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|f WILLI Ain E. JOWES. # AVCiVSTA, «EO., MOWDAI EtEWKCJ, AIIfiUST 39j 1 837. , **- , ] -Yol I .. Wo ' ""' i - s)nbUsljtli DAILY, SEMI-WEEKLY ASD WEEKLY, At No. 461 Broad Street. TERMS —Daily papet, Ten Dollani per annum Sonli-wenkly paper, at Five Dollars ISHierelofore i.i advance, or Six al the end of ihe Year. Weekly paiier, Three Dollars in advance or Four at ihe end of the year. .CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. ~AircljsTAl ijaturduy Evening, August 20, 1837. =~ FOR GOVERNOR. GEORGE R. «ILITIIER. In this evening’s paper will be found an inter esting account of the capture of a Devil-fish, from f a correspondent of the Cearleslon Mercury. k The Van Boren papers in this Stale, so far as grove have noticed, with the exception of the Con piitutionalist, have made no comments upon Gen. f-Jackson’s two tellers, in which ho accuses his ’deposit banks of treachery, and all merchants of a Want of patriotism. Some of them do not even cSSablish them, hut let them pass by, totally unno ■ced, as if such documents had never met their Gentlemen give us your opinions of those ■tiers, and of the truth or falsehood of the char ■os they contain! ■ STATE OF PARTIES IN THE AP PRO ACHING CONGRESS. V. B. Whig. ■ Maine, 6 2 I New Hampshire, 5 0 I Vermont, 1 4 I Massachusetts, 2 10 ■ Connecticut, 6 0 I New York, 30 10 ■ Pennsylvania, 17 11 ■ Delaware, 0 1 New Jersey, 0 0 M Maryland, 4 4 ■ Virginia, 15 G ■ North Carolina, a 8 ■ South Carolina, 3 7 ■ Georgia, 8 1 ■ Tennessee, 3 10 ■ Kentucky, 0 13 ■ Indiana, 0 7 ■-Illinois, 3 0 ■ Ohio, R 11 ■ Missouri, 3 0 ■ Michigan, 1 0 ■Louisiana, 1 3 ■Arkansas, 1 0 ■ Mississippi, 3 0 ■ Alabama, 3 3 124 115 ■ Thu election in Rhode Island is yet to lake ■ace, and one district in Alabama yet to hear ■>rn. In the latter it is probable that Lawler, is elected. In Rhode Island it is believed ■at the Whig ticket will also succeed —if so, Brlics will stand in the House, V. B. 124—W. Hs. Bln the last Congress the Van Burcn party had ■majority of upwards of twenty, and if all the ■odious had come on this year, it is more than ■obable that a majority of Whigs would have ■en elected, j ■ The Columbus (Miss.) Argus says:—‘ From ■cry section of our Slate wo learn that the corn ■id cotton crops will undoubtedly prove abun- Rnnt. This is cheering for Mississippi, We Pcarn also from the grain growing States that foery thing bids fair for a rich harvest. With lenty ol the products of the earth wo may bid cflance to all currency “ experiments .” Sr, Augustine, Aug. 12. Another Gaik.—On Sunday morning last, m were visited with another gale much severer lan the first. The wind commenced blowing um the N. E. and blew with violence until bout 11 o’clock A. Mi when it suddenly changed i the N. W. The tide rose considerably higher han usual, but no material damage was done.— l portion of the wall of one old house was blown own. To the north of us the effects of it were more icverelv felt, at St. Marys we understand that nuch damage was done. Most of tbs Pride ofln- Slia trees there were blown down. The store of [ftUr. Samuel Clarke, was broken in and his goods o the amount of 5000 dollars were damaged; the oarket house was carried away. The steamboat Florida, which was lying at the wharf had her ide broke in. An iron steamboat was blown into he marsh at Amelia narrows. Ai.olhcr steam mat was blown ashore near Fcrnandina. Nine sen houses were blown down inFernandina. The nail currier reports that the road from the head of he North River to Pablo, is much obstructed by alien trees. A report reached us on Monday from For. Cing, that the Indian chief John Hicks had come n there with several Indians with a proposition or a deputation of chiefs (o go to Washington. Ater information from that quarter does not ful y confirm the report ; hut it is slated that John dicks with several Indians had made a visit there. He said he wished to get in alt their young men ; hey were out committing depredations and were incontrplablo; tnat orders were given by the ;hicfs forbidding them to commit any depreda ions, or to kill any while man. Something was laid about a deputation of chiefs coming into Fort King. A human skeleton was found on the beach of .Anastatia Island about fifteen miles south of St. Augustine on Thursday last. It is supposed to have been one of the victims on board the Dol phin, when she blew up in December last, which had been buried there, and was washed out by the gale of Sunday. Gen. Jesup is still at Black Creek. Pensacola, August 17. The Late Gale.—There are painful rumors afloat of wrecks upon our coast, occasioned by the severe gale. Nothing having reached us, how ever, of an authentic character, we abstain, for the present, from any statements connected (with the reports in question. — Gazette. A letter received in this city, from n gentleman at Fort Gilliland, says, “The Court is now silting. The Grand Jury have indicted tire negroes tor the murder of poor Gilliland, and they are to be arrang ned to-day,” Since the reception of the above, ’we learn, bv an arrival from Black Creek, that the negroes in question have been found guilty, and arc ordered or execution on the ensuing Monday.— lbid. We learn from a gentleman who was a pas senger in the schr, George & Mary, which was lost during the gale of the Ist and 2d inst. the following particulars:— This vessel came to anchor about 10 o’clock, on Tuesday morning the Ist, soon after the gale commenced, in G fathoms water, about three miles to the northward of St. Johns Bar, the wind blowing N. E. and St. Johns Light House bear ing 8. VV. The gale rose duiing the day, but the vessel continued to ride out safely, until be tween eight or nine in the evening she was found lobe dragging her anchor. The best bower was then let go which soon brought her up. About 10 o’clock ahepr *ed the cable of her best bower, and again draggeo. Orders were immediately given to make sail and slip her cable. The wind catching on her starboard bow, immediately after 1 slipping her cable, she paid oil’in shore and was fast driving upon the north breaker; and although | her head sails were upon her and her mainsail , close reefed, it was some minutes before she could lie made to wear round, and head out to sea. The scene is represented as being truly awful. The sea lashed into fury seemed all on fire. The breakers in which no vessel could live were im mediately under her lec ; and ihe wildest uproar of the elements prevailing seemed at limes to usurp all commands of the vessel—notwithstand ing the tremendous sea that