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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA. __
Friday Mornltiß. October 19*
* Georgia Congressional Election.
A friend has kindly forwarded to us from Mil.
ledgeville the aggregate official returns of the late
election for members of Congress from every
county in the Slate, as received and counted at
the Executive Department, and the following is
the final result. The average majority is 1303.
Dawson, 33128
Alford, 3219 V
Habersham, 32150
Colquetl, 32287
King, 32090
Nisbet, 31724
Warren, 31705
Black, 31075
Cooper, 31002
Campbell, 30989
Iverson, 30907
Patterson, 30912
Graves, 30789
Hillyer, 30678
Pooler, 30768
Burney, 30705
Nelson 30570
McWhorter, 30520
The following is an extract of a letter to the
Editor, dated
MrtT.RDRr.viI.LK, Oct, 16, 1838.
By Express from Columbus, we learn that the
Court House and Clerk’s Office were destroyed
on Sunday night, by fire, supposed to be the
work of an incendiary. All papers of value
were destroyed. The Court was to meet on
the next day.
Dinner to the Convention.
nF.GtJI.An TOASTS.
1. Our Country. —Our love for her begins at
home but it does not end there. Hail Columbia.
2. Political and commercial Independence. —
Our fathers fought for the one—let Ihcir sons
■work for the other. Washinglon’s March.
3. The Northern Stales. —Pioneers in enter,
prize—most honored when best imitated. Yan
kee Doodle.
4. Tennessee. —Making her first appearance
at our “ third assembly,’’ like a maiden from be
yond the mountains—lt is her privlegc to “ open
the hall.”
After the applause which was drawn forth hy
this sentiment had subsided. Col. JERNEGAN,
a Delegate from Tennessee, rose and responded
to it in a very handsome manner, and concluded
hy offering a sentiment highly appropriate to the
occasion.
5. Virginia. —The cup of her fame is sud—
/ she has but to fill that of her prosperity.
6. North Carolina. —Modest and unassuming
but pure as her own gold.
7. South Carolina. —The flames of her com
mercial emporium have but brightened the path
lo her high destiny.
The Hon. B. F. DUNKIN, of Charleston, re
sponded to this sentiment in a most happy and
eloquent manner, to the great delight of the com
pan)’, —concluding his response with the relation
of an anecdote illustra ive of the character o(
Georgia, which was amusing in the highest de
gree.
8. Alabama —Rising from her “late depres
sion like a giant from his wine.”
Mr. BEENE was called up hy this sentiment
in honor of his State, and in a short hut impres
sive speech pledged the cordial co-operation of
Alabama in the great enterprise of Southern im<
porlalions.
9. Mississippi. —The fertile valley of her
Majestic River invites her to agricultural indus
try—its deep perrcnial current beckons her to
commercial enterprise.—Let not her people ho
deaf to such appeals.
Col. JOHN H. MILLER, of Mississippi, one
of the three Delegates from that Stale, was called
up by this toast, and responded to it in a very
happy manner.
10. Florida. —May the productive value of her
fruits, equal the beauty of her flowers.
To this sentiment Col. GADSDEN, of Flo.
rida, President of the Convention, responded in
a few impressive remarks characteristic of the
man and honorable alike to himself and the Tcr
litory he represented.
11. Georgia. —Her natural position points to
her high destiny. She will not he slow in pursu
ing it.
G. W. CRAWFORD, Esq. being loudly called
when the applause for this sentiment had subsi
ded, responded to it in a very eloquent 'and suita
ble speech, which was listened to with great at*
tention hy the company.
A large number of volunteer toasts were also
given and a number of other speeches were made,
the festivities of the occasion being continued un
til a late hour at night; hut as we have been able
to obtain but very few of them we have deemed
it unnecessary to publish them.
Augusta, October 1 8th, 1838.
At a meeting of the Delegates from the Stale
of Georgia to the recent Commercial Convention’
William Doaring, Esq, was called to the Chair’
and Ossian Grogory’appointed Secretary.
On motion ofN. W. Cooke, Esq. it was unnni
mously “Resolved , that, in accordance with a
resolution of the Commercial Convention recent"
ly held in Augusta, that the Delegates now pres
ent, recommend to the citizens of the different
counties in the Stale of Georgia, to send delegates
to a State Convention at Millodgevillc, on the se
cond J\londay in November next, lo deliberate
on such measures as may bo deemed proper and
necessary to recommend to the Legislature, for
the purpose of promoting a direct export and im
port trade with foreign countries.”
