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j r CHRONICLE AND SIfNTINEL. " ■■ ■ 1 ■ 1 ■ * ■' i- w ■■■ - AUGUSTA. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 28. lion. 111. A. Cooper. We have received the circular of this gentle man to his constituents, which ih a defence of his course in Congress, and particularly his vote for Blair and Rives as Printers; to the House. We will lay it before our readers>, The following letter from Mr. Gill, we copy from the Philadelphia North American. It was upon the reported sayings of this - man, that the Globe and all the administration p ; ess asserted, a roost outrageous fraud had been discovered in Mr. Naylor’s election. Mr. Gilt, a;s appears from his letter, has presented himself tc|Mr. Ingersoll, and offered -to be examined, but th- y declined re ceiving his testimony. We know nothing of Mr. Gill’s character, and of course cannot endorse hk statements; but if the administration party regarded him as worthy of -rredit when they be lieved he would testify in their fijvor. they cer tainly will not interpose an objection to his testi mony now that it dv.es not sustain their alledged fraud. To the Public. \ The subscriber having observed, iduring his ab sence from the city on important business, the .publication of a statement purporting to be the evidence of one Hugh W. McGjnuity, in the matter now under investigation, relating to the Congressional returns of the Third District, takes the earliest opportunity his business and circum stances would allow, to disabuse the public in re gard to the libellous falsehoods, under which it was attempted to prostrate him and his charac ter. To those who know Mr. McGinnily. it would be injustice to myself to offer one word in my own vindication, f-om any thing that may be charged u ion me from such a source—hut to the public at large, he is not so well known. To these I beg leave to say, that I am ready to prove that ray absence from the city was in pursuance of engagements by which I had bound myself to others, who had constituted me their agent, with funds to make certain investments in property, for their benefit. These gentlemen were in no way connected with politics of the Thins District, nor knew, nor cared for either party, oh either candi date. I As soon as I had so far made my Arrangements in my business, as to allow me to return to the city, in obedience to the subpoena Ipnd received from Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, I rearmed to the city, at a great inconvenience to myself, and at an expense that I am illy able to bear—and on Saturday, the first day of t’oe sitting of the Ex aminer after my return, (which wta on Thurs day) I repaired to place of holding jhe investiga tion. and reported myself verbally to‘the Examin er. I was not called upon as a witness. I then reported myself in writing, to which I recer "id no reply. I then went personally tc| Mr. I -harles Ingersoll, the attorney for C. J. Ingcirsoll, and in formed him of the inconvenience ol jny detention when I received from him the reply [that if 1 was Mr. Gill, he did not want mo—l ijught go. I then went to Mr. p. J. Ingersoll, > ho told me that he had nothing to sav about it. I then left the place feeling ray si ,f discharged from the obligations of the subpoena. J have now only to add, what woi Id have been my testimony, had Mr. Ingersoll sei a lit to exam ine me. During the day of the Election in >ctoiler 1838, when the contest was between Mr Naylor and Mr. Ingersoll, I was not within the precincts of the Third Disliict, nor did I see M . Bela Bad ger or any of the gentlemen named >y McGinrl ty. I was Clerk of the election at V alnut Ward in the city, and there engaged from 3 o’clock the morning of the day of election, unti 1 o’clock in the morning, and « onsequcntly cm id not have seen any thing of what is said to ha e transpired. The falsehood which would be used io affect the respectable gentlemen alluded to is t icrefore nail ed to the source where it will find ai : ancient and numerous family of its kindred. W ith regard to the base attack which is ap pended io their testimony in relation to me, I have but to say, it was as cruel and cov ardly in my absence, as was the attack fro n the tame source, under the same circumstances upo i my unpro tected wife and family, and that tin ono, as well as the other, will lie made the su'j cl of judicial investigation, with an unswerving t to.bring to nuni-hment, if the laws of my coun try will award it, the unprovoked ai*i ruthless as sassin of a defenceless family, and a honest repu tation. Jon x U. Gill. New Jersey JElectiof.. We copy from the correspondence of the Balti more Patriot, the following skecth o the proceed ings of the House cm this subject. Our readers will recollect that we expressed the < pinion, some days since, that the minority of th committee, would have been justified in impugning he mo tives of the majority, the recent disc osure by Mr. Botts, fully justifie s such a eonclgsi n. The business of the morning ho r was next taken up, the queston being on tli | motion to pr nt all the testimony in the case if the New Jersey Contested Electinnl Mr. Botts, of Va. then took the floor, and con tinuing his remarks so vigorusiy con nanced yes terday, proceeded to expose in a v;y effective manner, the extraordinary and unjus ’course pur sued by the majority of the