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Froth thr Southern literary Mmrnjer. PRKBENTIM ENT. It it * propliet's dream—the iliought Th.t o’er me loved to (ling X fhiwssrd dhaped of evil, wnnifeht By Umc'i unfolding wine! — That in earh wasted tapei’a doom, Or fading flower, I see Some atar of hope go out in gloom, That thone to solace nu-1 The yin-sired how that (pan* the sky, No heaven sprung promise giver; liul in earh lint’s redeeming dye, A mystic symbol lived, No budding joy entwined my heart, Hut lurking at its root, Seme fang her ready to impart A poison to (he fruit. When night foretells her coming gloom, By evcning’ii milder shade, A whisper greels me of the (ornh— Oil! would I there were laid! Yet why!—this life hath not a osro But shadows forth a text, That doth some heavenly teaching hear To fit us for the next. ’Tisnol that I must hear the stroke, That my own heart must bleed; For He whoso darker merries broke, Will hind the bruised reed, But ’lis that they whoso gentle lo\o Divides my heart with God, Must share with me tho pangs I prove, Andfctl themselves the rod. Oh! may they share the metry 100 That mollified (he doit, And feel, with me, its heavenly dew Distill’d upon the heart; fast down, upheld, disturbed, yet calm, This valu of tears we’ll tread, Forrvei trusting ill the halm By Gilead's Healer shed. No joy of life hu‘. veils a thorn, No aling, hut hears a sweet; Ftotn those we loved if never loin, We ne’er in Heaven could meet; Then meekly lot US wander here, Still seeking as wo go, The smile that plays behind thclpar, Till tears shall ceaso to flow. Camde i, 8. C. N. N. N. From BlnckmooiV » Mngminc. The naivutte of the lower Irish is prover bial. But English blunders are sonictui)' s equally rich. As Mrs. "M'Gibbon, a popular actress at Liverpool, was about to dress lor Jane Snore, her aiton litnt cmnu to inform h r that a woman hail cul cd to ask for two box orders, as “she and her daughters had walked four mite* to sCo the play” “Dock site know mo 1" said the actress. ‘.‘Not a hit was the reply. ‘•Very odd ; liasi the woman grot her facul ties about hurl” said Mrs. M'Gibbon. “I think she has in I'nn,' 'for I see ahe has got Kmnullimg lied up in a red handkerchit.'l. KUII the Irish blunderer aomeliino mixes a <h gree of dexterity with his apparent unmake wliicn rises lu wit. A story ol Ibis order has been lately corn nt in Ireland, and hots rutted many a laugh against a noble person, r chin li ter! lor questioning Ins servants nit their no tions, rehg oas and political. In s one purls sit Ireland this would be an important nrvpmy if the truth could be extracted by cross exam ination. A groom came to be hired ; “Wliat are your opinion.-!” was the first usual and general rcqusiiiun. ‘•Mono at all, your Honor,” was Pat’s diplo matic reply, •Pah! nonsense,’said (ho noble Lord, you ■II hove your opinions, and some of them bun 1 enough. 1 insist upon knowing them before you come into lids house.’ ‘Why then, your Lordship,’said Pat, with a bow to the ground, 'I fancy they are tho very same aa your Lordship’s.’ r •chate them then,said (he Peer; ‘and let mo : eee if yon are of my way of thinking.’ N •I humbly beg your honor’# pardon,’ said | the man; but I could not be so bold as to think , like your Lordship, but I’m of Pal O’Sulhvftit the gardtiers way ol thinking.’ ‘Then follow out with it at once, 'said Ins Lordship, growing impatient. •Why then, your honor,’ said Pal with the i indeacnhalde look of cruft and humor indige nous to tho native droll, “says Mr, O’Sullivan to me, 1 am think tig, Pal Brady, that you owe mo lil'.eeo skillings which you have not n no. lion of paying! And that’s ibo plum truth, your honor; and that’s what I cail being of Pat O’Sullivan’s way ol thinking itY KXPRI’.SS MAIL. . 1 • - : - -KT-3K; From thr i\. V. Com. .A dv, Jon. “7. NINE DAYS LATER FROM LONDON. The packet ship Philadelphia, ( apt. Mor gan, is below from London. Our news col lector has. just come u;« from her with London papers to the 251 h of December inclusive. We have barely time to give a few items We do not discover any thing of much im portunce. On the 20th of December, London was visited by a gde of wind, much more severe than any that had taken place during the season. In many of the streets almost all the public lamps were extinguished. Several houses in the western and north-western su burbs were partially unroofed, and in two in stances, large portions of buildings in the course of erection were blown down. The gale was highest about 1 o’clock on the morn ing of the 21st, after which it fell considerably. By subsequent papers we learn that this storm w s productive of disastrous results in many of the provincial .towns. The Meraev and several other streams overflowed their! hank--, houses were blown down, bridges carried away, and several lives lost. In Bradford the water was six feet deep in the streets. ... The papers of the 18th contain accounts of the riot at Alton, in which the Rev. Mr. Love joy and Mr. Bishop were killed. The Thames tunnel is again open to the public for in-pcetion. The sand, clay, he , having been cleared away. The dispute between Holland and Belgium, growing out of the affair of the