Itesolved, 1 hat the Delegates present will use
their best efforts to procure a full attendance of
Delegates from the different counties of this Stale.
Oa motion of Jno. Phinizy, Esq. it was Jlesol
veil, 1 hat a committee of be appointed to
prepare a petition and obtain signatures praying
Congress to make the city of Augusta a port of
entry; and Jno, Phinizy, Jas. Harper, and Denj,
H. Warreu, Esqrs. were appointed that commit
tee.
On motion of G. B. Lamar, Esq. it was 7?cso/-
ved, That the public gazettes throughout the
Slate he requested to publish the proceedings of
this meeting, and that the Chairman and Secrc.
tary be requested to sign the proceedings.
The meeting then adjourned.
WILLIAM HEARING, Chairman.
Ossian GtiKuoar, Secretary.
The “Dear People.”— Who has not obsorv
ed the sickening (latte y with which the self-styled
democracy court the people. From the county
candidate to the Presidential dignitary, this prin.,
ciple holds sway. Just let a democratic candi
date declare himself, and it’s all through the agen.
cy of the “dear people and he stands “inspoti,
sable to sarve ’em to the best of his compacity
Let any public act he contemplated, and the dem
agogue-democrat, however small the act may ho,
whether it may be to elect a clerk or "sign the
die ,” submits it to the “dear people” with a Jove
like gravity. Now, what do these obsequious
hows and fulsome flatteries amount to I To just
what they desire; they don’t care for the confi'
dence of intelligent men, because they know they
cannot command it; their object is to gull the
multitude; and how often and how well they
succeed, an ill-governed country may answer.
But higher up, as we have just remarked, in the
Congressional chamber, ami in the Presidential
chair, this principle holds a powerful ascendency ;
and with none is it more dear than witli the dem.
ocratic parly. Iftho deposites arc to ho removed,
the banking system to be overthrown, the people’s
voice is usurped with a profound bow ; if the pet
banks are to he selected, with another bow, that
voice is changed hy the people’s very humble
servant, and the “banks arc the only efficient
safe-guards of the public money and now, when
political sagacity discovers that the President’s
own hands are its safest depository, the tune is
again changed ; and “divorce of hank and state”
rings through the country !— N. Carolina Star.
Pouch of the Rimes. —A grand procession
of radicals, with colors flying and drums heating,
passed through our streets this morning. It con
sisted of a youth mounted on a cream colored
steed, four gentlemen (of leisure, we presume!
in a barouche, a mammoth porter bottle on "a
platform, with four other gentlemen to keep it
steady, a car load of musicians, a hickory tree
placed horizontally upon axles, with a small
troop of little hoys as locomotive spectators. As
this elegant cavalcade passed our office, the youth
at the bead thus addressed a drayman pursuing
his business with patient industry : “C d d n
your heart, get out of the way.” M uno disco
omnes! — Phil. Nat. Gaz.
Muuueii. —We understand that a man hy the
name of Blackstone, and two of his children
from North Carolina, were murdered in Pickens
District, almost ten days since. Wc have learn
ed hut few of the particulars, and are not sure
they are correct. It is said that Blackstone and
his two children were travelling in a carriage,
driven by a negro hoy—that they passed a toll
bridge towards night, and in a short time after
wards two men on horseback enquired for him
at the same bridge, and passed on. The next
morning the negro re-crossed the bridge in the
carriage, and was asked where the white persons
were, when he answered that he was removing
them to some place in the neighborhood, and
had left them. In a short lime the two men
mentioned above passed the bridge, hut in such
t , >>rß m i——— ' -rwiinini
u a hurry that no questions were asked them. In
if the course of a few hours, tho bodies of Mr.
, Glackstonc and his two children were discovered,
having been murdered the night before. It was
supposed that Mr. U. hud considerable money in
r his possession.
We have not been able to learn whether the
I murderers have been arrested or not, hut shall
probably receive an authentic statement of the
horrid ailiiir in time for our next. — Greenville
! Mountaineer.
