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Bp WILL lAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Gv. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 6. 1839. v "
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■ AUGUSTA.
■ FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 5.
■ The Young Lady's Reader, arranged for ex-
I amples in Rhetoric for the higher classes in semi-
B naries is the title of a book just issued from the
I press of Messrs. S. Babcock & Co., a copy op
■ which has been laid on our table by the publishers.
I It contains about 400 pages handsomely printed,
Pf of choice selections in prose and verse, suited to
I Female Seminaries. The work comes highly rc-
H commended and we doubt not will prove a valua-
I ble acquisition as a school book. It is for sale at
I the Book Store of Mr. T. 11. Plant.
Wo have taken some pains to procure con.
densed statements of the condition of the Banks
of this city, four of which we present below. The
statement of the Bank of Augusta, will appear
to-morrow. The Branch of the Darien Bank
has been discontinued and its affairs nearly brought
to a close. The Bank of Milledgeville has a
Branch here without any capital assigned, which
has in circulation a small amount of bills payable
here, and has on hand twice as much specie as
its bills in circulation. The Bank of Brunswick
has also a Branch here without any assigned capi.
tal. The Agent is at present sick and unable to
■furnish a statement, hut we arc informed by an
officer connected with it, that its circulation pay
able here is $42,000, and it has on hand $60,000
n specie. We shall make some remarks to
morrow in relation to these reports, which we
have not time to make at present, and which
would not be entirely applicable until the report
of the Augusta Bank is also published.
Statement of the Funds of the Mechanics’ Bank,
on Monday, April \st, 1839.
UR.
Capital Stock, $1,000,000
Bills issued, $1,194,247
“ on hand, 911,307
“ in circulation, 282,880
Reserved fund and undivided profits, 75.934 17
Unclaimed diviuends, 3,200
Amount due other Banks and indi
viduals for collections, 54,923 06
Amount due depositors, 80,776 72
Specie certificates, 10,530
Certificates of deposite, 9,340
Time checks, a 12,30/ 00
$1,730,001 60
CK.
Specie in vault, $153,516 29
Notes of other Banks, 64,045
5218,101 29
Notes discounted payable, in Augusta, 492,209 75
Exchange running to maturity in
New-York, Boston, Providence,
Philadelphia, and
Baltimore, 480,596 06
Charleston Columbia.
S.('.,Savannah.Ga. 113,583 78
Mobile, anil Mont
gomery, Ala., 25,287 77
Interior of Geoigia, 8 583 01
628,321 22
Bills and Notes under protest, 42,134 95
Os which is considered
good, 31,328 99
“ doubtful, 10.805 96
Lying over not under protest,
l considered good, 9,060 67
« In suit, 7,251 48
Os which is considered
good, 4,437 40
“ doubtful, 2,814 08
Merchandize taken in payment of
debts due the Bank, 8,797 55
City of Augusta Scrip, 6,440 00
Loan on 23 Shares of Georgia In
surance and Trust Company
Stock, 1,635 80
Real estate in Augusta, 31,329 05
Amount due by other Institutions
and in hands of Agents, 271,805 26
Protest account, 05 75
Current Expenses, 10,788 83
Suspense account, 2,000 00
$1,730,001 60
GEO. W. LAMAR, Cashier.
State of the Georgia Rail Road and Banking
Company's Branch at Augusta, on Monday,
April 1 st, 1839.
cn.
- Votes and Bills discounted, $532,577 83
Due by Banks and Agents, 108,55) 84
Real Estate, 28,347 99
609,479 66
Goldand Silvercoin,sl2s,6l7 39
Principal notes ta
ken up, 150,725
Notes of other b’ks, 30,599 82 306,942 21
A
$976,421 87
DR.
Notes issued by this office in cir
culation, $140,740 31
Due to banks and individuals for
collections and Depositcs, 223.089 07
369,802 47
Income of R. H. $87,293 28
' Discount and pre
mium, 19,321 12
106,619 40 |
Capital, 500,000 ■
$976,421 87 |
J. W, WILDE, Cashier, i
Slate of the Augusta Insurance and Bunking
Company, ith April, 1839.
cn.
