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i CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. | THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL : ).| From, the Constitutionalist. The abolitionists, as soon as General 1 afrison will be placed in the presidential chair, w 11; com mence the accomplishment of their plan Vy an attempt to abolish slavery in the Distra c:f Co lumhia. Are we prepared in the south to witness such an attempt made in Congress unde the in lluence of the executive and his counc; iors ? Whatever way he the views of General 1 airrison, respecting the important interests just sfo ted, he will be obliged to follow the advice of th-; friends who placed him in power ; and we are v ell con vinced that those friends are not the fi|ehds of the south; that they are neither the friends of the democratic principles which have rlaracter ized the southern section of the union, jl \ We cut the foregoing prediction from Con stitutionalist of Tuesday morning. W 5 design not only to enquire of the Constitutional sir, what greater reason has the South to fear tli accom plishment of the designs of the Abolitk lists un «® der the Administration of General Harri .on, who has long since declared that their desi :ns upon slavery in the District of Columbia, wai uncon stitutional—than under the Administration, of Mr. Van Buren, who has indirectly admitted that the abolition of slavery in the District was iconsti.u tional, and whose only pledge to veto ch a Bill if adopted by Congress, t is founded ipon his views of the inexpediency of such a leasure*# Jrfay not his views of the inexpedio; cy of the measure be as easily overcome as those if Gener al Harrison, who regards it not only j s inexpe dient but also unconstitutional I —But v& design to submit to the consideration of the Constitution alist, the following from one of ?itiS Demo cratic friends which we cut from th| Cayuga Tocsin, a regular Abolition, Van l-ciRKx pa per. Will the Constitutionalist persis lifter rea ding t'ais document, in endeavoring to; repose up. on its readers, by insinuating that the Abolition ists are exclusively of the Whig pi ty at the North ? The truth is, the Constitute realist has no more fear of the designs of the Al ffitionists, under an Administration of General Harrison, than under Mr. Van Buren—but if it; ir; succeed in making such an impression upon r, e-minds of the people, and thereby make capital, it is all well enough. ; Does this letter which appears in c.ji Abolition paper, which openly advocates Mr. 1 irj Buren’s re-election, indicate a disposition to a Ivjance the claims of Gen. Harrison? Does it ; all manifest a fear that the speech of the Abolitij: list Slade, may induce some of them to escape (i m the folds of Van Hurcnism? And docs it not w irh the Van Buren Abolitionists against its infill nee ? Let those who are interested in this male-: look to this and answer these questions. • Pout Byron, 4tb Month.,j7. 1840. Editors of the Cayuga Toc^ln:—l dis cover that Christopher Morgan is; Hooding the county with a pamphlet, entitled “ s| leech of Mr. Slade of Vermont on the Right of If’ tition, &c.” My object in writing this,is simply ||* inform the real abolitionists of Cayuga, that t ie speech, of “ Mr. Slade of Vermont ,” is the res d* of as foul a conspiracy, as ever disgraced her class conspi rators.—The parties to this conspi icy are the slave holding whigs at the South , ai I the ojjice seeking abolitionists of the North, ii nong whom is “ Mr. Blade of Vermont,” and, I h vb no doubt your own representative, of Cayug i Think you that those masters Wise and Jo therm, would have listened quietly to that speech, "uid they not known that the slave who was delii|ering it, was the selected instrument to proa re. abolition votes? Suppose the election of th s slave hol der’s, tool, Harrison, and the breed r Tyler, de pended upon the securing abolition votes, could a better plan have been devised ? : )r could any other plan have been invented so kelj to suc ceed ? Yet, after all the treason, i vjrill not suc ceed. The consistency is too bare! iced—the pill is too large. Abolitionists cant at: r<i to be long, cr gulled, it’s too expensive. W. O.JDUVALL. From the Nero Orleans Picayum o' the 22 d. From Texas. The s'eam packet New York, ’apt. Wright, arrived yesterday from Galveston, (ringing dates from that place as bate as the 18th [irjst. The news brought by the New ifprk is not so interesting as was expected. : Relative to the recent battle bet rqen the Fed eral and Central forces and their sp sequent move ments, wo have the following iten s, received at Galveston by Mr. T. A. Stevens, i, met from Vic toria. | The four hundred persons on t e.Federal side who fell in the engagement near >a;n Fernando, are said to have been mostly Ai glb-Americans. It appears they were attacked v? icin entirely oIT their guard. The Texians say tl ai the Central ists lost 600 men on their side. The fugitives have been received with open arr s by the Tex ians. his a mistake that any po lion of the Fed eral army