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AVGUSTA Cfiwnfcl*’ AND GEORGIA Hlffcfrttofr* BY T. S. HANNON. * TERMS. 'Tor the City paver, (thrice a week,) Six Dollars nuimunif payable in advance, or Seven Dollars t not paid before the end of the year. For the Country paper, (once a week,) Three Hol tzs per annum, payable in advance, or Four Dul ais, if not paid before the end oflhe year. Any order from a responsible subscriber to dis continue his paper will be complied w ith on a set tlement of duos, and not before. Adocrtisemcais will be inserted at the following rates: For the first insertion, per square, Sixty two aid a half centsfor each subsequent, succcs rive, insertion, Forty three and three quarter cents; In all other cases 62 1-2 cents per square. When an advertisement is sent, without a speci fication in writing of the number of insertions, it will lie published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. J LETTERS, (on business) must be post-paid—or . they may not meet with attention. TT In this paper the Laws of the United States arc published. From the S. C. bUle Gazette. 1 . ( The lamentation of a candidate: piously I dedicated and addressed to the Lcgisla - | litre of isouth Carolina. ( Your HonorsI —Am mgst the great ( variety of subjects, which are used to claim your profound investiga timi, and rob your noble pillows of J their power to lull to rest, it has ( been observed that there is one, , which above all others, frequently ‘ produces the greatest ingratitude, and sometimes has the miraculous tendency to change the obsequious bow, but a few weeks past, levelled ■at your constituents, into the stilf backed wheel (or ‘right about i\rt‘"jsoineUiKes benevolently vouch safed to a candidate. Some face tious writer, has this sage apo thegm, “ the galled jade winces.” Agreed. I am not one of those 8t jbhorn, hard-bided, mulish beings, whose harness leather is callous to the discipline of the spur. No ! the m ist affectionate touch with the dullest point, places me precisely in the predicament of the “galled jade,” and—l wince. And if 1 did not, why should 1 lie now travelling under the load of my giievances, and struggling, to give utterance to the most doleful cries, ever heard sin e the days of my great precur sor, the soft-hearted Jeremiah? The truth is, most learned gover nors, I did not at all relish the civil treatment, I received last winter in Columbia, and when 1 have told you all, I’ll venture all the votes I got, Against a glass of the best chain paigite, you will agree I was more than half right. To come to the point then, let me rehearse the story of my sufferings. It was a little office that 1 sought that is to say, it was one, which brings me in (confound me, isl can yet get rid of the idea, that I am the incumbent of the office, so sure was .1 of obtaining it.) 1 should have said, which would have brought me in but little money Pdy very devoted friends, the honorable Mr. A , B . and C , had assured me there was not an earthly doubt of my success. They had been elect- , ed to the legislature, and during the canvassing, I had, over and over again, heard it said, they were very great men, and the} had themselves told me, of their great influence in the House, So, having packed up three tolerably decent cotton shirts, and a linen one. which 1 had never before worn except to chu ’ch, I bade “ Go-I bless ye,” to my wife wild little ones, and jovial)v trotted oil at a respectable distance in the , rear of my three afbiesaid honor , aide friends. On the way, I had | -frequent occasion to be somewhat | mortified. At our judging places. , we generally fell in with members | •from other parts of the state, and | whenever this was the case, itap« | poured to me, that I was immedi | ately and instinctively known as a ( candidate. Altliougn 1 gave up a ; warm seat, at the lire, to live mem i hors in succession, who had just , arrived ; ami very reverently stood | aloof tram the sideboard, until every honorable aye and no bad quaffed the delicious nectar, I did not dis cover my popolarity in the smallest ( degree advanced. But what, both ( terrified and mortified me in the i highest degree was, tl at 1 very soon l discovered, th.it almost every mem- | her was followed (like a general at i « militia review) hy an aid de camp, ( just like myself, and (in too many , instances for my comfort) aiming at the same object. My fears and mortifications were, however, gra dually removed hy my three very 4evoted friends, who always look the first opportunity to re assure me, by telling me what wonders they had been working in secret. At last we arrived in sight of the slate house. At this moment, my fortitude almost forsook me—my nerves quivered, my knees smote each other, and my heart lime, while I thought the devil was in me ! Now for the first time, the magnitude of the building, brought to my recollection, the vast extent of the slate, compared with my own little native district, and the great number of members, compared with my three honorable friends ; who now appeared to me to be less than ' nothing. I, at last, however, re gained my composure, by the sage reflection that it was too late tore treat. Happy would I have been if my disasters had ended here ! But se verer trials were yet in store for me. I was conducted to a tavern, where the landlord (by the same in stinct of which I have before spo ken,) instantly recognized me as a candidate, and put me in one of the worst rooms in his house, at the same time, graciously informing me, 1 must take my meals at the coin moo table. Thus was 1 as com pletely excluded from the last corn fort I had (the presence and conso-1 lation ofiny three honorable friends) I as if 1 hod been put into the ini > mane custody of our own double fisted jailor at Home. Being left alone in my little obscuie, and un comfortable lodgings, it may well be imagined, my reflettions were not of that cheerful kind, which in dicate a total absence of" the blue devils.” I (bought of my own com fortable fireside at home, and from pure distress of mind, threw a font on each jamb of the chimney, and forthwith tumbled into a .profound slumber. From this sweet solace j of the distressed, 1 was roused by ! a summons to supper. The next day “ 1 started out.” One of my aforesaid friends kindly permitted me to lock my arm in his, and away we went t» try my luck. The first person we engaged, was a little smart looking man, (a mem ber from some distant district) to whom my friend introduced me.— So very “polite and cautions, was his behavior, that 1 instantly imagined, 1 had already secured not only Ids own, hut the influence of all his friends—but Judge my chngain if you can, when after a few moments conversation, my friend observed to him, that I was a candidate for the oflice of , I already be gan to bend my body, into u pos ture, which I was determined should he the very sac simile of thankfulness, when to my utter as tonishment, lie discharged a most portentous, umhg! —turned on bis heel, and walked away. Hv this unexpected repulse, 1 was almost prostrated. A few minutes how ever, served to collect my scatter ed spirits, when 1 once more be came tolerably composed by making a practical application to my own case of the old adage “ a bad begin ning makes a good ending.” We once more Ifroke ground, and had not advanced more than fifty, paces, when we were met by ,a jolly look ing member, who as 1 thought, by the giant like squeeze which he gave to my hand, afforded the most irrefutable evidence that bn was al ready most kindly prepossessed in my favour. But gracious heaven ! how was my whole frame convuls ed, when after a few common-place compliments, be besought my friend to vote for another candidate, for the very same office 1 was in pursuit of! ! 1 could stand it no longer—having excused myself on the pretence of being indisposed, (and 1 verily believe my head did ache) 1 disengaged my arm, and returned to my lodging. It would be tiresome to record the innu merable mortifications of this kind, to which, m tiie course of one week, 1 was obliged to submit. The subject is, to my feelings, so ex cessively disagreeable that I shall hasten to the overwhelming catas trophe. The day of election came on, and with trembling anxiety I beheld (he members, one hy one hand in their votes. 1 felt as if the floor shock linker inn, hut (lie cur tain soon dropped and ail mv golden dreams were changed to a hard and appalling reality, 1 received but two votes!! What had become of! my third friend 1 could no more guess, than 1 r-mld determine the present state of my grandmother wiiose light went out some thirty years ago. Thus have 1 been the dupe nt pretended friends, and the object of unmerited scorn to men, who had they seen me on my com sortable farm, and heard my charac ter, from my honest neighbors, w uhl not have blushed to receive on equal terms the blunt hut gene rous friendship, of Farmer Woodpile. Wrapping Taper For sale at this Olfice. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1822. Election Returns . STATE LEGISLATURE. Il ; iik(s County. SENATE. M. Talbot, 738 j Vo opposition. representatives. Wooten, 591* Campbell, 574* Graves, 574* Pope, 543* . Lyman, 529 VVelbon, 490 Jefferson County, SENATE. Jackson, 246* Fleming, 170 M’ Don aid, 128 representatives. Bothwcll, 254* Marshall, 228* Cowart, 221 Stapleton, 217 *Eh clod. 1 Columbia County. I SENATE. Peter Crawford. REPRESENTATIVES. Archer Avery, William B. Taukersley, Arthur Foster. CONGRESS. 1| pi s3s £ a T -“" sass 3“ Cobb i Abbott gggSfj J Glascock SotoSS 1, to >0 O ct gl i Carey s'sgSi VtWfr Thompson J 31: 3J r , * ui.taa Cuthbnrt Sift'S CO m C CO Cl I Haynes 2,-SS-e i£ co co ci 4* Golding 235523 For the Chronicle and Advertiser. The “ certifying apothecary” as sures the public that Mr. M’Duffie's notice of him shall not pass without comment. Professional business (of which he is not ashamed) has pre vented his being ready for this day’s paper, but the well tanned, lutestring knight, shall not be slighted. For the Chronicle Advertiser. THE NEXT PRESIDENT. No. I. r i he question of who shall be the next Piesideot, is one that many of the Editors of Newspapers seem to think should not yet be seriously taken up far discussion ; notwith standing howeverthe reiterated ex pression of this opinion, they, like men who are too proud of having a secret to keep to suffer it to he long a secret, have at Hie very time of de nouncing the discussion, taken good care to let their readers understand : pretty plainly whose pretensions they intend to support to that high office. Not to remark on the unfairness I of this mode of facilitating the inte , rest of their favorites, I shall at once assume the position that, it is not too soon to enter upon the inves ■ ligation of the qualifications of the : several distinguished men, from a rnong whom, in all likelihood, a i choice will have to he made ; and 1, shall confine myself in tills number ito assigning my reasons in support • ! of tliis position. Ami, first : It is not too soon to , enter upon the discussion of this i subject, because the number of i candidates (as they have vulgarly i been denominated) for the Presi , deucy., is greater than at any former 1 period. Heretofore there has gen -1 erally been a predominating infill- I ence in favor of a single individual. which rendered it clear and obvious , on whom the choice would ultimate ■ ly fall, and did away, in a good de gree. ali contest and rivalry. I he public mind however, at the t present time, is in a very different situation from what it has been on 1 the like occasions formerly. The persons who are at present aspiring to tiie Presidential Chair, till stand high in public estimation, and their interest is sufficiently balanced to excite hopes in all, and call forth the utmost exertions of their respec live friends in their behalf. This 'I stale of things foretels much evil to mir country and its institutions, un less some change should take place in the public mind before the elec tion ensues. It is well known, that the sage framers of our present Constitution felt more anxiety about the consequences resulting from the election of our Chief Magistrate, than from the operation of any other ,part of our system. They well knew that a contest between two ambitions and popular individuals' for the Executive Chair, might en-i kindle passions in the breasts of their adherents, which in their pro gress might materially injure, if not wholly dissolve the fabric of our grovemncnU i Hitherto we have suffered but lit tle injury from tins course, although we have not escaped entirely un hurt ; but if ever there was a time when serious evil was to he decid ed, it is now. Let discussion then be timely resorted to, and if the public feeling cannot be prevented, it may at least be hastened and much of its violence thereby prevented. Another reason why this ques tion should be early taken up by the public printSj is, that this is the on ly certain mode of