Luxemburg lorest, seems not likely to prove very alarm ing. It was understood that the cabinets of France and Englan I had been appealed to In the King of Belgium, and bv liter mediation it was expected that the affair would be ami cably settled. The Dutch King, however,was carrying off the timber. Letters from Hanover state tint the dis contents are increasing, ami hint at the pro bability of a revolution. Blood has already been shed. On the 11th of December the King issued a decree, uismiss'nig the seven protecting pro lessors of Gottingen, and banishing three of them from the kingdom. I his led to meetings and commotions among the students who were charged by a troop of dragoons. Three of the students were killed and eight severely wounded. There had been a t iot also at Munster, but we have no particulars. A new Spanish ministry has been formed. Esparfero is a member. * The British Parliament had adjourned ovci for the Christmas holidnxß- The civil list hill had passed the Mouse ol Commons, and was under discussion in the House of I .ord.s. Parliament was to meet again on the 16tli of January, instead oil he lat of bmary as originally intended—in conse jucnce of the state of allairs in Canada, The Condon Courier of the 25th says, in re ference to the numerous forces under Sir John Colborne:—“We believe and trust,therefore, that the insurrection w ill be *'died in its birth, but it would be wrong to be 100 » uiguinr, or to cease regretting an at tempt which, how ever it may he decided, mum leave many rankling wounds behind. n 'fife same papers contain accounts from Canada to the 28th gs November—including that of the first actual resistance to the con nfituteri authorities: vi/, the rescue of Messrs. D’Avignon and Ifctnaray, and the march ol the force under Col. Wetlicral! to Chambly. Ore of the latest papers mentions that the following deputation from the Canada trade, had an interview with Cord (ilenelg, on that day, viz: Mr. Hart Cogan, M. I*., Mr. Gould, Mr. U tiillispic, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Bliss, Mr Brooking, Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Atcel, Mr. A. (iillispie, and Mr Howie. The Condon Observer ol the 251 h nayk. Cord GlnicU lots assured the representatives of the Canadian interests, that fur John Col borne lias the most ample older* to act as e.ir* cum sinners may require—that martini law will* it necessary, bo declared, and that the imperial parliament could not give to the gall ml com* rounder in ehidf more ellicient powers to meet the emergencies of tin 1 limes than have already been sent out. Among oilier Hiutcments of the •lay, it is M4id that iuldlliun.il troops will bo dis patched to Nova Scotia and New Uiunswiek with the utmost possible speed, to lake the place of (bo military who have been ordered from those colonies to Canada. Wo have the speech of the French King at the opening ol the Chambers, but no loom lor it to day. FROM AFRICA. Cotters from bis niaj«*siy’» ship Har.ican, dated Bieira Leone, 27th Kept* announcing her nrr • val on the coast) after a passage ol 6 weeks from England. The colony wan healthy, and i ©covering from the paralysis which billowed ibu dreadlul epidemic Thu yellow lever was never known to be so fatal to Europeans. 1 here were at (ho commencement about 60 Europeans m tfterra Leone, one bull ol whom have laden a sacrifice Two schooners had arrived u day or two preceding from the G.imhm, with n nely (*? ibeAliican corps, hut without a single ollicer. 'l’he moiiahly in that quarter bad been dread ful,two Kurds of the residents being swept away, and among them were Mr Marlin, harbor mas- | ter, Mr Kirk of the commissariat, Mr Kidd assis* > (ant surgeon, and in fact all the principal per sons m the place. (inventor Kendall ol the I Id.nubia, has removed to a distant pmlol thoeol* ony, where it is more bcallby. The t luld>er, Commander iveppcl had arrived horn Gibraltar, i and was about to leave with the Saracen, lor the Bight of Benin, There had been no other arri val at JSieirn Leone for upwards of two months, and every article was setoce and dear. Huhmqncul accounts mention the death ol Governor Kendall. Monkt Maukkt and Crrr Nkwb—London Dec. 25.—Tint dabale in the House ol Go liinons last night, on subject nf Canada, «>pi r:,,H (° have been wholly unexpected on the part ol the fre quenters of (ho Stock Eccbunge, and the circum stance of the Legislature adjourning only tv) the I full of January instead of the beginning of February lias thrown them all into tbo greatest stale of alarm, and given ri-e to ail soils ol gloo. my rumors, as well as most ridiculous statements regarding the movement ol troops. It was even slated that n new I an would be required by th • government for lining out on expedition—but ibis would imply (bat tbo rebels in the lower province of Canada were more formidable and colleo.ing in greater numbers firm there is any reason to expect. The English stock market has I consequently been in the greatest slat© ol excite ment, and most stocks have sustained a marked depression—Consols, which were lost marked yesterday at 08} to dossed today at 01} to , being a reaction of I[| per ecu', and the market still pcrscnied a heavy appearance at the close. Exchequer I ills of India bonds remain, I itionary, llie former at 455. to 475. prem , and the la ter at 265. to 28. premium. Bank slock, h wever, has fallen from 200 to J to 203} to 204 J, being a depression of jC2,lOs. (JllllUNlCLli AND SKNTINUL a mans r - Tliit r*«la y IMorniiivr* I* SOUTH RUN KIKST 111. ASS HOOK. A copy of litis new work from the press of Messrs. IhilfiM ami I’urse, M icon, has been laid upon our table by Messrs, f. 11. A I. C. Plant, by whom it is for stile. It is a work by M. M. Mason, principal ot tire VnievjJle Aca demy, near Macon, and comes recommended by such respectable and responsible names that wo cannot doubt its excellence. Navu OrnckK.