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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL AVGUSTA. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18. FOR CONGRESS. HINES HOLT, Jr. OF MUSCOGEE. Election on First Monday in January. Hampton Course. As We anticipated, the race over this Course yesterday was one of the most interesting that has come off over either Course at the present meeting; Indeed, it was the most exciting race of two heats we have ever witnessed. The knowledge that Boston, that conqueror of master spirits, would be on the field, diew together a large concoaise. At an early hour, the s.reet leading to the turf, was crowded with anxious visitors, eager to witness another trial of his unrivalled powers in a contest with Omega and Santa Anna, both of whom were admi led to have heels and bottom, that only yield ed the palm of victory to bloods of the first water. Tney, too, had their admirers, for they had last week met on the Lafayette Course, and although the Mexican was compelled to yield to the superior speed of Omega on that occasion, they both reaped a rich chaplet of laurels, which they were quite willing to ri'k in a contest with a blood of the un rivalled lame of their illustrious competitor. Prior to starting the friends of Boston were backing him at large odds, 5 to 1 against the field, which were only taken in a few instances. At the call they all came up to the stand, each appa rently as eager for the contest as they were con scious of what they were required to perform, and at the tap of the drum they all got oit handsomely, Omega having the track, Santa Anna second, and Boston third. This position was m intained until after they had turned the first quarter, when Bos ton passed Santa Anna, who seemed quite dispos ed to waive his pretensions, and took the beautiful Omega in charge, but she seemed rather flirty and did not permit him to approach too near; thus the first, second, and third mile were passed, when Gilpatrick finding that what was in Boston must be brought out, he applied tae lash freely, with but little effect as Omega continued to lead in one of the most animated and spirit-stirring contests we ever witnessed. For a time, after Boston, urged br the power ol the lash, had made several despe rate and ineffectual brushes, his friends became alarmed for his well-earned fame, and the air was rent with the shouts of the delighted friends of Omega. Thus passed the first three quarters of the fourth mile, when the renowned Gilpatrick, never wearied in well doing, again thought with the aid of the whip to bring his champion to the brush, and he applied it faithfully. For a moment, as they were rounding the last quarter, all was hushed, the iriends of both fearing this last final struggle. Boston yielded to the coaxing which Gil applied so effectually, and, for the first time in the heat, locked, and after a short but most ani mated and desperate conflict, passed her and came heme, leading her a length, in 7 m. 53 s.—Santa Anna dropping just within the distance. AUei the usua, time allowed for breathing, at the call they all came up finely cooled off end ap parent'y nothing worse, and quite anxious for another display. At the tap of the drum, they were off in fine style, Boston leading until they had passed the fust quarter of a mile, when Ome ga again passed up, locked, and took the lead from Boston, who continued to retain a f osition imme diately in her rear, and in advance of Santa Anna, until they had reached the half way of the third mile, they both challenged, and after a most vigor our effort, the Mexican bore off the palm, taking the lead in handsome style, while Boston seemed to wait upon him very courteous'y at a short but re ipectiul distance in his rear, near enough, how ever, to watch his movements, and to avail himsell o an y faux pis in his generalship. In this position they entered the fourth and last mile, Santa Anna running hard in hand, while Gilpatrick seemed to be lecturing Boston on the virtue of whale-bone and silk. Now came tne tug of war; and the fiiends of Santa Anna highly elated at the evidence which ne had given of his heels and game, now emertained high hopes of winning the heat. On the back stretch, Boston again challenged, but the Mexican gallantly led the way into the third quar ter, when Boston again yielding to the force of Gil's peculiarly persuasive arguments, made an other effort for the lead. Here was a scene of in tense and thiilling interest—a sudden and deathlike pause—a feeling silence, until they were mak ing the last turn, when the multitude give vent to their suspense with the shout, “Boston’s got him!” and he entered the quarter stretch ahead, and led home, beating Santa Anna a length, while Omega modestly diopped within the distance stand, evi dently desiring to be prepared for a third heat. Time—7m, 495. F ridav, 18th.