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FRIDAY MORNtNC MARCH 13.
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PennsykH tia.
Last night’s mail brougl) us no later intelli
gence direct from Harrisbur . We are however
induced to believe from the spirit of the intelli
gence received indirectly, lh;|: a better feeling is
likely to prevail in the Legislature towards the
Banks of the State than we fSired some days ago,
The anti-bank men had expii ssetl a willingness
to submit to the views of the 'an Buren Conven
tion,which is said, by those h ailiar with the sen
timents of the delegates, to be Jecidedly conserva
tive. We hope they maybe orrect- If so, con
fidence will be restored to evi y clasr of business,
and the public mind will b« relieved from that
painful anxiety under which ‘ has been laboring
for some time past. I
The Rac
Which came off ycsterdayljver the Lafayette
Course between Gano andlOmeiga, four mile
heats, is said to have been {lnformed in better
time than any two heats ewr made over this
course, which is thirty three let over a mile.—
The purse was taken by GaXo, who performed
the first heat in 7m. 485., and* he second in 7m.
49i5., with great ease, withlut being touched
with whip or spur. I
Destructive Fire alitfeirark.
The New York CommerciaßAdvertiser of Sat
urday says:—W e are informi! that there was a
very large fire at Newark, N. If. last evening, in
Mechanic street, near Market! street, by which
from fifteen to twenty houses v!>re destroyed. A
part of the property, we are ini! r med, was owned
in this city. 8
From Harris bl rg.
A letter from Harrisburg, gift's the Philadel
phia Inquirer, informs us, th J the Van Buren
State Convention rejected botllsets of Delegates
from Philadelphia, by a vote 0:|74 to 43. The
\ an Buren members of the Leßslature from the
city and county, were then sublituted by a vote
of 97 to 23. Mr. Van Buren las unanimously
nominated to the Presidency, Bind the vote for
the Vice Presidency stood thus!
R. M. Johnson, 8 107
W. R King, I 22
Manhattan Bank.— The Nel York Express
of Friday, 2 P. M. says— I
The Manhattan Bank Commatee begin at the
right end by counting the specil the bundles of
bank notes and other assets. lln the kegs of
specie there has been found a dliciency of some
thousand dollars, which with lie cash short in
the hands of the first teller, is iiund to be sixty
one thousand dollars, and whichlias been chang
ed over by order of the Directol to the loss ac
count. Thus we find one iaile item before
coming to any losses, on stocks ield, on individ
ual paper. 8
The falling off in the revenueljf our Custom
House, for the last five months, ai* astonishingly
great. The amount received i| January and
February, 1839, was about onj million each
month. This year, from corresflnding months,
it is about one quarter, or two hlidred and fifty
thousand dollars each monfh. indeed, the de
bentures on goods exported ha I been mostly
equal to the receipts, leaving ill; government
almost minus. Since March carl in, there has
been more imports. The packet! from Liver
pool and Havre have brought fair argoc
The Boundary Troubles. -The Bangor
papers say that the statements m le by Govern'
or Fairfield, and denied by the 11 itish Minister,
m relation to British works and o. :upancy in tne
disputed territory, are ,rue to thi letter. Two
young men, who were sent by Go ;rnor Fairfield
to Lake Temiscouta, to ascertain v bat operations
the British were carrying on in t at quarter, re
present that there are nearly or q*i ■ two hundred
British officers and soldiers at the ake, and that
the works erected there are much t are extensive
than hitherto reported to be 1
For the Chronicle 4-
Mb. Editor. Permit me, th olgh your col
umns, to remind the community I the popular
course of Lectures on some subjeits in Natural
Philosophy and Chemistry, which s announced
by Professor Davis, of our Medici College, to
commence on Monday evening 0 next week.
The established and well earned deputation of
Dr. Davis, furnishes the best pled e of a rich
entertainment to those who shall at >nd the pro.
posed course. But it is for the purp. ie of appeal
,ng to a motive somewhat less selfis that I ask
■pace lor these few remarks. I can .ot but sup
pose that every intelligent member o aur commu.
mty feels, if not a pride, at least, a eep interest
in our Medical College; and unde this persua
•ion. I would respectfully suggest, t it they are
now furnished with an appropriat. opportunity
of testifying t..e sincerity of that « aliment, by
extending their countenance and thi r patronage,
on the present occasion, to a incmbei afits Facul
ly, and one, in whom the institu :m so justly
prides herself.
It was at the special solicitation ftbe Board
of Trustees, that these Lectures wc e originally
undertaken Ly Dr. are no continued.
The T rustees were therein influence by a desire
that not only the Medical students in their at
tendance on the regular course, but ur commu
nity, in these more brief and popu »r lectures,
might derive valuable instruction and stional en
tertainment from the exhibition of th< ample and
costly Chemical Apparatus of the Co. ige, by so
accomplished a teac her as Professor Davis. I
would commend the present opportu sty to the
young of both sexes, who are abou finishing
their education, and to all of every c iss ,n the
community, who have any taste for th 3e beauti
ful and useful studies.
