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A U (I I! S T \ .
WEDNESDAY MORNING, VEBHUAUY 20.
Congress.
The proceedings of lids body for some time
I past have been so devoid of inb rest. t.:u: wc have
avoided occupying our i-pace with tlio details
In the House, the routine of conducting business
is strictly pursued, and a la ge portion of the lime
•is daily consum il in discussing points of order,
J appeals from the decisions of the Chair, eidls of j
| the House, &e„ &c. A recent occurrence has j
£ however, thrown about iG proceedings some in- !
■ t" est, and we give our readers an account of it i
F extracted from the correspondence of the Bahi- ;
f more American.
FKUSUN.iL MATTERS POST OFFICE DLPAUT
MKST.
Mr. Graves of Ky„ asked leave of the House
I to offer u resolution which was rend for mforma-
I lion. It commenced with a preamble rete ring to
I an occurrence in the House some time since,
I when VI r. G. made a charge against the Post
Master General. The charge was that one of
I tiie clerks of the Department was now in Ken-
I lucky, editing an Administraliorf paper, and at
j the same time receiving a salary oftwelve huu
l died dollars for services nominally rendered
1 here.
The charge further stated that the supi ofs4o
a mouth was paid to a substitute here to do the
business of the Department. After the reading
. of the preamble, in which Mr. Graves further
| said that he had addressed a letter to Mr. Kendall,
I asking or information as to the truth of the
I charge, which information Mr. K declined to
I give, a resolution was road, authorising the Com-
I mittee on the Post Odice Expenditures to exam-
I ine into the charges made, and report the facts to
I the House.
Mr. Kendall’s answer to Mr. Graves’s letter,
I and the letter of Mr. G. to Mr. K., were read to
I the Hmise. Mr. K. declines most peremptorily
I to give the desired information, and his le’terex-
I cited considerable merriment in the House lor its
I boldness. Mr. Graves says he wishes to have
I his speech correct, and if the charges were incor
rect as made in the House, he hopes to have offi
cial information of the fact.
I Mr. Albert Smith of Maine objected to the re-
P ccptiou of Mr. Graves’ resolutions.
I Mr. Graves moved the suspension of the rules,
I and demanded the yeas and nays, two thirds be-
I ing necessnry. The yeas were 118, the nays
[B2.
Reduction of Salaries.
From the National Intelligencer of the 22d inst.
E wc clip the following sketch of the proceedings
lin the House. The party in power have now an
■ opportunity of testifying the since-ity of their
B professions for the last twelve years. Reform
Band retrenchment have been their watchwords
■ until they have exhausted the Treasury by their
■prodigal expenditure and purloining the puh.ic
■treasu re.
i We hope Mr. Prnffit may persevere in the good
Ryvork, and continue to press this wholesome mca-
LJjme ii'lil it he adopted.
| I,cl the woik begin among the nffi e-holders'
l|*lanii teach them 'hat they must also share in the
ijStjbslislcrs and disi ess which they have *o indus
gHii aisly labored to b ing upon the p ople.
B The House then took up the lull p ovjding for
■the rc-appointmeut of the Commissioner of Pen
■hiioiis an I which said bill h id been reported from
■the Committee of tile Wiiolc on the slate of the
with an amen Imcnt (ollcied hv Vlr Prol-
Btfii) reducing the sala y of the said I 'ominissioner
BLtoiii $3,( CO to $2,500 per annum.
H And the question being on concurring with
mM'.ic ommtltoo of the Whole inllieirani ndment.
| Mr. I’roffil said he believed (lie auiendinerit
■flight to have come from some oilier gentleman,
possessing more clai ns than liimsclftoexperi“ii: e.
Mu b had been said about retrenchment and re
pbrm. Let the country know who wcie now
■hnly to car.y out these professions. He now
Ajjavc notice that he should present a bill, if no
Other gentleman did so pin* iding tor the re 'uc
: lion of the salary of every cfli -er of 20 per cent..
ÜBi'-Indmg members of Congress and all. if nuces
;®*Bry. We were now to ha ea sp tie cu renry.
®iid the salaries of Government officers ought t r
Bnp rendered so as to eorrespon I in tha spec.e
QUandai'd. If gentlemen inlemlcd to ca tv out
professions a commeneemeni must be made
and il might as well be made in th s j
■h in any other case. The message of the Presi-
Hcut recommended the strictest economy and Mr.
BF- was for beginning at once; and lie would
King this House to a test, before the session clo-
in relation to this economy.
