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———-I— CHRONICLE AND SF: nTINEL. AUGUSTA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEP' EMBER 30. WILLIAM HENRY IIAiRISOX, Tjie invincible Hero of Tippecao. — the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexibP Republican — the patriotic Faimer of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT .1 011 N TV'LE):, Os Virginia; State Rights Republican of the : hool of *9S— one of Virginia’s noblest sons, a. emphatically one of America’s most sagacious virtuous and patriot statesmen. \ FOR EJ ECTORS or PRESIDENT AND Vi E-PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMER, of 0| eth rp«. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Ca den. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of M iscogoe. JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hanc ;k. CHARLES DOUGHERTI, oltClark. BEATON GRANT LAND, of ialdv/ir. ANDREW MILLER, of CassJ WILLIAM EZZARD, of Der|lb. C. B. STRONG, of Bibb. I JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Suite. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. I FOR CONGRESS, w- W ILL IAM C. DAWSON, of Ireene. R. W. HABERSHAM, of Hatrsham. JULIES C. ALFORD, of Trcfp. EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of libb. LOTT WARREN, of Sumter THOMAS BUTLER KING, t Glynn. ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jell rson. JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam. THOMAS F. FOSTER, of M scogee. FOR SENATOR, ANDREW J. MILL! I, FOR REPRESr-KTATIVI , CHARLES J. JENKINS. GEORGE W, CRAWFOJ D, WILLIAM J. RHODES. CC/'No mail northof Charlestoi last night. Second Ward Aleeti ig t The meeting at the Eagle and Phoenix Hotel takes place to-night, when the fiiei Is of Harrison, Tyler and Reform are expected wo be at their posts. j Handsome Tickets. We have noticed with much pltisure the beau tiful style in which some tickets f d| the approach ing election have been gotten upi The ticket is surmounted with a beautiful and <|||iaste miniature engiaving on steel of Gen. Harri rn, and is said to be a fine likeness. They are for sale at the bookstoie of Mr. Stoy. From the Charleston Conrier c yesterday. In advance of the 1 iil. The Northern Mail yesterday failed beyond Weldon, N. C., but through the ohte attention of a friend who came through by ie Chesapeake and Portsmouth route, we havtj been tavored witn the New York Commercial Advertiser of Friday, and Baltimore papers of aturday, from which we have copied some few paragraphs.— They wiii be found below. We are informed that the Be ton Courier, a W'hig paper of Thursday's daU was seen by the gentleman alluded to, contain ig a s.atemi nt that the admmihtra ion candidate for Governor had a plurality of 60 odd voles, knit the scatter ing votes were, it is believed, silficienl in num ber to preclude any election —alnajoiity of the v holt voles is necessary to elcctii candidate. Ni, w York, ‘September 25. From Vi.ua Crcz.—'Fhe fc rque Eugenia, Capt. James Fis'oe, arrived at th port this mom tog •"'he left Yota Cruz on th 26th August. We are n. h ..ted to Cspt. Bisccl fur he lollow ing report. The government conduct.!, co sisting of about $300,000 dollars, had left Mexic on the 10th August, destined for V«ra ( ruz, it which place money had become exceedingly farce, owing to recent revolutionary movement of the Federal party at the capilol. The revolt ol the sth and 6ih iegimehts on the 15th July, had been compromisil, and settled on the 27th. The lives of those irnccrned being guaranteed by the supreme Gova.Ti.ncnt. but the principal chiefs had received tfc ir passports to quit the country, and were prep ring to leave. President Bustamente has asl ;d to be invested with extraordinary powers, but vhich Congress had not granted on the 19th At gust. His min isters had sent in their resignalhi ). but who con tinued to discharge the functionwoi their respec tive oflices. Tranquility prevailed at Tan ;>ico on the 6th ot August, a revolt ot the troop having been an ticipated. The I'exian navy, or a pa; thereof, under command of Commodore Moc 3, was cruising otT Vera Cruz on the 241 h Aug st, out not, as supposed with any hostile into- 1 ion. Maine Election.—We h' re nothing in ad dition to what w.i gave ycstcrdi" relative to the gubernatorial election. The jjVhig papers ap pear certain that Kent is electid while the Lo cofoco papers maintain that Falfield is chosen, or that there is no election by th<f people. P. S.—A letter from Bangui, received in this city states that the returns arl at! in, and that Kent is elected by two hundrel majority. Congress.—lt is now dciijitely settled, we believe that the Whigs have eleltcd four members, viz: Win. P. Fessenden, (iain) ; Benjamain Randall, George I Ivans, and R'llisha H.J Allen, (gain.) The Administration iiave elected two members, viz: Nathan Cliffonl and Alfred Mar shall. In two districts there flno choice. Elections were held on Mo day to till vacan cies in the House of Rcpres ntatives, by those towns which faded to elect c the 14th. We have returns from five towns, rhich have elected three Whig and two Van Bu» n members. Extort Coukteocs,—Th Louisville Journal says :—Dr. Duncan, in a late speech at Cleves, shook his Bowie-knite at obtain Whigs who were present. —A Whig, by »|ay of retort, shook a whiskey-bottle at him; a weapon that has often laid the Doctor low. Census of Alexandria D. C.