Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

— —— ■■ ’ . ' ' - '" *— -_. ;r ■'VjftMl -r-1 ■*» J» J" Jriry JT mo- ~ (< m | ,iJT— WILLIAM E. JOXES. AUtiJUSTA, GEO., SATURDAY ITlORftaNii, OCTOISEI& *» a s-»s „. - ... .^-—--.t—-a- , —: [Tri-wcckly,]-- V«B. lI—No. i I«>. Published DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, At No. Brand Street. Terms. —Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum in advance. Tri-weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance orseven at theoml of the year. Weekly paper,Dtreo dollars in advance, or lour at the end of the year. The Editors and Proprietors in this city have cdoplod the following regulations : 1. After the Ist day of July next no subscrip tions will be received, out of the city, unless paid in advance, or a city reference given, unless the name he forwarded by an agent of the paper. 2. After that date, we will publish a list of those who are one yeara or mote in arrears, in order to let them know how their accounts stand, and all those so published, Who do not pay up their bn rears by the Ist of Jan. 183'J, will bo stnkon off -the subscription list, and their names, residences, and the amount they owe, published until so led, the occout will bo published, paid-, which v\ ill an fcwor as a receipt. . ’3 No subscription will be allowed in remain unpaid aflcr the Ist day of January 1839, more than one year; hut the name will be stnken oft the list, and publ shod as above, together with the Jl T U Fr..mand after this date, whenever a subscri ber w ho is in arrears, shall bo returned by a post master as having removed or fetuses to take his •paper out of thn post office, Ins name shall he pub lished, together with his residence, the piobatdo place he has removed to, and the amount due; and when a subscriber himself orders Ins paper discon tinued, and requests his account to bo forwarded, the same shall be forthwith forwarded, an 1 unless paid up within a reasonable time (the facilities of she mails being taken into consideration, and the distance of his residence from this place) his name, andlhe amount duo, shall bo published as abovo. r ) Advertisements will bo inserted at Charleston prices, with this difference, that the ft st insertion Cill be 75 cents, instead of bo tents per square of ‘rAdvcrtTsements intended for the country,should , v I Ip > which will also secure their ,m i mm in the inside. of.he city paper, ’"T charged at the rate of Tacts per square and will be “ j or) ~o nts lor each sul.se lM[ u iifsertion It net marked ‘inside,’ they will lie placed in any port of the paper alter the first insertion, to suit the convenience of the publisher, aiid charged at me rate ol 75 cents for the first in sertion, and 433 cents for each subsequent mser t "7V AH Advertisements not limited, will he pub lished in every paper until forbid,! and charged ac cording to the above rates ~ 8. Legal Advertisements will be published as follows per square: Admr’j and Executors sale of Land or Negrocp, 00 days, , Do do Personal Property, 40 ds. Sto Notice to Debtors and Grs, weekly, 40 os. •> -Citation for Letters, , . r . no do do Dismisory, monthly G mo. ■> j o Four month Notice, monthly, 4 ino. Should any of the above exceed a square, they ■will ho charged in proportion. >). From and after the first day ol Jan. 183., no yearly contracts, except for specific adveitise inciits, will he entered into. 10. We will be responsible to other papers lor nil ■advertisements ordered through ours to he copied by them, ami if advertisements copied by ns from other papers will be charged to Iho office from which the request is made to copy, and will receive nay for the same, according to their rates, and bo responsible according to our own. Advertisements* sent to ns from a distance, with an order to bo copied by other papors, must ho accompanied with the cash to the amount it is desired they should bo published in each paper, or a responsible reference .n-i-v -r* <■? i gwmwrWJWßßfr AV-Wc ~ SBSSBBIBBS—■ CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. ’ A-UCrIISTA. Mosnirxy Morning, October 1. - -.-.■ * The election which takes place this day is one of deep importance to the people of Richmond county and to the city ol Aog-uUta in particular. 4 Before thorn, from which to choose, arc two tickets for members of Congress and thn Slate Lcgisla- Inrc, one of which supports and the other opposes the present administration of the General Gov ernment. Augusta is a commercial city, and every citizen not only ot the place hut of tue ■county, no matter what may bo the avocation which he pursues for a support, is directly or in directly, yet deeply interested in the prosperity of her mercantile interests. If that interest prospers, every other branch of industry prospers also—if it is depressed and injured the injury is felt by every ether business around it. Destroy the mercantile interests of Augusta, and what would the city hot What use would there bo for mechanics of any description] Gould they find employment] ]\o! Could they find the