was running, with the head of the vessel sometimes plunging into its depths, which would break the headway for tho moment throw her stern aloft almost or quite out of water, so as to loose all command of the helm, she made tolerable weather and suc ceeded in heading off for most part S. E. by S. and clearing the breakers. The land being close under lee the Captain dare not lay too, but con tinued thro' the night to force her through this tremendous sea under close reefed mainsail, fore sail and jib with the bonnet off. In the morning land was seen from 3 to 3 miles oil under her lec. Thejib had been split during the night and only the head of it remaining, and about G o’clock they beheld with dismay the fore sail split, shivered and lorn into fragments. The vessel then of course lay too from necessity under the mainsail and drifted. The upper tier of her load was then thrown overboard and part of the lower tier ahead. She had become the sport of the tempest, and it was evident she was going ashoic—no human power could save her. With in a short distance of ihe hcach her mainsail was settled away as far as it could ho, the end of the gaft lop-sail halliards having become wound hy the wind round the peak down haul near the end of the gaft, which prevented its being taken in al together. She however paid off under the head of the jib and immediately struck—a terrible sea striking her al the same moment partially on the starboad quarter. The men at the wheel howev er met her promptly and the next sia struck a stern. The larboard main sbrouds were then cut away and a few blows struck with an axe in the mainmast,when another heavy sea strikiughur lar board quarter, swept over hurrying her many feet under water, carrying away her mainmast and lay ing her in the surf broadside to the sea. It was then about high water. The sea continued, for hours, to break,with great volence over the wreck, sweeping away every thing, and every successive sea burying all on board, in tbe water. The Captain’s Indy had b en brought upon deck a few minutes before the vessel struck, and plac ed Ly the companion way near the mainmast, with a rope lied about her waist and made fast io tho larboard mainshrouds—when. the mast fell she must have been inevitably killed and dragged overboard, had not the mainmast caught by the springstay, (the) rigging which connects the heads of tbe fore and mainmast) and prevented the lat lei from falling entirely overboard—before the springstay was cut,so as to suffer the mainmast to fall, her situation was discovered, and the rope by which she was tried, was cut just in lime to save her. When it was judged to he about low water one of the seamen velured into the surf, wbh a rope, and succeed ’d in reaching the shore, and in making it fust near the sand hills. By this rope the Captain, his lady and child, were separately taken onshore, being so much exhausted when they reached the shore, as to bo unable to stand and the child apparently dead. Some of the slaves belonging to the plantation of Mr. Perpall, about a mile and a half distant, soon came to the wreck, and a Horded great relief and assistance ; so soon as they were able they were taken to the House of Mr, P. whose kindness and hospitality is spoken of in the highest terms. The vessel and cargo were entirely lost. We learn that the highest credit is due to Capt. Williams for his determined resolution and able seaman ship during the gale, every thing was ordered ■ with the utmost coolness and composure and exe cuted by his officers and crew with great prompt ness and intrepidity. It is the opinion of the gen tleman to whom wo arc indebted for these par ticulars, that in few other hands, would a soul on board have been saved. The schr. went ashore 8 miles north of St. Augustine bar. From the N. Y. Com. Adoirtiser, Vug. 23. Wall stiielt. —One o'clock —There is but little difference in the aspect of the stock market to day. Specie. —No sales at tho board this morning. We notice American gold at 9j a 9$ premium; half dollars 9J a do; quarter do. a—; Spanish dollars 11 a 11J do; Mexican do 10J a 10 1-3 do; Five Franc pieces $1,03 a $1,03 1-2; Sovereigns $5,35 a 5,37 t-3; Doubloons 17.30 a— ; do Patriot $ 17,75 a— Tueasubt Diiafts have again advanced. §ISOO were sold at s|, and a like sum at 6 per cent premium. We learn from Bicknelt’s Detector, that the Exchange Bank of Pittsburgh have made on ar rangement by which their notes will be received indeposito and at par in the Philadelphia banks. This is the first instance of the kind that has oc curred with regard to any bank west of the moun tains. The same paper states that fifteen hundred dollars of the Lumberman’s bank at Warren, Pa. were sold in Philadelphia, on Saturday last, ala discount of eight pet cent I Sales of Stocks at Philadelphia, Aug. 21, —50 shares United Stales Bank, 30 dayss. o. 117. Regatta. —Yesterday the grand sailing match took place between sundry boat clubs, in tho Delaware. The distance to be sailed was from Kensington to Chester and hack, being 44 miles. The whole distance was run in four hours and ten minutes —tho wind e. few points north of west, and blow ing fresh. Before stalling the Liberty upset; she was righted, and hauled out. Tho following we un derstand to be the result of the race: Tho Washington came in head by one hun dred yards, in 44 miles. Liberty, No. 3. Ariel, No. 3. William Blight, Dismasted. Count Pulaski, Upset. The boats started al 11 o’clock, A. M., and re turned at 3 o’clock and 10 minutes, P. M. We are told that the Liberty lost seven and a half minutes when starling, and came in two minutes after the winning beat.— U. S. Guz. ofrhe 23d. Deaf Bcuke yesterday settled definitely the mooted point whether he was a coward in pugilism as is said to have been asserted by O’Connell. Af ter sundry insulting taunts from O’Connell for a year past, they met by agreement at Hart Island, near Hell Gate, yesterday at 9A. M. In three rounds O’Connell was as limber and life lifeless as a rag. The “deaf un” let bim have his sport out by allowing his antagonist to hammer on his knowledge box, which is ns hard as a bul- ; lock’s, till he had bruised his knuckles and worn out bis wind. Burke then put a smasher into hi,bellows organ, somewhere in Ihe neighborhood of the kidneys, and O’Connell fell al his feet, and when raised could not stand on his peg*. So the “deaf un” leaned over him, looking at his rival with pity and contempt. Tho used up gentle man was then borne off. Burke appeared in tho evening st the Franklin theatre.