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f V ■? * ♦ y*gg JILiULJ. gßHMjggg J CHRONICLE ANO SENTINEL. ~ augu|ta.; ! FRIDAY MORNING| FEBRUARY 14. mail north of (' qarleston last night. ; - I In the last Federal UnijKii we find a long edi torial article in relation f 5 the Central Bank, intended we presume a ll sort of ante-justifi* tion of the large issues o bills of that which it is supposed t|j directors intend to make. It is stated thtS alter the payment of the debts due by thatsi nstitulion its capitaj will be $1,655 000, upon |’ iich it will be au thorised to double tlfit amount. But wha t is this capital ? Nothing|»ut tie notes and bonds of a multitude of debtors 1 it is urged that th e directors ought to issue upwards of three millions of dollars,with no other gu * antee fortheir redemp tion than notes which can sot bfc collected at the rate of more than 20 per rlr t per annum ! What then is to prevent the bil| of the bank from be coming depreciated 1 T faith of the State may be most ample for their redemption, but all past experience proves |hat immediate conver. tibility alone can keep thi bills of any bank a par. Nobody doubts thl ultimate ability of | the Darien Bank to reiiem its bills, because the State owns three fir irths of its stock, and yet its bills have been ‘flirty per cent under par and are now fror* fifteen to twenty ! There is scarcely a doubt fiat the Bank of Rome will finally redeem all its iLites and yet they are 50 per cent discount! JHiereforc, when the Central Bank issues an antiunt so vastly beyond its ability to redeem withiil any reasonable time, nothing can prevent its bils also from falling be- | low par, and causing a to holders. The issue of a large animnt by the Central Bank will no doubt be a* alleviation to those who get discounts andlcan use the money whi'c it is at par, but _nust finally result in heavy losses to the people! No one can be more desirous of seeing money|,i}enty than ourselves, but oui judgment does nollsanction the proposed step. We can stand the!operation as well as others, as we never keep|ioney of any sort on hand. If it is the pleasurf of the Democracy to fill the land with irredeen|ible bank paper, be it so; on their own mischief will be visited. \ The New York Heralds states that the whole amount of fetate loans, on Arhich the interest was due at the Bank of Pennsylvania on Saturdav the Ist inst., forms an aggregaif- of upwards of $28,- 000,000. The interest raises from 4$ to 5 per cent, per annum, and the amount due and no* Paid on Saturday, was s6< ),860 78. The loan of 1821, for $930,000 at per cent., and a4J per cent loan for $200,00C are the only ones for which funds had been proi Jed. The New York Cit j Banks.—According to an official statement, til; loans of twenty-two New York city banks, on {the Ist of January, 1839, amounted to $35,#47,375. Same time this year, $26,900,173. fecrease, $9,047,202. Specie in January, IB3l| $5,008,353. This year, $4,495,137. Decrea#*, $513,216. Circu lation in 1839, $5,494.243.| This year, $4,028,- ’ 737. Decrease, $1,465,501. Suffrage ix contains 33 millions of people, and has 2200,000 voters. No man can vote who does not*ay 200 francs annu al tax. There are now thr.|? parties opposed to this system. One goes for |mversal suffrage, but the delegates to be chosen l|r electors. A second is for a moderate extensiol of the right, and a tnird contends foi universaisuffrage without anv restriction. | From the Charleston Mijcury of yesterday. From St, Augustine. By the Steamer Southc-Jer, Capt. Budd, ar* rived yesterday, we have rl-eived the St. Aueus tineNews of the 7th instarl, from which we copy the following paragraphs ; f t J The Bloodhounds from Cuba haue been subjected to mfttj experiments, the’ results o which have bee| very They follovy a trail twenbS four hours old with rapidity and accuracy. So|e of them are to be employed by tne troops nowficouring the country between the mouths of the/Wacassassa and Su wannee rivers, Micanopy, sc. th ** DIANS ‘ *\ n attac k w 4 made, by a party of he enemy, on the tram frcl, Pilatka to Fort No 10. on Sunday last. 3 soljers were wounded’ and a serjeant missing. 5 ’ The Military District, of* which Fort No 10 is the radiating point, is on ihe Western banks of the St. Johns, and its NeriL.m boundary com mences nearly oppo.-ite to iSirolata. The distance between Pirfuku and the Fort is not over 10 milesi. but as M of the posts Ire mua'ccl in a bend of ,hc ri|.r, the trai? has to take the Fort Hetleman l„d, cross,,,, three branches of the It-tun-wak frock. ~ Correspondence of the Clyieston Courier. In the Senate, 7 ' the, ineffectual attempVto 1| m, U " r Tt JOO - the Secretary of'le £ 1 ’. rcsolutl0 "' whether the appropriation K- , h e road was embraced in the eli nsm.,l . d of .wen, v million, fa, the discussion again, took plan,lon the subject if i ♦ »aa contender! that the adn»ai s ,n,„o„ J as * pl ‘ mg fast and loose reg.rl so the Cumberland Road, that they were far it !a the west. and a go,"St urn,he south. It As conceded. „„ aU sides, that the app,opr, at,onleferred to was 1 in the estimates, and that thf money for the wo-k i must he borrowed, or raised!.., an issue of Tree I sury notes. The Senate rinsed to tab, resolution by a largo nngpijL r uu! l \\ hc House ; t he rules r>rc suspended to on aole Mr. Jones the Committee of ati 'Twn d STS l ° ** of his appropri. Committee ot the wh .’l F J i ?