—Thomas 8. Wayne, Esq. has hern re-appointed by the Presiilonl, l>y uml with llio advice and consent of,he Senate, naval officer of the port of Savannah. 1 Tbo following aitielu bom the Southern Spy, jilt Washington (ia. contains interesting informs ; t on in relation to the great Kail Road in the con , strurlion of which the Slate lias embodied. Whatever relates to the important subject of | [nturnnl Improvement, is now considered inter esting Our sister Stales, it is well known,have entered into the work with becoming zeal and foresight, and appear tiring with each other, which shall go the blithest. Georgia has too long remained comparatively idle. \ ui, the day is not distant, when her immense resources will he mote fully developed, and irer noblest energies pul forth nr the prosecution of works, to benefit the present, while ensuring lasting advantage to the coming generation. Although much has not ! been accomplished, which might have been effec ted, nor all undertaken, which could have been 1 commenced, still, lire spirit ot improvement is awake in »nr State, ami some enterprises are on I the way, promising to he productive of perma nent utility. Wo were led to advert to inis sub ject. from having, a few days since, received a ' letiei from Col. Dolton, one of the Commissioners |of the \\ i stern and Atlantic Kail Hoad, furnish ing some account of the operations of the [J ard I thus-far, speaking in glowing terms of the pro i ' liable success ot the great undertaking com nulled to their charge. We are convinced, that nothing will be wanting, onllulp irt ot the lioaid, to es , feet all that r> desired, which can be consumma ted. And we view nas no ill-.lined digression l> remark, concerning our correspondent, u t whom we mo indebted lor the lollowi g mt irina li in, lhai no one would have been selected, wtu f 1 could have been more persevenngly active nr tin 1 discharge of his dullest and all who have th« f j pleasure of his ucipi.iin'.iiice, ore lolly prepare! 1 i in appreciate his rpialiticauons lor the imp,man 1 ! staiion he occupies. He inbirms us, that the members composing t ■ ihe Board, met at Cassvrllv, on the If>th install j and, on the following day, were duly organized ;. I (Mr. Crawford being elected President and Col, ' Bnftcm, Secretary.) ami soon afterwards ha I a t conference wiih Col. Long; ilie Clilcl Engineer, from whom they received salislart ry information if rexpecling the iucatiun of ihe Kn it, mi l aicer c mined hi* readiness farlfiviTh to enter upon its e mslfuciion. Il II wan irnmedia efy lesolved lo authorize llini •s to advertise ior proposals for the letting out of e conlrkcls, for at lent 40 miles of the way, cum mencinp it the Chattahoochee River, near Mont gomery’* Ferry—these contracts In he entered n into on the Ini of April next, at the Common , sinners’Office, in Marietta, Cobh county. They if farther authorized him to conclude temporary r contracts with persons desirous of commencing c immediate operaiioni, io he paid lor et an aver* g age rale, at w hich conracls may Iks taken in April next. In pursuance of this arrangement n several contractors will ho speedily employed, if and, ndeed, one has already commenced oper i i j lions, and has made considerable progress within '■ | a mile of Alaloona. It is confidently expected, 1 1 that, by lire first of February, a large portion of the g'onnd between the Chattahoochee and Ct rl owah Rivers, will be thus occupied by temporary , j contractors. The members of the Hoard are now d ! aolively engaged in making the proper efforts to 1, j procure the right of way for the Hail Road, from ' the inhabitants living on iho room. Ills presu, '• med, dial Iho citizens generally will concede this gratuitously, in view of the signal beneliis they will severally ari l collectively derive from the lo- H cation of the Hoad, while the Commissioners " have determined lo pay no one lor the right of way, unless improvements arc injured by the construction of the Road. This is the substance of the Information con , tabled in the letter of our correspondent, and wc :l ;ij lice at being enabled to say, that this grua' i and incalculably valuable woik of Internal 1m- L ' provernent is begun. t COMMUNICATED. ' Ma, Jonks, —I observed in your paper some lime since a publication by (ion. Clinch. In ! vindication of his conduct at the battle of 'he Withlacooche'e, comprised principally of letters ami certificates from many of the most respectable officers of Ihe Army, os well as