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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL
AVGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18.
FOR CONGRESS.
HINES HOLT, Jr.
OF MUSCOGEE.
Election on First Monday in January.
Hampton Course.
As We anticipated, the race over this Course
yesterday was one of the most interesting that has
come off over either Course at the present meeting;
Indeed, it was the most exciting race of two heats
we have ever witnessed. The knowledge that
Boston, that conqueror of master spirits, would be
on the field, diew together a large concoaise. At
an early hour, the s.reet leading to the turf, was
crowded with anxious visitors, eager to witness
another trial of his unrivalled powers in a contest
with Omega and Santa Anna, both of whom were
admi led to have heels and bottom, that only yield
ed the palm of victory to bloods of the first water.
Tney, too, had their admirers, for they had last
week met on the Lafayette Course, and although
the Mexican was compelled to yield to the superior
speed of Omega on that occasion, they both reaped
a rich chaplet of laurels, which they were quite
willing to ri'k in a contest with a blood of the un
rivalled lame of their illustrious competitor.
Prior to starting the friends of Boston were
backing him at large odds, 5 to 1 against the field,
which were only taken in a few instances. At
the call they all came up to the stand, each appa
rently as eager for the contest as they were con
scious of what they were required to perform, and
at the tap of the drum they all got oit handsomely,
Omega having the track, Santa Anna second, and
Boston third. This position was m intained until
after they had turned the first quarter, when Bos
ton passed Santa Anna, who seemed quite dispos
ed to waive his pretensions, and took the beautiful
Omega in charge, but she seemed rather flirty and
did not permit him to approach too near; thus
the first, second, and third mile were passed, when
Gilpatrick finding that what was in Boston must be
brought out, he applied tae lash freely, with but
little effect as Omega continued to lead in one of
the most animated and spirit-stirring contests we
ever witnessed. For a time, after Boston, urged
br the power ol the lash, had made several despe
rate and ineffectual brushes, his friends became
alarmed for his well-earned fame, and the air was
rent with the shouts of the delighted friends of
Omega. Thus passed the first three quarters of
the fourth mile, when the renowned Gilpatrick,
never wearied in well doing, again thought with
the aid of the whip to bring his champion to the
brush, and he applied it faithfully. For a moment,
as they were rounding the last quarter, all was
hushed, the iriends of both fearing this last final
struggle. Boston yielded to the coaxing which
Gil applied so effectually, and, for the first time in
the heat, locked, and after a short but most ani
mated and desperate conflict, passed her and came
heme, leading her a length, in 7 m. 53 s.—Santa
Anna dropping just within the distance.
AUei the usua, time allowed for breathing, at
the call they all came up finely cooled off end ap
parent'y nothing worse, and quite anxious for
another display. At the tap of the drum, they
were off in fine style, Boston leading until they
had passed the fust quarter of a mile, when Ome
ga again passed up, locked, and took the lead from
Boston, who continued to retain a f osition imme
diately in her rear, and in advance of Santa Anna,
until they had reached the half way of the third
mile, they both challenged, and after a most vigor
our effort, the Mexican bore off the palm, taking
the lead in handsome style, while Boston seemed to
wait upon him very courteous'y at a short but re
ipectiul distance in his rear, near enough, how
ever, to watch his movements, and to avail himsell
o an y faux pis in his generalship. In this position
they entered the fourth and last mile, Santa Anna
running hard in hand, while Gilpatrick seemed to
be lecturing Boston on the virtue of whale-bone
and silk. Now came tne tug of war; and the
fiiends of Santa Anna highly elated at the evidence
which ne had given of his heels and game, now
emertained high hopes of winning the heat. On
the back stretch, Boston again challenged, but the
Mexican gallantly led the way into the third quar
ter, when Boston again yielding to the force of
Gil's peculiarly persuasive arguments, made an
other effort for the lead. Here was a scene of in
tense and thiilling interest—a sudden and deathlike
pause—a feeling silence, until they were mak
ing the last turn, when the multitude give vent to
their suspense with the shout, “Boston’s got him!”
and he entered the quarter stretch ahead, and led
home, beating Santa Anna a length, while Omega
modestly diopped within the distance stand, evi
dently desiring to be prepared for a third heat.
Time—7m, 495.
F ridav, 18th.—Mile heats—best 3in 5. Pursl
s3uu —$20 entrance.
S. VV. Shelton’s b. m. Virginia Robinson, 5 years
old—full sister of Target,—Riders dress fancy.
G. Edmundson, James Larr.pkin’s ch. f. Mary
Elizabeth, 4 years old, by Andrew, dam by Galla
tin, —Riders dress Buff.
W. R. Johnson’s b. h. Wonder, by Techicus,
dam by Rob Roy, 5 years old,—Riders dress Blue
Cap and Jacket.
The following gentlemen were elected Directors
of the Augusta Insurance & Banking Company on
Monday last, and at a subsequent meeting of the
Board, Wm. Harper, Esq., was unanimously re
elected President.
