of Slieets,... 162 00 Glendenning, I'ayne fc Co. on account of Grave Yard, 212 62 Council adjourned ti* Thursday evening next at 7 o’clock. 8. H. OLIVER, Clerk- The Wine Elkctouai Collkok of New York.. —Rarely, if ever, has a body of citizens been kssembted in relation to whose public career there is more of interesting political recollection. Several of these ven-rable men have been honor ably connected with the Government from its formation. —The services and patriotism of many of them constitute a bright portion of the histo ry of our Stale. Two ol them (Messrs. Burt and Van Cortland) met forty years ago to dis charge a similar duty, and then cast their vote* for Thomas Jeflerson. Two other distinguish ed men are now in the City (Chief Justice Spen cer and Gen. Root) who as members of the Le gislature, than voted for Messrs. B. and V. C. as Electors. (Jen. Peter B. Porter, formerly a dis tinguished Member of Congress was one of our most gallant Generals in the late W ar. Archi bald Mclntyre was an Elector of President in 1808, and voted for James Madison. He was al so for many years Comptroller of rhe State. Elisha Jenkins was formerly Comptroller of this State. Isaac Ogden was for many years a mem ber of our Slate Senate. Gen. Grattan H. Whee ler, as a Member of the Assembly of 1824. gave the only vote cast for Jackson Elector*. Gideon Lee has been Mayor of the city of New York and a Mrralier of Congress, and we belive a for mer Elector of President, dec. Bartow W hite, G. H, Wheeler and Phineas L. Tracy have also been Members of Congress. Phineas L. Tracy Elisha Jenkins and Henry P. Voorhees were Delegates to the Harrisburg Convention, and there cast their ballots for HARRISON and TY LER as Condidnfm for the Offices to which their votes now (Uct them, Messrs. Burt. Mc- Intyre, and G. H. Wheeler have been members of our State Senate. John T. Harrison, John T. Speed, John Williams, David Hurd, Philo Orion, and we believe several other Electors, have been Members of the House of Assembly. Other elector* le»* known in the Councils of the blate and Nation are distinguished for their worth and usefulness in the other walks of life, 'There are distinguished Lawyers, eminent Merchants and Agriculturist in the College. In a word, it is a hotly of men worthy of the high trust committed to ihem.fand of the two hundred and twenty thousand Whig Freemen whom they represent, j —Albany Eoenint* Jour. To the above the New York American of Thursday ewminz adds:—'The Electoral College met in the Senate Chamber, at the Capitol, at 4 o’clock 'Tuesday afternoon, and regularly organ ized by choosing James Burl as President. For ty years ago. Mr. Burt was a member of the Col lege which oust its vote for Mr. Jefferson. Important Lioal Decision.— lt is stated in the Express that the Assistant Vice Chancellor of the first Circuit of New York, has recently decided in a case i>efore him, that a mortgage of goods and chatties, unaccompanied by an imme diate delivery, and not followed by an actual and continued change of possession, is in the absence ot all fraud, good and valid as against creditors, 6cc. where the or a true copy thereof shall have been filed, pursuant In the provisions of the statute of 1833, This decision .of the V ice Chancellor is held to be the more important, as the Superior Court of New V'ork, had heretofore held a different view. Post Office Hkoulatiox* in Evulam).— 7 Temperance —Among the cheering proofs of the progress of temperance, we notice the following with pleasure. Such an order in our country, says the American Temperance Journal, might make a greater sweep than any new admioislra ! lion. Step toward* Temperav.ee. —The Earl of Litchfield. Postmaster General, has issued an or der prohibiting any individual employed in ■ the Post office department, or their frpm keeping houses for the sale of intoxicating liquor*, under the penalty of forfeiting office. 'This or der was read a lew days since to one of the de partments by Mr. Tyrcll, (Superintending Inspec tor, who has been a Tetutaler far four year*. AnEcms.—Papen from Little Rock of the 2ltb 111 t.. state that the official majority for the V an Horen Electors, according to the Governor's proclamation, is 1680 votes. Five counties were net returned, or the majority would have been greater. •Snow fell to ike depth of aaverai inches at Lit tle Rock on the 23d ult. W. S. Fulton hsd been re-elected lx? the U. Slates Senate. The elect on of a member of Congress for the Oxford District in Maine has again failed. The votes far the opposing candidates are nearly equal, and the scattering votes are so far 575. Hritif pf—The Agricultural Bank of Natchez suspended specie payments on all her issues re quired by law to be paid, on the 2d inst. The Commercial Bank of Natchez and the Commer cial Bank of Manchester, are now the only specie paying institution in the Stale.