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CHRONICLE AND SENITNEL ' 1
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Wednesday Morning, March id.
i An attempt has been made at Washington
city, by some of the partizank of the administra- 1
lion, to make a party question of the late unfor
tunate and melancholy Duel between Messrs.
Graves and Cilley. Some of those who for that
putpose are new urging on the investigation,
may have cause to repent the parts which they
themselves acted in the affair prior to its fatal
termination. The impression is attempted to be
created that Mr. Cilley was driven into it and
then shot down in an unfair and murderous
manner. We are advised that it will turn out 1
that his own immediate personal and political
Iriends urged him to hold on to that position
which would compel Mr. Graves to tight, they
believing Mr. C. to be an unerring shot with a
rifle. Bo confident were they that the result
would prove fatal to Mr. Graves, that Mr. Benton
on the evening of the union unate affair, when
it was publicly known that the parlies had gone
out to fight, with his -watch in his hand exul
lingly exclaimed that ‘'Mr. Graves was ere
that a dead man !” And Mr. Fairfield, a col
league of Mr. Cilley, and the same who moved>
for the investigating Committee, openly talked
of the fact in the House of Jtepresentatives,
ik'at the Duel was going on, and that Air,
Cilley would surely kill Mr. Graves.
We abhor the very idea of making such an
affair a party question, and if some of those mem
bers of Congress who are making it such, had
made themselves as active before the finale of the
tragedy, as they have since made themselves busy
its mournful consequences might have been
avoided —a brave and promising man might haVe
been saved a premature death, and his equally
brave knd honoranlc competitor the bitter pangs
'of reflecting that he had taken the life of one who
thad no enmity towards him.
We do not profess to be conversant with the
code by which those are Igiverned, who resort to
this mode of settling disputes, but as Mr. Cilley
submitted to it as the proper mode, we cannot pet
Oeive how his case varies from that of others who
have fallen victims in the same manner. The
better of Col. Webb, which was the cause of this
unfortunate affair, was not a challenge. It was
a very respectful call upon Mr. Cilley for an ex
planation of language Used by him, imputing
base corruption to Col. Webb. Such a letter
should at least have been received and answered,
whether he intended to fight Webb or not, and
when Mr. Graves informed him that Sf he pul
his refusal on th<e ground that his principal was
not a gentleman, he himself would be under the
necessity of taking life controversy upon himself,
it was certainly wrottg to “throw it in Mr
Graves’ way,” by occupying that very position.
His selection, W l , of the rifle, shOwbd that once
in for it, ho was determined to make the contest a
bloody one. We do not make these remarks for
the purpose of censuring an amiable man, now in
his grave—doubtless both patties are to blame in
some degree—but to point out, that while many
are exclaiming passionately and immoderately
against his living antagonist, that he himselt was
equa'liv guilty, so far as criminality is involved,
And committed some errors of judgment, but for
Ahiclt,!he might now be living.
Latek News at Hand.
The N Y Commtetcial Advertiser of the 9th
inst., says: The packet ship Independence, Capt
Nye, was telegraphed at U Quarter before 11 this
morning. She was iri the Eastern offing. As
•oon as her owners were informed of her arrival
below, they despatched a steamboat to tow her
up. The Independence was to sail on the 24ih
January, and will bring eight days later intelli
gence.
Ur. Davis’s Lectures.
To night at 8 o’clock, Dr, Davis will deliver
in the Medical College, his first regular Lecture,
to the popular course on Chemistry—subject, the
mechanical properties of the atmosphere,
We understand, that at flag Introductory on
Monday evening, the room was crowded to ex
cess. This is at it should be, and good taste in
pur community.
Bank ttf Hamburg. '•
At a meeting of the Stockholders on the 14th
*in*t., the following Gentlemen were elected Di:
‘rectors to servo for IS months ;
W W Starke, J W Stoke, H t ieffors, ThOs
‘Kernaghara, Goo Pkrrott, Wirt Garrett, H Kut
' chin son.
At a meeting of the Directors on the 13th,
W W Starke was unanimously elected Presi
dent.
The following resolution then passed;
Resolved, That the rale sot checks on Now
Vork, payable in Hamburg hilts he reduced from
’6 to 4 pr cenl prem. That the rate for checks on
Charleston, payable in Hamburg bills, be as
heretofore for Individuals A pr cent prem; and sot
Banks in settlement par.
From Florida.
, The Charleston Mercury of the 13th says:—
Capt. Skinner of the schr. Tripoli, arrived
yesterday from Jacksonville, stales that the mai)
rider between St. Augustine and Jacksonville, had
been killed by the Indians, and that the report of
Gen. Jesup having captured 400 Indians was
incorrect-
We lea,"’ from Capt- Kohler, of the ecr. Sal
ly Miller; arrived a’ U>i* P ort this morning from
■St, Augustine, that previous to his sating, a let
t*i wasyeceived at that place Staling that 50
Indians had gone in at Gen- Jcsup’s .Camp and
gave up their Rifles. Wo also learn that an
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Indian captured some lime since liy a paily of
Alabamians had made his escape from the Army.
