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~~ LA POL A.
'The Colombians,generally,will long re
member La Pola. With the history of
dheir struggle for freedom, her story is
'deeply associated, and the tragical destiny
■which followed her love of country, is
linked with all the interest of the most ro
mantic adventure. Her spirit seemed
made of the finest materials, while her pat
riotism and courage, to the last, furnish a
model which it would have been well for
her country, hadit been more generally a
dopted and followed by its sons.
Donna Apolinaria Zalabariata, better
known by the name of La Pola, was a
young lady of good family in Bogota, dis
tingu’sht d not less by her personal accom
plishments than her rich and attractive
beauty. She was but a child when Bol
ivar commenced his struggles with the os
tensible object of freeing his country from
the trammels of its oppressors. Her fa
ther, a gentleman of considerable acquire
iments as well as wealth, warmly seconded
tthe designs of the Liberator, though from
•circumstances compelled to forebear any
active agency, himself, in their promotion.
He was a republican of considerable re
sources and sleepless perseverance; and,
without taking up arms himself, he prob
ably contributed as much to the success of
the experiment for liberty, as those who
did. In this, he was warmly seconded by
his Daughter; who, with that ingenuity
pf contrivance, commonly ascribed to her
■sex, was, perhaps,the most valuable auxil
iary that Bolivar had in Bogota.
She was but fourteen years of age, when
accident gave her the first glance of the
man afterwards the Preside nt of hercoun
try. At this time, with few resources, and
fewer friends and coadjutors, Bolivar oc
casioned little attention. Still, he was
known, and generally recognized as an
enemy to the existing authorities. Pru
dence was necessary, therefore, and it
was at midnight, and during a severe
thunder storm, that he entered the city,
and made his way, by arrangement, into
the innt r apartments of the house of Za
labariata. A meeting of the conspirators
—for such they were—had been contem
plated on this occasion, and many of them
were in attendance. The circumstances
could not be altogether concealed from
the family, and La Pol.i, who had heard
something of Bolivar, which had excited
her Curiosity, contrived to be present;
though partially concealed by her habit,
and by a recess situation which she had
chosen. The Liberator explained his pro
jects to the assembly. He was sometl ing
more than eloquent—he was impassion
e ; andthe warmth ofasouthern sun seem
ed burning in his words and upon his
lips. La Pola heard him with ill-conceal-1
ed admiration. Not so her countrymen.
Accustomed to usurpation and overthrow,
they were slow to adventure life and prop
erty upon the predictions of one, who, as
yet, had given so few assurances of suc
cess for the game which he had in hand.
They hesitated, they scrupled, and oppo
sed to his animated exhortations a thou
sand suggesiions of prudence—a thousand
calculations of fear. The Liberator grew i
warmer and more vehement. He de-I
nounced in broad language the pusillan-I
imity, which, as much as the tyranny un- J
der which they groaned, was the curse of
his country.
“ Am 1 to go alone?” he exclaimed pas
sionately—“am I to breast the enemy
singly—will none of you come forward,
and join with me in procuring the libera
tion ofour people? I ask you not,my coun
trymen, to any grievous risk—to any
rash adv nture. There is little peril, be
assured in the strife before us. We are
more than a match, united among our
selves and with determined spirits, for
twice—ay thrice, the power which they
can bring into the field. But even were
this not the case—were it that the chan
ces were all decidedly against us, I can
not see, still, how you can, or why you
should, hesitate to draw the sword in
such a strife. You daily and hourly feel
the exactions, and witness the murders
and cruelties of your masters. Thousands
of your friendsand relatives, lie rotting in
the common prisons, denied the most com
mon attentions and necessaries, and left
to perish under innumerable privations.
Thousands have perished in torture; and
over the gateway of our city, but now as I
entered, hanging in chains, the bleaching
bones of old Hermano, one of our best cit
izens, destroyed because he dared to speak
freely his thoughts of these doings, attest
the uncompromising and bloody tyranny
under which you must momentarily look
for a like fate. If you be men—if you
have hearts or hopes-—if you have affec
tions to loose and live for—you surely
will not hesitate as to the choice—the on
ly choice which a freeman—one worthy
and desirous of the name—should be al
lowed to make.
