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| CHRONICLE AN!) SENTINEL.
A UGUS T A.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14.
C£j*No mail north of Charleston last night.
In the last Federal Union we find a long edi
torial article in relation to the Central Bank
intended we presume as a sort of ante-justifi
tion of the large issues of the hills of that Bank,
which it is supposed the directors intend to
make. It is stated that after the payment,
of the debts due by that institution its capital
will be $1,055,000, upon which it will be au
thorised to issue double that amount. But what
is this capital 1 Nothing but tie notes and bonds
of a multitude of debtors ! And it is utged that the
directors ought to issue upwards of three millions
of dollars,with ho other guarantee for their redemp
tion than notes which cannot be collected at the
rate of more than 20 per cent per annum ! What
then is to prevent the bills of the bank from be
coming depreciated 1 The faith of the State may
be most ample for their ultimate redemption, but
all past experience proves that immediate conver
tibility alone can keep the bills of any bank at
par. Nobody doubts the ultimate ability of
the Darien Bank to redeem its bills, because
the State owns three fourths of its stuck, and
yet its bills have been thirty per cent under
par and are now from fifteen to twenty !
There is scarcely a doubt that the Bank of Rome
will finally redeem all its notes and yet they are
50 per cent discount! Therefore, when the
Central Bank issues an amount so vastly beyond
its ability to redeem within any reasonable time,
nothing can prevent its bills also from falling be
low par, and causing a loss to holders.
The issue of a large amount by the Central
Bank will no doubt be an alleviation to those
who get discounts and can use the money
whi'e it is at par, but must finally result in
heavy losses to the people. No one can be more
desirous of seeing money plenty lha.i ourselves,
but out judgment docs not sanction the proposed
step. We can stand the operation as well as
others, as we never keep money of any sort on
hand. If it is the pleasure of the Democracy to
fill the land with irredeemable bank paper, bo it
i so; on their own heads the mischief will be
visited.
The New York Herald states that the whole
amount of State loans, on which the interest was
due at the Bank of Pennsylvania on Saturday the
Ist inst., forms an aggregate of upwards of $28,-
000,000. The interest ranges from to 5 per
cent, per annum, and the amount due and not
paid on Saturday, was $090,860 78. The loan
of 1821, for $930,000 at 5 per cent., and a 4$
per cent loan for $200,000, are the only ones for
which funds had been provided.
The New York City Banks. —According
to an official statement, the loans of twenty-two
New York city banks, on the Ist of January,
1839, amounted to $35,947,375. Same time
this year, $26,900,173. Decrease, $9,047,202.
Specie in January, 1839, $5,008,353. Thi s
year, $4,495,137. Decrease, $513,216. Circu
lation in 1839, $5,494,243. This year, $4,028,-
737. Decrease, $1,465,506.
Suffrage in France.— France contains 33
millions of people, and has 200,000 voters. No
man can vote whodoes not pay 200 francs annu.
al tax. There are now three parties opposed to
this system. One goes for universal suffrage, but
the delegates to be chosen by electors. A second
is for a moderate extension of the right, and a
third contends foi universal suffrage without any
restriction.
From the Charleston Mercury nf yesterday.
From St. Augustine.
By the Steamer Southerner, Capt. Budd, ar
rived yesterday, we have received the St. Augus
tine News of the 7th instant, from which we copy
the following paragraphs :
The Bloodhounds lately received from Cuba,
hane been subjected to many experiments, the
results of which have been very satisfactory.—
They follow a trail twenty-four hours old with
rapidity and accuracy. Some of them are to be
employed by the troops now scouring the country
between the mouths of the Wacassassa and Su
wannee rivers, Micannpy, &c.
Indians. —An attack was made, by a party of
the enemy, on the train from Pilatka to Fort No.
10, on Sunday last. 3 soldiers were wounded,
and a serjeant missing,
v The Military District, of which Fort No. 10
I is the radiating point, is on the Western banks of
thcSt. Johns, and its Northern boundary com
mences nearly opposite to Picolata.
The distance between Pilatka and the Fort is
not over 10 miles, but as each of the posts are
situated in a bend of the river, the train has to
take the Fort Ilcileinan road, crossing three
branches of the It-tun-wuk creek.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
Washington, February 7.
