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THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30.;
Our advices from Congress sro to the evening
of the 25th inst. which left the House still enga
ged on the Abolition question, slier the usual
morning business.
We are indebted to the Hon. E. A. Nisbet, for
m copy <Jf HU speech, on the subject of appoint
ifijj a Chapin in to the House of Rcprscnlativcs.
It ahull appear as curly an we find room for its
insertion.
\Vh»t haa become of the New Orleans Sun
the very apicy laughter moving Sun 1 It has no 1
shone in these parts for a week past. What is
the matter “ Jim Anderson my Joe”1 Has the
refusal of the Legislature to hear your “ prayer
for the printihg done you up 1 or have you died
of a broken heart for the girl who put her finger
to her nose, when you popped the awful ques
tion snd said “ you can't come it Jimmy".'
MsisjictlussT'rs.— A committee ol the Legis
lature of Massachusetts was appointed on F ri
day, the 17th, to notify Marcus Morton, (demo
crat) that he is chosen Governor of that Stale by
a majority of the voles of the people. There
having been no choice of Lieutenant Governor
iiy the pcop o.'lhe two houses of the Legislature
met and elected George Hull (whig) to that of
fice.
By the Charleston papers of yesterday, we
perceive that the Mayor has granted thu use of
the City Hall this day to Hxnht Uiiri.vc, to
hold a public meeting, to which ho invites the
attendance of all persons interested in the trade
of Bouth Carolina.
'From the Globe of the 21111 inst., wc cut the
following Section of the tSuli-Treasury Bill, us
it passed the Senate, which contains the Specie
clause. The groat length of the Dill forbids ila
insertion in this day’s paper. Should it puss the
other branch, we shall lay it before our readers
'entire i
Suction 19. And he It further enacted. That
from and after the thirtieth of June, which will
hem thu year one thousand right hundred and
forty, the resolution of Congress of the thirtieth
day of /April, in the year one thousand eight
hugdred and sixtenn, so far as it authorizes (lie
receipt in payment of duties, tuxes, sales of pub
lic lands, debts and sums of money, accruing or
bccojniug payable to the United Stales, to he col
lected und paid in the notes of specie-paying
banks, snail he so modified as that one-fourth part
of all such duties, tuxes, sales of public lands,
debts, and sums of money accruing or hero mi rig
due to llio United States, shall he collected in
the legal currency of (ho United Stales; and
from ami after the thirtieth day of June, which
will ho in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-ono, one other fourth part of all inch
duties, taxes, sales of public lands, debts, ami
sums of money, shall he so collected ; mid that
from and after the thirtieth day ol June, which
will ho in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-two, one other fourth purl of all such
duties, taxes, sales of public land -, debts, and
stuns of money, shall he so collected ; mid that
from and after the thirtieth day of Juno, which
will ho in lire year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-three, the remaining fourth part of the
said duties, taxes, sales of pulilic lands, debts
and sums of money, sball bo also collected in the
legal currency of tbo United States; and from
and after the last-mentioned day, nil sums accru
ing or becoming payable to the United Slates, for
duties, taxes, sales of public lands, or oilier debts,
and also all sums due for postages, or otherwise,
to the General Post Office Department, shall he
paid in gold and silver only.
Corrrspontrnce t/ the National Intelligencer.
Nuw Yiiiik, Jan. 22.
According to the Express, Robert Lennox,a
Scotchman originally, who lately died in this
city, has left three millions of dollars. He must
have been the richest man in the city except
John Jacob Actor, who is so rich that it is diffi
cult even to guess how rich ho is.
Nearly £2,000 have now been offered for the
rocbveiy of bodies but in the Lexingtion ; und.
under such a stimulus, we may expect the recov
ery of many others on Long Island.
The British Queen, if she lell on her day, is
making a very long voyage. There me no signs
of her Majesty as yet.
Another (.'anion ship is below. These are
rich argosies now. The teas brought by llio last
ship went otUat auction at very high prices.
The Sound is closed, and of course steamboat
navigation East is suspended. There is a little
snowstorm to-day, and all out-door business is
put offi
From the New York Star, the 2lid.
One Day Inter Iroiu England.
The packet ship Quebec lias furnishedthe Ex
press wilha London evening paper of Dee. 11.
The Bank of England assets show a decrease
in circulation of £603,000 fur the quarter ; the
increase of bullion is X. 3-12,000. The ditlbrenee
between the liabilities and assets thus appears to
lie jE2.967.000, which, by the previous return,
was £3,061 ,pOO. being a decicasc during the last
month of £84,000. The circulation has not
been lower since 1797.
Trade is perfectly prostrated.
From the Times,
The foreign exchange* are lower to day, with
thoexrplion ufHtmburgh, owing to the cessation
of the drafts on Paris lor the account of the Hunk
of England, which leaves the market, therefore,
to the regular course of operations. Opinions
are much divided as the effect of this slip, which,
it is supposed, could not he avoided, us the means
brought forward l\y the Hunk to influence the ex
changes must now be nearly exhausted.
From the London (lazettt.
