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A U GUST 4.
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For the last few days, we havje been unable to
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wished, in consequence of the {indisposition of
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er, whose places we have not bceh able to supply.
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Corre'pondence of the Bxlli,jr\ore Patriot.
New YoaK, flriday 4 r. m.
“ The bears.” who have late sa; often remained
masters of the battle ground bn the stock ex
change, have this morning been; driven from tha
field by the bulls. The sales of North American
Trust and Banking, amounting:l|o no less than
1 182 shares, have obtained ani advance of no
less than from $5 50 a 6 per shialre. This is no
doubt partly owing to accounts received, per Mon
treal, of a large loan having beefi effected in Lon
don on farorable terms for the institution. I just
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hcar § from the second board that f,£69 shares more
have been sold at the closing fjrice of 51. A
better feeling, in fact, generally pervaded the stock,
market to-day. United States l;i;|nk shares ad
vanced 1 per cent, and Delaware jaud Hudson
Some considerable sales of fojijign Exchanges
have been made, and prices are i|ertainly firmer,
as the supply does not appear adequate to the de
mand, the rates paid are 7$ a Bkm London, and
5 25fon Paris. The inquiry? jor inland Ex
change was rather dull to-day, I jumex the rates.
Sales of Cotton continued to a moderate cr
tent without change in price, There has been
considerable inquiry to-day for flour for export,
to meet orders received per Montreal, 1,001 bbls.
New Orleans have been soid and abou 1
1000 bbls. of other descriptions a't former rates.
Domestic Exchanges. —Philadelphia 5 a s£c;
Baltimore 4£ a 4J; Richmond oil a ss; Charles
ton 3£ a Savannah a .jvygusta 8 a B£.
North Carolina 6 J a 7; Mobile t.»ia 6£; New Or
leans 6 a 6^.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
Washington April 4th.
The Cumberland Road Bill jh .as received its
quietus.— The system of local and partial appro
priaiion, involved in it, is dead! brever. The
Southern me mbers, and particularly those from
South Carolina, are much delighujd at this result.
The hill came up yesterday, irxjt!ie Senate, on
its third reading. Mr. Southard sqjoie with much
power, in opposition to it, thouajh he has been
one of its zealous and sincere adyifciies. He did
not doubt the power of Congress’ ljo construct the
work, nor did he doubt its expediency or utility.
That Road, he said, has diffused [crountless bless
ings, not only among the people of the West,
but of the whole Union. No or<(| would look at
the enterprize and prosperity of ;j)iat extraordina
ry race of people who inhab&jid the country
through which it passed, without attributing
much of their success, to the ffifilifies afforded
them by this means of communication, between
the East and the West. But life! had made up
his mind to oppose the Bill, on account of the
state of the finances of the country. The Presi
dent had urged upon us economy, and even lec
tured us upon extravagance. Yqs, this admins
tralion, that for years had expended 7,000,000
more than tne whole revenue offbe country, had
the impudence to lecture us upon' extravagance,
i he President’s design was to throw upon Con
gress, the responsibility of exceeding the esti
mates, though he knew that those estimates
would not cover the necessary expenditures of the
country. Five millions had already been called
for to meet the deficiency in the means of the
Treasury, and he did not believe, that this would
be made good by the excess of receipts in the lat
ter half of the year, on the conniary, we must
grant five millions more before ,l!he end of this
session. Under these circumstances, and with a
prospect before us of a collision England, he
could not vote a cent for any woil- not of imme
diate and pressing necessity. i ’
Mr. Clay of Ky., opposed the lull on different
grounds. He was and always had been in fa
vor of a national and equal sysujm of internal
improvements. The distribution ibf the surplus
revenue among the S tates had in p:irt answered
this purpose, and the plan ot Gnjtribuiing the
proceeds of the public lands would -complete it.
In tne meantime, he was unwillirlg to continue
a monopoly of their benefits in the hands of the
three Stales of Illinois, Indiana;, and Ohio—
Stales which had opposed the Laru| Bill, and sup
ported Gen. Jackson in his veto of! the Maysville
road. He could see no propriety jin continuing
to lavish vast sums on those three fixates. If the
work was constitutional, then it \k,u!d be also
constitutional to carry on works o|i the oppostite
side of the river. There could not be constituents,
—one of that side of the Ohio river and anoth
er for this. Mr. Clay went on and brought up
an array of objections against the appropriation
not the least of which, in his muad, was the ex
travagant cost of the road, which' could only be
accounted for by the tact that thie money was
used to reward party services. j
The bill was rejected 20 to 22/ i If it had pas
sed the Senate the House would have refused it.
