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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22. j? * " (”h*r headers will find in this day’s paper the particulars of the loss of the steamboat Lexing* foni together with upwards of one hundred and fjftj passengers. She was lost on her passage froip New York to Providence, f The enterprising Manager of our Theatre has feclipsed all former *ffor* to make R worthy ol patronage, by the pr-duclioo of the beautified Oj|ra of La Bayadere, in a highly successful tna|ner. The new scenery prepared especially for |he occasion, is indeed beautiful. Misa Wells, the celebrated opera danceuse, fully justified the expectations which hail been formed of her. She greatly surpassed any one we "ha-ve ever seen, and if Celeste or any one else can surpass her they must be perfect fairies. Congress. We received such a quantity of Congressional proceedings last xnght, which had been accumu lating by the failure of the mails, that it is im possible for us to give it in detail. In.the Senate the Sub-Treasury bill had been discussed for two or threo days, and was finally ordered to be engrossed by a vote of 24 to 18.— It has probably passed before this time. In the House of Representatives a resolution wa#under discussion about the reception of Abo lition petitions. It was introduced by Mr. Thompson of South Carolina, and is as follows: “Upon the presentation of any memorial or petition praying so.- the abolition of slavery or the in any District, Territory, or Stale of and upon the presentation of any res olution or other paper touching these subjects, the question of the reception of such memorial, petition, resolution, or paper shall be considered as made, and the question of its reception shall be laid upon the table without debate or lurther action of the House ” Several members have made speeches on the subject, and among them Messrs. Cooper and Cofquitt of this State. We shall endeavor to lay them before our readers when received. Some disturbance had also been created in the H«|tse in relation to the election of Printer to the House, growing out ol some publications in the Muftisonian and Globe. We shall endeavor to give such cf the particulars to-morrow as will it understood by our readers. It is howev et, not of much consequence. I he vote in joint meeting of bolh branches of the Legislature of Pennsylvania fur Senator of the United States, at the late flection of Mr. Sturgeon to that station, was as follows': for Mr. Sturgeon, 87 ; for Charles Ogle, 26; for Richard Biddle, 17. Cohen’s Rheumatic Embtocatfon. We understand that its properties are so high ly ARP rove d of by the Medical Faculty of the city * New \ ork, that they have now generally adopted it in their treatment of Rheumatism. Ihe advertisement in our paper o-day exhibits some strung testimonials in its fa vor. For sale by the sole agent, Mr, B. F. Ken ick, proprietor of the Mansion House, in this city Correspondence of the United States Gazette. New York., January 15. Stocks down again to dav. U. 4. Bank shares 84J. The following is an authentic liccount of the state efiour market : Cotton—A slight decline in rates having been submitted to, purchases for expert, have been made to a greater extent,— The transactions of th« four days embrace 2800 bales; in which were K«0 bales of Mobile, at 9$ a 11 cents; 710 bales New Orleans 9a 11 cents; 1100* bales Upland* Bsa 10J cents; and 800 bales Florida, at 8* a 10$ cents. Coffee—There is a moderate demand for Cos. fee, without any material variation in rates; 250 bags Laguayra have been taken at 1 I a 1 lscts.; 600 bags Brazil at 9$ a 10$ cents, and 140 bags old Government Java ax i3j a 14 cts—on the Usual credit. flour—ln consequence of the Foreign order* hid ing been withdrawn, the market has again be. ® COnie inactlve —i sales being confined to small par cels for the use of the trade. Western Flour, (common to good brands) is held nominally at $6.50; Ohio Canal do at $6,25 a $6.50. and Georgetown at $6,25. Sugars—There*has been more enquiry for su gars since our last. The sales consist of 60 hhds. St wrou at 8| a 6; 50 do Porto Rico at 7c; 160 hhds New Orleans (new crop) at sss a SJ; 217 hhds do were sold this morning by auction at 5J a5 j and 5,56; principally, howejver, at 5J 4 tnos. 900 boxes brown Havana uid 100 hhds Porto Rico have been taken for ejjoort on terms & not made P«bUc. Molasses remanls without any vanauo ; 100 casks new crop Iberia has sold at J 9 • 301 c. 3 and 4 raoa;and 67 f hds new crop Orica,,, by auction thu tnorjiing. at 254 a 26c cash. I jVutinng further worth mentioning in business. From the Sew York Journal ofiCommerce I hk Amistad Africans. —Judge Judson. on Monday, pronounced his decision fin the case of these negroes. He declares them! free, with the exception of Antoine,and decides hat. bv virtue *f existing laws they ought to brjcom milled to *j* e care ot the I nited States gXernment. for the purpose of being restored to he land from which they weee stolen. # “Prompt” to enquire, and “Fai-niFCL” to re ward. We learn from the BoonsviU; (MoA Emi £uul .'id',"r c “‘"‘ n ‘ Br "* 1 in that .. . * r ß , ‘ number of citizen i Itvute in the netghK.'hood, p.ntmned .he Poa.n rater General ******* ‘ C* “Sc. a, tha, pJe, and a, .1,,' same time recommend -.1 ; r n , > Mje town a. . ao.btMe *" ,lulm “ ol '“'l "> « Amo, wrote back tiTnTljtlt.,'! # •!