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DOMESTIC ASIDE.
OR, TRUTH IN PARENTHESIS.
1 really take it very kind,
Tliis visit, Mrs. Skinnei !
1 have not seen yon su-h nn ape —
( The w retch has come lu dinner !;
Your daughters, too, what loves of girls.
What , r painters ea«els !
Corrie here ami ki-s the infant, dears -
(And give it p’rhaps the measles .)
Your charming boys, I see, are home,
From Reverend Mr. kui-selis;
Twas very kind to bring them hot
(What boots for my new brussels.)
What! little Clara left at home !
Well, now, 1 call that shabby :
I should' have lo\etl to ki>s her so—
(A flabby, dabby, hubby !)
And Mr. S., 1 hope he’s well,
Ah! though he lives so handy,
lie never now drops in to sup—
(The belter for our brandy !)
Come, take a seat—l long to hear
About Matilda’s marriage;
You’re come, of course, to spend the day—
(Thank lleav’n, I bear the carriage !)
What! most you go?—neat time I hope
You'll give me longer measure;
Jf av _J shall see yon down ihe stairs—
(With most uncommon pleasure)
Good-bye! good-bye! remember all,
Next time you’ll take your dinners !
(Now, David, mind 1 moot at homo
lu future to the Skinners!)
[From Graham's Magazine ]
the love dial.
BY C.IFT. G W. Fatten.
A dial in the twilight lay
Reflecting back pale evening’s ray,
When stealthily two lovers came,
And leaned beside its silent frame :
•‘Mute marker of the moments’ flight,
Oh dial, tell us of the night!”
But who might trace time’s tangled way
On dials dim wilh twilight gray ?
As brightly now the midnight moon
Rode o’er the starry arch of noun,
To learn the hour of eventide.
Again the youth and maiden sighed :
“Mute marker of the moments flight,
Oh ! dial, tell us of the night !”
But ’nealli Ute moon’s uncertain ray
The shadow pointed still astray'.
Unconscious how the moments flew,
(Hound by the spell which passion draw,)
Unto the dial’s line of shade,
Once more approached the youth ant! maid :
“Mute marker of the moments’ (light.
Oh ! dial, tell ns of the night !
When (how could night so fast have worn ?)
The tell tale shadow marked the morn.
And as they' watched the silv’ry face
Where day his hour began to trace,
In morning light, now strongly grown.
This motto o’er tite circle shown :
“When lovers meet at eventide.
Time marks not how the moments glide :
When lovers parr at rosy light
Time counts the ling’ring hours till night.”
[Fm»n the A T . O. Picayune . 19/a inst ■]
Further Jlcxicuu Items.
The papers of the capital speculate
much about Santa Anna’s chances of suc
cess against Taylor. They confess to
iheir superiority in mere numbers, but
claim that the Mexicans are worn nut by
fatigues and hardships, while the Ameri
cans have calmly prepared for the con
flict.
In regard to the hardships whick were
encountered by his troops, if all accounts
agree, they must have been severe. 7
Stagnant water sold at Matehuala at one
dollar a barrel. Soldiers frequently fell
overcome wilh fatigue and perished with
out shelter in the snow. Bitterly is the
Administration denounced for not having
raised means to mitigate their hardships.
All the credit of raising and supporting
the army is justly bestowed on Samal
Anna, and should he fail in his attack
upon Gen. Taylor, it would hardly shake
Ids authority with his countrymen.
A letter dated the 12th till., from San
Luis, says the army was compelled to
leave behind in that city a portion of its
artillery, for want of means of transpor
tation, but that it would be despatched in :
a few days agreeably to the orders left
by Santa Anna.
The Mexican Government has learned
jhrnugh its consul at Havana of the expe
dition of Gel)- Scott upon Vera Cruz.—
Troops were accordingly ordered by the
Government to march ai once from the
capito! to Vera Cruz, hut, as i.‘ chances, j
the body designated for this duty and j
which was to have moved on the 26th uti- !
der Canalizoand La Vega, was involved |
to a great extent in the revolt which broke I
out the following day.
We find an announcement that about j
the 20th ult,. by the renting or farming
of the mints, the Government had suc
ceeded in raising 8300,000 in cash, ono
third of which was despatched on the 23d
to the armv. ALre than half of the sum
thus raised was from the contract for the.
mint in the capito!, the contract being for
ten years.
