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' Uffp-y-iccliln Cljr onick&oentincl, WF™** E ' J ° NES ’ AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1839 __ ~ ~~ * Vol. Ill, — No. 33. THE chronicle and sentinel PUBLISHED, IJAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad-street. terms: Daily paper. Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. 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. K* CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. — AUGUSTA. .-WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 20. B,' The Reduction Convention. K It i« proper that we should remind the citizens of I Richmond county that on the first Monday in E' ? April, they will be called upon to elect four dele -1 ' gates to represent them in the Convention forre > tuning the number of the members of our Legis ■ We have thus far seen no movements on i thesubject, and in fact have scarcely heard it men" jKfi tfoned. A number of gentlemen have been f recommended in the newspapers as suitable can «.dates, but we believe none can have been au- M fhorilively announced. 'fi t We do not perceive that there is any necessity Ipjliaee of too grave a character, and in the second, ®lhweistoo little to be gained by either party in Bhaying a majority in the Convention, to create an He:angry and embittered contest. t'BPlhe law of the last Legislature calling the con- Bsrention, has so restricted its powers, and left so ■ little to its discretion which can be tortured by partizans into party advantages, that there is but K little left for party machinery to operate upon. B'.The House of Representatives, after giving to R| each county one member, will be organized upon lifthf basis of population upon the Federal principle' prHere then there is no possible chance for one par- BS-ty to gain any advantage over the other. The must be organized by throwing together two contiguous counties, without regard to pop |Villlation, to form Senatorial Districts. This is the S only ground upon which party power in the con |jP mention can be brought to operate to the advan £. tage or disadvantage of either party; and it is im , ttltostihlc in the very nature of things that the coun fßboccan be so thrown together as to injure or either party to any great extent. We do A«t therefore see why it should be made a party question, and unless it is forced upon us by ourad 'tv.!*et»aries, so far as we are concerned individually | we have no disposition to make it such. We think that discreet, intelligent and dignified men m— who do not engage too much in party con- L fests, should be selected by general consent, and ,*■ the'matter left to their judgment and patriotism. '\"srhey should be such however as arc known to ,v|(avor a thorough and effectual reduction. 'rafVcm the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser of the 15 th. fr Maine and New-Brnnswick. MESSAGE OF GOV. FAIRFIEED. “At length the expected message of Governor Bnirfield, has made its appearance—not inNew ffilTdrk, however, but in Augusta. All the know ledge we have of it is gathered from the letters in '• the Boston papers. The correspondent of the 1 Atlas, whom we believe to be a member of the Maine House of Assembly, gives an abstract of its contents as follows: p The message commences by informing the Le- V gislature that he has laid before them the late pro ceedings at Washington, on the subject of the i:,-. boundary difficulties, and asks for instructions §§ from them what course he shall now pursue. He M leaves the whole subject in their hands, and ex- M presses his willingness to carry out any measures M tney may see fit to adopt—but not to seem to IwYavoid responsibility, the Governor gives his views B Tn the subject. He commences by giving a brief ■ account oflhc late proceedings in this State, and > I the object in sending a force to the disputed ter _ | ritory, which he states to be solely to protect the E timber from depredation. After the first force had been sent on, the se | cond force was sent to protect them against the H threatened attack of Sir John Harvey. It' our E forces are now withdrawn, it is the opinion of K the Governor that the trespassers will return and H take off the timber already cut. He did not j think the proposition of Sir John Harvey to ■ erect a boom across the river, would save the tim [ ber. The Governor then goes into an argu | ment of considerable length, to show that the right I to jurisdiction is in Maine, and that no arrange jflg ment has been made by the General government to B relinquish it. He quotes from various documents, K to prove that there never was such an agreement K t 0 relinquish the jurisdiction over all that part B the territory that lies South of the river St. John’s, W- and under that understanding had exercised ju risdiction on various occasions which he men , tions. ' UnA er a full sense of the