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CHKOMCLK AMi SHNTINEL.
A V Cl'S T A .
WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 14.
Maryland Election.
The Baltimore American of Saturday says: —
“ It is now pretty clearly ascertained that the next
Legislature will stand 60 Whigs in the House of
Delegates to 19 Van Bureniles ; and in the Senate
15 Whigs to 6 Van Burenites. There are only
three counties in the Suite which have dieted the
entire Van Buren ticket, —these are Baltimore,
Talbot and Carroll. Baltimore city has elected
Van Burenites, and they have elected two out of
the four delegates from Harford.”
The nett Whig gain so far as heard from, is 25
Delegates and 3 Senators.
The Delaware State Journal contains the com
plete returns of the election for inspectors of elec
tion, which was held in that State on Tuesday.
The total Whig majority in tuc State is 716.
Missionaries.
It may bo interesting to a portion of our read
ers to be informed that the ship Potomac, Capt.
Carter,having on boatd Rev. Thomas L. Mcßride
i.nd other Missionaries with thcii families, all weli,
arrived on Sth of June last oil Angierc, Island of
Java, on their way to Singapore, and within a few.
days sail of that place, after a favorable voyage of
three months from Boston.
Harrison and Troup.
Goners l Harrison is denounced as a Federal
ist, because he approved of the conduct of the el
der Adams, relative to the anticipated war with
France—because he spoke respectfully of Mr.
Adams, as a gentleman and patriot—and opposed
the disbanding of the army.
The same reasoning would condemn General
Smith, of Maryland, Thomas Jefferson, and
George M. Troup of the same crime. General
Smith voted with Gen. Hants on on that ques
tion, in fact, was the originator of tho army
scheme. Mr. Jefferson spoke in favor of the
war, and George M. Troup, in speaking of it,
uses the following language, viz:
“ When the French Directory, in the name of
liberty, which it abused, and in the name of hon
or, which it sullied, availing itself of the gener
ous sympathies of our people, had essayed to in
volve them in the conflicts of Europe, and on the
side of France, Mr. Adams resented tho insults
an 1 repelled the indignities of those misnamed
republicans, with a patriot firmness, worthy of
his former life ; and a corrupt government of tho
most powerful nation of Christendom, which had
dared to demand a hare biihe, as the price of
peace, was instructed that the American people
were ready to pay milfoils for defence hut not a
cent for tribute, Lang before his sun wentdown,
truth and justice having tranquilized the pas
sions, the respect and the allections of the good
and worthy had settled on the venerable Patri
arch, and his last days were made serene and
happy by the contemplation of an old man ap
preaching to his hundredth year, surrounded hy
millions whom he delighted to call his children,
and who in gratitude for his services, would
follow him with tears and benedictions to his
grave.”
Who can read the above and entertain a shad
ow of respect for tiie pitiful pettifogger, who
would attempt to stigmatize General Harrison
as a black cockade federalist, for acting and
thinking in common with Smith, and Jefferson,
and Troup!
From the Richm nd fVa.J Compiler.
Mr. Webster on Abolition.
It is hut duty to the distinguished son of the
Bay State, the intellectual giant of the North,
that his views touching the power of the Feceral
Government to interfere with Southern instilu
tutions, as expressed in his speech on Monday,
should be seen and read in c>ery section of the
South. He denies the existence of that power,
and avers that such interference is p ohihited by
the Constitution. With such a bulwark in the
very citadel—if impotent as they are, they may
be considered as having a citadi I at all—of the
Abolitionists, we have little to fear. Mr, Web
ster said:
I have spoken my sentiments in the neighbor
hood of Virginia, though not actually within the
State, in June las - ., and again in the heart ol
Massachusetts in July, so that it is not now that
I proclaim them for the first time—but ten years
ago, when obliged to speak on this same subject,
I uttered the same sentiment in regard to slavery
and to the absence of all power in Congress to
inletfere, in any mariner whatever, with that
subject. I delivered my sentiments fully in Al
exandria in the month of June, and in July at
Worcester, in Massachusetts. I shall ask some
friend connected with ihe Press, to circulate in
Vtlginia what I said on this subject in the Sen
ate of the United Slates, on the ilOllr of January
last.” I have nothing to add or to subtract from
what I then said, I commend it to your atten
tion, or raihcr I desire you to lo k at it. I hold
that Congress is absolutely orecludcd from inter
fering in any manner, direct or indirect, with
this, as with any other of the Institutions of the
country. (The cheering was here loud and long
continued, and a voice from die crowd exclaimed,
“ we arc here from Maryland to Louisiana, ami
we desire that Ihe senlime .t just expressed may
v Repeal, repeat.) Well—l repeat
~ v™—pro: hum it on the wings of all tho winds
tell it to all your friends—(cries of “ wo will, tve
■ will’ ) —tell it, Isay, that standing herein the
' capitol of V irginia, hen alh an October sun, in
the midst of this assemblage, before lire entire
country, and upon all the responsibility that be
longs to me, 1 say that there is no power directly
nr rndirctly in Congress or the General Gov
crnmcnlto interfere, in the slightest degree, with
the Institutions of the South. (Immense cheer
ing.)