of the 1' londa I Volunteers themselves. Ho completely satisfac ' lory were the statements of those gentlemen, and J | so lolly did they corroborate the report of Oen. I Clinch, to the Hccretnry of War, that I little i expected ever to see the matter agitated again by ' the enemies of that gentleman. *l'lio Floridian l of ilie 111 h ult., a paper reported lo be under the patronage and control of Gov. Call, is cn iroly 1 | devoted lo the subject. In the paper alluded 10, i Gov. C ill oft) up », ill in ;h very unsuccessfully 1 j think, lo disprove the statements of Gen. Clinch, j hy the publication of a string of letter* anil certificates from the volunteers most, of whom | | were not on the side of the river which the bat, i tie was fought. His parade of documents arc little 1 to the purpose. In fact they scarcely have any J bearing upon the subject in controversy. The • only matter in paint, and the one which he has taken the must pains ta refute is the charge ol having forliid the volunteers lo cross the river.— On ibis subject, unfoilunntely, bis witnesses have 1 but little lo say of a positive character. Some ■ say they do not know that such an order was r given, others did not hear il; and others thought \ I there sutta such an order issued. j' On the whole there is not sufficient impor j 1 lance attached to the publication to render ato 1 capitulation of the evidence adduced, or its 1 comparison with the publication of Gen Clinch ! * necpsMirry. The matter remains “in statu quo" as Gen Clinch left it. I s There i» 4 one}ofGo». Call’s letter vviitefa, how- ' ever, whoso publication deserves a p ssiug no- ' lice. It is that of one Col. Win. Wyatt, com- 1 monly known in Florida as Hilly Wyatt, the 1 same that has boon a candidate for delegate to Congress fiom the “lime whereof the memory of man runneth nut to the contrary,” and who! would no doubt have went to Washington ma- j ny a time and oft, hut for a single misfortune, that was the luck of a sufficient number of j voles. Gov. Call, one of his unsuccessful com pouters is now Governor and of course is a drawn nag. Il would seem that Hilly is am hi. liuus to do ilia Governor a service in his line, in hopes the Governor will give him a “leg up” when the next canvass comes on. That your I readers may judge of Hilly’s disinterestedness and perfect nentialiiy of feeling, lei them read a few jexnacis from Ins letter. After ridiculing the C idea of calling the aflairof the W illilarxniehee a , j baltle, and speaking of il ns a more skirmish, just as a hnlly whose legs never allowed his rarcas lo suller, does ol a light. Hilly says: . | “'ion. Clinch was entrusted at a very eir- I 1, period with tlieunti.e coiiinmnd and mitn ! noon.nil of all the Military operations, ne cessary lo remove ilie Semniolelmlinns—was stationed in he country with Ins forces up jwirdsol a year before the period fixed lor : ihe r removal, and yet permitted hostilities to 1 | imminence —the whole Alachua country lo I j he laid in ashes, (s ivo Ins own plantation and 1 Hint of h s broUier-tn-duw( —and the people ; driven mlo Idris, before ag in lud been fired . j by Ins forces, alihoiioh stationed in the very I neighborhood mid presence of the savages; i and n was not until you, With Iho Florida vol : mitcors, had killed or driven every hostile In dian within his boundary, and relieved the suffering inhabitants; though but temporally, that he assumed the command, and tor the . first time, bruit rht Ins regular forces actively 1 m the Held.” * , Here’s u flourish for you. “Until you killed t and drove.” Why, 1 never heanl of Gov. ' j Call’s brilliant achievements in Florida* and Int'c j ] always considered his nearest approach loons i was when ho was formed in lino of battle on one t i sidouf the river, while Gen. Clinch and his bravo I regulars were lighting die Indians on the other, ) | , I may be mistaken however, and if Hilly is right i what a pity he nid not keep on killing and - driving. Here is mine of the letter— s “With all this hadiuanagenicnt in the com. inenee.neiit, however, had Gen Clinch provid, I himself in his expedition lo the Wi'hlacoochee , with a proper supply or provisions, ammunition I j and implements lot pioneering, built a bridge, , I across that sliram, which was piacticoble, as was " j proven by the fact of one having been bunt, even j mior the ac ion bad commenced, be might have t hud all his forces salely across Iho river early in ( j ' die day of the UI si, and in a low days, on doubt, j. could have pul an end to the War, and thereby |0 | aave seven hundreds of lives, and three millions ol dollars it has cos ;bul in the place of this, he le went oil'a* the old saying is, from Fort Drane ,j '“half cocked" u Ii is not hard for a man of Billy’s capacity to say what /nought have been dyne. Gen. Clinch g might have been more prompt in bis movements, • if be had had troops. He might have went better l’ prepared to the field when be did go, had his a means been adequate to his wants. So might Hiliy hare went to Congeess had he got more votes. As rrg iroa tha injunction upon tKe volunteers not to cross, the writer soys: “I have stated lit the publication alluded to, that von gave an order