—Mile heats—best 3in 5. Pursl s3uu —$20 entrance. S. VV. Shelton’s b. m. Virginia Robinson, 5 years old—full sister of Target,—Riders dress fancy. G. Edmundson, James Larr.pkin’s ch. f. Mary Elizabeth, 4 years old, by Andrew, dam by Galla tin, —Riders dress Buff. W. R. Johnson’s b. h. Wonder, by Techicus, dam by Rob Roy, 5 years old,—Riders dress Blue Cap and Jacket. The following gentlemen were elected Directors of the Augusta Insurance & Banking Company on Monday last, and at a subsequent meeting of the Board, Wm. Harper, Esq., was unanimously re elected President. W. Harper, Robert Walton, T. J. Parmelee, L. Chess, J- Dav «. T. Richards, J Hope, j. Coskeby. R. D. Carmtchafl, Mississippi. Gen. M. E. De Graftenreid declines the nomina tion for Governor of Mississippi on the Democratic ticket. His reasons, some of them, (considering the times,) are novel enough. For example—“l have ever been of opinion, (says the General,) that a man of nice sensibility ana correct political prin ciples, could never submit to tne contemptible aits of the demagogue, by which elections are frequent ly canied. The habits of my life and the convic tions of my understanding, forbid my engaging on the arena ot a party warfare, upon which all sense of 8«lf respect is too often sacrificed. I am no adept in the arts of electioneering, and am from principle, opposed to the whole system. I cou'd not, if I were a candidate, do any tiling more than give my views in writing on all those subjects, both State and Federal, about which the people might be supposed to feel any interest. Further than this I could aot go. 5 * Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sent'nel. Milledoeville, Tuesday, £ 9 o’clock, p. m., Dec. 15, 1840. S The House nor the Senate has transacted much business to-day, in consequence of the death of the Hon. Horatio Webb, a member from the county of Jackson. Mr. Webb was in usual health on yesterday, and attended in his seat during the ses sion, which continued some lime after night, with out any indication of approaching disease ; or at least without any complaint being made to those who were with nim. Soon after adjournment, and after he had retired from the House, and while in conversation with some friends around the fireside, he suddenly f died in speech, and instantly became lifeless without any apparent cause, and without the slightest struggle or pain. Previous to the arnouncement of his death, the House acted upon two bills of some im|>ortance, and both in relation to theDsrisn Ranh. The first, was me having for its object a direction to the officers of the Central Bank, to take the notes of the debtors of the Darien Bank well secured , &c., in the usual way as other notes in Hie Central Bank, in lieu of the Darien Bank bills now in the Central Bank. This bill was lost. The o'her, provided for the repeal of ihe Darien Bank charter, and the appointment of three commissioners, two on the part of the State, and one on the part of the Stockholders, to wind up the concern as speedily as possible, which, after a good deal of discussion, passed. A motion no doubt will be made to recon ! sider in the morning. The Senate, while in session, was engaged in nothing of much importance, except the bill of the House, extending the time to take out grants in the counties of originally Early, liwin, and Ap pling. It prov des that those lands which shall remain ungranted on the first of September next, (I believe is the day,) shall revert to the State, and may after that time, be granted to any indi vidual who will pay a certain amount into the Treasury, &c. The bill was passed after making some amendments to it, as it came from the House. Since the funeral of Mr. Webb, which took place place this afternoon, both Houses are again holding a night session ; doing nothing, however, but act ing upon local matters, and reading bills the first and second times. Amongst the local acts just passed the House, is one to confirm to the City Council of Augusta the purchase of the Bridges across the Savannah River, at that place. This was a bill liom the Senate, and has therefore now passed both Houses. A great deal of interest has been felt here to-day to hear the response of his Excellency, the fiover i nor, to the call upon him for the suggestion of some “ plan of relief,” in accordance with the objects of cl his message on yesterday. This icpiy was sent | in at 7 o'clock tiiis evening, and it is too long, or I would send you a copy. I will endeavor to do so to morrow. There are but (luce points, however, in the communication. The first is, that the Cen tral Bank has not got the means, and cannot ex tend relief. The second is, that it would be un | constitutional to pass a law suspending the j enforcemert of the col ection of judgments and j executions, &,c., and therefore, there is no hope of any such relief as that. The third, and only mode I that his Excellency conceives of is, for the State to borrow several millions of dollars, by giving her bonds due at a future day, beating interest, &c., and depositing the amount in the Centra] Bank, to be loaned out to the people. The matter was im mediately refened to a select committee in the House, consisting of Messrs. Toombs, Stiles, Stioud, of Walton; Chappel, and Crawford, of Richmond. I will