Daily chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1837-1876, December 19, 1840, Image 2
CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19.
FOR CONGRESS.
HINES HOLT, Jr.
or MUSCOIJtK.
Election on First Monday in January.
The Mails*
Os the two mails due yesterday evening, but one
came; we are, therefore, without the regular let
ter of our Washington Correspondent, or any de
tails of the action of Congress ou Monday.
Hampton Course*
FRIDAY —FIFTH DAY.
Purse S3O0 —mile heats —best 3 in 5.
Col. W. R. Johnson’s b. h. Wonder, 11 1
J, Ltmkiti’s ch. f. Mary Elizabeth, 2 2 2
S. W. Shelton’s b.f. Virginia Robinson, 33 3
Time—l m. 53 s., 1 m, 65 s., Im. 53 s.
The New York correspondent of the National
Intelligencer, under date of the 10th inst, says:
The President’s Message and the Report ot the
Secretary of the Treasury have no sort of effect
upon the stock or any other market. The news
paper boys complain sadly, “nobody will buy,”
even for one cent.
Correspondence of the. Chronicle and Sentinel,
MiLtEDGEVILLK, Dec. 16.
In the Senate this morning, the bill of Senate,
which had passed the lower House with amend
ments, in relation to the purchase of the Bridges
across the Savannah river by the City Council of
Augusta. &c.. was taken up, and' the amendments
of tb* House concurred in. This bill confirms the
purchase of the Bridges, and the issue of Scrip in
payment for them; authorises Council to pass all
necessary ordinances in relation to the Bridges;
provides for the Mayor’s punishing offenders against
the City ordinances, reserving the right of appeal
to Council by the person charged; declares that
no member of the City Council shall be appointed
to any office by', or hold any contract under Coun
cil; and makes any person bolding, or interested
in any such office or contract, ineligible as a mem
ber of Council; fixes the sessions of tho Court of
Common Pleas on the second Mondays of February
and May, and third Mondays of July and October
in each year ; and exempts the members of the
Independent Fire Company (not to exceed thirty
in number,) from jury duty, &c. The bill only re
quires the signature of the Governor to become a
law; and it is to be hoped it will receive more at
tention than the one passed last year, which I learn
did not get to the Governor.
The Senate took up and passed a bill, which au
thorises the Banks to issue post notes, under the
restriction of being made payable before the first
of January, 1542, and expressing/mf/i/ and plainly
on the face of the bills the time of payment. Its
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passage by the House is not probable.
Messrs. Echols of W., Bell, Bishop, and Cox,
the majority of the select committee on the Go
vernor’s Relief Message, reported, in the afternoon,
a bill providing for the issue of State bonds for
$2,000,000, to be sold, the proceeds to be placed
in the Central Bank and loaned to the people. —
Messrs. Miller, Calhoun, and Spencer, the minori
ty ol the committee., made a counter report, de
claring the measure recommended by his Excel
lency to be inexpedient. Both reports were order
ed to be printed. I will send you copies as soon as
they can be had.
The Senate, at 7 o’clock, P. M., took up and
passed the bill to extend the lime for taking out
grants for lots drawn in all the Land Lotteries,
(except those in the counties of,
Irwin, Appling, Hall, Ralun and
which were provided for in an act
day,) until the first of October, IS4I ; after which
any person may takeout a grant in his own name,
for any lot not granted, upon paying the usual fees
and $2 00 per acre for the land.
The Senate also passed a bill in relation to wit
nesses and jurors ; by which an} person convicted
of any felony (with certain exceptions,) is dis
qualified from serving on the jury, and any per
son convicted of such an offence may be impeach
ed, ■when sworn as a witness, by proof of such
conviction, —the party relying on his testirnon}
being allowed to sustain his witness by proof of
his character for truth —the jury to judge of his
credibility.
The Senate also passed a bill to authorise the
clerks, sheriffs, and other officers of the counties
of Hancock, Oglethorpe, Newton, Morgan, Greene,
uud Taliaferro to advertise in one of the public
gazettes in Augusta, and the like officers of Troup
county to advertise in a gazette in Columbus.
The Senate passed the bill of the House, co
abolish the offices of Adjutant General and Assis
tant Adjutant General. Q.
MiLi.EDCEvn.r.E, Wednesday evening,?
December 16, 1840, §
The House has been engaged all day, (after dis
posing of the motions to reconsider,) until the night
session, upon the Tax Bill; and the result of the
days work has been the rejection of every measuie
offered upon that subject. The first was the re
port of the Committee on Finance, recommending
a revival of the act of 1S»04, with some slight
amendment, for which, as a substitute,was offered
a bill reviving the act of 1839, and directing all
the taxes raised under it to be paid into the Sta:e
Treasury, or at least, that none of the State tax,
ac it has been termed, should be retained by the
counties, as has been the case for several years
past. That was first rejected. And then the vote
can.e upon the bill offered by the committe, which
was also lost. Afterwards, the ad valorem system
was taken up—the bill for which had been laying
on the table for several days —for which Mr. Craw
ford, of Richmond, offered a substitute, and which
upon motion —to use a phrase rendered parliamen
tary by usage in the Georgia Legislature —was
laid “ on the table for the balance of the session.”