means of support] No! Our commerce is the very life -Mood of the entire community, and of each and every class of citi zens. The interests of each is interwoven and identified with the interests of every other. If the mercantile interests prosper, l ho farmer and the gardener find a ready sale and good prices for the productions of their labor—the mechanic of every description finds employment for his fo Vt.ill the carpenter, the mason, the painter, the glazier have houses to build and finish—the blacksmith, tiie shoemaker, the tailor, and in a word every description of tradesmen aie supplied with employment for their skill, industry ami art, and from which they can reap the means of support and independence. But reverse the pic ture destroy the mercantile interest —ruin our commerce, and what is the consequence ] The merchant becomes unable to purchase the pro duce of the farmer, or to give employment to the mechanic—business of every kind languishes and dies! and every class suffers from the very mature of its dependence upon and connection with the mercantile interest. How important it is then to every man in the community to sustain our commerce, and with it, those who pursue the business of commerce as a means of support, and .as away to comfort, independence and pros perity ! Wc said there were two tickets before the peo ple of Richmond county, one of which supports the present administration and the othei opposes it. Now, when it is remembered that this ad ministration has made war upon counneico and merchants, and endeavored to destroy the former by ruining and breaking down the latter, the people of Augusta should not he long in deciding which ticket to select to represent them in the councils of tiro Union and the Slate. In the last years of the administration of Gen. Jackson, an unceasing war upon the merchants was waged by him and his followers. Every t 1 ing that could be said, was sail, to embitter the minds ol the people against them, and ovciy measure which his ingenuity and his power could devise and execute, were put into operation to embar rass, cripple and destroy them. Have wo forgotten the removal of the dopnsitos ! Do wo not yet remember the odious specie circular! Nay, so 1 embittered was his hostility to the merchants, 1 that even after his retirement from the President- I tial chair, he wrote the most abusive letters against them, in one of which ho denounced them as money making concents, devoid of patriotism, looking alone to their own interests, regard . less oj alt others ! ’ In another ho declared that I "From the conduct of the Hanks and Meiu chants they deserve no favors from the Govern , merit, which tiiky have attempted to dis | tin ace and destroy its credit both at home and abroad!" Have the merchants forgotten these letters,.! ; And do they not see that they have operated like . commands upon Van liuren and that ho is now striving to cany out their abominable rsqisitisns even at tbo sacrifice of the great mercantile inter' osls ol the country ! And how can the people of Augusta, who are so deeply interested in the com mercial prospciity ot the country support those who have on so many occasions shown them selves to lie their enemies ! How can any high minded merchant go to the polls and by his vote sustain and support the friends and adherents of those who have thus abused, denounced and villi fiedthem! It cannot be I Awako then and to the polls, merchants of Augusta I To day is the day, and now is the hour for you to vindicate your characters against the foul and false accusa lion of a wont of patriotism, ami to defend your interests against the attacks of those who hope to keep in power by abusing you and setting all other classes against you! Me chanics too, the slab at the mercantile interests of the country was alike deadly to your interests 1 You too have felt the disasters brought upon the country by the wickedness and ignorance of our rulers, and you have to-day an opportunity of inflicting through the ballot box, that punishment due to their political transgressions I Shall the opportunity go unavailed ! Would you rebuke them for their many wrongs! Then go to the pulls and vote for the talented, faithful and gal lant Dawson, who has opposed their schemes upon the floor of Congress, and his fellow can didates on the Stale Tights ticket! Go to the polls and sustain Miller, Jenkins, Crawford and Wnt. J. Rhodes, who have already represented you in the Legislature with so much ability, and won for themselves and liioir constituents so much credit and honor I You have trusted to them once and they have not disappointed your expectations liust to them again, and again you shall not be disappointed I They are the tried friends of your best rights—the ablest champions of the mercantile interests of Augusta! Vote for tin; ticket entire I Vote for U unbroken and undivided, and your vindication of your honor and your interests will be full and complete I The Mobile Commercial Chronicle of the 26th ult. says:—“Wo are enabled from authority to state, that the