An expedition under the outers of (.'apt. Trot
ter, K. N.’ in which three iron steamers me to be
engaged, is, we understand, about to bo titled out.
to proceed up the Niger. The precise object of
this expedition wc bavo not learned ; but wo pre
sume it is to explore further. Copt. Trotter had
an interview with the Colonial Secretary on
Thursday.— Jhint'i Telegraph.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 23d says;—
The City lee Boat, Capt. Lingo—loft Chester
2lst, at 4 i A, M. and reached the city ut 8 P.
M. Left the towboat Delaware at tho Horse
Shoe, she being unable to keep in our track, in
consequence of heaviness of the ice. The D.
brought from the Delaware Breakwater to New
castle brigs Peru, and Pearl.
liy the subjoined notice, which we copy Iront
the National Intelligencer of the 261 h inst. It
will be seen I hat the relations between Mr. For
syth and Mr. Fox, are not of auch a belligerent
character as might be inferre-d from the correspon
dence of the Constitutionalist, published yester
day morning. In the Globe of the same date, we
have what is asserted to be t*c most interesting
portion o( their Correspondence; its length pre
cludes mi insertion to day. There is nothing
however justifying the apprehensions of the cor
respondent for the Constitutionalist,
Thn Allline Boundary.
A Message from the President ol the United
States was presented to (he Senate on Thursday,
containing the information culled for by certain
resolutions of that body concerning the state of
affairs on the boundary between tho United Stales
and the British northwestern possessions.
We shall lay these documents before our read
ers us soon as we can get possession of them.
For the present wo must he content to stale the
substance of them, as understood from the reading
by those who beard them read.
The material papers are those furnished by the
Department of Slate, consisting, as follows:
1. \ J,otter from Mr. Fox, the British Minis
ter, to Mr. Forsyth, (Secretary of State, dated in
November last, complaining of tho vi -lulion of
the agreement enteiod into between the agents of
the two Governments last winter, by the opening
of roads to the Aroostook, and the occupation of
a part of the disputed territory by a body ofannod
men employed by the authorities of the State of
Maine.
2. A Letter from Mr. Forsyt i, written some
weeks afterwards, replying to tho complaints ol
Mr. Fox, that the opening of tho roads in ques
tion is not a recent measure, hut merely carrying
out a policy adopted twelve or fourteen years
ago; that tho armed body spoken of is only a
pause employed to drive oil' intruders; and that
nothing has been done on our side incompatible
with the spirit of the agreement between the
agents of the two countries; whilst on the British
side nets have been done which may he justly
complained of us infringing the agreement, such
as erecting barracks for troops on tho St. John’s,
placing troops on a part of the disputed territory,
&r,
3. A letter from Mr. Fox justifying what tho
British authorities have done, on tho ground of
the current repot l thatihe Legislature of the Stale
of Maine had tin intention to abrogate and nullify
the agreein .‘lit made between the two countries
last spring, which rumor was too strongly corro
borated by the language of Gov. Fairfield ut the
opening of the Session of that Legislature not to
justify precautionary measures, which have not
been resorted to, however, with any design to in
fringe llio ugrceiui.it, See,
4. Another Letter from Mr. Forsyth to Mr.
Fox, in whieli he says that there is no reason to
apprehend such an intention us is imputed to the
Legislature of Maine; that the alleged precau
tionary measures are therefore altogether gratui
tous on tils part of the British authorities in New
Brunswick, and must he considered “ahold infrac
tion” of he agreement of last winter; and that,
if the British Government uphold this proceed
ing on the part of its agents, such a course on
its pari will ho regarded by this Government ns
evidence of a want of that friendly disposition on
th part of Great Britain which has hitherto been
believed to exist, Ace.
This is the substance of these Letters, which
wc export to he able to publish at large in our
next paper.
Upon the subject of the present slate of the
Boundary Question between the United States
and Great Britain, us some opinion may bo ex
pected from us, we can only say, that, after more
| main e consideration of the matter, wo do not see
any immediate cause of alarm about it. Tho
l only danger is that of Gov. Fairfield’s underink
i ing a second campaign against her Majesty s
Province of New Brunswick. We think it quite
| likely, however, that ho had enough of Ilia Inst
experiment of that sort to dolor him from incon
siderately undertaking another. The question is
in the hands of the Diplomatic agents of tho two
Nations; and it may ho hoped that a friendly ad
justment of it will not ho marred or defeated, as
lit probably (and almost certainly) would be by
I the State us Maine’s resolving again to lake the
I business into her own hands ; an interlercnca for
! hidden by tho (onus of the Constitution of the U,
; S„ mid to which neither this Government nor
I that of Great Britain could submit without stir
| rendering, or at least compromising, their politi
i cal rights.
In reference to this quitter we have pleasure in
staling that the memorandum published in the
papers of the day (and among others hi our dai
ly paper of yesterday) as having been issued by
Sir John Harvey, in reference to existing rela
tions, turned out to be a blunder of some editor
or other, who has taken up an old memorandum
out of the ashes of tho War of 1812 between the
I two countries, and applied it to the present day !