Commit tie on Elec tions Most ut Mr. id’s remarks, > day, were in relation to the mass of testimony rejected by the majority, and in the course of t ,cm has eli cited one tact, strikingly illustrative if the deter mined and reckless disposition of th committee and the majority of toe House to si ppress, any thing approaching the facts, regard; ;1 g this caae of Contested Election. Mr. Bolts, while commenting on be .meiisc moss oftestimony submitted to th j committee, which was never examined or read, i Several pack ages of which he had on his desk.) t lid that, hav ing observed it stated in the journal jkept by the clerk of the committee that ai! the u|;timony sub mitted was read before the committi he bad ad dressed a letter to the clerk, requ. ting him to state whether, in that expression, h -meant to af firm that all the testimony submitle was actual ly read, or whether it was only an informal ex pression merely inserted to makt the journal more perfect in style. To this inqi ay, the clerk had replied that, not knowing whti fur he should answer a question put by an indivi ’jual member of the committee, he had submitted a statement on the sulijcct to the chairman of l! -j committee, to be read to the committee. This morning just as the House r ;t, and while the Committee was sitting, Mr. Bot h said he Rad called upon the Chairman for the fading of the statement sent him by the Clerk. |;The Chair man submitted the statement, whir !i the majori ty of the Committee refused to ha e read. He now called upon the Chairman for be statement jn question, which he wished to hi£e read to the House. •] Mr. Campbell of S C. (the Cha hnan of the Committee) here rose and acknow ; ilged having received the Clerk’s statement, whl h was in the Committee room. The majority o toe Commit ; tec had objected to having it read, because it in volved a question of correcting the journal, which was ill-timed. The journal of the Committee was read every morning in the House, a'ld every member had an opportunity of correcting it.— Thev objected to Mr. Botta’ proposition, because it was made so long after the expression in the journal, charged as incorrect was written. Mr. Botts again calling for the reading of the i statement, Mr. Weller,of Ohio, rose and objected. Mr. Botts then said he would follow the exam ple of Mr. Weller’s illustrious colleague (Duncan) and have it printed in his speech. He would state, too, for the information of the House, and as a proof ol the unjust course pursued by the Committee, that the Clerk in his statement, expli citly states, that of all that mass of testimony, (upwards of a hundred depositions, Mr. B. said) he had read but one single deposition before the Committee ! Mr. Reed, of Mass, here asked Mr. Botts, if any member of the Committee had read them, to which Mr. B, replied in the negative. This is only one of the many striking illustra tions of the ruthless attempts to suppress facts and to violate justice marking the course of the Com mittee, which Mr. Botts brought forward in his speech, which was again arrested as on yesterday, before being finished, by the expiration of the morning hour. Correspondence of the Philadelphia North American. New York, March 23, 3 p.m. lam sorry to sav we have little to tell you to day. I have just bee. on board the British Queen, j and find the alterations which have been made in exceedingly important. They have built two rows of state rooms on the quarterdeck, ma. king a sort of poop cabin after the new fashion of 'he American packet ships. The ship can now accommodate a hundred and fifty passengess, and make them exceedingly comfortable. Passen gers in the forward cabin pay SIOO each without liquors. They are just as well accommodated as in the after cabin, except the genteel privilege of paying the highest price. The Englishmen have now got some idea of nea'ness and comfort, and found out that a parcel of swaggering midship men to play man-of-war aboard a packet ship,are of no manner of use. Cotton is very quiet to-day and so is flour. In -1 deed quiet is the predominant features in our af fairs. Tiie sales were large in stocks at the Board to-day, generally at the price of Saturday. ’ Manhattan sold at 81. -j Domestic Exchaxof.s.—Philad. 5} a Bal. ( 4£ a5; Richmond, 5| a6; Charleston, a4; 1 Savannah, 5a Augusta, 7£; Macon 9; Mobile 4J a5; New Orleans, a5. t Pennsylvania Bank Bill. The Pennsylvania Telegraph of Saturday has j a Postscript to the following purport: i Resumption*. —We understand that the Com- 1 mittee of Conference of the two Houses came to * an agreement last evening, and will report this , morning. The time agreed upon for resumption i of specie payments by the Banks is the first o* October next. If the report of the committee be i j adopted, the suspension will thus be legalized. | i Correspondence of the United States Gazette. | New York, .Sunday, p. m. The ship Navigator is just in from Canton having left Tungkoo on the Ist December, thus 22 days later than our last accounts. Matters ; were still much in die same situation. The trade 1 open to American vessels, but hourly expected to ; be stopped. On the night of the 12th and 13th November the Chinese opened their batteries on the ship- j 1 ping at Hong Kong, and kept up their fire with- i ' out intermission until 3 o’clock in the morning, I the shipping being all the while becalmed. They | 1 received, however, no injury whatevar. On ! Thursday the wind sprang up, the greatest part set sail lor Tongkoo bay, and the whole followed on the next. From the New Orleans Picayune , 18 th inst. From Texas. The steam packet Neptune , Capt. Pennoyer arrived yesterday from Galveston. Our dates are from Houston to the 1 Ith and from Galveston the 12th inst. The papers con tain nothing, new. and we have not heard from I other sources any thing important. Business was brisk in Houston and Galveston ; i but the scarcity of money acted as a check to ! trade. There is nothing further in relation to the Mex- ■ ican invasion. The following is from the Austin Sentinel, but not nf very recent date:— Out retrenchment < on gross has tied up the hands of the President in such a manner that he can effect but little for the benefit of the country, without leaping over the barriers which they have placed in the way of the prosperity of the coun try. The Mexicans will, in all probability, concen trate inconsiderable force upon the Rio Grande; and, if we have no force to prevent it, we may 1 expect a predatory war to he carried on against our western frontier. But we have no fear of an invasion. — i Flour Trade.— 7t is stated in the Philadel- ! phia Commercial List of Saturday that, during the last four weeks, about seventy thousand bar- 1 rels of flour have been sold in that market for coastwise and foreign shipment. ' The Baltimore Patriot of Monday, says: As 1 a larger quantity of flour has been received at Baltimore, from the interior, during the same 1 period, and as there have been little or no accu- ‘ inulations of the article, it is probable that nearly ! as much flour has sought a market from this port, during the month past, as hat above stated. “First Chop.”—We have often heard this 1 word made use of in this country— i n short, it is ' a species of mercantile phrase, vet it applies to any 1 thing specially fine—but we could never get hold ’ ot its derivation. We presume now that it is of Chinese origin. A ‘chop in Chinese, ou the authority of a gentleman recently from that quarter, ! means almost any thing;sometimes a proclamation or a handbill, or a letter or a law; and chop-chop means very fine, or very strong, or first rate There are various ways in expressing pre eminence, in various religions. In our South, if a man attains distinction, it is said of him that he is a huckleberry above his neighbors’ per simmon; in the North, if he gets fame, he is written down as stuck up.’ It would lie enter taining, and not uninstructive, to touch the roots of these idiomatic odd-sayings— Phil. Gaz. A strange News-carrier.— A friend, lately amved from sea, has furnished us with the fol lowing interesting information, copied from a slopping report at St. Helena • -Th' brig Mention, belonging to Nsntz, when off Cape Good Hope, caught Albatross, bavin- 1 a ribbon around its neck, with a quill, scaled at both ends, containing a slip of paper with the following words, viz: • Ship Leonidas of Salem, bound to New Zealand, 74 day* out, latitude 4u South,longitude 26 East.’’ The Leonidas, Eagieston, master, sailed from this port on the 9th of August last, and this is the first intelligence from her. —Salem Register. I Mr. Tan Barents opinion and Tote on free Negro Suffrage. On the 12lh of September, 1821, the commit tee on the right of suffrage, reported the follow ing amendment to the Constitution. See De bates of the Convention, 134. “ Every white male citizen of the age of 21 years who shall have res : ded in the state 6 months ( next preceeding any election, &c., shall be enti tled to vote,” &c. On the 19th September, (see page 186,) the above amencment being under consideration, which had been supported and opposed by vari ous gentlemen; Mr. Clarke said: “lam unwil ling to retain the word white, because its reten tion is repugnant to all the principles and notions of liberty to which we have heretofore professed to adhere, and to our Declaration of Indepen dence; which is a concise and just expose of those principles. In that sacred instrument wo have recorded the incontrovertible truths:— 4 We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that a | mong them are life, liberty and the pursuit of ! happiness.’ “ The people of color are—capable of giving ♦heir consent; and ever since the formation of your government, they have constituted a portion of the people—from whence your legislators have derived their just powers; by retaining that word, you deprive a large and reputable number of the people of this State, of privileges and rights which they enjoyed in common with us, and to which (hey are justly entitled, ever since the existence of our government.” Same day see page ICO. Mr. Jay moved that the word white be strick en out. Mr. Kent supported the motion of Mr. Jay. “ He was disposed, however to annex such quali fications and conditions as should prevent them from coming into bodies from other States to vote at elections.” Mr. Kent proceeded tosupport the motion to strike out, on the ground that it would be a violation of the Constirution of the United Slates to prohibit them from voting.” On the 20th September, see page 199. Col. Young said, the minds of the blacks are not competent to vote. They are too much de graded to estimate the value; or exercise with fidelity and discretion, that important right. It