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mmmtmmsßSßsaasm aassßaßMMß*aß^»* sa * OHIioMCLL iNb SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. WEDNESDAY MO .NING, OCTOBER 14. FOn PRESIDENT, WILUAM HENfeY HARRISON, Os i|/u‘o ; The invincible Hero oil Tippecanoe —the incor ruptible Statesman —tl > inflexible Republican — the patriot Farmer of )hio. FOB VICE-) RESIDENT, JOHN r , YLER, Qf Vie inia; A State Rights Republic: i of the school of ’9B— —of Virginia’s noble: sons, and emphatically one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and patriotic statesmen. TOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDE r AWD VICE-PRESIDENT. GEORGE R. GILM iR, of Oglethorpe. DUN:AN L. CLIN H, of Camden. JOHN WHITEHKj* ), of Burke. CHARLES DOUGH ;RTY, of Clark. JOEL CRAWFORD of Hancock. SEATON GRJ * T TL ND, of Baldwin. CHRISTOPHER B. TRONG, of Bibb. JOHN W. CAMPBE L, of Muscogee. EZEKIEL WIMBEI LY, of Twiggs. ANDREW M oLEH of Cass. WILLIAM KZZARI of DeKalb. The iilec iou. The following is the ag-| egate vote for mem bers of Congress in 75 count s : TOR HARR ON. Dawson, 35.616 Nesbit, 35,461 Habersham, 35,457 Alford,... - 35,420 Foster, 35.355 Warren, 35,327 K mg, ........ 35,31 o Gamble, 35,211 Merriwethcr, 35,107 FOR VAN E REN. Cooper, 31,237 Colquitt,. 31.223 81ack,... 31,146 Lumpkin, 31,062 Pooler.. 31049 Campbell, ' 31.045 Hilyef 31,0:1 Iverson, 31,000 Patterson, 30,977 In Heard count}', Crosby, Johnson and Dawson are elected to the Legislator This is one gain. The remaining 18 countie! are Appling, Baker, Chattooga, Dade, Emanuel, Jilraer, Irwin, Lee, Lowndes, Marion, Murray, 1 ibun, Sumpter, Tat aall, Thomas, Union, Walk r, and Ware, which, though they may decrease th present majorities, cannot change the result. [)ur whole ticket is therefore elected by a handson ; majority. Maryland Kl* :tion. The Baltimore American f Saturday says : “ It is now pretty clearly s>sc* tained that the next Legislature will stand 60 Wl. 5s in the House of Delegates to 19 Van Burenitef and in the Senate 15 Whigs to 6 Van Bnrenitt . There are only three counties in the S:ate wh ;h have elected the entire Van Buren ticket, —t tse are Baltimore, Talbot and Carroll, Baltimo r city has elected Van Burenites, and they have sleeted two out of the four delegates from Harfc d.” 1 The nett Whig gain so far t heard from, is 25 Delegates and 3 Senators. The Delaware State Journa contains the com plete returns of the election f< inspectors of elec tion, which was held in that «tate on Tuesday. The total Whig majority in tti« State is 716, Missionarie . It may be interesting to a p rtion of our read ers to be informed that the 1 ip Potomac, Capt. Carter,having on board Rev. * homas L. Mcßride fnd other Missionaries with th* 1 families, all well, arrived on Bth of June last ofl \ngtere, Island of Java, on their way to Singapor and within a few days sail of that place, after a B vorablo voyage of three months from Boston. 3 Harrison and T oup, Ganers.l Harrison is denoun ed as a Federal ist, because he approved of the conduct of the el der Adams, relative to the ant cipated war with France—because he spoke re pectfully of Mr. Adams, as a gentleman and pat iot—and opposed the disbanding of the army. The same reasoning would ondemn General Smith, of Maryland, Thom: i Jefferson, and George M. Troup of the sam< crime. General' Smith voted with Gen. Harri on on that ques tion, in fact, was the originator of the army scheme. Mr. Jefferson spoke* in favor of the war, and George M. Troup, i|i speaking of it, uses the following language, vil: “ Whengtbe French Dirccto y, in the name of libeity, wlrn-b it abused, and ir the name of hon or, which it sullied, availing it: df of The gener ous sympathies of our people, ad essayed to in volve them in tbe conflicts of I jrope, and on the side of France, Mr. Adams re ;nted the insults an 1 repelled the indignities ot those nttinamed republicans, with a patriot hr mess, worthy of his former life ; and a corrupt of the most powerful nation of Christ* tdoin, which had dared to demand a base brib< as the price of peace, was instructed that the American people were ready to pay millions for. efence but not a cent for tribute. Long before h sun went down, truth and justice having tran uiltzed the pas sions, the respect and the affci ions of the good and worthy had settled on the venerable Patri arch, and his last days were ; rade serene and happy by the contemplation of an old man ap proaching to his hundredth yea surrounded by millions whom he delighted t . »ll his children, and who in gratitude for his services, would follow him with tears and be edictions to bis grave.” Who can read the above ami sntertain a shad ow of respect for the pitiful pettifogger, who would attempt. Jo stigmatize ( eneral Harrison as a black cot jude federalist, fur acting and thinking in corJfcon with Bmii|., and Jefferson, and Troup! fIP I 1 I M Ravages op thk Small b —Mr. Grout, a Missionary of the American writes from Cape Town, South Africa, m. Ae of May 27th. that the small pox rf»s '^dreadfuliy there. It was believed that fa and persona bad already bad it, of wb id diad. From the Richmond (Va.) Compiler. Mr. Webster on Abolition. It is but duty to the distinguished son of the Bay State, the intellectual giant of the North, that his views touching