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nag I sji mirwi-ii r WILLIAn E. AUGUSTA. <:»,’« ' ' ' ""' * n f _ ’ ’ " I,UiI,U MORWIWe FtBKMRY 17. IS»H. , . * * f •' 1 LIU ntliilt', fl 9 I itJULY TRI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad Street. TERMS —Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum in advance. Tri-weekly papir, at Six Dollars i-i advance, or Seven at the etui of the rear. Weekly j.a|ier, Three Dollars in advance or Four at the end of the year. CHRONICLE ANL) SEN'ITNEL AIIGUST.I. Friday Morn ins, Feb. 16. ■“This question shall be discussed?' I his ia the conclusion «( a long editorial article in £he Peoples* Press of yebtenlay, replying to the CommaiMcstion of our 'correspondent “A friend to the South.” May 'wo respectfully ask -what question? Is it the Sub- Treasury scheme! or the Bank question! or is it the “question” of Mr. Calhoun's consistency! FROM LIVERPOOL—DIRECT. The British ship Nimrod, arrived at Charles ton on Wednesday evening from Liverpool, but (brings no later dates than those previously te ceivcd by the way of New York. The Editors .of the Mercury ha-dt been furnished with a Circu ital of the Ist January, from which they make the following extracts: “‘The stock of Cotton taken out of the Liver pool market during J 837, exceeds that of the previous year by 45'000 bags. The state of the Cotton market in itself, at the present time, calls for no particular comment; -the consumption is extremely large; and though -the coming crop may be quite adequate to the increased consumption, yet present prices are federate. Added to (this, the state of the coun ,try is prosperous, commercially speaking, and -give* no reason to apprehend, at least, any imme ■shale recurrence of those disastrous circumstances we ha*e recently experienced. Slock of Cotton on hand Ist Jan. 1838: Ameri can 83,160; Brazil, 28,WW; West India, Deme rata, Smyrna, dec. 15,83#; Egypt 17,680; East India, 109,310. Total 259,340 bags.” Upwards of fifty thousand dollars’ worth of property has been destroyed by a fire which oc curred tn New Orleans, last Friday. The prin cipal sufferers are Mr. Cl. Dimond, Mr. Keller, Mr a rCogswell, and Messrs Valentine and Banduc. New Orleans has (exported to Europe this j season sixty .thousand more bales of cotton than was shipped last year previous to February 10. Shelias received this season 133,234 barrels -of floor, against 81,8 H? barrels, same time the season before this. She had in port Ifcct Saturday, 230 vessels same timc'iast -season. St 68. Ixfamous Fohoe hvt, —The Charleston Pat /net-ef Tuesday says.- “The letter addressed to (the Post Master in this-oity, dated from Lexing tion, ,(Ky.) giving aoebunt of an extensive fire in that city, turns out to be a gross fabrication. We have conversed with a -respectable gentleman from Kentuoky, who slates that he is intimately acquainted with tfaethand writing of the Mayor -of Lexington, and who {imvnounces the pretended letter a forgery. Bfe'sdds, in proof of hi« aver ment, if corroboration were needed, that the nama ot the Mayor of Lexihgtan is James G., and not <G. G. McKinney, the one by which it is sub -seribcil. There is a sunfrffaVriT Funds to meet the Span ish claims, which amount to 27$ per cent over •(he claims themselves. This goes to the claim -airts themselves also. T ; The Federal Union of Tuesday last, says: “The steamboat Wave, owned by our enterpris ing fellow-citizens, Messrs. Nichols & Doming, lias made her second trip to Darien since Christ mas. She arrived at this place on Saturday last, having made her trip to Darien and back, in ten slays. The river being quite full, she rode suc cessfully over the strong current, from the boat landing to the fe<7t ot .this bridge, opposite the city, where she was delivered of her freight, consisting of groceries, fresh shad, Iruit, &c., and safely re turned through the leek to the landing, from whence she sets out agMn to-day. The Natchez, Miss., Shipping company, from the Ist of October to the middle of January, com pressed and shipped upwards of 15,000 bales of -cotton for the Liverpftol Market. This is said to have been an unfortunate year for steamboats on the Mississippi, and the want of freight there has had a tendency to reduce the towage of ves sels to and from the (different ports in the State of Mississippi. Tkeasuuy Notes.—The New York Com mercial Advertiser publishes the following cau tion: Treasury Notes.— The public arc cautioned against a fraud that has been discovered in these notes.. It consists of changing the rate of inter est from" two to five per cent. As notes have been issued beating both these rates of interest, in other respects precisely alike—this when skilfully done wiih the pdfi by ciossing the T to make an F; and changing wo into ive, is very difficult to discover, and thus the unsuspecting ’ are.swindled out of throe per cent, fur they arc only taken at the true rate. Pir i l adeltii I a Mo.veV Mauket.