The Government has begun to raise a
little rfionev out of the clergy. The sale
of a house belonging to the chnrch is men
tinned. It is said to he worth about 850.-
000, and it sold for 820,000, part in pa
per, part in cash. The potting in force
the law' against the property of the clergy
probably hurried on the insurrection
against Farias. The Secretary of the
Treasury, Senor Castillo, was dismissed I
from office #or refusing to sign the bill of
saU of the house mentioned.
We find another letter from Santa An-
Ba, dated the 17th ult., from San Salva
dor, in which he denounces what lie calls
ibe assassination by the invaders of twen
ly-six individuals, inhabitants of Agua
Nueva, who had taken refuge at the Ojo
cle Agua de Caiana. He makes ibis
charge on the authority ol Gen. Andrade,
wh o9o Setter he adds; and he says the
. .. j,i.Ttwww— mirirr” riMgarJxacmiMH i*
’ facts are confirmed from other sources. —
| Santa Anna bids tlie Secretary of War
i say 10 the Vice President that lie “will
i very soon lake satisfaction for the excess,
I committed by these men, which are an
! outrage to civilization and the human ;
j race.” Gen. Andrade says that, besides ,
I the twenty-six “assassinated, sixteen .
! were made prisoners, and that they were j
1 all peaceable citizens. There is,of course, 1
; exaggeration about this, but the truth will
hardly be cleared up till we receive des
patches from Gen. Taylor.
: We have come across a letter of Gen. j
Arista dated the 20:h ult., in the city of |
I Mexico. He defends himself vigorously
i from the aspersions of a paper called the
j Democrat. He thus speaks of the bat
i ties of the Bth and 9ih of May: “In re
j gard to the misfortunes of Palo Alto and j
La Ilesaca, I will tell them that I was I
not the author oftbem. A great calami- I
ty, without doubt, was the action of the ■
9th; but that of the Blli never brought j
disgrace on the Republic. At daybreak i
nn the 9th the Mexican soldiers saw the j
flag of the enemy dying more than a mile |
in the rear of the bloody field of action of
the day previous.’*
A list a asks a suspension of public opin
ion till lie can have his trial, winch he is
anxiously awaiting. He says he will
then explain the circumstances which led
to ihe disasters of La llesaca. He must
find some more substantial cief'nco than
the pretext that the Americans did not re
main master ofihe field at Palo Alio; nay,
that th<=*v did not drive the Mexicans from
their position and sleep upon the ground
occupied by the Mexicans in the morning.
Thcoiiorf liook'a Iloaxinj.
Hook called, and in the course ofcon
versation gave me an account of his go- i
ing to Lord Melville’s trial with a friend.
They went early, and wore engaged in
conversation when the peers began to
enter. At this moment a country-look
ing lady, whom he afterwards found to lie
: a resident at Rye, in Sussex, touched his
arm and said —“l beg you pardon, sir,
but prav who a'e those gentlemen in red
j now coming in?” “Those, arndam,” re- j
turned Theodore, “are the barons ol Eng- !
land: in these cases the junior peers ai- |
ways come first.” “Thank you, sir;
much obliged to you. Louisa, my dear,
{’turning to a girl of about fourteen] tell
Jane [about those are the barons of
England, and juniors (that’s the young
est. you know) always goes first. Tell
her to be sure and remember that when
we gel home.” “Doar me, ma!” ex
claimed Louisa, “can (hat gentleman he
one of the i/oungest? I arn sure he looks |
very oldl” Human nature could not
■ stand this: any one, though with no more
mischief in him than a dove, must have
i been excited to a hoax. “And pray, sir,”
j continued the lady, “what gentleman are
; these?” pointing to the bishops, who came
i next in order, in the dress which they
! wear on stale occasions, namely, the
| rochet and lawn sleeves over their doc
| tor’s robes. “Gentlemen, madam!” said
i Hook: “these are not gentlemen—they
are ladies, elderly ladies —the dowager
; peeresses in their own right.” The fair
inquirer fixed a penetrating glance upon
his countenance, saying as painty as the
| eye can say—“ Are you quizzing me or
1 no?” Not a muscle moved. At last,
tolerably well satisfied w ith her scrutiny,
j she turned round .and whispered—“Lou
j isa, dear, the gentleman says that these
1 are elderly la lies and dowagos peeresses
j in their ow n right. Tell Jane not to for
I get that.” All went on smoothly until
the Speaker of the House of Commons
attracted her attention l*v the rich cm- ‘
broidery of his robes. “Pray, sir,” said
: she “and who is that fine looking man op- ;
posite?” “That, madam, is Cardinal
Wolsev, xvas the answer. “No. sir,” ;
f cried the lady, drawing herself up, and
1 casting at her informant a look of angry
i disdain, “xve know a little bettor than
! that; Cordinal Wohsey has been dead |
■ many a good year!” “No such a thing, ;
j my dear madam, lassureyou,” replied :
Hook, with a gravity that must have
j been preternatural: “it has been, I know,
; so reported ir#ihe country, but without
• ihe least foundation; the fact 5», those
ra-cally newspapers will say anything.”