, lr f * l al! madge introduced a general bankrupt
bill of 60 sections. This plan and Mr. Webster’s
also are now before the Committee on thejudi
ciary. J
. Tbebd! for the suspension of Indian Hostili
ties in Florida will come up on Monday—and
there will be a bitter opposition to u
1 he House got rid, for the present, at least nf
the debate on the Jersey question.; The motion
to print both reports of the Committee of Elec
tions and all the testimony on die subject was
passed, nem. con. \
The case will come up again about the Ist of
May, on the final report of the Committee.
The Government is now suffering for want of
the appropriation bills. They have got money,
but have no authority to use it. Tiie order giv
en for the fitting out some vessels,: fur the protec
tion of our commerce, cannot bs executed. How
much longer it will suit the House! to delay these
bills, remain to be seen. Mr. Davy=on will pro
bably offer a resolution for the Adjournment of
Congress early in June.
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British Queen.—The post alga for letters
transmitted by the « Queen was her s3ooo—
largest mail ever made up by any of the
steamer*. ;
Bold Procedure.—Thirty.twji Physicians of
St, ClairsviiUb Louisiana, and itli vicinity, have
threatened to refuse medical attspdance to any
one who shall support the bill beßre the Legisla
ture of that State, naaking the di*interment of
dead bodies for dissection, 9 State Prison offence.
Executive Department, Ga. >
Mili.kdgevii.le, 3 let March, 1840. 5
Gentlemen : —The public prints brought me
your letter, which was drawn forth by the reso
lutions of the last Legislature, in relation to the
amendment of the act of Congress of 1793, to
carry into effect that Section of the 4lh Article
of the Constitulion, of the United Slates, which
relates so fugitives from justice, almost as soon as
the packet forwarded under the frank of the
Speaker of the House of Representatives. lam
happy to find that, notwithstanding the error in
the resolutions in regard to the designation ot the
Section of the Constitution of the United States,
which the Act of Congress was designed to car
ry into effect, by your united efforts, with some
extraneous aid, you were enabled to arrive cor
rectly at the object and intention of the Legisla
ture, as to the Sections of the Act of Congress,
which they proposed to have amended. I deem
it not improper in the recess of the Legislature,
to endeavor to correct what appears to me to be
an erroneous construction of their resolutions.
The resolutions do not at all conflict with the
doctrines, that the Federal Government, is one
of limited powers, and that it is the creature of
the Constitution. They demand of Govern
ment, the discharge of an obligation which it
undertook to perform, in consideration of the sur
render to it by the Slates of many ot the most
important altiibutes of sovereignty, and among
the rest the necessary power to compel another
State or sovereignly, to render justice in the par
ticular complained of. To ensure domestic tran
quility, was among the principal objects for which
the Constitution of ihe United Slates, was or
dained and established, and, as one means of at
taining this end, was the provision relative to the
arrest and delivery of fugitives from justice, pro
posed and adopted. Os the same character is
the clause which immediately follows it. The Co
nstitution of the United Stales, cannot be regarded
as a treaty between the several States, lor it so re
garded, for a violation of its provisions, the injur
ed State would have a right to resort to the
means of redress usually employed in such ca
ses by absolute sovereignties. r l hese means are
prohibited to the States. The Constitution was
adopted by the people of the States, and in all
cases where a right is established in a State, and
a corresponding obligation imposed, the obliga
tion, uidess otherwise expressed, rests on the
Government, created by the Constitution. In
the case under consideration, the Executive au
thority of one State, is vested with power to de
mand a criminal who may escape into another,
and an obligation is created in direct terms to
deliver him. On whom rests this obligation ?
Not on the State or it would have been so express
ed ; on the Government certainly, for, to the
Government, has the power to enforce the right,
been relinquished by the Stales. The obligation
then resling on the Government, the power to
perform it, follows of course, for it would be folly
to impose an obligation when there is no power
to perform it. Having established the power in
the Government, under the Constitution, to de
liver fugitives from justice (not to coerce a sov
ereign State to do it), Congress has the authority
to amend the law as proposed by the Georgia
Legislature, for it has authority to make all laws
which shall be necessary and proper tor carrying
into execution, the powers vested by the Consti
tution, in the Government of the United States.
The act of 1793, was passed for the purpose of
carrying into execution this power, and the duty
of executing it, was assigned to the Executive
officers of the States. Deference to State au
thorities, no doubt induced Congress thus to as
sign this duty, especially as the Executive officers
of the several Slates, are required to be bound by
oath or affirmation to support the Constitution
of the United .''tales.
