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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19. FOR CONGRESS. HINES HOLT, Jr. or MUSCOIJtK. Election on First Monday in January. The Mails* Os the two mails due yesterday evening, but one came; we are, therefore, without the regular let ter of our Washington Correspondent, or any de tails of the action of Congress ou Monday. Hampton Course* FRIDAY —FIFTH DAY. Purse S3O0 —mile heats —best 3 in 5. Col. W. R. Johnson’s b. h. Wonder, 11 1 J, Ltmkiti’s ch. f. Mary Elizabeth, 2 2 2 S. W. Shelton’s b.f. Virginia Robinson, 33 3 Time—l m. 53 s., 1 m, 65 s., Im. 53 s. The New York correspondent of the National Intelligencer, under date of the 10th inst, says: The President’s Message and the Report ot the Secretary of the Treasury have no sort of effect upon the stock or any other market. The news paper boys complain sadly, “nobody will buy,” even for one cent. Correspondence of the. Chronicle and Sentinel, MiLtEDGEVILLK, Dec. 16. In the Senate this morning, the bill of Senate, which had passed the lower House with amend ments, in relation to the purchase of the Bridges across the Savannah river by the City Council of Augusta. &c.. was taken up, and' the amendments of tb* House concurred in. This bill confirms the purchase of the Bridges, and the issue of Scrip in payment for them; authorises Council to pass all necessary ordinances in relation to the Bridges; provides for the Mayor’s punishing offenders against the City ordinances, reserving the right of appeal to Council by the person charged; declares that no member of the City Council shall be appointed to any office by', or hold any contract under Coun cil; and makes any person bolding, or interested in any such office or contract, ineligible as a mem ber of Council; fixes the sessions of tho Court of Common Pleas on the second Mondays of February and May, and third Mondays of July and October in each year ; and exempts the members of the Independent Fire Company (not to exceed thirty in number,) from jury duty, &c. The bill only re quires the signature of the Governor to become a law; and it is to be hoped it will receive more at tention than the one passed last year, which I learn did not get to the Governor. The Senate took up and passed a bill, which au thorises the Banks to issue post notes, under the restriction of being made payable before the first of January, 1542, and expressing/mf/i/ and plainly on the face of the bills the time of payment. Its | passage by the House is not probable. Messrs. Echols of W., Bell, Bishop, and Cox, the majority of the select committee on the Go vernor’s Relief Message, reported, in the afternoon, a bill providing for the issue of State bonds for $2,000,000, to be sold, the proceeds to be placed in the Central Bank and loaned to the people. — Messrs. Miller, Calhoun, and Spencer, the minori ty ol the committee., made a counter report, de claring the measure recommended by his Excel lency to be inexpedient. Both reports were order ed to be printed. I will send you copies as soon as they can be had. The Senate, at 7 o’clock, P. M., took up and passed the bill to extend the lime for taking out grants for lots drawn in all the Land Lotteries, (except those in the counties of, Irwin, Appling, Hall, Ralun and which were provided for in an act day,) until the first of October, IS4I ; after which any person may takeout a grant in his own name, for any lot not granted, upon paying the usual fees and $2 00 per acre for the land. The Senate also passed a bill in relation to wit nesses and jurors ; by which an} person convicted of any felony (with certain exceptions,) is dis qualified from serving on the jury, and any per son convicted of such an offence may be impeach ed, ■when sworn as a witness, by proof of such conviction, —the party relying on his testirnon} being allowed to sustain his witness by proof of his character for truth —the jury to judge of his credibility. The Senate also passed a bill to authorise the clerks, sheriffs, and other officers of the counties of Hancock, Oglethorpe, Newton, Morgan, Greene, uud Taliaferro to advertise in one of the public gazettes in Augusta, and the like officers of Troup county to advertise in a gazette in Columbus. The Senate passed the bill of the House, co abolish the offices of Adjutant General and Assis tant Adjutant General. Q. MiLi.EDCEvn.r.E, Wednesday evening,? December 16, 1840, § The House has been engaged all day, (after dis posing of the motions to reconsider,) until the night session, upon the Tax Bill; and the result of the days work has been the rejection of every measuie offered upon that subject. The first was the re port of the Committee on Finance, recommending a revival of the act of 1S»04, with some slight amendment, for which, as a substitute,was offered a bill reviving the act of 1839, and directing all the taxes raised under it to be paid into the Sta:e Treasury, or at least, that none of the State tax, ac it has been termed, should be retained by the counties, as has been the case for several years past. That was first rejected. And then the vote can.e upon the bill