Oxx or tax Tbvstxs* or tux C uxes
Forty. Four Days Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL or THE BB*AT. WESTIBX.
The steamship Great Western which left Bris
tol on the 2010 February, arrived at New V'ork
on the 7th, bringing Ixmdon and Liverpool dates
to the 20th, and Havre of the 17th. From the
New York Herald, Extra, smd the Star of Satur
day afternoon, we copy the following summary
ofinlelligence by this very late arrival.
Money matters are slowly reviving—interest is
reduced to 5 per cent —circulation is increased.
The Queen of England was married to Prince
• Albert of Saxe Coburg on the 10th February.
The sales of cotton in Liverpool, on the 19lh
Feb., amounted t 02,500 bags, chiefly American.
In Manchester, 14th Feb. prices of cotton weie
as low as they were six months ago.
The rate of interest is reduced to five per cent.
The Newport Chartists. —Frost, Williams
and Jones have been found guilty and sentenced
to transportation or labor at the hulks, at the
Queen’s pleasure. They reached the hulks at
Portsmouth Feb. 15th.
The packet ship Stephen Whitney has arrived
at Liverpool.
The packet ship Havre was burnt oft the coast
of Cork, Feb. 10th; she had 1564 bales of cotton
on board. Twenty souls were saved; the rest
lost. She was from New Orleans.
The Duke of Wellington has had two or three
alarming fits of illness; so much so as to be con
sidered hopeless.—Daily bulletins are issued from
Apsley House.
The steamship Liverpool arrived out safely
Jan. 10th.
Parliament met Jan. 10th, and was still sit
ting on the 19th February.
The packet ship New York left Liverpool Jan.
Bth, and put back into Cork from stress of weath -
er.
The packet ship Sheridan arrived out on Feb.
12th, a passage of 18 days.
The latest dates from China, in Liverpool, on
the I9lh of February, were up to Nov. 21st, from
Singapore.
Prince Albert was appointed a Field Marshal
of the British Army. His commission was dated
Feb. 8, 1840.
Mr. Raffles’ celebrated chapel at Liverpool, has
been burnt down.
The Britannia, the first of the Royal Mail
Sieam Ships from England to North America,
was launched Feb. 6lh.
The circulation of the bank for the quarter
ending on the 4lh February, nad increased £l4O,
000—the bullion had increased £510,000.
China. —The fighting between the English
and Chinese continues. The Canton Press of
Dec. 2, reports that accounts have been received
from the west coast of an affair between opium
smugglers and the Mandarin boats, L* which one
of the latter was sunk, and seven of the survivors
sent hack with their tails cut off?
India. —The fighting here between the Bri
tish and native waxes hotter and hotter. The
British stormed Khelat Nov. 13th, took it, killed
Mehrab Khan, the chief, all of whose principal
Sirdars were killed or taken, and hunrdeds of
other prisoners.
Anticipated Changes. —Lord Melbourne re
tires from office with Lord Lansdowne. Lord
J. Russell is to be first lord ot the treasury, and
Lord Durham joins the cabinet, with Mr. Ward
and Mr. C. Duller in office. Parliament wil lbe
dissolved, and the repeal of the com laws and
ballot will be made cabinet questions.
On the last Monday in JanuaryAthe Ministry
were defeated on the question of the allowance
to Prince Albert. Lord John Russell moved that
the allowance be £50,000 per annum, to which
Col. Sipthorp moved as an amendment, to make
it £30,000. The amendment was carried by 104.
Strength of Ministers. —On certain divisions
in parliament the ministerial majority after the
Queen’s marriage had increased considerably.
U. S. Bank shares were sold at £lB to £lB
10, equal 10 70 percent. American Currency.
The negotiations pending between France and
Holland are also, according to the Debats , dew
ing io a close. Holland lias demanded that her
vessels be treated in French harbors on the same
footing of reciprocity as the English and Amer
ican shipping are, and France has acquiesced in
that demand on condition that Holland open her
markets to various prvductions of the French
soil and industry, excluded therefrom at the time
when Belgium formed part of that kingdom.
Holland, it appears has likewise consented to
open to France the navigation of the Rhine and
Moselle; “Strasburg,” Metz and Shierckare to
be assimilated for the importation of foreign pro
ducts. to maritime harbors.”
The British Ambassador, Lord Palmerston, at
Constantinople, has refused his assent to the
proposition of Russia, to send 50,000 of her
| troops into Asia Minor across the Taurus. Af
i fairs look'warlike between Russia and the other
I powers.
At Tois in France, 40 lives were lost in a con
flict between the troops and the country people,
growing out of the high price of corn.
Mebemet Aly is fortifying Alexandria.
There were 900 of the Chinese killed by the
British ships of war that fired on the Junks.
Captain Elliot returned to Macao after the ac
tion ; the Chinese were fortifying Hong Key
Bay.
Great Britain intends to send a land, as well as
a naval force against the Chinese.
Spain. —The Cortez, it was belie> ed, would
j meet Feb, 18. Madrid was quiet. In the Ga
j zecte we find the report of an engag ment which
j took place on the 28lh ult in Catalonia, betwecni
I Carho’s division and 3000 men under Brujo.