Experience having shown that the rights of
the States cannot be enforced under the existing
law, the General Assembly of Georgia, proposes
to the Federal Government, to discharge its obli
gation tc the States through the medium of some
other instrumentality', and suggest that the
Judges of the Circuit and District Courts of the
United States, be used for this purpose. The au
thority proposed to be given to the Judges, might
be conferred on any one else; but these func
tionaries, it is supposed, would be as far removed
from prejudice and improper influences as any
agents who could be appointed. , - *
The Legislature of Georgia, never supposed,
that by the proposed amendment, the Circuit or
District Courts of the United Slates, would be
vested without jurisdiction of the case ; and such
will not be the fact.
The duty to be required of the Judges woulJ
be ministerial; to cause the fugitive to be arrested
and delivered, not to try him. The Act of 1793
requires the Executive authority of the State, to
which a person charged with treason, felony or
other crime shall have fled, to cause him to be
arrested, confined and delivered. Is any judical
power conferred here I—ls the Executive author
ity of the State, vested with power to organ
ize himself into a court, and try the criminal 1
I apprehend not.
And yet the Executive officers of the State
are vested with ad the power and authority un
der the present law, which it is proposed by the
resolutions to confer on the Judges of the Circuit
and District Courts. The Judges would have
no discretion. Theii duties would be defined.
They as Government officers would be required
to act ministerially in discharge of a postitive
obligation of the Government.
This is no new inode of giving effect to a Con
stitutional provision. The next clause of the
same section fc of the Constitution of the United
States provides that “no person held to service
or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, es
caping into another shall in consequence of any
law or regulation therein, be dischaiged from
such service or labour, but shall be delivered up
on claim of the party to whom such service or
labour may be due.” The obligation imposed on
the Government to deliver up” a person held
to service oflabourin one State escaping into an
other, on claim of the party to whom such ser
vice or labour is due is not more perfect than it
is to deliver up a fugitive felon under the prcce
d.ngclause, on demand of the Executive author
ity of the State from which he fled, and yet the
judical officers of the U nited States and of the
States are required to execute this provision. Ihe
authority of Congress thus to confer this power
has I believe never before been questioned, and I
think I may say that hundreds of instances have
occurred In which slaveholders have recovered
iheir property under the law to give effect to this
Constitutional provision.
These two cases are parallel. In the one case
the Constitution declares that the demand shall
be made by the Executive authority of the Stale
whence the criminal fled, but does not say on
whom the demand shall be made; in the other
case it declares that the claim is to be made by
the party to whom the service or labour is due,
but does not specify of whom the claim shall be
made. If it is necessary that the demand in the
case of a fugitive felon, shall be made on the
State where he is found, it is equally so that the
claim of i slave should be made of the State
where he may be found. In States where slavery
is not toll rated and a sable complexion does not
create a presumption of property, negroes are as
much under the protection of the laws as any
citizen, though they may not be entitled to as
many privileges.
It would he as much an assault upon the
of one of these Stales to pursue into its territory*
and arrest a slave then under the authority ot the
Government, as it would be to pursue and arrest
upon like authority a fugitive felon.
A person held to service or labour in this State
escaping into a State where slavery is not tolera
ted cannot be claimed of an individual, because
1 an individual has no right to take him into custo
dy, orlo control him. Ho is presumptively free,
and as before remarked under the protection of
: the laws. Os whom then must he demanded ?
• Os that Government most assuredly on whom has
: been imposed the obligation to deliver, by the
• Constitution. That Government has enacted a
■ law for this purpose, and under it hundreds of
slaves have been restored to their owners, and
neither the law nor the action under it has ever
been regarded as an unwarrantable invasion of
Stale Rights unless you now so consider it. I
think I have clearly shown that Congress has the
Constitutional power to Legislate on this subject,
and to vest the proposed powers in the Circuit
and District Judges of the United States.
You object to the Resolutions because of the
inexpediency of making the proposed “ amend
ments to the Act of 12th February 1793, or any
other amendments by which the Stales of this
Union respectively and especially the Slave-hol
ding States, shall be deprived of the full and ab
solute exercise of that high sovereign power ex
isting before the Constitution, and recognized
by that instrument, of demand and delivery to
their authorities, of those who ' have violated
their penal laws and have fled for protection
and immunity to another State.”
