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eri-lUccliiu €l)tronkk&o£iitm«l. J. W. &W. S. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY li, 1840. ~ VoL IV> _ No 19 the: chronicle and sentinel 13 PUBLISHED D iILY TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. 209 Broad-street. terms; Bail j paper. Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or Sjvcn at the end of the year. Weskly paper,Three Dollars in advance,or Four at the end of year. t .u l —-» | 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 feb !4*-wtlstje