I “ Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.” Wc ;
have not quite so nearly approach' d the awful j
gulfa war with Great Britain, that her Brovin- j
cial Governors should think it necessary to he is
suing recommendations of neutrality to non-com- j
ImtanM on both sides of the border. That day, ;
we trust, will never come.
Kki’oiit on tiik Avrxms or tiikSciiclkili.
Bank. —The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette of the
21 si. contains a copy of the Report just made by
the Directors of the Schuylkill Bank on the af
fairs of that institution.
The examination which has been made into
the accounts of Levis, the lute cashier, leads the
D roi tors to believe that the amount of Bank of
Kentucky stock over issued by him exceeds 13,-
000 shares. A statement is given of the assets
of the Bank, which amount to £ 1,276.626,19.
The liabilities of the Bunk, including circulation
and sums due to depositors and to other Banks,
are act down at £472,237,67. The capital stock
paid in is £998.000 00. The whole amount of
the real liabilities of the Bank, however, cannot
now he accurately ascertained, on account of
some fraudulent and irregular transactions of the
late cashier, the extent of which is yet unknown.
Some dcvclopomcnts of those show the following:
Ist. -Over issue of Schuylkill Bank
Stock 2216 shares, estimated at
par, $112,300 00
Proceeds of which supposed to be
applied to his own use.
2d.—A special deposit?, for which a
certificate was originally given for
£74,000, since reduced to 49,000 t)0
Proceeds of which supposed to be
applied to his own use.
3d.—Throe notes, the property of
Bank, taken by him from Bank,
und not accounted for, 8.500 00
4lli.—An erasure from hooks of Bank
not accounted for, 17.421 37
6th.— Post notes issued and not en
tered on hooks, of which £36,000
are still out.
Proceeds of which supposed appli
ed to-his own use, 110,000 00
Oth.—Post notes, which, when issu
ed. were not credited, making the
circulation larger than the books
called for, by 70,062 60
7th.—Letter of credit given without
authority, and no security taken, 26,000 00
#398,183 87
In reference to certain reports in some of (tie
newspaper* that llio Schuylkill Dank about the
time ot the rexuniptian of specie payments paid
oft debts to other city Bunks to the amount >d
$600,000 in one week, the Board declare its' «!■ h
is not the tact —the highest amount paid to city
Banks in one week having been $200,000#
Haiiersham Election —At an election on
the 6th inst, for County Officers, the following
persons wer elected—C. U. Wood, Sheriff— John
W. Wyley, Clerk Superior Court— Thomas
McCay, Clerk Inferior Court—lsaac! Black,
'l'ax Keceiverand Collector —David SeiEe, Coro
ner—.lames Crocker, Surveyor.
The following is a stale of the polls for Clerk ol
Superior Court.
J. W. Wyley & U.
L. Levy, U. 256
P. Martin,* 221
E. McCrary, U. 182
N. Hankes, U. 36
•We Understand that Mr. Martin is a Troup
State Rights man, hut w»s run by some of the
Union parly. — Alhe/is Whig.
The Whig Slate Convention at New Haven,
have nominated the following gentlemen: —For
Governor, William W. Ellsworth ; for 1/teut.
Governor, Charles Hawley ; for Secretary, Royal
li, liinmun; for Treasurer, Hiram Rider; for
Comptroller, Henry Kilaourn. And passed re
solutions approving of the Harrisburg nomina
tions.
M hcii or Delicacy.—The ladies are getting
more delicate and refined every day. First we
see it in some of the papers that a girl “down cast”
wouldn’t swing in the garden “because the ’taters
hail eyes!,, then wc hear of another who was so
modest that she dresse 1 the legs of tier piano with
panluletls; but the very last case we haveheard of
is that of a lady in this city who is so exceedingly
delicate and fastidious that she will not chango
her diesa uefore a lithographic likeness of Gen.
Jackson without first turninghis face to the wall.
—New Or leant Picayune.
Haiiitb.—Like flakes of snow that fall unper
ceived upon the earth, the seemingly unimportant
actions of life succeed each other. As the snow ga
thers together, so arc our habits formed. No single
flake that is added to the pile produces a sensible
change, no single action creates, however it may
exhibit man’s character, but as the tempest hurls
the avalanche down the mountain, and over
whelms the inhabitant and bis habitation, so pas
sions acting upon the elements of mischief, which
pernicious habits have brought together by imper
ceptible accumulation, may overthrow the edifice
of truth and virtue.
/ rum the Keepsake, for 18-10.
The Nomimbiilist.
■ r sin joint dean. daut.
The family of Diordatoile Cinci had fallen un
der the displeasure of the Doge, they having been
more suspected of what were deemed treasonable
attempts at displacing the tyrannical power which
held Venice in its iron grasp. Banishment of
its members, and confiscation of their property,
had by degress reduced that once powerful house
to comparative ruin. The head of it was in a
stale of mental imbecility, and the immediate heir
an exile, supposed to be under a fearful ban, or
(us was not less commonly believed) to have been
privately made way with. Beatrice, nn only
daughter, was left a sort of presumptive heiress ;
but actually the possessor of only matchless beau
ty, u sensibility fatal to her peace, and a flight of
talent equalled only by the energy and loftiness
of character, Witchery surrounded her—she
was considered a dangerous beauty, an object of
groat attraction, but otic, with whom the prudent
and the wise deterred the young over whom they
ruled, from intimacy or connection; and the dis
pleasure of the Doge being certain to full on any
that took part with the family of Beatrice de
Cinci, she was in a manner prescribed. There
are, however or rather there have been (for in
these uliliunnn days it is less common) roman
tiespirits in whose estimation tyranny and op
pression invest their victims with a thousand
charms; and she whom they arc told, they dare
not, must not love, becomes an object of idolatry,
{ and doubly endured by the danger which sur
! rounds the attempt.
