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CHRONICLE AND SEN' 'INEL.
AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26.
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Congress.
The proceedings of this body for i >me time
past have been so devoid of interest, tl it we have
avoided occupying our space with the details. —
In the House, the routine of conductit g business
is strictly pursued, and a large portion if the time
is daily consumed in discussing point* of order,
appeals from the decisions of the Cha s, calls of
the House, &c., &c. A recent occu ; i<ence has
however, thrown about its proceeding ‘some in
terest, and we give our readers an ac< bunt of it
extracted from the correspondence of j he Balti
more American. ■
PEKSUXAL .M ACTE RS POST OFFICE pEPAHT-
M ESfT. j
Mr. G raves of Ky., asked leave of fcae House
to offer a resolution, which was read sis informa
tion. It commenced with a preamble rife ring to
an occurrence in the House some tine since,
when Mr. G. made a charge against ithc Bust
Master General. The charge was I Sit one of
the clerks of the Department was no\f in Ken
tucky, editing an Administration paj&r, and at
the same time receiving a salary of tv| Ive hun
dred dollars for services rendered
here. I
The charge further stated that the s’ m ofs4o
a month was paid to a substitute here £o do the
business of the Department. After tl. - reading
of the preamble, in which Mr. Gravis further
said that be had addressed a letter to Mi| Kendall,
asking or information as to the tnsh ot the
charge, which information Mr. K. if dined to j
give, a resolution was read, authorising he Com
mittee on the Rost Office Expenditure to exam
ine into the charges made, and report t; ie fa.ts to
the House. 2
Mr, Kendall’s ansvyer to Mr. Grav«|’s letter,
and the letter of Mr. G. to Mr. K., wt>e read to
the House. Mr. K. declines most peipmptorily
to give the desired infoini ilion, and hi# le'ler ex
cited considerable merriment in the Hcose for its
boldness. Mr. Graves says he wishes to have
his speech correct, and if the charges w|re incor
rect as made in the House, he hopes oifi
cial information of the fact. t
Mr. Albert Smith of Maine objected |»the re
ception ot Mr. Graves’ resolutions. f
Mr. Graves moved the suspension ot-ihe rules,
and demanded the yeas and nays, two fiords be
ing necessary. The yeas were 118, ifie nays
62. . I
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Reduction of Salaries. !,
From the National Intelligencer of tin 22d inst.
we clip the following sketch of the pr -cecdings
in the House. The party in power ha fa now au
opportunity of testifying the sincerity! of their
professions for the last twelve years v Reform
and retrenchment have been their watch word 5
until they have exhausted the Treasury by their
prodigal expenditure and purloining ) ie pub.ic
treasure.
We hope Mr. Proflit may persevere i| the good
work, and continue to press this wholesome mea
sure until it be adopted.
Let the work begin among the otHcl-holders.
and teach them that they must also shie in the
disasters and distress which they havelo indus
triously labored to bring upon the peopi*
The House then took up the bill proi'din- f or
the re-appointment of the Cotnmissionel of Pen
sions an 1 which said (.ill had been repe| e d from’
the Committee of the Whole on the s*}:e of the
Union with an amen Irnent (offered I.y - It- p ro f
fit) reducing the salary of the said Commissioner
irom s3.u(io to $2 500 per annum. !>
And tlie question being on concurring with
the | ommittee of the Whole in their am Anient.
Mr. I rolfit said he believed the amendment
ought to nave come from some other gentleman
mg more dal ns than himself to ex
Much had been said about retrcnchme. i an I re
toroi. Eel the country know who w-ht now
ready to carry out these profession- |le now
gave notice that he should present a b|l if no
Olher «eml. U .»n d.d M , priding f, .1. J ”
u.m of the of every officer of 2D , l r cent
including members ofC„„,.r es3 „„j
sary. We were now to ha«e a srwi» ■
and .he of
be tendered so as to correspond to ,u ’
standard. It gentlemen intended to c - J
thetr professions, a commencement * m “j‘
somewhere, and it might as well be mic m.l
as in any other c«e. The message of tie
den. recommended the strictest econo,nvitnd Mr
P. was for beginning a, once; and be would
bring tins House to a test, before rhe sesstoa do
sed. in relation to this economy.
After some further remarks from Mr P th«
amendment was debated by Messrs. Graves.’oid
dmgs and \\ . Thompson, at much lengijia'nd in
favor thereof.
Mr. Smith, of Maine, replied at some length to i
Mr. Graves When Mr 8. was about condu
it ng, several gentlemen (some 20 or StO -oseaml
firs. atldL»d lhe
aTcw?.? °f **'
gm.t,e,nan .lord H” U*
concluded his remarks'Mj'Sif ST"- T
of Kentucky^'wti'o "spoke jj “ r
ment. and had not concluded, when h* a nd ’
to a .notion for adjournment, which
And the House adjourned until 12 oV tft
Monday next. on
Rescmptiox ix Mmuxn. —The bill which
passed the House of Delegates of that State, on
the 17th, fixes the day for resumption of specie
payments by the banks, on the first of July.