keep you advised of the state of its pro j gress. The Presidents Message was received here to day. IJ is idea of the prosperous state of the coun try, and the rich abundance that every where j rewards the “ labor of the husbandman,” and Gov. j McDonald’s view of the “ unprecedented failure of the Cotton crop,” illy comport together. The truth is, Mr. Van Buren seems determined “ to i walk in the foootsteps of his illustrious predeces sor,” and even as he goes into retirement in the face of the most extensively pervading pressure and distress ever before witnessed in the country i —the \*ork of his own doing—to proclaim, “I | leave this great people free, prosperous , and nap ; py /**• Sed Satis. Yours, &c. Hamilton. Milledoeville, Dec. 15, 1840. The Sena’e this morning passed a resolution that they would meet at 9, A. M., 3, P. M., and 7, P. M.,eacn day lor the balance of the session. They then look up and passed, with amendments, the bill, from the House of Representatives, to extend the time for taking out grants for land in the coun ties of (oiiginally) Early, Irwin, Appling, Hall, Rabun, and Habersham. As ihe bill parsed the Senate, the time is extended to the first Monday of September, 1841. Then the lots ungranted revert to the State, and any citizen of this State may take out a grant in his own name on paying SI,OOO, — which price is gradually reduced at specified pe riods. There are some olher provisions, not ne cessary to be stated now. The bill requiring the Banks, in their semi-annual returns, to state the largest amount due by any Director in the preced ing six mouths, under the penalty of sso,ouo,was laid on the table for the balance of the session by a considerable majority. In the afternoon, the members of the Senate at tended the funeral of Mr. Webb, a Representative from Jackson county, who died very suddenly last night. At seven o’clock this morning, we received the relief message of his Excellency, which recom mends the issue of State bonds, to be disposed ol and the proceeds to be placed in the Central Bank and loaned out. Comment is unnecessary. But 1 may ask, can bonds be disposed of for such a pur pose, when we cannot dispose of bonds for the pur pose of completing tne Western and Atlantic Rail Road ? The message was referred to a select com mittee, consisting of Messrs. Echols of W., Miller. Calhoun, Bishop, Spencer, Bell, and Cox. A num ber of local bills were passed. q Attempt to set fire. —An attempt wa> made, on Monday night last, to set fire to tht dwelling of the Hon. Isaac E. Holmes, on East Bay, near the Battery, by placing fire in one ul he steeping apartments in the fourth story. No discovery of the incendiary has been made. A man was seen rushing from the house.— Char leston Patriot. Bank in Texas.—A correspondent of thr \. Y. Sun, writing from Galveston, Texas, un der date of 22d uit. says: “ A bank is just going nto operation here, the charter for which wa.- purchased by Messrs. McKinney & Williams, ast year, the notes of which are to be redeem ibie in Baltimore bank bills, $250,000 of which arrived two weeks ago in the brig Ernprisar.o, irom Baltimore. The design, I believe, is to mo nopolize the cotton market of this couutiy.”— VV bat does it meat V i, . , From the N. O. Picayune of the 1 Ith. Later from Matamoras. Disgraceful Outrage.—The schr. South erner. Capt. Gaylord, arrived yesterday morning from Matamoras, bringing dates up to the Ist instant. One of the passengers informs us that the se cond day out they spoke the Texian man-of-war schr. San Antonio, Lieut. Moore, from Tampico bound to Galveston. The San Antonio had taken three Mexican vessels prizes and burnt another—all valuable. The Texian Minister to Mexico, who was returning to Texas with Lieut. Moore, died on the passage, and a gentleman who accompanies him was very sick. The schr. Watchman, from ibis city, arrived the same day the Southerner left. The schr. Byron was loading at the Brasses for this port, and the schr. Caroline, from Xevv Vork, was discharging at the mouth so as to get up. The report of the capture of an American sloop at Corpus Cnnsti by a launch, and the murder of four of her men is confirmed. It seems that the launch carried 16 men and was commanded by a villain named Gonzales, who is now at large. Gonzales had letters and was em powered by the Mexican government to ticat with Hibeaud and Thompson respecting their pardon and return to the country. On arriving at the bar no vessel was in sight, except the American sloop which Gonzales boarded. While one of the Mexicans was conversing with the mate, Gonzales took affront at some remark the latter made and run him through the body with a sword, killing him instantly. The wretch then ordered the sloop’s men, three in number, to ne tied, taken on shore, and shot. Two of them fell at the hrsl fire, and while the other was beg ging for quarter, Gonzales ordered his ears to be cut off! A second discharge ended his suffer ings. The Mexicans pretend that the sloop was on a smuggling expedition, but nothing can j s tify such a diabolical outrage. Major Smith, the