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THURSDAY* MORNING, JANUARY 30.;
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Oa: advices from Congress ire to the evening
of the 25th salt, which left the Haase null enza
ijeii on the Nbohl-on question, alter the
raorn.ag bum. .ess. ®
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We are indebted to the Hon. E. A. Nisuet. .
a copy of his speech, on the subject of appoint
inga Chaplain, to the House of ReprsenUUses.
|t ahaii appear*as early as we had room for its
4 isertion. f
What ha* become of the New Orleans Sun
the veiwapicy laughter moving Sun T It has not
shone in these pars tor a week past. What is
• the maiter “ Jim Anderson my Joe 1 His ’he
refusal of the Legislature to hear your ** pra’ er
for the printing done you up f or have y >u diet!
of a broken heart la wl» pot her finger
to her nose, when you popped the awtu! ques
tion and said “ym cant mme it J.mmy '
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MassiCiccsbtt*.— A committee of the Leo:.—
t flbwe of MaaMchuaetts was appointed on Fri
® d*y. the 17th. to notify M«W» Morton. (Jemo
cral) that he is chosen Governor of that State by
a majority of the votes of the people. There :
having been no choice of Lieutenant Governor
• by the peop e, the two houses of the Leg siature !
met and elected George Hail whig t; ’.hat ot- ;
fice.
Bv the Charleston papers or yester.; iy, we
perceive that the Mayor has granted the use ut
the City Hail this day to H?.viit Suulti, to
hold a ptjbAic meeting, to which he invites the j
attendance of ail persons interested in the trade
of Carolina.
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From the /xlobe of the 24ih inst.. we cut the
following ■'fiction of the Sub-Treasury Bill, as j
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it passed the Senate, which contains the specie
clause. The great length of the Bill forbids its
insertion in tftisdny’s piper. Shou.d it pcs :;e
other branch, we shall lay it before our readers
entire:
StCTiow 19. And be it further enacted. That
from and after the thirtieth of June, which will
be in the year one thousand eight hundred and
forty, the resolution of Congress of the thirtieth
Jay of April, m the year one thousand eight
hugdred and sixteen, s > far as it authorizes the
receipt ;n payment of duties, taxes, sales of pub
lic lands, debts and sums of money, accruing or
becoming payable to the L mted States, to be col
lected and ya.d m the notes if specie-paying
basks, snail be so modified as that one-fourth part
o£ all snch duties, taxes, sales of public lands,
dents, and sums of money accruing or becoming
due u the United Sut.-s, shall be collected in
the legal currency of the United States; and
from and after the thirtieth day of June, which
will be in the year one thou- - _ t hundred
and forty-one, one ori.er fourth part of ill such
duties, taxes, sales of public lands, de; *s. and
/ s j:iis of money, shall he so collected ; and that
• from and after the thirtieth day t Jane, which
I will be in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-two, one other fourth part of ail such
duties, taxes, sales of public land-, debts, and
, sums of money, mall be so collected ; and that
from and after the thirtieth day of June, which
writ be hi the year one thuusan 1 -!g:u h indred
and forty-three, the remaining fourth part of the
♦ said M’u-s, ■it •>. .<.i..-s of public I m-:>. debts
and sums of money, shad he also collected in the
legal currency of the United Stares: and from
and after the iast-mesturned day. all sums accru
ing or becoming payable to the Un ted States, for
duties.faxes, sales of public lands. )<- other dents,
a : iis . id sums due for nosug«s. r otherwise.
4 to the General P »st Office Depanmciu, shall be
; m gold and silver only.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
New Yore. Jan. 22.
According to the Express, Robert Lennox, a
Scotchman originally, who lately died in this
city, has left three millions of d ;liars. He must
have been the richest man in the city except i
I i icon Altar, who is so rich that it is ditfi- !
cult even to guess how rich lie is.
Nearly 52.000 have now been offered for the 1
racoveiy of bodies lout ia the Lexioguon ; and, i
under soefc t stimulus, we may expect the recov
cry of many others on Long Island.
The British Queen. if she left on her dav. is
making long voyage. There are no signs
ut her Majesty as yet.
f anton ship vs oeiow, These are
rich argosies now. The leas brought bv ihe last
•hip went off at auction at very high prices.
9 I he > s oun i ,s closed, and of course steamboat
navigation East is suspended. There is a little
mmm storm to-day, and ail out-door business is
*put off.
From the New York Star, the 23d.
One Day later from England.
The packet ship Quebec has turn; shed the Ex
prem witha London evening paper of Dec. 14.
The B ma of E iziand assets snow a dec re a-e
~i circulation ut £5«j3.c00 for the quarter ; r-e
increase a! million is £ J42.iiuo. The d Service
jei.v,-en h.e .. u,. uos and asset, thus a. -Dears to
be 9t> i .l*fe. v the previous return,
was £3.051.q0«J. being a decrease.; jst
month of £-4.000. The circulation has not
been lower since 1717.
Trade .s perfectly prostrated.
From trie Times.
