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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. ' • THURSDAY MORNING, JjJlvE 18. FOR PRESIDENT, i: WILLIAM HENRY HARIjtISON, Os Ohio ; The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe— the incor ruptible Statcsrr an —the inflexible Republican — the patriot Farmer of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN TYLE 11 , Os Virginia ; ■ J State Rights Republican of the school of ’9S— one of Virginia’s noblest sons, an h emphatically one of America’s most sagacious!, virtuous and patriotic statesmen. ; FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, GFORGE R. GILMER,of Oglethorpe. DUN JAN L. CLINCH, of Camden. JOHN WHITEHEAD, of cirkie. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of fclark. JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock. SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin. CHRISTOPHER 15. STRONG, bf Bibb. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Mvjscogee. EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of; Twiggs. ANDREW MILLER, of Cajjs. \ WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb. FOR .CONGRESS, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. E. A. NISBET, of Bibb. J. C. ALFORD, of Troup. R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham. T. B. KING, of Glynn. j LOTT WARREN, of Sumpter. R. L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson, T. F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. J. A. MERIWETHER, of Puljtam. 6i Vaa Rureu State Rights Hen.” This is the imposing title with which a new class of politicians, recently sprung tip in Georgia and Carolina, have modestly dubbed themselves ; they belong to the genus (if they are to define their position,) conscientious , or devoted to “ principles not men,” politicians. How far they can with any'pretentions to justice prate abou l “ principles not men,” and talk pf consistency we propose to enquire. Without an exception then, so fur as our know ledge of particular individuals extends, these ex traordinary politicians, were in all our former contests, generally regarded by all moderate men as ultraists, —they were the loudest men in 1833-4-5-and 0 in their denudations of Jackson and Van Buren, and the whole party, then advo cating those two men, and their measures. The la-t four years of the administration of General Jackson was pronounced by these very men as the most corrupt which had existed in this country, and they not only sent out others, but they went themselves into the highways and byways, to de nounce Mr. Van Buren for promising to carry out the princples of that corrupt administration, and “to tread in the footsteps of his illustrious predeces sor.” They denounced General Jackson and his administration, for the violation of pledges enter ed into with the people when he was elected— those pledges were retrenchment in the public expenditures, reform in the administration, which it was asserted had corrupted the elective fran chise and Congress, by the interference of Feder al officers with State elections, and the appoint ment of Members of Congress to high and im portant offices, and his implied pledge to confine the term of service of the President to four years. They denounced him for his Proclamation and Force Bill, and the Administration party as Fed eralists of the deepest dye,—they united with such men as Clay and Webster and the whole Whig party of the North and West, in denouncing the administration for its attempt at executive dicta tion to the Senate—for the violation of the Con stitution by expunging the records of that body— for removals from olllce of the most worthy men for opinions sake, and conferring it upon others as the reward for party services,—for its tinkering with the currency of the country, and for its at tempt to appoint a successor, thereby subverting as they said the principles of our Government and establishing on (he ruins of the Constitution and Elective monarchy. And when Mr. Van Buren was elected, they charged that he had been “ foisted into office by the flat of the Administra tion at Washington, and not by the unbiassed will of a free people—they shouted huzzas for the speeches of Messrs. Clay, Webster, Critten den, Porter, Preston, Wise and a host of others circulated read,and applauded them,together with those of Calhoun and Pickens, glowing and burning with tho strongest denunciations of Mr. Van Buren, and pledged themselves to the peo ple of Georgia and S. Carolina, that these char ges were true, that they were undeniable, unan swerable. and all efforts to repel them by the friends of Mr. Van Buren had been and would be fruitless. But Mr. Van Buren has been elevated, he has carried out the principles of his predecessor, he has followed in his footsteps, he has increased the public expenditure, he has permitted Federal officers to interfere openly with State elections he has continued to appoint members of Con gress to important offices—to remove from office long tried officers of the highest integrity for opinions sake, to appoint brawling parlizans in their