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<£ri-U)cch!u Clu-onifkN Stnlind. y>*r— ■——— ——mmmm m—— J. W. & VV. s. JONES. s 'cMHHHnaHanaaanHHHMiiaiiiiMgMiMi TiICHRONICLE AND SENTINEL IS PUBLISHED D HLY TUI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No, 209 Broad-plreet. terms: Bail j paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or S»vcn at the end of the year. Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance, or Four at tlic end of year. CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. A IJ GUSTA. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28. Virginia Legislature—New Jersey. The following resolutions, which conclude the repoit of the Committee appointed hy the Mouse of Representatives of Va., to whom was referred the resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, speak the language of freemen who duly appre ciate the value of our institutions, and feel justly indignant at the late violent assault which the elective franchise has received hy the recent pro ceedings of the Mouse of Representatives, in ex cluding the New Jersey members from their scats. The frequent outrages which this branch of the National Legislature have committed upon the laws and constitution, call loudly for redress; and we trust that the day of reckoning is near at hand ; when the people, aroused from the lethar gy which has so long spell-bound them, will assert the dignity of their station, and teach those who arc their servants their duties to the country, its laws and constitution. They have hut to will it, and the work will go bravely on, until the national councils will be freed from the malign influence of men, who seek no distinction but that of the biawling, vulgar partisan, advocate no cause but that which promotes the views of their party leaders, and pursue that course which promises a reward for their humiliating degrada tion, even if it sacrifice the best interests of the ' country: —and in their places will be found those who, rising above tne paltry considerations which vibrate through the souls of such men, (if indeed they have souls,) will stand forth nobly and fear lessly in defence of the constitution and laws.— 1 his is no chimera. There are to be found men, rare we confess, in whose bosoms the fires of ’76 still burn, who would most nobly sacrifice all personal and parly aggrandizement for the pub lic good. Virginia Legislature. Ho use of Delegates, February 19. Mr. Southall, from the Select Commute, made a report on the New Jersey case, concluding with the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, That the late acts of a portion of the Representatives from the several States, by which five of the persons who wereduly commis sioned under the great seal of the State of New Jersey, as her Representatives in the 26th Con gress of the United States, were prevented from exercising their rights, and discharging their du ties as such Representatives, were a flagrant a buse of power, a palpable violation of the Parlia mentary law established by reason and unvary ing usage, a precedent of most alarming and dangerous character, and an outrage upon the rights and feelings of the People of New Jer sey. 2. Resolved , That each State of this Confed eracy should make common cause with her sister Slate of New Jersey—should deem the injury to all—and should use their best efforts to restore the said State to her constitutional position in the Unii n. 3. Resolved. That each State,as the law now is, has the sole, absolute, and unqualified right to prescribe, the mode and manner of its elections of members to the Congress of the United States, as well as the form and character of the commis sion nr return, which its repective Representatives should hear wiht them to that body. 4. Resolved, That the Governor of this Com monwealth, transmit a copy of the foregoing re port and resolutions to the Senators and Repre sentatives in Congress from this State, with arc quest that the same belaid before the two Mouses of Congress—and that he be requested to com municate a like copy to the Executive of each State in this Union, with a request to submit the same to their respective Legislatures. Mr. Southall moved that the report and resolu tions be laid on the table and printed—which was agreed to. [Mr Chapman said that he had no objection to printing the report—but that the minority of the committee expected in a few days to make a coun ter-report, whicn-he should also ask to be prin ted.] Mr. Kites. The Richmond Whig of the 24th inst. contains the first part of a long letter from this gentleman: in teply to the letter of a friend, who requested his views on the subject of the pending election for President; and what course lie thought ought to be pursued by those Conservatives who op poselbe leading features of the present Admin istration. As the length of the letter precludes its insertion, we extract the following notice of its contents from the \\ big : Mr. Hives.