Mas. Clat consort of Henry Clay, Jr., died
j suddenly and unexpectedly in Louisville, on the
evening of the 12lh instant.
A correspondent of the N. A. Courier
that General Taylor has issued an order to the
detachments pursuing the Indians, to make no
prisoners, and that a copy ot this order is now
j on file in the War Deoartment.
j
Correspondence of the Rational IntilUgcncer.
New Youk, February 20, 1840.
The Senate of this State have adopted the res
olutions pas-ed by the House respecting the
] right of petition, ayes 20, noes 4. ihe joint
J vote of the Assembly, says the Albany Daily
i Advertiser, has been ayes 105, roes 14, and the j
Whig majority on joint ballot is but 20. Os j
| course the Van Ruren men went with the Whigs, ;
I and the vote is all but unanimous. Lei the
| Southern Whig press bring this fact before their |
readers. The Sonthern Public is doubly duped |
on this exciting subject; first, in the belief that •
only Whigs a--e abolitionists; and next, that!
there is any reliance to be put in (he forces ot
Mr. Van Ruren in the North. I would, howev
er, wish to add nothing to this unhappy topic of
excitement, for I can see nothing here alarming i
from abolition movements to the Southern States,
their power being limited in the extreme, and
their efforts 1 mited to their own little circles,
while the very increase of their numbers, it in
crease they have, brings in so many cooler men
as leaders, that their very coolness chills all the
the heat the party have. Such abolitionists as
Mr. J. Q. Adams, howe'er they may abound in |
the North, will never do the Constitution any |
harm. I make these statements to add that
from the almost unanimous vote of New A ork,
nothing further is intended than a mere expres
sion of opinion upon the right of petition.
A transient ship from Liverpool brings us Li- |
verpool dates to January 4, with news a little
cheering. Money is said to be plenlier in Eng
land, rate of interest lower. Cotton had ad
vanced §d. In lar there were no sales. In to
bacco the demand is confined to small parcels for
the trade at former prices. The corn market had
not advanced. The averages were lower and
consequently the c.utics had not increased.
American flour was sold at 31s. per bbl.; but
31s. Gd. to 325. were asked. The general aspect
of business affairs is all better.
The political news, from a hasty glance at the
papers, appears to be unimportant. The Mar
quis of Nohmanut is logo to Patis as the Brit
j ish Ambassador. Lord Gueexville is to go to
i India as Governor-General. Lord Ebrixctox
I is to take Lord Noum axbt’splace.
In Manhattan Bank stock there has been great
excitement to-day. Prime, Ward & Kixg
threw in the market a considerable amount at 80
which in the end knocked the stock down to 70.
I: is rumored in the streets that serious efforts are
making by the Board of Directoss to remove the
Cashier, Robeht White, which thus far have
been defeated by his brother and some personal
friends at the Board.
The New A'ork 5 percent stock, which was
' sold to-day by the Comptroller of the State for
the Bank Fund, went off at prices running from
'9l 38 to 92. It was bought by different brokers
and banking institutions at what is considered
fair prices.
Correspondence <f the U. S. Gazette.
New A’oiik, Wednesday, P. M.
All business is very du 1 to-Jay. The stock
market fell generally from sto 1 per cent. U.
S. Bank shares 77 on time. In Manhattan Bank
nothing was done—9o was the highest price of
fered. There is a full meeting of all the Direc
tors of that institution now holding, for the pur
pose of father investigation into its concerns.
The packets sail to-morrow, and at least $300,-
OdO in specie is going out in them, notwilhsland
-1 ing it would be more advantageous to remit bills.
Very little has been done in Exchange to-day.—
The quotation on England is 8 a
j lam enabled to give the following statement
of the prices ruling the market:
Coffee. —We have no alteration to notice in
this article since Saturday ; 300 bags of St. Do,
min go have sold at 8£ a B|, cash; 600 bags of
Brazil, at u and 175 bags of Laguira at
a lU, or the usual lime.
Cotton. —There has been very little change in
Cot;on this week ; the demand continues steady
and tiie transactions in the various descriptions
extend to 2700 b.d s, of which 1150 bales Up.
land were taker at 7 a 9 ; 450 at a 10; 750
New Oneans at a and 35J Mobile at 8i
a cents.