■ After some further remarks from Mr. P. the
( Bkiinidmcnt wasilebated by Messrs. Graves. Gid-
Bngs, and W. Thompson,at much length and in
I Buor thereof.
| BMi. Smith, of Maine, replied at some length to
[ Bu. Graves. When Mr 8. was about conclu
[ Bbig. several gentlemen (some 20 or 30) rose and
Maimed the floor, as having first addressed the
' B The Speaker said that a number of gentlemen
.yvfcad addressed the Chair at once, and before the
|| (eiitleman from Maine (Mr. Smith) had actually
•concluded his remarks ; and that if gentlemen
Would be seated, and take a fair start, he would
f decide who had the floor.
P The Speaker then gave the floor to Mr. Davis.
, «f Kentucky, who spoke in favor of the amend
| fceiit. and had not concluded, when he gave way
¥ ton motion for adjournment, which prevailed.
1 i 'lfAnd the House adjourned until 12 o’clock on
I Monday next.
j Resumption in Maryland. —The hill which
1_ pissed the House of Delegates of that State, on
I the 17th, fixes the day for resumption of specie
I payments by the banks, on the first of July.
f ip Mb*. Clat consort of Henry Clay. Jr., died
lapddcnly and unexpectedly in Louisville, on the
Icaening of the 12th instant. |
A correspondent of the N. Y. Courier slates
that General Taylor has issued an order to tilt
detachments pursuing the Indians, to make nt
prisoners , and that a copy of this order is now
on file in the War Department.
Mr. Clay in Richmond.
The following account of the reception of this
distinguished son of the O'd Dominion, we copy
from the Richmond Whig of the 22J inst. It
must have been a proud moment for the Senator,
to witness t ie generous outpourings of the grati
.udeofa noble people, for the distinguished ser
vices which it has been his fortune to render
thron ?h mi eventful and h llliant career. It was
a proud day for Virginia, ton an 1 proudly has
she borne herself in this noble ofleiing to talent
and worth:
Mr. (’lav and Mr. Wise arrived last evening
in the ears from Washington.
Never, since the visit of Lafayette, have we
seen such mi ou burst of fe-liug and enthusiasm
on behalf of the people of Richmond. Bv the
time the ears arrived, the streets were crowded
witli a vast multitude ol from two to three
thousand. A committee, at the head of winch
wa: Mr. Leigh, received Mr. Cl.h and Mr.
Wise, and conducted ill mi to their lodgings at
the Powhu/an Uai>e. The crow-1 attended and
gave frequent t /kens of their joy. by repeated
and uproarous shouts. Alier Mr. Clav hud en
tered the house, loud calls were m .do for him
from without. Ho made his appear nice up in
the balcony, and begged the vuH assemblage to
excuse him, as he was both fatigued and hungry.
They readily assented, promising themsel■ es,
each and all, a hearty shake of the hand to-day.
Treasury Notes.
The New York Express, in noticing the propo
sed iss eof Treasury ..otes, holds the following
language:
We confess frankly, that whatever of benefit
these Notes may be ift the interchanges of the
country, we deprecate a further issue of
them by the authority of Congress. They are the
seductu c and delusive means of coverng up the
Bankruptcy of the Government, and are the
engines of active corruption and profligate fraud.
We question also, whether by their absorption of
the means of Merchants through the Banks and
Capitalists, they do not more harm to the mer
cantile community than good. In July last,
we will remember, then when it was impossible
to gel a dollar from the Bank of America, or
the Manhattan Bank, these institutions had plen
ty of means for cashing the Treasury no.es of
Mr. Woodbury.
It is our duly, as well as policy, to expose the
profligate expenditures and management of the
Public Money, and it never cun be done as long
as the Treasury covers them up in Paper. For
a People in Debt, a Loan or .a Tax is the direct
means of getting out. Again, the inconsistency
of permitting an Administration of the Govern
ment which denounces all paper Repreprcsenta
tivesof Value, and the devices of credit, to use
them at al. in this manner, is shamcfnl. Govern
ment paper is the worst kind of credit scrip, for
it is the pro ilic source ol g eat corruption.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
New York, February 20. 1840.