The latter, driven from their position, left. 43 kil
led on the field. The Christines had only six
killed and about 30 wounded.
Cabrera is not dead but recovering
The Arabs had not a ipeared in the plain ot
Algiers since December 31.
There were 59,000 French troops in the neigh
borhood of Algiers preparing for the expedition
against Abdel Kader.
The Queen held a court at Buckingham Pal
ace Feb. 18th, and received the addres.se> of both
Houses of Parliament to Victoria and Albert, to
which they l>oth briefly replied, and promises to
fulfil the favorable hopes expressed from their
union.
The Alexandria letters of 17th ult. describe
the great preparations for hostilities on the part
of Mehemet Ali, and his determination not to
give way in the dispute with the Porte
The Board of trade has decided that teas taken
from China in foreign ships and put aboard Brit
j any where will lie considered as having been
imported in British bottoms.
Whitehall, February 6.— The Queen has
j be* o I ),eas ed to declare and ordain, that his Se
i rone Highness Francs Albert Augustus Charles
Emanuel, Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha, Knight of the Most Noble Order of
the Garter, shall henceforth, upon all occasions
whatsover, be styled and called ‘ His Royal High
ness,” before his name and such titles* as now
do, or hereafter may, belong to him.
And to command, that the royal concession
and declaration be registered in her Majesty’s
College of Arms.
London Money Market, February 18—Two
i o’clock.— The price of Three per cent. Consols
has not varied to any extent since our first report.
I Spanish Active Stock is at 27.
Liverpool, February 17.
Tea. —ln the early part of the week small sales
wcie effected, and these were at a decline of 3d
to 4d per lb on previous rates. Yesterday news
having been received from China that an engage
ment had taken place between two of her majes
ty’s vessels stationed'there, and the Chinese war
junks, a reaction had again occurred, and prices
have advanced from 3d to 9d on all common and
good Congous and Twankeys;the market closed
firm, with more buyers than sellers.
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We hear in Wall street, that as Mr. Newcomb j
was leaving the Manhattan Bank on Monday, at
3 o’clock, he quietly insinuated his hand into the
drawer of the second Teller, and helped himself
to about $9000; with which in his pocket, he
proceeded to Delmonico’s, and endeavored to kill
time pieviously to answering the summons of
the Commissioners, by playing three games of
dominoes with all the serenity of conscious inno
cence. Having thus composed himself, he re
turned to the bank, and finding his fate sealed,
made the best of his way to the afternoon train of
the Philadelphia cars, and proceeded as far as
Brunswick, when all trace of him was lost. —
New York American.
Cotton Trade. —The condition in which the
trade in this staple is at the present time, is thus
referred to in the New York Express:—
The Cotton business has entirely changed this
year. Last year a large portion of it was in the
hands of speculators, who in many instances,
with small means, were able by advances, to con
trol a vast amount. The season turned disas
trous, and swept this class away. The facilities
that was afforded by the Southern Banks indu
ced large shipments, which in most cases turned
out ruinous. The consequence is, that the sta
ple is now left to its own intrinsic value; shippers
buy and export as appears most for their interest;
manufacturers purchase to meet the demands and
the business is thus perfectly regular. The ar
ticle has fallen to a very low point; quite as low
as we have ever known it—ami quite as low,
when the value of the currency is considered, as
it ever has been at the South.
Flour Trade. —Our Report of the Markets,
in another column shows thai the Flour inspec
tions of the present week are upwards of twenty
seven thousand barrels, of which about twenty one
thousand were Howard street Flour. This is, we
believe the largest weekly inspection ever made
in Baltimore.
One of the Inspectors performed a great day’s
work in the course of the week, having inspect
ed between sun rise and sun set no less than
"2700 barrels of Flour.
The brig Neptune loading at this port with
Tobacco for Germany, has aiso on board a small
shipment of Flour. Last year, it will be recol
lected, considerable quantities of Flour were sent
from Germany to the United States.— Baltimore
American.
A late letter from the Paris correspondent t/
the National Intelligencer has the following items:
At the stated meeting last week of the Acade
my of Medicine, Dr. Chervin resumed the read
ing of his comprehensive memoir on the origin
and nature of the Yellow Fever, which is men
tioned in the official report as replete with inter
esting facts and sagacious reasonings. No man
alive has so widely pursued and so rninuteiy stu
died the pestilence as the Doctor, whose indefa
tigable labors in the United States cannot be for
gotten. lam g'ad to learn that ie intends to em
igrate t« New Orleans, in order to practise his
proiession on that theatre. His general science
i and skill, special acquirements, predilection for
the American People and their institutions, excel
lent spirit and temper, will assure his success in
every respect. The recent ravages of the yellow
fever in our South, and Hs invasion of Texas, im
part an additional importance to his designs.
Here, our climate in general has been nearly as
much discredited by the reappearance and diffu
sion of that scourge, as our credit by the suspen
sion of specie payments.