during the action for the volunteers to cease crossing, and form aline ficing outwards from the river so as to receive the enemy, who was supposed to be coming in our rear. I did hot hear you give the order in person; but from seeing the ne cessity of such an order, and understanding at the same time, that such an order was given bv y ou, I obeyed it accordingly. But Billy hot let this occasion pass with out bringing in his own masterly performances- After nearly two culutns ofll mrish, in which he enlightens his readers on the subject of Indian warfare, and boldly contra licts the statements of nearly all the officers engaged in the battle, as to the manner in which the regulars fought'; al'ho he admits he was not in sight of the action, he speaks of his own achievements in the following manner: “If Gen. tliinch and his friends wishes to j rest the blame of his defeat on Ut? volunteers, because tiiey did not all cross during the skir- i mish, why did he not hold his ground and J pursue Itis "victory? ' when it was announced j to him by tny order, about the tune the firing | ceased, that f had completed the bridge,upon j which the volunteers colud cross over in a few minutes to his assistance, in the piac'j of fly ing to the north side amidst the y ells of the savages, though under cover of the moun ted riflemen, exclaiming as he pasred, seeing the security which the line I had the command of, gave to the rectossiug of his regulars. ! “Sir, you have saved ray army;” alluding to | the bridge upon which Ids regulars were then [ crossing. This exp ession was from agener- 1 ous impulse of the moment, coining no doubt, from a heart, freed ut that moment, from par ty' shackles. Thus we are told who saved Gen. Clinch and his army. It was not as wo have understood. Gen. Call’s lino on tho oppos to hank of the stream, hut no less a personage than Billy Wyatt. He was the man that shot Cook Robin, after all- Well, every body knows that Billy is the mis chief at a bridge, I hope ho will be belter remu. nc-raled for the construction of this bridge than bo was on a former occasion for cutting away a certain natural bridge. That preved a hard job for Billy. But if he should walk over this With lacoocha bridge to Congress, he may '.hank the friend who penned his letter to General Call. OBSERVER. * On reflection, I recollect to have seen it staled somewhere that Gov. Call did, wilh seven bun dled men, surround and destroyed a party of five Indians, all of whom were drove into a pond of water, where they were hilled. Perhaps it is this exploit ihat Billy allades. , [roil THE CMUUNICLK ASU SENTINEL,] Mr. Jones; —There are two Almanacs pub lished ho-e, both calculated for the latitude and meridian of Augusta, one hy Mr. R. Grier, the other hy Mr. T. P. Ashmore, and Goth being pic pared for the same meridian and la ttude, one would suppose they could agree to a minute in their astronomical calculations; and perhaps, in most particulars, there may not ho many impor tant variations between them—lml some circuit’* stances led me to notice a considerable ditl'cience between them as to the time of the moon’s rising and selling, which would seem to indicate some want of accuracy in one or the other, if not in both the calculations. As I'm instance, the differ euce between the lime of the moon’s rising and selling, hy two Almanacs, is— On the Is January, 30 minutes. slh do. 31 do 8 do. 1 hour. 9 do. 48 minutes. 29 do. 1 hour and 29 rnin. 30th do. 1 hour 25 min. 31st do. I hour 21 min, 3d February. 1 hour 21 min. 4th do. 1 hour 40 min. sth do. 1 hour 51 min. Oih do. 1 hour 52 min. 7ih do. 1 hour 51 min. Hill do. 55 minutes. Ut August, near 2 hours. 2d do, 2 hours 19 min. 3d do. 2 hours 34 min. 4th do, 2 hours 24 min. Gtb do. 1 hour 30 min. The moon fulls, by one Almanac, on the 9th February, at 27 minutes alter 7 o’clock in the morn ng, and by the other, on the same day at 22 minutes after 8, in the afternoon—in July and September, there appears to be about two hours difference in the liffie tho moon fulls; and nea r two hours and half difference in December. One Almanac stales, that Venus will be evening star until the sih of March, and then morning alar till the 18ih December —the other makes Venus evening star until the Bth March and then morning star till the 23d Deeember - One slates that her greatest angular distance from the sun will he on the I Bill May; the oilier, that it will be on the Ist day of Juno. When astronomical calculations were accu rately made, h would seem llgit such differences oug.A not to exist. Two hours diffcrenc.', or even half on hours difference in the time of the moon’s rising or sitting, on any particular day t would seem to indicate some want of caution in one of the calcula ors. The differences 1 have noticed, run through the oilier months, and are probably greater in May than in August. I barely notice these variations because I know that Astronomers like to be minutely accurate in thoii calculations, and not from a desire to detract in the least, from the merit of the calculators, ci either oflhe Almanacs, for each has the credit ul being a good Mathematician and Astronomer. S. ■ From the t'uvuniiuh Georgian Jan. 30. , FROM