Amount of property owned by the Bank, viz :
Promissory Notes,
Real Estate, &c. 633,834 26
Bills ot Exchange on
Charleston, Savan
nah, &c. 260,211 43
5894,045 69
Balances due by other Banks and
Agents, 50,106 44
Specie in vault and
specie certificates, 74,864 47
Notes of other Banks, 27,335 00
— 102,199 47
Total amount owned by the Bank, $ 1,046,351 60
nn.
Amount due by the Bunk, viz:—
To persons bolding its Notes be
ing amount in circulation, §250,820 00
Balances due to de
positors, 40,315 43
other Banks, 159,630 34
199,945 77
Surplus profits, 95,585 83
Capital Stock, 500,000 00
1 595,585 83
§1,046,351 60
ROBERT WALTON, Cashier.
State of the A ugusla Branch of the Bank of the
State of Georgia, on April 1 at, 1839.
cn.
Promissory Notes, Bills of Ex
change, &c. 577,883 88
Banking House and Lot, 12,000 00
Balances due by other Banks, 51,361 67
Notes of other Banks on hand, 19,973 00
Gold and Silver Coin, 145,855 79
§807,074 34
nn.
Capital Stock, 450,000 00
Amount of Deposites, 42,453 18
Balances due to other Banks, 144,527 51
Notes of this Branch in circulation, 151,730 00
Surplus, after deducting expenses,
being amount of nett profits since
Ist October, 1838, 18,363 05
§807,074 34
I. HENRY, Cashier.
The sensation created in New York by Mr_
Biddle’s resignation, is thus referred to in the New
York Express of Saturday, 2 P. M.
“The announcement that Mr. Biddle has re
signed his post as President of the United States
Bank, created a great deal of excitement in Wall
street this morning. Crowds soon collected to
learn the cause of the resignation. The impres
sion at first was, that the resignation would have
an unfavorable influence on stocks. The letter,
however, of Mr. Biddle to the Directors, on his
resigning, soon became public ; and when the fact
was announced that the bank was left in great
prosperity, and that Mr. Biddle only desired re
pose from his labors, the public mind became
quite relieved. Stocks instead of falling advan.
ccd. Even the slock of the banlt oi me uimeu
States was sustained.
From the Mobile Mercantile Advertiser, April Ist-
Another Conflagration !!!
But four days since it became our duty to an
nounce the occurrence of a most destructive lire
which swept over almost an entire square in the
most populous part of our city.
We are now under the painful necessity of re
cording another, of a far more serious character,
in the destruction of property. It broke out yes
terday morning, between the hours of three and
four o’clock, in a Cotton Ware House, kept by
Mr. W. Graham, situated in the rear of the build
ings on Royal street, between Conti and Govern
ment, in which was stored about twelve hundred
bales cotton. Before the alarm bell rang the ware
house was wrapt in flames, and although a large
and commodious vacant lot was attached to the
ware house, only 200 bales eotton could be saved.
The large brick ware house of M. D. Eslava,
which joined the cotton ware house, and extend
ed through to Conti street, was next destroyed,
with a great portion of its valuable contents, and
then the City Guard House. Here the fire was
arrested. The whole row ot brick buildings on
Royal street, fronting the Mansion House, were
at one time in iminent danger, but by the extra
ordinary exertions of the firemen, who worked as
lor their lives, this valuable property was saved.
The destruction of property is great. One
thousand bales of cotton were destroyed, nine
hundred of which belonged to John Simpson, Esq.
Commission Merchant ofthis city, on which there
was insurance to the amount of fifty thousand
dollars, divided among the different offices as fol
lows: In the Merchant’s Insurance office of this
city §20,000; in the Augusta Insurance office,
Thus. McGran, agent, §20,000; in the Charles
ton Insurance office, Thus. Lesscsnc agent, §lO,-
000. The insurance will not cover the loss of
Mr. Simpson by §25,000. Three hundred and
thirty hhds sugar, in Mr. Eslava’s ware house be
longing to Joseph - Hall, Esq. of this city, was also
destroyed, which was insured to the full amount
of its value. The sheriff of this county had
placed in the ware house of Mr. Eslava, for safe
keeping, a large amount of property, a portion of
which, estimated value $5OOO, was also destroyed.
The loss of Mr. Eslava is at least §15,000, on
which there was no insurance. A large quanti
ty of the goods which were in the ware house was
saved by the exertions of our citizens, but we know
not what portion. The whole amount of proper
ty destroyed, cannot be estimated at less than
$150,000. The fire was doubtless the work of
an incendiary.