And now, said Mr. W., I ask you only to do
me one favor, (we’ll do it. I ask you to catry
that paper home, (we will, we will.) read it, read
it to your neighbors, ami when you hear the cry.
“ shall Mr. M' brier, the Abolitionist, be allowed
to profane ! hc soil of V irginta,” (loud shnuls and
repeated and p. olonged cheers with cries of w el
come ! welcome! welcome!) that you will tell
them that, in connexion with the doctrine in that
speech, I hope that there arc two governments
over ns, each possessing its own distinct autho
rity, with which the other may not interfere.
I may differ from you in some things, but I will
here say that as to the doctrines of Stale Rights
as hold by Mr. Madison in his last days, 1 do not
know that we differ at al , (cheers,) —yet I am
here and among the foremost to hold that it is
indispensable to the propriety of these Govern
ments lo preserve, and that ho is no true friend
to either who does not labor to preserve that true
distinction between both. (Immense cheering.)
We may not all sec the line that divides them
alike, but all honest men know that there is a
line, ai d tiiey ail fear to go either on the one
or the oilier side of it. It is this balance between
the General and the Slate Governments which
has preserved the country in unexampled pros
perity for fifty years—and the destruction of this
just balance will he the destruction of our Gov
ernment. What I believe lo he ihe doctrine of
Stale Rights, 1 hold as firmly as any man. Do
I not belong lo a State] and may I not say, to
a State which has done something to give herself
renown, and lo her sons some little share of par
ticipated distinction ? (Great cheering.) Isay
again, that the preservation of State Rights, on
the one hand, and of the just powers of Congress,
upon the other, is equally indispensable 'o the
preservation of our free Republican Government.
(Cheers.)
* Non;.—The following is the passage to
which Mr. Webster referred :
Extract from Mr. Webster's Speech in reply to
Mr. Hayne , Jan. 31s/. 1830.
At the very first Congress, petitions on the
subject of slavery wi re presented, if I mistake
not, from different Stales. The Pennsylvania
Society for promoting the abolition of slavery
took the lead, and laid before Congress a memo
rial praying Congress to promote the ablilion by
such powers as it possessed. This memorial was
referred, in the House of Representatives, to a
select committee, consisting of Mr. Foster of
New Hampshire, Mr. Gerry of Massachusetts,
Mr. Huntingdon of Connecticut, Mr. Lawrence
of New York, Mr. Linnickson of New Jersey,
Mr. Hartley of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Parker of
Virginia—all of them, sir, as yon will observe
Northern men, hut the lust. This committee
made a report, which was committed to u com
mittee of tho whole House, and there considered
amfdis.-ussed on seven al days; and being amended,
although without material alteration, it was made
to express three distinct propositions on the sub
ject of slavery and the slave trade—First, in the
words of the Constitution, that Congress cannot
piiortothe year 1808, prohibit the migration or
importation of such persons ns anv of the Stales
then existing, should think proper to admit; se
cond, that Congress had authority to restrain the
citizens of the United Slates from carrying on
the African slave lade, for the purpose of supply
ing f-icign countries. On this proposition, onr
early laws against those who engaged in that
(traflic, are founded. Tire third proposition, and
that, which bears on the present question, was ex
pressed in the following terms :
“Resolved, That Congress have no authority
to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in
tho treatment of them in any of tiro States—it
remaining with the several States alone to pro
vide rules and regulations therein, which human
ity and true policy may require.
This resolution received the sanction of the
House of Representatives, so early as March, IT
-90. And now, sir, the honorable gentleman
will allow me to remind him not only were the
select committee who reported the resolution, with
a single exception, all Northern men, but also,
that of the members-then composing the House
of Representatives, a large majority, I believe
nearly two-thirds were Northern men also.
The House agreed lo insert these resolutions
in its journal, and from that day to this it has ne
ver been maintained or contended that Congress
had any authority lo regulate or interfere with
the condition of slaves in the several States. No
Northern gentleman, to my knowledge has mov
ed any such question in either House of Con
gress.
The fears of the South, whatever fears they
might have entertained, were allayed and quieted
by tins early decision, and so remained until they
were excited afresh without cause, but for col
decteral ar.d indirect purposes. When it became
necessary, or was thought so by some political
persons, lo find an unvarying ground for the ex
clusion of Northern men from confidence and
from lead in the affairs of the Republic, then and
not (ill then, the cry was raised, and the feelings
industriously excited, that tho influence of Nor
thern men in tho public councils would endanger
the relation of master and slave.