—Town of Alexandria, 8493; County o Alexandria, 15U8. Total, 9970. Fi r the Chronicle and Sentinel. Kendallism in Carolina. Mr. Edjtcnd Bellinger, Jr., a candidate for the Legislature in Barnwell District, South Carolina, in a fate letter to the editor of the Charleston Mer cury, regarding the Presidential question, thus ex presses himself: “ I do not worship Mr. Van Bu ren, but I prefer him to Jff Tappan, Tyler, the Takiif and Tippf.canoe.” This association of the infamous Tappan, whose character as an abolitionist of the blackest dye is so well established—for whose person it is report ed that a reward 01 $20,000 was once offered in the city of New Orleans —who is a theoretical amalgamatiocist, to the extent of advocating a so cial abolition of all distinction oetween white and black, by matrimonial alliances. See. —the associa tion of this monster in human shape with John Tyler and William H. Harrison, two Virginia gentlemen, of unblemished purity of character — both distinguished for their attachment to the South, and uncompromising hostility to all fanati cal interference with Southern institutions—the one an Anti-Force Bill Nullitier, the other an Anti- Missouri restrictionist, — is not only grossly insult ing to the Whig party of the South generally, but must be felt to be particularly so by those gentle men in the district of Barnwell, (of whom we un derstand there are not a few,) who prefer General Harrison and John Tyler to Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson as presiding officers of this government. We are truly astonished that Ken dallism, which is, we fear, but another name for Vandalism, should so far have prevailed in Caro lina as to have betrayed one of the promising sons of that gallant State into such apililul exhibition ■ of rancorous parly scurrility—so utterly beneath the dignity and self respect of an enlightened and ! generous mind. John Tyler, the staunch friend of Carolina in the gloomy hour of trial and utmost need—when she stood deserted and frowned upon by nearly : every State in the Union—when the vindictive Jackson, eager to wreak his vengeance upon her rebelious sons, demanded of a subservient Congress | unlimited control of the purse and the sword, those , instruments of destruction, which, with private aims to gratify and a military reputation to sus- ! tain, would have been wielded by that “ Old Ro man” with a Sylla-Hke ferocity and vindictiveness that would have deluged the country with blood, reduced the fair plains of Carolina to a wilderness of smoking ruins, and lit up the flames of civil war from the Sabine to the Potomac ; —John Tyler’ j who then stood the fast fiiend and unyielding ad vocate of the rights of Carolina—who ;dared to oppose, almost “ solitary and a’one,” the formica ble and over-ruling exactions of the Executive ; John Tyler, who never was known to vote for a protective tariff, is now remorselessly hung up, by a Carolinian, on the gibbet of public execration between Arthur Tappan on the one side and the tariff on the other ! And with what show of justice or propriety i s the high minded General Harrison, who has bat tled against the enemies of the South not less man fully than against she enemies of his country, con demned to this ignominious association ? A man who, if he lives, is destined to preside over the American people almost by acclamation—whose views upon the great questions affecting Southern interests have already been pronounced satisfac tory by a majoiity of the citizens of Virginia, j North Carolina and Louisiana, and who will pro bably receive more than three-fourths of the votes of the slave holding States ! We know but little of South Carolina politics— still less of Mr. Bellinger; but we are much de ceived in the spirit of the high toned and enlight ened people of that State, if they are prepared to approve of such degrauing evidences of party ser vility as those exhibited in the letter of Mr. Bel linger. We have heard it intimated, with how much truth we cannot say, that Mr. Bellinger was once an apologist for the tariff and a defender of the force bill. Can it be that he is influenced in hi® bitterness towards Mr. Tyler by old paity recol lections ? Is it not to be feared that in this case, unless very guarded in his blows, the lash with which he inflicts his old enemy may light upon some of his new friends ? ANTI-FORCE BILL. From the Savannah Republican. From Florida. By the arrival of the lor ester last night from Black Creek, we received the St. Augustine News, of the 18th inst. forwarded by our attentive cor respondent at the latter place. Our Jacksonville correspondent writes us that the Advocate of that place was not published last week. We give be low two or three articles extracted from tiie News, which is all we observe of interest: Extract of a letter to the Editor dated, Fort Jackson, M. F. Sept, 8, 1840. The Ist Infantry leaves Middle Florida immedi ately for Tampa Bay, except two Companies, ‘B and E ’ which proceeded to Fort Gilmer. Ga. Mid dle Florida will be piotccled by the Volunteers alone. Sergeant Hessen, of ‘B.’ company Ist Infantry, left Fort Jackson on the 2d insl., on Express for Fort Macomb. On the 4th inst. his horse went in to Fort Macomb ; a scout was sent ly, and they found His overcoat a few miles below Charles* Ferry. Nothing has been heaid of him since. On the morning of the sth inst. a soldier of ‘H.’ Company, Ist infrntry,was rescued by some Vol unteers from two Indians, who were carrying him off to a hammock near Booth’s, about a mile from Chailes’ Ferry. The soldier was drunk; the In dians had no arms, and escaped A letter from Black Creek states that Lieuten ant Hanson, 7th infantry, went out iron* Wacahoote , and had had a second fight with the Indians. — The enemy retreated leaving 4 dead on the field. John Barry a native of Ireland, and lately dis charged from the U. S. Army, was accidentally drowned yesterday, near the Powder House. He has left a wife and two children in Philadelphia. John J. Abernethy, a painter, formerly of South Carolina, was accidentally drowned last night, by falling between the Central wharf and a vessel alongside. Practical Van Buremsm in Maine. A correspondent of the New York Journal of Com merce concludes a letter from Hallo-well, Me., with the following anecdote of elections: An incident occurred at the town election in Hallowcll yesterday, which is worthy’of note. A Locofoco, who has figured in the Brandon Bank transactions in Mississippi, but who now resides in this town, came up to the polls with a negro man, whom he had brought with him from Mis sissippi, and attempted to gel in his vote for the Van Buren Governor. He did not pretend that he had emancipated his slave, but contended that in this slate he became free by being brought here by his master. The Selectmen rather hesitated to admit the vote of the slaves, and the idea of freemen being voted down by slaves created so much excitement in the hall that the democrat master and slave withdrew. In conversation, the master said ; “Sino is a true democrat—he will vote just as massa says.” This is said to be the best definition of Modern democracy extant. They will vote just as massa pays. From the St. Jo&ph Times of the I '2th. More Indian Murders* It becomes our melancholy duty to record further sickening details of Indian barbarity. On Thurs day morning the 10th instant, the house of Mr. Wyley Jones,on the Econfina in Washington coun ty about sixty miles north of this place, was at tacked by a party of Indians, the premises all burnt and Mrs- Jones and one of her children an iulant, snot. We have converged with Mr. Jones, who says that he was returning from one of his fields about 10 o’clock, in the morning, and when witn in two hundred yards of the hoase,he beard four or live rifles fired in his yard, he ran for the house and on rising the hiil, found the house surrounded by Indians an 1 eight or ten in the piazza. The In dians discovered him at ihat moment and pursued him firing and wnooping at him like devils. Be ing entirely unarmed, without even a knife, he fled and escaped in the hammock. Mr. Jones daughter, a girl about 13 years of age, states that her mother, a negro woman and four children were in the house when the Indians were discovered in the yard. Mrs. Jones caught up the youngest child and was shot attempting to escape out of the door, struck by three balls,one passing through the head of the child in her arms. The daughter above mertioned took the two children and while the In dians were ransacking and plundering the. house, passed unmolested and hid them in tue bushes.— The little heroiae then returned to the house, in the midst of the Indians, helped hei mother up, who was lying in the Forch who assisted her about tluee hundred yards into the field, when becoming faint from loss of blood, the little girl left her in seaich of water. She returned with it, but her mother after drinking, died in afe w moments. She then covered her mother and the dead infant with bush es and carried the remaining children to the near est neighbor. The Indians destroyed all the fur nituie, and stole about S3OO the most of which was in specie and carried off, or burnt the notes and other papers of Mr. Jones, One singular fact con nected with this outrage is that the only money found in the yard was a five dollar bill on a brok en bank in Wetumpka, Ala. Was it instinct that enabled the Indians to discriminate between good money and bad. A few days before this outrage Mr. John Logarthy, while descending the Chipola river, in a boat laden wita potatoes, eggs, and chickens, was killed probably by the same party, as pieces of tarpawling belonging to the boat were four dat their camping place about a mile above Jones’. Mr. L. ftad with him on leavining Marian na, from 3to 300 dollais. A company of volun teers started in pursuit of the Indians and tracked them to the Dead Lakes on the Chipola. Volun teers are now being raised in this county to con tinue the pursuit, but we fear that t ie Indians can not be oveL.aken. Where are the 1300 volunteers authorised to be raised for the protection of Flori da ? Are Middle and East Florida alone entitled to protection ? An offer was made sometime since by a volunteer Company from lola and its neighbor hood to be m«slered into its service and to scour the country along St. Andrews and Apalachicola swamps,holding Ibemselves