responsibility of the i..nation he occupies, the Governor gives itas his Ct '.lion, that the state ought not to withdraw her troop , from the territory they now occupy, unless the threat of Sir John Harvey shall be withdrawn, evi 1 he shall consent that a sufficient force shall If'. . kept on the territory to lake care of the tim ij her now' cut, and prevent farther depredations. iq e objects to the arrangement recommended at B Washington, that it would be making a retrograde § on the part of Maine—and that it re .l quires Maine to withdraw her troops, but does not U require the British troops to be withdrawn. That B the agreement is equivocal, inasmuch as it does -I #st define whether the posse of the sheriff is to I be considered an armed force or not. A note to the message informs the House that 9 the Governor has received a communication from I Sir John Harvey, accepting the terras of agreement I recommended at Washington, and that he will be happy toenterinto negociationsto carry the agree rs ment into effect. After the reading of the mes !■ eage, Mr. Whidden of Calais (Loco) introduced a 4M resolve, the purport of which was that our bound- I ary difficulties had assumed no new aspect, and ' f’j| that no change in the course heretofore adopted by Maine was expedient. On motion of Mr. Allen of Bangor, the mes 'a sa g 2 of the Governor and accompanying docu | menu were referred to the committee on the North i Eastern boundary, with orders to them to procure i ..... the printing of 5000 copies for the use of the Le gislature. In addition to the above we give the following extracts, which are somewhat interesting, and would be more so if we could be sure that their representations were entirely correct. Correspondence of the Atlas. Bangor, Monday March 11, 1839. Notwithstanding the lively interest and the strong feeling awakened by the news of Saturday inourcommunity,thcidea of a peaceable termina tion, at least of ompresent difficulties, manifestly pervades the public mind more generally to-day than I have known it before since their commence ment. Sober reflection satisfies all intelligent men that the British will not attempt to take pos session of that part of Mars Hill west of the boundary line, although they may take up a po sition in its neighborhood. The opinion upon which most minds appear to be settling down, is that all the military operations of our neighbors will be of a strictly defensive character, and that no British soldier wdl set foot over the border—at least before orders or news arrive from the home Government. Many sensible individuals, who have been re cently at Houlton, unite in the assertion that the provincials themselves fear and even expect an invasion from our troops. The most exaggerated reports are circulating widely through New liruns wick as to the numbers, the prowess, the disposi tion of our soldiers, the feeling of our citizens, and the resources of the state. The 3000 in arms are multiplied by imagination and rumor into 16,000 men, marching with the avowed purpose of over running and laying waste the province. The troops at Houlton are represented as deadly shots, and as bloody of purpose as they arc of aim.— Hence the terror and alarm which pervaded the inhabitants of Woodstock one day last week. The rumor spread that the Yankees were coming to attack and sack the place, and almost the entire population, soldiers and citizens, men and boys, turned out eti masse, and were under arms all night, to repel the dreaded onslaught. It is now decidedly the prevailing sentiment, that there will be no collision of the forces on the border—and that if war comes at all, it will come after the next effort of negotiation between the two countries, the result of the special embassy, shall prove to bo as fruitless as those which have pre ceded it. Sir John Caldwell, who was here yes terday, states that the 11th regiment and some other troops which had been reported as having arrived, have and will not come at present, as they have been countermanded at the request of Sir John Harvey. It is said to day, that the troops at Augusta will get no nearer the boundary during this campaign. Correspondence of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Augusta, Tuesday, March 12. The Oxford and Cumberland militia still remain in town and have been, this forenoon, manoeuver ing in front of the State House. General Scott is in town, and will I understand, continue here at present. He is acting the part of a pacificator emA it is to be hoped that his efforts will prove successful. Notwithstanding the belligerent aspect of affairs here, I am still of opinion that war will not re sult. But still I sec no probability that Maine will recede one iota from the position she has taken. Capt. Norris, of the British schooner Union- Jack, which arrived on the 14th at Ncw- York, from St. John, New Brunswick, whence she