In examining this objection, it is necessary to
ascertain whether your postulate be correct, whe
ther the high sovereign power did exist in the
States before the Constitution “to demand the de
livery to their authorities, of those who violated
their penal laws, and fled for protection and im
munity to another Slate. I apprehend that on
an examination of the laws which regulate the
duties of nations on this subject, it will be found
that if an individual violate the penal taws of his
own country , and escape into another, there is
no obligation on the nation in which he has taken
refuge to deliver him. A treaty to that effect
would create an obligation, but the laws of na
tions impose none. It was on this principle that
Mr. Jefferson as Secretary of State of the United
States refused to deliver certain fugitives on de
mand oflhe French Minister in 1793, saying
“that the laws of this country take no notice of
crimes committed out of their jurisdiction. The
most atrocious offemier coining within their pale, I
is received by them as an innocent man, and
they have authorized no one to seize or deliver
him.” Mr. Monroe, writing under the eye of
Mr. Madison, in his instructions to the Plenipo
tentiaries of the United States, for treating of
peace with Great Britain, on the 15th of April,
1814, asserts the same principle. He says “it is
certain a sovereign has no right to pursue his
subjects into the 'I erritories of another, be the
motive for it what it may. Such an entry with
out the consent of the other power, would he a
violation of its Territory, and an act of hostility. ,
Offenders, even conspirators cannot be pursued
by one power into the Territory of another, nor
are they delivered up by the latter, except in com
pliance with treaties, or by favor.” It is under
the Constitution alone that the right accrues to
one of the States, to demand the delivery of one
of its own citizens, who has violated its penal
laws and escaped into another. Such right was
not known before the Constitution. It is differ
ent when a citizen or subject of one nation vio
lates the laws of another, or commits an aggres
sion on the rights of a citizen or subject of anoth
er nation and escapes into his own country. In
such case the injured Slate, has a right to de
mand the fugitive. But a refusal to deliver him,
is not in every instance as you seem to suppose
a just cause of war. War is under all circum
stances a great evil and should never be resorted
to as a means of redressing an injury, except in
cases of absolute necessity, and should always be;
the last alternative. Valid on whose authority
you rely, does not support the proposition that a
sovereign and independent nation would have the
right to demand criminals from the Slate, to
which they might fly in order to try and to pun
ish them within her own jurisdiction ; and if this
her demand were refused, would have just cause
of war. He states that “the sovereign who refu
ses to cause reparation to be made of the damage
caused by his subject, or to punish the guilty or
in short to deliver him up, renders himself in
some measure an accomplice to the injury, and
becomes responsible for it. But if he delivers up
either the goods of the guilty or makes a recom
pense, in cases that will admit of reparation, or
the person, to render him subject to the penalty
of his crime, the offended has nothing further to
demand from him.” Hence it is no cause of
War for a sovereign to refuse to surrender one of
his subjects who has offended another nation or
injured its subjects provided he delivers up either
the goods of the guilty, or makes a recompense
in rases that will admit of reparation.
If one of the States of this Union then, should
abandon the Constitution, and act, as an absolute
sovereignty, on the laws ot nations, she will as
certain before proceeding to extremities, if her in
jured citizen has been recompensed, or restored
to his rights; for if he has. according to the recog
nized Code, the offended has nothing further to
demand. It is under the Constitution alone,
that a Slate has the absolute unconditional right
to demand a person charged with treason, felony,
or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be
found in another State. This right to demand,
docs not depend upon a refusal to deliver up the
goods of the guilty, or to make recompense, nor
will the delivery of the goods of the guilty or the
making of recompense, satisfy the demand, as is
the case between absolute sovereignties. The
State has the right to demand, ofthc Government,
the delivery of persons who have violated her pen
al laws, and escaped into a sister Stale, whether
that person be one of her own citizens, a citizen
of any other member of the confederacy, or the
subject of a foreign Prince. While Georgia will
jealously watch the operations of the General
Government, and manfully war against her as
sumption and exercise of undclegaled 1 powers,
she will as sternly demand of her the performance
of all Constitutional obligations. She does not
regard her co-States, except as represented in
Congress, as having Constitutional power to car
ry into execution, any Constitutional provision,
and will neither invoke their sympathy, nor sup
plicate their interposition, in any trial she may
have.
i he occurrence of a particular case has shewn,
the insufficiency oflhe existing law to carry into*
effect the clause oflhe Constitution which relates
to the delivery of fugitives from justice and has led;
to the suggestions made in the resolutions.
But no relief is asked in that case. IVo ques
tion is submitted which involves the right o£
Georgia, to regulate and protect, the properly of
her citizens in slaves. This is not open for dis
cussion. An abstract proposition is presented,
whether the Government shall not itself. periorm
a Constitutional obligation instead of referring it
to the State authorities, who assume the right to
exercise a discretion in the mattter.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
charles j. McDonald.
