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CHRONICLE Si SENTINEL.' BY J. W. & W. S. JONES. D\lLf, TRI-WBBKLT A WEEKLY OFFICE IN RAIL HOA»» BA * * Bl ILPI ‘ G TERMS—DoiIy Paper, ad ranee-. 110 Tri-NVeekly Pap^r, M , .. 2 Weekly, (a mammoth rnfei; l* \SH SYSTEM,—m no case will an order for the k .tended to unless ccompamed with the p.p, r * J'”/;. ‘°' n .,, M<: ewl.e,. the lime for whick SSaJSSTS b. .f«. SS.E • to renew the same, the paper will Oeprecjaterl fund, reee.red .. -I—■ this city. /■Vom <ft* Louisville Journal. TO THE GREEK SLAVE.-**'- T * WAU " 1 know it is but marble that I I know that in that anffno pulse of life- There beat* no heart- here * ei That all .* anil and Vt awe 9 The sculptor's hand hath made thee, lovely slave, A thiof of beauty and a thing of sorrow ; And a* 1 look ao thee I feel as though 1 could kneel down and weep; yet not such tears As man may shed for roan, but those that spring Up from the fountains of the heaving soul When it is touched by high and deep romance ! For, standing in thy presence, I see not Thy marble beauties or thy rounned limbs, Though these are beautiful ns ever sprang To Lite within the poet's soul, or made The ideal form of boyhood’s brightest dream, But Greece! old classic Greece, such us she was When thro’ her lovely vales at eventide The swell of music ran, and when her sons In rapture knelt beside her purling brooks And syllabled their ticklings into song— When lovers sat beside the moonlit sea And sang their songs of love —when sages slept Within her grottoes at the noontide hour And dreamed of immortality—when she Was the bright home of science and of song— "hen Freedom’s genius spread its lovely wings Over the beauty of her sunlit isles I But these sweet thoughts all vanish when I catch, The look of sadness on<hy angel face, And turn with melancholy eye to read The mournful history of thy country’s fall. The clank of slavery’s chain, the shriek of wo, The shattered idol and the broken heart, Like blights and desolations, crowd upon My soul until I seek relief within Thy look of resignation —till I turn With hope to Him on whom thou dost rely. Heautiiul statue! I can scarce believe Thai thou art what thou seem’si to be—a stone ; Not that I think of human forms or flesh in thee or ever yet have thought or dreamed That thou wast mortal or would have thee such ; But thou dost seem a glorious, vast idea, A something felt which could not be expressed, A being which for many an age hath been Within the souls of men, and now revealed And tangible to human touch and sight. Thou art the embodiment of that which dwelt Within the soul of Ashland’s matchless sage When in the pride ol manhood snul of power He spake for Greece in more than human tones And shook a rlalion’s heart ! Thou art the true Os that which was the ideal—thine the form Which floats before the vision when we dwell Upon the classic page that tells of Greece ! A glorious destiny is thine ; for thon Will live when we who gather round thee now Shall cease to speak thy praises and have passed To dust and to oblivion. Thine will be An endless life of triumph—thou wilt live A thing of admiration thro’ ail time ; And, as the lapsing ages pass away To their dark destination bards shall sing, In language all unknown to us, thy praise. And when thy native land in distant years Shall break the gloom which binds her darkly now , And raise her head, for many an age oppressed, Into the sunlight ol the olden time, Her sons shall seek thee and shall buy thee back To freedom and to glory : they shall break The chains whicli fetter down thy hands, and rear W ithin their capilol a throne for thee. Thy majesty shall bet hetnajesly Os beauty and of history, and Greeks Shall love and reverence thee as such and take Their children by the hand and point to thee, And thou shall teach to them a history— A mute, impressive lesson ofthe past! Louisville, Jan. 22, 1849. Americas ANTiqumr.s.—Several specimens of American antiquities have recently arrived in this city. They were discovered by an A merican traveller whilst exploring the country of Sierra Madre. near San Luis Potosi, Mexi co, and excavated from the ruins of an ancient city, the existence of which is wholly unknown : to the present inhabitants, either by tradition or history. They comprise two idols and a sa crificial basin, hewn from solid blocks of con crete sandstone, and are now in the most per fect state of preservation. The removal of these heavy pieces of statu ary from the mountains was accomplished by means of wooden sleds ; transported by ca noes to the mouth of the Ponuco, and from thence shipped to this port. The largest of the idols was undoubtedly the God of Sacrifice, ami one of the most impor tant It is of life size, and the only complete specimen of the kind that has ever been dis covered and brought away from the country — several attempts having been made by travel lers, who were either thwarted by the natives, or encountered difficulties deemed impractica ble to overcome. The anatomical proportions and beauty of this statue are not admired at the present day, but the elaborate work upon its entire surface attracts at once the attention and scrutiny of the beholder. It is principally ornamental, in terspersed with symbols of mythology, and occasional hieroglyphics. It has two faces, re presenting \ outh and Old Age; signify in l * that none are exempt from offering life as a sa. ri- I fice. The right hand forms an aperture in which a light burned during the time of sacn- ! fice. The smaller