The good old gentlewoman appeared
thunder-struck, opened her eyes to their
full extent, and gasped like a dying carp,
vox faucibus hzosif, and seizing a dangh
| ter with each hand, she hurried fiorn the
spot without a word.
m
Decidedly Kich.
We have a friend —a bachelor friend—
i very fond of the society of the ladies, hut j
extremely modest 3 no diffident wuhnl—— i
A few evenin'*-? since he went to make a
call upon an acquaintance w ’j'° had re- |
cenfly taken to himse.’f a wife, young j
and beautiful and us a mai.'or of comse, ;
overflowing xviih affection f»r her bus- i
band—Now this lovely wife of a xveek, j
like all other young wives, could hardly
survive tite brief absence of her husband
for the discharge ot bis business; and al
ways on his return met him upon the
threhold and smothered him with kisses.
It so happened when our friend called,
that Iho husband xvas absent, but was
momentarily expected by the fond and
anxious wife. She heard his foot'd!! upon
(lie step, and supposing it to be her bus
band, rushed forth to meet him, and be
bad scarcely laid his baud on the bell
j pull, before the door flew open and bis
neck was encircnled by a pair of white
arms, and burning kisses fell thick and
fast upon bis lips and cheeks—while a
full anrl thobhing breast was strained to
his.—Here] xvas a trying situation for a
diffident man; end our friend came near
fainting on the spo*; but fortunately the
lady discovered her missake in time to
prevent such a melancholy event, and he
escaped from the bouse, more dead than
alive. The last we saw of him he was
leaning sgainst a tree, fanning himself
with his sombrero, in order to recover
strength to regain his lodgings.
Moral—Ladies should be careful how
th%y kiss gentlemen in the dark—as it
might he the means of causing serious in
jury to young genilemenl o! tender sen
sibilities.
Valuable Library.
Few would object to the bequest ofsuch
a “particular collection” of hooks as is
mentioned in a late number of the Courier
I des Flats Unis. The old king of Prussia
had all his private treasury of hank notes
| bound up into large volumes. He had
in the chateau of Berlin, a particular
cabinet called “The Private Library of
the King,” which cabinet w as filled with
i jrilt edged volumes upon the hackof which
I were these words—“ Memoire* posthumes
de S. M. 1c roi de Prussia a Vusage par.
liciilicr dc son fils.” “Posthumous pa
i pers of liis Ma jesty, the king of Prussia,
j for the par.icular use of his son.” After ;
*his death, the heir of the throne, a man
j of genius, but nothing more, squandeted,
this substance in less than six years. At
the present time, the “posthumous papers”
are completely exhausted, and in their
place the king has placed the works of
Frederick the Great. The library has
gained in ideas, but sadly depreciated in
market value.
Xf.i rroiih of Advice.
The following anecdote is told of Henry
Field'ng: “The t-on of one Boaz de Papa, a
celebrated Jew, was on the point of marrying
a young christian lady, Ins lather made no
objection to the intended wife’s religion, but
was greatly dissatisfied with the much on
account of her small fortune, in consequence
of which he refused his consent. Toe son
who was most, desperately in love, threaten
ed Il»e lather that lie would marry her with
out his consent —and the father in his turn,
! threatened that be would not give him a
I shilling. The young Jew answered that
I l.e would force him to do it, and that if
j he refused dividing his substance with him,
; ho would g< t lomself baptised to enjoy
the benefit of the English law, which, (then)
j assigned lo a Jew’s child becoming chris
| tian the half of his father’s property. —
j B>:iz confounded at tins answer, went to
i consult Fielding, to known if such a law
! lealiv existed. Fielding told him that it cer
| lainlv did exist, and was in lull force —but
| added, if lie would give him ten guineas lie
would put him in away of frustrating his
son’s hopes, so that he should not be ab e to
get a farthing. Boaz instantly told down the
len pnniea*. Fielding having pocketed the
i m >nev,t<> d him his only remedy was lo turn
| chibltau himsell!”
Tricking n Esim!t.