The Liberator paused, as much through
exhaustion, as from a desire to enable his
hearers to reply. But, with this latter ob
ject, his pause seemed made entirely in
vain. The faces of all around him were
blank and speechless. They were gen
erally quiet, well-meaning citizens, unac
customed to any enterprises save those of
trade, and they were slow to risk the
wealth which many of them possessed in
abundance, to the certain confiscation
which would follow any overt exhibition
against the existing authorities. While in
this state of hopeless and speechless in
decision, the emotions of the chief was
scarcely controlable. His whole frame
trembled with the excitement of his spir
it. He paced their ranks hurnedly—now
pausing with this and that personage —
appealing to them singly as he had done
collectively, and suggesting a thousand
arguments of weight ter the effecting of
his purposes. He became impatient at
length, aud again addressed them.
“ Men of Bogota, youaTe now unworthy
to be free if you can hesitate longer. Your
chains and insecurity will have been mer
ited, and be assured, when they become
necessary to the wants of your enemy,
your present acquiescence in his power
will not avail for the protection of your
lives and properly. They are both at his
mercy, and -he will not pause,as you have
done, to make use ofthem. To save them
from him, you must risk them for your
selves. To suppose that his mercies will
keep them for your benefit is to think
madly. There is no security against
power, but in power; and to check the in
novating terrors of the one, you must ex
hibit, at the threshold, the strong armed
vengeance of the other. A day—an hour
—and it may be too late. To-morrow,
unless I am betrayed to-night”—looking
with a sarcastic smile around him as he
spoke—“ I shall unfurl the banner of the
republic, and if there be no other name ar
rayed in arms against the oppressor, the
more glory to that of Bolivar.”
While the chief spoke, the emotions of
the youthful La Pola could not be conceal
ed. The color came to, and went from,
her cheeks—the tears started to her eyes
—she rose hurrit dly her seat which
she unconsciously again resumed, and, as
the Liberator concluded his address, rush
ed acros the narrow space which separa
ted her from her father, and seizing him
by the hand, with an action the most pas
sionate, yet dignified and grateful, she led
him to the spot where Bolivar still held his
position; then for the first time giving ut
terance to her lips, she exclaimed, inquir
ingly :
“ He must not stand alone, my father.
You have a name, and you will give it—
you will not withhold it from voUr coun
try —and I, too, I will do what I can,
if”—and her eye sunk before that of the
chief as she spoke—while her voice trem
bled witha tone of modest doubt, the most
winning and expressive—“if you will let
me.”
The eloquence of the woman did more
than all that had been uttered either by
way of reason and patriotic impulse anil
exhortation from the lips of the chief.—
The men, touched with a sense of shame,
at once came forward, and entered into
the required pledges. There was no more
hesitation-—no new scruple—and the Lib
erator, pressing the hand of the bright
eyed girl to his lips, called her a spirit
worthy of her country, and such as if pos
sessed generally by its sons, could not fail,
in a short time, most effectually to recov
er its liberties.
In another day, andthe standard of the
republic was raised. The republicans as
sembled numerously beneath it, at d but
little foresight was necessary to perceive,
that in the end, the cause must eventually
triumph. Still the successes Were vari
ous. The Spaniards had too strong a foot
hold, easily to be driven from their pos
sessions, and the conflict, as we know, was
for a longtime ofthe most indecisive and
various character. What the Columbians
wanted, however, in the materials for car
rying on a protracted warfare, was more
than made up in the patriotism, the talent,
and the vigilance of their leaders gener
ally; and however, delayed may have
been the event which they desired and had
had in view, its certainty of attainment
seems never for a moment to have been
questioned, except by those who vainly
continued to keep up an ineffectual and
hopeles conflict against them.
For two years, that the war had been
carried on, no material change had been
effected in the position of the combatants.
