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Cu-KUccliln ChronicleMn-ntind. J. vv. & VV. S. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1840. ‘ - Vol. IV.— No. 23. THE CIIKOX'IOLK and sentinel *IS PUBLISHED ' D JLY TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At Ao. 209 Broad-street. terms: DMj paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Tri tVeekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or S ;ven at the end of the year. Weekly pap t, Three Dollars in advance, or Four at the end of year. CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. - * . AUGUSTA. MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24. Our Reading Room. Some weeks since we notified our friends that we were making arrangements to have this estab lishment handsomely fitted up and well suppiied with Papers and Magazines, under the impres' sion that it would receive such patronage as it merited. In this, however, we have thus far been disappointed, as there seems to be little disposi tion to sustain an establishment of the sort in the city. The indifference, however, is probably the re. suit of an impression among many who have heretofore been subscribers, that they arc still so, which is erroneous, unless their Subscription be renewed. The object of this notice therefore is to inform those who wish to become subscribers to the Room, that our Book will be kept open and the Room lighted during the present week, at the ex piration of which, we will determine whether it is prudent to incur greater expense, or discontinue it altogether. The price of subscription to each is Five Dol lars per annum, invariably in advance. For a Firm of two or more members Ten Dol lars. * Western Bank ol Georgia. We learn from a gentleman of high standing, direct from Rome, that this Bank is again re deeming its Bills with current Bills, whenever they are presented, and he further informs us that the Cashier, 1 hidan A. Green, Esqr., assured him their Bank would continue to do so in fu tuie. Twenty-Second of February. The hinh-day of Washington was celebrated in this city in a manner highly creditable to our citizens. The Volunteer Companies turned out in a spirited manner, and at eleven o’clock a pro cession'feas formed in front of the United States Hotel,byfy.'hich the Orator and Reader of the day were escorted to the Presbyterian Church, where after divine service, Washington’s Farewell Address was read by the Rev. C. F. Sturgis, and an impressive and excellent oration was delivered by William R. McLaws. Esq. We had not the pleasure of hearing it, as we were absent from lha city, but we heard it highly spoken of by those who were more fortunate than ourselves. Extr.cts of letters received in this city dated Savaxxah, February 21. “We have to-day Liverpool dates to 3d Janu ary, per Olive Branch. They report an advance of i. Money easy and a firm market, and quote a 7jd. We have four ships in to-day, and I | understand they offer to take Id for round bales. The wind is favorable for arrivals, and we may look for several more in all this week, and I think freights will settle dow n to | a J for square and round. These arrivals will help the market more than the accounts.” February 21. “By the Olive Branch fr.im Liverpool direct, we have letters to 3d January. Upon a declara. tion of stock on the Ist. the market became brisk and an advance of Jd was obtained during the three days, upon American descriptions. Money was abundant in London at 5 per cunt interest, and trade in Manchester brisk.” February 21. “ The Olive Branch direct from Liverpool ar rived this morning, bringing dates to4th Jan uiry. We have no letters but hear that cotton had advanced i d since stocks were declared and that the stocks of American proved 27,000 bales less than was expected.” The Philadelphia Commerc’al List of the 15th says:—‘•On Monday last the ice gave way in the Delaware River, and the City Ice Boat towed up the Brig Stranger to the city. Since that period • number of vessels have arrived and cleared.— There has been a considerable freshet in the inte rior, which has brought down an immense quan tity of floating ice, in some cases 18 to 20 inches in thickness. The impression is rapidly gaining "V giound that no destructive measures will be re sorted to by the Legislature with reference to the Banks. Goods having arrived, as soon as confi dence is a little more restored, considerable activi ty may be expected in the market. The weather is mild and pleasant. Extract of a letter received in this city, dated Philadelphia, Feb. 17, 1840. “ I regret to say that your cotton lias come to a very dull market—scarcely any sales making, and the best Orleans will not command over 11J ; and I do not see any prospect of improvement; our stock is about 2300 bales, and 1500 more dally expected.' Correspond nee of the Aational Intelligencer. New Your, Feb. 17, 3 P. M. The sales of Cotton