°" lSe went in t<> Garland moved “amf* b ‘"- ?!! d Rife money for the payment of ,1. pro ' l<lln S ,hat the placed in the hands of the , '4‘ P ensioners be not than one month prior to agents more The object of this was to Pa-Vment— from using the mo thereby li.u irdmg :ts safely.? J B !®** 1 of t<. C. pointed out the m )de adopted in the payment of the principles of the adminiJaaliM. ‘"S " i ' h fesaed to be oppo«ai to UM of 1 f 4 j money by banks, and had even advocated a law | to make it felony in any public agent to use any of the public money ; but, m regard to the Pen- I sion Agents, we were told here, by the friends of 1 the administration, that the Pension Agents must j have the use of the public money for half a year, i as their compensation. W hat was the reason why the use of public money was prohibited! It was the chan eof its loss was thus increased. Would not toe money be safer if deposited with the banks than with individuals, —especially if it was to be used ! Individuals might become defaulters and , their securities fail; hut, in regard to a bank, we i had the security of their whole stock. But these 1 Pension Agents were, in fact. Presidents and i Cashiers of Banks, and the public money, in their hands, was kept in bank, to their individual ac ! count, and used by them instead of by the Bank. ! So, nothing was gained by withholding it from ! tiie Bank—and the only difference was that we got individual security for it. instead of bank se curity. He adverted to the call of the President upon Congress for money, and to his prediction at the commencement ot the session, notwith standing the professions of the message, that we i would be so called upon to meet a deficiency. The means by which it was to be raised were not j indicated to us. We had no means but a tariff, ‘ and the President was playing fast and loose up i on that question, as he was in relation to the j Cumberland Road. He went on to discuss the J question of means to meet the deficit pointing ' Jut the disadvantages of the Treasury note issues. | After a very long debate, the House adjourned without coming to any conclusion on this quos j tionl Correspondence of the Savannah Georgian. Ox Board Steamboat Florida,^ St. Johns River, Feb. 7, 1840. 5 Another Indian Murder in East Florida. To the Editor of the Georgian.- As a military train consisting of 12 wagons, when returning from station No. 12 to Garcy’s Ferry, on Wednesday, the slh inst., and when within 3 miles of the 7 mile house, and 10 from the station at Garey’s Ferry, one of the principal military stations in Florida, they were attacked by 1 a party of Indians, that lay in ambush in the grass near the road and fired on, killing one of the dri vers said six mules. As soon as they commenced firing they set up their yelling as usual, and frightened the mules so that they became unmanageable, and the teams scattered in all directions; generally, however, running but a short distance before hitching the wago is against trees. The drivers extricated themselves from their teams, as well as they could, and made the best of the ir way to the 7 mile house, and the wagon master proceeded to Garey’s Ferry, coming up 5 miles from the place of attack, with Maj. Bennett, who with his escort of 10 or 12 mounted men, turned immediately back, and reached the place within one hour after the attack was made, but the Indians had plundered the wagons of all the articles of value to them and made their escape. Col. Twiggs on hearing the intelligence order ed Lieut. Darling, with a detachment ot Dra goons, who proceeded to the place of attack, but night coming on, they returned to their quarters, to spend the night, and take a new start the next day, but with what success, was not known on Friday. Since receiving the above, Capt. Nock, of the steamer Florida, has furnished the following: About ten miles from Garey’s Ferry, Wednes day sth Feb. at 2 o’clock, P. M. a train of wag ons was returning from the interior, and were at tacked by from twelve to fifteen Indrians. who, firing on the train, killed one man named Farson Camell—he having five balls in him—two mules shot and four wounded. The wagons were plun dered of the covers and provisions belonging to the train. The wagon master arrived express at Garey’s Ferry, and the quarter master’s men were immediately sent in pursuit, but could not discov er any signs of them whatever. Near Fort Brook, on the Ist February, a de tachment of men were sent in pursuit of desert ers, and were fired on by a party us Indians.