—aV. Y. Star. The Harrisburg Telegraph says that, in about a fortnight, the Cumberland Valley Rail Road will be in operation from Carlisle to within two miles of Harrisburg. When the bridge over the Susquehanna is completed, there will then be a continuous rail road communication from Carlisle to Philadelphia. Never did an Irishman niter a better bull than did an honest John, who being asked by a friend, “Has your sister got u son or a daughter,” answered “Upon my life. I do not yet know whether I am an unde or aunt." Fatal Rashness. — A certain editor in Massa chusetts has just got married! The Southern Telescope thinks be is crazy, unless hia wife has an appetite to live on.old exchange papers. 1 From the Boston Alius, r RHODE ISLAND POLITICS. 1 The developments of public opinion in Rhode i Island would seem to be highly lavorablo to the au cess of the Whig candidates for Congress at I the election, which ia near at hand. Changes ! are rapidly taking place in quarters, which threa -1 ten the total defeat of Van Bureutsm in the State. Unless Mr. Dulco J. Peace can import some perjured voters from Washington, “under the conduct of McKim.s clerk,” to sustain him. he will soon be left “solitary and alone" in his igno miny. His old friends arc jfasl' deserting him. Governor Fenner, who was President of the Con vention which nominated Van Buren, and has been a s annch adherent to the party, refuses, in a letter published in the Providence Courier, to give his support to Mr Pearce, who, lie says, will be defeated by 700 majority l This is the un kindest cut of all. Poor Pearce! His bull-of- Bashan roar will be missed in the ball of the House. Van Buren could “have better spared a better man.” Another indication of the revolution of political opinion in Rhode Island, is pro rented in Ihe avow ed secession of the Hon. Wm. Sprague, a mem ber of the last Congress, from the ranks of tho administration. The, Tories wished to run this gentleman upon the same ticket with Mr. Pearce; but Mr. Sprague, with exemplary good taste, do dined the association. Ho has since come before the public in a letter to James D’Wolf, Esq. in which ho denounces the policy of the administra tion, and takes a candid view of the existing stale of affairs in this country, and the causes which induced them. After tracing the inordinate expansion of our paper currency to its true origin—the war against the U. S. Bank, and the despotic removal of the deposilos, Mr. Sprague continues: That portion which was sent to tho West and South West was, undoubtedly, tho cause of the commencement of the land speculations, and was loaned out over and over again for that purpose.- Ncw Banks wetealso established for the purpose of receiving a portion of these deposiles, Tho law altering the standard value of gold was passed in June, 1834. By the operation of this law up wards of thirty millions of coin and bullion came into the country, over and above the exports, even where the balance of trade was against us, and immediately became the basis upon which new banks were established. In consequence, therefore, of these measures of General Jackson, the banks and banking capital of the country have increased nearly three to one since the Ist of January, 1030. They have afforded facilities for speculations in land, and in almost all kinds of property, and in connection with the law reducing the duly on imports, have been the cause of excessive importation, and sad dled us with a very large amount of foreign debts. Wo have seen how their banks have been crea ted, lot us now see how they have been effected. The Treasury Circular requiring gold and silver in payment of public lands was issued in July, 1830. By tbe operation of this instrument,about seven millions were abstracted from their vaults, in as many months, and placed on special depo sitc in the deposite banks, to the credit of the go vernment.—Continued drains were made upon them hy tho Loco Focos, who had arrayed them selves as a party against all Batiks, and for ought I know, against every thing else that is useful. Remittances were called for to liqui date the balances against us in favor of foreign ers. Tito consequence was ceitain. The banks were at once deprived of the foundation upon which they were erected. A suspension of spe cie payments, and a general prostration of bust ness and industry, was the inevitable result. From what I have said, it necessarily fallows as my belief, that if Gen. Jackson nxo let “ WELL ENOUGH ALONE” AS HE FOUND IT IN 1830, THE EVILS WE NOW SUFFEU WOULD HATE been spaued us. I do not believe, that the •banks would have increased beyond the wants of the legitimate business of the Country. Conse quently, speculations in lands, over importations, arid a surplus revenue could not have existed ; and lliore could not have been any necessity for the suspension of specie payments. Bul the past is beyond our control. We may if we will, provide for tho future. We must have a general currency ; gold and silver for its basis, and a circulating medium equivalent to it. The government of the United Slates has the power, and it is its duty to furnish such a currency. It is idle to suppose, that it can he furnished by the fluctuating legislation of twenty-six independent State governments. As well might wo suppose that the movements of an army could be judici ously directed by 26 independent Generals ; or, as well might we say, that the government of the United Slates was a supernumerary machine.and that all the legislation necessary for the nation, could be furnished by the twenty six independent State Legislatures. I will make a single remark upon the Loco Fo co system. 1 consider this system a war upon labor and industry, and upon property, which is the otlspring of industry. Its advocates are op posed to all hanks ; and what despot is not; and for the very reason, that they enable the people to have a control over their own labor anil in dustry. Were tho subjects of the despots of the old world permitted to have establishments so that they could control their own labor and in dustry, the tune would not he far distant, when they would shake despotism ilsell to its centre. But be this as it may, we cannot have an exclu sive specie currency ; and for the best of reas ons : that is, we have not got, neither Can we have, sufficient gold and silver for the purpose. But hanks, to bo most useful, must bo regula ted. Fixed rules must he prescribed for their government, or else they will become the tyrants in turn. I look upon a-well regulated system of vital importance to the tabor of the Country. The one calls it into active employment, and en hances Ihe value of the productions peculiar to tho Country, when exported; the other, protects it from foreign competition and interference, with such as are common to other countries as well as our own. Excuse the length of this letter, and hear with me, one moment, while I refer more particularly to myself It has been said that I have changed my principles. This is a mistake. I am not aware of any change. As an anti-mason, I have been connected with the Jackson parly.