The Senate of this State ha-e adopted the res
olutions passed by the House respecting the
right of petition, ayes 20, noes 4. The joint
vote of the Assembly, says the Albany Daily
Advertiser, has been ay-s 105, i oes 14, ami the
Whig majority on joint ballot is hut 20. Os
course the Van Ituren men went with the Wliigs >
and the vote is all but unanimous. Lei. the
Southern Whig presi bring this fact before their
readers, Tno Southern Public is doubly duped
on this exciting subject; liist. in the belief that
only Whigs ao abolitionists; and next, that
there is any reliance to he put in the force- ot'
Mr. Van Uuren in the North Iwi uld, howev.
or, wish to add nothing to this unhappy topic of
cxcilcnu lit, for 1 can see nothing here alarming
from abolition movements to the S uilhcru Slates,
their p ever being limited in the extieme, and
their off iris I railed to their own little circles,
vvh.lv the very increase of their numbers, if in
crease they have, brings in s i mmy cooler men
us leaders, that their very coolness chills all the
the heat the parly have. Such abolitionists as
.Nt'. J. Q Ad i ns, lioweer they may abound in
the North, wdl never do the Constitution any
harm. I make these statements to add that.
Irom the almost unanimous viteofNew York,
nothing further is intended than a mere expres
sion of opinion upon the right of petition.
A fran-icnt ship fro n Liverpool brings us Li
verpool doles to January 4. with news a hide
cheering. Money is said to be plentier in Eng
land, a"d rate of inteiest lower. Colton had ad
vanced Jd. In tar there were no sales. I i to
bacco the demand is confin'd to small parcels for
the trade al former prices. The corn market had
not advanced. The averages were lower ami
consequently the i.uties had not increased.
American flour was sold at 31s. per hid.; hut
31s. Cd. to 325, were asked. The general aspect
of business affairs is all better.
The political news, from a hasty glance at the
papers, appears to be unimportant. The Mar
quis of Normanut is logo to Pads as the Brit
ish Ambassador. Lord Greenville is to go to
India as Governor-General. Lord Ebhington
is to lake Lord NoiiMANiir’splace.
in Manhattan Bank stock there has been great
excitement to-day. Prime. Warii & Kino
threw in the market a considerable amount at 80
which in the end knocked the stock down to 70.
Il is rumored in the streets that serious efforts are
making by the Board of Directoss to remove the
Cashier, Robert White, which thus far have
been defeated by his brother and some personal
friends at the Board.
The New York 5 per cent stock, which was
sold 10-day by the Comptroller of the State for
the Bank Fund, went off al prices running from
01 38 to 92. It was bought by different brokers
and banking institutions at what is considered
fair prices.
AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27,1840.
—————
Correspondence rs the U. S. Gazette.
Nkw York, Wednesday. P. M.
All business is very du I 10-dny. The stock
market fell generally from sto 1 per cent. U.
S Bunk shares 77 on time. In Manhattan Bank
nothing was done—9o was the highest price of
fered. There is a full meeting of all the Direc
tors of that institution now holding, for the pur
pose of father investigntian into its concerns.
The packets sail to-morrow, and at least $300,-
000 in specie is going out in them, notwilhsiand
ing it woul I lie more advantageous tortmit bills.
Very little has boon done in Exchange to-day.—
Tne quotation on England is 8 a Bs.
| lam enabled to give the following statement
of the prices ruling the market ;
Coffee. —We have no alteration to notice in
this article since Saturday ; 300 bags of St. Do
ming > have sold at 8J a BJ, cash 600 bags of
! Brazil, at 9$ a 11$, and 175 bags of Laguira at
i 1(1} a 11 $, on the usual time.
Cotton. —There has been very little change in
Cot on this week ; the demand continues steady,
and the tiansactions in the various descriptions
extend to 2700 bales, of which 1150 bales Up.
land were taken at 7a 9; 450 at 9$ a 10; 750
; New Orleans at 8$ a 10$, and 351) Mobile at 8i
; a 11>$ cents.
j Flour , Gra n. Jf-g.—The FI mr market remains
| extremely inactive, there having been no transac
i lions for export, since our last review. Rates may
be considered nominal—Western is held at $6.31
a 6 37i ; and for choice brands $6.50 is asked ;
for Geo getown and Howard-sl. the same rates
are demanded ; Ohio via Canal, $6,12$ a 6,25*.
Richmond City Mills, $6,50 a 6,75, and Troy
$6,375.
S rgitr—Prime Sugars are scarce and in de
mand. Other desert tions are rather dull. The
sales include 50 hhds old crop St. Croix, at, 8} a
9 ; 500 hhds New Orleans at 4}; 150 do 5 ass;
120 hhds new crop Porto Rico 6$ a 7; 1000 bags
Siam 8c; a small lot of brown Havana at 7},
and white do at 10$ on, the usual credit.
