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AUGUSTA.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 8.
Stella is received, and will appear to-morrow.
Portrait ofGcn. R. Y. Haync.
We omitted to notice yesterday, that a gentle
man is now in this city, obtaining subscribers for
the Portrait of this distinguished Patriot and Son
of Carolina. He carries with him the Original
Painting, from which the engraving is to be ta
ken ; which we regard as a very excellent sketch
of that truly great man. Those of our citizens
who wish to preserve sonic memento ofoi-eof
the purest men of the age, will do well to enroll
i their names on the list.
New Jersey Election.
The House of Representatives have finally
adopted the Resolution of Mr. Rice Garland, to
print all the testimony in the possession of the
Committee in this case. The question may
therefore he considered as settled, for a lime. The
final vote on the adoption of the resolution, was
147 yeas to 3 nays.
The Fire in Louisville.
The Louisville Journal of the 28lh ult. gives
the following account of the destructive lire in
that city.
There was a most destructive fire in Ihis city
on Thursday. It broke out about 12 o’clock on
Pearl (formerly 3d) street, in the chair manufac
tory of Mr. Jno. Hawkins. From this point it
spread with fearful rapidity in all directions, run
ning South to within one door of the post office,
corner Pearl and Market streets; North to the
corner of Main and Pearl; West down Main to
within two houses of the Bank of Louisville;
crossing Main and consuming on the East side
of Main, between Wall and Pearl streets, 9 stores
and a boarding bouse occupied by ('apt. Bacon.
The total loss of houses and goods is estimated
at $300,000. Most of the insurances were by
the offices of ihis city, the greatest amount taken
by any one office being $41,000. No doubt is
entertained that the losses will be promptly paid.
The following just censure of the course pur
sued by the present Administration, is trom tire
Apalachicola by Cosim L* Bartlct.
We have been informeu that Judge Randall,
the talented and upright jurist, and who has for
some years past, occupied the Bench ol the Mid
dle District of Florida, with groat crcdi. to the
Territory, and to the satisfaction of the people of
that District, has been recently displaced, to make
room for a political partizan of the present ad
minis.ration in Tennessee.
This is one of the most degrading circumstan
ces connected with our present state of Territo
rial vassalage. Our interests, our Laws, and our
credit, are all bartered away in exchange for a
few votes in a doubtful stale or district. Ihe of
ficers, in whose hands are placed our dearest
rights, and most important concerns, are selected
—not because they arc known to be wise and up
right—not because they possess, or are entitled
to, the confidenceot their fcllow-citizcns —hut be
cause they may have been active and unscrupu
lous in some electioneering campaign.
But we bust the day is not far distant, when
people of Florid,-, will have the selection of their
own officers; and when wisdom and integrity,
and attachment to the interests of Florida, will
he considered as recommendations for high sta
tions of honor and trust; when the emoluments
of office will no longer bo regarded as the spoils
of the victor—with which he may reward his
unprincipled adherents.
Pennsylvania Legislature*
The hill from the Senate, legalizing the sus
pension of specie payments by the banks of that
State, till the 15th January, 1841, and requiring
them to loan to the Commonwealth, in sums pro
portioned to their capitals, if the State should
want it,an aggregate not exceeding three mil
lions, at 5 per cent, passed third reading [in the
House, on the 31st ult., by a vote of 46 to 41,
Its approval by the Governor was confidently ex
pected.
Virginia.—The term of service of the patri
otic and high-minded Governor Campbell having
expired on Monday last, he that day retiied from
the station lie has occupied with so much credit
to himself, and Thomas W. Gilmer, Esq. the
Governor elect, was duly installed as his succes
sor.
Norfolk, April 3.— Shipwreck.—' The schr.
Wilmot, Joseph Marshall, master, of and from
Boston, with an assorted cargo, bound to Savan
nah, was driven as lore on Lynhaven Bay, about
2 miles from the’ Light House, in the blow oi
Monday night last. We learn that Capt. Mar
shall had put inte this Bay to repair damages sus
tained by his vcssal in the gale of the 26th ult.
Marine Disaster and h>ss of Lives. —The brig
G. B. Lamar. Rislcy, from Savannah, bound to
New York, has put into this port in distress, ha
ving been dismasted in the gale of the 25ih—
■was knocked down on her beam ends, and in or
der to right her, cut the lashing of the deck load
of cotton, which fell over, and Mr. Dudley,
mate, a native of New Haven, was unfortunate
ly precipitated overboard with the bales, and lost;
two steerage passengers were also missed, suppo
sed to have perished in the same way ; one of the
hands was killed by the falling of the main rig
ei'MJ-
Tiif. Larof. OrsTF.ii. — The large oyster taken
by Xavier Francois, while oystering on Monday
last, was brought up fiom the wharf on a dray
last evening. An oyesler measuring three feet
one inch in length and twenty three and a ha/J
1-
inches across the widest part of it, is a curiosity.