The Spaniards still maintained their
ground in most respects, except when the
Colombians had been unanimous in their
rising; but their resources were hourly
undergoing diminution, and the great les
sening of the productions of the country
incident to its unsettled condition, had
subtracted largely from the inducements
held out, individually, to their officers, for
the further prosecution ofthe war. In the
mean time, the patriots were invigorated
with hope in due proportion with the de
pressions of their opponents; and the in
crease of their numbers, not to speak of
the added skill and capacity of their arms,
following their long and continuous war
fare, not a little contributed to their fur
ther encouragement. But how, in all this
time, had La Pola redeemed her pledge
to the Liberator? It may be supposed that
the promise of the girl ot fifteen, was not
ofsuch a nature as to warrant a reasona
ble hope or prospect of its fulfilment. It
certainly was not regarded by Bolivar,
himself, as anything more than the hasty
utterance of her emotion, under particular
I excitement, having no other object, if it
had any, than to provoke, by a sense of
shame and self-rebuke, the unpatriotic in
activity of her countrymen. The girl,
herselt did not think so, however. From
that moment she became a woman—a
strong-minded, highly persevering and
most attractive woman. All her soul was
bent to the achievement of some plan of
co-operation with the Republican chief,
and circumstances largely contributed to
the desire thus entertained. She resided
in Bogota, the strong hold of the royalist
forces, under the control of Zamano, a
military despot, who, in process of time,
in that country, acquired by his cruelties
a parallel notoriety with some of the foul
est governors ofthe Roman dependencies.
Her family was wealthy, and though fa-
vouring Bolivar’s enterprise, as we have
seen, was so conducted, as to remain en
tirely unsuspected by the existing pow
ers. This invaluable security, the tpan
ag“ment of La Pola, herself, had princi
pally effected; and, under its cover, she
perfected a scheme ofcommunication with
the patriots, by which she put into their
possession all the plans ofthe Spaniards
She was the princess of the Tertulias—a
mode of evening 'entertainment common
tolhe Spaniards. 'She presided atthise
farties with a grace and influence'Which
brought all their officers to her house.—
They listened with delight the power
and delicacy with Which she aCcommodab
ed her voice—oneofsingularcompass and
melody—to the notes hf her guitar, in the
performance Upon which she was uncom
monly successful. Unsuspected of anv
connection with politics, and regarded on
ly as a fine woman, more solicitous of a
long‘train of admirers, than of any thing
else, she connived to collect, from the
officers themselves, most of their plans in
the prosecution of the war. She scon
learned the force of their several arma
ments, their disposition and destination,
a>ad, indeed, in timely advance, all the pro
jected operations of the Spanish army.—
She knew all the officers, and from those
present obtained a knowledge of their ab
sent companions In this way, she knew
the station of each advanced post —who
was in command, and most of those par
ticulars, the knowledge of which tended
as frequently to the success of Bolivar, as
his own conduct and the courage of his
men. All these particulars were regular
ly transmitted to him, as soon as obtained,
by a trusty messenger; and the frequent
disappointment of the royalist arms attest
ed the closeness and general correctness
of the information thus obtained.
Unfortunately, one of her communica
tions was intercepted, and the cowardly
bearer, intimidated by the terror of im
pending death, was persuaded to betray
his employer. She was arrested in the
midst of an assembled throng, to whom
her voice and guitar were imparting a
mingled melody of most attractive ro
mance. She was nothing alarmed at the
event, but was hurried before a military
court—martial law then prevailed in the
capital—with a rapidity corresponding
with the supposed enormity of her offence.
Her lover, a noble youth, named Gomero
—though perfectly innocent of any con
nection with her acts on this occasion,
was tried along with her, and both Con
demned—-for, at this time, condemnation
and trial were words ofsynonimous import
—to be shot. Zamano, the viceroy, desir
ous of more victims and hoping to discov
er her accomplices, granted them a res
pite of 12 hours before execution, sparing
no effort in ali this time to bring about a
confession. The friar sent to confess her,
threatened her, if she ventured upon any
concealments from him, with eternal pun
ishment hereafter; while promises of par
don and reward assailed both her betroth
ed and herself, in the hope of effecting the
same object—but all equally in vam. She
resolutely denied having any other accom
plice than the messenger she had employ
ed, and prayed a release from the prosecu
tion of all further inquiries. Perceiving
that Gomero, her intended husband, was
about to speak, and probably confess,
through a very natural dread ofthe death
he was so near—she seized his arm im
pressively, and fixing her dark eyes re
proachfully U| on him, she exclaimed—
“Gomero, did I love you for this? Be
ware, lest I hate and curse you as I die.
What? Is lite so dear to you that you
would dishonor us both to live? Is there
no consolation in the thought that we
shall die together ?”
“ But we shall both be saved!” rejoined
her lover.