— You know, sir, that the whigs of Ibis Btato oppo sed ihe anti-masons. Tho consequence was, a union of the anti-masonic and Jackson parties.— It was a union of men and not of principles; or rather a union of men professing different prin ciples. The object of that union, on the part of the anti-masons, has been accomplished, Bt least as far as this Stale is concerned. On several tneasurcs of general policy, I have differed with the Jackson party, I have voted against them in our Stale legislature and in Congress. Since the” have become more am) more Loco Focoish, and seem determined to sink or swim with this new system, destructive as I think it is to the general interests of the country, I shall feel it my duty to express my sentiments, by giving my vole against them again. Were Ito do other wise. I should indeed think I had changed my principles. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant. WM. SPRAGUE. Hon. James D’Wolf, Bristol. Talleiband. —Os the never ending, still be ginning anecdotes of this old man, some arc to good to be fictitious. Wcmel will the following to day:— ii Talleyrand is the only man'alivo who has the art of doing witty things. On the death of Charles X. he drove through Paris for a couple of days, wearing a white hat. Ho carried a crape in his pocket. When he passed through the Fauxbonrg of the Carlisls, the crape was instant ly twisted round hia hat; when he came into the quarter ol thoTuillerics, tho crape was instantly slipt off, and pul into his pocket again.” The following we have seen before, but it has been thought sufficiently unworn, for a place in a late number of Blackwood. It is, without i doubt, authentic. 1 “ A woman of rank wrote to Taliemnd a long and lachrymose account of the loss of her hui band, hoping, perhaps, that tho gallantry and sen e aibility of the minister, would acc.'rd her a pen c si n. His whole letter in reply was, “ Hclas 1 Madame.”- A few months after, the widor a wrote him word, tint she had consoled her gric . with a second husband, a young officer, and re !. quested a continuance of the minister's favor, f.i j horselt and spouse. Talleyrand’? second repb a was simply “Ho ! ho! Madame!” 2 Tho following is good, hut noWi characterjetii . as to insure its authenticity. , “When told the Duke of Rassanno had rc . turned with Napoleon from Moscow—’Thou tin s bulletin lies,’ said Talleyrand, ‘ for it states lha i the Emperor left all his baggage.’" > The two following anecdotes are very probably I true : “While Secrctaiy of Foreign Affairs, a young . man was recommended nsaltnche loan embassy. . ’Copy this,’ said Tallcyiand. throwing him a me r morial. It was copied. ‘Bah 1 what are you about!’ said the minister. ‘Drying the ink,’was I ihe reply. “Then you will not do for a French . embassy. Blotting paper betrays secrets.” “A certain lady requested his name in her j album. He gallantly consented, and commenced i penning a verse. ‘Stop,’ said she, verses will Jo ; from inferior men, but the name a Inn col Talley rand is glory enough for my hook.’ He gave her I a keen glance, and wrote the name —but al the i top of the page. Next day all Paris laughed at . the dextrous evasion by which he had escaped ■ the vexation offinding his name in a few days, signed to a billet of 10,000 francs.” “All this,” says the writer in Blackwood, “is dexterous; hut what is this verbal dexterity tolh e practical skill, with which this extraordinary man has contrived to battle all the casualties of thirty years, full of tho ruin of all pliwvr, ability, cour age and fortune I Here is the lurvivor of tho ago of the Baslilc, the age of the guillotine, the age of the prison ship, and the ago of the sword. And after baffling tho Republic, tho Democracy, the Despotism, and the Restoration, he figures, in his 80th year, as the embassador to England, the minister of France, and retires from both offi ces, only to ho the chief counsellor, almost the coadjutor of the King. That where the ferocity of Robespierre fell, where tho Sagacity of Napo leon fell, where the experience of the Bourbons fell, this one old man, a priest, in a land of daring spirits, where conspiracy first, and soldiership after, wore the great means of power —should survive all, succeed in every thing, and retain his rank and influence through all change, is unquestionably one of the most extraordinary instances of conduct exhibited in the world.”— Charleston .Her. From the t ha lesion Mercury. BAY POINT, Aug. 17, 1937. I give you a hasty narrative of an affair, which took place yesterday, between your humble servant and a Dovil-lish. It Is due to you, ns a native of ibis region, to whom all the localities are familiar—as a sportsman every inch, to whom such narratives will be a pleasure, and furthermore, as having in some sort provoked the adventure, by a recent boast of your own exploits in the fishing lino. On Saturday the August, taking advan tage of a short cessation in the storms that signalized the week, I crossed from Bay Point to Hilton Head, on n visit. In the course of the excursion, I saw eight Devil fish sporting on the surface of the water. One lay directly in the track of my boat ns I spanked away under a press of sail. He thrust up both wings n loot above the surface, and kept them steadily erect, as if to act as Jails. I liked no: the cradle tints offered me,- and veered the boat, ho us just to miss him. Hu never budged, and 1 passed so near, as ea sily to have harpooned bun, if the implements bad been at hand. The Devil fish (in numbers thus unusual,) had doubtless run into the inlet to escape the gales; for from repeated observations, I am pe.’suaded that fish are provided with an in stinct, by which they are tore warned of con vulsions in their proper element. The sight of these fish disturbed by rest, and I fell uncomfortable, until I found myself planning an attack and providing myself with the needful apparatus. A harpoon two in ches wide in the barb, between two and three feel in the shank, (a regular whale) was turn ed out from the work shop of Mr. Micklor. Forty fathoms of half inch rope were purchas ed and stretched! To one end the harpoon was firmly attached ; the other, passing thro' a hole cut in the bottom of it tub, in which the rope was carefully coiled, to bo fastened to the forecastle. An eight oared beat was inspected, new thwarted, and nrw tlmln-pin nod; and a dele nailed firmly on the forecas tle, to support iho right foot of the harpooiier. A day was fixed, and friends and sportsmen were invited to repair to the field of action; but the weather was uupropitious, and but two boats appeared. At six o’clock on Wednesday, the 19th August, vve started from Bay Point, on our cruise for Devil-fish. Itr my boat manned by six oarsmen and a steersman, I was accom panied hy my son, a youth under eighteen. In the second boat were G. P. B , and VV. C. E.