American Consul at Matamoras, was investigat ing the allair with the greatest vigilance. From the Savannah Georgian of the 1 6th. From Florida. Capt. Smith, of the steamer Cincinnati, which boat arrived yestarday from Black Creek, reports that thirteen Indians, among whom were nine warriors, came into Fort King three or four day. ■ since, and delivered their rifles to Col. Riley. Shipwreck. —We also learn from Capt. S, that , the schr. Globe, from Baltimore, with Govern ment stores, was totally lost on St. Johns Bar on or about the 6;h inst. Crew saved. ' (Tj’Since the above was in type, we have re • cetved the following letters, which confirm the statement of Cupt. Smith : From our Correspondent. Florida, Dec. 9. Sir: Three warriors came in at Fort King a , few days since, and agreeably to the General’s • orders have been put under guard. They say that Halleck Tustennuggee will return in a lew days, but are unable to assign any reason fur his abrupt departure during the progress of his re • cent pretended treaty. The interpreters are all , absent from Fort King, which may. in a manner, account for the meagre news they have commu nicated. An express has been despatched to the General, who is now at Tampa. B.j o’clock, P. M. t Dec. 9. Sir: The express just arrived from Fort King j says that thirteen Indians came in this morning i and delivered up their arms to Col. Riley. They ! state there are many more to come in a lew days. I will give you particulars by next express. ■ Hi nt's Merchants’ Magazine for Decern* ' i her, has been issued, and centains the usual va -1 riety of interesting articles. We lake from this number the following on the commercial value of gems: “The art of engraving the diamond was first discovered about the year 1500, by Ambrosias Carodo.-sa, who prepared for Pope Julian 11. the figure of a patriarch.” “ The art of cutting the diamond with its own powder, was first discovered in 1746, by Lewis Van Beraen,” but “it was not until the reign of Louis XII. that the mode of culling the dia mond in brilliants was invented.” A very extensive sale of gems was made in London in 1837. The sale amounted to about 230,000 paunds. A pair of ear-rings, formerly the property of Queen Charlotte, brought fifty live thousand dollars. The celebrated Xassauck diamond was purchased at thirty-six thousand. The crown jewels of Queen Victoria are esti mated 1 11,000 pounds, or about half a million of dollars. Among the principal diamonds which are • known to exist in Europe, may be named one in the possession of the Grand Mogul, valued at four millions of francs—or a little less than a million of dollars. The Empress Catharine pos sessed a diamond which was purchased of the t Sultan of Persia for ninety thousand pounds, and an annuity of four thousand. A single gem, . belonging to the Austrian crown, is valued at one hundred and nine thousand two hundred and silty pounds, or about a half million of dollars. • A diamond the crown jewels of France • was valued, in 1791, at twelve millions of hvres, ( The largest diamond known to exist in the , world is in the possession of the King of Por ■ tugal, and is valued at the enormous sum of fifty-seven millions of pounds sterling, or about two hundred and fifteen millions of dollars.” Admirable Sentiment.—At the dinner given to the members of the Electoral College, by the Whigs of Albany, the following admira ble sentiment was.offered by Gov. Reward:— The liecent Election —it has conclusively proved that the people are competent to the con sideration of all questions afl’ecting their w elfare. The universal acquicsence which has followed, is a sublime demonstration that neither fraud nor 'orcc are necessary to secure obedience to tne laws where reason is enlightened and suffrage universal. The Dead Alive, A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. The subjoined narrative, published in a late number of Chambers ’ Journal , is stated to be translated from a foreign newspaper. It is ne cessary to remind the reader, that the island of Vlaurit;us. appertaining to this day to the En glish, was originaljy colonized by the French, md that the population yet consists in a great measure of persons of that nation, to whom, by x formal treaty between the powers concerned, he ancient laws and usages were preserved with out any material alterations. About ten or twelve months ago, the Sieur Clodomir, a rich merchant of the island, was found dead and frightfully disfigured in his own nabilation. His bony was discovered lying on the floor, with his head and face, mutilated by neansof a pistol, and all doubt as to the cause of the catastrophe was dispelled by the discovery of the fatal weapon by the side of the corpse, and also a paper in the handwriting of the de ceased. This paper contained the following words;—“l am ruined!