In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Preston made ano
ther ineffectual attempt to call up his resolution,
directing the Secretary of the Treasury to state
whether the appropriation for the Cumberland
road was embraced in the estimated expenditure
of twenty millions for the current year. A long
discussion again look place on the subject. It
was contended that the administration was play-
ing fast and loose in regard to the Cumberland
Road; that they were for Hh in the west, and a
gainst it in the South. It was conceded, on all
sides, that the appropriation referred to was not
in the estimates, and that the money for the work
must be borrowed, or raised by an issue of Trea
sury notes.—The Senate refused to take up the
resolution by a large majority.
In the House, the rules were suspended to en
able Mr. Jones (Chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Means) to get up one of his appropri
ation bills—the bill for paying the Revolutionary
and other Pensioners. The House went into
Committee of the whole on the bill, and Mr. Rice
Garland moved an amendment, providing that the
money for the payment of the pensioners be not
placed in the hands of the pension agents more
than one month prior to the day of payment. —
The object jf this was to prevent the Agents
from using the money for their own benefit, and
thereby hazarding its safety. Mr. W. Thompson
of S. C. pointed out the inconsistency of the
mode adopted in the payment of pensioners, with
the principles of the administration. They pro
fessed to lie opposed to the use of any public
money by banks, and had even advocated a law
to make it felony in any public agent to use any
of the public money ; but, in regard to the Pen
sion Agents, we were told here, by the friends of
the administration, that the Pension Agents must
have the use of the public money for half a year,
as their compensation.
What was the reason why the use of public
money was prohibited 1 It was because the
chance of its loss was thus increased. Would
not the money be safer if deposited with the banks
than with individuals, —especially if it was to be
used ! Individuals might become defaulters and
their securities fail; but, in regard to a bank, we
bad the security of their whole stock. But these
Pension Agents were, in fact, Presidents and
Cashiers of Banks, and the public money, in their
hands, was kept in bank, to their individual ac
count, and used by them instead of by the Bank.
So, nothing was gained by withholding it from
the Bank—and the only difference was that we
got individual security for it, instead of bank se
curity. He adverted to the call of the President
upon Congress for money, and to his prediction
at the commencement of the session, notwith
standing the professions of the message, that we
would be so callcd’upon to meet a deficiency.—
The means by which it was to be raised were not
indicated to us. We had no means hut a tariff,
and the President was playing fast and loose up
on that question, as be was in relation to the
Cumberland Road. lie went on to discuss the
question of means to meet the deficit—pointing
out the disadvantages of the Treasury note issues.
After a very long debate, the House adjourned
without coming to any conclusion on this ques
tion.
Correspondence of the Savannah Georgian.
Ox Board Steamhoat Florida,?
St. Johns River, Feb. 7, 1840. 5
Another Imlinn Murder in East Florida.
To the Editor of the Georgian :
As a military train consisting of 12 wagons,
when returning from station No. 12 to Garey’s
Ferry, on Wednesday, the slh inst., and when
within 3 miles of the 7 m le house, and 10 from
the station at Garey’s Ferry, one of the principal
military stations in Florida, they were attacked by
a party of Indians, that lay in ambush in the grass
near the road and fired on, killing one of the dri
vers and six mules.
As soon as they commenced firing they set up
their yelling as usual, and frightened the mules
so that they became unmanageable, and the teams
scattered in all directions; generally, however,
running but a short distance before hitching the
wagons against frees.
The drivers extricated themselves from their
teams, as well as they could, and made the best
of their way to the 7 mile house, and the wagon
master proceeded to Garey’s Ferry,coming up 5
miles from the place of attack, with Maj. Bennett,
who with his escort of 10 or 12 mounted men,
turned immediately back, and reached the place
within one hour alter the attack was made, but
the Indians had plundered the wagons of all the
articles of value to them and made their escape.
Col. Twiggs on hearing the intelligence order
ed Lieut. Darling, with a detachment ot Dra
goons, who proceeded to the place of attack, but
night coining on, they returned to their quarters,
to spend the night, and take a new start the next
day, but with what success, was not known on
Friday.
Since receiving the above, Capt. Nock, of the
steamer Florida, has furnished the following:
About ten miles fromGarcy’s Ferry, Wednes
day 6lh Feb. at 2 o’clock, P. M. a train of wag
ons was returning from the interior, and were at
tacked by from twelve to fifteen Indrians. who,
firing on the train, killed one man named Parson
Carnell—he having five balls in him—two mules
shot and four wounded. The wagons were plun
dered of the covers and provisions belonging to
the train. The wagon master arrived express at
Garcy’s Ferry, and the quarter master’s men were
immediately sent in pursuit, hut could not discov
er any signs of them whatever.
