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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.;
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 27.
Theatre.
Mrs. Fitz william doses her engagement
in this city when she takes her benefit,
prior to her depa Jure for Charleston. We have
save, on a single occasion, forbore to eulogise the
performances of this highly accomplished lady.for
we felt that her powers needed no eulogy, indeed
they are superior to it. To-night she presents an
attractive bill, am? we trust that our citizens will
testify their sense ,of her merit by making it a
real benefit. *
The Tybee Light,
Is the name oCa new Daily and Tri-Weekly
paper about to be ?;>sued in the city of Savannah,
under the Editor! il management of Messrs. H.
S, Belt and Charles Davis, the prospectus of
which is now out. We subjoin a paragraph from
their prospectus, in which they announce the
political principles &c. of their forthcoming sheet.
“Our combined efforts will, as heretofore, be
devoted totnc advancement of the great cause of
State Rights, and of retrenchment and economy
in public officers,‘state and General—of purity in
the public and private morals of the country (so
shamefully degenerated of late,) —to the promo
tion of the cause if temperance and frugality—
and to es ibhshmcnt of law and order in
the adruinistratioi of our institutions from the
primary movemei at the ballot boxes, to the
highest judicial tr 'unal of the country. And as
the surest and on r available means of promoting
all these high inte ests, we will advocate the elec
tion of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio,
and John Tyler . jof Virginia, to the two highest
offices in the gift c* the people.
Farther; of the Shipwrech.
The Charleston Patriot of Wednesday says:—
“We learn by tb arrival of the Steam Packet
C. Vanderbilt, fre n Wilmington, that it was re
ported at Smithv I ile that one of the Cape Fear
Pilot Boats had j one to the wreck of the Br
ship Flora, wrecl ;d on Frying Pan Shoals, and
succeeded in save g two of the crew, leaving the
Captain and nine men still upon the wreck. It
blowing a gale of wind at the time and a heavy
sea running, the 1 dots were unable to save any
more. The Pilot 3oat would proceed again to
the wreck this da; with the hope of saving the
balance of this u fortunate crew, if the weather
should prove favo; ble, but from the viole. -e o (
the weather at th f time, it is more than probable
no assistance rendered these unfortunate
beings, and that t*cy will be left to their fate.
A bad Account.— The Patterson, N. J. In
telligencer says;—“ The greater part of the man
ufactories in this town have been lying idle for
months. There are, we understand, but two es
tablishments among the whole number which are
making full time; a few of the others run part of
the time.”
A Post Office has been established at Camak,
Warren county ; Edward A. Crandall appointed
Post Master. Also at Poolesville, De Kalb coun
ty ; James Caldwell appointed Post .Master.
Hon, Mu. Cpthbebt.—The Washington
Correspondent of|he New York Express, gives
the following desr iption of Mr. Cuthbert’s man
ner of speaking ir public:
“ Mr. Cuthbert is an odd fish ; affected—vain
—ridiculous. H< would talk for a month about
nothing, and in a i anner so pompous and extrava
gant, that from hi manner, you would fancy the
subject under con deration, a question of war or
peace. To-day, 1 } was quite ultra. Maine was
threatened, if. J, id Georgia would have a non
intercoura.i law wjh her, but. Mr. C. is a radi
cal Loco Foco: credit system —a golden
humbug min—ail advocate of the Sub-Treasury
“"—I
Dn Goods Trade.
The New York Morning Chronicle of Satur
day, says:—“Since our last report on this branch
of trade, the stock in this market has been great
ly increased by the arrival of about a dozen
packets, ah of which have brought, as we pre*
dieted in our last, fair cargoes of Dry Goods.—
This addition to the supply of new and desirable
goods, must naturally have some influence to re
vive trade among this class of merchants. The
merchants of the neighboring cities have been
anxiously waiting these arrivals, and they will
now be able to get in their Spring supplies,
whether large or small. The packets that left
Liverpool early in the season, have not brought
so full cargoes as those that left later. This can
only he attributed to the disappointment of the
manufacturers of Great Britain, in not receiving
more extensive orders from this country, and
which induced them to ship a considerable quan
tity on their own account. It is a fact very well
known among our leading merchants, that the
orders Irom this country which went out early in
the season were vsry small, and the sudden in
crease if at Liverpool, the latter part
of January, cannot be reasonably attributed to
any other cause, ffian the determination of the
manufacturers of fcurope to ship their surplus
stock on their ovv! account, which, if they do to
any extent, must create an overplus in this mar
ket, injurious to tie interests of this community
and to the shippe i.”
The editor of i e New Orleans Sun savs he
will give $50,000 o any person who will show
him a rich man’s pitaph without a lie in it
f he draws the St. Charles Theatre in the
$3,000,000 Loiter /.
