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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA. I
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 8.
Stella is received, and will appear to-morrow.
Portrait of Gen. R. Y. Ilnyne.
We emitted to notice yesterday, tb jita gentle
man is now in this city, obtaining subscribers for
the Portrait of this distinguished Patriot and Son
of Carolina. He carries w'ith him tlje Original
Painting, from which the engraving Is to be ta
ken ; which we regard as a very excellent sketch
of that truly great man. Those of our citizens
who wish to preserve some memento of oi.c of
the purest men of the age, will do well to enroll
their names on the list.
Theatre. j
This evening, that deservedly favourite son of
Moraus and A polio takes his benefit.! We can
not presume to advance his claims, aij they must
ever be sufficient in themselves, to wjirrant a re
turn from any community, possessed ipf disonmi
nation and discernment, as our citizens proverbi
ally are. Mr. Latham offers a bill of entertain
ment, attractive and various, in vvbiijh he per
forms his celebrated character of NarfTieck, in
“ The Swiss Cottage,” sings “ Tea in the Ar
bor,” which created such a lively sensation at
Nib Id's in New York; and last, “though not
leant,” Mrs. Scgain, Mr. Horncastle elad Mr. Se
guin, contribute their powerful aid in Fra Diavolo
and the Marriage of Figaro.
New Jersey Election. |
The House of Representatives hjave finally
adopted the Resolution of Mr. Rice garland, to
print all the testimony in the possession of the
Committee in this case. The question may
therefore be considered as settled, for iitinie. The
final vote on the adoption of the resolution, was
147 yeas to 3 nays. |
The Fire in Louisville*
The Louisville Journal of the 28jt!| ult. gives
the following account of the destructive fire in
that city.
There was a most destructive fire in this city
on Thursday. It broke out about 12 o’clock on
Pearl (formerly 3d) street, in the chair manufac
tory of Mr. Jno, Haw-kins. From .his point it
spread with fearful rapidity in all directions, run
ning South to within one door of thti post office,
corner Pearl and Market streets; North to the
corner ofMain and Pearl, West dclvim Main to
within two houses of the Bank ojf f Louisville;
crossing Main and consuming on tjhp East side
of Main, between Wall and Pearl streets, 9 stores
and a boarding house occupied by (Jaßt. Bacon.
The total loss of houses and goods Is estimated
at §300,000. Most of tha insurances were by
the offices of this city, the greatest t|n«ount taken
by any one office being §41,000. |N;O doubt is
entertained that the losses will be promptly paid.
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The following just censure of the 1 course pur
sued by the present AdministrationJ is from the
Apalachicola by Cosir;|i E. Bartlet.
We have been informed that Judge Randall,
the talented and upright jurist, and jvho has for
some years past, occupied the Bencbiof the Mid
dle District of Florida, with great ejedic to the
Territory, and to the satisfaction of hie people of
that District, has been recently displaced, to make
room for a political partizan of the .present ad
ministration in Tennessee. i
This is one of the most degrading circumstan
ces connected with our present state of Territo
rial vassalage. Our interests, our Laws, and our
credit, are all bartered away in exchange for a
few votes in a doubtful sta ; e or district. The of
ficers, in whose hands are placed <‘»ur dearest
rights, and most important concerns, ;are selected
—not because they are known to be \kise and up
right— not because they possess, or lire entitled
to, the confidence of their fellow-cilizqns—but be
cause they may have been active qu|l unscrupu
lous in some electioneering campaign.
But we trust the day is not fur distant, when
people of Florida will have the selec|ion of their
own officers; and when wisdom fiiid integrity,
and attachment to the interests of {Florida, will
he considered as recommendations if ar high sta
tions ot honor and trust; when the emoluments
of office will no longer be regarded jas the spoils
of the victor—with which he may! : ’.ward his
unprincipled adherents,
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Pennsylvania Legislature.
The bill from the Senate, legalising the sus
pension of specie payments by the jianks of that
State, till the loth January, 1841, ajid requiring
them to loan to the Common wealth (in sums pro
portioned to tlveir capitals, if the | State should
want it,an aggregate not exceeding three mil
lions, at 5 per cent, passed third reading jin the
House, on the 31st ult., by a vote pf 46 to 41.
Its approval by the Governor was confidently ex
pected, . \
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\ ißoijfiA.—The term of servicij of the patri
otic and high-minded Governor Gariphell having
expired on Monday last, he that day retired from
the station he has occupied with so 5 much credit
to himself, and Thomas W. Gilmer, Esq. the
Governor elect, was duly installed «jg his succes
sor.
Norfolk, April 2— Shipwreck.—' The schr
Wilrnot, Joseph Marshall, master,, of and from
Boston, with an assorted cargo, bojmd to Savan
nah, was driven as lore on Lynhavisn Bay, about
2 miles from the Light House, liiji the blow oi- f
Monday night last. We learn that Capt. Mar
shall had put into this Bay to repair damages sus
tained by his vessal in the gale of the 26th ult.