—The Com mercial List of Saturday says— The pressure is abating. Money is gelling mote plenty, and the bunks are discounting more liberally, or at all events arc not making any far ther curtailments. Remittances from the West ind South -come in belter' than was expected, which has afforded considerable relief to our mer chants, A large amount of the funds received is in AlabamaorNcw Ofleans money, which has increased the rates of discount upon such funds. Certificates of deposit on Mobile have been sell ing for the last few days at 7 percent, and large Dank notes at 8$ to 8$ per cent discount. The question of a resumption of specie pay ment is in s'atu quo, ar.d we presume will n it be agitated until the re-assembling of the Bank Con vention in April, unless some important action by Congress should take plate in the mean lime, j f From the N V. Daily Exprts, Feb. 11 1 MONEY MARKET—CITY NEWS. We copy the following valuable statistics from ibe Mercunlilo Journal, showing the great,difler ence in the business of the last year, and that of the year preceding : Value of Imports at the Port of New \ ork lor the first three quarters of 18a7 - , $60,403,830 Do. for the fourth quarter (estimated) 8,133,864 08,536,700 Valueof Imports for the year 1836, 113,880,191 Difference of 1837 compared with ’36 50,349,494 Duties accrued in 1837, $9,480,124 Do. do. 1836, 17,114,305 Difference compared with >836. $7,634,181 From the Globe, we have the following s!ele ment of the operations oflhe Mint. The Direc tor of the Mint allows that tne coinage for 1837 wits: In gold, 1,035,910, in half eagles. Do. 112,700, in quarter eagles. In silver, 1,814,910, in half dollars. Do. 63,1 11), in quarter dollars. • Do. 104,200, in ten cents. Do. 103,860, in live cents. In copper, 55,583, in cents. Total . $3,299,898 The whole amount of coinage which has taken place since the commencement of the Mint in 1793, is: In Gold, $22,300,340 In Silver, 42,835,192 In Copper, 790,916 Total $72,831,448 Anon-nos i.v the District of Commit*, —We again advert to the recent action of the U. S. Senate on this subject, in older to show how thoroughly justified Mr. Pinckney stands, for his course in Congress on the same subject, by the words and conduct of those, who once so bitterly condemned him. In (lie course of the discuss’on, on Mr. Cal houn’s resolutions, the resolution relative to the District of Columbia being under consideration Mr. Preston moved to insert the words “also a violation of the public faith implied in the ces sion of this District by the States of Virginia and Maryland.” The otiginal resolution was in thb following form, containing neither allegation of dhconsti tutionality, nor of violation of public faith: “ Jtesnlved , That the intermeddling of any State or Stales, or their citi/.ens, to abolish slave ry in this District, or any of the Territories, on the ground, or under the pretext, that it is immo ral or sinful, or the passage of any act or mcas ute of Congress, with that view, would he a direct | and dangerous attack on the institutions of all the slaveholding States.” Mr. Calhoun said he had always been of the opinion that any interference with slavery in this District would not only ho a violation of (he public faith to the Stales of Virginia and Mary., land, hut would also ho a direct violation of the Bth amended article of the Constitution. He had not, however, thought proper to assert it, as he knew that there was a majority in the Senate of a different opinion, and as his object was to place the question on no particular portion of the Constitution, hut on its general character and structure, which he thought was much stronger, and much less liable to be disputed. He would neither object nor assent tojllie proposed modifi cation, and would leave, it without further remark to the decision of the Senate. Mr. Preston’s amendment was then agreed to* Now let it be remembered that the very thing for which Mr. Pinckney was chiefly abused and brand as a traitor to the South, the vo~y head and front of his offending, was his not insisting in his resolutions on the unconstiiuiionality of abolition in the district. It was not enough that he had expressly denounced it, in terms, “as a violation of public faith, unwise, impolitic and dangerous to the Union” —it was in vain that he protested his belief of its unconstiiuiionality and that he had forborne the insertion of that belief only for the sake of harmony—the storm of censure and persecution raged on with unaba ted fierceness. But now what do we behold— Mr. Preston moving to add to Mr. Calhoun’s res olulions, in substance, and almost in exact terms, an important portion of Mr. Pinckney’s much abused resolutions, and Mr. Calhoun apologizing for not inserting what Mr. Pinckney hud insert ed, and far omitting what Mr. Pinckney was rc v led for omitting, on the very ground on which Mr. Pinckney had vainly placed his defence, viz; his knowledge that a majority was against him, ami his desire of harmony. Thus then we find both Mr. Preston and Mr. Calhoun walking in the footsteps of Mr. Pinckney, and completing his justification and triumph. Verrily time brings us acquainted with sltange bed fellows.