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J. W. Sc w. S. JONES. AUGUSTA, G A., TUBS DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1845. VOL. IX—NO. 104.
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER I. 1
Mississippi.— We learn from the “Souih
ron,: of the 20 h lost., ihat Gen. Patrick Henry,
who was nominated by the Whigs as their can
didate lor Governor, declines in the most posi
tive manner to accept the nomination.
Hon. J. M. Berrien. —The following well
directed and well pointed satire at the small fry
in Georgia who are daily seeking to defame our
distinguished Senator, is from the Macon Mes
senger:
Berrien must die, if truth can be taught by
tables, lor we learn from a fable that when the
Lion was attacked by all the beasts of the field,
he continued to resist until the Asses joined in
the assault —that indignity was too degrading to
be borne. The noble creature made no further
resistance—he could not contend in reason with
A sses.
Moral — A cap for any scribbler whom it fits.
Cotton, Crops, &c.—The Montgomery
( \ la.) Journal of the 271 h nit. says : We have
taken some pains, during the last week, to gather
correct information in relation to the coming
crop; and from all we can learn, the cotton crops
of this part of the State, probably of the whole
Slate, will fall short, at least one-fifth, and per
haps one-fourth of an average one.
The corn crop is likely to be even worse than
that. We it avc had some fine showers within
the last week, but they came too laic to be of
much service to the Planters, in Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Red River particularly, the pros
pects arc represented as good. But except these,
we know ot no part of the country where the
crop will be an average one.
Colton is beginning to come in very freely.
About fifty bales were received at the Ware
house of Messrs. John H. Murphy & Co. on
Monday. What was the amount received at
the other three Warehouses we have not
learned. But it is evident the crop is coming
in earlier than usual.
Military Movements.— The N. O. Beu of
Monday the 25th ult., says; Yesterday morn
ing, five companies of Colonel’ Dakin’s new
Regiment ot Volunteers lor Texas were review
ed in Lafayette Square by General Gaines, ac
companied by his Staff. The Lone Star Guard,
which organized in the Third Municipality on
Saturday evening, mustered at the same lime,
together with several companies ot the Irish
Brigade, under the command of Lieutenant
Carrigan. After the review, General Gaines
briefly' addressed the gallant fellows, and com
pli nented them highly on their efficiency in their
new duties. Colonel Dakin responded in a few
words, after which the whole body, comprising
•257 men, all told, marched down St, Charles
street to Poydras, thence through to Camp,
down to Canal, passing down to St. Charles,
and up again to 1 afayettc Square, where the
companies separated. The majority of the
men, though unaided by the outward display ot
military uniform, yet appeared made of such
“stuff’” as will prove them to be no easy foe to
co. quer.
Later from Aransas Bay. —TheN. O. Tro
pic ot the 25th ult., says: The ship Suviah,
Captain Gibbons, arrived below yesterday from
Aransas Bay. Captain G. reports that he left
lh<* anchorage off the Bay on the 16ffi instant,
and that just before he left, the steamboat Mon
mouth, came off and reported that war had been
dec'ared by Mexico, but he supposes it was on
ly rumor—(doubtless founded on the news re
ceived here from Mexico— Ed Tropic .) Gen
eral Taylor bad gone to San Patricio.
Captain G confirms the report of the loss of
the schooner Swallow. He reports that on the
20;h ultimo, 100 miles W. of the g. w. Pass,
saw the schr Mary Wilkes, Capt. Decker, from
this port with Government horses bound to
Aransas. On tho 18th instant, saw schr. Ed. S.
Larndin, from this port for Aransas, with Go
vernment stores.
The steam schooner Augusta, Capt. Gillett,
we understand, has been chartered by the Go
vernment agent here, by the month, but on what
terms we cannot learn. She is to take horses to
Aransas Bay in a few days, lor the use of the
dragoons and Flying Artillery.
We understand the steamboat Neva, which
arrived here on Saturday, was purchased at
( 'dm, by an agent of government, tor 87,500.
Hie Neva is nearly new, of very light draught,
and is intended to go to Aransas Bay, where she
will be used as a ligh'er.
O’Blennis.— We learn from the Plaquemine
Planters’Gazette ot Saturday, that this man,
who was accused ot the murder of Frank
Combs, at Point Couoee, and who it will be re
collected was fried some months ago, when the
jury could not agree on their verdict, has been
admitted to bail by Judge Deblieux in tlie sum
°I $15,000,
Revival. —The religions excitement in Mont
gomery. Ala., says the Journal, seems to con
-IGue without abatement. Daily and nightly
meetings have been kept up, and well attended
’ n l * le Methodist Episcopal Church, lor nearly
Slx weeks; about one hundred and twenty per
°n J iave professed a change of heart and life,
° mc ninety of whom have connected them
■ ves with the Church. Instead of flagging,
e "oik seems to gather new interest as it pro
gresses.
i-r I'he St. Louis Era says that Marble has
j 6 hoovered in large quantities near Rock
Illinois. It is jet black, lakes a fine po
ancp anC * presents a beautiful brilliant appear-
CP : The resources of the great West are
J °Sinning to be developed.