Near Fort Brook, on the Ist February, a de
tachment of men were sent in pursuit of desert
ers, and were fired on by a parly ol Indians.—
Three men were wounded and the Sergeant mis
sing; on the attack, his horse being shot under
him, he disappeared and is supposed to be shot.
From the N. O. Bee, of the 9th.
From Texas.
By the arrival of the steam packet New V ork,
we have received the Galveston Gazette of Feb.
Ist. It is almost totally barren of intelligence.
The steam boat Putnam struck a snag in the Sa
bine a few days since,and sunk above her guards.
She will be raised, but with some (difficulty and
delay.
The treaty with France has been ratified by
the senate of Texas. Accounts received from
Mexico speak confidently of Bustamcnte’s head
ing an expedition against Texas.
From the Savannah Georgian.
Shipwreck.
The brig Edwin, of Baltimore, a packet be
tween this port and Baltimore, was wrecked off
Jckyl on the 3th inst. She was bound to this
port from New Orleans.
Capt. Fitzgerald with the crew has arrived in
this city in the steam packet Florida from St. Ma
ry’s, and furnishes the following statement:
“Total loss of the brig Edwin of Baltimore, H.
Fitzgerald, master, from New Orleans, bound to
Savannah, with a cargo of Sugar and Molasses.
Blowing heavy from the eastward, struck a shoal
off Jekyl Island, about 5 o’clock on the morning
of the sth inst.—immediately started the deck
load to refeve her—a high sea running unship
ped the rudder and started her counter—thump
ing violently she soon bilged, the sea making a
complete breach over her ; we were compelled to
take the boats, and with difficulty reached Little
Cumberland Island, through the breakers. Capt.
F. despatched a boat to St. Mary’s for assistance;
but the wind blowing heavy, she went to iriaces
the night ot the iSth. Nothing saved but two
boats—vessel and cargo a total loss."
From Canada. —lt was rumored in town yes
terday afternoon, that a despatch had been re
ceived from Toronto, announcing that Sir Geo.
Athur had ceased to bi Lieutenant Governor of
Upper Canada, and that the Honorable Mr. Chief
Justice Stuart had been swam in administrator of
the Government; also, that one half of the pro
ceeds ol the Jesuits’ estates and of the Seminary
of St. Suplice was to be appropriated to Upper
Canada Catholics from the date of the Union, as
the grants were originally given for the support
of the Roman Catholic religion “in the Province
of Quebec,” which then included both the Pi ev
inces of the Canadas.— Montreal Herald.
Ghandilohuencr. —“Feller citizens,” said a
slump orator lately in Wisconsin, who was run
ning tor office in the territorial legislature—“fel
ler citizens, if you elect me my opposition to banks
shall be so strong that it will break the track of a
herd of buffalos ! Volcanos may pour out their
lava, reducing cities to smouldering ruins—earth
quakes may engulph in the vortex of premature
destruction large and populous islands—cataracts
may disgorge their aqueous contents, making na
ture tremble with the continuous effort—the
thunders’s stroke may prostrate the mightiest of
monuments ever raised by the combined aid of
art and labor—the vivid and glaring flash of
lightning may rend the sturdy oak of the forest
and make the lion-souled and the irou-hearled
quake with fear; but do you think feller citizens
that all this would make me vote in favor of a
bank ! d — d clear of it.” — New Orleans Picay
une.
The Army.
The army of the United States should number
all told, 12,539, officers and men. It is thus
computed:
2 Regiments of Dragoons, 1500
4 Regiments of Artillery, 3000
8 Regiments of Infantry, 7500
Ordnance Department, 820
Engineer Corps, 36
Topographical, * 45
General Staff, 57
Medical Department, 83
But at the latest return, accompanying the Re
port of the Secretary of War, the total effective
rank and file, present for duly, was loss than half
the nominal force, viz: 6220.
In Florida there are six Regiments, viz: 2 Dra
goons, about 400 strong; the 3d Artillery; and
the Ist, 2nd, 9th and 7th Infantry, which average
about 200 men each !
An abstract attached to the Surgeon General’s
Report, giving the number of cases treated dur
ing the year, and the number of deaths, seems to
us to indicates high state of the Army, and much
more than ordinary skill.
The number of cases of all sorts treated was
22,248, out of which there wore only 214 deaths,
Gen. Jackson’s Bedstead. —The bedstead
used by Gen. Jackson, during his stsy in New
Orleans, was sold at auction in the French Ex
change, (~La Bourse, Jon Wednesday evening,
the 15th inst. It was hid off at one hundred and
thirty do lars. It was plain, but rich and mas
sive.—Natchez Free trader.