Marine Blaster and loss of Llies. —The brig
G. B. Lamar. Risley, from Savannah, bound to
New York, has put into this port i|n distress, ha
ving been dismasted in the gale ;of the 25th—
was knocked down on her beam etuis, and in or
der to right her, cut the lashing oi| the deck load
of cotton, which fell over, and; Mr. Dudley,
mate, a native of New Haven, %vi|s unfortunate
ly precipitated overboard with the ijales, and lost;
two steerage passengers w'ere also missed, suppo
sed to have perished in the same w|iy ; one of the
hands was killed by the falling of the main rig
ging*
The Large Otster—The large oyster taken
by Xavier Francois, while •ystcring on Monday
last, was brought up from the wharf on a dray
last evening. An oyester measuring three feet
one inch in length and twenty three and a half
inches cross the widest part of iti. is a curios If y.
Mr. Ayres, the purchaser, will exhibit it at the
Alhamb-a this Jay at 11 o’clock, when it will be
opened and served up in his usual good style.—
Mabile Advertiser.
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From the Baltimore American.
Credit Abroad.
There has been a great deal said of late res
pecting American credit in Europe. It has suf
fered some depression certainly—a depression
however which will be but temporary, and which
has resulted more from accidental causes than
from any permanent ground of distrust. The
Paris correspondent of the National Intelligen
cer speaks thus in a recent letter:
“To establish the highest credit for the several
Stales nothing more, in my humble opinion, is
required than that they maintain social and con
stitutional order, and pay, punctually and fully,
the dividends on their bonds and stocks; and that
Paris and the continent, through the French and
German presses, he made acquainted with their
growth, condition, undertakings and prospects. —
It has happened to me, particularly, to learn and
note how little is known here, in any walk, of
the matters just mentioned. The social and po
-1 litical disorders that occur in the divisions of our
I Union, are alone presented and regarded, and
| have of course, a doubly mischievous effect. The
scheme of an assumption or guaranty by the
General Government of the State bonds and
stocks is, I judge beset with insuperable difficul
ties. Let the Slates be true to themselvft, and
it will be superfluous.”
The allusion here made to the ignorance wh ; ch
prevails in European countries in reference to the
United States, and to the proneness of foreign
writers to exaggerate every little disturbance or
disorder that may take place here, is worthy of
consideration. It is not be disguised that much
jealousy exists in monarchical countries on the
other side of the Atlantic, on account of the prev
alence and steady growth of republican principles
in Am rica. There are not wanting suspicious
watchers ever on the look out to descry symp
toms of anarchy in our system of government,
and to seize hold of every pretext to raise a tri
umphant cry at the hoped for dissolution of our
free institutions.
A disposition to disregard contracts is imputed
to the American people as one of the consequen
ces of a popular condition —an imputation utter
ly unfounded. Yet it is this very charge which
has been most industriously circulated in Eu
rope, and the one which has operated the most j
injuriously to our interests. Mr. Walsh enters ,
into some statistical statements to show that com
mercial faith in the United States is regarded as
sacredly as in any other country in the world—a
fact which nobody doubts at home, hut which
has been wantonly denied abroad. In compari
son wi’h this country, Mr. Walsh says—“ln
France, I arn sure, there is less, proportionably,
of commercial honor, punctuality and knowledge,
notwithstanding the greater severity of the laws.”
The number of bankruptcies declared to the Tri
bunal of Commerce in Paris, from (he Ist of
January, 1839, to the Ist of January, 1840, is
one thousand and thirteen, and the aggregate of
sums upwards of sixty millions of francs. These
arc total failures and do not comprehend private
arrangements, compositions, &c. Mr. Walsh
adds; •
“The experience of our custom-honses as to
frauds, of what kind soever, accomplished or at
tempted, may, I believe, be cited in favor of the
native traders. It is conceded in Europe by en
lightened and candid observers, that no other
commercial communities would have struggled so
hard, submitted to such sacrifices, and succeeded
in standing so firmly, as ours have done under
the crisis with which they have been visited since
183 G. Wherever I have been, in the three years
past, on this continent. I have had occasion to
remark the absence of all scruple or shame in
getting money by any mode other than direct
theft. On tr.e contrary, in the United States, fair
dealing in evey particular and sense, and respect
to truth and right, have seemed to me to prevail
in the main body of Americans engaged in traf
fic ; of the mechanics of every denomination,
the venders of whatever merchandise, the inn
keepers, the laborers for wages, including domes
tics. Although the correspondents at New Yo.k
and Philadelphia, of the London papers, com
monly relate as peculiar and wonderful Western
enormities in lynching and murder, be assured
that, in France and England, which place them
selves at the head of civilization and }>olice, mob
violence and barbarous homicide are greatly more
frequent than in our country. Ido not mean to
dwell now on the statistics of crime which I have
collated. I will merely say that the American
calender falls lar short of the European in both
heinousness and amount.