So, if none of these measures is reconsidered in
the morning, the people null have no complaint to
utter against the burthen of taxes imposed by this
Legislature. A motion to reconsider may prevail,
but I very much doubt the ultimate success of any
measure for taxation; certainly any increas.ng
' the taxes. And though this course, at first view,
may appear strange in the present embarrassments
of the State, yet upon reflection, it seems not la be
so indefensible after all; for it is certainly utterly
useless to attempt to relieve those embarrassments
by levying taxes from the people, to be thrown
into the Central Bank for distribution, or which is
the same thing, to be applied to the payment of
the expenses of Government, while other funds of
the State ahead,? collected —oral least raised from
the people —are left to be squandered in that in
stitution.
The House, this morning reconsidered the bill
which passed yesterday, for the repeal of the char
ter of the Darien Bank, &c.
In the Senate, to-day, a bill passed for the ex
tension es the time to take out grants to land in
the Cherokee country. The extended time I be
lieve is until the first of October next. A bill
passed that body also, for the icpeal of the act now
in force, prohibiting the issue of Post Notes by the
Banks. This is a measure of importance, and called
forth some discussion ; and probably more will be
had in the morning, on a motion to reconsidei. If
there is no reconsideration of the tax measure in
the morning, both Houses may adjourn on Satur
day.
The special committee, to whom was referred
the Governor’s Message, suggesting “ a plan of re
lief,” have not yet reported; but there seems to
be very little disposition, as far as is discoverable, to
entertain any such project. Whether the Gover
nor’s fsiends, however, will “ back him ” in this
plan, time must disclose. If such a couise should
be taken by them, and the Governors views should
be attempted to be carried out, of course the ad
journment will not take place this week.
The College Bill was supplanted in its order by
the consideration of the weightier matter of the
tax laws. To-morrow comes the tug of war upon
that question, 44 prehaps /”
Yours, &c. Hamilton.
From the Savannah Republican.
Late from Florida.
’ By the steam packet Charles Downing f, Capt.
Dent, arrived last night from St. Augustine, we
i are in possession of the JVews $ Herald of Friuay
: last we subjoin extracts, but the news is not im
; portant.
The U. S. schr. Flirt , arrived here on Friday
last from Philadelphia, bound on a cruize South.
The following officers are attached to her :
1 J. T. McLaughlin, Lieut. Commanding,
i Wm. S. Drayton, Acting Lieut.
T. T. Sloan, Ist Lieut. Marines.
[ G. R. Wilson, 2d Lieut. Jo.
J. H. Hopkinson, Assistant Surgeon.
M. Marine. H. L. Chapman, C. St. Geo. No
land, E. Jenkins, N. R. McKinney, A. Harral,
and M. C. Watkins, Passed Midshipmen.
J. Marshall, Captain’s Clerk.— News.
Fort King.— We are informed that some ten
or fifteen Indians (whether “men, women or child
ren,” we have not learned,) have come in to this
post, and agreeably to orders, have been detained.
—lb.
One hundred and seventy Recruits, intended
for 3d Artillery, arrived here on monday last.—
Thirty-five arrived at Fort Searle on the same
dav. The following officers accompanied them :
—Maj ors McClintock and Childs, Lieutenants
Rragg, Wyse. Gilham, Van Vleit, Thomas, and
Assistant Surgeon Barnes.— lb.
J. B. Peyton, and V. H. Lcindenbcrger, late
r 2d Lieutenants of the 3d Infantry, U. S. Ariny,
have been dropped from the service.— lb.
Col. Harney —No man can see Col. Harney
1 without admiring the soldier, the citizen, and the
man. He has gone South with twenty picked
i men, armed with patent rifles, and will collect as
• many more men as can he spared from the South-
ern pests, and proceed with canoe* into the Ever
glades. A re-captured negro has promised to
guide to a settlement of seventy Indians.
We hope the Colonel’s untiring zeal may not
' be frustrated this time ; and we also hope to see
■ the day when hischivalric daring may be directed
to higher purposes.— Herald.
We learn from Lieut. Boyd, 3d Arl’y. that
Indian tracks were seen a few days ago, on the
narrow point of land, two miles south of his post,
Fort Lauderdale, where they have never before
been seen since the war commenced.— lb.
From the Savannah Republican.
Signs of the Times.
While the great civil revolution of 1840 has
been going on by which the spoils dynasty has
been spoiled, and Gen. Harrison elected to carry
out the reforms demanded by a whole people,
another noiseless hut not loss potent element of
political power has been at work. We mean that
exhibited by the decennial census of the United
States. The census itself is not an clement ol
power, hut it shows where nature. Providence,
and the force of circumstances have cost that
power.