The Richmond Whig states that the recent
moist and warm weather has had a most bene
ficial effect on vegetation of ail kinds. It says
the Tobacco is, in very many cases, the largest
ever known or seen, and by its unusual size will
bring up the crop to an approach to average far
beyond anticipation. There will be plenty of
Corn; nor plenty in every neighborhood, but
magnificent plenty in the collective State.
Orders were received at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard on Monday, to prepare the store ship
Lexington for sea. She will take a cargo of
provisions on board, and proceed to the Gulf of
Mexico without delay.
Statistics of Calomel. —One house in Phi
ladelphia, says the U. S. Gazette, has prepared
and sold within the last three years, 17,000 pounds
of Calomel. The consumer pays the apothe
cary for the medicine, at prices varying from
SSO to SSOO per pound. Patting the above at
onlySGO, it would appear that the price paid for
if exceeded a million of dollars It is supposed
that the quantity manufactuerd by other houses
is at least six times as much. Ifso, the cost of
calomel in three years, has been $6,000,000, or
an average of two million per annum.
A letter from Lake Superior says:—Native
copper continues to be found—the best speci
men of which is that recently discovered near
the lake shore by Maj. Campbell, Sub. Agent,
This specimen weighs about sixteen hundred, is
purer than thecopperol commerce, and is alto
gether the most beautiful specimen ever seen.
Health of Vicksburg. —We are happy to
inform our friends in the country and abroad,
says the Whig of the 19th inst., that the health
of Vicksburg remains, up to this lime, remark
ably good, only two deaths last week, both in
fants. No patients in the city hospital—nothing
for the Doctors to do ; weather very warm anti
diy-
Correspondence of the Phila. North American.
New York, Aug. 27—P. M.
The weather has moderated a little, but re
mains very oppressive. The mercury still
ranges at9o at noon, without a breath of air
stirring.
Another cargo sale of teas was made this
morning at which prices were fullv sustained,
the market closing firmly, and all the Jots sold
except a few low grades.
A forgery was detected yesterday of the name
of Messrs Bawdon & Grocsheck, brokers of
this city, who do a large business with your
city, from whence a draff was obtained to order,
which was settled by a check bearer. From
this signature the forgeries were made,by which
the Union Bank has iost $3,000, the whole
amount of the forgery, although rumor has
magnified the sum two hundred per cent.
Money Matters.—ln New York on Wed
nesday loans were making on good stock
securities at 5 per cent.
Bicknell’s Reporter says: “ Money is still
abundant in Philadelphia. The war fever
which prevailed when our last paper was put
to press, was by no means so high last week,
and, as a consequence, capitalists were not so
timid.”
At Boston, the Banks are getting as much
business paper as they want, at 6 per cent, and
as thej r prefer this class of discounts to pledged
stocks, the latter are negotiated in the streets, or
forced on to the market for sale, by weak par
ties, for the most they will bring. The conse
quence has been, a regular break down in the
stock market and much individual suffering in
a pecuniary point cl view, for tne benefit of the
few, with stronger names and longer purses.
The Courier savs:
We are led to believe that the present ad
verse condition of financial affairs will be but
temporary. The true wealth of the country
consists in its harvests, which are abundant
and near at hand. Commerce, manufactures
and the fi heries are daily reaping their reward,
and the general prosperity of the nation is sur h
that the evils consequent upon temporary and
local fluctuations sink into comparative insig
nificance.
The fall trade has commenced in good ear
nest, The drygoods dealers, particularly, say
they were never before doing so well at this sea
son of the year. Our streets are lull of loaded
teams; and there appears to be great activity
in ail branches ol business.