equipped and in readi ness to march at a moment’s warning, but the of fer was rejected —no arms or provi'ions furnished the company who were consequently disbanded. — The inhabitants near St. Andrew’s Bay hare most ly fled to this place for protection, and those on the F.conlina have abandoned their homes and for tified at the house of E. Bobbin, Esq. How long is this state of uncertainly and alarm to exist ' From the Philadelphia Inquirer. “ Boys do you hear this V 9 “There is a fact, in the history of Gen. Win. IP Harrison, that of itself should be sufficient of itself to win our gratitude and respect Most of us are familiar with the history of tne revolution of 1790. Hundreds of our country men fled to the United States as an asylum, from the ruthless persecutions which were then inflicted upon them. In the city of Kew York the number became so large, that it was found necessary to form their relief. It was called k the “New York Irish Emigrant Society.” At the ses-ion of Congress, in ISI6-—l7, the Soci ety petitioned Congress,for a grant of land to their countrymen, who w'ere then destitute, having lost all their property in tire rebellion. The question was debated in Congress, and the petition was re jected by a majority of twelve voles. Among those who advocated the measure, and whose name is recorded among the yeas, stands the name of Wm. H. Harrison, now a candidate for Piesident. In the remarks he made on that occasion, he repudiated the idea that is often entertained, that the influx of foreign emigration would be dangerous to the lib erties of this country. He was willing to extend them a helping hand —to relieve the destitute —and to contribute our public domain to those wno had suffered as martyrs in the cause of liberty. This one act of Gen. Hanrison—performed at a time when the sincerity of his motives cannot be im peached —should commend him to the favoiable re gard of every United States Irishman. At the com ing election, Ictus prove “ Irishmen never desert an old friend in time of need.” Tire Amistad Africans. —At the CircuitConrt, held at Hartford on the 17th inst., (the case of the Amistad Africans having been continued fiom the last term of the Court, to enable the counsel to agree on a statement of the facts preparatory to an appeal to the Supreme Court,) a motion was made by R. S. Baldwin, Esq., to dismiss the appeal from the District Court, on the ground tliart it appeared from the record of the District Court that the allegations in tire libels of Ruiz and Montez that the Africans were their property', were not true ; —and that no appeal having been taken by them from the degree of that Court, the question of properly was conc.usively settled ; that the United States had no interest to authoiize an appeal in their name ; and that it appeared from the published correspondence between the Spanish Minister and the Secretary of State, that the Afri cans w ere not demanded by the Minister “as slaves, but as Africans,” for trial and puui.-hment in Cuba. Judge Thompson, however, considered the ap peal as taken Horn his pro forma decree at the last term of the Court, though not entered on the re cord, and that consequently the motion could not f e enterlaincd in the Circuit Court. He remaiked that no prejudice to t!ie A ricans could be occa sioned by the refusal to cnteilain the motion here, as it could be made in the Supreme Court. It was stated by Mr. Baldwin that in the case of Hoimcs, a majority of the Judges of the Supreme Court had expressed the opinion that in the absence of a treaty stipulation, no power exists in the Ex ecutive or any department of tiie Government, to surrender fugitive criminals to a foreign govern ment for trial. — N. Y. Jour. Com. From the Baltimore. Patriot. Maine and Mmkspeare. Dr. S. Collins closed his speech last night to the five thousand assembled near the Lexington Mar ket, with a quotation from Shakspeare, a copy of which has been furnished us, at our request. The only words varied from the reading in the original, are i» italics. In Henry VI. Part 11. Act I. the Duchies of An jou and Maine are stated to have been given to the King of Sicily, whose daughter Henry had married. The Earl of Warwick is speaking of this to the Duke of York. The Duke of York repre sents Mr. Van Buren, who is said by the English papers to have desires for royalty, and the propri ety of substituting Kendall for the Earl of War ! wick is apparent, as the Earl is known in history as a “King-maker;” and the editor of the Extra Globe aims at being a President-maker. Scene. —The east room in the White House.— Mr. Van Buren sitting alone on a sofa, in deep thought. Enter Mr. Kendall. Mr. Kendall, (Earl of Warwick ) President , Maine is lost! Thai Maine, which by main force Old Hickory won, And would have kept, so long as breath did last. [Exit. The President, (Duke of York.) Soliloquy— Vermont and Maine are given to the Whigs ; Old Rip * is lost; the State of New Hampshire Stands on a tickles point, now they are gone. Vermont and Maine, both given unto the Whigs ! Cold news for me—for I had hopes of Maine, Even as I have of rich Missouri’s soii. * North Carolina, f Tickle is used by old wri ters for ticklish. Pretty Good.