At the same sitting of the Academy came un
der consideration the premium of three thousand
francs, which a member, Burdin, had offered in
1837, with reference to Animal Magnetism, to
the person who, in the opinion of the Academy,
I should succeed in reading, without the aid of the
eyes, in books provided by a committee; any
light to be allowed, &c. Several candidates for
the premium were presented, but all failed in
i their repeated attempts, and among them the fa
i mous damsel Pigeuire, about whose wonderful
pe-formances of sight when somnambulized so
j much has been published in journals and pamph
lets. Dr. Burdin stated that, as in two years the
magnetizers could not win the prize by what they
: represented as one of their most common and
simple achievements, he would give it to any
person, magnetized or not magnetized, asleep or
awake, who should, in the opinion of the Acade
my, accomplish the task of reading with the eves
open, and in broad daylight, througli an obaque
body, such as a tissue of thread, silk or cotton,
placed at a distance of six inenes from the f»ce, or
even through a sheet of paper.
At the late annual silting of the Academy of
Medicine, Dr. Pa.iset delivered the appointed
“historical eulogium” of Laenncc, the celebrated
author of the Treatise of Auscultation. All the
importance of his process for the affections of the
chest, and even others, has been known and ex
perienced in our country since the appearance in
1819 of his two volumes upon his discovery. Pa
riset observes : “ There was, at first, some oppo
-1 | sition; hut the method has been universally adop
; ted. It soon traversed the ocean, and physicians
| came from the L nited States to learn uuscu/ta
’ | fion under the direction of the master. His hook
I was translated into many languages and passed
many editions. ’ Bouillaud, an eloquent profes
sor of the f acuity, has greatly enlarged and per
fected the application ot Laei.nec’s conceptions
‘ a,,d P r °cess. It may be noted, that the discover
er was carried off, in 1826, by pulmonary eon
sumption—the malady to which his researches
and new practice were so successfully and pecu
liarly directed. The principal parts of Pariset’s
; eulogy are now extant in the Gazette Medicale.
Antiquities OF South America.—lntelli
gence has been received from Mr. Stephens and
Mr. Gather wood who have arrived safely at Gua
' temala.and finding no possibility of transacting of
| ficial business, have proceeded to ex plore the ruins
of Palenquc—one ot the greatest objects of curiosi
ty in < Central America. Both travellers are familiar
; with Egyptian antiquities,and consequently.in ex
-1 am ning the temples, heiroglyphics, pyramids via
’ ducts, and military r.ads, wtiich are every where
encountered in that interesting country, will oe
1 able to decide promptly what agency the Pheni
cians had—those builders of Babylon, Tyre and
1 Carthage—in the erection of those vast'edificts
scattered abunanlly throughout South America
; Both travellers are inured to fatigue, and have
given evidences of patient historical research
1 h °ld out great promise of successful labor.
Catherwood will probably be the only artist of
eminence who has visited that country, and
we may have a panoramic view of the ruins of
that extraordinary city. European travellers have
become tired of Egypt, Thebes, ami Memphis
and are directing their attention to Peru, Mexico’
and Central America. Publishers are also fiaing
out travellers for jourmes in those countries, and
we are h*.ppy that circumstances have givgn to
Mr. Stephens and Catherwood the advantages of
an early and close research of those antiquities..
The late Mr. Dewelt must have exaimined and
written much on that subject during his residence
in Guatemala. He was an industrious, inquiring
and ready writer; and if his executors have any
manuscripts of bis which may not be prepared
for publication, we would he happy to see them
or hear of them. In a few years, and when po
litical affairs are more tranquil, the governments
of Europe will send expeditions to those coun
tries.—New York .'Star
From the New York Express.
Extract from Jonathan Slick’s descrip
tion of a Grand Fancy Ball.
m: Why dont’t you give Mary yoerarm ?” spz
John to me, jist as I was poking along toward
the door.
“If I’m to play Injun to-night,” sez I, “I’ll
doit according to my own notion if you’d jist as
lives. I never see an Injun and squaw a Hooking
arms yet, —so cousin Mary may jist walk behind
m e, if she aint too stuck up.”