-qrs , (talk no more of peg horned bucks Mr. Editor) will) a crew of tour men. The armament of the larger boat consisted,besides the harpoon, of a lance, hatchet, and rifle: that of the smaller bout, was 2 bayonets fix ed in long staves, (the line which was to hate been rigged to a second harpoon, having been swept away with a sharp hook attached, by an overwhelming spring tide tho night be fore.) We stretched away before a fresh Northeaster, tor the Bay gall on Hilton Head, and then struck sail, and made all snug for action. Masts, sails, awnings were all stowed away in the bottom of the boat, the anchor with its rope, was transferred to the platform for trim, and that nothing should in terfere with otir running gear. Hero a large shoal of Porpoises came plunging about us : the harpoon was poised, but none came with in striking distance ; and after ho ng tantal z ed by this show of unexpeciqd'sport, a nfle shot among them, sent them booming off, and left us leisure to pursue out proper game. We lowed slowly along between the Bay gall breaker and the shore, on the early ebb, expecting lo meet Ihe Devilfish on their re turn from Skull Creek, the scene ofjtheir high water gambols.— The smaller bout, with oilt •pread sails stretched off and on,traversing the same region) but on different linos. No fish were seen. We advanced in front of Mrs. E’s. avenue, and look another survey, and thus slowly extended the cruise to Skull Creek, while our consort stretched away as far as Pinckney’s Island. The ebb was half spent; and we began to despair. I landed on the beach at Hilton Head, yet kept Ihe boat all iat, and two hands on the look out Before a quarter of uu hour hud elapsed, “there,” cried our look out man. I followed the rliiection of his hand, it pointed to Skull Creek channel, and'l saw the wing of the fish two feet above water. There was no mistaking it—it was a Devilfish. One shout summons ■ lie crew to their posts—the oarsmen spring to the oars: The red flag is raised to signs! mir consort, and we went roaring on in the direction in which we had u ,j eti him. Once again before we had accomplished tho distance, lie appear ed a moment on the surface. Tite place of harpooner 1 hud not ihe gene rosity to yield to any one; so I planted my self on the forecastle, my left leg advanced, my right supported by ihe dele, my harpoon poised, and three fathoms of rope lying loose on the thwart behind mo. The interest of the moment was intense; my heart throbbed audibly, and I scarcely breathed, while expect ing biro momentarily to emerge from the spot is- yet rippled by his Wake. Tho water was tc n- fathoms deep, but so turbid, that you could in n- see six inches beneath the surface. We ha 1 ■ small chance of striking him, while his visi IW Jo llteSforfucc wore so sudden and so brie icf “There he is behind us!” “St mi all”—an c ‘ our oarsmen, as before instructed,backed wit ’ r all their might. Before wc reached the spn • he was gone: but soon reappeared on ol j c right, whisking around us with great velocity sod with a movement singularly eccentric e . He crossed the bow—bis whig only is visitl 10 —on which side is his body? I hurled do tv at my harpoon' with all my force. After sh lapse of a few seconds, the staff' came bound lying up from below, to show me that 1 ha missed. In the twinkling of an eye, the-fisl flung himself on his“buck, darted under th f. boat, and shewed himself at tho stem, belly w; c- Tom dapped his unarmed hands with disap u piontinent as the fish swept by him where In is stood on the platform, so near that he niigli h have pierced him with a sword! And now tin fish kept wantoning about us—taking no nott t of our presence, circling round us,with amazinj d rapidity, yet shewing nothing but the tip of hi 0 wijtg. We dashed at him wherever ho-appoar '■ eilffiut he changed position so quickly that wi r were always too late. Suddenly,his broad falacl 10 back was lifted above the water directly befon ‘J our bow. “Forward!” the oarsmen bend to tin stroke, but before we could pain our distance ’’ his tail flics up.iSt is plunging downward for hit depths. I could not resist—l pitched my liar e poon, from the distance of full twenty-nine iect. It went whizzing through the air, ami cleaved tho water just linncatli the spot where the fish had disappeared. My companions in „ our consort, (who had now approached within B fifty yards) observed the staff quiver for a se cond before it disappeared beneath tho water. This was unobserved by myself, and I was , dra win jin my line to prepare for a new throw, , when ho! the line stopped short! “Is it . possible? I have him—the devil fish is struck!” 1 Out fl es the line from the bow—a joyful shout ■ burst from our crew—our consort is lushed to our stern —E. and C. bo!It spring aboard— i and hero we go! driven by this most diabolical of locomotives! Thirty fathoms are-run out, and I venture a turn round the stern. The harpoon holds, and ho leads gallantly off fur Middle Bank— tho two boats in tow. He pushed dead in the eye of a stiff northeaster. His motion is not so rapid as wc expected, bul regular and bu siness like—reminding me of the mutton of a canal boat drawn by a team of stout horses. On Middle Bank, he approached tho surface —the rifle is caught up, but soon laid aside as useless, for no vulnerable part appeared.— We then drew upon the line, that we might force him to the surface, and spear him—l soon found that was no situ. “Tom don’t you want to play a devil fish? 1 have enough to last me an hour, so here’s my pi co, if you de sire it.” B.’ho’d mo now reclined on the stern scat, taking breath after my pull, ami lifting my umbrella to repel the heat of the sun. Jt was very pleasant to sec the woods of Hilton Head recede, and the hammocks of Pans Island gnny imp distinctness, as wo moved along undef this novel, anil yet unya tenied impelling power! “You will find this melon refreshing, friends! at twelve o’clock, let ns tqlte a glass of wine to our success.