idol is the God of Sorrow, to whom worshippers came to offer up their devo tions for the tears it shed, and the relief afford ed them in their griefs. This statute is dimin utive. the carvings plain, and the whole simply devised. The Sacrificial Basin measures two feet in diameter, and displays much skill and truth in the workmanship. It is held by two serpents entwined, with their heads reversed —the sym bol of eternity, which enters largely into the mythology of the ancient Egyptians. The E gyptian gallery ofthe British Museum contains several specimens of the work here describ ed. Investigations of the origin and history of an unknown race of men. over whose dust the explorer marks his way, have justly attracted the attention of the philosopher, and produced | many interesting results. Ethnography is now ' receiving that attention from American philoso phers which their own fields of study has so ■ long urged upon them. The object in presen ting these specimens of American antiquity to the notice of the public (to those particularly who take an interest in the history of mankind) I is, to offer a portion of a letter of an alphabet yet to be tunned, by the explorations of the j travel!* rand the investigations of the philoso pher, similar to those through which they were brought to light, and by which the history of this continent is yet to be written.— Pic. 9th inst. Wash House. —An application is about to be made to the Legislature of New-York, for an act ofincorporation with a view to the establish ment of a public wash hou*e in the city of New York. The cost, including land, buildings.»kc.,' is estimated at $50,000- An institution of this kind, so important to the health and comfort of the poor, who cannot afford to pay the price demanded at present at private bathingestablish inents, is much wanted in London, similar establishments, where the clothes as well as the persons of the poor may be washed, have been found very useful—and New-Forkt, with its plentiful supply of Croton water, is admirably adapted for this purpose. £hrentitle ant) Sentinel. AUGUSTA, GA : THURSDAY MO»»'»»gZ EB - -*» *“*' *" Ab,,r “ c “°'- We learn from * reliable source, that the 09 of Jefferson have subscribed $45,000, which will « ocn be i n cr eas « d to $75,000, to be ex peoded in starting a Cotton Factory near Louisville in that county. These intelligent planters know how to command prosperity by wisely helping themselves. Jefferson is one ofthe best planting counties in Gec.gia; and is capable of sustaining five times the popula tion it now has employed in tillage, and twen ty times more of mechanics. Without the laltei class to aid in creating wealth by the use of machinery, and to furnish a reliable home market for all the grain, butter, meat, poultry, eggs, fruit, potatoes and garden vegetables that small farmers produce, no rural community, and no village in its neighborhood, can long prosper. Go where you will, and the civilized world does not show an exception to this rule. The sober trith is, that Providence never de signed that the elements in the surface of the earth required to feed the animals upon it, should be dug out over large districts, and car ried to distant continents or regions, never to be returned. This is a most unnatural opera tion. It is inevitable that, this practice when prosecuted with great industry, and extended beyond certain limits, must impoverish, and ul timately depopulate the section so insanely robbed of the fertilizing atoms in the soil, which unite to form all bread, all meat, all cot ton, and all other cultivated plants. If a man supposes that a good crop of wheat, cotton, corn or potatoes can be made out of nothing ; or that the soil loses in plowing, harrowing and hoeing no more than the crop takes from it, he has yet to learn the A. B. C. of agriculture. Tillage is itself a purely artificial —an entirely unnatural process. The business can not long be conducted profitably, unless you bring the consumer near to the producer, and pursue an improving, in place of an exhausting system of husbandry. A community may perpetrate the outrage of desolating a county and then run away from it to repeat the same disgrace ful wrong elsewhere, if it sees fit so to do. Adopt this practice generally, and what he, comes of your State, which you profess to love, and treat so shabbily ? What could the worst enemy of Georgia do more inimical to its best interests, more blighting to its .pros pects and all substantial improvements, than greatly to impair the fertility of its soil ? Think of it. A people employing all their capital, all their labor, all their energy and all their knowledge in digging up the earth to ex port and waste every atom that can be chang ed into cotton and into food for negroes and mules engaged in the great work of desolation. The planters of Jefferson see the folly of this system of farming. They intend hereafter to work up no inconsiderable portion of their sta ple at home. Instead of disposing ofa bag of cotton at S2O or 25; they will sell this raw material wrought into yarn or cloth and realize from SSO to $75 for the same. By wisely em ployinga part of their capital in carding, spin ning and weaving cotton, they will be less driven in plowing, planting, hoeing and pick ing this one important crop; and thus have more time to grow peas, keep stock, make manure and improve their plantations. They will soon find that sheep husbandry can be rendered quite profitable—that the rapid in crease in numbers of this prolific animal will pay for