FLORIDA. , We continue our extracts from the cotrespon s deuce of our friends in Florida. Our advices i published yesterday week, 33J instant, mention i t d that Gen Jesup had found a number of hoys, i where a captured Indian had stated they were , collected, & that a line of march under the con duct of said captive, had been taken up for [the s main lorcc of the Indians. Our correspondence a however, does not mention that the Indians have s been found; —the army would probably move from ‘-camp, near the tat. 70, about 30 miles b\\ l> from Indian river inlet,” (where Gen Jesup was j on the 19th tr.sl.) “in a day or two”—as we published yesterday ’ We doubt not tiial the army will soon, if they r inn find them, giee a good account of the s.ava s ges, ah hough we lear many more gallant men t n. ust fall before the Indiana are subdued. “Since ibe above was in type we havs seen e letter from Fort FloyiJ, (of the 18th) which fur nishes the following particulars : I last wrote youfJart. 7ih) from camp near Fort McNiel. Wliat has transpired since that time I will relate. On the 9th, on our march a parly of the Alabama volunteers came upon a parly of 10 or 12 Indians and killed one. and took one prisoner, w ho proved to he one of those j who escaped from St. Augustine and is known among the whites hy the name of Big Jim—he ! informed us that Sain Jones and his men, with all the chiefs, were down on the Oco-chohee. We i marched on until the 14th, when our forage and 1 provisions giving out, we went to liid.au river, about 30 miles east of this p ist for supplies. I While there Lieut. Powell, of the Navy, return ed from Jupiter Inlet. You have, ere this, heard lof his brush with the savages. Ido not think ! (he old squaw is worth the keg of powder left in ■! one of the boats, and which the enemy will not waste in idle game. We left there yesterday Col. Pierce’s regiment Ist artillery, about 700 men, besides the naval fotco. On our arrival at this tort, called after Capt, Floyd Beall, of 2nd dragoons, who occupied it in j our absence, we found Gen. Guslis’ command, j with a company of dragoons. I There aro now hero besides Con P.’s command, inclu l.ng 2d Dragoons, p 'ol. Twiggs,) 600 Tonnes- j j seeans, and two companies of Alabamians —about i 120 u mounted men. From t'ol Taylor's post (Fort Basinger) 20 miles | ’ west of this, w ■ to day learn that they have take i ! | 600 head of caille, waich, with what we have la l ken, makes about 700 head —and ponies, about 110. The Indians, we believe, are down on the Oca eho-bee, nbout three day's march Iron-, ns. Urn. Jesupis here, and 1 hope we will “go ahead'' at once and the en my rn ly bo ours, for if we do not end tin war very shortly, it will ho futile to hope for its termination tins wuil r, ns : t has rdi tied two or three tones lately,and 1 think litres days rtlore ram would render it too wot and miry to operate in 111 is low country,now almost flood, d with w ater ” From the correspondent of the Republican of last i evening, (ffam Clarksville, Jau 23d.) we learn that “a number of Indians (and negioes) are hovering around Fort King,— 10J have been seen. Colonel Snodgrass is there wit h some Alabamians; ns like wiseC'apt Unit's company. They butchered some cattle close by, the other day, and new come within gun sh t fearlessly.” A Wedding Ride — lt is said lint horsds wen: mil introduced in the colony at Ply mouth until 2!) years alter Ike landing of the Pilgrims. The Exe er News loiter relates, that when one J dm Alden was married to Miss Priscilla Mullens, the great bells of the Cape and Colony, ho was determined to bring his bride home in the style that became a gentleman, so he put a ring in ,i Roll's nose and mounting the animal, rode thus to lltc wedding. Miss Priscilla might well be vain of such a husband, so mounting the Rollon Ihemovin. home, she gently ambled along, her gallant spouse leading him hy the nose and walking by the side of his valuables—his wife and his bull. The gentleman who led and the lady who rode, suysllie same author ity, wwre the ancestors of some of the first faimliesjin the country —including two Presi dents of the United .Stales. BANK ItKPORT. State of the Georgia Rail Road & Banking Com pany’s Branch at Augusta, on Wednesday 31st February. 1838. Amount of property owned by this Bank, viz; Promissory Notes, Bills ol Ex change, Real Estate, &c < 576,539 10 Balances due by other banks and agents, 262,391 81 Specie in vaults, 123,779 80 Notes of other banks, 106,165 231,911 80 Total amount owned hy this branch, 1,073,808 71 Amountdue hy this bank, viz; to persons holding its (notes being amt in circulation, 312,0*0 Balances due to other Banks, 181,297 24 Due to Depositors, 50,616 88 513,981 12 Surplus owned by this Rank alter paying all its debts Undivided profits, viz : Discounts, 13,863 13 Income from Rad Rood, 16,016 19 29,834 62 Capital stock, 500,009 00-529,8310,2 1,073,838 74 J. W. WILDE, Cashier, ~CO9tMESCIA^ AUGUSTA MARKET. Cotton. —The receipts in our market continue to improve with the demand fur this article, which has been very animated fir the Inst three days, and al! that is offered is freely bought at an advance of fully I cent per lb. from last week. The sales dur ing the week have been about 35 000 bales. We now quote 9 a 115 cents as the going rates. Groceries. —The trade with the interior is on the increase, and as our market is well supplied country merchants find no difficulty in making their purchases, without seeking other markets. .Molas ses has become scarce and sales have been made at 41 cts per gallon. Domestic Liquors aro plenty. About 100 bags new crop Cuba Coffee have been sold during the week, at from 121 to 13J cents, 90 days. ! Exchange.