stead as the rewards for their degrading scr vility—to tinker with the currency until he has uprooted and entirely destroyed tho best curren cy the world ever saw', —he is again seeking to elevated himself to the highest office in the coun try and if we may anticipate the future by the past, we may safely assert that his last act in re peeming his pledge to carry out the principles of his predecessor, will he to appoint his successor, —to foist into office another equally as capable as himself of corrupting the administration, throughout all its various avenues and ramifica tions, as these new and zealous “ Van Buren State Rights Men,” have again and again asser ted. Notwithaanding all these things, the truth of which not one man of them who values his re putation will have the hardihood to deny, these men who have l>ocn so loud in their denuncia tions of, and so ultra in their opposition to Mr. Van Boren and his administration, are now found rallying under his standard and are beating up for recruits in a service which they have so repea ted declared to be the most servile and degrading —they are not only allying themselves with an administration and a party which they have char ged with being so corrupt, but they are invoking the people to such sn alliance, in the face of all these assertions made and repeated by them, and in their new horn zeal, they are loud and vocif erous in denouncing those with whom they formerly stood shoulder to shoulder in battling against this same adtni aistralion and its measure*, as Federalists. Such is the history of their “consistency,” their devotion to “principles not men” and where and when, we ask, has there been a change of the principles of this administration, upon which these very devoted adherents to “principles not men” can found their claim to consistency ? What pledge or guaranty have they, that the cor ruptions which they charged to exist will be re moved or repudiated 1 On the contrary, have we not their own admissions that every pledge which this and the proceeding administration made to the people, have been violated and trampled un der foot? Is it not then reasonable to suppose that any new pledge, if it were made, would share the same fate as those that have been made, and in the language ot those men violated, ruthlessly violated ! How, we ask, are we to judge of the future, if not by the past acts of a man’s life 1 There is no other iulo. If then, the people are deceived once by the pledges of an individual or a party, it is their own fault if they are deceived a second time. But why this new zeal in the cause of one whom they have so often denounced as unworthy of Confidence, as corrupt, aye, more corrupt than even his predecessor. Why this denunciation of those with whom they have heretofore struggled as Federalists, and associated with abolitionists 1 and this association with those whom they have so soon learned to call “ democrats ” the “demo cratic party ,” whom they so recently called Federalists ” “ ultra Federalists ” the Federal party,” and hard money humbuggeis, with the yellow boys shining through the interstices of their silk parses 1” People ol'Georgia, would } 7 ou hear the reasons for this change ! Change did wc say 1 Pardon the expression, in their vocabulary it would no doubt be “ consistency .” Ah, consistency ! Con sistency ili-fated word, in these days, wc think thou will be made to mean any thing but what Lexicographers originally defined. Reasons did wc 1 and have they reasons for such a course 1 They say they have, and as we design on this occa sion to impute to them no improper motive, we will give you what they give us.—“ They have been forced into the support of Mr. Van Buren.b Forced into the support of Mr. Van Buren I and how ! Simply because their old associates have determined to support General Harrison, they, rather than continue to associate with those they have heretofore admitted by their acts to be hon est, fall at once into (he embraces of that party they have uniformly denounced in such terms as we have repeated, and are now about forming a constituent portion of (hat party which they have admitted, were “ held together by the cohesive power of plunder.” But they offier yet another reason, “ Mr. Van Buren is the advocate of the sub-treasury” in other words he is the consistent “ democratic republican,” who has again, and again, presen ted another experiment upon the currency of the country which has as often been indignantly re jected by the people through their representatives- This is a democratic President for you. And for his support of this isolated question, a mere ex periment, a question which will in all probability be settled by Congress during the present session, they are not only willing and ready to renounce their old associates, but they are actually affilia ting with that party which is led on by Mr. Van Buren, a party which many of their own leaders have denounced in the most opprobrious terms and such terms as they have sanctioned. The Sub-Treasury isperhapsthe only important meas ure of the administration which they have not