John Jacob Aslor, of New York, is said to lie
worth the trille of twenty five millions of dol
lars—mote than twice tho sum left by Stephen
Girard. This, at six per cent, would produce
i one million five hundred thousand dollars u year
—one hundred and twenty-live thousand a month;
font thousand one hundred and thirty.three doU
lars a day—one hundred and seventy three dol
lars an hour—two dollars eighty-seven and a
half cents a minute—and nearly five cents n
second ! He will bo rich by and bye.
From the (Art) Little Rock Gazette.
Threatened Indian Hostilities on the
South-Western Frontier.
Wo heard, some weeks since, that considerable
alarm has been excited on the south side of lied
River, in Texas, in consequence of its being as.
certained that the Mexican government was send
ing emissaries among tho southwestern tribes,
for the purpose of engaging them in a league to
massacre or drive all the inhabitants from that
section of'Tcxas, and that one of those emissaries
(a Mexican officer) had been shot by a friendly
Mexican, and his sword, epaulette, Journal, and
other papers, with bis mule and trappings carried
to tho nearest friendly post —all which informa
tion together with a copy of the journal, had been
scut to the commanding officer at Fort Towson ;
hut vve felt some scruples about noticing the re
port, until received in a more tangible shape. We
now learn, however, by an officer of the army, di
rect from Fort Gibson, that the same information
and journal had been received by express, by Gen.
Arhucklc, commanding that post, who considered
it of so much importance, that lie immediately
ordered two companies of dragoons, under the
command of Captain Ttcnor, to Fort Towson,
where they will act as circumstances may require.
We also learn, by a gentleman from Hempstead
county that several families residing south of Red
River, have been so much alarmed by the report,
that they have removed across the riser, into this
state, and that considerable alarm still existed in
most of the settlements south of the river.
These reports, from being corroborated from so
many diffident and respectable sources, leave us
no room to doubt that a deep laid plan lias been
formed by the Mexican government, to rid the
Tcxian country of all its while inhabitants, by
employing the neighboring Indian tribes to aid in
driving them off, or massacreing them—the boun
ty offered, being a division of all the country they
may succeed in depopulating, together with the
effects and properly of the inhabitants among the
captors.
Since tho above was written, we have been fa.
voured with tho perusal of a letter fiom Ocn. Ar
hucklc, addressed to the Governor of this State,
together with a copy of the journal of the Mexican
officers alluded to above, and two letters from
Texas, one of which is from DAG Wright, (who
translated the journal,) dated Lima, on Red River,
25 miles casl of the Kausso Washita, 2lsl Au
gust last, and the other from M .1 W Green, writ
ten about the same time—both detailing some of
the operations of the hostile party, and their rea
sons for apprehending a general war in that quar
ter.
Wo publish below the letter of Gon. Arbuckle,
in which it will be seen that Capt. Collins, who
has charge of the ordnance stores at this place,
has been ordered to furnish such munitions ot
war as may be required for the use of our mill ia.
Our limits only permit us to make the follow
ing extracts from the other letters :
Mr. Wright says:—“There is, at this time, on
the head waters of the Trinity, and west of it,
and on the Sabine, Loth north and south, various
tribes of ludians and Mexicans prepared for bat
tle, and many arc now crossing, it is believed, to
join the other tribes. Mexico has had her offi
cers since May last in actual service, buying over
the Indians both in Texas and the United States,
and have succeeded. Numbers of Cherokees
have passed across Red liver, and have formed a
rendezvous at the Cherokee town on the Sabine.
You may look for one blow to he struck, that will
lay waste our country from Nacogdoches to Fori
Gibson, unless an army bo in readiness on our
frontier immediately.”
The Mexican officer, he says, was killed by a
young man whom he had employed as a ilot
and interpreter. At the close of his letter, he
adds a nolo to the following effect:—
That he had just received a letter, in Spanish,
from Gen. Fclisola, (the Commandant of the
Mexican forces,) in which he orders his officers
to offer the entire country to the Indians, and
those who partake if. the war, and all goods, chat
tels, &c. taken, to he held in reserve, and placed
in deposile, to be equally distributed at the close
of the war, that no time is to be lost in establish,
ing posts to facilitate communications to him, to
; enable him to send double forces to the weakest
points; to stop at nothing to make one general
, rush, and to conclude the war at a blow, he does
i not care in what way; and to receive the families
. and children as hostages for the government to
dispose of at the close of the war.
i Mr. Green urges, in his letter, that every man
t who can be mustered, lie despatched immediately
i to the frontier, to meet the Indians. He says,
i “we have direct information that Capt. Farmer
1 and thirty of his men have been killed on the
' Sabine, by the Indians, within the, last three days.