W. Harper, Robert Walton,
T. J. Parmelee, L. Chess,
J- Dav «. T. Richards,
J Hope, j. Coskeby.
R. D. Carmtchafl,
Mississippi.
Gen. M. E. De Graftenreid declines the nomina
tion for Governor of Mississippi on the Democratic
ticket. His reasons, some of them, (considering
the times,) are novel enough. For example—“l
have ever been of opinion, (says the General,) that
a man of nice sensibility ana correct political prin
ciples, could never submit to tne contemptible aits
of the demagogue, by which elections are frequent
ly canied. The habits of my life and the convic
tions of my understanding, forbid my engaging on
the arena ot a party warfare, upon which all sense
of 8«lf respect is too often sacrificed. I am no
adept in the arts of electioneering, and am from
principle, opposed to the whole system. I cou'd
not, if I were a candidate, do any tiling more than
give my views in writing on all those subjects,
both State and Federal, about which the people
might be supposed to feel any interest. Further
than this I could aot go. 5 *
Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sent'nel.
Milledoeville, Tuesday, £
9 o’clock, p. m., Dec. 15, 1840. S
The House nor the Senate has transacted much
business to-day, in consequence of the death of the
Hon. Horatio Webb, a member from the county
of Jackson. Mr. Webb was in usual health on
yesterday, and attended in his seat during the ses
sion, which continued some lime after night, with
out any indication of approaching disease ; or at
least without any complaint being made to those
who were with nim. Soon after adjournment, and
after he had retired from the House, and while in
conversation with some friends around the fireside,
he suddenly f died in speech, and instantly became
lifeless without any apparent cause, and without
the slightest struggle or pain.
Previous to the arnouncement of his death, the
House acted upon two bills of some im|>ortance,
and both in relation to theDsrisn Ranh. The first,
was me having for its object a direction to the
officers of the Central Bank, to take the notes of
the debtors of the Darien Bank well secured , &c.,
in the usual way as other notes in Hie Central
Bank, in lieu of the Darien Bank bills now in the
Central Bank. This bill was lost. The o'her,
provided for the repeal of ihe Darien Bank charter,
and the appointment of three commissioners, two
on the part of the State, and one on the part of the
Stockholders, to wind up the concern as speedily
as possible, which, after a good deal of discussion,
passed. A motion no doubt will be made to recon
! sider in the morning.
The Senate, while in session, was engaged in
nothing of much importance, except the bill of the
House, extending the time to take out grants in
the counties of originally Early, liwin, and Ap
pling. It prov des that those lands which shall
remain ungranted on the first of September next,
(I believe is the day,) shall revert to the State,
and may after that time, be granted to any indi
vidual who will pay a certain amount into the
Treasury, &c. The bill was passed after making
some amendments to it, as it came from the House.
Since the funeral of Mr. Webb, which took place
place this afternoon, both Houses are again holding
a night session ; doing nothing, however, but act
ing upon local matters, and reading bills the first
and second times. Amongst the local acts just
passed the House, is one to confirm to the City
Council of Augusta the purchase of the Bridges
across the Savannah River, at that place. This
was a bill liom the Senate, and has therefore now
passed both Houses.
A great deal of interest has been felt here to-day
to hear the response of his Excellency, the fiover
i nor, to the call upon him for the suggestion of some
“ plan of relief,” in accordance with the objects of
cl his message on yesterday. This icpiy was sent
| in at 7 o'clock tiiis evening, and it is too long, or I
would send you a copy. I will endeavor to do so
to morrow. There are but (luce points, however,
in the communication. The first is, that the Cen
tral Bank has not got the means, and cannot ex
tend relief. The second is, that it would be un
| constitutional to pass a law suspending the
j enforcemert of the col ection of judgments and
j executions, &,c., and therefore, there is no hope of
any such relief as that. The third, and only mode
I that his Excellency conceives of is, for the State
to borrow several millions of dollars, by giving her
bonds due at a future day, beating interest, &c.,
and depositing the amount in the Centra] Bank, to
be loaned out to the people. The matter was im
mediately refened to a select committee in the
House, consisting of Messrs. Toombs, Stiles, Stioud,
of Walton; Chappel, and Crawford, of Richmond.
I will keep you advised of the state of its pro
j gress.
The Presidents Message was received here to
day. IJ is idea of the prosperous state of the coun
try, and the rich abundance that every where
j rewards the “ labor of the husbandman,” and Gov.
j McDonald’s view of the “ unprecedented failure
of the Cotton crop,” illy comport together. The
truth is, Mr. Van Buren seems determined “ to
i walk in the foootsteps of his illustrious predeces
sor,” and even as he goes into retirement in the
face of the most extensively pervading pressure
and distress ever before witnessed in the country
i —the \*ork of his own doing—to proclaim, “I
| leave this great people free, prosperous , and nap
; py /**• Sed Satis. Yours, &c.
Hamilton.
Milledoeville, Dec. 15, 1840.
The Sena’e this morning passed a resolution that
they would meet at 9, A. M., 3, P. M., and 7, P.