It is to be hoped that the close proximity into
which Europe and Amerca are now drawn by
means of steam navigation, the facilites of which
will go on increasing until they will come to be
regarded as close neighbours, will have the effect
of diffusing more accurate knowledge of our
country, its character and resources, than has yet
prevailed in the old world. The consequence,
we may reasonably beleive, will be to correct the
numerous errors and prejudices which abound,
no doubt, mutually in both continents, but which
are particularly inveterate in the minds of Eu
ropeans on account of their ignorance respecting
this country. Capitalists abroad will find that
here is the great region for profitable investments ;
and that a sacred regard for contracts must ever
remain a characteristic of the country in its deal
ings with people abroad, from considerations of
interest even if no higher motive were concerned.
They may rest assured that whatever commotions
and divi-ions may at times disturb the public
tranquillity in the excitements of political dis
cussions, these are temporary in their nature as
well as superficial, and can never reach the funda
mental principles of society, which are based upon
an intelligence continually increasing and a
moral sense strong in its attachment to the right.
Remarks of Mr, Black ofGeorgia.
Mr. Graves here spoke at great length and in
the course of his remarks adverted to the course
of Mr. Black in relation to the election of public
Printer; to which
Mr. Black of Georgia said he did not rise for
the purpose of making a speech on the merits of
the bill now under consideration, but for the pur
pose of putting himself right before the commit
tee and the country, in a matter which may well
be called a “ vexed question ” and about which a
great deal had been said elsewhere; he alluded
to the part he had taken in the election of Prin
ter, and the disposition made hy the House of
Congressional printing. It, in so doing, he pla
ced any man in the wrong, it was not with the
intention of prosecuting an offensive warfare, hut
simply in justification to himself, and those who
had acted with him. This much he felt himself
imperatively called on to do, from the manner in
which the honorable gentleman from Kentucky
[Mr Graves] had spoken of that transaction, and
trom the distinct allusions which had been made
to him in the course of the debate. If he under
stood that gentleman correctly, he hid deprecia
ted the election of Francis P. Blair to the office
ol Printer; pronounced it permature and precipi
tate ; in consequence of which a previous inves
tigation into alleged frauds had been superseded
and precluded by the House; and that, too, said
the gentleman when we were getting along very
well and smoothly by letting out the printing on
con'ract.
Sir, said Mr. B. the gentleman from Kentucky,
the Whigs, and others, who voted with that gen
tleman for a certain resolution, to which I shall
presently refer, effected indirectly and covertly,
hy its adoption, that which I did directly and
openly, in the election which followed. That,
and that alone, after ail that has been said, is the
d ff. rcuce between us.
Sir. let us look to that resolution fora moment,
and recur to its origin and history. It was in
troduced into this i louse, and advocated on its I
passage, by my colleague, [Mr. Dawson.] By 1
it, the Clerk of this House, a confirmed Demo
crat, was ordered “to supply some suitable per
. sonjor persons, to execute the necessary printing
. of this House, in the manner prescribed by the
( joint resolution of 1819.” I will not assert that
i the gentleman voted for this resolution; but
; this much I will say, that if he voted or raised
> his voice against it in this hall, I was not present
. and did not hear him. So far as lam imt'ormed
he sat by and suffered that resolution, introduced
1 by a gentleman who usually acts with the Whig
i party, to pass this House, sub silentio, not only
the first, but tire second time, if I remember cor
rectly. What, then, was the purport, the effect,
the consequence of that action of the House ? It
was that a Democra ic Clerk should select, at
his option, some individual to execute the prin
ting of Congress upon the terms fixed by the
resolution of 1819. This proposition came di
' redly from the Whig ranks, a..d was supported
alike by Whig and Democrat. This, then, was
the generally received sense of the House, and
was acquiesced in by the gentleman for Kentucky
himself, who, if he was present at its adoption,
. said not one word, as I have heard, in opposition
to it. What, sir, was the natural and necessary
consequence of all this? Every man here, w r ho
had his senses about him, knew, or ought to have
known that thisjsame Francis P. Blair, who has
been vilified ami abused through all the avenues
by which detraction can reach the character of a
man. whether justly or not I will not stop to in
quire, for lam not his champion. The same hein
ous and iffensive Blair, upon the proposition,
and by the votes of the Whigs themselves, was
indirectly made the Printer of this House, with
out any limitation as to price, save that imposed
by the joint resolution of 1819. All parties here
knew, as well as I did, that Hugh A. Garland, the
Domocralic Clerk of the House, to whom the
selection of a Printer was thus referred hv Co!.
Dawson’s resolution, would appoint Mr. Blair, his
politically ally, and who was every way compe
tent to the charge and execution of that tiust. —
Did this appointment disappoint any one here ?
No, sir! Every body well knew who would
be made Printer, as soon as the Clerk was entrus
ted with the selection of that officer.