— Charleston Cour. The New Orleans papers of Saturday are si lent as to the affairs of ’Texas “The Merchant” appears to anticipate that the governor’s veto will ho used to defeat the hill con trolling the hanks in Louisiana. Should their law-makers -efuso relief, the impression is gener al that the business men of New Orleans will ho much cramped in all their Uansaclions of tins year. —Mobile Mer. Ailv. Main Robberies —An rests. —Wo learn from the Cincinnati Republican that the Great Northern Mail, from Columbus to Toledo, was robbed ic is supposed, near Lyme, Huron county Ohio, Both the mall bags were cut open. The amount of loss sustained has not yet boon ascer tained. Upon the arrival of the mail at Lyme, on the Ist instant, the postmaster at that ollice, Mr. Lyman Strong, with great promptitude, in stituted an investigation, and strong suspicions resting upon a man named Houck, who was a passenger in the stage, he forthwith went in pur suit of him. Ho overtook and arrested him at Granville, and brought him to Columbus on the morning of the 4tlrinst., whore he was fully com mitted for trial. On the26lh u!t. the postmaster at Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, Stephen Monger and his son, Harrison Monger, were arrested by Mr. James Brown, one of the agents of the post office department, on suspicion of robbing from the mail. They were committed, and will receive their dial at the next scs-ion of the U. States Court, to bo held in Columbus in May next. It is slated that ten persons including those mentioned above have been arrested in Ohio alone, within the last two months, for depreda tions on the mails.— Bull. Jlefiublican. Cuubch Bells. — A writer in the Philad 2. phia United Slates Gazelle of Monday, informs us that there are now in this city in the pub lic. stores about seventy bells from the convents and churches of Spain—all of excellent tone, and for sale at exceedingly low prices. He gives the following account of lueir his tory. Don Oatlos melted up the bells into cannon, and the Queen’s government sold them in many . instances for old copper. It is well known that tile Spanish hells ure among iho linest, if noi he finest in the world. Largo numbers of these hells were sent to Marseilles, ami sold for old copper hy order ol the Spanish government. An un man gentlemen at Marsellios lust winter purchased about sixty of them which were per toot,amt shipped them to N York for 100 purpose ; ol preserving them on account: of their superior one and finish. Orders were gin it that i ley s ieul.l ho entered at tho custom lr ouse > as old copper, which was refused, and the hells ; note placed in the custom house stores, subject to a duly ol *5 per cent on the cost. The con- signees ut lire hells have received orders to sr 11 them at cost. One of tire oldest and mm, experienced hell founders in New York hat examined them, and says they ure such as cannos he made in this country <ty probably any vvheret at this time', that the tones are inimitably beau tiful arid that one or those bells weighing 100 pounds has as much power and strength of tone as an ordinary hell weighing 300 pounds; tho hells are in perfect preservation and weigh from 100 to 7000 pounds. The consignees have received orders to sell the hells at cost; this with the du’y inclusive, will h'ing them somewhere between -7 and 30 cents per pound. Persons desirous ol knowing more ol these hells, or oi purchasing one or more of them, may learn any particulars they wish, try tli * reeling ale ter post paid, to Messrs. Pilch. &, (Jo/* No- 55 Exchange place, New York. It the hells arc not sold within two or three Months they will be broken up and sold for old copper; lire broken metal entering free of duly, koine ot the hells are COO years old, and besides their other good qualities, have the merits ot anti quity as a claim for their preservation. OSEC)LA—or PO VVELL. TlmN. Y. Star contains a letter from Mr. (i. C'atlin, dated at Fort Moultrie, Sullivhu’a lain nil, near Charleston, January 24- lie was adding to his Indian Gallary, by taking the portraits of the Indian Chiefs, who are confined there. There were k!5(.) Seminole prisoners ol war,chiefs, warriors, women and children. Mr. Gatlin gives a brief account of Mick-e-no-pah, the first civil chief of Hie nation —bin most of his letters is devoted to the chief,whose name heads this article. The following are extracts; “There is one restless spirit among them of a different cast—one who sits and broods over his nation’s calamities with a broken heart, and pines and sickens in an agony which none but himself cun know or feel—i mean Osceola, (Powell,) or, as he and all the other chiefs