It is said lhattwenly-four manufacturing estab
lishments at Paterson, have entirely suspended
their operations, and that the men, women, and
children who were lately employed in them, are
entirely idle, mid very many of them literally de
pendent upon charity, for their very scanty allow
ance of daily food.— Newark Daily Adv.
It is estimated that there will be one hundred
thousand emigrants to Texas this fall and winter.
The population of Austin, Texas, is now eight
hundred and fifty. Five months since there were
scarcely eight citizens upon the site of this new
city.
A steam carriage lately accomplished the dis
tance between Cambridge and London, in Eng
land, 52 miles over a common road, in four hours
and a half,
A tailor who died lately, was fonnd in his last
moments cabbaging a piece of the blanket which
covered him.
Barhkr-ous March or Intellect.— At a bar
ber’s shop, in Drury Lane, a bill is exhibited in
the window which states that“L idys can have
their hair dressett in the Victorier fashion at this
shop-charge only 6d. Gentlemens hair dressett
in the Melburn style—charge only 3d. N.B.A
varryetly of fancy combe and bares greas.”—So
cial Reformer.
Speaking of suits at law to recover damages for
slander, the Boston Daily Advertiser makes the
following observations, the sound sense of which
commend them to the. attention of every reader:
“In cases of this kind the parties are noton
equal ground. To one the verdict may be years
of misery ; to the other a matter of mere dollars
and cents, or at most a forced acknowledgement
that he was wrong, which does nobody much
good ; fur, after all,
‘lie that’s convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still.’
“One of the lessons taught by a knowledge of
the law is its utter worthlessness in healing the
wounds of the mural feelings. A slight acquain
tance with the proceedings in our courts of jus
tice will demonstrate that, however firmly the
balance of justice is held, in cases of dollars and
cents, when the sensibilities of man or woman
are to be healed, there is no medicine to be found
there; and to patch up an injured character,
judges and juries, and lawyers to boot, arc the
worst cobblers in creation.”
The New Postage. —lt is quite amusing to
witness the undisguised ill hoinor with which
many of the principal Post-office agents receive,
weigh, and charge the numerous letters which
pass through their hands under the new regula
tion. We speak advisedly in asserting that the
receiving-houses in all the large thoroughfares
have a quite sufficient accession of trouble to in
duce them to employ clerks expressly to superin
tend the Post-office department. Yet they are to
have no additional idlowence fur extra labor. .Se
riously, it is palpable that the present arrange
ment cannot last long.— London Herald.
The Blessing of Ignorance, —Sir William
Berkekly, who was 38 years a distinguished Gov
ernor of the Colony of Virginia, in answer to the
inquiries of the Lords of the Commissioners for
the Colonies in 1671, sixly-four years after the
settlement of the Colony says: « I thank God we
have no fiee schools nor printing, and 1 hope we
shall not have, these hundred years. For learn*
ing has brought disobedience and heresy and seels
into the world; and printing has divulged them,
and libels against the government.”
Fortunes of the Grensdisr Moreau.
No Arabian story-teller ever dreamed of invent
ing such things as were seen to take place in real
life, during the victories of Napoleon, and of this
truih the city of Tours, in the year 1829, wit
nessed one striking proof, in the history of the
grenadier Motcau, whoso name is prefixed to the
present narrative. It was in the year 1806 that
this individual, then a youth of twenty, was sent
from the recruit ng depot in his native town of
Tours towards the Prussian frontier, where the
Emperor Napoleon was at the time concentrating
his forces, and preparing for the opening of a
great campaign. Eugene Moreau was descended
from a family which had been one of high provin
cial respectability, but had become latterly so
much decayed, that his immediate progenitors
held the humble position of small farmers, or to
speak more plainly of peasants. As regarded
personal appearance, Eugene would have done
honor to the noblest ancestry. To say that he
was merely handsome, would be disparaging and
unjust. His person was tall and beautifully
formed ; his features remarkably fine and regular,
and his eye dark,sparkling and animated; while
his air and gait were at once pleasing and noble.
In short, a sculptor would have but to cover the
youth’s black and glossy locks with a Greek head
piece, to have in him a perfect model of the god
dess-born Achilles, or the more graceful Antinous,
The eyes of the Emperor was too searching
and discriminative not to alight soon on such a
figure as that ot Moreau. On reaching Bamberg,
a Bavarian town where the first head quarters of
the grand army were established, the young re
cruit chanced to fall in Napoleon’s way. After a
momentary glance of admiration, the Emperor
turned to an inferior officer behind him, and
pointing with his finger to Moreau, exclaimed
“ That strippling is for my guard.”