its keep, whilst a dollar’s worth of wool can be clipped from its back every year. We know a gentleman in Western New York who keeps 7000 sheep, as his father did before him, on land in the Genesee valley worth S6O per acre. We speak advisedly when we say that for 30 years the price of good wool has not been below an average of a dollar a fleece in the State of New York. The tillage of Eng land is only maintained by the immense num ber of sheep kept to manure and enrich its plowed fields. Georgia cotton fields are denied this benefit. In place of millions of valuable sheep, the distant droppings of gaunt dogs and shadowy rabbits are about all the fertilizers that our exhausted lands now receive from the ani mal creation. • • We must learn to practice a system of plant ing that will render every field and every more and more productive. To achieve tms result, mechanical and manufacturing industry must be generally introduced, and steadily fos tered. We do not hesitate to say that, the capi tal and labor of this State can be made to pro duce fifty per cent, more than they now do. The public attention is too much taken up with “abstractions’’ that never put a dime in any tarmer a pocket; whilst matters of every day life, and ot the highest practical importance are sadly overlooked, and sadly neglected. Miscellaneous Populm^Zi^ taking the census of Milwaukee recently, it w a9 ascer tained that of the whole number 6,960 are A msricans. 5,708 Germans, 2,487 Irish, 135 Hol landers, 97 Scotch, 83 Norwegians. 74 French, 34 Welch, 8 Danes, 6 Swedes. We doubt whether any town in the country, unless it be Buffalo, has a population of like miscellaneous character. That city has some 11,000 Germans in one Ward; and a no inconsiderable Irish population in another. The immense influx of foreigners along the line of the Erie Canal has filled every village, city and hamlet with representatives from half a dozen or more Eu ropean nations. Proposed new Coinage.— The National In telligencer publishes a communication from Ed ward Hinckley, of Baltimore, in favor of.the usue of seven cent silver coins ; to obviate the use of copper cents. By the addition of seven cent pieces, all the other numbers mav be form ed. The suggestion is worthy the attention of Congress. f-y Our thanks to ihe Charleston Courier for the New York Journal of Commerce of Satur day, brought by steamer Southerner. A telegraphic despatch received at Balti more, at 7 o’clock on Saturday evening, 6th inst., says :—“ The Mail for the North is now earned over the Railroad, a connexion having been formed by sleighs on ice across the Sus quehana at Havre de Grace, it being of suffi -1 cleat thickness to sustain a wagon ” ~ I Hon. W. B. Preston of Virginia. We noticed a few days since that this distin guished son of the Old Dominion” had deliv ered in Congress, « speech, characterized as one of great power and eloquence, in favor of the admission of California as a State. As the speech has not yet reached us, the following notice of it.and the author’s style and power as , a declaimer, may not prove uninteresting to the reader. The sketch is from “Independent.” the able correspondent of the Philadelphia North American : Washington, Feb. 7. The convulsions of an exciting session, and the te dium of monotonous legislation have been recom pensed by the luxury of an hour of impassioned elo quence and fervent patriotism. Mr. Preston of Vir ginia., who had been waiting a favorable opportunity lor submitting his proposition for erecting a Slate in the territory ceded by Mexico, embraced the occa sion afforded by an appropriation bill to deliver his views. The Senate and Supreme Court offered more than ordinary attractions, but rumor had hardly reached the wings of the Capitol before both were deserted, and the House became the centre of interest. A single speech at the last session—the first of his Congiessional career —elevated Mr. Preston to the front rank among the orators of the House On that occasion, he exhibited a statesmanlike grasp and com prehension which gave promise of the highest emi nence in public life. This reputation has been guard ed with eare and watchfulness, and not squandered, as is too often the misfortune of successful beginnings. As an orator, in the true acceptation, he has no equal on the floor. Nature has gifted him with that power of swaying men which is the end of all eloquence, and study, training and cultivation have added their dis cipline and advantages to a mind of strong original quality. He has the fervor of Southern education to wkrra his langaage and to rivet the s}unpathy of his audience; genius and imagination relieve the analy zing process of exposition, and a substantive intellect, thus assisted, beautified and strengthened, seizes upon the moment when the feelings are enlisted and the mind malleable, to advance the proposition and to de cide the contest. In manner, he has copied some of the old masters of the art of oratory, as we conceive them, but he more nearly approaches to his illustrious kinsman of South Carolina —who is, perhaps, the most finished classical orator of the country —than any man in public life. His style is his own—simple, chaste and earnest. Now and then he leaves his subject to grapple with a struggling thought, and ending a ma jestic episode, returns with refreshed vigor to the chain of argument and fact. It is easy to follow his graceful flights, for brilliant images illuminate the path and dazzle the understanding. His words are ideas —in this is his pre-eminence. The