Several contradictory reports having rcaohed us
of late, of the capture of a number of Indians by
Gen. Jesup, we take pleasure in presenting to our
readers the following extract of a letter received in
this cily, from a source entitled to credit, that they
may learn the true state of afluirs in Florida:
Indian- River Bin, March If.
“At present there is a quasi peace frith the In]
dians. Hostilities have ceased, bh't h'o'fr Ibrrg this
stale of affairs may continue, I canhot conjeclure.
There are said to be 6 or 600 Indians, (women
children and warriors,) kt or'hear Gen. Jesup’s
Camp, at Jupiter Inlet, with whom hs was hav
ing a talk. The conference may or may not
terminate In their agreeing to abide the decision
of the President as to remaining or removing
West of the Mississippi. The proposition of
Gen. Jesup is, that he will recommend to the
President that the Indians bo permitted tore-,
main in Florida, but if the President refuses
then the Indiana must go. If t tlae Indians agree
to this proposition, then there is a probability
that the war may soon be over.”
Mr Booth, t.io celebrated tragedian, attempted
to destroy himself by drowning, while on his
passage from N. York to Charleston.
Maink Election. —The annual election takes
place in this Stale next November, The Whigs
by the Slate Convention, have nominated Gov.
Kent, for reduction.
A proposition to force the Banks of Virginia,
'o resume specie payments on a day named, has
been rejected in the House of Delegates of that
State, by a, vote of yeas 16 to 111 nocs.
I’he N Y Commercial Advertiser quotes sales
at the Stock Exchange on the 9th as follows;
Specie—l a 2J premium, without sales.
Treasury Drafts—Sales of $lOOO at i discount
Exchange—Bills on England we note at 7J a
7} premium. The banks ask 8 percent, but we
can hear of no p'drehises it that rate.
The packet ship Formosa, which sailed fiom
Havre lor the port of New Vork on the 16i hos
December, was forced to put back to Cork, to
repair damages, after having reached long. 25.
She was to sail from 'Cork jan 12.
The President has issued his proclamation
recognizing Dionizio de Azevedo Pecanha, as
Consul General ofßtaiil for the United Slates.
The young Whigs of Louisville, olfered Mr S
S Prentiss, of Miss., a public dinner as he passed
through that cily, but his desire to reach home is
soo'ri is possibla caused him to decline it.
The packet ship Samson, arrived at Now York
on the Bth inst, having on board Sir George Ar
thur, the new Governor of Upper Canada.
Death of Gen. Scott—Confirmed.
We deeply regret to learn from from passen
gers who arrived last night from Washington hy
the Rail Road, says the Baltimore American,
that official intelligence of the death of Gen.
Scott, was deceived yesterday at the War De
partment'.
Gen. Scott. — A Tetter dated Rochester.
March 4, has been received in Philadelphia-, in
which it is stated that Gert. Winlleld Scdtt had
been killed, accidentally by one of his soldiers-
The information is said to have reached Roches
ter by the Lockport mail, endorsed ort the way
bill. It is a hoax. Wo have information ol
ihe arrival of Gen. Scott at Detroit on the 12lh
ult. in good health.
Since the above was written, we learn ifrom
Washington, that the sanic icport has reached
there. —We ire still inclined to Jdisbelieve it.—
JSait C'hrtm.
Tallahassee, March 3.
Gallant Defen^se.— On Tuesday night last,
we learn that the Indians made another attack
upon Ihe dwelling of Mr. Chatletts about 8 miles
east of the Delia, —His family were in bed and
were awakened by the discharge of the rifles and
yells of the savages. They attempted to force
ihe door, Mr. Ohalletts allowed thertl to burst rtlf
a plank and waited (iatieillly Until he distinctly
saw the Indian, when he discharged a double
barrelled gun at the opening, the contents of
which had such effect that the marauders took to
flight, carrying off their companion no doubt
mortally wounded. The trail was followed next
day by a small parly under Major Scott McGhee;
until they dispersed in a thick hammock. But
for the gallant stand made hy Mr. Chatletts, his
dwelling would have been plundered and per
haps burned, but the unexpected warm recemion
of tuG Indians completely disconcened them
On the nijbt nrev lo us. the deling of Mr. Shef
licld about four miles to the cast was attacked
and plundered by the same party, he being absent
at the time-,
Criminal Court London.— John Legalt and
James Nesbit, Capt. and male of the brig Mar
garel, of Port Glasgow, were indicted and tried
on the 3d January last, fur feloniously killingjand
slaying Jos. Brown, on the high seas, when on
a voyage from Charleston to Liverpool, on the
11th Nov. on board said vessn!. After an inves.
ligation, and a somewhat lengthened discussion
the prisoners were remanded, to wait the deci ion
of the Court, and on the sth January, they were
both sentenced to two years imprisonment, with
hard labour, in the London Penitentiary.