condemned, and by their former opposition they have sealed their disapprobation of the general tenor of the administration, and what they have been pleased to term its corruptions. It is true they express a most holy horror of being merged with the “ great Whig party of the North” Yet from 1833 to 1838, they have been battling shoulder to shoulder with this same party, in opposition to the administration, not only of General Jackson but that of Mr. Van Buren. Will any man believe that there is any sincerity in such professions as those 1 If they are sincere in making them, let them account to the people for having previously made common cause with them I—ls they have just discovered any new, and heretofore hidden principles of this monstrous party by which the people of the South arc en dangered, let them declare it to the world, or ex press no more sickly fears of such an alliance. Did they not in common with the whole oppose tion party at the South, boast of the services of Webster and Clay, in the great struggle on the expunging process, and on all the other questions which agitated Congress al that timcl most assu redly they did, and every man recollects with what interest the speeches of those men were read and circulated at the South, and the mede of ap plause received from those very men that are now so alarmed at the idea of such an association. People of Georgia, weigh well these facts, be fore you suffer yourselves to become parties to such an unholy alliance, as that which is now sought to be formed by this new sect of poli ticians. Harrison’s Popularity at Home. One of the latest and most pitiful efforts to de ceive the people is, the repablication from the Globe, by most of the Van Buren papers, of an article exhibiting the votes for Governor in Ohio some twenty years ago, in which election some four thousand votes were cast for Gen. Harrison, when it was well known that he was no candidate. And so far from its proving what they desire to prove by it, the document establishes the very opposite, that Gen. Harrison was then as now the most popular man in Ohio. In what election in any State in the Union has any man who was not a candidate for an office, received four thous. and votes, when there were two other candidates for the office 1 And who will believe that under such circumstances, a man receiving such a num ber of votes could be otherwise than popular? These very veracious prints, are very careful to omit telling their readers that Gen. Harrison beat their favorite Van Buren, near 10,000 votes in Ohio for President, at the last election.—Such news as that partakes too much of truth to find a place in their columns. Extract from a private letter received in this city, dated, Greenville, Tenn., June Bth, 1840. C. A. Foster, the Harrison Elector, is to address the people here to-day, and I suppose there will be two days speaking, as a number of other candi dates arc present on both sides of the question. A Log Cabin loaded with hard cider within, and a pair or two of buck horns, a dead fox and a few coon-skins will be attached externally, drawn by eight white horses. The people are gathering in from all quarters—l have no doubt but there will be more persons in our village to-day, than ever was before at any one time. There is great ex citement in Tennessee, and Harrison will no doubt carry the State by 10 or 15,000 majority, if not more ; he will beat Van Buren from 5 to 8,000 in this end of the State, this is not boasting, but true, O King ! I hope Georgia will do her duty in redeeming her State from bondage—things look well well for her doing her duty for the cause of freedom. We shall have a high day here to-day, the Whigs are determined to go ahead. Reform Meeting in Morgan. At a meeting of the “ Morgan County Tippeca noe Club,” on Wednesday the 10th inst., for the purpose of leceiving the report of delegates to the recent Convention at Milledgeville: Major M. W. Warren appeared in behalf of the Delegation, and gave a full and cheering account of their proceed ings. When the following resolutions were presented, and after being ably and eloquently sustained by Col. N. G. Foster, passed unanimously. Resolved , That wc the people of Morgan County, opposed to the measures and abuses of the psesent rulers of the General Government, do most cor dially acquiesce in and approve of the proceedings of the Convention lately held at Milledgeville, as reported to us by our delegates. And that we will by every open and honorable means in our power, strive to carry through triumphantly the candidates presented for our suffrage. Resolved, Thatvvc disdain al! secret manoeuvring to obtain the votes of the honest and industrious portion of our people, who have not the opportu nity of investigating fully the principles and prac tices of the different candidates presented for their selection, by misrepresentation or perversion ; (hat we desire the use of but one engine to carry for ward the cause we advocate, —“THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.” Resolutions were then passed ta celebrate the approaching anniversary of our national independ ence, and suitable committees were appointed to make tire necessary preparation. On motion of Hon. A. G. Saffold, it was ordered that the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the President and Secretary, and published in the Augusta “Chronicle & Sentinel.” On motion of Col. N. G. Foster, the Club ad journed. A. ALDEN, President. A. A. Overton, Secretary. P, S. The Committee for the selection of Ora tor, &c., have appointed Col. N. G. Foster Orator, Alfred A. Overton Reader of the “Declaration,” and William O. Saffold, Esq., Reader of the “ Fare well Address.” Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer. Washington, June 4, 1840. LEGISLATIVE USURPATION. Under the date of the 31st ult. I announced the arrangements of the Loco Foco party, tor annihi lating the rights of tiie minority in the House of Representatives. They have executed the foul deed. It is the act of mad desperation. Perfectly aware of the fate that awaits them, in their fall, they will carry down with them, so far as they have the power, constitution, law, order and all that is estimable in the social codes. The twenty- sixth Congress will form an epoch in the annals of our country, It commenced its demoralizing career, by a gross violation of the Constitution —by a despotic and revolutionary act that in 1798, when t ie same party possessed pow er, would have severed the Union of these States. Steeped to the chin in corruption, as the dominant party are, the recent conduct of their friends in the House of Representatives, exhibits sucli a de gree of bo;d usurpation, as would appal the stout est hearts among them, if they could be made to understand the extent of the wrong that lias been wantonly indicted upon that Constitution which they profess to venerate. A calm and dispassion ate review of the proceedings during the present session, would be an interesting document; but it would not be read, and could not be appreciated. The angry passions must first subside, and men must be so circumstanced as to examine these pio ceedings without the fear of punishment, or the hope of reward, from the actors in the scenes. Mine be the task, for I have witnessed them all, to record the facts, and leave them to be read, when I shall go hence. The names of the most conspicuous shall be handed down for fame or for infamy, as posterity may decree. By the rules of the House, as they heretofore existed, all the business must come up in regular order, unless the House, by a vote of two thirds agreed to take up a particular bill, for special rea son, which reason must be so cogent as to satisfy two thirds of the member* present. By the rule, as altered, a majority takes up any bill, at any time it pleases, and then excludes from Legislation, or even a hearing, any class of bills that are not palateable. Let me explain how this is to be done. By the present rules a majority goes into committee of the whole, whenever they please. A majority can refer any bill (o that committee ; and a majority of that committee, can consider such bills and such only as suit their own views. Tliis will be the practical effect of the alteration of the rules. Let us, then, hear no more after this, of the minority embarrassing the majority. They are powerless. One movement yet remains; and one only, that the Whigs may make. It is, in my opinion, their solemn duly to make it. Whenever a motion is offered, on Fri day or Saturday ( private hill days) to go into committee on the Sub-Tieasury Bill, or any other equally odious measure, refuse to vote; and thus compel The attendance of a quorum of members from the ranks of the dominant party. If they cannot form a quorum, it is because their own parly neglect to attend. They have no right to call upon the opposition to enable them to commit, what that opposition considers an outrage upon the country. On all other bills let them aid in form ing a quorum, and in transacting the public busi ness. Another measure of oppression, is the previous question, which is constantly applied, whenever the majority become alarmed at the freedom of de bate. While another instrument of usurpation, is the appeal from the decisions of the Chair, which the majority overrules, on the clearest point of or der, whenever party phrenzy venders it necessary, or even expedient, to accomplish a particular ob ject. But I will drop the subject, in the review of which my heart sickens. THE SPY IN WASHINGTON. A Proper Rebuke. Wc copy the following brief but pithy paragraph from the American Sentinel (an administration paper.) It breathes at once an independent and a patriotic spirit. The cause of Mr. Van Buren con.iot but be injured by the bitter and violent abuse in which some of the organs of the Ad ministration indulge, when alluding to the Hero of the Thames. “Crito” cannot be admited into the Sentinel.