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CHRONICLE AND SEN' 'INEL. AUGUSTA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26. =-• - • "~>= ! (Tj* See first page. | Our Reading lloom. > Some weeks since we notified our fiends that we were making arrangements toliavAchis estao lishment handsomely fitted up and will suppded with Papers and Magazines, under lie impres sion that it would receive such patrlnage as it , merited. In this, however, we have tlfcis far been disappointed, as there seems to lie li ie disposi tion to sustain an establishment of he sort in the city. The indifference, however, is prob |;»ly the re suit of an impression among many who have heretofore been subscribers, tnat they still so, which is erroneous, unless their Subs ;ription be ( renewed. j The object of this notice therefore to inform those who wish to become subscril iprs to the Room, tl at our Rook will be kept oj , n and the Room lighted during the present vveel ..at the ex piration of which, we will determine \ {aether it is prudent to incur greater expense, or iscontinue it altogether. The price of subscription to each is ,f ive Dol lars per annum, invariably in advance,! i For a Firm of two or more member? Ten Dol lars. | 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 < 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.