>' tndtvidual named was a ’[“ 1 hta letter is offered to public inapecbil T f rr ’ “I" he was told he was a Whig, and SJ * n the citizens heard, was that a mar IlivS nCWB Wte.nt.le. off Who i.» Tory, hall i appointment. —Knoxville Timet, i r I i From the Baltimore American of the nth. AWFUL CALAMITY. Loss of Steamboat Lexington, with nearly every sonl on board, in number | from one Hundred and fifty to two hundred persons. Bv yesterday ’s Eastern Mail we learn the par ticulars of a most appalling calamity, involving | the loss of abou; one hundred and fifty lives in | consequence of i he conflagration of the steamboat | Lexington, wl tie on her way from New \ ork to ; Providence. All the details which have reached u? are subjoined. It will be seen that panic and terror in the ex .rcrae followed the annunciation of the fact that the steamboat was on fire, and that those who rushed into the small boat under their influence, while the steamboat was under full way, were all suddenly lost. The burning of the hempen tiller ropes, soon after, rendered the vessel unmanageable, and the use of this arti cle, in defiance of the Act of Congress, doubtless led to the loss of many Jives. Office of the Republican Standard. Bridgeport, Jan. 14. The Lexington left New York for Stomngton* on Monday, 3 o’clock, P. M. having, it is believ ed, about one hundred and fifty passengers. A large quantity of cotton was placed upon her decks. At 7 o clock, when about two miles from Eaton’s Neck, the cotton took fire near the smoke pipe. The boat was headed for the shore as soon as the efforts to extinguish the fire proved unsuc cessful. She was provided with three boats— yet such was the panic which took possession of all minds that they were hoisted out while the boat was still under headway and immediately swamped. The engine a few minutes after gave way, leaving her utterly unmanageable. The scene woich then ensued, is described as most ap palling. Capt. Chester Hilliard, of Norwich, a passen ger on board from whom we have gathered these few particulers, states that soon after the engine stopped, the passengets began to leave the boat on boxes, bales, &c. In company with one of the Firemen ha was so fortunate as to secure a cotton bale, to which he lashed himself. He re mained upon this bale, the wind blowing off Long Island share, until 11 o’clock this morning, when he was ts ken up by the sloop Merchant, of Southport. His companion in the meantime had been re leased by death from his sufferings. Two others were taken up by the sloop, a fireman and the pilot of the boat. Both were nearly insensible. It is surprising that any should have survived the exposure. There is too much reason to fear that the three are the only survivors. It is however poesible. that others may have been saved. The Boat drifted up the Sound with the tide, and was ofl' ths harbor about midnight. Capt. H. stales that she sank at three o’clock, as he matked the tinr e by his watch. The efforts which last night were made, in ths vicinity and at Southport, to go in aid of the suf ferers, proved, owing to the ice in the harbors, and to other untoward circumstances, entirely un availing. We learn that a boat which succeeded in getting out of Southport harbo-, after reaching the mid dle of the Sound was compelled to return. Theaccoum which we have given of this aw ful catastrophe, is exceedingly imperfect. It may be well imagined that our informant is hardly in a situation to furnish many details. From the Republican Farmer. Bridgeport, Jan. 15th. Steamboat lkxingtojt burst—owe huw nuF.D ash fiftt lives lost. —Our citizens were alarmed on M onday evening, by the appearance of a great light at some distance west, on the Sound, which was generally believed to be a steamboat on lire. Nothing conclusive, howev er, was heard in regard to it till the arrival of our boat from New York, on Tuesday afternoon, which brought the melancholy intelligence that the light was occasioned by the conflagration of the steamboat Lexington, which was entirely de stroyed, and that all on board except three per ished. One of (he survivors, Capt. Hilliard, of Norwich, this State, whom we have seen and conversed with, came on here in the boat. The Lexington left New York at 3 o’clock, P. |M. for Stonington. About half past 7 o’clock, when off Eaton’s Neck, L. L, the wood-work, ca sings, &c., about the flues, was discovered to be on fire. \n alarm was immediately given, and all ef forts to subdue the flames, proving unavailing, the pilot headed tic boat directly for Long Island shore. In about 15 minutes it was found the til ler ropes were burnt in two, and the boat conse quently unmanageable. The engine, however, kept in operation, under a heavy head of steam. The three small boats were got oul with all possible haste, but they swamped soon after they struck the water, in con sequence of the speed at which the steamer was going towards the shore. A life-boat, which was aboard, was also launch ed, but by some means was in a few minutes un fortunately lost. No relief, therefore, was obtain ed from either of the boats. When the Lexington had got within about two miles of the shore, the engine suddenly stopped. All hopes of