distinctly pronounce it, As se-o la. From the lime I have spent with tins Chief, and the familiar interviews 1 have had with him in conversation, I have been able to form a preily correct notion of the feelings and character, ns well as history, of this extraor dinary man. A Creek by both, he left his own tribe whilst a hoy, and sought mi asylum amongst the Seminoles, where he has been reared, and where he has flourished since. His father was awhile man’ by the name of Pow ell, who abandoned him and sent him a va grant upon the world to cater for himself lie soon became a favoriie amongst the Setninoles; and from his force of character and genius alone, he lias risen to the highest honors of the nation.” “From such (acts, it appears he is entirely a “self made man,” and orient an cxlraordma ry character, which is conclusively proved by the fact that ho is acknowledged, and follow ed, by all the chiefs. Though he is but a de mi savage in blocd, yet bespeaks not a word ot English; and in Ins actions and feelings is ns perfectly an Indian as any man I ever saw. * * * * * * * i “I thought at first, like thousands of others who lake but a glance at Hiltl, that he was effeminate and womanish, but on a little ac quaintance and familiarity with him, I be came fully convinced, that the true charac ter of this man is not to bo learned by the transient visitor, who sees him but a moment and that rholnenl a prisoner, withering un der a broken spirit, endeavoring to raise a smirk and a smile, to meet the gazing world who are flocking to see him. These smiles are soft and beautiful, and are many; but those who, like myself, have heard Inn pour fourth his griefs m the simpering tears of ac tual childness, and then instantly rally, and rouse limiftclt into the indignant stearnness of the warrior and hero, will easily see that those smiles are based upon an agony that regularly prays upon Ins substance. IPs taco is certainly one of the most expressive kind lever have seen; capable of the most vivid and sinking exhibition of the human passions that can possibly be imagined, bear ing upon its front the itiost predominant characteristic impress of stearncss and re serve, and excessive perseverance in the pursuits of life.” “He has a mind of a wonderful construc tion, calculated to fortify and yet destroy it self—a lurking cunning, capable of gilding wdh the warmth and glowing pleasantness of sunsiiiiie the whirling tempest that’s ra tr u c in his soul, and even in his mirth and childishness destroying him. Uc smiles and fawns and languishes before the gazing j worhl; but in his solitude, or when he tells in j confidence ins tales of grief, though mild and | smiling, dew drops moisten his eyes at one , niorneiP, yet the burning hero rushes through their sockets at the next —his brows jottncr their hulls of (tie—his nostrils and Ins bosom swell with impatience —and his clench teeth are set in silent oaths of irrelraclablo re- 1 venge. Naturally of a restless and impatient 1 deposition — in Ins captvc interviews with 1 the civilized world he smiles — but in his sol- J ilude he gnevts and pines with a broken heart. Tne world who have ha rely seen ( him, shake the hand of a laughing fawn; but those who listen to his gnels as 1 have done 1 will see the stearnn ss of a Roman, and in 1 Ins agony a beautiful statute of Vengeance. I A mmri thus organized and enthralled by snub circumstances us has fallen to his lot, | must soon destroy PS lenauienL i here are _ elements in such a spirit that wage a deadly j war with the body then thwarted and chained | down to a prison —Ins physical strength is ( rapidly giving way and I would be very mileh , surprised il he should survive many months, or even weeks in Iris present confinement, and under his present ugorVy of feeling.” Mr. Gatlin’s prediction was verified sooner j than he expec.ed— Osceola has already i breathed his last. — Charleston C our. QuAi.iriiTlo.vß ron Matiumovt —No wo ' man ought to bo permitted to enter upon lire J duties ofconnubiality wi.boul being able to make ~ shin, mend a coat, seat unwlnsperablos, hake a |oaf of bread, roast a joi lof meat, br oil a steak, , make a pudding anil manufacture frocks and et , celetas for lotto responsibilities. If only those possessed of these qualifications were permitted to become wives, how many years do you think, reader, it. would take a good arilh meti-ian 10 ciiculats the number of old maids I w> . i Aiikust or r'vo men on chauoK ok ’ UI'KUKU COMMITTED IN IRELAND.—A lew moiitlis back the police magistrates in litis city received documents sent out by the Bn li(iil «"Vernmont in telatinn in a murder coin niiucd in Ireland, the perpetrators of which ! ' vc rc supposed to bo in tins rountrv. 