offered by the committe, which was also lost. Afterwards, the ad valorem system was taken up—the bill for which had been laying on the table for several days —for which Mr. Craw ford, of Richmond, offered a substitute, and which upon motion —to use a phrase rendered parliamen tary by usage in the Georgia Legislature —was laid “ on the table for the balance of the session.” So, if none of these measures is reconsidered in the morning, the people null have no complaint to utter against the burthen of taxes imposed by this Legislature. A motion to reconsider may prevail, but I very much doubt the ultimate success of any measure for taxation; certainly any increas.ng ' the taxes. And though this course, at first view, may appear strange in the present embarrassments of the State, yet upon reflection, it seems not la be so indefensible after all; for it is certainly utterly useless to attempt to relieve those embarrassments by levying taxes from the people, to be thrown into the Central Bank for distribution, or which is the same thing, to be applied to the payment of the expenses of Government, while other funds of the State ahead,? collected —oral least raised from the people —are left to be squandered in that in stitution. The House, this morning reconsidered the bill which passed yesterday, for the repeal of the char ter of the Darien Bank, &c. In the Senate, to-day, a bill passed for the ex tension es the time to take out grants to land in the Cherokee country. The extended time I be lieve is until the first of October next. A bill passed that body also, for the icpeal of the act now in force, prohibiting the issue of Post Notes by the Banks. This is a measure of importance, and called forth some discussion ; and probably more will be had in the morning, on a motion to reconsidei. If there is no reconsideration of the tax measure in the morning, both Houses may adjourn on Satur day. The special committee, to whom was referred the Governor’s Message, suggesting “ a plan of re lief,” have not yet reported; but there seems to be very little disposition, as far as is discoverable, to entertain any such project. Whether the Gover nor’s fsiends, however, will “ back him ” in this plan, time must disclose. If such a couise should be taken by them, and the Governors views should be attempted to be carried out, of course the ad journment will not take place this week. The College Bill was supplanted in its order by the consideration of the weightier matter of the tax laws. To-morrow comes the tug of war upon that question, 44 prehaps /” Yours, &c. Hamilton. From the Savannah Republican. Late from Florida. ’ By the steam packet Charles Downing f, Capt. Dent, arrived last night from St. Augustine, we i are in possession of the JVews $ Herald of Friuay : last we subjoin extracts, but the news is not im ; portant. The U. S. schr. Flirt , arrived here on Friday last from Philadelphia, bound on a cruize South. The following officers are attached to her : 1 J. T. McLaughlin, Lieut. Commanding, i Wm. S. Drayton, Acting Lieut. T. T. Sloan, Ist Lieut. Marines. [ G. R. Wilson, 2d Lieut. Jo. J. H. Hopkinson, Assistant Surgeon. M. Marine. H. L. Chapman, C. St. Geo. No land, E. Jenkins, N. R. McKinney, A. Harral, and M. C. Watkins, Passed Midshipmen. J. Marshall, Captain’s Clerk.— News. Fort King.— We are informed that some ten or fifteen Indians (whether “men, women or child ren,” we have not learned,) have come in to this post, and agreeably to orders, have been detained. —lb. One hundred and seventy Recruits, intended for 3d Artillery, arrived here on monday last.— Thirty-five arrived at Fort Searle on the same dav. The following officers accompanied them : —Maj ors McClintock and Childs, Lieutenants Rragg, Wyse. Gilham, Van Vleit, Thomas, and Assistant Surgeon Barnes.— lb. J. B. Peyton, and V. H. Lcindenbcrger, late r 2d Lieutenants of the 3d Infantry, U. S. Ariny, have been dropped from the service.— lb. Col. Harney —No man can see Col. Harney 1 without admiring the soldier, the citizen, and the man. He has gone South with twenty picked i men, armed with patent rifles, and will collect as • many more men as can he spared from the South- ern pests, and proceed with canoe* into the Ever glades. A re-captured negro has promised to guide to a settlement of seventy Indians. We hope the Colonel’s untiring zeal may not ' be frustrated this time ; and we also hope to see ■ the day when hischivalric daring may be directed to higher purposes.— Herald. We learn from Lieut. Boyd, 3d Arl’y. that Indian tracks were seen a few days ago, on the narrow point of land, two miles south of his post, Fort Lauderdale, where they have never before been seen since the war commenced.