Mr. Ayres, the purchaser, will exhibit it at the
Alhambra this day, at 11 o’clock, when it will be
opened and served up in his usual good style.—
Mobile Advertiser,
From the Baltimore American.
Credit Abroad.
There has been a great deal said of late res
pecting American credit in Europe. It has suf
fered some depression certainly—a depression
however which will lie but temporary, and which
has resulted more from accidental causes than
from any permanent ground ol distrust. The
Paris correspondent of the National Intelligen
cer speaks thus in a recent letter :
“To establish the highest credit for the several
States nothing more, in my humble opinion, is
required than that (hey maintain social.and con
ajjifflitionnl order, and pay, punctually and fully,
dividends on their bonds and stocks; and tlfiu
Paris and the continent, through the French andb
German presses, he made acquainted with their,
growth, condition, undertakings and prospects.—
It has happened to me, particularly, to learn and
note how little is known here, in any walk, of
the matters just mentioned. The social and po
litical disorders that occur in the divisions of our
Union, are alone presented and regarded, and
have of course, a doubly mischievous ellecl. The
scheme of an assumption or guaranty by the
General Government of the Stale bonds
flocks is, I judge beset with insuperable difficujl
lies. Let the States be true to themselves, and
it will be superfluous.”
The allvisicn here made to the ignorance which
prevails in European countries in reference to the
United States, and to the proneness of foreign
writers to exaggerate every little disturbance or
disorder that may take place here, is worthy of
consideration. It is not he disguised that much
jealousy exists in monarchical countries on the
other side of the Atlantic, on account of the prev-
Lalence and steady growth of republican principles
in Am rica. There are not wanting suspicious
watchers ever on the look out to descry symp
toms of anarchy in our system of government,,
and to seize hold of every pretext to raise'a«t«r
umphanl cry at the hoped lor dissolution of our
free institutions.
A disposition to disregard contracts is imputed
to the American people as one of the consequen
ces of a popular condition—an imputation utter
ly unfounded. Yet it is this very charge which
has been most industriously circulated in Eu
rope, and the one which has operated the most
injuriously to our interests. Mr. Walsh enters
into some statistical statements to show that com
mercial faith in the United States is regarded as
sacredly as in any other country in the world—a
fact which nobody doubts at home, but which
lias been wantonly denied abroad. In compari
son wi’h this country, Mr. Walsh says—“ln
France, I am sure, there is less, proportionality,
of commercial honor, punctuality and knowledge,
notwithstanding the greater severity of the laws.”
The number of bankruptcies declared to the Tri
bunal of Commerce in Paris, from the Ist of
January, 1839, to the Ist of January, 1840, is
one thousand and thirteen, and the aggregate of
sums upwards of sixty millions of francs. These
are total failures and do not comprehend private
arrangements, compositions, <Sic. Mr. Walsh
adds: *
“The experience of our custom-houses as to
frauds, of what kind soever, accomplished or at
tempted, may, I believe, be cited in favor of the
native traders It is conceded in Europe by en
lightened and candid observers, that no other
commercial communities would have struggled so
hard, submitted to such sacrifices, and succeeded
in standing so firmly, as ours have done under
the crisis with which they have been visited since
1836. Wherever I have been, in the three years
past, on this continent, I have had occasion to
remark the absence of all scruple or shame in
getting money by any mode other than direct
theft. On tr.e contrary, in the United Slates, fair
dealing in every particular and sense, and respect
lo truth and right, have seemed to me to prevail
in the main body of Americans engaged in traf
fic ; of the mechanics of every denomination,
the venders of whatever merchandise, the inn
keepers, the laborers for wages, including domes
tics. Although the correspondents at New Yo.k
and Philadelphia, of the London papers, com
monly relate as peculiar and wonderful Western
enormities in lynching and murder, he assured
that, in France and England, which place them
selves at the head of civilization and police, mob
violence and barbarous homicide arc greatly more
frequent than in our country. Ido not mean lo
dwell now on the statistics of crime which I have
collated. I will merely say that the American
calender falls lar short of the European in both
heinousness and amount.