Committee at Blount Springs have adjourned without having done any thing in re gard to fixing a petiod for the resumption of spe cie payments by the Banks of this Stale. The letter bearing these advices is under dale of the 19th, and gives no particulars—stating that par ticulars will not be given until the return of the delegation.” Health of Motitle. —The Mobile Commer cial Chronicle of the 20th, says:—“Since our last, a kind Providence has blessed us with a most favorable change of weather, and we now have every right to indulge the hope of passing through the fall, without the visitation of epidemic.” Health of New Orleans. —On Saturday wc experienced a succession of heavy showers, and towards evening the wind blew violently from tbo north east in lilful gusts accompanied by heavy rain. The atmosphere has since undergone an I extraordinary change, the thermometer has falles nearly fifteen degrees: blankets on our beds and winter clothing on our bodies are in general re quest. The weather continues cool to a remark able degree, and though the sun shines highly, his beams dispense no more warmth than is necessary for comfort. The influence upon genera! health t,f this un expected change in the lompcra’uro cannot fail to be of the most beneficial character. The isolated cases of lover which have hitherto occurred, will now doubtless bo entirely arrested, and wc may confidently anticipate passing the remainder of the season in uninterrupted health. Wc have every indication of a cold and early winter. In fact, our entire summer has been fur mure mild and tolerable than the Istitudo we live in authori zed us to expect. While the inhabitants of tho north have been sweltering and panting in a mel ting atmosphere, those es the south have passed . the summer amid moderate heats and genial breezes. The consequence has been a continu ance of health rarely to be encountered in New Orleans. We presume that after the material change in the atmosphere which has taken place, all fears of the epidemic will be dissipated. Wc may confidently assure our northern friends that the conclusions to which we have arrived are jus tified by reason and experience, ami are corrobo rated by the opinions of our oldest and best in formed physicians.—A". 0. Bee, of the 25r/t. From the Natchez Courier , of the \‘ilh ult. The Cotton Crop. Wo learn from good authority, that tho pros pect is even worse than has been anticipated. Not only have all the forms fallen off, but a groat many of tbe young bolls and very many half grown bolls arc forced open by the drought, which don’t yield half the usual quantity of Cotton. Tho • northerly winds which have prevailed since the I Ist inst., with the unusually cold weather ol the 3d and :5d have had cllects on the plant similar to those produced by a frost. The loaves have all turned red, and many of them have fallen olf. Vegetation is entirely checked, and nothing short of a week’s rain can resuscitate the plant. Uis doubtful whether a rain now, would benefit the crop, for it is too late for the fruit of the second growth, even should the fall boa late otto. But at present there is every indication of a long, pro traded drought, and our planters must bo content with very short crops. It is the prevailing opin ion at present that they will be shorter (acre, lor Here,) than in any previous year, since tbe period ' of the rot. This information, wo obtain from sunc of our . most experienced planters in litis neighborhood, ' I liut would lie glad to learn that it is applicable I only to this country. We fear however, it is I slrieily true, in relation to all the upturn! cotton in this stale. The earlier information is obtained on this subject, the better for all concerned—hold ers of stocks in Europe, us well as growers in America. A continuance of the present drought, for a week longer, would mako the crops of Ibis county, ihc slijorlostover produced. Many of our planters would noit> be willing to compound for one third less than they raised last year, and there is every reason at present to apprehend a continu ance el the drought, for a fortnight or more. From the New York Express, %sth nil. Late from England. Last night, at half past ten o’clock, the Great Western arrived at Quarantine, having left Dris lol at five o’clock and ihirty minutes on the even ing of the Bih mat. She has H!) cabin passen gers. The passage has been a very rough one, continued squalls and gales prevailing. The grain trade has continued to occupy a considerable share of public attention, ns under cxisling citcumstanccs might be expected. Al though the weather has been lino generally speaking, the prices of wheat have not gone down any thing like what might have been expected, which circumstance strengthens the belief pre viously entertained, that the harvest will be defi cient. Those who are of the opposite opinion, believe that prices will come down, and that shortly. This, of course, is all matter of opini on at present. The duly on foreign wheat is now two shillings and eight poncu per quarter. Whether it will come down to one shilling per quarter is at present a matter entirely of specu lation. The speculations for low duties have , been very extensive. The unfavorable slate of the weather, remarks the British Journal of the Bth, which within the last two or three days has inlenuptcd tho pro gress of tho corn harvest, begins to create much anxiety amongst those farmers that have not yet secured their crops, who, cro they can bring their produce to market, will have to contend with an influx of foreign corn, which is now admitted at an import duly of only four pence per bushel. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has addressed the Duke of Monlbello, authorizing his excellency to demand his passports, ami return to France in the event of the voroit refusing to expel Prince Louis Napoleon from the Swiss territory. Os tho One Hundred and Forly-Thrcc Cabin Passengers in tho Great Western, flit) berths wore engaged before sbe arrived out. The Lon don Times says. —“Bo numerous were the appli cations, and of course the number disappointed, that premiums of 20 guineas have been offered, and would be given, for berths on the first refu sal of vacancies from parlies who by any accident might be prevented from going. In ono instance a party having engaged a double berth, was writ ten to in Devonshire, to request accommodation fora passenger, if the whole were not absolutely wanted. The Directors have filled up every yard of disposable space on the dock, as well us below, in order to make room for tho number sla ted. The American Minister in London has been confined several days by illness, —but was con valescent. Tho French blockade of Mexico attracts a great deal of attention in tho British Journals, and is very seriously complained of. Wo perceive, says the New York Courier and Enquirer, that tho Transatlantic Steam Company advertise that they have rqchartcrcd tho steamship Royal William and purchased the now steamship Liverpool for tho navigation to Ibis port. That the former will sail on the 20th of this month, and the latter on lbo2oth of October. Wo may therefore count on steam communication with Europe throughout the winter, of which there was before some doubt—indeed life navigation of (ho Atlantic by steam may now bo considered permanently established. Shipwreck. —The schooners Four Brothers ami James Madison, owned in this port, and bound to Galveston, were wrecked in the late gale off Velasco. We regret to learn that the, whole crow of the James Madison perished. Tho passen gers were saved—having landed before the gale, while the vessels were wailing off the bar for p’r lots. Cargoes and vessels said to boa total loss. We arc trot advised upon whom the loss falls. — Mobile Register. Important Discover v.— Tho following meth od employed by Captain Kennedy, commanding Her Britannic Majesty’s steamer H pit (ire, to pro | vent the incrustations or deposites of saline mat ter on the inside of the boilers of steam engines, lias been communicated by him in a letter to M, Gautier, of the French Consulate at Malta, Cap tain Kennedy recommends after having well cleaned the boilers and tubes, to coat those parts of their interior surface most cxpo-cd to the ac tion of the fire with a mixture composed in the proportion of 18 lbs of melted suet and 3 lbs. of powdered black load. He states that the advan. lagos of this application have boon so fully tested by experience, that the Lords of the Admiralty have resolved that all the government steamers shall for the future bo provided with a sufficient quantity of the above mentioned ingredients.— Army ami jXavy Cltroti. Mr. Charles Sertuys, the newly appointed Charge d’Affaires of His Majesty the King of Bel gium to the United States, presented, this morn ing, his letters credential to the Secretary of State. Globe of the Mth tlit. We regret io learn that Walter S. Franklin, Esq. Clerk of the House of Representatives, died of bilious fever at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Thursday last. — Ibid. General Review of the Market. Our business season is beginning to look up, our duties as reporters call (or a slight analysis: Humbug —Less on hand than formerly, anil transactions at present, slight—holders however, firm in hopes of a busy season. Dandyism —Market agitated, and demand in creasing. Since the great crisis, holders have changed hands, and the field is principally filled with new spectators. Whiskers —There has been a largo stock on hand all summer, few being willing to sell, and a groat many ashamed to buy. The approach of cool weather is looked upon as favoiabte to a large crop of the article. Tricks in Trade —Wo quote at former rales, there has been no perceptible change cither in quality or amount since our last repot t. .Mosquitos —Season nearly over—some opera tions of a lively nature but holders arc generally willing to dispose at. small advances. —Hills at sight are seldom ofToied. Mint —Stock on hand very slight ; there Inis been a strong demand during the warm monihs; small packages in gluts have been taken freely. J’ulrinlism —Soiii" in the market, since the elections many lots h.tvc gone oil'at a discount, and there is now very little in lin t hands. Dir mid Whistle —Tho operations in this commodity being confined to incoipoiatcd bodir... huye been very regular—holders arc occasionally ■■■ ■ ■ ■ 1,1 Mil. t- quite imitcdily, though wo quote at former pri s '°?' '!' ~<lvi" c a,, y ‘•'fonwvc dealings in i tins aruelc le.