— Gen. Harrison is not our choice for the Presidency, but this is no reason why we should k give our columns to the propagation of slanders against him which have been a hundred times ref uted. We may add that he who could write or endorse the assertion “that Gen. Harrison was always a coward, always a foe to the people, always as ra pacious as Verres, and as infamous as Arnold,” deserves the scorn and reprobation of every com munity in which the grateful remembrance of generous deeds is not a damning crime. Mr. Lincoln of Mass. The federal loco foco papers are highly de lighted with the speech of this gentleman, in de fence of sonic of the appropriations for the Presi dent’s furniture. They publish it with high ap probation, but we do not find in any of them the following remarks, as delivered by Mr. Lincoln, and contained in the report of his speech. “ Mr. L. commented with great severity on the conduce of the Secretary in this matter, declaring that, should this amendment fail, lie never would vote another dollar for that (the Treasury) build ing. If the chairman chose to stop the work, let the responsibility, be on his own head. If there was a change of administration on the 4th of March next, as he trusted in God there would he, he wouid vote one more appropriation for this building, and that should be to fix on the front of it a tablet, and inscribed thereon, in large letters, the ‘‘Sub-treasury,” and then let the building stand without ends, without a colonnade, without a roof, without access or recess—with no stairs to the upper story, and no light in the lower, it would remain to posterity an appropriate monu ment of the Van Buren Sub-treasury administra tion.” Festival at CLAiiKsnunc, Tennessee.— There was a great gathering of the people at Clarksburg, Tennessee, on the 28ih ult. and no ble indeed (says the Louisville Journal) was the festival on that occasion. From all quarters'lhe delegates poured in, till the congregation number ed upwards of eight thousand. A hundred ban ners gleamed in the sun, among which was one inscribed with a majestic eagle bearing in his beak this sentence from the Louisville Journal: “In war, Harrison defended the Log Cabins; in peace, the Log Cabins will defend Harrison.”— Prominent among the Hags was one trimmed with black crape; dark black ground, with a monu ment surmounted by an urn; inscription; “In memory of Hugh L. White,” Wherever that solemn emblem moved, a hush as ofdcalh perva ded the assemblage. Tennessee’s noblest orators were present, a d nobly did they sustain themselves, and their cause in their addresses to the multitude. Not a man left the ground but with an abiding and undoubt ing conviction that Tennessee would go for Old Tippecanoe by a majority of at least 12,000. Who is Aiinkti Lacock ?—And who is this Mr. Abner Lacock, who made the motion in the Senate of the U. States, to strike the name of Gen. Harrison from tire resolution proposing a gold medal and the thanks of Congress to him and Gov, Shelby ? He is the same Mr. Lacock who once moved to censure Gen. Jackson lor his con duct in the Army ; the same Mr. Lacock whose ears Gen. Jackson once threatened to cut off. He is the same Mr Lacock who was a contrac tor for furnishing the army of Gen. Harrison with provisions, who was so negligent of his duty that the army was obliged at one lime to subsist for days on raw beef; aud who for this neglect was, through the influence of Gen. Har rison, deprived of his contract. When the people arc once informed that Mr. Lacock had been previously disgraced for just reasons by General Harrison, they will not he surprised at the circumstance of this same Mr. Lacock striving, at a subsequent period, to fix the badge of disgrace on Gen. Harrison without any just cause whatever. We copy the following from the Vicksburg Whig. Don’t they come? Scarcely a day passes without our hearing of some new accession to our ranks. As une deserv ing particular notice, we will take the liberty of mentioning that the gentleman who some weeks since declared, when excited, that “he would lose his right arm before a Jog cabin should be raised in Vicksburg,” came forward on Tuesday,stated the fact of his having said so, but added that he had become convinced that a change of rulers was necessary, and that he would assist in carrying up the: logs, and would vote for old Tip. Attempt to Blow up a Steamboat. We learn from Capt. Childs of the steamboat Oneida, which arrived at this port yesterday fore noon, that as the steamboat Great Britain was about leaving the wharf at Oswego, on Saturday last, a’Drunk which had been brought to the wharf a few minutes previously, and which was soon to have been put on board that boat, explo ded—injuring two persons slightly, and doing some little damage to the boat. Upon examina tion, a parcel of 6 pounds of powder was found, to which the fire had not communicated. There can be no doubt that the explosion was intention al, and that it was caused by a slow match being placed in the trunk. The Great Britain, as hei name imports, is a British boat, and it is supposed that this fiendish attempt to blow her up, or at least to injure her and those on board of her, ori ginated in ferocious feelings toward that govern ment, or some of its subjects. Lett, the murderer of Capt. Usher, has been arrested on suspicion of having been the getter up of the