—The Tories. The last. Jeffersonian Republican contains a long and splendid letter from Mr. Rives, fully dc fining his position, (of which no man within the * twelve month iiasen'ertained a doubt) and avow ing his tin Iterable opposition to the re-election of Mr. Van Duren. Mr. Rives briefly hut trium phantly vindicates himself from the aspersions of the Court adherents, and exhibits in a strong point of view the rectitude and patriotism of his own course, by a masterly exposition of the bane ful measures and ambitious designs of Mr. Van Bursn. He could not consistently with the Re publican principles whi di he has ever cherished, d fad to oppose an Ad ninistration, which has per severed against the voice of the people, in urging upon the country schemes tiie most ruinous to H, the national prosperity and utterly destructive of our Republican institutions. He demonstrates the present Administration to be Federal—ultra Fedeial in all its lending measures, and on ac jj| count of that and its hypocritical professions, to bo wholly unworthy the confidence and support of a free people. He takes a review of the opin ions and acts of Gen. Harrison as shown by the recards of the country, and he pays the old Farmer I of North Bend a high tribute of praise, which a grateful country will delight to echo. He runs a parallel between Gen. Harrison and Mr. Van Bu ren—contrasts their opinions on many important subjects, and their acts at several critical periods of our history, and awards, as every impartial man must, the crown of merit and the badge of Republicanism to the retired chief and calumnia ted patriot of Ohio. He refutes, by the record, many oftheTory calumnies upon Gen. Harrison, , and pronounces him emphatically, as ho is, the “ Republican candidate.” In reference to the charge of Abolition, he says: “ The most prominent of these charges, which is still wantonly retreated, is that Gen. Harrison is an abolitionist. I have recently investigated with care, all the evidences of his principles and con duct on this as well as other important public questions, and I am thoroughly convinced that if there bo one man who has entitled himself to the gratitude of the South beyond all others, hy the noble and disinterested zeal he has at all times manifested, die sacrifices he has freely made, the single-heartedness with which he has exposed , himself to persecution and political proscription in defence of the Constitutional rights of the South and the peace and safety of their firesides, against all interference, whether of fanaticism or ! political ambition, that man is Win. Henry Har rison of Ohio.” Spirit ol the Times. The last,number of this valuable Chronicle .of Sporting and Agricultural Intelligence, comes to us richly freighted, in addition to its usual quan tity of matter, with two beautiful steel plate en gravings, portraits of Shark and IlEiioEroni>,in excellent preservation. Totiie admirers, and who is not ? of that most noble of all animals, the horse, this enterprise on the part of the Proprie tors. must form an acquisition to his work, as interesting as it is beautiful and valuable. Mods. Adrian. This Prince of Magicians reached this city yesterday evening from Charleston, where lie lias been delighting the good citizens for some time with his inimitable and unrivalled powers. Mons. A. assures us that ho has recently re turned from France, whence he brought the richest and rarest cabinet that lias ever been introduced in this country, with which he contemplates giving an exhibition as soon as he can prepare for the reception of visitors. If there are any who have never witnessed his very extraordinary exhibi tions, we commend them us well as those who have seen, to go. And we promise them that if he does not show them a trick, by which they can ward oft'the pressure of the times, he will at least so interest them as to ref-eve their minds for a time from the cares of business. Messrs. Black and Cooper The admirer, as we have always been, of an independent, untramelled press, it gives us pleas ure to lay before our readers the following article from the Southern Recorder, on the subject of the vote, these gentlemen gave for Printer to Con gress. Although the article meets our uuqualified ap probation, wc confess that, we should have been more pleased, had it made its appearance at an earlier day. For the delay savours a little of a wish to consult the popular current. “To ourselves, and we believe we say not too much when wc add, to the great body of the State Rights party of Georgia, tiie vote of Messrs. Cooper and Black, for the