A large inward bound British ship, was
seen off Cape Cod on yatuiday last, apparent
ly with loss ofh'er topmasts-, she i~ said to
liave had painted ports. The Boston Daily
Advertiser says a British man of war is ex
pected at that port to take on board Lord
Gosford, Governor ot Canada, and it is possi
ble that the above snip may be her. as no Brit
ish merchant ships is expected . —Philadelphia
Gazelle.
It is stated, in a London paper, that during
the fire at the Royal Exchange, at twelve o’clock,
when the flames hadjust reached the northwest
angle of the building, and were rapidly making
their way to the lower the chimes struck up, as |
I usualjul that hour,the old tuno “There's nao luck
1 about the house,” and continued for live minutes,
f The effect was extraordinary, and the tune was
distinctly heard; alas, it was the last lime! The
silver toned hells, whose joyful notes, in playing
at intervals of every three hours “God save the
' Queen,” "Life let us cherish,” “There's nae luck
about the house,” and on Sundays the old 104th
Psalm, have so often gladdened the hearts of
j the citizens and amuncd the frequenters of
•Change, are silent fur ever, melted by tho in
-1 tense heart or broken to pieces
i The only chimes now existing in London are
those of Si. Clement Danes, in the Strand, on
which the old 104th Psalm is played every four
hours, ami the musical chimes of St. Giles, Crip
plegate, and 8(. Dives Backchurch, Tenchurch
street*, The grand peal ot 12 bells, in the alceple
of Spittalgelps church, with similar chimes to
those ot the Royal Exchange, were destroyed by
fire about two years ago, and have not yet been
restored.
L We copy the following exquisitely beautiful
fragment from the Mother’s Magazine;—
It is not hard to die.
“Oh ! mother, say, must we all die 1
Yon, sister, dear papa and I!
I do not like to think 1 shall
Lie in the deep, dark grave so still.
Mother, I’m fond of life and play ,
And like not to be borne away,
From tfie green fields and pleasant light,
To lie whete it is always night.”
I ~ t . ,
“ Genic hither, child, and thou shall place
Wiihiit the earth, in yonder vase,
This grain.”
‘‘ Oh ! ft is smooth and rouitd !
Mother put not in the ground
'l’his ptclly grain.”
“ Do it, my love;
For by tins seed I wish to prove
That it is not so hard to die,
And in the deep, dark grave to lie.”
* * • »
41 How sweet a fragrance fills the morn !
Mother, your (lowers arc now in bloom ;
And oh ! how beautiful ihcy seem
While standing in the bright sunbeam !
Mother, I’m glad you made me place
That smooth round flower within the vase ;
For more delighted now, [ see
The blossoms on ibis pretty tree,
Which from that buried grain has sprung.”
14 ”J’is thus, my love, will) children young,
And loved of God ; their bodies die,
And, like that grain, in earth must he.
But, like this flower, from hence shall rise,
A form of beauty in the skies.—
Which quickly springing from the tomb,
In Paradise shall ever bloom.”
Demon*, May 15, 1837.
From the Metropolitan Magazine.
Song of the Rushlight.
0! scorn me not as a tameless thing,
Nor turn with contempt from the lay I sing,
’Sts true 1 am not suffer'd to be
On the ringing board of wassail glee,
My sick beinn intlal neve'r fall
In the gay saloon or lo'dly hall,
Yet many a tale does the moonlight know
Os secret sorrow and lonely Woe.
I am found in the closely curtain’d room,
Where a stillness reigns that breathes of the lothij,
Where ihe breaking heart and heavy eye
Are. wailing to see a lav’d one die,
Where the doting child With noiseless tread,
Steals warily t» the mother’s bed,
To mark if tile faintly panting breath
Is fluttering yet in the grasp of Death.
I am the light that quivering flits
In the joy less homo wucre the fond wife sits.
Watting the one that flies his hearth
For a ribald crew and a drunkard’s mirth.
Lung hath she kept her wearying watch,
Now bitterly weeping, now breathless to catch
The welcome tread of a footstep near,
Till she weeps again us it dies oil het eat.
Her restless eye as the night wears late,
Is anxiously thrown on Hied al plate;
And a sigh resounds to the echoing sound
That leli* me ba .d h i gone its round.
She mournfully trims my slender wick.
As she sees me fading and wasting quick,
And marly a tim'd has illy spark expired,
And left her still the weeping and tired.
I am the light that often shines
Whete lite friendless childgof Genius pines,
Where the god-iike mind is trampled clown
By the callous sneer and freezing frowift,
Where Want is playing a demon part
And sends its Iron to the heart,
W here lit* soul hums on in the bosom that tncUrna
Like the incense fire in funeral urns.
I seethe hectic finger fling
The thoughts intense that slashingly spring,
And my flickering beam illumes me page
That may live in the fame of luturc age:
I see the pale brow droop and mope,
As the breast turns sick with liliisted hope,
Till the harsh cold world has done its worst,
And the lorlued spirit hath groaned and burst.
