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(JiJ I ifj r(J|i I>kl > WILLIAM E. AUGUSTA, GE«., TUESEJAA MOKASAG, vs »« " '~ ' " ~ sggg _ ’ », iWh. [Tri-weekly.]- Vol. 11-Wo. I«». ——————————~*^—cm—U——MMJ——J—k.aai.»j»wr/mir*»,-j«tin. ■ ■ --* m .. u _. - -- - - -1 Pablishud DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, jltNo. Broad Street. • Terms.— Daily papet, Ten Dollars per annum in advance. Tri-weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advanr.fi orsevon at Ihe end of llio year. Weekly papfiMlireo dollars in advance, or four at the end of the year. The Editors and Proprietors in this city have udo -led the following regulations : I. After the Ist day o! July nest no subscrip tions w libe received, out of the city, unless paid in advance, or a city reference given, unless the name be forwarded by an agent of the paper. •■I. A Iter that dale, wo will publish a list of those who are one yeara «.r mote in arrears, in order to let them know how their accounts stand, and nil those so published, who do not pay up their ar rears by the Ist o! Jan. 1d39, will he striked off the subscription list, and tbeir names, residences, ami ilia mount they owe; publtsl ed until settled, the aeeont will be published, paid, which will an swer as a receipt. 3 No subscription will be allowed to remain unpaid after the Ist day of January 1339. more ban one year; but the name will bo stnkrn oh the h't, and paid shed as above, together with the “T'Tro'm and after this date, whenever a snbscri- Si is in arrears, shall be returned by a post her, w “ living rent wed, or refuses to lake his •masted ns l ; . . post office, his name shall be pub ' jvaiicr out o. 11 u|j hi. r.sidonce, the probaMe lish'd, together '. , n and the amount due; mol place ho hasten 'veo . . '^ r( l,.rs Ins pap; rd. wlicii a subscriber hnnseli ' -, t p, |„, fbrw nil; d. j Maned, and requests Ins ‘V-’.’jd. an I unless - r|.e same shall be tort hw of consider;',f >n, and the , lb i mails being f f rom this place) i»w name, distance «t his r n published as above. anl l,he amonut duo, aha . P d c |,.-t,n nrh's ■’hMiisdificrcncc, that the f. si ...set,on SboTi i an 1 > instead of bo cents per square of Va.lv’’- ementsintendod for the country, should A “V 1 • which will ill o secure llu.tr •' e " V ~h i.mo lh the inside of the city paper, ’’ ■ w ,; ' gd at .be rate of7b. ts per square * w it ne h j r j cents lorc?acli subsr :j I n. ,ir : l "a.* r B not marked ‘inside,’ they wall ? 3 p* ed m any part of the p-J*r. nfmr t e first : 1 a fonv^tnenc a ot I pii*>n* n •» ’'Vl r" '’lule.r«ft6cen„ fnr.be first in sr. ion," sod 43} cents for each subsequent n.ser -1“7 A,. Advertisementa not limited, wi,l be pub- j li 'll d in every paper until forbidfand charged ac- ; eord.r '.o the above rat. s. : a. l ;.a Adverl.semcntsw.il bn published as | follows per square; Adirr s r»I Executors sale of Land or f.'f •r.e - , f.O days, °® flu do Personal Property, 40 ds. 4 No 1 e'o Debtor- and Crs, weekly, 40 ds. 3 2;> C< ' m >t Let.,is, f 1 > do Di mi ay, monthly C mo. 500 Four monlb Nonce, monthly, 4 mo. 4 00 Sl’oubl any of *lio pbove exrop.d a square* they -will be charged in p-opor'mn. y. From and bo in t day ot Jan. lo.iJ, no yearly conir uns, ex* ept lot* specilic udvortLo meiH.-M will ba entered in o. 10. We will oar. iron aids to oilier papers tor nil advert i rnii'ii s «-rl'T.;d lb rough ours 1 » be ropied by lbeni, and if ad ,or* ; copied Ivy ns Irom other will bo chain'll to tlio ulTur* from which fb* r*j(pn»: I i > mad * u copy, and will receive pay for I !13 E.i.ue, cordi’i'r 10 lludr rmeand be rcspoir ibie according to our own. 11. Advcrlvemenla sent to ns from a distance, with an ord :r to he copied I)3’ >1 her papers, must bo accompanied with the cash to the amount it is desired they should bo published in ouch paper, or a responsible reforem e CHRONIC LIS AND SENTINEL. Afl** gJSTA. Miindiiy rdoruiag, October 8. Maryland. The election in Ibis Stae for Governor and members of .he Legislature, took place on Wed nesday last. It is the first time the Governor of • hat Stale was ever elected by the people. We have received the vole only of ibo city of Balti more. The following is the result: Steele, (Whig) 0191 Guason. (V. 13.) G 074 117 majority for Sieele. The Whig ticket for the Legislature, was elected by an average majority of IG3 votes. „ From the Haitimoie American. Latest (Lota the Thtcßin. Tl.Eatv with Pekit.—Mr. W. 15 Hodgson, who came passenger in the brig Cicero, at .bis port from Jamaica, Ira e.icd over land from the Pacific byway of Panama and Chagre-, i;nd is the bearer of.be rat ill ~| Treaty concluded between the United Slices and .he Peru-Bolivian cunfede ra.ion. Mr. H. sailed from Cilia >on (lie 13.1 t ofJuly. Hostilities still existed be.ween Peru and Chili. I.nelligence had been received at Li ma from Valparaiso, that the expedition for the invasion of Peru, would sail aboui the 20 h of Ju ly. It would consist of 4000 men, and its desli na.ion was supposed to lie some part of North Peru. The Chilian squadron for sonic weeks had been blockading .ho port of Callao. The American squadron was at-Callao. ~ Naval.—The following la.e intelligence res pecting the U. S. Squadron in .he Pacific was received yeslct-day via the Isthmus of Panama, in a letter dated. U. S. Ship Lexiaotoiv. 