With that I tucked the woodchuck under my
arm, and walked right straight ahead as stiff as
a crobar. Gracious me ! what a smasher of a
room, that was, it was all sot off with yaller and
blue setees and benches, and every sich thing,
eenamost as slick as my pussy cousin’s room, and
the darndcst set of critters were a dancing and a
sidling about that ever I did see. There wan’t
no carpet on the boards, and if they’d a been a
mind to, they might have shinned it down about
right, but instead of that they wentcurchying and
and scooting about, jist like so many tom-tits on
ihe bank of a river. It . aly made rav grit rise to
see a set of folks come from all the four quarters
of the globe, to a party, that didn’t know how to
dance an eight reel or munny-muss as it ought to
be done. They didn’t seem to mind us when we
went in. or else I should a felt awful streaked a
standing up there like a darned injun with Mary
by me. I was purty sartin of not being known,and
so I kept a purty stiff upper lip, and looked on
ji-t to see how foreign gent.iv acted when they
were to hum. There was a swad of tarnal
handsome women in the middle of the room cur
chying and twistifying and wriggling about one
another,and making believe like all natur. But,
oh forever! how they was dressed out! One on
’em had on a great long black sick cloak, with
sleeves to it, and a sort of a white bib hanging
down l»efore, for fear she’d spill the wine and
sweet sarce on Xo her dress when she eat, I spose,
and she l.iokej sort a like a nice handsome chap,
and sort a like a gal kinder a half and half, like
a fence politician. There was a gal close by her
dressed out to kill, her shoes was tied on with red
ribands over a leetle stuck up foot, that looked
good enough to eat; and she had on three open
dresses, over t’other, made out of white silk and
thin shiny stuff', bound and trirned off with strips
of gold; the sleeves hung down like a feller’s
shirt, but there want no risband to ’em, and they
hung wide open, so that her pesky white arm
shone out enough to dazzle a feller’s eyes. She
had twoalfired great breast pins.one on ’em spread
out like a sun on her bosom, and another down
to her waist, all sot chuck full of stuns, that kept
a glistening in the light, like a hand full of sparks
out of a blacksmith’s chimney. She wore anoth
er of these glistening leetle suns on her hand
some white forehead; her long shiney curls
hung down on her shoulders, and a white veil,
that looked like a cloud with the sunshine pour
ing into it, dropped over them. I wispered to
my cousin Mary, and asked who the darned like
ly critter could be. She said she came from Peru,
and was a pr.esless, or something, of the son.
Before I could get a chance to ask whose son it
was that she preached to, and to say that I
shouldn’t grumble if such a critter as that should
preach a leetle easy to Mr. Zepheniah Slick’s
Son—up come a leetle black eyed gal, about knee
high to a toad, with a stick in her hand, and curls
a hanging all over her shoulders.
‘•Hellow, sez I, none of that are,” as she hit
my woodchuck a dab with the stick, and run oft*
iarfing, ready to burst her leetle sides. Before I
knew which eend my head was on, uo come an
other sot of leetle queer looking gals, so young
that they didn’t seem much more than babies,
that ought to have been spanked and put to bgd,
instead of being there. They were dressed off
in short frocks, and glistened like a hail storm;
but where they came from I couldn’t tell, for they
all had wings on their shoulders, and I never
read of such winged critters on this arth, and it
didn’t seem as if children would be sent from
tother world to a York ball. Before I could say
Jack Robinson, they made themselves scarce,and
then sich sights of men and women cum a walk
ing about, some dressed like angels jist dropped
down, some in regimentals, and all sorts of wavs,
that evej a feller dreamed of. I swan, if I didn’t
begin to git dizzy looking at ’em.
I kept by the door yet, a hugging my wood
chuck, and a wondering how on arth the man
that gave the party made out to send round to all
parts of the world to git his folks together, when
I happened to give a squint toward cousin Bebee,
and I burst right out a larfing, all I could do to
help it. There he stood with his mouth sort of
open, and both hands dug down into the pockets
of my old pepper and salts, a staring about like
a stuck pig. Arter a minit, he went up to a
slick leetle gal, right from Spain, with shiney
black hair, eyes as b ight as a hawk’s, and a
great long black veil a streaming down her back,
and he made a bow and asked her to dance as
genteel as I could a done it myself. Pokehontas!
but did’nt he make the old cow hides flourish a
hout. The way he balanced up and played heel
and toe back agin, was Weather field all over.—
The old blue and pepper and salts had put the
grit into him about right. I don’t believe he'd
felt so nat’ral afore since he left Connecticut. I
thought Marv would a gone off’the handle, she
was so tickled, and I had to go away to keep
from haw-hawing right out.
Sweet Sensibility.— All the quack doctors
—we beg their pardon—the patent medicine ben
efactors of their species—who guarantee cures
for every evil that flesh is heir to, say that coun
terfeits of an article are proofs of the excellence
of the genuine thing. Estimated by this rule,
genuine “ sensibility” must be one of the seven
cardinal virtues, and the chiefest among the se
ven ; for there is more mock sensibility in the
world, than mock modesty, and that is saying a
great deal. It is exceedingly pretty to
“ Die ot a rose in aromatic pain”—
To shriek at the agonies of a disembowled
spider, and go into tears at the thought that pigs
and poultry must be -killed before they are eaten. I
W e certainly should be the last to cavil at true :
mercy. But these sympathy-mongers, because
“ The quality of mercy is not stra.neu”—
would fain filter it ail through the threads of a i
linen handkerchief. If there were any sincerity
in these proiessions; and real care for the hap
piness of others, one might put up with their
little tender weakness and affections. The truth
is, that they are made up of inordinate selfish- '
ness and heartless cruelty. Their sorrows and
sympathies are ail wasted on air, and they have
none left for service or use.