«
I am the light that’s doomed to share
The meanest lot that man can bear;
f sec the scanty portion spread,
Where children struggle lor scraps ofbrcad,
Where squa.id forme and faces seem,
Like phantoms in a hideous dtesm,
Where the rich may look with startled awe
On the work of poverty’s vulturo claw.
Oh! meny a lesson the bosom learns
111 u 1 . • ■ 11*1. I. 1. L I
v_/i uapiuss gttci Withe me rusaugiu ourns;
Matty a scene unfolds to me
That the heart of mercy would bleed to see,
Then scorn me not as a worthless thing,
Not turn with contempt from the song I sing;
But scorn as ye will, or smile as you may;
Ye cannot revile the truth of my lay.
Eliza Cook.
From Bulwer's latt work.
THE SACRIFICE.
[Muza is the lover of Leila—Alamen her
father : Muza, leaving Grenada after iu capitu
lation, encounters Alamen, who promises to gutdo
him to Leila, but tbu Moor is unaware of (lie
relation of the astrologer to his beloved.]
But that scene and that sound so calculated to
soothe and harmonise the thdlighls, seemed to
arouse Alamen to agony and passion, lie smote
fits breast with hts clenched band ; and shrieking,
rather than exclaiming, 14 God of my faihers!
have I come tod late I” buried his spurs to the
towels in the sides of his paining steed. Along
the award, through the fragrant shrubs, athwart
the pebbly and shallow torrent, up the ascent to
llto convent sped the Israelite. Muza, wonder
ing, and half reluctant, followed at a liltlb dis
tance. dealer and neater came the voices of
the choir ; broader and redder glowed the tapers
trum the Gothic casements; die porch of the
convent chapel was reached ; the Hebrew sprang
trout his horse. A small group of the pea-ants
dependent on the convent loitered reiererttly
round the threshold: pushing through them as
I otto frantic Alamen entered the chapel and dis
appeared.
A minute elapsed. Muza was at the door;
but the Moor paused irresolutely ere he dis
moun ed. 44 What is the ceremony 1” ho asked
of the peasants.
41 A nun is about to lake the vow,” answered
one of them.
A cry of alarm, of indignation, of terror was
heard within. Muza no longer delayed; he
f a ve bis steed to the bystanders, pushed aside
the heavy curtain that screened the threshold,
and was within thechapal.
By the altar gathered a confused and disor
t deied giauc, me sisterhood with their abuses.—
r Round the consecrated rail flocked the spectators
breathless and amazed. Conspicuous above the
rest, on the elevation of the holy pluco, stood
, Alamen, with his drawn dagger in his right
3 hand, his left cla-ped round the limn of a novice,
whose dress, not yet replaced hy the surge, he.
j spoke her the sister luted lor lire veil! and on the
opposite side ot that sister, one hand on her
shoulder, the other rearing on high the sacred
I crucifix, stood a stern, calm, commanding form,
in the while robes of the UoiOiniciAu order; it
was Thomas de Torquamadk
“Avaunt, Abaddon 1” were the first words
that reached Muza’s car, as he atood unnoticed
in lf}e middle of the aisle, “ here shy sorcery and
the ans cannot avail thee, Release the devoted
■ one Os God!”
( “ She is mine ! she is my daughter. I claim
' jipr from thee as a father, in the name of the
great Sire of man!”
i “ Seize the sorcerer! seize him!” exclaimed
the inquisitor, as, with a sudden movement, Ah
i imimcn cleared his way through the scattered and
. dismayed group, and stood with Iris anus, on the
first step of die consecrated platform.
Hut riot a loot stirred, mil a hand was raised.
The epithet bestowed on the intruder had only
breathed n supernatural terror into the audience;
And they would have sooner rustled upon a liger
in his las ihun on the lifted diVgger and tiuvage
aspect of that giim stranger.
“Oh ! my lather 1” then said a low and full
ering voice, that stalled Muza us a voice frorfi the
grave, “ wresde not against the decrees of Hea
ven. Thy daugh er is not compelled to her
solemn choice. Humbly, hut devotedly, a con
vert to the Christian creed, Iter only wisli oo
earth is to lake the consecrated and eternal vow.”
“ Ha!” gioancd die Hebrew, suddenly relax
ing his hold as his daughter fell on her knees be
fore him, “ then have 1 indeed been told, us 1
have foreseen, the worst. The veil is rent —the
spiiit hath left the temple; thy beauty is dese •
crated; thy form is hut unhallowed clay.—
“ Dog 1” he cried more fiercely, glaring round
upon the unmoved face of the inquisitor, “ tills is
thy work; but thou shall not triumph. Here, by
thine own shrine, I spit at and defy thee, usance
before, amid the tortures of ihy inhuman court.
Thus—thus—Almamen the Jew delivers (lie last
of his house from the curse of Galilee 1”
“ Hold, murderer 1” cried a voice of thunder;
and an armed man huisl through the crowd and
stood upon the platform. It was too lute; thrice
the blade of the Hebrew had passed through that
innocent breast; thrice it was reddened with that
virgin blood. Leila fell in the aims of her
[ lover; her dim eyes rested upon his countenance
is ii shofie upoVi her ben'eftth his lifted visor; A
faint and lender smile played upon her lips ; Leila
w as no more.