It is to be hoped that, the close proximity into
which Europe and Amerca are now drawn by
means of steam navigation, the facilites of which
will go on increasing until they will come to be
regarded as close neighbours, will have the effect
of diffusing more accurate knowledge of our
country, its character and resources, than has yet
prevailed in the old world. The consequence,
we may reasonably heleivc, will be to correct the
numerous errors and prejudices which abound,
no doubt, mutually in both continents, hut which
arc particularly inveterate in the minds of Eu
ropeans on account of their ignorance respecting
this country. Capitalists abroad will find that
here is the great region for profitable investments;
and that a sacred regard for contracts must ever
remain a characteristic of the country in its deal
ings with people abroad, from considerations of
interest even if no higher motive were concerned.
They may rest assured that whatever commotions
and divisions may at limes disturb the public
tranquillity in the excitements of political dis
cussions, these are temporary in ttieir nature as
well as superficial, and can never reach the funda
mental principles of society, which are based upon
an intelligence continually increasing and a
moral sense strong in its attachment to the right.
Remarks of Mr. Rlack ofGeorgia.
Mr. Graves here spoke at great length and in
the course of his remarks adverted to the course
of Mr. Black in relation to the election of public
Printer; to which
Mr. Black of Georgia said he did not rise for
the purpose of making a speech on the merits of
the hill now under consideration, but for the pur
pose of putting himself right before the commit
tee and the country, in a matter which may well
be called a “vexed question.” and about which a
great deal had been said elsewhere; he alluded
to the part he had taken in the election of Prin
ter, and the disposition made by the House of
Congressional printing. If, in so doing, he pla
ced any man in the wrong, it was not with the
intention of prosecuting an offensive warfare, hut
simply in justification to himself, and those who
had acted with him. This much he felt himself
imperatively called on to do, from the manner - n
which the honorable gentleman from Kentucky
[Mr Graves] had spoken of that transaction, and
fr„m the distinct allusions which had been made
„ him in the courtc of the debate. If he under-
stood that gentleman correctly, he had depreeia
ted the election ot Francis P, Blair to the office
of Printer; pronounced it permature and precipi*
tate; in consequence of which a previous inves
tigation into alleged frauds had been sujierseded
and precluded by the House; and that, too, said J
the gentleman when we were getting along very
welland smoothly by letting out the printing on
contract.
bir, said Mr. B. the gentleman from Kentucky,
the W higs, and others, who voted with that gen
tleman for a certain resolution, to which I shall
presently refer, effected indirectly and covertly,
by its adoption, that which 1 did directly and
openly, in the election which followed. That,
and that alone, after all that has been said, is the
difference between us.
Sir. let us look to that resolution fora moment,
and recur to its origin and history. It was in
troduced into this 1 louse, and advocated on its
passage, by my colleague, [Mr. Dawson.] By
V it, the Clerk ot this House, a confirmed Denio
.Arat, was ordered “to supply some suitable per
son or persons, to execute the necessary printing
of this House, in the manner prescribed hy the
joint resolution ot 1819.” I will not assert that
the gentleman voted for-lhis resolution; hut
this much I will say, that if he voted or raised
his voice against it in this hall, 1 was not present
and did not hear him. So far as lam imformed
lie sat hy and suffered that resolution, introduced
t *hy a gentleman who usually acts with the Whig
party, to pass this House, sub silentio, not only
the first, but the second time, if I remember cor
rectly. What, then, was the purport, the effect,
the consequence of that action of the House! It
was that a Democratic Clerk should select, at
his option, some individual to execute the prin
ting of Congress upon the terms fixed by the
resolution of 1819. This proposition came di
rectly from the Whig ranks, a..d was supported
alike by Whig and Democrat. This, then, was
the generally received sense of the House, and
was acquiesced in by the gentleman for Kentucky
himself, who, if he was present at its adoption,
said not one word, as I have heard, in opposition
, toil. What, sir, was the natural and necessary
of all this? Every man here, who .
had his senses about him, knew, or ought to have r
known that this'same Francis P. Blair, who has
been vilified and abused through all the avcnirt-s
by which detraction can roach the character of a
man, whether justly or not I will not stop to in
quire, fori am not his champion. The same hein
ous and offensive Hlair, upon the proposition,
andhy the votes of the Whigs themselves, was
indirectly made the Printer of this House, with
out any limitation as to price, save that imposed
by the joint resolution of 1810. All parties here
knew, as well as I did, that Hugh A. Garland, the
Domocratic Clerk of the House, to whom the
selection of a Printer was thus referred hy Col.
Dawson’s resolution, would appoint Mr. Blair, his
politically ally, and who was every way compe
tent to tlic charge and execution of that tiusl.—
Did this appointment disappoint any one here ?
