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wcelilg gift mic le & Senlmt jL. WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 14 ; 1839. y OIj m._ No 30 I THE CHRONICLE AND SKNTINE L I PUBLISHED, I DAILY, TRI-WEKKLY, AND \V EKLY, ■ At No. Broad-street. I terms: I Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. I Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or ■ Seven at the end of the year. ■ Weekly paper. Three Dollars in advance, or Four at ■ the end of the year. I CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. ■ AUGUSTA. ■ v ■ WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 13. ■ e=f, ... = ■ Knees.—Lafayette Course. I Third day—Three mile, heats.—Parse $OOO. B The following horses are entered for this day’s IS purse: B Col. McCargo's b. h. Billy Towns, 4 years old, ■ by imp. Filde, dam by Virginian. Rider’s diess ■ blue and blue. ■ Lovell and Hammond’s ch. e. Gerow, 4 years I old, by Henry, dam by Eclipse. Rider’s dress 1 blue and yellow. V After the main rare, a Sweepstake will he I run, for which the following horses are entered : f G. Edmonson’sb. m. Charlotte Barnes. .las. Harrison’s b. c. by Lusborough. Thos. G. Bacon’s b. in. Eliza Hunter. The Mormon War, Wa The paymaster in Missouri, engaged in making I out the pay rolls of the forces employed in sup ■ pressing the Mormon War, estimates the number .' I of men at not less than 12,000, and the pay and expenses of each man at 20 dollars—making f; 1 $240,000 for the privates alone, and the whole cx f I pense not less than half a million of dollars. B Latest from Maine. y The advicesfrom Augusta, the scat of the State I government, are to the 4th instant. The Presi- H dent’s Message and the Memorandum or rccom. Hf mendatnry agreement between the Secretary of K? State and the British Minister, had reached Au- K gusta. The only notice of their reception there, V ajid of the opinion entertained of them, are con i’ll tained in the following letter, under date of 4th ■ instant. H “Public opinion is much divided in relation to H the course proper for Maine now to pursue. Gov- H ernor Fairfield, I learn, is not at all satisfied with "S tliUproposcd arrangement. No official commu -9 mcation of this agreement has yet been made to jp* him, and he will not probably make any comma nicationto the Legislature until officially inform ja cdof it. No movement will at present be made .M by the authorities ofMaine to stop proceedings on iB this subject. A military force has been sent to S the disputed territory with the avowed intention pin of claiming and exercising jurisdiction over it, and that force will not be withdrawn by the con- F3B sent of Maine, until her right to that territory is pui recognised. To withdraw that force now, would wE| be a virtual abandonment of all we have contend- HH ed for—and unless the party now in power are re- Kll creant to the interest of the State, it will not be bJ| done. Much dissatisfaction is openly expressed B|| by many of the leading Van Buren men with the Bra President’s Message.” Bi Accounts from Houlton, the American head ra| quarters, are up to the morning of the 3d, when wit the vidette express left. Mr. McLaughlcn, the K|S. British Provincial Land Warden,has just arrived HR a* Houlton. and was in consultation with Gen. ■BHodsdon. It is believed the Provincials are dis- Hjg posed to retrace their steps. Three companies have left Houlton for the Aroostook and more ®y were speedily to follow. The British troops here in lofore at the mouth of that river, had retired to H| Grand Falls. KM? The general impression at the Aroostook was Mb that Sir John Harvey would not advance his troops 9 /into the disputed territory until advices had been re ■ ’ccived from Mr. Fox, the Minister at Washington. H The report of 500 troops having arrived at Fred s' crickton from Quebec, and a regiment from Cork, ■ ' is contradicted by Mr. English, who reached Ban ff , gor on the 2d, bearing a proposition from Sir John r.’ Harvey to Governor Fairfield—rumored to be for p. the running of a provisional linn, yi-i-i Letters from Augusta of the 4th say that an other message from Governor Fairfield to the Leg ,? Isidore was expected the next day. The Legislature on the 4th passed a resolution ,|y-appropriating $lO,OOO for the continuation of the »*K>ad from the Aroostook to the St. Johns—through the very heart of the disputed territory ; and it was i. ,to he sent to the Legislature of Massachusetts for . Concurrence. iy The following resolutions were offered in the SL penate of Massachusetts, on Tuesday, hut the Scn * joe refused to receive them. Bp- Resolved, Thai we have learned with surprise regret that the Executive of the U. States have ajtntcrcd into an arrangement with the British min aSstcr, which provides for the withdrawal of the far jHpes of Maine from the disputed territory, without Hk reciprocal provision for the exclusion of British ■ aSpiilitary force. j| Resolved, That we will co-operate with the Vsf