— lb. From the Savannah Republican. Signs of the Times. While the great civil revolution of 1840 has been going on by which the spoils dynasty has been spoiled, and Gen. Harrison elected to carry out the reforms demanded by a whole people, another noiseless hut not loss potent element of political power has been at work. We mean that exhibited by the decennial census of the United States. The census itself is not an clement ol power, hut it shows where nature. Providence, and the force of circumstances have cost that power. The Constitution of the United States was ter med for the old thirteen, but it was framed wheth er designedly or not with a wise foresight towards prospective increase, both as to territory and pop ulation, which seems to us at this day as indica tive of the rarest political sagacity. The machine works as well with twenty-six wheels as it did with thirteen, and few human inventions will bear thus to be enlarged and carried beyond its original design, without throwing the whole ap paratus from its balance. We say it works well for the great mass of tho people, and for the great in terest of progressive civilization and the advance ment of civil liberty throughout the world ; but other momentous questions now arise for the po liticians of our day, which it becomes them well to consider. Hitherto political horoscopes have been cast by the juggling astrologers of our time with and eye rather to thing.*/ as they have been than as they are to he—to the past rather than the future. Now however the stars (the twenty six of our political galaxy we mean) have assu med new positions and the fortunes of political adventurers must he told anew. For an age or two, Virginia seemed to be the centre of our political system, partly from geo graphical position and extent, but more from mor al causes. Among these was the elevated and chivalrous character of her first settlers. As long as the old thirteen remained intact, her comman ding position was also maintained, but now, as the new census will soon show new elements ot power are being marshalled, and Virginia no lon ger culminates in the ascendant. While the great Apalachian chain formed as it were at once the boundary of our geographical and political limits, Virginia was the centre of our system ; but coeval with the departure ol nearly all the old revolutionary sages and soldiers is the departure of her power. A new race has sprung up to supplant the old, and a new theatre of action is just now about to be developed, so wonderful in its magical growth and so vast in its extent, that it may well confound the little po liticians who manufacture public opinion to order. Let our readers cast their eyes over the map of the great valley of the Mississippi—and next over the census of its population it comes in) and then over the late vote for President ot the Uni ted States, and they will quietly perceive, we hyra bly think whither the sceptre of the old Domin ion has departed. No sagacious man can throw his eyes over that vast region, however carelessly, without being struck with its stupendous physical proportions, and likewise with the vast moral and political pow er which it is henceforth to wield throughout the i future destinies of this country. , Politicians may rave and rant and combine and march and counter-march, but there have been, . and are elements now at work, silent as the foot steps of time, and full as sure, which will crush their mousing schemes in their very inception. It i will no longer be Southern combinations and Northern combinations, but it will be the Great West. She will swallow them both up, and scarcely feel surfeit after the meal. However mortifying to our sectional pride such a contemplation may be, we may be as well turn our eyes towards it at once, for as sure as to-morrow’s sun, thitherward is the future seat and source of power in the United States. This conclusion will the more readily be ad mitted, when we look also at the moral power which has been silently growing up to such col lossal maturity, while we have been dreaming of Old Dominions —and Southern conventions and nullification and what not] Do our readers know that Kentucky has mere Colleges than any Stale * in the Union] Let this starling fact open their eyes to the growing importance ©f this immense empire. The eminence of her sons in the forum, the Pulpit and Senate may also rival those of any other State in the Union, or any country on earth. 1 and as a whole, she is decidedly the most intelli * gent of the whole twenty-six. Then look at that , young giant, stretching from the 38th degree ot north latitude to the southern borders of Lake * Erie, and which has just had the distinguished honor of commencing the Western dynasty by 1 the elevation of one of her sons to the Presiden l cy. While these silent and great events have 1 been progression to their fulfilment, Georgia, thank God, has not been idle. She has been stretching a gigantic iron arm across the country to meet the embrace of this new foster sister, and with a wisdom and foresight in its direction wor ! thy of all praise. i She has the advantage of tapping tho valley far down the stream, and almost at the termina tion of the Apalachian barrier, and when the fu ture shall be fully laid open and our intercourse matured, she will be brought almost within the embrace of the West. Her interest are now ami henceforth essentially connected with the West, both politically and commercially : Mu. Clay.