Under these circumstances, when Mr. Blair
: was comfortably seated in his newly acquired of
-1 lice, for which he was perhaps more indebted to
( the Whigs than the Democrats, I had the honor
to come foiward and unsettle this state of things,
so pronit : ous to the Editor of the Globe, and to
arrest the official patronage which had been in
directly cast upon that functionary by Col. Daw
son’s resolution. Is not this so ? I appeal, said
Mr. B. to the resolution which I subsequently of
fered upon this subject, and which was adopted
by the House; by which it will appear that, in
stead of making the Editor of ttifi Globe the sure
and certain recipient of the printing patronage,
under the prices of 1819, he was subjected to all
the contingencies and uncertainties of an election,
where parties are so nearly balanced, and restric
ted in the remuneration he was to receive for ser
vices to such terms and such a tariff of prices as
the House, after the investigation of the subject,
might think proper to adopt.
|H Sir, said Mr. 13.1 have nothing to urge against
gentlemen for their support of the Editor of the
Globe. I supported him myself, not only upon
the occasion referred to, but subsequently, at the
election, openly and fearlessly, while others hid
themselves behind the responsibility of the Clerk’s
appointment. I voted for him viva voce, because
I believed, all things considered, he was more en
titled to ray support than the Editors of the Na
tional Intelligencer. For this choice between two
contending candidates, I am ready and willing, as
I will do upon some future occasion, to answer
to my constituents, to whom alone I hold mvseif
responsible for my acts here. But, sir, this is
what I complain of, and herein have I been badly
and unjustly treated, and proscribed b)' some,
without even a hearing of my case; that while I
am rebuked and condemned by the gentleman
Irom Kentucky, and those with whom he is as
sociated, for having participated in the election of
Mr. Blair to be the Printer of this House, those
who voted for Col. Dawson’s resolution arc eith
er applauded for their patriotism and consistency,
or at least passed over in commendatory silence.
es, sir ; “let it be written on the wall” that
this identical Blair, who has been denounced bv
the Whigs for every thing odious, both morally
and politically, was made the happy recipient of
Government patronage, by a resolution emana
ting from the Whig ranks, and supported by that
party, while I have been rebuked and condemned
fordoing that openly, which they thought proper
to effect indirectly and covertly ! “Think of that
Master Brook!!”
Shipwreck and loss of Life.— The brig
Escambia, Capt. Dunham, belonging to Messrs.
E. D, Hurlbut &, Co, was lost at sea on the
25th of March while on her passage from Charles
ton to ix cw \ ork and out' of sixteen persons
who were on board only one is known to be sa
ved .
The E. left Charleston on the 25th. On the
next day while under bare poles, and being be
tween Fryingpan Shoals and Cape Look Out,
the wind commenced blowing from the N. E. and
increased until 7 o’clock, when she was knocked
down on her beam ends.
In this situation the brig continued until 9
o’clock, when she began to go down. The wind
blowing violently, and the sea riming very high
and making a complete breach over the vessel.
Every one was washed from the wreck. The
mate clung to the taffrail, and after the vessel had
entirely disappeared, he succeeded in reaching a
part of the poop deck, which had been disenga
ged by the violence of the sea, upon which lie >-e
--mained until Saturday the 28th ult. at 3 I\ M.,
when he was at th it time taken off by Capt. Whil
den. of the schooner Marietta Ryan.
T he persons on board were Capt. Rufus Dun
ham ; the mate, Wm. Bulkley; 2d mate, Edwin
Hull; J. Chamhe-lain, cook; and steward, Isaac
I radle; Henry Johnston, John Williams, John
Peters, James Lucas, and Allen Jackson, seaman ;
Mr. VV fiber, of Newport, R. 1., and two others,
nsmes unknown, passengers. Vessel insured in
this city for $16,(00. — Com. Adv.
[The Escambia had a cargo of 483 bales of
Cotton, and 244 bbls. Rice. The Cotton, we
learn, was wholly insured at New-York, and it
was believed that the Rice was also insured at
that city. The seamen, seven in number, were
all black men.] — Ed's. Charleston Courier.
Another Fire. —Just as our paper was going
to press about half past 11 o’clock, a fire
out in the new brick building owned by Mr.
Wilkins, occupied by Wm. H Kelly, on St. Fran
cis street. The row of brick buildings adjoining
were all destroyed, and the building on the corner
of Water street, and two or three south of it were
much injured. A large amount of property has
been sacrificed.
The fire destroyed the Carriage warehouse of
A. P. Howell, on St, Francis st.. in the rear of
which was a warehouse of W, & E Smith
Crockery dealers, which was also destroyed, from
which the fire was communicated to the Drug
store of Woodruff & Watkins, on Water street,
which was entirely consumed. Here the fire was
unexpectedly arressted by the extraordinary
exertions of the ffiemen. We are unable to give
particulars this morning.
The total loss cannot fall much short of
$70,000.
Too much praise cannot he awarded to the Fire
men for the skill and activity they displayed in
subduing the devouring element. The fire is
attiibuted entirely to accident. Thieves and pick
pockets were busy in tbe crowd and twenty or
more of them were arrested. —Mobile Advertiser,
Is/ instant.