— Three men were wounded and the Sergeant mis sing; on the attack, his horse being shot under him, he disappeared and is supposed to be shot. From the N. O. Bee, of the 9th. From Texas. By the arrival of the steam packet New York, we have received the Galveston Gazette of Feb. Ist. It is almost totally barren of intelligence. The sleam boat Putnam struck a snag in the Sa bine a few days since, and sunk above her guards. She will be raised, but with some |difficulty and delay. The treaty with Franee has been ratified by the senate of Texas. Accounts received from Mexico speak confidently of Bustamente’s head ing an expedition against Texas. From the Savannah Georgian. Shipwreck. The brig Edwin, of Baltimore, a packet be tween this port and Baltimore, was wrecked off Jekyl on the sth inst. She was bound to this port from New Orleans. Capt. Fitzgerald with the crew has arrived in this city in the steam packet Florida from St. Ma ry's. and furnishes the following statement; ; ‘Total loss of the brig Edwin of Baltimore, H. Fitzgerald, master, from New Orleans, bound to Savannah, with a cargo of Sugar and Molasses. Blowing heavy from the eastward, struck a shoal ofi Jekyl Island, about 5 o’clock on the morning of the sth inst.—immediately stalled the deck load to relieve her—a high sea running unship ped tu* rudder and started her counter—thump mg violently she soon bilged, the sea making a | complete breach over her ; we were compelled to 1 take the boats, and with difficulty reached Little Cumberland Island, through the breakers. Capt. F. despatched a boat to St. Mary’s for assistance ; but the wind blowing heavy, she went to pieces the night of the sth. Nothing saved but two boats—vessel and cargo a total loss.” From Canada. —lt was rumored in town yes terday afternoon, that a despatch had been re ceived horn Toronto, announcing that Sir Geo. Athur •'.aJ ceased to b; Lieutenant Governor of I pper Canada, and thattheHonorable Mr. Chief J usuce Stuart had been swsrn in administrator of the Government; also, that one half of the pro ceeds of the Jesuits’ estates and of the Seminary ot »t. Suplice was to be appropriated to Upper Canada Catholics from the date of the Union as the grants were originally given for the support of the Roman Catholic religion “in the Province of Queiec,” which then included both the Piov inces or the Canadas.— Montreal Herald. GKAVDiLogrExcE.—‘Feller citizens,” said a stump orator lately in Wisconsin, who was run ning for office in the territorial legislature “fel ler citiz ens, if you elect me mv opposition to banks shall be so strong that it will break the track of a herd of buffalos ! Volcanos may pour out their lava, relucmg cities to smouldering ruins— earth quakes may engulph in the vortex of premature Jestruc ion large and populous islands -cataracts may dugow their aqueoua contents, making na are t.emWe w.th the continuous effort-lhc thunders s stroke tusy prostrate the mightiest of monuments ever raised by the combined aid of artand labor-,he vtv.d and gla.ing flash of lig ttnirg may rend -he sturdy oak of the f orpst an I mate the hon-souUd and the iro ~hearted ■ lutte e: tu tear; but do you think felle, citizen that all this would make me rote in favor of a bank . d—d dear afit.”—Neu Orlean, Picay. I The Army. The army of the United States should number 1 all told, 12*539, officers and men. It is thus computed: 2 Regiments of Dragoons, 1500 4 Regiments of Artillery, 3000 8 Regiments of Infantry, /500 Ordnance Department, 820 Engineer Corps, Topographical, General Staff, Medical Department, 83 But at the latest return, accompanying the Re port of the Secretary of War, the total effective rank and file, present for duty, was less than half the nominal force, mz : 6220. In Florida there are six Regiments, viz: 2 Dra goons, about 400 strong; the 3d Artillery; and the Ist, 2nd, 9th and 7th Infantry, which average about 200 men each ! ? ; An abstract attached to the Sarg ton General s I Report, giving the number of cases treated dur ing the year, and the number of deaths, seems to us to indicate a high state of the Army, and much more than ordinary skill. The number of cases of all sorts treated was 22,248, out of which there were only 214 deaths Gen*. Jackson’s Bedstead. — The bedstead used by Gen. Jackson, during his stay in New Orleans, was sold at auction in the French Ex change, ('La Bourse, Jon Wednesday evening, the 15th inst. It was bid off at one hundred and thirty do lars. It was plain, but rich and mas sive.—Natchez Free / rader. It is said ;hat twenty-four manufacturing estab lishments at Vattrsvn, have entirely suspended their operations, and that the men, women, and children who wore lately employed in them, are entirely idle, and very many of them literally de pendent upon charity, for their very scanty allow ance of daily food. —Newark Daily Adv. It is estimated that there will be one hundred thousand emigrants to Texas this fall and winter. The population of Austin, Texas, is now eight hundred and fifty. Five months since there were scarcely eight citizens upon the site of this new city. A steam carriage lately accomplished the dis tance between Cambridge and London, in Eng land, 52 miles over a common road, in four hours and a half. A tailor who died lately, was found in his last moments cabbaging a piece of the blanket which covered him. Barber-ous March or Intellect. —At a bar ber’s shop, in Drury Lane, a bill is exhibited in the window which states that “L »dys can have their hair dressett in the Victorier fashion at this shop-charge only 6d. Gentlemens hair dressett intheMelburn style—charge only 3d. N.B.A varryetty of fancy combe and bares greas.”