— Tom why dont you pull him tip l " Tom held up his fiunds from which the, gloves had. been stripped clean by the friction of the rope.— “We’ll put three nieuto the line itiid bouse on him.” Ho comes! George seizes the lance, but tho Devil Pish stops ton (eet below the surface, and cam bo coaxed nearer. .George sinks his long staff in the direction of the line, feels the fish ami plunges the lauen info him It is flung out of his body, and almost out of the hand of the spcarsinun by the convulsive muscular effort of the fish. When drawn up the iron is found bent like a reaping lump, and tho staff broken in the socket. The fish now quickened his speed, and made across Daws’ channel for Paris Bank. “Just ns wo would have you my old boy—when we get you near Bay Point Bench, it will be so convenient to land you!” lie seems to gather velosily as he goes, he gets used to harness, ho points for Station Creek, taking the regular steam boat track. As soon as he gains the deep channel he turns for Bay point. “Now then, another trial, —a bouse on him.” Three fellows are set lothe rope, his. wing appears, C aims his bayonet, and plunges it deep into Ins body —another shudder of the fish, and the bayonet snaps short off at the eye— he blade remains buried in his body. “Now for it George!”— His bayonet is driven in, and at the second blow that is snapped offin the blade. Here we arc unwenponed.'our nfle aid Im diet useless, our other implements broken! “Give him rope hoys until we haul off arid repair damages.” At every blow wc hud dealt him, his power seemed to have increased, and he now swept down for Egg Bank, with a s jecd that looked omnious. * Out oars boys and pull against him.’ The tide was now flood, the wind still fresh, had shifted to the east; six oars were pul out ami pulled lustily against him, yet ho curried us rap dly seaward, against all these impeding forces. He seemed lo suck i.i fresh vigor from the ocean water. George meanwhile was refit'ing the broken implements; the lance was fixed in it new staff, and secured hy a tie of tripe drum line; the broken -blade of the bayonet was fixed on another staff. Egg Bank was now but one hundred yards lo our left. "Row him ashore boys,” The Devil fish refused, and drew the whole concern in tho opposite direction. “Force him then to the surface.” Mupopt up Unexpectedly under ihe bow, lifted one wing four feet in (ho air, ami bringing it suddenly down swept off eveiy oar from the starboard side of tho boat; they were not broken but wrenched out of the hands of the oarsmen as hy an electric shock. Ouo man wad knocked beneath Ihe thwarts by the rebound of an oar, and was I aid almost speechless on the platform—quite horse de combat. “Fresh hands are brought from the smaller boat, the fish now leads off with thir ty fathoms of rope—he sleers (or Joyner’s Bank. Bay Point recedes, Egg Bank disap peares, Chaplain’s Island hes behind us, and Hilton Head again approaches, but, it is ihe Easlernface of the island that now presents itself. The Breakers of the Gaskin Bank begin lo loom in our horizon, null this is done against wind, tide, and our! A doubt of cap turing the fish began now to steal over our minds and shew itself in our faces , our means of assailing so powerful tin antagonist, were too inadequate ; nothing remained Ixit to b .use on him once more and endeavor to despatch him with the weapons that mriaiued to us. Three fresh hands todk tho rope; and af ter giving him a long rim lo weary him to the uttermost, we succeeded in drawing him to the surface. He lay on hia back without morion and we looked on victory as certain. The socket, of the harpoon appeared sticking out, from tho belly of the fish ; the whole shank was buried in his body. Wo saw neither tale, nor head, nor horns, nor wings—noth ing but au unsightly white mass uiidistinguis. bed by’inembcr or feature. After a moment’s pause, to single out some spot for a mortal blow, I plunged the lance, socket and all into tho centre of this wliito maos. Tho negroes i who held the line of the harpoon tdok a turn 1 round the gunwale, to prevent its slipping. 1 The boat lurched with the swell of the sea— r and the moment the dead weight or the fish, * unsupported by the water, was felt, the bar. ’ pooo lore out! An instant before I saw it r driven to the socket in the body of the fish, ■■■'j pi “ ' ii'i*.-.- en I the next.iriwas held up in the air in the hand ml of the, negro, bent like a scythe.- Theie wa ad I tune, it there Ifirol been presence of mind, ti Us pmnge it anew.iirto-lhc fish, which flouted i es. second -ortwenm the surface. The mnnien ml, was lost-1 I’wilf not attempt to describe life itlt bitter disappoint mrtnt th«r pervaded the par ot, ty. For a moment only, it faint hope revivei ur —my lance secured.by a dord, wasstfll in hit ty, body—it iriighfhoUl hint ! “Ulfitr my lim ic. boys!” Alas the weig t of- tile fish ie tor de much for my tackle'—the Ine flies’-throng I im my hand—is chucked—the socket of i?r lie lanro is drawn through the orifice hy-which il d- entered—nod the fish is gone ! We spokr id not a word,- but get our sails, and returned to di the beach al Bay Point. We fell, like m.n ie ners, who after a hard conflict had souk a gil p. hint adversary at sea—yet saved not a single p- trophy (font-the wreck to-servc'fts a -memuri ie afo* their exploit. % • -.r • lit Yet keenly as wo felt our disappointment, ie there is not one of ns who •would* willingly ;e have been e/isio/iere—andithe pleasurable eX ig citement of our three hours run, will be re ts membered to the end of our lives. • r- We struck the first at cWcn o'clock, a mile ie below Skull Creek, and lost bimat 2, near the ;k tail of Joyner’s bank four miles below B;iy Point. His course was first North East, then South ie East, then South by East. Tho direct run, la 0, king no note of his occasional deviations, was j g fifteen miles He was struck in the belly, from r . which it would appear be was executing n som e erscl.when reached by the harpoon,-‘c-Tho liar (j poon must have passed through lo his bark or c it could not have resisted the tremendous pross n ure applied for three hours. It entered probably not far from Ihe insertion of the tail; and passed , out near the backbone, for the rapidity of bis mo j lion was striking before he was harpooned, but as • tor wards he seemed to effect more hy gravity than s velocity. The entire fish was at no time seen ’’ —his seize must be matter of conjecture—four * Iccn feet across the bark—l think no extravagant calculation. How much gratified should wo bo t if ho would float ashore and terminate these con i jelures for wc cannot doubt but that be lias been - killed though not captured I Our orrsman injured in the affray has been I bled, and is doing well—so that nothing remains ! to mar our satisfaction, but the loss of our fish.