sailed on Saturday, the 9lh inst., reports that the British troops had not proceeded farther than Fredericton, at the last accounts received at St. John. The Chronicle of the Blh inst. men tions the arrival of the Crocodile from Halifax, but not of the transports with the remainder of the 69th regiment, whence it is inferred thatthey had not arrived. Touching the movements of the 10th regi ment, all the intelligence we have received is contained in the annexed paragraphs from the Quebec Gazette of the Bth instant. Yesterday, a detachment of one hundred men of the 11th regiment crossed over to Point Levi on their way to Madawaska. This afternoon, one company of the same regi ment, accompanied by a small detachment of royal artillery, also crossed over for the same place. The two companies of this fine regiment that were stationed at Chambly, are expected here this evening. Gen. Charles H. Nelson, who has been ap pointed by Gov. Gilmer, to a command in the State troops, on the Florida line, under Gen. Floyd, passed through Milledgeville a few days since on his way to the rendezvous in Camden county. Both these officers have waived rank and are now acting in subordinate capacities. Gen. F. as Colonel, and Gcn.N. as Major. They are both eminently qualified for the service in which they are engaged. The New York Courier and Enquirer of the 14th states that it is current in New York, that there is more truth than was at first supposed in the rumor of Mr. Woodbury’s appointment to the special mission to England. It is said that Cambreleng will succeed him in the Department, and that Eli Moore is to receive a berth in some subordinate office at Washington. It is not im possible, if the objections to Mr. Calhoun’s ap pointment should be insurmountable, that such will be the arrangement. The nine thousand dollars outfit, and nine thousand dollars salary will be quite an object for a mercenary like Wood, bury—there will be “so little to do, and so much to get for it.” Then again, the opportunity of getting rid of him would not bo willingly lost by Mr. Van Buren. The appointment of Cambre leng and Moore to office, insulting as it would be to the city and people of New York, would be but of a piece with the whole policy of the ad ministration, in elevating to distinguished office all those members of Congress, who have been most signally condemned by the people. A few wcekssince, Gholson of Mississippi was rewarded with the office of Judge; and Cambreleng doubt, less is as fit for the Treasury as.. Gholson is the Bench. Quite an Aumt. —The British troops in the Canadas, number about 18,000. A bill to prohibit betting on elections, passed the Illinoio House of Representatives on the 9th ult. It prohibits betting on elections under a pen a lty not exceeding 51,000, and imprisonment no t , exceeding thirty days. The receipts on the Hartford and New Haven Rail Road in the month of February amounted to $5,625; expenses $1,400. S team no at E xplos ion.— The Louisville Ban ner says—“ We have been furnished with the fol lowing extract from a letter written by a passen ger on board the steamboat Paris, and dated Cin cinnati, March 5, 1839”;—“At dawn this mom. ing we reached a wood yard, midway between this place and Louisville, where a steamboat (the Re porter) had previously attempted to land; but her connecting pipe burst, killing the steward, scald ing a boy, and J. E. Flagg, an aged gentleman who was a passenger on board. Their recovery is very doubtful. We have the Reporter in tow.” From the Milledgeville Recorder. Penitcntiarr. Messrs. Editors—From the insidious attacks made within a few months past, upon the admin istration of the Penitentiary, I deem it necessary that the public should be made acquainted with the laws and regulations by which the Institution is governed ; and as the public papers is the best ■medium through which this information can be communicated to the people, I request the Editors of the State generally to insert this together with .other communications which I may hereafter make. It would be well also, fortho members of the Leg islature to notice the remarks, for it is to he feared that many of them, are as ignorant of the laws regulating the Penitentiary, as they are negligent in enacting laws to improve its condition. Alter ations and improvements in the laws and build ings, have repeatedly been recommended by the Inspectors, who have the best opportunity of know ing the defects in the present police of the Insti tution, but their recommendation! have been, if not treated with contempt, passed over ns a dead letter. My design is first to make an exhibit of the ex penses of the Institution as regulated by law. Salary of the Principal Keeper, $3,000 Four Assistant Keepers, each, 1,000 4,000 One Book Keeper, 1,000 1,000 Physician, 500 Fourteen Guard, each, 300 4,200 $11,700 The guard in addition to their rations of') meat