The Constitution of the United States was ter
med for the old thirteen, but it was framed wheth
er designedly or not with a wise foresight towards
prospective increase, both as to territory and pop
ulation, which seems to us at this day as indica
tive of the rarest political sagacity. The machine
works as well with twenty-six wheels as it did
with thirteen, and few human inventions will
bear thus to be enlarged and carried beyond its
original design, without throwing the whole ap
paratus from its balance. We say it works well
for the great mass of tho people, and for the great in
terest of progressive civilization and the advance
ment of civil liberty throughout the world ; but
other momentous questions now arise for the po
liticians of our day, which it becomes them well
to consider. Hitherto political horoscopes have
been cast by the juggling astrologers of our time
with and eye rather to thing.*/ as they have been
than as they are to he—to the past rather than
the future. Now however the stars (the twenty
six of our political galaxy we mean) have assu
med new positions and the fortunes of political
adventurers must he told anew.
For an age or two, Virginia seemed to be the
centre of our political system, partly from geo
graphical position and extent, but more from mor
al causes. Among these was the elevated and
chivalrous character of her first settlers. As long
as the old thirteen remained intact, her comman
ding position was also maintained, but now, as
the new census will soon show new elements ot
power are being marshalled, and Virginia no lon
ger culminates in the ascendant.
While the great Apalachian chain formed as it
were at once the boundary of our geographical
and political limits, Virginia was the centre of
our system ; but coeval with the departure ol
nearly all the old revolutionary sages and soldiers
is the departure of her power. A new race has
sprung up to supplant the old, and a new theatre
of action is just now about to be developed, so
wonderful in its magical growth and so vast in
its extent, that it may well confound the little po
liticians who manufacture public opinion to order.
Let our readers cast their eyes over the map of
the great valley of the Mississippi—and next over
the census of its population it comes in) and
then over the late vote for President ot the Uni
ted States, and they will quietly perceive, we hyra
bly think whither the sceptre of the old Domin
ion has departed.
No sagacious man can throw his eyes over that
vast region, however carelessly, without being
struck with its stupendous physical proportions,
and likewise with the vast moral and political pow
er which it is henceforth to wield throughout the
i future destinies of this country.
, Politicians may rave and rant and combine and
march and counter-march, but there have been,
. and are elements now at work, silent as the foot
steps of time, and full as sure, which will crush
their mousing schemes in their very inception. It
i will no longer be Southern combinations and
Northern combinations, but it will be the Great
West. She will swallow them both up, and
scarcely feel surfeit after the meal.
However mortifying to our sectional pride
such a contemplation may be, we may be as well
turn our eyes towards it at once, for as sure as
to-morrow’s sun, thitherward is the future seat
and source of power in the United States.
This conclusion will the more readily be ad
mitted, when we look also at the moral power
which has been silently growing up to such col
lossal maturity, while we have been dreaming of
Old Dominions —and Southern conventions and
nullification and what not] Do our readers know
that Kentucky has mere Colleges than any Stale
* in the Union] Let this starling fact open their
eyes to the growing importance ©f this immense
empire. The eminence of her sons in the forum,
the Pulpit and Senate may also rival those of any
other State in the Union, or any country on earth.
1 and as a whole, she is decidedly the most intelli
* gent of the whole twenty-six. Then look at that
, young giant, stretching from the 38th degree ot
north latitude to the southern borders of Lake
* Erie, and which has just had the distinguished
honor of commencing the Western dynasty by
1 the elevation of one of her sons to the Presiden
l cy. While these silent and great events have
1 been progression to their fulfilment, Georgia,
thank God, has not been idle. She has been
stretching a gigantic iron arm across the country
to meet the embrace of this new foster sister, and
with a wisdom and foresight in its direction wor
! thy of all praise.
i She has the advantage of tapping tho valley
far down the stream, and almost at the termina
tion of the Apalachian barrier, and when the fu
ture shall be fully laid open and our intercourse
matured, she will be brought almost within the
embrace of the West. Her interest are now ami
henceforth essentially connected with the West,
both politically and commercially :
Mu. Clay.—The Spy in Wasington says ‘-it
is understeod that Mr. Clat will accept of no
appointment from the news administration, at
home or abroad. On this point he is inflexible.”
The Richmond Whig adds—
“ln this, Mr. Clay but acts up to the universal
expectations of his friends, and the dignity of his
fame and position He neither requires the
emoluments of office, nor any accession of reputa
tion which a subordinate station can bring. There
are younger men enough of commanding talen s,
whose shoulders can belter bear the weight and
drudgery of official station.”
The Senate the Sheet Anchor of the Con
stitution. —Our Senate has again assumed its
1 constitutional attitude, and exercised its conserva
’ tive virtue. The Anti-Bank Bill, or bill to make
i suspension of specie payments work a forfeiture
of Bank Charters, has been rejected by that body.
C harleston Courier.
Jokin , —A down east editor asks his subscri
bers to pay up, that he may play a similar joke up
, on his creditors. We like to sec a good joke go
round.