Glandless’, Lewis’, and several other plantations
have been sacked, and their places surrounded,
1 since Saturday, fry hostile Indians. The road is
' completely lined with wagons for the lower
prairies.”
I The journal of the Mexican officer is a brief
memoranda of every day’s proceedings, from lire
1 26th May to the 12th August last, noting the
1 different tribes ho visited, their feelings, and dc
! cisions on his propositions for them to join him,
&c.; and leaving no doubt of the errand he was
’ on, and tnat he found but little difficulty in per,
1 suading the Indians to accept his invitation to
! wage a war of extermination of tho people of
1 Tex a*.
It docs not appear, from any of the papers,
that there is any intention to commence hostili
ties against the people of this State; but that
! would follow as a necessary consequence, if they
> prove successful against the Tex i ans. Wo are
1 glad that General Arbuckle has acted with such
promptitude, in despatching a portion of his
command to Red River, where they may have it
* in their power to render essential service in pro
' lecting that frontier from encroachment, and
' where, also, they may he employed in preventing
any of the Indian tribes residing north of Red
1 River, from joining those south of that river, in
: waging war on the citizens of Texas. We pre
: surnc the Governor will take the necessary steps
f for having our militia organized and in readiness
I to march to the post of danger, in the event of
their services being required; but our own im
-1 prossion is, that they will not be required. The
1 plans of the Mexicans, vve think, have been de-
/
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i v l e, °f fe ; l ™'[ nos ,">an they intended, and when
. they find the i'c.uans prepared for them wo
, doubt not they will abandon their project’ and
j withdraw, at least lor a time, within their own
i limits.
Heati Quaiitkos,
s Second I) kot. W. Division, C
I Fort Gibson, Sept, 5, 1838. S
. To his Excellency, Sam. C. Roane, J
■ Acting Governor of .Arkansas J.
Sin:—l herewith transmit for your informa
tion, and that of the people of Arkansas, the
enclosed journal of a Mexican officer, and two
letters in relation to the war in Texas, which
were forwarded to this post by the commanding
o (fitter at Fort Towson. Intelligence was rcceiv
cd, by this night’s mail, from Fort Jesup, which
1 Prows, beyond n| doubt, that a war has actually
commenced in that country. This information
is given, that the inhabitants of Arkansas may
boon the alert, and ready for action; yet it is
hoped that our frontier will be respected.
Instructions have been given to Capt. Collins,
the ordnance officer at Little Rock, to furnish
you with such ordnance and ordnance stores as
you may require, for the use of the militia of
Arkansas, should it be necessary for the inhabi
tants on the southern border of your State to
embody for their defence, which will probably be
required before a suitable regular force tan be
assembled in that quarter.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
M. ARBUCKLE,
Bi’l. Brig. Gen. U. S. A.
It has been of late much the fashion to laud
the system of education established in Prussia ;
hut, excellent ns that system may he, it is ques
tionable whether, on the whole, the school estab
lishments of Holland are not entitled to quite as
much admiration. In the latter country infinite
pains ore taken to enlighten the rising generation,
a policy which we should be pleased to see more
generally adopted on this side of the Atlantic.
Nominally, we have schools, hut in too many
instances, it is to he (eared, they exist only in
name. Education is, unfortunately, 100 much
regarded by (ho mass of mankind as a thing of
secondary importance, when its interests arc
brought into collision with matters of more pres,
sing emergency. The farmer is too apt to think
that the securing or pitching of his crop is of
much greater consequence than leaching his
children to read and write, and forgets that in
proportion as their intelligence is cultivated so is
their capability for enjoyment enhanced, ami
their capacity for usefulness enlarged. The
scarcity of labor in Ibis country is a serious oh
stacle in the way of learning, as it furnishes a
motive for withdrawing children from the school
room, and placing them where their physical
exertions will be more immediately profitable.
One thing should not he lost si>hl of, which is,
that education adds much more to future profit by
enabling people to know hoio to work to advan
tage than is lost at present from the mere want
of bodily labor.— llalhmore American.