state of Maine in earnest application to the Na- Hjlonal Executive, to put an end to that arrange ®pent as soon as possible, consistent with the pub af tic faith, and use all proper means by negotiation ■ or otherwise, immediately to settle the boundary On the basis of the treaty of 1783, or the provis ional jurisdiction on the basis of reciprocity. ’ . The rules and orders of the Senate prescribe, I f ‘ no bill or resolution shall be introduced ex tv ~i by the report of a committee ; and it was mostly as a matter of form, in obedience to the rate that this course was taken by the Senate in refusing to entertain the resolutions, when offered by an individual Senator. The Montreal Herald of the 28th ult. says, that it is more than probable that troops will be sent to New Brunswick from the Canadas, although for V Sir J.Colborne does not feel himself warranted in doing so. even though urgently re quested. gp From the Quebec Gazette, Frh. 25. learn that Capt. A. C. Buchanan, of the Quebec Volunteers, left yesterday for Fredcriek ' tom N. B. bearer of despatches to His Excellency Sir John Harvey. Pucautioxauv.—The United States sloop • of war Concord has been ordered to sea forthwith, by despatches received this morning, as we are in formed by an officer of the Navy. Her destina tion,is not stated, but it probably is to be on the Eastern station, to prevent any depredation from WAf 8 * 1u P°n the coast of Maine. —Hangar ———mm Gov. Fairfield states positively, in a letter to Mr. Van Huron, which is published in the Port land Advertiser, that the Maine army will not leave the disputed territory. According to a recent decision of the U. S. Su preme Court, Silk hose arc not liable to duty, be ing free under the net of 1833. A repentant Sub-treasurer has written a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, dated and mailed at Raleigh, N. C., enclosing $l4O, which the wri ter says was fraudulently detained by him from the treasury. Communicated. The spirit of improvement recently manifested by the City Council, seems to be quite popular with our citizens, and well deserves some extra commendation, as much has been done in remo ving sectional jealousy, and prejudice against ima ginary innovations. Amongst the citizens of our country wc find men from nearly every nation on this earth, and in all of them under every circum. stance in which they may be placed, we find a dis position to compare our country with their own. In the breast of every man there is a local attach ment to the soil on which he was born—the house in which he was reared, the cheerful hearth—the ■ old oak—the silver stream—oysomc other object is sure to fasten itself on the imagination for life.— This attachment is considered vulgar—let it be so, but the old tabby walls—the live oaks—and the beautiful cassina often present themselves to my mind, associated with the bouynnt and happy hours of youth. I have seen something of the world and its follies, and I am removed from that home on which memory loves to dwell; still, if cause were, I would without hesitation encounter a legion to ward off one desecrating foot. It is with such feelings wc look towards the improve ments proposed and in progress, as one of the most statesmenlike measures of the City Coun cil.—Some say “ what is the use of laying off the City Hall lot in walks?”—Would it not be a biting sarcasm to ask “ what is the use of the City Hall, when any old barn would answer the pur pose of accommodating the Courts and City Council”? Carry out this opposition to im provement and what do wc arrive at ?—A savage state.—l heard once of a man who refused to drink out of anything but a gourd, because as he said, “ God Almighty never made any tumblers” and “ hands were made before knives and forks, and therefore he chose to cut without artificial aids.”— This is brutal and impious, and I cannot but pity the mind whose conceptions are so limited ns not to be able to trace the influence of the Deity in the progress wc make in the arts. “Why should the burial ground bo enclosed with a permanent brick wall, when a pile of brick bats or rocks a /a Indian would protect the graves?’’ So said the querulist. But let him not be answered. “ Why,” again he would say, “do you plant trees for a parade ground ?” Let him seek the answer in the elementary principles of society. And “ why shouk the people be taxed to put a clock in our market-house?” I would answer why should a man tax himself voluntarily with a watch, of which his neighbor can have no share ? These are rough hewed notions, Mr. Editor, but I submit them to the public, trusting they may prove worthy material for the erection of the mechanism of the next city council. Biioad Axe. Major Downing. Wc believe the following concise Letter em braces the entire outline of the vexed question.