The French army ran over a portion of Prus
sia, and came to the vast plain of Jean. There,
as every one knows, was fought a mighty battle,
which delivered over Berlin to the Emperor of
France. This great i onflict has nothing to do
with the particular history of Moreau, but it is a
matter of justice to say that he fought in it like
a lion, and helped well to maintain the fame of
the guard of which he was a member. Subse
quently to the engagement the main army march
ed upon the Prussian capitol, with a small divi
sion to which Moreau was attached, was ordered
to take station temporarily at Weimar.
In the distribution of billets at Weimer, our
young soldier got one fixing him singly upon a
little chattcau about a mile distant from the town.
As the light-hearted Eugene walked from the
town to his desired abode, scarcely feeling the
wc.ght of his arms or his knapsack, his thoughts
ran back over the changes which had taken place
during the last six months of his life. In May, a
peasant, laboring on his father’s little field ; in
October, a soldier—a member of Napoleon’s
guard, and one of the conquerors of Jena; and
who knew how grand the next chance might be I
His company had lost many men, and had per
formed many prodigies of valor. The hour of
reward was yet to come, and then his arm might
be decorated by the corporal's or serjennt’s stripes
the only honorable kind of them—and oven the
erdss of honor might be planted on his breast.—
Such were Moreau's imaginations as he drew near
the chattcau, pointed out to him us the place de
signed in his billet. He rang the gale bell, and
the door opened instantly. Stepping forward into
the court, he saw no human being, but two furi
ous dogs met him in the face, and threatened so
tear him to pieces. In fact, the servants, seeing
the soldier approach, had thought this a fit way to
receive and repulse an enemy. But Moreau was
not one to heal a retreat on such grounds as these.
Keeping the dogs at hay with his musket, he cried,
“Hollo!—down, you vicious brutes! Hollo!
you, inside tboie! call olf the dogs, else I shall
be obliged to hurl them !—Hollo !”
No one choose to hear the cry, however, and
Moreau struck one of the dogs lifeless at his feet,
hy a blow from the butt end of his piece. The
other animal he dexterously contrived to seize by
one of his hind legs, and swinging it above his
head with a powerful arm, dashed out his brains
against the court wall. He then tranquilly ad
vanced to the inner entrance of the chattcau,
which was half open. As lie pursued this door
to the wall, he saw a whole posse of domestics
flying out at the opposite side of the lobby hall.
Eugene thought to himself that a soldier of the
Emperor’s guard had a right to better treatment
than this, hut he was patient and sweet tempered,
so he said nothing, hut marched forward. Apart
ment after apartment showed him no living per
son, and he began to grow wearied of this style
of reception, as well as a little irritated thereby,
when all at once he heard the sound of a female
voice. Following the direction, he soon found
himself in a retired chamber, face to face with a
young lady who was seated with her harp hy her
side, and her fingers in the act of touching its
chords.
“ Meinhrrr," said the startled young lady, and
then paused ; for her eye had caught the tri
colored cockade in the soldier’s cap, indicating
that he belonged to the hostile army and had in
vaded her country. “ Mon ieur," said she, chang
ing her address from her mother tongue to that
of her visitor. But she carried her speech no
farther. Her fingers quitted her harp, and she
remained motionless before the young soldier of
France.
Often, often did Moreau in after years describe
that first interview, and always with a degree of
tenderness that affected the hearer, though cir
cumstances might make him doubtful at the time
of the narration. All Moreau’s anger fled at the
sight of the lady ; his fusil trembled in his hand ;
and that fair-haired beauty of the north, with her
blue ryes and snow-like skin, appeared to him
far to surpass all the pictures which his older
comrades had drawn of Egyptian loveliness.—
Her eye was cast on him with an expression at
once of en'reaty and kindness, as if beseeching
his protection and proffering a friendly reception.
It would appear as if she had noticed his impa
tient look on entering the room. “ My servants,”
said she, when after a pause, she tbllowed up her
first word Monaieur, “ my servants have received
you inhospitably ; hut they are grieved at late
events, and grief does not reason.” But poor
Moreau was already so far from feeling anger,
that he could almost have knell down and asked
pardon for having killer) the lady’s dogs, though,
had he not done so, they would probably have
torn him to pieces.