George Arnold, (remarks the facetious
! editor, Maj. Noah,) a well known wag, kept
a lottery office, for several years, in Broad
wav, opposite Masonic Hall. Wanting mo
ney, he was encouraged by Mr. Cheesebo
| rough. President of the Fulion Bank,tothrow
in h.s note for discount, which he d.<!, and it
was thrown out. 'i’he worthy Pres dent re
; gretted it, and advised George to throw in
| again on the ensuing di»coui)t day, which he
did, and they tossed it out. He tried it again,
and with no better success. At length lie
resolved to be even with them, and take a
little sly revenge. He placed up a placard
at his window —'•FuUon Sink notes taken at
j par for Ij< tilery-tickets!' F was soon buzz'd
f about the citv. ‘What is the matter with the
Fulton Bank’ was asked on all sides. At
i length the President called upon him. ‘Whv
George, what do you mean by that placard?’
‘Oh, nothing more than I will take Ful'on
Bank notes at par for lottery tickets. No
: harm in that.’ ‘Pray t ike it down, my good
j friend —it does no good: take it down, and
; von mav throw in that little piece of paper,
and it .-hall be done.’ George look down the
placard, and the note was discounted.
[prom the Athens Banner ]
I Freight* on Ihr Farmers torn,Floiir,Fro
riiiDiis, Cotlois, &ac.
Not the leai-t of the injurious effimts of a
protective tar If upon the interests of agricnl
{ lure, is the crippling of the slopping interests ,
bv high duties and consequent high prices
j for all the articles necessary for ihe con
strurtion and rigging of vessels—as well as
i the dimnnution of the amounlof imports of
! which they are the carriers.
I Our attention has I een drawn to this sub-
I jeef, by observing the enormous pric* l of
freights at the ports of New York and New
Orleans during the last month—cotton 2 cts.
per lb to Liverpool and II <vre —corn 50 to 60
cts. per bush.—flour §1,75 to $2,00 per bl.
| They would be a great deal lower under
j freedom from commercial restrictions.
We are aware, that the unusual and unex
pected demand for shipping, to transport sup
plies from this country to the starving mil
lions of Europe, is a large ingredient in the
price of freights wit h which our products are
bur'ened, and which must cmne out of the
profits of the producer, as surely as when an
up-country farmer h res a wagon to bring
his corn to Athens, tiie price paid mint, he
deducted from the value of his corn after it
| is sold in the market. Yet it cannot be de-
I nied, and lo this we wish to call the alien
j tion of the country, that but for the restric-
I live system upon our commerce and naviga
tion, which has weighed them down since
1524. a period of upwards of twenty years,
that ships for freighting the farmers produce
would have been more abundant—the pr ce
of freights less— and his ( rnfits to that extent
larereMhan they are at present. Give ns a
' rr ' M .vrv T foreign market for nnr corn and j
PK™sLs as well for onr COTTON, by tak
incr in EXCHANGE for them the products of
those who lake of ns. Give ns SHIPS to
pend our produce abroad.bv freeing the iron,
canvas and cnrda.-c of which they are buiii
and ringed—and the importations of foreign
merchandize, free from all taxation except
for purposes of mere revenue. Out upon this
policy of faxing the American farmer and
the American ship-owner, for the benefit of
the American manufacturer, under the plea
of protecting “A-m e-r-i-c-a n industry!”
microscopic.
The following Irom an article on the Micro
scope, gives an ilea of some of the wonders of
nature dUclosed bv that mstiument:
“.Vlanv, and probably all, white chalk rocks are
the produce of microscopic animalcules, which
are forthe most part quite invisible to the naked
eve. possessing calcareous shells, of which more
than one million are well preserved in each cubic
inch- that is, much more than ten millions in . ne
pound of chalk. The extreme minuteness ot
these chalk animalcules is strikingly proved by j
the fact, that, even in the finest levigated whiting,
multitudes of them are still present, and may be j
applied without suffering changes to the meat 1
varied purposes; thus, in the chalk coating given
to painted chambers, paper, or even glazed visit- j
ing cards, (when not coaled with whi'e lead
alone,) may be seen a prettv mosaic ot well pro- |
served moss-coral animalcule*, invisible to the
naked eve; and thus our natural vision receives
from such a surface the impression of the purest
white, little dreaming that it contains the (todies
of millions of beings which once enjoved life
beings of varied and beautiful forms, more or less
closely crowded together. Linnseus said, “All {
lime comes from worms” (omniscalx t termibvs.)