would be unsafe in their hands. Their vole would he at the call of the richest purchaser. If this class of people should hereafter arrive at such a degree of intelligence and virtue as to inspiie confidence, then it will he proper to confer this privilege, upon them. At present, emancipate and protect them, hut withhold that privilege which they will inevitably abuse. Look to your jails and penitentiaries—by whom are they fil led 1 By the very race whom it is proposed to clothe with the power of deciding upon your po litical rights. *■ If there is (hat natural, inherent right to vote which some gentlemen have urged.it Ov.ght to lie further extended. In new Jersey, females were formerly allowed to vote; and on that prin ciple. you must admit negressea. as well as ne groes, to participate in the right of suffrage.-Mi nors, too, and aliens must no longer he excluded but the 4 era of good feeling’ be commenced in earnest.” Mr. Livingston said: “ Sir, we are standing upon the foundation of good society. The ele ments of government are scattered around us.— All rights are buried, and from the shoots that spring from their grave we are to weave a bower that shall overshadow and protect our liberties. Our proceedings will pass in review before the power that elected us, and it will be for the people to decide whether the blacks are elevated upon a ground that we cannot reach. Sir, we, all of us, enter the government, subject to the implied con dition, that our Constitution was liable to revis ion and alteration, and that blacks, in this partic ular, have vested rights, exempt from the power of abridgement or alteration, which the whites have not, I have yet to learn.” Mr. Jay (see page 201) concluding his speech said, in reply, 4 I have yet to notice the argument of Hie gentleman from Saratoga (Col. Y'oung.) —They were avowedly addresed, not to our rea son, but to our prejudices; and so forcibly have they been urged, that I feel persuaded that they had name influence on this occasion. Though repeated in various forms, they may he ail sum med up in this—that we are accustomed to look upon black men with contempt, that we will not cat with them, that we fcill not sit with them; that we will not serve with them ; and in the mil itia. or the juries, nor in any manner associate with them ; and thence it is concluded that they ought not to vote with us. How, sir can that argument be answered by reason, which does not profess to be founded on reason !—Why do we foel reluctant to associate with a black man? There is no reluctance in Europe, nor in any country in which slavery is unknown. It arises from an association ot ideas: Slavery and black skin always present themselves together to our minds. But with the diminution of slavery, the prejudice is already diminished; and when sla very shall be no longer among ps; it will per haps disappear. But sir, what sort of argument is this? I will not eat with you, nor associate with you. becauseyou are bl uk; therefore, I will disfranchise you. I despise not because you are vicious, but merely because I have an insuperaide prejudice against you ; therefore, I will condemn you and your innocent posterity to live forever as aliens in your native land. Mr. Chairman Ido trust that his Committee will not consent to vio late all those principles upon which our free insti tutions are founded, or to contradict all the pro fessions which we so profusely make, concerning the natural equality ot all men ; merely to grati fy odious and 1 hope temporary prejudices.—Nor will (hey endeavor to lemove a slight inconven ience, by so perilous a remedy as the establish ment of a large, a perpetual, a degraded and a discontented caste in the midst of our popula tion. I hese extracts will serve to shew the ground on which the question was argued and decided. Nothing from Mr. Van Buren, in reply to all this cant about equality between the whites and blacks. Did he recognize the equality I—judge people of Virginia, for yourselves. Immediately on the termination of these last remarks, (see page 202.) the question on striking out the word white, was taken by ayes and nays, and decided in the affirmative; Ayes, 63, Noes 59; a majority of only four, Mr. Van Buren vo ting in the affirmative. Gen. Root then observed (see same page) that he thought the Report of the Committee was in some respects objectionable. There was danger of extending the Right of suffrage too far. It was now extended to negroes, or in the polite language of the day, to colored people. It was in his opinion, inexpedient to admit strolling vo ters. With a view to prevent it, and compel those who contribute to the support of the Gov ernment in which they claim to participate, and whose protection they receive, he would’now move to st rike out all that part of the first section of the report, which follows the word ‘years’and to insert in lieu thereof an amendment, the prin ciple of which he had previously suggested. The amendment was then read. A proviso was subsequently offered by the Committee, see page 329. limiting the free negro suffrage to those who had a freehold estate worth $250, obviously for the purpose of preventing the strolling colored gentlemen from coming over from other states and voting, such as our runa way slaves from Virginia. The subject being again under consideration, see page 364. Mr. Birdseye moved to amend the