No, sir! Every body well knew who would
be made Printer, as soon as the Clerk was entrus
ted with the selection of that officer.
Under these circumstances, when Mr. Blair
was comfortably seated in his newly acquired of
fice, for which he was perhaps more indcbied to
the Whigs than the Democrats, I had the honor
to come foiward and unsettle this stale of things,
so propiUous to the Editor of the Globe, and to
arrest the official patronage which had been In
directly cast upon that functionary hy Col. Daw
son’s resolution. Is not this so? I appeal, said
■ Mr. B. to the resolution which I subsequently of
i sered upon this subject, and which was adopted
by the House; by which it will appear that, in
stall of making the Editor of the Globo the sure
and certain recipient of the piinting patronage,
under the prices of 1819, he was subjected to all
the contingencies and uncertainties of an election,
where parties are so nearly balanced, and restric
ted in tile remuneration he was to receive for ser
vices to such terms and such a tariff of prices as
the House, after the investigation of the subject,
might think proper to adopt,
j} Sir, said Mr. B. I have nothing to urge against
gentlemen for their support of the Editor of the
Globe. I supported him myself, not only upon
the occasion referred to, but subsequently, at the
election, openly and fearlessly, while others hid
themselves behind the responsibility of the Clerk’s
appointment. I voted for him viva voce, because
I believed, all things considered, he was moreen
tilled to mv support than the Editors of the Na
i tional Intelligencer. For this choice between two
contending candidates, I am ready and willing, as
I will do upon some future occasion, to answer
to my constituents, to whom alone I hold myself
responsible for my acts here. But, sir, this is
what I complain of, and herein have I been badly
and unjustly treated, and proscribed hy some,
without even a hearing of my case; that while 1
am rebuked and condemned hy the gentleman
from Kentucky, and those with whom he is as
sociated, for having participated in the election of
Mr. Blair to be the Printer of this House, those
who voted for Col. Dawson’s resolution are eith
er applauded for their patriotism and consistency,
or at least passed over in commendatory silence.
Yes, sir ; “let it be written on the wall” that
this identical Blair, who lias been denounced by
the Whigs for every thing odious, both morally
and politically, was made the happy recipient of
Government patronage, by a resolution emana
ting from the Whig ranks, and supported hy that
party, while I have been rebuked and condemned
fordoing that openly, which they thought proper
to effect indirectly and covertly! “Think of that
Master Brook! !”
Sint'wnF.CK axa loss of Life—The brig
Escambia, Capt. Dunham, belonging to Messrs.
E.D. Hurlhut &■ Co, was lost at sea on the
25th of March while on her passage from Charles
ton to New York, and out of sixteen persons
who were on board only one is known to bo sa
ved.
The E. left Charleston on the 25th. On the
next day while under bare poles, and being be
tween Fryingpan Shoals and Cape Look Out,
the wind commenced blowing from the N. E. and
increased until 7 o'clock, when she was knocked
down on her beam ends.
In this situation the brig continued until 9
o’clock, when she began lo go down. The wind
blowing violently, and the sea riming very high
and making a complete breach over the vessel.
Every one was washed from the wreck. The
male clung to the talfrail, and after the vessel had
entirely disappeared, he succeeded in reaching a
pari of the poop deck, which had been disenga
ged hy the violence of the sea. upon which he re
mained until Saturday the 28th ult. at 3 11.I 1 . M.,
when he was at th it time taken off by Capt. Whil
den, of the schooner Marietta Ryan.
The persons on hoard were Capt. Rufus Dun
ham ; the mate, Wm. Bulklcy; 2d mate, Edwin
Hull; J. Chamberlain, cook; and steward, Isaac
Tradlc; Henry Johnston, John Williams, John
Peters, James Lucas, and Allen Jackson, seaman ;
Mr. Wilber, of Newport, R. 1., and two others,
nsmes unknown, passengers. Vessel insured in
1 this city for $16,(00. — Com. Adv.
[The Escamhiu hod a cargo of 483 bales of
Cotton, and 244 Mils. Kice. The Colton, we
learn, was wholly insured at New-York, ansi it
was believed that the Rice was also insured at
that city. Tile seunen. seven in number, were
all black men.] — Ed's. Charleston Courier.
Another Fire.— Just as our paper was going
to press about ball’jnist 11 o’clock, a lire broke
out in the new lirkk building owned 1-y Mr.
Wilkins,occupied by Win. H Kelly,onß*l. Fran
cis street. The row ot brick buildings adjoining
were all destroyn), and lire building on the corner
of Water street, and two or three soolli of it were |
much injoied. A large iinominl of properly has {
been sacrificed.