has retreated or goneli Austin There is a s.r.all scouting party yet on I u- Rio Grande, and a small detachment are awaj ing their return on the Neuccs river. All the bail iree of the Fed eral army from the Eastern pc| i of Mexico are now in and near \ ictoria. A | uidsome tlinner was given to the Federalists t! the citizens of \ ictoria. Col. Samuel A. Pluji inier arrived in \ ictoria about ten days since dirlct from Austin, with orders to raise men in ths;i county for the protection of the frontier. Mr. Stevens also brought on orders into Brnzori-jfcounty, address ed to Capt. Gill, to raise 200 null m that countv, to report himself with all possible h iste in Vic toria ready for duty. All ttjj men are to be mounted. We may infer from these nu /ernents that pre parations are making for a vigor ms defence of the frontier. The Federalists are t ill in good spirits and determined to recruit agab; end be in readi ness to meet their enemy oncy more. The Galveston Civilian say , “ Our govern ment sustains Gen. Hunt on |! e question in re lation to the line between Teijil? bnd the United States, the U. S. Commission|r contending that the whole of Sabine Lake is uithin the limits of his country, and Gen. Hunt coiitending that the line should divide the lake in "(lie centre. It is to be hoped however, that Broiler Jonalhan will have sufficient shrewdness to -fuk out before our young Hercules of a nation fiiidfi it necessary to drub him into a conviction of vtil error.” There is no farther informa!|o|i relative to the Indiana. j business was dull at Galv s'ion, and money scarce. J reasury notes were p assing at the rate of 25 cents on the dollar. ' ! Mrs. Pamelia Brown (late h rjs Mann) and her husband, hive been arrested njd imprisoned at Houston, charged with stea l;*; negroes. This woman is the same person w O; escaped the pun ishment of death about a yea sjmee. through the interposition of Executive njency. She had been convicted of forgery, • djich is punishable with death in Texa*. j j Virginia Election. We give below all the information we have been enabled to collect from the late election.— Our table showing the changes since last year, is taken from the Baltimore Patriot, which we deem correct. The other returns are obtained through various other sources, and are supposed to be so. Thus far the work goes bravely on, and we are quite confident the old dominion has elected a le gislature decidedly opposed tc \an Buren. Bu“ the gain to the friends of reform in the popular vote is immense, even beyond our most sanguine expectations, being in Norfolk district alone, 400 votes. If thelreturns yet to come in show, a cor responding increase, the Old Dominion may be set down as certain for the hero of Tippecano. Virginia House of Delegates. This year. Last year. W. ii. F. W. L.F. Amelia, 1— 1— Caroline, 1— 1— Brunswick, 2 2 Stafford, I —1 Spottsvylvania, 1— 1— Louisa 1— ‘ Hanover, 1— —1 Powhattan, 1— —1 Fairfax, —1 —1 Fauquier, 2 2 Dinwiddle, —1 I Henrico, 1— 1— Richmond city, 1— 1— Culpepper, 1— 1— King George, 1— 1— Frederick, 11 2 Jefferson, 2 2 Morgan, 1— —1 Petersburg, 1— 1— Norfolk borough, 1— 1— Norfolk county, 2 2 Nansemond, 1— 1— Princess Anne, 1— I Elizabeth city 7 j j & Warwick, 5 Loudon, .3 3 26 6 22 10 Whig gain, so far, 4 Delegates and 1 Senator (Conrad) in the Frederick district. In the House of Delegates, last year, the Whig and Conservative vote was 72 to 60 Loco Foco. The prospect now is very fair for a larger Whig majority in the House; and we shall certainly bring down the Loco Foco majority in the Sen ate two or three votes. So far, then, the re turns are all we hoped for, and go beyond the expectations of every one ; but as there are a good many more counties to be heard from, we wait for farther advices before we shout “victory,” We have detailed the following returns from the Charleston Courier of yesterday. Isle of Wight—Smith (V. B.) re-elected without opposition—-last year Van Buren major ity 403. Albemarle —Messrs. Southall and Coles (W.) arc staled to have beat Messrs. Randolph and Gorkov (V. B.) about 200 votes —Whig majority last year, 87. Surry—Reported to have gone for the Whigs, the Administration party splitting —last year 39 Whig majority. Southampton—U R huh art , (W.) is said to have beaten his administration opponent by 30 to 60 votes. King William — Dabney beat Fontaine (both Van Buren) 29 votes. Cumberland —Irving (W.) elected by 6 ma jority. Buckingham — Messrs. Kyle and Flood (W.) elected by 50 to 80 majority. Fluvanna — Payne, (Con.) 249; Jennings (V. B.) 58. New Kent and Charles city— Coleman (W.) re-elected. Chesterfield—Cox (V. B.) re-elected—no op position. Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot. Washington, April 25. house cf representatives. Who are the Federalists ? —The Globe and the Loco Foco papers are in the habit of charging the Whigs with being Federalists, and the same slang lias been caught up by the Loco Foco de claimed in Congress. That compound of dullness and vulgarity, Par menter, of Massachusetts, made an elaborate ha rangue a few days ago for the purpose of show ing that the Old Federal party were now all found acting with the Whigs, and among the zealous of Harrison’s supporters. Hence this subtle lo gician inferred that the Whigs and Federalists aie identical, while the parly that supports Van Buren are all true republicans. I mentioned that Mr. Morgan, of New York had given an effective answer at the time to this tissue of parties and declamation. To-day he presented, according to notice, and by leave, some striking illustrations of these pre tences and impositions of the Loco f oco Editors and Orators.—Besides oilier things, lie read some : remarkable extracts from a newspaper published at Cooperstown, N. Y. and edited by Mr, Pren tiss, the present representative from Oswego. These extracts contain the most ferocious denun ciation of the republican administration of Mr. Madison and of that great statesman’s supporters; and also oppose the war, and all the means that were necessary to sustain the honor and glory and safety of the country in the conflict with a powerful and wealthy nation. These extracts galled the Loco Focos very severely; for Mr. Prentiss is a prominent mem ber in the modern Federal-Loco-Foco-Sub-Trea sury-Tory Party. Some of them tried to throw discredit on the ar ticles, by insinuation ; declaring that the extracts were made by a Whig editor. Mr. Morgan challenged any member to deny that the extracts were not correct copies. Being thus hard pressed, Mr. Smith of Maine, interposed, by raising a question of order, for the purpose of precluding the idea that the challenge could not be accepted. The extracts are true copies, and they demonstrate the miserable hypo cncy and affectation of the slang-whangers, who are continually prating about “ Federalism and Federalists” in connection with the Whig party. general appropriation bill. The House resumed the consideration of this bill at the usual hour. The Official organ of last evening, contains another flagrant falsification of the course of par ties in Congress in reference to this measure. It charges the Opposition with obstructing the public business, and has a half a column of la mentations over the suffering condition of the public service in all its departments from the de lay in passing the General Appropriation Bill. The comment on this is, that a young conceited Loco Foco dcclaimer from New Hampshire oc cupied much of the last two days in abusing Gen. Harrison, and that another Administration man. Mr. Clifford, of Maine, after him, kept the House till midnight with a string of shreds and patches that were just as applicable to the Moon Hoax, as they were to the business before the Commit tee. All the irrelevancy that has been brought into the dabate may be justly charged on the Admin istration Party. Until Duncan began his mis cellany of coarseness and maudlin nonsense, re cently" published in the Globe, the debate was strictly confined to the merits of the Bill. Hi attack? on the People s candidate for the Presi dency weie followed up by others of a sitnilai character entitled to more attention and respect, 1 e and the Opposition necessarily were called on to defend themselves, and the eminent citizen se lected for their sulfrages, and the principles of ’» public policy identified with him. e Mr. Dillet, of Alabama, obtained the floor last j night just before the House adjourned; and to day he made a masterly speech against the prin -1 ciples and policy of the Administration, as indi cated in the leading measures —the sub-Treasury e and its affinities. Mr. Dillet was speaking when this packago was closed. ■ m r To Billy Brevity. c “One hundred Northern men,” Whigs, have 3 read your text, when shall they look for your commentary 1 A Northern Man. 6 Fire. The Macon Telegraph of the 28th says: — About 4 o’clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the Ware House occupied by Messrs. Hamilton and Reynolds, situated on First st. The building was consumed, but no other pro peity lost. Recent occurrences should admon ish our Police to be on the alert. Fire. —The cotton shed immediately in the rear of, and belonging to, Hitchcock’s Press, with all its contents were entirely consumed by fire last night. The shed was filled with cotton —the number of bales is variously estimated—probably 2,500. We have not been able to ascertain on whom the loss falls, or the amount of insurance. The fire broke out about 9 o’clock, and was evi dently the work of an incendiary.