to-day are 350 bales at steady prices. In fl >ur, no movement—Booo bushels bard Long Island wheat were purchased last week for the English market at 125 c per bushel. Storks sold largely at the Board this morning, and at rather higher prices. Domestic Exchanges may bo quoted as fol lows; Philadelphi 6£ a Baltimore 5J a6, Richmond a7, Charleston 3J a4, Savannah 7, Augusta 8$ a9, Macon 10 all, Mobile a 8, New Orleans 4J a j. The Silvie de Grasse, which sailed this morn ing for Havre, takes $106,000 in specie. William Selden of Virginia has been appoint ed Treasurer of the United States, in the place of John Campbell, superceded. from the Savannah Telegraph of Friday. Latest Irom England. The Br. ship Olive Branch, Capt. Sedrick, ar rived this day, sailed on the sth of January, from Liverpool, and we understand has accounts to the 4th of last month—having consequently five days later intelligence. She brings the good news that the Cotton mar ket remains steady—Sales of the week 14000 bales, prices ranging from GJ to 7Jd. New Yotik agaixsttbk Sub-Theasubt.— The anti-Sub-Treasury resolutions from the House passed the Senate of New York on Thurs day, by a vote of 16 yeas to 9 nays. Being slightly amended, they were returned to the House, and immediately passed that body by a vote of 92 to 7. Thus decidedly speaks the Em pire State against the Sub-Treasury scheme of Spoils’ party. —National Intelligencer, Correspondence of the Philadelphia A. American. New Your, Feb. 14, 3 p. m. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Manhattan Bank to-day, it was resolved, that a report of a Committee of the Board made Jan. 15th, and another made Jan. 27th, should be printed. These reports show that a very large proportion of the resources of the bank have been used in loans on demand, secured by stocks and notes, and that this part of the business ought to be very largely reduced. The reports do not es timate the loss as great, and they do not attach blame to any officer of the bank for having made them. The subject has ceased to be talked of, but the publication of those reports (o-morrow, will bring it up again for one day. The field of icc at Throg’s Neck was broken through by the New Haven boat yesterday after noon, and the navigation of the sound will be re sumed immedia’ely. The market for Gennessee flour is rather firm er again. Sales to-day at $6 50. This is owing to the opening of the Sound, which makes a de mand for Eastern ports, where the article is very scarce. Cotton is selling pretty freely for exportation. Prime Uplands, very handsome, I saw sold to-day at 9| in round, and 10 cents for square bales. Correspondence of the Aational Intelligencer. New Youk, February 16, 1840. The Manhattan Bank has made a report of its affairs, not over-satisfactory nor extra-promising fur its stockholders. Resolutions have passed the New York Assem bly almost unanimously, asserting the right of pe tition, and directly censuring the late action in Congress upon that subject. The first resolution passed ayes 85, nocs 10, and others without a division. The Van Buren men, of course, acted with the Whigs on this subject, and it was not a pirty question. The action here is quite a significant sign of the times. It shows what an important phalanx of Southern defenders the Northern men with Southern principles, are, and ust how much dependence the South can put upon them; hut no matter for this, though, as the South loves lobe duped on this subject, and is completely duped by the whole force of the ex- Regency of the State. The fact is, the only defence of the States and their institutions, under the Constitution of the United Sta.es, is the Cans rvatism of the Whigs. The Locofocos of the Park, with wh >m Mr. Calkoux has just shaken hands, believe in no contract that cannot he repealed by a majority at will, and in no Constitutions the majority may not in an hour upset. They temporize, it is true, but with Southern slav i institutions, as with Northern banks, if the People will them down, down they must go, Thsir ideas of the largest liberty embrace all mankind—the emigrants of all races, and the colors of all human kind. If the Whigs of the North were in abolition what they are charged with being often, the Van Uu ren men would, and must of necessity follow, for their principles dispose them to abolition for the whole human race, as well as to (he abolition of all restrain : ng law ; and whenever the Whigs take a step like that just taken in the New York Hou-e of Assembly, the Van Buren men, of course, go with them on such a subject as fares the furthest. However, the South so loves lic ing duped, of late, that it is scarcely worth the while to show them how it is done. I commend the action of New York, though, to the attention of the Southern Whig Press. The Northern man with Southern principles has ten whole men in the popular body of the great Sta.e of New York! The