— Crescent Cily. The largest vote giver? in any Stale ot the late Presidential election, in proportion, to the popu lation, was in New Hampshire, which according to the bile census, cast one vote tor every four filibsol irs inhabitants. A ti’nwkl. —The great tunr.el through the Papau ridge, on the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, is probably the greatest work of the kind in this country, ft is now so far completed that the light can be seen through it—the labor ers penetrating from each end of jt having met in tde centre. The length of the tunnel is 3,118 feet; from the top of the arch to the surface of the ground above is, at the highest point, 328 feet. It is to be 24 feet in diameter, most of which will be above the water surface. From the Cincinnati Gazette. A Poskr. The New \ ork Evening Post savs that “Mr. Van Buren came into power at a period of great embarrassment and distress.” Where upon the Louisville Journal asks, - what, then, ire we to think of the remark in Gen. Jackson’s 1 Farewell Address, ‘z leave thi*greet People prox per'stt* and hnppyP** f i v . ‘ Newsp'afkrs.—A child begining to read be comes delighted with a newspaper, because he reads of names and things that are familiar. A newspaper in one year, says Mr. Weeks, is worth { a quarter’s schooling to a child, and every father J must consider that substantial information iscon (xiected with this advancement. The mother of : the family being one of its heads, and having a more immediate charge of children, ought o be intelligent tn mind, pure in language, and al ways cheerful and circumspect. As the instruc tor of her children she should herself be instruct ed. A mind occupied becomes fortified against the ills of life, and is braced for any emergence.— Children amused by reading and study are. of course, considerate and more easily governed. How many thoughtless young men have spent their evenings in a tavern or grog shop which ought to be devoted to reading ! How manv pa rents who never spent twenty dollars for books for their families, would gladly have given thou sands to reclaim a son or daughter who had ig norantly and thoughtlessly fallen into tempta tion ! Cast Ikon Rail Road.—From experiments fully tested among the mountains ot Pennsylva nia. it has been ascertained that cast iron rails answer admirably. Those now in use are onlr six fleet long, and furnished at such a rate, that a mil* of road will not cost over SBOOO. Should the cast raiis stand the heavy frosts of a Northern climate, i’ is impossible to estimate th« benefits which the experiment will confer on the Key stone State. Governor Boggs of Missouri, recommends the improvement of the navigation of Salt River. A very important and necessary work just at this lime. Passknoeh* walk. cp.— A sexton, in Eng land, proposes to join with the rail-road compa nies, to form burying grounds on the spare land by the side of the road, for the purpose of inter ring those who may from time to time, be de stroyed on the line. It is also proposed that the profits arisi.ig from these cemeteries, be applied to the establishment of hospitals at the respective termini, fur the relief of those who may not be quite killed. Gen, Jackson said, “I leave this great people pmsppious Mini happy.” Mr. Van Buren,on the lih of March, may not leave them “prosperous,” but he will leave them exceedingly “happy /” Prentice. VI ILLI HO E x Tit A o Ht> t s a rt .-Tite T u sea ra was Ohio, Advocate of the 27th inst., says:—“A question of dispute with regard to the quickness of manufacturing a certain quantity of w heat in to merchantable flour, was settled last Saturday, at .Mr. Seaton’s mill, near this town. It was con tended that one pair stones could not manufacture sixteen bushels of wheat in an hour. Judges were selected—the wheat weighed out—the mill put in operation, and the sixteen bushels went through the usual process of making superior flour, fit far exportation, in the short space of fifty-three minutes, with one pair of atones oniy.” Fhk Croton Agi’iiicrr.