The fire destroyed tlic Carriage warehouse of
A. P. Howell, on St, Francis si., in the rear of
which was a warehouse of W. A E Smith,
Crockery dealers, which was also destroyed, from
which tiro fire was coramuu-k-.vted to th* Drug
store of Woodrolf & Watkins, on Water street,
which was entirely consumed. Here the fire was
unexpectedly arrossted by the extraordinary
exertion® of the fi.rtnen, W* are unable lo gyve
particulars this morning.
The total loss cannot fall moch skoirt of
$70,000.
Too roach praise cannot be awarded to the Fire
men foe the skill and activity they displayed in
subduing the devouring element. The "fire i»
attributed entirely to accident. Thieves and pick
pockets were busy in. the crowd and twenty or
more of tluern were arrested.— Mobile Advertiser,
].>/ instant.
ExTttAonnTXAßis Mai*ki.i»r.—On Tlwsday
last, “yoMg Doctor irfuiife;” as he is commonly
dcsjiguatcdboi properly desanibed P. Augutus
Lamb Handeeck, a quack wot ra doctor, aged TZ !
was united in the silken band of matrimony, at
St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury, to Miss WinSord
F'untkes, si TVelydiW, near Welshpool, aged. 83
years! The lovely and blooming bride being ,
extremely deaS, caused great interraytioa t«> the
ceremony, and when asked if she would take
# Mr. Lamb a» her “weded husband,” site made
no reply, when-tlic loving bridegroom shouted with
all his strength of lungs, “Say yes I say yes!”
The Kc». Mr. \ ardley stopped him, aiyUmfornu'dl
the anxious youth that the- lady must answer of
her own free will. The blushing damsel guessing
doubtless at the cause of the pause,exclaimed in
inoetmclodkiw tones, “Oh yes, I will fcertasMly 1
will ! I will.” The Rev. Divine, however,
considered) k impriailent to- go- on wit!', the- cer
emony, as none of the lady’s relative* were
present to sanction the hasto-wal of Irer person
ujK>tv the .'Wining, young Adonis, and' it was
thought advisable to send for the attorney who
prepared Miss Foutkes’s marriage settlements,
in whch sA* bad endowed Mr. Augustus Lomli
with irbcoul Thirty Thousand PnundsfJt The
gentlsniait of the law arrived, and having vouched
that the marriage settlements, &e., wen* correctky
prepend, and also tliot the In kle was. oaprobiu of
exec suing a legal deed, the remainder of the ser
vice was proii««dedi with. Immediately after
which, the- bo-ppy couple, with the papa, minium,
and a brother of the fortunate Augustus, set off
lor Bath, wlwro the I uTlle doves will enjoy the
honey moon in sweet repose.-— Cheltenham
('Hmg.J JhiunsaL
Lafayette- in the BYencfat Keudivtiom.
Lafoyette was, also, a prominent member of
the State* General, which met in 1789*, and: as
sumed the M<wne of th* Natioiiol Assembly. Fie
proposed,in this body, * 2feuiaraliot» ot Sights,
not unlike--oar own, and it was wider bio influ
ence, anti while lie was, for Ibis very purpose, in
the chain, 3lint a decree was passed on the night
of the liJih and 14lh of July,— at the moment
the Baetilie was sidling before the cannon, of tho
popsalacty—which provided for the responsibly
of memiliers, and thus furnished one of the most
important elements of a- representative monarchy.
Two doys afterwards, he was appointed comman
der in chief of the National- Guards, of Paris,
and thus was placed at the head of what was in
tended to be mode, when it should lie earned in
to sell the departments, tlic elSiative military pow
er of the realm-, and what, uiulei his wise uum
ageimcnt, soon became such.
His great military command, and. hisstiil great
er personal influence, now brought bin* constant
ly in contact with the throne. His position.,
therefore, wasexlremcly delicate, especially as t..e
jtopu.la.ii parly in Paris, of which, lie was not so
much tlw head as the idol, was already in,a shite
of perilous excitement, and atrocious violences
were beginning to be cornmitlsd. Tho abhor
rence of the rjiieeir was almost universal, ami was
excessive to a degree of which, we can. have no
just idea. The circumstance that the court Jived
at Verswßes, sixteen miles from, Paris, and tlint
llie National- Assembly was held there, was ano
ther sowce of jealousy, irritation, nod Mitred on
the part of tho capitoL 'ilie people of Paris,
th.-itfiirc, as a sign of opposition, bad mounted
their municipal cockade of blue and red, whose
elfocts were already becoming a Inning. Lafay
ette, who was anxious about the conoo.piences of
such a marked division, a ml wlvo knew how im
portant are smtaß means of conciliation, added lo
it, on the 261 h of July, the white of the royal
cockade, ami, as he placed it ir> his own (vat, p. 0-
phesiedl that it ‘ would go round the world ; a
prediction (haif real-ready mar* than Ms accom
plished, since the tri-colored cocleadb- has been
used for tiro ennign of emnneipation in-Spain, in,
Naples, in soine [juris of Bouth America, and in
Greece.