rest ran away ia action, and could not stand fire! New York, February 16. There are no arrivals of importance. Wc continue hourly to expect later news from Eu rope. The Eastern mail brings us nothing extraordi nary, A great Temperance Convention is assem bled in Boston. There is nothing new in the city. Our river is open some distance, and, to ascertain how far, a steamboat to-morrow will go up to see. The Sound is again passable, and boats go through it daily. The Southern mail (3 o'clock) has not reach ed our post office. It is to be hoped the Post master General and the Baltimore and Philadel phia rail road will soon make some anangement, for never was a quarrel, to the Public, more vexa tious. New Yobk, February 17, 1840. The steamship Liverpool on her voyage out put into Fayal, one of the Western islands, for a supply of coal, December 31, and sailed agai.i January 3. This news, via Boston, relieves the anxiety of the insurance offices, which where pretty fall upon the gold and silver taken out in her. The Eastern steamboat leaves to-day, for the first time since the Sound was closed, with the mail for Boston. Large masses of ice are com ing down the North river. Slocks to-day have been quite lively in Wall street, with the exception ofthe Manhattan. The patchwork report from that institutions on Sa turday did not last over that day, and the conse quence was a decline to-day to 97. The Public nre very much dissatisfied with the management of this bank, and it is now clear that its money i i has tieen loaned to the brokers to shave notei with, when it had none for legitimate business and merchants. 1 he agent who has been coasting along Lon); Island shore for the discovery of the dead bodies lost by the Lexington, has returned without find, ing any. It is not at all improbale, however, lhal some will be found by-and-hy. Correspondence of the Baltimore American. Washington, Feb. 17. USITItI) STATES SENATE. —PUBLIC LANDS. Mr. Dixon, of Rhode Island, presented the Res olutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, ask ing Congress to divide the proceeds arising from the sales ol the Public Lauds among the several ■Hates of the Union. Mr. D. in presenting these Resolutions, remarked that they were similar to the Resolutions which had been before offered, referring to that subject. No Stale, Mr. D. re marked, had done more to secure the possession of the public domain for the Union than Rhode Island—the citizens of no State had done more to achieve the Independence of the country in her Revolutionary struggle. The Public Lands, Mr. D. contended, belonged to the old States, and was their property in common with the new States. After the resolutions had been read, Mr. Cal houn remarked that he did not believe that the respected State of Rhode Island hail ever seen the bill of his which proposed the cession of the Pub lic Lands among the several States of the Union in which the lands were located. He believed that the State of Rhode Island had got their in formation from letter writers or newspapers which presented fiction for truth. Be that as it may, the resolutions, said Mr. Calhoun, do not fairly state the character of my bill, which proposes a partial equivalent for the lands ceded to the Stales. My bill also, said Mr. Calhoun, U designed to diminish patronage, which gentlemen on the op posite side so much desire. Mr. < lay said that in his humble opinion the resolutions of Rhode Island pretty nearly, if not altogether, sta,ed the effect of the character of the bill of Mr. Calhoun. The bill proposed to cede all the lands belonging to the United Stales to the States wherein the lands lie. It was true that one half the receipts were to be returned to the Govern ment, but the States were to be the collectors of this one-half, and though they might not like some of our collectors, run away with the one half, yet it would doubtless be very inconvenient for them to meet the debt required of them by the Government. Many excuses would be made, and much time and accommodation asked. He d mbted even if some would not ask to be reliev ed from their debts upon the ground that the land belonged to them, or for some other reason. Mr. Calhoun said he was not to be provoked into a discussion at this time. When the Com mittee on the Public Lands took up this question, he should go into it, and be ready to meet the Senator from Kentucky or any body else. He should show that his bill was an important meas ure of public policy, and that it would not result as that Senator supposed. “As for the opinions ofthe Senator born Kentucky,” said Mr. Calhoun, “ I have no confidence in them—none whatever.” Mr. Clay.