Exchange —On Philadelphia 6} —Baltimore
5} a 6s—Richmond 7 a 7s—in all others no
change whatever from previous quotations.
Rates at first Board.—U. S. Bank, 77.
Consul Trist.—The Providence Journal
states that the Hon. Alexander H. Everett has
been appointed special envoy to go to Cuba and
examine the charges against Consul Trist.
Appointments by the President.
; By and w lh the advice and consent of the Senate.
Edward McCradt, to be Attorney of the
United States for the district of South Carolina,
Rohhrt M. Chablkton, to be Attorney of
the United States for the district of Georgia.
Wo do not know how it may strike others, but
to our mind the argument aga.i si the sub-Trea
sury scheme in the following Dialogue is about
as unanswerable as any thing we have read upon
the subject.
From the Connecticut Cuurant.
Dialogue between a Laborer and an Ex-
Nctiator, (Niles.)
Laborer. Good morning. Mr. Senator.
Senator. Good morning, ,'Vlr, Wils»o; how do
you do to-day ! How are your wife and children,
how do they stand this hard winter—and how
does the good cause of the party get on in your
town 1
Laborer. Pretty well sir, though times are rath
er hard, money scarce, and labor is not as well
paid lor as it used to be; still, >,ve have’iu turned
Whigs yet. and don't mean to.
Senator. That’s right—stick to the party to
the last, and we will in the end, have a hard
money currency. The sub-Treasury will make
us all rich. It will give to every man as much
money as he wants and that, 100, of the right
kind—the real shiners.
Laborer. Hut I have read in the speeches of
Mr Buchanan and Mr. Walker that ihe suit-
Treasury will diminish the price of labor. Hav
ing always looked upon you as the-D.. Franklin
01 .\ew England,’’ and knowing that you have
recendy hem to Boston to talk to the folks of
M iss.ichiisetls, I co ne down to-day to ask you
how the snh-Troasu y wil. help the laboring man
when it reduces the price ol labor 1
Senator. Oh ! you can’t always exactly tell
how a thing works fir every individual, and yet
n is to sec how it work: for the benefit of
the whole.
Lub't.er. I bought a house last year ofiny
neighbor Wheaton; 1 paid him S3OO in cash, and
give him a moitgage for SSO", to lie paid at the
raleof SIOO a year. Now. this I could easily
save with wages at $1 50 a day—and in fiveyears
the house would be paid for. But it wages are
reduced to 75 cents a day, or even to a dollar, it
will Just lake all that I can make to support my
family—and my house with all that I have paid
on it. will at lhe end of five years, go hack to Mr,
Wheaton. How, then, am Ito he henefitied 1
Senator. This is a si rid of natural cmtseejuence
ofa general rule. No general rule works well in
every case. Yon shouldn’t have gone in debt—
you’d no business to go on the credit system—
it is a wicked system.
Laborer. But how could I get a house with
out it ? I had S3(IU, and in five years could eas
ily ha e earnt the rest, and lived in the house all
the dine.
Senator. No matter —it is one of the principles
of the party to have no credit; no real good Lo
co has a hit of credit; and you mus go it, or you
are not true to your party.
Laborer. But you have not yet told me how I
am to be benefited by having the price of labor re
duced.
Senator. Why—you belong to our party—
don't you 1
Laborer. Yes.
Senator. W ell—it is for tbe benefit of the party,
and therefore it is for your benefit.
Laborer. This is not quite elear to me, and I
am not sartin that it is quite right. But, since
you have been to Boston to lecter, I suppose it
must lie true.
Senator. I don’t see myself exactly how its go
en to work; but I have great confidence in Buch
ananand Walker; they say it’s all right—and it’s J
now become a party measure, and the elore it
must be for the good of the jicople.
Laborer. Will (he pay of the members of Con
gress be diminished ? It you are made Govern r
I next spring, will you get less wages than Gorcr-
*•
nor Ellsworth gets 1 Will the wages of the Post
master be reduced 1
Senator. The officers will all get as much as
thej do now, which may be worth a trifle more if
every thing else is reduced one-half. This is an
incidental benefit, and could’nt well be otherwise.
Laborer. Then the office h Idcrs will all he
boneiitted by the suh-Treasury bill, will they,
sir 1
Senator, Y*s—a kind of incidental benefit,
which we do not well see how to avoid.
Laborer. And the laborers, Mr. Senator
Senator, Yes. the laborers will get a kind of
general benefit, which it is not very easy to ex
plain —but stdl, they will know it when it comes.