the power of the Feoeral Government to interfere with Southern institu tutions, as expressed in his speech on Monday, should be seen and read in every section of the South. He denies the existence of that power, and avers that such interference is prohibited by , the Constitution. With such a bulwark in the very citadel—if impotent as they are, they may be considered as having a citadel at all —of the Abolitionists, we have little to fear. Mr. W eb ster said; | I have spoken rny sentiments in the neighbor- I hood of Virginia, though not actually within the ! State, in June lust, and again in the heart of 1 Massachusetts in, July, so that it is not now that I proclaim them for the first time—but ten years ago, when obliged to speak on this same subject, 1 I uttered the same sentiment in regard to slavery and to the absence of all power in Congress to interfere, in any manner whatever, with that subject. I delivered my sentiments fully in Al exandria in the month of June, and in July at Worcester, in Massachusetts. I shall ask some friend connected with the Press, to circulate in what I said on this subject in the Sen ate of the United iStates, on the 30lh of January last.* I have nothing to add or to subtract from what I then said. I commend it to your atten tion, or rather I desire you to lo .k at it. I hold that Congress is absolutely precluded from inter fering in any manner, direct or indirect, with this, as with any other of the Institutions of the country. (The cheering was here loud and long continued, and a voice from the crowd exclaimed, u we are here from Maryland to Louisiana, and we desire that the sentime.it just expressed may be repeated.” Repeat, repeat.) Well—l repeat it—proclaim it on the wings of all the winds— tell it to all your friends—(cries of “ we will, we 1 will’ ) —tell it, I say, that standing here in the capitoi of Virginia, beneath an October sun, in the midst of this assemblage, before the entire country, and upon all the responsibility that be longs to rne, I say that there is no power directly cr indirctly in Congress or the General Gov ernmentto interfere, in the slightest degree, with the Institutions of the South. (Immense cheer ily) And now, said Mr. W., I ask you only to do me one favor, (we’ll do it. ■ I ask you to carry that paper home, (we will, we will.) read it, read it to your neighbors, and when you hear the cry, “ shall Mr. Wbsfer, the Abolitionist, he allowed to profane the soil of Virginia,” (loud shouts and repeated and prolonged cheers with cries of wel come ! welcome! welcome!) that you will toll them that, in connexion with thedectrine in that speech, I hope that there are two governments over us. each possessing its own distinct autho rity, with which the other may not interfere. I may differ from you in some things, but I will here say that as to the doctrines of State Rights as held by Mr. Madison in his last days, I do not know that we differ at ah, (cheers.) —yet I am here and among the foremost to hold that it is indispensable to the propriety of these Govern ments to preserve, and that he is no true friend to either who does not labor to preserve that true distinction between both. (Immense cheering.) We may not all see the line that divides them alike, but all honest men know that there is a line, at d they ail fear to go either on tbe one or the other side of it. tis this balance between the General and the State Governments which has preserved the country in unexampled pros perity for fifty years—and the destruction of this just balance will he the destruction of our Gov ernment. What I believe to be the doctrine of State Rights, I hold as firmly as any man. Do I not belong to a State 1 and may I not say, to a Slate whi. h has done something to give herself renown, and to her sons some little share of par ticipated distinction ? (Great cheering.) f say again, that the preservation of State Rights, on the one hand, and of the just powers of Congress, upon the other, is equally indispensable *0 the preservation of our free Republican Government. (Uheers.) • Note. —The following is the passage to which Mr. Webster referred: Extract f”om M>\ Webster's Speech in repl:/ to Mr. Hay tie, Jan. 2 is/. 1830. At the very first Congress, petitions on the subject of slavery were presented, if I mistake not, from different Stales. The Pennsylvania Society foi promoting the abolition of slavery took the lead, and Lid before Congress a memo rial praying Congress to promote the ablition by such powers as it possessed. This memorial wss referred, in the House of Representatives, to a select committee, consisting of Mr. Foster ol New Hampshire, Mr. Gerry of Massachusetts, Mr. Huntingdon of Connecticut, Mr. Lawrence of New York, Mr. Linnickson of New Jersey, Mr. Hartley of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Parker of Virginia—all of them, sir, as you will observe Northern men, hut the last. This committee mgdti a report, which was committed to a com mittee of the whole House, and there considered and'discussed on seveta! days; and being amended, although without material alteration, it was made to express three distinct propositions on the sub ject of slavery and the slave trade—First, in the words of the Constitution, that Congress cannot prior to the year 1808. pi oh ibit the migration