—l am equally unwilling to protract debate or throw hindrances in the way of the Sen ate—but I wish to say to the Senator from South Carolina, that I heartily reciprocate all that he has said in regard to tbeconfidei.ee he had in my opinions or remarks. Igo a little further, said Mr. Clay. I have no respect for his opinions, past, present, nr to come. Whenever the Senator from South Carolina, rises in his place and with his usual egotism sends out a challenge, and one to me, I shall in my poor way make as good a defence as I can. That Sen ator’s frequent description of his powers are no doubt equal to his genius.—l grant that he has that, but I must say that I am tired of hearing from him these continued exhibitions of his personal powers, morals and intellectual strength. Mr. Calhoun said—l shall not rise to notice the personalities of the Senator. I have but risen to say that I have not misstated the character of my own bill. I scarcely ever speak continued Mr. C. that he does nut rise to answer me. To day he has come in between me and the Senator from Rhode Island. I consider that my proposi tion was wrongly staled by the Legislature of Rhode Island, and I have but corrected the mis take. Mr. Clay said—l appeal to the Senate as to who began the personal allusions complained of. He commenced by stating in an uncourteous, un usual, and unparliamenlary way, that ne had no confidence in my opinions. He wishes to make an attack upon me and then assume the position of one acting on the defensive. This is bis usual and his wiley course. What arc the facts? The Senator from South Carolina rises to correct the proceedings of the Legislature of Rhode Island. He wishes to say that the Leg'slalum have miss tated his bill. My opinion is that they have not and so believing I have corrected the Senator’s errors. Pressed by the sensitiveness of his na ture, and his natural egotism, continued Mr. Clay he leaveshisown position, uses different language and makes an attack upon me. The Senator and myself are antagonislical to each other. We are so naturally, in character and principle. I feel that we shall remain so. I am content.—But whenever that Senator wraps himself in his mantle cf self defence,,dies upon the sympathy of his friends rather than upon the justice of his cause—when he chosesto challenge me to meet him in any honoiable way, I will meet him, and in his language repel attack. From the U, S. Gazette. Mn. Joseph R. Chandler,—Sir:— Permit me, through the medium of your Gazette, to make a few remarks in regard to the present debt of Mississippi. In 1833, from September to De cember, there were several thousand slaves car ried to, and sold in that state. The success with which the traders met induced a number of keen, enterprising men to embark in that unfeeling traffic the succeeding fall. In the fall of 1834 (he trade was tripled. The traders sold out, at fine profits, for bills on New Orleans at four months time Previously they had required cash in hand. The trade had now been universally profitable for two years. The speculators from Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Missouri aud Maryland, directed their attention to it, to the neglect of other important enterpris es. In the fall of 1835, slaves, in great multi tudes, were driven to the slate, quadrupling any previous year. The demand abroad advanced the price. The competition forced the traders to give from twelve t • fifteen months lime, add ing ten per cent. interest; but the prices advanc ed from S7OO to SIOOO, and at the close of the sales to SI2OO. average. So soon as the planter learned he could purchase on time, by bills on New Orleans, the advanced price ceased to bean objection, and he bought liberally. The traders now soon sold all they had, returned home with the accepted bills, cashed them in bank, and not only embarked in it again more largely them i selves, but induced their friends and acquaintan ■s ces also to engage in it. Every comer of the ,s slaveholding states was now ransacked, and every dwidling visited by the trader. Prices advanced B still higher and higher. The fall of 183fiisa ■8 time long to lie remembered. All the public highways to Mississippi became lined—yea lit *l crallv crowded—with slaves. When they ar rived, the immense number (swelling the rise of 40,000) made the callous hearts of all the traders ache. I hey pitched their tents upon the brow of every hill, surrounding each town and village in the slate, awaiting the call of purchasers. No one came. I'he winter of 1837 approached, and but few, very few, sales were yet effected. At u ll ,o y adverti-ed they would give one and two ,1 years time, by bills of New Orleans, adding ten per eent. interest discount. „ terms were accepted by the planters, and many were induced to purchase a second, and ’ even a third supply at from 12 to SIBOO each, u All the slaves were soon sold. But by this time e 'he merchants began to give way. N, arly all e the bills made by the planters in the fah of 1835 r and spring of 1836, at from twelve to fifteen months time, were protested for non-payment, j The bills for the whole of the purchase in the winter and spring of 1837 were protested for non-acceptance. 