Anti-Rent Disturbances in Scoharie.— A
correspondent of the Albany Argus, writing
from Blenheim states that great excitement ex
ists there in consequence of the conduct of the
Ami-Renters. He says one constable has been
laken Irom bis bed at midnight, dragged some
four or five miles from home, and tarred, lor
having served civil process; another intercept
ed, and his papers taken from him ; the sheriff
and his deputy taken and insulted, and open
threats made to shoot the sheriffand his depu
ties, insomuch that process could no longer be
served by any officer, whether (or rent or othe r
wisp, and open resistance to anv force that J
could be sent against them, also threatened— 1
until the consummation of like threats in the |
countvjni Delaware. A posse numbering in
all 500 men, including those under Gen. Griffin
and Col. Wooster (who were in pursuit ot the
murderers of Steele,) had marched from Blen
heim in search of the disaffected, but they ma
naged to keep out of the way. Several suspect
ed persons had been captured, and a large num
ber ot Indian dresses and masks were found,
also a flag bearing for an inscription the motto
“ Victory or Death.”
On Tuesday night of last week a party of in
surgents were prowling about North Blenheim
to intercept the Sheriff and his guard and take
the public arms, which he was conveying to
Schoharie. The Sheriff however did not come
through the place where they were watching,
until afffr day light, and was thus saved from
the threatened attack. Terms of amnesty and
peace had been sent in by some of the prominent
anti-renters of Blenheim; but a general surren.
der and disclosure ol their terms of association,
■ their Indian oaths, &c,, and a satisfactory assu
rance of no further opposition to the authorities
only, would be accepted. Should such terms
be complied with, the settlement will probably
- be effected as far as it can be legally and ad
visedlv done.
A man named Kilmer was arrested, and by
some it was supposed that he was Scudder, who
it was said was concealed in Blenheim. No
person however had as yet been seen to identify
him
The Scoharie Pilot extra slates that there
were, on Wednesday afternoon last, assembled
on Blenheim Heights about 450 armed citizens
: who, under their several commanders, spent
that and the succeeding day in calling at the
habitations of the anti-renters in that county;
but no one, except women and children, was at
home. The women of course, would not tell
where their husbands had gone, or when they
expected them to return. The posse, however,
succeeded in finding some twenty or more per
sons, whom on Thursday, they marched to
Gilboa, where they will be examined as to their 1
participation in the violation of the laws of their I
country.
Silver Mines in North Carolina.
Prior to 1838, but little silver ore had been
obtained from mines in the United States. In- |
deed it was not known to exist in this country j
in its native state ; but it is mostly contained in j
the argentiferous lead ores, from which it was i
sometimes extracted. Indeed it is generally ■
extracted from lead ores; the annual produce j
in Great Britain from these ores is about 10,- |
000 lbs, valued at some 14 of $15,000. It |
seems however, from an article in the last j
number of Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine, that
the Washington Mining Company, incorpora
ted by the Assembly of North Carolina in 1839,
have been operating at the mines discovered a
short time previous in Davidson county, with
considerable success.
The Washington mine, it seems, is situated
about eighty miles from Raleigh, the capital of
the State, and the present terminus of the great
chain of railroad from the North. From De
cember. 1843, silver had heed extracted from the
ore of the value of $24,000. and of gold $7,253.
This amount of ore was produced from about
160,000 lbs. of lead; making an average pro
duce of over 240 ounces of silver to the ton, 4,
000 lbs, of lead. From the commencement of
the mining operations up to November Ist,
1842, a period oi 27 months, the actual product
was 2661 pigs ol' argentiferous lead yielding
silver and gold to the amount of $13,288, this
being the net value after deducting the charges
of the United States Mint lor separating the
gold from the silver, and alloy requisite to re
duce it to the standard coinage. From the 13th
of October, 1843, to the Ist of October, 1844, the
produce of the Washington mine has been $40,-
397, as follows:
Amount of silver received, 830.902 70
“ Lead “ 3 589 27
“ Scoria? “ 2,550 76
Siiverinpari, 1,478 64
11 Lead “ 638 18
Lilheraee ts 75 00
“ Metal and Scoria* in trans
mission, 1,152 91
$40,379 47
In 1842, R. C. Taylor, E*q., of Philadelphia,
made a report of these mines, (which is em
bodied in the article in Hunt’s Magazine,) in
which it is stated that at the forty feet level, the
yield of the ore when dressed was about 50 per
cent, of lead ; and from 20 to 120 ounces of
silver to the lon of lead. The value of the sil
ver varied from SI.BO to $2.80 per ounce; its
price being enhanced by the large portion ot
gold found in combination with its depth.
At the sixty feet level, the ore increased in
richness, but was irregular in its value.
At its best and most remarkable points, it
yielded as much as 5 000 ounces to the ton.
Such points were, however, few and small,
forming exceptions to the prevailing richness of
tb" lode. The general average is stated to be
126 ounces of silver to the ton of metal. Here
the sulphuret of lead, or galena, was first met
with, in small quantities; but the bulk of the
ore continued similar to the 40 feet level, being
a carbonate of lead, with exception of the pro
portion o' gold, which gradually diminished,
but was recovered again at the 160 feet level.