For myself, I claim no other merit, than that
this gross and enormous injustice toward the
whole North, has not wrought upon me lo change
my opinions or my political conduct. I hope 1
am above violating principles even under the
smart of injury and false imputations. Unjust
suspicion and underserved reproach, whatever
pain I may experience from them, will not in
duce me, I Dust, nevertheless to overstep the
limits ol constitutional duty, or lo encroach on
the rights of others. The domestic slavery of the
South, I leave where I find it—in the hands of
their own Governments. It if their affair, not
mine. |
Igo for the Constitution as it is, and for tho ;
Union as it is; but I am resolved not to submit i
in silence to accusations which impute to us a
disprsilioii to evade the cons itution.il compact,
and to extend lire power of the Government over
tiie internal laws and domestic condition of the
Slates,—All such accusations, wherever and
whenever made, all insinuation of the existence
of any such purpose, 1 know and feel to he ground
less and injurious. And we must confide in
Southern gentlemen themselves; we must trust l
to those whose integrity ol heart and magnanim
ity of feeling, will lead them to a desire to main
tain and disseminate truth, and who possess the
means of its diffusion with the Southern public,
1 and ws must leave it with them to disabuse that
public of its prejudices. But in the mean t me, ;
for my own part, 1 shall continue to act justly,
whether those towards whom that justice is ex
ercised receive it with candor or with conlumc
>>'•
Iltirrison mid Adopted Citizens.
The following is from the Cincinnati Gazette,
Oct. 3. in which is an account of a great Mass
Meeting iii Hamilton County, the home of Gener
al Hanison.
Gen. Harrison alluded in the course of his re- !
marks to the slander that had been udered against !
him, respecting his opinions upon the subject of
foreigners and the naturalization of aliens. He I
pronounced in the most emphatic manner, that
' the charge against him, of opposition to the in
terests of foreigners, who sought an asylum in
this country from the oppressions of foreign dcs- j
pots, was an unmitigated falsehood. He referred
to his whole course in the councils of the nation, j
for a proof of the sympathy which he had always
entertained for the people of other climes, invited
I by the Constitution and Laws to come among us
t and partake of our political rights. It was, said
the General, always a favorite principle with me
to stand by tho Constitution, and that charter of
our liberties made no distinction between nat
uralized and native horn citizens. Admitted lo
the rights of citizenship, every man, no matter
whence he came, was equal in political rights.
For himself, he could say, that the protection of
the oppressed from other countries was a democra
tic. principle, fully recognized in the Constitution,
and his own votes while in public life would prove
that he stood by that principle on all occasions.
‘•The interest, said the General, which I took
in tho Kosciusko question, has procured from the
Poles at Chillicotho the presentation of this
beautiful cross. (Here the General showed a
handsome cross of Alder wood, tipped mid secur
ed by silver.) This is made of Alder wood from
the mount near Warsaw, the scene of three des
parate battles in the last Polish revolution. It is
a precious wood, for alter the last contest, the
Russians ordered ihe hill lo be stript of its Alder
growth, that not a relic might he left of that des
perate fight. This wood, fellow citizens, was
bathed in the host blood of the brave Poles, who
sold their lives for their country. It is a memen
to which I shall ever cherish. It proves to mo
that 1 have not violated by my voles, my princi
ples and feelings in favor of the generous Polos,
but I can put my hand to my heart and say, that
my republican sympathy for the people of Ger
many, Ireland, England or any other land, has
been and is warmed into active existence by the
j remembrance that liner ty is equally dear to all of
us, and that it is our greatest boast that this is
the land to which the persecuted of despotism
can always fly with the certainty of being receiv
ed by brethren in freedom.”
Tho General went on at length, and showed
conclusively to all who heard him, that every
American citizen, no matter where horn, was a
sovereign of this land, and that, as such, ho look
him by the hand and welcomed him to share in
the political rights secured to us by tho Constitu
tion and Laws.
Ho completely did the General put down the
slander against him, of being opposed to foreign
ers because they were foreigners, that the cheer
ing and shouting lasted for several minutes, the
multitude feeling that lie had been calumniated
most grossly.
From ihe liullimore Pilot .
Eccentricity.
Father Ritchie, of the Richmond “ Enquirer,”
whom John Randolph very appropriately dubbed
the man of “ seven principles" —live loaves ond
two fishes —speaking of the Maine election says,
“she has exhibited some little eccentricity.”
This is a cant to: m of the party, applied for
the first time to a State abjuring the destructive
doctrines of Van Burenistn.
We recollect when Robert Dale Owen was op
posed and defeated in his canvass for n seal in
Congress, from the Stale of Indiana, on the
ground of his Fanny Wright Agrarian princi
ples, and his abusive tirade against Christians and
Christianity, the official organ of Mr. Van Bu
ren, the Globe, defended Mr. Owen, with the
acknowledgement, however, that his opinions in
regard to the institutions of Christianity were
“ somewhat eccentric." They were, however,
not of that nature in the estimation of Mr. Van
Buren, notwithstanding his dissimulating affec
tion for the church, to prevent him from confer
ring an important appointment upon Mr. Owen’s
brother, of the same school.