While Poland yet was, she produced many a
gallant chief, many on ardent spirit; and Alta
inont Larinsky was one. Illustrious by birth,
the gifted owner of many broad lands and rich
possesoions, he bad been for some lime a
denizen of Venice, an apt subject lor romance ;
and no long lime elapsed ere the spell ol tins
enchantress fell upon him. The mysterious and
infatuating descriptions of the singularity, and
the dangerous charms of Beatrice Do Cinci, cre
ated in his imaginative mind a restless longing
for her acquaintance, which was continued by a
casual view of her at mass. He became enam
ored of a fancied object, for as yet she was little
I more than us a vision seen in a dream ; but the
figure in that dream haunted him by day, and ho
-1 vored round the pillow through the live-long
night !
Venice was the paradise of priests and spies ;
they played each other’s game. Through the
agency of the latter fraternity, Larinsky became
acquainted with the confessor to the family ; a
golden key unlocked the churchman's hreast and
ho gained some knowledge of the character,
education, temper, and habits of the syren, Beat
rice.
Through the same channel the history of La
rinsky, full ol stirring and interesting incident,
1 waseonveyed to Beatrice; and their meeting,
1 contrived to boar the character of accident, was
productive of the most fan table impressions on
Loth thus mutually prepared for reciprocal cnp'i
vation.
The beauty of Beatrice was peculiar; her spir
it shone through her; her action was thought,
and every moment an aspiration ; her form, was
classic, and her complexion pule as the maiblc
I statue beneath which she stood when Larinsky
! first beheld her. Her tresscss of golden brown,
■ 1 tier high and ample fore head, and I lie dark lash
es which fringed her languid eyes, so marked her
■ countenance, that, once seen, she never could be
forgotten.
Larinsky was irretrievably in love before he
asked his reason whether h|s eyes had not. be
trayed his heart. Os a fiery temperament, open
as day in all his dealings, end frank almost to
rashness, he attempted not t» conceal that his af
fections and estate were hem, and at her dispo
sal.
Not so the lady. By no means insensible to
the increase offered at the shrine ot her beauty,
nor regardless of merits of her admirer, yet she
betrayed no weakness. The impression, howev
er, which in her earliest intercourse was convey
ed to his mind by the singularity of her manner,
never, varied ; a jealous doubt was awakened, a
hesitation in the belief that she would re ally love,
or ever give her individual heart in exchange
for that which she had so fatally ensnared. La
rinsky saw and fell all this, but his passion blind
ly urged him on, and his vanity assured him that
devotion must ensure return. What were her
secret thoughts we know not; that she really
loved Larinsky wo believe, but wo dare not
swear it. In answer to all lus outpourings
which affection made eloquent, she would gaze
upon him with n fixed and somewhat startling
look, and say—“ Baware of me—l am not made
for happiness, neither to possess, nor bestow it.
I am an olfset from a blighted stock !
“ But. ’ urged he, “ I will transplant thee to
a garden which none but zephyrs visit, and
there!”
Let u*. however, hasten to events. They
were married ; and the establishment of Larkin-
I c ky was the admiration ol on c hall ol the city of j
Venice, and the envy of the other ; while the
malice ol the'gov eminent s emed to derive fresh
virulence from the success of any part of the
; prescribed family.
Larinsky had no eyes but for the beauty and
the loveliness of of his bride, no care but for the
music of her low and plaintive voice. Bhe was
all that man could desire in feature and in mind ;
yet to one whose ardent temperament and pas
sionate love, having won much, still craved sot
more—that more was wanting. There was not
that perfect abandonment of body and soul, that
absence of all reserve, which is perhaps but i.n
ideal possession—yet the want existed. Like
the specs sometimes seen in the horizon, which
small at first soon spread into a cloud, so this
mistrust daily gained possession of Larinsky's.
mind, and marred his happiness. She placed
not implicit confidence in him—mused nloi.e—
sought solitude oftencr than was agreeable to
him, and to his jealousy ; not jealousy in the
common vulgar sense, but that exquisite suscep
tibility which only true love feels. He fancied
she had something to conceal ; he occacionally
observed her eyes were glistening with a tear,
and oft he could in her sleep detect a sigh. \ct
s'.e was all generous kindness, and truth and inno
cence, like guardian, angels,seemed to hover round
her. Oh who could ga/c upon that open brow,
or witness that guileless smile, and for a moment
entertain distrust 1 Then why was nit Larin
sky happy 1 Why not content with the bles
sings he enjoyed ? Ask the God of Love, and
he will tell you that nothing less than all will
satisfy the cormorant heart; he wall show you
that nothing isgained whilst aught is left to win.