—The Spy in Wasington says ‘-it is understeod that Mr. Clat will accept of no appointment from the news administration, at home or abroad. On this point he is inflexible.” The Richmond Whig adds— “ln this, Mr. Clay but acts up to the universal expectations of his friends, and the dignity of his fame and position He neither requires the emoluments of office, nor any accession of reputa tion which a subordinate station can bring. There are younger men enough of commanding talen s, whose shoulders can belter bear the weight and drudgery of official station.” The Senate the Sheet Anchor of the Con stitution. —Our Senate has again assumed its 1 constitutional attitude, and exercised its conserva ’ tive virtue. The Anti-Bank Bill, or bill to make i suspension of specie payments work a forfeiture of Bank Charters, has been rejected by that body. C harleston Courier. Jokin , —A down east editor asks his subscri bers to pay up, that he may play a similar joke up , on his creditors. We like to sec a good joke go round. Keep out of Debt. —Let every young man ' and youth read the following ; “ Os what a hideous progeny of ill is debt the father! What lies, what meanness, what inva ! sions on self-respect, what cares, what double dealing! How, in due season, will it carve the frank, open face into wrinkles—how, like a knife, ’twill stab the honest heart. And then its transformation ! How it has been known to ! change a goodly face into a mask of brass; the man into a callous trickster ! A freedom from 1 debt, and what nourishing sweetness may be found in water; what loothsomeness in a dry crust; what ambrosial nourishment in a hard ' egg. Be sure of it, he who dines out of debt, though his meal be a biscuit and an onion, dines 1 in “The Apollo.” And then for raiment —what ; warmth in a threadbare coat, if the tailor’s re ceipt be in the pocket; what Tyrian purple in the faded waistcoast, the vest not owed for; how glossy the well worn hat if it covers not the ach *■ mg head of a debtor! Next, the home sweets, the out-door recrea ’ tion of a free man. The street door knocker i falls not a knell on his heart; the foot on the staircase, though he live on the third pair, sends no spasms through his anatomy; at the tap at his door, he can crow forth, ‘ come in,’ and his pulse still beat healthfully, his heart sinks not i into his bowels. See him abroad ! riow confi s dentlv, yet how pleasantly he takes the street; r how he returns look for look with any passen ger ; how he saunters, now. meeting an acquaint s ance, he stands and gossips! But then, this t man knows no debt—debt, that easts a drug into | the richest wine; that makes the food ot the f gods unwholesome, indigestible; that sprinkles the banquets of Luculles with ashes, soot in the f soup of an emperor; debt, that like the moth, makes valueless furs and velvets, enclosing the , i wearer in a fastening prison, (the shirt of Nes . ! su» was a shirt not paid for;) debt, that writes . upon tLa frescoed walls tho hand-writing ot the , attorney, that puts a voice of terror in the knocker; . that makes the heart at the haunted fire > sides; debt, the invisible demon that walks abroad i with a man ; now quickening his steps, now i)iak [ ing him look on all sides like a hunted beast, and . bringing to his face the ashy hue of death, as . the unconscious passenger looks glancy upon 1 him ! Poverty, is a bitter (draught, vet may, and . j sometimes with advantage be gulphcd down. . I Though (he drinker make wry faces, there may, ( after all, be a wholesome goodness in the cup. . But debt, however courteously it be ollered, is the [ cup of a syren, .and the wine, spiced and deli -5 | cious though it be, an eating poison. Ihe man 3 out of debt, though with a flaw in Ins jerkin, a ! j crack in his shoe leather, and a hole in his hat, i 1 is still the son of liberty, free as the singing lark . ; above him ; but the debtor, though clothed in the . utmost bravery, what is he but a sell upon a ; holiday, a slave to be reclaimed at any instant by i his owner, the creditor] . ; My son, if poor, see wine in the running . | spring; let thy mouth water at a last week’s . j roll; think a threadbare coat the only wear; and ] | acknowledge a whitewashed garret the fittest r j housing place for a gentleruar;. Do this ami flee ’ i debt. So shall thy heart be at pea&e, and the f ; sheriff be confounded.” H •. LiTEUArti Statistics. —In the library of Mr. Rogers, the post, at his house in St. James t Place, London, is the original agreement between 1 Milton and his publisher, feamuui Symons, in f 1666, for the copyright of “ Paradise Lost. It f is written on one page of foolscap, signed by the s contracting parties, and witnessed by “ John 5 Fisher,” and “ Benjamin Greene, servant to Mr. 3 Milton." The autograph of the poet, notwith -5 standing his blindness, is remarkably regular 1 and distinct. This interesting relic, we need * hardly say, is carefully preserved by its distin * guished owner: it is framed and glazed, and oc -1 copies a prominent place on the walls o* the , r classical and hospitable mansion of the I oet of 3 Memory. Mr. Rogers, we believe, gave seventy * guineas for this ielfc ! For the poem itself Mil * ton received ten pounds, jjve