Arriving at tt e hundred feet level, the galena
predominated; bur, in other respects, the mine
presented the same aspect as at the 60 feet, in
creasing in regularity.
At the 160 feet level, the vein is nearly all
suiphuret, as regards ihe lead, and the area is
enlarged. It was estimated that this argentife
rous ore, locally termed “ the black ore.” pro
duced on an average from SB7 50 to SIOO per
ton, in equal proportions as to the value of the
lead and the silver, after deducting the expen
ses of smelting, It was here that some masses
of extraordinary rich blue galena were met
with, worth at the rate of SI,OOO per ton.
O" A case ot singular character was tried be
fore the Court of GUjerter Sessions at Harris
burg, Penn., last week, which is thus noticed in
a letter to the Philadelphia Ledger:
A man named Root, of this borough, for the
purpose of testing the honesty of a boy in his
employ, placed 12J cents in a vest nocket as a
bait tor him, (he is about 10 years of age.)
which he stole. Root prosecuted, and the
Grand Jury found a true bill! The counsel for
defendant, John Kunkle, Esq., made a most
successful defence. He took lor his text the
most striking part ol the Lord’s praver —“ Lead
usnot info temptation”—and, in a strain of elo
quence seldom if ever heard in the Dauphin
bounty Court House, he addressed the Court
and jury. Never did counsel plead with more
inspiration; never did counsel so rivet the atten
tion and gain such a mastery over the feelings
of an audience as did Mr. Kunkle over those
who were present. His powerful eloquence
caused the tear oi pitv to dim the eves ot a ma
jority of both the Court and specie tors, and I
am informed that one old gentleman was so well
pleased that he has ordered Mr Kunkle a costly
gold headed cane, having engraved thereon
“Lead ns not into temptation”- a just tribute
to worth and talent, and a boon that an Empe
ror might envy. The jury returned a verdict of
not guilty. Tne judge took occasion to make
some remarks, which I think neither the Grand
Jury, the Prosecuting Attorney or the plaintiff,
relished in the least.
Prom, the South Carolinian, August 21.
Mesmerism among Snakes.
Pomaria, S. C., July 31st, 1845.
Col. A. G. Summer: Dear Sir—On Monday
the 28th inst., as I was returning from dinner,
about 2 P. M., to my school, about 3 miles west
of Pomaria, 1 heard a noise near ihe road, and
on examination found it proceeded from a large
black snake, commonly called a coach whip,
about 6 feet long, which had a half grown rab
bit by the head and was in theactof swallowing
it. Upon my approaching the snake it disen
gaged itself from the rabbit and glided off. 1
picked up a stone, and the snake slopping at the
distance of forty yards from where I first dis
covered it, 1 killed it with a single blow. As
soon as 1 struck the snake, on looking back 1
found the rabbit coming up, and it stopped im
mediately at the dead snake’s head. I then
moved the snake, and the rabbit still pursued it
and I left it.
About 6 P. M., 1 returned to the place to
gether with all my pupils, and the rabbit re
mained in the identical position in which I had
left it. My son moved it again, but it immedi
ately returned to its post at the snake’s head,
and we left it a second lime, still charmed by
the continuing spells ot the dead serpent. 1 re
■urned to the spot the next morning, but could
find no trace of the rabbit. Now, can any one
tell what secret power lies hidden in the organi
i, Ration ofaserpent which caused this incident?
It is wondrous strange, and well might puzzle
more learned heads than mine. If the above
possesses any interest it is at your service for
publication.
I am, very faithfully yours,
Geo. M. Fulmer,
From the N. Y. Observer.
Suwarrow’s Passage of the Glarus.
BY REV. J. T, HEADLY.
j Switzerland is lull of battle fields, many of
I them glorious from their association with free
dom. The traveller—especially the American
| traveller—looks on them with the deepest inte
: rest. But there is those on which his eye rests
j with painful interest; for while he cannot but
| stand and wonder at the achievements of man
1 his heart is pained with the ravages he has
j wrought.
, Forty six years ago, one night in September,
; the peacelul inhabitants of the Muotta Thai
| were struck with wonder at the sudden appear
ance among them of multitudes of men of a
strange garb and language. They had just
gathered their flocks and herds to the fold, and
were seekingtheir quiet homes that slept amid
the green pasturages, when like a mountain »or
rent, ca me pouring out from every defile and
mountain pass, these strange unintelligible be
ings. From the heights of the Kinzig Culm—
from precipices the shepherds scarce dared to
tread—they came streaming with theirconfused
jargon around tho cottages of these simple chil
dren of the Alps. It was Suwarrow, with
twenty-four thousand Russians at his hack, on
his march from Italy to join the allied forces ol
Zurich. He had forced the passage of St. Go
thard, and had reached thus far when he was
stopped by the Lake Lucerne, and was told that
Korsakow and the main Russian army were
delcaled. Indignant and incredulous at the re
port, he would have hung the peasant who in
tormed him as a spy, had not the lady mother
ot St. Joseph’s nunnery interceded in his behalf.