and meal, are allowed by law can- I dies, molasses, vinegar, &c. which [ ICB amounts to $l2 to each per annum, J Amount of pay for officers and guard $11,863 Hospital necessaries, such as molasses, sugar, coffee, rice, flannel for invalids, and blankets and bedding for the use of the hospital, costs about $l5O. In estimating the expense of the prisoners, I will set down the average number at 125, for the purpose of a data on which to make calculations, although at present there are 134. The meat for the prisoners, including salt, will average through the year about 74 cents per ration each day, ma king $9 374 —this multiplied by 365, will make the sum of $3,421 874- The guard receives the same rations of meat, fourteen of them at 74 cents per day ; makes in the year, $383 25. It requires about sixteen hundred bushels of corn to do the prisoners guard and horses, which may be estima ted at $1 00 per bushel, although last year we had to pay as high as one dollar and twenty-five cents, and for some one dollar and fifty cents—say for corn, $l6OO. It requires 4,000 pounds of soap, for which we pay 8 cents per pound, $320. Three candles have to be kept burning in the cell building every night, which amounts to about 550 pounds, cost about $llO. The clothing ready made, allowed by law at the lowest estimate, cost $l3 00 to each prisoner, which makes $l5OO 00 per annum. The shoes allowed to the prisoners, mending including, costs about $5OO. 'The additional mattrasses and blank ets, needed every year, will amount to $2OO. There are also buckets, bake-pans, knives and forks, tin plates and tin cups to be made and pur chased every year—say for them, $5O. There is allowed by law to each prisoner dis charged $2O, and allowing but one-fifth to go out every year, amounts to $5OO. The Institution has also to be at the expense of sending for all the prisoners to every part of the State, this expense will amount to $6OO. The fire wood used, may be estimated at $l5O. There are other expenses, such as lime to white wash the cells, locks, stationary, blank books, &c. that may be estimated at $5O. These sums all added together, make $21,403 124. These are all expenses required by law, aid such as arc indispcnsiblc, under the existing laws and regulations of the Penitentiary, and out of which not an article is madUfor sale, nor can be converted into money. The purchase of stock, by which I mean the raw materials and working tools purchased and made, for the last three years has upon an average been about $14,000 which added to the $21,403 12 4 makes $35,403 134. At the session of 1836, the Legislature raised the salary of the officers and guard which added for the last two years, between three and four thousand dollars to the expense of the Peniten tiary. To assist in paying the additional expense, at that session, an appropriation was made of $2,000 out of the State Treasury to pay the salary of the Principal Keeper for the year, 1837, but since that time have made no appropriation for that purpose, and since that time the Institution has all these expenses to pay. In order to come to a correct conclusion with regard to the means to meet these expenses, it is necessary to make some further calculations and statements. The Institution requires two wash-men, one hospital steward, four cooks, one baker, one to shell corn, one to sweep the cells—there are five females, and some who arc incapable of work from disease or old age, always more or less of the hands sick, and it requires some to work the garden, so that we cannot calculate on more than 105 working hands in the shops regularly, and always about one fourth of them are new hands, many who have not the use of tools, and very few that know any thing about mechanical woik when they come in. Since the first of January, 1838, about seventy have been brought to the Peniten tiary, and out of that number, seven or eight had some knowledge of mechanical work. The bands have to be learned and often spoil materials, and by the time they learn to do good work their time of service expires, and new hands succeed them, and they also have to be learned, these difficulties exist all the time. In fact there arc some so des titute of sense andgen us that they never can be learned to do any kind of mechanical work, and instead of a profit are an expense. In order to meet the expense before mentioned of $35,403 12 4 it will require each of these 105 hands good and bad to make upwards of $337 00 worth of manu factured articles in the year. Those who are ac quainted with work, and the kind of hands usu ally sent to the Penitentiary, can judge whether i with the present heavy expense the Institution can sustain itself. If the reader should condemn any ot the laws and regulations here exhibited, he should not attach any blame to the ollicersof the cnitentiary, for the oaths they take, require them to execute