Now, we are led to think, whe her ail flint an I
all iron —consequently, the three principal com
ponent partsofthe earth —do not come from ani
malcules; omuls sile.v, omne ferrum c rermibus ,
cannot at present, with propriety, be affirmed or
denied,and must remain fur more special mves- i
ligations to decide.”
The“ Monitor” of the city of Mexico, of the j
25th Januarv, contains and article with the fol- ;
lowing title: 11 Extraordinary bullfight to raise '
funds tor the national war. Tiie article says (
that the fight was given by the regiment of tlidul- j
(T ). After describing the procession to the arena j
am! the a pcarnce ot the spectators, it goes on lo |
state that— _ |
“The first hull was then let lose, and in the j
| centre an effigy of a North American waspresent-
I od to him, in order that it might be attacked, but
it was saved for the second bud, when three mere
similar t High s were added, which, d iring the
fight, were attacked one by one, and being pro
vide i with powder and other o*nhustildes, they
weresclon fire and formed artificial fire works,
which excited universal acclamations.”
A fellow api-lied to one of our Senators, says
the Si Louis Reveibe, at tiie present ses.-ion of
the Legislature to get hint some edm e; and to
support liis claim, t .Id the Senator lie had fought
with Jackson at N. Orleans. The member doubt
ed h:s story, an 1 to test the trill!), remarked
‘ I wont vote foryou because you let the Brit.sit
I take the city!”
We couldn’t help it,” replied the candidate —
“we fought like tigers, but they were too much
for us!” j
. Aimlst \. km.
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, J«47.
Our Kook Titbfc.
We have received from the publishers, ,
through Mr. Thomas Richards, the following
very interesting works:
The Ldfe and Voyages of Columbus , by
Washington Irving, (abridged by the author)
1 vol. duodecimo, with a portraji, map and
illustrations. II irper ox Brothers, N. .
Importance of Pradical Education and
Useful Knowledge —being a selection from
his orations and other discourses, by Edward
Everett. Harper & Brothers, N. \ duod.
1 vol.
The Life of Captain John Smith,/he Found
er of Virginia, hv W. Gilmore Simms, duod.
1 vol., published by Geo. F. Coolidge &
Brother, New York. This work is got up
in beautiful style, with a fine portrait and
several illustrations. A more interesting
theme could not have been selected by an
American author. We venture to predict
that no bonk of biography that lias issued
from tiie press in a long time lias attracted
more attention than this is entitled to. John
Smith is a name so common that to use a
phrase that has become proverbial, it is, no
name at all. Yet in the whole history of ro
manccand adventure, there is no man whose
career is more crowded with strange and
eventful and thrilling incidents lh«*n was that
of the celebrated Capt. John Smith. 1 hey
are sufficient to supply the raw material for
at least a half dozen romances of the Miss
Jme Porter school of writing. It is another
illustration «f the old saw, “truth is strange
stranger than fiction.” There is also in il
much food for the political philosopher, and
the antiquarian. Much curious and valua
ble information not every day met with, ran
be found in its pages. The work is strictly
historical—much of il is from tiie narrative
of tiie distinguished subject, penned by him
self.
We freely recommend this work to tiie
reading public, and feel assured that all who
peruse it will agree with us that the subject
was in truth a preux chevalier —a real fuil
fledged hero.
“It is held.
That valor is the rhiefest virtue, and
Most dignifies ihe, h iver: if it be
The man I speak of cannot in the world,
Re singly counterpoised.”
But it is not liis romantic valor alone that
made Capt. John Smith so interesting a char
acter. That word does not by any means
sum up all bis virtues. He was not alone
skilled in deeds of arms, and gifted with a
martial bearing
“To fright the soul of fearful adversaries.”
To the fair sex, lie was equally irresistible.
We however will make but one comment
more —which is that those who will read bis
life cannot hereafter avoid associating much
that is in a big!) degree romantic, with the
unromanlic name of John Smith.
Literary J>cpo*.
Mr. Millen has laid on onr table James’
last novel—“ The. Castle of Ehrenslein .”
_
TTJae IVcvr Planes.
Professor Pierce, of Harvard University,
has announced that the planet known as Le
! verrier’s, the discovery of which at Berlin
was a consequence of tiie computations of the
mathematician whose name it bears, is not
the planet which answers to those computa
tions, nor one which according In Leverrier’s
theory will account for tiie perturbations of
Uranus —that this is not the planet which was
discovered by the calculations of Leverrier,
but another ivhich urns accidentally discovered
by the Berlin observer.