We yesterday noticed one of Fanny Wright’s
political lectures. It seems the “lady” had not
fio orderly an audience upon a more recent occa
sion. We regret that die opposers of her outrage
ous doctrines should have permitted themselves
to become imitators of the Loco Foco*. The
following article gives a brief detail of the scenes
of Sunday night. The levellers may learn from
this, the consequences to which Iheir own conduct
leads. They gagged men for an honest expres
sion of their disapprobation of vile absurdities.—
in return, they get a lesson upon toleration. —
Richmond JVhiv.
Fanny VVincur at Masonic Hail—On
Sunday night Masonic Hall was nearly tilled with
a mixed multitude of friends and foes to hear Fan
ny Wright, the high priestess of infidelity, lec
ture on her anti religious and political doctrines,
ns she “understands them.” It was soon appa,
rent, however, that she was not at home in her
new lecture room, and that more opposers and
reprobaters of her doctrine, than friends and sup
porters of it, were present. She was soon as
sailed wiih hisses, and after she had lectured for
nearly an hour, a fight sprang up, and then
another and another, until six sturdy fellows of
antagonizing faith and fists, were pounding and
bruising each other most magnificently. The
combatants of this church helligcrant, were, how
ever, soon arrested l-y assistant Alderman Crolius
of the Clh ward, and Justice Taylor of the upper
police, aided by some officers, and one fellow was
sent to the watch house, hut soon after dischar
ged. The fight over, the most strange and dis.
cordant noises and hisses were uttered, with cries
of put her out-put the old out—down
with her, Ac. &c., accompanied with sundry ex
pressions too indecent to mention—until the lec
turer was compelled to retreat to her covert, and
cease to clamor against religion, monopolies and
hanks, and the lecture was consequently broken
up. It was evident there was some disposition
in some of the ruder portion of the assemblage,
to use violence of a very degrading kind to tire
lecturer, whose disciples were too few, (the wo
men present included,) to protect their petticoaled
divinity. (She was frightened, and had to rely
upon the protection of Alderman Crolius and
Justice Taylor, who led her out of the room and
up the street, followed by nearly a thousand hoot
ing after her. These gentlemen then placed her
in a carriage and conducted her to her home in
Canal street, unharmed. The scene in the Hall
was most disgraceful. Those who do not wish
to hear the lecturer should stay away.—JV, Y.
Transcript.
' Fits Poetry or Mathematics —The poet
Campbell is said to have calcula'ed that a man
who shaves himself every day, and lives to the
. age of three score and ten, expendsduring his life
as much lime in the act of shaving as would have
sufficed for learning seven languages.
In criticizing a book you arc at liberty to re
. mark upon every page. In criticizing a news
paper you must look only at its general tone
and character. An author may write only when
the spirit moves him. An editor must write
whether the spirit move him or not. —Boston
Times.
Pimento on Alisficf..—This elegant pro
- duction grows spontaneously, hut in more
abundance in hilly situations near the sea, for
ming extensive groves of most delicious fra
grance. It is purely the child of nature, and
mocks every attempt to improve its qualities.
A pimento walk is procured by no other labor
than appropriating apiece of woodland In the
neighborhood ofa plantation already existing,
i or in a country where the scattered trees are
found in a native slate, the woods of which
being fallen, the trees are suffered to remain
on the grounfl till they become rotten and pci
, ish. In the course of twelve months after the
first season, abundance of young trees will be
found growing vigorously in all parts of the
land. —There is not in the vegetable world a
more beautiful production than young pimen
to. The trunk is smooth and glossy, free
■ from bark, and 15 to 20 feet high; its leaves
arc of a dark green, like those of a bay tree,
and form a beautiful contrast to its white exu
berant (lowers, and the leaves are equally
L■ I I »»
i exuberant with the fruit. As to its prepara
-1 tion for sale, the berries are always gathered
green; for the admission of ripened fruit would
considerably diminish the value of the com
modity. They are gathered by the hand,
spread on a terrace and exposed to the sun till
they become of a reddish brown, and when
dry are sent to market. A single tree has been
known to yield 1 cwt of dried spice, or 150
pounds of raw fruit; but as good ctopsare only
contingent, the value of the commodity is not
so alluring as others, so that many plantations
of pimento arc now exchanged for sugar in
the West Indies.