M.,eacn day lor the balance of the session. They
then look up and passed, with amendments, the
bill, from the House of Representatives, to extend
the time for taking out grants for land in the coun
ties of (oiiginally) Early, Irwin, Appling, Hall,
Rabun, and Habersham. As ihe bill parsed the
Senate, the time is extended to the first Monday of
September, 1841. Then the lots ungranted revert
to the State, and any citizen of this State may take
out a grant in his own name on paying SI,OOO, —
which price is gradually reduced at specified pe
riods. There are some olher provisions, not ne
cessary to be stated now. The bill requiring the
Banks, in their semi-annual returns, to state the
largest amount due by any Director in the preced
ing six mouths, under the penalty of sso,ouo,was
laid on the table for the balance of the session by
a considerable majority.
In the afternoon, the members of the Senate at
tended the funeral of Mr. Webb, a Representative
from Jackson county, who died very suddenly last
night.
At seven o’clock this morning, we received the
relief message of his Excellency, which recom
mends the issue of State bonds, to be disposed ol
and the proceeds to be placed in the Central Bank
and loaned out. Comment is unnecessary. But 1
may ask, can bonds be disposed of for such a pur
pose, when we cannot dispose of bonds for the pur
pose of completing tne Western and Atlantic Rail
Road ? The message was referred to a select com
mittee, consisting of Messrs. Echols of W., Miller.
Calhoun, Bishop, Spencer, Bell, and Cox. A num
ber of local bills were passed. q
Attempt to set fire. —An attempt wa>
made, on Monday night last, to set fire to tht
dwelling of the Hon. Isaac E. Holmes, on East
Bay, near the Battery, by placing fire in one ul
he steeping apartments in the fourth story. No
discovery of the incendiary has been made. A
man was seen rushing from the house.— Char
leston Patriot.
Bank in Texas.—A correspondent of thr
\. Y. Sun, writing from Galveston, Texas, un
der date of 22d uit. says: “ A bank is just going
nto operation here, the charter for which wa.-
purchased by Messrs. McKinney & Williams,
ast year, the notes of which are to be redeem
ibie in Baltimore bank bills, $250,000 of which
arrived two weeks ago in the brig Ernprisar.o,
irom Baltimore. The design, I believe, is to mo
nopolize the cotton market of this couutiy.”—
VV bat does it meat V
i, . ,
From the N. O. Picayune of the 1 Ith.
Later from Matamoras.
Disgraceful Outrage.—The schr. South
erner. Capt. Gaylord, arrived yesterday morning
from Matamoras, bringing dates up to the Ist
instant.
One of the passengers informs us that the se
cond day out they spoke the Texian man-of-war
schr. San Antonio, Lieut. Moore, from Tampico
bound to Galveston. The San Antonio had
taken three Mexican vessels prizes and burnt
another—all valuable. The Texian Minister to
Mexico, who was returning to Texas with Lieut.
Moore, died on the passage, and a gentleman
who accompanies him was very sick.
The schr. Watchman, from ibis city, arrived
the same day the Southerner left.
The schr. Byron was loading at the Brasses
for this port, and the schr. Caroline, from Xevv
Vork, was discharging at the mouth so as to get
up.
The report of the capture of an American
sloop at Corpus Cnnsti by a launch, and the
murder of four of her men is confirmed. It
seems that the launch carried 16 men and was
commanded by a villain named Gonzales, who is
now at large. Gonzales had letters and was em
powered by the Mexican government to ticat with
Hibeaud and Thompson respecting their pardon
and return to the country. On arriving at the
bar no vessel was in sight, except the American
sloop which Gonzales boarded. While one of
the Mexicans was conversing with the mate,
Gonzales took affront at some remark the latter
made and run him through the body with a
sword, killing him instantly. The wretch then
ordered the sloop’s men, three in number, to ne
tied, taken on shore, and shot. Two of them
fell at the hrsl fire, and while the other was beg
ging for quarter, Gonzales ordered his ears to be
cut off! A second discharge ended his suffer
ings. The Mexicans pretend that the sloop was
on a smuggling expedition, but nothing can j s
tify such a diabolical outrage. Major Smith, the
American Consul at Matamoras, was investigat
ing the allair with the greatest vigilance.
From the Savannah Georgian of the 1 6th.
From Florida.
Capt. Smith, of the steamer Cincinnati, which
boat arrived yestarday from Black Creek, reports
that thirteen Indians, among whom were nine
warriors, came into Fort King three or four day.
■ since, and delivered their rifles to Col. Riley.
Shipwreck. —We also learn from Capt. S, that
, the schr. Globe, from Baltimore, with Govern
ment stores, was totally lost on St. Johns Bar on
or about the 6;h inst. Crew saved.
' (Tj’Since the above was in type, we have re
• cetved the following letters, which confirm the
statement of Cupt. Smith :
From our Correspondent.
Florida, Dec. 9.