—So cial Reformer . Speaking of suits at law to recover damages for slander, the Boston Daily Advertiser makes the following observations, the sound sense of which commend them to the attention of every reader: “In cases of this kind the parties are not on equal ground. To one the verdict may be years of misery ; to the other a matter of mere dollars and cents, or at most a forced acknowledgement that he was wrong, which does nobody much good; for, after all, ‘He that’s convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.’ “One of the lessons taught by a knowledge of the law is its utter worthlessness in healing the wounds of the moral feelings. A slight acquain tance with the proceedings in our courts of jus tice will demonstrate that, however firmly the balance of justice is held, in cases of dollars and cents, when the sensibilities of man or woman are to be healed, there is no medicine to be found there; and to patch up an injured character, judges and juries, and lawyers to boot, are the worst cobblers in creation.” The New Postage. — lt is quite amusing to witness the undisguised ill homor with which many of the principal Post-office agents receive, weigh, and charge the numerous letters which pass through their hands under the new regula tion. We speak advisedly in asserting that the receiving-houses in all the large thoroughfares have a quite sufficient accession of trouble to in duce them to employ clerks expressly to superin tend the Post-office department. Yet they are to have no additional allowence for extra labor. Se riously, it is palpable that the present arrange ment cannot last long. —London Herald. The Blessing of Ignorance.— Sir William Berkekly, who was 38 years a distinguished Gov ernor of the Lolony ot Virginia, in answer to the inquiries of the Lords ot the Commissioners for the Colonies in 1671, sixty-four years after the settlement of the Colony says : “ I thank God we have no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years. For learn ing has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world ; and printing has divulged them, and libels against the government.” Fortunes of the Grenadier Moreau. No Arabian story-teller ever dreamed of invent ing such things as were .seen to take place in real life, during the victories of Napoleon, and of this tru h the city of Tours, in the year 1829, wit nessed one striking proof, in the history of the grenadier Mqieau, whose name is prefixed to the present narrative. It was in the year 1806 that 4 this individual, then a youth of twenty, was sent from the recruit ng depot in his native town of lours towards the Prussian frontier, where the Emperor Napoleon was at the time concentrating his forces, and preparing for the opening of a great campaign Eugene Moreau was descended from a family which had been one of high provin cial respectability, but had become latterly so much decayed Ihr.t his immediate progenitors hclJ the humble position of small farmer?, or to speai more plainly of peasants. As regarded personal appearance, Eugene would have done honor to the noblest ancestry. To say that he was merely handsome, would be disparaging and unjust. His person was tall and beautifully formed ; his features remarkably fine and regular and his eye dark, sparkling and animated : while his air and ga.t were at once pleasing and noble In short, a sculptor would have but to cover the youth’s black and glossy locks with a Greek head piece, to have in him a perfect model of the cod dess-born Achilles, or the more graceful Antinous' The eyes of the Emperor was too searching and discriminative not to alight soon on stich a figure as that of Moreau. On reaching Bambero a Bavarian town where the first head quarters of the grand army were established, the y u un- re cruit chanced to fall in Napoleon’s wav 4f ter momentary glance of admiration, the’ Emperor turned to an inferior officer behind him and pointing with his finger to Moreau, excised “ 1 hat stnpphng is for my guard.” The French army ran over a portion of Pros sia, and came to the vast plain of J Pan Th ‘ as every one knows, was fought a mighty battle’ which delivered over Berlin to the Emperor of France. 1 his great, onflict has nothing to do with the particular history of Moreau but it is a m liter of jnst.ee to say that he fought i„ it like a hon, and ne.ped well to maintain the fame of tue guard of which he was a member. Subse quently to the engagement the main army march ed upon the Prussian capitol, with a small divi sion to which Moreau was attached, was ordered to take station temporarily at Weimar-^ In the distribution of billets at Weimer, our young soldier got one fixing him singly upon a little chatteau about a mile distant from the town. As the light-hearted Eugene walked from the town to his desired abode, scarcely feeling the weight of his arms or his knapsack, his thoughts ran back over the changes which had taken place during the last six months of his life, in May, a peasant, laboring on his father’s little field ; in October, a soldier —a member of Napoleon’s guard, and one of the conquerors of Jena ; and who knew how grand the next chance might be 1 His company had lost many men, and had per formed many prodigies ot valor. The hour ot reward was yet to come, and then his arm might be decorated by.the corporal’s or serjeant’s stripes the only honorable kind of them—and even the cross of honor might be planted on his breast. — Such were Moreau’s imaginations as he drew near the chatteau, pointed out to him as the place de signed in his billet. He rang the gale bell, and the door opened instantly. Stepping forward into the court, he saw no human being, but two furi ous dogs met him in the face, and threatened to tear him to pieces. In fact, the servants, seeing the soldier approach, had thought this a fit way to receive and repulse an enemy. But Moreau was not one to beat a retreat on such grounds as these. Keeping the dogs at bay with his musket, he cried, “Hollo!