Then why did not Larinsky question her I Why
not lay open all his feelings, and by a word dis
sipate the floating vapor which sometimes dim
med the mirror of his happiness I
It is, alas! that true love cannot speak of doubt
—cannot descend to a common category; thus
many a heart has been lost for want of a simple
question, and that exquisite refinement which
constitutes the great charm of the tender passion,
sometimes generates the fatal worm that corrodes
the flower.
Beatrice was devout, punctual in her attend
ance at mass, and always preferred going alone,
and her absences wgre sometimes longer than
the services of the church were supposed to oc
cupy. A land of spies is a land accursed, and
the anonymous assailor of character is more to be
abhorred than the assassin.
Larin iky was preparing on a- festal afternoon
to dress for the evening entertainment, when he
found a small billet on his toilet-tabic addressed
to himself; the hand writing was unknown to
him, and the device of the seal singular. He he
sitated to open it—such things sometimes occur
—an instinctive wavering of ill seems to give a
sort of second sight. Larinsky chid himself for
his weakness, and opened the billet. The ven
om it contained was wrapped in these w ids :
“There arc more confessors in churches than
wear cowls.”
It angered him. “Impoitincnt nonsense,” he
muttered to himself. He half tore the paper—
paused—then held his hand, and threw it with
some others into Ilis escritoire—turned the key,
which he carefully secured, and proceeded with
his toilet, fancying that he thought no more of
the billet; but the arrow had stricken him.
“I remember when I was at Padua, a Jewish
doctor sold me a deadly poison, which ho told
me if administered by half a grain a day, would
acrid to his grave the stoutest, by a gradual and
almost imperceptible decay, which no antidote
could arrest, and no suspicion delect.”
This was a mental movement—why it then
occurred Jo him we have no means of knowing;
such are the mysterious associations of a roman
tic mind.
Beatrice was in great beauty that evening; and
when her husband joined her to proceed to the
festive scene, he was struck by her commanding
beauty and the chastened splendor of her dress.
They mingled in the crowd. She was not gay,
and his spirits were evidently depressed.
Larinsky detached himself from his lady, but
still kept a wary eye upon her; and lie was rallied
by his gay young friends on the uxorious watch
fulness of his looks.
Beatrice did not dance, and lie fancied her eye
wandered in search of some person she did not
find. Nothing remarkable occurred; the even
ing were away, and they returned home, with
little conversation beyond what arose from the
usual incidents of a gay and numerous assem
bly.
Larinsky could not sleep, and the slumbers of
his wife were heavy and restless. After a time
she rose from her bed, and and slowly taking up
the lamp, by the light of which, for it shone im
mediately on her face, Larinsky discovered, that
though her eyes were open, their sense was shut;
and he now, for the first time, became aware
that she was a Somnambulist. Ho arose stealth
ily to watch her motions. She proceeded to the
adjoining apartment, where she placed the light
on a writing table, seated herself, took up a pen,
and sat some minutes in n niusir g atlituue, as if
reflecting on what she wished to write; (hen, j
shaking her head mournfully, replaced the pen, !
and heaving a drop sigh, resumed the lamp, re- j
traced her steps, and was soon seen by her ill sal- I
isfied, husband with her head up.m her pillow in I
a deep sleep.
The next day’s sun brought not back with it (
his peace of mind. Mischief is of rapid growth |
—“The mass,” he said, the evening mass, this '
I know she will attend.” He feigned an absence,' |
and made bis way to the church, armed, unseen
and unsuspected, to watch her movements there.
After the service, she mingled in lire retiring
crowd and for some minutes he lost sight of her;
again in the aisle, darkened by the stained gl iss,
ho thought he recognized her form, and that she j
was joined by a young man muffled in a cloak.
Larinsky was all on fire ; lie dashed forward :
through the throng, and overthrowing in liis haste
some seats, the noise of their fall alarmed the
mysterious pair. The lady, if it was Beatrice,
banished one way, and Larinsky, sword in hand 1
rushed on to arrest her companion, but this vie- 1
tim suddenly disappeared—how ho escaped was '
a mystery.
Larinsky wandered forth in a state so exgited
that he could scarcely collect his scattered ideas; j
doubt, suspicion and jealousy assailed him at 1
once, and shook the inward man. He did not;
return to his house for some hours. After a dis
tracted ramble, as he entered the corridor, two i
active and well-known officers of justice passed
him in a hurried manner; this was a new snr- |
prise upon him, and they passed so quickly that
he bad no time for question. He made his way
to the apartment of his wife, who rose to receive
him with all her accustomed tenderness and
grace; and though he did not absolutely repttlse
her advances, he motioned her gently from him,
and said—
“ The officers of justice have been here—they
passed me at the door!”
“But they had no victim with them.” cried she
in a tone of exultation ; “they had no vieiim
no—no—no victim!’ and her flushing eve de
clared her triumph.