The Baltimore Annual Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, rinsed a most harmonious
session at Washington City, on Saturday last, at 1
o’clock, P. M. The next Conference will be held
at Baltimore on the Bth March, 1843.
lUassacliitseils Legislature.
In the iloitf-e, the resolution providing for
an amendment of the const i tut ion so as to hold
the State and Presidential elections on the
i same day, passed to a third reading by a vote
of 139 to 5.
w ■ juw ml ,^|»P'i ■ ■ *»■»■ trr
The Hibernia’* Advice*.
The only additional advices per Hibernia,
that came to hand last evening, we find in
the New York Herald of Sunday last, brought
to that city by Telegraph, and which will he
found below. The Commercial advices are
the same as published by us yesterday.
The Hibernia reached her pier at East Bos
ton, about half past six o’clock on Saturday
afternoon, and should there be no failure of
the mail, we may look for her letters and
full particulars by this afternoon’s mail.
[From the New York Herald of Sunday. }
From the most recent intelligence received
I from America, we believe that there is good
! cause to expect that, with the opening of the
I canals and rivers in that country, in the
| course of the spring, we shall have numer
| ous shipments of all sorts of provisions, and |
1 that, consequently, large supplies of all sorts |
i will reach these kingdoms.
During the last eight or ten days the re- ;
ce p's of corn, have been light, and this,
added to the continuance of considerable ex
ports to Ireland, has caused the market with
in the last two days to have a very firm as
pect, and prices, which (jave way in the ear
jv part of last week, have since regained, as
regards wheat and flour, all then lost.
Indian corn still continues in great requi
sition, and commands the high prices of G9s.
to 725. per quarter. White, and oilier kinds
of corn, are cheaper.
! It is much to he deplored that the poor
! man’s food rules relatively much higher than
I that of the more wealthy.
i Tim stock of American flour in this port ;
at the end of February was computed at
something under 400,000 bbis., anJ CO.OOO
quarters <d wheat.
An ex pres-, in anticipation of the overland
mail, arrive 1 in London on the 24th nit. The
j treaty with the Sikhs, given in our last, was
j duly ratified between Dhullup Singh and the
j Governor General on Christmas day, and the
: two august personages just, naov’d were to
i meet at Lahore on New \ear s day.
Four Sihks corps are being raided. From
; the other troops a frontier brigade, at Pes
i chawonr, under command of Capt. Lawrence,
|of the 11th cavalry.
! Orders have been received for the reduc
i jinn of the Scinde field force, about 7000 men,
these to consist to two Europeans and five
native infantry regiments, one of cavalry and
five batteries of artillery. Since Napier has
been raised io the rank of L ent, rnani Gen
eral and attached to the stiff of India, no
commander-in-chief having been appointed
for Bombay, Sir L. McMahon, who has taken
his passage out by the steamer which leaves
a fortnight lienee, has been prevailed on to
remain for the present in command.
The Nawawa Amor Mahomet Sahan, the
instigator of the late disturbance in lhe pro
vince of Bhota), together with two sons en
gaued with him in insurrectionary move
numls, has been ordered to be imprisoned in
the stronghold fortress of Assnrghier.
The affairs of the Mizams dominions are
again relapsing into their former deplorable
condition, and will continue to do so unless
i our residents are authorised to interfere
; more than heretofore. Frsh dishnbmi e<
; have broken out. amongst the Khondo of
j Goomsoor, consequent on the measures pur-
I sued by our agent for the suppression of har
j barons sacrifices of human beings, periodi
cally performed by them.
The town of Madras has lately been visited
bv cholera, which, at. the latest dites had
declined The country, with this exception,
is healthy throughout, and the weather cool
and agreeab'e.
The commander-in-chief of India was pre
sent at the ceiemony of the ratification of the
New Lahore treaty, tit Bhairoowail on the
25’h of December. It has not appeared
i whether his lordship accompanies the Gov
| pmnr general to Lahore or returns to the
I Provinces.
The notes of the Savannah and Angus a
| Banks, and those of the inferior of this State,
j are received in payment for Exchange at the
; Buik n: C.iarlrstou. Notes of the North
Carolina air Alabama Banks are also re
-1 ceived in payment of Exchange at the above
j Banks, at the following rates, viz; Checks on
j the North, pa d for in N. C. money, 1•} per
cent prem; do. do. do. in notes on the Bank
i of Monde. 11 per cent, prem : do do. do. in
notes of the interior Banks of Alabama. 2
per cent. prem.— Charleston Courier, 24 ih
insi.