— \\ e have every confidence in its correctness and disinterestedness, for we have heard the Major say that he has from boyhood understood the matter, and has ever since weighed it well. We congratulate the General Government, that if, by the folly of the British Govcrnmcnt,|a serious mat ter is made of the Boundary Question, the “ 2 d Brigade ” will be to a man on the side of right- Wc don’t know the exact number of the “2d Brigade,” but we feel sure it will stand “ 2d” to none for patriotism and noble daring. New- York Express. To the Editors of New-York Express —the same paper my old friend Dwight printed a spell ago. Washington, Feb. 25, 1839. Mr. Editors : I toll’d you ir. my last that I would say something in my next Letter about mat ters Down East. A short horse is soon curried and as this matter is in a nut shell, I’ll crack it for you after my fashion—and then, if you don’t understand it, you may look at the maps and read over Treaties, letters, and reports about it, and see if you can get any more light. This “ Disputed Territory” they talk about is a considerable of a streak of Land, kiver’d, the most on’t, with everlasting big trees, where our folks go a logging. Wc say it is our land, and England says it ain’t; the question is, who is right? We say we claim by a treaty made in 1783, and England says that she agrees to the same treaty. Now, that treaty marks the line as clear as a whistle; it says north to the "high lands ” that divide the waters running one way and the waters running another way, and then aw'ay west and south-west back to another pint. We then go north to that pint where the waters run as the treaty says: that is, where the streams on one side run to the St. Lswrence river, and where they run down to the Bay of Fundy on tother side, and there we stop. But England says there ain’t no high lands there at any rate • that there is higher land further south where wc ought to atop; but at these higher lands there is no stream running into the St. Lawrence, for the streams all run south there. We say the treaty don t say "how high" the lands are,' but to the “highland* that divide the streams running north and south ; that ,s the pin, .. and t!lat | can tbe low land, for then the waters wouldn’t run nary way. And, besides this, there is another explanation in the same treaty that marks out the spot wc claim to as true as a line; and if anv ! man’s farm was marked oil’ by a deed like this— j any court in creation would give it to him. Now, the hull nub of the business is this : England finds that if we claim by the old treaty, we cut oft all her roads between New Brunswick to Canada, and in winter time, when the river fst. Lawrence is frozen up, there is no sending across lots from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Quebec, or any part of Canada. A few years hack, it was agreed to leave the matter to some old King, (a Dutchman, I believe.) to say where these high lands was. He considered a spell, and seeing, no doubt, what his brother King’s no. tion was, he fix'd on a line north where there warn’t no high lands at all, but jist far enuf north to allow this passage across, jist as though the trea y said, “the north pint shan’t be so far north as to cut oft' this passage way.” Now, here the matter rested ; all we ask is, to go by tne treaty: and now that our folks have got riled up about it, and know what the treaty is, they’ll make a spoon or spile a horn; and I don’t see any other way of settling on’t. If England sends troops there, it will be “ a disputed territory,” for I would jist about us soon think of going down in a wolf cave to coax out the wolves with bread and butter as attempt to drive out them long-arm’d-harJ-fistcd wood-c.hoppers from the forests where they know they have got law on their side. We found it pretty tuf work to rout out the Seminoles down South ; but that is cream and custards to routing out the Down Easters, if they git their dander up. They arc amazin civil folks if you don’t attempt to drive or scrougc ’em, and considerable liberal in a bargain, too, if you don’t try to pull eye teeth, for then it would be dog eat dog. Now, I don’t sec only one way of settling this matter, or, at any rate, quieting on’t for a spell; for there is no other way of settling on’t but by the treaty or something worse; but I go for quieting on’t. England, I suppose, don’t caro how long it remains a disputed territory, and 1 suppose*pur folks don’t nathcr, provided they ain't losers by it. Now, for the sake of keeping the peace, let all the timber that is cut on this disputed territory be. allow’d to go to England as free of duty on one side ns tother, no matter who cuts it; there is enuf on’t for all creation to cut till the Queen gets to be a grandmother, and by that lime folks will be chopping other matters; and as regards a passage across, we don’t care much about Ihik, for it is about as likely that as many folks will in lime go one way as tother, and so long as they don't trouble us, or likely to trouble us, we won’t complain. We like to see folks moving, especial ly in the way of trade; it keeps matters brisk and spry; and