being paid in ad ■ T.ance, and the other five at the expiration of two years, when 1300 copies had been sold. For t .each ediUoi,, {riot exceeding 1500 copies, live I pounds were to be pgid ; hut in seven years the >, poet died, and the widow disposed ol all her - “ right, title, and interest” in ,the F.? r k for an ad -13 ditional sum of eleven pounds. Thus tits whole i copyright of “ Paradise Lost” brought to the an; I. thor and f)i s family seventeen pounds, and the , bit of paper on wjijch the agreement was written * was sold and eagerly purchased for seventy i guineas] Milton was more than fifty years of t age, blind, infirm and solitary, when he began thf I composition o i his great epic. At a similar ad vanced period of life, Bir Walter Scott, struck with misfortune, entered into an engagement to liquidate, by his literary exertions, a debt of Milton rested his long cherished hopes of lest ng fame upon the work thus late begun ; Scott staked his character and repuiu tation upon the fulfilment of his last engage ment. Both entered with characteristic ardor upon their tasks, and, amid the pressure of in creasing age and infirmity, never lost sight ot their anticipated reward. In seven years, Milton completed his uivine poem, and held in his hand his passport to immoitality. In seven years, Bcott had paid all but one-sixth of his enor mous load of debt. The prize was within view, independence seemed almost in his grasp ; but he had overtasked his strength, and disease, soon to be followed by death, came like an armed man; soon closed the superhuman struggle. When will the annals of literature record again two such instances of heroic determination, under such adverse circumstances, united to the highest crea live genius, and crowned with such marvelloes results] —lnverness Courier. Marriage Extraohdin ary.—lt appears friom the following from an English paper, that extra ordinary marriages take, place in that country sometimes as well as this ; Ok Monday se’night, a young man presented himself at the Baptist Chapel, Cardifl, in com pany with a female, whom he wished to take unto himself for “better or worse.” They were soon made happy by the deputy registar, and trudged away with light hearts and light purses. In the course of the day some inquiries were naturally made as to where the parlies came from, and who they were, it turned out that the bride and bridegroom stood, before their marriage, in the re lative position of step-mother and step-son. What makes the case more remarkable is the fact, that the bride is the mother of two children by the bridegroom’s father, who was drowned some time ago in the river Ely. One of the children was heard to say to a neighbor on the following morn ing that he had got a “father again,” when upen being asked who he was, he answered, “'Tom my brother.” —South Wales Advertiser. Poverty Struck.—The Delaware County Republican states that Governor Porter refuses to issue his proclamation offeiing a reward for the person or persons who murdered William Hope, on the grounds of the great scarcity of money at present in tne State Treasury. The Devil’s Clock. BY THE AUTHOR OF A “MARRIAGE ON THE EVE OF BATTLE.” The town of Her inghausen, not a hundred miles from Frankfort, is one of the most pictur esquely antique :n Germany, and contains about twelve thousand inhabitants. I like to prepare my readers with a tolerable idea of the locality wherein the events narrated transpire —for then I may hope to impress them with at least a two fold sympathy in my dramatis persona. The streets in which Herr Bomgarten had his resi dence was among the oldest in the town afore said. and his residence, the oldest in it. He was himself, also, a high-dried piece of antiquity, usu ally enveloped in a cloud of smoke from sunrise to sunset, except only when bis fair daughter set beside him at their evening meal and talked over the affair of the day. On such occasions he would narrate incidents in his progress through life, and dwell upon the difficulties attendant up on acquiring the independence which they then enjoyed. He had one passion in excess—an in tense love of music; and had at one time no mean proficient on the violin. At the festi vals held periodically in all the principal German towns, his judgment was appealed to; and, in deed no meeting of the kind was considered com plete if he, by chance, were absent. It may, therefore, naturally be inferred that his daughter had been early instructed in the elements of the art; and at nineteen she was" a pianiste of con sidcraole attainments. These circumstances formed the basis of a desire which become stron ger with his years, ami which confirmed a re solve that she should wed one of the most ac complished musicians of the age. They saw that when all other passions die, ambition sur vives, and acquires a force proportioned to its sol itariness and singleness of aim. Certain it is, that out of the many suitors whom the beauty and gentleness of disposition of Azalia attracted to the domicile of Herr Bomgarten, not one (so scrupulous was he on the score of musical per fection) was permitted by him to continue