escape to those on board, except by clinging to such articles of freight as would sus tain them, were cut off. The freight of the Lexington consisted princi pally of cotton, on which some of the passengers tried to save themselves, but none succeded except Capt. Hilliard and a fellow passenger, both of whom got astride of a cotton bale, on which thev kept together till-6 o clock in the morning, when the strength ct Capt. Hilliard’s companion failed him, and he fell off and was drowned. t H. continued on his bale of cotton till 11 o’clock, A. M., Tuesday, when he was taken off by a sloop which went out from Southp. rt, ha ving been thus exposed about 15 hours. Two others, ciingir g to a fragment of the boat, were also rescued by this sloop—one the engineer, the other a firemon of the unfortunate boat. The bodies of two others, one a colored wo man, were likewise taken from a part of the wreck, on which they had perished with cold. The number on board Capt. H. thinks, was not less than 1 75, of whom 150 were passengers, out of which, be believes himself to be the onlv one saved. A raong the number, were five or six women, and two or three children. The scene on board was awful beyond descrip tion. 7he firs being midway of the boat, cut oflf al communication from one end to the other 1 he passengers crowded together in the how and stern, moaning and bewailing their fate, till com pelled to east themselves into the watery deep to escape the flames. * ’ , T h f dl ifted the tide, and sank at 3 o clock, off our harbor. Correspondence of the United States Gazette. New York, Wednesday, P. M. I enclose you a slip containing an account of one ot the most appalling disasters that ever occurred. I have procured for you—expressly— the creTjll f passengers'and - >. Henry. Manchester. England. Henrv (. raig y of the house of u 9 ;«i i r nedy & Co. Maitland, Ken- H. 8 Finn, of Newport, ths Comedian Charles W oalsey of Boston, some sav with a wile and seven children. ' ltn a John Brown of John Brown & Co. Bo s ,„ n ■ Charles Lee, of Boston. " , Mr. Masou, of Gloucester. Geo. Child, ofStoninglon, Commander. Jesse Comstock, of Providence, Clerk, Capt. Stephen Manche ter, pilot, (saved.) N. P. Newman, Steward. Ed. Tberbcr,Mate. j D. Crowly, 2d do. Courlland Hempstead, Engineer, i Wm. Quimby, 3d do i Martin Johnson, Wheelman, j Joseph Robinson, (colored) Cook. I Oliver Howell, do 2d do. R. Peters, do 3d do. Job Sands, head waiter, (colored.) 5 others. 8 deck hands, 1 boy. 4 firemen. 2 wood passers. Susan Hulconib, Chambermaid. Chas. H. Phelps, of Stonington. Chas. Woolsey, wife, and 7 children. John Cosley, of Providence. I have no time to add further particulars, amid the general excitement. Election op U. S, Senator. —R. J. Walker has been elected Senator from the State of Mis sissippi. Both Houses of the Mississippi Legis lature assembled in the Hall of Representatives on the 9th insf., and on the first voting (viva voce) the following was found to be the result: R. J. Walker, ... 70 8, S. Prentiss, ... 37 John Smith, .... 3 John Black, - - - 2 George Poindexter, - - -1 Thos. H. Williams, ... 1 H. S. Foote, ... -1 R. J. Walker was then declared duly elected Senator of the United States Congress, for the term of six years, beginning on the 4th of March, 1840. I Norfolk, January 15. Shipwreck.—The schr. Mary, (ol Wilming ton, Del.) Strirg, 31 days from Albany, with a cargo of W. P. Lumber, bound to Baltimore, went ashore on the Bulk-head Shoal, Ocracock harbor, on the 22d Dec. last, and went to pieces —the crew and part of the cargo were saved.— Capt. String informs that five other vessels among which was a brig, were lost at the same time and place. January 16. From Africa. —By the arrival yesterday of the packet ship Saluda, Capt. Waters, from Mon rovia, whence she sailed on the 14th November, we learnt that the health of the Colony was good at the time of her departure. The Saluda brings home a cargo of Cam Wood, Palm Oil, Ivory,. &c. We regret that the slave trade on the coast of Africa is carried on as brisk as ever, in spite of the untiring vigilance of the British cruisers, and it is still ra«re painful to know that the pirates engaged in the tralfiic are American citizens, and. their vessels built in this country. We are informed that the schr. My Boy, H ar vey. master, of New Orleans, was seized in S ep tember last, at British Acci, by H. B. M. I >rig: Lynx, Lt. Broadhead, and taken to Sierra Lee me, where she was duly condemned as a slaver, and the Captain detained a prisoner. However, on the 16th Nov. the Saluda spoke the Lynx, and was boarded by Lt. Broadhead, who infon ned Capt. Waters, that the Capt. of the My Bov was then on board, and would be conveyed to M on rovia, for the delivery into the custody of th< ■ U. S. Agent at that place. Lieut. Broadhead also stated that there wa s a great number of American vessels on the coast for slaves, and that he knew of three lying in a river waiting a chance to take slaves on board. From the Ist Nov. to the time when the Sa luda sailed from Sierra Leone, there had been twenty vessels under Portuguese, Spanish and Brazilian colors, brought in by the British crui sers and condemned. Capt. Waters informs that several of the com manders of the British armed vessels told him that they had received