To the Honorable :
Julius C. Alford,
Wm. C. Dawson,
Rich. W. Habehsaam,
Thos. Butler King.
E. A. Nisbet,
Lott Warren.
A Meteor, described as being three limes the
size of an ordinary farm house, recently fell
in the neighborhood of Cook’s Manor. Upper
Canada. It gave a very severe shock to the
earth and the nerves of the good people in that
quarter.
Short Haxd. — An individual who keeps a
small store for the sale of “notions,” in a country
town, placed the following notice on the door,
when about being absent one afternoon, “B back
about T time.”
New York, April 3.—Another Boundaut
Question. —The Legislature of Ohio has pass
ed resolutions setting forth that Great Britain is
making encroachments upon our territory be
yond the Rocky Mountains, and calling upon the
General Government to interpose for the protec
tion of the interests of the United States in that
quarter.
Though we have ourselves heard nothing of any
personal misunderstanding between the Secretary
of State and the British Minister—a matter which
we should suppose to be hardly 7 possible between {
gentlemen standing in their rclatiou to each
other—we yet have pleasure in transferring the
following article to our columns, because of the
disposition which it indicates, fovourable to an
amicable and satisfactory settlement of the Boun
dary Question:
From The New York Evening Post, April 1.
The following paragraph, extracted from a let
ter we have just received from Washington, is
from a source entitled to the fuflest credit:
“An idle report has been in circulation here
within the last few days that there has been a
personal misunderstanding between Mr. Forsyth
! and Mr. Fox, growing out of the boundary ques
| tion. to which the character of the recently
published correspondence between them, as well as
the tenor of the editorial remarks of some of the
| city papers, are but too well calculated to give
currency. I have'great satisfaction, however,in be
ing able to say that this report has not the slightest
foundation in truth. Mr. Fox and Mr. Forsyth
are now, as they have ever been, on terras of the
most perfect cordiality and friendship. So far from
any misunderstanding or unkind leeling having
1 arisen between these distinguished gentlemen I
have reason to know .hat they are personally on
such terms of intimacy as to justify a confident be
lief that the boundary question would be amicably
and satisfactorily settled in twenty-four hours if it
were left to their decision.”
A New Kind of Light. — A store has late
ly been opened at No. 110 Walnut street, for
' the sale of Webb’s patent camphine oil and lamps
| adapted to burn it in. From the brillancy of the
lights made use of in the store, one would sup- i
: pose the article well calculated for its purposes.
We are told that the lights produced by this man
; ufactured oil are more economical than either the
i common lamp oil or gas, in addition to which it
I is more pleasant on account of its, neatness, the
flame not even soiling the wick of the lamp, and
emitting no smoke. A number of our citizens
have already tried it. and if it prove truly as re
presented, of which we have no reason to doubt
j it, it is an invention of importance to the public
: and one which will secure a fortune to the pa
tentee.—Phil. Ledger.
Something for Antiquaries.— We have
been favored with a sight of a Watch, which in
I point of antiquity we suppose to have no rival in
America. It was made by “ Druid,” in Switzer
land, in the year 1403, so that it has now arrived
at the respectable age of 437 years. The shape
of the watch is oval, having three sides; one of
which is the dial and the other two plain glass,
through which the works are visible. The “chain”
is made of catgut. This curious timepiece was
brought to this country by one of the early set
tlers; it is now in possession of Mr. C. A Droz,
of this city, and is said to be the only specimen
of the kind now known, with the exception of one
owned by a jeweller in Paris. On examination,
there can he no doubt that the article is a genuine
relic of olden limes. — Phil. Ledger.
The Indian Widow— An old Italian, on his
death bed, left little to bis widow except a fine
horse and a favoiite cat; desiring, however, that
the horse might be sold, and the price employed
in masses for his soul. The widow sent the horse
and the cat to market, with an injunction to sell
the horse foi a crown ; but not except the pur
chaser also bought the cat for four hundred
crowns. In this way, she, with case to her con
science got the money for her own use.
From Late Foreign Files. —The number
of inhabitants in a square mile in England and
Wales is two hundred and sixty-five. In West
moreland, there are little more than seventy, and
in Lincolnshire, almost a purely acricullural coun
try, there are about one hundred and twenty.
Mr. Farr stales that in the East and West London
Unions, the number of inhabitants to a square mile
is 180,046, and that the greatest density attained
in the heart of English cities, is 243,000 to a
geographical square mile.