- —We yesterday saw a man,wear ing the L. S. uniform, lying on the banquet in a hoii'ontal position. He had evidently mixed too much brandy in his ice vvatei to be able to stand erect. “ What is he ?” said one. “ Can’t you see,” said another, “ he is one of the U. S. army ?” “ He may belong to the U. S. service,’’ said a third, “ but he is certainly not one of Van Buren ’s standing army.” — Picayune. Look hi this, Freemen !• Martin Van Buren in the last struggle between this country and England sided with the British, and Opposed the War, In the Convention which amended the Con stitution of New York, Van Buren offered and urged a proposition requiring a Property Qual ification FOR THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE, and Robbing the poor Man of his vote ! In the great Democratic struggle which elec ted Madison, Van Buren sustained the Federal Ticket and openly and bitterly Opposed James Madison ! In the Presidential contest which brought Gen. Jackson before the people as the Democratic Can didate Van Buren. Opposed Andrew Jackson ! As Minister to England, Van Buren to effect his own purposes, Slandered his Country ! As a politician, Van Buren is known to be treacherous, selfish and corrupt, and boasts of be ing the The Father of the spoils System, By which the public treasure is used to cor rupt the people and dispoil them of their rights. He also boasts of being the author of the Sub treasury Scheme; —a system avowedly got up for the purpose of Reducing the wages of the Laborer to the lowest standard of Despotic Nations in Europe; a system in its mildest form has proved itself to be rags for the People and Gold and Sti ver for the office holders—a system of Aristoc ratic Plunder by which the poor man is robbed of his earnings to pamper an idle Office Holding Nobility. Van Buren, though he has richly served him self, never served his country. He has made mil lions from the people, and now t ides like a Foreign Prince I in his carriage and four, with footmen and out riders. As for his principles, they are everything and nothing. He has in his turn sustained and betrayed all parlies and all principles. His latest expression of opinion may be found in his recommendation of a Standing Army of two hundred thousand. Van Buren has nothing in common with the people. He is an intriguer, an aristocrat and a federalist—corrupt and selfish without genius or principle. Ql3 3 § Mr. Van Boren s Opinion, As to the Right of Suffrage. “One word on the main question before the committee. We have already reached the verge of universal suffrage. There was but one step beyond. And are gentlemen prepared to take that stepl We are cheapening this invaluable right.” “ The character of the increased number of voters would be such as would render their elec tions rather a curse than a blessing, which would drive from the polls all sober minded peo ple.” As to the election of Justices of the Peace. “ He had, at every stage of the discussions be tween the committee been decidedly opposed to the election of Justices." OTj* The further this poicer COULD BE REMOVED FROM THE PEOPLE THE BETTER.” 6 '5 k & & The result of the Vermont election is consid ered by the Abolitionists the greatest triumph they have yet achieved.— New Era. The above is considered by good judges the greatest lie the New Era has yet achieved.’ The LocoFoco candidate for Lieut. Governor, Mr. Barber, is and for some lime has been, the Secre tary of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society. He is one of the most prominent Abolitionists in the Slate. The Loco Foco candidate for Governor, Mr. Dillingham, is also a member of the Aboli tion Society, and received the nomination be cause it was thought that he would be supported Anti-Slavery men— Bridgeport Standard. “British Whigs.” —The opponents of Mr* Van Buren’s administration complain of this ti tle, which has been given them by a party in pow er, Senseless as the designation may appear, we do not see why the opposition should take it so much to heart. They must be ashamed of their ancestry, when they arc ashamed of being called British Whigs. The pilgrim fathers were Bri tish Whigs. John Milton, John Hampden, Al gernon Sidney, Henry Vane, John Elliot, Joseph I Addison, John Locke, Barre, Fox and Sheridan, the early vindicators of our colonial liberty and rights, were all British Whigs. Nay, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jeflorson, John Adams and George Washington himself, were, before the de claration of independence, British subjects and British Whigs. If the appellation then, is meant to be an invidi ous one, it is an insult upon the ancestry of nine tenths of the people of this country. If it is meant in a complimentary sense, still it is false and inappropriate, inasmuch as the epithet can with propriety he given to those only who were born British subjects and not native Americans. —N. Y. Signal. We have been requested by a personal friend of William Pitt Fessenden Esq, member elect of Congress from Maine, unequivocally to deny the statements made in the Standard of Satur day, and the New Era of yesterday, imputing abolitionism to that gentleman. He is not now and has never been an abolitionist; but, on the contrary, has always declared his opposition to the principles of that party. The error arises from the fact that Samuel Fessenden, Esq. of Maine, is an avowed aboli tionist.