Here, in this great Alpine valley, the bold
commander found himself completely surround
ed. Molitor and his battalions looked down on
him from the summit ot the Muotta Thai;
Morlier and Massena blocked up its mouth;
while Lecouibehung on the rear. The Russian
bear was denned, and compelled lor the first
time in his life, to order a retreat. He wept in
indignation and grief, and adopted the only al
ternative left him—to cross the Pragel iu Gla
rus.
Theu commenced one ot those desperate
matches unparalelled in the history ot man.—
The passage ot the St. Bernard by Bonaparte,
was a comfortable march compared to it; and
Hannibal’s world-renowned exploit mere child’s
play beside it. While the head of Suwarrow’s
column had ascended the Pragel and was fight
ing desperately at Naefels, the rear guard."en
cumbered with the wounded, were struggling in
the Muotta Thai with Massena and his battal
ions, Then these savage solitudes shook to the
thunder of the cannon and the roar of the mus
ketry. The startled avalanche came leaping
from the heights, mingling its sullen thunder
with the roar of battle. The frightened chamois
paused on the high precipice to catch the
strange uproar that filled the hills. The simple
hearted peasantry saw their green pasturages
covered with battling armies, and the snow
capped height crimson with the blood of men.
Whole companies fell like snow wreathes from
the rocks, while the artillery plowed through a
dense mass ol human flesh that darkened the
gorge below. For ten successive days had
these armies marched and combatted; and yet
here on the eleventh, they struggled with una
bated resolution. Unable to force the passage
to Naefels, Su warrow took the desperate and
awful resolution of leading his wearv and
wounded army over the mountains into the Gri
sons.
Imagine, if you can, an awful solitude of
mountains, and precipices, glaciers piled one
above another in savage grandeur. Cast your
eye up one of these mountains, 7.500 feet above
the Wei of the sea, along whose bosom, in a
zig zag line, goes a narrow path, winding over
the precipices and snow fields till finally lost on
the distant summit. Up that diffir ult path, and
into the very hear' of those fearful snow-peaks
was the bold Russian resolved to lead his 34.000
men.
To increase the difficulties that beset him,
and rendered his destruction apparently inevita
ble, the snow fell on the morning he set out, two
leet deep, obliterating all traces of the path, an i
forming as it were a winding sheet for his army.
In single file and whith heavy hearts, that mighty
host, one after another, entered the snow drills
and began the ascent. Only a few miles could
be made the first day, and at night, without even
a tre: to kindle fora light around their silent
bivouacs, the army lay down in the snow, the
Alpine crags around them for their sentinels.
The next day the head of the column reached
the summit of the ridge, and lo! what a scene
was spread out before them. No one who has
not stood on an Alpine summit can have anv
(’oncepiion of the utter dreariness of this region.
The mighiv mountains, as far as the eye can
reach lean along the solemn sky, while the deep
silence around is broken by the sound of no
living thing, Only now and then the voice of
the avalanche is heard speaking in its low thun
der tone from the depth of an awful abyss, or
the scream of a solitary eagle circling round
some lofty crag. The bo’d Russian stood and
gazed long and anxiously on this scene, and
then turned to look on his straggling army, that,
far as the c e could reach, wound like a huge
anaconda over the white surface of the snow.
No column of smoke arose in the desert wild lo
cheer the sight, hut all was silent, mournful
and prophetic. The winding sheet of the array
seemed enrolled before them. No path guided
their footsteps, and ever and anon a bayonet and
feather disappeared together, as some poor
soldier slipped off’ the edge of a precipice and
feli into the abyss below. Hundreds, overcome
and disheartened, or exhausted with their pre
vious wounds, laid clown to die, while the cold
wind, as it swept by, soon wrought a snow
shroud for their forms.
The descent on the southern side* was worse
than the ascent. A treezing wind had hardened
the snow into a crust, so that it frequently bore
the soldiers. Their bayonets were thrust into
it, to keep them from slipping, and the weary
and worn creatures were compelled to struggle
every step to prevent being borne away over The
precipices that almost momentarily stopped
their passage. Yet even this precaution was
often vain. Whole companies would begin lo
slide together, and despite of every effort would
sweep with a shriek over the edge of Ihe preci
pice, and disappear in the untrodden gulfs be
low. Men saw their comrades, by whose side
they fought in many a battle, shoot one after
another over the dizzy verge, striking with their
bayonets as they went, to stay their progress.