Extraordinary Marriage. —On Thursday ’
last, “young Doctor Lamb,” as he is commonly
designated but properly’ described F. Augutus
Lamb Handcock, a quack worm doctor, aged 22 !
was united in the silken band of matrimony, at
St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury, to Miss Winford
Foulkes, of Trelydan, near Welshpool, aged 83
years! The lovely and blooming bride being
extremely deaf, caused great interruption to the
ceremony, and when asked if she would take
Mr. Lamb as her “weded husband,” she made
no reply, when tholoving bridegroom shouted with
ail his strength of lungs, “Say yes! say yes!”
The Rev. Mr. Yardley stopped him, and informed
the anxious youth that tr.c lady must answer of
her own free will. The blushing damsel guessing i
doubtless at the cause of the pause,exclaimed in I
mostmelodious tones. “Oh yes, I will ! certainly 1
will ! I will.” The Rev. Divine, however,
considered it imprudent to go on with the cer
emony. as none of the lady’s relatives were
present to sanction the bestowal of her person
upon tbe charming young Adonis, and it was
thought advisable to send for the attorney who
prepared Miss Foulkes’s marriage settlements,
in whcii she had endowed Mr. Augustus Lamb
with about Thirty Thousand Founds.'/ The
gentleman of the law arrived, and having vouched
that tbe marriage settlements, &c., were correctly
prepared, and also (hat the bride was capable of
execu’inga legal deed, the remainder of the ser
vice was proceeded with. Immediately after
which, the happy couple, with the papa, mamma,
and a brother of the fortunate Augustus, set off
for Balb, where the turtle doves will enjoy the
honey moon in sweet repose.— Cheltenham
CEng.J Journal.
Lafayette in the French Revolution.
Lafayette was, also, a prominent member of
the States General, which met in 1789, and as
sumed the name of the National Assembly. He
proposed, in ibis body, a Declaration ot Rights,
not unlike our own, and it was under bis influ
ence, and while he was, for this very purpose, in
the chair, that a decree was passed on the night
of tbe loth and 14th of July,— at the moment
the Bastile was falling before the cannon of the
populace,—which provided for the responsibity
of members, and thus furnished one of the most
important elements of a representative monarchy.
Two days afterwards, he was appointed comman
der in chief of the National Guards of Paris,
and tints was placed at the head of what was in
tended to he made, when it should be earned in
to all the departments, the effective military pow
er of the realm, and what, under his wise man
agement, soon became such.
His great military command, and his still great
er personal influence, now brought him constant
ly in contact with the throne. His position,
therefore, was extremely delicate, especially as the
popular party in Paris, of which he was not so
much the head as the idol, was already in a state
of perilous excitement, and atrocious violences
were beginning to be committed. The abhor
rence of the queen was almost universal, and was
excessive to a deg r ee ot v Inch we can have no
just idea. The circumstance that the court lived
at Versailles, sixteen miles from Paris, and that
the National Assembly was lu Id there, was ano
ther source of jealousy, irritation and hatred on
the part of the capilol. The people of Paris,
therefore, as a sign of opposition, had mounted
their municipal cockade of blue and red, whose
effects were already becoming alrming. Lafay
ette, who was anxious about the consequences of
sucli a marked division, and who knew how im
portant are small means of conciliation, added to
it, on the 26th ot July, tlie white of the royal
cockade, and, as he placed it in his own hat, p.o
phesied that it ‘would go round the world; a
prediction that is already more than half accom
plished, since the tri-colored cockade has been
used for tbe ensign of emancipation in Spain, in
Naples, in some parts of South America, and in !
Greece.
Still, however, the tendency of every thing
was to confusion and violence. The traublas of
the times, 100, rather than a positive want of the
moans of subsistence, had brought ou a famine
in the capitol; and the populace of fauxbourgs,
the most degraded certainly in France, having
assembled and armed themselves, determined to
go to \ ersailles ; the greater part with a blind
desire of vengeance on the royal family, but oth
ers only with the purpose of bringing the king
from \ ersailles, and forcing him to reside in the
more ancient, hut scarcely habitable palace of the
Tuilleries, in the midst of Paris. The Nation
al Guards clamoured to accompany this savage
multitude. Lafayette opposed their inclination ;
the municipality of Paris hesitated, hut support- ;
ed it; he resisted nearly the whole of the sth
October, while the road to Versailles was already
throigcdw.th an exasperated mob of above a
hundred thousand ferocious men and women, un
til at last, finding the multitude weie armed, and
even had cannon, he asked and received an or
der to march fiom the competent authority, and
set off at four o’clock in the afternoon, as one go
ing to a post of imminent danger, which it had
clearly become his duty to occupy.
He arrived at Versailles at ten o’clock at night
after having been on horseback from before day
light in the morning, and having made, during
the whole interval, both at Paris and on the road,
incredible exertions to control the multitude and
calm the soldiers. ‘The Marquis de Lafayette at
last entered the Chateau,’ says Madame do Stael,
‘and, passing through the apartment w here we
were, went to the king.—Wc all pressed round
him as if he were the master of events, and yet
the popular party was already more powerful than
its chief, and principles were yielding to factions
or rather were beginning to serve as their pretexts.