A young lady who shall oh dear! through
every line of a trifling narrative of mock sorrow, |
would not give up an article of supeifluous or- I
nament to save a family from starving. A young
gentleman who belongs to this exceedingly sen
sitive class, sheds tears over the fate ol the In- i
dians, and all other miseries, in relief of which he
cannot possibly be called upon, but when any
thing practical presents itself, he is not at home
Prominent and active talking members of all so
cieties for speculative phi anthropy are these very I
tender hearted people—but their acute sensibility
keeps them always at a distance from any scene
of the real gnef, which might shatter their deli- (
cate nerves. In a word, iheir benevolence Is all
speculative—not active—all show—no service—
all talk, no performance.
It is a'matter of congratulation to the world,
that there are so many people left in it who have
no sensibility. Such hard hearted animals are
very useful when a house is on lire, as they
make no hones of plunging into it. for the res
cue of life and properly, while •* sweet sensibili
ty” is faint and prostrate. Heartlessness goes
directly into the hovel of the destitute—sets the
children to work, gives relief to the parents, and
advice to all; while sweet sensibility is holding
his nose at the door, and talking about repre
senting the case to our society. In short, bluff,
blunt, hearty uselulness docs the labor of this
working day world, while the finer feelings are
kept in lavender, to be sported like a fifty dollar
handkerchief upon the pave in public. Useful
ness is the democracy, “ sentiment” the aristo
cracy—one is the “ bone and muscle ” the other
the “ fancy work.” —Dispatch and Tatlcr.
Dramatic Effkct. —ln a drama recently pre
sented in the Theatre at Berlin, lh*’head of a
victim of the tyrant of the piece was to be pre
sented him in a dish, on a table, and covered with
a napkin. All the preparations were most inge
niously made for this awful spectacle. The head
was to be a real one, and the actor who was to
perform the part of the decapitated person had to
thrust his head through an aperture in the back
scene, and lay it in the dish, painted so as to
make a ghastly appearance. This was done; the
tyrant had raised the napkin, and the audience
were all becomingly horrified, when the tffad
man’s head replied to the tirade which his mur
der was in the act of delivering, by a violent fit of
sneezing, which at once turned the scene into a
ludiciou-farce, and the house rang with laugh
ter. Some wag who had admission behind the
scenes had sprinkled the blood-stained dish with
a quantity of snuff.
THF. WAY TO ENSURE AX EARLY DELIVERY.
Numerous are the expedients adopted by letter
writers to expedite the delivery of their letters ;
but the following memorandum, written on a let
ter addressed to the Natchez Post Office, caps ev
ery thing of the kind we have ever seen :
“The postmaster will confer a favor by inform
ing Mr. W e of this letter, or sending it to
him by the first opportunity, as he moved into
your country about the first of December last, and
I think lives at a distance from your post office.
If you are a single man, it will be worth your
trouble to go, as he has a very pretty daughter!”
Affecting Incident. — At the great Con
vention of the } eoplc of Ohio, at Colombus, on
the twenty second, the last of the Life Guards of
ofthe Immortal Washington, appeared as a del.
egate. In the procession he rode a white horse,
and led another, which was caparisoned with
one of the sadc les and housing that had been in
actual use by the Father of his Country. The
spectacle must have been one of deep interest.
He that falls into sin is a man ; that grieves at
it. is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.—f~Ful
ler.J Praise is no match for bl ime and obloquy;
for, were the scales even, the malice of man -ind
would be thrown in as the casting-weight.—Fame
is the inheritance, not of the dead, but of the
living. It is we who look back with lofty pride
to the great names of antiquity, who drink of
that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our
wings in it for future flight.—l will show thee a
way to increase love without philtre, herb, or en
chantment. If thou dost wish to be beloved, love.
—Seneca.
Slave-Ship Trocbles. —Captain Green, of
the schooner Arabella #om St. John’s, Porto Ri
co, informs us that when he left there was diffi
culty between the United States consul and the
Governor, which it was expected, would lead to a
demand of passports by the former, and departure
from the island. The trouble arose from the
presence of two slavers, under the U. S. flag.but
undoubtedly Spanish property, which the consul
endeavored to prevent from sailing. The frigate
Macedonian and sloop-of-war Levant were daily
expected at St. John’s.— Com. Adv.
Extravagance. —Mrs. Walker, of Newark,
Ohio, presented her husband with twin boys, be
ing the third pair since their marriage in 1837.
No matter; wheat at cents abushel, and pork
at two c ntsand a half per pound in Ohio—plen
ty to eat —they may go on ; all that we have to
say is, that it would be deemed very extravagant
here in New York.— Eve. Star.
The Greatest Max.— “ The greatest man is
he whochosesthe right with invincible resolution;
who resists the sorest temptations from within
and without; who bears the heaviest buidens
cheerfully; who is the calmest in storm and the
most fearless undtr menaces and frowns, whose
reliance on truth, on virtue, on God is most un
faltering.”—Dr. Cbanning.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail RouJ.
Hamburg, March 13, 1840.
C A Greiner & Co; D’Antignac <fe Hill; W E
Jackson; Claike, McTeir&Co; W K Kitchen; S H
Peck; W Hat tier; Bones & Carmichael; Gould &
Bulkley; J Bridges &, Co; Baird & Rowland; Rus
sel! & Hutchinson; E B Glascock; P Carrie,Stovall,
Simmons & Co; T M Simmons; Rees fr Beall; S
Knecland;G Parrott; Anderson &, Young; J F Ben
son; Jeffers & Boulware.