— Mobile Ad vertiser of the 25th. A letter from Garey’s Ferry, (E. F.) publish ed in the Army and Navy Chronicle, states that various and repeated trials have been made in pursuing the Indians by the bloodhounds, all of which have proved ineffectual. On one occasion the dogs were laid on, but would not follow up, the trail of two warriors whose rifles, pouches, &c. had been captured half an hour previous, the In dians being so hotly pressed as to compel them to relinquish their much valued weapons. A second instance: when two Indians were shot near the head of Ahapopka Lake, the dogs could not be induced to take the slightest notice. These and others, added to the trials made at Garey’s Ferry, in attempting to follow Indian Billy, and even the negro guide, arc evidences sufficient in • themselves to put an end to all reliance upon | them for the service expected from them. From the Richmond ( Va.J Yeoman . A gentleman who had this anecdote from the ! lips of the lute General Tipton himself, has been so kind as to commit it to writing for our use: Anecdote of the Battle of Tippecanoe. During the last Presidential canvass, the rnili i tary claims of General Harrison was freely can vassed and sonic of his opponents did not scruple to charge him with a want of courage. The late General Tipton, of the United States Senate, who had served as an ensign at the battle of Tip pecanoe, was asked by a friend, “ what think you General, of Harrison’s com age !” He replied, “ I think him as brave a man as ever lived—no man could have behaved with more true courage than he did—while the engegement w r as hotost and when the bullets flew thickest, he was to l>e seen speaking in his ordinary tone, and giving commands with the greatest precision. “ The company to which I belonged,” said General Tipton, “went into action eighty strong, and only twenty survived—the firing upon us was almost tremendous. After the General had made his arrangement for repelling the attack of the Indians at other points, he rode up to where I was, and made the following inquiries: ‘ where’s your Captain!’ “He is dead,” sir— ‘ Where is the first or second Lieutenant 1 ’ ‘They are both dead,’ was the reply. “ Well where is the En sign 1”—“Ho stands before you, General.” ‘Well my brave fellow,’ said Harrison, ‘ hold I your ground for five minutes longer, and all will ; be safe.” In fifteen minutes the emeny was re s pulsed on all sides. Tipton gallantly led on his - few remaining comrades to the charge, and vic tory perched upon the American banner. As an evidence of Harrison’s coolness in the ■ the midst of danger, Gen. Tipton stated, that at ■ the moment the conversation ended hewcen hitn -1 self and General Harrison, and as the horse on ? which vvas mounted his aid, the late Gen. Tay lor of Ind. was in the act of turning, a rifle ball 3 pierced him through the body, and brought him i to the ground, catching his rider’s leg under him. t It was a favorite black horse of the General's 3 and he exclaimed, “ Ah, is my gallant old black 1 gone! Well, rise and mount again, for we have no time to mourn the loss of a horse, when so I many brave ones are exposed to a similar fate”— - and having remounted his aid, he dashed into the 3 midst of the danger. In a few minutes the bat -3 tie was over. From the Albany Journal. . Thevvhole history »f Vanßurenism will seem . apocryphal to posterity. Such an unbroken se . ries of experiments upon popular credulity the ; world has never before witnessed. “ The art of t governing mankind by deceiving them” has been r practised to a greater extent by the federal minis i try at Washington than it was ever before car ried by the most profligate Government under j Heaven. There is not one solitary profession - made by these promise-breakers to gain power, - that they have fulfilled. There is not an evil of which they complained, that they have not ag gravated. There is not a remedy proposed, that s has been supplied. They have been constant in nothing but duplicity—true to nothing except r iheir own base interests. There is no surer index to the character of a , Government than the condition of the People.— e While the administration of our national affairs 3 was conducted by faithful, capable and honest a Statesmen, the Country was piosperous and hap - py. The National Debt was paid off, and a sur a plus of forty millions of dollars accumulated in d the Treasury. But no sooner was Burenism i.i . troduced into our councils than the Country com menced sinking. The surplus vanished, and the s foundations of a new national debt was laid.— Calamity and mildew have settled down upon all s classes and all interests. The Roman Triumvirs - did not hesitate to make a reciprocal sacrifice of ?. their best friends to each other’s animosity, to e preserve a detestible union among themselves.— i- It remained for Van Buren, Calhoun and Benton e to copy and blacken the example, by sacrificing >- the happiness of a whole People for a similar ob- I. ject. d It is time that an Administration which has :- exercised unlimited power for ten years, and pro i. duced nothing but misery and distress, should i, cease, e s The Young Wh’g’s National Convention, which is to assemble in Baltimore on the 4th \i a y—next Monday week bids fair to be in num bers and composition, the most imposing scene 0 ever seen in this country. From the number of delegates chosen in the j. different States, it is computed that some fifteen thousand young men will be in attendance; and ,s the preparations making in Baltimore are upon a s scale commensurate with the great occasion, i- It will be an era in the life of any one who r shall be present at this Convention.