Governor Colby, oI New-ilamp-hire, has
appointed Thursday, the lsih of April, for a
day of Fasting and Prayer.
1 :
I'roiii Elnvana.
j The schr. Zephyr, Capt. Wood, arrived at
this port yesterday, left Havana on the 18ih
in>t. She brings us no files of papers. We
learn, however, that no later intelligence had
reached there from Mexico. In the produce
market, box Sugars were plenty, Musco
vadotfs PC ' rce. Last sales of Rice rs
Molacps was still on the rise—last sales
rs. Freights still high.
A letter of the 17th in=t. sav-;—“This
morning early,a fine pa ket ship from F ranee
went ashore on the “Punta.” which is all
rock. She was finally got off by the heavy
surf and tiie aid of six or eight large boats of
the Government, and the French vessels of
war. Half-past twelve, a fine American ship
went ashore at the same place. She struck
heavily with stern and knocked off her rud
der; tier mainmast was cut away; and she
was finally got off. I have since ascertained
her name to he the ship Anson, of Salem,
(Mass.) from Liverpool. No change in the
markets.” —Charleston Courier 2ith, insl.
[From the Columbus Enquirer ]
Off Tampico, Brig Pfnsicoua.
March 2d, 1847. 5
Gen. Quitman, with Col. Jackson and Maj.
Williams, are vet in Tampico, and will bring up
the rear of the Georgia Regiment. Cnpts. How
ard, Quarter Master,and Randle, Commissary,
are a'so left with Biigade Head Quarters.
We are without intelligence of ony sort, and
whereit can come to us by accident only.
MaR II 3d.
An opportunity to send off this sheet is about
to occur, and 1 regret I have not any tiling ot
interest to communicate this morning. The
s’earner Alabama sailed last night, with
Pattersen. We are expecting a steamer momen
tarily to take us over the bar.
I give you a list of the officers on board this
Brig; Company A, Cap*. Calhoun, Ist Lieut.
Goulding. 2d Lieut. Kellogg; Gampany C.
Lieut. Shelton commanding, Lt, Rodgers, Lt.
Griffin; Company G. L». Horne commanding,
Lt. Hunter; Company C, Capt. Bird, Ist Lt.
Keith, 2d Lt. Mullins 3d Lt.L-awhorn.
Capt. Turner, of Company G, and Lieut.
Anderson, of Company A, were left in Tampico,
on the sick list, not 'y any means seriously sick,
but our accommodations on this Brig are the most
wretched we have had since we left Columbus,
and Capt. Turner and Lieut. Anderson were
prevailed upon to go with Gen, Quitman, suppos
ing, as a matter of course, they would have more
room and preserve their amiability, and con
sequently in better condition for the‘‘Fandango
to come off before Vera Cruz.
All of I fie offic ts and men on board are in ex
crllent health, and we manage to keep our tempera
within reasonable bounds; eat each Ins allowance,
drink or waste the gallon of water allowed to us;
fish occasionally, and some times go a birding,
anti kill a beet, supposed .to belong to “UnciO
Sam”—and expecting every uiou cut the signal
\ to sail.
As ever, yoor friend, J- S. C.
Our Army The Volunteers and Regu
lars.— With Shields for defence, B tiler tor
supplies, a Billow for repose, and a Marshall
for parade, may they not hick Wool (or com
fort, Worth in battle, or a Garland tor vic
tory; never erving Quit-man to the foe, but
laying their 'Twiggs on the enemy’s back,
pay promptly their Scott or charge as iho
Taylor always knows how.
pos r < iffice, \ uaus r a t
March 25, 1847. S
Agreeably to recent Acts of Congress and in
structions from the Post-Master General, the fol
lowing new regulations will he observed at this
office :
Ist. Transient Newspapers, or those not sent
from the offije of publication to subscribers, and
Handbills or Circulars printed or lithographed,
(not exceeding one sheet in size,) and nnsealeu,
are subject to three cents postage, which must
hopre-paid, or they will not be mailed, ll staled,
they wi 1 be rated and forwarded as Idlers.
2nd. Letters, Newspapers and Packages not
exceeding one ounce in weight, addressed to any
j Officers, Musician or Private in the Army of the
bailed Slates in Mexico, nr of any post or place
on the fro .tier of the United States bordering on
Mexico, will pass _/rec in the mails if alter the
name of the person addressed is added “belonging
to the Army."
3rd. Letters addressed to different persons,
cannot lie enclosedjin the same envelope or pack
age, under a penalty of Ten Dodars, unless ad
dressed to Foreign countries.