Globe, broke upon us like a thunder-clap from a cloudless sky. These gentlemen are representatives of the State Rights Parly of Georgia—the contest was between a paper which had done more injury to the Stale Rights Party than any other; which had heaped more abuse upon the members of that partv, than came from any other source; which had denoun ced State Rights principles as treason, and State Rights men as traitors; which has warred upon our party in Georgia, aiding our opponents by every means, even i.i our State elections—and doing all that the most active and untiring per severance and malignity could do, to keep in the minority, and utterly powerless, the very parly whose representatives these gentlemen are—this was one party, in this contest. The other was the National Intelligencer, which although op posed ta us in many things, and our peculiar views of Stale Rights among the rest, yet has al ways treated the Slate Rights party with respect and courtesy ; has never used in influence to aid 1 our political opponents in our State elections; and whose character and standing is infinitely above the vulgarity and billingsgate, the favorite ! weapons of the other. The one commanding at least the respect of all parties, by its dignified c induct—the other has ever been the object of the contempt and scorn of all parties. Between such, we should have supposed there could have b en but one determination on the part of the i Georgia Delegation—and extreme lias been our , aitonishment that it should have been other-1 wise. But there are yet other, and if any thing, ' stronger reasons for surprise and mortification on i the part of our party, at the vote of a portion of our delegation for the Globe newspaper, Ilian those to which we have alluded. The State Rights parly have been, arc now, and will con -1 tiline to war with the present Federal Adminis i tration, should it even pretend to a creed thor oughly republican, even in the State Rights view of Republics because they believe the Ad- 1 ministration to be thoroughly corrupt, and he- ■ cause it exacts the influence incident to it, to the j corruption of the country, and to tha destruction of the public morals and virtue. They believe it to be as notorious in its system of bribery, for po- j lilical poser, as was the administration of Robert Walpole of England. They believe that the corruption of the Federal Administration must be overthrown, with its authors, or that our free i institutions will remain to us only in name. The Globe is, and has been, the great advo cate, and we may add, the most potent upholder , of this rotten Administration ; the boldest advo cate of all its iniquities; the successful champion of all its abuses. The Intelligencer has, on the other hand, been fearless and faithful in the ex- | posuro of its iniquities, and in setting before the people the array of its enormities. Surely the | State Rights Party had reason to expect, that in I a choice between the friend and the opponent of government corruption, its representatives could j have spoken but one language. No one can ; wonder that there seems to bo but one feeling of ■ surprise and disapproval, that any ol their mem- ; hers should have been found voting for the Globe. | On personal grounds there seems to be as little j AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 29, IB4oT~ i j apology for the course of those who thus voted. [ Even the friends of the Administration, although j they use it for their purposes, unite pretty much in the sent - ment of Mr. Forsyth, in designating it the “dirty sheet,” and with Mr. Calhoun, in declaring that “it will never be caught telling j truth, if falsehood will answer the purpose.” j 1 lie Globe has no claims, political, personal, or any other way, to countenance from the Stale Rights Party, hut every thing to call forth their strongest condemnation ; their utter and indig nant repudiation. “Had the members who voted for this most malignant and unprincipled enemy of State i Rights and State Rights men. even thought it im- I proper to support the Intell.gencer, the party hud a right to expect that they would have followed I 'he course ol the State Rights Speaker of the House, and others, in voting for While, or some body else. As it is, we can only express to those gentlemen the regret and mortification of the great body of those they represent, and their ut ter disapproval, so far as we can ascertain, of their course in this matter. When Francis P. Blair and his Globe are supported by the Slate ’ Lights Party of Georgia, it will be when they have lost all remembrance of the insults and the injuries which that man and his paper have heap ed on their principles and on themselves.” Public Meeting in Charleston. Our readers were apprised some time since