“ It is false ! the tyrant Zamano spares
none; our lives are forfeited, and all that
you could say would be unavailing to a
vert either your fate or mine. He only
desires new victims, and will not release
his grasp upon those in his doom. If you
have ever loved me, Gomero, speak no
more after this fashion. Show yourself
worthy of the choice which 1 have made,
in the manner of your death.”
The lover persevered in silence, and
they were led forth to execution. Thw
friars retired from the hapless pair, and
the firing party made ready. Then, for the
first time, did the spirit of this noble wo
man shrink impulsively from the approach
of death.
“ Butcher 1” she exclaimed, to the vice
roy, who stood in his balcony, overlook
ing the scene of execution: “ Butcher, —
you have then the heart to kill a woman ”
—as she spoke, she covered her face with
I the veil which she wore, and on drawing
I it aside for the purpose, the words * Vive
; la Patria,' embroidered in gold were dis
' covered on the basquina. As the signal
i for execution was given, a distant hum as
lof an advam ing army was heard upon
the ear.
i “It is he—he comes—it is Bolivar—*it
is the Liberator!” she exclaimed with a
I tone of triumph, which found its echo in
the bosoms of thousands who looked with
horror on the scene of blood before them.
Bolivar it was-—he came with all speed
to the work of deliverance —the city was
stormed sword in hand—a summary a
tonement was taken in the blood of the fly
j ing viceroy and his partizans. But the
; deliverer came too late to the rescue of the
beautiful La Pola. The fatal bullet had
penetrated her heart, but a few moments
before the appearance of the liberating ar
my, upon the works, and insight of the
place of execution !
I The Dog.— The poor dog had scarce
strength left to raise his head to his mas-
1 ter’s knees, but devoured his hand with
caresses, while he sank trembling, pant
ing, and powerless into the bottom of the
skiff
‘Thus it is with the dog whom you call
a tiger,’ said .Tuan, in a moralizing mood,
as he surveyed his faithful friend. Black
or white, red or olive hued, whom he once
loves, he loves well. Happy or wretched,
proud or lowly, it is all one: he asks not if
his master be a villian. A tiger in courage,
in strength, and vindictiveness, he is yet
a lamb, —the fawn of a doe— in the hands
of his master. Feed him, he loves you ;
starve him, he loves you; beat him, he
loves you still. Once gain his affection
and you cannot cast it off’; the rich man
cannot bribe, his love with gold, and bread
will not seduce him away ; nay, some
times piines away t>n yOur-grave His name
has been made a by-word for all base
and villianous—l know not why, unless
it is because, being the fondest and most
confiding of human creatures, he is there
fore the worst used; but the word is a sa
tire upon our own injustice. Look at
him Techec’hee, and at me; I have been
poor and well nigh friendless—l. gave
■him to one who is as a prince among men;
yet when he—his then master struck at
me with his sword, this dog seized the
weapon with his teeth; he came to me
when I lay in prison; he sprang to me
when I was dying in the lake, and he
periled his file as thou hast seen, that
he might have the poor privilege to fol
low me. lam a beggar and an outcast
and a man degraded, and I may soon be
outlawed—yet this poor creature loves me
nonetheless. Ay, Befo! it is all one with
thee, what 1 am, and whither I go!”— -Dr.
Bird.
Tie Legacy.— VVe understand that it
would be mure accurate to say, that the
English legacy of 200,00 J/was bequeath
ed “to the United States, for the purpose
of establishing an University at the seat
of Government for the promotion of the
arts and sciences.” The money, we are
informed, is in the hnndsofthe Lord Chan
cellor of England, ready to be paid over
conformably to the will, which fact he has
communicated to our Government, with
a copy of the will.
Speculation in new hands.—A fair was
held lately by the ladies of Christ Church,
Greenbay, from which the fair traffickers
realized the sum of about two thousand
dollars. This was a capital ample enough
to b® traded upon, and the ladies forth
with commenced operations. They went
to an auction of real estate and there
bought four lots, which they sold again
the same day at an advance of eleven
hundred dollars.—The whole amount,
therefore, oftheir gains, was upwards of
3,100 dollars, and may be looked upon as
a pretty fair operation, every thing con
sidered.—N.'Y. Cour.
More troubles—another boundary War.
—By the New Hampshire Statesman,we
learn that the Canadian Government have
intimated their intention of taking posses
sion of the Indian Stream Territory, on
the Northern confines ofNew Flmapshire,
though that tract has been often used un
der the jurisdiction of that state for twen
ty years, and was agreed to be left so un
til the Madawasca Question is adjusted.