as for sogcring, except on 4th July, or some such day, in ten years from this time folks will be ashamed on’t. Now, my advice is to our folks to keep cool, and make no stirabout the matter till they git or ders from Washington. The Gineral Govern ment ain’t asleep about it; all are wide awake; Congress will put the matter as strait as a pine log, and England will see the advantage of doing right. But if these Governors on both sides, for the sake of a flourish, lead their folks into hot blood, they may find they have begun to carvs the meat before it is cook’d, and have a poor din ner on’t. This is an everlasting country in a real fight, when all take hold ; then we shall be sure to make clean work and to git what we fight for. But if any part on’t undertakes a fight afore the other part knows what the quarrel is about, it may make a muss and dirty work only. There is always too eends to a slick; we hrwve in this matter got hold of the clean cend, and let us keep it, and not in a hurry or untimely scuf fle change eends, and perhaps hold the nasty one; and that's all for the present. From your friend, J. DOWNING, Major Downingville Militia, 2d Brigade. Proposer Ship Canal across the Isth mus of Panama.— The following resolution, accompanied by a report and voluminous appen dix, interspersed with sundry maps and diagrams, was presented to the House of Representatives from the Committee on Roads and Canals, by Mr. Mercer, on Saturday the 2d inst. The res olution was adopted by the House, and the report, &c. ordered to be printed. Resolved, That the President of the U. States be requested to consider the expediency of open ing or continuing negotiations, with the govern ments of other nations and particularly with those the territorial jurisdiction of which comprehends the Isthmus that connects North and South America; and to which the United States have accredited ministers or agents; for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of opening a com munication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by the construction of a Ship Canal across the Isthmus; and of securing forever, by suitable treaty stipulations, the free and equal right of navigating such Canal to all nations, on the payment of reasonable tolls. On the sth ult. notice was given to the gam biers, through the Vicksburg Whig, to leave that place forthwith. In twelve hours none were to be found in the city. The Aroostook. The Portland (Maine) Courier says in cxpla" nation of the present seat of border difficulties : The names Restuuk, Aroostook, Aroostic and Arostoogh mean the same thing and are different modifications of the Indian term for the river which rises in the county of Penobscot a little north of Mount Katardin in about 45 deg. of la titude. It runs nearly an east course across the counties of Penobscot and Washington, through one of the most beautiful valleys in the United States, receiving numerous tributary streams ; and discharges itself in the St. Johns a few miles above the mouth of the Tobique river. Its mouth is four or five miles cast of the boundary claimed by Maine. The principal tributaries are the Limestone, little Madawaska, great and little Ma chias, and the St. Croix Townships have been sur veyed and laid out 24 miles above or north of the Aroostook, by authority of Massachusetts and Maine on our eastern line. Counterfeit Notes. The Georgian of last Saturday contains the fol lowing notice: The public arc cautioned against receiving counterfeit notes of the denomination of five dol lars, purporting to be of the Dunk of the State of Georgia, payable at Savannah. They have the likeness of Franklin on the left, and a vignette on the right, very imperfectly engraved. The plate is letter 8., dated 2d July, 185-. The signature of A. Porter, Cashier, W. B. Bulloch, President, j and J. Balfour the payee, are all engraved. The | paper coarse, thick and oily, and the notes are nearly a quarter of an inch narrower, and shorter than the genuine note, j The entire engraving is so badly executed that j it can be easily detected. I A. PORTER, Cashier. Gov. Fairfield of Maine, has granted a full pardon to Loper and Staples, convicted of log stealing and sent to State Prison. Hank Extraordinary. Case ok T. W. Dvott, Hunker. —The Phila delphia U. S. Gazette sayc—This intciesti.i . ease is drawing to a close. The Court, composed of Judges King, Randall, and Jones, have been 1 laboriously engaged in the examination oflhe evi dence from Wednesday, the 20th of February, to the Ist of March inclusive. The cause stands over until Tuesday afternoon, at four o’clock, to i finish the evidence, and the court will sit on Wed nesday, at four o’clock to hear the discussion of counsel. We do not feel authorised to present a vjew of the testimony, nor an opinion of the merits, having full confidence in the tribunal se i lected by law to decide it, and being prepared to f yield respect to their judgment. The most re- j markable features of