Sir: Three warriors came in at Fort King a
, few days since, and agreeably to the General’s
• orders have been put under guard. They say
that Halleck Tustennuggee will return in a lew
days, but are unable to assign any reason fur his
abrupt departure during the progress of his re
• cent pretended treaty. The interpreters are all
, absent from Fort King, which may. in a manner,
account for the meagre news they have commu
nicated. An express has been despatched to the
General, who is now at Tampa.
B.j o’clock, P. M. t Dec. 9.
Sir: The express just arrived from Fort King
j says that thirteen Indians came in this morning
i and delivered up their arms to Col. Riley. They
! state there are many more to come in a lew days.
I will give you particulars by next express.
■
Hi nt's Merchants’ Magazine for Decern*
' i her, has been issued, and centains the usual va
-1 riety of interesting articles. We lake from this
number the following on the commercial value
of gems:
“The art of engraving the diamond was first
discovered about the year 1500, by Ambrosias
Carodo.-sa, who prepared for Pope Julian 11. the
figure of a patriarch.”
“ The art of cutting the diamond with its own
powder, was first discovered in 1746, by Lewis
Van Beraen,” but “it was not until the reign
of Louis XII. that the mode of culling the dia
mond in brilliants was invented.”
A very extensive sale of gems was made in
London in 1837. The sale amounted to about
230,000 paunds. A pair of ear-rings, formerly
the property of Queen Charlotte, brought fifty
live thousand dollars. The celebrated Xassauck
diamond was purchased at thirty-six thousand.
The crown jewels of Queen Victoria are esti
mated 1 11,000 pounds, or about half a million
of dollars.
Among the principal diamonds which are
• known to exist in Europe, may be named one in
the possession of the Grand Mogul, valued at
four millions of francs—or a little less than a
million of dollars. The Empress Catharine pos
sessed a diamond which was purchased of the
t Sultan of Persia for ninety thousand pounds,
and an annuity of four thousand. A single gem,
. belonging to the Austrian crown, is valued at
one hundred and nine thousand two hundred and
silty pounds, or about a half million of dollars.
• A diamond the crown jewels of France
• was valued, in 1791, at twelve millions of hvres,
( The largest diamond known to exist in the
, world is in the possession of the King of Por
■ tugal, and is valued at the enormous sum of
fifty-seven millions of pounds sterling, or about
two hundred and fifteen millions of dollars.”
Admirable Sentiment.—At the dinner
given to the members of the Electoral College,
by the Whigs of Albany, the following admira
ble sentiment was.offered by Gov. Reward:—
The liecent Election —it has conclusively
proved that the people are competent to the con
sideration of all questions afl’ecting their w elfare.
The universal acquicsence which has followed,
is a sublime demonstration that neither fraud nor
'orcc are necessary to secure obedience to tne
laws where reason is enlightened and suffrage
universal.
The Dead Alive,
A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.
The subjoined narrative, published in a late
number of Chambers ’ Journal , is stated to be
translated from a foreign newspaper. It is ne
cessary to remind the reader, that the island of
Vlaurit;us. appertaining to this day to the En
glish, was originaljy colonized by the French,
md that the population yet consists in a great
measure of persons of that nation, to whom, by
x formal treaty between the powers concerned,
he ancient laws and usages were preserved with
out any material alterations.
About ten or twelve months ago, the Sieur
Clodomir, a rich merchant of the island, was
found dead and frightfully disfigured in his own
nabilation. His bony was discovered lying on
the floor, with his head and face, mutilated by
neansof a pistol, and all doubt as to the cause
of the catastrophe was dispelled by the discovery
of the fatal weapon by the side of the corpse,
and also a paper in the handwriting of the de
ceased. This paper contained the following
words;—“l am ruined!—a villain has robbed
me of twenty-five thousand livres sterling; dis
honor must be my portion, and I cannot awan
or survive it. 1 leave to my wife the task oi
listributing among my creditors the means which
remain to us; and I pray that God, my friends,
md my enemies, may pardon my self-destruc
tion ! \et another minute, and I shall be in
eternity.
(Siged) Clodmir Fhknois.”
Great was the consternation caused by this tra
;ic event, which was the more ui.expec.eJ, as
-he loss alluded to in the note had never been
made public. The deceased had been held in
great esteem over the colony as a man ot strict
honor and probity, and was universally lament
ed. His attached widow, after endeavoring faith
fully to fulfil his last wishes, found her griet too
overpowering to permit her to mingle longer
with the world, and took the resolution of con
secrating her remaining days to the services of
religion. Two months after the sad end of her
husband she entered a convent, leaving to a
nephew of her late merchant, a physician, the
charge of completing the distribution ol the ef
fects of Frenois among his creditors.