M. de Lafayette's manner was perfectly c alm; no
body ever saw it otherwise; but his delicacy suf
fered from the importance of the part he was call
ed to act. He asked for the interior posts of the
Chateau, in order that he might ensure their safe
ty- Only the outer posts were granted to him.’
This refusal was not disrespectful to him who
made the request. It was given simply because
the etiquette of the court reserved the guard of
the royai person and family to another body of
men. Lafayette, therefore, answered for the Na
tional Guards, and/or the posts committed to t hem
but be could answer no more; and his pledge was
faithfully and desperately redeemed.
Between two and three o’clock, the queen and
the royal family went to bed. Lafayette, too,
slept after the great fatigues of this fearful day!
At half past four, a portion of the populace made
their way into the palace by an obscure, interior
passage, which had been overlooked, and which
was not in that part of the Chateau intrusted to
Lafayette. I hey were evidently led by persons
who well knew the secret avenues. Mirabeau’s
name was afterwards strangely compromised in it,
and the form ot the infamous Duke of Orleans
was repeatedly recognised on the great staircase,
pointing the assassins the way to the queen’s
chamber. They easily found it. Two of her
guards were rut down in an insta it, and she
made her escape almost naked. Lafayette imme
diately rushed in with the national troops protec
ted the guards from the brutal populace, and sa
ved the lives of the royal family, which had so
nearly been sacrificed to the etiquette of the mon
archy.
The day dawned, as this fearful scene of guilt
and bloodshed was passing in the magnificent
palace, whose construction had exhausted the
revenues of Louis Fourteenth, and which, for a
century had been the most splendid residence in
Europe. As soon as it was light, the same fu
j r «ous multitude filled the space, which, from the
rich materials of which it was formed, passed un- |
I der the name of the Court of Marble—They call
|cd upon the king, in tones not to he mistaken, to '
i l°!° * a r* s ’ called fur ;he queen, who
j had but just escaped from their daggers, to come
out upon the balcony. The king, after a short '
consultation with his ministers,announced his in
tention to set out for the capitol; but Lafayette
was afraid to trust the queen in the midst of the
blood-thirsty multitude. He went to her, there
fore, with respectful hesitation, and asked her if
it were her intention to accompany the king to
Paris. ‘Yes,’she replied, ‘although lam aware
of the danger.’ ‘Arc you positively determined!’
‘Yes, sir. Condescend, then, to go out upon the
balcony, and sutTer me to attend you.” Without
the king !—she replied, hesitating—‘Have you
observed the threats !’ ‘Yes, madam, I have; but
dare to trust me.’ He led her out upon the bal
cony.—lt was a moment of great responsibility
and great delicacy; but n Hiring, he felt assured,
I could be so dangerous as to permit her to set out
for Paris, surrounded by that multitude unless its
feelings could be changed. The agitation, the
tumult, the cries of the crowd, rendered it impos
sible that his voice should he heard. Il was ne
cessary, therefore, to address himself to the eye,
and, turning towards the queen with that admira
ble presence of mind which never yet forsook him,
and with that mingled grace and dignity, which
were the peculiar inheritance of the ancient court
of France, he simply kissed her hand before the
vast multitude. An instant of silent astonish
ment followed, hut the whole was immediately
interpreted, and tha air was rent with cries of
•Long live the queen !’ Long live the general!’
from the same fickle and cruel populace, that, only
two hours before, had imbrued their hands in the
blood of the guards who defended the life of this
same queen.— Ticknro.
Mr. Van Suren is called, by the Southern loco
foeo papers, *‘the northern man with southern
principles!” We think it should read, ‘-the
northern man ff.elino for the South.” —67.
Louis Build in.
Absence. of Mind.— The following is the last
instance of absence of mind. A man thinking
he was at home a few evenings since, laid down
in the Square, and put his boots outside the gate
to be blacked in the morning.
Singular Physiological Case.— About four
years ago Thomas Bradley, of Dcighton, near
Huddersfi 'ld, remained in a trance for forty weeks
during which lime the only sustenance he receiv
ed was a little g uel put into his mouth at inter
vals. 1‘ rom this stale of stupor he recovered his
usual health, and resumed his labour as cloth
dresser. After his recovery he stated that though
he could see no one, nor had the power to move
a fi er, or even a single muscle, he heard dis
tinctly all the remarks made about him at his Led
side by his family and others who visited him.
He is now again reduced to the same state, and
has been so for fourteen weeks last Monday, He
has only spoken once during this long period, and
that was on the sixth of November last, when he
very feebly said “give me some parkin.” From
this circumstance Ids mother supposes that he
hears all that passes near to him, the same as
when he was last in this lamentable state. He
is in his twenty-third year, his pulse is hardly
i perceptible; the only motion observed, and that
rarely, is in the eye-lid, and he is reduced in a
most remarkable degree.— Leeds f Eng.J Mer
| cury.
Birth-day of Washington.
BY G. D. PRENTICE.
Why swell a million hearts as one,
With mem’ries of the past ?