One hasty glance A lift a men cast upon hi* vic
tim; and ih'en, with A wild laugh that woke every
echo in the dieary aisles, he Iciped from th'eplicA
'> brandishing his bloody weapon above his head',
he dashed through the coward crowd ; and, ere
even the startled Uominician had found a voice,
ihe (ramp of his headlong steed rang upon the
air; an irtklAVil; and all was silent.
Hut over that murdered girl leaned the Moor,
ns yet incredulous of hei death; her head, slill
unshorn of its purple Hesses, pillowed on his
lap, her icy'hand clasped in his, and her blood
weltering fast over his armor. None disturbed
him ; for, habited as the knights of Christendom,
none suspected his faith; and all, even the Doml
nlcian, fell a thrill of sympathy at his distress.—
With the quickness of comprehension common
to those chines, they understood at once that it
was a lover who sustained that beautiful clay.—
How he came thither, with what object, what
hope, their thoughts were too much locked up in
pity to conjecture. There, voiceless and mo
tionless bent the Moor; until one ol the monks
approached and felt the pulse to ascertain if life
was utterly gone.
The Moor at first waved him haughtily away,
hut, when he divined the monk’s pm pose, suffered
him in silence to lake the beloved hand. He
fixed on him his dark and imploring eyes; and
when the father diopped the hand, and gently
shaking his hcAd, turned avAay A deep And ago
nising groan was all that the audience heard from
that heart which the last iron of late had entered.
Passionately he kissed the brow, tho cheeks, the
8 lips of the hushed and angel face, and rose from
the spot.
“What dost thou licrcl and tkhat knowest
thou of yon murderous enemy of God and man ’!”
asked the Uominician approaching.
Muza made no reply, as h« stalked slowly
through the chapel'. The aqdlehco was touched
to sudden tears; “Foihear!” said they, almost
with one accord, to the harsh inquisitor; “ho
hath no voice to answet thee.”
And (bus, amid the oppressive grief and sym
pathy of the Christian throng, the unknown Pay
nim teAched the door; mounted his steed, and,
as he turned once more, and casta hurried glance
upon the fatal pile, the bystanders saw the large
tears rolling down hissworthy checks.
Slowly that coal black charger wound down
the hillock, crossed tho quiet and lovely garden,
vanished amid the forest. And never was known
to Moor or Christian the future fate of the hero
of Grenada, Whether he reached in safety the
shores of his ancestral Africa, and carved out
new iomU! 108 and a new name •or whether death,
by disease or strife, terminated obscurely his glo
rious and brief career, mystery, deep and unpene
traled, even hy the fancies of the thousand hards
who have consecrated his deeds, wraps in ever
lasting shadow the destinies of Muza lien Ahil
Gazan, from that hour when Ihe setting sun
threw its parting ray over his stately form, and
his ebon barb disappearing amid the breathless
shadows of the forest,
r
The Reconciliation*
Well, I think it’s likely; but don’t tease
! me any more. Your brothel' has mArried a
poor girl, one whom I forbid him to wed, and
* I wont forgive him if they all starve togelh;
! «r.”
This speech was addressed to a lovely girl
,’ scarcely eighteen, beautiful as the lily that
, hides itself beneath the dark waters. She
, was parting the silvery locks on her father’s
’ nigh, handsome forehead, of which her own
, was a iilinature, and pleading the cause oflier
delinquent brother, who had married in op.
. position to her tattler’s will, and had conse
( qnenlly disinherited. Mr. VVhcatly was a
s rich old gentleman, a resident of Boston.
3 He was a fat, good natnred old fellow, some
; what given to mirth and wine, and sat In his
s arm cnair frotrl morning lilt mglii, Stroking
1 Ins pipe and reading the newspapers. Some
s tunes a story of his own exploits in our rev
• okitionaiy battles, filled up a passing hour.
He had two children, the disooedient son,
1 and the beaut ful girl before spoken of. The
' fond girl went on pleading:
J ‘Dear father, do forgive him; you don’t
j know what a beautiful girl lie has married,
and—”
s ‘I think it’s likely," said tnu o'd man— ‘but
0 don’t tease mo, and open the door a little,
u this plaguy room smokes so.’
1 * Well,’ continued Ellen, ‘won’t you just
’ i sec her now 1 she is so good -and the little
r- boy, he looks bo innocent.’
I ‘What did you any. l ' interrupted Hit; tamer,
j‘a hoy !—have 1 a grand child! Why, Ellen,
I never knew that, before—but I think it’s
likely. Well, now give me my chocolate,
and then goto your music lesson.’
Ellen left him. The old man’s heart begun
to relent.