plot. —Rochester Democrat. At the time of the explosion, Lett, the reputed murderer of Capt. Usher, and who it is said boasts of having blown up Brock’s monument, and for the apprehension of whom, wc believe about £ 10,0(10 reward has been offered within the two last years by the authorities of Upper Cana da, was seen walking upon the dock at no great distance from the boat. He was soon alter arres ted in front of the U. States Hotel by constable Keid, to whose promptness and energy on the occasion much credit is due. Lm was armed with four pistols and a bovvic knife, and made a desperate but unavailing effort to use them and escape. The carman immediately recognized Lett as the person who employed and paid him for carrying the trunk on hoard. Such was the excitement and indignation among our citizens, that Lett was forthwith tendered to the captam of the British boat Gilderslceve, then in port, bound to Kings ton, on condition that he should be surrendered to the Canadian authorities.— Very properly no doubt, the Captain declined the proposition, and Lett was well secured in jail. Suspicion also settled upon a man by the name of Dafoe, supposed to be an accomplice of Lett. He was discovered and arrested at the Centre House in the village and committed to jail. Lett and Dafoe are Canadian refugees, who we understand have been lounging about this vil lage for some days.— Oswego Herald. From the Spirit of the Times. Gsxno’s Challenge to the Union ! To run Four Mile Heats for SIO,OOO a side. Augusta, June sth, 1810. W. T. Porter, Esij : Dear Sir, — The friends of GANG are willing to back him to the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars a side, half forfeit, against any named horse, mare or gelding, in the Union, Four mile heats, agreeable to the rules of the Club over the Lafayette Course, on the day preceding the next Fall meeting. This challenge will remain open until the first day of August next, subject of course to be with drawn should any accident happen to him previ ous to the acceptance, which is not likely to oc cur as he is not in training. The forfeit shall be arranged to the satisfaction of theacccpior. Any communication on the subject, addressed to the subscribers will receive prompt attention. Youis truly, Thos. J. Waltos. Augustus Lamkix. We have great pleasure in laying this spirited challenge before the Sporting Woild. It will he accepted at once. Two hours after its receipt here there were among the crowd of gentlemen in ouj office no loss than three who would have taken the responsibility of accepting it with a certain horse, anjl doubled or trebled the stakes. We should not lie surprised if the match was taken up by three different homes, and in that case beg to suggest to Gano’s friends that they make a Post or Sweepstake of it, with a subscription of SSOOO each. Play or Pay. This would ensure four subscribers, and the terms of the race being play or pay, of course four horses would start. The certainty of this fact would cause more ex citement than any race ever got up in the coun try, and thousands would assemble to sec it from the remotest sections of the Union. The high mettled Racers of Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana, would proba bly be represented, and the race being a post match, the very best horse in each State would contend fur the meed of honor and applause. The Philadelphia North American of Friday says— Col. Isaac Wayne, who presided at the late Harrison festival, in Chester county, is the only son of General Anthony Wayne. He has repre sented his native county several years in the State Legislature and in Congress, and was an active and strenous supporter of General Jackson, in 1828. It wes owing very much to his influ ence that the county then gave its vote to Gener al Jackson, and we are pleased to find that the same influence is about to be exerted against his successor. The enfeebled health of Col. Wayne has prevented him from taking an active part in political life, and nothing but the belief that it is the duty of every man in the community to exer cise such influence as he possesses to change the present state of affairs, could have on the present occasion drawn him from his retirement The same paper says— We are informed by a respectable gentleman from Chester County, that of the 150 Delegates from Phoenixviile to the great whig gathering at West Chester on Tuesday last, forty-tiro had seceded from the Van Buren ranks since the \st of Jlpr 'd lust. Jewish Marriage at Whitchurch.