* The foreign exchanges are lower to dav. with
tHe ex :pu an of ore;. ■ • ;e cessation
of the Jlalis m Pans for the account of the Bank
of England, tfruc:: .eaves the market, hercthre
ta the regular course of operations. Opinions
are muck divided as the effect of this step, which
if is supposed, cou d riot oe avoided, as the means
brought forward ay live Bans to mduence the ex
changes mUrt new \m nearly exhausted.
FrvmtheLondon Gazette.
An expedition under the orders of Capt. Trot
ter. R. Xf in which ihree iron steamers are to be i
engaged, is. we understand, j.>ou: to >e ailed or.;.
• lJ up me Niger. The precise object of
* »e have not hut we pre
sume it is ta expkm» farther. Capt. Trotter had
an interview with t.te CM mas Secretary ou
S Thursday*- /W, TeU^ph.
—~ n h F> . ni ft l * “*l*l-—. Os the 23d
Th Lnga—Chew
21st, at 4£ A. M. w and reached the a p
» M. Left the towbeat Delaware at the H
Shoe, she being uaaoie to keep m > Uf tfac
consequenjy of heaviness of the ice. Th** T) 1
brought from the Delaware Breakwater to" fcd
castle brig® Peoi and Fear
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l| By the subjoined notice, wh.ch we copy from J
the National Intelligencer of the 25th mat. it
Iv . be seen bat the relations Iwtween Mr. For- ,
Iryth and Mr. Fox. are not of scch a belligerent
Character as might be inferred from the correspon
dence of the Constitutionalist, published yester
jay m >rninc. Ia the Glolie of the same date, we
hav- ;.ir is asserted to be the most interesting
iv of their Correspondence; its length pre
! rludes an insertion to day. There is nothing
however justifying the apprehensions of the cor
respoadent for th* Constitutionalist.
The .Tlaine Boundary
A Message from the President ot the United
' ties was presented to the Senate on Thursday,
'oniaming die u.idrmation called for K y certain
•e> cation- >f that tody concerning the state ot
: aifa.rs on the boundary between, the United States
md ;de north western possessions.
We shah by these documents before our read
•rs so> nM we can get possession of them.
For the present we must be content to state the
substance ot them, as understood from the reading
: by those who heard them read.
h The material : ipers are those furnished by the
1 Department of State, consisting:, a» follows .
I. \ Letter from Mr. Fox, me Bnt.sh Mims
-1 ter. to Mr. Forsvth. .secretary of State, dated in
Nov, pjocr last, complaiuin? c t the vv lation of
izreement entered into between the agents of
> the two Governments last winter, by the opening
ofrm . Aroostook, and the occupation of
a rert of the disputed territory by a body ofarmed
men emploved bv the authorities ot toe ritate of
Maine.
2. A Letter from Mr. Forsyt», written some
weeks afterwards, replying to the complaints ot
Mr. Fox. lha: the opening of the roads in ques
■ > 1 1 is not i reivnt measure, but merely carrying
out a poncy adopted twelve or fourteen years
ago; that the armed body spoken of is only a
po-ine e r n .v*d to drive -iff intruders; and that
i o tiling has oeen done on our side incompatible
wita tae of the agreement between the
agents if the two countries; wailston the British
side acts h tve oeen done which may be justly
complained of as infringing the agreement, such
as erecting narracks tor troops on the St. John s,
p'acsng troops on a part of the disputed territory,
dec.
3. A letter from Mr. Fox justifying what the
British authorities have done, on the ground of
the current report that the Legislature ot the State
of Maine had an intention to abrogate and nullify
the agreement made between the two countries
| last soring, which rumor was too strongly corro
| borated by the language of Gov. Fairfield at the
opening of cue Session of that Legislature not to
justify precautionary measures, which have not
been resorted to, however, with any design to in-
I fringe the agreement. &c;
4. Another Letter from .M*. Forsyth to Mr.
Fox. in which he says that there is no reason to
apprehend such an intention as is imputed to the
Legislature of Maine; that the alleged precau
tionary easures are therefore altogether gratui
tous on th« part of the British authorities m New
Brunswick, and must be considered ‘‘ahold infrac
tion” of agreement of last winter; and that,
if the British Government uphold this proceed
ing on the part of its a-' , rr?s. such a course on
its part will be regarded by this Government as
evidence of a want of that friendly disposition on
the part of Great Britain whica has hitherto been
believed to exist, dec.
This is the substance of these Letters, which
i we expect to be able to publish at large ia our
next paper.
Upon the subject of the p-esent state of the
I Boundary Question between the United States
and Great Britain, as some opinion may be ex
: pected from us, we can only say, that, after more
Doateie consideration of the matter, we do not see
any immediate cause of alarm about it. The
only danger is that of Gov. Fairfield's undertak
ing a second campaign against her Majesty’s
Province of New Brunswick. We think it quite
i likely, however, that he had enough of his last
! experiment of that sort to deter him from incon
skfefatelj undertaking anotner. The question is
; in the hands of the Diplomatic, agents of the two
Nations; and it may be hoped that a friendly ad
justment of it will not be marred or defeated, as
it prooably and almost certainly 1 would be by
ttie State of Maine's resolving again to take the
business mlo her own hands ; in interference for
bidden by the terms of the Constitution of the U,
c l .. and to which neither this Government nor
that of Great Brimin could submit without sur
rendering, or at least compromising, their politi
cal rights.