'l'be parties accused wore a lather and son of the naiiio o| liaiiibor, who wore charged with bavin; in September, 18*J1), at Halymong , County Ainurgb, killed one of the military police, who wm, assisting the civil authorities 1 111 executing a writ, of ejectment on the pre inises at tho accused. On these documents a : warrant was issued for the apprehension ot . the accused, and within the last two or three days too officers arrested the father and sou . m this city, who had hitherto escaped disco i very by adopting the name of McCauley, i Ihe senior prisoner admits i hat one of the i gens d armes was killed on the occasion allu ded to, but denies that he killed him,and gives a version ol the story, which if true, goes to some extent in palliation of the killing. Ac cording to his statement when the gens d armes were outline bis family out of their house some ot the family resisted, and one of the gens d’armes shot dead one of ihu old man s suns, find tho one who was Killed was in the net of bayoneting tho old mini's second son, when one of the family tired at him and Killed him. The prisoners were yesterday brought before bncol the judges under a writ ol hubtus corpus, but he declined to interfere in till* matter; and the papers m relation to life arrest ot the prisoners have been forwar ded to the Governor, in order to obtain bis authority to deliver them up to the British authorities. —Journal ol (Jovtvterce, Visiting Cuba run health. —Excellent preparations have been made near Matanzas lor ibo accommodation ol invalids from ibe United Slates. Ihe want ol suitable lodgings prevent many from | assing ibe winter in that beautiful island, who fell the necessity of Hoeing from its boisterous approaches in New England. The place now organized with express reference to the convenience o) this class ot strangers, it is located at San Pedro de Hudson, eighteen miles from Matunznn. Board rangcß Kl about fourteen dol lars a work.—The keeping of a horse is len dol lars a month l lie hire ol one is thirty dollars a month. Steamboats leave Havana and Matan zas every other day—the fare being six dollars. Board, by the day, at eilhei place, is two dollais and fifty cents. A horse costs from sixty-eight to one hundred and fifty dollars. Those who «an afford the expense, should ship their own, the na tive breed being small and inferior. Invalids, to derive the most advantages from the mild air of Cubit; should leave hero by the first of October, and remain till May. Physicians in recom mending a voyage to their consumptive patients, should keep this circumstance in recdllecliou.— Jlcilical Journal. M. Poisson, at a lale sitting of the Academic des Sciences, gave a solution ofa curious problem in the system of games of chance. When seve ral persons assembled to play a game at which two only are engaged at a lime, being succeeded by the rest in turn, is tbb advantage in iavor of the two who commenced the game or of those who lake their places afterwards f Calculation proves that the advantage is on the side of the first players in the proportion of one fourteenth. Consequently, if the slake is 14fr. for each per son, the two fits! players have so to speak, actu ally gained Hr. by merely sitting down first to play; the others, therefore, ought to increase the slaku to lot', to bring chances to an equality. Aunuaox.—Mr. Audubon has given notice in our paper, as well ns in the other gazelles, t that ho expects trt complete his great work “On | the Birds of Arncricari,” biirly in April or May | next. Seventy numbers have now been issued, and it was thought that ten more, would complete the work; hut several nfcw species of birds have been discovered by the Prince of Musignano (Mr. Bonaparte) Mr. Nuttall Dr. & Townsend, and these must have a record in the splendid work of Audubon. The whole number of perfect sest subsciibed about 160, of which one half arc in America, and not more than ten or fifteen copies will be prepared beyond those call ed foi by the subscription list.— (J. S. (iaz. The Mechanic.—ls there is any man in society upon whom we look with esteem and t admiration, it is Ibo honest and industrious t mechanic, who by bis own unaided exertion i has established Cor b mself a respectable sta- i lion in society; who commencing in poverty, 1 by bis skill and assiduity, surmounts every t obstacle, overcomes every prejudice, and sue- I ceeds in establishing for himself a reputation s whose value is encbanccd (or those who come t after him. Such a man vve prise as the no- ( blest work ol which human nature is capa-, it h!c, tlie highest production site can boast, r And let it ever be borne in mind by the n young mechanic just entering on the stage of s active lile—let it ever be at the foundation, t and be Ibe moving spring of all his efforts, s that this situation he t.< tst strive to attain, a It cun be attained by all—untiring industry 1 and a virtuous ambition never fail of their rco t ward. They never yet wore exerted in vain, <i and never will be, while honesty and justice t are loit in the human heart. It, was well re- t m irked, by an eloqieut writer that the Me- v cbanic, who had no inheritance but health, no t riches but virtue, is ibo sole" king among v man, ami the only man among kings. ti A Stuanoeu in these Pautm.