— VVe understand i that Ihe experiment waa made on Saturday laat, j of letting the water into a portion of the Croton i Aqueduct, The gates were hoisted at the dam, and the water coursed its way through to the vi cinity of Mr Elias Auie-’s a distance of about j eight miles. The result of the experiment was perfectly satisfactory,as it showed that the Aque- j duct would work as well as was anticipated.— Hudson River Chronicle. The Annual Message ol the Governor ofNi.w HamF9Hikk is a model paper in the matter of length. It occupies only one newspaper column. Tattler. Tub Bnmt.—By Washington Irving.—l know es no sight more charming and touching than that of a young and timid bride, in her 1 robea of virgin white, led up trembling to the 1 altar.—When 1 thus behold a levely girl in the tenderness of her years forsaking the house of her lathers, an ; the home es her childhood—and with the implicit confidence auu the sweet self abandonment. which belong to women, giving up | all the world lor a man of her choice; when I hear her. in the good old luaigMag* ot the ritual, yielding herself to him ‘for better, for wurse, fer richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, honor and obey, till death us ao part,’—lt \ brings to mind the beautiful and affecting devo- j tion of Ruth; • Whither thou goei-t 1 will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge—thy peo ple shall be my people, and thy God my God.’ Hi’moh, <tc.—“ Taix Bon sinus.”—The j droll editor of the Richmond Star ays, •• the fol lowing sign iff hung out —we don’t know’ where. 1 and by—we don’t know whom :—‘Malvina Mug taix boredirs when she kan git them chape for ; kash and no likkers are suffered in the hows. 1 Apl.V down stares by the fish barril.” The following marriage announcement extra ordinary we found in a St. Louis paper: Married. — In this city on the evening of the 35Ui last,, by Justice Joseph W, Walsh, Mr. Joseph Cor lay, of St. Louis, to Donna Maria Del Refugio Antonia Muc>a Isidora Johanna Uernarda dt Jesu Su/ares Cauian, of New Mexico. 4 There's a name to fall in love with!’as Old Sol says in Delph. A Singular Bet.—The following bet, or rather singular proposition, we find in a late St, Louis Gazette; — A warm Harrisonian made the following pro position to-day—which, however waa not taken | up. That he would pav S2OO to any man, who ! would agree to give him one kernel of cofU-e for : the first single vote Harrison got over Van Bu ren’s whole vote, two for the second and so on in geometrical progression. There being some little curiosity to know what the result might he, sundry grains of coffee were weighed, and it was ascertained that 2560 grains of .Ura coffee, weighed a pound. Supposing, then, that Harrison runs a head of Van Buren 30 votes, the amount of coffee to be paid over would exceed 332,000,000, pounds worth, at )6 cents per pound, the pleasant ba<*a~ telle of $53,000,000. The gentleman, who declined the bet, was pro bable veiy prudent. The young are apt to exaggerate; they run in to those extremes either of misery or of happiness from which calmer and more experienced minds are free. Having once felt disappointment they eypect always to feel it—having once experienced sorrow, they expect always to expeiience it. Wnilst their hearts are bleeding under the bitter wound, they cannot look forward ; they have not learnt to raise their hearts beyond the storm ; they cannot lift their eyes to a further prospect, or submit in quiet cheerfulness. But another mo ment joy Mums, unexpected, welcome joy! and where is the gloom? Like the morning mist, which fades away under the bright, dispersing rays of the sun, all is vanished. All is now joy: there is no unhappiness in the world. It was a phantom—all is, all must be sunshine ; and so 5 outn feels, despairs, and trusts again ; by turns, <ll joy, all misery, all ho]»e. ijiiiiHii—ill iiinrm n T" — A collection was once taken at a hospital, where the plates weie handed round by the inva lids’ wivee and daughters. One of these young ladies was extiemeiy pretty, and a gentleman whispered to her, as he pul in four guineas, “ These are for your bright eyes.” The damsel ■ again held out her plate. ** What, more wan ted?” said the gentleman. ‘'Yes, sir,” replied she, “ I now want something for tne poor /” He was obliged to shell out. Greene’s. ! The following are from the Boston Post. They are rather old, it is true, but then they are so fun ) ny. • | You’re a fool,”'said a coxcomb one day to a clown And the answer he got was a qneer one ; ! “ Why, dang it ! you partly say true, I must own— h I ha n’t quite a fool, 1 be near one.” j A gentleman having a cook who could neither 1 ! read nor write, was very much surprised at seeing | her buy from an itinerant bookseller several large | volumes. On inquiry, Mary modestly confessed ; that she wished to improve in her kitchen busi | ness, and therefore, had bought Cook's voyages. The following is a chapter of Greene's , and a i very good one it is. too. Advice to young girls. —Never marry a boy whose mamma is afraid to have him goon the water, or whose papa cannot tell the difference between the toothache and the lockjaw, i Advice to young Men —Have it fairly under stood before you wed, whether you intend to j marry an individual or a whole family. Advice to parents. —Do not let a silly ambi | tion haza r d the happiness of your children, nor | your chagrin at the discoverv of your own folly | betray you into a violation of your obligations. Advice to indiscreet people. —Never hire a prin -1 ter to publish your folly in a hook, for it is worse than being hung ami paying the executioner forty : shillings. Advice to babies. —Remain with your mothers asjlong as you can, and do not gel married before ' you are out of leading strings. I Advice to Judges. —ln forming an opinion : keep both ears open, and then you can hear both ! sides. Advice to legislators. —Never become the cor j rupt tools of wealth. Advice to any one. who is pleased to receive it. I —ls you wish to stab a person’s reputation, by j imputing 10 him or her falsehood, treachery, and the meanest selfishness, you may as well use the nuked dagger as to wreath the blade with flow ers. Advice to sentimental people. —The noblest of all sentiment is that which springs from Sinceri ty Constancy, Frankness and forgiveness. Advice to merchants. —Advertise, if you would oe pros;*eroas ami happy. Advice to politicians, —Collect the Lets you | have made as soon as possible, pay those you j have lost without delay, and never be guilty of I such disreputable conduct again. Advice to the temperance party. —Offer a re : ward for the best model of a cider mill. Advice in fashionable people. —Do not require those in your employ to violate the Sabbath by ! their labor to enable you to give a gay eutertain ; ment on a particular evening, lest, you become I gtey in sin. Seiimoxs.— In the New York Sunday Mercu j ry, a popular writer called ‘Dow, Jr.’weekly ex- I horts its readers. They are quaint productions, j and have the air of novelty, as well as originality. I The following is a specimen. The moral is good, and the similitude is an easy and natural one.— | Troy Mail. “My friends, allow me to show you how the : human body is likened to a house Mv text ex plains this. It says that the big bones ate the main timbers; very true. It also says that the ribs are laths well plastered; but I should say they are rafters that ran into the ridge pole, or back bone. The mouth is the door, and the nose j is the chimney—especially for smokers. The | throat is the entry that leads to the kitchen of the ! stomach, where all sorts of food are cooked up; the lungs are the bellows that blows the flame of life, and keep the pot of existence always boiling the heart is the great chamber, where the greatest | variety of goods imaginable are stored; some good many bad, and a few rather middling. “In this way, my hearers, you see how’ the house ot the human body is formed ; and since it is a house of no small value, you ought to he careful of it; keep it well syvept, and never let cobwebs of sin gather in the corners of its apartments. 1 beseech you, especially, to IsoL after the great chamber of the heart, and ?ee that every thing there is arranged according to the very letter of morality. If there is any useless rubbish there | clear it out. to make room for goods that are i saleable in the markets of the virtuous. The ; chambers ot some hearts present an awful dirty appearance! I should like to walk into them i with a bran new broom; the way Id brush out t sin. and sand the floor with virtue, would be a ! caution to depravity !’’ _____ * | Ciukl Disappointment. —The following affecting story is copied from a late St. Joseph ( Fla.) paper.