—JV. Y. Eve, Signal. To shew the utter shameless of the Van Buren party in ascribing the great Whig triumph in Vermont to Abolition and Anti -Masonry, it is only necessary to slate that Mr. Dillingham, the late candidate of that party lor Governor, is a de cided Abolitonist, and Mr. Barber, the late can didate for Lieut. Governor, is one of the prin cipal officers of the State Abolition Society ; both were supported on anti-slavery grounds, and received the votes of the most of the abolitionist electors; and both were influential members of the Anti-Masonic party also—Mr. Barber having edited an Anti-Masonic paper and been appoint ed Secretary of State during the Anti-Masonic ascendancy.— Newark Advertiser. Starting Children in the World. Many an unwise parent labors hard and fives spar ingly all his life for the purpose ofleaving enough to give his children a start in the world, as it is called. Setting a young man afloat with money left him by his relatives is like lying bladders un der the arm of one who cannot swim; ten chan ces to one he will lose his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach him to swim, and he will never need the bladders. Give your child a sound edu cation, and you have done enough for him. See too, that his morals are pure, his mind cultivated, and his whole nature made subservient to the Lws which govern men, and you have given him what will be of more value than the wealth of the In dies. iou have given him a start which no misfortune can deprive him of. The earlier you ach him to depend upon his own resources, the better. ’ True and StssißLE. — Buiwir very pertinently observes that the newspapers are the chronicles of civilization, the common reservoir into which every stream pours its living waters, and at which every man may come and drink It is the newspapers that give to liberty its practi cal life, its constant observation, its prepetual vig ilance, its unrelaxing activity. The newspaper informs legislation of public opinion and it in forms the people of the arts of legislation. And this is not all. The newspaper teems with the most practical morality; in its reports of crime and punishment, you find a daily warning against a case in a police court, not a sin gle trial of a wretched outcast or a trembling felon that does not preach to us the awful lesson how imprudence leads to error, how error conducts to guilt, how guilt reaps its bitter fruit of anguish and degradation. The newspaper is the fami liar bond that binds together man and man — no matter what may be the distance of climate or the difference of race. The fiewspiper is a law book for the indolent, a sermon for the ihoughtle-s, a library for the poor. It may stim ulate the most indifferent; it may instruct the most profound. Railroaus iv the United States. —The Journal of the Franklin Institute contains a de tailed account of the railroads in a number ot the States, with the length, costs, &c., from the ta bles of which the National Gazette gives the fol lowing : In Pennsylvania, the number of rail roads are thirty-six, the number of miles opened five hundred and seventy-six and a halt, the totil length of road eight hundred and silty miles and a quarter, and the amount already expended $15,- C 40.450. In Virginia, the Carolines, Georgia and Florida, there are twenty-three roads, and nine hundred and ninety-four nrles opened; to tal length, sixteen hundred and seventy-five miles and ahalf. Amount expended, $18,442,000. In Alabama, Lou : siana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, there are twenty-seven roads, one hun dred and ninety-five miles in operation; total length of roads, eleven hundred and forty-eight nrles and a quarter. Already expended, $9,621,- 000. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, there arc twenty-nine roads, one hundred and ninety-six miles in operation; total length of roads, two thousand eight hundred and twenty one miles and a half, amount expended, $5,523,- 640. Ax Affecting Incident. —We saw a letter, within a few days, written by a young lady who, not many weeks since, was journey ing from this place to the West. It narrates a very exciting occurrence which took place on board the steam boat in which she was an eyewitness. In passing down the Mississippi river, our narrator was sum moned from the cabin by alarming shrieks and great commotion on deck. On going up, she found that a young lady had fallen overboard, and the boat in its progress was fast leaving her be hind. A gentleman on board immediately divest ed himself of a part of his clothing, and sprang into the river He reached the drowning person, and upheld her in the water until a email boat came to the rescue of both. The young lady, thus snatched fre m a eudden death, was the daughter of an elderly gentleman who was on board the boat—foreigners, neither of whom could speak English. On reaching the deck, and re covering from her fright, she passionately embrac ed her deliverer and bestowed hiss after hiss upon him, as the only way she could express her grati tude and thankfulness ; while the father rushing from the cabin eagerly proffered roll of bank bills. These being refused, he ran to his cabin and returned