subject of his speech to-day was one which af forded scope for all the commanding and captivating powers. It embraced the topics which have distrac i ted the public mind—the means of adjustment —our duty to the Union—devotion to the Stated his birth, 1 and an appeal to the conservative sentiment of both sections, which thrilled every heart with patriotic emotion and elicited the warmest commendation. No speaker in my day, except Mr. Adams, lias ever ' received the same evidence of respect and considera , tion that was awarded to Mr. Preston. Both parlies united in the tribute to his genius and intellect. — ■ He. like the high men of Virginia in the days 1 of Henry, Washington, Jefferson and Madison, spoke , for the permanency of this glorious Union, and in a national spirit, which seemed to clasp in fraternal fellowship every interestand section. It was a proud day for his name, and one that will endure to the honor of the Old Dominion, when the ephemeral fame of her political agitators shall have been buried in oblivion. If he pursues his public career as he begun ■ it, no distinction is beyond the reach of his just ambi tion. He has the mind of a statesman, the integrity of a patriot,and the virtue of that noblest work of God —an honest man. In the promise of such men, there is the dawn of a better day forVVirginiaa —a day that will be alike honorable to her fame and to the glory of the Republic. A letter in the Philadelphia North American from N. York dated Thursday, P. M.,says; Our money market continues stringent, although not more so than it was last week. To-day a large amount, 5225.000. of coin was drawn from the banks and paid into the Treasury, for the duties on the goods per steamer United States. There are, however, pretty free drafts on the Sub-Treasury, which keeps the amount from increasing to much extent. The de mand for money is not very large out of the street, the merchants generally being pretty easy. First chop paper is not plenty, but it is difficult to get favo -1 rite names passed better than 8 per cent. On call loans are made on first class securities at 7 percent. The repudiation of regularly issued land warrants is causing some feeling here. It appears by means of fraudulent discharges, parties have succeeded in ob taining two warrants for the same soldier in a large number of cases. W hen this was discovered, the de partments issued caveats abrogating the last issued warrant in each case. More than a thousand of these caveats have already been issued, thus throwing the loss arising from a blunder of the department, on the people who have bought them in good faith. The London Daily News is strongly in favor I ofthe movement of the Congress of Brussels, for | universal peace, and urges especially the im portance of introducing arbitration clauses into all future treaties, —as a most excellent, philan thropic-and practical idea. None of the na tions of Europe, it thinks, would now object to it, because none of them are bent on territorial agrandizemeut. It thus speaks of such a sti pulation in regard to this coutry: “To England, however, it would be most important to have such a stipulation inserted j in its treaties with the United States. It would in fact, make the two nations one, and place peace under the guarantee of the public opin ion of both. If cause of quarrel remain be tween the U. States and us, on the score of Canada, who is there that does not feel, that the struggle for that country must be carried on by England and by the U. States, in trying ! which shall perfect the best system of govern ment in every respect, in cheapness, fairness, security, and in all the qualities which attach a population ? If our government of Canada does not keep pace in this with the govern ment of the States, what number of guns and j soldiers can supply our inferiority ? Not a • million. In America and in every other part of the globe, we must contend in the arts of ! peace. The chief place in which we want generalship is in our legislative campaign.” Georgia Gold Mines. —The excitement about the mines of California seems to have stirred up the miners in Lumpkin to new ef forts and new discoveries. The Dahlonega Watchman of the Blh inst. says : A rich gold vein has recently been discov ered on a lot belonging to Dr. McAfee and others. This mine is about one mile southwest i from Auraria on the Etowah river. We were , at this mine a few dayssince ; little ore had been taken out, but what we saw gave external spe > ciraens of the wealth within. F t Col. H. W. Riley made 95 dwts. of Gold on a deposite with 12 hands during last week . Messrs. Moore and Kennon have jim open ed a new vein on the Ezard lot, which they i suppose will yield two dwts. of gold to the . bushel. Copper Mining.