his visits. Anxiety for the fulfiment of a hope be ing usually in proportion to its strength, her sire as the young lady approached twenty-one, began to experience a dread that he might not live to see her settled. This preyed upon his spirits deeply, and urged him to publish, as widely as possible, his intentions. To that end he invited to his house, on a certain day, all the class-mu sical who chose to compete for his daughter, de claring that at midnight he would decide on the claims of the aspirants. Now, it is necessary I should inform my readers that in the grand apart ment in Herr Bomgarten s mansion there was a piece of furniture supposed to have been fabrica ted by a Hugarian musician, and which exhibited so much of apparent wilfulness that it had been denominated by common consent the Devil’s Clock. This time-keeping edifice struck all manner of hours in all manner of ways; hut whatever might lie its vagaries, was always true to the solemn “ twelve” of midnight; so that Herr Bomgar ten, not without reason, fixed upon that hour to decide his long cherished scheme. The day at length arrived ; and it may he im agined that not a little prepartion had been made. The pianoforte [one of Korncr’s latest improve ments] was placed under a mirror of immense size, and exactly opposite to the [fatal] clock. Azalia was dressed in a holiday suit, and look ed lovelier than usual; and from this circum stance her father augured a propitious finale. At about eight o’clock in the evening the visitors were all assembled ; and the players who ven tured to offer themselves as competitors for so beautiful and so rich a prize were four in num ber. They severally sat down to the instrument, and each appeared, more than his predecessor, to astonish the audience; and it was generally im agined that the last performer would be entitled to become the fair girl’s husband. But ere Heir Bomgarten had quite resolved in his own mind the exact merits of each candidate another stood beside the instrument, and, rather by signs than words, indicated that he too, must try his skill. The guests seemed extremely puzzled at this singular apparition ; for up to that moment the gentleman had not been observed in the room at all! One or two persons, indeed, declared that he had actually stepped from the clock-case as the last player of the four concluded his Fan - tasia! Be it as it may, he set down to the pi ano, and produced—but it is wholly impossible to describe the sensation. He now withered up the hegrt with the intensity of his pathos; and a gain enchanted the soul with multitudinous im ages of delight. Then jyould he pour over the imagination a storm of harmonies that exalted it almost to frenzy, and anon subdued it to the placidity of childhood. He was the man : yet, who was he ! The question was a fearful one. He was tgn.dsorae, but his aspect was singular ly wild and melau"holly. He executed with marvellous ease, hut his mind appeared [judging from his eye] to be wandering over fields of thought remote from that in which he was engag ed. JJe rose. Herr Bomgarten sprang from his seat, and would have embraced him, but was re pelled by his peculiarly of mein. Few minutes had he to decide, for midnight was at hand. As to the pretty Azalia, she wore no expression save only that of extreme pallor, and ot some internal agitation ; but when the stranger, as the clock struck ‘twelve.’ touched her hand to depart, she rose at once, and without any apparent reluctance. The most surprising part of the whole business was ihia, —that the stranger, holding the hand of the young lady, proceeded at once to the Devil’s Clock, and, giving one melancholy glance at the company, touched a spring and retired within its case. As the door closed on the fatal couple a mur mur of horror ran through the assembled guests. The unhappy father was so allected that he fain ted away ; and as sensation returned he declared that he repented him solely of having, as it were, interfered with the decrees of Providence. “Ah!” ho exclaimed, “would that I had selected some honest youth among our neighbors, for her hus band !—Carl von Muller, for instance —who lov ed in return, and whom I drove from the house.” Scarcely had he made this avowal when clock ease again opened, and the stranger, stepping from it, said, in a sepulchral voire, “Ityourduugh ler, () man of ambitious views, were now mar ried to Carl von Muller, would you give heryour blessing?” “I would ! I would !” exclaimed the old man, nobbing. “Then,” exclaimed the ap parition, “come forth, ye happy pair!” At these words, the door of the room opened, and Carl von Muller and his lovely bride entered, approached the master of the house, and knelt at his feet. “.N ow,” said the stranger, “Jet me turn this gloom 1 into merriment.” My name is Mendelssohn, the 1 ‘ composer ; 1 have just returned from Italy ; Jam | 1 the bosom friend ot Carl von Muller: that clock \ has a communication with the f’hurrh of St. j J tuque ; [the choristers, who always set it right 1 at twelve at night, from some superstitious feel- ; ing, play a variety of tricks with it by day ;] and ' I have been the