A minute examination of the papers of the
defunct led to the discovery of the period at
which the unfortunate merchant had been rob
bed; and this period was found to correspond
with toe date of the disappearance of a man
named John Moon, long in the employment of
Frenois. Os this man, on whom suspicion not
unnaturally fell, nothing could be learned on in
quiry ; but shortly after the division of the late
merchant’s property. Moon re appeared in the
colony. When taken up and examined respect
ing the cause of his flight, he staled that he had
been sent by his master to France to recover cer
tain sums due to the merchant there, in which
mission he had been unsuccessful; and he fur
ther averred, that, if Clodomir Frenois, in his
existing correspondence, had thrown any inju
rious suspicion on him (Moon) the whole was
but a pretext to account for deficiencies, of wnich
the merchant himself was the sole cause and
author. This declaration, made by a man who
seemed to tear no inquiry, and whose worldly
circumstances remained to appearance the same
as they had ever been, had the effect of silencing,
if it did not satisfy, the exammators; and the af
fair soon fell, in a great measure, out of the pub
lic recoHeclion.
Things remained fora short time in this con
dm rn. when, one morning, Mr. Win. Burnett,
principal creditor of the lute Clodomir Fienois.
heard a knocking at his gale at a very early hour.
He called up one of his servants, who went down
and opened the door, and immediately returneu
with the intelligence that a stranger, who seem
ed desirous of keeping his person concealed
wished to speak with Mr. Burnett in priva e.
Mr. Burnett rose, threw on hrs dressing gown,
and descended to the parlor. He saw there a
strangei of a tall person, seated in an easy and
familiar attitude upon a sofa, with a number ol
the Morning Post in his hand. The back of the
visiter was turned to Mr. Burnett as lie entered.
Rather surprised to see a stranger conduct him
self so like an old friend of the house. Mr. Bur
nett said aloud, ** iMr, may I beg to know your
business with me.’ 1
The stranger turned round and advanced to
salute his host warmly and courteously. Mr.
Burnett started back and uttered a loud excla
mation of surprise and alarm. Well lie might
—for before his eyes stood his friend and debt
or, Clodomir Frenois. whom he had beheld near
ly a year before a mutilated corpse, and whom
he himself had followed to the grave.
What passed at that interview between Mr
Burnett and his strange visiter, remained for a
lime a secret. Mr. Burnett was observed to is
sue several times, pale and agitated, from Ins
dwi llmg, and to visit the magistrates charged
with the conduct of the criminal processes of the
colony. In the course of that day, while John
Moon was regaling himself with tea under tin
palm trees of his garden, along with a Circassian
female whom he had bought sometime previous
j ly. he was arrested and taken to pri-on by the
officers of justice. On the following day he was
brought before the criminal court, accused of rob
\ bing (he late Clodomir Frenois, the crime being
j conjoined with breach of trust and violence.
; Moon smiled at, the charge with ail the confi
! deuce of a man woo had notniug to fear. The
| judge having demanded of him it he confessed the
j crime, the accused replied that the charge was an
surd—that clear testimony was necessary to fix
; such a delict upon him ; and that, so fin from
j there being any such evidence, producible, neither
the widow of lhedccea?ed nor any one person
in his service, had ever heard the pretended rob
bery even once mentioned by Frenois during his
life.
•• Do you then affirm your innocence ?” repea
ted the judge gravely, aficr bearing all that the
other had to say.
“I will avouch my innocence,” replied Moon,
“even before the body of my late master, if that
be necessary.” [Such a thing often took place
under the old colonial law.]
“John Moon,’’said the Judge, in a voice bro
ken by some peculiar emotion ; “it is before your
late master that you will now have toasseit your
innocence; and may God make the truth ap
pear !”
A signal from the Judge accompanied these
w r ords, and immediately a door opened, and Clodo
mir Frenois, the supposed suicide, entered the
court. He advanced to the bar with a slow and
deliberate step, having his eye calmly but stemlv
fixed on the prisoner, his servant. A great sen
sation was caused in the court by his appearance.
Uttering shr.cEs of alarm and Horror, the females
present fled from the spot. The accused fell on
his knees n abject terror, and shuddeiing, con
fes-ed his guilt. For a lime no voice was heard
but his. However, as it became apparent that a
living man stood before the court, the advocate
gained courage to speak. He demanded that the
identity of the merchant be established, and the
mystery of his existence be explained. He said
that the court should not be biassed by what might
prove to be a mere accidental likeness between a
person living and one deceased ; and that such
avowal as tbatot the prisoner, extracted in a mo
ment of extraordinary ’error, was not to be held
of much weight. “Before neing admitted here
as accuser or witness.” continued the advocate,
addressing the resuscitated merchant, “prove wno
and what chance the tomb which so lately recei
ved your body, mangled by bullets, has given up
its tenant and restored you to the world in hte
and health.”