Nor operate against Eli Moore, of Tam
many Hall, in Ncw-York, one of tho high priests
ot the Fanny Wiight Agrarian school, upon
whom Mr. Van Buren, nut long since, conferred
an important situation in tho New-York Custom
House. His opinions and preachings at old
Tammany on the subject of religion, were only
“ somewhat eccentric.”
The celebrated Rev, Orestes A, Brawnson is
also a favorite and protege of Mr. Van Buren,
and luxuriates in the post of steward of the
Chelsea Hospital, at Charlestown, Mass., under
the present auspices of the administration.
This reverend gentleman has even improved
upon the Tammany Agrarian doctrine of divi
sion, by going a considerable stride in advance.
He is preparing the public mind, in the “Boston
Quarterly Review,” to receive the monstrous
‘ Democratic” doctrine, as he terms it, that a
father al his death “ shall not ho permitted to
leave his honest hard carn;ngs, if he has been
fortunate in accumulating wealth, to his child
ren. He may use it during his life-time, hut af
ter his death it must till bo placed in the coders of
tho State, should it even make paupers of his
children.”
Mr. Brcnvnson’s levelling doctrines, however,
according to the locofoco rule, must not be view
ed ns destructive. Oh, no, they are only
“ somewhat eccentric,” and in common with
those of Fanny Wright, Owen and Moore, who
have obtained signal favors at the hands of Mr.
Van Buren since he ascended the executive
chair.
It is somewhat singular that Mr, Van Buren
should cnnlcr important offices upon men of such
openly avowed principles, and yet pretend to
have claims upon the suffrages of a Cnristhm
community. He has, however, cast his net into
the table political sea, and all arc garni fish that
I may he caught in it.
Original Jackson Men.
One of the most striking signs of the times is
the manner in which the members of the old
Jackson parly adhere to their principles and the
fact lira', the Whig press every where concedes
to them the meed of consistency, in their adher
ence to their original faith. Witness the follow
ing extract from the notice vs the Convention
held in Cincinnati, on the Ist of October, copied
from the Cincinnati Gazelle;
The Jackson Reform Club excited considera
ble attention. It numbered 140 in tho proces
sion, and bore a variety of banners, some of which
were as follows, and proclaimed that although
its members had severed their connection with
the Van Buren parly, their principles remained
| unchanged:
“ IT 18 THE PEOPLE, and they alone who
have a right to complain, when a had officer is
substituted for a good one.”— Jackson's Mes
, »“ge.
“The efficiency of the Government would he
i promoted, and official industry and integrity bet
ter secured, by a General Extension of the law
which limits Appointments to FOLK YEARS.”
' Jackson's Message.
“In connection with such amendment, it
would seem advisable to limit the service of the
chief magistrate lo a SINGLE 'PERM.”—Juck
t son’s Message.
“The supremacy of the civil, over tho milita
ry law.” — Jefferson.
“ The honest payment of our debts, and sacred
preservation of public faith ” — Jrfftrton,
j “ Encouragement of agriculture, and of com
merce. as its handmaid.”— Jefferson.
“ Freedom of religion, and freedom of the
press. Economy in the public expenses, that la
bor may he lightly burdened.”— Jefferson,
“ The preservation of the General Government
in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet an
chor of our peace at home, and safety abroad.”—
Jefferson.
“ Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of tho
majority, the vital principle of republics.”—Jef
ferson.
“ The only qualification for office—‘ Is he hon
est, is he capable, is he faithlul to the Constitu
tion V ” — Jefferson.
“To the People belongs tho right of electing
their Chid Magistrate; it was never designed
that choice should, in any case, be defeated."—
Jack son’s Message,
“ 1 cannot hut believe that more is lost by the
long continuance of men in office, than is gener
ally to bo gained by their experience.”—.luck
son's Message.
“ Offices were not established to give support
to particular men at the public expense.”—Jack
son’s Message.
“ For relief and deliverance, let us firmly rely
an that kind Providence which I am sure watch
es with peculiar care over tho destinies of our re
public ; and on the intelligence and wisdom of
eur countrymen.”— Jackson’s Message,
A Beautiful Exthact.— The following beau
tiful extract is taken from General Harrison’s Into
vigorous speech at the great gathering at Dayton,
Ohio. The sentiment is truly democratic, anil
the language is worthy of the sentiment:
“A precious inheritance has been handed down
to you hy your fathers. In Romo, tho sacred
(ire of fabled gods, was kept alive hy vestal vir
gins, and they watched over the gift with eager
eyes. In America, a glorious fire lias been ligh
ted upon the altar of liberty, and to you my fel
low ebizens,has been entrusted its safe-keeping,
to he nourished with care and fostered forever.