— American. Major Jack Downing is quick in dis covering any black clouds that threaten to over shadow the party. In a late letter published in the New York Express, he mentions several scenes, the like of which are frequently occurring in every town in our country, where there are mechanics, farmers or fishermen. The Major says— “ I dropt in to have a talk with my old friend Bangum, the blacksmith, who was a spell ago one of our stand-bys, and found his fire out and bellows leathers breathless. “Why, says I, Bangum, how goes it!” “Bad enough,” says he, and so he went on talking about want of work, Sec. —that horses even went barefoot.and no shoes j wanted.” “But, says I, hear that—and I jingled two pieces of gold that I had placed in my pock et, and with that he seized his large hammer and slammed it on an anvil. “ Hear that, says he, Major—and which makes the most noise 1 but what does it amount to •” I seed at once that he was over the fence, and so I trudged round to old Plankum, the ship carpenter, and found him and his children scraping up chips in the ship yard—and so I dodged round the corner and said nothing there, and so from one calling and trade to another, found pretty nigh nil busy doing no thing, and every one I talked to grit his teeth, and that is what I call rale grit. And some say the farmers too are complaining, but this cant be, for the General and Mr. Van Buren said that the farmers would all get rich, and happy and con tented, provided the merchants and bankers, and all that train was broken down. There is one class of folks, however, who are doing well, and we must stick to them, no matter how much oth er folks complam, for it is for their interest to work sharp together to keep the party under—and that is the office holders. No matter how hard the times be, the worse they be the better for them, for their wages dont change. The scar cer money is, the more they can buy with their wages, which never lessens; and happy is the man who holds an office and the bigger the pay and all in the rale hard currency too.” The One Term Doctrine.— De Tocquevillc, in his admirable work on this country, holds the following language. It possesses the more force at this time, from the fact that General Harrison had announced his determination to continue in the Presidential office only for a single term. * * * * By introdcing the princi ple of re-election, they (the American legislators) partly destroyed their work ; and they rendered the President but little inclined to exert the great power they had vested in his hands. Il ineligi ble a second time, the President would he far from independent of the people, for his responsi bility would not be lessened ; but the favor of the people would not be so necessary to him as to induce him to court it by humoring its desires. If re-eligible (and this is more especially true at the present day, when political morality is relaxed, and when great men are rare) the President of the United Slates becomes an easy tool in the hands of the majority.—He adopts its likings and its animosities, he hastens to anticipate its wishes; he forestalls its complaints : he yields to its idle cravings, and, instead of guiding it, as the Legis lature intended that he should do, he is ever ready to follow its biddings. Thus, in order not to deprive the State of the talents of an individual, those talents have been rendered almost useless; and to reserve an expedient for extraordinary perils, the country has been exposed to uaily dangers. The Paris correspondent of the New York Commercial writes : “ Commercial men here arc beginning to ciy out against a menace of the United Statesto affix a prohibitory duty on silks. They talk of retaliating by excluding your cot ton. The silk manufacturers at Lyons are repre sented as being in a state of sufferance, and vast numbers of operatives are out of employ. The bankers refuse to make any advances to the man ufacturers.” The Richmond Compiler of the 25th, says— The trial of B. W. Green, as we have before in timiated it would, came on Friday, before a call ed Court of Hustings, composed of Alderman Cullen, Cowels, Evans, Dove, Duval and Grubbs. He was arrainged upon the substance t of the char ges contained in the two warrants, which we have before alluded to and recited—and the counsel for the defence declared themselves prepared to go in to the trial, but in consequence of the absence of several material witnesses en the part of the Commonwealth, the prosecution were obliged to ask a continuance of the case until next week— Wednesday was agreed on. Application was made by the counsel of Green, that he should be discharged from custody upon his bail—where upon considerable discussion The motion vvas warmly pressed by the one side and as warm ly repelled by the other. Court, however, refused to admit, him to bail; and he was remanded to the city jail to await his further trial. Yankee Notions of a Rotal Marriage —The editor of the Monticello (N. Y.) Watch man, talks on this subject like a common sense I man. Hear him : | “ Nearly one