In reference to this matter we have pleasure in
stating that che memorandum published in the
papers 't the day and among others in our dai
• y p *per of yesterday) as having been issued by
; Sr Joan Harvey, in reference to existing rela
tions. turned out to be a blunder of some editor
r otner. who has taken up an oid memorandum
out ot me a>r.>.-s ot the war of IS 12 between the
two count,.es. and applied it to the present day »
“ riutficierr for the day is the evil thereof.” We
hov n t quite so nearly .approached the awful
a war with Great Britain, that her Provin
cial Governors should think it necessary to be is
suing recommendations of neutrality to non-com
atants on boh sides of the border. That day,
we trust, will never come.
Rcport ox rat; Affaibs of mSonHEB
® i ' lt ' —The Philadelphia U. S, Gazette of the
2Ut. con tarns a copy ot the Report just made by
tuo Direct s f i.ie Schuylkill Bank on the af
tairs n that institution.
i lie ex unina ion wliicii aas been made into
: .e i 'counts ot Levis, the iate cashier, leads the
L) is tors : • believe that the amount of Bank of
Kentucky jck over issued oy ham exceeds 13.-
oijn shares. A statement is given of the assets
:t ta*- Bans, winch amount ;•> 51,275.526,19.
The liabilities at the Bank, including circulation
and RHBa cue to depositors and to other Banks,
are set down at 5472.237.57. The capita] stock
a.J in is ?9*J'?.nOO eO. The whole amount of
es at the Bank, however, cannot
Uu.v oe accurately ascertained, on account of
' ’ : ‘ l - - m i irregular transactions of the
nsaier the extent ot whica is vet unknown,
riomedevrl •veraer.'sor th show the fallowing; j
1. Over ~ f 'chuyik 1! Bank
2246 shares, estimated at
P roceed ot which supposetl to be i
appiieti to n;s ;wn use.
-ol.—A special Jeyosite, for which a
certificate was originally given for
57 4."< .i, since reduced to 49,0<,'0 00
P’-oceeiis of which supposed to be
applied to ns :>'vn use.
“d.—Three notes, the property of
Bank, taken by bin from Bank,
and not accounted for. 5.500 00
P lr - —An .-rasi.re :rom cf Bank
noi acorn rued for. 17.421 37
nth.—Post notes issued and not en
tered on o. ks. vs which 535.000
ire still out.
j r veevis i w each supposed appli
ed to n.s own use. ‘ 110,000 00 1
htn.—Post notes, which, when issu
ec. were not credited, making the
-‘irculai. n larger than the Ixjoks
called for. bv ,
t . .. <0.962 oO
/ta. —J.titer ot credit gtv« n without
authority, and no security taken, 25,000 00
’ 5393,1 «3
la - J f.-rence to cerain reports in some of the
news capers hat the Scauyiiuii Banr aoout tne
ums ot the resumption of specie payment* paid
! off debts to other city Banka to the amount of
*600.000 in one week, the Board decide that sue a
is not the fact—the highest amount paid to city j
Banks in one week bavins been p‘200,000.
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Habxrshaxi Election. —At an election on
the 6th inst. for County Officers, the following
persons wer elected—C. B. M ood. Sheriff J°“ a
W. Wyley. Clerk Superior Court —Thomas
McCav, Clerk Inferior Court—lsaac k Black,
Tax Receiver and Collector—David Seitze, Coro
ner—James Crocker, Surveyor.
The following is a state of the polls for C ierK ot
i Superior Court.
J. W. Wyley S. R. 271
L. Levy, U. 2 *^
P. Martin.* 22 *
E. McCrary. U. I J 2
If. Hankes, U. 36
♦We Understand that Mr. Martin is a Troup
I State Rights man, but was run by some of the
Union party. —Athens Whig.
The Whig State Convention at New Haven,
have nominated the following gentlemenFor
Governor, William W. Ellsworth ; tor Lieut.
| Governor, Charles Hawley; for Secretary, Royal
R. Hinman ; for Treasurer, Hiram Rider; for
Comptroller. Henry Kilbourn. And passed re
solutions approving of the Harrisburg nomina
tions.
March of Delicacy.— The ladles are getting
more delicate and refined every day. First we
see i: in some of the papers that a giri ‘‘down east
j wouldn’t swing in the garden “because the taters
had eyes!,, then we hear of another who was so
modest that she dressed the legs of her piano with
pantaletts; but the very last case we have heard of
is that of a lady in this city who is so exceedingly
j delicate and fastidious that she will not change
| her dress before a lithographic likeness of Gen.
Jackson without first turning his face to the wall.
—New Orleans Picayune.
Habits.—Like flakes of snow that fail unper
; ceived upon the earth, the seemingly unimportant
' actions of life succeed each other. As the snow ga
thers together, so are our habits formed. No single
flake that ia added to the pile produces a sensible
change, no single action creates, however it may
exhibit man s character, but as the tempest hurl*
• ! the avalanche down the mountain, and over
whelms the inhabitant and his habitation, so pas
sions acting upon the elements of mischief, which
* pernicious habits have brought together by imper
ceptible accumulation, may overthrow the edifice
»f truth and virtue,
trom the Keepsake, for IS4O.