Keep it burning, and let the sparks that contin
ually go upward from it full on her altars, and
light up in oistanl lands the fire offroedom. Tho
Turk busies himself no longer with his harem or
his bow string. To licentiousness have succee
ded the rights of man, and constitutions are given
to the people by once despotic rulers. Whence
earns lire light that now shines in the land of dark
ness] It was a brand snatched from your own
proud alter, and thrust into tho pyre of Turkish
oppression.”
At the head of tho Whig procession at Erie,
was carried a full length portrait of (Jen Wash
ington, with this inscription:— “First in war—
first inpeace—first in the hearts if his country
men, and first to commission William Henry
Harrison.” Wherever it appeared, the simulta
neous shout arose from thousands of voices, hear
tily responding to the sentiment.
Irish Ladies.
The Irish ladies are thus spoken of in a recent
letter from N. P. Willis, wrilUn alter a fashion
able parly in Dublin;—
Moore’s remark has often been quoted—‘There
is nothing like an Irish woman to take a man off
iris feet;’ hut whether this figure of speech was
suggested hy the little Imrd’scommon sobriquet of
•Jump up and kiss me, Tom Moore,’ or simply
conveyed his idea of the bewildering character of
Irish beauty, it contains, to anyone who has over
travelled (or waltzed) in that country, a very
just as well as realizing description. Physically,
Irish women are probably the finest race in the
world—l mean, taller, hotter limbed and cheated,
larger eyed, and with more luxuriant hair, and
freer action than any other nation I ever observed.
Tho Phoenician and Spanish blood, which has
run hundreds of years in their veins, still kindles
its dark lire in their eyes, and with the vivacity
of the Northern mind the bright color of the
Norther skin, the Southern qualities mingle in
the most admirable and superb harmony. The
idea we form of Italian and Grecian beauty is
never realized in Greece and Italy, hut we find it
in Ireland, heightened and exceeded. Cheeks
and lips of the delicacy and bright tint of carna
tion, with snowy teeth, and hair and eyebrows
of jet, arc what we should look for on the pa
lette of Apelles, could we reach the painter, and
reanimate his far famed models; and these va
ried charms, united, fall very commonly to the
share ot the fair Milesian of the upper classes.
In other lands of dark eyes, the rareness of a
fine grained skin, so necessary to a brunette,
makes beauty so rare—but whether It is the damp
or softness of the climate or the infusion of Sax
on blood, a coarse skin is almost never seen in
Ireland. 1 speak now only of (he better horn
ranks of society, for in my travels in Ireland, I
did not chance to see even one peasant girl of
any pretensions to good looks. From North to
South, they look to mo coarse, and dirty, ill
formed and repulsive.
Nothing could he more captivating and delight
ful than the manners of the Irish women, and
nothing at the same time, could bit more at war
with the first principles of'English high breeding
—coldness and rclenu. Tho frank, almost hila
rious‘how arc you]’ of an Irish giil, her whole
handed and cordial grasp, as often in the day as
you meet her, the perfectly unmissyish, confiding
direct character of her conversation, are all trails
which would stamp her as somewhat rudely bred
in England, and as desperately vulgar in New
York or Philadelphia.
Modest to a proveib, the Irish woman is as un
suspecting of an impropriety as it it wire an
impossible thing, and she is as fearless and joyous
as a midshipman, and sometimes ns noisy. In a
hall room she looks ill dressed, not because her
dress was ill put on, but she dances, not glides,
sits cown without care, pulls her flowers to pieces
and if her head dress incommodes her, gives it a
[mil ora push—acts which would ho perfect in
sanity at Ahnack’s.—lf she is offended, si.c asks
(or an explanation. If she does not understand
you she confesses her ignorance. 11 she wishes to
see you the next clay, she tells yon how and when.
She is the child of nature, and children arc not
‘stylish’ The niminy piminy, eye avoiding,
finger tipped, drawling, don’t touch rue manner
of some of the fashionable ladies of our country
would amuse a cold and reserved English woman
sufficiently, hut they would drive an Irish girl in
to hysterics. I have met one of onr fair country
people aoroad, whose -Grecian stoop,’ and exqui
sitely subdued manner was invariably taken for
a fit of indigestion.
The Trappists ix li»f.la.vu.— Mount Mel
leray, county Waterford, or the black mountain,
as it was railed, is now a perfect garden, though
recently a barren heath, until the Very Rev. Dr.
Ryan, abbot of the Trappists, and bis exiled
brethren from France, obtained a grant of the
tract from Sir John Keane, whose property is since
considerably enhanced in value, as nearly all the
vicinity is taken by industrious farmers, who act
ing upon the example of the Trappists, have
brought into cultivation an expanse of land for
centuries in a wild and barren slate. Fields of rich
corn, and meadow pasture upon well inclosed
farms everywhere meet the eye, and the surround
ing country presents a most exhilarating aspect.