whole page of the big newspa ! pers is niied with a detailed account of Queen i Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert. In casting 1 our eye over it, we involuntarily ejaculated | “ fudge !” and the more we think of it, the more ; we exclaim, “fudge !” We plain unsophisticated ! Republicans, do this kind of business in another | way We first find a“ fair one” that we are wil i ling “to have,” and then ascertain whether she j will “ have us.” If so, tic day is appointed—a few friends invited—the ceremony pefonned with out delay, and then—well, what then! Why the simple fact of marriage is announced, the cou ple start on the journey of life, are happy, gel rich, grow fat, bring up half a score of sturdy young Democrats, not to wear crowns, or coro nets, or stars, or garters, but to wear the livery of honest, independent freemen—a distinction | far more eviable than they enjoy, whose only ; claim to honor is founded on oirth.” Loco Foco Figures. —A new county, called Lake, was recently established in Ohio. An elec tion was about to take place in it, the leading loco focos made and published an elaborate estimate, ! proving, to their own complete satisfaction, that i they would carry it by a majority of precisely j 23. Well, the election took place—and what was the result! Why the Whigs swept all be fore them by a majority of from 960 to 1,000 !! ! Hurrah for Lake county ! The waves of free dom run high in that lake. —Louisville Journal. Imprisonment for Debt.—We congratu late our follow-citiziens upon the prospect of eras ing from our Statute Books a vestage of law which consigns non-resident debtors to imprison ment. This benign bill passed the Assembly yesterday, and has promptly passed the Senate to-day. If Congress will now do its duty in relation to a General Bankrupt Law, the Country will begin to breathe again.— Alb. Journal. From the Hagerstown fMd.J Torch Light Some amusing incidents occurred on Saturday. —We will relate one. One of the Marshals of the day, at the close of the procession, as we have been informed, address ed the committee of arrangements thus : Gentle men of the committee, I thank you for the marked attention you paid me. You presented me with a sash—l put it on. \ou gave me a badge of office —I took. it. \ou offered me a splendid grey horse for the day—l mounted him. I have march ed with you. I have assisted you through the day I have acted and fought with you for twelve years. I can go with you no longer. I wish to quit your party in peace. I return your sash, your badge, your horse; and again thank you for the distinc tion you have canferred upon me. But, gentle men, I’ll vote for Harrison. lam just on my way tojoin the Tippecanoe Club. And he did join it. There’s no mistake. The Galveston Daily Courier says—“ The lit tle sloop Breeze, which arrived a day or two since all the way from Cincinnati, Ohio, brought a family on as passenger, who have come with the intention of remaining as citizens of Texas. They brought with them a house frame, lumber j and other conveniences of living.” Military,—Just as our paper was ready for the press, we learned that Brigadier General Tay lor had been relieved, at his own request, from the command of the troops in Florida, and that Brigadier General W. K. Armistcad, of the 3d Artillery, had been ordered to succeed him. The change to take place on the Ist of May. —Army 4* Navy Chronicle. The Rev. Mr, Newton, said to be the most cel ebrated Methodist preacher in England, is short ly expected to arrive in this country. He will attend the General Conference in Baltimore, Bragcisg.—lt takes us Yankees to outbrag all creation. A jockey at a late race in England asked a Yankee if we had such swift horses in our country. “ Swift!” said Jonathan, “why I guess we have—l seen a horse at Baltimore on a sunshiny day start even with his own shadow, and beat it a quarter of a mile at the first heat 1” Keep Torn Couxtkxasce.— Somebody wri ting from New York to the editor of the Globe is of opinion that the Charter Election here se cures Van Buren. The federal locofocos have gained a loss of more than 300 votes in this city since last fall and therefore the State will go for the little magician! Clear as mud.— N. Y. Times. Ma xcfactures in Egypt.—Among other instances of the improved state of manufactures in in Egypt, it is said that there are now 30,000 linen looms, 7000 cotton looms, and 4,500 wool len looms in various establishments in that coun try. At the same time the corn and other veg etable products of Egypt are on the increase, A singular state of public affairs indicated in the fact that a vessel arrived in this city from Nor folk with building timber for the Navy Yard,say about 494 white oak knees, and there was not enough public funds in the hands of the person diiectmg the Navy Yard lo pay the freight, say less than §4OO, and a refusal to pay demurrage was also given the'eaptain, who was referred lo a broker to get his certificate shaved. This is a loose way of managing public business.