Keep out of Debt. —Let every young man
' and youth read the following ;
“ Os what a hideous progeny of ill is debt the
father! What lies, what meanness, what inva
! sions on self-respect, what cares, what double
dealing! How, in due season, will it carve the
frank, open face into wrinkles—how, like a
knife, ’twill stab the honest heart. And then its
transformation ! How it has been known to
! change a goodly face into a mask of brass; the
man into a callous trickster ! A freedom from
1 debt, and what nourishing sweetness may be
found in water; what loothsomeness in a dry
crust; what ambrosial nourishment in a hard
' egg. Be sure of it, he who dines out of debt,
though his meal be a biscuit and an onion, dines
1 in “The Apollo.” And then for raiment —what
; warmth in a threadbare coat, if the tailor’s re
ceipt be in the pocket; what Tyrian purple in
the faded waistcoast, the vest not owed for; how
glossy the well worn hat if it covers not the ach
*■ mg head of a debtor!
Next, the home sweets, the out-door recrea
’ tion of a free man. The street door knocker
i falls not a knell on his heart; the foot on the
staircase, though he live on the third pair, sends
no spasms through his anatomy; at the tap at
his door, he can crow forth, ‘ come in,’ and his
pulse still beat healthfully, his heart sinks not
i into his bowels. See him abroad ! riow confi
s dentlv, yet how pleasantly he takes the street;
r how he returns look for look with any passen
ger ; how he saunters, now. meeting an acquaint
s ance, he stands and gossips! But then, this
t man knows no debt—debt, that easts a drug into
| the richest wine; that makes the food ot the
f gods unwholesome, indigestible; that sprinkles
the banquets of Luculles with ashes, soot in the
f soup of an emperor; debt, that like the moth,
makes valueless furs and velvets, enclosing the
, i wearer in a fastening prison, (the shirt of Nes
. ! su» was a shirt not paid for;) debt, that writes
. upon tLa frescoed walls tho hand-writing ot the
, attorney, that puts a voice of terror in the knocker;
. that makes the heart at the haunted fire
> sides; debt, the invisible demon that walks abroad
i with a man ; now quickening his steps, now i)iak
[ ing him look on all sides like a hunted beast, and
. bringing to his face the ashy hue of death, as
. the unconscious passenger looks glancy upon
1 him ! Poverty, is a bitter (draught, vet may, and
. j sometimes with advantage be gulphcd down.
. I Though (he drinker make wry faces, there may,
( after all, be a wholesome goodness in the cup.
. But debt, however courteously it be ollered, is the
[ cup of a syren, .and the wine, spiced and deli
-5 | cious though it be, an eating poison. Ihe man
3 out of debt, though with a flaw in Ins jerkin, a
! j crack in his shoe leather, and a hole in his hat,
i 1 is still the son of liberty, free as the singing lark
. ; above him ; but the debtor, though clothed in the
. utmost bravery, what is he but a sell upon a
; holiday, a slave to be reclaimed at any instant by
i his owner, the creditor]
. ; My son, if poor, see wine in the running
. | spring; let thy mouth water at a last week’s
. j roll; think a threadbare coat the only wear; and
] | acknowledge a whitewashed garret the fittest
r j housing place for a gentleruar;. Do this ami flee
’ i debt. So shall thy heart be at pea&e, and the
f ; sheriff be confounded.”
H •.
LiTEUArti Statistics. —In the library of
Mr. Rogers, the post, at his house in St. James
t Place, London, is the original agreement between
1 Milton and his publisher, feamuui Symons, in
f 1666, for the copyright of “ Paradise Lost. It
f is written on one page of foolscap, signed by the
s contracting parties, and witnessed by “ John
5 Fisher,” and “ Benjamin Greene, servant to Mr.
3 Milton." The autograph of the poet, notwith
-5 standing his blindness, is remarkably regular
1 and distinct. This interesting relic, we need
* hardly say, is carefully preserved by its distin
* guished owner: it is framed and glazed, and oc
-1 copies a prominent place on the walls o* the ,
r classical and hospitable mansion of the I oet of
3 Memory. Mr. Rogers, we believe, gave seventy
* guineas for this ielfc ! For the poem itself Mil
* ton received ten pounds, jjve being paid in ad
■ T.ance, and the other five at the expiration of two
years, when 1300 copies had been sold. For
t .each ediUoi,, {riot exceeding 1500 copies, live
I pounds were to be pgid ; hut in seven years the
>, poet died, and the widow disposed ol all her
- “ right, title, and interest” in ,the F.? r k for an ad
-13 ditional sum of eleven pounds. Thus tits whole
i copyright of “ Paradise Lost” brought to the an;
I. thor and f)i s family seventeen pounds, and the
, bit of paper on wjijch the agreement was written
* was sold and eagerly purchased for seventy
i guineas] Milton was more than fifty years of
t age, blind, infirm and solitary, when he began thf
I composition o i his great epic. At a similar ad
vanced period of life, Bir Walter Scott, struck
with misfortune, entered into an engagement to
liquidate, by his literary exertions, a debt of
Milton rested his long cherished
hopes of lest ng fame upon the work thus late
begun ; Scott staked his character and repuiu
tation upon the fulfilment of his last engage
ment. Both entered with characteristic ardor
upon their tasks, and, amid the pressure of in
creasing age and infirmity, never lost sight ot
their anticipated reward. In seven years, Milton
completed his uivine poem, and held in his hand
his passport to immoitality. In seven years,
Bcott had paid all but one-sixth of his enor
mous load of debt. The prize was within view,
independence seemed almost in his grasp ; but
he had overtasked his strength, and disease, soon
to be followed by death, came like an armed man;
soon closed the superhuman struggle. When
will the annals of literature record again two such
instances of heroic determination, under such
adverse circumstances, united to the highest crea
live genius, and crowned with such marvelloes
results] —lnverness Courier.