—a villain has robbed me of twenty-five thousand livres sterling; dis honor must be my portion, and I cannot awan or survive it. 1 leave to my wife the task oi listributing among my creditors the means which remain to us; and I pray that God, my friends, md my enemies, may pardon my self-destruc tion ! \et another minute, and I shall be in eternity. (Siged) Clodmir Fhknois.” Great was the consternation caused by this tra ;ic event, which was the more ui.expec.eJ, as -he loss alluded to in the note had never been made public. The deceased had been held in great esteem over the colony as a man ot strict honor and probity, and was universally lament ed. His attached widow, after endeavoring faith fully to fulfil his last wishes, found her griet too overpowering to permit her to mingle longer with the world, and took the resolution of con secrating her remaining days to the services of religion. Two months after the sad end of her husband she entered a convent, leaving to a nephew of her late merchant, a physician, the charge of completing the distribution ol the ef fects of Frenois among his creditors. A minute examination of the papers of the defunct led to the discovery of the period at which the unfortunate merchant had been rob bed; and this period was found to correspond with toe date of the disappearance of a man named John Moon, long in the employment of Frenois. Os this man, on whom suspicion not unnaturally fell, nothing could be learned on in quiry ; but shortly after the division of the late merchant’s property. Moon re appeared in the colony. When taken up and examined respect ing the cause of his flight, he staled that he had been sent by his master to France to recover cer tain sums due to the merchant there, in which mission he had been unsuccessful; and he fur ther averred, that, if Clodomir Frenois, in his existing correspondence, had thrown any inju rious suspicion on him (Moon) the whole was but a pretext to account for deficiencies, of wnich the merchant himself was the sole cause and author. This declaration, made by a man who seemed to tear no inquiry, and whose worldly circumstances remained to appearance the same as they had ever been, had the effect of silencing, if it did not satisfy, the exammators; and the af fair soon fell, in a great measure, out of the pub lic recoHeclion. Things remained fora short time in this con dm rn. when, one morning, Mr. Win. Burnett, principal creditor of the lute Clodomir Fienois. heard a knocking at his gale at a very early hour. He called up one of his servants, who went down and opened the door, and immediately returneu with the intelligence that a stranger, who seem ed desirous of keeping his person concealed wished to speak with Mr. Burnett in priva e. Mr. Burnett rose, threw on hrs dressing gown, and descended to the parlor. He saw there a strangei of a tall person, seated in an easy and familiar attitude upon a sofa, with a number ol the Morning Post in his hand. The back of the visiter was turned to Mr. Burnett as lie entered. Rather surprised to see a stranger conduct him self so like an old friend of the house. Mr. Bur nett said aloud, ** iMr, may I beg to know your business with me.’ 1 The stranger turned round and advanced to salute his host warmly and courteously. Mr. Burnett started back and uttered a loud excla mation of surprise and alarm. Well lie might —for before his eyes stood his friend and debt or, Clodomir Frenois. whom he had beheld near ly a year before a mutilated corpse, and whom he himself had followed to the grave. What passed at that interview between Mr Burnett and his strange visiter, remained for a lime a secret. Mr. Burnett was observed to is sue several times, pale and agitated, from Ins dwi llmg, and to visit the magistrates charged with the conduct of the criminal processes of the colony. In the course of that day, while John Moon was regaling himself with tea under tin palm trees of his garden, along with a Circassian female whom he had bought sometime previous j ly. he was arrested and taken to pri-on by the officers of justice. On the following day he was brought before the criminal court, accused of rob \ bing (he late Clodomir Frenois, the crime being j conjoined with breach of trust and violence. ; Moon smiled at, the charge with ail the confi ! deuce of a man woo had notniug to fear. The | judge having demanded of him it he confessed the j crime, the accused replied that the charge was an surd—that clear testimony was necessary to fix ; such a delict upon him ; and that, so fin from j there being any such evidence, producible, neither the widow of lhedccea?ed nor any one person in his service, had ever heard the pretended rob bery even once mentioned by Frenois during his life. •• Do you then affirm your innocence ?” repea ted the judge gravely, aficr bearing all that the other had to say. “I will avouch my innocence,” replied Moon, “even before the body of my late master, if that be necessary.” [Such a thing often took place under the old colonial law.] “John Moon,’’said the Judge, in a voice bro ken by some peculiar emotion ; “it is before your late master that you will now have toasseit your innocence; and may God make the truth ap pear !” A signal from the Judge accompanied these w r ords, and immediately a door opened, and Clodo mir Frenois, the supposed suicide, entered the court. He