— Phil. U. S. Guz. We observe, that the editor of a loco foco organ, the N. Y. Evening Post, has an occasional hit at the administration. Is it because he thinks that the troasur}' pap is doled out to him too scantily? Is the calf butting tlie Treasury cow to make her give down her milk?— Louisville Jour. The Advertiser pretends, that the administra tion has carried Michigan. The administration has the pleasure of carrying that slate just as a fish hawk carries a kingfisher, that fastens to his hack, making the leathers fly like thistledown in a high wind. —Louisville Jour. From the New York Journal of Commerce. French Indemnity. —The following statement prepared in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives by the Register of the Treasu ry, was communicated to that body on the 11th inst. The amount of claims was $9,36.2,193 21. For the Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th instal ments, §3,682,001 09 Constituting a dividend on §9,362,- 193 27, the aggregate amount of claims of §39 37-100 pr ct. For t he sth instalment, 842,586 08 Dividend on do. 8 9575-10C00 pr ct. For the 6th instalment, 826,191 52 Dividend on do. S 5248-10000 pr ct. For additional interest on tiie 4th in stalment, 207,329 38 Dividend on do. 2 2145-10000 pr ct. §59 3071-10000 $5,555,108 07 Origin of Gunpowder. —The greatest improve ment which the military services ever received, was in the invention of gunpowder, which, as Polv dorc Virgil relates, was about the ycai 1380 of Christ, by Bartholdus Schwartz, a learned Fran ciscan Monk, who, having applied himself to che mical investigations, happened to mix together, fur some particular purpose, such ingredients as from the constituent partsofgu: powder, viz., salt-petrc, sulphur and chaicoal. This composition, being put into a mortar,and covered with a stone, hap pened to take fire, and blew oil' the stone to a con siderable distance. Monk was at first greately surprised and frightened ; but recovering himself, : he soon discovered some of those particular uses | to widen it was afterwards so successfully applied. ! Schwartz first taught the use of it to the Venetians, in the year 1380, daring the war with the Geoncse ; and it was first empio3*ed by them in a place called Fos-a Clodia, against Lawrence de Medici s; and all Italy complained of it as a manifest innovation on the rules of lawful war. Rut what contradicts this account, and shows gunpowder to be of an o’derdate, is the fact men tioned by Peter Moxia ; that the Moors, being besieged in 1343 by Alphonsus XI,, king of Castile, j he discharged a sort of irou. mortars upon them, ! which made a noise like thunder.—And this is sc- I comled by Don Pedro, Bishop of Leon, who relates, in his Chronicle of King Alphonsus, that in a sea combat between the king of Tunis and the Moorish king of Seville, above five hundred years ago, those of Tunis had certain iron tubes, or barrels, with I which they threw thunderbolts of fire. Du Cange | a Ids, that there is mention made of gunpowder in j the Registers of the Chamber of Accounts in France, as early as the year 1338. It appears that Roger Bacon knew the ingredients of which gunpowder is compounded, one hundred years before Schwartz was born. That philosopher mentions the composition in express terms, in his treatise ‘ De Nuliitate Magiac, published in 1316, twenty-feur years after the author’s death. ‘You may,’ says he, raise thunder and lightning at plea sure, by only taking sulpher, nitre and charcoal: which singly have no effect, but mixed together, and confined in a close place, cause a noise and ex plosion, greater than a clap of thunder.’ Macon; April 25. Cotton. —We quote for yesterday 5 a 7g—some animation in the market, notwithstanding we are at the close of the season. The river is falling rapidly, and boxes will soon be in demand. Consignees per South Carolina Hail Hoad. Hamburg, April 30, 1840. ' Rankin, Boggs & Co; S Hewlett; J K & II Ho -1 ra; T Richards; Wjatt & Warren; H Parsons; R V Goetchius; E D Cooke; C Hall; W E Jackson; O& J Carmichael; Haviland, Risley & Co; B Pic quet; Stovall, Simmons St Co; Reese St Beall; G R Jessup; T Dawson; I Levy; G Parrott; Kernc - ghan St Wray. C Cj" The Annual meeting of the Augusta Bcnevo- I Society was held on last Thursday' Eve t ning, at the Masonic Hall, when the following . officers were elected for the ensuing ear: „ Dr F. M. Robertson, President; J. S, Cohen ' Vice President; J. W. Wightman, Secretary; j’ ■ Winter, Treasurer and Collector ;W. M. Kennedy! ' Assistant do. BANK REPORTS. Bank ol' Milledgeville, April 14th, 1840 H s Excellency, Charles J. McDonald. Sir, —I have the honor to hand you herewith the semi-annual return, shewing the con lition of this Bank on Monday morning the 6th instant and also the additional returns required by acts passed at the last Session of the Legislature. • Very respectfully, Si r , Your obedient Servant, S. Grantlanr, Prcst. State of the Bank of Milledgeville. on Monday Morning, the 6 th April, 1840. DR. Capital slock, paid in, §425,250 Notes issued, payable at principal bank, 640,000 On hand, 508,885 In circulation, 131,115 Payable in Au gusta, 50,000 On hand, 47,375 In circulation. 