-t they are willing to hold mi.—.V, I u. J icdi. une. i Music on the Waters, Uaik ! while our ship is swinging Above Iho ocean raves, r 'Hie twilight gale is bringing , fcoft music o op the waves, Ab ! from what islo of pleasure Floats the harmonious sound ! To that entrancing measure, A fairy troop might bound ! Hush ! now it faints, it lingers— t Now with a peal sublime, Attack by the wind-god’s lingers, li drowns the billowy chime! The stars more brightly glisien, , The waves beneath the moon Fall down and seem to listen, , Enchanted, to the tunc. . Now mounting, now subsiding, , it swells, it sinks, it dies; , Now on the swill breeze gliding, Over die deep it Hies. So sweet and so endearing The strain, that ere ’tis done, 1 bought seems absorbed in hearing, All senses in the one. Sonff, in the new Farce of “.‘1 a rent Mistake, or, rather, an Error,” written ha John St. Hugh .Mills. Here’s to the land of the bra re and tiro free, _ Ever ready the rights of the just to defend ; Columbia, thou lair one, my prayer is for thee ; Guard to the weak—to the stranger a friend. Never, no, never shall tyranny’s heel 1 read on thy banner of stripes now unfurled ; I’o tbo eagle and stars shall ihy enemies kneel, ’I hou mistress ol truth and hope of the world. With Justice thy motto and Freedom Ihy right, Still peace is ihy wish, for no blood hound art thou; Yet terrific, when roused in the battle to fight, Quick in thy vengeance and deadly thy blow. Then fill high die cup—fill, fill to the brim, For a toast we will drink—’tis our duty ; Here’s to the fairest of lands wo live in— To the brave—to the free—and to beauty. Last days of a Pirate. In the Ciimhcan sea, and not far from the estuary of the river Han Juan, are situated » number of small keys, generally denominated the “Corn Islands.” They are inhabited by tt mixed race of English, Spanish, Indian, and negro; and which have, from the earliest settlement of the West India islands, boon the resort of buccaneers, pirates, traders, and fishermen, hying at a sufficient distance from the main land, to be exempted from the con tinued storms and rains lor which that const I is ncted—open to the trade winds, which by day meliorate the heats of a tropical climate, and by niglit waft from the ocean an ample supply of moisture for the production and preservation of uninterrupted and fadeless vegetation, they appear to him whoso eyes have long boon unregalcd by a view of the green and smiling land, as so many little spe cimens of paradise scattered on thoeca. Thrown by fortune on one of those secluded isles, and alter partaking largely of the cheer ful but unostentatious hospitality of (ho in habitants, I wandered Forth along the avenues of orange and lime trees, whose clustering flowers loaded the air with perfume, while the moonbeams glancing through the interstices of the foliage, wore brightly reflected from the pendant drops which hung like diamonds from tho leafy spray. I was now treading the ground oft trodden by the tierce freebooters of by-gone days; licrc they rested from their murderous toils; threw aside tlie blood-stained brand, and tot a time indulged the gentler passions of their natures. Often, perhaps have these woods echoed with the wild song of mirth, the bacchanalian revel or the softer whisperings of love—for even the remorseless pirate loves, and fiercely too. Reflections like these brought in their train the fancied forms of Lolonols, Hrasileno, Hat, Morgan, and other rovers of renown, whose deeds of desperate doing still l;vc in a thou sand traditionary talcs. Gut my reverie was interrupted by a sound of distant music softly and sweetly stealing along the winding alleys of shrubbery, and losing itself among the mur tnurings of the waves us they broke on the rocky shore. Curious to know from whom the strain proceeded, I followed it, and sud denly found myself in front of a small low hut built of reeds, and thatched with branches of the palm, a lamp filled with the oil of cocoa nuts, shed a faint and fitful light. In front of the hut reclining in a hammock which was suspended between two orange trees, 1 observ ed a man apparently listening to the song of a female who sat beside him, and seemed en deavouring to soothe him to slumber as she gently swung the hammock to and fro. His lace was pale, his sunken eyes were closed j and partially covered with a profusion of au burn hair, which full in ringlets over his brow, on which the burning sun had left its swarthy impress. As I approached he raised his head, and motioned his attendant to cease her song, while with a voice feeble, but somewhat stern, ho bade me wt Iconic; and the lovely