—down, you vicious brutes! Hollo! you, inside there ! call off the dogs, else I shall be obliged to hurt them !—Hollo!” No one choose to hear the cry, however, and Moreau struck one of the dogs lifeless at his feet, by a blow from the butt end of his piece. The other animal he dexterously contrived to seize by one of his hind legs, and swinging it above his head with a powerful arm, dashed out his brains against the court wall. He then tranquilly ad vanced to the inner entrance of the chatteau, which was half open. As he pursued this door to the wall, he saw a whole posse of domestics flying out at the opposite side of die lobby hall. Eugene thought to himself that a soldier of the Emperor’s guard had a right to better treatment than this, but he was patient and sweet tempered, so he said nothing, but marched forward. Apart ment after apartment showed him no living per son, and he began to grow wearied of this style of reception, as well as a little irritated thereby, when all at once he heard the sound of a female voice. Following the direction, he soon found himself in a retired chamber, face to face with a young lady who was seated with her harp by her side, and her fingers in the act of touching its chords. “ Meinhrrr ,” said the startled young lady, and then paused ; for her eye had caught the tri colored cockade in cap, indicating that he belonged to the hostile army and had in vaded her country. “ Monsieur ,” said she, chang ing her address from her mother tongue to that of her visitor. But she carried her speech no farther. Her fingers quitted her harp, and she remained motionless before the young soldier of France. Often, often did Moreau in after years describe that first interview, and always with a degree of tenderness that affected the hearer, though cir cumstances might make him doubtful at the time of the narration. All Moreau’s anger fled at the sight of the lady ; his fusil trembled in his hand ; and that fair-haired beauty of the north, with her blue eyes and snow-like skin, appeared to him far to surpass all the pictures which his older comrades had drawn of Egyptian loveliness.— Her eye was cast on him with an expression at once of entreaty and kindness, as if beseeching his protection and proffering a friendly reception. It would appear as if she had noticed his impa tient look on entering the room. “ My servants,” said she, when after a pause, she followed up her first word Monsieur, “ my servants have received you inhospitably ; but they are grieved at late events, and grief does not reason.” But floor Moreau was already so far from feeling anger, that he could almost have knelt down and asked pardon for having killed the lady’s dogs, though, had he not done so, they would probably have tom him to pieces. The Countess Diana de Drucken was the name of the lady in whose chateaa Moreau now took up his residence. She was a widow, and still extremely young, having been married almost in childhood to a wealthy old Noble, at the wish, or rather the command, of her proud and ambitious brothers and kindred. Her husband soon died, leaving no child to inherit his wealth. The young Countess lived alone at the time when fortune brought Moreau to the chatteau. Whether from the lady s desire not to provoke an invading ene my, or from other motives personal to Moreau, (whose ancestral respectability she soon learnt from conversation with himself,) certain it was that he was entertained, during his stay of seve ral weeks, like an honorable guest. He occupied the apartments of the late master of the mansion, and the same domestics who had lately received him so currishly now became his devoted slaves. In his simplicity, the young soldier was no whit astonished at all this, he found it natural to live in a beautiful chateau, to walk (not alone) every morning in a magnificent park, to mount the finest horses for an evening ride, to be served by laqueys covered with embroidery, and to dine on three courses daily with a countess. Had not he heard at the bivouac fires, that such was the sol dier’s common fortune in Egypt 1 Moreover he loved the countess, and, remembering the ancient honors of his family, more than his present con dition, he thought not of concealing his love. On him the passion took its usual effect; it soft ened his manners, gave inspiration to his tongue and every action. The sincerity of his love was too obvious to be doubted for an instant. He was young, (in truth almost a boy-soldier,) beautiful and a conqueror. The Ceuntess Diana could * " ot " e *P berself. Though seeing their true rela tive position much more clearly than Moreau did the passion of the soldier found an echo ere long m her bosom. She had none about her to keep her pude of rank awake. An old infirm chap lam, verging