the laws, but as they wish them but as they hnd them. The object will be continued whenever opportunity permits. THOMAS W. ALEXANDER, P. K. From the Providence Journal. The Oregon Territory. It is a matter of no little surprise that public at" tention has not been more strongly attracted to" wards that vast and magnificent territory, stretch" ing from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from the 42d to the 4i»th parallel of north latitude, blessed with all the advantages of a salubrious climate and a fertile soil, watered by large navigable rivers, with unequalled facilities for the fur trade and fisheries, and far more than all,so situated as to command with great advan tages tho richest commerce of the world, that of the East Indies, —the Oregon territory will, at no far distant day, assume [an importance that has been little dreamed of. The commerce of the Pacific Islands, which are fast progressing in ci vilization, will be alone of inconceivable value, and from no other point can that commerce be carried on with such facilities as from the coast of the Oregon. In fact both from its internal resour ces and trom its favorable position in regard to other countries, the Oregon Territory is marked for a great and a prosperous country. Nothing is wanting but a population with the industry and enterprise which has characterized the hardy pi oneers of the Western States, and cities will spring up in a hundred places ; ships will ascend the magnificent Columbia River, and leave upon its banks the productions of every climate, receiv ing in return the rich furs, the fish, and the agri cultural productions of thatcountry. England, upon whose vast dominions the sun never sets, and over whose interests the spirit of ambition and territorial conquests watches with as sleepless an eye, has long since known and appre ciated the vast importance of the Oregon Territory. It is the point wanting to complete her commer cial ascendancy. With Gibraltar and Malta she can control the Mediterranean; Bermuda and Trinidad, Jamaica and her North American pos sessions, furnish her strongholds, from which her fleets can sweep the Atlantic, and return in safety ; New Holland, a continent in itself, secures to her the Southern Ocean, and her vast possessions in India, give her the trade of the East. She lacks a place which will command the rich and increas ing commerce of the Pacific Islands, a commerce which is daily growing in extent and importance, and which, if properly pursued, would probably yield a richer return than any which floats upon,, the Ocean. That place is the Oregon Territory; and al though it belongs to the United States by every claim which is acknowledged by civilized nations as constituting sovereignty, by discovery, by oc cupation, and by solemn treaty, still England has determined to possess it, and unless prompt and decisive measures arc adopted by our Government, aho will have it. Already through an immense and powerful chartered company, the Hudson Bay Company, she is making rapid strides to wards that object. The Hudson Bay Company have erected forts and trading houses within our limits, and are continually introducing large quan tities of goods within the jurisdiction of the United States, of couise without paying any duties; they carry on an immensely profitable trade, both with England ami with the Sandwich Islands, and have obtained a great influence over the Indians. In the mean time our own Government are ta king no means to maintain or even to assert our sovereignty over this territory, and in a few years England will lay a formal claim to the whole of it—and after holding the subject for years entan gled in the web of diplomacy, (her citizens all the while enjoying possession of the country,) will offer to exchange for it, as in the case of Maine, some province of less value. We arc led to these remarks from reading a petition, (for a copy of which we are indebted to Gov. Knight) of a number of the settlers in the territory, asking ’ for the protection and legislation of Congress. Communicated. Public Meeting. At a meeting of the citizens of Hamburg, held in the Town Hall, on Saturday, tho 16th of March instant, to take into consideration the pro priety of appointing delegates to attend a Com mercial Convention, to assemble in Charleston on the third Monday in April next, having for its object, the establishing of a direct trade between the Southern ports and the European markets > on motion of H. L. Jeffers, Esq. Mr. Gray was re quested to take the Chair, and Dr. J. W. Stokes to act as Secretary; when on motion of Dr. J. W- Stokes, it Was Resolved, That W. W. Starke, 11. L. Jeffers T. Goldsmith, H. W. Sullivan and M. Gray, bo and they are hereby appointed delegates to repre sent the Town of Hamburg in said Convention, which was unanimously adopted. On motion of H. L. Jeffers, Esq. it was resol ved that