—According to the Taunton Whig they have a Mississippi (, roarer ill that peaceble village, who ought to be ii kept quiet, if possible, or they will see harder n limes there than the alewives when they jjet in- b to Court. The dcsoiption which tlio “larnal a crilur” gives of himself, is ibis: I, I’m very like a whale, with a little shade of c the big elephant—ami a slight touch of the wild h catamount; I’m a real catastrophe—a small crca- o lion, mount Vesuvius at the lop, with red hot It lava pouring utit of the crater, and routing na- a tions; my eyes arc two blast furnaces—tears red c hot melted iron, and every tooth in my head a si granite pillar; my feet aie Virginia plantations— o legs, branch railroads of whalebone—fists, rocky p mountains, and arms, Whig liocrly poles, with b cast sieel springs. Every step I lake is an " earthquake, every blow I strike is a clap of ft thunder, and every breath I breathe is a tornado: ti my disposition is Dupont's best, and goes off in is a flash; when f blast, there’ll be just nothing ,b left but a hole three feet deep in circumference Ci and no end to ibe depth. My gig is a wildcat, k with hoop snake wheels—my learn a tandem ol w sea serpents, with rattlesnake reins, fout roar- '1 ing lions for body guard; and I advance and re- g tret like a hurricane. n Conscience Sticken. —Tlio Teller o! c one of ibe Boston Banks received on Toes- „ day morning a letter enclosing a live dollar K bill and the following: p Dear Sir; Hero is live dollars you overpaid b mo some time since; May God and you for- g giv.nte for not returning it bes >re- ‘t <v From ihc J.,Kill's Book. IHE INDIAN GIRL’S PUNE HAL. Hl' MRS. SIUOU ItSi KT. ‘Dikd,! ll the vicinity of Montrose, VVisconsi trriloiy, iho only daughter of Moko.au ludiai woman in the Sac tribe, at thu age of IS of a Hi Bering consumption. A few of the tribe, and lew 6t the pale faces were in attendance—yet in one wept over iho maiden’s grave, lint the poo mother, —thru/,I of the Upper Jiississippi. A wail upon the | fairies, A cry ul woman's woo, I hat mingleth with the autumn blast All Allolly and low. It is a mother’s wailing; Hath Earth another tone Like that with which a mother mourns Her last, her only oncl Pale faces gather round her, ' They mark the storm swell high Which rands and recks the tossing soul, Vet their cold hUib eyes ere dry. Palo faces gaze upon hsr, ■. . As the wild wind waft her moan, Pul she was an Indian mother— Ho she wept those tears alone. Long, o’er .that wasting idol, Svlie watch’d, and toil’d any pray'd, Though every dreary dawn reveal'd Some ravage Death has made 1 ill the lleshless sinews started, And Hope no opiate gave, . . And hoarse and hollow grew her voice— An echo irom the grave. She was a gentle creature, Os raven eye and tress, >, And dove-like were tire tones that hrolth’d Her hesom’s tenderness, Save when some quick emotion 1 lie warm blood strongly sent, To revel in Iter olive cheek, So richly eloquent. I said consumption smote her, And the healer’s an t*!ts vain, lint she was an Indian maiden, None, save that widow’d rnothef. Who now, by bei open tomb. Is writhing like the smitten wretch Whom judgment marks for doom. Alas! that lonely cabin, That couch beside the wall, . 1 hat scat beneath the mantling viiife, They’re lone and empty all ! What hand shall pluck the tall, green corn, That ripeneth on the plain, < • Since she for whom the board was Spread, Must ne’er return again] Rest, rest thee, Indian maiden! Nor let in v murmuring shade Grieve thalthosepale-bnM’d olifts, williacorh, Thy buriul-rite suivey’d. There’s many a king, whoso funeral A black rob’d realm shall see, For whom no lear of grief is shed, Like that which fulls for thee. Rcsl.rest thee, forest maiden! Uenealh thy native tree, The pround may boast their little day, Then sink to dust, like thee; But there’s many a one whose funeral With nodding plumea may be. Whom Nature nor affection mourn. As now they mourn for thee, September 23d, 1837. HOME. “The patriotic boast where e'er wo roam ' Dur first, best counlry over is ut h nne.” I here is on trait perhaps, more common or more amiable in thu human character, than the aliuclnnent which each individual feels (or his native place—With what resistless, tender and soul subduing influence docs rc mernberanfce ot past scenes and pleasures rush upon the mind.' Our native hillfl and valleys, the tuneful broods, the groves, the meadows, and fields which witnessed the in nocent sporting* of our youthful years, aris ing before the imagination, arrayed in all their beauty. With the loneliness of adec lion we look back to the sacred spot where repose Iho ashes of departed kindred and friends. In the chaste and pious meditation, we feel a pleasant melancholy steal over the soul—which wo would not exchange /brail the sj/arl ling