The Countess Diana de Drucken was the name
of the lady in whose chateaa Moreau now took
up his residence. She was a widow, and still
extremely young, having been married almost in
childhood to a wealthy old Noble, at the wish, or
rather the Command, of her proud and ambitious
brothers and kindred. Her husband soon died,
leaving no child to inherit his wealth. The young
Countess lived alone at the time when fortune
hruught ( Moreaa to the chattcau. Whether from
the lady s desire not to provoke an invading ene
my, or from other motives personal to Moreau,
(whose ancestral respectability she soon learnt
from conversation with himself,) certain it was
that he was entertained, during his stay of seve
ral weeks, like an honorable guest. Heoccupied
the apartments of the late master of the mansion,
and the same domestic** who had lately received
him so cm rishly now became hia devoted slaves.
In his simplicity, the young soldier was no whit
astonished at all this, he found it natural to live
in a beautiful chateau, to walk (not alone) every
morning in a magnificent park, to mount the
finest horses for an evening ride, to Ire served by
laqueys covered with embroidery, and to dine on
three courses daily with a countess. Had not he
heard at the bivouac fires, that such was the sol
dier s common fortune in Egypt 1 Moreover he
loved the countess, and, remembering the ancient
honors of his family, more than his present con
dition, he thought not of concealing his love.—
On him the passion look its usual effect; it soft
ened his manners, gave inspiration to his tongue
and every action. The sincerity of his love was
too obvious to he doubled for an instant. He was
young, (in truth almost a hoy-soldier,) beautiful,
and a ronqueror. The Countess Diana could
not help heraell. Though seeing their true rela
tive position much more clearly than Moreau did,
the passion of the soldier found an echo ere long
in her bosom. Bhc had none about her to keep
her ptide ot rank awake. An old infirm chap
lain, verging on the grave, was her only present
friend and counsellor, and he was too much at
tached to her to make any annoying opposition to
her wishes. Ihe issue may he guessed.
The happy Moreau saw nothing in the future
but visions of pleasure and joy. He loved too
sincerely even to cast a thought on the fortune of
the countess, hut he had other ambitious thoughts,
“ It is true,” said he, “ that I am only one of the
humble soldiers of the emperor, hut it is from a
mong them that he chooses his captains, and I
feel assured that I shall become one of them.”—
The countess was less hopeful of the future, but
she could not cast a damp over these anticipa
tions, And when the period of Moreau’s stay
came to a close, when his detaehment was order
ed to join head quarters, she did not express to
the young soldier the fears that filled her own
mind, whenever the thought of her haughty rela
tives, and of her reunion with them, crossed her
memory The last words of Moreau were, “It
is hut necessary that I should speak to the empe
ror, all will be arranged. ’ The countess swore
to he ever faithful; and Moreau promised that he
would he careful of his life, and return with the
cross of honor, and the epaulettes of an officer.
Bathed with the countess’ tears, the young sol
dier then took his way from the chateau, but of
ten cast bark his eyes, and gazed, as long he could
see it, on the hand ol his lady love, waving a
handkerchief in token of reiterated farewells.
Soon afterwards, Moreau’s regiment entered
Potsdam, only some hours before the expected
arrival of the emperor, and was drawn up beside
the palace of Saus-Souci, to he reviewed hy him
as he passed. Napoleon’s visage was bland and
smiling as he moved slowly on his white battle
horse along the ranks which had so brave
ly fought at Jena, When he came before the
spot where Moreau stood, the latter who han
made up his mind to fdead his own cause, stood
forward from the ranks, presented arms, and beg
ged permission to a word. “Speak,” said the
emperor, who encouraged such personal appeals,
“I wish to marry sire, if it be your good pleasure,”
said Moreau. “What! in the middle of a cam
paign I” replied Napoleon; “what sutler gi| sey
has decoyed ycu to thisT” “Sire!” said the
simple-hearted Moreau, “it is no sutler, hut a la
dy near Jena, who ia beautiful as an angel, and
rich as the Mayoress of Tours.” The emporer
smiled, and the young soldier continued—“ She
had sworn her tailh to me; and for me, I have
promised to her to have one day the cross of hon
or, and the epaulettes of a captain,” “Her name?”
said the emperor. “The Countess Diana of
Drucken,” was Moreau’s answer.
At this name the emperor showed a degree of
displeased surprise. In n second or two he ex
claimed, “Fy ! you a soldier of France, to forget
yourself, thus, and wish to degrade youraelf and
your comrades hy an alliance with a stranger, an
enemy of France 1 Think no more of it! Re
turn to your place in your ranks.” As he spoke
he gave the. spur to his charger, and flew at full
gallop to another regiment.