— The correspondent ofthe . Buffalo Express writes as follows from the . i Copper region of Lake Superior ; 5 “ The business of mining is carried on here j P r ettv vigorously. Mr. L. O. Knapp, agent of the Minesota Mining Co., has struck some new 1 veins—in sinking a shaft eight feet he has rais • ed to the surface four tons of pure copper and f fifteen tons for stamping, and he has about four tons more of pure copper in sight. They have i also struck a sheet of thin copper, and after r cutting through it they found underneath a so . ' lid mass of copper, that entirely blocked up the hole, and they had to stop work and com mence at the surface, and sink anew in the so . hdjwall rock. Mr. Knapp is putting on all the men he can procure on this new discovery 1 Mr. Steens, the agent of the Ohio Trap Rock f Company, is doing very well and making nrena r rations to push his works. The Boston Corana . ny, of which C. C. Cushman isagent. are doin* web —their new vein has turned out much bet • ter than was expected. They have just str.irk a new vein well filled with copper.” The Mormons in California. —The Mor- | mon settlements in California, near the Great Salt Lake, are thus described by Mr. E. P. • Whipple, a leading Mormon, who lately arri- | ved at Pittsburg, overland from that region: “The valley in which the Mormon settle ments are, is about fifty miles long, and forty broad, and is surrounded on three sides by . high mountains, and on the north side by the ■ lake. From various gorges in the mountains numerous fresh water streams pour their wa ters into the Jordan, affording fine water pow- ! , er. No timber grows in the valley, but an abundance is supplied by the valleys of the streams in the mountains. It consists ot tur, j pine, hemlock and sugar maple. i In this delightful valley, about 1,000 miles from Missouri on the east, and 700 Irom the , gold diggings of the Sacramento on the west, 1 the Rocky Mountains being a barrier on one i side, and the great basin and the Californian | or Sierra Neveda range on the other —the Mormons have at last found a resting place. — About 7,000 persons, of all ages and both sex es, are now collected in this valley. They commenced arriving in the valley in Ju1y,1847, and last season they raised a fine crop of wheat corn, and other productions, sufficient (or their own consumption and those of their faith who are yearly coming in. After next harvest they will have provisions to dispose of They have two grist mills and four saw mills in operation, and have laid out several villages and a town on an elevated plat, which overlooks the whole valley and lake. They are building substantial houses and surrounding them with many com forts. They expect a large emigration this season from their brethren in the neighbor hood of Council Bluffs, where there are some thousands congregated. The Mormons have established ferries over the only rivers which are not fordable on ac count of high waters —the Platte and Green rivers—so that no hindrance to emigrants from that cause, need now be feared. No gold lias yet been found in the vicinity of Salt lake, or anywhere east of the Sierra Nevada, as far as Mr. Whipple is informed. What has reached that region, was brought there by the discharged Mormon soldier*, who had return ed from the placer to visit their families. With reference to the story, that the Mor mons had claimed a pre-emption right to the diggings, and were demanding a per centage on the gold found. Mr. Whipple gives the fol lowing account. The first discovery of gold was made by Mormons, (discharged soldiers,) in digging a mill race for Mr. Sutter. As the discovery was on his ground, he gave them the liberty of digging gold on condition of paying him a certain per centage. This they agreed to do, but soon started off to explore for them selves, and having found some rich spot, they demanded a per centage from new comers for digging in their ground, to which they claimed a right of discovery. This practice is general in the mines, and the Mormons, Mr. Whipple says, no more claim the whole of the mines, than they do the whole of California. From Texas. —The steamship Galveston, Capt. Crane, arrived yesterday morning from I Galveston, whence she sailed on the 6th inst. I There is little news in the papers. The San Antonio Western Texan, notices the departnreof a company of six persons from that city for California, and states that they in tend going byway of Preside. San Fernando, and perhaps via Chihuahua. Another party j was getting ready to leave about the Ist of : February. They will proceed to a point low- , er down on the Rio Grande, thence byway of Monclova, &c. A company will leave Galveston shortly with the same destination. The Presbyterian of Saturday, the 3d inst., says: We have the satisfaction to announed that every trace of the cholera has entirely dis appeared from this place, and there is a pros pect that we shall have a good spring trade. The editor of the Victoria Advocate says: It is understood that a strong effort is to be made at the next Legislature to remove the seat of Government from Austin. This effort will be made by the East in solid phalanx. Hunts ville is mentioned as the point to which the members will remove. The papers of the East deny this. The editor of the Western Texan has been informed that Gen. Worth has “decided upon sending the troops destined for the upper Rio Grande by the new route lately discovered by Col. Hays.” These troops will probably take up the line of march from Fredericksburg for £1 Paso about the Ist of March.