strict orders from their go . vernment not to interfere with any American ves sels, unless there was positive proof that slaves were on boaid, or the vessels were in British wa ters, as was the case of the My Boy, where the right of search was exercised. This caution was used in order to avoid all ground of collission with the United States. The Colony is represented to b« in a flourish ing condition. On learning the state of things on the Coast I of Africa, the question forcibly suggests itself, why have not the United States a half dozen smart clippers to repress the unlawful traffic in which the vessels of this country are engaged ? It is true that one U. S. vessel has lately sailed for Af rica, but the mature of the traffic demands a squa dron of light craft. It is questionable whether a single vessel will not promote the views of the ' brigands, as she may be regularly dodged by one of the pirate clippers, while the others are enga ged in loading with slaves.— Beacon. Description op the Galvanic Telegraph: at the Great Western Railway. —The , space occupied by the case containing the machin . ery (which simply stands upon a tabic, and can be removed at pleasure to any part of the room,) is little more than that required for a gentleman’s hat box. The telegraph is worked by merely pressing small brass keys (similar to those on a keyed bugle,) which acting by means of galvanic power, upon various hands placed upon a dial • plate at the other end of the telegraphic line,as far as now opened, point not only to each letter of the alphabet, as each key may be struck or pressed, but the numerical are indicated by the same means, es well as the various points, from a com ma to a colon, with notes of admiration and in terjection. There is likewise a cross (X) upoia the dial, which indicates that when this key » struck, a mistake has been made in some part es the sentence telegraphed, and that an “erasure*i* intended. A question—such, for instance, asthe following—“How many passengers started from Drayton by the 10 o clock train V* and the an swer would be transmitted from the terminus to Drayton and back in less than two minutes. This was proved on Saturday. This mode of co®mu mention is only completed as far as the West Drayton station, which is about 13* miles from 1 hCre Bre W ‘ reS ( as nia y he ima gined) communicating with each end, thus far completed passing through a hollow iron tube not more than an inch and a half in diameter' which is fixed about six inches above the ground' running parallel with the railway, and about two' or three feet distant from it. It is the intention of the Great \V estern Railway Company to carry i the tube along the line as fast as completion of the I rails takes place, and ultimately throughout the I whole distance to Bristol. The machinery and I the mode of working it, are so exceedingly si mD i e that a child who could read would, after an hour or twos instruction, be enabled efficiently to transmit and receive infoimation.— Observer. Resources or tub West— The geological survey „f ,he mineral region, belonging J*Se Lnited Steles has led to some net, and important The "P'fri-S party have reamed ihe IM. ' nda - of tne 12th December says that “the exact bounda ry me of the lead region has been ascertained Mcur's hfs I 0g "' a !l f0 ™ ~,ion. i n " hich a,one lea >* occurs, has been determined. Sixteen „/>♦/, J;* cover,e, of lead have been made, , P"S‘ here,afore been ff d “aTu° t »h,chT ICC ' d,ngly ; ich ' -'- the tracts in which they occur of great / one locality, hitherto unnoticed , the lead was col Ced * trnved on the *urjacc, so pure that W(u J • readily run into bullets on the spot. I hes© i valuable discoveries will, we presume, be reserve I by government, and it is supposed that they wilL j repay, three or four times over, the entire cost of ; the expedition.” A magnificent collection of geological and mm j eraiogical specimens has been made, and forward led to Washington city. It is contained in sixty i or seventy boxes, and embraces probably four or ! five thousand specimens. Circulation of the Lonuon Press.—— i Official returns show the average daily circula i lion of the following London papers; ! Times, 11,190 I Morning Chronicle, 6,830 | Morning Herald, 6,394 Morning Advertiser, 4,936 j Morning Post, 2,672 Sun, (evening) 3,578 I Standard, 3,493 ! Globe, 2,965 j Courier, 1,363 ; The Weekly Despatch circulates in a j week, 51,413 j Weekly Chronicle, 44,306 Bell’s Life in London, 18,615 i The Weekly Despatch states that in the years \ 1837 and 1838, its aggregate amount of stamps I was 5,347,000 —an average weekly of 54 418. The number of stamped daily and weekly pub- I Jicalions in London, during the two years named j amounted to 149—with a circulation in the two [ years of 58,045,201. The revenue to the government amounted to JE24l,Bss. —BicknelVs Reporter. From Burton’s Magazine. Losing the Frigate’s Figure Head. I Society is composed of eccentricities and ordi l naries. Like an old Dutch clock, it has its big ' weights and its little weights, its large wheels : and its small wheels, its hour and its minute ! hands, its escapement and regulator, its keys and ! its winding up affairs, and, above all, its enor : mous pendulum; and notwithstanding it is con | stantly running down, it