on the grave, was her only present friend and counsellor, and he was too much at tached to her to make any annoying opposition to her wxshes. The issue may be guessed. Lhe happy Moreau saw nothing in the future but visions of pleasure and joy. He loved too sincerely even to cast a thought on the fortune of the countess but he had other ambitious thoughts 11 ui trUe ,V said he ’ “ that l am only one of the humble soldiers of the emperor, but it is from a mong them that he chooses his captains, and I feel assured that I shall become one of them ” V‘ e C °™ tess less hopeful of the future,’but t:r l ir c r\ d ™* ° ver tw tions And when the period of Moreau’s sav came to a close, when his detachment was order ed to join head quarters, she did not express to the young soldier the fears that filled her own mind, whenever the thought of her haughty rela tives, and of her re-union with them, crossed her memory. The last words of Moreau were “It is hut necessary that I should speak to the empe ror all will be arranged. ’ The countess swore to Ire ever faithful; and Moreau promised that he would be careful of h.s life, and return with the cross of honor and the epaulettes of an officer Bathed with the countess’tears, the young sol cher then took his way from the chateau, but of ten cast back his eyes, and gazed, as long he c Ln see it, on the hand of his lady love handkerchief in token of reiterated farewells 05 * Soon afterwards, Moreau’s regiment a I , i PalMkm, only some hours before the expected ' n.rival of the emperor, and was drawn ..nf -j ! the palace of Sans-Souci. to be reviewed^’T 6 1 as he passed. Napoleon’s visage was Idaml U ! smiling as he moved slowly on his wh f ? an , d ; horse along the ranks which h J 1 1 ly fought at dene. When'I | spot where Moreau stood, the ’alter who baa made up his mind to plead his own cause, stood forward from the ranks, presented arms, and beg ged permission to a word. “Speak,” said the emperor, who encouraged such personal appeals. “I wish to marry sire, if it be your good pleasure, said Moreau. “What! in the middle of a cam paign!” replied Napoleon; “what sutler gi\ sey has decoyed y< u to this!” “Sire!” said the simple-hearted Moreau, “it is no sutler, but a la dy near Jena, who is beautiful as an angel, and rich as the Mayoress of Tours.” The emporer smiled, and the young soldier continued—“ She had sworn her faith to me; and for me, I have promised to her to have one day the cross of hon or, and the epaulettes of a captain.” “Her name! ’ said the emperor. “The Countess Diana of Drucken,” was Moreau’s answer. At this name the emperor showed a degree of displeased surprise. In a second or two he ex claimed, “Fv ! you a soldier of France, to forget yourself, thus, and wish to degrade j ourself and your comrades by an alliance with a stranger, an enemy of France'? Think no more of it! Re turn to your place in your ranks.” As he spoke he gave the spur to his charger, and flew at lull gallop to another regiment. The campaign went on, anti Moreau fought bravely throughout it. Another and another campaign followed, and he was still in the guards of Napoleon. The fearful invasion of Russia, found him in the same position, and he was with his master till the abdication at I 1 ontainbleau.— By this time Moreau had won the cross of the legion of honor, and had risen in the service, though not to a commission ; —but hard toil and wound: had done much of the usual work of time upon him. The remembrance of the Countess Diana, however, remained ever fresh in his mem ory. He had written to Weimar, to Madame the Countess of Drucken, but either the post or the lady was faithless. He received no reply—not a word—not a token of reminisencc. When the Bourbons finally brought with them a general peace, Moreau revisited his aged father and his native Tours. There he found many old friends and they would have had him to marry a young and pretty girl, and settle himself lor life, but he was the chosen bridegroom of a countess, and be refused all proffers of this kind ; waiting always, with undiminished anxiety, for the coronetted carriage, which he confidently expected to come one day and carry him to his beioved. In the year 1829, Moreau still remained at Tours, having revisited Weimar and the chateau of the Countess, without learning tidings of her— the chateau being occupied by strangers. Still he found the chief solace of life in the hopes which all who knew him considered vain and del isive. The summer of the year mentioned, however, was signalized by the arrival in Tours, of a superb German travelling-carriage, drawn by four horses. A young man was the sole occu pant of this, and scarcely had he entered the town, when he left the carriage, and made inquiry, “if Moreau, a grenadier of the old imperial guard, was still alive, and still resided in Tours !” The answer was still in the affirmative, and the young man requested to be guided to his residence. A person readiiv offered to execute this task, and walked towards the veteran’s dwelling, the car riage as well as the owner following. “Yonder is Moreau,” said the guide, “seated on his stone bench.” The young man moved forward alone to the side of the soldier, who was indeed basking his still noble-looking head in the rays of the