Laborer, You don’t suppose, Mr. Senator,
that the benefit which the officers are to receive
from the sub-Treasury bill is any reason why
they are all in its favor, do you 1
Senator, Oh, no! by no means. They are in
its favor because it is for the good of the party.
1 hey don t want any thing from it for themselves.
Laborer, I wish I could be a little more sartin
about this reduc ng the price of labor being such a
good thing.
Senator, You must rely a little on your party—
they will do evety thing right.
Laborer. \es. I know that; but now, in our
town, neighbor Leavenworth’s factory it stopped,
and all his h inds are discharged. 1 used to get
good wages and money is plenty; but now labor
is down, nobody has any employment, and [ can
not get a sixpence.
Senator. I tell you. neighbor, you must have
confidence. It is a good thing to have labor
down I can niw hire a man to work in my gar
d R next summer for eight dollars a month, in
stead of six teen, by which I shall make a clean sa
ving of fifty dollars.
Laborer. But will that be a benefit to the la
boring man or o you 1
Senator. It will bn a kind of incidental benefit
to mo, and a kind ol natural consequence to him.
Laborer. I cannot exactly sec, Mr. Senator,
how labor is bnnefitted by having wages reduced
one-hall. Some of our neighbors have a notion
that the office-holders are in favor of it because
their salaries will then be worth more than they
are now.
Senator, It is certain that the thing will work
so. But,, then, it is only a kind of incidental
benefit.
Laborer. But don’t you think they really mean
to lienefit thcmsel es at the expense of the labor
ing classes ?
Senator. Oh, no! They are a high-minded
race of men, who would not do any thing for
themselves.
L ihorer. But they always stick mighty close
to their offi -es.
Senator. Yes—but they go for their principles
and their party.
Laborer. Their principles and '.heir party,you
must confess, always lie along the same road
with their own interests.
Senator. That may be, but it is merely acci
dental.
Laborer. It may be so, Mr. Senator, but still
I can’t exactly see why all the incidental bene
fit's, should go to the office-holders, and all (he
natural consequences, us you cud them, should
operate to depress labor and discourage industry.
Hood morning. Mr. Senato., when I have time I
will call and converse further with you.
A Sneaking way to Raise .Roney.
Some two or three hundred thousand dollars
are wanted to pay pensions on the 4lh March.
The next day of payment is on the 4th of Sep
tember—The admims'ration have brought for
waid a bill to appropriate three millions. Even
supposing this vast sum to bo applied in good
faith, it would he placed in the hands of some
3d or 40 agents who would have the use and pro
fit and interest of it for six months! which
would be equal to an out and out division of
eighty or ninety thousand dollars among thirty
or forty agents!
But it is believed that the money would be
faithfully applied by the administration ! Do they
not wml this large appropriation, that, by the
power of transfer, they may lie able to meet their
deficiencies in other departments! Thus pros
liiuting the cause of the pensioners to one of the
meanest tricks to shift, the responsibility of ma
ltin'an open exposure of the consequence of
their mismanagement— a bankrupt Treasury !
Mad, sonian.
The Whigs in Old Virginia, coniormahly to a
lime-bnnored democratic usage, are. going to take
the li -Id en masse for the hero of Tippecanoe.—
’Tile tJharlotl-sville Republican of the 13tb,
mys; *
We see that it is proposed in selecting gentle
men to fill the office of electors of President and
Vice President, in this .Stale, that they shall he
men ol talents and popular speakers. And it is
also proposed that these gentlemen should take
Hie field in person, and go through their several
districts and address the people. This is the
plan which the opposition party in Virginia in
tend pursuing, and was t..e plan adopted by the
Republicans ;n Virginia in 1798.
M issaoliisktts Ruluoaii. —The Western
Railroad, designed to connect Boston with thi
Hudson river, and thus with the great West by
means of the N. Y-improvements, promises to do
for Massachusetts what the Erie canal has done
forN. V. At least the Bostonians regard it in
that view. The total profits on the State invest
ment thus far made in the work show a return of
more than eleven per cent according to a state
ment in the Boston Courier. ’The whole resour
ces provided for the work amount to $4 500,000,
According to the Company's repo-t of January
31st, the rails can lie laid the enlin length of the
road in thespiingof 1841, excepting ten miles of
the summit division. The stock is now selling
at SBO 50 for S3O paid in.
Thi. Mastodon in Texas.— -This remarks
hie fossil quadruped, it appears, existed also in
'Texas, as well as in almost eve y latitude of the
United Stales south of 45° A late Texas paper
says, General Dcmyse has succeedec in disin
terring nearly all the Imncs of the Mastodon,
found two miles below Bastrop, near the Colorado.