never stops, but being ’ well oiled, it creaks, and ticks, and whizzes, and j strikes with a regularity only equalled by its con j slant want of repairs. Its face is brazen, its top I is all sun or moon, and its bottom is as useless as its superstructure is valuable. Its solitary angel | is a gilded one, and its brightest polish a coat of | varnish. Under such circumstances is it strange 1 that some persons should be found ready to serve j the devil for fun's sake—or to trip up their i grandmother’s heels Just for the purpose of hav ! ing a laugh at her awkwardness in rising! It was the 3d of July, 1834. Night was slow ly settling upon the good people of Massachu setts Bay, and dark rolling clouds, tossed by the whirlwind, and rent by the bursting water-spout, hung over the harbor of Boston, and shut out the beautiful islands, from the gaze of the spectator Bright streams of liquid lightning, singled out the most prominent objects in the distance, and the long hollow thunder held an awful dialogue with the breakers on Chelsea beach. A brassy cloud hung over the setting sun, and the state house of the neighboring city seemed melting into sky, as the low, white breath of the thunder cloud play ed with the chimney pots on the tops of the houses, and wreathed around the little spire, like whiffs of tobacco smoke around the peaked cap of Souter Johnny. Anxious mothers were seen looking out of half closed doors for truant children and lagging husbands. Chamber windows were shut by frightened chambermaids as if by magic. Tim id matrons smothered themselves in huge feather beds, and cowardly children put their fingers in their ears and hid in the clothes-presses and dark corners of their mothers’ bed rooms. A few lamps glimmered, so as to let the people see how wet they got in walking a given distance as they passed along the streets. Lower-story window blinds were closed, to prevent the light ning from knowing that some people burnt can dles during the thunder gust; and stray dogs, with their tails ‘ hard up,” streaked it along the streets, like express mails in the back settle ments. il ake it all in all, it bid fair to be a gulf-stream night of the first water , and such an one as the inhabitants of the earth undoubtedly experienced before the morning watch of the ark of Noah took a final departure from the highest mountain peak of Asia, and scudded over a deluged world. Old Ironsides—for we have come to her at last —having been thoroughly repaired in her hull, and having a splendid figure of Old Hickory sta tioned at her bows, now lay moored at the Navy \ard at Charlestown, between two seventy fouis the Columbus and the Independence and awaited her commission. The cabin light of the commander of the Receiving Ship, fell broad up on the threatened figu e-head, and a marine, with a loaded musket, with fixed bayonet, paced along the heel of her bowsprit. Surely in such a night and with such safe-guards, no mortal could be silly enough to deem her in the least danger of a visit from the spoiler. Human reason, and hu man experience went against such a supposition and therefore, when the ship’s bell tolled eight’ “the s“ntry walked no more his rounds,” but, if common fame be true, (which by the way, is of ten an inveterate liar,) he pillowed his head on the softest plank in the solitary gun-deck, and slept beneath his post. There was at that time in Boston, a perfect dare-devil of a seaman, from Barnstable, or some where else who had been a commander of a ves sel, and whose propensity for a frolic often led him into dangers as unnecessary as they were uncom mon. 1 his seaman, whose name was Dewev and who said he was friendly to the administra tion, had heard a great deal about the figure-head and feeling a desire to see it closely, and wishing at the same time to proveto the natives that some things could be done-even in a midnight ™ n jTT7T as We,, - as °^ lers » he waited until ten o clock of the evening above mentioned, and then, with a tarpaulin hat and monkey jacket up on hia upper man, he put a hand-savv under his o^^der^2g^ the “ Wha - S Having taken a ship’s boat without sails, he sculled up stream until the lightning showed him h : rC L he V f the ° ld Charles R ‘ v er Bridge— which, by the way, are square—and then shin | Ihe storm had now come on in its fury. Dark | ness, dreadful as the shades of Erebus, rested on I the scene, except when the chain lightning ran I d^ Wn r untain Side of and crinkled I along tire diverging conductors that protected »he roo sos the giant ship-houses. The rain foil n buckets full and puffs of almost resJtle Jwlnd rocketi the old hulks beside the wharf, and rattled their mooring chains in stormy glee Drenched with rain, baffled by the wind nn,i almost baffled by the vivid lightning, theadventu rous spoiler hauled his boat under ihe bows moon l . be '■““X" oflhe frigate, and sawed away at the head of the wooden figure. y The rain, as it ran down the wood iu* made for his boarding-house and .VrCl ’ he mg to his chamber, locked the head m his and went to sleep. s ches L Morning came upon the sleeping citv nn i ■ environs, as beautiful and balmlv as thfJ d -i previous had been wild and cheerier, \ the first rays of the risirg sun limped the L<‘ig of Woburn and Cambridge, hundreds o. heavy cannon, and