Marriage Extraohdin ary.—lt appears friom
the following from an English paper, that extra
ordinary marriages take, place in that country
sometimes as well as this ;
Ok Monday se’night, a young man presented
himself at the Baptist Chapel, Cardifl, in com
pany with a female, whom he wished to take unto
himself for “better or worse.” They were soon
made happy by the deputy registar, and trudged
away with light hearts and light purses. In the
course of the day some inquiries were naturally
made as to where the parlies came from, and who
they were, it turned out that the bride and
bridegroom stood, before their marriage, in the re
lative position of step-mother and step-son. What
makes the case more remarkable is the fact, that
the bride is the mother of two children by the
bridegroom’s father, who was drowned some time
ago in the river Ely. One of the children was
heard to say to a neighbor on the following morn
ing that he had got a “father again,” when upen
being asked who he was, he answered, “'Tom my
brother.” —South Wales Advertiser.
Poverty Struck.—The Delaware County
Republican states that Governor Porter refuses to
issue his proclamation offeiing a reward for the
person or persons who murdered William Hope,
on the grounds of the great scarcity of money
at present in tne State Treasury.
The Devil’s Clock.
BY THE AUTHOR OF A “MARRIAGE ON THE
EVE OF BATTLE.”
The town of Her inghausen, not a hundred
miles from Frankfort, is one of the most pictur
esquely antique :n Germany, and contains about
twelve thousand inhabitants. I like to prepare
my readers with a tolerable idea of the locality
wherein the events narrated transpire —for then
I may hope to impress them with at least a two
fold sympathy in my dramatis persona. The
streets in which Herr Bomgarten had his resi
dence was among the oldest in the town afore
said. and his residence, the oldest in it. He was
himself, also, a high-dried piece of antiquity, usu
ally enveloped in a cloud of smoke from sunrise
to sunset, except only when bis fair daughter set
beside him at their evening meal and talked over
the affair of the day. On such occasions he
would narrate incidents in his progress through
life, and dwell upon the difficulties attendant up
on acquiring the independence which they then
enjoyed. He had one passion in excess—an in
tense love of music; and had at one time
no mean proficient on the violin. At the festi
vals held periodically in all the principal German
towns, his judgment was appealed to; and, in
deed no meeting of the kind was considered com
plete if he, by chance, were absent. It may,
therefore, naturally be inferred that his daughter
had been early instructed in the elements of the
art; and at nineteen she was" a pianiste of con
sidcraole attainments. These circumstances
formed the basis of a desire which become stron
ger with his years, ami which confirmed a re
solve that she should wed one of the most ac
complished musicians of the age. They saw
that when all other passions die, ambition sur
vives, and acquires a force proportioned to its sol
itariness and singleness of aim. Certain it is,
that out of the many suitors whom the beauty
and gentleness of disposition of Azalia attracted
to the domicile of Herr Bomgarten, not one (so
scrupulous was he on the score of musical per
fection) was permitted by him to continue his
visits. Anxiety for the fulfiment of a hope be
ing usually in proportion to its strength, her sire
as the young lady approached twenty-one, began
to experience a dread that he might not live to
see her settled. This preyed upon his spirits
deeply, and urged him to publish, as widely as
possible, his intentions. To that end he invited
to his house, on a certain day, all the class-mu
sical who chose to compete for his daughter, de
claring that at midnight he would decide on the
claims of the aspirants. Now, it is necessary I
should inform my readers that in the grand apart
ment in Herr Bomgarten s mansion there was a
piece of furniture supposed to have been fabrica
ted by a Hugarian musician, and which exhibited
so much of apparent wilfulness that it had been
denominated by common consent the Devil’s
Clock.
This time-keeping edifice struck all manner of
hours in all manner of ways; hut whatever might
lie its vagaries, was always true to the solemn
“ twelve” of midnight; so that Herr Bomgar
ten, not without reason, fixed upon that hour to
decide his long cherished scheme.
The day at length arrived ; and it may he im
agined that not a little prepartion had been made.
The pianoforte [one of Korncr’s latest improve
ments] was placed under a mirror of immense
size, and exactly opposite to the [fatal] clock.