‘Well,’ he went on, ‘Charles Was always
a good boy, a little wild or so at college, but 1
indulged,him—and lie was always good lo
his old lather fbr alb; but lie disobeyed mein
marrying this poor girl; yet, as my old friend
and I'e low soldier, Tom Bonner, used to say,
We must forgive. Poor Tom!—l would give
all n>y old slioea I have got, to know whatev
er became of him. If t could but find .hum
or one of his children ! Heaven grant they
are not suffering! This plaguy smoky room
—hd\V rhy eVes vyaterl Ift did but know
who this girl was, that my Charles has mar
ried'; hut I have never inquired her name. I
will find out, and—”
‘1 think it’s likely,' said the old man.
Ellen led into the room a beautiful buy
about two years old. His curly linir and ro
sy cheeks could not hot make one love him.
‘Who is that!' said the old man, wiping Ins
eyes.
* That, that is Charles’ boy,’ said Ellon,
throwing one of her arms around her fathers
neck, with tho other she placed the child on
his knee. The child looked tenderly no in
| his face, and lisped out.
‘Grand-pu, what makes you cry sol'
The old min clasped the child to Ins bos-
Imu and kissed him again and again. After
his emotion had a lituc subsided, he bade the
child to toll Ins name.
‘Thomas Bonner Whoatly,’said the boy, ‘1
am nnined alter my grandfather/
‘What do 1 heat!’ said the old man,‘Thom
as Bonner your grandfather'!'
Yes,’lisped the bov, ‘and he lives with me
at .”
•Get me my cane,’ said the old man, ‘and
come Ellen—be quick, child.’
Tney started off at a quick pace, which
soon brought thuin to the poor, though neat
lodgings of Ids son. There he beheld his old
friend, Thomas Bonner, sealed in one corner
weaving baskets, while Ins swathed 1 mbs
showed how unable lie was to perform Hie
necessary task. His lovely daughter, the wile
of Charles, was preparing their frugal me.il,
and Charles was out seeking employment to
support his needy family,
•It’s all tpy fault,’sobbed the old man, as
he embraced his friend, who was nearly pet
rified with amazement.
‘Come,’said Mr. Wheatly, ‘come all of you
home W;th me, we will all live together; there
is plenty of room in my house for us all."
By tins time Charles had come, lie asked
his lather’s forgiveness, wlnqli was freely lor
given, and Ellen was almost mad with joy.
'Ob, how happy we shall be!’ she eitdatm
te'd, ‘and lather will love onr little Thomas so,
’ and he will be your pet, wont he, father!’
‘Ay,’ said the old man, ‘I think it’s very
j Ikey.’
I A Dialog uk. —‘lsaac, have you paid (he
, printers !’ inquired an old Indy to her hits
■ band, who was delighting the family circle bj
reading to them a line looking newspaper—
(excuse our blushes, for the Editors are a
modest ns n aidons.)
‘No Rebecca; 1 have not;’ answered the
old man, adjusting Ins spectacles—‘But you
know it is only n trifle. Toe printers, I see
give a very polite dun, hnt they cannot mean
me, as 1 am one of their political friends and
at all even’s, my three dollars would he but a
trifling moiety lo them,’
4 Well, Isaac, if all their subscribers were
the same thing, the poor fellows would starve,
unless they could conjure their types into
corn, and their press into a flour mill. And
surely you. as their friend,' should he more
punctual in paying them, than if you wen
their political enemy; besides it would sho-v
your attachment for them and the good cause
which they advocate.
‘1 thought of settling ray subscription when
I was ill town last,’ said Isaac, wincing from
the lablc. ’hilt the money which 1 received
fn my produce was belter than used, and I
disliked to part with it.”
‘Wny, certainly, yod would not pay them in
bad money, Itsadc.'
‘No, my dear; but sometimes I am obliges
to take uncurrent paper, and I prefer paying
my debts in that, when I can get it off— O
tnese banks, these banks!—Any wav—that
sort would suit, the printers just as well, |is
they don’t keep it long. My neighbor Junks,
said he passe.i off some on them that nobody
else would take, and they did not refuse it.
‘Shame on yon, Isaac,’ exclaimed the good
old lady—‘Yon won d not. I hope, imitate the
example of that miserable fellow Jonhs—why
ho would cheat the P.iraun nut of half his sti- 1
pend, and pay the balance in trade.'
‘Yet he paid the printers, grandma, inter
rupUu " l.'Rle flaxen-headod mHe, who stood
bes de her grand fither’s knr es.
‘Well, well; I will call and pay them,’ said
the old gentleman, not a little nettled—‘for an
article I read in their paper the other day, was
worth twice the amount of the subscription.’
‘And yon know, grandpa, yon said that that
piece about the counterfeiters saved you twen
ty dollars, winch you would have taken from
the yankec pedlcr,' again interrupted the lit
tle gir!. i
‘Yes, it did so, Mary—and for that, when I
go to town, I’ll pay off my old score, and next
year in advance,into the bargain.’