of the visitof the Founder of Hamburg to Charles ton, to submit to its citizens various weighty mat ters connected with the interests of the two places. In the Charleston Courier of yestciday, we have the report and resolutions of the commit tee appointed by the meeting, the latter of which is subjoined. Resolved, That it bn recommended to the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, to consider the expedi ent y of establishing, vv ith the least practicable de lay, capacious ware houses, both in Charleston and Hiunhuig, in furtherance of the measures suggested in this report. Resolved, That it be recommended to the sev eral Banks of this State, to take this subject into consideration, and it consistent with their inter ests, to establish Branches or Agencies at Ham burg, with a view to aid in the object propos ed. Resolved, That we do recommend to those of our Fellow-Citizens, who' may be disposed to make partial investments of their capital, to take the sc'oral matters, contained in this report into their serious consideration, and particularly so much ol it as refers to a line of water communi cation, in aid of the means of transportation of fered by the Railroad. Thomas Bennett, James Rose, Henut L. Pinckney, Tutstham Tuvpeu, Fuankun H. Elmore. Dn. T. D. Mendenhall. The enterpising founder of Hamburg, Mr. Henry Schultz, addressed the meeting, and in a brief and feeling manner expressed his acknow ledgments for Uie consideration of the citizens of Charleston, and especially for the countenance and support he had received for his enterprise from the Hon. Mr. Bennett, while Governor. On motion of Alex. Black, Esq., the report and resolutions, and the proceedings of the meeting, were ordered to be published. Thoie being no further business, the meeting adjourned- H. L. PINCKNEY, Chairman. C. B. Nouthkop, Suc’ry. The News and the Market. The New York Express of Thursday, 2 P. M. says— The news from Liverpool is to 4th, and had a most favorable influence in Wall-street. Advi ces are that Cotton had advanced Jc. money was plentier,: nd the rate of interest was lowered at Liverpool. The news is calculated to have a very happv effect. Later advices will be wait ed for with great anxiety. Correspond nee of the National Intelligencer. New Yoiik, Feb. 22, 1840. Money on good paper now goes below the le gal rate, 7 per cent., and the best of paper can command money at 6 per cent. This is a rale now about as low as in England. Capitalists, finding but little disposition to borrow money to do business, are looking about for investments, and real estate has got almost low enough for them to snap it up. When it teaches the real hard money val te, there is no doubt that they will put their dollars and cents into houses and lands. The domestic exchanges grow better upon some States and worse upon others. The recent legislation upon banking matters in Alabama has shattered confidence very much as to that State.— Nobody here approves of such finance as is so consistently adopted by the powers that be there. The forwarding of the cotton crop gradually me liorates the condition of the exchanges; but we ! all know that withouta National Bank,as soon as the crop is forwarded, the exchanges grow worse- There is u general disposition in this State, in the absence of any probability of a National Bank, to make a r/uassi New York National Bank sys tem, equivalent to the Suffolk Bank system of New England—that is, to compel all the New Yotk banks to redeem their bills in the city of | New York. If his bed.me, the Northern States of the Union, as regards themselves alone, will have a paper currency every where at par, and in Boston and New York redeemable in g«ld andsil ! ver. As it regards our intercourse, that is highly desirable, but it will avail nothing us a national measure. New Yorkers suffer less, however ! than any of the Southern or Western States, be cause the centralization of trade here makes our bills passable every where, and there is, therefore ! a general disposition to better our own currency, as much as it can be done by State legislation, j until the Soul It has enough of their system — Brandon money, Alabama post notes,&e. to their [ heart’s content. New York and New England will be about the last parties now to move for a | National Bank. Norlliern capital will keep itself at borne ns much as passible. Northern credits i will be limited to Slates with a currency as sound ;as ours. Trade, of course, will suffer sadly under J this limited system, but people who want goods will have to pay cash for them. The spring trade opens here with such rules of action, and though it will be very short, it will he very safe. The greatest suflerer iu the end will be the Treasury of the United States, and $5,000,000 of Treasury notes will be but a bagatelle, judging by our f'us tom-houso, of what Mr. Woodbury will want. A dozen European packets are now due. It is singular that wo have no later news. Bills on London are from 7J to 8. Manhattan Bank stock has gone up to 85. The following is a copy of the new Treasury Note Bill this day prepared by the Committee of Ways and Means, and now depending in the House, Feb. 19: An additional act on the subject of Treasury Notes. Sec. 1. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United S'utcs of Amer ica in Congress assembled. That the regulations and pr wisions contained in the act passed the 12th day of October, in the year 1837,entitled "An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes.” and in the subsequent acts in addition thereto, bo, and the same are hereby, renewed and made in full force, excepting the limitations concerning the times within which such notes may he issued anil restricting the amount thereof, ns hereafter provided. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That un der the regulations and provisions contained in said act. Treasury notes may be issued in lieu of others hereafter or heretofore redeemed, but not to exceed, in the amount of notes outstanding at anyone time, the aggregate of $5,000,000, and to be reedeomed sooner than one year if the means of the Treasury will permit, by giving notice sixty days of those notes which the Department is ready to redeem—no interest to be allowed thereon after the expiration of said sixty days. ‘Sec. 3. And bn it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force one year, and no longer. An interesting case has been recently under ex amination in the Supremo Court of the U.B. in tdation to a boundary line between Massachu setts and Rhode Island. Mr. Webster makes the argument for Massachusetts, and Messrs- Whipple and Hazard for Rhode Island. Rhode Island makes a claim of 11 miles of territory on the North boundary. From the Savannah Georgian, if February itith. Latest From Florida. By the steamer Wm. Gaston , Capt. Poinsett, we have received the St. Augustine, Nows of 21st inst., from which we extract the following: Sr. Augustine, February, 21. Numerous signs of Indians have been seen in the neighborhood of the river Saiitnfee; and large trails have been seen extending northwardly, sup posed for the Okce-fee-nokee Swamp. From New Smyrna. —On the 24th ult., a party of wood cutlers belonging to the garrison atNew Smyrna, were fired upon by the Indians, halfa mile from the fort.—They wounded one man captured three muskets, and a spare jacket or so- A sally was made by the garrison, and ns usual, no snccees. While the troops were pur suing them, one Indian had the temerity to ven ture within sight of the garrison with a soldiers jacket on, and in range of three six pounders. Capt. Micklcr,oftlie Volunteers,proceeded from his post, at Hewlett’s Mills on Monday morning at daylight, and trailed the Indians to theTomoka river. Why was information delayed in being sent to Capt. Micklcr on Saturday night, and ( whose duty was it to have done so? | Sergeant Cereopoly and bis command, recov- | cred a large portion of the Northern Mail on Mon day last, which was delivered to the Post Mas- ( ter.—Some of the letters we-e torn. They were found about a half mile from the road, whither the Indians had dragged the wheels and frame of (he light wagon, and left some remains of a hog | which they had slaughtered, belonging to the mail carrier. On Wednesday last, a party of gentlemen star- i ted in quest of the lost Jacksonville Mail. Pro- | cceding In the scene of the rnurdei of its carrier, j they trailed the Indians about two miles in a northwesterly direction, and came to a small clus- | ter of trees where they bad rested for some time, as their horses had lain down, anil where they emptied the contents of the mail bag. But one letter was injured, and a few packages of nows- ' papers. The gentlemen who volunteered to search for this public property, are entitled to the j thanks of the country, as well as any remunera tion which the Post MasterGcneral might award. Its reception would be appropiiated to n benevo lent object; and as far as money can go, would al leviate the sorrows of onu who lias been a severe s .fferer by the murder. The nj supposed to have amounted to twelve or fifteen; and the inference drawn by those gentlemen, all woodsmen and familiar with the character of the enemy, is, that hut u portion have g >nc off with the horses, as no foot trails are visible proceeding South. The Ojmulgee Bank.