songster, who was a beautiful creole girl, with tbo form of a sylph and the step of a fawn, brought me a scat which she proffered, and retired within the hut. Some trifling conversation ensued, during which his manner made an impression on tny mind which time has failed to erase 1 His person was small and lightly formed, and though now fechle 9 nnd emaciated, still betray ed the remains of elegance and activity, his > large blue eyes, sunken and lustreless, darted ■ from object to object with a restlessness that I denoted a heart hut ill at case, as the fierce energies of his nature seemed struggling witli 1 the languor of disease. Interested by his ap- I pearancc, I made some inquiries respecting 1 ins disorder. ! “The physicians,” replied lie, “think it a pulmonary affection, and for aught I know, it ’ may be so, but, the root, of the matter is here, 1 (laying his hand upon his heart,) far beyond the reach of medicine.” • Perhaps a change of climate—” “No, no!” interrupted he; “climates and ' countries arc alike to me; my glass is nearly . r uti. and it matters I.tile how or when I die— . so I but die.” Those words were spoken with a ccrlaii peevishness of manner which precluded far thcr conversation, and I took my leave, rosol ved, however, soon to repeat my visit, for s had become too deeply inleresled in his fiit< to rent«atisfind without obtaining a larthc: f knowledge ofhi'J character. Accordingly - renewed my visits from <luy to .lay, u„t.l thov ! bocame ‘requont, am] by mnuv |, lt | c IliimclcH ; • attentions, 1 at l«t woo upon'lns cm.tidence, ami ho appeared to take pleasure in my aocic. ty.aml oven expressed himself uneasy (lt mv al.scuco In the meantime h s health contiiw tied rapidly to decline, and |,u was cvidcnt.lv just on the verge of mortal existence. I had often in the course ot my conversations with inni endeavored to draw his ottontion (o tho consolations of religion; but the indirect allu sion to religion or immortality would cloud his brow with a frown which told mo they could minister no comfort, pence, or hope to hum At the close of an afternoon which we iiad passed together, as he lay gently swing, mg in his hammock, lie lixed his eyes on the aun, just then dipping beneath the western wave, and remarked;— “See what a glorious sight is there ! The lime has boon when I could look on such a bccncwith emotions of the most elevated pleas ure ; now my heart sickens at the sight, it re minds mo of my fast approaching doom. Yon sun haa run its course m brightness, and it solo m splendor ; my corner has been one of dark ness, and soon must set in gloom.” “But the sun will rise again,” I observed, cs,” he replied ; “and von mean to say I, too, shall arise; Ini! ha! ' Arise to what 1” ami ho laughed, not loud, hut such a laugh !_ ()h, its infernal gibber still rattles in mylars ! ’twas such a laugh ns the refinement of torture might extort from a wretch agonizing on the rack ; it was the wild expression of the hor rors of hull already seizing on the soul. “Do you not hclicvo it?” said I; “surely you are not on atheist 1” “No, no ! no more an athiost than yon gra zing hrulo, who believes or disbelieves neither cieeds nor doctrines. Would I were an athe ist !” “Nay, say not so ; sickness has disordered your mind. (Inn you not pray ?—Have you never prayed “Did I never pray '! Oh, yes, I remember— but ’tis like a dream—when kneeling on my mothers lap, she taught me to lift my infant orisons to heaven ; and she would pray with mo too, and for me; and in alter years, when thrown adrift on the wide world, when all who loved or was beloved by me were slumbering in their graves, even then the memory of those prayers would shed a sacred influence over my soul; 1 hoped, but ah ! how vainly hoped, that still a moliier’s prayer would draw heaven’s blessings on my head. Long years have fled since might like supplication to God or man has passed those lips. Jt is true I worshipped, hut it was at a most unholy shrine —the doily whom I adored asked blood, and blood 1 gave him. Yes, a whole hctacomb ot human lives this hand has immolated on the alter ol re venge.” “Oh, horrible !” I exclaimed ; “surely you rave —you mean not wliut you say.” “Nay, nay, ’tis sober truth. I3nt listen, 1 have not many hours to live; I will employ them in sketching for you a brief online of a wicked, hapless, hopeless life. For twenty years you are the only human being who has crossed my path (rum whom I Kivu received, i without a bribe, one cheerful word or kindly ■ look, save this poor girl, and she—but enough ■ of that—you will not betray rnc! Justice in deed claims much of this ensanguined hand of 1 nine, but death will help mo to cheat her of ■ her duo. 1 was born in Wales; at (ho ageot ■ fifteen years I lost parents, friends, and fortune. • Thrown upon my own resources, 1 came lo ■ the West fndios, and succeeded after a time 1 In obtaining a situation of overseer to Gonza les, the Governor of St. Ann. Ho was a proud and haughty Spaniard, whom / disliked, for I had not yet learned to hate, and f should soon have left