The Somnabaiist.
BY SIR JOHY DUX. BART.
The family of Diordato de Cinci had fallen un
der the displeasure of the Doge, they having been
more suspected of what were deemed treasonable
attempts at displacing the tyrannical power which
i held Venice in hs iron grasp. Banishment of
i its members, and confiscation of their property,
had by degress reduced that once powerful house
to comparative ruin. The head of it was in a
j state of mental imbecility, and the immediate heir
an exile, supposed to be under a fearful ban. or
! (as was not less commonly believed) to have been
1 privately made way with. Beatrice, an only
i daughter, was left a sort of presumptive heiress ;
; but actually the possessor of only matchless beau
ty, a sensibility fatal to her peace, and a flight of
talent equalled only by the energy and loftiness
;of character. Witchery surrounded her—she
, was considered a dangerous beauty, an object of
great attraction, but one. with whom the prudent
and the wise deterred the young over whom they
ruled, from intimacy or connection ; and the dis
pleasure of the Doge being certain to fail on anv
that took part with the family of Beatrice de
Cinci. she was in a manner prescribed. There
are. however or rather there have been (for in
these utilianan days it is less common roman
tic spirits in whose estimation tyranny and op
pression invest their victims with a thousand
charms; and she whom they are told, they dare
not, must not love, becomes an object of idolatry,
and doubly endared by the danger which sur
rounds the attempt, - 1
While Poland yet was. she produced many a
gallant chief, many an ardent spirit; and Alta
mont Lannsky was one. Illustrious by birth,
the gifted owner of many broad lands and rich
possessions, he had been for some time a
denizen of Venice, an apt subject for romance ;
and no long time elapsed ere the spell of this
enchantress fell upon him. The mysterious and
infatuating descriptions of the singularity, and
the dangerous charms of Beatrice De Cinci. cre
ated in his imaginative mind a restless longing
for her acquaintance, which was confirmed bv a
casual view of her at mass. He became enam
ored of a fancied object, for as yet she was little
more than as a vision seen in a dream ; but the
figure in that dream haunted him by day, and ho
vered round the pillow through the live-long
aight !
Venice was the paradise of priests and spies ;
they played each other’s game. Through the
agency of the latter fraternity, Lannskv became
acquainted with the confessor to the family ; a
golden key unlocked the churchman’s breast and
he gained some knowledge of the character,
education, temper, and habits of the syren, Beat
rice.
Through the same channel the history of La
rinsky, full of stirring and interesting incident,
was’coiiveyed to Beatrice ; and their meeting,
contrived to bear the character of accident, was
productive of the most favorable impressions on
both thus mutually prepared for reciprocal capti
vation.
The beauty of Beatrice wis peculiar; her spir
it shone through her ; her action was thought,
and every moment an aspiration ; her form, was
classic, and her complexion pale as the marble
statue beneath which she stood when Larinsky
first beheld her. Her tressess of golden brown,
her high and ample fore head, and the dark lash
es which fringed her languid eyes, so marked her
countenance, that, once seen, she never could be
forgotten.
Lannsky was irretrievably in love before he
asked his reason whether his eves had not be
trayed his heart. Os a fiery temperament, open
as day in all his dealings, and frank almost to
rashness, he attempted not to conceal that bis af
fections and estate were hers, and at her dispo
sal.
Xot so the lady. By no means insensible to
the increase offered at the shrine of her beauty,
nor regardless of merits of her admirer, vet she
betrayed no weakness.' The impression.'bowev
er, which in her earliest intercourse was convev
-1 t 0 bls mind by the singularity of her manner,
( never, varied ; a jealous doubt was awakened a
hesitation in the belief that she would reallv love
or ever give her individual heart in exchange
for that which she had so totally ensnared La
nnsky saw and felt all this, but hia passion blind
y ar^ on - an d his vanity assured him that
devotion must ensure return.' What were her
secret thoughts we know not ; that she ready
loved Lannsky we believe, but we dare not
iwear ifi In answer to all his outpourings
which affection made eloquent, she would <>aze
apon him with a fixed and somewhat startling
look, and say— Baware of me—l * ni not made
tor happiness, neither to possess, nor bestow it.
I am an offset trom a blighted stock !
“ ur f* d L he ’ u 1 transplant thee to
a garden which none but zephyrs visit, and
mere!
A.et us, however, hasten to events They
> were married ; and the establishment of Larkin'-
skv was the admiration of one half of the city ol
Venice, and the envy of the other ; while the
’ malice of the*governraent s- emed to derive fresh
| virulence from the success ot any part of the ,
' prescribed family. j
Larinskv had no eyes but for the beauty and
1 the loveliness of of his bride, no care but tor the
• music of her low and plaintive voice, She was
j all that man could desi re in feature and in mind ;
1 vet to one whose ardent temperament and pas
j sionate love, having won much, still craved for
more—that more was wanting. There was not
1 that perfect abandonment of body and soul, that
absence of ail reserve, which is perhaps but an
ideal possession—yet the want existed. Like
i the speck sometimes seen in the horizon, which
small at first soon spread into a cloud, so this
mistrust daily gained possession of Larinsky s
mind, and marred his happiness. placed
not implicit confidence in him—mused alone
sought solitude oftener than was agreeable to
! him, and to his jealous}'; not jealousy in the
j common vulgar sense, but that exquisite suscep-
I tibititv which only true love feels. He fancied
I she had something to conceal ; he occacionally
I observed her eyes were glistening with a tear.