— The bills of this In stitution, as is known to our readers, have been for some time past, in a depreciated state, even to a considerably greater extent than most of the other suspended Banks. Whatever the reasons may have been for this state of things, we are happy to believe that the reasons do not now ex ist. By information derived from the best possi ble source, we understand that this Institution lias only bills in circulation to the amount of about two hundred and severity thousand dollars. That to meet this the Bank has of cash and bills, (which only await the opening of the river to make bettertban cash) to within some nine thous and dollars of its whole circulation. In addition to this, the instalment recently called for has been paid in cash; not by running noteaiin the Institu tion, but a bona fide payment in cash to the Bank of one hundred and fifty thousand more. Shewing as we would suppose nearly the latter amount of cash means over and above its circula tion. We say nothing of its assets, its notes and other properly, the further security of its entire solvency; we only speak of its cash means to meet * its circulation, and surely with such a showing, there is no proper reason why these bills should b • depreciated below those of any other sound but suspended Bunk in the State. Henry G. La mar has been placed at the headofthe Institution, who is widely known us a man of high integrity ns well a-i capacity, and a sufficient guarantee (hat this Bank will do its duty to the public, as faith fully as any other institution, and with these facts, wc believe that the ;e bills will be no longer de preciated to the injury of trade, mid the interests of the people. —Southern Recorder. There has been a destructive fire in Springfield Ohio, by which property to the amount of $50,- 000 was destroyed. from the Southern Literary Messenger. ’ I is sweet when daily labor o’er. ’Tis sweet when daily labor o’er, And all is calm ami free. To tread old Ocean’s sounding shore, And list the murmuring sea: To catch the low wind’s funeral sigh Above where thousands sleep— And hear the sea-bird's lonely cry Upon the far-off deep ! And when on Death’s dim, shadowy shore, At Life faint twilight driven— Calm let ns view the waters o’er, And boldly launch for heaven. ’Tis sweet, nt Evening’s tranquil Hour. ’Tis sweet, at Evening’s tranquil hour, When all is hushed and still, To seek some favorite haunt or bower, And muse at silent will. No doubts distract, no fears annoy, To vex the peaceful breast; But all is pure and quiet joy, ’.Mid slu nbering Nature’s rest! And oh, when earthly cares shall cease, At Life’s still evening close— How sw. cl to leave Faith’s bower in peace, Fur Heaven’s secure repose ! No more to sigh ’neath Grief’s control— From friends no more to sever — VV hilc the celestial ages roll, Forever, ami forever ! c. w. e. North Carolina, Bee. 1839. “Hring me Hither, Hither, Boy.” Bring me hither, hither, boy, Bring me here my light guitar— ’ Tis the midnight hour, my boy. And onr feet must wander far; Who that loves would sleep, when high Burns each bright and perfect star >— Hither hasten, then, my boy, Bring me here my light guitar. "I'boiigli by day 1 may not speak All the passions in my breast, And my words are few and weak, And my flame is unconfessed; V el, by night, a spirit high Prompts my feet to wander far, And a bolder speech I try, Echoed by the light guitar. Through its soft and silver lone, 1 would tell her all I feel— To her heedless ear alone, Would I have its music steal. With a voice no longer, coy, 1 will sing Love’s brightest star — Bring me hither, then, my hoy, Bring me here my light guitar. An Incident of the llcvolntion. In the summer of 1779, during one of the darkest periods of our revolutionary struggle, in the then small village of S (though it now bears a more dignified title) in this State lived Judge V , one of the firmest and truest pat riots within the limits of the “Old Thirteen,” and deep in the confidence of Washington. Like most men of his time and substance he had furnished himself with arms and ammunition, sufficient to arm the males of his household. These consisted of himself, three sons, and about twenty-five negroes. The female part of his house consisted of his wife, one daughter, Catha rine, about 18 years of age, the heroine of our tale, and several slaves. In the second story of his dwelling house, immediately over the front door was a small room, called the “armory,” in which the arms were deposited and always kept ready for immediate use. About the time at which we introduce our story, the neighborhood of the village was much annoyed hy the noctur nal prowling* and depredations of numerous To lies. It was on a calm, bright Sabbath afternoon in the aforesaid summer, when Judge V. and his family, with the exception of his daughter Cath arine and an old indisposed female slave, were attending service in the village church. Not a breath disturbed the serenity of the atmosphere— a