with a bag of gold, which he likewise pressed upon his acceptance ; nor could either father or daughter be made to understand, or feel satisfied, why the proffered reward would not be accepted. —Salem Observer. Curiosity. —A gentleman informed us a few days since that a short time previous, while in pursuit of wild turkeys, in Hart county, Ken tucky, in company with a friend, they discover ed on the summit of a knoll or elevation, a large hole that would admit a man’s body without much difficulty. Curioisly led them to make prepara tions, and by an ascension, they entered this mys terious place. At the depth of about sixty feet they found themselves in a subterraneous cave or room apparently cut out of solid rock, through which they passed many feet, and which appear ed to be sixteen or eighteen feet square. Our in formant was the first that c.-tered the room, and he was not a little surprised that the first object that met his eye was a human skull with all the teeth entire. Upon further examination it was found that the whole place was filled with skele tons of men, women and children. Under the small aperture through which they descended, the place was perfectly dry, and the bones in a state of ervation. An entire skeleton of the human body was obtained. They concluded to examine how deep the bones laid, and penetrated through them in one place be tween four and seven et, but found them equal ly plenl'ial as on the top; but there seemed to rise an offensive effluvia as they approached where it was a little damp. There was no outlet to the reom, and a large snake which they found there, and which appeared to be perfectly docile, passed round the room several limes while they where in it. The discovery is a subject for the specula tion of philosophers, with regard to the period and circumstances attending this ancient charnel house.— Central Watchtower. New Musket for the British Army.— Mr* Wilkinson, a London manufacturer, has submitt ed for trial two muskets to the Master General of the Ordnance, on an entirely new principle. The following is from an English paper: “The barrel of this musket is of the same length and thickness as those used by the soldiers of the line at present ; the only difference is that the touch-hole, instead of being placed at the side, is under the stock, immediately in front of the trig ger, which is secured from the possibility of dis charging the musket by accident, even under the most careless circumstances.—lnstead of flints, percussion caps are used, and the force necessary tc ignite them is effected by a steel spring, about seven inches in length, and so simple that it can scarcely ever get out of order. Owing to the locks of the present muskets, the slock is much weakened by having to cut out a portion for their reception, and twenty screws are required to fix the various parts to each other and to the barrel. By Mr. Wilkinson’s plan, which he has secured by patent, five screws only are required, and there is no cutting requisite for the adjusting it to the stock and bar;el. “This improvement makes the musket a pound lighter, and will be of immense advantage not only to the army, but also to sportsmen and every person who has occasion to use fire arms, as the percussion cap being discharged under the stock, the motion cannot be seen by the eye, which ren ders it particularly safe for that organ, and se cures the certainly of a good aim; and this is greatly assisted by an elevation at the breech of the barrel, about half an inch in height, formed like the Roman letter V, and similar to those used on t.ie large guns of the Ordnance Depart ment.” Kj* Miss DUEL will resume her School on the first Monday in October. sept 2S-3t (p 3 Mrs. CHAPMAN will resume her School in Augusta on the Ist Monday in October se P l 23 d&trwlw AI GU STIJSK ~E ES , A I TORNEY AT LAW , - se Pts-ly Madison, Morgan county, Ga. JOHN R. STANFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Clarkesville, Ga. OBiIU A ii V . Departed this life: at Windsoi.on the 2*ts Co!. Paul Fitz-ihmons, aged 40 yea** p. lnst in early life with an abundant fortune he use! it to dispense aiound him its b-essinW v* indeed have possessed suh ample fewer have applied those means <o generou .* Stlll usefully to the benefit and happiness of thrift aRd Eminently enterprising in tae avocation to Jp*' he was reared, his greatest enjoyment spran- r success in those agricultural schemes wind, In vention prompted and his skill and persever* ID ' consummated. Relying on Him who cend^tk* - sunshine and shower, he was seldom if ' l ‘ e brought in angry collision with his fellow ma ’Tistrue against so mu h benevolence pers ■ sentmen s can not thrive, as it is equally after him have followed to the grave the friendship and warmest gratitude. In the * and sincerity of those feelings, his friendsf fer their full and fervent aspirations to p e . that their friend may arise from his cold and p?' 60 ’ bed pure as the trumpet blast which snail t/'f' herald of his resurrection. e l “ e Died, at his residence in Burke county, 0n L morning of the 271 h instant. Edward ll\ T , u,e in the 47th year of his age, after a protracted’ ness of thirty-one days, leaving a wife ard ' children, and numerous relatives and friend mourn their