“I must not be suspected, Larinsky,” continu
ed she; “mine is a lofty ip rit—l am a thing of
mystery—l warned you of this when first wc
mot. lam your wife, your noble, loving, free,
unspotted wife—time will clear all! Then why
thiscloti'.l upon your brow?”
Her words fell powerless—she spoke hut to a
man of stone; the demon of jealousy had posses
sed him—the worm that never dies was at his
heart—his blood was changed to gall. The look
he gave her was tetrifie; she cowered iiencatli it
—trembled; she became faint ami staggered,
and would have fallen, but that he supported her
to a chair. There Was a vase of wafer on the ta
j hie—hi« determination haJ
he filled a glass, and dropping unprecrived an
atom of the fatal drug into it, with a trembling
hand and uveited eyes presented it to her; and
thus in a moment of rash and senseless jealousy,
the fond, the devoted Larinsky commenced the
slow hut c ertain Work of death. He occupied an
adjoining apartment, and with an agonized and
beating heart he heard her sob herself to sleep!
The next day he was summoned to the Doge’s
palace, and closely questioned as to the company
he entertained and the visitors be received, lie
endured the insolence of suspicion with the spirit
of conscious innocence; returning the shortest
at swore, and w ith sullen and insulted dignity,
threw back with scorn the imputations on hie
honor. His home, so lately a heaven, had now
become a hell, and he the maatcr fiend—with
murder, which he falsely fancied to Injustice, the
fatal companion of his cruel thoughts. No pains
were epared.no cost, no bribes withheld, no strat
agems omitted, to discover the invader of his
peace.
During that day, and another—and another—
variously disguised, were administered the minute
atoms of the deadly poison; still the fatal passion
lankled in the breast of the infatuated husband,
and still day by day the inroads on the health of
his much injured wife became more and more ap
parent. Medical aid was pressed upon her by
numerous friends, and every conjecture formed
by those most skilled in the healing art on the na
ture Os her complaint, and every remedy in vain
applied.
To her husband’s alienation much was impu
ted : the estrangement of his heart was. alas! but
too apparent and 100 notorious, though he was
not separated from her person, for ho seldom
quitted her sight. Yet still tier proud spirit dis
dained to enter into explanations with him, and
his ardent and desperate love having been by the
alchymy of the deadliest of passions changed into
hatred, he pursued his course of fatal yet tardy
vengeance in gloomy silence ; resolved to guaid
against the possession by another of the jewel lie
disdained to wear.
Thirteen days had now elapsed since the still
lovely Beatrice had become the unconscious vic
tim of his dreadful resolution. On this, the thir
teenth day, Latinsky had been called from home j
on some important and unavoidable business; and
during those hours ol absence, which his savage
jealously had made of rare occurrence—for he ne
ver quitted the room hut on urgent calls—she re
ceived a communication, the effect of which seem
ed almost to breakdown her shattered and enfee
bled frame.
The messenger by whom the letter was con
veyed had been for several days watching for an
opportunity to deliver it unobserved; but such
was the Argus-eyed vigilance of the spies and
watchers by whom she was beset, that Larinsky
was instantly informed of it. The intelligence
inflamed his passions into madness, yet he slill re
tained his soil-possession; he uttered not a sylla
ble, and resolved, if possible, to gain possession of
the loiter by stratagem. Beatrice had been in
tears all day, too week in boililyjhealth for remon
strance or complaint, and in heart too deeply
wounded by suspicions so fraught with injustice.
She sal like the nrtmnment of Grief in the palace
of Despair.
The night drew on and proved unruly; the
wind blew in fitful, fearful gusts; the lightning
flashed, and peal on peal of thunder succeeded,
as though the angry elements would level the pal
ace and bury their mouldering walls in the waves
that bent against thorn. Beatrice was longoccu
pieci with her devotions; and bent like a drooping
Jiiy over the crucifix.'fixing her thoughts on a
world beyond the grave. Anon she looked forth
on the troubled sea beneath the windows, and
then went weeping to her bed.
Larinsky was a witness to all she did. Her
weariness, her cares, and her weaknesses, were
soon forgotten in dead sleep. About, midnight
she rose slowly from her widowed couch, in one
of those fits of somnambulism to which she hod
been lately subject. Beyond her sleeping apart
ment, and opening on the grand marh'e staircase,
was situated her boudoir, in which were arranged
her writing materials, an cscritoir, which hud been
always consideied sacred, lier hooks, and all the
little elegancies of polished life.
She was in a night dross, which completely
concealed her figure; its whiteness was exceeded
by that of her complexion, through which the
course of her blood in every vain was visible. Her
eyes Were bright and glassy, her step measured
and solemn, and. taking up the lamp, she moved
toward the boudoir; her husband, with noiseless
head, was close behind her. Onward she went,
though in a deep sleep, opening the door into the
boudoir, and, Itkc a specter, moving to the cabinet
drew forth a key attached to her belt. Then un
locking the cscritoir, she raised an open letter to
the lamp in her hand, and prepared to read. Now,
thought Larinsky,now the fatal secret will be un
foulded—now I shall behold the evidence of her
guilt even hi her own hand 1 His heart beat so
audibly against his breast, that he feared she
would hear it ami ijwakc; he advanced so close be
hind her that every word in the paper was visible
|to him; they seemed letters of fire! They seared
! his eye-balls ! —and they ran thus :
j ‘ Beloved Beatrice ! You, for whom I have
j risked every tiling; you, lor whom and with
' whom I would live or cease to live, must behold
jme no more. I see—l know the dreadful conse
j quencea I have brought upon you by the fatal
oath in which 1 bound you never to reveal the se
| cret, even to your husband, of my presence in
j Venice, this tyrannized city. The decree of ban
ishment you know isumevoked, and instant death
awaits nut discovery; the spies of the Doge arc
j sleepless, and I am hunted like a beast of prey.