The beasts of burden slipped from above and
rolling down on the ranks below, shot away in
wild confusion, men and all, into the chasm
that yawned at their feet.
As they gradually advanced, the enemy ap
peared _ around on the precipices, pouring a
scattering yet destructive fire on the struggling
multitude. Such a sight tltpse Alpine solitudes
never saw—such a march fio army ever made
before. In looking at this pass the traveller
cannot believe an army of 24 000 men were
marched over it through the fresh fallen snow
■ two feet deep. For live days they struggled
■ amid these gorges, and over these ridges, and
finally reached the Rhine at Jlanz. For months
alter, the vulture and eagle, hovered incessant
ly along the line of march, and beasts ol prey
were gorged with the dead bodies. Nearly
8,000 men were scattered among the glaciers
and rocks, and piled in the abyss, and the bones
of many an unburied soldier may still be seen
bleaching in the ravines ol the Jattser.
Good Spunk. —ln the Woonsocket Patriot
we notice the advertisement of Mrs. Mary Irons,
wherein she gives old Irons such a dose as will
not set well on his stomach. Mary is an ironer
and crimper, as the good-lor-nolhing Arthur has
probably long ago found out:
“ Whereas, Arthur Irons has seen fit to ad
vertise me as having left his bed and board, car
rying off his children, &-c., therefore I hereby
give notice to all who may feel interested in the
matter that said Arthur Irons, since his mar
riage, has had neither bed nor board which was
not procured with my money; that all tie fur
niture which I took away I purchased ana paid
for myself; that he had no money which did
not belong to me , and as to getting trusted on
his account, he cannot get trusted himself where
he is known; that I can better maintain myself
than he can ; and that I prefer Hying alone to
living with a rum jug! Mary Irons.
Love’s \ ietim.— By J, G. Whittier.
“They parted as all lovers part,
She with her wronged and broken heart—
But he. rejoicing he is free,
Bounds like a captive from his chain,
And wilfully believing she
Hath found her liberty again.—L. E. L.
If there is any' act which deserves deep and
bitter condemnation, it is that of trilling wiih the
inestimable gilt of women’s affection. The fe
male heart ma compared to a delicate harp
over which the breathings ot early affections
wander, until each tender chord is awakened to
tones of ineffable sweetness. It is the music of
the soul which is thus called forth—a music
sweeter than the fall of mountains, or the song
of Houri in the Moslem’s paradise. But wo for
the delicate fashioning of that harp if a change
pass over that which first called forth its hidden
harmonies. Let neglect and cold unkindness
sweep over its delicate strings, and they will
break one after another —slowly, perhaps, but
surely. Unvisited and unrequitted by the light
of love, the soul-like melody will be bushed in
the stricken bosom—like the mysterious har
mony of the Egyptian statue before the coming
of the sunrise.
I have been wandering among the graves, the
lonely and solemn graves. 1 love at times to do
so. I feel a melancholy not unallied to pleasure
iu communing with the resting place of those
who have gone before me—to go lorth alone
among the thronged tomb-stones, rising from
every grassy undulation like the ghostly senti
nels of the departed. And when I kneel above
the narrow mansions of one whom I have known
and loved in life, I feel a strange assurance that
the spirit of the sleeper is near me, a viewless
and ministering angel. It is a beautilul philoso
phy, winch has found its way unsought for and
mysteriously into the silence of my heart—and
if it only be a dream—the unreal imagery of
fancy—l pray God that I may never awake from
the beautiful delusion.
i 1 have been this evening by the grave of
Emily. It has a plain white tomb-stone, flat,
hidden by flowers, and you may read its mourn
ful epitaph in the clear moonlight, which falls
upon it like the smiles of an angel, through an
opening in the drooping branches. Emily was
a beautiful girl—the fairest of our village
maidens, I think I see her now, as she looked
when the loved one—the idol of her affection—
was near her with his smiles of conscious tri
umph and exulting love. She had then seen
but eighteen summers, and her whole being
seemed woven of the dream of her first passion.