irreparable loss. He tore his to tions with a most Christian fortitude, Lt;n fectly resigned to the will ofG'd. Bein'* few hours before he expired, his feelings re w ! * to eternity, he answered, “All is clear-” ' Ve while a brother in the church was at pra’vc/f shouted, “Glory to God!” Just before he di^* he called his iriends to him and gave them , structions concerning his family, and prai<i R " -S' Lord, said he would soon be’in Abraham 1 ’f som; and folding his arms, the spirit toot it flight from the moital body. Mr. H. has been an exemplary member oft'-. Methodist Episcopal church for eleven year? I part of which time he held the office* of ard and class-leader, which he filled with honor to the church and a blessing to the community In the death of Mr. H. the church has lost one of her most valuable members, the widow a nio tector, the orphan a father, and the poor a friend* His house was a home for the preachers, and his door was ever open to the needy. It seem* that in Mr. H. were concent.ated ail the usefulness of a neighbor and the graces of the Christian- Our loss is his gam. “ Blcs*ed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they ie«t from their labors and their works do follow them.” W ARD MEETINGS. Wednesday night, in the SECOND Ward. Thursday night, in the FOURTH Ward. Friday night, in the THIRD Ward, Saturday night, a General Meeting at the City Hall. MARINE INTEI.LIGFACE. Charleston, Sept. 29. Arrived yesterday—C L brig Perry, Hamilton, New York; U £ Mail sclir ii ay nc, Griffiths, Ha vana. Went to Sea yesterday —Line brig Token, Tan ner, Boston ; Line brig Randolph, Goldsmith,Phil adelphia ; schr Brilliant, Giikey, New York; schr Cordelia, Pendleton, New Y'oik ; schr Henrietta Parker, Baltimore ; D L schr E P Cohen, Shepherd, Baltimore. Savannah, Sept. 28. Cleared —Br brig Six, Perry, Chatham, Eng.; brig Clinton, Lyon, New York' bailed —brig Madison, Stewart, New Y'ork ; brig Clinton, Lyon, New Y'ork; brig Sterling, Kisley, New Y'ork ; schr Intrepid, Weeks, St. Johns,P.K.; schr Faith, Johnson, PL;!aJelohia. li. H. OVLRBV, A T TORSE Y AT LA W, feb 2-5 ertsc-r.. J.vkson co .nly (la. rj' Miss TRAIN wiA -c ; unie her School at Summerville cs the Lrst Mod ay iu aug 12 ts GAR ONER, n• t i.crly resident surgeon n the Now Yoik Hospital, and physician atßelle j vue Hospital, New Yoik, tenders to the public his professional services. Ohice in Washington street, between Broad and Ellis streets Resucuce, United States Hotel, ap 2 (Tj=> EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK —At sight, and at one to twenty days sight. For sale ov nov 23 GARUELLE ir RHINE. Dr. ( . B. DILL offers his professional ser vices to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity.— He will be found at the Drug Store ol J. L. Houston, sept 8 " Bn Dr. J. J. WILSON has removed for the Summer to the house of James Gardner, Esq., Ist door below the Academy'. June Dr. WM. FLINT, member f the Massa chusetts Medical Society, would inform his frierds that he has removed his place of residence to the boarding-house of Mrs. Camfield, at the comer of Jackson and Broad streets, where he may be found at all hours during the summer season. His pro fessional services are respectfully tendered to the citizens of Augusta. if—June 6 (Uj' NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Tro >n between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave** follows: upward. Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a” u. “ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30 “ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 0 “ “ Branch vKle, “ - 11 00 * “ Blackville, - “ - 100 p. m] “ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300 Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400 downward. Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. m. “ Aiken, - “ - 730 “ Blackville, “ - . 915 “ Midway, “ - - 10 30 “ Branchvill “ - - 11 00 “ “ Georges’, “ - -1145 m. “ “ Summerville,“ - -1 lop. M - Arrive at Charleston not before 215 Distance—l3o miles. Fare Through —$10 Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain - minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and no> longer than 5 minutes for wood and water at an} station. To stop for passengers, when a white fi a hoisted, at either of the above stations; and als° ‘ Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile L •; Rives’, Grahams, Willcston, Windsor, Johnsons and Marsh’s T. O. , Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock air dine at Blackville ; aoivn , will oreaiiiast at Arec an d dine at Charleston. jnav4^ FASHIONABLE BONNETS. JUST RECEIVED, . Ladies fashionable Florence Cotttage Eonne do do English Tabinet, do. Misses do do Straw, do. do do Florence, do. do do Swiss, do. White and Colored Palm Hoods, Ladies Palm Leaf Cottage, do. French Wreaths and Sprigs. Together with a variety of new Fall and Vvintf Goods, to which the attention of the public is ie * spectfully invited by WM. H. CRANE & 60. sept 22 2w \[EW FALL AND WINTER GOODS.— The lx subscribers aie now receiving and opening their fall and winter stock of Fancy and j Dry Goods, among which are many seasonable am desirable articles, to which the attention ol 1 public is respectfully invited. _ sept 4 W.Vi. H. CRANE & (0 -