E. B. GLASCOCK P. M.
! mar 4. 6
j DC/ 3 Statement of the business on
j the Georgia Rail Road during the week ending
j .March 2U, 1817.
Passengers,
$2,913 13
Freights, 7.673 19
Mail, 769 46
1-
Amount, $11,3.10 83
Gr.o R. R & RkV. Co., £
Trnnsp. Off. March 20, ISI7. )
March 24 —I 116
Luminous Rain.
i Vj~ Bergneau wrote to the Royal Society of
London in 1761, that he had observed on two oc
casions, rain that sparkled when it touched the
ground, which appeared lobe covered with waves
of fire. Few persons have witnessed the phe
nomenon of luminous rain, but of the raenta
and moral light that has rained upon the world
during the present century, we are all conscious.
Among the results of illumination is the discovery
that all scrofulous and oilier ulcerous
well as all eruptive diseases, originate in an irn
pm estate. Fortunately with a know ledge of the
l fact, is also the discovery of a new agent applica
ble as a remedy- Science says that a vast number
of diseases are generated in tlie blood. Experi
ence proves that S4N.9S’ SARSAPARILLA,
will cure them, and is confirmed by tbe testimony
| of thousands who have been the recipients of its
healing virtues.
I Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by A
! B. £c D. SANDS, Wholesale Druggists, ItlO Ful
ton, corner of William street, New York Sold
also, by lIAVILANU, RISLEY 6c CO ,
Augusta,
And by Druggists generally throughout the
United States. Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles
for $5. 6 March 23
Wistars Balsam of Wild Cherry.
Morris County, Mkni>iiam. N. J f
October 29, 1916. j
Dr. Sttm \V. Fowlk,
Dear Sin—This may certify that I am about
seventy-five years of age, was born and have, al
ways resided in this town, in October, 1345, I
took cold, ami for six months I was afflicted with
the influenza, arid the worse cough I have ever ex
perienced during my whole life. Myself ami
friends had strong doubts of ray ever recovering.
1 got a botlle_of Srhenck’s Syrup; It done me m»
i good. 1 then applied to a physician, who prescrib
ed for me several times, but did not cure me. At
last my physician advised me to take Dr. WTS
TAR’S CELEBRATED BALSAM OF WILD
CHERRY, which has performed so many remark
able cures. J did so, and I believe that saved my
life, my cough left me entirely, when 1 had taken
a single bottle. I arn now enjoying good health.—
If I ever again have a similar attack, or any of my
t family, I shall immediately resort to Dr. Wistar’
l Balsam of Wild Cherry. The physician who re
commended this Balsam to me, was induced to do
so from his own personal observation and experi
ence in using it. One very strong case, of cure of
a young man occurred in this immediate vicinity,
of which Dr. Homan informed me.
EPHRAIM SANDERS.
None genuine unless signed I. Butts on the
wrapper.
For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail, hf
IIA VI LAND, RISLEY 6c CO., and also by
THOMAS BARRETT 6c CO., and Dealers in
Medicines generally in Georgia.
March 20 13— H 3
STrDENJ. CONLEY will be supported for re
election, as a Member of Council in the Third
Ward, at the ensuing election. March 11
{£T We are authorized to announce Dr. L. D.
FORD, as a candidate for re-election to the May
oralty of this c ity. [Marc h 6 131
OCT We are authorized to announce Dr. L. A.
DUGAS,as a candidate for re-election to Council
; from the second Ward, at the election to he held
in April next. March 5
W’e are authorized to announce Dr. J. G.
McWIIORTER as a candidate for Mayor of the
the City of Augusta, at the election on the second
Monday in April next. Feb. 16
OCT Mr. Editor —Please announce Dr. I. P,
GARVIN as a candidate for Member of Council
for Ward No. 1, and oblige Many Voters.
Feb. 20 ’ —* H 9
DCr Mr. Editor —Please announce the name of
I CHARLES E. GRENVILLE, Esq., as a candi
. date for Council in Ward No. 1, And oblige
Feb. 17 *— MANY VOTERS.
{&" DR. J. A, CLEVELAND, has returned
to tliis city, and may be consulted at the office of
Cleveland & Spear, over the store of Messrs. Al
drich & Green. Feh. 23
\V e are authorised to announce Col. fi. F ,
PARISH as a candidate so re-election as Member
of the City Council from Ward No. l.,at the en
suing election in April nest, [Feb. 17 *—•