7 Panama, July 27, 1833.5 A considerable number of changes In.vo .liken J.lace in this squadron since the Ist of July, a number of acting appointments having been made by Com. Ballard on that day, to till vacancies, one ot which was created by .be death of Incut. Win Ward, of the N. Carolina, who died on board that ship after a short illness, on the 1 0. h day of June. We are here, in 14 Jays from Callao, all well, having special messenger W. 15. Hodgson, who is on his return from Peru, as beater of a treaty, which he has ratified, between Pe.u and our Government. Limits. Noble and Bouthwell arc also passengers on board, having 1. ,d permission •from the Commodore to ret urn to the U. S. being in ill health. They leave us to morrow for Chngres, and we sail as soon a- wo can get wood and wa ; er on board, for the Wes ast ot Ameri ca, touching probably at Acopui via/.;. 1 n -'St. Bias, Guayn.ass, &c. and will probably reach Valparaiso in January next, previous to the N. Carolina sailing for the U. fc>. which M is expect, cd w II take place in March next. Wc left Calao 1 on the 13.1 i July, leaving the N. C.iiv'ina and schr. Enterprize, Lt Com. Giddy, at loe. 1-laud of San Lorenzo, the first overhauling her tig Ring .ho latter hove down and undergoing a thorough repair. She was founil to be in a very bad condiiion. The Falmouth was at Callaio, to sail on the 14. h for Valparaiso. From ll.c Dutiimo.e A.iit ncun, 3 d mst. Latest from River Plate. By the brig Mentor, Wiley, at this port yes f terday in 42 days from Montevideo, wc have re- I ceived papers of .hat city to the 17lh August, to gether with commercial advices, which will be found below. Attack on Montevideo.—Captain Wiley reports that on the morning he sailed from Mon- tevideo, the invading army (Insurgents) coni' mencod on attnck on the ci’y nt 5 o’clock A, M ami continued until 10 A. M. when they were repulsed will) considerable loss. The attacking force was waiting the arrival of two more divisions of their army, when it was expected they would be able to capture the city. The entrance of cattle into the city was stopped the day before. We have been furnished with the following ex tract from a letter dated. “Montevideo, 15th August, 1838. Our last advices were of the 20;h Juno, since when the blockade of Buenos Ayres continuing, all vessels arrived since our last have be n obliged to remain at this poit as before; but notwithstand ing, prices of imports hove been sustained better than could have bren expected. This may be partly a Inbutcd to the continual running of small craft between Ibis mid buenos Ayres and other ports of those Provinces, owing to I lie mod* eration thus far exercised on the part ol the French, but should they become morn severe and make prizes nf all they capture in ibis italic, n will tedttee it very much, and the lessened de mand thereby will bo sensibly felt in our market j The Civil War be r e appeared lately to bo ap proaching a crisis from tbo reverses which the 1 Government parly met with, and wc had hoped | to have scon peace shortly rodored. We think this however very doubtful now, and that it may still he of some duration, meantime the opposing party arc so near as to threaten the city itself ; with a siege. | Since our last we have had several arrivals I from the U Stales with lumber and assorted car. I goes, which have supplied us generally at present, I hut they brought no Flour, and from oilier parts j wo have received only about 2500 bids, so that breadstuff* continue to be scarce; wholesale [trice has been $25, and by retail $2O a 28, while $33 a $25 may be quoted as the r ites at present. Wheat has been sold as high as $l5 [tor 195 lbs. Ifice has declined to 18 a 20 rls. fur Carolina; lumber $37 (ter thousand (eel. Salt, —11 a 12 rls. [ter fawega on board. An di i tonal export duly of J rial per Hid has been decreed, which is now in force and to continue ti l the e»d of the year. Produce IS ta bor scarce, particularly Jerked Beef, which in consequence of the season and the little ready I -!• Mting.has risen to s3y [ter (j - , Exchange m*. don 44 I. declining, JI nil, l , host quae -U) rls. fre-in 1a; do. fir U | State-, mixed horse or, $l5 a l(i ql.; Hu so Hides, 9 a Iorl-; each; Wool, little brought, for word ’till next clip. Tallow, 14 rls.; jerked beef, s4per qql. From the New Yurie Evpre*s % IQth mrt. The Canada,s. The Montreal Courier of Wednesday, says that a public meeting is to be colled in relation to Lotd Dmliaiu’s departure. The papers con tain different statements as to the time when bis Lord-hip will leave The Herald sai sbe is ile lermined to proceed almost immediately England, while the Coutier say- it is expected tic will watt until the appointment us his suecs-sor. Tho Quebec Gazette says.— ‘We can ?tate on compc cm uutho.iiy that, notwithstanding it bar' been thought expedient to disallow Lord Dur ham’s Am,tes y Ordinance, His Excellency has received letters both from Viscount Melbourne and L >rd Glenolg, expic-sing in the warmest terms their approbation of His Lords op’s urea- I sutea in the administration of this Goicrui m-;■ and discharge t the important duties of IL-h Commissioner ” Rebel Movr.viK.NT tv Canada.—The Mi.