means of doing an act of friend - ship and of justice. As to the moral —hut no ; | we will think of that some other time; for now, I ! it behoves us solely to he joyous,—and a merrier | —a happier evening, was never spent in the good * old town of Herringhausen. COMMERCIAL. latest dates from Liverpool, November 6 Latest dates from Havre, November 4 1 AUGUSTA MARK Friday Evening, Dec. ]B, 1840. Our Cotton market since our review of the 16th inst. has been very firm, and full prices paidfoi all I descriptions; we, theiefore, continue our figures | without alteration. Extremes S i d9f cents, and . for a choice article can be had. Cetton receipts j still continue light for the seasen of the year. * | Money is more easy. We find some of our Banks ; are discounting bills on Savannah at 60 days, one p cent, off, and in proportion for a snortertime. Our river continues good for steamers of heavy draught to arrive and depart with ease and de- I . i spatch. Exchange —On New York, at sight, —(d 6 p 1 cent for current funds; Charleston (a) 5 p ct; Savannah 2(d) 2$ pet-, Philadelphia 4(d 5 p cent; Lexington,Ky. par (dip cent; Richmond 4 (d 5 p cent; Specie commands —d 4 p cent prem. | Bank Notes. — Savannah Banks, 1A d - p ct. prern. I Columbus Insurance 8ank....4 (d - “ “ Commercial Bank, Macon, 4 (d - C£ “ Mechanics’," (Augusta,) s(d - “ “ Agency Brunswick," 5 (d - “ “ i and Mechanics’ Bank, Columbus, par (d - $ “ disc’nt. 1 Central Bank, 7 (d - “ “ Milledgeville Bank, par. (4cmulgee Bank, Monroe Rail Road Bank, 12£ (d - “ “ Hawkinsville Bank, ls(d- “ “ j Chattahoochie R. R.&B’k Co.. 1 (d - “ «• | Darien Bank, 20 (d 25 “ “ ■ Bank of Rome, 12£ (d Union Bank, “ 50 (d - “ j Southern Trust Co. “ 30 (d - “ “ All other Banks now doing business, at par. j Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics* Bank, Insu ranee Bank of Columbus, Commercial Bank of Ma I con, anu Brunswick Agency in this city. New York, Dec, 12, p. m. f'otton. —The sales of the present week were rather larger than those of the previous one, a mounting up to noon of tnis day to about 4000 bales, of which, say 2200 were New Orleans and , Mobile at 9 d 11, and 1800 Upland and Florida at 8 d 10i cents. Prices have advanced during the } week cent p lb. The market this morning is i brisk, and the prices of yesterday aie fully main- j lamed. Flour. —At the close of last week the current price for common brands canal w r as $4 87 j. This ' morning there is nunc to be had short of $5. thus I establishing an advance for the week of cents j p b»l. Southern Flour is dull of sale at $5 (d $5 25 for Georgetown and Howard-street. New Orleans, Dec. 12. Remarks. —Since our last report a very fair bu siness has been done in Cotton and Sugar, and some articles of Western Produce have met with a rather better demand, though most descriptions ! arc still dull, with unusually large stocks for the season, and a downward tendency in prices. Cotton. —Arrived since the Bth instant i f Lou isiana and Mississippi 9541 bales, Tennessee and North Alabama 226, Arkansas 502, Mobile ]J, Texas 100, together, 10381 hales. Cleared in the same time for Liverpool, 6069 bales Glasgow 1320. New York 450, Philadelphia 303, together, 8142 hales —making an addition to stuck of 2239 bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive of all on ship-board not cleared on the 11th instant a 100335 bales. In our review ol Wednesday morning last we I quoted an advance of a quarter of a cent on all de scriptions, but observed that tne demand at this improvement was rather moderate, unless for the better qualities. Since then, the market has ex hibited a somewhat quiet appearance, in conse quence of there having been but few operations on European account, buttherc has, nevertheless, been a very fair business going forward, as buyers for our Northern manufactories have purchased freely. The sales of Wednesday amounted to SSGO bales, on Thursday to 4500, and yesterday to 3700 bales. Owing to the active inquiry which has existed for qualities above middling fair, and to the fact, also, of tiiesc being very scarce, hol ders have been enabled to obtain full prices for them ; but for the Middling grades, the market has been a little easier, and, and in mo-t instances, the sales have been effected at rates a fraction low r er, to which our quotations will be found to conform. Our highest rates for Louisiana and Mississippi cottons, is 12 cents, which is the price for that de scription usually denominated as ‘ good and fine,’ but we have to remark that “ fancy crops” will command (d 13 cents. The sales during the week amount to 19,000 bales, and lor the past three 12,000. LIVERPOOL CASSIFICATION. Louisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary 7 j (d Middling, (dSs] Middling fair, — (d 9 ; Fair, (d Good lair 10i (d 11; Good and fine, 12 (d —. Tennessee and North Ahbama —Ordinary, —(d —; Middling, —(d —; Fair, ( a) ; Prime (d — Average lists (d 8*; Choice crops, Re statement OF COTTON. IS4O. Oct. 1. stock on hand bales 27911 Receipts last three days 10381 “ previ0u51y........205249 215C30 243541 Exports last three days 8142 previously 135064 143206 Stock on hand 190335 Sugar — Louisiana —The market continues ac tive, at full prices. The sales of the last tiiree days amount to some 600 io 700 hhds at 4£ (d 6cts. with occasional small lots of very choice at 6A cts. We have not beeu able to learn the particulars of _ I M A UINE IXTEI XFGENciT* Arrivid— steamboa?ch«ham?