— , But step Mi. Editor—while I am penning this line a Devil fish is flouncing along the shore un der my very nose, as if in bravado. Hy the Ghost of Lignumvitae, 1 will try another turn with him ns soon us my tackle can bo repaired! PISCATOR. Measuring Heights with a Kino.— Cooper, in his recent work on England, tells us the following whimsical anecdote:—A Scotch officer, of no very extraordinary merit, but who had risen lo high employments hy personal assidni'y and tho arts of a courtier was in tho presence of George 111. at Wind sor, in company «ith one or two others, at a moment when ceremony was banished. That simple minded and well meaning monarch was a little apt to admit of tangents in the discourse, and ho suddenly exclaimed, “D— --it appears lo me that you and I arc just of a height: lei’s measure—let’s measure.” Tho geneal placed his back to that, of the king, hut rnsiead of .submitting to the process of measurement, lie kept moving his head in way lo prevent it. Anchor tangent drew the king off, and he left 'he room. “Why did’nt you stand still, and let him measun, I)—1” asked a looker on: ‘you kept, bebbing vonr head so,be could do nothing,’ ‘Well, 1 did'nt know wbothcr ho wanted to be taller or shorter!’ Du, Franklin's Foresight.—“ Broom LOrtt,” now cultivated to so profitable an ex tent in this country, owes its cultivation, to Franklin’s acute mind. A Indy hi Philadel phia held an imported clothes’ wish io her hand, and whilst examining it ns a novelty, ho found n single grain still attached to the stalk; this ho planted, and a large and increas ing article of nsnfiilhess has l.ecn lints per- I pinnated in Ihe United .States.— l’hil. hup 1 “There was a fine passage in your public exercises .o-iJuy,"said au elderly divine to « young coxcomb, who had just taken holy or ders. And excellent passage, excellent indeed sir.” "Which, sirP'ujacnlated the self conceited follow. “Which, sir,” continued tho oilier, yof.r passage Iron) *im pulpit lo the door.” COMiRUUUUL. daltimore market, auo 22 Exchange— There is nothing doing in foreign bills. 1 iir|lin last packets, tho IGtii, worn 18 to 20 parreent premium Coffee—There is nothing doing which can give animation to the market. .No change from our lust quotations. Ci.lhni —Pules of Upland at 101 n 121 cents. Howard sired Jlour— Tlia price still holds op well —sales from stores in small lots hro made at 88,75 a 9,25 —the latter being made from now wheat. The wagon price ranges from $8,25 to 8,50 City Mills Flour —There islilllo doing; wo quote for fresh ground, of Lew and old wheat, at $8,25 a 8,50, ami for old ground, according to quality, al $l a 8,85. Wheal —Tho parcels received from Virginia and North Carolina during ihe lasi week, have compris ed the principal part in market, and have been gen erally of a superior kind,being freo from garlic, but little of ihe Maryland crop has been received. Wo quote for white, for thirdly flour, sl,7s—prime rod, $1,70 —from ordinary to prime red, $1,20 a $1,25- white, $1,50 a 1,50. A sale of 4,000 bushels of for eign was made the last ot the week fur $1,55. Mulsssr.s— At auclim yesloiday 151 lilids Porto Rico al 31 a 38cts. Frmisims —Mess Beef $15,50 a 16; Me ss Pork s2l a 22; Prime sl7u 17,50; Western U aeon 91 a I iO i ts. The stuck on hand not large. Lard, Bal timore cured, 10 a 101 cts. Western 91 a lOcts, Sugars — At auction yesterday 86 hhds Porto Kico Sugar was offered, but 23 sold at $6.25 a7. The sale was slopped—lso hhds Now Orleans have been sold at private sale at $6 a 6,25. illiiritic Inlcliig'eiice. Cilarleston, Aug. 25.—Arrived yesterday, line ship Saluda, Hamilton, New-Vork 8 days; schr Thomas & Henry, Miles, Lucas’ Mill. Cleared, ship Bazaar, Homans, N Orleans; Went lo sea yesterday, steam ,mcket Columbia, Wright, New-Vork. Savannah, Aug 23,—Arrived) sloop George Washington,Smith Darien; steamboat Florida, Ileh hurd, St Augustine: steamboat South Carolina, Gould, Augusta. Cleared, ship Oglethorpe, Mills, Liverpool; brig Freeman, Sparks, Providence; schr Joseph Haim, Wallace, Havana. Went to sea, ship Oglethorpe, Nidi-, Liverpool; brig Freeman, Sparks, Boston; si.ip Trenton, Wood, New York. ""MAUKIKii, In Smithville, 8. 0., on Tuesday evening, the 18lb July, by tbe Rev. T. L. Kennady, W. Hen ry Caluoun, M. D.,of Abhovillo District, to Miss Janf, S. Onir, of Anderson District. •MWMMMMHSWSnHnMSnnHS] L> 1 K l> . On Wednesday evening, the 23d inst., after a painful illness of two weeks, Mrs. Patience W. Salmon, in tha4Bth year of her age. ffalobc Hotel. ELBERTON, Geo. ffHIIS Large and convenient HOUSE, sitnaiod 1 on the West side o( tho Public Square, has 1 been recently purchased by tho •Subscrihcrs.and fit i ted up for the accommodation of Boarders and Tra vellers. Whilst they solicit a share of public pa ’ tronago, they promise that no effons on their part 1 shall bo spared io render cumfortoblo thoao who . may call on them. H. 11. COSBY: JOHN CLARK. ’ The Columbia (S. C) Toleaeope, will insert the ‘ above twice a month for two months, and forward t their accounts to this office for payment. , ao g 19 195 • , v * yo# | ' r . Races’. | winnnnl Fnl* over thu Newborrf e Jockey (.lub Course, n- ar AVvvhmy Court it Ifou^f 1 , will rmii,upocn on Monday the 26th of i iJpcemhor nrxi, and continue four flays. On Mon* ~ d ! «y prece in", n Swop retakes will to run, two mdn linat.9, or onlt-a nnil nllifs thren yenn old sprinif |" ■JNnd on Wednesday, iin.’i ediafely after the 1 rogular fm»e,n Mweppstj)k*’a will b<* nm, mile heats, 0 l>y tolls nrul fillips, tuan 2. yours old To both tho | nhovoslakes ihi*ro inf* Hume fine colts mu red, and ih. r< fore good sport may be expected. There is al f so tuoother sxyeepstakea u be run ol the fail meet* 1 ing 1833, nlread} made up, hut not closed. r July 31 178 1m U STKWytRT, Sec*jT. A Yoke’of Oxen. Til Rill's is n stray Yoke of Oxen at my housed 11 Milica above (.'oh lieu, Lincoln county, <»a., " w, ‘i° h the owner can get by applying for them, and paying for this advertisement. One is a yelievr - dun,- uithofrt horns; the other hns a whit£ back, i white hire,-white belly, and red sides, with stumpy - Korin, and has a bell on I ha'vfe understood tinea s I look them up, that they hnVe been in the neighs borhood for two or three