- sis.pjoi Standout gives the folio iug details of rite capture of some munitions of war which were brought from Vermont : “A trooper of Captain Moore's troop when on duty at Moore’s corner, oi»servf“J a double wagon and French can pass from the Vermont line to wards S airbridge—This was be ween 11 ami 12 o’clock at in. hi. and as some suspicion came into the trooper’s mind, be appli ed the Lieu en at-1, and (he parlies were commanded lo snip Oo this (bey drove on the faster. Captain Moore having been informed of tire circumstance, lo.de wnb hint the Lieutenant, a Corporal, and a [tri vale, bring all that were in lire station at the lime, and pursued. After tiding hard for a mile and a ball they came up with the le tins, but the party bad escaped, the r ight being pitch datk. On examination the con was found to contain a beau ttful iron niii.- pounder covert d with apples, and ~the wagon all the n.eessaty appurtenances, and a swokl. Trie Captain seemed also three h ir-u-; the fellows having got elf with one of those attached lo the cart. May not tint French c -n try have been filled with arms a d amm.ii.! r ,i m the sao.e way 1 Loyalists! put your nu t. in G d, as Cromwell u-ed to say, but brush tip vuur mu-kel and keep your powder dry.” In regly lea letter (coin London, making some inquiries relative to trie exports ot Tobacco from the United Slates, die National Inlelligiv cer pub. It.-be- the fallowing statement* extracted four the returns made lo the Treasury Department: The expoil of Tobacco from the United States to Foreign Ports, for the year ending on the 3i)ih Sep'endrer, 1837, amoon ed in quantity to one , hundred diou-.md two blind.cd and thirty two hogsheads, • f which there were slri perl di ed to England 29 723 hog-beads to Scotland 1.010 and lo Gtbral ar 4 248 ; to be Hanse towns and o'bci par sos Germany 23 863 hogsbea s; to Holland 22 731) bug-be ids; ;o Trench ports 8 553; and to uelalUlT! 2.138; the residue being dispersed to I pons all over Hie world. The export of M inufaclnrnd Ti liaceo for the dame period amounted to 3,615 591 pounds, of j which the large-i export was lu the Uiitisb Culu- ■ nics, viz: 1,202,340 lbs Os the exportation coastwise no return is made : from the Treasury in Congress. Tbenumbei of hogsheads exported during the | twelve preceding years was, in round numbers, j as follows; In 1825, 75 000 In 1831, 80.00 1826, 64.000 1852, 106,000 , 1827, 100.000 1833, 83 000 1 1828, 96.000 1834, 88,00(1 I 1839, 77,000 1835, 94,000 1830, 83 000 1836, 89,000 This is exclusive of the Manufactured Tobacco exported, which averages 3,000,000 pounds, say 3,000 hogsheads annually. From the Mobile Examiner. Texas. I In our last number, we published a paragraph j from a Bt. Louis paper, expressing apprehensions that a treaty was negocia'ing between some of the tribes of the West and the, Mexicans and G u „ ! manciies, fir the purpose of invading J exas. The 1' following news recently received from the repub lic seems to confirm that unfavorable account, ft is from the Picayune:— ‘•Our papers which are only to the 2Cd instant, represent that the Lillians on the Western anil North Western frontier arc disposed lo trouble some. Capt. Love, wfio went among the Cumanclies to trade with them upon the strength of 'be trea ty with them, ha- fallen a prey lo their treachery. There are many other Hems in our Texiart pa pers, of imerest but not of general importance i which we arc obliged lo pa-s by at present. They I shall bo noticed in our next, | Wc learn from Eastern Texas, that tlio difii cullies with the Spaniard;) at Nacogdoches linve not been settled. Travellers, who left that place til) the 1 I ill, say that some Cherokee and Kicks' poos chiefs have joined the Spaniards, and that Texas will, in all probability, become the scene of another Indian war more filial than that of Flori da, and that the Indians had already committed several murders. The wit it was hone in Maine.—The Bangor Whig of Saturday says :—that ‘-at the recent term of the Court of Common Pleas hidden at Dover in and for the County of Piscataquis, two 1 ico foco selectmen were indicted f r r n iv» mg illegal votes. An indictment was also found at the same term of said Court against the Select men of llie town of Shirley for the same offence.” Wo tell our friends hot i at home and abroad, who have been surprised and alanncd at the re sult of the recent clectio s in this Stale,—these were the weapons of warfare used so successfully by our adversaries. Money and illegal voters de feated us.— J'pr.'land Atlv. Cold Victuals.— IHe Kennehuiik Gazette siv-s an account of a gtand supper got up by the Loco Focos in hat town, in honor of the great victory in Maine. It appears from tins account that they had two tables, one for the leaders and great demucrah, at (our and sixpence a ticker, and another, provided wi'h the second cut, ui cold victuals, for Ihe /> unr do nocrats. at. two and 1 sixpence a icke ! This’is positively |) |( . democratic improvement in political festivals. Those who sal down to the two ami sixpenny cut, must have rejoiced at the glotionsequality which the prevalence of deirmcia-y is calculated to bring about !—Start ptrd Courier. Ska Ist.a.no (June.—Ala quarterly meeting of die Si. Andrew’s Agricultural Society, held on the 2d iusl., the Committee of Inspec ion, al ter diligently going over and examining all the Crops on James’ Island, repo t as the result of their investigation, that the Cotton Crop in that recti.m of the Parish, will not exceed (55 ihs. gin ned Cotton per acre, less than‘ho half of a fair average crop. Provision crop (air, particularly the early corn. Charleston .1 ter cury uj Friday. Ino Emperor o( Russia has issued an ukase, requiring too Poles to wear the Russian costume, wioelns more economical Ilian that, of their own '.