Flour, Grain. —The Flour market remains
extremely inactive, there having been no transac
| tions for export, since our last review. Rates may
be considered nominal—Western is held at $6,31
a and for choice brands $6,50 is asked ; j
for Geo getown and Howard-st. the same rates
, are demanded ; Ohio via Canal, $6,124 a 6,25*;
Richmond City Mills, $6,50 a 6,75, and Troy i
: $6.37U
Sugar. —Prime Sugars are scarce and in de
maud. Other des.-rf tions are rather dull. The
sales include 50 hhds old crop St. Croix, at a i
9 ; si-0 hhds New Orleans at 4|; 150 do 5 a 5U
120 hhds new crop Porto Rico a7; 1000 hags
Siam 8c; a small lot of brown H ivana at 7J,
and white do at 10$ on, the usual credit.
Exchange —On Philadelphia 6^ —Baltimore
a6s Richmond 7 a 7$ —in all others no
i change whatever from previous quotations.
Rates at first Board.—U. S. Bank, 77.
Steamboat Accdext.— The (’incinnati Re
publican ot Monday last s i ates that the bull of I
the Ben Fianklin, in tow by the Gen. Harrison
was stove in by the ice near the Rising Sun on
the 7lb inst. and sunk. She had on board two
hundred head of cattle, ami u hundred horses of
which there were about fifty horses, and eighty
head of cattle lost—all ii\HKed.
Mr. Clay in Richmond. /t
The following account of the reception of this
distinguished son of the Oal Dominion, we copy x
from the Richmond Whig of the 22J inst. It
must have been a proud moment for the Senalor>
to witness the generous outpourings of the grati-
mdeofa noble people, for the distinguished ser
vices which it has been his fortune to render 1
through an eventful and h illiant career. It was
a proud day for Virginia, too and proudly has
she borne herself in this noble offering to talent
and worth:
Mr. Cut and Mr. Wise arrived last evening
in the cars from W ashington.
Never, since the visit of Lafayette, have we
seen such an outburst of feeling and enthusiasm
on behalf of the people of Richmond, By the
time the cars arrived, the streets were crowded
j with a vast multitude ol from two to three
I thousand. A committee, at the head of which
was Mr. Leigh, received Mr. Clay and Mr.
: Wise, and conducted them to their lodgings at
the Powhafan H rase. The crowd attended and
gave frequent tokens of their joy. by repeated
i and uproarnus shouts. After Mr. Clay had en-
I lered the house, loud calls were made for him
i from without. He made his appearance upon j
1 the balcony, and begged the vast assemblage to
excuse him, as he was both fatigued and hungry.
They readily assented, promising themseLes,
' each and all, a hearty shake of the hand to-day.
Treasury Notes.
The New York Express, in noticing the propo-
I sed iss.eof Treasury -voles, holds the following
language:
We confess frankly, that whatever of benefit j
| these Notes may be in lire int reliances of the
country, wc deprecate a further issue of
them by the authority of Congress. I'hey are the
seducti e and delusive means of coverng up the
Brankruplcy of the Government, and are Hie
engines of active corruption and profligate fraud.
We question also, whether by their absorption of |
the means of Merchants through the Banks and
Capitalists, they do not more Harm to the nier
■ canule community than good. In July last,
we will rememoer, then when it was impossible
to gel a dollar from the Bank of America, or
the Manhattan Bank, these institutions bad plen
ty of means lor cashing the Treasury no.es of
iVIr. Woodbury.
| it is our duly, as well as policy, to expose the
i profligate expenditures and management of the
1 Public Money, and it never can be done as lung
as the Treasury covers them up hi Paper. For
a People in Debt, a Loan or a Tax is the direct
means of gelling out. Again, the inconsistency
of permitting an Administration of the Govern
ment which denounces all paper Reprepresenta
tives of Value, and the devices of credit, to use
them atal. in this manner, is shameful. Govern
ment paper is the worst kind of credit scrip, for
it is the pro itic sourceot g eat corrup.iun.
Consul Tuist. —The Providence Journal
states that the Hon. Alexander 11. Everett has ;
been appointed special envoy to go to Cuba and
examine the charges against Consul Trist.
Appointments by the President.
By and w. ih the advice and content of the Senate. '
Eiiwiiin McCraut, to be Attorney of the
United States for the district of South Carolina.
Robert M. Charlkton, to be Attorney of
the United States fur the district of Georgia.
Wc do not know how it may strike others, hut
to our mind tli3 argument aga.i st the sub-Trea
sury scheme in the following Dialogue is about
as unanswerable as any thing we have read upon
the subject.
From the Connecticut Courant.
Dialogue between a Laborer and an E\-
(Niles.)
Laborer. Good morning. Mr. Senator.
Senator. Good morning, Mr. Wil.-Mi; how do
you do to-day ? How are your wife and children,
how do they stand lids hard winter—and how
does the good cause of the party get on in your
town I
Laborer. Pretty well sir. though times are rath- |
er hard, money scarce, and labor is not as well
paid for as it used to be; still, we have’nt turned
Whigs yet, and don't mean to.