Much ill-blond and exc tement exist. The
inhabitants have rebelled against New
Hampshire and the British authorities
sustain them in it.
Federalism!— Desperate efforts have
been made by the opposition to brand
the Union candidate for Governor with
Federalism, with blue light Federalism—
with Federalism of the Hartford Conven
tion stamp!—synonymous with toryism
and anti-Americanism!—And now the e
lection is over, let us ask, how have their
labors been rewarded? have the people ap
proved of their conduct and awarded their
disinterestedness with office? On the con
trary, the people have given the lie to their
base accusations; and as if to make an ex
air pie of their infamy that will not soon
be forgotten, have given the two congress
ional candidates most conspicuous in pro
pagating the calumny, the honorable dis
tinction of being the lowest on the list vo
ted for.— Macon Telegraph,
Nullification Looking up.— The Sa
vannah Republican has gone into an ex
tensive calculation to prove that Nullifi
cation is looking up. It requires no al
gebra to prove the fact: the monster has
been looking up ever since the Union
boys threw him on his back, two years a
go. If by your Calculations you enable
the critter to get on his feet again, it will
bo syferinto some purpose.
Other papers are giving profound reas
whythe Union majority is not so great
as last year; and on this bottomless found 4
ation they make large calculations for fu
ture success. Go ahead, gentlemen; it is
easier to make figures than to get votes.
You are always far enough ahead, just
before the election; but somehow as the;
election comes on, you lose it all. You I
are like the schoolmaster’s frog in getting
out of the well, who crawled up two feet I
every day but slipped back three feet eve- j
ry night.— lbid.
Bibb County. —-We have been puzzling
our brains for these two weeks, to find
out by what rule of Arithmetic, the Mes
senger makes out a gain to the Nullifiers
in this county of over 150 from the Con
gressional vote of last year, as stated in
that paper of the Bth.
In 1834, our hindmost candidate was
144 ahead of their foremost one; and in
1835 from a greatly diminished vote, our
average majority (after giving them the
advantage of Whiteism and Anti-Van Bu
renism, as of a split in our own ranks on
county matters) is still upwards of 50. Yet
they claim a gain of over 150! Surely,
they must work their sum by the candi
date’s rule: viz. “Add the votes you actu
ally get to those you expect, and the result
is the product required.”— lbid
College Anecdote.— Many years since
when the late Lieut. Governor Philips, of
Andover, Massachusetts, was a student at
Harvard College, owing to some boyish
freak he quit the University and went home
His father was a very grave man,of sound
mind strict judgment, and of few words.
He inquired into the business, but defer
red expressing any opinion until the next
day. At breakfast he said, speaking to his
wife.
My dear, have you any tow cloth in the
house, suitable to make Sam a frock and
trowsers.
She replied, “Yes.”
“Well,” said the old gentleman,“follow
me, my son,”
Samuel kept pace with his father as he
leisurely walked near the common, and at
length ventured to ask;
“What are you going to do with me fa
ther?”
“I am going to bind you an apprentice
to that blacksmith,” replied Mr. Philips;
“Take your choice, return to College, or
you must work.”
“1 had rather return, said the son,”
He did return, confessed his fault, was
a good scholar, and became a respectable
gentleman. If parents were like Mr.
Philips,the students at our Crlleges would
prove better students, or the nation would
have a plentiful supply of blacksmiths.
SOUTHERN CONVENTION.
We have said that the nnllifiers are us
ing the Abolitionists for the accomplish
ment of their fatal designs, the dissolution
ol the Federal Uuion, and the formation
of a Southern Confederacy.—While they
deny the justness ofthe charge, their con
duct furnishes accumulating evidence of
its truth. Thej r now make the mad pro
jects ofthe abolitionists, a pretext for con
voking a Southern Convention. This is
a device of the enemy. It is designed to
be the foundation of a Southern Confeder
acy; it is, quasi, a Southern Confederacy.
It is an attempt to array the entire South,
against the entire Nouth. It will be in
the power of such a cor,vention, by the
tone which it may assume, and by the res
olutions which it may adopt, to produce
a rupture between the states of the South
and those of the North. And, assembled
for the purpose of acting on a most deli
cate,and irritating subject what guarantee
have we, that their councils will be con
ducted with the requisite calmness, arid
prudence, and wisdom? At present there
is no emergency to demand, or to justify a
movement fraught with so much danger.