Romance and Rkautt. —A writer for the
Adrian Watchtowcr gives an account of a very
singular affair which came oft’ in that vicinity a
few days ago. 'The story is, that a preacher at a
protracted meeting in that town a short time since,
published to his congregation the names of several
young ladies of the village, whom he represented
as havingdisturbed the meeting by laughing. &c.,
on a pre.’ous occasion On tbe Monday even
ing following as the story goes, the young ladies
who were aggrieved, prepared themselves each
with a rawhide, vvhich they concealed in their
cloaks, and preceded to the house of the offender,
wailed till he came out of the door and then im
mediately surrounded and belabored bttn with
their whips until he b-oke from them and esca
ped.—Detroit Frit Press.
The Village Reconit (Pa.,) records the death
of two citizens of that borough (West < 'heater,)
within twelve hours of each other, one in his
88th and the other in tiis 100th year.
Great o*.—Au ox raised in Berks county,
in this State, is to be seen at Thompson's Drove
Yard. Call iwhill street, which weighs 4500 lbs.
He is of the Durham and Devonshire breed.—
North American.
An UmiKR-Onortm Apt a in. —Discovery of
Mysterious Subteranean Vaults ! —Yesterday,
while the workmen were excavating foundations
for building on the lots lately sold by the First
Municipality, on the square formerly occupied by
the old prison, between St. Peter and Orleans
streets, vaults were discovered at the depth of
eight feet below the surface of the earth, arched
with strong iron bars, on which thick brick foun
dations had been formerly built. In one of the
vaults wo learn there was tound a gold crucifix
weighing 39 lbs., as also a quantity of human
bones. At the bottom of this- vault a door was
discovered, apparently lending to vaults still
deeper.
The buildings which formerly occupied this
square were the property of the Jesuits more
! than one hundred years ago. There are a thou-
I sand and one conjectures ns to the probable pur
poses for which these subteranean cells were
used.
The oldest inhabitants of the city appear, from
" hat we can learn, entirely ignorant not only of
the use but even of the existence of these vaults,
and we shall wait for further investigations before
we hazard an opinion on the subject. —New Or
leans Picayune.
Correspondence of the North American.
Nkw York, February 18.
If I wore a gossip • correspondent, it would be
my duty to give you in.long detail, the particu
lars of an affair which has furnished matter for
animated conversation in our high ton circles for
the last two weeks. A wealthy merchant’s fam
ily lost sundry articles of plate, among which
was an old pitcher which was much valued, and
peculiarly marked on the handle. He advertised
his pitcher, and the advertisement was seen by a
silversmith, who found that a curious handle
which he had saved from a pitcher he bought,
corresponded with the description. He saw the
advertiser, and informed him that he had the
handle, that he bought the pitcher of a wealthy
lady, of whom he had bought great quantities of
similar nr teles for some lime pa*ti The disclo
sure wusHstounding, for the lady was an intimate
acquaintance. The truth however, waa too evj.
dent, and the lady was se it for. She was at a
pa ly, and on being called for there, stepped into
her coach and rode to the house where were the
parties. She was told of the facts, and charged
with the theft. She denied the whole, appealed
to her known wealth as proving want of motive.
She had pantries full of plate, a husband rich
and respectable, and a separate income of her own
of s6ooo a year. Alter some further communi
cation she returned arid finished her evening at
tha party. Proof came too thick, however, for
resistance; and in a lew days it stood'confessed
that for some six years past this rich lady had
been in the practice of calling on her friends in
her coach, with a cloak and muff in winter, and
other suitable dresses in. summer, and regularly
robbing them of every thing valuable on which
she could lay her hands. Ih one instance, while
waiting in the parlor for the lady of the houac to
come down, ahe secured five pieces of plate, one
of which was a largo lea tray, and afterwards
had a pleasant conversation with the robbed lady,
and went away.
Os course all the details of what happened a
mong forty different families, will affb <1 new food
for talk this month to come. The depredating
lady acknowledges the whole now, and says that
she took the valuables for the pious purpose of
procuring prayers to he said fur the soul of her
mother, who had died without extreme unction.
I’lic lady hashaiwsent to the nunery at George
town. This is just a glance at the story as it is
now repeated by a thousand tongues.
The ice on the Lung Island shore of the Bound,
all cleared offon Friday night. The coast has
been very thoroughly examined since, hut not a
body of the sufferers.by ths Lexington found.