—On Sunday last, a circumstance, as novel as pleasing, took place at Whitchurch. For the second lime, the interesting ceremony of an Israelitish wedding was there performed. Every iover of scriptural antiquities must venerate the ancient customs of the patriarchs of old. These customs have been preserved by the Jews to this day, as confirmed by the lawgiver of Moses. Through all the vicissitudes and persecutions of their nation it is ! almost miraculous that they should so carefully have adhered to the customs of their fathers with- I out the slightest deviation, yet such is the fact. None amongst nations have been so strictly zeal ous as the Jews of their ancient ceremonies, to remain in fact a “peculiar people.” The marri age of the Jews in itself has so much scriptural in terest from the circumstance of its being perform ed precisely as it was some 3000 or more years since, that a correspondent who was an eye wit ness on Sunday, has favored us with this account of it. On entering the room was seen Rabbi L. Chap man, priest of the Jews, from Birmingham, oc cupied in writing the marriage contract upon a parchment. The Rabbi having concluded the contract,.handed it to others to read and then to the bridegroom, who, after apparently well consider ing the contents, which were written in the He brew language, signed the same, as also did two witnesses. This being duly executed, the bride groom was conducted, from the room again, the i bride being all this time invisible. A canopy was j then erected, being supported by four persons of the Jewish faith, and solemn strains of music an nounced the approach of the bridegroom. Tbc reverend officiate having placed himself beneath j the canopy, the bridegroom was introduced, sup ported on both sides by two male friends. Again the sound of music proclaiming the ap proach of the bride, who was similaily supported, hut by two ladies. The bridal dress was strictly scriptural, the maiden was attired in pure white, covered with a veil, as in Genesis 21, 65. The music having coast'd, the bride, still supported as before, was thrice led round her future husband. We believe this emanates from the marriage of Jacob and Leah, Jacob having his bride veiled married Leah instead of Rachael, Genesis 29.26. For this reason the bridegroom has an oppor tunity of ascertaining from the gait or figure of his intended wife, as he has no opportunity of reading her countenance through the folds of her veil. Having thus circled round him, she was plac vl on the right side of her future Lord. The priest proceeded then to pronounce-a bles sing upon all present, Holding at the time a gLss of wine in his hand which, ai’tei the conclusion of prayer, was handed by a friend to tbc happy couple, in token of peace with all the world; they, having sipped the same, modestly returned it. The reverend and venerable Rabbi then pro ceeded to read aloud the document before descri bed, and then a second glass was filled, and a prayer offered up for the future grace of the new couple, and the second glass was tasted by both the young people, in token of consent to each other. Then followed a solemn silence—a mo ment of suspense —the ring was to be placed on the bride’s finger. The fair hand was extended (as wo thought) rather willingly, and the ring being handed to the Rabbi, he first exhibited it to the others, and then examined it himself , then gave it to the bridegroom, W J !O i * Ifc upon the finger of the right hand of hi il pronouncing the taiismanic words ‘JM , kadasith Leh, Bethubath Zu KaJth At« u Yesrael.” (Anglice—Thus I wed thee -V? V* 1 ’ to the laws of Israel as by Moses comm °i ? left the ring on the hand of the bride. \ placed upon the ground, and in a moment-! Was —the brittle vessel was shattered in a t’'".* pieces by the right foot of the bridesman. ' H san ' l ken of the uncertainty ol life, and that •>i joys may be shattered in a moment, a ‘ O Ur The sudden change of this solemnity was electric ; no sooner Was th<? glass W than the music struck up in lively note sounded with the words “ MozklT ul: u”J7- joy!) echo upon echo seemed to RO u our ears, congratulations were heart-felt • * n exhilarating was the scene. The V( ij ’ f tru! - v bride was in a moment respectfully mov °, she stood before us •I* I? fui yet happy and fearful, yet smiling on th- i ’ py husband. A look—a prayer-—they w ,- r y ried—all the ceremony was over. a, ‘ The lady is Miss Priscilla Lazarus, of.- church, the gentleman, Mr. Adolph Cohen,of fo' mingham. The reverend Rabbi was ex ore's? f Birmingham for the occasion.— Salopian"jry^ Hazardous Adventure.—A correspond, of the Madras Herald gives the following acco ° of an adventure with a cobra di capello, v,\\A occurred to a gentleman who was reposing Un !v. a (an irind tree alone, after a day of shnotin ‘I waaaroused by the furious haying of my (W. on turning round, I beheld a snake of the C oh r di caj ello species, directing its course to a that would approximate very close to my pcsiu on In an instant I was upon my feet. The the reptile became aware of my presence, in nan tical phraseology, it boldly brought to, with panded hood, eyes sparkling, neck beautifully died, the head raised nearly two feet I'rom the ground, and oscillating from side to side, in a mac. ner plainly indicative of a resentful foe. I se a short bamboo, left by one of the hearers, and hurl ed it at my opponent’s head. I was fortunate enough to hit it beneath the eye. The reptile immediately fell from its imposing attitude, and lay apparently lifeless. Without a moment) reflection, 1 seized it a little below the head, haul, ing it beneath the shelter of the tree, and very cooly sat down to examine the mouth for the