Senator. That’s right—slick to the party to
the last, and we will in the end, have a "hard
money currency. The sub-Treasury will make
us all rich. It will give to every man as much
money as he wants, and that, 100, of the right
kind—tht real shiners.
Laborer. But I have read in the speeches of
Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Walker that the sub-
Treasury will diminish the price of labor. Hav
ing always looked upon you as the" D.. Franklin
of New England,” and knowing that you have
recently he**n to Boston to talk to the folks of
Massachusetts, I come down to-day to ask you
how the sub-Treasu y wiT help the laboring man
when it reduces the price ot lalior 1
Senator. Oh! you can’t always exactly tell
how a thing works lor every individual, and yet
it is easy to see how it woikc for the benefit of
lire whole.
Laborer. I bought a house last year of mv
neighbor Wheaton; I paid him §3OO in cash, and
gave him a mortgage for §SOD, to be paid at the
rale of §IOO a year. Now, this I could casilv
save, with wages at §1 50 a day—and in five years
the house would he paid for. But it wages are i
reduced to 75 cents a day. or even to a dollar, it
wib just take all that I can make to support mv
family—and my house, with all that I have paid
on it, will at the end ot five years, go hack to Mr. '
Wheaton. How, then, am Ito he henclittcd 1
Sena/ot. i his is a sind <>l natural consequence
ot a genera! role. No general rule works well in
every case. Yon shouldn’t hive gone in debt
you’d no business to go on the credit system
it is a wicked system.
Laborer. But how could I get a house with- i
out it ! I had §3.10, and in five years co.dd eas
ily ha« e eirnt the rest, and lived in the house all
! the lime.
Senator. No matter—it is one of the principles
of the party to have no credit; no real good Lo
j co lias a hit of credit; and you mus go ft, or yon
are not true to your party.
j Laborer. But you have not yet told me howl '
am to be benefited by having the price of labor re
| duced.
Senator. Why—you belong to our party
don’t you ?
Laborer. Yes.
Senator. Well—it is for the benefit of the party,
and therefore it is for your benefi*.
Laborer. This is not quite clear to me, and I I
am not sartin that it is quite right. But, since !
you have been to Boston to lecter, I suppose it !
must be true.
Senator. I don't see myself exactly how its "o- i
cn to work; but I have great confidence in Buch
anan and Walker; they .ay it’s all right—and it’s
now become a parly measure, and the elore it
| must lie for the good of the people.
Laborer. Will the pay of the members of Con
gress be diminished ? If you are made Governor
next spring, will you get less wages than Gover
nor Ellsworth gets ? Will the wages of the Post
master he reduced ?
Senator. The olficers will all get as much as
they do now, which may be worth a tnfle more if
every thing else is reduced one-half. This j s an >
incidental benefit, and could’nt well be otherwise. -
Laborer. Then the office-holders will all be :
benefitted by the sub-Treasury bill, will they,)
sir 1
Senator. Yes—a k’nd of incidental benefit, j
which we do not well sec how to avoid. I (
Laborer. And the laborer#, Mr. Senator |
Senator. Yes, the laborers will get a kind of | .
general benefit, which it is not very easy to ‘ x * t
plain —but still, they will know it when it comes, i •
Laborer. You don’t suppose, Mr. Senator, j ,
that the benefit which the officers are to receive |
t'ro.n the sub-Treasury bill is any reason why !
they are all in its favor, do you ?
Senator. Oh, no! by no means. They are in j
its favor because it is for the good of the parly, i
They don’t want any thing from it for themselves, j
Laborer, I wish 1 could be a little more sartin
about this reducing the price of labor being such a j
good thing.
Senator. You must rely a little on your party —
they will do every thing right.
Laborer. Yes, I know that; but now, in our
town, neighbor Leavenworth’s factory is stopped, I
and all his hands are discharged. I used to gel
good wages, and money is plenty; but now labor
is down, nobody has any employment, and I can
not get a six pence.
Senator. I tell you, neighbor, you must have
confidence. It is a good thing to have labor
down I can now hire a man to work in my g;ir
d n next summer for eight dollars a month, in
stead of sixteen, by which I shall make a clean sa
ving of fifty dollars.
Laborer. But will that be a benefit to the la
boring man or to you I
Senator. It will he a kind of incidental benefit
to me. and a kind of natural consequence to him.
Laborer. I cannot exactly see, Mr. Senator,
how labor is benefitted by having wages reduced
one-half. Some of our neighbors have a notion
that the office-holders are in favor of it because
, their salaries will then be worth more than they
| arc now.
Senator. It is certain that the thing will work
so. But, then, it is only a kind of incidental
benefit.
Laborer. But don’t you think they really mean
j to benefit themseLes at the expense of the labor
ing classes 1
j Senator. Oh, no! They are a high-minded
| race of men, who would not do any thing for
i themselves.
Laborer. But they always stick mighty close
to their offices.