the Bank operations are, ; that it commenced with a specie capital of 268 I ! dollars ; its total issues of notes, post and due, I i were about $450,000; total savings deposits,! $172,000, and its existence extended from May, j 1836, to November, 1837. The present balance due to savings depositors is $72,000 ; to current depositors, $6,000 ; and about half the issues are outstanding. Metalic basis, $268. Circulation, $450,000 ! This is a “ most remarkable feature” in Dr. Dy ott’s Banking system, indeed ! But the past ea , reer of this Banker, is not exactly such as should have fitted him for the business of Banking, ex cept upon the “ patent” system—nor have attract i cd public confidence, in any especial dog ec, to his “ Manual Labor Bank,” of which the above is its “ most remarkable feature.” Michigan.—The Governor of this state and Sir George Arthur, of Upper Canada, are corres ' ponding with each other relative to the difficulties on the borders of the two countries.— Sir George complains, that certain of her majesty's subjects, while travelling in the United States on private 1 business, have been arrested, and compelled to sub -1 mitto judicial proceedings of a most vexations 1 and irritating character, founded upon political enmity to the individuals aggrieved. The De- I troit Post says this is an ingenious subterfuge, and a libel upon our country; and that, had he a cor -1 rect idea of the American character, he would not have resorted to such weak attempts at hutnlmg- I gory, in order to justify his conduct. How the matter will end, is yet involved in doubt. The ’ Post regrets that the bill for the abolishment of imprisonment for debt, is not making greater pro > gross in the legislature. —Cincinnati News. Important Decision kor publishers ok | Newspapers. —Judge Thompson, of Indiana, ' at a late sitting of the Circuit Court, at which \ he presided, gave the following decision, in a t case where a subscriber to a newspaper refused to take the paper out of the post office without com plying with the terms of the publisher: “ That if a subscriber to a periodical failed to notify the editor to discontinue the paper at the end of the term subscribed for, or pay up the ar rearages, he was hound for another year.” This settles a very important principle. Snake Story. —The New Orleans Daily 1 Times has the following account, which, if true ’ is indeed horrible. It, however, smells anakeish. Horrible. —A friend of ours, passenger on the Astoria, which arrived on Sunday, informed us that Mr. Wilson Hubbard’s family, consisting of himself, wife, and six children, fell victims to poison in Le Grange, Tennessee, on the 25th January. , Upon minute investigation and enquiry, among, and of the servants as to what could have been the cause of their sudden deaths, the physicians ’ learned that a b irrcl of cider which had been in 1 the cellar for two or three months, was on that morning tapped, and of which the family drank freely; also, that it was the only drink of which they had generally partaken. It was now beyond > a doubt that poison of some kind existed in the cider, and accordingly it was brought up from the , cellar for investigation.—The head of the barrel was broken in, and its contents spilled upon the ground, when a snake, about two feet long, par . tially decayed, vvas-diseovered, with a collection i of 'green glutinous matter woven over it. The next enquiry was as to the manner in which the reptile came there, when all the servants who should know any thing about it, declared that the bung hole had not been stopped up for more than six weeks, agreeable to Mr. Hubbard’s order, that the cider might clarify, and that the cellar window bed also been left open. Notwithstanding this, suspicion has fallen on a female slave, and she has been arrested, as having known the cider was poisonous. Her master gave her a glass, which she was not seen to drink, nor was she taken sick: but, she urges in proof of her innocence, that she accidently spilled the cider, and that she asked her master for more but he refused. As it is, there will not be proof enough to find her guilty, unless something further be developed. The New Orleans Picayune of the 26th ult. says ; “The steamer John Randolph, Capt. Mil lei, arrived yesterday from Nashville, brought 911 bales cotton, 939 hhds. 111 bales and 62 boxes tobacco, 298 empty casks, 24 bbls. and casks sundries, 694 turkeys, 35 dozen chickens, 38 horses, 5 dogs, &e. &c,—the largest cargo wc be lieve, ever brought by one boat,” A point of OanF.n.—There is a story told of a debating society down east, who undertook one night to discuss the question, whether slavery or temperance was most productive of evil in the United Slates'! A worthy deacon who happened to be present, contending against the former, pro posed to show its clfeets on its victims in the other world. ‘Stop! stop!’ cried the chairman, in an earnest air, ‘that’s out of the United Stales.’ Marcolini. A TALK OK VENICE. It was midnight; the great clock had struck, and was still echoing through every porch and gallery in the quarter of St. Mark, when a young citizen, wrapped in a cloak was hastening home from an interview with his mistress. His step was light, for his heart was so. Her parents had just consented to their marriage, and the very day was named. “Lovely Guilctla!” he cried. “And shall 1 then call thee mine at last! Who was ever so blest as thy Marcolini ?” But as he spoke, he stopped ; for something was glittering on the pavement before him. It was a scabbard ! of rich workmanship; and the discovery, what . was it but an earnest of good fortune! “Rest i thou there,” he cried, thrusting it into his belt. I “If another claims thee not, thou hast changed I masters,” and on he went humming the burden ‘ of a song which he and his Guillctta had been * singing together. But how little wc know what the next minute, will bring forth. He turned by the church of St. Geminianu, and in three steps mol the watch. A murder had l>eeii committed. The Senator Renaldi had been found dead at his door, the dagger left in his j heart ! and the unfortunate Marcolini was drag- ' ged away for examination. The place, the time, every thing served to excite, to justify suspicion ; ; , and no sooner had he entered the guard house | than evidence appeared against him. The bra vo •» his flight had thrown away his scabbard ; and smeared with blood, not yet dry, was now in j the belt of Marcolini. Its patrician ornaments struck every eye, and when the fatal dagger was 1 produced and compared with it, not a doubt of ( his guilt remained. Still there is in the innocent j 1,11 energy and composure—an energy w hen they : speak, and a composure when they are silent, to i which none can be altogether insensible; and the | Judge delayed for sometime to pronounce the sen- I tence, though he was a near relation of the dead, i At length however it came, and Marcolini lost j his life, and Guillctta her reason, j Aat many years afterwards the truth revealed 1 ttself, the real criminal in his last moments eon j fosse ! the crime; and hence the custom in Venice, ' a custom that long prevailed, for a crier to cry out ■ in the oourt before a sentence was passed, “Kc cord.fte vi del provere Marcolini!” “Remember poor Marcolini.” Great indeed was the lamentation throughout the city, and the judge dying, directed that hence forth and forever a mass should he sung every night in the ducal church, lor his own soul and for the soul of Marcolini, and for the souls of all who had suffered by an unjust judgement. Some land on the llrenla was left by him for that pur pose ; and still is the mass sung in the chapel; still, every night, the great square is illuminated, and the casinos are filling fast with the gay and the dissipated, a hell is rung as for service, and a ray of light is seen issuing from a small gothic win dow that looks towards the place of execution, the place where on a scaffold Marcolini breathed his last. The Splashing Shop Somewhere in the neighborhood of Piccadilly there used to be and most likely is still “a splashing shop,” the well known resort of cockney sportsmen. It was a large room, and in the middle of it stood a wooden horse, on which the said cockneys were wont “In go out a hunting.” On each side of this gallant hunter was a trough containing a quantity of dirt, with a wheel wherewith to bespatter the sports man, and give him the appearance of “a hard run” with the hounds. Here came the would-be fox hunter, who had probably never crossed a real live horse since he was bom, and demanded to be splashed. “Ves sir,” said the polite sportsman maker, touching his hat, “which hounds, sir?” Eh; oh, why I hunted with the Surrey yesterday, I think; then I hunt—yes—with the East Kent to-day, I think.” Upon this, the splasher called out to his apprentice “Tom, two buckets of East Kent. ’ “Coming sir!” says the boy ; and in ho conics with a couple of buckets containing a com position of dirt similarly to that usually found in the country hunted by the East Kent fox-hounds, and empties them into the troughs. “Now, sir,” says the splasher, “if you please, he good enough to mount. Tom, hold the horse while the gentleman gets up.” Up he gets, and finding himself quite at home in his saddle, cries out, “all right let him go.” “Hard run?” asks the splasher. “ Infernal,” says the sportsman.— “Go it, Tom, with the wheels,” says the splasher, “ lay it on thick; well! I never kiiow’d such n gentleman to ride as this here in all my born days. I oni Smith’s a fool to him. What a pity ’tis he can’t cut the counter fora month, and go to Mel ton.” Round go the wheels, splash goes the mud, and boots, breeches, coat, and all are covered with East Kent. “Hold hard,” says the splasher, “capital run; won’t your honor please to dis mount ? ” Down comes the cockney, after a hard run with the East Kent fox hounds of exactly one minute and a half, as fine aspecimen of hard going as you’d wish to sec. Out he sallies, sneaks down two or three backstreets, and emer ges into Picadilly somewhere near Anderson's livery stables, lounges up and down, whip in hand; meets a friend, boasts of his prowess in the field, and points to his boots byway of proof concluding with “ monstrous fine run to-day with the East Kent, ’pon my honoi.” Eloquence.