! and oft he could in her sleep detect a sigh. \et
I she was all generous kindness, and truth and inno
j cence, like guardian,angels.seemed to hover round
i her. Oh who could gaze upon that open brow,
or witness that guileless smile, and for a moment
entertain distrust 1 Then why was nit Larin
skv happy I Why not content with the bles
sings he enjoved ? Ask the God ot Love, and
he will tell you that nothing less than all wit!
satisfy the cormorant heart; he will show you
that nothing is gained whilst aught is left to win.
Then why did not Larinsky question her ? Mhy
not lay open all his feelings, and by a word dis
sipate the floating vapor which sometimes cim
med the mirror of his happiness ?
It is. alas ! that true love cannot speak ot doubt
—cannot descend to a common category ; thus
many a heart has been lost for want of a simple
question, and that exquisite refinement which
constitutes the great charm of the tender passion,
sometimes generates the fatal worm that corrodes
the flower.
Beatrice was devout, punctual in her attend
ance at mass, and always preferred going alone,
and her absences were sometimes longer than
the services of the church were supposed to oc
cupy. A land of spies is a land accursed, and
the anonymous assaiier of character is more to be
abhorred than the assassin.
Larin iky was preparing on a festal afternoon
to dress for the evening entertainment, when he
found a small billet on his toilet-table addressed
to himself; the hand writing was unknown to
him, and the device of the seal singular. He he
sitated to open it—such things sometimes occur j
—an instinctive wavering of ill seems to give a
sort of second sight. Larinsky chid himself for j
his weakness, and opened the billet. The ven- 1
om it contained was wrapped in these wt rds :
-There are more confessors in churches than
wear cowls,”
It angered him. “Impertinent nonsense,' he
muttered to himself. He half tore the paper—
paused—then held his hand, and threw it with I
some others into lus escritoire—turned the key, ;
which he carefully secured, and proceeded with i
his toilet, fancying that he thought no mere of
the billet; out the arrow had stricken him.
“I remember when I was at Padua, a Jewish
doctor sold me a deadly poison, which he told
me if administered by half a grain a day. would
send to his grave the stoutest, by a gradual and
almost imperceptible decay, which no antidote I
could arrest, and no suspicion detect.”
This was a mental movement—why it then
occurred to him we have no means of knowing; j
such are the mysterious associations of a roman
tic mind.
Beatrice was in great beauty that evening; and
when her husband joined her to proceed to the
festive scene, he was struck by her commanding
beauty and the chastened splendor of her dress.
They mingled in the crowd. She was not gay,
and his spirits were evidently depressed.
Larinsky detached himself from his lady, but
still kept a wary eye upon her; and he was rallied
by his gay young friends on the uxorious watch
fulness of his looks.
Beatrice did not dance, and he fancied her eye
wandered in search of some person she did not
find. Nothing remarkable occurred; the even- :
ing ware away, and they returned home, with
little conversation beyond what arose from the
usual incidents of a gay and numerous assem
bly.
Larinsky could not sleep, and the slumbers of
his wife were heavy and restless. After a time
she rose from her bed, and and slowly taking up
the lamp, by the light of which, for it shone im
mediately on her face. Larinsky discovered, that
though her eyes were open, their sense was shut;
and he now, for the first time, became aware
that she was a Somnambulist. He arose stealth
ily to watch her motions. She proceeded to the
adjoining apartment, where she placed the light
on a writing table, seated herself, took up a pen, ’
and sat some minutes in a musing attitude, as if
reflecting on what she wished to write; then,
shaking her head mournfully, replaced the pen.
and heaving a deep sigh, resumed the lamp, re
traced her steps, and was soon seen by her ill-sat
isfied. husband with her head upsa her pillow in
a deep sleep.
The next day’s sun brought not back with it
his peace of mind. M schief is of rapid growth
—“The mass, he said, the evening mass, this
I know she win attend. He feigned an absence,
and made his way to the church, armed, unseen
and unsuspected, to watch her movements there.
Alter the service, she mingled in the retiring
crowd and for some minutes he lost sight of her ;
again in the aisle, darkened bv the stained glass,
he thought he recognized her form, and that she
was joined by a young man muffled in a cloak.
Larinsky was all on fire ; he dashed forward
through the throng, and overthrowing in his haste
some seats, the noise of their fall alarmed the
mysterious pair. The lady, if it was Beatrice,
banished one way, and Larinsky, sword in baud
rushed on to arrest her companion, but this vic
tim suddenly disappeared—how he escaped was
a mystery.
Larinsky wandered so -th in a state so excited
that he could scarcely coded his scattered ideas;
doubt, suspicion and jealousy assailed him at
once, and shook the inward man. He did not
return to his house for some hours. After a dis
tracted ramble, as he entered the corridor, two
active and well-known officers of justice passed
him in a hurried manner; this was a new sur
prise upon him, and they passed so quiekiv that
he had no time for question. He made his way
to the apartment of his wife, who rose to receive
him with all her accustomed tenderness and
grace, and though he did not absolutely repulse
her advances, he motioned her gentlv from him.
and said—
“ The officers of justice have been here—thev I
passed me at the door!”