From th Southern Recorder,
The Monroe Rs iroad Bank, on Thursdav last,
made a demand o the Centra! Bank for settle
mentor her hios, ' the tune of 40,000 dollars,
care .Mturmed |settlement was refused. We
handy know how* n andcrsMnd o • f
J stand inis, bpecte of
course could not v e been demanded, cr if it was
•was o. cour.-e reused, as the R iff road Bank
must nave antic.,led. But they had a right we !
imagine t aa t afango 0 f . pm. - , ■‘ “
Was this refused ?j We imagine so> as this was
all that could ha*,| been expected by the Bank
making the demand. If the Central Bank has
refused to exchange her hills for others when re
quired, we fancy her own bills will suffer from
the operation.
One thing at least strikes us very forcibly from
this example. That is, that if the Central Bank
either cannot or will not take up her hills when
other bills are required, we wonder at the recent
Editorial articles of the Federal Union on this
subject, advocating an extensive issue of these
bills byway of distribution. If she fails in the
first demand, and when but a very insignificant
amount of her bills have been issued, we are at a
loss to know by what possibility she could respond
when the issue was extended probably five fold.
From the Rational Intelligencer.
The State of the Country.
Such is, we know, the infatuation with which
some men hug the trammels of party, that they
will follow its fortunes so nearly to the verge of
ruin that nothing but the last step in the catastro
phe seems capable of bringing them to reflect up
on their dangerous predicament.
Never did this observation apply with more
force than to the supporters of the last and the
present Administrations; for they have stood by
the unwise measures of their leaders with unyiel
ding firmness until ruin has crushed its thousands
and they find themselves involved in the univer
sal desolation. By dint of mere suffering some
among them have been brought to pause, and
they begin to reason with themselves and with
one another. The lamentations over the dead
and the wailing of the wounded on a bloody bat
tle-field are not affecting than the cries of
the ruined and the broken-hearted now heard
through the whole length and breadth of our
country. Whilst we deplore a state of things
which we have done every thing in our power to
prevent, it is a subject of gratification to perceive
that it has a4 length roused in the less bigotted
adherents of their party a spirit of inquiry into
the causes and the authors ot so much evil.
We ask once more of such of these as are in a
condition to hear reason, to go with us back to
the recollection of better days, and trace our his
tory up to the present time, that we may discov
er what have been the causes, and who the au
thors, of all this mischief.
For the first forty years of our national exist
ence, the Government was administered by pro
found statesmen and devoted and disinterested
patriots. During that period, a country so pros
perous and happy as our own, one that moved on
with so successful a devclopement of its vast re
sources, the world has never seen. No cloud
darkened our horizon foi more than a brief pe
riod of time, and then from causes that no foresight
could avoid, and of a nature to which every Peo
ple must be subject, however wisely its Govern
ment may lie administered.
The blessings of prosperity and happiness were
vouchsafed to us through all this space of time,
until the People, in an evi! hour, with hearts over
flowing with gratitude to the founders of our In
stitutions, were cajoled into the belief that they
would find in Gen. Jackson “a second Washing
ton,” and placed him at the head of the Govern
ment, without his possessing a single qualification
for its safe administration.
Had Gen. Jackson been wisely distrustful of
his own capacity, he would have found in the
ample of his illustrious predecessors the chan of
safety. He had but to throw himself on the wave
that was carrying the whole country on to its proud
and enviable destiny, and all would have been
well. But the infirmities of his character prevail
ed over the dictates of reason. With daring
courage, indeed, but yet with presumption which
ignorance alone could excuse, he approached the
most delicate and vital principles in the science
of Government, and determined to reform them,
though the wisdom of nations had declared them
good, and the experience of ages had pronounced
them settled. He took hold of the currency and
the finances of the country, and, in the absence
of both information and experience on the subject,
resolved to change them from their settled foun
dations. And tliis purpose he accomplished, in
violation of the sanctity of t!ie (Constitution, and
in disregard of law. Without a faltering step
he pursued his determination, which has been of
so much mischief the prolific source. The war
ning of wise counsels, the remonstrances of friends
and the predictions of evil, only made his resolves
the more inflexible, and his means of accomplish
ing them the more desperate.
Thus was laid the foundation of all the evils
which now scourge the country; and our present
Chief Magistrate, by following in the footstep* of
his illustrious predecessor , has consummated the
work of mischief and ruin.
From the beginning of Gen. Jackson’s crusade
against the currency, the finances, and the insti
tutions upon which their successful management
essentially depended, must be dated the downfall
of our national prosperity and happiness. And,
if the wit ot mankind had been taxed to work out
a scheme otthe quickest and most successful ru
in, none could have been devised more fatal and
efficient than that whose success Gen. Jackson’s
flatterers madenim believe was to crown his fame
with unfading glory. We have but to cast our
eyes over our continent, and we behold in all di
rections the sad memorials of a desperate and fa
tal maladministration of public affairs. Our
commerce, that once floated on every sea, has
dwindled down to a mere remnant. Our manu
factures, that erewhile were enlivened with the
busy movements of industry and piofit, are lin
gering out an unprofitable existence. Our agri
culture, that, until lately, was rewarded with a
rich return, seeks in vain for a market. Our in
ternal improvements, that recently stretched out
their thousand arms to embrace the Union in one
bond of fellowship and intercourse, are abandon
ed, and many millions of their cost are already
lost to the com try in consequence. The stream
of capital that was flowing in from its capacious
reservoir in the Old World to seek employment
in the enterprise ol the New, is wholly cut off.