Azalia was dressed in a holiday suit, and look
ed lovelier than usual; and from this circum
stance her father augured a propitious finale. At
about eight o’clock in the evening the visitors
were all assembled ; and the players who ven
tured to offer themselves as competitors for so
beautiful and so rich a prize were four in num
ber. They severally sat down to the instrument,
and each appeared, more than his predecessor, to
astonish the audience; and it was generally im
agined that the last performer would be entitled
to become the fair girl’s husband. But ere Heir
Bomgarten had quite resolved in his own mind
the exact merits of each candidate another stood
beside the instrument, and, rather by signs than
words, indicated that he too, must try his skill.
The guests seemed extremely puzzled at this
singular apparition ; for up to that moment the
gentleman had not been observed in the room
at all! One or two persons, indeed, declared
that he had actually stepped from the clock-case
as the last player of the four concluded his Fan -
tasia! Be it as it may, he set down to the pi
ano, and produced—but it is wholly impossible to
describe the sensation. He now withered up the
hegrt with the intensity of his pathos; and a
gain enchanted the soul with multitudinous im
ages of delight. Then jyould he pour over the
imagination a storm of harmonies that exalted it
almost to frenzy, and anon subdued it to the
placidity of childhood. He was the man : yet,
who was he ! The question was a fearful one.
He was tgn.dsorae, but his aspect was singular
ly wild and melau"holly. He executed with
marvellous ease, hut his mind appeared [judging
from his eye] to be wandering over fields of
thought remote from that in which he was engag
ed. JJe rose. Herr Bomgarten sprang from his
seat, and would have embraced him, but was re
pelled by his peculiarly of mein. Few minutes
had he to decide, for midnight was at hand. As
to the pretty Azalia, she wore no expression save
only that of extreme pallor, and ot some internal
agitation ; but when the stranger, as the clock
struck ‘twelve.’ touched her hand to depart, she
rose at once, and without any apparent reluctance.
The most surprising part of the whole business
was ihia, —that the stranger, holding the hand of
the young lady, proceeded at once to the Devil’s
Clock, and, giving one melancholy glance at the
company, touched a spring and retired within its
case.
As the door closed on the fatal couple a mur
mur of horror ran through the assembled guests.
The unhappy father was so allected that he fain
ted away ; and as sensation returned he declared
that he repented him solely of having, as it were,
interfered with the decrees of Providence. “Ah!”
ho exclaimed, “would that I had selected some
honest youth among our neighbors, for her hus
band !—Carl von Muller, for instance —who lov
ed in return, and whom I drove from the house.”
Scarcely had he made this avowal when clock
ease again opened, and the stranger, stepping
from it, said, in a sepulchral voire, “Ityourduugh
ler, () man of ambitious views, were now mar
ried to Carl von Muller, would you give heryour
blessing?” “I would ! I would !” exclaimed the
old man, nobbing. “Then,” exclaimed the ap
parition, “come forth, ye happy pair!” At these
words, the door of the room opened, and Carl von
Muller and his lovely bride entered, approached
the master of the house, and knelt at his feet.
“.N ow,” said the stranger, “Jet me turn this gloom
1 into merriment.” My name is Mendelssohn, the 1
‘ composer ; 1 have just returned from Italy ; Jam |
1 the bosom friend ot Carl von Muller: that clock \
has a communication with the f’hurrh of St. j
J tuque ; [the choristers, who always set it right
1 at twelve at night, from some superstitious feel- ;
ing, play a variety of tricks with it by day ;] and '
I have been the means of doing an act of friend
- ship and of justice. As to the moral —hut no ; |
we will think of that some other time; for now, I
! it behoves us solely to he joyous,—and a merrier |
—a happier evening, was never spent in the good
* old town of Herringhausen.
COMMERCIAL.
latest dates from Liverpool, November 6
Latest dates from Havre, November 4
1 AUGUSTA MARK
Friday Evening, Dec. ]B, 1840.
Our Cotton market since our review of the 16th
inst. has been very firm, and full prices paidfoi all I
descriptions; we, theiefore, continue our figures |
without alteration. Extremes S i d9f cents, and .
for a choice article can be had. Cetton receipts j
still continue light for the seasen of the year. * |
Money is more easy. We find some of our Banks ;
are discounting bills on Savannah at 60 days, one
p cent, off, and in proportion for a snortertime.
Our river continues good for steamers of heavy
draught to arrive and depart with ease and de- I
. i
spatch.
Exchange —On New York, at sight, —(d 6 p 1
cent for current funds; Charleston (a) 5 p
ct; Savannah 2(d) 2$ pet-, Philadelphia 4(d 5 p
cent; Lexington,Ky. par (dip cent; Richmond 4 (d
5 p cent; Specie commands —d 4 p cent prem. |
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Banks, 1A d - p ct. prern. I
Columbus Insurance 8ank....4 (d - “ “
Commercial Bank, Macon, 4 (d - C£ “
Mechanics’," (Augusta,) s(d - “ “
Agency Brunswick," 5 (d - “ “ i
and Mechanics’ Bank,
Columbus, par (d - $ “ disc’nt. 1
Central Bank, 7 (d - “ “
Milledgeville Bank, par.