Still, however, the tendency of every thmg
was to confusion amd vrotenre. The Vranblas of
the tiroes, 100, rather than a [xwilive want of the
means of sulmFstence, bad brought on a famine
in the capitol; and the populace of fauxbotirgs,
the roost degraded certainly in France, having
assembled and armed tliemselves, determined lo
go to Versailles ; tlie greater part with a blind
desire of vengeance on the royal family, but oth
ers only with the purpose of bringing the king
from Versailles, and forcing him.to reside in the
more ancient, but scarcely habitable palace of the
Tuillcries, in the midst of Parrs. The Nation
al Guards clamoured to accompany this savage
multitude. Lafayette opp-wed llietr inclination ;
the munici|Kility of Paris hesitated, but support
ecl it; be resisted nearly the whole of the sth
October, while the road to Versailles was already
thro.igcd with an exasperated mob of above a
hundred thousand ferocious men and women, un
til at last, finding the multitude weic armed, and
cvp,u bad cannon, be asked and received an or
der to march fiom the competent authority, and
set off at four o’clock in the afternoon, as one grs
ing to a post of imminent danger, which it h»d
clearly become his duty to occupy.
He arrived at Versailles at ten o’clock at night
after having been on horseback from before day
light in the morning, and having made, during
the whole interval, both at Paris and on the road,
incredible txertions to control the multitude and
calm the soldiers. ‘Tire Marquisdc Lafayette at
last entered the Chateau,’ says Madame de Btacf,
‘and, passing through the apartment where we
were, went to the king.—We all pressed round
him as if he were the muster of events, and yet
the popular party was already more powerful than i
its chief, ami principles were yielding to factions
or rather were beginning to serve as fbrrr pretexts.
M. de l.afayolle’s manner was perfectly calm;no
body ever saw it otherwise; but his delicacy suf
fered Irom the importance of the part he was roll
ed to act. He asked for the interior posts of the
Chateau, in order that he might ensure their safe
ly. Only the enter posts were granted to him/
J his refusal was not disrespectful to him who
made the request. It was given simply because
the etiquette of the court reserved the guard of
the royal person and family to another hotly of
I men. Lafayette, tlrerefore, answered for the Na
j (ioria-IGuards, and/or the pootscommitted to them
| l>ul he coet'M answer no more; and his pledge was
faithfully and desperately redeemed.
Between two and three o'clock, the queen and
the royal family went to bed. Wayelte, too,
shqit idler tire great fatigues of this fearful day.
At lad i post four, a portion of the populace made !
their way into the palace by an obscure, interior !
passage, which had been overlooked, aml which j
was not in that part of the Chateau intrusted to !
Lalayelte. They were evidently led by persons j
who well knew the secret avenues. Miraheuu’s ,
name v*.,s afterwards* strangely com promised in it,
:«nd lire form of the infamous Duke of Orleans
wiv* repeatedly recognised on the great staircase,
potiratiug the assassins the way to the queen’s
chamber. They easily found it. Two of her
guards were c»t down in an inata.it, and she
made lx>r escape almost snaked. Lafayette imme
diately rwwhed in with the notional troops pvotec
tml tlx- guards from the brutal populace, and sa
ved tli* lives of the royal family, which lu*d so
nearly been, sacrificed to the etiquette of the mart
arrhy.