Our credit, that once stood with proud respect in
all the marls of the world, is now dishonored.
Our enterprise, that was wont to explore every
avenue for profit, is stricken down in hopelcssdes
pair. Labor, that brought its re’urn of happi
ness and comfort to tons of thousands of families,
now wanders about in rags begging for employ
ment. The exchanges of our country, which,
ten years ago. stood at Jess than one per cent- be
tween the extremes of the Union, ore now rang
ing, between places only a hundred or two miles
apart, at from six and seven to fifteen and twenty
per cent. In fine, a national paralysis, ruined
fortunes, gloom, suffering,and a bankrupt Treas
ury. are the prints of Gen. Jackson’s footsteps, in
which Mr. Van Buren has faithfully followed.
Such are the consequences of casting away the I
valuable lights of experience, substituting for
them the crudities of ignorance, and experiment
ing with the life-blood of a nation’s prosperity.
When this fatal purpose was first disclosed, un
der the administration of General Jackson, the
wisdom of our country pronounced it a heresy,
and predicted the consequences. These predic
tions have been vetified to the letter. So uner
ring was their reach into the future, thattbe spirit
of ancient prophecy never foretold events with
more certainty. Against the rash and reckless
course ot the Executive the warning voice of our
real statesmen was raised with earnest entreaty.
Their protestations against it were 1 >ud atfd long
sid their resistance to it was of a boldness pro
| portioned to the magnitude of the evils which
they apprehended. But unhappily the persons
who conceived the mischief held the reins of Gov
ernment, am- they have driven headlong over the
ramparts ot the law and the prostrate interests of
the country.
Nor have things yet reached their worst unle s
the People interpose. The tendency of things
is yet downward. The same stern resolve that
has broken down she prosperity of the country is
now at work !o crush with it the spirit that dates,
to complain. Success in this last effort is all
that is wanting to perpetuate the reign of tyran
ny and oppression, under w hich the country has
already groaned too long.
Surely, if there be any truth in the picture
which we have sketched of the present state of
our country—and that there is, we presume no
one will deny—and if the stale of things, be as
it undeniably is, the fruit of mal-administration
of public affairs, still willfully persisted in; what
reasonable or thinking man but must be satisfied
of the necessity of a change of administration,
to produce a change in the face of public af
fairs.
Setting aside all questions of personal prefer
ence, or party pride or predilection, is it likely,
we ask, that a dogged perseverance in a foolish
and ruinous policy will lead to a wise and pros
perous end 1 Is it not the known determination
of the now dominant power in the Government
to persevere in its present policy 1 Is there, then
any earthly mode of bringing back the country
to its former sound and happy condition, than, by
a concert of all men who see and acknowledge
these truths, to effect such a reform in the admin
istration of the Government as will give it a new
direction 1
These are questions which are put to our read
ers, and which we trust that those who yet doubt
will think upon, and each one answer for and to
himself.
Congressional.
Among the petitions presented on Monday last
in the House, we perceive the following:
By Mr. Dawson : Tue following petitions, viz :
from Samuel Rockwell, Win Hansel!, and Wm H
Underwood, asking of Congess the payment of
certain claims against the Cherokee Indians as a
tribe, and assumed by the General Government
under the late treaty with that tribe.
A claim of the State of Georgia for money
advanced to the officers and soldiers of the Revo
lution. Referred select committee of five mem
bers.
A petition from the Commissioners of Pilotage
of the city of Darien, relative to a light-house, &c.
A petition from the citizens of Ruckeisville,
asking a mail rout, &c, Greensborough, Georgia,
through that place, to Greensborough, South Car
olina.
Value of Water Power tiif United
States. —ln a report made to the Senate of In
diana, we find the following facts recorded in re
ference to the value of water :
By an examination of the rates of leasing wa
ter power in other portions of the United States,
vve find the following facts:
In Ohio, at large towns on the canal, the rates
per run of stones arc, per annum, $l5O 00
In Ohio and Indiana, out of the
large towns, SIOO to 125 00
At Cincinnati the State leases at 250 00
At Lowell, Massachusetts, on
Merrimack river, 97 80
At Cohoes, near Albany, New
York, 189 00
At Patterson, New Jersey, 399 00
At Manayunk, near Phiiadcl
# phia, 555 40
Average of the whole, exclusive
of Indiana, 384 74
In this state has been leased at Indianapolis,
I awrenceburgh, Harrison, Peru, &c., a total
amount of power equal to 30 run of stones, at
$l5O per year for each run.