sound profaned the sacred stillness of the day; the limes were dangerous and Catharine herself and the old slave remained in the house until the return of the family from clinch. A rap was hoard at the front door. “Surely,” said Catha rine to the slave, “the family have not yet como home; church cannot be dismissed.” The rap was repeated. “I will sec who it is,” said Cath arine, us she ran up stairs into the armory. On opening the window and looking down she saw six men standing at the front door, ami on the opposite si.le of the street, three of whom she know were Tories, who formerly resided in the village. Their names were Van Z.indt, Finley and Sheldon ; the other three were strangers, hut she had reason to believe them lo ho of the same political stamp from the company in which she found them. Van Zandt was a notorious character, and the number and enormity of hi i crimes had rendered his name infamous in that vicinity. Not a mur der or a rohliery was committed within miles of S that he did not get the credit of planning or executing. The characters of Finley and Sheldon were also deeply stained wiih crime, but Van Zandt was a master spirit in iniquity. The appearance of such characters, under such cir cumstances, must have been truly alarming to a young lady of Catharine’s age. if not to any lady, young or old. But Catharine V possessed her father’s spirit—“the spirit of the times.”— Van Zandt was standing on the sloop, rapping at the door, while his companions were talking in a whisper on the opposite side of the street. “Is Judge V at home?” asked Van Zandt when he saw Catharine at the window above. “He is not," said she. “ Wc have business of pressing importance with him, and if you will open the door,” said Van Zandt, “wc will walk in and remain till he returns.” “No,” said Catharine, “when he went to church he left particular directions not to have the doors opened until he and the family returned. You had better call when church is dismissed.” “ No, I’ll be d—d if we do,” retorted he, “wc will enter now or never.” “Impossible,” replied she, “you cannot enter until he returns.” “Open the door,” cried he, “or we’ll break it down, and burn you and the houso up together,” So saying, he threw himself with all the force he possessed, against the door, at the same time call ing upon his companions to assist him. The door, however, resisted his efforts. “Do not attempt that again,” said Catharine, “or you are a dead man,” at the same time pre senting from the window a heavy horseman’s pistol, ready cocked. At the sight of this formidable weapon, the companions of Van Zandt, who had crossed the street at his cull, retreated. “What!” cried their leader, “you d — d cow ards! are you frightened at the threats of a girl ?” and again he threw himself violently against the Vol. IV.—No. 25. door. The weapon was immediately discharged, and Van Zandt fell. The report was heard at the church, and males and females at once rushed out to ascertain the cause. r On looking towards the residence of Judge' v > they perceived five men running at full speed, to whom the Judge’s negroes and several others gave chase; and from an upper window of his residence a handkerchief was waving, as if beckoning for aid. All rushed towards the place, and upon their arrival, Van Zandt was in the agonies of death. Ho still retained strength to acknowldcge that they had long contemplated robbing that house, and had frequently been concealed in the neigh borhood for that purpose, hut no opportunity had offered until that day, when, lying concealed in the woods, they saw the Judge and bis family going to church. The ho ly of the dead Tory was taken and buried by the sexton of the church, as he had no relations in that vicinity. After an absence of two hours or thereabouts, the negroes relumed, having succeeded in captur ing Finley, and one of the strangers, who were that night confined, and the next morning, at the earnest solicitation of Judge V , liberated on the promise of amending their lives. It was in the month of October, of the same year, that Catharine V was silling by an upper back window of heiHalher’s house, knit ting ; though autumn, the weather was mild, and the window was hoisted about three inches.