1 his firm appeal of the advocate, who contin
ued steadfast to his duty under circumstances
that would have closed the lips of most men, cal
led foith the following narrative from Clodomir
Frenois:—“My story may be soon told, audit
will suffice to establish my identity. When I
discovered the robbery committed by the accused,
he had fled from the island, and I speedily saw
that all attempts to retake him would prove fru t
less. I saw ruin and disgrace before me, and
came to the resolution of terminating my life be
fore the evil day came. On the night on which
this determination was formed, I was seated aione
in my private chamber. 1 had written the letter
which was fouud on my table, and nad loaded mv
pistol. This done, I prayed lor forgiveness from
my Maker for the act of despair I was about to
commit. The end of the pistol was at my head,
and my finger on the look, when a knock at the
outer door of the house startled me. I conceal
ed the weapon, and went to the door. A man en
tered whom I recognized to be the sexton of the
parish in which I lived. He bore a sack on his
shoulders, and in it the body of a man newly bu
ried, which was destined for my nephew, the phy
sician, then living with me. The scarcity of bo
dies tor dissection, as the court is aware, compels
those who are anxious to acquire skill in the me
dical profession to procure them by any possible
->ecret means. Tbe sexton was at fiist alarmed at
having met me. “Did my nephew request you
to bring this body V said I. -.No,’ replied the
man ; ‘but I know his anxiety to obtain one f r
lisseclion, and look it upon mo to come and offer
him this body. For mercy’s sake,’ continued the
-exton, ‘do not betray me, sir, or I shall lose my
situation, and my family’s bread.
“While the man was speaking, a strange idea
Mitered my mind, and brought to my despairing
boaonj hopes of continued life and recovered hon*
i or. I stood for a few moments absorbed in thought
t and then recollecting myself, I gave two pieces
■ of gold to the resurrectionist, the sum which he
• had expected. Telling him to keep his own
) counsel, that all would be well, I sent him away
' and carried the body to my cabinet. The whole
-of the household hud previously been sent out ot
f ! the way on purpose, and I had time to carry into
r execution the plan which had struck me. ihe
i body was fortunately of the the same stature as
; myself ami like me in complexion. I knew the
■ man ; he had been a poor offender, abandoned by
i his family. 4 Foor rehc of humanity !’ said 1
5 with tears in my eyes. 4 noth.ng which man can
tdo can now injure 7 hee ; yet pardon me it I rudely
■ disfigure thy hfelcss substance, it is to p.even!
1 the ruin of not one, but twenty families! And
» should success attend my attempt, I swear that
f thy children shall be my children ; nad when
t my own hour comes, we shad rest together in the
• tomb to which thou shall be borne belore me !’’
5 At this poition of the me-chant’s narrative,
■ the most lively interest was excited in tne court,
• and testiicd even by tears from many ofiheaudi
-1 ance. Frenois thus proceeded :—“I then shipped
■ off my clothes ami dressed the body in them. This
1 accomplished 1 took up the pistol, and with a hand
" mare reluctant than when I had applied it to my
» own person, I fired it ( lose to the head ot '.lie de
• ceased, and at once caused such a disfigurement
’ as rendered it impossible for the keenest eye to
1 detect the substitution which had been made,
i Choosing the plainest halvt 1 could get, I then
> dressed niysell anew, shaved off the whiskert
which I was accustomed to wear, and took other
; inea.,B to alter and disguise my appearance, in
• case of being subjected by any accident to the ’
■ risK of betrayal. Next morning found me on
■ board a French vessel on my way to a distant loud '
—the native country of my ancestors. The i
expectations which had led me to the execution \
» of this scheme were n>t disappointed. I knew
• that John Moon, the man who had robbed me and i
• who now stands at the bar of this court, had form* I
t ed connections in this island, which would pro- •
t baoly bring him back to it as soon as intelligence i
• of my death gave him the promise of security
.n this I have not been disappointed. 1 have been
equally fortunate in other respects.
. ‘"While my unworthy servant remained here
■ in imaginary safety. I have been successful in
I discovering the quarter in which, not daring at
1 first to betray here the appearance of wealth, he
had lodged tiie whole of the stolen rnonev. 1
■ have brought it with me, and also sufficient proof*.
• suf posing his confession of this day to beset aside
altogether, to convict him ot the crime with which
r he stands charged By the same means,” con
tinued Clodotnir Frenois. with a degree of honor*
’ able pride in which all who heard Him syrnpatlii
• sed, “will I be enabled to restore my family to
their place in society, and to redeem the creditol
! a name on which no blot was left by those who
• bore it before me, and which, please God, I shall
transmit unstained to my children and my child
i ren’s children.”
John Moon, whose guilt was thus suddenly and
strangely laid bare to the world, did not retract
1 ihe confession which he :ad made in the extrem
ity of his terror; and, without separating, the
■ court sentenced him to confinement lor life in the
prison of the colony.
" The news ol Clodomir Frenois'reappearance
spread rapidly, and the high esteem in which his
character was held led to an universal rejoicing
on the occasion. He was accompanied trmn the
court to his home by a dense multitude, who wol
corned him with pi dunged shouts. It would he
vain to attempt any description of the feelings ol
the wife, who thus saw res.orcd to her the beloved
being for whose sake she had quitted the world. I
She was released from her ecclesiastical vow-,and j
rejoined hr r husband, no more to part till the- |
grave really claimed one or other of them as its 1
due.
We notice in marriages i i the North
ampton Courier, that of M r. Elisha Wing, of Ash
field, to Mrs. Bathsheba Wing, of Hawley, his
fourth w ife, the tnird with whom he has lived
w ithin twenty-two months—after a courtship ol
twenty-two days, commencing forty eight hours
after the burial of his third !