or importation of such persons as afcy of the States then existing, should think proper to admit; se cond, that Congress had authority to restrain the citizens of the United States from carrying on the A trican slave lade, for the purpose of supply ing foreign countries. On this proposition, our early' laws against those who engaged in that traffic, are founded. Tne third proposition, and that, which bears on the present question, was ex pressed in the following terms : “ Resolved, That Congress have no authority to interierc in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States—it remaining with the several States alone to pro vide rules and regulations therein, which human ity and true policy may require. Th.s resolution received the sanction of the House of Representatives, so early as March, 17- 90. And now, sir, the honorable gentleman will a.low me to remind him not only were the select committee who reported the resolution, with a single exception, all Northern men, but also, that of the members then composing the House of Representatives, a large majority, I believe nearly U fa-thirds were Northern men also. The /louse agreed to insert these resolutions in its journal, and from that day to this it has ne ver been maintained or contended that Congress had any authority to regulate or interfere with the condition of slavea in the several States. No Northern gentleman, to my knowledge has mov ed any such question in either House of Con gress. The fears of the South, whatever fear* they might have entertained, were allayed and quieted by this early decision, and so remained until they were excited afresh without cause, but for col iecteral and indirect purposes. When it became necessary, or was thought so by some political persons, to find an unvarying ground for the ex clusion of Northern men from confidence and from lead in the affairs of the Republic, then and not till then, the cry was raised, and the feelings industriously excited, that the influence of Nor thern men in the public councils would endanger the relation of master and slave. For myself. I claim no other merit, than that this gross and enormous injustice toward the whole North, has not wrought upon me to change my opinions or my political conduct. I hope I am above violating principles even under the smart of injury and false imputations. Unjust suspicion and underserved reproach, whatever pain I may experience from them, will not in- Juce me, I tmst, nevertheless lo overstep the limits of constitutional duty,or lo encroach on the rights of others. The domestic slavery of the South, I leave where I find it—in the hands of their own Governments. It if their affair, not mine. I go for the Constitution as it is, and for the Union as it is; but I am resolved not to submit in silence to accusations which impute to us a disposition to evade the cons national compact, and to extend the power of the Government over the internal laws and domestic condition of the States.—AH such accusations, wherever and whenever made, all insinuation of the existence of any such purpose, I know and feel to be ground less and injurious. And we must confide in Southern gentlemen themselves; we must trust to those whose integrity of heart and magnanim ity of leeling, will lead them to a desire to main tain and disseminate truth, and who possess the means of its diffusion with the Southern public, and ws must leave it with them to disabuse that public of its prejudices. But in the mean t me, for my own part. I shall continue to act justly, whether those towards whom that justice is ex ercised receive it with candor or with contume •y- Harrison and Adopted Citizens. The following is from the Cincinnati Gazette, Oct. 3, in which is an account of a great Mass Meeting in Hamilton County, the home of Gener al Harrison. Gen. Harrison alluded in the course of his re marks to the slander that had been u tered against him, respecting his opinions upon the subject ot foreigners and the naturalization ot aliens. He pronounced in the most emphatic manner, that the charge against him, of opposition to the in terests of foreigners, who sought an asylum in this country from the oppressions of foreign des pots, was an unmitigated falsehood. He referred to his whole course in the councils of the nation, for a proof of the sympathy which he had always entertained for the people of other climes, invited by tne Constitution arui Laws to come among us and partake of our political rights. It w as, said the General, always a favorite principle with me to stand by the Constitution, and that charier of our liberties made no distinction between nat uralized and native born citizens. Admitted to the rights of citizenship, every man, no matter whence he came, tv» equal in political rights. For himself, he could say, that the protection of the oppressed from other countries was a democra tic principle, fully recognized in the Constitution, and his own votes while in public life w ould prove that he stood oy that principle on all occasion*. “The interest, sard the General, which I took in the Kosciusko question, has procured from the Poles at Chiliicothe the presentation of this beautiful cross. (Here the General showed a handsome cross of Alder wood, lipped and secur ed by silver.) This is made of Alder wood from the mount