Opium Eating in England.—A London
paper of recent date says that the consumption
of Upium in England has increased to a great
extent; insomuch that the subject lormed a mat
ter of discussion at a late meeting of the West
minster Medical Society. It whs slated by a
respectable member of that body from his own
personal knowledge, that opium eating had in
creased in the country to such a degree as to
have become nearly equal in its proportion with
tee-totalism. The subject had become of such
importance that the different insurance offices
were about to hold a meeting in consequence of
their h iving discovered that they had sustained
considerable loss from, as well as that a new risk
had been created, by the enormous increase of
the consumption of opium.
The use of this drug seems to be the last re
sort of a vitiated taste in search of unnatural
excitement. The statements above made, if
founded upon actual facts, may well cause alarm
in England, fur there is no predicting how far
the dangerous habit may prevail if it once be
comes established. The experience of mankind
unhappily shows in too many instances that the
terrible consequences which follow unlawful in
dulges, are insufficient to warn effectually against
yielding to them, when once infatuation has pos
i sessed the mind. If the fact were otherwise
; there would need no other security against the
| habit of opium eating—for of all kinds of intem
' perance this appears to entail upon its victims
the most dreadful species of suffering.— Balt.
I American.
Destructive Hurricane at Madras.—A
! tremendous Hurricane, with an inundation of
the sea, occurred on the 16ih November, at Cor
; inge.on the coast northward of Madras. Some
particulars of the devastation committed were
I given in the Madras Spectator, on the authority
jof letters written on the spot. “The water from
the sea rushed in with such violence, that the
i houses at Coriuge, except E’s. large house, and
j three or four other brick houses, all the rest they
say have been carried away. I have had two
and a half feet of water in my garden and in my
room, which is under my bungalow, one and a
half foot. They say that more than 20,000 peo
| pie have perished by this terrible hurricane, which
! lasted only five or six hours. There is nothing
to be seen in every direction but dead bodies and
drowned cattle. Sixty native vessels, which
were in the roads loaded with paddy, disappeared;
and they do not know what has become of them.”
Among the items of literary intelligence con
tained in the L verpool correspondence of the
N. \. Star, it is stated that Bulwcr has produced
another play. The title is “Cromwell,” and it
will be brought forward at the Hay market in the
course of this month—the part of Cromwell by
Macready.
Theodore Hook has tw o novels in press. One
is entitled “Uncle Geoffrey.” and it will have
| Hook’s portrait; the other is called “Precept and
| Practice,” to be illustrated by Fhiz,
Edward Howard, author of Rattlin the Reefer,
has also a novel in press. It will be called Jack
Ashore.
A Bishop’s Humilitt.—John Knox’s “Blast
of the Trumpet against the monstrous regimen.”
gave great offence to Queen Elizabeth, who could
not bear to be bearded in her “ pride of place;”
and Dr. Aylmer, having written a courtly answer
to Knox’s work, he was advanced to the See of
London. In his work Aylmer had advised the
prelates to be content with “ priest-tike and not
to seek after “prince Vkc” fortunes; but when
he was made a bishop he forgot his doctrine, and
being one dav reminded of it. he replied in the
words of St. Pin!, “When I was a child I spake
as a child, I thougl t as a child ; but when I be
came a man, I put away childish things!”
The affairs of Turkey have been managed in '
a wretched manner. It has been demonstrated
that in a district which [aid four millions in tax
es, only 35U.000 rea bed the treasury of the Sul
tan ; consequently 3,650,000 were absorbed by
rapacious Pachas or their underlines.
From the New Monthly for February.
Annette, or the Galerien—A Tale.
BT THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON.
Annette Moran was the prettiest girl at a vil
lage in the department of the Isere, famed for the
beauty of us female inhabitants. She was the
only person who doubted this fact, and her evi
dent freedom from vanity, joined to the unpre
tending simplicity and mildness of her nature,
rendered her beloved even by those of her own
sex who might have felt inclined to contest charms
less meekly borne by their possessor. Among
the many candidates for the hand of Annette,
Jules Dejean was the one who had won her
heart. Their marriage bad been long agreed on,
and they only waited to have a sufficient sum
laid by, the fruits of their earnings and economy,
to enable them to commence their little menage.
Annette might be seen, every evening, busily en
gaged in spinning the yarn that was destined for
the linen of her future establishment, while Jules
sat by her, reading aloud, or indulging with de
light in anticipations of their marriage. How of
ten did he endeavor, during the period of their
probation, to persuade his Annette that they al
ready had sufficient funds to commence house
keeping. Charles Vilman and his Marie, with
many other notable examples, were produced to
prove that a couple might marry and he happy
with less than five hundred francs, and Annette,
half convinced, stole a timid look at her mother,
who answered it by shaking her head and saying,
“Ah! that’s all very well, because Charles and
Marie have no children as yet, so that they are as
free to work as if they were single. But people
are not always so fortunate as to be married three
years without having a family; and when a young
woman has one child in her arms, and another
beginning to walk, she can attend but little to her
work”
This reasoning never appeared quite conclu
sive to the comprehension of the lovers, though
it brought a brighter tint to the cheeks of Annette,
and a roguish smile to the lips of Jules, and nei
ther seemed to think it was peculiarly fortunate
for married persons who loved each other not to
have children, though they did not dispute the
point with la bonne mere Moran.