We have met seldom—button often. All this,
and ten limes more ofdanger, I could and would
I have borne whilst my plot of vengeance was ad
vancing to maturity ; hut what I have brought
upon you from your husband is no longer tolera
ble. Before this will reach your hand I shall
have left Venice, perhaps for ever. Adieu ! a
thousand times adieu ! A few days more will de
cide the fate of your unhappy Brother.” |
A thunderbolt would have been merev. The I
scales fell from his eyes—the fatal enor was dis
closed—and he discovered that he was—whatl
—a cold blooded, cruel, treacherous murderer—the
murderer of innocence. He placed his hands be
fore his eyes and shrieked aloud.
Beatrice awoke at the cry. She dropped the
lamp, unconscious of what she did or where she
was ; —she rushed forward to the folding doors
which opened on the broad marble staircase, and,
pursuing her desperate course in darkness, fell
headlong down some fifteen steps, and was stretch
ed a lifeless corse, staining the marble with her
innocent blood !
His outcries raised the house, and the otficers
ofjuslice were summoned. He was borne away
a culprit, suspected of having thrown her down
: Guilty, alas! but not of that.
Repeated examinations could draw nothing of
connected elucidation from him. lie was remo
ved to a place of security, and howled away the
remnant of his wretched existence in a Lunatic
Asylum.
OBITUARY.
Died in this city, oc the evening of the 21st
inst., Mr. Samuel M. Garrett, in the 45th year
of his age. He was a native of Uarnwell District,
S.C.,but was brought up in Savannah, Ga. Dor
the last twelve years he was a resident of this city,
and maintained the character of an industrious and
good ciiizon. Mr. G. made a profession of religion
ten years since, and attached himself to the Baptist
Chuveh. He was a pious and devoted man; and
during the protracted affliction which terminated
in his death,he was never heard to complain j but,
on the contrary, often expressed himself ready and
willing to depart and be with his Saviour. “Let
me die the death of the righteous, and let my last
end be like his.”
1 K 4, ofcXjWniJig ei the I Til, inst., at i.ji ,
tbert Columbia cutuity, v. I
Wary I ranges Davenport, wife of Thomas h. I
venport, of Salem, Clarkecouuty, in the eighteen.,’ I
year of her agl, B 11 I
Mrs. Davenpoit was the daughter of Judge Th,. I
mas Don y. Shortly after her marriage she" sou-la I
and found the consolation of religion, and una c i|
herself to the Baptist cliUrrh, of which she lived I
and died an accej table member. Being of an { v. I
ceedmgly delicate constitution, and often the suu I
jeet of affliction, she was debaned many of t| ;t I
privileges and comfoits which flow from constant I
communication with thepeop.e of God. Yet tl icie j
was always to be seen in her countenance that jo, I
which is derived from spiritual intercourse wit;, I
the Creator. Her proles ion of religion was chat. I
acteriscd by no great display or excitement; ilwr,
the even tenor of the Christian’s path, “ihiniv
more and inorc unto the perfect day,” illustrated
I Gy the graces of meekness, gentleness and patience
j a ‘i °f which she possessed to a high degree. He;
1 last protracted illness was home with most chcer
j ful acquiesence in the Divine will; surrounded Lv
many ol the most endearing ties, she seemed
have lost sight of earthly good, and looked only t„
the recompense of reward, which awaits the faith. I
fu! in Christ Jesus. As death approached the
nearer, she spoke of it with the greatest caimnesi
sic to d her sister she was dying,“ but she
the Lo;d precious to her sou'.” Her sister then
asked her it she felt that she could trust in Him.— -
Her answer was, “ O yes, my dear sister, who cl ~ ]
can I trust in, in this last Dying hour, but tax
Lord.” Soft and gentle was her end ; undisturb,
cd undismayed by any fear, she fell asleep on tlie I
bosom of that Savior in whom she had so wisely ;
trusted, and her waking was with God.
A fond, devoted husband, a sweet little daughter,
a kind and affectionate father, tw o beloved sisters,*
a brother, and numerous relatives and friend,
mourn the bercavirietit. But they sorrow not a,
those wito have no hope, being confident that “She
is not dead, but sieepoth.”
COMMERCIAL
Latest dates from Liverpool, ftf.Dec. 14
Latest dates from Havre Dec. 14
AUGUSTA PRICES CURRENT.
Thursday, January 23, IS4O.