The object of her love was a proud and way
ward being, whose haughty spirit never relaxed
from its habitual sternness, save when he found
himself in the presence of the young and beau
tiful creature, who had trusted her all upon the
“ venture of her vow,” and who loved him with
the confiding earnestness of a pure and devoted
heart. Nature had deprived him of the advan
tagesqf outward grace and beauty; and it was
the abiding consciousness of this, which gave
to his intercourse with society a character of
pride and sternness. He felt himself in some
degree removed from his fellow-man by the par
tial fashioning of nature; and he scorned to
seek a nearer affinity; his mind was of an ex
alted bearing, and prodigalot beauty; the flow
ers of poetry were in his imagination a perpetual
blossoming—and it was his intellectual beauty
that Emily bent dovrn to—bearing to the altar of
her i 10l the fair flowers ot her affection—even
as the dark-eyed daughters of the ancient Gheber
spread out their offerings from the gardens of
the East upon the altar of the Sun,
There is a surpassing strength in a love like
that of Emily’s—it has nothing gross nor low,
nor earthly in its yearnings—it has its source in
the deeper foundations of the human heart, and
is such as the redeemed and sanctified from
earth might feel lor one another, in the fair laud
ot spirits, Alas, that such love should be un
requited, or turned back in coldness or darkness
upon the crushed heart of its giver.
They parted—Emily and her lover—but not
before they had vowed eternal constancy to each
other. The one retired to the quiet of her home,
to dream over again the scenes of her early
passion ; to count with untiring eagerness the
hours of separation—and to weep over the long
interval of "hope deferred.” The other went
with a strong heart to mingle with the world,
girded with pride and impelled forward by am
bition. He found the world cold and callous,
and his own spirit insensibly took the hue of
those around him; he shut his eyes upon the
past, it was too pure and mildly beautiful, and
holy as it was pure, he turned not back to the
lovely and devoted girl, who had poured out to
him the confiding earnestness of woman’s affec
tion ; he came not back to fulfil the vow which
he had plighted. i
Slowly and painlully the knowledge of her 1
lover’s infidelity came over the sensitive heart |
ot Emily. She sought for a time to shut out the
horrible suspicion from her mind; she had 1
doubted the evidence of her own senses; she
could not believe that he was a traitor—for her
memory had treasured every token of his aflec- ,
tion, every impassioned word and every endear
ing smile of his tenderness. But the truth came
at last—the doubtful spectre which had long
haunted her, and from which she had turned
a wav, as if it were a sin to look upon it, now
•mod before her a dreadful and unescapable vi
sion of reality. There was one burst of pas
sionate tears, the overflow of that fountain of
affliction which quenches the last ray of hope
in that desolate bosom, and she gazed steadily
and with the awful confidence of one whose
hopes are not of earth, but upon the dark val- ,
ley of death, whose shadow was always around
her.
It was a beautiful evening in summer, that
I saw her for the last time. The sun was just
setting behind a long line of blue and undulating
hills, touching their tall summits with its ra
diance like a halo which circles the dazzling
brow of an aneel —and nature had put on all
the rich grandeur of greenness and blossom.—
As I approached the quiet and secluded dwel-
I ling of the once happy Emily, 1 found the door ,
of the parlor thrown open, and a female voice,
of a sweetness which could hardly be said to
belong to earth, stole out upon the soft summer
air. It was like the breathing ot an JSoliaa
lute into the gentlest visitation of the zephyr.
I involuntarily paused to listen, and these
words—l never shall forget them —came upon
my ear like the low and melancholy music
which we sometimes hear in dreams :
“Oh! no—l do not fear to die,
For hope and faith are bold,
And life is bat a weariness—
And earth is strangely cold.
In view of death’s pale solitude,
My spirit has not mourned—
’Tis kinder than forgetting love,
Or friendship unieturned !
And I could pass the shadowy land
In rapture all the while—
If one who now is far away
Were near me with a smile.
It seems a dreary thing to die
Forgotten and alone—
Unheeded by our dearest lov—
The smiles and tears of o*e I
Oh ! plant my grave with flowers,
The fairest of the fair—
The very flowers he loved to twine
At twilight in my hair
Perchance he may yet visit them,
And shed above my bier
The holiest dew of funeral flowers
Affection's kindly tear.”
It was the voice of Emily; it was her last
song. She was leaning on the sola as I enter
ed the apartment, her thin white hand resting
on her forehead. She rose and welcomed me
with a melancholy smile; it played over her
features for a moment, flushing her cheek with
a slight and sudden glow, and then passed,
away, like the strain of ocean music when it
dies away slowly and sweetly upon the moon
lit waters.
A few days alter, J. stood by the grave of
Emily. The villagers had gathered together,
one and all, to pay the last tribute of respect
and affection to the lovely sleeper. They
mourned her loss with a deep and sincere
emotion ; they marvelled that one so young and
so beloved should yield herself up to melan
choly, and perish in the spring-time of her ex
istence. But they knew not the hidden arrow
which rankled in her bosom; the slow and se
cret withering of the heart. She had borne the
calamity in silence—in the uncomplaining quie
tude of one who felt that there are woes which
may not ask for sraypathy; afflictions, which
like canker concealed in the heart of some fair
blossom, are discovered only by the untimely
decay of their victim,
* From the St. Louis Reveille.