poisoned fangs of which naturalists speak much. \\ hile in the act of forcing the mouth open with a stalk, I felt the head sliding throin my hand, and to my utter astonishment, became aware that I had now to contend against the most deadly of reptiles in its full strength and vigor. Indeed, I was in a moment convinced of it; for as I tightened my hold of its throat, its body became wreathed around my neck and arm. I raised myself from my sitting position to one knee; my right arm, to enable me to exert mv strength, was extended. I must in such an atti tude have appeared horrified enough to represent a deity in the Hindoo mythology, such as we see rudely emblazoned on the portals of their native temples. It now became a matter of self-defence. To retain my hold it required rny utmost strength to prevent the head from escaping, as my neck became a purchase for the animal to puli upon. If the reader is aware of the universal dread in which the cobra di capello is held throughout In dia, and the almost certain death which inevi'a bly follows its bite, he will, in some degree, be able to imagine what my feelings vvcic at that moment; a shudder, a faint kind of disgusting sickness pervaded my whole frame, as 1 folttlm cold clammy fold of the rept.lc’s body tightening round rny neck. To attempt any delineation of my sensations would be absurd; let it suffice, they were most horrible. I had now almost resoUcilt to resign my hold. Had I done so, this taki would never have been written : so no doubt tin! head would have been brought to the extreme ch-' cumvolution to inflict the deadly wound. Even in the agony of such a moment, I could | picture to myself the fierce glowing of the eyes, and the intimidating expansion of the hood ere it] fastened its venomous and fatal hold upon my face and neck. To hold it much longer would be; impossible. Immediately beneath my giaspthere was an inward working and creeping of the skin, which seemed to be assisted by the firmness wilt which I held il—my hand was gloved. Finding in defiance of all my efforts, that rny hand wis each instant forced closer to my face, I was am iously considering how to act in this horrible di lemma, when an idea struck me, that if it was in my power to transfix the mouth with some sharp instrument.it would prevent the reptile from ustn: its fangs, should it escape my hold. My gun lay at ray feet, the ramrod appeared to be the very thing required, which, with some difficulty, I succeeded in drawing out, having out hand disengaged. My right arm was now trou bling from over-exertion, my hold becoming lea firm, when I happily succeeded in passing (he rod through the lower jaw up to its centre, Il was not without considerable hestntion that I suddenly let go my hold of the throat ami seized the rod with both hands, at the same time bring ing them over my head with a sudden jerk, dis charging the fold from neck, which had latter!' become almost tight enough to produce strang.-L lation. There was then little difficulty in lree-| ing my right arm, and ultimately throwing Ul reptile from me to the cartli where it contiDUtil to twist and writhe into a thousand contortion s! of rage and agony. To run to a neighboring I stream to lave my neck, hands ami face, in i-l cooling waters, was my first act after despatch- J ing my formidable enemy. Steam Frigate.—ll is stated that two huf | dred and fifty men are now employed upon t-1 steam frigate now building at the navy yard | Philadelphia. The engine of the frigate is to c of 600 horse [rower ; and she is rated attvvoifo-1 sand tons, and will, it is said, be the largest elea.-1 frigate afloat. Fire.—N. U. Chaffee’s distillery, on Pn» sylvania avenue, was burned to the ground aU two o’clook this morning. T he grain house'* (ached was also destroyed. The distillery vv * worked by steam. Loss about eight tboustt 1 doollars, and said to be insured to the amount seven thousand dollars, in the Western I**' ance and Trust Company Columbus, G gia.— Baltimore Patriot of Sa-turday. Nothing exceeds the modesty of the Kaffk'V girls. They wont be courted by daylight, n-y the evening unless the candles are extinguish —Ch iengo l)emocrut. And here in the Granite State the girls n‘ u pretend to waste candies in suc h business. by,” said a certain old lady, “Dcbby, do® 1 11 me catch you burn in’ candles out a-sp» tallow’ is scurse, and perhaps you mayn’t g e * _ schoolmaster afitr at! /” Debby dutifully ed her ma’am.— N. 11. Argus. Bombast. —Visiting the Mount. St. fi ernS P vve found a party of Englishmen at the con J One young man having signed his name in I traveller’s book, put aftet it the letters M- 1 • ■ S. Curious to know what this signified, the liberty of asking him. “Oh,” he rephGUP is proper to keep up one’s consequence a “' S these foreigners.—The letters I have added ■ name signify ‘Member of the Paddington 1 I ing Society.” Dinner Fashions. —Gov. Cass, in his work on “Fiance, its King, Court and ment,” mentions,in reference to the ready of European customs in our country, that knife is used in the best company in Europe L serving the mouth at the dinner table.