Mr. Isaac kept Ills word, like an hon
est man. And whether because bis cons
cience smote him about the uficurrenl money,
or because lie was convinced o( the excel
lence of the arguments of his amiable spouse
and rosy cheeked grandchild, we cannot say :
he that as it may, we assure our readers our
pockets rang with the tangible prn/f of Isaac’s
probity and patronage and tcc paid our debts.
Now, wc feel assured, that il the good Radius
in the town and country, and ‘ throughout all
creation,” as the most veritable nondescript
Major Jack Downing, would say, only knew
how the heart and hand of the poor printer is
gladdened and warmed by the welcome salu
tation ot auch a man as 'saac, they would
read this paragraph to their husbands, and
say. in the language of the good old book—
“Go thou and do likewise ”
Georgia, Scriven County:
WHERE AS, Seaborn Lambert applies for I <>u
ter* of Aiiminisratinn on tbo L'-tlnio of Jos
eph Harrington, deceased, late of rhis county.
2’bese are therelore to cite and admon-sli all and
singular the heirs and creditors of said deceased, to
he and appearut my office within the lime preach
h d by law, to file the r./bjections it any they bavo
to shew cause why said letters should not be granted
• >ivcn under my hand, at office, in Jacksonbnru',
i this Bth day of March, IS3B.
JdSlltri PERKY, c c o 1 c.
mar 9 Idij
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Sfi'UDP.—ON TEETHING—
Mothers ts A urses. —The passage of i| le
leeih through the gums produces troublesorau and
dangerous symptoms, It is known by mothers that
ihur.. is grout irrilul on in the mouth and gum* du
ring this process. 'J ho gums swell, the secretion
ot Kitliva id the child id seized with iro~
guoin and sudden lits of crying, watchings, starting
ui-ho sleep, and spasms of particular parts: tho
child shrieks with eklrcinn violence and tlirusls iv
fingers in its mouth- If these precursory symptom i
are not speedily alleviated, spasmodic convj .
universally supers eno and soon cause the dissoi.-
nun 61 the infant If mothers who have llicirliul*
hshes afflicted with these distressing svinptoira
would apply Paris’s celebrated Soothing Syrup
w inch has preserved hundreds of infants when
thought past recovery, Irom being suddenly altaoK
ed with that fatal malady, 'convulsions.
Another Test of iheeflicacyof Dr Paris's Soo
thing A'yrun lUr Infant's Teething, from Mr Win
Johnson, jVew Yor(j,.
Hear Sir: The groat benefit afforded to rny suf
fering infant hv your Soothing Syrup, in a caoo of
protracted and painful Dentition, must convince er
ery feeling pan nt how essential loan early applica
tion ol such an invaluable medicine is to alleviate
mlanl misery and torture. My infant while teeth
ing experienced such acute sufferings, th-t it was
attacked with convulsions,and my wife and family
supposed that death would soon release the babe
Irom anguish, when wo procured a bottle ot yojir
■Syrup, which, as soon as applied to ihe gums, pro
duced a wonderful change, uud after a few applipo,
turns, l ho child displayed obvious n lief, and by con
tinuing in iis use lam glad in inform you ihe child
his completely recovered, and no recurrence of that
awl ill complaint has since occurred; ihe torll; n ru
commit mg daily, and the child enjoys perfect health.
I give you my chuerlnl permission to make this ac
knowledgement public, and will gladly give any ip.
lormation oil this i; rcuinetanco. WM. JOHNSO.V.
A rt'«! blousing to .flothors.
11. J. 1,. I* Alt Itlis'.V celebrated Southing fly.
rup,.forChildren culling their tenth. To mothers
and nurses.' This infallible remedy has preserved
hundreds of children, when thought pusi rccov
Iruiu convulsions. As soon ns ihu Syrup is ru
hod on the gums, /ho child Will recover. *
preparation is so innocent, so efficocioue, and so
pleasant, that no child will reltlso o lot its gums In
rubbed with tt. When infants are at the age pf
four months, though there is no appearance of
teeth, one bottle ol the Syrup should to used on
l ho gums, to open the pores. Parents should pe
vsr ho without the Syrup in itm nursery where
there are young children; lor if a child wakes, ju
the night with pains in the grime, tho Syrup im
mediately gives ease by opening the pores and heal
ing the gums; thereby preventing convulsions, fe
vers, Ac.
For sale by ANTONY" A. HAINES, Augusta
••a., the only authorized Ag.nls for Augusta where
may at all limes he found a large supply «f Drugs
M-'dieiiies, Paints, Oils Ac. Fob 13 ’
mr»A lettertiroiiV iVod. I*. UiTberf to
Duct. Evnns.
Dear Sir; had the immortal Cwwpcr known the
medical qualities of the Camomile I’lunt, ,ho as
well as thousands since (besides myself) wptild
have experienced its arm derlul effects on the ner
vous system. The public utility of (fovvper
was blighted m the hud, through tho natural effect
of his nor yens debility upon tho mental powers
w hich, made it necessary lur him to seek relief be
neath the iur«! shade, but ihe calm retreat gave his
physical nature no repose. If some one then had
known the secret of concentrating,the medical vt*-.
lues of the Cumomillc, the discoverer would hnyo
been immortalized with poetic zeal, ns the benefac
tor of suffering man. ,
The above tines wire prompted from the effect I
have experienced from Hr. Win. Evans’ Cnrrvmiiiu
I’tlla. Yours, Ac, isHEI,DEN P. GILBERT,
ant? •> Durham, Orem ro. N jj.