“But they had no victim with them.” cried she
in a tone of exultation ; “they had no victim
no—no—no victim !” and her flashing eye de
clared her triumph..
“I must not be suspected, Larinsky,” continu
ed she; “mine is a lofty spirit—l am a thing of
mystery—l warned you of this when first we
met- lam your wife, your noble, loving, free
unspotted wife—time will dear all! Then whv
this clouu upon your brow 1”
Her words fell powerless—she spoke but to a
man of stone ; the deman of jealousy had posses
sed him—the worm that: never dies was at his
heart—his blood was hanged to gall. The look
he gave her was terrific ; she cowered beneath it <
—trembled; she became faint and staggered <
and would have fallen, hat that he sunnoitXl hJ 1
to a chair. There was a vase of waieTon the Z '
(
ble—his determination had been already made
he filled a glass, and dropping unpreceived aii
atom of the fatal drug into it, with a trembling
hand and averted eyes presented it to her; and
thus in a moment of rash and senseless jealousy,
the fond, the devoted Larinsky commenced the
slow but certain work of death. He occupied an
adjoining apartment, and with an agonized and
beating heart he heard her sob herself to sleep!
The next dav he was summoned to the Doge s
palace, and closely questioned as to the compary
Ihe entertained and the visitors he received. He
endured the insolence of suspicion with the spirit
of conscious innocence; returning the shortest
ai swers. and with sullen and insulted dignity,
threw back with scorn the imputations on his
honor. His home, so lately a heaven, had now
become a hell, and he the master fiend—with
murder, which he falsely fancied to be justice, tne
fatal companion of his cruel thoughts. No pains
were spared., no cost, no bribes withheld, no strat
agems omitted, to discover the invader or ais
; peace.
During that day, and another —and another
variouslv disguised, were administered the minute
atoms of the deadly poison; still the fatal passion
rankled in the breast of the infatuated husband,
and still day by day the inroads on the health ot
his much injured wife became more and more ap
parent. Medical aid was pressed upon her by
numerous friends, and every conjecture formed
bv those most skilled in the healing art on the na
ture of her complaint, and every remedy in vain
applied.
To her husband s alienation much was impu
ted : the estrangement of his heart was. alas! but
too apparent and too notorious, though he was
not separated from her person, for he seldom
quitted her sight, It et still her proud spirit dis
dained to enter into explanations with him, and
his ardent and desperate love having been by the
alchymy of the deadliest of passions changed info
hatred, he pursued his course of fatal yet tardy
vengeance in gloomy silence ; resolved to guard
against the possession by another of the jewel he
disdained to wear.
Thirteen days had now elapsed since the still
lovely Beatrice had become the unconscious vic
tim of his dreadful resolution. On this, the thir
teenth day, Larinsky had been called from home
on some important and unavoidable business; and
during those hours ol absence, which his savage
jealously had made of rare occurrence —for he ne
ver quitted the room but on urgent calls—she re
ceived a communication, the effect of which seem
ed almost to breakdown her shattered and enfee
bled frame.
The messenger by whom the letter was con
veyed had been for several days watching for an
opportunity to deliver it unobserved; but such
j was the Argus-eyed vigilance of the spies and
j watchers by whom she was beset, that Larinsky
j was instantly informed of it. The intelligence
inflamed his passions into madness, yet he still re
tained his seif-possession; he uttered not a sylla
ble. and resolved, if possible, to gain possession of
the letter by stratagem. Beatrice had been in
tears all day, too week in bodily for reraon
< strance or complaint, and in heart too deeply
wounded by suspicions so fraught with injustice,
i She sat like the- monument of Grief ia the palace
i of Despai r.
The night drew on and proved unruly ; the
wind blew in fitful, tearful gusts; the lightning
flashed, and peal on peal of thunder succeeded,
as though the angry elements would level the pal
ace and bury their mouldering walls in the waves
that beat against them. Beatrice was long occu
pied with her devotions; and bent like a drooping
lily over the crucifix, fixing her thoughts on a
world beyond the grave. Anon she looked forth
on the troubled sea beneath the windows, and
then went weeping to her bed.
Larinsky was a witness to all she did. Her
weariness, her cares, and her weaknesses, were
soon forgotten in dead sleep. About, midnight
| she rose slowly from her widowed couch, in one
of those fits of somnambulism to which she had
been lately subject. Beyond her sleeping apart
ment. and opening on the grand marbfo staircase,
was situated her boudoir, in which were arranged
her writing materials, an escritoir, which had been
always coasideied sacred, her books, and all the
little elegancies of polished life,
; She was in a night dress, which comnletelv
concealed her figure; its whiteness was exceeded
i by that of her complexion, through which the
course of her blood in every vain was visible. Her
eyes were bright and glassy, her step measured
and solemn, and. taking up the lamp, she moved
toward the boudoir; her husband, with noiseless
tread, was close behind her. Onward she went,
though in a deep sleep, opening the door into the
boudoir, and, like a specter, moving to the cabinet
drew forth a key attached to her belt- Then un
locking the escritoir, she raised an open letter to
the lamp in her hand, and prepared to read. Now.