Senator. Yes—but they go for their principles
1 and their parly.
Laborer. 'J'tieir principles and their party,you
must confess, always lie along the same road
with their own interests.
Senator. That may bo, but it is merely acci
dental.
Laborer. It may be so, Mr. Senator, but still
I can’t exactly see why all the incidental bene -
Jits, should go to the office-holders, and nil the
i natural consequences, as you call them, should
operate to depress labor and discourage industry.
Good morning, Mr. Senator, when I have time I
will call and converse further with you.
A Sneaking way to liaise Money,
Some two or three hundred thousand dollars
are wanted to pay pensions on the 4th March.
The next day of payment is on the 4th of Sep
tember —The adminis ration have brought for- j
I waid a bill to appropriate lime millions. Even
supposing ibis vast sum to be applied in good
faith, it would be placed in the hands of some
30 or 40 agents who would have the use and pro
fit and interest of it for six months! which
would be equal to an out and out division of '
eighty or ninety thousand dollars among thirty
or forty agents!
But it is believed that the money would be
faithfully applied by the administration ! Do they
not want ibis large appropriation, that, by the
power of transfer, they may lie able to meet their
| deficiencies in other departments! Thus pros
tituting the cause of the pensioners to one of the
meanest tricks to shift the responsibil ty of ma
king an open exposure of the consequence of
their mismanagement— a bankrupt Treasuiy !
Madisonian.
s
The W higs in Old \ irginia, eontormaldy to a
time-honored democratic usage, are going io lake
the field en masse for the hero of Tippecanoe.—
The Ghailotlcsville Republican of the 13th,
j says :
1 We see that it is proposed in selecting gentle
men to fill the office of electors of President and
Vice President, in this State, that they shall be
men of talents and popular speakers. And it is
also proposed that these gentlemen should lake
the field in person, and go through their several
I districts and address the people. This is the I
) plan which the opposition parly in Virginia in
j tend pursuing, and was t..e plan adopted by the
! Republicans in Virginia in 1798.
Massacuhsktts Railroad.— The Western
Railroad, designed to connect Boston with the i
Hudson river, and thus with the great West by I
means of the N. Y. improvements, promises to do 1
for Massachusetts what the Erie canal has done j
for N. Y. At least the Bostonians regard it in ;
that view. The total profits on the Stale invest- !
mentthus far made in the wotk show a return of j
more than eleven per cent according to a state- I
merit in the Boston Uourier. The whole resour- 1
ccs provided for the work amount to §4 500,000.
According to the Company's repo t of January
31st, the rails can be laid the emir* length of the
road in thespiingof 1811, excepting ten miles of!
the summit division. The stock is now sellin"
at §BO 50 for §3O paid in.
I Av U vi) eu-G round Affair.— Discovery of\
| Mysterious Subteranean Vaults.' —Yesterday I
w.iilc the workmen were excavating foundations 1
i for building on the lots lately sold by fie First '
j Municip.ili y, on the square formerly occupied by ,
1 the old prison, between St. Peter and Orleans I
; streets, vaults were discovered at the depth o f|
i e ‘" lu leet bel< w the surfa e of the earth, arched !
with strong iron bars, on which thick brick foun- I
dntions had been formerly built. In one of the
i vaults we learn there was found a gold crucifix
i weighing 28 lbs . as also a quantity of human
i , onefi - At the bottom of this vault a door was
1 11 scovered, apparently leading to vaults still !
deeper. . •’
The buildings which formerly occupied this
square were the property of the Jesuits more
than one hundred years ago. There are a thou
sand and one conjectures as to the probable nUr
; poses lor which these subteranean cells were
used.
, 1 !le °^ est inhabitants of the city appear, from
■\.nt we can learn, entirely igr.orunl nut only of
the use hut even of the existence of these vaults I
and we shall wait for turther investigations before !
we hazard an opinion on the subject. —New Or
leans Picayune,
The Mastodon in Texas. This remarka
ble tossil quadruped, it appears, existed also in
Texas, as well as in almost eve y latitude of the
L ruled Slates south of 45° A late Texas paper
says, General Demyse has succeeded in disin
terring nearly all the hones of the Mastodon
found two miles Mo w Bastrop, near the Colorado.’
The \ illage Record. (Pa..) records the death 1
of two citizens of that borough (West Chester v 1
within twelve hours of each other, one in I.l'
88th and the other in his 100th year. 3 i
O»E,T Ov.-Au ox raised in Berks countv. '
in this State, Ato lie seen at Thompson'. Drov'e 1
i .ini- I nil w nil street, which weighs 45lim, li
He is of the Durham and Devonsh.ro breed '
North American.
V
Correspondence of the North American. <
New York, February 13.