— Pic. 9th inst. ——— Coinage of England and the U. States i The greatest sum coined in gold in any one year in the Mints ofthe United State, was in 1847, when the amount was $13,296,080, be ing three times as much as the coinage of any former year. The largest amount of gold coin age in England for any one year is put at £9,- 000,000, equal to $43,200,000. it is estimated that the whole coinage of Great Britain for the 33 years ending with December, 1847, amounted to £92,000,000, equal to $441,- I 500,000. Our coinage during the same 33 years was I j about $100,000,000, making an aggregate of money coined by the United States and Great Britain alone, in the last third of a century, of 541£ millions of dollars ; yet both these coun tries have, during the whole of that period, been in the constant use of a paper currency. The Washington Union, in some remarks .espeebng Daguerreotypes, states that a new invention has just been introduced at Paris, by which the Daguerreotype likeness may be en- i larged to the size of a full portrait; and thus the value of the original design may be greatly extended. Specimens of this new improve ment have been exhibited in Paris. A likeness of Gen. Taylor is one among those which have been enlarged. —Ch Cour. A Gem for the Virginia Historical So ciety —H. A. Muhlenberg, Esq., the author of ; the Life of Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, says in one of his notes. “The regimental colors of this corps (Bth Virginia Regiment of the line,) is j still in the writer’s possession. It is made of plain salmon-colored silk, with a broad fringe ol the same, having a simple white scroll in the centre, upon which are inscribed the words ‘ VIII Virga. Regt.’ The spear-head is brass, considerably ornamented. The banner bears the traces of warm service, and is proba'bly the only revolutionary flag still in existence.” Lumps of Gold. —The largest lumps of gold recorded in the histories of gold mines, are as ! follows: One found at the Wicklow mines, in Ireland, weighing twenty-two ounces ; one in Peru, weighing twenty-six pounds and a half; several in Q,uito reported to have weighed about one hundred and six pounds each ; one in Le | banon North Carolina, found in 1810. which weighed twenty-eight pounds ; and one in New Grenada, which weighed twenty-seven pounds and a half. These we believe, are the largest lumps on record. Death from Suffocation.— Yesterday mornin® .Mr. Neal, the mate ofschr. Abel Story lying at 1 East Boston, was found by Capt. Case, the ' master, in the forecastle, dead. Capt. C. and the mate had smoked the vessel with sulphur on Monday, to destroy rats, and the captain had cautioned the mate not to go on board that I night upon any consideration’; but it appears that early in the morning, under the impres- i sion that it was safe, he went into the forecastle unlocked his chest and lookout a pair ofeleau socks, when the impurity ofthe atmosphere overcame him. He is said to have been an Englishman by birth, and of good character. Coroner Pratt held an inquest on the body, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance 'with i the above facts.— Boston Post. , The Legislature of Virginia has adopted a resolution, calling for an extra session to be teld on the 28th May next. High VVateh.—The water is higher at thia point, (says the Cairo Delta, of the Ist mst.,)at | the present time, than it has been during our residence here. Both the Ohio and Mtsatastp pi are pouring down their floods as .fall their tributaries were crowded to the tops ol their bank, with water. Indeed, we now understand that almost every stream above, is high. There have been heavy rises in the Tennessee and Cumberland, while the ice in the tributaries of the Mississippi above, is now breaking up, and the rivers rising. We hear of the inundation of towns on the Ohio, and have ourself seen some of it—while we know that the coast below must severely suffer by the present floods. Sivgular Diplomatic Affair. —A corres pondent of the N. V'. Herald, writing from Berlin on the 7th ult. mentions the following singular diplomatic affair, the truth of which we very much doubt, for we do not think that our minister would so far forget his position as to meddle with the internal affairs of Austria, however much he might sympathise with the Hungarian cause. It he did, he got just such a reply as he might expect. One day last month, Kossuth, the Hungarian General commanding the insurgent troops, employed a naturalized American citizen of Hungary to proceed to the American Charge d’Affaires at Vienna, Mr. Stiles, with a letter to the General commanding the Austrian army in Hungary, and solicit, in the name of humani ty, a suspension of hostilities, that an arrange ment might be made for settling the unfortu- . nate war. Mr. Stiles accordingly wrote the Austrian j General, and offered his intervention to aid in ! accomplishing this desirable end, and sent his despatches to the Austrian General by this naturalized Hungarian American, giving him a courier passport. I This bearer of despatches proceeded to the | Austrian army and delivered his despatches to i the commanding General. The General asked him who he was, when he replied that he was a Hungarian by birth, but now a naturalized citizen of the United Stales. | The Austrian General then said to him: j “ I give you ten days to leave the Austrian territories; at the expiration of which time, it you are be found within my reach, you shall have a snug home for your future residence.” : This naturalized American immediately left Austria and came to Berlin. Sometime after this, the Austrian General addressed a commu nication to our charge at Vienna, Mr. Stiles, with this laconic reply: “ Austria, sir, never treats by negotiation with rebels.” Extensive Land Sale in Virginia.