scores of deep-toned bells, us kercd in the anniversary of Freedom’s Jubilee. The sentry on duty on board the frigate now began to cast suspicious glances towards the head. Saw dust was thrown in rich profusion round the head rail, and the flat neck showed evidence of a noc tural application of cold steel. Long and anx iously did the guard look at the object of his so licitude, and feeling certain that foul play had had full play during his watch, he said nothing about the circumstance, but shouldered his musket, sa luted the corporal of the guard as he brought him his relief, and followed him to the garrison. Being desirous of hearing the morning salute at the dock ya.d, and being weary of the turmoil of the night, the captain of the Receiving Ship i arose from his pillow, and looked out upon the I deep. A slight haze was floating swiftly aiong the water. The flags on the distant shipping waved gracefully amid the fog, like banners amid the clouds of battle; and now the Erie sloop of war sheeted home her topsails, and swang round upon lier heel, while her parting thunder-note died in echoes along the babbling shore. Having looked around upon the gay scenes before him, and having satisfied a seaman’s curiosity , which is far inferior under any circumstance, to that ot the backwoodsman, the commander ol the Colum bus was about to turn upon his heel, when his eye rested upon the mutilated figure-head of the Constitution. He thought at first that it was an optical illusion. He looked again—it could not l >e —the top of the veteran’s shoulders was as flat as a pancake, and the glory of the watch had de parted. Soon an official report was made to the commanding officer of the station, and after a fruitless endeavor to discover the perpetrator of the midnight outrage, a piece of canvass was nailed over the figure-head, and the sentinel was sent to the barracks. Some months afterwards Old Ironsides sailed for New York, and as she left the port of Boston, I discovered that a fine striped flag enveloped the mutilated figure, and that her parting salute was fired towards Williams’ Island. Whether these things meant any thing or not, I leave for those of more experience to guess. Upon her arrival at New York, the covering was removed, a new head piece was clapped upon the figure, and the gallant frigate went upon her ocean way rejoicing. But where was Dewey ail this time? Where the successful adventurer, who. in spite of tain and wind, and the darkness and lightning, and leaping wave and rolling thunder, and sentinels and sea-watches, had mounted the forecastle of Old Ironsides undiscovered, and had sawed off, in journeyman the much-talked-of-figure head ? He tossed to and fro in his truckle bed, in bro ken slumbers. Now half-awake, be began to re flect of the risk that he had run, of the crime that he had committed—for it was a crime to mutilate a national vessel. Then, as he dozed more soundly, disrict attorniesand U. S. marshals float ed before his eyes, every shadow seemed to be token the awful presence of deputy Bass, and the beg of wool in the corner seemed to be the dis trict judge in his bob wig, while a row of empty porter bottles, in an old .lemon box by the fire place, seemed to be the gentlemen of the jury, duly impannelled, and waiting to be charged. — At length, a flush of lightning followed by the heavy roar of the morning gun, fully aroused him. He started from his bed, put on his Sun day suit, pocketed a shirt from his trunk, called in a brother lodger, and making known to him the circumstances of his midnight undertaking, left the head in his charge, and repaired to the city of New York. In this mighty London of the west, many adventures befel him, which I purposely omit, but which I may relate hereafter. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savann ah, Jan. 19. j Cleared —Ships Hilah, Hammond, Liverpool; Al exander, Copie, do. I Went to sea —Barque Tasso, Condy, Havre; brig Wm 7'aylor, Hoey, New York. Charleston, Jan. 21. Arrived yesterday —Barques Abagun, Wright, 1 Boston; Oceola, Milliken, New York; brig Chili, 1 Rogers,Matanzas; brig Malaga, Burges, New Lon : don; schr Chickatabut, Coleman, Turks Island. 1 In the Offing —Ship Sarah Sheafe, Merry Liver- I pool. At Quarantine— Ship Stephen Phillips, Thomas, fiom Boston. . i . Cleared —Barques Ohio, Levy, Bordeaux; Fran cis Stanton. Lefavour, Havre; Henry Newell,Burn ’ | ham, do; brigs Cohansey, Moore, New Orleans; J C ■ j Calhoun, Bullen, Havana. j Went to sea yesterday— Ship Medora, Turner, , Bordeaux; brigs Espalata,S pr oull, Dunkirk; Mon [ tilla, Hynes, St. Joseph, Fa COMMERCIAL. : Latest dates from Liverpool , Dec. 9 . Latest dates from Havre Dec. 7 1 New Orleans, Jan. 15- Cotton,— Arrived since the 1 Oth instant: of Lou ’ Mwswsippi, 12675 bales—Tennessee and Noith Alabama. 618—Arkansas,271 —Florida 100 • —lexas,297—together, 13961 bales Cleared in 4^Q arn u t,me : Sf. Liver P° ol . 4535 bales—Havre, tm?7^ aVana ’, 2i8 ~ NeW York > 1202—together* 1077 bales— making an addition to stock oT 3187 bales—and leaving on hand, inclusive of all on sisaftaL**" 4 ,),e Hth The Transactions in Cotton, on Saturda last amounted to about -3500 bales, at prices not essen tially varying from these quoted in our publication of that morning. The neivs by the Havre packet ships Burgundy and Louis Philhpe, at New York, had the effect in some degree, of further depressing L our market as buyers for France have not bee.