thought Larinsky, now the fatal secret will be un
foulded—now I shall behold the evidence of her
guilt even in her own hand ? His heart beat so
audibly against his breast, that he feared she
would hear it and awake; he advanced so close be
hind her that ever* word in the paper was visible
to him; they seemed letters of fire I They seared
his eye-bails !—and they ran thus :
"Beloved Beatrice ] You, for whom I have
risked every thing; you, for whom and with
whom I would live or cease to live, must behold
me no more. I see—l know the dreadful conse
quences I have brought upon you bv the fatal
oath in which I bound you never to reveal the se
cret, even to your husband, of mv presence in
Venice, this tyrannized city. The decree of ban
ishment you know isunrevoked, and instant death
awaits my discovery; the spies of the Doge are
sleepless, and I am hunted like a beast of prey.
Me have met seldom—but too often. All this,
and ten times more of danger, I could and would
have oorne whilst my plot of vengeance was ad
vancing to maturity ; but what I have brought
upon you from your husband is no longer tolera
ble. Before this will reach your hand I shall
have left \ enice, perhaps for ever. Adieu ! a
thousand times adieu ! A few days more will de
cide the fate of your unhappy Brother.”
A channel bolt would have been mercy. The
scales fell from his eyes—the fatal error was dis
closed—and he discovered that he was what 1
—a cold blooded, cruel, treacherous murderer—the
murderer of innocence. He placed his hands be
*ore his eyes and shrieked aloud.
Beatrice awoke at the cry. She dropped the
;amp, unconscious of what she did or where she
was ;—she rushed forward to the folding doors
which opened on the broad marble staircase, and
pursuing her desperate course in darkness, fell
headlong down some fifteen steps, and was stretch
-1 Vlf a?' 80 ’ Stainin - the with her
innocent blood!
His outcries raised the house, and the officers
of justice were summoned. He was borne awav
a cu.pnt. suspected ot having thrown her down
Guilty, alas! but not of that
Repeated examinations could draw nothinc of
connected elucidation from him ?
red to a ph.ee of secur.tr, endued
As™Z wretched existence in a Lunatic
OBITUARY.
efhtsace.
tk ," dpin Savannah, via.
the years he was a resident of this citv
an maintained the character of an industrious and’
sood cu tzen. Mr. G. made a profession of
ten years since, and attached himself to the Ba-tist
tnurch. He was a pious and devoted
during the protracted affliction which terminated
m his deatn.he was never heard to complain • fc ut
on the contrary, oiten expressed himself readV anH
wuhng to depart and be with his Saviour «r!l?
me die the death of the rifMeous, and let mv t ♦
end be like his.” ’ ‘Mt
j 1 ivd, ou the ew-Uiiijj A th* 17th in*t. it a<
i therms residence,m Columbia countv. Geo? a?"
Mary Frances Davenport, wife of Thomas -
! veoport, of Salem, Clarke county, m the
i year of her age. lUI
Mrs. Davenport was the daughter of Judge tv
mas Doo!r. Shortly after her marriage she *<??'
and found the consolation of religion, and up f ll
; herself to the Baptist church, of which she
and died an acceptable member. Being of
! ceedingly delicate constitution, and often the" ?’.*
ject of affliction, she was debarred many of
privileges and comforts which flow from ccr.sf ?
communication with the peopie of God. Yet'-??
was always to be seen in her countenance tha??
which is derived from spiritual intercourse W°l
the Creator. Her profession of religion was c~ ?
1 acterised by no great display or excitement;
the even tenor of the Christian’s path, “shin'* 5
more and more unto the perfect day,” illxist at
by the graces of meekness, gentleness and patier eC
all of which she possessed to a high degree
last protracted illness was home with most ?? ?
fui acquiesence in the Divine will;
many of the most endearing ties, she seemed ?
have lost sight of earthly good, and looked onh
the recompense of reward, which awaits the :V T °
ful in Christ Jesus. As death approached ?'
nearer, she spoke of it with the greatest ca * ne^ 6
s ie to'd her sister she was dying,“but Vi'’
the Lord precious to her soul.” Her sister rh* C
asked her if she felt that she could trust ? Him"?
Her answer was, 44 O yes, my dear sister, w 0 e V
can I trust in, in this last dying hour, btr ?!
Lord.” Soft and gentle was her end; undi>tu- l
ed —undismayed by any fear, she fell asleeo on**?
I bosom of that Savior in whom she had so’ wise- •
| trusted, and her waking was with God.
A fond, devoted husband, a sweet little daughter
a kind and affectionate father, two beloved sisters
a brother, and numerous relatives and friends
I mourn the bereavment. But they sorrow not as
• those who have no hope, being confident that i4 v?
is not dead, but sieepeth.”
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates fn/ni Liverpool... • Dec. 14
Latest dates from Havre Dec. U
AUGUSTA PRICES CURRENT?