his service hut fur a being whom he called his daughter; the fairest—but what matters it how fair she was! 1 loved her— loved her with all tlie pmo affections of my soul, and she loved mo. Well, live years pas sed awny. At length I gained her consent to leave this island and unite her destinies with mine, for the stern Spaniard would ns soon have bestowed his daughter on a slave as on mo. J obtained a boat and the assistance of a negro lo convey us to the main, when the , black villi-in betrayed us to his master, and : on the point of embarking, wo found ourselves surrounded by soldiers and slaves, who, by tbo i governor’s order, stripped me to the skin, yes, there, before the gaze of hundreds, and worse, before her fur whom only 1 cared lo live, I was stripped and flogged by a negro! Oh, how my heart was ctushed I My spirit was broken but not subdued. There, kneeling on the sand, the blood streaming from my lacerated shoulders, I swore never to rest satislied until I had washed out the foul disgrace in the heart’s blood of a hundred Spaniards. 1 have ' performed my call). Twenty long years have i passed away since that accursed hour, and . the vengeful flame that then kindled in my f soul lias ever burned with fierce intensity, . while each new victim served as fuel to the ■ radii" lire, and nought hut the chill damps of i death can quench its blaze. The governor 1 sent me to (Jhagrcs as a prisoner; to obtain . my liberty, or rather my release from a filthy dungeon, f entered into the military service of r the Spaniards. , “The revolution which had broken out iu Garaevas, had now become general along the , main; the patriots were every whore inarms, and 1 soon found means to join them, hut not i without first sheathing my i’tniic in the hearts ’ of my colonel and two sentinels. Here my i hatred lo the Spaniards soon rendered me conspicuous, and obtained for me the com i’ maud of a small party, with which I prosecu ted a guerrilla warfare in the interior; hut win 1 flually taken, manacled, and marched barefoot - and wounded across the isthmus to Panama, s with scarcely a rag to protect me from the J scorching sun; it was almost insupportable. J I complained of my head, and 'he- merciless o villains gave mo a paper cap; and lest the wind h should blow it from off my head, they fastened . it lo my seal]) with boiling pitch. But the g desire of revenge supported mo beneath all their lorturcs. 1 again escaped, and at length a found myself at the siege of Carthagomi, in I, iho command of a gun-hoat. Here 1 siguali . zed myself by many u deed of blood, and af d ter the capture of the place obtained a cap tain’s commission, and the command of a line bri". I was ordered to convey several of the d Spanish nobility with their properly lo the hi y and ol'Curacoa, and accordingly sot sail, hut - steered my course directly tor St. Ann. On the passage 1 called my crew together; iulor i) mod them we had onboard upwards of two r- millions ol dollars belonging lo the Span arda |. who were our natural enemies, mid inquired I it iln-v wore disposed lo Id so line a prize ,e slipilluu easily through tlu ir fmgera ! Tiny ■r caught gicedily at (lie glittering bail, and 1 w ith one voice exclaimed. ‘Set the JJpauiaus, ■M 1 ' tI La,H l, ' c,n 1 °" "ifi Joann island !* •“ving lima obtained their consent to un[act which equally implicated nil, I resolvctWti my hittire course, ami took my measures ac cordingly. That night, while ■the passengers were asleep in their berths, I despatched them successively with my own hand, and launched them through the cabin windows—they told milt a score towards the fulfilment of my oath. e arrived at Kt. Ann, and anchored off the island at night, I immediately landed with a hoais crew of chosen rullianH, and proceeded undiscovered to the house of Gonzales On the way wo met his son, a lad of some six- Icon years, whom I compelled to conduct mo to his father s beside, where 1 found him buried in the arms of sleep. There he lay, the oh. Ject of my soul’s most hitter hatred ! Did f strike him then ? did I send him slumberin'' into eternity No, no ! I aroused him—ho saw me stand smiling over him with my dag ger at his throat, ami lus craven soul hurst with terror from his glnringoycs. Oh! what a delicious moment was that to me ! llu. spoke mi word, but gagged and bound, 1 bad him speedily on board, whilst my crew sack ed and set fire to the town, the hateful scene of my early degradation. Vet there was one hitter pang to be endured—but ’twits only fur is moment, hire I 101 l the island, the daugh ter o( Gonzales came—she whom I loved so well; on her knees she besought mo. ‘.Sparc l oh ! spare my lather ! You loved mo once ‘Ay! but 1 love no longer—Rovcngo lias absorbed my soul, there is no room for love— away!’ 1 saw her no more. As hir the gov ernor, 1 had hint whipped until he implored me in mercy to plunge my dagger in bis hcnrf, no such moicy to him-— tho scourge was plied while ho had aught of sense orfccl ing led, and then wo gave him to the sharks. Why do you shrink us in horror?