first line of the section, which read, every male citizen of the age of 21 years, by inserting after the word ‘every’ the word ‘free,’ which was lost. Mr. Briggs then moved to amend in same place by inserting the word ‘while,’ which had been be fore struck out. Chancellor Kent opposed the motion. It was true, he said, that the blacks were in some measure a degraded portion of the com munity, but he was unwilling to see them dis franchised. and the door eternally barred against them. Then comes Mr. Van Buren, and what says hel Hear him: Mr. Van Buren said ‘he was in favor of the plan proposed by the select com mittee, and opposed to the amendments,” which was to reinsert the word “white.” See same page 364. Mr. Van Buren again; see page 368; in conclu ding some remarks, said : “He thought the com mittee censtituted as they were, had done them selves great credit hy their concession to those from whom they differed, and he, for one return ed them sincere thanks. Under all circumstan ces, he would be well satisfied with the right of suffrage, as it will soon be establi.-hed, and would give it his zealous support as well in his capacity of delegate as that of citizen.” Again, see page 376; Mr. Van Buren said : “He had voted against a total and unqualified exclusion (of the blacks,) for he would not draw a revenue from them, and yet deny them the right of suffrage. But this proviso met his ap probation. The right was not denied to exclude any portion of the community who will not ex ercise the right of suffrage in its purity.—This held oat inducements to industry, and would se cure his support/’ We, the undersigned, have compared the fore going extracts with the published proceedings of the debates of the New York Convention, and find them truly and accurately copied. Wm. K. Johnson, Hobt. Campbell, John* M. Botts, J. W. Pegram, J, Pack, H. Rhodes, Bknj. H. Smith, Das’l F. Slaughteb, * Jos. Mato, R. Kidder Meade, Allen Wilson, Dax’l A. Wilson. The School Master Abroad. The Baltimore Clipper tells a good story, of which the following is the substance. A board of “(School Commissioners,” encumbered a conse quential little village in Maryland, being in want of a teacher, advertised in the newspapers for “a well disposed moral mm, who was capable of teaching the dead languages, and did not chew tobacco or drink whiskey.” A her a fortnight of this advertising had been elaborated, a rawiioned Yankee made his appearance, with a knife a.;d pine stick in one hand, and a Cape Cod .Protec tion, alias a cake of gingerbread, in the other, and held the following dialogue with the Com mittee aforesaid: “Well, sir,” said the chairman, eyeing the can didate from head to foot, “do you possess the ne cessary requirements for a public school teacher?” “I guess I do,” answered Slick, wh.tiling his slick. * i 4 Do you understand Latin?” as ved one of the i Committee men, a Dutch farmer. ‘ I guess I do.” replied Slick again, rounding the end of the <=t>ck with his knife. “Well, let's hear some of your Latin,” said the Chairman. “Quimbo hie squashicum, et punkinitum lim gum.” said Slick, drawing his coat sleeve slowly under his nose. “Humph!'’ exclaimed the Dutchman, “ish dat Latin? Wbo’s te author?” “Josephus,” replied Slick; “he savs in his life of Governor Hancock, “Sic transit gloria Monday morning—ilancockibus quad erat demonslra dum.” ‘•Dat’s gout!” exclaimed the Dutchman, rub i hing his hands, “tcre never vas better Latins!” “Now, sir” said the chairman, 44 ! suppose you understand geography?” “I guess I do,” said Slick, sharpening the end of bis stick. “How far have you been?” “As far as the District of Columby.” “What State is it in?” “A state of desperation.” “What latitude arc we in?” “According to the themometer, we're ten de grees below zero.” “Which is the most western point of North America.” “Cape Cod.” “Good. Now, sir, let us know how far you studied mathematics. What’s the area of a square acre of land?” “That depends upon the quality,” replied Slick, snapping the blade of his knife. “Well, suppose it to he good corn land?” “Why, it depends upon the number of hills.” “Say—five hundred.” “Guess you might as well tell a fellow how many grains to (he hill?” “Five.” “Then, accordin’ to Euclid, it would be 742 feet horizontally perpendicular.’’ “Excellent! Pray, sic, where are you from?” “Staunton, down in the Bay State—and I can do ’most anything.” “No doubt, but there is one thing you cannot do; you cannot humbug us. You can go.” Finn the Comedian.— As usual when a con spicuous personage dies, the corps editorial are on the qui vive tor the forgotten adventures and anecdotes of his life. The following is related of Finn the comedian by the New York Allas. Finn was once, a longtime ago, a witness for the prosecutmn in a case before the Common : Picas in Boston, and his testimony was so direct ; and c inclusive that the counsel for the defence thought it necessary to discredit him. The fol lowing dialogue ensued. “Mr. Finn, you live ia street; do you not?” “Yes, I do.” “You have lived there a great while?” “Several years.” “Does not a female live there under your pro tection?” “There does.” “Does she bear your name?” “She is certainly known in the neighborhood by the name of Mrs Finn.” “Is she your wife?” “No we were neve 4 - legally married.” “That will do, sir; I have no more to ask,” “But I have something more to answer, sir,” replied Finn with spirit. “The Mrs. Fin i of whom you have been pleased to speak with such levity is my mother, and I have known hut one man base enough to breathe aught against her.