•minify and appoint mg places at which articles may he bought at first cost. A reward is (dieted to such as may with readiness comply with the decree, and those who do not are threatened with j being llng ed. What a picture do wo bote see I of national degradation ! 'The countrymen of Kosciusco, alter being deprived of every political right, ordered by a foreign tyrant to abandon the dross of their forcta. hers and adopt that of their , masters. How Franco, England, and other , European nations p otes-ing to possess one spoilt ul liberal feeling can look on quie'ly and sutler such acts of oppression to ho practised, is to us ( totally inexplicable. Wo understand perfectly well the nonsensical prattle so elicit heard about the necessity of preserving the peace ,d Europe, and maintaining a just equilibrium of (lower, but the policy which cun permit such things to take place unmoved must indeed he a cdd-hlooded | one. Weil may the Autocrat aspire to sway the , the destinies of the European Uoniincni, when the powers e. liicli have heretofore directed them 1 Can without, disgust behold a gallant nation ivmh tng under such outrageous inflictions. As (or, me mere clothes it may ba said that a Russian * dis-s wall protect the wearer from the wra her as 1 Weil as a Foltsli costume, ton wlml heroines of 1 the glorious as delations luit have tor years on 1 years descended fnun sire, to son in coonee ion vviiii the national attire. The cut of a garment, forms a put of the covmlry’s history, and is iden. 1 Illicit -I u Ine !:';•■‘dy condiets (ought in delenco of heir dene-t rights, w ilnuie gallant struggles f»r freedom and indiq c.rdtuce, so olten and so ' vainly made, and wi-fi all (he memories that cling around paino i-m and render it holy. The Tyrolese or ti e Swiss niouo'atneer reveres the qiiatnt dress worn hy his countrymen for centu ries, and Would not exchange it for any thing that modern elegance can ollbr whilst the Scott ish highlander 1 raves death mine nob y and fear, le-ly when arrayed in the “garb of old (iaul.'’ National dress like iirlional music mingles itself wuh the warnie-l aflitlions of childhood and adult age; it begets a feeling in individuality nun na nations ei d ict tiers them jeal its of their diameter. 1 might well have been expected that In ig ere this, France, with the viciories of which Polish gallantry is so iddetilified. would have stepped forward and rescued that unhappy Cott.i try f oina tlnaldnm ll at wtiirld strip its wretched popula ion ot the tui orabie boon of wearing ns slaves w: at their rimes ers wore as (reeiueu.— IS alii m ore Jhnerican The Brookoville. Imliana, American of the 21s ult. represents the health of the village to ho extrem ly good, hut adds ;—-At this time here is much sickness in the country. VVi bin the last week tve have travelled much. In that time wo hate seen, and heart! of, more disease than at any time within our reeolhe ion. A' li.dianapo. li , Kmghtslown, Lou svtlle, &c. & ; vve learn that dtseu-e and physicians ate reaping a rich harvest And bom all wo hear it more generally prevails in the counlry than in the towns and villages,” Fmm the Fiiiihtieii —The Small Pox is said to be raging to a dreadful extent amongst the Choctaw anil Chickasaw Indians. A great many have already fallen victims to it. From the Army and Navy Chronicle. Desertions, vve are happy to learn for rho cre dit ol our army, are not confined to our own service. I is a homely proverb, though by no means a oharituble one, that 'misery loves com pany.’ Wc nu t confess that we should Ike to seeeveiy nni-loy service conducted such principles that while • ;ct discipline is manifest. I ed, tire men n ay become attached to their com maaders as welt as their profession. A water in a late number of '.he United Her vice .brumal, complains loudly of the frequency of desertion from the liritish Army. He says ; “to so great a begin has 'ibis grievance ari.-eir— so little dedefence is paid to unlit ny authority mid subordination—so grossly is discipline tram pled on and set at nought, that it is now no Hu ron.men occurrence fora soldier ujtenly to avow hi ft intention■ of detecting mi the thsi uppur'.u. j ntty. in sljor., deseruo .is lire favorpe pimuc n; [ I if a mao is silky, Ire deserts—if he is ordered i, two or three day s drill for some irregularity, tic [ deserts—if he is in debt ni his ciipruin, ho de serts. It is not many weeks since a paragraph appeared in the pajers, slating tbut a young sol dier, nit being asked what induced him to desert, replied thar.br wished to go home unil fcnl hie ratine. 1 'This writer adds, in conclusion ; “tire crime of desertion must no longer be trilled w ith, if it be, Hie army will lie annihilated.” It is often the case that much of the edieieney vvi li which discipline is enforced in any service depends upon the e "ii.iananee givrir bv the (>o ; vermnoill to the dibits of ollicers. If olHeers | are supqr died in rlreir endeavors to improve their I corps m every military requisite, it will naturally j follow that improvement lakes place; but if, on -njMmnniwßßteinaßMnwi any ami evety frivolous prclex' appods arc made h ': ul C i ,l!,r " ,r ». "".I interference attempted xvi li ; he , xcrnso o( proper nu'.horiiy, the result imwi inevitably 1, 0 n relive,! discipline, nnd n shoe i Olhecrs may sotnelimes acquire ihe disiiiiciion of martinets, hut it seems to us ,ha ! clwr l , l* , ."'