From the Knickerbocker.
Phrenology and Animal Magnetism-
HOW THRr. SI.HVKI) AS INDIVIDUAL.
A few years ago, I left my native slate, on an
invitation from my kind uncle .Scrapings, of Ha
vana. to join him in copartnership there, under
the firm of Scrapings, Scraps, and Company ; hut
before I went, I had incontinently fallen in love
with a beauty of my own native city, of eighteen
years, ..nd a little money. She was a most vo
luptuously looking little creature, with eyes as
black as a pair of suspender buttons, and too tit
le faiiy hands, as white—oh, how white ? And
the dear creature loved me. too; and so it came
to pass, that we were • engaged,”
Two years passed away, and I was making
ready to return to my beloved. I was always
fond of exciting surprise, and determined, on this
occasion, to make a sort of trap-door entry into
the presence of my little idol. So, having de
ceived her as to the time when she might begin
to expect me, I found myself in the month of
September, in New York, on my way heme ; and
the next evening found mo at Clara’s gale—that
gale over which I had taken and given many a
parting kiss!.' The evening was wairn; the
parlor windows were open; and I heard within
voices and laughter. Softly I approached, and
slyly I looked in. With a thrill of horror, 1 lie
hcld Clara seated in a rocking-chair, while a
fellow, a young fellow a handsome fellow, seem
ed with one h ind to be playfully covering her
eyes, and with the other ‘ padding on her neck
with his fingers;” while her mother and sister
sat on a sofa, quietly grinning at the fellows’s im
pudence ! I felt my blood hissing in my veins,
yet I stood still. I saw him playing with her
ear ; “•’ grinned horribly a ghastly smile.” He
spanned her face with his fingers-; I twisted off
two buttons of my coat. He encircled her head
with his arm; 1 tore out a handful of my hair.
Finally the dump a«s opened his mouth and
spake: and I fell my blond redening to the very
tip of my nose; but I restrained my indignation
to listen
•• I think." said he,‘'yon arc fond of men in
general; and I think you would find little diffi
culty in Iran ferring your affections from one to
another, aftei the decease or treachery of the
first Now suppose your lover prove treacherous
—don't you think so V
I paused no longer. Job himself, when entrust
ed w4lh •• sore Ikjals,” would not have waited ao
long as I did. 1 rushed in'o the room, and Hatch
ed the dog by the throat, laid him prostrate. ‘-Vil
lain f” cried I, “ and it is thus that you attempt
to inveigle away ths affections of my betrothed?”
—Know Sir, that! will sutler death rather than
dishonor!”
Vol. IT.—-No. 24
The mother and siuier ran screaming from the
room; but Clara recognising me at once, fell up
on my neck, cried out “ O Judgement, (Reader,
my euphonious name is Judgement Scrapps,)
dear, dearest Judgment! spare him, and I will
explain all to your satisfaction.”
Half doubting I quitted my hold, and half
doubtingly I returned her embrace.
“Say on then, my Clara ; said I, I shall be but
too happy to believe anything you may say in ex
planation.”
“ That gentle "an whom you have so wrong
ed, is Dr. Feeler, the Phrenologist.”
“ Phrenologist!—and pray what may that
be?” 3
“ Why, dearest, it is one who uses the same
means to discover anothers intellect and Jhpoai
tion. that a monkey does to discover a certain
species of the animal creation.”
“ Ah, I understand; such as we used to call
cranologists. And now. rny dear girl, let us for
get this laughable mistake; and. dear, we must
get ready to be married. We will be married nt
one month from this very day !”
“ A month !—dear me !—So very soon I' So
unexpected!”
“Soon! Not a bit too soon, dearest! So
just shut that littte ripe mouth, and let me hear
no arguments, no objections. I must be back to
Havanna in November.”
At this juncture the mother and sister re
entered ; and after explanations, recitals and ad
ventures statements of future arrangements, and
obtaining the old lady’s consent, they consider
ately left us to ourselves, and we poured out our
souls together in all the rapture of passionate at
tachment. Next day I left for New York, them
to purchase my wedding garments, and to trans
act certain other necessary business.