The campaign went on, and Moreau fought
bravely throughout it. Another and another
campaign followed, and he was still in the guards
of Napoleon. The fearful invasion of Russia,
found him in the same position, and be was with
his muster (ill the abdication at Fontainhleau.—
By this lime Moreau hud won the cross of the
legion of honor, and had risen in the service,
though not to a commission ; —hut hard toil and
woundt had dune much of the usual work of time
upon him. The remembrance of the Countess
Diana, however, remained ever fresh in his mem
ory. He had written to Weimar,to Madame the
Countess of Drucken. hut either the post or the
lady was faithless. He received no reply—not a
word—not a token of reminisenee. When the
Bourbons finally brought with them a general
peace, Moreau revisited his aged father and hia
native Tours. There he found many old friends
and they would have had him to marry a young
and pretty girl, and settle himself for life, hut he
was the chosen bridegroom of a countess, and he
refused all proffers of this kind; waiting always,
with undiminished anxiety, fur (he coronetted
carriage, which he confidently expected to come
one day and carry him to his beloved.
In the year !829, Moreau still remained at
Tours, having revisited Weimar and the chateau
of the Countess, without learning tidingsofher—
the chateau being occupied hy strangers. Still j
he found the chief solace of life in the hopes
which all who knew him considered vain and
delusive. The summer of the year mentioned,
however, was signalized hy the arrival in Tours,
of a superb German travelling-carriage, drawn by
four horses. A young man was the sole occu
pant of this, and scarcely had he entered the town,
when he left the carriage, and made inquiry, “if
Moreau, a grenadier of the old imperial guard,
was still alive, and still resided in Tours 1” The
answer was still in the affirmative, and the young
man requested to he guided to his residence. A
person rcadilv offered to execute this task, and
walked towards the veteran's dwelling, the car
riage as well as the owner following. "Yonder j
is Moreau,” said the guide, “seated on his stone j
bench.” The young man moved forward alone |
to the side of the soldier, who was indeed basking !
his still nuhle-looking head in the rays of the i
evening sun. “Arcyou Moreau of the uldguard?”
said the stranger, with a faltering voice.
“ Yes,” cried he starting up, “I am Moreau, of !
the third regiment of the old guard.”
“ It is you whom I seek,” ssid the youth, clas
ping the old man’s hand, and seemingly strug
gling to conceal bis emotions from the public eye;
“enter this carriage. lam come to conduct you
to the chateau of Drucken.” Half embraced by
his conductor, Moreau ascended the vehicle, and
(be postillions, at a signal, drove rapidly away.
Moreau, tha grenadier of the old guard of Napo
leon, was no more seen in Toura, or bis native
France.
Diana Countess of Diurken was not unfaithful
to the young soldier. Out when rejoined hy bee
family, after (he terrors caused by the French
visit had a little subsided they threatened her
even with death if she attempted to prosecute her
engagement with Moreau. Effectually <o mar
her purpose, they strove to induce her to many
again, but this they could not effect. It was only,
however, when the truth could not be longer con
cealed, that she dared to tell them that the cere
mony of marriage had already passed between
Moreau and herself, the old chaplain being tha
officiating minister, and also the sole witness, on
the occasion. Bitterly as the kindred of tha
countess cursed this secret connection, they a
greed, on condition that she solemnly swore nev
er to disgrace them by sending for Moreau, to
torment her no more with schemes of re-marriage
and to permit herself to bring up the boy to whom
she gave birth, under the character of her nephew
and avowed heir. The name of Moreau was
sentenced to oblivion. The fear of endangering
her son’s welfare caused the countess to keep her
engagement unbroken, though her unchanged af
fection for Moreau would often strongly tempt
her to an opposite line of conduct. But, on her
death bed, the countess revealed for the first time
to her son his true history and parentage, and
laid her dying commands upon him logo to Tours,
and to render comfortable the old age of his fath
er, if ho still lived. Her own heart, at that truth
displaying moment, was wrung with remorse at
the reflection that she had permitted any engage
ments whatever to separate her from one to whom
she had solemnly and lastingly bound herself.
Arrived at Drucken, Moreau could only weep
over the tomb of her for whom he had yearned for
twenty-four long years. But the tender cares of
his son, who had taken him from Tours, render
ed the veteran’s latter days happy. If he hadnot
the object of hia life’s dream beside him, he had
at'least the satisfaction of knowing that she had
not been unfaithful to him.