« •'« effectually maintained w "“ou* '' SI "K 'lieallbetioii and good will of those under command. A fact is staled in hue for,ngn papers which is 1111 honuralilo to the lii„h people than it is prati'y trig to me feelings of every pmlamhropist. h . "• lul lll: " '>'« Monster Circuit which in cludes the large Comities of Cork, Clare, Loner ick, and Keity, coin,doing nearly two millions of liihahiiauis. terminated without it single capital j conviction. The genius of the British Criminal code forbids the supposition that ihis exemption i lro,n puinshm.-nt is mo result of any undue lenity *■" u “ : 1,1 11 J- U,.s „i j.,ie.-. o.i me cm 'r-oy; e*|e,umce g.ves us every reason to believe mat had criminal acts existed they would have ' been visile,| hy the law, which is not sparing oi imman (tie. Phe si.iiomcnt here made is panic. - l. agreeable,inasmuch as the fact related mu-i i,'guide,l as the precursor of a holler slate ot ■logs in I,eland ban has he elof,.re existed. UO, L ' r °ns, brave, hospitable, and kind hearted, he ; eop.e ot ihe Bmerald Me have re .dered ihom selves 100 otieil liable to punishment hy yieldm I .O impulse railierlban keeping t em-elves within -ic homo s nunked out hy prudence, unil it afford us gnnthealion to record a ciicuinslanco so pocu. lluriy cu u-ialde iu ilmmp. SINOCIAII Ken a Huy.— a robbery, effected by means not to ha tumid in Ihe catalogue of the nu nitrous ingenuities j„ that line on record, is re tained in the Semaphore of Marseilles. >1 La butt in of that my. had left |,.s residence not long since intending to he absent a few days. The dry after his departure his housekeeper and a to undo set vain left in charge of the premises, were much surprised at the visit of three indi- ideals, one of whom exhibited a Iricouletcd sash as ihe insignia of his dike, nnd s ated that M. L dnitmi nad suddenly died of apoplexy and they must pro coed to put ilui seals on the properly. Having proceeded to make out an inventory of the fuirn lure they a -ked for the keys of the drawers and f iuml in a de.-k I.SOOf. besides some articles of plslc. I Ins they requested the housekeeper to 1 , ‘’barge of an,! <m her appearing unwilling to undertake the responsibility they gave her a wrn m, and s amped receipt for all the money found m ihe house, winch they slated was to remain do posited with the Judge de Paix according to cus tom.a dding to it the plate jewellery e c. vvl l i,di it would not ho p udem they said, io leave in the house. They then lock their departure. What 1 was ths as ontshmenl of the servants when two days after their mas or made his appearance hale and strong ! Jhe Police have been endeavour ing to find Ihe rubbers, who n is known had set oil lor Antibes, hut it is supposed that they have ciosscd the Italian frontier. Biiakce—The editor of the Now York He rald wr.les from frame as follows ; •■One of (ho most striking features in the pre sent condi ion of franco is the exii'aordinary devolopemont of a taste lor finance, rail roads, .■a e, commerce, am, every species i f an am! improvement. This taste is rising to a pas-ion :n the mi.ids of la jenne France, and to Louis i hihippo, and (he men "ho made die revolution ul 18-JO, is the nation indebted for it. liisa fuel, that hero all the leading classes of society are under ilio am,i influence which has i , rvadi d ti c Uni ed States for some years past. Railroads- I ,r ' t ’Cling 111 every quarter, and hanks e lah hshing at, every cominetcial point. In an especia l degree, ihe ‘credit system,’ as we call n in the United States, has just begun to he adopted in this country hy Government, merchants, and all classes. “What a singular contrast presented hy France to the United Slates! In the United Stales, the Government sets il.-eif in oppos'd,m to improve incuts in commercial science, while in Franco ihe exae ly opposite policy is rapidly coming into play, LaliMc the once celeliia e I u„ni.„,, t.„. overwhelmed a few years ago in the fluctuations of the last revolution, is lie'ginning to reappeal on 'he scene of action. Ho It is established a large bank w it li hram hes, and others are prepar ing similar institutions.” Muitirt-tn I’hecoroner of this city was caller! on Sunday to hold an inquest upon the body ot Thomas Hamilton, a young man nf 23 or 24 years of age. who was stabbed on ihe night ofihr 84-11.1 of Sep einhcr ai Spring Hill, li 'appeared mi evidence that ilie. decease had been in the eiiv drinkisg and returned home latent night, when ho nu t Lis grandfather, who was also inehria od. A lulling altercation ensued between them, and the latter struck the young man and stabbed him in the belly, of which wound he died in nine or ten hours atierwaiils. The murderer is about ninety years of ago and is named Benjamin Al exander. He was fully committed. It there bo any thing which, more than another should give an impulse to the temperance cause it is such nn eminence ns lids. liven when prompted liy the warmth of young blood and no experienced passion such an event is calculated to make the moral shudder, hut v> hat can he their feelings when the silver head of age conceives such a crime, and ihe palsied hand executes it 1 Mobile Examinee, The Gamblers. From Ihe new novel tj "Richard J] ur dis." Itso happened, that th/.