—Think you I was more than revenved 1 Jle was hut one of the doomed hundred. Well for this act J was outlawed by the government, nml commenced a cruise upon my own ac. count, A few remaining hours of my life would not suffice to tell a tithe of my udven tures, perils, and escapes. Three times i have been a prisoner; but stratagem or gold were ever potent to loosen bolts Or bars. Once I was tried for my life at N. O.—but the glit tering of the shining ore dimmed the eyesight of my judges, and they conlddiscovcr no spot of blood upon my bands. Five years I roved the terror of these seas; but now, what all the art and power of man have failed ttfdo, the never ceasing tumults of a guilty mind have done—cut short toy mad career. Lornr since 1 felt the baud of death upon roc, and like the wounded tiger that seeks somegloo mg den wherein to die, hither I came without associate or friend hut this little creole nurse —chance has made us acquainted. 1 have confided to you the outline of my history; it will serve us a talc to while away a tedioha hour, and make your hearer stare. And now, grant me one favor when I am dead, living I ask none; —bury tno in the sea full twenty fathoms deep, f have done. (Jive me some drink—my mouth is parched—my brain is in a whirl. 11a 1 that pang,, death is here, I feel it, about my head. Well, why should I live I and yet to die with such a load of guilt ' —hush—hush ! speak not to me. 1 know . what you would say—hut ’tie all in vain. What’s death to mo. I have hoarded him li thousand times —why do I shrink so now 1 A heavy mist comes gathering over my sight. ’ Who arc these 1 Off, off! why do you let : them come so close —With a deep desper ate effort, ho raised Jiirnsc lt upon his roach, seized with a convulsive grasp my hand; ga. zed on mo for a moment with a terrified and ghastly glare, and then fell back exhausted on Ins pillow. Jiis distorted features gradu ally relaxed; the wild expression of lus eye slowly assumed a placid look, and something like a smile played about his lips—the pirate was no more. Fatai. Catastrophe.— Yesterday aficr noon, one of the most heart,rending scones occurred in our town, (hat has ever fallen to our 10l to record. While several children were engaged in playful pursuits, a dispute arose between two colored boys, about 7 or 8 years old, named Wesley and* Sam, when the l affer boy told Wesley lie could whip him for a hundred dollars, Wesley said ho could not, and ran into Mr. Calhoun’s office, (his master) and caught o pistol, which Mr. C. had lei- lay ing carelessly about, loaded wit/i Luck shot, and come to the door and fold Sam he would shoot him, when Robert J’rncc, a child of Mr. James MeDuguld, about three years old, said “Don’t shoot Sam, shoot fiill” Wesley replii cd, he would not, hut ho would shoot him, and raised the pistol and shot him. Three balls entered the left breast of the child. The poor little sufferer survived bi t about twelve hours. How many inslancos of this nature have been recorded of children coming to an untimely death, by persons leaving fire arms about where they can lay hold of them. No law can he too severe, lor the punishment of thoso who would carelessly ns in this instance, leave dangerous weapons within their reach— I hey should bo held responsible for acts com mitted by their use. The boy has been examined before u Justice of the Fence, ami committed to jail, to await his trial at the next Circuit Court. —Eastern {Miss.) Clarion. coji.nintciAi,. NEW OKI,MANS COTTON MAR MET, SEPTEMDER 2(1 Tim lalo advices from Kuropo, logelher with lliu very favorable ureimnts from Now Vork, bavoeaiis ed a brisk denmnil in our market which lias taken off nearly every halo on sale—both old and new, at in most inslancos, on advance ofu full fe per lb. on last weeks rates. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT 7. There has been no decided change in the'com plexion of our (ol 100 market lor several weeks past. Tli« demand lias been moderate, and Ihe extent of business, though not equal to llu- current consiimp lion pretty nearly so, nod as holders have not press ed sales in quantity beyond (lie demand, pi .its have nmained steady al about ' d a Id p--r Ur, below the highest point of the market during the brisk demand about a month ng >, or us limy sell led jest idler that briskness subsided. The sales for tho wees ended 24ib nil. xxero 20,900 bales, and lust week they amounted to 21,101) bales. Oi the latter 4700 were ! I'plum! nl 51 aBd ; 8950 Orleans at 51 a Hd, with sumo parcels ol limey brands nt H J a 8 ,‘d ; LdliO A la. and Mobile al 5 a 01 ; and UJ Bca island-' at 10 a j 28d per lb. HAVRE COTTON MARKET, SEPT. sth. 1 Colhni. —The enquire fur cot lon lias been very hmiled siur-c I he beginning el I he inomli, I he sales 1 re.i. line- only 2 OK) bales, including 250 damaged I 'pined, mid o3D damaged Louisiana, being Ihe ear ‘ n„ „| the ship l-.hza (arum, Hill muster, from INcxv ' (life ms, xvl'u ii grounded and was dismasted oil mir eorl, having drilled up the Seine al low water, on Hie night ol (he 21ih u I