The Cesarean operation was recently perform
ed in Paris,' on the body of an idiotic dw 7 arf,
and with success. The operator was Professor
Dubois. Both mother and child were doing well.
An English paper says that Count .riper was
cured of the gout by taking in bed, every mor
ning, a very strong extract of coffee, with an
equal quantity of rum—about a quarter of a pint
each—for thirty successive days. The first week
it produced violent headache and fever, which ter
minated after that period in most excessive perspi
ration. This remedy left him weak, but cured
him. He has had no return of the disorder for
9 years, and now trusts to exercise and diet for
good health, and freedom from the distressing
malady, which, like the toothache, excruciating
as it is, nobody pities.
A Nf.w Labor Saving Machine. — A lazy
fellow in Illinois, upon being recently seized with
an ague, declared his intention of going to New
Orleans, and being asked his reason, he said he
would “ take a berth in a steamboat right over
the wheel house and get the boat to do all the
shaking for him. — Picayune.
“A Defalcation” —About two weeks ago, a
stage driver named Evans was arraigned before a
magistrate in Leake country,(Miss.) upon a'chargc
of robbing the stage of a pair of saddle bags con
taining two hundred dollars in specie. When
appealed to to state whether he committed the
rohberv, and how he came to do it, he rep
lied—'
“Well, squire, I acknowledge that I have got it,
but it was all in silver, and I could hear the tempt
ing stuff jingling for miles. If it had been paper,
I could have stood it, hut could not resist my
fondness for the metallic. But, squire, you mu .t
recollect I’m an office holder, and I’m instructed
by the lawyers, that you can’t make more out of
this than a defalcation, any how ; which we all
know not only will not send a man to the peniten
tiary, but will not prevent him from being res
pected according to his general merits.”
The magistrate could not recognise the “techni
cal distinction” which he drew, but sent the poor
fellow to the “lock up.”
But.— Some people always have a but which
they put in the way of every thing. Inquiring
of such a one the character of his neighbor, he
replied; Why he is a pooty fair clever sort of a
man, but, hem.” But what? “Why—a—hem
—why he feeds bis darn’d old horse on pumpkins.
Facts.
A man may drink and not be drunk,
A man may fight and not be slain ;
A man may kiss a bonnie lass.
And yet be welcome back again.
Poetry.—A southwestern lover pathetically
bewails the loss of his sweetheart, who ran off
with another, in the following poetical strain :
‘’Gone ! grone forever now <be hope.
The joy, for which I thirsted.
Sally ' nn has taken slope,
And I am done and bursted.”
For the Chronicle ij- Sentinel.
To F.—The {Emblpm.
He g.ive a flowei, a fair young flower,
The first that bloomed i t spring.
And said like this, in youth’s bright hour.
My heart to thee I bring.
He bade thee read on its spotless leaf
His plighted vow to thee ;
Alas! not like its fragrante brief,
I deemed his faith would be.
But men will rove, aye, trust them not,
For like the truant bee.
Their early love is soon forgot.
As his has been for thee.
Some flower that in his path .loth lie.
Attracts the insect’s wing,
Its sweets his own, he soon will fly,
And round another sing.
Another wieath his hands have wove,
Another’s brow to twine.
Perchance the chaplet of his love
Will fade, as faded thine.
Aye, trust not man—the gay, the proud.
The fleecj" mists above,
The fading flower, the changing cloud.
Are emblems of his love. Stella.
A clock maker of Vienna, whose name is Mat
thias Ratzenhol'er, has solved the problem propo
sed by Professor Gruithausen of Munich, “To
construct a clock which shall show at once the
time in several cities, the works of which shall
not he in any wise hindered in their movement,
whether they put in motion more or fewer clocks
for different places whether, they are in Europe
or in the other quarters of the globe, and the hands
of which may be changed at pleasure, and direc
ted to other places.” This clock goes right, and
its dial-plate, which is fourteen inches in diame
ter. has in the centre the dial for Vienna, and
around and radiating from it seventy two cities of
different parts of the world, each with its own
1 dial and the name of the place. It shows the
difference of mean time between Vienna and the
seventy-two other towns, and is set in motion by
a four pound weight only ; all the other clocks,
however, are put in motion from the centre of the
Vienna clock ; so that if the works stand still,
noth’ng more is necessary than to set the Vienna
clock to make all the other clocks indicate the
true time. Professor Gruithausen, in a letter to
the “Universal Gazette” of Augsburg, endeavors
to show that this clock is not what lie intended.