When Dr. Ryan came into possession he had hut
Is. fid. after defraying the expenses of himself and
his brethren to Mount Mclleray. The order
located here now consists of eighty six members,
whose dress is a long brown cloak. Their whole
lime is occupied in prayer or field labour, except
the period devoted to rest. They retire lo their
beds at eight in the evening, and rise at two in
the morning, throughout the year. Their diet is
strictly vegetable, and raised upon their own gar
dens, never tasting cither fish or flesh-meat, and
no drink hut pure water. In such matters they
are rigidly austere. The chapel of the establish
ment is exquisitely beautiful, and excites the most
enthusiastic admiration of every visitor. Tho ab
bot is most attentive to all persons resorting there,
whether through curiosity or devotion, and visit
ors are treated with every hospitality. There
have been great numbers this year from every
part of Europe. The community observe the
most strict silence, and their farming employment
is laborious, and almost incessant.
Last Captuuf. of Malt*.—The blockade of
Malta was so remarkable for its duration, as well
us lor the suffering of the besieged,and the unre
mitting watchfulness of the Blockading squadron,
that it has scarcely a parallel in history. Itcom
mcnced in September, 1798, wticn, in addition to
the ordinary garrison, the harbour contained tho
line of battle ship Guillaume Tell, anil two fri
gates La Diane and La Justice—the three ships
which reached the island after the battle of tho
Nile.—Alter the expiration of the first year's
blockade, provisions had become so scarce, that
a (owl sold for (it) francs, a pigeon for 13, a pound
of sugar for 33 and a pound of coffee,for 3(1
Irancs. Towards the end of the second year’s
siege, Admiral Villeneuvo determined on making
an attempt lo send tho ships to Franco for usU
tance ; the Guillaume Tell was sent out with ah
posihlo precautions, but she was captured hy
Lord Nelson on tho same night.—Several speru
naras were also despatched, But captured. Asa
last resource, the two frigates Diane and Justice
where despatched : But on tho morning follow
ing the departure, aline of buttle ship passed the
harbor, in sight es Iho whole garrison with La
Diane in company hearing the British (lag. The
distress of the garrison was extreme: a cartouche
of oil sold for 34 lo 38 francs, coffee 48 lo 58
fumes u pound, and sugar from 43 to 58 francs
Horses, mules, cats, dogs, ami oven rats, had been
so long consumed that to liold out longer was im
possible. The garrison accordingly capitulated,
in August, 1799, after a seige of two years ami
a day; during which the French consumed 53,-
OBU shot and bombs, and about 700,(100 calnd
gcs. The provisions on which they hud subsis
ted during this time, would not have lusted more
than seven months on full allowance.
Funjt Touasco. —(Japl. Milchcl, of the Star,
at New York, reports that when ho sailed a niun
of-wur-hrig and two schooners belonging to the
Federalists were oil Tabasco ; that the Federal
troops had possession of tho frontier and were
preparing to attack the town of Tabasco, Ti e
insurgents who had possession of the town were
- on their part making efforts lo defend it.
Atlantic Steam Na vioatio.x. —The grea
test achievement, perhaps, of the present day is
the successful application of steam to ocean navi
gation. The influence of this grand and tri
umphant experiment is already felt in some mia
su.e in our commercial interests. Halfthe space
between us and Europe is now destroyed perma
nently. This is very pleasant in a time of peace
and shaking of hands. It wore less so perhaps
in times of commotion and wild-war’s alarms.
Polically considered, some will think il were net
ler to have two Allanlics Between the continents
ol America and Europe than annihilate the old
one. The nearer wo approach each other, the
greater our danger of gnl.ing inlcrlanglcd and in
involvcd in each olhcr’s troubles. However, there
is no slopping this span annihilating progress;
we must fnM in and make what good we cun out
of it. One thing il were well to consider, that
this steam navigation is not always lo he a mere
freight-carrying or pleasure seeking intercourse,
These same 500 horse power contrivances can do
other work than carry laces and silks and the like
(roin land to land. They may suddenly become
the Mercuries of war, floating buttle fields, Hying
artillerists with n vengeance ; and, whenever this
may happen, lire whoie field and circuniKlitnccs
of war must he changed. The fate of nations
will he cast, not on Waterloo fields, hut on Ihe
ocean ; not try glittering masses of infantry, But By
dingy steam engine men, driving about their war
machine, light as gossamer, with 500 horse power,
and Perkins’ steam guns to mutch,— P/iila. Rat
line/.
