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, I CHRONICLE AND sjcNTINEL. j > A U GUST 4. THURSDAY MORNINGI,i APRIL 9. • t i —— — — “ To Journeymen Printers. A good Compositor, of sober and industrious habits, can obtain employment 1 1 this office. For the last few days, we havje been unable to afford our readers as much reading matter as we wished, in consequence of the {indisposition of one of our compositors, and the ajbsence of anoth er, whose places we have not bceh able to supply. As early as aid can be obtained,! |t will be procur ed, when we trust an apology forjthe appearance of our sheet will not be required.] 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 $5 50 a 6 per shialre. This is no doubt partly owing to accounts received, per Mon treal, of a large loan having beefi effected in Lon don on farorable terms for the institution. I just \ 5 hcar § from the second board that f,£69 shares more have been sold at the closing fjrice of 51. A better feeling, in fact, generally pervaded the stock, market to-day. United States l;i;|nk shares ad vanced 1 per cent, and Delaware jaud Hudson Some considerable sales of fojijign Exchanges have been made, and prices are i|ertainly firmer, as the supply does not appear adequate to the de mand, the rates paid are 7$ 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. t 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'