About this period the cure of the village died,
a d his place was supplied by a young clergyman,
who came from a distant part. The regret felt
by all his flock for the good pastor was not light
ened by seeing in his successor a man whose
youth excluded the hope that his advice or expe
rience could replace that of him they bad lost.—
Nevertheless, the urbanity and kindness of Lc
Pere Laungardsoon reconciled them to him, and
he became popular. Le Pere Laungard was a
young man of prepossessing appearance, and
some natural abilities; but with passions so vio
lent and irregular, that they rendered him most
unfit for the holy profession he had adopted.—
Like pent-up fir s, they raged but with more vio
lence because they were concealed; and hypocri
sy and artifice were called in to assist rum in
hiding feelings tiiathc took more pains to conceal
than to suppress. Some irregularities had mark
ed his conduct at the cure he iiad left, and these
had been represented to the bishop of his diocese;
but that prelate refused credence to any state
ments against the young priest, and looked on
him as a persecuted son of the church, whom be
was called upon to protect against its enemies.—
Le Pere Laungard had no sooner seen Annette
than he became enamour, d of her and it re
quired all his powers of duplicity and affected
sanctity to veil his passion, while in his heart he
cursed the profession that rendered this duplicity
necessary. When he became acquainted with
the affection and engagement of Annette and
Jules, the most ungovernable jealousy was added
to the stings of unlawful passion; be abandoned
himself to plots for breaking off the marriage, and
a thousand fearful and horrid thoughts passed
through his ill-regulated mind.
At times, arluaied by the stings of conscience,
he would throw himself on the earth, and with
burning tears bewail his wretched fate, and hav
ing humbled himself to the dust, he would pray
for power to conquer this fatal and unhallowed
love. But some innocent proof of affection giv
en by the lovers in his presence would soon ex
cite afresh all the evil of his nature, and he would
look on them us did the serpent in Paradise, en
vying the happiness of our first parents, until
overpowered by the. feelings that consumed him,
he would rush into solitude, and abandon him
self to all the violence of his disposition.
He used every effort in his power to insinuate
himself into the good graces of Annette, and. by
the softness and impassioned earnestness of his
manner, he succeeded in exciting an interest in
her mind—the more readily accorded, that her
whole heart beine engrossed, and the passion that
filled it being fully reciprocated, left her disposed
to think well of, and feel kindly towards, all the
world. Often did Annette, in the innocence of
her mind, and with that complacency which a
mutual affection engenders, observe to Jules, what
a pity it was that Le Pere Laungard, a good
looking, amiable young man, with so much sen
sibility, should be forever excluded the pale of
conjugal ties. “To live without loving,” said
the pure Annette, “ appears to me to be impossi
ble; and though he may like all hisflosk.as Ido
friends and companions, still that is so differ
ent, so cold and unsatisfying a feeling in compar
ison with that which you, dear Jules, have awa
kened in my breast, that I cannot but pi»y all
who are shut out from entertaining a similar one.
Jules felt none of this pity or sympathy for
Le Pere. Laungard, for, with the furtive glan
ces of the *young priest directed to Annette,
his disordered air and changing countenance,
his agitation and tremulous voice, when ad
dressing her, and he liked not the flashing
of Laungaid’s eye whenever, as the affianced
husband of Annette, he availed himself of the
privileges that character gave him of holding her
hand in his, or encircling her small and yieloing
waist with his arm. **The purity and reserve of
Annette imposed a restraint on Le Pere Laun
gard that but increased the violence of his pas
si n, and as the time app.cached for her nuptials,
it became more ungovernable.
According to the usages of the Roman Catho
lic religion, persons about to be united confess to
their priest .he night previous to the marriage
ceremony, and receive the sacrament the next
morning prior to its celebration.
Annette went to the church, which was about
two miles distant from her home, accompanied
by a female neighbor; and on arriving, was told
that Le Pere Laungard could not receive her
confession until a late hour in the evening.—Her
companion becoming impatient to return to her
home, quitted Annette, who informed her that
Jules would come to condqpt her back to her mo
ther. Her friend left her in the twilight, in the
church reposing on a bench, and met Jules on the
road, whom she advised not to interrupt the devo
tions of his fiancee, as it would he some time ere
she would have finished. He loitered about, and
at length becoming impatient, proceeded to the
church; where not finding Annette, and conclu
ding that she had returned by another route, he
hastened to the house of her mother. She had
not arrived here, however, and the most fearful ap
prehensions filled his mind. He returned again to
the church, and knocking loudly at the house of
j Le Pete Laungard, which joined it, demanded
j when Annette had left the sacred edifice. The
! priest replied thiough ’.he window, that she had
left the confessional at nine o’clock and that was
j aft he knew. Agonized by the wildest fears and
; suspicions, Jules aroused all his friends in the
; village, and they proceeded in every direction
! calling aloud on Annette ; and the night was pas
sed in searches for the luckless maiden.
| Morning, that morning which was to have
j crow ned his happiness for ever, by making An
nette his own, saw Jules, pale and haggard, dis
traction gleaming in his eyes, and drops of ’cold
perspiration bursting from his forehead, approach
with his friends the hank of the river, which they
proposed to draw with a net, as being the only
place as yet unexplored.