* operating to Monda tCnt S “T Us recei P* The transaction! of Monday scarcely amounted to 1800 bales, and at prices, generally, indicating a downward tendency h the market, for the lower qualities. Yesterday 450(T a rathei ,™ ore general inquiry, and about 4aWba,es changed hands .-—prices f or the lowcr sons however, again inclining in favor of the buy anv " 0t 80 much 50 as to authorise fa?rnn f ln our quotations. Qualities from lair up, continue comparatively scarce, and forn *>• prices are we'l sustained. The sales for the three days amount to about 10,000 bales, and we notice them as follows, viz: 600 at B^—32at 74 m-J . S 9 -16-33 ..BJ--179 a, 9-ll.t &1* 421 at 10—50 at 6| —25 at 7^ —102 at 9&- at 9—22 at at 8j— 15 at BA—l6t fe' 6 , na —3379 at 7 a at 7—3*B It *2l —560 ar9 a 10^ —150 at 81 a 9i— 84—iVaV 9—l Os a t 93 400 a- and 1100 at 7j celts \\\ Loiu-uanns and Mississippis. 5 1 ’ 1 Liverpool Classifications.—Lousmn* and Missis- Sl PP!—Ordmary, 6* a 7 ; Middling, 7J a 8 ; Fair 9 ; Good Fair > 10 a l°i ; Good and Fine, 1U a M-iJ Cn T See and olth Alabama—Ordinary Middling, fair, Good Fair, and Good and Fine 64-’ alO extremes; Fair crops —a —. ’ STATEMENT OF COTTON. 1839. Oct. I,stock on hand, Receipts last three days 130* 1 824 Previously, 349150 362111 Exports last three days, 10774 previously, 263018 273792 Stock on hand, ITTTTi sugar. —Louisiana— The Levee has a supply, though the stock is not large- but the limi, * d - »” d ‘ransactio-' a~ SI ,0 parcels at former prices—say 4 a 4 cents—the latter figures being still obtained for lots of very choice quality. We are advised of but one sale on Plantation—a lot of 500 hhds bai ance of a crop, at cents. ’ ba " Molasses. —Small sales from the I evo« v.» are still made at 21 a22 cents per gallon Thl*’* is but little doing in the article on Plan ta in J w® notice sales of 55,000 gallons favnrabi We not far above the city, at 16 cents. situated 4 Mobile, January ft! Cvtton —The sales of the two precedin'* a (Tuesday and Wednesday) may be compmfiU* 2000 bales —principal Ivan actions on 1 uesdl? at The market stands about the same as last Jw with a downward tendency. We hear of s e tn ’ concessions, though not of sufficient importaiif f warrant a notice of any decided in ral ° Buyers were inclined to hold back yesterday wait for further advices, which are expected b* ? next mail. Letters from New York (no papers r * oeived) advise of two packets from Liverp u 0 ' in the offing. f ,n ? Exchange —ln this department things remain , active, hills on New York at 60 days sight a! held at 1 a 1$ per cent; 30 days at 3 a 4; sig|t £ percent premium. New Orleans funds 4asjh r ’ ern —transactions limited. Specie 4i a 5i per c ?r> premium. t SCrWe are authorized to announce Lt. rv SAMUEL C. WILSON, as a c andidate for Cot ONEL oi the 10th Regiment Georgia Militia. ‘ jen 21 td "(£/’ EXCHANGE ON NE W YORK— At and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by 5 ’ I nov 23 GARDELLE & RHIXD (Uj Lr. B. HARRIS oilers his services i n th e practice of his profession to the citizens of Au<t Us . ta and its vicinity. Mes-ages will receive promp; attention if left at his drug store in Broad street. o | at his residence in Ellis street, below’ Washing: ton. not T i, i)or w. G. NIMMO , General ('ommission M er , f chant, office on Mclntosh slreet, next door to th,i Constitutionalist. nov 7 ’ Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profe>. sional services to the citizens of Augusta audit, vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the! first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellej * street, recently occupied by John L. Adams. augl? 4f —,— .. ( fj ’ Dr. W. FLINT offers his services toXliecr tizens of Augusta in the different blanches of hr £ ► profession. He may be found at all hours at tin late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second dat from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold sjfeets nc v 29 ’ M. CURTIS, House, Sign and Ornarnen. talPainter, 187 Broad street. —Sign and omantea. tal w r ork done at short notice. dec 5 Zff PUBLIC NOTICE. —Du. Munroe, Surgeo t Dentist, has returned to Augusta. dec 9 Q'jP- NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Tran, between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave;, follows: — UPWARD. Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a ji, I ** “ Summerville, “ - -8 30 • “ “ Georges’ - “ - 10 00 “ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00 “ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m ‘ “ Blackvlile, - “ - 100 “ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300 Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400 DOWNWARD, Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. jj I “ « Aiken, - “ - - 730 ** “ Blackville, “ - • 930 “ “ Midway, “ - -10 30 ® A “ “ Branchvill “ - - 11 00 “ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 m. * “ Summerville,“ - - 2 00p. m. Arrive at Charleston not before 300 Distance—l36miles. Fare Through—slo 00. Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain;. minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and n longer than 5 minutes for wo* 1 and water at art station. To stop for passengers, when a white flag. ■ ’ hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also i Sineaths, WToodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T.0.j % Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnson: and Marsh’s T. O. Passengers un will breakfast at Woodstock u dine at Biackvule; aown, wiF* orcaKiast at Aikr. and dine at Summervihe. may2l - A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS. DR W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOOTHIy. SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.—lb infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of chi dren, when thought past recovery, from convib sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on tin gums, the child will recover. The preparation so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that s child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with. When infants are at the age of four months, thoor there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of ts Syrup should be used on the gums, to open tin pores. Parents should never be without the Syria in the nursery where there are young children;! if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gun * the Syrup immediately gives ease, by openingtir ; pores and healing the gums; thereby prevent® convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. sh Evans ’ Medical Office, 100 Chatham street, Ne- York, where the Doctor maybe consulted on* diseases of children. PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY( Dr. EVANS ’ SOOTHING SYRUP—To theAp of Dr. Evans ’ Soothing Syrup : Dear Sir—T; great benefit afforded to my suffering infant: your Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted ar painful dentition, must convince every feeling pi lent how essential an early application of such* invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery® torture. My infant, when teething, experiencf such acute sufferings, that it was attacked wr convulsions, and my wife and family supposed tin death would soon releac-e the babe from angtn : till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp ; which, soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful chai. was produced, and after a few applications I* child displayed obvious relief, and by its use, 1 am glad to inform you the child has cm pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that an: complaint has since occurred ; the teeth are nating daily and the child enjoys perfect hea I give you my cheerful permission to make th acknowledgment public, andwill gladly given information on this circumsts nee. WM. JOHNSON TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans' Comox Pills are such, that the palpitating heart, the tn ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mh f vanish before their effects like noxious vapors w - | fore the benign influence of the norning sun." They have long been successfully used for then . of intesmittents, together with fevers of the irreti lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral structions. ( This tonic medicine is for nervous eneral debility, indigestion and its consequent j or want of appetite, distension of the stomach,at j ity. unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumblingm j in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, w the mind becomes irritable,desponding. though: ] melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondiiucism.f sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and alio: t nervous affections, these pills will produce a ■ * i and permanent cure. Evans' Camomile Pills were first introduced America in 1835. EVANS' FAMILY APERIENT PILLS > c purely vegetable, composed with the strictest i | 1 cision of science and of art; they never prod » l T ; nausea, and arc warranted to cure the folio" 1 diseases which arise from impurities of the M- a T* z xy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, < 1 8 Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, Asthma , I s a ':' lve7 \ complaints, Diseases of the Kidnu < Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, ai d T those diseases of wl atsoever kind to which hut' r b nature is subject, where the stomach is affected >' More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary r ‘ caey oj Dr. Wm. Evans' celebrated Camomile •* Aperient Anti-Bilious Pills, in alleviating (iffi 1 | mankind. Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowrt 1 *' Disease—Cliionic Dysentery, or Bloody J ; Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowW* "M vere griping, frequent inclination to to stool nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting,'ll q ency o pvi.se, and a frequent disciiarge ft J { ' cu.iar foetid matter mixed with blood great : [I °^. b > ll ’ nil1 g hea t, with an intoleiabie of . P arts - Mr. Cameron is enjoying J ect hea.th, and returns his sincere thanks lW *IE extraordinary benefits he has received. SoM by ANTONY & HAINES, ® B J Sole agents in Aug"*' 1 -* T J. M. &T.M.TC RN F.R, Sava"" 5 * f, P. M. COHEN & Co,, Charleston 4 SHARP <fe ELLS, Miiledgevilk 1 - I C. A. ELLS, Macon, 1 J A. W. MARTIN, Forsvth M ’* x. E. EjuLa, Druggist, Afl ,l * lIJ Ss MARK A. LANE,Washington. July 23 '