near Warsaw, the scene of three des parate battles in the last Polish revolution. It is a precious wood, for after the last contest, the Russians ordered the hilt to be «tript of its Alder growth, that not a relic might be left ot that des perate fight. This wood, fellow citizens, was bathed in the best blood of the brave Poles, who sold their lives for their country. It is a memen to which I shall ever cherish. It proves to mo that I have not violated by my votes, my princi ples and feelings in favor of the generous Poles, but I can put ray hand to rny heart and say, that my republican sympathy for the people tier many, Ireland, England or any other land, has been and is wanned into active existence by the remembrance that lioerty is equally dear to all of us, and that it is our greatest boast that this is the land to which the persecuted of despotism can always fly with the certainty of being receiv ed by brethren in freedom.” The General went on at length, and showed conclu*ively to all who heard him, that every American citizen, no matter where born, was a sove r eign of this land, am! that, as such, he took him by the hand and welcomed him to share in the political rights secured to us by the Constitu tion and Laws. So completely did the General put down the slander against him, of being opposed to foreign ers because they were foreigners, that the cheer ing and shouting lasted for several minutes, the multitude feeling that he had been calumniated most grossly. From the Baltimore Pilot. Eccentricity. Father Ritchie, of the Richmond “ Enquirer/ whom John Randolph very appropriately dubbed the man of “ semi principles ” —five loaves and two fishes—speaking of ihe Maine election says, “she has exhibited some little eccentricity.” This is a cant term of the party, applied for the first time to a State abjuring the destructive doctrines of Van Burenism. We recollect when Robert Dale Owen was op posed and defeated in his canvass for a seat in Congress, from the Slate of Indiana, on the ground of his Fanny Wright Agrarian piinci plcs, and his against Christians and Christianity, the /official organ of Mr. Van Bu ren. the GlobeJjtfefended Mr. Owen, with the acknowledgement, however, that his opinions it* regard to the institutions of Christianity were “ somewhat eccentric.” They were, however, not of that nature in the estimation of Mr, Van Buren. notwithstanding his dissimulating affec tion for the church, to prevent him from confer ring an important appointment upon Mr. Owen’s brother, of the same school. Nor did(it operate against Eli Moore , of Tam many Hall, in New-York, one of the high priests of the Fanny Wright Agrarian school, upon whom Mr. Van Buren, not long since, conferred an important situation in the New-York Custom House. His opinions and preachings at old Tammany on the subject of religion, were only “ somewhat eccentric.” The celebrated Rev. Orestes'A. Brownson is also a favorite and protege of Mr. Van Buren, and luxuriates in the post of steward of the Chelsea Hospital, at Charlestown, Mass., under the present auspices of the administration. This reverend gentleman has even improved upon the Tammany Agrarian doctrine of divi sion, by going a considerable stride in advance. He is preparing the public mind, in the “Boston Quarterly Review,” to receive the monstrous “ Democratic” doctrine, as he terms it, that a father at his death “ shall not be permitted to leave his honest hard earnings, if he has been fortunate in accumulating wealth, to his child ren. He may use it during his life-lime, but af ter his death it must all b® placed in the cofiers of the State, should it oven make paupeis of his children.” Mr. Brownson’s levelling doctrines, however, according lo the locofoco rule, must not be view ed as destructive. Oh, no, they are only “ somewhat eccentric,” and in common with those of Fanny Wright, Owen and Moore, who have obtained signal favors at the hands of Mr. Van Buren since he ascended the executive chair. It is somewhat singular that Mr. Van Buren should confer important offices upon men of such openly avowed principles, and yet pretend lo have claims upon the suffrages of a Cnvisiian community. He has, however, cast his net into the wide political sea, and all ar e good fish that may be caught in it. There is no more thankless office than that of editing a daily paper. The editor is almost sure of treading upon somebody’s corns at almost eve ry step, and is equally sure never to please every body, and sometimes to please nobody. But he still pursues his wearisome never ending round, and lakes his chance of success in his endeavors “to please;” and he who succeeds in pleasing the most persons, or perhaps displeasing the fewest; is the luckiest man.— Boston Transcript. Original Jackson Men. One of the most striking signs of the times is the manner in which tho members of the old Jackson parly adhere lo their principles and the fact that the Whig press every where concedes to them the meed of consistency, in their adher ence lo their original faith. Witness the follow ing extract from the notice vs the Convention held in Cincinnati, on the Ist of October, copied from the Cincinnati Gazette: The Jackson Reform Club excited considera ble attention. It numbered 140 in the proces sion, and bore a variety of banners, some of which were as follows, snd proclaimed that although its members had severed their connection with the Van Buren party, their principles remained unchanged: “ITI« THE PEOPLE, and they alone who have a right to complain, when a bad officer is substituted for a good one.”