While we leave them employed in this melan
choly office, we must return to the lemale friend
who had left Annette, at the Church. She
sought an interview with the servant of the priest
whom she closely questioned, as she maintained
that the unhappy girl had decided on returning
by a certain route, and had she done so, she
could not have failed to meet Jules, and conse
quently suspicions of foul play were excited in
her mind.
The servant stated that Le Pere Laungard had
give her a commission to execute at the village
the evening before, and had told her she might
remain there until twelve o’clock. This unsolici
ted permission struck her as something extraor
dinary, and she did not avail herself of it to the
full extent. She re'urned about nine o’clock,
and having let herself it, was eating her supper,
when she heard a violent struggle in the room
above that where she was sitting, and a sound of
stifled groans. She ran up stairs, and finding her
master’s door fastened, she demanded if he was
ill, as she had ueen alarmed by hearing a noise, lie
answered that he had merely fallen over a chair;
but there was a trepidation in his voice which
announced that he was agitated.
I his was all that the servant could state ; but
it was enough to point the suspicions already ex
cited, still more strongly to the priest.
The river was drawn, and close to its hank was
found the corse of the beautiful and ill-fated An
nette ; her disheveled hair, and torn garments,
bore evidence to the personal violence she had
sustained, ere she had been consigned to a watery
grave, and the livid marks of fingers on her throat
induced a belief that her death had been caused
by strangu alion, ere she had been plunged into
the river. Fragments of her dress, found attach
ed to the briers, and locks of her beautiful hair
caught in them, gave indications of the route by
which her corse had been evidently dragged along,
and were traced even to the door of the priest’s
house; but when the servant came forth, with a
fragment of the kerchief Annette had worn, and
which she had found in the ashes where the rest
had been consumed, there was no longer a doubt
left in the minds ot the spectators, as to who was
the perpetrator of the horrible deed.
The murderer lied, pursued by the villagers;
but having rushed into the river, he gained the
opposite side in safety, ere they arrived to see him
again resume his flight. He passed the frontier,
entered Piedmont, and there overcome w.lh the
sense of his guilt, and nearly dead with fatigue,
he gave himself up to the civil authorities.
He was soon after claimed by the French, tried,
and condemned to the galleys for life; where he
still drags on a miserable existence, not daring to
lift his eves from the ground lest he should meet
the glance of horror his presence never fails to ex
cite in all who see him, and know his crime.
Jules no longer able to remain in a spot now
rendered insupportable to him. gave up his little
fortune to the mother of his Annette enlisted at
Grenoble, and soon after met his death, gallantly
i fighting at Algiers.
The house of Le Pere Laungard, has been ra
zed to the ground by the inhabitants of the village;
and a monument has been erected to the lovely
! but unfortunate Annette.
Tailor Defended.—A tailor, instead of be
ing the ninth part of a man, possesses the qual
ities of nine men combined, as follows;
Ist. As an economist, he cuts his garments ac
cording to his cloth.
2nd. As a garduer, he is careful of his cabbage.
3d. As a cook, he provides himself with a hot
goose.
4th. As a sherilFs officer, he does much at
sponging,
sth. As an executioner, he furnishes many gal
lowses.
fi|Gth. As a general, he brandishes not a sword
but a bare bodkin.
7ih. As a sailor, he shears off whenever he
thinks necessary.
Bth. As a lawyer, he attends to many suits.
9th. As a Christian and divine, it is his chief
aim to form good habits for himself and others.
I think enough ha# been said to do away with
the oj probrium so often cast upon the knights
of the thimble and needle, to induce the fraterni
ty to unite and contribute a suit of clothes to
their friend and humble servant.— Exchange.
Soap Locks. —The Boston Times gives a his
tory of the origin of the soap lucks—a class of
gentlemen who have become somewhat noto
rious in New York. The first of the “order,” it
is said, was a famous thief in the English metro
polis, who after having for a long time success
•j fully carried on hisexploits, was at length caught,
and .-.cnl to Botany Bay. He could not subscribe
!to the doctrin of “honor among thieves,” but
soon engaged in his old practices, and having
j been detected, he submitted to ihe punishment of
• having his oars cut off by the authorities at that
place. After living at that interesting colony
some lew years, he contrived to effect his
escape, and made his way to New York. In that
I city he found that cropped ears were by no means
1 fashionable, and in order to hide the deformity, he
suffered his locks to grow to an inordinate length,
and, to keep them from blowing about in every
j breeze, soaped them until they assumed a firm
j and sleek appearance. This fashion was soon
I followed by “exquisites” and some who were not
: “exquisites,” until finally, the wearers have be
i come a class distinct and to themselves, known as
1 the greatest scoundrels in the mercantile empori
| urn—the dread of honest people, and a trouble
I to the police.