(4cmulgee Bank,
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 12£ (d - “ “
Hawkinsville Bank, ls(d- “ “
j Chattahoochie R. R.&B’k Co.. 1 (d - “ «•
| Darien Bank, 20 (d 25 “ “
■ Bank of Rome, 12£ (d
Union Bank, “ 50 (d - “
j Southern Trust Co. “ 30 (d - “ “
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
j
Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics* Bank, Insu
ranee Bank of Columbus, Commercial Bank of Ma I
con, anu Brunswick Agency in this city.
New York, Dec, 12, p. m.
f'otton. —The sales of the present week were
rather larger than those of the previous one, a
mounting up to noon of tnis day to about 4000
bales, of which, say 2200 were New Orleans and ,
Mobile at 9 d 11, and 1800 Upland and Florida at
8 d 10i cents. Prices have advanced during the }
week cent p lb. The market this morning is i
brisk, and the prices of yesterday aie fully main- j
lamed.
Flour. —At the close of last week the current
price for common brands canal w r as $4 87 j. This '
morning there is nunc to be had short of $5. thus I
establishing an advance for the week of cents j
p b»l. Southern Flour is dull of sale at $5 (d
$5 25 for Georgetown and Howard-street.
New Orleans, Dec. 12.
Remarks. —Since our last report a very fair bu
siness has been done in Cotton and Sugar, and
some articles of Western Produce have met with
a rather better demand, though most descriptions
! arc still dull, with unusually large stocks for the
season, and a downward tendency in prices.
Cotton. —Arrived since the Bth instant i f Lou
isiana and Mississippi 9541 bales, Tennessee and
North Alabama 226, Arkansas 502, Mobile ]J,
Texas 100, together, 10381 hales. Cleared in the
same time for Liverpool, 6069 bales Glasgow 1320.
New York 450, Philadelphia 303, together, 8142
hales —making an addition to stuck of 2239 bales,
and leaving on hand, inclusive of all on ship-board
not cleared on the 11th instant a 100335 bales.
In our review ol Wednesday morning last we I
quoted an advance of a quarter of a cent on all de
scriptions, but observed that tne demand at this
improvement was rather moderate, unless for the
better qualities. Since then, the market has ex
hibited a somewhat quiet appearance, in conse
quence of there having been but few operations
on European account, buttherc has, nevertheless,
been a very fair business going forward, as buyers
for our Northern manufactories have purchased
freely. The sales of Wednesday amounted to
SSGO bales, on Thursday to 4500, and yesterday to
3700 bales. Owing to the active inquiry which
has existed for qualities above middling fair, and
to the fact, also, of tiiesc being very scarce, hol
ders have been enabled to obtain full prices for
them ; but for the Middling grades, the market has
been a little easier, and, and in mo-t instances, the
sales have been effected at rates a fraction low r er,
to which our quotations will be found to conform.
Our highest rates for Louisiana and Mississippi
cottons, is 12 cents, which is the price for that de
scription usually denominated as ‘ good and fine,’
but we have to remark that “ fancy crops” will
command (d 13 cents. The sales during the
week amount to 19,000 bales, and lor the past three
12,000.
LIVERPOOL CASSIFICATION.
Louisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary 7 j (d
Middling, (dSs] Middling fair, — (d 9 ; Fair,
(d Good lair 10i (d 11; Good and fine, 12
(d —. Tennessee and North Ahbama —Ordinary,
—(d —; Middling, —(d —; Fair, ( a) ; Prime
(d — Average lists (d 8*; Choice crops,
Re
statement OF COTTON.
IS4O. Oct. 1. stock on hand bales 27911
Receipts last three days 10381
“ previ0u51y........205249 215C30
243541
Exports last three days 8142
previously 135064 143206
Stock on hand 190335
Sugar — Louisiana —The market continues ac
tive, at full prices. The sales of the last tiiree
days amount to some 600 io 700 hhds at 4£ (d 6cts.
with occasional small lots of very choice at 6A cts.
We have not beeu able to learn the particulars of
_ I
M A UINE IXTEI XFGENciT*
Arrivid— steamboa?ch«ham?\v^"j' t 17 '
Cleared ship St. Mark,
brig Augusta, Sawyer, West ladies i
Chase, ihomas, Havana Ur ’ I)at /
pea?"' S,a - Shi f St - Sl « k - Alexander, Liver.
Charleston, Dec 18
r.dn^r ay -- schr - virginh
York. he °& n Z ~ Une ship Catharine, Berry, New
Cleared.—Schr. Shy lock, Hall. Cuba; Stearin
Congarce, Eaton, Savannah. aujer
Went to sea yesterday.— Ship Rowrna
New Orleans; Ship Birmingham, Robinson, BosS
Bi. barque Medora, Harrison, Liverpool • u '
MobUe dt ’ llalCh ’ A " IWCrPi
HARRISON NO^INATj^VsT^
JUDGES OF THE INFERIOR COURT
Judge B. H. WARREN,
Jud e VALENTINE WALKFR
ROBERT ALLEN, E q ' ’
JAMES HARPER, Esq.
WILLIAM P. BEALE
TAX COLLECTOR.