Foit-rmriATiox* of I’ahis.— Ports me to be
erected in several places, and a crenelated wall
is to he built to surround the largest masses of
the exterior suburbs of Paris, with ditches where
il may he considered necessary ; ilia wall is lo he
thirty feet in height. Paris fortified, Il is sla
ted, could hold in check an airny of 300,000
men duiing three months; 50,000 national
guards, and 35,000 troops of the line could de
fend it, and an army of 300,000 men could en
camp solely between the two lines. Contracts
hu-c been taken at the War office for I 500,000
IL-. of copper, and 10,000,000 lbs. of lead, u
mountiiig jointly to three hundred millions of
francs—bc.-idcs ;en millions francs worth of pa
per for cartridges. Besides these warlike prepa
rations, an ordonnance calling out an additional
number of men has been issued, and orders to
prepare all lira ships of the line for immediate
service.
'1 itF.ATMLNT of Houses.—The first thing that
the groom or coachman generally docs when he
brings his horses in, is lo lake the bucket and
brush and wash the legs thoroughly : this is a
very mischievous practice at all times, and very
hazardous il there is t large hush ol hair on tho
fetlock. “ Well, I don’t know, I’ve cleaned my
horses llrr-se twenty years, and none of ’em ever
took any harm.” Such was the reply of an old
coachmui lo me the other day, when I read this
rc i ink lo him ; and the remark may he perfectly
true, for animals, like men, will often get so ac
customed to imprudent and pernicious habits that
they become comparatively harmless ; hul 1 went
on to ask the old coachman aoout cracked heels,
swelled legs, sore pasterns, and such complaints,
and I found he was quite familiar with them and
well icrscd in their Ireamenl. ‘-Why, my friend,
f uhscr-cd, “Innv came you to be so knowing in
such cases]” “Sure, sir, I couldn’t he a coach
man twenty years and not know how to deal with
a sore leg!” “Then yen have seen many horses
under your care]” “Many, sir, ay, hundreds I
may well say.” “And did it never once occur
to you that they might come from washing the
dirty legs of a heated horse!” Ho scratched his
head, looked wondrouslv, and sheepishly replied
“ Wcl I, lo flunk I should have worked man and
hoy in the stable for nearly forty years come nex
Martinmas, and ne’er have thought afore!”—
(taide In Service—the (Irourn.
The Methodists in Canada. —The Metho
dists in Canada now consist of nearly a hundred,
thousand souls. They have sprung up in a few
years from very small beginnings,and under many
disadvantages.—lt is not many years says the
Quebec Gazette, since lire only Methodist preach
cr in Lower Canada, was incarcerated gevera
months in (he Quebec Gao) for a libel; and in
Upper Canada, there were only a few wandering
Missionaries. They have now numerous sub
stantial Churches ; a College of their own; and
many able and respctablc preachers.
Unman Tost Okpick.— We have been fa
vored by Capt. Joseph C. Delano, of the packet
ship Patrick Henry, with a sheet which he pre
pared lor his acquaintance, showing the op< ra
tion ol the new British Post Otlicc system.
1' rotn it we select the following items;
Letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
may he sent through the kingdom for one penny,
ami in the same proportion for greater weights.
The rates are double if the postage is not paid
in advance.
Letters to and from the United Slates, if sent
by packet, twelve times, and if by private ship,
c jnht times the above rales. This applies to
Cunard » line, and includes the inland postage.
Letters from foreign ports for the Continent,
(except France) must he post paid in England,
or they will be opened and returned.
Newspapers from foreign places by packets or
private ships, pay 2d each, and for this arc sent
to any part of England.
liriti.sk newspapers pass through the mails
free. —Journal of Commerce,
J here is no more thankless olTtco titan that of
editing a daily paper. The editor is almost sure
ot (reading upon somebody's coins at almost eve
ry step, and is equally sure never to please every
body, and sometimes to please nobody. But he
still pursues his wearisome never ending round,
and lakes his chance of success in his endeavors
4l to please; and he who succeeds in pleasing the
most persons, or perhaps displeasing the fewest, is
the luckiest man. —Boston Transcript.
lUvaous or -run Smaia. Pox.—Mr. Grout,
it' Missionary otlho American Board, writes from
Capo Town, South Africa, under date of May
~7th, that the small pox was raging dreadfully
there. It was believed that ten thousand persons
hud already had it, of whom 2(100 had died.
1 ■ - • l- **”'"■■' , . -V
MARINK INTFLLKiFNCF.
Savannah, October 12.
Arrived —ship Solon, Huckman, New Y ork ; Hr.
brig Cyrus (‘lark, Newport, Wales; br g Savan
nah, Slnpter, New York ; schv Frederick A. 'Cup
per, Morgan, Baltimore.
Cleared —brig Augusta, Sherwood, New York.
Went to sea —brig Augusta, Sherwood, N. Y’oik;
seltr Kienzi, Cushing, Ho-ton ; brig Wankhtco,
Howland. Baltimore,
Ciiaki.ebtom, C)ct. 13, 1840
Arrived yesterday. —Brig Delaware, Ross, Ha
vana; sebr. Zephyr, Prescott, Malmizaa.