A Rainbow at Midnight.
This peculiar ami sublime phenomenon was
witnessed during u thunder storm in New
Jersey a short time since. The editor of the
Bridgeton Chronicle gives a most beautiful
description of the grandeur of the scene, in
which he says : “The whole western horri
zon from south west to north east, was begirt
with clouds piled on clouds like Pel ion on Os
sa ; and the play of electricity from head, to
head, was sublime in the extreme.” It is
added—
“ The Hashes followed each other in such
rapid succession, ns scarcely to discover any
interval. The cloud rose slowly—and we
chose a favorable position and gaztd upon the
grand and imposing spectacle with subdued
reverence and delighted awe, until the eddying
winds admonished us to seek shelter from the
threatened tempest. The cloud, however,
soon passed by, and with hut little rain though
it fell in torrents nearly all around us. Alter
the blast of wind was over, which was about
II o’clock, we sallied forth again to look up
on the scene —and what was our delight and
astonishment to behold suspended upon the
black curtail! of the west, a beautiful rainbow,
caused by the moonbeams. The arch was
entire and bore a perfect resemblance to the
how of sunshine, except color—tins being a
glistening while. It was remarked by a sci
entific man present, that ho had never wit
nessed the like before.”
The Mind of Man.
Who can chain the mind of man, or bid the
imagination down from her lolly height?—
When the body exhausted by labor sleeps to
be refreshed, the mind, unwearied, except with
earth, takes it fl glit into the land of spirits,
and converses with the inhabitants of the un
real world. Now it sweeps, like the blast of
winter, over the lair face of the earth, chang.
ing and moulding its surface, with childish
sport, rearing palaces and temples, in the air,
—anon, o’er the frozen surface of the North—
above it wanders, pausing, and with fingers
fantastical wreathing the flowers on the jut
ting points ot the rude rocks, and twining the
luxuriant vino over Hie sparkling tops ot the
sungildcd glaziers. Ami now, when the face
of'the ocean is troubled with the first hot breath
of the coming tempest, it is on the deep—or
with the spirits of the air, viewing the dread
ful preparations of the gods to scourge, with
the hurricane, the earth and waters. Now,
seated with the god of tempest, in whose car
are harnessed the black steeds of night, whose
dusky manes flung athwart the sun, o’er sba
-1 dows the earth, and makes the pale faced man
■ look paler. Now perched upon a cliff that
’ o'er looks the fight, it views with eyo serene,
the strife of man. Now with unlimited ken,
it pierces the veil of distance, and gazes with
J rapture upon the glory and grandeur of the
land of the saints, sees the bright spirits of the
good floating like summer clouds around the
throne of him who rules the tempest, and holds
the water in the hollow of his ham). When
the remembrance of departed friends, or some
dear relative, whose Jove was prised above
the goods of this earth, comes over the mind
it sends it back among the scenes of our youth,
and the friends of our early days, with a sad
ness like the murmur of the forest when win.
ter has stripped it of its leaves, and strewn
them in anger upon the bosom of the earth
Who would awake from such a dream, or
doubt the realities of a life beyond the grave?
Louisville Enquirer.
rtcHiitifnl Extract.
lie builds too low who builds his hopes be
neath the skies. Let us then be chiefly
anxious respecting the present that we may
know how to profit best by it, and respecting
the future only as it is connected with our in
terests in another world. Behold the various
exquisite scenes which open before our eyes
as we proceed in onr walk. Look at this
path which winds before ns till it is lost in
shade. See how beautiful its borders are di
versified with plants of every tint and every
form. Mark how the light breaks in from
above, and bow it trembles among the leaves.
Listen to the note of the wood pigeon, the
distant lowing of the cattle, and the bark of
the watch dog.—How beautiful is tins scene
and its attendant circumstances!
Yet all the earth is changeab'o. The yel
low tints of autumn have already begun to
discolor the leaves: the winds will speedily
lay those loaves in the dust, and the whole
face of nature will soon be veiled in the snowy
mantle of winter. All these circumstances,
therefore, all those changes, even to the fall
ing of a leaf, ought to be received hy us as
so many warnings not to rest, in present scenes,
but to press forward to those which are eter
nal. And alllio’ there is nothing in this sen
timent which has not been repeated a thousand
times, yet f believe it cannot be too often re
pealed or too deeply felt.