— Jackson's Mes sage. “ The efficiency of the Government would be promoted, and official industry and integrity bet ter secured, by a General Extension of the law which limits Appointments to FOUR \ EARS.” Jackson's Message. “In connection with such amendment, it would seem advisable to limit the service of the chief magistrate to a SINGLE TERM.”—Jack son's Message. “The supremacy of the civil, over the milita ry law.”— Jefferson. “ The honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of public faith ” — Jtffirson. “ Encouragement of agriculture, and of com merce. as its handmaid ” — Jefferson. “ Freedom of religion, and freedom of th® press. Economv in the public expenses, that la bor may be lightly burdened.”— Jefferson , “ The preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the .heel an chor of our peace at home, and safety abroad.”— Jefferson. “ Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of th® majority, the vital principle of republics.”—Jef ferson. “ The only qualification for office— ‘ Is he hon est, is he capable, is he faithful to the Constitu tion 1’ ” — Jefferson. “To the People belongs the right of electing their Chief Magistrate; it was never designed I that choice should, in any case, be defeated.”— Jacksons Message. “ I cannot but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office, than is gener ally to be gained by their experience.”—Jack son's Message. “ Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense.”—Jack son's Message. “ For relief and deliverance, let us firmly rely on that kind Providence which I am sure watch es with peculiar care over the destinies of our re public ; and on the intelligence and wisdom of eur countrymen.”— Jackson's Message. A Beautiful Extract.— The following beau tiful extract is taken from General Harrison’s late ; vigorous speech at the great gathering at Dayton, | Ohio. The sentiment is truly democratic, and j the language is worthy of the sentiment: “A precious inheritance has been handed down to you by your fathers. In Rome, the sacred fire of fabled gods, was kept alive by vestal vir gins, and they watched over the gift with eager eyes. In America, a glorious fire has been ligh ted upon the altar of liberty, and to you my fel low citizens, has been entrusted its safe-keeping, to be nourished with care and fostered forever. Keep it burning, and let the sparks that contin ually go upward from it fall on her altars, and light up in distant lands the fire of freedom. The Turk busies himself no longer with his harem or j his bow string. To licentiousness have succce- j ded the rights of man, and constitutions are given to the people by once demotic rulers. Whence came the light that now shines in the land of dark ness! It was a brand snatched from your own proud alter, and thrust into the pyr® of Turkish oppression.” At the head of the Whig procession at Erie, was carried a full length portrait of Gen Wash ington, with this inscription:— ,k First in war — I first in peace—first in ihe hearts of his country- \ men, and first to commission ’William Henry \ Harrison.” W’berever it appeared, the sirnulta- : neous shout arose from thousands of voices, hear- 1 lily responding to the sentiment. Irish Ladies. The Irish ladies are thus spoken of in a recent ; letter from N. P. Willis, written alter a fashion- : able party in Dublin:— Moore’s remark has often been quoted—‘There is nothing like an Irish woman to take a man off his feetbut whether this figure of speech was suggested by the little bard’s common sobriquet of •Jump up and kiss m°, Torn Moore/ or simply conveyed his idea of the bewildering character of Irish beauty, it contains, to any one who has ever travelled (or waltzed) in that country, a very just as well as realizing description. Physically, Irish women are probably the finest race in the world—l mean, taller, better limbed and cheated, larger eyed, and with more luxuriant hair, and freer action than any other nation I ever observed. The Phoenician and Spanish blood, which has run hundredsof years in their veins.still kindles its dark fire in their eyes, and with the vivacity of the Northern mind the bright color of the Norther skin, the Southern qualities mingle in the most admirable and superb harmony. The idea we form ot Italian and Grecian beauty is never realized in Greece and Italy, but we find it in Ireland, heightened and exceeded. Cheeks and lips of thedelicary and bright tint of carna tion, with snowy teeth, and hair and eyebrows of jet, are what we should look for on the pa lette of Apelles, could we reach the painter, and reanimate his far famed models; and these va ried charms, united, fall very commonly to the share of the fair Milesian of the upper classes. In other lands of dark eyes, the rareness of a fine grained skin, so necessary to a brunette, makes beauty so rare—but whether it is the damp or softness of the climate or the infusion of Sax on blood, a coarse skin is almost never seen in Ireland. I speak now only of the belter born ranks of society, for in my travels in Ireland, I