If I were a gossip correspondent, it would be
my duty to give you in long detail, the particu
lars of an affair which has furnished ma‘ter for
animated conversation in our high ton circles for
the last two weeks. A wealthy merchant's fam
ily lost sundry articles of plate, among which
was an old pitcher which was much valued, and
peculiarly marked on the handle. He advertised
his pitcher, and the advertisement was seen by a
silversmith, who found that a curious handle
which he had saved from a pitcher he bought,
corresponded with the description. He saw tire
advertiser, and informed him that he had the
handle, that he bought the pitcher of a wealthy
ladv, of whom he had bought great quantities of
similar ar.teles for some time past. ihe disclo
sure was astounding, for the ladytwasan intimate
acquaintance. The truth however, was too evi
dent, and the lady was so it for. She was at a
pa ty, and on being called for there, stepped into
her coa h and rode to the house where were the
parties. She was told of the facts, and charged
with the theft. She denied the whole, appealed
to her mown wealth as proving want of motive.
She had pnitrics full of plate, a husband rich
and respectable, and a separate income of her own
of S 6( ()0 a year. After some further communi
cation she returned and finished her evening at
the party. Proof came 100 thick, however, for
resistance; and in a lew days it stood confessed
that tor some six years past this rich lady had
been in the practice of calling on her friends in
her coach, with a cloak and muff’ in winter, and
other suitable dresses in summer, and regularly
robbing them of every thing valuable on which
she could lay her hands. In one instance, while
wailing in the parlor lor the lady of the house to
come down, she secured five pieces of plate, one
of which was a large tea tray, and afterwards
had a pleasant conversation with the robbed lady,
and went away.
Os course ail the details of what happened a
mong forty different families, will a lib tl new food
for talk liiis month to come. The depredating
I lady acknowledges the whole now. and says that
she took the valuables for iho pious purpose of
procuring prayers to he said for the soul of her
mother, who had died without extreme unction.
The lady has been sent to the nuirery at George
town. This is just a glance at the story as it is
now repeated by a thousand tongues.
The ice on the Long Island shore of the Sound,
all cleared off on Friday night. The coast his
been very thoroughly examined since, but not a
body of the sufferers by the Lexington found.
Romance, ani> Rmalitt.— A writer for the
Adrian W’atehtower gives an account of a very
singular affair which came off’ in that vicinity a
few days ago. The story is. that a preacher at a
protracted meeting in that town a short time since,
published to his congregation the names of several
young ladies of tha village, whom he represented
as having disturbed the meeting by laughing, &c.,
on a previous occasion. On the Monday even
ing following. as the stmy goes, the young ladies
who were aggrieved, prepared themselves e.-.eh
with a rawhide, which they concealed in their
cloaks, and preceded to the house of the offender,
wailed till he came out of the door and then im
mediately surrounded and belabored him with
their whips until he b-oke from them and esca
ped.—Detroit Frte Press,
Quackery ash Humbuo —Er. IJuandhetii.
—The Gloucester (Mass) Telegraph .-ays, "It
was stated in this paper some weeks since, and
has been in almost every journal from Maine to
Louisiana, that he, Brandreth, had recovered of
Mr. Mussey. of 80-ton, in the t 3. J. Court the
sum ot £6283 for counterfeiting his pills. Well,
now what are the facts in the case ? Why, it is
said, and we bel.eve it can be proved to he true,
that Braudreih compromised the matter with Mr.
Mussey, by paying U rn (Mussey) the sum of
one thousand dollars, fur consenting to go into
court and have judgment recorded against him—
in order that it might bo trumpeted forth to an
astonished world that so high were Dr. it ran
dretii’s pills held in the estiin ition of the Supre
me Court <f Massachusetts, that it had prompt
ly given dm a ve.dirt of §G2S3 again-t an indi
vidual for counterfeiting them, and as a warning
to others! Can humbug be carried any farther
than this 1”
From the Knickerbocker.
Phrenology and Animal Magnetism.
how they server ax individual.
A few years ago, I left my native slate, on an
invitation from my kind uncle Scrapings, of Ha
vana, to j;»in him in copartnership there, under
the firm of Scrapings. Scraps, and Company ; hut
before I went, I had incontinently fallen in love
with a beauty of my own native city, of eighteen
years, and a little money. She was a most vo
luptuously looking little creature, with eyes as
black as a pair of suspender buttons, and too lit
tle Liiy hands, as while—oh, how white! And
the dear creature ioved me, too; and so it came
to pass, that we were "engaged,”
Two years passed away, and I was making
ready to return to my beloved. I was always
fond of exciting su-prise, and determined, on this
occasion, to make a sort ol trap-door entry into
the presence of my little idol. So, havin'- de
ceived her as to the time when she medit be nn
to expect me, I found myself in the*nioiiih°of
September, in New York, on my way h-une; an.l
the next evening found me at Clara’s gate that
gale over which I had taken and given many a
parliijg kiss! The evening was waim; the
parlor windows were open; and I heaid within
voices and laughter. Softly f approached, and
I sl y ! y 1 looked in. With a thrill of horror. I be
! held Clara seated in a rocking-chair, while a
fellow, a young fellow a hand.-ome fellow, seem
| ed with one hmd to be playfully covering her
1 «ves. and with the other "padding on her neck
wnii h s fingers;” while her mother and sister
s..t on a sota. quietly grinning at the feilows’s im
pudence! I Lit my blood hissing in my veins,
yet I stood still. I saw him playing with her
ear; “ . grinned horribly a ghastly smile.” He
spanned her face with his fingers; I twisted off
two buttons of my coat. He encircled her head
with his arm; 1 tore out a handful of mv hair
Finally the dump ass opened his mouth ami
spake: and I ft It my blood redening to the very
tip of my nose ; but I restrained my indication
to listen.