-r--. were several pas *Gn*!;vB ,k,J . , "V**, nottml for Columbus on the I ombeckbr, , 0 wllic i, place our hum was fmny under .o yh before earns were produced, nid on/,; ft'l.o winihc lungs' nnd andocitv ware greater than the rest, was heard ihrough out thf cabin calling upon all persons who wt ro disposed to "lake a hand” to come lor w-,rd. With my now policy in view, I was oinof I he first io answer this challenge. I had provided myself in JMobne with several packs, and tak tie a couple ofihem in hand, 1 went forward to the table which meanwhile had been drawn out in ti e cabin and cooliv surveyed my coniptuiions. Onr puritan mine forward at. ihe same luomen’, nnd. in the gru ve.-t terms and turtes, protested a c amßl our piny ng. ‘ Aly young friends,” ho cried, ‘ let, me hog you nut. to engage in tills wicked aniiisefneni. Cards are, os it has been often and well .-a d cards a c toe prayer-books of'the devil. It is hy these that lie wins souls da ly to his gloo my kingdom. Night and day ho is busy in these arts, to entrap the unwary, whom he him,ls and beguiles until, when they open the r eyes at iast, they open them in dwellings of damnation. Oh, my dear children, do not | venture to follow him so tar. Cast the temp, tkiion from you—duly the tempter; and in I place ot tnese dangerous instruments of sin, ! nearken, I pray you, to the goodly outpourings j ol'u divine spirit. If you will hut suffer rue In choose for you a text I rein ties blessed vol -1 ume ” j :! re ho took a small pocket Inble from Ida I besom, and was about to turn the leaves, when ■OHmauitiaOTK --bV.7 nV-~rr n- ITTI~-V-: ; —— - ft cry from nil aniind mo, s Icnted him in h’s Imtnily, whirl) promised to be liurbcicntly unc luous and edifying. "No text—no text,” wns the general voice —“none of die par on—none of the parson.” “Nay, my beloved children—' the preacher begun, nil', a lull good-humoured looking Cel iow, n Georgian, with the lull hiec, lively o eyes and cli'ii' 1 skin ot that slate, came up to him, and laid his broad hand over his mouth. “Sunt. up, parson, it’s no use. Von cau’i b ■ heard now,for you see ii’s only c.vdiiy to hv ’he devil have iho fl ior, seeing he was up first It, now, you had been quick enough with your pr yer-hook, and got the wlnp-lian I of him confound me, bul you should have snug oil' the song lo the end of the ve se-| hut i you've been slow, parson—you’ve been sleep ing at your stand, and the deer’s got round you, \ oil’ll get u noked hy the old one, yourself, il you don’t mind, for neglecting your duly.” “Fo ice, vain young man ” He was about to bogui a furious denuncia tion, hut was allowed lo proceed no farther The clamor was unanimous around him ; and one tall follow, somewhat dandyishly accou l red like myself, coining forward, made a show of so zing upon the txliorlcr. Here I inter posed. “No violence gentlemen j ii’s enough that wo haves leiiccd the mail,ld. huu not be hurt.’ "Ay, if ho will keep quiet,” said the follow, still threat meg. “Oh, quiet or not,” fa d the Georgian, “we mustn't hurt, the parson. Dang it, he shan’t he hurl. 1' I stand up lor him. Parson, I’d s'and up for yon; but by the llukey, old black, you must, keep your oven close.” 1 joined m Ihc promise that he would be qu ci and oiler no bin her interruption, and ho s i lar seemed to warrant, our assurance as, without proin'sing himself, to take a sea', as. ter a few hah-siippresseu groans, on a bunch near the table, on which wo we e about to play. I was first struck with simp con of the fellow by this fact. Iftlicmatter was so pan ful to bis sp rit, why dal he linger in our neigh borhood when there was so many parts of I lie tmiit to winch li 'might, have retreated 1 The suspicion grew stronger wnon I found him, after a little while, as watchfully ut onlive lo Iho prog,-css of iho game as any of the players. Favourably impiesseo with Iho frunknoss of the Georgian, I proposed that we should play against ihe other two persons who were prepared to sit. down lo the table and my oi ler was closed with instantly. We bet on I eaen hand, on the hig.iest trump, and on the ganio with each ot our opponents, a dollir , h 'ingthc amount of each bet so that we I,ad ) a good many dollars staked on the gem ral re sult of Ihe game, 1 know that 1 lost nine dollars before the cauls had been th icu dealt. I now proceeded lo Iry some of the tr eks which I had set n others perform, and :n parti euf'ir that in which 'he dealer, hy a peculiar mode ot’ scuttling, div des (he trumps between ms partner and himself. My object was to lix the atlent.on of one ot my opiionents, whom 1 suspected from ihc first to be no bet ior li an ho should be, simply’hecaiißO he wore a habit not unlike my own, and was covered with trinkets in iho same manner, lint, 1 jaeked experience; there w m still n trick pvanting which no slight of hand of mine ts u d remedy. Thong ' I sii' lli *d the cards as L had s >en them shuffled, by drawing He tn alternately from lop and bottom together, ) found noil her in ne nb-iny parl.nctS? Hand any he. ter Ilia i before, ami looking no with smne afl'e ted chagrin m my counlcna nee, 1 eanglii sight ot what seemed lobe an nmi- r,-,|. mdr, g I smile between the opponent in qne.-.iion and ihe ptr.