Cleared —C. L. brig Dimon, Sbenvoord, New
York.
ILLIAM c. way’, Agent Commission
■ ■ Dry (loads Merchant , lias just received and
fur sale, at the Store, corner of the Globe Hotel,
Augusta, Ha., on reasonable temis for Cash, viz;
3-1 and 1-4 Scotch Ginghams, dark patterns for the
season,
French, English, and American rich Chintz Prints,
a (nil assortment of patterns and prices, alt fast
colors,
Rich and elegant styles of Muslin I)e Lainc,
Ulaca and white, and slate col’d Muslin De Lainc,
Black and white English and American Colicocs
(Hack (iro lie Rhine and Maltdren Fasting,
Rich (iro De Pekin striped and figur’d Silks, a new
article,
Poult De Sol and (iro De N’nple Silks,
Ladies white and black l.ug’lt Silk it use S: Gloves
Ladies while, eolcted and black Colton Hose, ’
Misses white ami slate colored do do
Men’s Lamb’s Wool, Angola, and Brown Cotton
half Hose,
Clark’s,Taylor’s and Alexander’s 200and 3UOyMs
-Spool Cotton
New Y ork Mills and other selected Bleach’d Shirt
ings,
Extra line brown Sheetings and Shirtings, approv
ed styles, and a great variety of common quid's,
English and American Spitalliold Pongee lldkfs,
White, scarlet and red Flannels,
Welsh Flannels, line and common qualities,
b-4 black and colored Merino Circassians,
Kentucky deans and very fine mix’d Satinclts,
Rob Roy and other worsted and Merino Shawls,
Rich ligd Satin Shawls, assorted col's and prices.
Together with a great variety of other goods not
enumerated, and always kept in bis store
ijj - 1 lie subscriber returns bis thanks to I,is
friends and customers, foi the very liberal patron
age he has receive I fiom them the past year, and
solicits a continuance of (lie same.
«Ct 11 WILLIAM C. WAY.
“THE MATLItNAIi I UIE.NIJ”
ITS one of tho-e invaluable remedies that stands
JL the lest - f trial. In every instance that lias
tome to the knowledge of the proprietors, it lias
proved itseh to be what it is recommended—a
pleasant, safe, an I elli acious remedy for all the
sympathetic affections attendant on Pregnancy,
and all those periodical dtsuiders to which both
married and unmarried females are liable. Delh ney
forbids giving the details of its merits in a news
paper advertisement, but it may be stated that it
has been in use under various names —(The Philo
talien, Mather's Belief. IfC..) for some ten years
past, and wherever introduced, the demand for it,
(without Hie aid of “ puffing,”) has been constant
ly on the increase. This fact in evidence of As
real virtues, together with the belief that hundreds
of females arc sulfeting from want of the know
ledge of a remedy adapted to their cases, induces
the proprietors respectfully to call the attention
of sufferers to their pamphlets, which accompany
each bottle, and which may be lad gratis of any
oi their agei Is.
Price fit .00 per bottle. No hi by
HAV if.AND, JUSLEY & CO.
Agents, Augusta.
HAVILANf), IfARKAL b ALLEN,
oct 14-2 m \gents. Charleston.
Georgia, Columbia county, Dist. No 7,
JOHN W. HEALLE tolls before mo
W-Wi' four liaises, to wit: two Sorrel-, one
JLiU—Jn supposed to be four years old, 15 hands
iiigb, three white feet, blaze faced; the other nine
years, 16 hands high, three white feet, blaze face •
the Brown horse Seven years old, 17 bands high’
blazed face, white feet, w ith a white spot on his’
nose; the Cream horse, black mane and tail, 12
years old, white spot on his left hind foot, white
spot on his no«c Appraised by William Drane
and Edmund Fuller, Hie two Sorrel horses to $160;
the Brown horse to ssO; the Cream to S7O, this’
Oth day of October, 1810.
JESSE EVANS, J. p.
A true extract from the Estray Book.
oct 14 DAVID HARRIS, Cletk.
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
AGREEABLE to an order from the Honorable,
the Inferior Court of Columbia county, while
sitting as a Court of Ordinary, will be sold before
the court home door of said county, on the first
Tuesday in December next, between the usual
hours of sale, a negro woman by the name of Mary,
belonging to the estate of Edmund Cartlidge de
ceased, sold for the benefit of the heirs. Terms
on the day of sale. JOHN CARTLIDGE. Ex’r
October 14. 1849. 4t
AN EXPERIENCED OVERSEErT"
\ini() ha-- been the agent of the Rev Juriah
V? Dams, at bis Burke plantation for live
years, otieis his services to the planters of Geor
gia or Alabama. Address the subscriber at Frier’s
Ponds, Butke county. HIGHTOWER DAVIS,
sept 3 ws*