; BAG ClSC — Hemp, per yard 20 a 2,4
Tow, “ 14 a 2,1
BALK UOPK, per lb. 8 a It
BACON—Hug round, “ J) a n
Hams, “ — a 13
Shoulders, “ —a 11
Sides, “ —a II
BUTTER —G ret en, per lb. 28 a 35
Nort Carolina, “ 15 a 25
Country, “ IS a 25
COFFEE —Green prime Cuba, “ 14 a 15
Ordinary to good, “ 11 a 14
St. Domingo, “ 10 a 14
Brazil, “ —a
Laguira, “ 12} a 15
Pin to Rico, “ 124 0 15
Java, “ 15 a 16
Mocha, “ IS a 20
COTTON — Ordinary, “ 63 a 7j
Fair, “ 7I a 74
Good, “ 7| a 8
Prime, “ 8 a 8}
CANDLES — Spermaceti, “ 48 a 50
Tallow, “ 20 a 22
CHEESE — American, “ 13} a 14
English, “ 40 a 50
ClDEß — Northern, perbbl. 900 a 10 00
hi boxes, per dux. 350 a 450
ClGAßS — Spanish, M. 15 a2O
American, “ 5 al2
CORN — bushel 50 a 63}
FlSH — Herrings, box 125 a 150
Mackerel No. 1 “ none
II II 2 u !.
““ 3 «
FLOUR—Canal, 11:1. 9 all
Baltimore, “8 a SSO
Western, “ none
Country, “ 650 a 760
GUNPOWDER— keg 6 a 7
Blasting, “4 a 450
GLASS —box 350 a 425
8 * 10, “ 320 a 4
IRON — Russia, “ G
Swedes, assai led, “ " 6
Hoop, lb 9 a 10
Sheet, « « a 10
Nail Rods, “ 7 a S
LEAD — Bar, “ 9 a
LEATHER—SoIe, lb 28 a 30
Upper, side 175 a 2
Calf Skins, doz 30 aS6
LARD— lb 12} a 15
MOLASSES — N. Orleans, gal 40 a 50
Havana, •* 35 a 45
English Island, “ —a
NAILS— lb S a <1
OILS — Lamp, gal 150a 200
Linseed, “ 1 15 a 1 £.l
Tanners, “ 00
OATS— bush 30
PEAS— “ I
PAINTS —Red Lead, lb 15
White Lead, keg 3 00 a 350
Spanish Brown lb 4 a
Yellow Ochre, “ 3 a
PEPPER—BIack, “ 9 a 12}
PORTER — London, doz 4 a 460
and Ale, American, bbl 3 a 350
RAISINS — Malaga, box 2 a 250
Muscatel, 1 50 a 2
Bloom, a none
RICE — Prime, 110 lb 4 a 5
Inferior to good, “ 350 a4 50
SUGAR —New Orleans, lb la 10
Havana, white, “ 13 a 15
“ brown, “ 8 a 9
Muscovado, “ 8 a 10
St. Croix, “ 10 a 12}
Porto Rico, “ Hull
Lump, a 14 a 10
Loaf, a 15 a 20
Double refined, “ 20 a 22
SOAP — American, No. 1, 8 0 8}
“ Ao. 2, 5 a S
SALT —Liverpool ground, bush boa 75
Turk’s Island, “ none
STEEL — German, lb 15 a 10
Blistered, “ 8 a 12}
SHOT—AII sizes, bag 2 12} a 2 37}
SPIRITS — Cognac, 41 h prf. %al 150 a 260
Peach, “ 1 at 50
Apple, “ 45 a 65
Gin, Holland, I 20 a 150
“ American, “ 55 a 75
Rum,Jamaica. “ 1 25 a 175
“ New England, “ 48 a 56
Whiskey, Northern, “ 48 a 56
“ IVestern, “ 50 a 75
“ Mononga. “ 70 a 1
“ Irish, “ 2 a 3
TOBACCO — N. I arolina, lb 8 a 15
Virginia, “ 15 a 40
TWINE— “ 30 a 37}
TEA — Bohca, “ 50 a 75
Souchong, “ 60 a 75
Hyson, “ 75 0 1 25
Gunpowder, “ I a 125
WlNE — Madeira, gal 250 a 350
Sicily Madeira, 1 25 a 175
Sherry, “ 2 n 360
Teneriffe, “ 75 a 125
Sweet Malaga, “ 40 a 6J
Porte, “ 76 a 3
Claret, “ non*
“ in bottles, doz 3 0 C
Champaigns, “ 6 a 12
REMARKS.
Cotton —This article continues to pom in from
the country witli unabated rapidity. The planters
continue to sell freely notwithstanding the conti
nued decline in prices ; there is however but little
changing hands among those who purchase from the
growers. We now quote 6} aß} as the extremes
of the market —sales chiefly at 7} a 8. The fol
lowing is our classification:
Ordinary,6} a 7}; fair,7} a 7|; good,7jaS;
prime, 8 a B},
Choice lets in square packages will command 8} —
not more. The river continues very low, the
wharves are loaded with cotton waiting for a swell,
and the warehouses are nearly all full.
Freight —By the river to Savannah $2 a bag, and
as none can be carried off by the steamers, but very
little cotton leaves the place.