—We learn from the Washington News that a sale of that large and valuable taact of land in Alex andria county,known as the Fairfax Tract, was made in the course of last week. The pur chasers are an enterprising northern firm, who i intend setting up a saw mill on the property | immediately, and in the course of the summer ; will erect a furnace in or near one of the cities of Washington or Alexandria. The tract con- t tains upwards of 700 acres, and is remarkably • well wooded. Price, $lB per acre. — Balt. Sun. j A woman bound for California —A Romance, j in Real Life. —About two weeks since a girl j employed in the Merrimack Mills, Lowell, left ; her boarding house stating she was going to j spend some months with her parents in Peter- j boro’, N. H. After an absence of nearly a week it was discovered that she had gone to this city in male attire, and was making prepara tions to leave for California. Her parents were j immediately informed of the fact, who arrived j here on Monday last and at once commenced j search for the missing daughter, who was fi nally foundron board a vessel bound for Cali fornia. Her hair had been cut off—and with her monkey jacket and large pants, she made a very | fine looking young man. It seems that she had drawn some S2OO from the Saving Bank, j came to this city, stopped at the Pemberton | House, secured a passage to California, pur chased pistols, etc., and would have been on i her way to the golden banks of the Sacramento, had it not been that a girl in the confidence of our heroine, who, fearingthe result, informed a relative, and thus exposed her whereabouts j She was very reluctant to give up the heroic undertaking, which she finally consented to do and returned with her parents to Peterboro.’ ' —Boston Signal. ■ . ■ Marrying for Money. —Bulwer, in the last 1 Blackwood—the Gastons—says: “ For yon, my dear, and frank, and high-souled young friend—for you I should say, fly from a load upon the heart, on the genius, the energy, the pride, and the spirit, which not one man in a thousand can bear ; fly from the course of ow ing every thing to a wife ! —it is a reversal of ail natural position, it is a blow to all the man hood within us. You know not what it is; I do ! My wife’s fortune came not until after marriage—so far so well; it saved my reputa tion from the charge of fortune hunting. But I | tell you fairly, that if it had never come at all, I should be a prouder, and a greater, and a happier man than I have ever been, or ever can be, with all its advantages ; it has been a millstone round my neck. And yet Lllinor has never breathed a word that would wound my pride. *' “There were Giants in those Days.” —Professor Silliman, in one of his lectures, mentions the discovery of an enormous ani mal of the lizard tribe, measuring eighty feet in length, from which he infers that all animals have degenerated in size—and this supposition is fortified by a reference to the history of giants in the olden time. It appears from the ■ list furnished by the Professor that we of the ; present day are mere “Tom Thumbs,” when i compared with the huge individualities of an tiquity. Here is the list— The giant exhibited in Rouen in 1745, mea sured over eight feet. Gorapius saw a girl who was ten feet high ! ! r P Jie body of Grestus was eleven feet and a ; half high! The Gtant Galbara, brought from Arabia to Rome, under Claudius Caesar, was near ten feet. Funnman, who lived in the time of Eugene 11, measured eleven feet and a half. The Chevalier Scorg, in his voyage to the I peaks of Tenenffe, found in one of the caverns ; of that mountain the head of Guance, which I had eighty teeth, and it was supposed that his ' body was not less than fifteen feet long ! The Giant Ferragua, slain by Arlando, nephew to Charlemagne, was eighteen feet high ! In 1614, near St. Germain, was found the IflLh ' the Giant Isoret, who was twenty feet In 1590, near Rouen, they found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and whose body must have been eighteen feel lon^. Platerug saw at Lucerne, the human bones ; oi a subject nineteen feet long ! I Giant Buart was twenty-two and a half feet high; his bones were found in 1705, near 1 the batiks of the river Moderi. In 1613, near a castle in Dauphine, a tomb was found thirty feet long! twelve wide and eight high, on which was cut on a grey stone the words “ Ke.utolochus Rex.” The skeleton was found entire twenty-five and a half feet long, ten feet across tho shoulders, and five feet deep from the breast-bone to the back Near Mazarine, in Sicily, in 1516, was found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet hiah ' His head was the size of a hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1513, was found I the skeleton of a Rianl thirty f and an j other thirty-thr eefeet high, in 1550. A portion ofthc State ofKentackT ha. made application to the present session of the Vir gmt. Legislature to b. annexed to that State Bb tilt fllcujnctic ®elegrapl). Transmitted for the. Chronicle & Sentinel, Prom the North. Baltimore, Feb. 14, P. m Ohio—Whig members ol the Leeislat Ure have nominated Judge McLean for U. S, gCn i ator, by 26 to 9. The Legislature has request ed the delegation to Congrass to support the Wilmot proviso. New York Market. Baltimorb, Feb. 13—F, \j In the New York market to-day, Cotton was firmer, with an active demand; sales 4000 bales, after private accounts at previous advance. In Flour ra ther a better feeling was manifest. Provisions de pressed. Mess Pork $12.50 ; prime $10.50. Baltimore, Feb. 14—P. M. Colton firmer, sales 400 bales at previous rates. Flour and Corn steady. Stocks have declined sc. Charleston Market. Wednesday, Feb. 14, P. M. — Cotton. —Sales j 3000 bales, at extremes of 6to 71c. Middling.f a j r 6jc„; fair and fully fair 7 a 74c. Savannah Market. Wednesday, February 14. Cotton. Sales to day 730 bales at 5| a 7*c. Market unsettled. Th e sales show sc. advance since the Niagara arrived. From the Charleston Mercury—By Telegraph. From Washington. Washington, Feb. 12, 6 p. m. Tho Senate was engaged all day in discuss, ing House amendments to General Appro priation bills, whereby the Secretary was di reeled to issue an order abolishing the punish ! ment of flogging in the Navy. U was struck I out by ayes 17, noes 34. In the House Gen. Wallace presented the resolutions passed by the Legislature of South Carolina at its last session, in relation to the : VVilmol Proviso, which bad been transmitted I by his Excellency Gov. Seabrook. February 13. 