•
Sq.ukf.zisg tiik Hash.—Squeezing the hand
with some persons is entirely equivalent to a de
claration ol love ; this is truly surprising. Wo
must pause—afraid to give it a squeeze, lest we
should burn our fingeis. Very fine, truly! Now
it was our ancient custom to squeeze every hand
vye got into our clutches, especially a fair one; ■
and the ladies may rest assured of this, that a
man who will not squeeze their hand when he gets j
hold of it does not deserve to have such a hand i
in his possession, and that he has a heart one hun- ,
ored limes smaller than the eye of a cambric nee- 1
die.
M A Rll\ EINT E ELI GENC E.
Savannah Dec. l(j.
Arrived —Br. barque Salem, Milf.id. Liverpool;
Hr barque Amanda, .Limerick, Ireland;,
Steamboat Hnmbuig, r.ould Augusts.
Sailed. —Brig 'I boosa, Powers, Havana ; Brig
Marv Ann, Curtis, Boston.
Departed. —Steamboat Chatham, Wood, Augus
ti; steamboat Hamburg, Gould, Augusta!
Charleston, Dec. 17.
Arrived yesterday.— Brig Octavi, Hoxie, New
Orleans.
Cleared. —Ship Birmingham, Robinson. Boston;
Brig Cionstadt, Hatch, Antwerp; Brig Ceres,
Blanchard, Mobile; Schr. Lake, Viual Hertford,
(N. C.)
Went to sra yesterday. —Line ship Sutton, Bark
man, New York; Line ship Lucas, EldiiJge, Bos- i
ton.
" 1 1 f \
JOHN. J . IS Y IIU ,
NOTARY public.
Will be thankful to his friend- for any part of bu
siness in the above line, which will be attended to
witn rectitude, Ac. oct 24
House Fainting,
Paper Hanging,
and Glazing.
R. P . SPELMAN, Jr.
Shop near the Upper Market, Broad-st., Augusta.
( Xj* economy, neatness, and despatch.
dec 10 ts
W . G . NIM MO .
COMMISSI O N M ERCHANT.
Office in the lower tenement Masonic Hall,
nov 9 ts
Off' Dr. W. S. JONES tenders his professional
services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity
He may le found at his residence on the Nortn
side of Green second door below Mclntosh street,
or at the Chronicle and Sentinel office.
CC7* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight,
and at one to twenty days For sale ov
oct 23 GARDELLE .x RHIND.
THE HEADING ROOJI
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and I
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock.
Subscription $-3 ; tor a firm or two or more $lO
KENTUCKY KMT SAXONY AND
MERINO WOO L SOCKS.
JUST received and tor sale by the subscribers,
200 pairs of fine Saxony and Merino WOOL
SOCKS, knit by the ladies of Kentucky,
dec la-dlw WM, H. CRANE & CO.
NO. 1 COT TON OSNABURGS.—A few bales
just received on consignment, and will be
sold low, by [dec .2-1 wj W. G. NLVIMO.
| $ FAl)\ MADE CLOTHING.—Just received
JUt a ,a, g e supply of W inter Clothing, compri
sing almost every article in our line, which are of
fered for sale low by J. D. CRANE & CO. i
00v d&w2m (
AIAaRIS °N Ao:»iiNATlONs^*
JUDGES OF THE INFERIOR COUR,
Judge B. H. WAKRFN -
Jud e VALEXTINF U’ATtrn„
Robert all in e I AUeRi
JAMES HARPER; fJ
WILLIAM P. BEALE*
tax cot! ectoe
Rev. WM. KENNEDY.
TAX RECEIVER.
I Cosby dickinson.
L °dec'l°7 „f Bu.bc county, at the «n.uin",£jj
„ r pT We are authorized to announce — 4
ILLCHER as a candidate for Tax CotV
Burke county, at the ensuing election. defuj?
a!e authonsed 10
HI (.An as a candidate for theollice of P '
Tax Returns. 1 Kt< *‘ver 0 f
— _ arc 15
C3"The friends of Captain M. p. STOV’AI
support him for the office of Colonel of
lb gimenf, at the ensuing elei tion ri ’ e
■ l2
QCT '♦' <* are authorised to announce
WATKIN- „ , candidate the XeofN
Collector of Richmond county. dec 14-y
au ' <»«iii™ieeiSS
M. W ALK ER as a candidate fur the office of d
ceiver ot Tax Returns.
dec U
1 nfQ'rv * :Ue r *“ qucste “ l( ‘ ai,nounce'^ £ n~
i UilU R as a cancidMe tor the office of «*•
: of’l ax Returns. ZT 1 ?
dec9- t f
i (£/' We are authorized to announce
j MACLEAN as a candidate lor the office oft
| " CIVCrof laX Relur,lS dec io «
DAVID A . V ASOJV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Palmyra, Lee county,Gt
| Will practice in the adjoining counties of the Ch*
; lalvooclice and Southern Circuits.