did not chance to see even one peasant girl of any pretensions to good looks. From North to South, they look lo me coarse, and dirty, ill formed and repulsive. Nothing could be more captivating and delight ful than the manners of the Irish women, and nothing at the same time, could be more at war with the first principles ofEnglish high breeding —coldness and rctenu. Tne frank, almost hila rious‘how are you!’ of an Irish girl, her whole handed and cordial grasp, as often in the day as you meet her, theperlectly unmissyish, confiding direct character ot her conversation, arc all traits which would stamp her as somewhat rudely bred in England, and as desperately vulgar in New ork or Philadelphia. Modest to a proverb, the Irish woman is as un suspecting of an impropriety as if it were an impossible thing, and she is as fearless and joyous as a midshipman, and sometimes as noisy. In a ball room she looks ill dressed, not because her dress was ill put on, but she dances, not glides, sits town without care, pulls her flowers to pieces and it her head dress incommodes her, gives it a pull ora push— acts which would be perfect in sanity at Altnack’s.—lf she is offended, she asks or an explanation. If she does not understand you she confesses her ignorance. It she wishes lo see you I e next Jay, she tells you how and when. She is the child of nature, and children are not i-l) is jhe iTiminy piminy, eye avoiding, nger lipped, drawling, don’t touch me manner o some of the fashionable ladies of our country would amuse a cold and reserved English woman sufficiently, but they would drive an Irish girl in to hysterics. I have met one of our fair country people ai.road, whose -Grecian stoop/ and exqui sitely subdued manner was invariably taken lor a fit of indigestion. The Tbappists in Ireland. — Mount Mel leray, county Waterford, or the black mountain, as it was called, is now a perfect garden, though recently a barr, n heath, until the Very Rev. Dr. Ryan, abbot of the Trappisls. and his exiled brethren from France, obtained a gram of the tract from Sir John Keane, whose property is since considerably enhanced in value, as nearly all the vicinity is taken by industrious farmers, who act ing upon the example of the Trappists, have brought into cultiva.ion an expanse of land for centuries in a wild and barren state. Fields of rich corn, and meadow- pasture upon well inclosed farms everywhere meet the eye, and the surround ing country presents a most exhilarating aspect. When Dr. Ryan came into possession, he had but Is. 6d. after defraying the expenses of himself and bis brethren to Mount Melleray. The order located here now consists of eighty-six members, whose dress is a long orown cloak. Their whole time is occupied in prayer or field labour, except the period devoted to rest. They retire to their beds at eight in the evening, and rise at two in the morning, -hroughout the year. Their diet is strictly vegetable, and raised upon their own gar dens, never tasting either fish or flesh-meat, and no drink but pure water. In such matters they are rigidly au&lcre. The chapel of the establish ment is exquisitely beautiful, and excites the most enthusiastic admiration of every visitor. The ab bot is most attentive to all persons resorting there, whether through curiosity or devotion, and visit ors are treated with every hospitality. There have been gieat numbers this year from every part of Europe. The community observe the most strict silence, and their farming-employment is laborious, and almost incessant. List Capture of Malta.— The blockade of Malta a as so remarkable for its duration, as well as for the suffering of the besieged, and the unre mitting watchfulness of the blockading squadron, lhat it has scarcely a parallel in history. It com menced in September, 1798, wner., in addition to the ordinary garrison, the harbour contained the line of battle ship Guillaume Tell, and two fri gates La Diane and La Justice—the three ships which reached the island after the battle of the Nile.—After the expiration of the first year’s blockade, provisions, had become so scarce, that a fowl sold for 60 francs, a pigeon for 12, a pound of sugar for 22 and a pound of coffee for 26 francs. Towards the end of the second year’s siege. Admiral Villeneuve determined on making an attempt to send the ships to France for asis tance ; the Guillaume Tell w-as sent out with ah posible precautions, but she was captured by Lord Nelson on the same night.—Several spero naras were also despatched, but captured. Asa lasi resource, the two frigates Diane and Justice j where despatched : but on the morning follow | ing the departure, a line of battle ship passed the : harbor, in sight of the whole garrison with La Diane in company bearing the British flag. The j distress of the garrison was extreme: a cartouche of oii sold for 24 to 28 francs, coffee 48 to 58 francs a pound, and sugar from 43 to 58 francs. Horses, mules, cats, dogs, and even rats, had been so long consumed lhat to hold out longer was im possible. The garrison accordingly capitulated, in August, 1799, after a seige of two years and a day ; duriug which the French consumed 52,- 000 shot and bombs, and about 700,000 catnd gos. The provisions on which they bad subsis | ted during tfiis time, would not have lasted more than seven