— Y~ou. sir, can guess who he is. True, she is un der my protection. She protected me through rny infancy and childhood, and it is but paying a small partot the debt I owe her, to do as much for her in her old age.” Insurance in Prussia. —A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette remarks, that the Prussian Monarchy is perhaps the best regulated govern ment in the world. In proof, the writer says: “ Every attention which a wise and provident government can bestow, is paid to the welfare of the people. This is evinced, in a remarkable de gree, by the fact, that it a farmer’s house he burnt the government restores if So the same condition it was in previously to the burning ; a fund being provi led for that purpose, by a small premium exacted in the shape of tax, on each house, and this tax, I lough very small, is sufficient to cover the amount of losses.” ViSißtts of i A commission was appointed a short time ago by the Legisla ture of Ohio to examine into the condition of the Lunatic Asylum of that Slate. The madmen are confined in separate cells; and* the occupant of cell No. 10 is thus described by the commis sion ; ‘-Here was a rare genius that had seen hard times in the county jal, where his feet were so badly frozen that he could neither walk nor stand. He made his appearance at the asylum in a yellow flannel-shirt and greys, droop roram and bear-shin roundabout; dirty as n beast, and odd as a buffoon—took command of two antiqua ted females in the lodge, with whom he occasion ally receives his food. These he faced about to the right and left, with great humor and authori ty, informing them with a flourish in the air, that he was intimate with the king of darkness, whom he familiarly addressed as Uncle Zed. and with whom he appeared to have much business, and many earnest conversations. He seized his food with the rapacity of a wolf, and lore it to pieces with his teeth : denominating himself a ‘-wild varmint,” and demanding to be fed on “sassafrac and spice-wood.” To fill out the character, he was a thief by profession and inclination; and when no other opportunity occurred to gratify his propensity, he not only stole the food and clo thing which were designed for him hut he loved to hook out of one pocket for the sake of slipping it Into the other. We treated him kindly, bound up his feet, regulated his diet, and allowed him restoratives and the proper medicine. He be came a favorite, dropped his wild notions and evil propensities, by degrees, was taken into the house and soon began to recover quite rapidly, though it was some time before he entirely got free < f delusion; and what was not a little remarkable, he suddenly cut acquaintance with his satanic majesty, and desiring to become an archangel, was an office-holder who calculated a great way ahead; for he expected the honor of “bl'iwing she resurrect mu trumpet .” He entirely recovered, and went on bis way rejoicing. Green Room Scenes. A handsome apartment, surrounded by otto mans, embellished with splendid mirrors, and lighted up by a magnificent lustre, appropriated | for the reception of the performers. Seated on their luxurious couches may lie seen the laugh ing hoyden in crave debate with the sceptred monarch, and the jolly tar doling out his persoal griefs into the ear of a singing match-girl; and all done with a gravity and ceremony little to he expected in such a place, filled with such compa ny. In fact, nothing can be more striking than to hear a lady who has just been figuring on the stage as a coquette, or a romp, explaining to some friend tfie distress she is laboring under, in consequence of the serious illness of her mother, or aunt. Or to see a gentleman, fresh from the boards, upon which he has been amusing the au dience, as Caleb Quotem or Jeremy Diddler, with tears in his eyes and a low comedy wig on his head, giving an account of the melancholy state I of his wile and three children, all dying of scar | letina. But such is too often the case—-too often i while the player is tortured with physical paiu.or ; sinking under moral distress, lie is obliged in his 1 vocation, to wear the face of mirth, and distort ! his features into the extremes of grimace. The I acties; writhing under the pangs of ingratitude j in man, or insult from woman, is similarly driven to strain her lungs to charm the ear of an audi ence, or exhibit her graceful figure to the great est advantage in the animated dance, for the amusement of the half-price company of a one shilling gallery, while her heart is bursting with sorrow ; add to all these inevitable ills, the con stant labor of practice, and rehearsal, the caprice of*the public, the tyranny of managers, the rarily of excellence, the misery of defeat, and the un certainty of health and capability, and then one might ask wha* person would be an actor who could be any thing else 1 Jon x Hunter. —This ingenious man had so much diligence, that he often told his friends that for f>rty years, summer and winter, the sun never found him in bed. “I never have any difficulties,” said he “a thing cither can be or it cannot. If it can l>e done. I may do it as well as another, if I take equal pains. If it cannot be done, I will not attempt to do it. Mr. Hunter made the completest collection in comparative anatomy, that ever was assembled together. Ay Irishman’s Notion of Discount,— lt chanced one gloomy day. in the month of Decem ber, that a good humored Irishman applied to a broker to discount a bill of exchange for him at rather a long, though not an unusual date, anJ the broker having remarked that the bill bad a great many days to run, “That’s true,” replied the Irishman, “but then, rny honey, you don’t consider how short the days are at this time of the year.” Sweet Music. —Mr Candy and Master and Miss Candy are giving Concerts at Louisville, and Mrs. Honey is the reigning star at the Cin cinnati theare.