A Pointed Jokf.—A lady, who was in the
habit of spending much of her time in the socie
ty of her neighbors, happened one day to lie ta
ken suddenly ill, and sent her husband in great
haste for the physician. The hosband ran a few
rods, but soon returned, exclaiming, “My dear,
where shall I find you when I get back 1”
“What do you propose to offcct by the sub
treasury?” enquire the people. “To raise the
United States to the glorious condition of Cuba,”
reply Messrs. Walker, Calhoun, and Grundy.—
Loii. Jour.
Sell-Interest and Love.
BY SHERIDAN KNOWLES.
Far as the poles asunder are two things.
Self-interest and uncesigning love ;
Yet no two things more like, to sec them smile.
He is a conjuror, Cluistina, then,
Can tell ;ou which is which ! Shall Ibe won,
Because I’m valued as a money-bag.
For that I bring to him who winneth me ?
No ! sooner matins in a cloister than
Marriage like that in open church ! ’Tis hard
To hod men out ; they arc such simple thin? -1
Heaven help you ! they are mostly bird-t ateliers,
That hold aloof until you’re in their nets,
And then they are down upon you and you’re caged,
Nor more your wings your own.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, April 7.
Arrived yesterday. —Ship New-Jersey. Dickson,
Liverpool ; brig .Vary Kimball, Wooster, Thomas
ton,(Me.) brig Betsy and Jane, King, Philade!.;
schrs Hebe, Downes, Matanzas ; Zephyr, Trescott,
do.; Thos. Ireland, Ireland, New-York.
In the effing. —Ship Switzerland, Hunt, Boston.
*At Quarantine. —Ship Corea, Jackson, irom
Havre.
■XT We are au hurised to say that WILLIAM
M. FRAZER is not a candidate for member of
Council in Ward No 2. ap S
(O' We are requested to announce THOMAS
W. MILLER as a candidate for Council in Ward
No. 4. april 7
We are requested to announce the name of IV.
M. FRAZER as a candidate for election to the
City Council for the 2d Ward. aprii 7
XX Messrs. Editors —Seeing in 3’our paper
of yesterday, that the Hon. A. Cumming declines
a re- electian for Mayor of the city, at the approach
ing election, we. therefore, take the liberty of sug
gesting the name of JOHN FHINIZY, Esq., as a
person well calculated to till the otiicc,and he will
be supported by (mar 13) Many Voters.
Messrs, Editors : —Observing in 3*our paper the
names of several gentlemen suggested as candi
dates fur Ma3 - or at the approaching election, we
take the liberty of proposing the name of Dr
DANIEL HOOK, as one well qualified to lili that
office and who will be supported by
March 18 ts Many Voters.
Mr Editor —The following named gentlemen
are recommended as suitable persons for Aldermen
of Ward No. 4, for the ensuing year :
JAMES HARPER, ROBERT PHILIP,
_ mar 21 EDWARD THOMAS.
XX We are authorized to announce the follow- i
ng gentlemen as candidates for men hers of Coun
cil in Ward No. 2: v
B. H. WARREN, JOHN BONES,
mar 31 JOHN G. DUNLAP.
Mr. Editor —Please announce the following
gentlemen as suitable 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 1 at the
appro robing election in April next.
G AREY PARISH. WM. E. JACKSON
mar 18 PHILIP CRUMP.
rr~r 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 No. 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
Mr. Editor following named gentlemen
are recommended as suitable 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 gentlemen
will be supported for Members of Council in Ward
No. 1, at the approaching election:
G. F. PARISH, W. E. JACKSON,
mar 18
Mr. Editor : —Sir, T see a notice in 3 - our paper
of the 12th instant, stating that our worthy Mayor
declines being a candidate for re-election to the of
fice he has so worthily filled, and as it is time the
citizens should nx on a suitable person, 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.
commercial.
_______
j Latest dates from Liverpool, March i
Latest dates from Havre 'lurch 3
AUGUSTA MARKET
Cotton. —Since our report a week ago, the mar
ket has been very firm at our then quotations Un *
til within the last two da3 r s buyers have in Sorr?
measure yielded to the demands of holders, and all
descriptions are a shade bettor. Holders are stir
firm and unyielding in their demands, ani buyer
are now more willing to invest. We quote* the
same as last week, remarking, however, tiiat th»
market now is more favorable to the seller than
week since. The sales this wock amount to SO3
bales, viz;—2l at ss; 12 at 6; sat Gs 22 at
222 at 7a; 47 at B a“
190 at 7J; 49 at 7J; 112 at 8; and 14 at Bs. 3
Ordinary to middling, 51 l 0
Fair ’ G* to 7
Good Fair, to 7*
Prime and choice, 7J to g
A very choice lot in square bags will briar g|
to S£.