MOTHER.
Os all the words in language, there’s no other
Equal in gentle influence to mother !
It is the first name we learn to love—
It is the first star shining from above;
It is a light that has a softer ray
Than aught we find in evening or day.
Mother! —lt back to childhood brings the mao,
And forth to womanhood it leads the maiden.
Mother!—’Tis with 'he name all things began,
That are with love and sympathy full laden.
O ! ’tis the fairest thing in Nature’s plan,
Tha' all life’s cares may not affection smother,
While lives within the yearning heart of man
Melting remembrance of a gentle Mother! Pkazha.
THE HEART,
The human heart—that restless thing!
The tempter and the tried;
The joyous yet 'he suffering—
The source of pain and pride ;
The goigeous thronged—the desolate,
The seat of love, the lair of hate—
Self-strong and self-defied !
Yet do we bless thee as thou art,
Thou restless thing, the human heart.
died"
In Madison, at the residence of Col. H. G La
mar, on the morning of the 22d ult., Henhy Ga
zf^AY ’ ¥ ed d m °nths and 23 days, infant son
of Dr. Albert and Mrs. S. S, Rees, of Americus.
Sumter county.
commerciTlT
_ . New York. August 26.
Th. operations at the Stock Exchange this morning
were to a limited extent, and prices had a downward
tendency. There is a moderate inquiry for Money,
and short paper of undoubted character is discounted
atb cent annum.
Cotton —The market has been inactive during the last
three days without any material alteration in rates ;
prices however, are ra'her in favor of the buyer. Tha
sales amount to 1,100 bales, of which 800 were sold to
day.
Upland Florida. Mobile Sf New Orleans.
Inferior none. none.
Ordinary 6J ® 6| [6* fa) 6|
JJidd ing 6} fa) 7} 7 (a) 7\
Middling fair 7% (3) 7| 71 ®
Fully fair 8 (a) 8J 8f fa) 9£
Fine nominal. nominal
Angus' 27.
Cotton —’l he sales to-day reach 700 bales; prices
remain as quoted yesterday.
Flour —There is a steady demand for Genesee at
$4 62§, and for Ohio and Michigan at $4 44 (a) 4 56J.
' MARINE L.IS T.
Charleston. August 30.
Arrived —U L brig George, Yates, New York.
Cleared —U L brig Sullivan, Wai'e, N York; Line
ship Catharine, Crane, NY; schr Waterman, Coates,
N Orleans.
CAMP MEETING.
iLf 1 ' WILL be opened at the White
Oak Camp Ground, a private Boarding House
by JESSE CLARKE, for the accommodation of
Gentlemen and Ladies who may wish to attend
the Camp Meeting.
Also, apublicHorselot will be open, with good
stables, and a conveyance will run from the Ga.
R, Road for the accommodation of the Public
upon reasonable terms by WM. B. BEALL,
sl-t&wlt*
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION BU
SINESS, AUGUSTA, GA.
THE undersigned informs his friends
and the public, that he continues to trans
act the above business at the very safe and exten
sive FIRE PROOF WAREHOUSE , on the
corner of Washington and Reynold streets. His
personal and undivided attention will be devoted
to the interest of his customers, in the storage
and sale of cotton, &c., and hopes, by strict at
tention to business, to receive an increase of pa
tronage.
Liberal cash advances will be made, when re
quired, on produce in store.
slw4t M. P STOVALL.
RICHMOND County, Georgia.—ln
Equity in the Superior Court.
Ives & Brother vs. the Augusta Insurance &
Banking Company, Arthur G. Rose and the
Bank of CharlestoVi. S. C. .Stovall & Simmons
vs. 'he same. William Dearing vs. the same.
It appearing to the Court that the defendant,
Arthur G. Rose, resides in the State of South
Carolina, and that the defendant, the Bank of
Charleston, South Carolina, is a corporation lo
cated and doing business in the State of South
Carolina, ordered that the said Arthur G. Rose
and the said the Rank of Charleston, South Ca
rolina. appear and answer said bills of complaint
respectively, on or before the first day of the
next January Term, and that service of this or
der be made by publication thereof in one of the
public gazettes of the city of Augusta once a
month for four months prior to the next Term of
this Court.
A true copy from the minutes, 26th June, 1845.
JAMES McLAWS, Clerk,
September 1,1849.