'The negro speculators became B alarmed. They went to work in February and March, and in three months time had secured their debts by deeds in trust and mortgages upon nearly the whole properly of the stale. In three I years, the slave population of Mississippi increas ed from 70,000 to 150,000 slaves! at an aver j age cost of at least SIOOO each ! making the debt for slaves alone, in three years, swell to $90,000,- ’ 900 !! From 1833 to 1837, cotton bore an ex ' orbitant high price. This, together with the increased force, indu ’ ecd the planter to direct all his energy to its cul tivation, relying upon purchasing every article of consumption. He neglected to raise his corn and 6 P os h ;he had to purchase more mules, horses and t ploughs, open more lands, and increase his bills e with the merchants, whom he totally neglected to , P«y- When the crash came in May, 1838, all B the paper held against the planter by the mer chant, or nearly all, was transferred to the banks, or sued upon by the merchants. The c owd of j. business in the different Courts delayed judg -0 ment, and when ju Igrnent was at last obtained, the sheriff's and marshals could find nothing 1 ! carcely to levy upon. Bankruptcy and ruin t among some of the merchants were inevitable : and in their full they crushed the hanks. 'The nc ’ gro trader stood by with cold indifference, and be held towns depopulated and large plantation at- I tor plantation laid waste, growing up wiih thorns I and briers, without feeling one pang of remorse for the ruin and wretchedness they had brought upon the country ; laughing at their own safety and security. , A change has taken place. By a late decision ' in the Federal Court at Jackson, it was decided that according to the amended constitution of M is j sissippi, which took place in 1832 and winter of s 1833, all contracts for slaves since May, 1833, are made null and void, the constitution forbidding • the introduction of slaves for sale. Two-thirds of the present debt of the state is for slaves bought since May, 1833. The mortgages to the negro i traders are now all laid aside, and cease to trouble , the minds of the planters. Millions of dollars, ' that were considered hopelessly lost, will now be made. Banks, that had encumbered the planter’s , properly with second liens, will now obtain their money. Merchants,that had obtainedjudgments, ‘ ha'e once mote set the sheriff to work ; and the planters, instead of applying all their means to ‘ the liquidation of the negro debt, feel themselves able to pay banks and merchants. When the , crop of 1841 has gone to market, you. and the whole world will be astonished to find exchange turned in favor of Mississippi. Nevertheless, it I will be so. She is now less legally involved, for her resources, than any stale in the Union ; and will, in two years, number among the wealthiest states of the Union. A Hcectatob. ■ Jaduary 28, 1840. From Blackwood's Magazire. The Fireman's Trial by Fire. A TRUE TALE. — BT R. D, U. All the world remembers, no doubt, the burn ing of the distillery belonging to Mr. B-—, at Dublin. On that occasion an adventure happen ed to me which never had, and I ho te never will have a parallel. I reside in Dublin, where lam a physician. The evening of the fire, I had gone to the neighborhood of Harold's Cross to super intend the bathing of one of my patients, whose case was, to me, an object of peculiar interest.— As I was returning about 11 o'clock at night, the glare of light reflected by the clouds in the north west, attracted my notice, and I immediately di rected my steps that way. The distillery was a long structure, supported at one end by an old building forming two wings, and at the other by a similar but perfectly new edifice, in fact, not yet finished. On my arrival, the large yard presented an ex ceedingly animated spectacle, as may Ire readily conceived. ’Three engines poured torrents of wa ter over the roofs and into the windows from which the flames wcie bursting. It was like a battle of the two elements. The whole yard swam in water, which reflected the gushing flames, rendered dazzling by the motion of the men who stood in it ankle deep. The engineers were mounted on their machines, giving orders to those around and above them, bawling through their trumpets to those stationed on the roofs who sometimes disappeared altogether amid the vo lume of smoke which swept gradually upward, and then re-appearing, they seemed like bronzed statues, relieved by a back ground of glowing flame. I was not long inactive in such excite ment. and in a few minutes found myself diench ed with water and perspiration. One of the du ties in which I took part, was rolling out from the wareh >uses in which they were stored, the barrels of spirits, which it was feared would take fire, end render ten-fold the destruction and ex tent of the conflagration. To