Why rings out you deep thunder-gun
Upon the lushing Mast ?
Why hold the beautiful, the brrve,
The Jubilee of earth ?
It is the day that gave
Ourpatiiot hero birth.
We otter here a sacrifice
Os hearts to him, who came
To guaid young Freedom’s paradise
Willi sword of living flame !
To him, who, on war’s whirlwind loud,
Bode like an argel form,
And set his glory on the cloud,
A hale of the storm !
A hundred years with all their trains
Os shadow, have gone by,
And yet this glorious name remains,
A sound that cannot die!
’Tis graven on the hill, the vale,
And on the mountain tall.
And speaks in every sounding gale
And roaring water-fall I *
No marble on his resting spot
Its scuptured columns rears,
But his still a nobler lot,
A grateful nation’s tears '■
Old time, that bids tiie marble bow,
Makes green each laurel leaf,
That blooms upon the sainted brow
Os our immortal chief!
His deeds were ours—but through the world
That mighty chief will be
Where g ory’s banner is unfurled.
The watchword of the free !
And, as they bend their eagle eyes
On Victory’s burning sun,
Their shouts will echo to the skies—
“ Cur God and Washington !*”
From the News Letter.
Lines,
WRITTEN ON HEARING A TUNE OF OLDEN TIME
PLAYED ON THE GUITAR.
O, touch it gently, it breathes the tone,
Os hopes, of feelings, long since gone,
Th it come with the freshness of the hour
When lirst we felt their magic power.
O, touch it lightly; for it wakes again
r i houghts that have long in silence lain ;
When the heart was light, as the zephyr’s wing.
And bright as the opening buds of spring.
O, touch it softly ; o’er memory’s track
It sends the wandering spirit back.
O’er each love’d spot it fondly strays,
To muse o’er the 4 light of other days.’
O blame me not if the timid tear
Steal o’er my cheeic for those so dear ;
’Tis nut the tribute which memTy pays
To the parted friends of other dsys.
F. M. C.
Minerva, Mason Co. Ky.,
Hair Tonic.—Dr. Jayne’s Hair Tonic has
not merely excited great attention, and been exten
sively used in Philadelphia, but here and through
out the Union generally. We expect that some
of the Philadelphia editors have used the Tonic
and become dandyfied, they speak so warmly of
it. It holds a high, and we believe, deserved
reputation, wherever it has been used. It is sold
by A. & B. Sands, 79 and 100 Fulton street.—
N. Y. Sunday Morning Atlas
Very true, Mr. Atlas, many of our editors have
used .his valuable Hair Tonic and therefore speak
knowingly when they commend it to public notice
and we say no gentleman or lady should ever be
without it, and if your hair be thin, harsh, and
unheaKhy. or is falling off, you have hut to apply
the Hair Tonic, and it is again restored to health
and beauty, if you are so unfortunate as to have
a bald head, a few months use of this valuable
Tonic will, without doubt, restore to you that
valuable covering—the Hair.— Alexander's Mes
senger.
This valuable remedy for the growth, preserva
tion, and restoration of the Hair, can he obtained
wholesale and retail, from
WILLIAM K. KITCHEN,
Sole Agent for Augusta. i
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, April 5
Cleared —Algonquin Smith, Providence; bri<*
Commerce, Head, Liverpool.
Arrived —Ship Charlotte, Graham, Havre; Er
ship Ruby. Westcott, Liverpool; ship Chevalier
Prince, Havre; ship Tamerlane, Theobald, Liver’
pool; brig Wm Taylor, Hoev, New York; bug Ceres*
Blanchard, Havre; schooner Holder Borden, Rhodes
Providence; steamboat Oglethoipe, Williams, Au
gusta.
Below —an English ship and a brig.
Went to sea —Ship Amazon, Stinson, Liverpool-
Br ship Perseus, kovven, Liverpool; baik Zenobia’
llemmington, Boston; brig Pandora, Sheppard, Pro-’
videuce; brig Clinton; Lyon, New York; bri ’- Jane
Fitzgerald, Baltimore. ° ’
Charleston, April 7.
Arrived yesterday.—Br ship St. Andrew, Lehch
London; Br barque Ganges, ( oikon, Liverpool; schr
Daniel Webster, Weeks, Philadelphia; schr £ p
Cohen. Cromwell, Baltimore.
At Qaarantine. —Ship Corea, Jackson, Havre
Cleared. —Fr brig Gieenouiße, Harnouiny ; New
Orleans; schr Elizabeth, Bell, Boston.
Went to sea yesterday. —Ship La Duchess D’Or
leans, Richardson, Havre; brig Lancet, Clark An- *
twerp.
<Xj“ We are au horised to say tint Wlill\ 1/
M. FRAZER is not a candidate fur ri.einh> r it -
Council in Ward iNo 2.