The <Siy dawned, as this fearful scene of guilt
uml 1 bloodshed was passing in the magnificent
palnca*, whose construction had exhausted the
revenues ol Laois Fourteenth, and which, for a
i century hod been tlie must splendid residence in
Europe. As soon ns it was light, the same fu
rious-molti'tude tilled the space, which, from the
rich materials of which it was formed, passed un
der live name of the Court of Marble.—They cull
ed npontho king, In tones not to ho mistaken, to
gn to Paris; ivndi they called (or the, queen, who
laid tntt just escaped from their daggers, to enure
ow.l upon the balcony. The king, after a short
consultation with his ministers,announced his trv
, hurtion to set out fcw the capital; but Lafayette
wno-nfsaht to-trust the queen it> the midst of the
Wood-thirsty mirltitoifc. He went to hnv, tlwre
lorc, with respectful hesitation, and asked her if
. it were her intention to accompany the king to
Far is. ‘k es,’ she mqdlied, ‘although lam aware
of fh* danger.’ ‘Are you positively determinedT r
‘Ve») siw. Condescend, then, to go out upon the
balcony, and siUIV-r me to attend you.” Without
the king?—she replied, hesitating—‘Haveyon
olwerved the threats V ‘Yes, madam, I liavc; hut
dare to-trust me,’ lie led her out upon the bal
cony.—lt was it moment of great responsibility
and great delicacy; but nothing, he felt assured,
could lie so dangerous as to permit her to set out
lor Par is, surrounded by that multitude unless its
feelings could be changed. The agitation, the
tumuli, lire erics of tiro crowd, rendered it Impos
sible tlmt his voice sboxtld l»o heard. It was tie
; cesssry, therefore, to address himself to the cy*,
and, turning towards the queen with that admira
ble presence at mind which never yd forsook him,
and with that mingled grace atvl dignity, which
were tint peculiar inheritance of the ancient court
I of France, Ire simply kissed her hand before the
vast multitude. Ah instant es silent astonish
ment followed, hut tire whole was immediately
interpreted, and tho air was rent with cries of
‘Long live the queen E’ Long, live the general !*
(rum- the some fickle and cruel populace, that, only
two- hours before, had imbrued their hands in the
blood of the guards who defended the life of this !
same queen.— Titknro.
liinh-flay of W ashing tan.
FV 0. D. PRENTICE.
Why swell a million hearts as one,
With mem hies of the past ?
Why rings out yon deep thunder-gun
Upon the rushing blast >
Why hold She beautiful, the brrve.
The Jubilee of earth ?
It is the day that gave
Ourpatiiot hero birth.
We oiler here a sacrifice
Os hearts to him, who-came-
To guard yc-uagjFieedom’s paradise
With sword of living tkme !
T«-him, who, oa, war’s whirlwind loud,
liodc like an angel form,
And set his gk/ry on the ckmd,
A hale of the ste-rm !
A hundred yeairs witli all their tiaim
Os shadow, have gone by,
Aad yet this glorious name remains,
A sound that cannot die !
Ti*graven on the hill, the vale.
And on the mountain tall,
And speaks in every soiimliing’gale
And roaring watea-fa-11!
No marble on his resting spot
Its sculptuireicolumus rears.
But his still a nobler lot,
A grateful nation’s tears *
Old time, that bids the ntSl))l* bow,
Makes green each laurel leaf,
That blooms upon the sainted brow
Os our immortal chief!
Ills deeds were ours—but through the world ■
That mighty chief will be
Where glory’s banner is unfurled.
The watchword of the free I
And, as they bend tlteir eagle eyes
On Victory’s burning sum,
Their shouts will echo to the skies—
“ Our God ami Washington !”
i
Siuurun Pn»sjotor*ie u. Oisk.—Aliout four i
years ago Thomas Hradley, of Deighton, near!
Huddersfield, remained in a trance for forty weeks !
during which lime the only sustenance he receiv
ed was a little gruel put into his mouth at inter
vals. From this state of stupor he recovered his
usual health, ami rcsnrncd bis labour as cloth 1
dresser. After his recovery he stated that though
he could see no one, nor had the power to move )
aft cr, or even a single muscle, he beard dis- ’
linctly all the remarks made about him at his bed
side by his family and others who visited him.
He is now again reduced to the same stale, and
has been so for fourteen weeks last Monday. He I
has only spoken once during this long period,and
that was on the sixth of November last, when be
very feebly said "give me some parkin.” From
this circumstance his mother supposes that he
hears all that pauses near to him, the same as
when he was last in this lamentable state. He
is in his twenty-third year, his pulse is hardly
perceptible; the only motion observed, and that
rarely, is in the eye-lid, and he is reduced in a
most remarkable degree.— ItttJ* f Hng-J Mer
cury. * • t
» Uls. i * . JNO. 4
Mr. Van Buren is called, by tlie Southern loco
foco papers, “lb* nor-hem man with southern
| principles I” W« think it should read, “the
northern man rmuxo for the Socni-”— Bt.
Louis Bulletin.
Absexcf. of Muni—The following Is the las*
instance of abnene* of mind. A man thinking
he was at home a> few evenings since, laid down
in the (Square, anil put his boots outside the gate
to be blacked m the morning.