months on full allowance. From Tobasco. —Capt. Mitchel, of the Star* 1 at New Y'ork, reports that when he sailed a-man of-war-brig and two schooners belonging to the Federalists were oil Tobasco; lhat the Federal troops had possession of the frontier and w-ere preparing to attack the town of Tobasco. Ti e insurgents who had possession of the town were on their part making efforts to defend it. Atlantic Steam Navigation. —The grea test achievement, perhaps, of the present day is the successful application of steam to ocean navi -1 gallon. The influence of this grand and tn ; umphant experiment is already felt in some mea su ein our commercial interests. Half the space , between us and Europe is now destroyed perma | nently. This is very pleasant in a time of peace and shaking of hands. It were lets so perhaps I in times of commotion and wild-war’s alarms. ; Polically considered, some will think it were bet j ter to have two Atlanlics between the continents j oi America and Europe than annihilate the old i one. The nearer we approach each other, the greater our danger of get mg intertangled and in involved in each other’s troubles. However, there is no-stopping this spaceannihilating progress; we must fail in and make what good we can out of it. One thing i( were well to consider, that this steam navigation is not always to be a mere freight-carrving or pleasure seeking intercourse. These same suo horse pow-er contrivances can do other work than carry laces and silks and the like from land to land. They may suddenly become the Mercuries of war, floating battlefields, flying artilleiists with a vengeance; and, whenever this may happen, the whole field and circumstances of war must be changed. The fate of nations will be cast, not on Waterloo fields, but on the ocean ; not ny glittering masses of infantry, but by dingy steam engine men, driving about their war machine, light as gossamer, with 500 horse power, and Perkins’ steam guns to match.— Phila. Sen~ tine/. Fortifications of Paris.— Forts are to be erected in several places, and a ctenelated wall is to be built to surround the largest masses of the exterior subuibs ot Paris, with ditches where it may be necessary ; .he wall is to be thirty leet in height. Paris fortified, it is sla ted, could hold in check an army of 300,000 men during three months; 60,000 national guards, and 25,000 troops of the line could de fend it, and an army of 200.00*) men could en camp safely between the two lines. Contracts have been taken at the War office for 1,500,000 lb?, of copper, and 10,000,000 lbs. of lead, a moui.ting jointly to three hundred millions of francs—be-ides ;en millions francs worth of pa per for cartridges. Besides these warlike prepa ration an ordonnance caking out an additional number of men has been issued, and orders to prepare all the ships of the line for immediate service. Treatment of Horses. —The first ihing that the groom or coachman generally does when he brings his horses in, is to lake the bucket and brush and wash the legs thoroughly : this is a very mischievous practice at all times, and very hazardous if there is t large bush of hair on the fetlock. “ Well, I don’t know, I’ve cleaned my horses these twenty years, and none of ’em ever took any harm.” Such was the reply of an old coachman to me the other day, when I read this remark to him ; and the remark may be perfectly true, for animals, like men. will often get so ac customed to imprudent and pernicious habits that they become comparatively harmless ; but I went on to ask the old coachman aoout cracked heels, swelled legs, sore pasterns, and such complaints, and i found he was quite familiar with them and well versed in their Ireament. “Why, my friend, 1 observed, “how came you to he so knowing in such cases. ’’Sure, sir, I couldn’t be a coach man twenty years and not know how deal with a sore leg! “Then yeu have seen many horses under your care?” “Many, sir, ay, hundreds I may well say ” “And did it never once occur to you that they might come from washing the dirty legs ot a heated horse?” He scratched .his head, looked wondrously. and sheepishly topliecl. “ Well, to ;hink I should have workel boy in the stable for nearly forty year* 4, ‘ d Martinmas, and ne’er have thought nex Guide to Service—the Groom. ° a ° rfc '-'- The Methodists in Canada dists in Canada now consist of neark- ** thousand souls. They have sprung |‘ UDdr f C(1 - years from very small beginnings, and 8 lew disadvantages.— It - not many Quebec Gazette, since the only Methyl. . y he er in Lower Canada, was months in the Quebec Gaol for a fii, e j. ‘ e '. er » l Upper Canada, there were only a leu J j .“* Missionaries. They have now nume,!!' entlg stantial Churches; a College of their ow many able and respctable preachers. and British i'ost vored by Capt. Joseph C. Delano, of t K,. , ship Patrick Henry, with a shed which if**** pared for his acquaintance, showing ih- 16 pre ' lion of the new British Post Office From it we select the following items: Letters not exceeding half an ounce j n w • ■ may be sent through the kingdom for one u and in the same proportion for treat,. f The rain .redouble if the pJUet in advance. “ ,s P>«l Letters to and from the United State- :r by packet, twelve times, and if by p riv^e * nt eight times the above rates. This annl| S Cunard’s line, and includes the inland Letters from foreign pons for the Coming (except France) must be post paid i n England or they will be opened and returned. ’ Newspapers from foreign places by packets private ships, pay 2d each, and for this arc .