advanced to the bar with a slow and deliberate step, having his eye calmly but stemlv fixed on the prisoner, his servant. A great sen sation was caused in the court by his appearance. Uttering shr.cEs of alarm and Horror, the females present fled from the spot. The accused fell on his knees n abject terror, and shuddeiing, con fes-ed his guilt. For a lime no voice was heard but his. However, as it became apparent that a living man stood before the court, the advocate gained courage to speak. He demanded that the identity of the merchant be established, and the mystery of his existence be explained. He said that the court should not be biassed by what might prove to be a mere accidental likeness between a person living and one deceased ; and that such avowal as tbatot the prisoner, extracted in a mo ment of extraordinary ’error, was not to be held of much weight. “Before neing admitted here as accuser or witness.” continued the advocate, addressing the resuscitated merchant, “prove wno and what chance the tomb which so lately recei ved your body, mangled by bullets, has given up its tenant and restored you to the world in hte and health.” 1 his firm appeal of the advocate, who contin ued steadfast to his duty under circumstances that would have closed the lips of most men, cal led foith the following narrative from Clodomir Frenois:—“My story may be soon told, audit will suffice to establish my identity. When I discovered the robbery committed by the accused, he had fled from the island, and I speedily saw that all attempts to retake him would prove fru t less. I saw ruin and disgrace before me, and came to the resolution of terminating my life be fore the evil day came. On the night on which this determination was formed, I was seated aione in my private chamber. 1 had written the letter which was fouud on my table, and nad loaded mv pistol. This done, I prayed lor forgiveness from my Maker for the act of despair I was about to commit. The end of the pistol was at my head, and my finger on the look, when a knock at the outer door of the house startled me. I conceal ed the weapon, and went to the door. A man en tered whom I recognized to be the sexton of the parish in which I lived. He bore a sack on his shoulders, and in it the body of a man newly bu ried, which was destined for my nephew, the phy sician, then living with me. The scarcity of bo dies tor dissection, as the court is aware, compels those who are anxious to acquire skill in the me dical profession to procure them by any possible ->ecret means. Tbe sexton was at fiist alarmed at having met me. “Did my nephew request you to bring this body V said I. -.No,’ replied the man ; ‘but I know his anxiety to obtain one f r lisseclion, and look it upon mo to come and offer him this body. For mercy’s sake,’ continued the -exton, ‘do not betray me, sir, or I shall lose my situation, and my family’s bread. “While the man was speaking, a strange idea Mitered my mind, and brought to my despairing boaonj hopes of continued life and recovered hon* i or. I stood for a few moments absorbed in thought t and then recollecting myself, I gave two pieces ■ of gold to the resurrectionist, the sum which he • had expected. Telling him to keep his own ) counsel, that all would be well, I sent him away ' and carried the body to my cabinet. The whole -of the household hud previously been sent out ot f ! the way on purpose, and I had time to carry into r execution the plan which had struck me. ihe i body was fortunately of the the same stature as ; myself ami like me in complexion. I knew the ■ man ; he had been a poor offender, abandoned by i his family. 4 Foor rehc of humanity !’ said 1 5 with tears in my eyes. 4 noth.ng which man can tdo can now injure 7 hee ; yet pardon me it I rudely ■ disfigure thy hfelcss substance, it is to p.even! 1 the ruin of not one, but twenty families! And » should success attend my attempt, I swear that f thy children shall be my children ; nad when t my own hour comes, we shad rest together in the • tomb to which thou shall be borne belore me !’’ 5 At this poition of the me-chant’s narrative, ■ the most lively interest was excited in tne court, • and testiicd even by tears from many ofiheaudi -1 ance. Frenois thus proceeded :—“I then shipped ■ off my clothes ami dressed the body in them. This 1 accomplished 1 took up the pistol, and with a hand " mare reluctant than when I had applied it to my » own person, I fired it ( lose to the head ot '.lie de • ceased, and at once caused such a disfigurement ’ as rendered it impossible for the keenest eye to 1 detect the substitution which had been made, i Choosing the plainest halvt 1 could get, I then > dressed niysell anew, shaved off the whiskert which I was accustomed to wear, and took other ; inea.,B to alter and disguise my appearance, in • case of being subjected by any accident to the ’ ■ risK of betrayal. Next morning found me on ■ board a French vessel on my way to a distant loud ' —the native country of my ancestors. The i expectations which had led me to the execution \ » of this scheme were n>t disappointed. I knew • that John Moon, the man who had robbed me and i • who now stands at the bar of this court, had form* I t ed connections in this island, which would pro- • t baoly bring him back to it as soon as intelligence i • of my death gave him the promise of security .n this I have not been disappointed. 