The Pirate and the Dove.—The fol
lowing interesting fact is related by Audubon
in his Ornithological Biography. In speaking
of the Zenaida dove, he says—A man who
was once a pirate assured me that several
limes, while at certain wells dug in the burn,
ing, shelly sands of a well known key, which
must be hero nameless, the soft and melon ■
choly cry of the doves awoke in his breast
feelings which had long slumbered, melted bis
heart to repentance, and caused him to linger
at the spot in a slate of mind which ho only
who compares the wretchedness of guilt
within him with the happiness of former in
nocence, can truly feel. He said ho never
left the place without increased fears of futu
rity, associated ns he was, although I believe
by force, with a hand of the most desperate
villains that ever annoyed the navigation of
the Florida coast. Ho deeply moved was he
by notes of any bird, and especially by those
of a dove, the only soothing sounds ho ever
heard during his life of horrors, that through
these plantive notes and them alone, ho was
induced to escape from his vessel, abandon
his turbulent companions, and return to a fa
mily deploring his absence. After paying a
parting visit to those wells, and listening once
more to the cooings of the Zcnaida dove, he |
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111 mm—mmmmSi
poured out hie soul in supplicution for mercy*
and once more became what one has said to
b<'. ‘the noblest work of rjod.’ an honest man.
His escape was effected amidst difficulties
and dangers; but no danger seemed to him
to be comparable with the danger of one liv
ing in the violation of human and divine laws/
and now he lives in ponce in the midst ot his
friends.
The editor of the Wheeling times has (ho
following just and feeling remarks upon the
subject of newspaper publishing, winch cer
tainly has ‘more truth than poetry.’
“ 1 hero is a mania lor publishing newspa
pers in this world of ours, that is more fatal
than the small pox, the cholera or the yellow
fever.—Ninety in a hundred meet their de
struction in it; yet ns fast as one dies another
takes his place, gets innoculated with the wri
ting fever, thinks ot gold and glory, turns
newspaper publisher, drags on a worthless
life, ha f ted, half clothed, toilsiday and night,
heart, sick, and weary; the public slave, yet
wielding an engine which properly restricted/
would move the world, or make its inhabitants
tremble.
“The press cannot be (roc or useful while
it is trammelled with poverty and dogged with
duns. So situated, it will, it must he, at the
berk of every vvhiper-snapper who lias money
to keep the printer’s soul and body together.
This Slate ot tilings will not do. We move
that the printers of the United Slates divide
off in halves, and jess, to see which shall go to’
digging ditches or pickingstone coal for a liv
ing. It, would improve the condition ofboth
halves mightily. Wo look upon every new
paper that Is started, very much ns we do up
on every new murder that is committed. We
think there is another man lost to every thing
that is useful, lost to himself, and lost to the
world, and doomed to a purgatory from which 1
salt cannot save him. We think that the last
days of that man will ho worst than the first—
but all must live and learn. We have become
n little hardened to the business, but if wet
had life to go over again, we had rather adopt
the trade of fishing for minnows with a pin 1
book, than that of publishing a paper in the
United States.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
SAVANNAH,Oct. 17.—Arr hr Pandora, Shepard,'
Providence.
CHAIiLKSTON'Ocf. 1R —Arr yesterday, fr hr Victo
ry; S« vy, Bordeaux,hr Either, Newcomb, Alexandria,
(1)0,) hr Ward, Card, Boston, sehr Ontario, AUlcn,
Tliomastoni
In the OfUng,ship Eutnw, AU’ert, from New York.
FALL AND WINTER. GOODS.
WILLIAM CLAGOETT
IS receiving and opening, at 238 Broad street, rd
few doors above the Post Otßee eornorjn rich
anil well selected assortment of Eresll Fall Dry
Goods, comprising every article in the lino, viz :
Cloths, cossimerss, satinets,satin velvets, vestings/
rfee., super matleonis, Paradises and verilasos, J
and 5-4 black Italian silks, plain and figured colored'
and blue blacK silks, wide apron silks, 3-4 and f.-4
Merinos, English and French, all colors; superior
figured Merinos lor cloaks and dresses ; British,’
French and American calicoes; largo assortment
handsome lurnilure calicoes; scarlet small figured
calicoes; Hosiery, of silk, cotton, lambs wool, &e.