joys ol transient and unsubstantial amusement. L’u', a yoking from the pleasing reverie, we find perhaps that we are in a die" taut land, surrounded by the faces pf stran gers. In vain do we look aiound for the friends and companions of youth, but all is mid, lonely and desolate. Toll ns net that the gules which fun us arc perfumed with orders; that the gentle zephry brings health and balm on its wings; that rosed and jessa mines fill the soft air with matchless Iragancc, and that the verdant mantle of nature is spangled with flowers of the richest d es. For neither the spicy gales; nor Ihc roses and jes samines, nor nature’s fairest livery equal the air, the beauty, the enchantment, ofour native land. To us the whispers of parental Jove, tenderness, and affection, would be more gra'el ul and soothing than the gentle tann ings of the soft south wind, ortho breath of die perfumed zephyr. To us more pleasing would be the sight ofour parental mansion, .hough hang with icicles and surrounded villi the desolate emblems of winter, thun ,he verdure ul raced to a distant land. Loud Castlrreaoii and tiik Ghost. —Lord •iastlereagh, when commanding, in early life a r.ililia regiment in Ireland, was stationed one light in a large desolate country house, and his >ed was At one end of a dilapidated room, while it the other extremity a great fire of wood and urf bad been prepared wiihin a huge gaping old ibimney. Wakinj; in t!;e miAllo of the night, io lay watching from fits pillow the gradual dark less of embers on Ihc hearth, when suddenly hoy blazed up, and a naked child stepped from miong them upon the floor, Tho figure advanc 'd slowly towards Lord Castlereagh, rising in ilatnc at every step, until on coming within two ir three puces of the bed, it had assumed the up leuranco of a ghastly giant, pale as death, with a deeding wound on Iho brow, and eyes glaring vith rage and despair. Lord Castlereagh leaned rom his hod and confronted the figure in an atti ii'lo of defence. It retreated before him ditmn shingasit withdrew, in tho same manner that it lad previously shot up and expanded ; ho follow id il pare hy pace, until the original childlike onn disappeared among the embers. He then vent back to his lied and was disturbed no more. I bis story Lord Casllcroagh told with perfect Jgavity at one of his wife’s supper parties in Da is in 1810, when Scott was aiViong the hearers. [ have olten heard him repeal it—before the fatal lalastroplie of August 1822 afforded iho solution d the text—when tie merely mentioned it as a angularly vivid dream, the product probably of a feverish night following upon a military debauch, but affording a striking indication of the coura. geous tamper, which proved true to itself amid the terrors of fancy.— Life rs Sir Water Scott. -j-j SSO. i' , A I Byron ont* paw or "n ,r ," m 11 'vhoni he never * n decline iV* * 1,e (. ,,re ; shn said she was in’a vvorli? Kh d . dy ! M,r . f " 8,,b1,t beforo she ,e,l,he "■ ", hn '"•* tlm opportunity to Ic, him “ x mV,,UI ‘ ,loa “ ,lru " lc reading o(bw ponry Im.l a (Forded her; X con, jr , (1 / > mm to burn her letter— ll. I'' 1 " *'" to a friend‘l can not, do if, lor I look upon u « s a teller thing loan n diploma hum Ciidtingcn. Pkoouahitjes or E,v rtIKSSION ._f n K Cn . tuchy a traveller on the other side of the ta ole,will address you with “[ say, sir.tiger, give us a lectio of sprinkle ol tfiat bread it you please ! ’ It you ask a countryman how much plun der (marketing, &e.) he has, your answer will “A right -smart chance,” In JLtbaissippi lor an expression nfgastrd mimic pleasure, you will hear an exclamation similar to tliis “Frank, this is not bad to take.” The ox ms arrangement of the tea table, such ns sweet meats, ten cakes, &c. are gener ally known as the “little fixing’s.” llow to Raise tub Strain.— Dr. Paris leh.s us that when Dr. Dunning wished to make an extraordinary display of chxjnerce, he always put a blister on his client a few hours before Ilio c li mo lie was to speak, in or der that it might irrilutu the brum by sympa thy during bis speech. , (■amhum; Houses in Pahis.— A Paris ps per ol jtliß Ist ult. says:—“To night at 12 o clock, nil the gambling'houses, that scourge of our cily, are to b« shut up for good and all, the Chambers having limited their existence to the Ist of January, 1838.’’ Imaoinaiiy Kvti.s.— If we except tho blessmgol strength, health,and the testimony ot a good conscience,all lee other eonvenien es and pleasures o( life depend on opinion. Except pain ot body and remorse of consci cnee, nil ottr evils are iinaginiriary. —..■..1,,,,... 111 p._ ■!! I BEACH INLAND LAND FOR MALE. I'H/- subseribor offers lor sate hit plantation in Itcacli Inland, now knowi, l>s t '"' ‘" niH h I’lnee.