‘‘l think,” said he, “you are fond of men in
general; and I think you would find little diffi
culty in Iran fining your affections from one to
another, a fie i the decease or treachery of the
first Now suppose your lover prove treacherous
—don i you think so?
I ,i«J no longer Jo!, himself, when entrust
ed w-uh” sore ho,ls, ’ would not have waited so
long us I dll. I lushed mo the room, and catch
ed the dog l.y the throat, laid him pros,rale .
am . cried I, ■■ and it is thus th,t you attempt
to tn.etglc away the ass clionsof „,y betrothed ”
7*z:.r ,r ' wm wlc * lieulU ™ i; '- u«n
I he mother and sis cr ran screaming from the
room, hut Clara recognising me at once, fell up
on my neck, cried out « 0 Judgement, (Reader,
'uv euphonious name is Judgement ScrappsA
dear, dearest Judgment! spare him, and I will
explain all to your satisfaction.”
Hdf doubling I quilted my hold, anJ half
doubtingly I returned her embrace.
“Say on then, my Clara ; said I, I shall he but
too happy to believe anything you may sav in ex
planation.”
“ That gentle an whom you have so wrong
ed. is Dr. Feeler, the Phrenologist.”
Phrenologist !—and pray what may that
1 “ Why, dearest, it is one who uses the same
means to discover another* intellect and disposi
tion, that a monkey does to discover a certain
species of the animal creation.”
“ Ah, I understand; such as we used to rail
cranologiols. And now. my dear girl, fit Us f or .
get this laughable mistake; and. dear, wo rnu-t
get ready to lie married. We will be mar.ied m
one month from this very day I”
" A month !—dear me !—lB j very soon ! S 0
unexpected !”
1•• Soon! Not a hit too soon, dearest! g (l
just shut that little ripe mouth, and lot me hear
Ino arguments, no objections. I must he buck to
Havannain November.” %
At this juncture the mother and sister re
entered ; and after explanations, recitals and ad
i ventures statements ot future arrangement-:, and
obtaining the old lady’s consent, they consider
alely left us to ourselves, and we poured out our
i souls together in ail the rupture of passionate at
lachment. Next day I letl t.>r New Voik. there
! to purchase my wedd ng garments, and t.» trails
-1 act certain other necessary business.
At toe expiration of a week, 1 again drew nr ar
| the temple of my idol, secretly Imping that the
i accursed phrenologist had been extending his
1 examinations in other regions, :f any where, dur
: ing mv absence, and feeling beside a gre.it curing,
j ity to find how Clara employed her leisure. So
| I crept up softly to the tiouse, and again peeped
!in at the fatal window. The phernologist w„ s
: not there —would to heaven he had been ! —but
: a person somewhat older, and a great deal lamer
j with spectacles on his nose, and a must (JiaLoli
j cal smirk of'olal depravity. She was seated in
1 the old-fashioned easy chair, leaning back, w die
i her eyes were closed, as if in conscious shame at
j her degraded situation ; and he was standing
over her. making motions that almost stilled me
l with mortification and rage. He seemed to l, e
rubbing bis dirty digits up and down over her
soft velvet cheeks; those cheeks ! had so oft n
kissed; cheeks that now blushed with guilty pas
sion. Anon, the rascal passed his.hai ds' over
her full, heaving bosom. Yet, Iha I resolution
enough to await the result. The scoundrel
kneeled—ay. kneeled to her !—and passed his
hands up and down each side, even to her very
feel! ifow my blood tingled! "Yet,” thought
L"I will wait! It may he. after all. some other
new-fangled notion, started during my absence.