From the London Athenceum.
To an Old Pen.
What ho! Come hither, my grey-goose quill!
_ W by dost thou on the giound lie low?
I'll have thee, shape thee, use thee stiilj
i hou shalt not die, and ’scape me so.
Come here, old friend; I’ll force thee trace
A dream of words, all soft and deep,
Such as throw morn on maiden’s face.
And carry joy into her sleep.
I’ll force thee sing of love, my dear,
< f gentle, tenderest, truest lo"e;
How gentlest gil ls are fairest here,
And angels afterwards above.
Perhaps I’ll bid thee chaun: of war,
On land, or on the howdingsea,—
Os wonders, born in regions far, —
Os courts, or crowned pageantry;
Or else—sweet music be our theme,
The music of the heart or ear;
Such as once taught my soul to dream
It dwelt upon a fairy sphere.
Dost thou remember—years a^o,
How thou and I through night did run
(Ah, none but thou and I shall know!)
Singing cf love, from sun to sun ?
Thus will we sing again. Old Time
Shall never cramp my heart again.
But let me loose, to laugh or rhyme, *
W ith tbee—-with thee, mine ancient pen.
A et, no; —grave thoughts must now be ours—
A graver, plainer, purer page ;
We’ll give to youth its world of flowers,
And feed upon the fruits of age.
Tub Packets auk coming.—The New York
Morning Chronicle of Saturday says;—We quote
a fleet of packet sh.ps arrived yesterday, all with
large cargoes of dry goods, viz;—Toronto, Gris
wold, from London, t eh. Ist; Europe, Marshall,
from Cork, Feb. 2d; Cambridge, Dursley. from
Cork, Feb. 2d; New York, Barstow, from Cork,
Feb. 2d; Sully .Thompson, from Havre, Feb. Ist’
Consignees per South Carolina Kail Road.
Hamburg, March 26, IS4O.
T Dawson; Gould & Bulk’cy; J W Cunningham;
B Piquet; W E Jackson; Bently Sc McCord; J C
LePner; B & Monday; G R Jessup; J M Smith;
Russell & Hutchinson; Stovall,Simmons & Co ; Jef
fers & Boulware; Maher & Rhoney; Anderson &
Young; J F Benson.
COMMERCIAL.
Latent dates from Liverpool, Feb. 29
Latest dates from Havre.. Feb 25
Macon, Narch 24.
Cotton — VVe quote the prices of yesterday at 5}
to 7s, dull and a downward tendency in the mar
ket. During the week a choice lot of the Mougion
brand went off at Bs.
New York, March 21.
Coffee. The demand trom the trade continues
quite limited. With the exception of Brazil the
stocks are very light The sales have been Lain
confined to Brazil, of which 5 a 60')0 were
taken by the trade at 9$ a 11A cents, the latter price
for very prime.
Cotton —Since our last,the market has been quiet ‘
and though prices have remained with >ut mateiial
variation, the tendency has been in favour of pur
chasers ; the sa es comprise 800 bales Upland at 6$
a9; 200do. Florida, a ; 150 do. New Orleans
Tall); and 10.) do. Mobile 8 a lOf cents, forming
a total for the week of 2900 bales.
The arrivals have been—from
Mississippi 637 bales.
Mew Oilcans 2,777
JVlobi'e 1^440
Florida 3.170
South Cajo ina 2,263
North Catolina Isi
Total 10440
Flour —We have advices from England to Ist
March. Prices in London and Liverpool were firm,
with rather an upward tendency; several thousand
barrels of American Flour have been sold, to ar
rive, in bond, at 30s. 6d. a 31s. In Havre, 1300
bids. Rochester Flour sold at 38 francs.
These accounts have produced no visible effects
on this market, the high rate of freights precluding
sales for export. Since our last there has been an
increased demand for city' consumption, piincipally
for Southern description, though in some instances
at a reduction of \2i cents per bbl. Common brands
Western Canal may be quoted $5 50 a 5 62£, but
holders generally demand the latter rate.
Sales also of Georgetown in lots at $5,25; 300
bbls Howard street $5, 12£ ; 500 Philadelphia
$5; and 3 a 400 Richmond Country at $5 all
cash. Rye Flour is dull of sa eat $3,75 for North
River; and $3 a $3,25 for Southern. Os Corn meal,
160 hhds Brandywine have been taken for export at
$15,50, 4 mos; barrels are steady' at $3,50 at $3,-
62^
Molasses. —Since our last, the sales to the trade
have been more extensive, and embrace, in lots,
about 300 hhds Porto Rico at 30 a 31 cts. princi-
I ally at the former rate, a reduction of 1 cent per
gallon; 10 do Matanzas, 24; 120 do old crop Cuba
Muscovado, on terms not made public, and 200 bbls
New Orleans, 30 cts. all on the usual time. An
invoice of 30 hhds and GOO bbls New Orleans, just
received, was sold some time since, to arrive, at
sorn; thing under the present market rate.