-on, who, sitting a little o i one sue; us me, was able lo look, il lie desired it, mio my hand, 'i ll's discovery, as I thought it, gave me no little pleasure. I was resolved to test it, and ascertain how lar I was correct in my oi.opto.. „c I O 'lured mynoll (.llUt I VVIIB 11. a lair way lo fall upon the eluo which , n ,„i„ conduct me into the vciy midst of mo gum filers, who ore ah supposed lo bo connected, more or less, on the w stern waters, and yield me possession of their secrets. Accordingly, I displayed ronie id iny cards ostentatiously b fore Ihc eyes of the preacher, and hud m ct sion in observe, an inuiimt after, ll.at ihe play i f my opponent seemed lo bo regulated by a cer am knowledge of my bund, lie finessed c n t ■ fitly upon my lead; and with an adroit ness winch coinpe.led iho continual expres son of wonder and dissatisfaction from 'he lips of my parti t. I was satislied, so far, •villi the result, o my cxuer'ment, nod began to thmk of pausing before 1 proceeded finli'T; when my Georg an dashed down his curds as me game was ended against us, and cried out to me, with a countenance which, though flu-hod, was full of excellent feeling— ‘ L ok yon, si ranger, suppose vve change. We don’t seem to have luc',; together, and there’s no 1, <n being all the time on Ihe lo sing side. The bad luck may he wilh me, or ft mxy be \v,ih you, 1 don’t say, but il cun do no iiiir;., to shift it to other shoulders, whoever has it. I’ve been diddled out ot twenty s.x i a d ilo 'a s, m mighty short order.” *D dd e !' exclaimed my brother dandy, whir an air of ii eli’ihle heroism, turning to my pari, ntr. VViilioin discomposure the other replied: ‘ I don’i inoa'i any harm when I say did ! died, stringer, so don’t he uneasy, i call it , dm’dl tig when I lose my monev, fight os hard fl -pa- I can. That's the worst sort of did ! dl ng I know.” Tue other looked fierce for a moment, but , he piobahiy soon discovered ihul Ihe Georgian had replied without heeding Ins air of valour, and there w issorneihing about his composed manner winch rendered it at least, a doubtful point whether anything in the shape of art in sult would not set It s bulky frame into over ’ powering exercise. . l-4 —->v-. r V#h. K> • m . MW»<Tr. '.7J COMMERCIAL. CHARLESTON MARKET, OCTOBER (i, lii making our usual inqoiri h yesterday, relative lo the hiisiuesn ot llio week, wo have been led lo believe that ihe imirkci eoniinnes in die same lan guid slate as bus been recorded (or some limn past, not I fiat there has been any falling off in iho price of the slap'os of I lie country, or m produeu g.mnr ally, bin iha want of purchasers. Alihongli ilia season has .i.riveil, when business generally coin* i lie nees whh us,therein its yd eomp.trnlively nolli . ing doing. Iho epidemic slid rages wi h mediated virulence, vvlneli prevouis ihc must of our business men from reluming to ihe r-iiy, ami Inis altogelhcr slopped ihe ingress ol slrangeis ; and we cannot ex peel a change fur llie bolter until ilns final malady i s toll have ceased to exist. Our King slreei, anil our I’earl-slreet dealers, anticipating nn early (all 1 trade, have already received,anil are s'aily adding to ' their unusually splendid nssonmenl of goods; and ! from ibe advantageous term- iv.ui.T which iliei’r pur chaser h" vo t'cen eti fieri, we hazard nothing in saying ih-il country merchants, and those in the ? surrounding stales, when our eiiy shall bo free from sickness, will find it to llieir advantage to try our i market before «-‘■r basing ofsewbero dUmn’Aia ~r ■■ —■ » Cotton —Wo have nothing now lo communicate elaln- to this article,except that tharo may have men a brisker demand during thn week, for «ueh of ho now crop as ha- fom.U its way i„ market, and or iho finer soils ot Ihe old. hi* true that several 'mail lota ol the former have gold H | an advance of i . coni p r Ih but wa do noi think that Uplands lave advanced, and inn,si altrihiilo Dm rise to the "ct, Ihal (or ilicse Keveinl panic,dar lo a, there wag tome competition, lienee iho rale of 131 oenig which was paid J lie operations are ysi too limited lo eg- Uinlihh our rate*. /ficc.-iho himinc-s Os the week, in Uice, hag : i I'mneil, and ihe market clo»e<l heavy yeg h , lav, l idin'it nor rale, W. qil .„e inferior to Sa n ’ 4 in ° ■;7 ,u; "‘, |,r " le ’ 4 r ’-- «) 4 87* ; choice, A • Iho slock i* accuniiihiting U m in.—Wo have ogam to n p irt another dull WCOK 111 lie <•rain market, in consequ -nee ol the nh-c"c,i n| arm big. About 250 bundles of Hay have hcei rc< 'wed Hinca our lam, but have not as ycl changed .mod*, in con-iqiiciice of the high nri ccH iu v\ Inch n in held, nuiiely $2 per |o:> Ih* i Tl 1 "" ~w" . !' ‘ lull arhcle throughout the wtch, and lasi week h pi ten, were with dillieuliy mai ilain d. ho Mod- i, li-hr.sufßci r»l, however, i'm UmTT ‘ S "" M a ">' <1 ui.tiry arrive, the hiiu Ip must doprermie in value t,u„ 11 if, 1:, ihe articles comprised under this C. I "‘CIC" very In lo doing, »nd that linle con ! ■ I. .he cny trade ; , hero however, no falling I 11 i'n t 1,ll * ,or, ® | ion« of ihe week have fcw lilomsTlllgn r °* USW '* 89 b ««* - Jlicon .—The glock on gale continues very light. ll ' , ,lors . l,nvo al pre-em qumnihmg, .Thvc ‘," V 6 S ,T II ln,a t uliich an. limited t .?' i‘ ,t,3 '.'.i fl " ls I;,a 14 i ■'himMors, 12 V’ ./ .e,‘"' H ' 1,1 n 11 per lb ~ | husiito s done in I, ird, m conse !• . , 'he small supply on gale, hag heon oon inicd lo ihe rclmlors WoquutolSa Ifi els. per lb. HALTIMOUR MARKKt, octurkr 2. *l*l* 1 Is Very calm, and irinsac* oi ~ vK" < ", l i , Sal, ' s 1,1 <'owar.l.Ht.. !S | Ilnur, inic 't , )palora generally ask the lallat W, a " < . m I’ |p m '"is uniform ni 07 iiO,»l t'i S “ ° " (ibl,laC ''V Mill* Hour al 88, 11. Jl„g is, we believe, Ihe only transaction j, ihmde.scnyt.on which has taken place for some ,f^hw S ’nn- ,ir n' 1 i,or ° rnnt93a 93 cents, and Vi ii.m, ol y>a 9o ecnlH. _‘J egos h ails at 15 cents, and of bblg > 47 coins. 