months. j „ , wmAnou Mas: * Gesheit, On , Aug 15 190 3 r | > ROUGHT to t(ic Augusta Jail on (tie 12th in«{; -• * a negro man who (alia hrmsMI'WILLIAM, says he belongs- to Robert UnWsie of Tallahassee, I Florida, 110 ia 21 or 98 years old,. r )fuel 10 inches high, light complected; he has a sear on the right - lout, anil one ontho right elbow. Ihe owner ia - requested to coma forward, pay expenses and tail# 1 him away. ELI MORGAN, Jailor. , ang 15 191 w3t JLaiiiyofte Hall. rgnilE undersigned respectfully inform! his Jl. friends and the public generally, that he hat taken Lnfayclto Mall,in Alilltilgcville, formerly kept by Gen. D. U. Mitchell. This house is as well cal culated to render comfort as any other sslah’ieh mont in Iho city; and every exertion on my part will be made to nccumraudate those who may favor me with a call. The subscriber will give his personal attention to Ids patrons,and will have Ihe entire management ol •he house. WM. ROGERL. IKr'/'he bflagn Office of the People’s Lino is Kept at this housn. The stages doily leaving lor Mont mguery and Augusta. Milledgevillo, A tig. 1 180 6» A tlly Hollar» Krwanl. am RAN A WAV from thosnb- J’ , srnVer, otr the 21st .Septefhber; Jbsßk J 1835, a Negro man, by the jKL’*r name of GEORGE, 53 or 4 / yars old. about 6 feet high, / dark complex, largo prominent -wBWw ICjuw. eyes, hud lost two ot hie Upper front troth,one oi his knoos a flute crooked, slendsf built, quite slim round the waist, spunks course and positive, hail when he ran away ft 180 in money, and wore a watdh. 110 is by trade a Carpenter, a ml crahle Cabinet maker, and a Hoot and Shoe maker; and can rend pretty well. 5585 will begiven to any one who will apprehend said negro and place hint in any jail and give such Information as will enable me to get bun; 885 fhf t tie discovery of any villioix who may harbor him; or 850 for ths discovery of nnv person who may have given hint a free past.-* (Ilolbrmnrly belonged to lissail Harbour, Franfclid county (ia , and once run away limn him, having such a pass, and went to Savannah where he worked 9 months undiscovered.) JOB HAMMOND. Franklin Co. Gif. _ The editors of the Savannah Georgian and the Charleston Observer will give the above 3|insertion« and forward their accounts to this office for pay ment aug 7 184 w 3» S3OO itettardi fJUIR above reward will ho paid fur the apnre- I hcnsion and proof io conviction, of the Vll linn who robbed moon thu evening efthe I4lh mat. near Hamburg,-of between seven and eight hundred dollaw. There was one Bill of SIOO, of the Mo ch illies Hank of Augusta, with the initials, T. 8.0. nr U, S. on the buck, one SSO Bill of the Jnsu. ranee Bank of Augnstrf, and one SSO Bill of the Male l ank of - Georgia,thef bnltunce small bilfe I rincip'dly of the denomiimtiotf of At., of tha Biins; of tin 11. tut s. I willgivo tha above Rewardfor the Thief, with the money, or SIOO for the mo-' ncy ulono,and no questions asked. TIIO.S S. OLIVER. The Constitutionalist will please coffy the above I times. aug 10 192 4t ALL persons hr.ving demands ngains the sets T ndy C, Jones, dt ceased, of Jefferson county, are requested to hand them in authenticated, and those indebted to the deceased, Will make payment to PATRICK If. CUA.NRILTi Adm'r. Louisville, Aug 12,1837 w6i 189 A I'Vriiiaaeiit School." f IXHE undersigned has made arrangements for es- JL inlilisliing u permanent Boarding School oi Tuweltun, 11 uncock cbithfy, Georgia. Tlife well known healthiness df this village, its qmcf and se cluded situation, and (ho linnsienlatioua character ol its itiZens goncmlly, make it every way, a most all gillie situation lor u permanent Academy. A Georgian liy birth as well as in feeling, the un dersigned m dclei mined to bend all his energies un ceasingly to ihe establishment of an Institution, in ail respects worthy of the liberal patronage of hie follow-citizens—a patronage which he solicits so far only as ho shall be found to merit it. For the accommodation ofPupils from a distance, and with a view to the permanev of his school, hie house is now open fur tiie reception of boarders; The domestic management of his house will be con ducted by Airs. Bull, formerly of Washington, ft lady long experienced and very favourably known as a house-keeper. Mrs. Ladd, a native of Virginia, and a lady of es tablished reputation as an instructress, Will givelcs; suns in all the ornamental brunches of female edit cation. flaxes. ~ ~ Per Quarter. Tuition in the Ist Class, composed oi begin ners, ; $4 00 do. 2nd Class, Composed of such as study Geography, English Grammar, Atitlt incite, &c. ■■■' ■> 600 do. 3rd Class, composed of such us study tho ancient languages or the high er brandies of Engli h education, 8 00 do. Drawing and Painting on paper satin, and velvet, —— 8 00 do. Oil and Miniature painting, 3 . lemons per week, ; . 10 00 do. Oriental painting and Mezo finto, ■— 8 OO do. Wax-work taught pertectly, and u set of moulds furnished, 36 OO do. jSbotty and Gilding,-——— 6Ob do. Fancy worlt, 5 00 do. Music on llto Pianb Forte, 12 50 do. do. Guitar, —sl2 80 Board, washing, lodgmgand fuel, per month; 12 00 Ist Term to commence on the 2d Monday in Jan uary, of each year, and end on the 2d Friday in June following. 21 Term to commence on the-fib Monday in June of each year, and end on the 4th Thursday in No vember, . . , Board and tuition payable semi-annually at thft first of ciiih term. S.FOUCHE, Pnwclton, March 22, 1837 Tim chronicle and Sentinel Augusta, and the Recorder, Millodgville, will each publish the above twicepT{moiult, lor ilnve months, and onfcfe itef rnoiitlt (or three months thereafter,and forward their accounts S. F) inarch, 27 Btm}mlam3o I’illy llollariii KcwVird. rax HF, aubacrihcr offers fifty dollars fbr Ihe i hcnsion of J AMES R. SMITH, JL liioMVC* to flip jailor of Lincoln County, Gd. f chatge toil 1 Sinith w : th committing Forgery in Augusta, in 1834 s ' I and convoying a forged letter to me. At the time ol this t(angaclion, Smith made his home near Bachelor Retreat, mPipkens district, S. C. James R, Smith ia a! mat 20 yours of age, round bodied, strait built, baa lair hair, bluooye*. fair skin, and a scar on his fell chook, which looks.Jikeit might have been caused hrr thu citlofa razor; two of hu fore-teeth out,talks hrft ken ttnd lisp* very much m his speech. Any peMmi i hat will eonfino said Smith in any secure jaifem 1 cun set him, I willgtve thirty Doljaie. ■ JOEL GITTEIIfc p s.—ln addition ts the above reward, I wiHghff torthe delivery oftfae said Smith,lhe jailor store-' said, thirty five dollars. J.G. Lmeolft county; July 15 94 mrf