REFERENCES :
Col Zadock Jackson, y ,
Rev Jonathan Davis,y Calmyra, Ga.
Col. H. 1 ope, y
Hon. C. Dougherty,s Athens, Ga.
Col. A. Reese, i
Johnston & Robson,y * * auson , Ga.
J- W. Jones, Augusu. w4a«tl
AN DREW J. IIA ELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
,iOV 2 ' vtr Dalobnega,Ga.
W. 11. CUNNINGHAM, &
general commission meiu Hants,
° r t 31 Savannah, Ga. 2 e
JOHN R. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
j- vI7 J ClarkesviUe, Ga.
li. 11. OV’LK 11 v,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
feb 2.j Jefferson. Jack>on co,inly,G
AUGUSTUS K
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
septo-ly Madison Morgan county, Ga.
L. PENNEY,
MIN IAT U R E P A INTER,
Masonic Hall.
jns may be seen at his room, or at the Book
f 11. A. Richn.on 1. nov IS-trwlf
| A kN CONSIGNMENT—7I bags Rio and Cuba
! t iOFFEE just landing from boat, and for sale
Iby (dec 9 dlot HOPKINS & VTOVALt
ON • A INSIGNMEN V, 750 sacks LIVERPOOL
SALT, expected to arrive by boats this day.
for sale by HOPKINS S: STOVALL
d* ,p 17 lw I
'KJ EG ROES TO Hi RE.—Several Negroes for
tne next year, amoi>2 whom are House ser
vants, Draymen, Work Hands, men, women an£
half grown giris and boys. WM. BOSTWICK.
dec 17 3w*
MACON FUNDS WAT ED— Central, OcrruV
gee, Hawkmsville, Monioe Rail-!-oidßank
Notes, and Macon Ccitificates of at re
duced rates, by PECK & DEALING,
dec 17 2t Under Masonic Hill.
TYIMES FOR SALE.—Dimes and Half Dims
J[ f always on hand to suit purchasers,
i Also —American Gold. f>T sale by
PECK &: HEARING,
dec 17 1m Under Masonic Hill *
A DVANCES ON COTTON.—Libeial advance.
y\ made on shipments to
Livcipool,
lia\ re,
New-York,
Charleston, or
Savannah,
dec 16- trw2m by PECK & BEARING- 1
Ci HECKS AT SIGHT AND SHORT SIGHT s
) on New-York,
Boston,
Philadelphia,
Baltimoie,
Charleston,
Savannah,
Lexington, Ky.
/ Cinci’ nati,
Richmond,
Na-hville,
Mobil •,
New-Orleans j
For sa'.c at reduced rates bv
PECK & BEARING, |
doc 17 lw Old stand ur der .Masonic HM, |
I ’^TUTICE. —Will oe hired on the first
XNI of January next, at the lower market in w*’ I
city, if not previously hired, several NEGHdD* |
Also, 4 or 5 HORSES will be sold on the same
Persons wishing to hire, would co well tocalOj*
select for tiiemselves. The subscriber ®ay
found at Messrs. Austin & Co’>. Drug 1
doors below the Eagle & Phoenix HuttL m
dec 17-lrw2w " P. |
* ' " „ « qao I
CoCNCI L ClI AMBER, P ec - . 2] st |
ON motion Resolved, That Thuv’toy.t |
December, IS4O, be set apart as a a . |
Public "t 'lauksgiving. and that his * ,ono [ : OB ta I
Mayoi, be requested to issue his Piocla® 31 j
that effect.
Extract from the minutes.
S. H. OLIVER.Ce
In contormity with the foregoing Hesolu 1
Daniel Hook, Mayor of the city ot j 3V d ||
hereby set apart Thursday, the thirty-la* U
this month, a« a day of Public I hanksgi
Almighty God for again blessing our city IE
accustomed t;ooa health, and do also eaine? ■
commend all citizens to suspend their u= a c j ||
ne.-s and assemble in their lespective P jjH
worship, to render unto Him their united tn . ■
thanks for this great blessing, and to sU jpj I
continuance of Divine favor for our >• , I
Country. DANIEL HOOK, Mayors
Augusta, December 17, IS4O. I
INRESIi GARDEN SEED.—A Jll
' tensive assortment of fresh Ei»cu
den Seed always on hand, and suite-; o r-T|
preaching season, at wholesale or retJ. • ||
ders from merchants, Planters, and (due ,
ted with neatness and despatch. ...ivES. I
nov 30 w&trw GARVIN |
V DVANCES will be made, in Checks 1 ■
on Cotton consigned to our friends < n J .p I
ton. GARDELLb&R MK
nov 4 ts H
||J H
I' IME. —300 casks Lime, first si) j g
j good order, expected to arrive, wi
low from the wharf, by . niipiP. ||
oct 2S ts GARDELLE&Ri^i
g
J UST RECEIVED BY J. P- S ■
very rich domestic CO'l ION cV
additional supplies of Staple and ' a nprO r 'm
GOODS, which will be sold low l 0^ ca, 7 . uW .2ir' [
ed paper, d€C 1