Sugars. —The market is veiydull, the demand
for Muscovado from the trade being quite limited.
The sales embrace about 300 hhds. Porto Rico at
6£ a cents; 100 do New (>r!eans, 5; and 45 do St.
Croix, 8 aßs. Os new crop Havana, about 1000
boxes have been received, of which one half has
been disposed of in lots, at and with some
very common at 6 a 6J; and 50 do prime White at
II $ cts per lb ail on the usual time.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, March 24.
Cleared —Ships Ocmffgee, Leavitt, Liverpool;
Hanover, Sheldon, Mobile.
Arrived —Ship Hanover, Sheldon, Boston; brigs
Woodstock, Bragdon, Montego Bay; Jane, Sim
mons, Baltimore; Clitus, Antony, New York; schr
Freeman, Spears,Thomaston; steamboat Chatham,
Wray, Augusta; Weaver’s Box from Augusta.
Went to sea —Schrs Mary Reed, Gray, Boston;
E izai eth, Reynolds, New York; South Carolina,
Goodwin, Philadelphia.
Charleston, March 26.
At Quarantine —Brig Action, Hunt, Boston.
From this Port —Schr Only Laughter, Know’es,
New York; Sp steamer Almeadares, De Soto, Ha
vana.
Mr. Editor—Allow us to suggest A. J. MIL
LER, Esq., as a suitable person for the otfice of
Mayor. (mar 2-5) A Majority
Mr Editor, please announce the following
named gentlemen as candidates for election as
members of the city council fro n ward no I at the
approrching election in April next.
GAREY PARISH. IVM. E. JACKSON
mar IS PHILIP CRUMP.
Mr Editor —You wi l please announce Dr. F.
M ROBERTSON , JAMES B. BIStiOP and F.
11. COOKE, as candidates for members of Council,
at the approaching election, in Ward No. 3. m 23
Mr Editor —PETEß BENNOCH, Esq , is re
commended as a suitable person for Mayor, fur the
ensuing year, and the following named gentlemen
for Aldermen of Ward No 4: JAMES HARPER ,
EDWARD THOMAS and ROBERT PHILIP,
who will be supported by
mar 21 _ ALL UP TOWN.
(Uj* VVe are authorised to announce JAMES B.
BISHOP , THOMAS RICHARDS, and Dr. F. M.
ROBERTSON , as candidates for Members of Coun
cil in Ward No. 3. mar 21
Mr. Editors—The following named gentlemen
arc recommended as persons for members
of Council, for the Upper Ward:-
JAMES HARPER, C. B. HITT.
They will be supported by Many Voters,
mar 20
Messrs. Editors—The following gentlerm n will
be supported for members of Council, in Ward \o.
2, at the approaching election: B. 11. WARREN,
JOHNG. DUNLAP, GEORGE M. NEWTON.
mar 20
Messrs. Editors : —The following gentlemen
will be supported for Members of Council in W : ard
No. 1, at the approaching election;
G. F. PARISH, W. E. JACKSON,
mar IS
Messrs Editors—Seeing from your paper
of yesterday', that the Hon. A. Cummino declines
a re clcetian fur Mayor of tiie city', at the approach
ing election, we. therefore, take the liberty of sug
gesting the name of JOHN PHINIZY , Esq., as a
person well calculated to fill the olhce,and he will
be supported by (mar 13) Many Voters.
Messrs. Editors: —Observing in your papertho
names of several gentlemen suggested as candi
dates for Mayor at the approaching election, we
take the liberty of proposing the name of Dr
DANIEL HOOK, as one well qualified to fill that
office and who will be supported by
March 18 ts Many Voters.
Mr. Editor ;—Sir, I see a notice in y r our paper
of the 12th instant, stating that our worthy Mayor
declines being a candidate for ic-election to tho of
fice he has so wort'Ty filled, and as it is time the
citizens should fix on a suitable person, to repre
sent them as Mayor for the next year Allow me
to recommend the name of MARTINM. DYE, as
a suitable person, and who will serve if elected.
Many Voters.
THE FARMERS' REGISTER, a monthly
publication, devoted to the improvement of the
practice, and support of the interest, of Agricul
ure; published at Uichraond, Va , at $5 per year.
Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. m 6
r'j - Doctor J. J. IVILSON oilers his profes
sional services* to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the
first brick building above Guedron's -table ou Ellis
street,recently occupied Iy John L. A.;
aug IT tC
NOTICE. —Dr. Mdnroe. Suf^cn
Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has removed
his operating rooms to cne door tclow Martin i- a d
erick’s Confectionary', and opposite the Br dge
Bank Building. * 19