the proceedings of the meeting be pub lished in the Augusta papers. The meeting then adjourned. M. GRAY, Chairman. J.W. Storks, Secretary. Norfolk, March 13. Naval. —The broad pennant of Commodore Claxton was hoisted on board the U. S. ship Con stitution yesterday. We understand that a letter was received by the steam boat mail yesterday, which states that it was confidently rumored, that the U. S. Frigate Con stitution, Com. Claxton, at present at the Navy Yard, Gosport, would proceed to New York, and sail thence wilh'a Special Minister to Great Britain. Larks of tub Ukitko Status. —General Dearborn, in his admirable letters from the West, being published in the Boston Courier, slates the remarkable fact, that there are no lakes, large or small, on the Northern continent of America, south of 41 deg. latitude, except in Florida. Those in Florida, and some, we believe, in Alaba ma and Louisiana, arc rather bayous, or lagoons, communicating with the sea, or expansions of stagnant rivers, which, also, themselves, have mostly subterranean communication with the ocean. Such arc found in all secondary forma tions, similar to the swamp and alluvial regions of the delta of tho Mississippi, and also our coral coasts and Islands like Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas. In the last, though insulated, they have tides, and no doubt, ex ists sub-marine arcades and tunnels of the coral reefs through which the 1 ? ccan c Sfcss and ingress. Cuba, however, is margmatcd by precipitous reefs of coral rock ' on the north and extensive white sand banks of the same animal material on its south coast. Yet Cuba has primitive mountains of great heights, which appear to be the nucleus of its base.— N. Y. Star. Massachusetts. Edward Everett and George Hull have accept pu the nomination of the Whig Convention, for re-election to the offices of Governor and Lieu tenant Governor, Mr. Everett, in his letter to the committee appointed to address him on the sub ject, says—“ Sincerely grateful for the support of the people of the Commonwealth with which ■ I have repeatedly been honoured, it was my de sire respectfully to decline being a candidate for re-election. The strongly expressed wishes of , political friends, in various parts of the Common , wealth, confirmed by the unanimous voice of the Convention, have led me to think it a duty to r watye my own inclination, and to submit myself ( again to the disposal of the people.” j : Du. Holmes.— The Burlington, (Vt.) Gazette ■ says We understand that the President has , declined actingjupon the application for the sur • render ot Dr. Holmes, the murderer of Mens, f Tasche, and referred the subject to Gov. Jennison. We understand the position taken at Washington > to be, that inasmuch as neither the constitution 1 nor the laws of Congress provide for the case at i all, it must rest on the ground of mere comity be- I tween the British provinces, and the adjoining • states, and therefore the decision should be left I to the state authorities.—Under these circumstan- I ces, Gov. Jennison has issued his warrant for the i farther detention of the accused, and appointed ■ the 28th March for a hearing in the premises, at • this place. 1 Anecdote of Mn. Clay. —ln his recent speech r at Philadelphia, Mr. Preston related the following i characteristic anecdote of the distinguished Sena ■ tor from Kentucky. On one occasion, said Mr. • P,, he did me the honor to send for and consult ■ with me. It was in reference to a step he was - about to take, and which will, perhaps, come to I your minds without more direct allusions. After ■ stating what he proposed, I suggested whether there would not be danger in it—whether such a I course would not injure his own prospects, as well as those of the Whig party in general. His reply 1 was, “ I did not send for you to ask what might 1 be the effects of the proposed movements on my ■ prospects, but whether it was right; I had bath er BE RIGHT THAN BE PUESIDENT." • Manufactures The Williams’ - port, N. C. Advertiser of the Bth says : “Wc saw a day or two since a hale of woollen and cotton goods from the Fayetlevillc Phenix Factory, which was sent to our merchants as a sample. It is a favorable one, and furnishes goodly evidence as a profitable investment to the enterprising manufac turers. This article is admirably adapted to ne gro clothing, and wc hope it will be purchased for ’ that purpose by our rice planters and farmers ! generally.” / Another Steamboat Disaster.