2,625 Total amount in circulation, 133,740 Checks on time, 114,000 Deposite account, 53,434 81 Certificates Deposite, 5,413 51 Discount and Premium account, 5,877 63 Due to Banks, 3,568 05 §741,273 00 CR. Notes and Bills, discounted, viz: Maturing in N. York, §80,200 00 Do. at princ’l. h’k. and other places, 153,729 58 Past due and Notes in suit, 130,526 78 In suit and in judgment, 196,092 44 Banking House and Lot in Macon, 14,000 00 Profit and Loss Account, 1,232 72 Protest Account, 253 05 Incidental Expenses, 1,286 04 Salary Account, 3,767 27 g Agency Account, 8,03 5 25 I Office Augusta, unsettled balance, 2,635 18 I Office Macon, do. 44,125 08 I Office Columbus, do. 4,233 09 I Due by Banks, 13,884 79 v Cash balance, viz : Notes of other Banks, 39,545 00 Certificates Deposit (Banks this Slate) 3,585 27 Gold and Silver, 44,141 46 §741,273 00 We, the undersigned, a Committee of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Milledgeville, appointed to examine and report upon the Notes and Bills of Exchange of said Bank, have per formed that duly, and are of opinion, that there is the sum of Forty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars, and eighty-three cents, doubtful—and the sum of thirty-four thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars, bad paper. K. M. Gume, April 6, 1840. Jer. Beall. The aggregate amount owing to the Bank liy its Stockholders is one hundred and thirty-four thousand two hundred and fifty-three 83-lUO dol lars. Os this sum, eighty thousand dollars is in paper discounted for the purchase of Cotton, and made payable in New York; which there is every reason to believe, will be paid at maturity, a few weeks hence. Two of the Stockholders, Col. Farish Carter, and Mr. Wm. G. Lane, owe the Bank each upwards of ten thousand dollars. 1 List of Stockholders. Shares. Total am't. Paid in. if Kcr Bovce, 125 12,500 12,5d0 Jeremiah Beall, 100 10,000 10,000 Farish Carter, 415 41,500 31.125 Tomlinson Fort, 100 1 0,00 0 7,500 B. Gildersleeve, 20 2,000 2,000 Seaton Grantlaud, 460 46,000 43,250 W. W. Gordon, 10 1,000 900 R. A. Greene, 30 0 30,009 22,500 Miller Grieve, 150 1 5.000 1 5.000 C. VV. Howard, 22 2 22,200 19,980 Wilkins Hunt, 260 26,000 19.500 A. Jarratt, 75 7,-500 6,875 W. D. Jarratt, 100 1 0,000 8,750 Bcnj. S. Jordon. 580 58,000 48,500 Green H.Jourdon, 150 15.000 13,750 Wm. G. Lane, 300 30,00 0 22,500 Thomas Moughon, 160 1 6,000 14 500 Nichols & Deming, 160 16,000 12,000 R. M. Orme, 1(>0 1 0,00 0 7.500 Thomas Ragland, 35 0 35,00 0 26,250 Win. Sanfoid, 228 22,800 20,620 Wm. Sanford, agent, 250 25,000 25,000 Thomas B. Stubbs, 50 5,000 5,000 Apphia Thacker, 10 1,000 1,000 L. M. Wiley, 125 12,500 12,500 | John W. Gordon, 200 20,000 16,259 | 5,000 500,000 425,250 S Georgia, 7, Personally appeared, Bea* Baldwin county. 5 ton Granlland, President, and Thomas Ragland, Cashier of the Bank of Mil ledgevilie, who being sworn, depose and say that the foregoing is a correct exhibit of the state of the Bank of Milledgeville, as shewn by the , books of said Bank. They further depose ano j say, that they have not directly or indirectly vioj| lated the provisions of the act of the 23d Dcccnv f her, 1839, relative to the selling of Exchange, -! and that no other officer of the Bank of Millcdge ville has done so within their knowledge, for the | benefit of said Bank; and they further depose and say, that the indebtedness of stockholders to the Bank, as required by the act ot 23d Decern’ her last, is correctly stated. S. Granti.and, President. T. Ragland, Cashier. Sworn and subscribed to, before me, this l3tu April, 1840. Tho, H. Hall, Notary Public. The undersigned Directors of the Bank of Mh‘ m ledgevilie, depose and say that they are not attbi- J | time indebted to the said Bank, in any sum cither m for Capital Stock or for money borrowed fro® ■ the institution, on Bond, Note, Bill of exchange ft| i or other obligation, and that they have not | so indebted within the proceeding six months- IS. Grantlaxd, B. S. Jordan, R. J. Nichols, R. M. Orme- Sworn and subscribed to before me. Taos. H. Hall, Notary Public. THE READING ROOM Attached to this office is open to subscribers, strangers introduced by them, every day , ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o cloc . A | Subscription §5 ; for a firm of two Cj* Dr. JV. FLINT offers his services to the ci tizens of Augusta in the different branches o j-, profession. He may be found at all hours 3 1 late residence of Mr. A, M. Egerton, second “ from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold stu> nc v 29 1 rrlV. G, NIMMO , General Commission chant, olliee on Mclntosh street, next door Constitutionalist. » (ry EXCKANG E ON NE TV YORK- At and at one to tw ty days sight. For sate nov 23 GARPELLE & C Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his sional services to the citizens of Augusta ao vicinity. He will be found at his residence, first brick building above Guedron’s stable on street, recently occupied by John L.Ad-uns aug 17