There is no salutary object proposed to be
accomplished by such a convention,which
cannot, as effectually and more safely, be
accomplished without its instrumentality.
Is it proposed Jo give a full, clear and
definite expression of the public senti
ment of the South, on this vital sub
ject? The public, sentiment of the South
may be fully, clearly', definitely ex
pressed, by the press, and in a less dispu
table, and more authorative form, by the
executive, and legislative branches of the
state-governments. In fad,our fellow cit
izens of the North already know, that we
claim from them, not as nations foreign to
us,but b y the sacred obligations ofour com
mon confederacy,that they prevent or pun
ish the perpetration ofcrimes withintheir
limits, against our domestic peace, and
safety. To this Sentiment our executives
and legislatures can give all possible,
peaceful developement. Why then should
we pass over the heads ofour tried, con
stitutional organs, to create one of an ex
traordinary character, imperfectly consti
tuted, without salutary checks, with pow
ers illy defined, perhaps unlimited and il
limitable? The experiment is full of dan
ger; it is designed for evil; let the people
beware how they form a quasi Southern
Confederacy; let them frown down this in
incipent movement to dissolve the confed
eracy between the sister states ofthe North
and ofthe South. It will be time enough
to form a Southern Confederacy, when
the Federal Union can no longer be pre
served. Far, far distant bethat unhappy
period ! Never, Oh never, may it arrive !
Federal Union.
Honor.— “Go on, go on, sir, as you
have begun. Hold honor in your eye,
and interest beneath your feet, Hedge not
aside from the straight narrow path, tho’
it be lor ever so little. Do this; and
Anne of Austria tells you,that fame,wealth
and honor will follow, though you seek
them not ! That you will be one whom
men will delight to honor, women to love,
and monarchs to retain as the brightest
ornament they hold about their throne.—
A tale of the Fronde.
BAD LUCK BY DEGREES.
St R JAMES HALL AND HIS SERVANT PETER.
Scene—Parlor.
Sir James. Well Peter, what news?
Peter. Nothing particular, massa, scept
Bob’s lame.
Sir James. Bob lame! What’s the mat
ter with Bob?
Peter. He hurt himself trying to stop
de horses, massa!
Sir James. Horses! what horses?
Peter. Old massa’s horses run de
way wid de damage.
Sir J. Horses run away with the car
riage? What started them?
P. Cannon, massa.
Sir J. Cannon! What was the firing
for?
P. To alarm de folks and make urn
come put the fire out.
Sir J. Fire! What fire?
P. Your big house burnt down,
Sir J. My new house burnt down !
Flow’d that happen?
P. He catch fire while all gone to the
fun’ral ?
Sir J. Funeral! Who’s dead ?
P Your father dead, massa, cause he
hear de bad news.
Sir J. Bad news! What bad news ?
P. De Bank fail, massa, and he lose
all he money.
Sir J. You rascal, why did’nt you tell
me the bad news at once ?
P. Cause massa, I fraid it too much,
for you once, so I tell you little a time.
AUGUSTA,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2(T
COTTON.—We quote this article to-day at
13} to 14}, and what arrives is mostly stored—
principal sales 14 and 14}. Freights still } cent
per pound.
ELECTION RETURNS.
We have received returns from all the coun
ties in this State for Governor, from which it
appears that Schley, the Union candidate, has
received3l,2o4 votes, and hisopponent, Dough
erty, 28,598—majority for Schley 2,606 votes.
Below are the returns for members of Con
gress, as far as received— -three counties remain
to be heard from, viz : Tatnall, Union and
W ire.
Cleveland, 30,550
Glascock, 30,883
Holsey, 30,221
Jackson, 30,620
Beall, 27,346
Foster, 27,996
Gamble, 27,814
Wilde, 28,033
The Federal Union gives a less majority to
Schley. Aggregate for Schley 31,584; for
Dougherty 29,074—Schley’s majority 2,510.