1 h wagon price of bblg is 40 cents exclusive of the barrel. .-e, MA,UINR INTELLIGENCE. —.—: Z3zaer~_~ ~ \ ii ()tl ' o—’.ri', Clip Celia, Dnckmiin or' •hißiird, Merrill, I.ivcrpoo!: hri I'millae, h Ml" o, hn,; K,|«i„. Herd, l>i,i ,i,l. Ip a; ,cln’ til ii •ii In ;i, Mult churl' Sinn; sch cn Si.nnl, Iluml, I h, ;N. ’ciiv 1 ! ’l'r hr J 'liorl.l , Wniiil, Allgmtu V I ' 6-Arr j.si.Klnv. |„- nniml, .'knimiig, I ,v. i inn. ; NL-hr P.iiaffint, IDnailluil, h.!h’.hnth:..;n" tU ' 0, ’ r ’ bln hi tie, ph. a, llcgutu.; CM, «> hr -Vhlgnil, Vincent, W Indies. “ ll “* ■ ;l ‘- " U "‘‘ P'ickst GcV Dudley, Ivy. Will.lil.g ffyjj ,ss TSIA IN will eonhnuo her gchoolonlho 1 ’ J premises id Ifev. .Mr. Davis, at iho fcund Hills, nimit encing Ovinlior 3lst. IJ" year i- divided into four th rrs, of twelve weeks each, having a vocation of one week al the L'lose ol i nch term No pupil will ho received (hr less than one term. ' 'idam l’ er '""mm $7O. 'J'uition lor jotmger •iii i.H bul). i’aymeniH mudo quarierly. so)ii 27 swFm sotrrui-wbktkrn rTil-uoad ' lIA NK. |>()l'KS will ho I.pcnnl by the undersigned » >< nmmiKHrnners lor spick In ibis Hunk, or the 'ih day ol October m xi,ai Hamburg, and continue open between the hours of 10 and i o’clock for .10 days. Every M. ckl,older n lire Unil Road, vvhn shall pay np the sc,m:d inslulmciii on Ktii l " n s ""'k, is eii'iilcd In suhscrilio f,.r mi equal ' mh’rnl -Shares in Iho Hank. Twelve dollars ad u hall on eaeli Share s . sul)icrihed for in the li.ai,/ , must he pad a; tin- time id subscribing, either In Ine l.ianmissiiirn rs, or In the Cnsbicrnl any V ,,ak "! I"'" . or « it A Meeting of the Stockhnf ders Id ihn Hank, in person nr I,y proxy, will be held in dcrleslnii, on the 2"ih November, when Hi-' Mni her font will he organized, ~„d Hr, nches csiali iiihcil m iNorlb (ajrolitm an ■ Tcnnegsee, as somi Ihercnn, r ns possible. A copy ol lire Char ters is in our hands lor examination Sigtreil, W. W. STARK li, ) ( c " rnmis3,onor “' S "P' 18 trw7w TA i wemy duiiuik iwnmu. fißanaway from the subseribor, about a mnnih since, a negro girl by th- name ol A pboiisinc, likely, and about six lei n years ol ago. The above reward will bo paid lor her apprehension and delivery to J. P. SETZE. ung 27 trwtf J 5! AOLSON TE.IIAIJ'ACA.DEJSIY. f" Jlli linsjocs ol this instihihon "rt-i'eMrous to " employ a gent lemon and ai least one lady, to lake charge id lire Acuderny lor the ensiling or n '•■nn ol years 'I hey will receive proposals until lire 3rd day of Dec,mb. r next. The school is at pr. sent in a most flourishing condition Buch is Ihoiiiimher of stud, nts, i lint I,‘ic tuition money of lire Lih.rury depart merit, will an. unit In npwa clg ol tweiny ivvo hniiorc,l dollars. The jSlustcalde partmcnl Is also offered lo a competent instructor. In this Inane 1 ' bum fourteen to fifteen hundred dollars will ho realized. Onr academy arid Musical Saloon arc finely situ ated—a spleiniid uppa'alus, with every necessary coni enh me, is at hand tu fncilimio Ihn prugresg of aline and liberal course of ethical ion. Uur village is remarkably healthy, and our popu lation cun.- lulilly increasing. The progressive slate of ihhigs present the strongest inducements Inrihe location ol the fn i lahnla m lire conn ry to em bark | rofitably a, I cegslully, in the lion,arable prof'JSbio.i ol insUucii.ig yoitlii. t,. 10. JUNES, 7 T. J. BURNEY, | J. EVANS, i Trustees. J. VV POUTER, I J. KOIISON. J Madison, September 29, 1838 svvlSt SC 7.5 Vl' ll IIK,T ItKA C I'tlK SA 1-10. AJ Will he sold, if applied for shortly, the lot | jJ mid iinpn.vcnicnlsnltheSand Hills,known . i the Turku,at Spring Place, flirmcr'y ~wno ' and occupied by (id 7'humnH .oGian. The lot conlainins tw. nly five acres, a largo part of w Inch is in woods, mid i:,<dudug Tnrki,oil’s Spring, Iron, which lire City <>f Augusta is supplied with wilier. On the pnanises :na cumfortuble dwelling wnh all other boil,lings necessary fer I h ■ accom modation i f o laimly. Possession can be givnn inimediutoly A lgo —A -mall I.ot containing between two and three acres, s parine from the above by the Mil ledgr ville Rea I, Apply lo May 8 nnh HENRY If CfTMMINO. ENG him HIGH Sfliooix, " fjJVfllv siihscril.cr res ,'ciiiilly informs iheinhahi t! Pmis of Ancusin, itmi the first winter quarter of I lie above school, will commence on the first Monday of Oct,.her, in the room recently occupied by or. Pike, nn the Norlh side of Elba-slreel, a lew doers below Centre-street. I u ill on (,re quarter ol twelve weel *, in advance, ns follows: l'-.r the Elementary branches §7— Iho higher branches, S>io. sept 20 trwtf VV. R. RRICKETT. fO* '1 ho city papers will please copy the above. OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY. ' riVHE oxammalif.n of Students of iho tV’ .( h and Academy, will lake place on ff" and Tnesduv, the 2 ( ,);h und 3' th of Ocrot, sr> f() (I iired by an ethil.iiion of original Oration* dsr" Web e-i.lny, 3!st, (commencing dav’/ by ,he Junior ami Sophomore cl e- s. The annual rnceiing of ilia Hitn-j n i 7-.,, , will hell Id on VVolnesdnv, ihe 31st Ocrobor ’ Candidate* for admission l 0 iho College mav nnply at ihe cl, so of the examination, or „’n the fit; t Monday in Jntmary. fhc beginning of the Co Irgo year. SAME. K TALiIfADGE.Set'v" ’ oct 8 Stvv