°I to any part of England. SCQI British newspapers pass through the ;Ba ii Iree. —Journal of Commerce. MARINE intelligence!” . . Savankah, October 12 Arrived —ship Solon, Buckrmm, New York it biig Cyrus, Clark, Newport, Wales; brg Sa«n nah, Sh <pter. New- York ; schr Frederick \ t,, per, JUoiean, Baltimore. * ’ Lp ‘ ( leared— brig Augusta, Sherwood, New Y or k Went to sea brig Augusta, Sherwood, N York schr Rienzi, Cushing, Boston ; brig WankiJ? Howland. Baltimore. 0| . Charleston, Oct. 13,1840 Arrived yesterday ~Brig Delaware, Ross m. vana; schr. Zephyr, Trescott, Matanzas. Cleared —C. L. brig Dimon, Sherwoord X» w York. THIS READING ROOM Attached to this office is open to subscribers, md strangers introduced by them, every day and eve ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until y o'clock. Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more $lO AUGUSTUS REES~ AT TOR NE Y AT LA IV. sept 5-ly Madi-on, Morgan countv, Ga. JOHN R. STANFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, j.vl7] Clarkesville, Ga B. H. OVERBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, Gi " A CARD. —Mr Richards' Painting School will reopen on Monday, the 19th last. oct S-trw3t C Zf Dr KENNON has removed to the new house opposite Benjamin Pyne. oct 3-3 U Cj* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK—At sight, and at one to twenty days sight. For sale ov nov 2b GAKDELLE i; RHI.ND. 03* Dr. J. J. WILSON has removed for tie Summer to the house of James Gardner, Ksg., Ist door below the Academy. nine 6 (X/‘ Dr. W. S. JOKES tenders his profession servi csyo the citizens of Augusta and its viumr He may re found at his residence on the Kofi side of Green second door below Mclntosh street (XT’ The Office of the AUGUSTA MIRROR i removed to the brick building on Mclntosh stree, directly opposite the Post Office. oct 7-tiw3» O'? AUGUSTA BENEVOLENT SOCIETY i For the benefit of the sick poor of Augusta. Us committee lor the present month are as follows: Division No. 1. —P. H. Mantz, Nathaniel Greet Miss Margaret Smith, Miss Mary VVightman. Division Ao. 2.—W. F. Pemberton, J.M.Neffbj, Mrs. H. F. itobi rson, Miss A. C. Kighton. Division No. 3. —John Cashin, James PantK Mrs, Trcmiey, Mrs. E. Camfield. sept 7 J. W. VVIGHTMAN, Sec’y^ fTF Dr. UAL FLINT, member f the Mas*i chusetts Medical Society, would inform Ids fncit that he has removed Ins place of residence to W boaiding-fiouse of Mrs. Camfield, at the corner® Jackson and Broad streets, where he may be foal, at all hours during the summer season, fiispit fessiunal set vices are respectfully tendered tot* | citizens of Augusta. tf—June 6 | rry J. A. CLEVELAND, DENTIST, lias I rooms over J. Nortons Bhoe Store, one door be|o* i| \V asniogtoa Hail in Broad street, Augusta. DuriJ-'|| his absence, and at ail other times, his brotfae- Thomas P. Cleveland, Dentist, wifi occupy the®’ whose services may be had. J. A. Clevelandron fiden.ly recommends him to the patronage oi to friends and the public geneially. oct S-w^L (Xj 3 The Subscriber has taken an office :n d* Camfield’s buildings on Jackson-street,nextfloorS the one formeilv occupied by Judge where his professional services can be at all u® 1 ' commanded He intends to re-cornmeuce, oc to first Monday in November, the LAW SCiRA'b, which he formerly conducted, on the same and the same terms, as before. n oct 2 dlwwlm VVM. T. GOtT^. Mr. ADAMS resumes his SCHOOL this (Oct. 12th,) in tiie room adjoining the Id d 11^1 Church, ou Green street. OC T AUG USTA BENEVOLENT The Regular monthly meeting of tois '°/ e \ >uE [ be held on next Friday evening the iGtu 5 at 6 o’clock in the Methodist Church. , J. VV. WIGHTMAM^i-' ' n f.H (Xj We arc authorized to announce R- Tl CKER, as a candidate for Justice 3 Peace, in the Bloody 6>.fith. , Q3‘ JEREMIAH IT CLARK is recommeoJJ as a suitable person for the office oi - ,u ' lice r td Peace, for the GoOtli DisLiict, and will lje / upp \ by (octS) 03- The undeisigned, if elected, e'*b serT 6CUth bislrici as Justice of the Peace. ... oct 7-ts R. QjT Miss MARY A. NEVIS S has taken in the house owned by Mrs. Harielt, on 1 gjjQjjS side of Broad street, where she will g* ve , ' 1 ON THE PIANO at sls per quarter, 0 1 lessons, or separate lessons at oU cenß f at oct 3 — --- —" —— School ol I C/‘ Miss TRAIN will resume wr r . j S uiimcrville on the first Monday m - Board can be obtained ou the Bin- J aug 12 —I —- t sur^ 1 m Cj'Dr. GARDNER, fmii.crly res,< !*" at I n the New Y ork Hospital, ami ■ vue Hospital, New York, tenders to tnc p £ professional services. I Oilice in Washington street, between 1 Ellis streets Residence, United Stale-’ * ■ ap 2 11 5Cr The undersigned has appoint«fc^. r ' C „,£C- I Spoars his true and lawful atio.ney " ■ lion of ail debts in which he is iutereste’, ■ State of Georgia. WAI. N- UA-' 1 ' h f octS I New fall and winter GO( f o il ■ subscribers are now receiving st/| their fall and winter stock of anc - *„ a Dry Goods, among which are many sca ( desirable articles, to which the attenh ■ public is respectfully invited, c, a V seoM VVM. H. CRA ** V V B’