—Prepare to blow your noses girls A loving swain in this city, sorely smitten bv the charms of a young lady, having in vain at tempted to procure the consent of the hard-hearted father to their nupltals, arranged last night the preliminaries for an elopement. The lover, naving provided carriage ami escorts, went with a ladder to the house of the expecting fair OUf, ami, filtering a window, woke up, not his duld nea, hut a widow lady, who not having been pre viously consulted as to the flight, declined the night tramp, and gave the alarm. Our hero hau gone to the wrung room, and was compelled to abdicate, leaving the ladder for some more fortu nate gallant. A Visit to the Insane. The subjoined account of a “Visit to the In sane,” at the magnificent hospital, built by the city corporation on Blackwell s Island, is copied from the New York Observer, and will be read with interest: The gloomiest wilderness on earth is the how ling waste of ruined minds. buch was the melancholy and oppressive re flection that weighed on the heart, as we turner! away from the Insane Hospital on Blackwell’s Island near this city. It i s an institution where the lunatic poor of the city are supported, and in the midst of ali the painful sensations awa kened by a visit among them.it is grateful to the benevolent to know that they are made comforta ble here, and far more so than they have been at home or among their friends. Dr. ?»IcClel land, the assistant physician, is constantly with them devoting the energies of mind and body to the relief of the suffering, the arrangement and furniture of rooms, the convenience for bathing, the supply of suitable food, the attention of nur ses, &c. combine to surround the unhappy be ings here assembled with the few sources of com fort which a disordered intellect can enjoy. But what enjoym nt can there be id a shat- | tered mind 1 One of the first cases that present 1 ted itself and excited the sympathies of the pious heart was a man who with fettered hands was preaching to his companions as crazed as him self. He was an ignorant creature who had con ceived the idea cf being a “minister,” and study ing his Bible night and uay, and denying him wlfalmon entirely sleep, and food, and drink, had soon made wreck of the little intellect God had given him, and found himselfin a mad house instead of a pqjpit. Another was a female of fine figure and man ne. s. who fancied herself the lady of Gen. Wash ington. She demanded great respect from those who a.Wresaed her, and, spoke of the sweet com > * ’ ■ m,Jnion she had enjoyed w . ; i tr ne,i husbon<i ’ -he had I f I before we entered her room f dlo I ‘ . The next was V ictoria. a- ls B f hevmg something of the f -C ptK (.pictured with, had pone *j|j | ■ she was entitled to the throne, an j lhelde^ ih.i E S horses that would -on of Wr to convey her to the palace. be at One had been suddenly driven m m o the loss of property, and with solemn ** | that she was not deranged, she S f UraXiC « L ■ •«*» dcHve.aucc f* a C*** * kp • . met Another funded hew|,i,T • ! peated constantly, “devils, damned ” aQd *• P • | Dut aH these ‘ and many more in t hi« j i ment, were comparably q U ,et ln tfcf" • I 1 here was another building where adnesf - 1 1 lent are caged. We looked into a roomwh V ‘°’ ll r i dozen rai u c females, apparently at I r | each other, (is there sympathy amor.utU Wllil I • i l>ul reatJ v *° *eizeand tear a strangerflje H I he presented himself. One of them aB * ato « . j with a smiling face, as if glad l 0 , but it was only a pietence to got a victim neil(i ’ i j her grasp. Another mom contained L j me , H ’ ,H ,hr same sta ° e of this cental may™* 8 ’ : In one cell was a little girl who had 1 : | bee,, brought to this horrible condition hv l ' j P° wer L « f As we looked in upon J t { drew her beau instantly under the ctotheg nf!' ' j hea on whlch »he lay, but we could see that u t i I was w ntten on every feature. Bhe w» h t ; perpetually by the thought that some O T* . coming to kill her. and every sound that h! on her ear was the presage of coming l eat h I Another recoileo from the touch of a hand offered in kindness, and. with awful p ro ) I bid us begone. A female through the I I a cell door, spoke of love and marriage, and £!