At tue expiration of a week, I again drew near
the temple of my idol, secretly hoping that the
accursed phrenologist had been extending his
examinations in other regions, if any where, dur
ing my absence, and feeling beside a great curios
ity to find how Clara employed her leisure. 80
I crept up softly lo the bouse, and again peeped
in at the fatal window. The phernolugist was
not there—would to heaven he had been!—hut
a person somowhal abler, and a great deal larger,
with spectacles on his nose, and a most diaboli
cal smirk of total depravity. She was seated in
the old-fashioned easy chair, leaning back, w die
her eyes were closed, as if in conscious shame at
her degraded situation ; and he was standing
over her, making motions that almost stifled me
with mortification and rage. He seemed to be
rubbing his dirty digits up and down over her
soft velvet cheeks; those cheeks 1 had so often
kissed; cheeka that now blushed with guilty pas
sion. Anon, the rascal passed his hands over
her full, heaving bosom. Yet. Iha I resolution
enough to await the result. The scoundrel
kneeled—ay, kneeled lo her!—and paaaed his
hands up and down each side, even to her very
feel! How my blood tingled ! “Yet,” thought
I, “I will wail! It may lie, after all, some other
new-fangled notion, started during my absence.
I must r.ot again make a fool of myself so sud
denly. She may he asleep, and the fellow takes
this opportunity to insult her and me.” But no;
her sister is there, and smiles complacently, as if
in mockery of my disgrace !
Soon the follow rose, and wht-pered in Clan’s
ear. She replied aloud“O, how rejoiced lam
at your return, dearest! My heart is all your
own!”
A single moment’s reflection would have con
vinced me that she supposed herself addressing
me. hut, blinded by what I had seen, and the
agony I had felt, I could appreciate nothing save
my own hishonor; and jumping in at the wid
ow, I rushed upon the villain, and dealt him a
thwack that sent him reeling to the wall. He
recovered, however, immediately, and returned
the compliment with great vigor. Finding we
both might expect some severe sparring, before
we hud finished, we placed ourselves in the atti
tude of experienced pugilists, while our eyes
glared like the eyes of hungry wolves.
Clara and ner sister advanced to the rescue,
and caught my arms, crying out, the while, at the •
top of their voices: “Animal Magnetism ! Ani
mal Magnetism ! It was nothing but Animal
Magnetism!”
“Ay,ay,” 1 replied, “I saw it was!” at the
same time shaking them off, and redoubling my
efforts; “there waa quite too much of animal at
traction to auit me; but wait till I spoil your .
and then you, madam, may go to
“Here,” as Yellowplush soys, “I recollect I
was obliged to stop;” for at this moment I re
ceived a blow under the left lug, which laid me
prostate and senseless.
When 1 recovered. I found myself upon the
sofa, and Clara s sister bathing my temples.
“How!—what!” I exclaimed: “Ah! I re- -
member! Where is ( lara?”
“She had left the room but now. declaring aha -
had dune with you for ever.”
“Glad of it! Have the kindness to call her in •
to receive my farewell.”
Pieseutly she entered, when I commenced •
tirade upon her fickelness and faithlessness, &c., ,
which only ended when I was out of breath.—
She listened calmly till I had done, when she re- -
plied with freezing coldness and hauteur:
“Mr. Scrapps! you have apared me the pain I
might have felt in bidding you farewell for ever.
This is not the first time your absurd jealousy
has brought you into a situation the most ridicu- •
loue- You will doubtless ere long learn, Sir, that
the science ol Animal Magnetism is an exalted
and innocent one ; quite as much so, Sir, as that
of Phrenology ; and that a woman may submit
to the process from pure love of knowledge, with- .
out compromising her dignity, her modesty, or
her honor!” And so saying, she turned her
hack tome, and stalked out of the. room with t
great dignity.
I lost that girl, merely because I was ignorant -
of the extent to which modern science had been
carried ; because I had not then learned that un- .
due familiarity with the female sex might be ex-•
tenuated, by the forced “ inarch of the age,”
America Vespucci, who recently ..sailed from
New Orleans for Havauguis said to have written a
work on thia country. We perceive that some of
the small fry of the press call in question her abil- •
i>y to write a work of the kind. The Hon- Jo>- ■
seph M. White, of Florida, informed us last sum
mer, that he had read a portion ofber volumes—
the potion devoted to the disc ussion of the insti
tution of slavery as established in this country—
and, it was, liey ond all comparison, al ler than any
thing else that he had ever seen upon that nUsr
esting and important subject.
Steamboat Accident.— The Cincinnati Re
publican of Monday last states that the hull of
the Ben Fianklin, in tow by the Gen. Harrison
was stove in by the ice near the Rising Sun, on
the 7rh inst. and sunk. She. had on board two .
hundred head of cattle, and a hundred horses, of
which there were about fifty horses, and eighty.
bead of cattle lost—all insured.