Groceries. —The business in this department 0
trade, although limited an I confined exclusive *
to small parcels, is tolerably fair for the sc uon *
Sugar. The quantity in market has been pad.
ually reducing, and prices arc consequently moi e
firm at our quotations ; a lot of prime Porto Ri co
has been sold from the wharf at cents 4 mos
Coffee.— The supply of this aiticlc is very good
and sales are freely made at our quotations.
Molasses. —The market is well supplied and a
fair den and at our quotations—last sales from the
wharf at 30 cents.
Baron —Has become rather scarce and coma,an Is
readily from wagons 8?, a 9 cents hog rcund.
Salt.— Considerable additions have been made
to the stock which is now very good-last sales
from the wharf by the cargo 4 J cents, on time.
Country Flour.— The arrivals recently have ra
ther increased the supply, and sales are made from
wagons at 6 a 65 per bill.
Domestic Liquors- Continue dull and sales are
difficult at almost any price.
Freights —To Savannah, 73 to 100 cts per bale
to Charleston, by rail road, 30c per 100 Jbs. for
square, and 40c per 100 lbs. for round bales.
Exchange. —On New-York at sight, S 4 per
cent, for current funds; Charleston at per
cent; Savannah 2 per ct.; Philadelphia 34 a4 per
ct ; Lexington, Ky. per ct.; Richmond 4 per
cent; specie commands 6 a S per cent, premium.
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Banks, 1 a percent, prem.
Columbus Insurance B’k 2 ’ “ “ «
Commercial Bank, Macon,
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ “ «
Agenc3' Brunswick, “ 6 “ “ “
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 27 ,£ “ dis.
Central Bank,
Milledgeviilo Bank, 2.7 “ “ “
Ocmulgee Bank, 4 “ «
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 4 “ “
Hawkinsville Bank, 4 “ «
Chattahoochie R. 11. & B’k
Company, 6 “ “ “
Darien Bank, 16 “ “ “
Bank of Rome, 33 “ “ “
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, Bank
of St. Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com
mercial Bank of Macon, and Brunswick Agency in
this city.
XX The Regular Monthly Meeting of the Augus
ta Benevolent Society, preparatory to the Anniver
sary of said Soc et} r , will be held on Friday even
ing, the 11th instant, at o’clock, in the Metho
dist Episcopal Church. Punctual attendance of ail
committees having unsettled accounts, and the So
ciety in general, is requested.
By order of the President.
J. W WiGHTMAN, Sec’y.
i W. G, HIM MO, General < ornmission Mer
chant, office on Mclntosh sticot, next door tolbe
Constitutionalist. no v 7
CX* Dr. W. I LINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
profession. He may be found at all hours at the
iateresidence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second dooi
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets.
ncv29 jy
J. W. JONES, is my authorised Agent for the
adjustment of 1113' unfinished business,
rear 3 WILLIAM E. JONES.
WILLIAM ii. Me LAWS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
dec IS No. 4 Constitutionalist Range.
XX EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight
and at one to t\v ty da}'s sight. For sale by
nov 23 GARDELLE RHIND.
XX r - J- ll- MURRAY offers his professional
servraes to the citizens of Hamburg and the vieia
it3'. Office at H. R. Cooke’s Dug Store,
mar 17 lm
XX F ’ r - GARDNER , former!}' resident surgeon
in the New 3 ork Hospital, and physician at BeHe-
I vue Hospital, New York, tenders to the public his
| professional services.
Office in Washington street, between Broad and
i Ellis streets. Residence, United States Hotel.
i a P 2
1 (XX TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS.—
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’Drawing Vcademy,
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to vi.-d
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At night the rooms
will be well lighted. dec 19
XX Doctor J. J. WILSON oilers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinit.v. He will be found at bis residence, the
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams.
aug!7 ts
XX NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
follows:
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a«.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’. - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - II 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m
* “ Black vide, - “ - 100 .«
** “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWN W ARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. si.
“ “ Aiken, - “ 730
“ “ Blackville, “ - - 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ “ Branchvill iS - . 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 m.
* “ Summerville/* - - 2 00p. m.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance —13li miles. Fare Through —plO 99-
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and nol
longer than 5 minutes for wo * and water at al, I
station.
To slop for passengers, when a urhile fl°S 13
hoisted, at cither of the above stations; and also a
Sincalhs, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile I- •»
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons,
and Marsh’s T. O. .
Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock an
dine at Blacicvnle; aoton, will orca*ia>t at Aiken
and dine at Summervihe. m*J'