—The following is a sketch of a lawyer somewhere in the West; “ Gentlemen of the Jury :—While Donapartc are a marching his army from Paris to Elba, in undating the whole country in blood, I stand here the humble advocate of this notorious hog thief. The goats may soar to the summits of those mountains, and the sheep may feed on the hills below, and the cattle may crop the grass of the meadows, but my client arc no more guilty of stealing a hog, than a toad has got a tail.” We copy the annexed curious statement from the London Times of February 4. How much truth there is in it, of fact or inference, it is not for us to say.— N. Y. Commercial Advertiser . Two excellent pilots, one for the Bay of Fun dy, the other for the river St. Lawrence, liad served so faithfully, with the highest character and re commendation, on hoard our ships during the war, that a pension of 30/. a year was bestowed upon each of them* An order, however, was received by the Commissioner of Bermuda (it is believed Sir 1 tiornas Usher) to discontinue these pensions. That gallant officer naturally thought it was a mis take, as did the. naval commander-in-chief, and did not comply with the order, but wrote to the Ad mirably, explaining to their lordships, and requi ring farther orders. The answer was peremptory, and the pilots were told that their pensions were discontinued. 1 hey both retired in disgust, ma king the observation, that they should immediate ly go to the United States, and would never put their foot on board an English ship again, but they would pilot the \ ankces if necessary ; and they gave this warning—that if we ever had any thing to do in the St. Lawrence, the Canadian pilots would most likely run our ships on shore. Mark the result. The Malabar, 74, has been on shore, and has been floated to England, with her bottom nearly knocked in. and with loss of guns, anchors, &c., and she will cost thousands to this country. The Cornwallas 74, and Inconstant frigate, are both reported to have been also on shore in the river SSt. Lawrence. Consignees per South Carolina Hail Hoad Hamburg, March 12,1339. If. C. Bryson St Co.,(iould, Du lit ley & Co. D’An tignac St Hill, K. D. Cooke, W. E. & J. U.jJckson C. Hoffman, J. W. Houghton, A. D. Mallory, T. M Simmons, A..H. Massangale, W. C. Norwood, Baird ' & Howland, Aldrich tk Shove, Cress i. Turpin (, I 11. Noblest Co., T. H. Plant, J. \V. k S. Stoy T. J.’ I Parmclee, T. Richards, C. Marable, J. M. & \v. Adams, Heaves Sf Holcombe, A. Gumming, Hun gerford, Frisby St Co., A. Sibley, P. J.jAfullins Stovall, Simmons St Co., Reese St Beall, S. Knee-’ land St Son, J. E. McDonald, Geo. I’arrott, Ander son 8t Adams. H. L. .Differs, and .1. F. Benson. COMMERCIAL. . , _ . Nr.w York, March G. j Cotton — The inactivity noticed in our preced es publication, has since continued, the subsequent 1 transactions having extended only to about 1000 ! bales, equally for home use and exportation. In prices also there has been no material variation. The sales include 250 bales Up'and, at 13} a 16: 200 do. Mobile. 1411 a 16,}; 300 do. New Orleans, 15 a 17; and 200 do. Florida, 14 a 15 cents. The arrivals have been, from New Orleans, S6B ■* Mobile, 3P91 Florida, 1273 Georgia, 3199 South Carolina, 275 North Carolina, 216 Baltimore, 73 Total, 8,994 bales. Total import, since Ist inst. 8,994 bales. Kxport, from Ist to 28th Feb. 14,(341 bales. Kxporl from the United States, t since Ist Oct. last, 333.336 Same time last year, 604,666 Same time year before, 534,311 Baltimore, March 9, Hou'ard-atreet Flour. —The generally prevailing store price during the week has been $7,62}; al > though occasionally a parcel has been sold at $7,50. To-day holders very generally continue to ask $7,62 }, but we are not advised oftransaefionstoany extent. The Kail road price ranges from $7,25 to $7,37}. 'Flic receipts by wagons are very light. City Mills Flour — ln the first two or three days of the week 4000 bbls were sold, chiefly for fo reign export Os this amount. 2000 bbls. were on terms not transpired; other parcels at $7,75, full; and a parcel of extra quality at $8,37}. At the close of the week we find very little doing. The stock of City Mills Flour is now very small. Hye Flour —Wagon price of Ist $5,62; sales from stores at $5,75 a $5,87. The inspections of the week, ending on Thurs day evening last, comprise the following kinds and quantities. bbls. half bbls. Itoward-street, 8931 00 City Mills, 1534 1114 Susquehanna, 00 00 Total, 10458 1414 MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, March 11. Arrival yesterday. —Brig Excel, Sherwood, New York ; schr. Francis, Sears, Boston ; schr. Welling ton, lluggeus, Baltimore; schr. Anti, Walton, New Orleans; schr. Avon, Widgeon, New Orleans ;• steamboat Thorn, lloath, Augusta. Sailed. —Brig Augusta, Nichols, New York. I Vent to sen. — Hr. ship John Francis, Cutter, Liverpool; ship Sterling, Saunders, Liverpool; ship Vesper, Hunt, Hamburg ; brig Opelousas, Delano, Baltimore; schr. Hitty Tom, Uodgers, Boston. Charleston, March 12. Arrived yesterday. —Brig Florence, Ryder. Trini dad, via Cienftiegos, (Cuba;) schr. (Hide, Marsh, New Orleans ; steam packet C. Vanderbilt, Lawton, Wilmington. Cleared.