Rev. WM. KENNEDY.
TAX RECEIVER.
j COSBY DICKINSON.
CIT W e are authorised to announce ENOCH H
CARS VS ELL, as a candidate for the offic of Tax
Collector of Burke county, at the ensuing election
dec 17 ® ulon -
XT We are authorized to announce JAMES \
: FULCHER as a candidate for Tax Collector for
Burke county, at the ensuing election, dec 15-2 t
iff We are'authorised to annouoce LEON p
DUGAS as a candidate for the oifice of Receiver of
Tax Returns. ]5
XT T,ie friends of Captain M. P. STOVALL will
support him for the office of Colonel of the 1 Oth
i Regiment, a‘the ensuing election. dec 12
XT TV e are authorised to announce ROBERT A.
WATKINS as a candidate for the office of Tax
; Collector of Richmond county. dec 14-td
We aic authorised to announce GEORGE
M. WALKER as a candidate for the office of Re
ceiver of Tax Returns, dec 12
(O’ W e are requested to announce JOSEPH
j BURCH as a candidate for the office of Receiver
j of Tax Returns. dec 9-ts
(X/* w*e are authorized to announce ANDREW
MACLEAN as a candidate for the office of Re
ceive! of Tax Returns dec 10 td
D A V 11) A . V A8 O \ ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Palmyra, Lee county, Ga,
1 Will practice in the adjoining counties of the Chat- i
i tahoochee and Southern Circuits.
REFERENCES :
Col Zadock Jackson, 4 „ .
Rev. Jonathan Davis,s Ga.
Col. H. Pope, >. _
Hon. C. Dougherty, 5 PnS> a ‘
Col. A. Reese, )
JoliLslon k Robson,s a^ISOn ’ a ‘
J. W. Jones, Augusta. w4m octl
ANDREW J. IE AX SELL,
ATTORNE Y AT LA W,
nov 25-ts Dalobnega.Ga.
W. IC. CUNNINGHAM, & Co.,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
oct 31 Savannah, Ga. 2m
JOHN fC. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Jyl7j Clarkesville, Ga.
B. 11. OVJBKBV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, G
AUGUSTUS R EES,
A I TOR NE Y AT LA W,
septs-ly Madison Morgan county, Ga.
JOH N . J . HYft D ,
NOTARY PUBLIC, j
\Vill be thankful to his friends for any part of bu- I
1 * sinesS in the above line, which will be attended to I
witn rectituae, Ac. oct 24 j
House Painting. I
Paper Hanging, I
and Glazing. J
ft. P.SPEL3I AN, J r. I
i shop near the Upper Market, Broad-st., Augostt I
(XT ECONOMY, NEATNESS, AND DESPATCH. I
doc 10 ts H
W . <4 . N 13131 O.
COMMISSION MERCHANT. (
Office in the lower tenement Masonic Hal!. |
nov 9 ts j
(Xf* Dr. W. S. JONES tenders his professional R
services to the- citizens of Augusta ami its vicinity ij
lie may be found at his residence on the Norm gg
side of Green second door below Mclntosh street, ■
or at the Chronicle and Sentinel office. B
Ojr* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK —At sight, H
and at one to twenty days sight, for sale by J
j oct 23 ' tiA R DELLK &HP 1i
Till: HEADING KOG3I
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, I
strangers introduced by them, every day and e Vf ‘ I
ning (Sunday evenings ex.ieptcd) until 9 o’clock. P
Subscription >5 ; for a firm of two or I
"VT EG ROES TO HlßE.—Several I
tnr* next year, among whom are Hou-*e >f r * I
vants, Lr..ymen, Work Hands, men, women K
half grown girls and boys. WM. BOSTWICK. I
dec 17 3w* I
tIHECKS AT SIGHT AND SHORT SIGHTB
J on New-York, j
Boston, I
Phi! side! phi a, I
Baltimore, * I
Charleston, I
Savannah, I
Lexington, Ky. I
Cincinnati, K
Richmond, I
Nashville, I
Mobile, ft
New-Orleah 5 - ■
For sale at reduced rates bv ■
PECK & BEARING, ■
dec 17 lw Old stand under Masonic
Council Chamber, Dec. 5, I
ON motion Resolved, That Thursday, ft
December, 1840, be set apart as a . ■
Public Thanksgiving, and that his H°n°r, ■
Mayor, be requested to issue his Pioclarna I
that elTect.
Extract from the minutes. „
S. H. OLIVER,
In conformity with ihe foregoing Resol uU j,
Daniel Hook, Mayor of the city ol ’ c f
hereby set apart Thursday, the Uiirty-Hi> y
this month, as a day of Public Thanksgt
Almighty God for again blessing our oil}
accustomed gooo health, and do also eailie^ L j
commend all citizens to suspend their us “ eS jl
ness and assemble in their icspective
worship, to render unto Him their unite iS
thanks for this great blessing, and to sU PP y
continuance of Divine favor lor our - I
Country. DANIEL HG.OJv, Mayor t - j
Augusta, December 17, 1840, i