do this it was ne cessary to pass over a platform of mason work which uncased a vast copper boiler, very deep; the mouth or opening of which was on a level with the platform, and of two or three feel diam eter. At some six feet above our heads was a floor, the beams of which rested in. and extended through the wall, which alone protected us from the flames. . J .fler I had made two or three turns on this platform, one of the speculators who had witnessed my exertions, directed my attention to the ends of the joints, which were just taking fire; the floor would undoubtedly soon fall, and perhaps drag down with it the opposite wall, the mortar of which was still wet. I retreated a few steps, hut at this moment I saw at the other side of the platform a man lielonging to one of the insurance companies, who made a sign to me to give him assistance. Casting my eyes upwards to the floor above, and was scarcely mounted on it before a mass of mason work fell upon us. I know not how 1 escaped being killed ; the ladder was broken in splinters; a whirlwind of smoke, ashes, and flume encircled me, and I wag lost—l soutd not find the place I had left. I became bo e wildcred ; I attempted to run ; a rush o*f flame r stopped me. Then I was just about to be crush -1 ed by a fulling beam, for it rained fire around me, i when I felt my footing give way, and my cars ' were greeted by the sonorous sound of surround ■ ing metal. I had fallen into the large copper boil • er. Well, thought I, when my first fears vanish- I ed, after all lam in greater safety here ti.an above, 1 amid falling limbers and surrounding flame. I And without making any calculations how I was to extricate myself from my prison when the fnc i was extinguished, I settled myself as well as pos sible in my strange abode, “ to bide my time.” Alter this I could hear nothing but thj falling 1 of limbers and brick, which seemed to strike, re bound and descend again in rapid succession.— It was like a world rolling on above my head. I thought at one lime the boiler was going to be crushed but the surrounding mason-work protect ed it. A considerable quantity of rubbish fell into the boiler through the opening. To this rub bish, it will be seen, I owe my life. An enor mous beam fell upon the upper part of it; the copper gave way without breaking, so that there was a great bruise inside, i In the midst of the noise, which the concavity of my metal prison rendered perhaps more lerri ! riblc by its reverberation, I believed myself for 1 ever lost. I tried to climb up the sides of the 1 boiler. Vain effort! They were smooth as glass, i My prison was at least fourteen feet in diameter, t and almost as high. It was a cage, from which • escape seemed impossible. I began to estimate my chances of getting out, when the whole of the ; old wall fell, and the greater part ofthe wreck fell around my prison. Despair now seized upon me as I gazed upon the roaring furnace above me. Burning cinders fqjßahout me like a fiery snow. I stood close the sides of my prison-house, to avoid the F fire-brands. Expecting death every instant, I in- I slinctively shut my eyes and cast down my head, I and in my terror gradually sunk upon my knees, i awaiting the blow which was to crush me. I • was recalled from thi- stale of agony by the glare I of bursting flames, which having now free vent, • shot up as from a volcano, lighting up my copper house till it shone like gold itself. Although the f fire roared in the wind, my poor ears rang through my head, and that which passed above, around, within me, no one can conceive, no pen describe. After some time, all this confusion began to be calm, and I bethought me once more how to es cape. To climb along the copper sides was out of the question. I made then a kind of rope out of my clothes, and, fixing a brick at one end, I threw it out of the opening in the belief it would catch into some point over the edge of the open ing. to enable me to mount by it. Vain hope ! the edge ofthe opening was on a level with the mason-work surrounding it. I cried aloud in the hope of being heard. No answer came. I rap i ped with a brick against the resounding walls of I my prison; but the noise, which at any other time ’ would have waked hall the town, was drowned [ in the superior noise without—of the thousands in the crowd, of the dying and the workmen. I endeavored to retign myself with patience till i the extinguishment of the fire. Then the idea struck me that perhaps I might be heard by call ing through the spout by which the boiler was emptied—a pipe large enough to admit a man’s arm. This hole was in the bottom of the boiler. I stooped down to put my mouth to the orifice. My hands were covered with wet gloves, so that it was not till I put my lips to the metal that I discovered a frightful truth: the copper was so hot that I could not touch it! I could not think of my horrid situation without shuddering. I