— Wc learn r that the steamboat John Mills, on her way from . Maysville to this port with a large cargo of pro ] duce, was run into on Sunday night, a few miles f above Baton Rouge, by the steamer Knickerbocker. , The Mills sunk in a few minutes in eight foot 1 water—boat and cargo both lost. , The Knickerbocker was badly injured near the . bows and was leaking badly, but it was thought . she might be kept free until the leak was stopped. , — N. 0. Picayune. r ■ _ From Grant’s “Bench and the Bar, Excessive Politeness. . Nine unhappy men were appointed to receive sentence of death for various offences. It so hap pened, however, that in entering the names of the unfortunate parties, on being convicted, on his own slip of paper, Baron Graham omitted one of them. The nine were brought up, and the eight, whose names were on his paper, received sen tence. They then quitted the bar. The ninth stood in mute astonishment. The clerk, perceiv ing the mistake called to his lordship, just us he was opening the door to leave the court. Turn ing about and casting a look of surprise at the prisoner, he hurried back to his seat, and putting on the black cap, he addressed the prisoner in the following manner, giving at the same time a pro fusion of bows : “My good man, I really begyour pardon for the mistake : it was entirely a mis take—altogether a mistake, I assure you. The sentence of the court on you is, that you bo taken to the place whence you came, thence to the place of execution, and there hanged by the nock until you arc dead. And the Lord have mercy on your soul. Ido beg your pardon : I’m very sor ry for the mistake, I assure you.” So saying he made another low bow to the unhappy man, and then quitted the court. The way they Court Down East. Sally the housemaid, paring apples in the cor ner. Enter Obadiah, who seats himself in the cor ner opposite to Sally, without saying a word for fifteen minutes, but finally scratching his head, breaks silence with— Ohadiah. There’s a considerable impercepti ble alterin’ in the weather since last week. Sully. ’Taint so injudicious and so indubitable cold as’twasjtho thcrnomican has lowered up to four hundred degrees higher than zenith. Ohadiah. I think’s likely, for birds of that spe cie fly a great quantity higher in warmer days than cold ones. Both parties assume a grave and improving look, and a long pause ensues. Finally Ohadiah gives his pate anothei harrowing scratch and again breaks silence with— Obadiah. Well, Hally, wc chaps are goin to raise a sleigh ride, it’s sich inimicle good slcddin to-morrow. I ’spose they’ll have insatiate times on’t. I should be supernatural happy if you would disgrace me with your company; I should take it as a dcrogitary honour; besides, we’re calcula tin’ to treat the gals copious well with raisons and black strap. Sally. I should be supernatural glad to disgrace you, hut our folks suspect company; I can’t go. Ohadiah sits awhile, and at length starts up as though a new idea had come upon him. Ohadiah. Well, now, I know what I’ll do; I’ll go home and thrash them arc beans what have been lying down in the barn sich a darned long while. Exit Obadiah. From a late London paper. Curious Custom at Hlrlem. —ln walking the streets at Harlem, we saw a rather curious memorial of disastrous times. At the sides of the doors of the various houses hangs a small, neatly framed board, on which was spread a piece of fine lace work, of an oval form, resemb ling the top of a lady’a cap, with a border the ob- jcct, indeed, on a casual inspection, might have been taken for a lady’s cap hung out to dry. Be neath it, to show tile transparency of the lace, there is placed a piece of pink paper or silk. On asking the meaning of these exhibitions, I wa» informed tnat they originated in a circumstance which occurred at the siege of Harlem. Before surrendering the town, a deputation of aged m«- trons waited on the Spanish general to know in what manner the women who were at that time in child birth should be protected from molesta tion, in case of the introduction of the soldiery; and he requested, that at the door of each house, containing a female so situated, an appropriate token should be hung out, and promised that that house should not be troubled. This, according to the tradition, was attended to; and, till the pre sant day, every house in which there is a female in this condition is distinguished in the manner I have mentioned. The lace is hung out seve ral weeks previous to the expected birth, and hangs several weeks afterwards, a small alteration being made, as soon as the sex of the child at birth is known. I was further assured that during the time which is allowed for these exhi bitions, the house is exempt from all legal exe cutions, and that the husband cannot be taken to serve as soldier. I asked our conductor, who be longed to the town, if these pieces of lace work were stolen or injured by evil disposed boys. I wish I could convey to the readcis an idea of the surprise which the man’s face manifested, on hearing such a question. The possibility of the commission of such an atrocity had evidently never before entered his mind. He declared that he never heard of such a thing, and that he be lieved that, if a boy were to steal or injure them, the inhabitants would view the crime with the deepest detestation, and inflict the severest pun ishment on the delinquent. This I present as a trait of manners. Such articles could not bo safely trusted at the doors of any houses in any town in Britain, where even bell handles and knockers are with difficulty preserved. The Rain Mancfactuheii.