For Congress the Federal Union has no 1 !
quite a full return, but gives the following ag
gregate comparison :
Glascock, 30,759 Wilde, 28,012
Cleveland-, 30,607 Foster, 27,980
Jackson, 30,592 Gamble, 27,729
Holsey, 30,257 Beall, 27,317
Death of Commodore ChauncV/- The
Mobile Advertiser oi the I9lh Inst, says—“ We
are pained to learn by private letters from Pen
sacola, that Commodore CRauncy died at that
place on Wednesday last. We have learned
no other particulars of this melancholy event;
Thismorning’s mail will probably furnish them
in detail.”
There is a good suggestion made by “ Argus ”
in the Constitutionalist, this morning—for Coun
cil to have the names of the different Streets
painted and placed in proper situations for the
benefit ofthe public. Old Argus, if we remem
ber, had many eyes—let the modern namesake
shut none of his, but look about for our improve
ment.
A rumor has reached us in advance of the
mail, that Mazeppa had beaten Shark at the
Baltimore Races. The Republican observes—
“ The Race to-day is expected to be one of ex
traordinary interest, between Shark, who sold
for $13,090, MazeppA, oivned in Ballirriore, and
cdst S6OOO, and Clara Howard, of high celebri
ty at the North. Each party hazards SIOOO on
the issue. The race is to be three mile heats,
and to conieoff at one o’clock.
The Pliladelphia Enquirer of last Monday
slates, that Ritner is ahead in 33 counties, up
wards of 25,000 votes.
A fire Occurred at New Orleans on the 15th
inst. which consumedtthe entire block of build
ings on the Old Levee, owned by James Hop
kins. Loss at least 90,000 dollars. Goodsand
buildifigs principally insured, but not fully.—
Occupants, Kennedy & Sinclair, It. & W.
Hopkins, Bernouday & I)u!ilho, James Allen,
James M’Gary, &c.
Is the public mustering of volunteers iii Loui
siaha, avowedly to assist Texas against Aieti
co, in unison with our laws and friendly relA
tiohs with the latter? The Texas volunteers
who were going byway of Red River, were
requested to meet at the Arcade, on the 17th,
at 9 o’clock, in New Orleans.
The Nashville Banner contradicts the whole
story, from Alabama, about! or 500 of Murrel’s
Gang attempting to liberate him from the Ten
nessee Penitentiary—four hundred of them be
ing arrested, and a number being sentenced for
various periods to the Penitentiary.
The lady and son of the late Wm. T. Barry,
are coming home in the ship Pacific, which
was to sail from Liverpool on the 13th ult. for
New York.
A part of the Cargo of the Pacific, consisted
oflso tons of wheat.
Utica Convention.— The Philadelphia Inquir
er of the 15th inst says—“ We yesterday con
versed with an influential Abolitionist of this
city. He assures us that the Convention will
not be held.”
The Norfolk Beacon of last Tuesday says,
“ that in the duel between two officers of the U.-
S. ship Delaware, on the 7th of August at Ger
genti, Italy, the officer who fell was Lieut. Da
vid R. Stuart, and his antagonist, Acting Lieut.
Turner, who was shot in the leg.
The receipts of benevolent societies in the
United States ih the year ending May, 1834;
amounting to the sum of $910,96131-100ths; not
including many societies of the same object but
of a private nature. Os this sum two hundred,
and sixty thousand dollars were spent in foreign
missions.
Colleges in the United States.— We copy the
following facts from alate work on our country.
“ There are no less than twenty-tine theological
colleges, all of which have been instituted since
the year 1808 land they contain 853 student?,
and have accumulated 57,000 volumes. There
are 75 colleges for general education, most of
them with professional departments, and they
have 8136 students; and forty of these colleges
have been creaied since the year 1814. Alto
getherthere are 96 colleges and no less than 9032
students.”
The Journal des Debates, a French
ministerial paper in one of its last num
bers, says:
“All citizens of the United States, do
not appear to entertain the opinion on the
explanation asked by France relative to
the message ol Gen Jackson, as does the
actual President of the American Union.
We find in a speech made on the 4th of
July, at New-Orleans, by Mr. Bernard
de Marigny, on the occasion of the 60th
Anniversary of American Independence,
the expression of a sentiment, partaken
without doubt by all those who compre
hend the actual relations of the two coun
tries, and the true meaning of the condi
tions placed by the French Government
on the payment of the Indemnity.”
Upon this paragraph, Lt Courier des'
Etas Unis of Saturday, remarks; •* Wa