jumped up hastily ; I made incredible eff rts to climb—to leep out. I might as well have tried to scale the heavens! I cried, I bawled out for help till I was hoarse. The hissing ofthe flames ■done answered my ejaculations. I rested myself upon the heap of rubbish, resigning myself to the thought that I was about, literally, to lie "proven in a furnace of braes, seven times healed." I put my hand to my forehead; it was covered with a cold sweat. I took from my pocket my little thermometer, I had to regulate the bath of my patient. It stood at 40 deg. I placed the ball in contact wiih the copper sides of the boiler: the mercury rose with such rapidity that I feared the tube would bu st. Then I remained some time in a state of stupor. My courage abandon ed me, I confess it, when the thought crossed me of the torments fur which I was reserved when the copper attained a red heat, which I had reason to fear would be the cai-e. The thermometer was at 45 deg. Reaumer: but I knew the experience ol Fordyce and Ranks had proved that the living fibre can, for a limited lime, withstand a heat of twice that power without decomposing. A ray of hope came o reanimate me, when I thought of the many examples my own studies had furnished me. I recalled the instance of the young girl of Lnrochefoulcault, who entered an oven at a heat of 142 deg. According to Bonnerat, there are fish which live in water at 65 deg., in the springs of Manill s. 1 endeavored to recollect the names of the plants of which the same author speaks, in the island ol Lacon, the mots of which are imbed ded in water ofthe temperature 0f79 deg. At length I tried to convince myself that the copper was heated from the fire above, which would soon'diriiii.ish, and as Iho|el the boiler would then cool. But. alas ! the continued ri sing of the mercury dissipated that feeble hope.— I then sal about calculating at what temperature lb r metal must arrive before the. air around me s'iou d become heated to 120 deg., which, I thought I might support without death. But my head be came confused, so that I could not follow up my inquiries. These efforts, however, served to pre serve my presence of mind. I could even take notes, and make the following memorandum, a kind of scientific will, written in view of an evi dent death. The following I threw out of the boiler, attached to a brick : “I am Dr. M ,of street. Whoever finds this paper, let him come to the boiler, in the new building, where lam burning to death.— Bring a ladder with you.” “Half-past twelve! Quick! Hasbn!"— (This and two others I bad thrown out in the same manner.) “My will is in the left hand draw of my book case. I wish George N to ha' emy papers. Those which relate to the affair of 8 , I wish burned up. My wet clothes produce around mo a cloud of steam. Thermometer at 52°. “36 minutes before one. The air is suffocat ing. lam wet with perspiration. I will write as long as 1 can.” “15 l«iore one. Therm. 65°.” “13 before one. Therm. 60°.” “10 betbre one. Therm. 66°. My clothes are now dry as tinder—they are stiff to the touch.” • 5 past one. Therm. 77°. I have taken off my two coats, wh ch I hold above my head. The outer gives to the inner air an agitation which makes the heat insupportable.” “8 past one. Therm. Bi°. My watch burns —I have taken it out of my fob. My pened be comes very hot; and yet my body is still cool. The theory of ,on the radiation of heat must lie false.” “13 past one. Therm. 90°. 16 past one. ’ .* f • 11 W • Al/ * T.ier m. 02°. I have taken off every thing ex- cept my boot*. lam not able to austain a con tact with any thing whatever. The air I exhale hale ~my Unß * “ ppearß cooler ‘l>an that lin ‘•My watch is stoopped, from the expansion of the metal. Therm. 99°.” “The flames above me are almost expended. Ijight begins to fail me. The edges of the boil er are becoming red hot. Oh, my God ! Water would boil where lam now writing. Were it not for .he rubbish, the clothes would burn un der my feet. I have taken off my bools, the iron on the heels would scorch the cloth of my coat.’' “104°. lam going to be roasted alive. My last thoughts are lor my wife and poor children. O, God I have pity on me and them. Give to them the strength which fails me. An ox would roast here ” ‘‘llo°. My hands are covered with blisters. Parts of the boiler are red hot. The perspiration running off me. is drying up my insides. Great God ! how long is this to last I I shall soon bfe all withered up. Heaven grant I may die before 1 touch the burning metal! Oh, my dear*»*» ’ } can no longer hold the thermometer —it has fallen and is broken. Whoever finds this memorandum is requested to carry it to Mr. “ ’ street. I resign my affairs his d.scre the heat inere the smell of the burning metal will suffocate me. The heat in creases still. My bowels seem oh, horrid thirst— my breath going lam covered bhs. Good God, what have I done I Pity me—pity me for