1 have been equally fortunate in other respects. . ‘"While my unworthy servant remained here ■ in imaginary safety. I have been successful in I discovering the quarter in which, not daring at 1 first to betray here the appearance of wealth, he had lodged tiie whole of the stolen rnonev. 1 ■ have brought it with me, and also sufficient proof*. • suf posing his confession of this day to beset aside altogether, to convict him ot the crime with which r he stands charged By the same means,” con tinued Clodotnir Frenois. with a degree of honor* ’ able pride in which all who heard Him syrnpatlii • sed, “will I be enabled to restore my family to their place in society, and to redeem the creditol ! a name on which no blot was left by those who • bore it before me, and which, please God, I shall transmit unstained to my children and my child i ren’s children.” John Moon, whose guilt was thus suddenly and strangely laid bare to the world, did not retract 1 ihe confession which he :ad made in the extrem ity of his terror; and, without separating, the ■ court sentenced him to confinement lor life in the prison of the colony. " The news ol Clodomir Frenois'reappearance spread rapidly, and the high esteem in which his character was held led to an universal rejoicing on the occasion. He was accompanied trmn the court to his home by a dense multitude, who wol corned him with pi dunged shouts. It would he vain to attempt any description of the feelings ol the wife, who thus saw res.orcd to her the beloved being for whose sake she had quitted the world. I She was released from her ecclesiastical vow-,and j rejoined hr r husband, no more to part till the- | grave really claimed one or other of them as its 1 due. We notice in marriages i i the North ampton Courier, that of M r. Elisha Wing, of Ash field, to Mrs. Bathsheba Wing, of Hawley, his fourth w ife, the tnird with whom he has lived w ithin twenty-two months—after a courtship ol twenty-two days, commencing forty eight hours after the burial of his third ! • Sq.ukf.zisg tiik Hash.—Squeezing the hand with some persons is entirely equivalent to a de claration ol love ; this is truly surprising. Wo must pause—afraid to give it a squeeze, lest we should burn our fingeis. Very fine, truly! Now it was our ancient custom to squeeze every hand vye got into our clutches, especially a fair one; ■ and the ladies may rest assured of this, that a man who will not squeeze their hand when he gets j hold of it does not deserve to have such a hand i in his possession, and that he has a heart one hun- , ored limes smaller than the eye of a cambric nee- 1 die. M A Rll\ EINT E ELI GENC E. Savannah Dec. l(j. Arrived —Br. barque Salem, Milf.id. Liverpool; Hr barque Amanda, .Limerick, Ireland;, Steamboat Hnmbuig, r.ould Augusts. Sailed. —Brig 'I boosa, Powers, Havana ; Brig Marv Ann, Curtis, Boston. Departed. —Steamboat Chatham, Wood, Augus ti; steamboat Hamburg, Gould, Augusta! Charleston, Dec. 17. Arrived yesterday.— Brig Octavi, Hoxie, New Orleans. Cleared. —Ship Birmingham, Robinson. Boston; Brig Cionstadt, Hatch, Antwerp; Brig Ceres, Blanchard, Mobile; Schr. Lake, Viual Hertford, (N. C.) Went to sra yesterday. —Line ship Sutton, Bark man, New York; Line ship Lucas, EldiiJge, Bos- i ton. " 1 1 f \ JOHN. J . IS Y IIU , NOTARY public. Will be thankful to his friend- for any part of bu siness in the above line, which will be attended to witn rectitude, Ac. oct 24 House Fainting, Paper Hanging, and Glazing. R. P . SPELMAN, Jr. Shop near the Upper Market, Broad-st., Augusta. ( Xj* economy, neatness, and despatch. dec 10 ts W . G . NIM MO . COMMISSI O N M ERCHANT. Office in the lower tenement Masonic Hall, nov 9 ts Off' Dr. W. S. JONES tenders his professional services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity He may le found at his residence on the Nortn side of Green second door below Mclntosh street, or at the Chronicle and Sentinel office. CC7* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight, and at one to twenty days For sale ov oct 23 GARDELLE .x RHIND. THE HEADING ROOJI Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and I strangers introduced by them, every day and eve ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock. Subscription $-3 ; tor a firm or two or more $lO KENTUCKY KMT SAXONY AND MERINO WOO L SOCKS. JUST received and tor sale by the subscribers, 200 pairs of fine Saxony and Merino WOOL SOCKS, knit by the ladies of Kentucky, dec la-dlw WM, H. CRANE & CO. NO. 1 COT TON OSNABURGS.—A few bales just received on consignment, and will be sold low, by [dec .2-1 wj W. G. NLVIMO. | $ FAl)\ MADE CLOTHING.