preventing a re sort to a caucus nomination, against which public opinion on a former occasion, so decidedly and justly delated. Already have we seen it stated, at least in one of the leading papers of the day, that the only mode of reconciling the contrariety of opinion respecting the aspirants to the Executive Chair, was a resort to this absolute and dangerous mode of nomination. —dust as if the peo ple were so grossly ignorant, as to l>e unable to make a selection of a man to preside over the destinies of their country, without the dictat on ofa body of men unknown to their laws; or, as if any circumstance, however urgent, could justify the introduction of servility into one branch of our government, and cor ruption into the other. Let the people look well to this subject, and sustain with firmness their former decision with respect to caucus nominations. Let them reflect, that if this mode of nominat ing to the presidency bus been prac tised heretofore, and little evil re suited from it. it was because the men who were thus nominated, pos sessed in an eminent degree, the > confidence of the people, and felt that they were not advanced to that dignity in consequence of caucus nominations, hut by the voice of their countrymen. As the only mode of doing away all pretext for another caucus, let each of those persons who are as piring to the Presidency, he ar raigned in time before the tribunal of the public, and let their merits and qualifications he strictly and im partially examined, and then will be found a sufficient unanimity of sentiment among the people to keep the election out of the hands of the in embers of the House of Repre sentatives, It lias been urged by some, that an early discussion of this question argues disrespect to to the present illustrious incumbent. I however cannot believe that a man who has devoted hiswln.de life to the good of his country, would suffer his feel ings to he wounded at any thing that has the least tendency to promote the future welfare of his country. — The time is fast approaching when', according to a custom long establish ed in our country, he must retire. The measure of his fame is full, and his character as a patriot and a sage, will he hmuled down to the most dis tant posterity. Thus situated, it must be a mat ter of honest pride to him to sec, that'the people do not rush hastily into tile choice of a successor ; but with much care and deliberation, select one who will perpetuate to this country that enlightened sys tem of policy which he has so suc cessfully commenced. A REPUBLICAN. COMMUNICATION. MRS. WARNE’S SCHOOL. IT may- ho sees by an advertisement, that Mrs. Warne will recommence her School iu Augusta on the 24th instant, . and it must he the earnest desire of all those who delight in the reward of me rit, that she may reap a rich harvest from the smiles of the public. Site has been pronounced by persons well qualified to judge, highly accom plished in all the useful, as well as the polite branches of female education ; and has been found too, by persons, whose experience enable them to decide, pecu liarly happy in the rapid progress of her pupils. As an instructress of distinguished me rit, and as a female amiable, intelligent and accomplished, we venture to antici pate in her behalf a due proportion of public patronage. A PARENT. CHARLESTON,OCTOBER 2. Four Northern Mails arc due to day. The Contractor is doing all tiiai he can to clear away the oh structious in the roads, but they are so much blocked up that it is a (ask of difficulty and time to make them passable. The letter mail of Mon day and some newspapers for the North, were despatched by Mr. Ba cot yesterday byway of Columbia, to he expedited to Fayetteville. No positive account of any fur ther disasters by the late gale have been received by us. Reports are afloat of dreadful damage having been done on the Saule.es, and they are most probably very near the truth. Mr. Hune lots certainly lost ■ three hundred acres of rice besides i twenty-two negroes. Mr. Elias Horry has been injured to a vast amount. Mr. Rutledge also. It is i said that General Thomas Pinkney I has suffered severely, thaPthe two 'Messrs. Huggins between the San l tees, lust every negro except five ' and all their crop. Mr W. Alston has lost 11 ne groes. At Murray's ferry nearly , all the buildings