— Checks on New York enntinue i scarce, and 3 percent is asked and obtained when ever wanted, and in some instances, 3 percent is ob tained for checks at 10 days sight Checks on ’ Charleston, li pet cent prem. United States Bank ' Notes are dill at IS per cent prem Charleston 1 Bank Bills Sa 1 percent prem 1 Freights. —To Savannah 75 ets. per bale—to Charleston, . cent perlh. The river ts now in good - boating Older, s r LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 13. Sales to day are 1000 bags at prices rather high ej er tliunon Friday last. All to the trade. ■ | Dee. 19,-jfhe cotton market is without varia ' I lion from yesterday, and the sales are fully 2,000 11 ; bugs, all of which are to the trade, o ] Dec ■2O Wo have had more demand from the c | the trade to day than ol late, and fully 3,01 K) bags wi re sold, at rather dearer rates m the middling >' classes of American, but without change in other it i 81 r 8 De.i 21—The sales are about 5000 bags al higher ir rates. The demand is who ly for manufactures. n Dec. 22.—During the past w eek we h ive enjoy ed a steady demand lor Cotton of moat descriptions: r j the sales havo been ctiielly to the Ira le, and an mi ff vance ol id to Id per Ih has been slowly obtained upon the prices of tins day week. In the stale of the market the small import cannot fail to strike the observer, and the well-grounded apprehension that obstruct!- ns ol a more than ordinary nature will prevent morn than a very moderate supply coming lorward for some lime, is the chief cause fir the eon - tinned firmness and tendency to advance. We is shall hand you next Saturday the actual nseerfid i ed stoc/r in the market, it it does not exceed our esti mate, it will be the smallest taken here fir several ’’ years. The sales of the week arc 18,250 bags, of 0 which 4,000 American, I.OOOJSurat; and ISiTPer >• natns have been taken by speculators, e Dee. 23—There has been a steady demand al the e same rale as before. Tne sales amount to 2,000 c bugs. c* ~ p HAVRE MARKET, DEC. 20. s In cotton wo confine to have an extensive bnsi e ness doing, with gradually advancing price. The sales to-day amount to about 1500 bales, at an ad vance of Hr to 2:r per 60 kilogr on the prices at the f opening ol the week. Pernambuco, and other kinds - oi Rraz.l, are also inquired for, aid l hoy aro selling i at fully tha same advance. Incoffee or sugar there is no alteration, prices remain as helore. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. SAVAV'AH, .Inn. 30, —CFd, ship t.untuvu, Utvem, Liverpool; ,chr Mary Ann, Moore, West Indies. Arriv. cl. Hr ship Europe, .Mills, sailed 2d Dee. Steamboats Free Trader, Creswell, August!-: Florida, Nock, Grays Ferry. Departed —Seen in boats Wm Seahrook, Dubois, Char* leston: Free Trader, L’i t swell, A u gusts, CII\III.ES TON, Jan. 31.—Arrived yesterday, steam / packe t Win. Seahrook, Dtihnis, Susannah. Cl’d, Svv. barque Liselle, Madden, Hamburg;. Went to Sea yesterday, ship Admittance, Smith, Lon tlo ; ichr. Win, Kidgoway, Burrows, Havana. On the 4th nil. at her resilience near Warrenton Mr*. Winefred Palmer, aged ahout 50 years. ’ Departed this life in Eatonton, on Friday, 13th instant, \fts. Zilpiia Wright, consort of Major .lames Wright, and daughter of Dr. Allen of Mail wether county, in the 45th year of her age. Mrs. Wrighi, in all the various relations of life was an exemplary pattern of Christianity. She was an orderly and pious member of The Metho dist Episcopal church, and adorned the doctrine of her Saviour by an upright walk and a godly conversation. In her deportment, she was amia- hie and kind, performing her duties as wife, mo i ther and mis ress with a fidelity and punctuality seldom equalled, and never surpassed. Mild and gentle in demeanor, court,.,..island affable in her j intercourse with her aeqoui.ounces, she gained j the esteem of all who had an opportunity of I knowing her. Whilst in life she manifested a zealous attachment to the cause of religion, and wailed upon the ordinances of the church when ever her multiplied and arduous duties any wise permitted. But she is gone to the final place of all the living—to that bourne Irom whence no traveller returns; and (hough dead, she yet lives in the afle tions of surviving friends, who admir ed her for her many virtues. She has left behind an affectionate husband, eight children, anti a large circle ol relatives and friends, to lament her sudden and untimely depaiturc. Yet they are not left as those who have no hope, hut rejoice in the heliel that their loss is her infinite and eternal gain. y Augusta Benevolent Society. Commit lees appointed lor the present month. Committee Division No. I—Messrs. James Mere dith and Jam sGodby, Mrs. J. Muntz, Mrs Sarah Leon. Omnnttce Division No. 2. -Messrs. John W Stoy and Win. T. Timmerman, Mrs. C, C. Taliaferro Mrs. Thadens S. Stoy. >. Committee Division No 3.