6 p. m. The .Senate has been engaged all day on the Civil and Diplomatic. Appropriation bill. In the House the Judiciary Committee were discharged from the further consideration of the charges preferred against Judge Conklin, of the Northern District of New York for the want of time to examine them, and the further consideration recommended to the next Con gress. The Senate bill granting right of way to Railroad and Canal, giving the State in which they lie the pre-emption right to the public land for ten miles on each side, at the minimum price for ten years, was taken np and debated by Messrs. Collamer, Vinton, Hawkins and Lincoln. Adjourned. ! From the charleston Courier of yesterday —By Telegraph. Further of the Liverpool Market. . Baring’s circular gkees the following as the quota -1 lions for Cotton at Liverpool, viz :—Pair Uplands 4| ; | fair Mobiles 4| ; fair Orleans 4|. The market was j freely supplied, and was higher at the close of the j 26th than in the morning. The sales of the day | reached the unusual amount of 15,000 bales. The stock of Cotton in Liverpool was 440,000 bales, of which 270,000 were American. On the 27th ult. the market at Liverpool was very j linn, and an upward tendency was apparent. Latest Dispatch. —The foreign private letters had been received at New York ot 5 o’clock yesterday , afternoon, and fully confirm the favorable advices re j ceived by Telegraph. I * ‘ “ Special Notices. Dr. J. A. CLEVELAND, DENTIST, U Has returned to the City.— His services may be had at the Office Y T_f of Cleveland Spear, for a short j time. Augusta, Feb. 14th, 1849. fels 2w frS°AVe are authorized to announce Col. WIL LIAM B. BOWEN, of Elbert, as a candidate for Major General of the 4th Division, G. M., composed I of Jackson, Franklin, Madison, Elbert, Lincoln and ! Wilkes counties. Election 26th day of March, fe 15 DAGUERREOTYPE MINIATURES. O 3 WE CHEERFULLY call the alien- I ion of our friends and the public generally, to the BEAUTIFUL MINIATURES taken by Mr. E. S. Dodge, next door to the Post Office. Mr. D. has had i twelve years experience as an Artist; and his Pic | tures, for artistical arrangement of light and shade, j graceful position, faithful likeness and natural colors, stand unrivalled. We hope an extensive patronage will remunerate his praiseworthy endeavors. fe9-6* HUDSON’S PISTOL GALLERY, Corner Green and .Jackson-sts., OPEN DAY AND EVENING, i Only 25 cents, for 10 Shots. fe7 LAST CALL. Those who wish their lineaments portrayed i In life-like colors, that will never fade, We bid you come, and we will give the hue Which future ages shall admiring view— and all for two dollars. Call soon at LEIGH $■ Co's DAGUERREAN ROOMS, Mansion House, and se cure The shadow, ere the substance fades. i ... Our stay will be limited to only a few’ days longer. Come, and come quickly. ! fe6-tf * LEIGH & CO. SOUTHERN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. O’ At a Meeting of tlxe Soutliern Mutual Insurance Company, held in Griffin on the 7th inst., the following members were elected the Board of Di rectors for the yeai 1849 : DIRECTORS —Hon. Asbury Hull, Athens, Pres ident and Treasurer; J. G. Hill, Esq., Griffin, Vice- President; Rev. J. U. Parson, Griffin, Secretary; Prof. C. P. McKay, Athens, Actuary ; H J. Sargent, j Esq., Griffin; Wm. W. Chapman, Griffin; Hon. Lot Weaver. Albany; Hon. William W. Clayton, Athens; E. L. Newton, Esq., Athens; 3. VI. New ton, Athens; A. Chase, Athens; J. 3. Huggins, Athens; Fielding Bradford, Athens; W. Letcher i Mitchel, Athens; Dr. H. Hull, Athens; Wm. M. Morton, Athens; Dr. E. V. Ware, Athens; Thomas i ; Cunningham, Greensboro; John Robson, Esq., Mad sen; B. King, Esq., Roswell; Miller Grieve, Mili j edgeville ; Isaac Winship, Macon; N. C. Munroe, Esq., Macon; John L, Jones, Esq., Macon; V. R. foramy, Columbus; J. J. Ridgeway Columbus; Henry Hall, Columbus; D. P. Wilcox, Columbus. This Company commenced business on the sth of February, 1848. The report submitted to the meet : I ing shows the following gratifying result for the firs'* ten months, ending the slh iasr.; Fire Risks 460 i Marine. 265 i I Inland .258 Servants 83 j 1,066 Risks. r Premiums $55,623 G . Paid Losses $1663,07 Incidental. 728,25 , Salaries 1820,00 , i Returned on risks terminated.... 504,00 4715 J -1 I 50,913 11 i Risks terminated $69,425. On all expired policies i one half the premiums has been saved to the insured, equivalent to a dividend of 50 per cent of their pr«' ; ram ms. Communications addressed to the Secretary 1 i Griffin, will receive prompt attention. J. U, PARSONS, Sec. S. M. This Company will insure Houses, Stocks of Goo Cotton in Store, or on shipboard, and Negroes will take all kinds of Fire and Marine Risks no. e ‘ ceeding SIO,OOO, on any one risk, on as reason ble terms as any office in this city. Those who m 3 property for five years pay only one-fifth in cash, • 1 will probably never be called on for an assessment remaining four years, and at the end of five >' ear * a(J entitled to their share of accumulated profit* tber