— N. Y. Star. COMMERCIAL. Lai esi dates from Liverpool, Feb. 29 Latest dates from Havre Feb. *25 AUGUSTA MARKET. Cotton —Since our report on Thursday morning, the market has been very quiet, and but very few lots have changed hands. Holders of large lots have entirely withdrawn, and the transactions ave been exclusively confined to small parcels at a decline of cent on the better descriptions.— We now quote 5 to 8 as extremes of the market. Ordinary to middling, io 6^ Fair, to 7 Good Fair, to 7^ Prime and choice, 7_f to 8 Freights —To Savannah, 7-5 to .100 cts per bale; to Charleston, by rail road, 35c per 100 lbs. for square, and 45c per 100 lbs. for round bales. Groceries. —During the week, the transactions have been very limited, produced in * great degree by the unpleasant stale of the weather, which ren dered all out-door business very' disagreeab’e. The market is, however, well supplied wi.h all de scriptions at our quotations. Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 8 a 8$ per cent, lor current funds; Charleston at cent; Savannah 1 a 2 per ct.; Philadelphia 2 a 3 per et.; Lexington, Ky. per ct.; Richmond 4 per , cent; specie commands 6 per cent, premium. Bank Notes. — Savannah Banks, 1 a percent, prem. Columbus Insurance B’k 2 “ “ “ Commercial Bank, Macon, 2 “ « « Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 <* *< Agency Brunswick, “ 6 “ « « Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Columbus, 2 “ “ dis. Milledgevi’le Bank, 2£ a 3 “ “ “ Ocmulgee Bank, 3 “ “ Monroe Rail Road Bank, 4 “ “ Hawkinsviße Bank, 3 “ “ Chattahoochie R. R. &. B’k Company, 10 “ “ *♦ Darien Bank, 15 “ « »« Bank of Rome, 25 « « ** A ! 1 other Banks now doing business, at par. Specie Paying Banks. — Vlechanics’ Bank, Bank of St. Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com merciaUßank of Macon, and Brunswick Agency in this city. J New OhtnAHs, March is Cof/on—Arrived since the 13th instant ofLoui sima and Mississippi 16059 bales, Tennessee ami North Alabama 6.379, Arkansas, 97, Mobile 69.3 Florida 546, Texas 43; together 24012 b iles-J Cleared inthesame time; for Liverpool 6336 bale-; Havre 3056, Bordeaux 423, Marseilles loop Bl *’ men 163, Barcelona 350,Genoa 999, New York Boston 1006, Philadelphia 12; together 13911 bale’ —making an addition to stock of iului hales an ' leaving on hand, inclusive of all on shipboard not cleared on the 17th instant,a stock of 141820 ba es The activity which we noticed in our review 0 f last Saturday morning, as prevailing in the Cotton market on the evening previous, has since continu ed without any very sensible abatement Th-> i> siness of Saturday amounted to about 6000 bales* at rates corresponding to our quotations of that morning. On Monday the sales were Howard* J 6500 ba ‘«, and ‘hough holders, in some Ltance/ were forced to make slight concessions in favor of the buyer, previous rates were, on the whole fair ly sustained. Yesterday sales were made to ? extent of 6000 bales without any change in price! worthy of notice; and we therefore continue oil former quotations. A considerable portion of the Cotton purchased recently, is being stor-d until circumstances will admit of its transportation to other markets at more favorable rates of height the scarcity of vessels at present caused them to be remarkably high. The sales during the three days amount to 17,500 bales. By toe arrival of the ship James H. Shepherd at this port, on Saturday evening last, advices were leceived fiom Liverpool to the 15th January; by which we learn that prices of American cottons in that market bad declined since our accounts of the bln fiom 4 to gd. 1 his intelligence, judging from tne course of our market, since its receipt, has ex erted no control over cither buyers or sol ers. fur ther, perhaps, than to make the latter a little’more anxious to realize. LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS. Louisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary, 5 a 51. Midd ing, a 6.' ; Fair, 7$ a8; Good fair, a !)4 ’. Goo and line, 19 a—. Tennessee and N. Ahbr. '. ma —Ordinary, middling, fair, good fair, good and fine, 5 a extremes. STATEMENT OF COTTON, 1539. Oct. 1, stock on hand, 15S :, 4 Receipts last three days 24012 “ previously, 631533 655365 6713^9 Exports last three days, 13911 do. previously. 