Extiiaoiidinaiit Munificence.—The Low
ell Institute in Boston, was established by a leg
acy of near $300,000 in the will of the late
Mr. Lowell, the interest of which is to be annu
ally expended in free public lectures. I'rofesser
Silliman has been engaged for five years, to lecture
at an annual salary of $2,000. It is said that
upwards of 15,000 persons attended the 340 dif
ferent literary lectures in Boston last year, at a
cost of $12,000.
“ Queer Chaps.” —lt is said that the support
of Harrison is so universal in some of the counties
of Indiana, that a Van Buren man, whenever he
passes along the streets, is pointed out as some
thing queer.
Beautiful Extract. —The following beau
tiful extract is from (iallagher’s Hesperian, a
monthly publication, issued in Cincinnati, Ohio;
“Young womanhood ! ‘the sweet moon on the
horizon’s verge,’ a thought matured, but not ut
lerreil—a conception warm and glowing, not yet
embodied : the rich halo which precedes the ri
sing sun—the rosy down that bespeaks the ripen
ing peach—a flower—
‘A flower which is not quite a flower,
Yet is no more a bud.’ ”
Solkmciiolt.—ln some English grave yard is
the following old epitaph r
“The wedding day appointed was
And wedding clothes provided,
But ere that day did come, alas!
He sickened, and he die-did.”|
Punctuation.—A Southern paper advertise*
a black runaway by the following description;—
“He is about 25 years of age, hia note turns up
six feet high, had on, &c.” What a nozzle that
must be ?
Sam Slick says thnt he never knew but one man
die of a broken heart, and he brought on the affec
tion by lifting a big anvil.
Consignees per South Carolina Kail Road.
Hamburg, February 13, 1840.
TII Plant; W E Jackson ; E Mustin j Garvin
Haines; T Dawson; F Lamback; C A Greiner;
L Dwclle ; Clark, Itackett & < o ; Moore & Davis j
B W Force ; G T Dortic; T Davis; S Kneeland &
Sen ; J W Houghton ; W Hattier; Stovall, Sim
mons dr Co ; Adams & Burroughs ; J F Benson.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, February 11.
Cleared. —Ship Eli Whitney, Harding, Liver
pool ; schrs Potomac, Crowell, Boston; Kite, Mar
tin, St Augustine
Arrived. —Br ship Ben Nevis, Burns, Liverpoel;
Br ship Anna Lillcy, Steward, Liverpool; steam
boats Georgia, Norris, Augusta ; Oglethorpe, Wil
liams, do.
Went to sea —Brig Independence, Evans, Havre;
Br brig King Henri, Leitch, Trinidad; Br brig Es
aequibo, Lamont, Glasgow.
Departed. —Steamboat Despatch,Guilmartin, Au
gusta.
Charleston, February 13.
Arrived yesterday.—tit ship Harriet Scott, Bey
non, Belfast; ship Bobin Hood, Proctor, Boston.
Jn the Offing. —Ship Victoria,Lennox, Liverpool
Cleared. —packet ship Chicora, Kogers, Liver
pool ; Fr barque Mexico, Beuscher, Havre ; U L
brig Lawrence,Cobb, N York ; sell* Susan, Hardy,
Matanzas.
Went to sea yesterday.—Ship Republic, Thomp
son, Liverpool.
IAW NOTICE.— A. K. BLACKWELL, Altar
j ney at Law, will practice in the different
counties in the Cherokee Circuit, also the Courts at
Marietta, Cobb county stw* jaa #
MADISON .. SPRINGS’
EjJB (taafifll Ksii'J
|a?iTE laigifl UiilM luma I
rfIHE MADISON SPRINGS has changed own
ers, and the present proprietor ot this fashion
able watering place, who is now titling them up in
a supcri'T st.vlc, will be able to accommodate about
300 persons, in a nanner which he hopes may enti
tle him to the future patronage of his visiters. The
old buildings are undergoing a thorough repair, and
new ones being put up—the roads leading to the
Springs will be made safe and pleasant for carria
ges —new avenues are opened, and various other
improvements are in progress, which will add much
to the comforts and amusement of visiters.
Arrangements have been made with Mr. H. N.
Wilson to put a superior line of coaches between
Athens and the Springs, so that with the present
arrangements of the Georgia Kail Koad the time of
travelling from Augusta to the Springs will not ex
ceed twenty hours.
They will be opened on the first of June for the
reception of visiters, and the following moderate
of charges observed t Board, by the month,
and servants half price. 1
DANIEL MORRISON, Proprietor. J
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