eveningsun. “Are you Moreau of the old guard!” said the stranger, with a faltering voice. “ Yes,” cried he starting up, “I am Moreau, of the third regiment of the old guard.” “ It is you whom I seek,” said the youth, clas ping the old man’s hand, and seemingly strug gling to conceal his emotions from the public eye; “enter this carriage. lam come to conduct you to the chateau of Drucken.” Half embraced by his conductor, Moreau ascended the vehicle, and the postillions, at a signal, drove rapidly away. Moreau, the grenadier of the old guard of Napo leon, was no more seen in Tours, or his native France. Diana Countess of Diucken was not unfaithful to the young soldier. But when rejoined by her family, after the terrors caused by the French visit had a little subsided they threatened her even with death if she attempted to prosecute her engagement with Moreau. Effectually to mar her purpose, they strove to induce her to marry again, but this they could not effect. It was only, however, when the truth could not be longer con cealed, that she dared to fell them that the cere mony of marriage had already passed between Moreau and herself, the old chaplain being the officiating minister, and also the sole witness, on the occasion. Bitterly as the kindred of the countess cursed this secret connection, they a greed, on condition that, she solemnly swore nev er to disgrace them by sending for Moreau, to torment her no more with schemes of re-marriage and to permit herself to bring up the boy to whom she gave birth, under the character of her nephew and avowed heir. The nan e of Moreau was sentenced to oblivion. The fear of endangering her son’s welfare caused the countess to keep her engagement unbroken, though her unchanged af fection for Moreau would often strongly tempt her to an opposite line of conduct. But, on her death bed. the countess revealed for the first time to her son his true history and parentage, and laid her dying commands upon him to go to Tours, ami to render comfort able the old age of his fath er, if he stiil lived. Her own heart, at that truth displaying moment, was wrung w ith remorse at the reflection that she had permitted any engage ments whatever to separate her from one to whom she had solemnly and lastingly bound herself. Arrived at Drucken, Moreau could only weep over the tomb of her for whom he had yearned for twenty-four long years. But the tender cares of his son, who had taken him from Tours, render ed the veteran’s latter days happy. If he had not the object ot his life’s dream beside him, he had at least the satisfaction of knowing that she had not been unfaithful to him. Consignees per South Carolina Kail Uoad. Hamburg, February 13*1840. TII Plant; W E Jackson; E Mustin; Garvin Haines; T Dawson; F Lamback ; C A Greiner; L Dwelle ; Clark, Rackett & ( o ; Moore & Davis • B W Force ; G T Dortic ; T Davis ; S Kneeland & Son ; J AV Houghton ; W Hattier; Stovall, Sim mons &Co ; Adams & Burroughs ; J F Benson. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. „ Savannah, February 11 Cleared.—-Ship Eli Whitney, Harding, Liver pool, schrs Potomac, Crowell, Boston ; Kite, Mai tin, St Augustine ’ dr Arrived. Br ship Ben Nevis, Burns, Liverpool - Br ship Anna Liifey, Stewart, Liverpool • * S;,to? rg ’ N ° rriS> A "S" Bta . OgleLrpe! wul If ent to sea. —Brig Independence Pn,,. u Erbrij King Henri, Lcitch, TrSd sequibo, Lamont, Glasgow ’ x hug Es gu"r r '^~ StCamboat Gspatch.Guilmartin. Au- Arrh-ej j Charleston, February 13. non Rtrif y e^er d a V- Br ship Harriet Scott, Bey- lf jS ; shl P Robin Hood, Proctor. Boston the Offing. Ship Victoria Lennox Liverpool Cleared.- Packet ship Chicora, Rogers Liver, pool; I r barque Mexico, Beuscher, Havre • TJ L Mainer"’ C ° bb ’ N VO, t 5 Schr S —, Hardy! .on ,y Uvo^. ! '^ r<fai ' ~ SWp RCpUMic > Th»"-P --OJVW I''NOTH E-D* Mv s Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has removed his operating rooms to one door below Mii tn l . eriefs Confectionary, and opposite Bank Building. opposite the Br dge feb 10 ; t c O CjJbCH RIFLEMEN, ATTENTION, I Appear on your parade ground this even'. . « o’clock, equ pped foi drill. By older of 7 k M raAZEK.’Sfr | Y « nmsts “aSdWMe* t fo™oZ"e C u/ ! [ oP ®r | Regiment Georgia Militia. Ile 10th I feb 14 Qjt’Messe Editors Please announce j W. G. NIMMO as a candidate for the office fCapt jor to command the New City Battalion * A feb 13 mwvSsj* I JKrWe are authorized to announce iT "" SAMUEL C. IVILSON , as a candidate fo,rS l I ONELoi the 10th Regiment Georgia Militia jen 21 td CT Vr- lv - FLINT offers his scrviceTto thT- I tizens of Augusta in the different branches of ?' profession. He may be found at all hours \ . late residence of Mr. A. M. Mger ton, second* a Iromthe corner of Mclntosh and Reynold street? 