C3‘ Consignees will attend without further no
tice.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Fed. 20
Latest dates from Havre Feb 17
Manchester, February 14.
Things have again become exceedingly dull, and
both Cloth and \ am are to be had to-day on lower
terms than on Tuesday, and no disposing of either
to any extent. It is only the low pi ice of the raw
article that gives the least encouragement to keep
theii hands in full employment at the present mo
ment. Prices are now as low as they were six
months ago.
Liverpool, February 17.
Cotton —There was a fair attendance of the trade
jin the early part of the week,and full prices were
I obtained for all descriptions of American; and ,ho’
the demand rather abated on Wednesday,owing to
the reports of the dull state of the trade in
terior, yet the inqui-y has since revived, and the
i market has closed at rather higher rates for the let
ter classes of American, whilst Brazil and other
I kinds continue heavy, at previous paices.
The sales amount to 27,0b0 bales (of which 3 -
300 American are on speculation, and 1500 Amesi
can foi export,) and comprise 60 Sea Island at ni
,o2Sd, Ji 6d l«d.
°h to 6|, 4 600 Mobi e, Alabama and Tennessee b x
to7d 13,500 Orleans s|d to 7£d, SOO Pernambuco 4 ,
Pa raff a, a c. Sfd to 9sd, 370 Bahia and Myceio 8 i
| to 140 Maranham 7Jd to S^d,Carthagen a s*d,
| 20 common West India 6£d, 416 Egyptian 9d to
j lid, 1,090 Surat 4d to and 70 Madras at 5d
i per ib. Aboutsooo bags have been sold to-day at
steady prices, SOO American have been taken for
export. The sales consist of 500 Surat at to
sd, 150 PernamSfd, 159 Bahia S£d, the remainder
American s£d to 7d. On Saturday 3500 were
sold.
Liverpool, February 19.
The stock of Cotjon in this port is estimated at
208,000 bales, of which about 152,000 is American
being very neatly as it was at the end cf last year’
The import since Ist January is 175,000 bales of
which 144,000 is fiom the Knifed States and the
j sales of all kinds during the same time have
j amounted to 190,000 bales ; 160,000 of ff lak
1 consumers, 20,000 by speculators and 16 ftn. 1 ? 1 y
exportation ’ JUIJ for
Though the business has been rather exten •
and the demand nearly all the time
steady; the tendency of the prices has been / and
wards, and dining January they declined abm.^!
per lb Since the Ist instant the complexion n f T
market has not changed—the demand bein™-
sufficient to maintain prices about as th ,Ust
were—and at present the state of the Manch then
market would not seem to warrant higher
there is consequently little o* no speculative 5:
mand. ' e de-
Infeiior qualities still maintain relatively v v
rates than the better classes—as s|d is ab i* r
lowest quotation for any merchantable a!! - tbe
cotton; while 6| is about the highest oriel I*?
obtained for good Upland, and 7d for -mod Or ° be
and Mobile; there is nothing sel imr 1 eans
rates except fancy lots and brands. Vat I®
6g a per lb. ‘ r Qualities
1 he saies for tlie week *
to 30,500 bales, and for , h ,,
were 27,670 do; of the latter 6SS 4th ! n ' 1 they
51 a 6id, 15.500 Or eans a,"
raa and Mobile at 6S a7d- and 5(1 4e6l ’ AI ‘ta
a 22d with 40 stained a, 6 a lofwHb
day the loth instant the tr ib ‘ ° n Satur '
bales. On Monday ’the 1 7th about' f°°
terday about 3000 bales The V .’ ,u! - ves '
to-day but the accounts of T^ Y
market are gloomy. * re ‘ aa -> s Manchester
i he duty on Wheat is now 2t~ c a
and on Flour 13s id per barrel!! Sd PPr qUarter ’
present any indication of o I R ° r s , t)ieie at
part of last month the mnet clla 'ige. The latter
then in the market was disposed
m bond—since when the nrV eV 3 . .
tween 20s t.d and 30s 6d, and it is now rXr do
at 30s per bbl The future course of be I„ „
markets must depend mainly on the p.ospi, ft
the next crops. h 1 101
T . , „ Havre, February 1
Though our Cotton sales were less numerous in
V a V , C preceedin S week, consisting of on !
zObb bales Louisiana, Georgia, Mobile and Vi lf 2
on the spot, as well as on delivery, vet n r . c S
more regular Louisiana went off at 73 to lOhf
at B°lff! fl ° M ° bile at and Virginia
Cur cotton prices have again this sveekmn von
irregular, and our sales were composed of 3307
bales Louisiana of very ordinary to good current
quality, on the spot, as well as on delivery at 734
to and 84 3 to 87f, 768 do ordinary to’ good or*
dmwy Mobile at 82* to 83;, 1695 do’ ordfnarv to
current Georgia U. S. at 78 to 87. Cur present stock
consists of acout 68,000 bales, of which 60 060
bales are from the United States, 5
n .. . , , February 12.