the love of Christ. I die I pardon my enemies forgive me, heaven!” Feeling myself about to sink. I hastened to wrap my pocket-book in my handkerchief with a handful of small stones and I collected all my strength, for the purpose of throwing it out o‘. my fiery prison. The rapid motion of my arm through the air had the same effect as if I had plunged it into boiling water. Now for the first time, my senses seemed to fail, and a faintness came over mo, which made me hoj e I was going to die without falling against the red hot copper. But these symptoms disapj eared, and left me a prey to all the intensity of agony. My .ace, neck and sbouldeis were covered with blisters. I felt that decomposition by fire had commenced in my legs. The fluids of my body seemed absorbed and exhaled by cutaneous and pulmonary respira tion. I believe firmly, that it was this want of fluid that prevented my skin from being convert ed into one immense blister. The word torture is too weak to exprers what I suffered. In this horrible slate of agony, my eyes fell upon the veins of my aims, which were swelled by the want of circulation. The flames died away and left me in darkness—that, frightful daiknets which rendered visible the dreadful brightness of the burning copper, which on the side of the out let, approached to white heat! • • • A dreudiul thought came over my mind—a thought inspired by the devil, and distilled in the fires of hell. The fresh wind of the night brought again over the boiler the dying flames. A mometary light showed me the half burned cloths upon which I had been standing. I seized my panta loons—l rummaged the pockets—l found some pieces of money, the heat of which had burned the muslin. But it was not money I wanted—it was my knife. I found it, and half opened it. Ihe blade burned my fingers, I cast it Irom me crying, “My God, deliver me from temptation !” My prayer was granted. I heard voices above me—some one approached me;—they came to my assistance. I was saved f Six weeks after wards I began to be able to leave my bed. About five hundred actions now pending in the Massachusetts Courts for violation of the license law, will be stopped by the repeal of the law. Texas.— The estimated increase of the popu lation of Texas during the past year is 100,COO. The administration thinks, that it cannot con stitutionally use the Banks of the States as de positories of the public money. Dues it think that it can constitutionally use the penitentiaries of the States as depositories of the keepers of the public money ?— Prentice. A Texan paper says that a yankee came to that country some time ago, as he said, to cie; it was so healthy in Maine, where he belonged, that folks lived fore'er. After remaining in Hous ton a year he found that he weighed ten pounds more than he did when he quit home, whereupon he resobed to visit New Orleans in August, and said if that did not finish him he should return to home and wait patiently for the millenium. On a subject of great moment to newspaper publishers, the New York Allas termonizelh in the manner following, to wit: “A man who promptly pays his advertising bills, is one of nature’s noblest works. The fact estab lished is at once a passport fur him into society, which he ornaments by bis virtues; but the wretch who advertises in a paper and does not pay, who reinorseles-dy can cheat a printer, is unfit for any hut the lowest and most depraved society, if known be should be shunned by all honorable men. No good and pretty girl would encourage the addresses of such a man for a moment, and when he dies, he tumbles into pi, rotten and corrupt, leaving behind him no bright mcmoiy to sweeten bis ashes.” It is estimated that there are about five hun dred actions now pending in the Massachusetts Courts for violation of the license law, which will lie stopped by the repeal of the law. MARRIED, In Greene county, on Thursday the 20th inst. by the Hon. Thomas Stocks, Major Stewart An derson, to Miss Mary Watson, daughter of Jo seph Watson, late of Greene county. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, February 21. Cleared —Hr ship James Morgan, Furguson, Liv erpool. Arrived —Br ship Orbit, Robinson, London; brigs L Baldwin, Bassett, New York; Wm Taylor, Hoey, do. At Quarantine— Ships Argo, Farley, Boston; Hamilton, Killham, do. Went to sea —Br barks Marry, Godfrey, Liver pool-, Spence, Nicoll,Greenock; Br brig Lady Dou glass, Logan, Liverpool. Charleston, February 22. Arrived yesterday —U SMailschr Thames. Giif fith, Key West via Indian Key; scbn John A lyne, Hawes, Matanzas; Jans Bourne, Perkins, St. Marks. At quarantine —Line ship Leland, Miller, Bos ton; ship Charleston, Winsor,do; brig Commaquid, from do. Cleared —Ship Harriet & Jessie, M’Known, Liv erpool Line ship Lucas, Kldridge, Boston; Brschc Admiral Colpoys, Tucker, West Indies. Went to sea yesterday —Brigs Jo h n C Calhoun, Bullen. Havana; Caspian, Swasey, da