—Just received JUt a ,a, g e supply of W inter Clothing, compri sing almost every article in our line, which are of fered for sale low by J. D. CRANE & CO. i 00v d&w2m ( AIAaRIS °N Ao:»iiNATlONs^* JUDGES OF THE INFERIOR COUR, Judge B. H. WAKRFN - Jud e VALEXTINF U’ATtrn„ Robert all in e I AUeRi JAMES HARPER; fJ WILLIAM P. BEALE* tax cot! ectoe Rev. WM. KENNEDY. TAX RECEIVER. I Cosby dickinson. L °dec'l°7 „f Bu.bc county, at the «n.uin",£jj „ r pT We are authorized to announce — 4 ILLCHER as a candidate for Tax CotV Burke county, at the ensuing election. defuj? a!e authonsed 10 HI (.An as a candidate for theollice of P ' Tax Returns. 1 Kt< *‘ver 0 f — _ arc 15 C3"The friends of Captain M. p. STOV’AI support him for the office of Colonel of lb gimenf, at the ensuing elei tion ri ’ e ■ l2 QCT '♦' <* are authorised to announce WATKIN- „ , candidate the XeofN Collector of Richmond county. dec 14-y au ' <»«iii™ieeiSS M. W ALK ER as a candidate fur the office of d ceiver ot Tax Returns. dec U 1 nfQ'rv * :Ue r *“ qucste “ l( ‘ ai,nounce'^ £ n~ i UilU R as a cancidMe tor the office of «*• : of’l ax Returns. ZT 1 ? dec9- t f i (£/' We are authorized to announce j MACLEAN as a candidate lor the office oft | " CIVCrof laX Relur,lS dec io « DAVID A . V ASOJV, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Palmyra, Lee county,Gt | Will practice in the adjoining counties of the Ch* ; lalvooclice and Southern Circuits. REFERENCES : Col Zadock Jackson, y , Rev Jonathan Davis,y Calmyra, Ga. Col. H. 1 ope, y Hon. C. Dougherty,s Athens, Ga. Col. A. Reese, i Johnston & Robson,y * * auson , Ga. J- W. Jones, Augusu. w4a«tl AN DREW J. IIA ELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ,iOV 2 ' vtr Dalobnega,Ga. W. 11. CUNNINGHAM, & general commission meiu Hants, ° r t 31 Savannah, Ga. 2 e JOHN R. STANFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, j- vI7 J ClarkesviUe, Ga. li. 11. OV’LK 11 v, ATTORNEY AT LAW , feb 2.j Jefferson. Jack>on co,inly,G AUGUSTUS K ATTORNEY AT LAW, septo-ly Madison Morgan county, Ga. L. PENNEY, MIN IAT U R E P A INTER, Masonic Hall. jns may be seen at his room, or at the Book f 11. A. Richn.on 1. nov IS-trwlf | A kN CONSIGNMENT—7I bags Rio and Cuba ! t iOFFEE just landing from boat, and for sale Iby (dec 9 dlot HOPKINS & VTOVALt ON • A INSIGNMEN V, 750 sacks LIVERPOOL SALT, expected to arrive by boats this day. for sale by HOPKINS S: STOVALL d* ,p 17 lw I 'KJ EG ROES TO Hi RE.—Several Negroes for tne next year, amoi>2 whom are House ser vants, Draymen, Work Hands, men, women an£ half grown giris and boys. WM. BOSTWICK. dec 17 3w* MACON FUNDS WAT ED— Central, OcrruV gee, Hawkmsville, Monioe Rail-!-oidßank Notes, and Macon Ccitificates of at re duced rates, by PECK & DEALING, dec 17 2t Under Masonic Hill. TYIMES FOR SALE.—Dimes and Half Dims J[ f always on hand to suit purchasers, i Also —American Gold. f>T sale by PECK &: HEARING, dec 17 1m Under Masonic Hill * A DVANCES ON COTTON.—Libeial advance. y\ made on shipments to Livcipool, lia\ re, New-York, Charleston, or Savannah, dec 16- trw2m by PECK & BEARING- 1 Ci HECKS AT SIGHT AND SHORT SIGHT s ) on New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimoie, Charleston, Savannah, Lexington, Ky. / Cinci’ nati, Richmond, Na-hville, Mobil •, New-Orleans j For sa'.c at reduced rates bv PECK & BEARING, | doc 17 lw Old stand ur der .Masonic HM, | I ’^TUTICE. —Will oe hired on the first XNI of January next, at the lower market in w*’ I city, if not previously hired, several NEGHdD* | Also, 4 or 5 HORSES will be sold on the same Persons wishing to hire, would co well tocalOj* select for tiiemselves. The subscriber ®ay found at Messrs. Austin & Co’>. Drug 1 doors below the Eagle & Phoenix HuttL m dec 17-lrw2w " P. | * ' " „ « qao I CoCNCI L ClI AMBER, P ec - . 2] st | ON motion Resolved, That Thuv’toy.t | December, IS4O, be set apart as a a . | Public "t 'lauksgiving. and that his * ,ono [ : OB ta I Mayoi, be requested to issue his Piocla® 31 j that effect. Extract from the minutes. S. H. OLIVER.Ce In contormity with the foregoing Hesolu 1 Daniel Hook, Mayor of the city ot j 3V d || hereby set apart Thursday, the thirty-la* U this month, a« a day of Public I hanksgi Almighty God for again blessing our city IE accustomed t;ooa health, and do also eaine? ■ commend all citizens to suspend their u= a c j || ne.-s and assemble in their lespective P jjH worship, to render unto Him their united tn . ■ thanks for this great blessing, and to sU jpj I continuance of Divine favor for our >• , I Country. DANIEL HOOK, Mayors Augusta, December 17, IS4O. I INRESIi GARDEN SEED.—A Jll ' tensive assortment of fresh Ei»cu den Seed always on hand, and suite-; o r-T| preaching season, at wholesale or retJ. • || ders from merchants, Planters, and (due , ted with neatness and despatch. ...ivES. I nov 30 w&trw GARVIN | V DVANCES will be made, in Checks 1 ■ on Cotton consigned to our friends < n J .p I ton. GARDELLb&R MK nov 4 ts H ||J H I' IME. —300 casks Lime, first si) j g j good order, expected to arrive, wi low from the wharf, by . niipiP. || oct 2S ts GARDELLE&Ri^i g J UST RECEIVED BY J. P- S ■ very rich domestic CO'l ION cV additional supplies of Staple and ' a nprO r 'm GOODS, which will be sold low l 0^ ca, 7 . uW .2ir' [ ed paper, d€C 1