were blown down. At Pineville the gale was not heavy. ! The schooner Mark Time was floated yesterday afternoon from Sullivan’s island each by the active exertions of Captain Choate, and came up to town she is very leaky. Extract of a letter from Milledgeville to the editor dated, MILLEDGEVILLE, SEPT. 28. “ It was yesterday ascertained by the keeper, that Howell the coun terfeiter (too well known in Savan nah) had made his escape from the - penitentiary, some time during that day. He had been employed in the forenoon in painting a Mack coffin ; since which he had not been seen. The exact time or mode of hi? exit cannot be confidently stated ; though : several of the guard recollect of p seeing a very sleek looking negro, ! pass through the keeper’s door, with . a slouched hat on his head, and a grubbing iioe on his shoulder; but he excited no suspicions at the time. It is since conjectured that Howell made his escape in this disguise.” [Aar. Museum. SAVANNAH,OCTOBER 5. By the packet ship Savannah , Capt. White, we have received New-York papers of the evening of the 2oth ult. The fever had not abated—ten new cases were re ported on the 22d, nine on the 23d, seven on the 24th, and eight on the 25th. The packet ship Amity, has arived from Liverpool at New,-York, but bur accounts are only to the 16th of August, not so late by six days as those received at Charleston, by the Bayard. [&«u. Rep. The Disaster at Georgetown. The Charleston mail due here I last night, arrived this morning, and . brings accounts detailing the calami ties in Georgetown and its vicinity I from the late gale. They confirm I the previous statement received, } and furnish additional particulars, which we publish to-day. The family of Doctor Myers, (allofwhom perished,) consisted, it is said, of six white persons and nine servants. Mr. | Jones, the nothern mail contractor, , writes to the Post Master at Charles ’ ton “that it is impossible to pro ( ceed with the mail, on account of I the roads being covered with fallen trees.” He says “ the further he j goes north, the greater are the dis , Acuities.” W’e dread to hear the accounts from the north. The gale, it seems did not extend more ’ than twenty five miles into the coun try. —[Ibid < Latest from England. The ship Bayard, arrived at Charleston on Thursday, brings London dates to the 20th of August. • Ail was quiet on the Continent—no prospect remaining of a war be *■ tween Russia and Turkey. The - news of (he death of Lord London * deny reached the King while in Edinburgh, and would probably accelerate his return to London.— The French papers think that the death of his Lordship is an event which w ill cause a deep and mourn tul sensation throughout Europe.— It was reported on the ICth of August, that the Duke of Wei -1 liugton had been assassinated at Brussels, by the son of Marshal Ney. 1 The report, however, was unsound ■ ed. Mr. Beatty the ci devant 1 “ Young Roscius,” has resumed the sock and buskin—he appeared in the character of the Earl of Essex, . and was received with loud ap i plause. After an attentive perusal ! of the copious extracts given in the ’ Charleston Courier, we find no thing of any moment. An article . from Smyrna, under date of June ! 28th, says—“ The beautiful Atne ’ rican frigate Constitution, arrived here on the 24th. She is the first frigate of that nation which has en tered our ports. She was accom panied by a galliot and a corvette belonging to the U. Slates—The I Ottoman fleet, after the disaster they have sustained, are in such a state ! of distrust with respect to the Greeks, that since that day every i thing alarms them. The American armed vessels wished to approach them, through civility, but the fleet stood out, apparently in fear of i surprise ” — [lbid. ♦ ■! I COMMUNICATED. Died, iu this place, on tho Ist Octo r her, 1822, Mrs. Jane Wilson, aged ’ j sixty-three, a native of Ireland, but for the last fifty-three years a worthy and ! respectable resident of this slate. Mrs. t Wilson has left a numerous circle of re- I lath es and riends to lament her death. • COMMUNICATED. [ Seldom have the hallowed feelings of ! friendship been required to perform a , more painful duty than to announce the death of one, who, iu the several rela * lions, of soldier, citizen, husband, parent ' and friend, had deeply identified himself with