01 I '(o*'TO THE JhE The Paintings at Mr. Richards’Drawing Acad-t" ft! (Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to F I tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening f* M * I 2 o’clock until 9 o’ciock p. m. At nDht ti,« ro:T1 will be well. lighted. _ _ ° : G. AJ3/MO, Genera] ('omtnission Vler chant, ofiice on Mclntosh sheet, next door to th I Constitutionalist. | CT Doctor J. J. WILSON i sional services to the citizens of Augusta Lh 9 vicinity. He will be found at his residence f I first brick building above Guedron’s stable oa Vir I street, recently occupied by John L. Adams * * * * u g l7 *tf (xj^NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave - I follows: " 1 UPWARD. Not to leave Charleston before 700 \ M 1 “ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30 Ip “ “ Georges’, - “ - io 00 “ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00 “ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30« * “ Blackviile, - “ - 100 M “ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300 Arrive at Hamburg not before - 4no 0 i DOWNWARD. Not to leave Hamburg before 600a. M » 1 “ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730 *» “ “ Blackviile, “ - . 930 ® “ “ Midway', “ - - 10 30 “ “ Branchvill “ - - nOO “ “ Georges’, “ - -1200 m. ‘ “ Summerville,“ - - 2 OOp. m I Arrive at Charleston not before 300 Distance —ISGmiles. Fare Through—Jlo 00. I Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 2; I minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not I longer than 0 minutes for wo** and water at anr I station. I- To stop for passengers, when a white fiagis I hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also at ] Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T.O Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons’ I and Marsh’s T. O. Passengers uv will breakfast at Woodstock and I dine at Blackviile; aoicn, will breaklast at Aiken I and dine at Summerville. may 21 | (fj'C. M. CURTIS, House, Sign and Ornamtn* I tal Fainter, 187 Broad street. —Sign and ornamen- I tal work done at short notice, deco (Tj’Dr. B. HARRIS offers his services in the I practice of his profession to the citizens of Angus- I ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive prompt I attention if left at his drug store in Broad street,or I at his residence in Ellis "street, below Washing. I t° n - nov 7 fl (£/* EXCHANGE ON NEW FORA—At sight! I and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by 1 nov 23 GARDELLE & RHIND. A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS. 3 DR. W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOGTHISG i SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.— This infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of chil- i dren, when thought past recovery, from convul- B sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the gums, the child will recover. The preparation is so innocent, so efficacious and ao pleasant, that no i child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it I When infants are at the age of four months, though | there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the i Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the * pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup P in the nursery where there are young children; for 1 if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums, 1 the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the Jj pores and healing the gums; thereby preventing I convulsions, fevers, tsc. Sold only at Dr. Wm. I Evans' Medical Office, 100 Chatham street, New I York, where the Doctor maybe consulted on all I diseases of children. PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY Os I Dr. EVANS' SOOTHING SYRUP.—To the Agent I of Dr. Evans' Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir—The I great benefit afforded to my suffering infant bt fl mur Soothing Syrup, in a case of protfactedtanil I tainful dentition, must convince every feeling pa- fl ' ent how essential an early application of such an I ivaluable medicine is to relieve infant miseryaa I arture. My infant, when teething, experience I inch acute sufferings, that it was attacked will I convulsions, and my r wife and family supposed tlu: 1 death would soon release the babe from anguiw. k till we procured a bottle of yeur Syrnp ; which s soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change I was produced, and after a few applications the P child displayed obvious relief, and by con timing m I its use, I am glad to inform you the child lias com- M pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful I complaint has since occurred ; the teeth arc etna* I nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health. 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I melancholy, and dejected, llypochondiiacisrn, con- 3 sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all otln i I nervous affections, |hese pills will produce a safe 1 and permanent cure. Evans' Camomile Pills were first introduced i >itf 1 America in 1835. EVANS' FAMILY APERIENT PILLS air I purely vegetable, composed with the strictest \'W I cision of science and of art; they never pro l i fe j nausea, and are warranted to cure the folio wo - diseases which arise from impurities of the bk; 1 - 1 * 1 V * Z: — Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, 1 I Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever , Asthma, (-f lera. Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnic < uh- j Bladder , Affections peculiar to Females, aoJ !i those diseases of whatsoever kind to which hun k 1 nature is subject, where the stomach is affected. | More conclusive proof sos the extraordinary 4’ I caey of Dr. Wm. 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