* I : her words did not meet a favorable ,es’pon ie *1 I : flew into a rage, ami heaped curse on curse those who sought to soothe her raving,. ’ I But the last case we shall mention, thonm, j there were more than two fund red patients - ’ the hospital, wus'the most horrible The wajli^ | of the damned in hell, as they gliaw j tongues with pain, can scercely he worse J | was coiled up in a heap of straw i a a corr)f ‘ ‘ her cell naked and shrieking. If clothing * ( given her. she would tear it into rags, andai : that kindness could do was to keep her warm and ' i si' e her f °od. There she lay, and every breach j vva e a piercing scream of agony in prayer’ I was scarcely possible to distinguish word. [ the tones were those of a devil lashed w I pions and crying for mercy. “Oh Lord, Oh L Lord,” would now and then rise with terrific 1 P°wer, above the prolonged howl, anu pierce ih, ► i heart of the hearer as “iron entering the «ou! 1 I , What was the cause of her madt.ess, ever? * De I asks. We know not. Conjecture in §uch now is useless. We left her, satisfied only wnfi j knowing that she is the most wretched being ifi st j we had ever seen. It was gratifying to learn that the gospel had been recently brought directly to bear upon these ■unfortunate beings. As raar-y of them a»iu | Prudent to assemble, are gathered in the hall on the Sabbath, and the soothing and precious truths the religion of Jesus are familiarly presented, The madman from the tembs, who had just lie fore been cutting hirasolf with stones, and «ho E * no man could tame, soon was seen sitting, doth- > cd and in nis right mind, at the feet of°lheS»- ; : vior God. And in these institutions where re- J ligious exercises have been for a length of time [employed, results happy and encouraging have | followed. Philosophy would teach us to expect | good from such means. j I lie treatment of the insane is a subject still in the infancy of its investigation. moral ist, the mental philosopher, the man of medical and physical science, may find in this subject* field tor anxious research. Humanity encour ages such a study, and he who erects one beacon by which a lost intellect may return from its wandering; he who pours one drop of oil on the raging waves ot a disordered mind, or ob« drop ot water on the parched tongue of a maniac’* ij spirit, has in his own bosom a rich reward. M AIM A E ENTEELfG J2JVCE. Savannah, December 14. Clear-d —ship Rowland, Iflanchard. N. Orleans % brig Eleanor, Jones, Baltimore; schr Lydia. Mills, Mobile; sclri Henry Franklin, Wright, Baltimore. Arrived —Br. barque Indefatigable, Lester,Liv erpool ; schr W. A. Caldwell, Hughes, Baltimore; | schr. Brilliant. Pittman, Marble Heaa ; steambotl j Chatham, Wood, Augusta ; steambat Despatch, • Hubbard, Augusta. Beluu. —A ship. H'ent to sea —ship Rowland, Blanchaid, Nef S Orleans; ship Robert Isaac Truman,Mobi.e; ship fl Hercules, Eld ridge, Boston ; brig Pandora, Tilling- . . hast, Boston ; brig Eleanor, Jones, Baltimore; sebf || Lydia, Mills. Mobile; schr Ea;le, Wiley, Havana; .|| schi Henry Franklin, Wright, Baltimore. Charleston, December 16. ! Arrived yesterday— line brig Chapman, Tbomp- I son, New Orleans; Br. schr \ ictoria, Young, **► 1 sau >(N- P-); schr Brilliant, Gilkey,Camden, (Maj I If ent to sen yesterday —ship Covington, Halt, M Liverpool. ‘ In the offing —A ship and barque. IIA it K ISO NNO n|\*A TIONS. judges of the inferior covet. Judge it. It. WARREN, Jud -e VALENTINE WALKER, ROBERT ALLfN, E<=q. JAMES HARPER, WILLIAM P. BEALE TAX collector. Rev. WM. KENNEDY. TAX RECEIVER. COSBY DICKINSON. OCT M e are authorized to announce FULCHER as a candidate for Tax Burke county, at tire ensuing election. ri XT M e aie authorised to announce DUGAS as a candidate for the ofliee of Receiver 0 Tax Returns. dec ■ dT’Chc t iiends of Captain M. P. STOVALL wl* ; . support him for the office of Colonel of the , f| Regiment, at the onsuin; election. ' f C’•A e are authorised to announce RObhßl’ A | WATKINS as a candidate for the office . | ( ollector ot Richmond county. de c , fry We are authorised lo announce i M. WALKER as a candidate for the office ol j ceiver of Tax Returns. dccjy, (XT W e are requested to announce BURCId as a candidate for tire office of of Tax Returns. dec (Ij 5 We are authorized to announce i MACLEAN as a candidate for the office oj | | ceiver of Tax Returns dec U 1 p-J House Faiutiug, Paper Haiigiuth and Gla** 11 *’* ii It . P . S PEL MA N, J r ‘ j Shop near the Upper Market, Broad-st., Augud QT ECONOMY, NEATNESS, AND DESPATCH dec 10 I \V . G . Nl.)lA|Oi COMMIS SI() N MEKI'HA NT. Office in the lower tenement Masonic Ha* 1 - nov 9 ts —- (XT Dr. IV. S. JOSES tenders his 9 services to the citizens of Augusta and ‘ ts U v or ti U He may he found at his re-ddence on the • side of Green second door below Mclntosh s or at the Chronicle and Sentinel office.— (XT' EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK—-^ I and at one to twenty days sight, for s f*f .;.n oct 23 GAKJteUK S KIiLW