— Br. ship Napoleon, Montgomery, Liv erpool ; brig Tenedos, Ellis, London. Went to sen yesterday. — Line ship Niagara, Besh cr, New York ; line brig Arabian, Welch, New Or leans ; schr. Black Hawk, Doans, New Orleans; schr. Juno, Doane, New Orleans. GEORGIA LIME WORKS. THE subscribers respectfully inform the public that they have commenced the manufactory of LIME near Jacksonhorough, in Scriven county,Ga.. ; They have extensive quarries of Limestone, which is considered by professor J. B. Lotting, State Geol ogist, to whom the proprietors are indebted for the , information which induced them to embark in the i undertaking, to be of the very purest kind. They , have consequently erected large and substantial Kilns in the most approved manner, and procured men from the North who are perfectly acquainted with the business. A portion of the Lime is nowin mamriand lias been pronounced by' the principal builders in the neighborhood of Augusta, and others, to be of excellent quality. The subscribers take pleasure iu inviting those who take an interest in the developemcnt of the internal resources of Geor gia, to examine it, being convinced that the whole United States cannot produce amorc beautiful arti cle. They have now a quantity on hand, which thev will deliver at the mouth of Brier Creek on tne Sa vannah river, or at Augusta. Having extensive preparations in progress, they expect to be able du ring the next winter and spring to supply orders to a very large amount ; and they have every reason to believe that they will entitle themselves to the favor, and patronage of the public by producing a cheaper and better article at home than can he found abroad. Orders will he received by D. Kirkpatrick & Co or by Thos. L. Smith at Augusta, or Jacksonboro’. CORNELIUS & SMITH May 7 2awd&wtf ~FIFTY DOLLAKS REWARD. ■■ Ranaway frino the subscriber, in jfejL the early part of September last, his £BSm Negro boy TOM, 17 or 18 years old ami about tive feet four or five inches high, he is well formed and remark ably likely, with a smooth black skin and busby bead of hair. He was purchased by me last spring iu Hamburg, S. C., of Thomas Norris, a trader, for whom lie was purchased by Mr. Hull, the trader of Mr. John Stone, of Norfolk, Virginia. I will give fifty dollars for the apprehension and delivery of said hoy at the jail in this city, or twenty-five dol lars for his confinement in any other jail so that I get him. JOHN CARTER, Augusta, Dcccmber3l, 1838. swtf dT The Greenville, Mountaineer, Macon Mes senger, and Raleigh Register, will publish the above weekly one month and charge this office. |>LANTATIOIV FOR SALE.—The sub'- . seribor offers for sale Ins splendid plantation, in Lee county,containing one thousand six hundred acres of land, all in a solid body. It ronsials of lots 56, 57, i 2, 88, 89, 103, 104, and one othei, number not now recollected, In the third District of Leo county. About 350 acres are in cultivation, and under excellent fencing, all fresh, none of it having been cleared moro than five or six years, and most of it within the lasltwo years. '1 he cleared loud is allot lhelirslqiiality,oakand hickory lurid, nnd in mumble ol producing from Vi to 1600 pounds ol cotton to tho acre. The un cleared land is all of the same quality, except two lo s which arc first rale pine land,anil almost equal to the oak and hickory for the production of cotton., flu the plantation is a first rule gin house and gin, the running gear hunt last year; also a comfortable dwelling and all other necessary outbuilding* for u planter who works 23 or 3(1 hands. On the land are several tine springs of excellent, pure water and the well water used in the plantation is equal to al most any in the up-country, for freshness, and purity. 'The place is also very healthy, ns there was not a single case of sii kuess among mv ne groes last year, requiring the attendance of a nhv. cion. * ■ The land lies on thceastern branch ol Chicka saw liutclne creek, 18 miles Iron; Albany, in Baker county the head of steamboat navigation on Flint river, which will enable the purchaser to get his crop easily to markci Tho terms will be made to suit the purchaser. Enquire of the subscriber, at Athens, or of tha editor ol the Chronicle*; Sentinel June 7 trw&wtf CHARLES Q. MoKENLEY. OgtS, „ MOIIVS MULTICAVUS.—iOfim Cuttings, and 1,000 Trees, two years W/Ks old —fur sale by „ J MEIGS, mar 11 (nr,2ws