Another recent lost of the uurivQllod
virtues of Dr. UTn. Evans’
l>!/sprpgiu—Tenyyurt standing.—Me J Mc/fcnzio,
was afflicted with the above complaint for ton
years, which incapanialnd with him at intervals, for
six years, in attending to his business, restored to
ported health, under ths salutary treatment of Dr.
Wm. Evans.
'J ho principal symptom*; were, a sense of disten
sion am) oppressio after Bating, distressing pain in
the pit of the stomach, nausea, impaired appetite
giddiness, palpitation of tho heart, great debility
and emiiciiiiioii, depression of spirits, disturbed
test, sometimes a billions vomiting and pain in ihe
right side, an extreme degree of languor and faint
ness, any endeavor to pursue his business causing
immediate exauslion and weariness.
■Mr. McKenzie is daily intending his business,
and none ot llie above symptoms have recurred
since he need the above medicine He is now s
s rung ami hei Itliy man. Ho resorted to myriad*
ol remedies, but they were all ineffectual.
Folktale by 'ANTONY A HALVES.
march 8 Sole agent* for Augufla. Geo
Asthinn, three Yearn standing. ~t
Mr RUBER 1' MONROE, Schuylkill, afflicted
with'the above distressing malady. Symptoms'
I treat languor.flatulency, disturbed rest, nervous
head llcite, dillii 'tliv ol hremioug, tightness and
stricture across the hi east, dizziness, nervCus irritap
mlily aim restlessness, could not lie in a horizontal
position without the sensation ot impendingsolfo
caliun, palpiialioiji o) llm heart, distressing cough,
costi veness, pain in ihe stomach, drowsiness, gieat
debility and deficiency of the nervous energy. Mr.
Monroe gave up every thought of recovery, an’
die despair set on ihe countenance.«jf every perso*
interested in Ins existence or happiness, till by ac
cident tie noticed in a public paper some cures ■
fueled by Dr 11 m Evans Medicine in his comp’ ■
which induced him to purchase a package o
pills, which resulted in completely removinf; ■, l,
symptom ol his disease. He wishes to say . n;o r
lives liir this decluralion is, that (hose afflict- d will*
the same or any symptoms similar to 1 1 .4r front
which he is happily restored, may likowisereceivo
the same inestimable benefit.
For sale by ANTONY A HAINES,
IlniUd States Mail Line
Fine f, nr horse Coaches to Athens, Ge.rgta
(Fifty miles travel on tho Georgia Rail R dj
HIRAM N. VVILSON returns his .thanks to lh%
public for their liberal patronage since he ha4i
commenced running the above line, and would ih
lorm theai, that he lias purchased the Interest pi
Ins lam jiartncr in the line and will hcrealler mu li
on his own account. He has made every arrange
ment for tho public accommodation, and in addition
to Ins mail line has added an nccomm'.)dation lino—
travellers by both will no conveyed-50 miles on the
Georgia Rail Road Hiscuaches are all new, and
made ol Ihe nest materials ; Ins drivers careful, and
bursts gentle.
THE MAIL LINE
Will leave Augusta every day at half, past 8
1 o’clock vi i Rail Road, for Washington, Islington
Athens, Jefferson ami Gainesville.
THE ACCOMMODATION LINE
every other day at l+ie same hour, mid by the R
Road, via Crawfonlgville, and Greensboro
RETURNING*
The Mail lino will leave Athens cVefy othar
day, at half past 11 o’clock, am., and the Accom
modation line every other day, at the same
hour, and arrive at Augusta next afternoon by 8
o’clock, r. m. by the Georgia Rail Rond'
Passengers from Augusta to Spring Place,should •
Dave Augusta on Mondays and Fridays a.au
ing at .Spring Place, they will intersect a lit.e ol
four horse post coaches to Nashville, Tenn., which
runs three times a week.
JCrTho Office in Augusta is kept at the General
Stage Office, in one oftho Iront rooms ol the Eagle
and Phrentx Hotel.
IKrAll Parcels, Bundles, Ac. at the risk of the
owner.
DCrFaro to Washington 9-\ Athens $3, and to
ID,Slier points in proportion
Augusta, (*• March (i, 1838 wfira <1
\ CREEACLE to *n order of the Inferior
w court ot Burke <-Oiin; v, when ratting foror
dinsry purposes, will be sold on tho first Tuesday
in May next, at tho court house in tha town of
lYaynibhoid,. Burke counly, 537 acres of land; an I
an n Negro girl named Phabe. belonging to the ea-
Itßv. bf Llisha Vu** deceased.
inofsit a " |lld s’ hen KV LEM IS, Adwr