! ter ladies, gentlemen,misses and youth ; Gloves,of
silk, kid, coi ton, heavy bnkskin, &c. all sizes;
Blankets, 10-4 to 14*4 whitney, rose, mackinau and
. saddle; Flannels, large assortment ol white, grey,'
, yellow and red ; Domestics, sheetings, shirtings/
i homespuns, drills, <Vc.; Irish Linens, warranted
. pure linen yarn and very cheap ; Real British Idtlg;
cloths ; a few imperial Marsoills Quilts, assorted
sizes; Pilot cloths; Flushings; Negro cloths;
! plain and figured door cloth ; baizes, &c;, with nn
* extensive variety of fancy goods, such ns new style
of bonnets, hooiis anil ribbons; Ladies'and Misses
.shoes and slipnero ; worked capes and collars;
hem stitched colored bordered, and splendid em
broidered canibrnk ild Id's ; la,icy dross I.’dkfs and
; rich i hibet Shawla; Merino and Tartan
p aid JSliavviH ; Lacea ; Edgings ; Iniwriioim ; striped
and plaid Swiss and juconett Muslins; Slocks,
cravats,collars, bosoms; colored cheneitb eord •
sow ing silks, assorted ; spool and /lux thread, with
every article in die line.
His friends and the, public are invited to call and
examine his assortment, which will be sold on the
most pleasing terms. trw2w oct 19
KrTlic Constitutionalist will copy the above.
" M AHISON FEMALE ACADEMV. "
ritHIO Trustees ol this institution aredesirous to
-I employ a gentleman and at least one lady, to
lake charge ol the Academy for the ensuing or a
term of years. They will receive proposals until
the 3rd day of December next. The school is at
present in a most flourishing condition. Such is
the number of students, that the tuition money of
the Literary denar. merit, will amount to upwards
of twenty-two hundred dollars. The Musical de
p rtmonl is also offered lo a competent instructor.
In this branch from fourteen to fifteen hundred
dollars will be realized.
Our academy and Musical Saloon are fine'y situ
alcd—a splendid apparatus, with every necessary
convenience, is at hand to facilitate the progress
of a fine and liberal course of education.
Our village is remarkably healthy, and our popu
lation constantly increasing. The progressive state
of things present the strongest inducements for the
location of the first talents in the counlry to em
bark profitably and successfully, in the honorable
profession of instructing youth.
K. E. JONF-S, I
T. .1. BURNEY, |
.1. EVANS, Trustees.
J. W. POUTER, (
J. ROBSON. J
Madison, September 89, 1838. sw)st
CHOICE LIQUORS.
JUST received and for sale by PETER GOLLY
opposite Stovall & Simmons’s Ware-house,
15 quaiter casks domestic Brandy
4 half do do do
1 do pipe old Cognac do Ed. DepuiV*
2 do pipes do do
3 quarter casks old Poinsct's Brandy
3 do do do Champagne Brandy
10 eighth do do do do
5 bids old Apple Brandy
2 pipes Holland Gin
1 do do do extra
I hhd Jamaica Rum
18 quarter casks Malaga Wine
4 do do Bordeaux Claret Wine
3 bids Cherry Cordial
15 do old Muiiorigahela Whiskey
10 do New Orleans do
15 quarter casks Madeira Wine
4 do do best old Madeira Wine 1
10 do do TonorifTe Wino
4 half do do do
25 boxes Medoc Claret do
20 do Port do
25 do assorted Cordials
5 casks London Porter
20 baskets old Champagne, choice bland
40,000 best Spanish Cigars ,
20,000 do Florida do
15,000 different kinds do
Also, an assortment of Fruits, Confectionaries
mid Groceries, suitable lor families,
oct 2 swt w
fARESH FLOUR, Ac.—3obWsCamdFlour
10 half hhls Rye Flour
5 hbls Northern Shad
5 bhls Pickled Herrings
pi hhd Dried Cud Fish
20 boxes Smoked Herring
20 boxes Paiont Vellow Candles
1 ha In G otton Twine
30 casks London Brown Stout
5 bids superior Cordial
25 qrcasks Brandy
Received and tor sale by JNO,COSHERIf.
oct 3 if