51265 S 526569 Stock on hand 141820 Sugar — Louisiana —The receipts of the past three days have been considerable, and the di ncul ty ol making shipments have caused a rather large stock to accumulate. The market, during >atur day and Monday, was very quiet, but a rather bet ter demand existed yesterday, at the time of mak ing oar enquiries. The transactions are principa lv in good fail sugars at 4 a cent*. We still quote the range of the market at 3 a cents, remarking that, occasionally, lots of inferior are sold at less than our lowest figure, while some small parcels of very choice commanded 4| coins. We are advised of a sale of 190 hhds on plantation at 4 cents, wuich seems to be the ruling rale. Hivana Sugars continue extremely dull; indeed there is no lemand except for vmy limited parcels of white, and we reduce our quotations for all de scription!;. Molasses —The market is well supplied with barrels, and the article meets with a tolerably ready demand the Levee at 20 a 21 cents per gallon, j Some lots in inferior barrels, have been <1 is posed of ! at 19 cents, hut most of the sales have been at 20 cents. Sales on plantation continue to be made at 1 the former price, say 15 a 16 cents per gallon. Flour —At the closing of ourrepoitof Saturday | last the market was very dull, transactions being j confined to lirnite 1 parcels at $4 Since that | lime, notwithstandi. g that the ieceipts have a i mounted to only about 6000 barrels, no improve | ment has taken place, but rather an increased de | gree of dullness seems to be manifest, as there is no demand for lots of any considers!) e magnitude, i though they could readily be vought yesterday at sl. At tiiis price there would probably be an ac i live demand for export, were it not that the scarci j ty of vessels renders it impossible t > tliect ship ments. VV e quote at $4 a §4 for superfine, remarking that the latter figures can be obtained | only for very limited parcels. Baron —i’he market has a very light stork of 1 ©stern Bacon, and. indeed, is nearly bare of Sides, j in casks. In consequence of this, most of the tran sactions, which are only on a moderate scale, are in city smoked; and our quotations, which are slightly advanced for sides, include the pre ent range of prices for both descriptions. Hams 9 a 10; Sides a8; Shou.ders, a 6 cents. Whiskey —The receipts have been very limited since our last, but the stocks previously on hand are more troely offered; and as there is only a lim ited demand, a slight decline hist taken place. We now quote Cincinnati Rectified at 26 a 27 cts per gal on. Exchange —There has not been much done in Sterling exchange, in consequence of its having become quite scarce, but the transactions show a slight advance. We quote at 10| a Ilf percent premium. Bills on Paris aie in great fa vor for re mittances to the .North in place of drafts at short sight. The general rate continues to be of I2j, though some small sums have been sold at of 10 j Exchange on tiie North at 3o to 60 days meets with ! ready demand at our quotations. Short s.giit bills, i however, are rather neglected in consequence of the high rates, which we quote at 4$ a 5 per cent j premium. i Philadelphia, March 21. i Cofee —The transactions tais ween reached about i 1590 bags, comprising or 6>o bags Rio, at 10 a j 12c, as In quality; and 7 a 800 bags Laguayra, at 11$ a 12c, 1 mos* Holders are now very firm ia their demands, with a light stock. Cotton —There has only been a moderate inqui ry this week, with sales of 300 bales at 81, a 104 c per lb for Upland, Alabama and New Orleans, in lots. The market closes i.rm. Sugar —The stocks are much reduced, and pri ces aie firm y maintained The week’s sales reach 309 hhds, including 170 hhds St Croix, at Si a cts for common to prime new crop; and New Or leans at 5j a abo it 1009 hags white Brazil at S}, with some in bbls at 9 cents per lb, all at 4 a 6 mos credit. Molasses —The sa’es include a cargo of 240 hhdi Havana at 23 cts, and one of the same description on terms not ascertained; some sour do at 18 cts per gal; about 30 bbls New Orleans at cts per gallon, all on time j Fli ur —The F.our market has not varied in price since our previous report, and the late foreign news has not had any apparent effect upon it — The sales for export have been to a considercbl* extent, at f>4 37. jon Broad street. $i >4 94 and $5 on the Delaware, closing firmly at $3 per bbls. Whiskey —ln hhds has been taken at 204 cents; and in bbls to a considerable extent at 23 cts per gallon. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, March 25. Cleared —Ships Aurelius, Cnwell, Liverpool Ann Mary Ann, Chick, do; Lotus. Looke. do; bngi Augusta, Crabtree, Jamaica; Per-ia, Chandler, Cu ba; Madison, Bulkier, New York. Arrived —Bark Gali eo, Lombard, New York; brigs Excel, Nicols, do; Ajax, Crabtree, Boston; Sea Island, Otis, do; schrs Casket, Ke.ly, do; Aid* om York, Philadelphia. Below —Brigs New Hanover, Philadelphia; Mo* rea, New York; and 2 schrs. Went to sea —Ship Hanover, Sheldon, Mobile? brig Madison, Bulkley, New York. Charleston, March 27. Arrived yesterday—? Schrs John AHyne, Hawes, Matanzas; Surveyor, Pa llin, Philadelphia; Maria, Ryder. Providence, R I. Cleared —Ship Fremont. Gray, Liverpool; schr Francis Canadav, Smith, Martinique . Went to sea yesterday —Line ship Niagara^™ itn, New York; brig Howell, Leslie, do; sebr Ldvrard, Kent, Boston. , an j At Quarantine —Brig Action, Hunt, Boston, line ship Lucas, Eldriage, do. _ TO THE LOVERS OF THE AR IS The Paintings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing ca. (Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to tors, every Saturday afternoon and even g, , • 2 o’clock until 9 o’clock T. M. At nigi will be well lighted.