— About sixty or seventy feet front the rear of the house was the barn, a huge old-fashioned edifice, with upper ami lower folding doors; the lower doors were closed, and incidentally casting her ryes towards the barn, she saw a small hack door on a range with the front door and the window at which she was silting, open, and a number of men enter. The occurrence of the summer im mediately presented itself to her mind, and the fad that her father and the other male members of the family were at work in a field some dis tance from the house, led her to suspect that that opportunity had been improved, probably by some ot Van Zandt’s friends, to plunder and revenge bis death. Concealing herself, therefore, behind the curtains, she narrowly watched their move ments, Hhe saw a man’s head slowly rising above the door, and apparently reconnoilering the premises—it was Finlay’s. Their object was now evident. Going to the ‘armory,” she select ed a well-loaded musket, and resumed her place by tlie window. Kneeling upon the floor, she laid the muzzle of the weapon upon the window sill between the curtains, and taking deliberate aim, she fired. What effect she had produced, she knew not, hut saw several men hurrying out of the barn by the same door they had entered. The report again brought her father and his workmen to the house, and on going into the barn, the dead body of Finlay lay upon the floor. Catharine V afterwards married a captain of the Continental army, and she still lives, the honored mother of a numerous and respectable line ot descendants. The old house is also “in tlie land of the living,” and has been the scene of many a prank of the writer of this article, in the heydey of mischievous boyhood.— Staten Islander, Extra! from report oj the second, exhibition of the Masschusetls Charitable Mechanic Amo ciation. Dan. Davis, jr., Boston. Seer. 23,1839. “ A large variety of electro-magnetic and mag neto-electric apparatus. These instruments il lustrate the principles of a new arid most interest ing department of science. The deflection of the magnetic needle by electric currents, the earliest fart known in the electro-magnetism, was discov ered by Oersted, in 1819; and the induction of electric cuirents by magnetism, the fundamental fact in magneto-electricity, was disevered by Far ady, 1831. These two sciences have since ad vanced with a rapidity unparalleled in the annals of scientific discovery. Many of their most im portant principles are beautifully illustrated by the apparatus exhibited by Mr. Davis. This apparatus is all neatly, thoroughly, and skilfully made, and in some respects, especially in the winding of the insulated wire, on which the pow er of many of the instruments greatly depends, is decidedly superior to similar articles imported from Europe. Mr. Davis possesses a thorough acquintanco with the theory of the instruments he manufactures, ami hence, he has been enabled to introduce into many of them important modifi cations and improvements. Some of the most valuable of these instruments are of his own in vention ; among the most recent of which is the double Helix and Electrotome, not yet described in any scientific journal. Some of the results obtai.ied by it are new; and it is no exaggeration to say that it demonstrates, in a striking manner, a greater variety of principles in electro-rnagne tisrn and magneto-electricity than any instrument of which a description lias hitherto been publish ed. His instrument for the analysis of shocks, and two electro-magnetic engines, are worthy of high commendation, ns bcautilul and ingenious inven tions. Several of the instruments exhibited by Mr. Davis, and originally manufactured by him, were invented by Dr. Page, (of Washington,) and are now extensively used by scientific lectur ers in Europe, and highly commended in foreign philosophical journals. Indeed, it would he dif ficult to name a philosopher, either in this coun try or in Europe, whose discoveries and inven tions in this department of science have, within the last two or three years, been more numerous and valuable than those of Dr. Page. Mr. Davis is tt.e only philosophicalinstrument 1 maker in this country who manufactures appa ratus of this kind to any considerable extent; and he is entitled to the praise of having done much by his instruments to promote a taste for the sciences they are intended to illustrate.” A irold medal awarded. The apparatus was also exhibited at the Fair of the American Institute at New York, and re ccivcd the award of a gold and silver medal. A Toper’s liif.a or Temperance.— “ Tempe rance is a great virtue, therefore always be moder rate in the use of ardent spirits. Six glasses of sling before breakfast are as much as any one man ought .to take unless he is extraordinary thirsty, and did’nt drink enough on going to bed. But even in that case ho should not egcecd twlve, no how. A New Candidate.— lt ia asserted positively tn the Toronto Herald that a petition is in pro gress, in the Western District of Upper Canoda i to the Imperial Parliament, praying t.,at it may bo permitted to join the United Slntea. The Herald aays the reason is, that the just claims on the Government, for disbursements by the people to sustain the not satisfied, and that distress and even ruin are consequences oft the new Imperial economy.