\v^"j' t 17 ' Cleared ship St. Mark, brig Augusta, Sawyer, West ladies i Chase, ihomas, Havana Ur ’ I)at / pea?"' S,a - Shi f St - Sl « k - Alexander, Liver. Charleston, Dec 18 r.dn^r ay -- schr - virginh York. he °& n Z ~ Une ship Catharine, Berry, New Cleared.—Schr. Shy lock, Hall. Cuba; Stearin Congarce, Eaton, Savannah. aujer Went to sea yesterday.— Ship Rowrna New Orleans; Ship Birmingham, Robinson, BosS Bi. barque Medora, Harrison, Liverpool • u ' MobUe dt ’ llalCh ’ A " IWCrPi HARRISON NO^INATj^VsT^ JUDGES OF THE INFERIOR COURT Judge B. H. WARREN, Jud e VALENTINE WALKFR ROBERT ALLEN, E q ' ’ JAMES HARPER, Esq. WILLIAM P. BEALE TAX COLLECTOR. Rev. WM. KENNEDY. TAX RECEIVER. j COSBY DICKINSON. CIT W e are authorised to announce ENOCH H CARS VS ELL, as a candidate for the offic of Tax Collector of Burke county, at the ensuing election dec 17 ® ulon - XT We are authorized to announce JAMES \ : FULCHER as a candidate for Tax Collector for Burke county, at the ensuing election, dec 15-2 t iff We are'authorised to annouoce LEON p DUGAS as a candidate for the oifice of Receiver of Tax Returns. ]5 XT T,ie friends of Captain M. P. STOVALL will support him for the office of Colonel of the 1 Oth i Regiment, a‘the ensuing election. dec 12 XT TV e are authorised to announce ROBERT A. WATKINS as a candidate for the office of Tax ; Collector of Richmond county. dec 14-td We aic authorised to announce GEORGE M. WALKER as a candidate for the office of Re ceiver of Tax Returns, dec 12 (O’ W e are requested to announce JOSEPH j BURCH as a candidate for the office of Receiver j of Tax Returns. dec 9-ts (X/* w*e are authorized to announce ANDREW MACLEAN as a candidate for the office of Re ceive! of Tax Returns dec 10 td D A V 11) A . V A8 O \ , ATTORNEY AT LAW, Palmyra, Lee county, Ga, 1 Will practice in the adjoining counties of the Chat- i i tahoochee and Southern Circuits. REFERENCES : Col Zadock Jackson, 4 „ . Rev. Jonathan Davis,s Ga. Col. H. Pope, >. _ Hon. C. Dougherty, 5 PnS> a ‘ Col. A. Reese, ) JoliLslon k Robson,s a^ISOn ’ a ‘ J. W. Jones, Augusta. w4m octl ANDREW J. IE AX SELL, ATTORNE Y AT LA W, nov 25-ts Dalobnega.Ga. W. IC. CUNNINGHAM, & Co., GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, oct 31 Savannah, Ga. 2m JOHN fC. STANFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Jyl7j Clarkesville, Ga. B. 11. OVJBKBV, ATTORNEY AT LAW, feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, G AUGUSTUS R EES, A I TOR NE Y AT LA W, septs-ly Madison Morgan county, Ga. JOH N . J . HYft D , NOTARY PUBLIC, j \Vill be thankful to his friends for any part of bu- I 1 * sinesS in the above line, which will be attended to I witn rectituae, Ac. oct 24 j House Painting. I Paper Hanging, I and Glazing. J ft. P.SPEL3I AN, J r. I i shop near the Upper Market, Broad-st., Augostt I (XT ECONOMY, NEATNESS, AND DESPATCH. I doc 10 ts H W . <4 . N 13131 O. COMMISSION MERCHANT. ( Office in the lower tenement Masonic Hal!. | nov 9 ts j (Xf* Dr. W. S. JONES tenders his professional R services to the- citizens of Augusta ami its vicinity ij lie may be found at his residence on the Norm gg side of Green second door below Mclntosh street, ■ or at the Chronicle and Sentinel office. B Ojr* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK —At sight, H and at one to twenty days sight, for sale by J j oct 23 ' tiA R DELLK &HP 1i Till: HEADING KOG3I Attached to this office is open to subscribers, I strangers introduced by them, every day and e Vf ‘ I ning (Sunday evenings ex.ieptcd) until 9 o’clock. P Subscription >5 ; for a firm of two or I "VT EG ROES TO HlßE.—Several I tnr* next year, among whom are Hou-*e >f r * I vants, Lr..ymen, Work Hands, men, women K half grown girls and boys. WM. BOSTWICK. I dec 17 3w* I tIHECKS AT SIGHT AND SHORT SIGHTB J on New-York, j Boston, I Phi! side! phi a, I Baltimore, * I Charleston, I Savannah, I Lexington, Ky. I Cincinnati, K Richmond, I Nashville, I Mobile, ft New-Orleah 5 - ■ For sale at reduced rates bv ■ PECK & BEARING, ■ dec 17 lw Old stand under Masonic Council Chamber, Dec. 5, I ON motion Resolved, That Thursday, ft December, 1840, be set apart as a . ■ Public Thanksgiving, and that his H°n°r, ■ Mayor, be requested to issue his Pioclarna I that elTect. Extract from the minutes. „ S. H. OLIVER, In conformity with ihe foregoing Resol uU j, Daniel Hook, Mayor of the city ol ’ c f hereby set apart Thursday, the Uiirty-Hi> y this month, as a day of Public Thanksgt Almighty God for again blessing our oil} accustomed gooo health, and do also eailie^ L j commend all citizens to suspend their us “ eS jl ness and assemble in their icspective worship, to render unto Him their unite iS thanks for this great blessing, and to sU PP y continuance of Divine favor lor our - I Country. DANIEL HG.OJv, Mayor t - j Augusta, December 17, 1840, i