—lt is hi I imioil about Yr w ‘ 8 miles below Augusta,on the Savannah n| ul contains about 21 JO acres, consisting ol river swamp, marsh, hammock and pine I,arid. There are upwards of 300 acres clear ed, 250 of which are itt lire marsh and well ditch ed, arid have produced several crops of corn and colton. ll is also well adapted to I!ice, mid can he overflowed. It produces without culmraiion a grass equal to any Northern grass far rattle, and the uncleared swamp being covered with rune and must-bearing trees, ii adorns an extensive summer ’ and winter range for stock ol all kinds, equal tu any in the United States. The tract may lie con veniently divided inio two or moro plantations, and the subscriber will soil ouo or more to suit those who may wish to buy. 'The price will he moderate and long credit given to approved purchasers. Persons desirous of buy ing can see the place and a plat of it, by applying lo the subscriber, nml in his nltsenoo lo his overseer, at Silver Hind, 12 miles below Augusta,and receive necessary information, by addressing the subscri ber at Silvnrton I*. O. S. (J. . . Feb'J sw2vv 2t J, 11. //AM3JONB. Twenty-live Dollars Reward. " ' I i THE above reward will he paid tor the apprehension and confine ment in any sale jail, or delivery to the subscriber, of two negro men, Davis mid Peter, belonging to (■’eorgw Unnby, late of Columbia county. These Imys are no doubt lurking about either in ihc Poigh'J horhood of VVrightshoro' or White (Aik, in bolh of which they are well known. Ten dollars will- be paid lor the apprehension of either, or any inlhrmn iion concerning them, will bo thankfully rrveiveU by the subscriber. ROBT. 31. <- U NHV. White Oak, Uolnmlna eo. Feb It) 34 Drought to Colninbiii County Jnil, ON fie 2( it 1 1 instant, a NEURO WOMAN, who says her name is Ba rah; that she belongs to Ephraim l Ifdp /r vft , '.‘ n S’ n, ' ar lllß high xbhuls of A'pahuAa HJ Phr v r ‘ v <;r. She is about CO or C 5 years ofage, dark complexion. = •■ • I The owner is requested to call, pey "StirrTl expense i uml take Iter away. • Jan 87 22w3t KICK'D H JONES. JdfMfc Due Thousand Ln borers IVauled. TO work on Ihe Western and Allanlie Rail Road, loading from Ihe t haltuhoochee River, fieri, to the boundary line of Te/tliessoo ;■ Affi7i((ed North-west frnni-Augusta, via llio (teurgia llaii Road, to Crawlordvtlle, Poland’s Fuel cry, Wulkihs vi.lc, l.awrcin-eville, Pittman’s Ferry, or via Madi- Bon, Covington. Dueatnr, 3/urinlta ami Alluloim, at iho work, which vv/ll boos four years dm alion.ftnd is Ibo most extensive of any work now in progress in the United Stales—all dry, a large portion rock, and (indy shaded with large oak, hickory and pop lar. Tho country is very fertile, and nbomrds wifn 1 choice produce arm lino limestone water. The climate is a medium. The days ora not so long and w arm in mid summer, nor so short and odd in winter, ns in tho Northern -Voiles, and consequent ly heller ndupled lor such w ork the year round, and lor health and general comfort is rot excelled hf any part ol America, I lie line also ntlords abun dance of work for //cvv.-rs, Framers and 31 non»(-a -also lor boys to drive carts. Tho highest customa ry wages will bo paid in all cases. Allatoim, (ieo..lan 1, 18:18. W.M. NELIfJH/ ' jin 10 wit 7 Contractor. N. I!—Lands are na yet vory low and offer great nducemcul to settlers. AN ESTRAY HORSE. ffallen up aim Ofought oclbre me an V >.*!, estray hors a chi sunt sorrel, shod (- "Wl) In-lore, sorno while in his face; some M w bilo spots on his back, (saddle '* I both hind feet white, about Hi hands high and about 7years old, and apprised at $BO. WM P NOBLE, J P. Abbeville District, So Ca. .lan 30 f-h ‘I 26:21* ONE lISUN DR ED DDI.IiAKS llta«v ,v ul » „ STOLEN from the-Viable of the ( subscriber, living on the Waikins ttf awi ¥ Bridge Rond, in Burke county, (Jeo a i a 11 H "" 1 " t'kesnut Sorrel Afnrc, 11 to bo about 7 or 8 years old, a star on her iorehead, a tear causing a -mall lump on the inside ol her right thigh, -lands very crooked on ber hind legs, perbap* some while on bolh bind feet. 1 will give tho-above reward lor the thief wit it sufficient proof for bis conviction; also a liberal rewind with all necessary exprt.-ses for the mare. MOVES DANIEL jan 31 vv It 25 dOT Tim Savannah (Joorgian, and Tallaha.nee <» Watchman will insert iho ntiovc tliree tone . BUII sen'l I heir ticcnnnts I - this nfli -e. ■ AWfIK months aucr o.uo appi,canon on k. made to the II morahle the Justices of the Jn (crior Court ol Columtiia county, when sitting (',> ordinnry purposes for leave to sell (he whole efthe real estate ol Elbert B Dunn, late o f said county,' deccasod, lor the benefit of the heirs of said de cease.!. ALFRED J. DUNN, adra'r oct 1(5, 1837 242 iJTtOUR months after date application vv ill bo made' jj. to tbo lionorahlo Inferior court of Columbia county, when silting for ordinary purposes, f or . leave in sell the following lots of I aim), viz; jVb 408 - in 4th district; 287, 27th district; 78 and 4S, ])th district; all Early c-<nntv. b-longing to tho estate of James Blackslone,deceased. * WM. p BEALL, At Wj/, \ (lUbUliUv jan 10—15 acjmini«fr # fj w