Cotton remained neglected since Saturday last
and our sales ih s day took 1045 bales Louisiana
and Georgia U. 8. out ofthe market. In Colonial
sugars as our holders decline sei ing, nothing oc
curred. Coffee on the contrary continues in re
quest, and92B bags Rio were placed at 6.4 to6B}
fr. in bond. *
February 14.
The transactions in cotton particularly duringthe
first part of the week were again carried on with a
great deal of activity, and from the Mh to the 14th
inst bales on the spot as well as on delivery
were on the following terms disposed of—inferior
to o.dinary and good ordinary Louisiana at 7b, 81
84 to Georgia at 74 to 84, Mobile at 81 toSs*
149 bales ordinary to good ordinary Pernambuco at
102£ to 105, ana 135 bales do do 8t Domingo at St)
to 90f. It must, however, be observed that our
inaiket still has a very uncertain appearance, and
many holders to whom present puces seem too
low not to leave room for an improvement,decline
to sell altogetf er.
Fresh imported weie during the week 19941 .
bales from Mew Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Ac.
and out present slock, as far as we aie able to as
certain, may be estimated at about 78,C0G bales of
which 70,000 are from the United States.
Hamburg, February 14.
Cotton remains still neglected, and those from
the Lnited Btates, of which very little is now ie
mainingmour market, only sell in small parcels
tor local consumption. 200 ba es Surat, however,
were taken at 5 sch, against which ws. received2oo
ba'« s Ceoroia. from Charleston.
.a AiiiA I j irN TLiiLIGEINCE.
Savannah, March 10
Arrived. —Bark Lagrange, Doane, New York;
j Schr. Mary Reed, Gray Philadelphia; Ship Celiar’
Poner, N. York ; Ship Persius, Rowen. Havre; Br.g
Mary Ann, Curtis, Providence ; Steamer Cherokee,
Gould Augusta ; Steamer Lamar, UTesswell, Au
gusta.
Cleared. —Ship Burgundy, Lines, Havre; Schr.
Crescent. Short, Philadelphia.
Gens to Sea. —Schr. Foster, Colcold, Boston;
Schr. Crescent, Short, Philadelphia.
Charleston, March 12.
Arrived yesterday.— Brig I eoman, Gooding, To
basco; C L brig Buenos Ayres, Stuart. New York;
schrs Joseph Marsh, Poland, Attakapas, (La.) Mes
sengei, White, Bath; Mandarin, Webster, Ba’ti
more.
At Quaranti) e —Line ship Congaree, Doane, Bos
ton.
( I eared —Brigs Monaco, Wording, Marseilles;
Emma, Fernald, Havana.
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Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock.
Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more $lO.
B. 11. OVERBY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga
fcr BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—F or the bene
fit of the sick poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
The visiting committees for the ensuing'month,
are as follows:
Division No. 1. —James Godby, J. W. Meredith,
Mrs. Crump,Mrs N. Jones.
Division No. 2. —\V. H. Crane, W. F. Pember
ton, Mrs. Tal iafarro, Mrs, M. A. Holt.
| Division No. 3. —G. E. Latimer, James Panton,
Mrs. B. McKinnie, Mr«. Julia Snead.
J. WL WIGHTMAN, Secretary.
(ZjTFUBLJC NOTICE. —Dr. AJunroe. Surged
Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has removed
his operating rooms to one door below Martin Fred
erick’s Confectionary, and opposite the Br dge
Bank Building. feb 1U
(TJ MRS. INGRAHAM has just opened new
French Printed Muslins and Lawns, Scotch Ging
hams, light prints, and elegant French Capes. La
dies are invited to call.
Found at Mrs. Ingraham’s store, a Gold thim
ble, which the owner may receive by paying for
this advertisement. mar jo
L./*r. C. IV. WEST offers hi? professional
services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity
His office is in Me in tosh-street, opposite the office
of the Constitutionalist: residence at the Eagle and
Phcenix Hotel. feb 13—trwlm
(O - Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at bis residence, ‘he
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Lilis
street,recently occupied by John L. Adams.
*ug n t s
*3 THE FARMERS' REGISTER, a monthly
publication, devoted to the improvement of tne
practice, and support of the interest, of Agricul
ture; published at Richmond, \ a , at $5 pel year.
Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. m 6
J. IV. JONES , is my authorised Agent for th
adjustment of my unfinished business
mar 3 WILLIAM E JONES^
(Ls AO7 ICE. —From this date freight on Cotton
per 8. C. C. & Rail x\oad Uo. is reduced to forty (fO
cents per hundred for square bales, and fifty
cents per hundred pounds for round.
A B. STURGES, Agefi“
Hamburg, March 4,1840.
(p RAILROAD FREIGHT REDUCED —AU
artic es usually carried by weight to Hamburg, v' l *
be charged at 4U cents per 100 pounds (instead ol
50 cents, as customary,] till further notice,
mar 2 JOHN KING, Jr., Agent.