Thursday, January 23, IS4O,
BAG CISC — Hemp, per yard 20 a 25
Tow, “ 14 a 2o
B.iLE ROPE , per lb. 8 a 14
BACON—Hog round, “ 9 a \\
Hams, “ —a 12
Shoulders , “ —a H
Sides, “ —a n
BUTTER — Grshen, per lb. 28 a 35
Nort Carolina, “ 15 a 25
Country, “ 18 a 25
, COFFEE —Green prime Cuba, “ 14 a 15
Ordinary to good, “ 11a 14
St. Domingo, “ 10 a 14
Brazil, ** —a
Laguira, “ 124 a 15
Porto Rico, “ 124 a 15
Java, “ 15* a jfi
Mocha, “ 18 a 20
COTTON — Ordinary, 44 64 a 74
Fair, 44 a %
Goad, 44 a 4
Prime, “ 8 a
CANDLES — Spermaceti, u 48 a 5?
Tallow, 44 20 a 22
CHEESE — American, “ 134 a 14
English, “ 40* a 50
CIDER — Northern, per bbl. 900 alO 00
Inboxes. per do z. 350 a 450
i ClGAßS — Spanish, M. 15 a2O
American, 44 5 al2
i CORN — bushel 50 a 62*
FlSH — Herrings, box 125 a 150
Mackerel No. I 44 none
“ 44 2 44 -
44 44 3 «
FLOUR — Canal, bbl. 9 ‘all
Baltimore, ** S a SSO
Western, 44 none
Country, “ 650 a 750
GUNPOWDER — keg 6 a 7
Blasting, 44 4 a 450
GLASS —IO be 12, box 350 a 425
8 X 10, “ 325 a 4
IRON — Russia, 44 6
Swedes, assorted . 6
Hoop, lb 9 a ID
Sheet, 44 S a 10
Nail Rods, 44 7a;
LEAD — Bar, “ 9 a
LEATHER — SoIe, lb 2S a 3b
Upper, side 175 a 2
Calf Skins, doz 30 a36
LARD — lb 124 a 15
MOLASSES —_Y. Orleans , gal 40 a 50
Havana, 44 35 a 46
English Island , 44 —a
NAILS — lb 8 a 9
OlLS — Lamp, gal 150a 2CO
Linseed, 44 1 15 a 125
Tanners, 44 60
OATS — bush 50
PEAS— 44 1
PAINTS—Red Lead, lb 15
White Lead, keg 300a 350
Spanish Brown lb 4 a
Yellow Ochre, * 4 3 a
PEPPER — BIack, 44 9 a 12*
PORTER — London, doz 4 a 450
and Ale, American, bbl 3 a 350
RAISIN S — Malaga, box 2 a 250
Muscatel, 44 1 50 a 2
Bloom, 44 none
RlCE — Prime, 100 lb 4 a 5
Inferior to good, 44 350 a4 50
SUGAR—New Orleans, lb 7 a 10
Havana, white, 44 13 a 15
44 brown, 44 8 a 9
Muscovado, 44 8 a 10
St. Croix, 44 10 a 13^
Porto Rico, 44 8 a if
Lump, 44 14 a 16
Loaf, m» 15 a 20
Double refined, «■ 20 a 22
SOAP — American, No. 1, 8 a Sj
“ No. 2, 5 a S
SALT Liverpool ground, bush 55 a ”5
Turk's Island, 44 none
STEEL — German, U> 15 a 16
Blistered, 44 8 a 12i
SHOT—AII sizes, bag 2 124® 2 37j
SPIRITS — Cognac, \th prf. gal 150 a2 50
Peach. 44 1 a 150
Apple, 44 45 a 65
G in, Holland, 44 1 20 a 150
“ American, 44 55 a 75
Rum, Jamaica. 44 1 25 a 175
“ New England, 44 4S a 56
Whiskey, Nor-them, 44 48 a 56
Western, 44 50 a 75
“ Mononga. 44 75 a 1
• “ Irish, 44 2 a 3
1 OBACCO — N. ( arolina, lb 8 a 15
Virginia, « 15 a 40
TWINE*— 44 30 a 37*
TEA—Bohea, 44 50 a 75
Souchong, u 50 a 75
Hyson, 44 75 a 125
I Gunpowder, 44 j a 125
WlNE —Madeira, 2 50 a 35<
Sicily Madeira, ■* 125a 175
Sherry, u 2 n 350
Tenerife, * 75 a I’i
Sweet yialaga, 4 * 40 a 60
Porfe, 44 75 a 3
C /are/, 44 none
“ in bottles, doz 3 a 6
Champaigne, 44 5 al2
REMARKS.
Cotton This article continues to poui hi
! the country with unabated rapidity. The pfcuswfi*
continue to sell freely notwithstanding the conn
j n,,ed deciine prices ; there is however bat lit*
1 changing hands among those who purchase from JW
| growers. We now quote 6* aß* as the extrefl*
|of the market—sales chiefly at 7* aB. The W ; '
lowing is our classification :
(Jrdinary, 6* a7* ; faar, a
prime, 8 a B*,
Choice lots in square packages will command
not more. The river continues very lo*, ,Jie
wharves are loaded with cotton waiting for a
and the warehouses are nearly ail full.
Freight —By the river to Savannah a bag. l * 4-1
j as none can be carried odf by the ifaam an but very
little cotton leaves the place.