his family and the commun-. , H which he was attached, yeS H are those feelings connected with /“V* H task, we have to submit to all their 1 H gency, in announcing the death Mr o ,’ ■ JamesMappin, a native of M ma, but for a number of years . H habitant of the county o fCol*' 1 11, 1 ' 1 ' E where he departed this life on E instant, in the 37th year of his a* e H ly lamented by all who knew him’ 6 If E soldier be was brave and dariu». , fl husband loving and indulgent; as° a ’ dsi ■ ent tender and affectionate,’and I friend firm and sincere. He has J, * I disconsolate widow and seven lovely ch i H dren to moan over this aflliclin* dijaen I sation of the hand of Providence! \vL I the cold hand of death was upon him I when the world and all it contained wue I fast -vanishing from before him, when I boundless and never ending eternity W m I opening to his view ; at this all import- I ant and momentous crisis, cool and co. I lected, he turned to the dear partner of I his bosom, and iu the comprehensive Ire- I vity of language (for which he was rei I markable) said “ weep not” “ fear no- I thing 1 ' and died without a struggle. I “ It fills my lab’ring breast, I I feel ray beating heart opprest. I O hear that lovely widow's wail I See her dim eye; her aspect pale ; To heaven she turns in deep despair. Her infants wonder at her pray’r, And, mingling tears they know not why Lift up their little hands and cry;” “ 0 Lord ! their moving sorrows” view. Guard the mother—her infants too, COMMUNICATED. On Sunday, the 15th inst. at 25 mi miles after 5, P. M. after a severe ill) ness of seven days, Margaret Lucilla Evans, daughter of Charles Evans, of Lincoln county, aged 4 years, 2 month*, and 24 days. Awake, thou in use! awake, and tell What Demons in the laud Devouring what’s most pure and fair, With an all swe,eping hand. To land nor sea, to age nor sex, His rage is not confined; He lights upon the young and fair, The sage hit vengeance feels. E’en Margaret, that lovely child, The pride of not u re’s works, Was doomed a sacrifice to all fieueath the sturdy stroke, “ Grim monster, death ! ’tis thou that, rotes “ Through thickest dark and shade, “ in quest of prey to glut thy maw, “ Thy maw’s insatiate lust. “ Did I not see thine imp of fraud “In night’s most silent hour, “ A lurking through the private way Poor Margaret to detour? “ The golden beams of morn arose, “ And thou thy front arrayed; “Undaunted by the light at which “ Thieves to their cells repair. “ As Sol advanced thy hold was made “ With fang- that dimm’d the morn, “ And spread a gloom throughout the, sphere “ Amidst the blaze of noon. “ As eve came on thy vengeance grew, “ On innocence and lovo ; “ Thy dagger’s thirst could not withhold “ Its spleen Irom Margaret’s heart. “ Grim monster, death ! caas’l thou stand “ Before the judge supreme, “ A strii t account to him to give, “ For all that thou hast done?” “ A murderer, O! a murderer, sure, “ in judgment wilt be fouad, “ And sentenced down beneath the weight, “ Os an Almighty’s frown, “ Hush ! Hush ! thou muse, thy strains withhold, From the appointed means, The Lord hath put in death’s cold band; Os bringing saints to rest. “ In Heaven above thy ’biding place, Thou hast reserved in store Matter that tunes each angel’s tongue With sweet redeeming love. “ Go, Margaret, go, my lovely child, With thy dear Lord to rest; I hope to see thy face iu peace, Where Jove his arm reveals. Charles Evam. Dear will please give th# preceding three insertions in your paper, and forward your account to Columbia Court-house for payment. C- EVANS. Sept. 17th, 1822. 16 3t # # * The Members of the Augusta Royal Arch Chapter No. 2, are requested to attend an Extra meet ing this evening at 7 o’clock. By order of the M. E. 11. P. October 10. FOR SALE, Loic for Cash, i WELL toned PIANO FORTE, J\. with the additional keys.—Also a Horse and Gig.—Enquire of James Leslie. October 10 16 3w D. DONALDSON, Tailor &iVa\nt Maker KE TURNS his sincere thanks to hi* friends and fellow citizen*, for *he liberal encouragement he ha* received, and begs leave to inform them that he has remoi ed front Washington street to Broad street, next door below the Globe Tavern, where he will thankfully receive orders, make up every thing m his line in the first style, and on the 808 reasonable term*—-for CA*H only- October 10. 31