—“Men ate but children of a smaller growth,” when a deliberative body, not very deliberative if Harrisburg is the test, i like the Pennsylvania Legislature, can be brought to receive with gravity such a proposition, savour ing of blasphemy, ns the following. Os a verity the school master cannot be abroad in the Key Stone: 0 On the 6th inst. Mr. Smith, of Philadelphia, from the Committee in the Pennsylvania Legislature, to whom was referred Mr. Espy’s proposition to produce rain artificially, reported in favor of grant ing Mr. Espy— “A sum equal to the expenses of making the experiment, if he shall cause it to rain over a ter ritory of 1000 square miles; the sum of $35,000 if he shall cause it to rain copiously over a terri tory of 5000 square miles; and the sum 0f550,000 if he shall cause it to rain copiously over a terri tory of 1 0,000 square miles, or in such quantities as shall keep the Ohio river navigable during the whole summer, from the City of Pittsburg to the Mississippi river; the larger sum in each case to ( exclude the smaller ; and the Governor is hereby 1 authorized and required to appoint three impartial and competent persons to witness and judge of the said experiments, who shall, at the times and places i appointed by the said James P. Espy, attend for 1 that purpose, and upon such experiments bo fully * made and completed, the said persons shall certi -9 fy to the Governor the result thereof, and if the same shall be successful, the Governor shall draw t his warrant on the Treasurer of the Common wealth in favor of the said James P. Espy, for 5 such of the said sums as he shall bo entitled to un t dcr this resolution.” • Laid on the table for one day. Cj*Next we shall have an act to drown luitehu in thcSusquchannah. Superstition is the parent of fanaticism. From the Knoxville Regitter. “Let Me.” I ne'er on that lip (or a moment have gaz’d i lint a thousand temptations beset me ; And I’ve thought, as the dear little rubies you rais'd How delightful ’twould be—i( you’d let me. Then bo not so angry for what I hove done, INnr say that you’ve sworn to forgot me ; They were buds of temptation too pouting to shun, And I thought you could not but —let me. When your lipwil h a whisper came close to mycheek, 0 ! think how bewitching it mol mo ; And plain ns the eye of a Venus could speak, Vonr eye seemed to say you would —let me Then forgive the transgression, and bid mo remain, For, >n truth, if you go, you’ll regret me ; Then, oh,let me try the transgression again, And I’ll do all you wish—if you let me. Answer. —I’ll let you. If a kiss bo delightful, so templing my lips, That a thousand soil wishes beset you; 1 vow by theneotar that Jupiter sips, On certain conditions— l’ll let you. If you swear by my charms that you’ll over bo true, And that no other damsel shall get you, By the stars that roll round that summit of blue, Perhaps, sir—perhaps, sir —lll let you. Ij not urged by a passion as fleeting as wild That makes all the virtues forget you, But aiforlion unsullied, soft, ferventantl mild. You ask'd for a kiss, then indeed love —lll let you. Consignees per South Carolina Hail Hoad . . Hamburg, March 19, 183 P Stovall & Simmons, Reese & Beall, C. Cor Gould & Bulkley, W. Catlin, J. S, Hutchinsr n ®Jp C. Baldwin, J. M. & W. Adams, W. G. N ,n ’ Kankin fl iggs, W. E. &J. U. Jackson, Spofford, D’Antignac & Hill, S. Kneeland Snowden & Shear, T. Dawson, E. Sibley, * , Rackett, Baird & Rowland, J. E. Thomp C1 * Parrott, Perrett & Young, M. R. Smith, son > oeo ’ & Adams, Kernigan & Rooney, J. E. Me A ,/u L. Jeffers, J. F. Benson. Donald, H. MARINE INTELLIGF Savannai ~~~~ -g Cleared.— Ship Robin Hood, H *’ ™ ttt _ •chr. Gen. Warren, Colley, Fhiladr olmes, Boston; Lucas, Gould, Portsmouth. ilphia; schr. Arrived yesterday. —Hr. bark f Uemerara ; brig Savannah, flubl juperb, »r hr. New England, Rubinso taro. New York • Schuylkill, Townsend, Plulad n, Boston ; aenr. Chatham, Wray, Augusta ; sle- elpbia; steamboat well, Augurta. imboal Lamar, Cres- Below —Br. ship Victoria, f Departed.—Steamboat Lam ,otn Liverpool. nr, Augusta. Ch; * Arrived yesterday —Schr March 18. London; steam packet Gov Caspian, Searl, N* w ton, N. C. , Dudley, Ivy,Wilmwg- Cleared. —Swship Mini . . Nautilus, Dyer, Havre; lett, Bolin, Havana; nark Stuart, New York ; schr C L brig Buenos Ayr ton. Currency, Wording, Bos- Wenttotea yesterday Liverpool; line ship Ca’ —Br ship Erin, M Net ag . Fr brig Deaux Freres, .houn, O’Neil'. 1 '*'"' • Buepos Ayres, Stuart, Marionneau, N»ntz; t L *S ria Von Commenga, F New York; Ham galliot Ma oyer, Aroeterdam.