From the .Vetcs Letter.
Lines,
WRITTF.R On HEARING A TUNE OF OLDF.N TIHE
PLAYED ON THE GUITAR.
O, touch it gently, it breathes the tone.
Os hopes, of feelings, long since gone,
That come-with the freshness of the hour
When Rest we felt their magic power.
O, touch rt lightly ; for it wakes again
Thoughts that have long in silence lain ;■
When the heart wna light, as the zephyr’s wing,
And bright as- the opening buds of spriag.
f), touch it softly ; o’er memory’s track
It sends the wandering spirit back,
O’er each- love’d spot it fondly strays,
To muse o’er the' light of other days.'
O blame me not if the timid tear
Steal o’er my cheek for (hose so dear;
’T» out the tribute which mem’ry pays
To the |i«i!ed friends cf other dky».
r. m. c.
Minerva, Mil son Co. Ky.,
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Bole Agent for Augusta,
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah. April fi.
('tenred —Algonquin Smith, Providence; brig;
Co nmerce, Read!, Liverpool.
Arrived —Ship Charlotte, Graham, Havre; Er.
ship Ruby, Wcstcott, Liverpool; ship Chevalier,
Prince, Havre; ship Tamerlane, Theobald,Liver
p®oi; brig Win Taylor, llocv, New York; brig Ceres,
Jllancbard, Havre; scho mcr Holder Rorden, ft bodes
Providence; steamboat Oglethorpe, Williams, Au
g«Ksta.
Helmer— an English ship and ft hsi«.
Went In sea —Ship Amnuon, Stinson, Liverpool;;
Br ship Perseus, Kosven, Liverpool; baik Zenobia,
Remmiiiglon, Uoston; brig Pandora, Sheppard, Pro
vidence; brig Clinton; Lyon, New York; brig Jane,
Fitzgerald, Ualtimor-o.
CatiARLFUTour, April 7.
Arrivedyesterifty.— E* ship St. Andrew, Leitch,
London; lir barque Ganges, < oi ken, Liverpool; schr
Daniel Webster, Weeks, Philadelphia; schc K. P.
Cohen, Cromwell, Baltimore.
At Quarantine. —Ship Corea, Jackson, Havre.
Cleared. —Fr brig GrccneuiPe, Harnouiny, New
Orleans; sebt Elisabeth, Bell, Boston.
Went in sen yesterday. —Ship La Duchess D’Or/-
leans, Richardson, Havre; brig Lancet, Clank, An
twerp.
NEW AND FASHIONABLE
SPUING AND SUMMER GOODS,.
FOR GENTILE MEN.’®. WEAR,
JUST received, of the besb qpality and fabric,,
and will be made to measure in the most approved,
style of fashion, or sold hy the piece or pattern,,
commensurate with the scarcity of cash.
Ready Made Clothing,
Os the finest quality, and. wc'.l made.
Fancy Aiticdtia*
Os every variety, consisting; of-Stock*, Collars,
Suspenders,Gloves,Cravats, Handkerchiefs,Straps,
Hosiery, Under Shirts, Drawees, Perfumery,Soaps,
Brushes, Traveling Cases, Combs, Razor Strops,
Shoulder Brace;.,, Money Belts, Cravat Stiltners,
| ftc. tke.
Hals, Caps, Umbrellas, and Shirts.
All of which will be disposed of. at the lowest
j prices for cash, or short credit, by,
WILLIAM O. PRICK,
Draper. and-Tailor,
No. 25S BroiJ-st,oppoi«te the State Bank.
mar swAwb’w
THE subscriber having sold bis stock of Goods
lo his sun Win. H. Maclean, requests all these
I indebted to him to. call and; settle their accounts
without delay; ami those to whom he is indebted
will present their accounts for settlement. He
will generally be found at his sonls.store, where
his books and papers will be left; and when not at
the store himself, his son is authorized to receive
and settle any accounts foi him.
ap 2 lew Sib AND’W. MACLEAN.
FACTORjMUB. AND* t tS.HAUSWON
HNUSINESS..
riNHE undersigned have taken an office in Jolm-
JL son’s buildings, opposite the Iron Steamboat
Company’s. Wbarf, where they propose to do a
General Factorage and Commission Business, un -
dor the name and firm of Crawford * Gunby, andi
by strict attention to business, they hope to obtain,
patronage; Merchants and others, ordering dry
goods-aj-groceries, will meet with prompt atten—
ion, SIMMONS CRAWFORD.
ROBERT M. GUNBY.
SM annab, April 2; wslt