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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL 4 ur. V S T A . THURSDAY* MORNING, JANUARY 30.; » ~ l ' “ 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. ® ‘ ® • » - 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 ' •» 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. * From the /xlobe of the 24ih inst.. we cut the following ■'fiction of the Sub-Treasury Bill, as j ® 3 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 J ’ J O 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. j 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.