—Messrs. E. W Col lier and James Ponton, Mrs. Amy Whitlock, Miss' Sarph Glover. Alt eases ol sickness and distress please report to them. M. M. BROWN, Mec.’y pro tem. Hie Constitutionalist will please copy the above jan.23 I in 18 C/" A ('Aim —A report having gamed ctr eulatlon that I had relinquished my Professional engagements, I take this method of correcting such a mistake, ns my intention is, and always has been to wait on all Ladies and Gentleman who may require triy services ns an instructor of Music on the Piano Forte and Guitar. Terms £25 per quarter. Piano Fortes Tuned. W. H. OKCHAIID. Application to ho made at A. Demon's Music Stoic, No 247 Broad, street. doc 9 288 COLUMBIA SHERIFF’S SALE. ON the first Tuesday in April next, will he sold at Columbia Court House between the usual hours of sale the following properly, to wit;— One Buggy, one bay Horse, one mahogany Side hoard, I dinning and tea Table, one Secretary, ono candle stand, two large mirrors, I mantle clock, I dozen chairs, 4 curtain bedsteads, beds, and furni ture ; to satisfy a mortgage from Columbia Inferior Court. James J. \V. Burroughs agamst George Thomas. Properly pointed out in said mortgage. Jan. 30 RICHARD If. JONES, Sit'd, leb 1 Wtd 20 COLUMAIA SHERIFF M SALE. ON the first Tuesday in March next, will be sold at Columbia Court House, between the usual flours of side : A Tract of I,and containing filly-five acres, more or less, on Sweet Water Creek, adjoining Wro. D. Stanford and others; to satisfy three fi. sis. from the Justices’ Court of district No. fi. George W. (Julpepper vs. John Harress and James Culpepper. Levied on and returned tome by a Constable Jan. 30 RICHARD 11. JONES, Sh’flf, feh I wtd 20 WARREN SHERIFF’S SALE. WILL fie sold on the first Tuesday in March next, within the usual hours of sale, at the Court House in Warrenton:— Fifty acres of Land op the waters of Rocky Com fort ('reck; levied on ns tin property ol William El lis to satisfy two fi. fas. from n Justices' Court, in favor of Sherwood Allen vs. said William Ellis; ad joining IVm C. Hrannnm and others. Levy made and returned to me by a Constable. Jan 29 JEREMIAH PERRYMAN, Sh’flf. / fob I wtd 26 SUB IVENSII ERIFF’S SALE. ON the first Tuesday in March next, will he sold before the Court House in Jacksonfioro'; A negro girl by the nan c of J,today, levied on as the piope ty of James Thomas to satisfy four execu tions from a Justices’ Court, in favor of Mathew II .pkins. Levy made and returned to me hy a C instable JACOB BRYAN, Sh’lT. Jan. 29 [feb 1 wtd 26 9 ENGLISH HARDEN PEAS.—A largo as- S 4 sortinent of fresh English Garden Peas, war ranted fresh and genuine; lor salohy jan 31 25 ANTONY & HAINES. 7 CANARY BIRD SEED.-Canary Seed, mixed and plain, fresh, just received and for sale hy AN 1 ONY’ HAINES, jan3l 25 FANCY STATIONARY, &V. I JICHARDS &. STOY lave constantly on S.V hand a complete assortment of English, French, & American Stationary, Engineers Drawing Materials, Ac. English and American drawing paper ol all size* [ from 13by Ifi to 26 by 31 Bristol hoards of cap, de my, medium, and royal size, plain and colored; drawing and mathematical instruments; camels ’ hair pencils; Brockmans, Langdons and Cohens’ 1 lead pencils; colored crayons; pink saucers; water colors in boxes or single cakes; indta ink; portable desks; work boxes; dressing cases; nort fol os; bankers cages; note nooks; pocket books and wal lets; scaling wax and wafers; India rubber month gate; seals; rollers; pnrohtn -tit or deed paper; rice paper; tissue paper; gold, silver, and fancy paper; blank visiting and fancy cards, with gold herder; f ink and ink p iwder; ink stands; red tape; papsr files; backgammon and chess boards; chessmen; domino-; dissected gam's; maps; indelible ink; 1 black sand; counting housB racks; bill files; black lines; Rogers’ fine pen Knives and other cutlery; ivory, bene and pearl folder*: quills of every qual ity; s'eel pens in great variety; transptrent and porcelain slates; card cases; paper wrights; motto seals; albums; scrap books; silver an I gold ever pointed pencil cases; silver pen and pencil cases; • ; folio post, Idler, and foolscap paper, ruled and plain; blank books of all sizes and pat'erns; and a 1 variety oi oilier articles which will he sold at wholesale or retail on the must liberal terms, s Jan 30 24 1 Potato?*. ’ S RUSH/., Potatoes fur family use, both 1 (Mr Kidney and Mercer equal to imported lor J sale by CLARKE, McTIER & CO. I • nuv 27 277 1 i Ki:t Bargains! fII HE Subscribers have determined on disposing 1 of their entire stock of Ready made Clothing, tit cost prices, for cash ; to those desirous of ob > taiuing great bargains, the present will be found a ) ven desirable opportunity, either at wholesale or retail. PRICE & MALLERY, Drapers «fe Tailors, 258 Broad street. Jan 3 ] ; KENTUCKY JEANS, RED FLANNELS, &c •J Cases Kentucky Jeans , cs> 3 bales rod Flannels , 2 do 9-4 Unllil Blankets ’ This day received and fir sale on reasonable term and price-, by EDGAR ik CARMICHAEL Dec if