I must not again make a Ido! of myselt so sud
denly. She may be asleep, and the • llcw takes
this opportunity to insult her and me.” But no;
her sister is there, and smiles complacently, as if
in mockery of my disgrace !
the fellow rose, and whi pored in Clara's
car. She replied aloud :—"O, how rejoiced lam
at your return, dearest ! My heart is all your
own!” g
A single moment’s reflection would have con
vi'iccd me that she supposed herself addressing
me, hut, blinded by what I had sci n, and the
agony I hail lelt, 1 could appreciate nothing s.iv e
my own htshonor; and jumping in at the wid
ow, I rushed upon the villa u, and dealt him a
thwack that sent him reeling to tne wall. Ho
j recovered, however, immediately, and returned
the compliment with great vigor. Finding we
j both might expect some severe span ing. before
we had finished, we placed ourselves in the atti
tude of experienced pug.lists, while our eyes
glared like the eyes of hungry wolves
Liara and aer sis er advanced to the rescue,
and caught my arms, ciyincr out. the while at the
top of their voices: "Animal Magnetism! Am
in d Magnetism! It was nothing but Animal
Magnetism !”
"Ay,ay,’ I replied, "I saw it was!” at the
same time shaking them off’, and redoubling my
iff jits; ’‘there was quite too much of animal at
i traction to suit me; but wait till f spoil your
| magnet, and then \ou, madam, may gj to
"Here,” as Yt IJowplush says. "I recollect I
| was obliged to stop;” for at this moment I re
i celvctl u I,|uw u, “ k;r ’he left lug, which laid me
j prosl ale and senseless.
| When I recovered. I found myself upon the
sola, and Clara s sister bathing my temples.
"How ! what!” I exclaimed : "Ah 1 I re
member ! Where is t lara?”
“She had left the room hut now, declaring she
! had done with you for ever.”
"Glad of it I Have the kindness to call her in
| to receive my farewell.”
Presently she entered, when I commenced a
tirade upon her fickelness and faithlessness, & c .,
which only ended when I was out of breath
| She listened calmly till I had done, when she re
plied with freezing coldness and hauteur:
“Mr. Scrapps ! have spared me the pain I
ought have tell in bidding you farewell tor ever.
Jins is not the fnst time your absuid jealousy
, br,, "i ht 11,10 a bu nion the most ridicu
lous- \ou w .ll doubtless ere king learn, fciMhat
the science ot Animal Magnetism is«n exalted
and innocent one; quite as much so, Sir. as that
i) rmoogy , and that a woman may submit
to the process from pure love ol know hdee with
out co,npromismg her dignity, her modes’ty, cr
her honor And so saying, she turned her
, buck to me. and stalked out of the room with
j great dignity.
I lost that girl, merely l.eenuse I was ignorant
I oft ! ,f I t T"‘ "* which moJnri, science 1n.,1 10. n
I carneil v ! had not then learned that un
j <lUe tJUidiamy with the female sex mmffl he cx
, tenualed, by the forced *• march of the age.”
j _ (Lj’Tbey recently had a fog in Baltimore,savs
I the Sun. so thu k and dense that the day could
not break. Nothing to one of our Mississippi
! fogs, good friend. We have known them so
thi.k in this section, that they have been ml up
i W "S«'> ’ire and boot taps.— New Oileans
I P.cayunc,
According to a report recently made by the visi-
I ,ors ot ’ the Baltimore jail, four hundred and
j eighty 1 1 1 ne pelso.is within the last vi ai w erecon
| fined in prison i•» r debts, and among them two
j hundred and thirty whose debts sev, ndiv did not
j exceed ten dollars, and eight that did not amount
! to one dollar !
America Vespucci, who recently sailed from
i New Orleans for oavana. :ssaid to have written a
work on this country. We perceive that some of
the small try of the press call in question her abil
ity to write a work of the kind. Th. lion. Jo
seph M. V\ bite, ot Florida, informed us last *uin
ti er, that he had read a port on of her volumes—
the po lion devoted to the disc ussiou ol the insti-
I tutloll of slavery as established in this country—
and, it was, beyond all comparison, al ler than ary
thing else that he had ever seen upon that liter*
esting and important subject.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool , Jan. 3
Latest dates from Havre Dtc -9
Liverpcol, Jan 2.
Cotton— There has been a fair business done to
day it rather higher pi ices. The sa‘es are 501)0
ba es, 200 Parnams, 9$ to
Eg.' ptians, 1 Id; 4UO Surat. 4j
. lml°! a l im FOft during the last venr amounted
to 1016 4UI bales, ‘j ne >a es durin V , hP same pe-
I lo< n ifif 11 l)alcs ; of which the tiade have ta
ken bales; the remainder for spccclrtwa
and expo; t ; and the stock on had in this port 200.-
4- bales, against 240.340 held same time in 1 > 3S.
r uday, January 3—Since the nturn of’lock,
\c on 31st ultimoAhe market has assumed anrore
hea thy and steady appearance ; and for Ameiican
dfscnj lions pi ices aie 4 per llj higher.
Brazils on improvement, and rather a di c i option
to sed at present prices. Kgyntian havev'ieJded Jd
per lb.