OCT* We arc requested to announce TRo\[\s
W. MILLER as a candidate for Council in War-i
4 ; aprii 7
We are requested to announce the name of tu
M. FRAZER as a candidate for election to the
City Council for the 2d Ward. aprii 7
PT Messrs. Editors—Seeing in your paper
of yesterday, that the Hon. A. Cummins declines
a re elcctian for Mayor of the city, at the approach
ing election, we. therefore, take the liberty of su -
gesting the name of JOHN PHINIZY, Esq ■
person well calculated to fill the office, and lie’ [
be supported by (mar 13) Many Voters.'
Messrs. Editors :—Observing in your paper the
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 lilt that
office and who will be supported by
March IS tl Many Voters.
Mr Editor—The following named gentlemen
arc recommended as suitable persons for Aldermen
of Ward No 4, for the ensuing year;
JAMES HARPER, ROBERT PHILIP
mar 21 EDWARD THOMAS.
PT We are authorized to announce the folJow
ng gentlemen as candidates for men bers of Coun
cil in Ward No. 2:
B. 11. WARREN, JOHN BOXES,
mar 31 JOHN G. DUNLAP.
Mr. Editor—Please announce the fol’owing
gentlemen as suitaul; persons to represent Ward
No. 2 in the next Council;
B. H. WARREN, A. READ,
mar 31 S. M. THOMPSON.
Mr. Editor, please announce the following
named gentlemen as candidates for election as
members of the city council fro n ward no lat the
approrching election in Aprii next.
GAREYPARISH. WM. E. JACKSON
mar IS PHILIP CRUMP.
'7* We are authorised to announce JAMES B.
BISHOP, THOMAS RICH ARDS, and Dr. F. M.
ROBERTSON, as candidates for Members of Coun
cil in Ward Mo. 3. mar 21
Mr. Editor —You will please announce Dr. F.
M ROBERTSON, JAMES B. BISHOP and F. ,
H. COOKE, as candidates for members of Council,
at the approaching election, in Ward No. 3. m 23 i
Mr. Editors—The following named gentlemen
arc recommended as suitable persons lor members
of Council for the Upper Ward:-
JAMES HARPER, C. B. HITT
They will be supported by Many Voters.
mar 2U
Messrs. Editors: —The fol’owing gentlemen I
will be supported for Members of Council in Ward
! No. I, at the approaching election:
G. F. PARISH, W. E. JACKSON,
mar 18
Mr. Editor ;—Sir, I see a notice in your paper
of the 12th instant, stating that our worthy Mayor
declines being a candidate for re-election to the of- v
lice he has so worthily filled, and as it is time the
citizens should fix on a suitable poison, to repre
sent them as Mayor for the next year Allow me
to recommend the name of MARTIN M. DYE, as
a suitable person, and who will serve if elected.
Many Voters.
{t y~W. G. NIMMO, General 1 ommission Mer
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the
Constitutionalist. nov 7
Pf Dr. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
profession, lie may oe found at all hours at the
I late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second dooi
I from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets,
j ncv29 ly
J. W. JONES, is my authorised Agent for the
i adjustment of my unfinished business.
1 mar 3 ' WILLIAM E. JONES.
WILLIAM ii. Ale LAWS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
dec IS No. 4 Constitutionalist Range.
(ry EXCH INGE ON NEW YORK— At sight
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by
nov 23 GARDELLE & 11 HIND.
PT Dr. J. H. MURR IY offers his prof.-ssional
servlves to the citizens of Hamburg and the vicin
ity. Office at H R. Cooke’s Drag Store,
mar 17 lm
PfTr. GARDNER. formerly resident surgeon :
the New noik Hospital, and physician at Beh'c
ue Hospital, New York, tenders to the public his
professional services.
Office in Washington street, between Broad and f
Ellis streets. Residence, U nited States Hotel.
fpp TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS- ]
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Academy, ]
(Masonic Hall.) will hereafter be opened to visi
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At night the rooms D
will he well lighted. dec 19 *
Doctor J. J. HILSON offers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its J
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the S
first brick building above Guedron’s stable o:i Ellis
street,recently occupied by John L. Adams.
aii s l7 ts M
Pf NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Tram I
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as |
follows: —
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a m.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -S 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Brancbville, “ - 11 00
** “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 ji
* “ Blackvi.’le, - “ - 100 .R
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a.M
--“ “ Aiken, - “ - 730
“ “ Blackviile, “ - . 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ “ Branch vill “ - - ]1 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - -1200 M.
* “ Summerville,“ - - 2 OCT. m- I
Arrive at Charleston not before 300 S
Distance—l3(i miles. Fare Through —$10 00. ■
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain J 1 I
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and no
longer than 5 minutes for wo 1 acJ water at an/
station. » j( fe
To stop for passengers, when a ichne ji- o - ■
hoisted, at either of the above stations; aim J
Sineaths, Woodstock, luabiuel’s, 41 mi e • " w
Rives’, Grahams, Willcston, Windsor, Jo msu
and Marsh’s T. O. t .
j Passengers uo will breakfast at VS oudstot ' • ■
J dine at Brackvnlc; aoicn, will orcaKiasi at •f,
J and dine at Summerville. ma y *