Our ill-fated city is beset with a gang of rob
bers, murderers, and incendiaries, which threaten
its destruction, and destroy the peace of its inhab
itants. No one can repose at night in security,
for he knows not at what moment the torch of the
incendiary may be applied to his dwelling. It is
indeed an awful state of things, and it becomes
more than ever the duty of the city authorities to
be vigilant, fearless, and energetic ; and use the
most rigid means for detecting and bringing to
justice the villians who infest our city. Let all
good citizens zealously and energetically co-oper
ate.
The want of water was again seriously felt at
the fire of yesterday. We rejoice to find that
public opinion is alive to the subject of providing
a supply adequate tc the wants of the city in any
emergency, and we believe it is unnecessary for
tie to urge it further upon our citizens, We trust
I this subject will bo the very fret to command the
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j attention of the new board of Mayor and Aider
men who organize this morning. The new May
or lias a lino field before him for honorable dis
- tinction, and it he but do his dull / in ferreting
out crime, suppressing riots, and inflicting on all
offenders the severest penalties of the law, he will
endear himself to the hearts ofhis fellow-citizens.
Since writing the above, we have been informed
that the lire was first discovered by the South
1 Waiih Pathol, who repaired immediately to the
spot, and commenced rolling out the cotton, whilst
one of their number went in search of the City
Watchman, whose duty it was to ring the alarai
bell; but not finding him, himself gave the first
alarm. The owners of the two hundred bales of
Cotton saved, arc therefore indebted to these pio
[ic spirited citizens, who voluntarially associated
themselves together, for the most laudable purpose
of detecting the night marauders who inlcst our
city, and protecting the property of our citizens.
Had no alarm been given until the fire had been
discovered by the City Watchman, not one bale
of cotton would have been saved.
Earthquake at Martinique.
A friend at St. Croix has sent us the St. A'in
ccnts Chronicle of the 12th February, from which
we extract the following particular account of
the late Earthquake at Martinique.— N. F. Gaz.
In addition to the particulars which have reach
ed us through the French press, of the late calam
ity, we have been favored with a perusal of some
notes by a gentleman who has recently inspected
Fort Royal and St. Pierre.
“ Anxious of judging from personal observation
of the extent of damage committed at Martinique
and St. Lucia, a party of friends embarked from
Kingstown on the2Bth ultimo, and after an agreea
ble but protractrd voyage bore up for Port (nr, as
it is erroneously, I suspect, written) Fort Royal,
at 10 o’clock at night on Wednesday the 30lb. It
was one of those lovely and serene evenings,
when the moon swims aloft in the mellowness of
splendor unknown to Europe; and as our vessel
neared the shore,reflected in fantastic grouping
the dark lines of wall which encompassed it. Hut
if our attention was rivetted by the first coup d’n il,
how immeasurably was it heightened on attaining
the deserted wharf I No living being opposed our
progress, no one greeted our approach. A soli
tary sentinel on the Savannc merely challenged,
as we made our way through the tottering streets
and encumbered thoroughfares, silent as the
graves. Any language of mine is incapable of
doing justice to such a subject of absolute desola
tion ; of prostrate porticos, dilapidated mansions,
and piles of stone and mortar, eloquent in ruin.
Every one felt as if traversing a “city of the dead,”
nor could these emotions have been more vividly
excited in pacing the disembowelled remains of
Herculaneum and Pompeii.
“On the following morning and forenoon, we
repeated our visit, and yet more in detail went
over the spots so remarkably striking the previous
night; but first impressions retained their force.
All the public buddings arc cither totally destroy
ed, or so rent or thrown down as to be useless.
Os 1700 houses which composed the city, only 18
are saved; and singular to say, these are wooden
edifices. Whole lines of streets in the meaner
suburbs were entombed with the inmates by the
fulling in of the loftier stone dwellings in their
vicinity. Ilulof all the remarkable spectacles in
this accumulation of horrors, none can vie with
that presented by the arched fragments of the con
vent—the tattered shreds of the old, and the site
of what was the new hospital. This splendid
building, but recently completed, and which cost
V"" ***** ***o- • ' •• c i j mwt
is entirely razed to the earth. Not a stone re
mains upon another, and the soil of the open spare
or yard in front, is white from the dust into which
it crumbled with its imprisoned patients, 40 in
number, of whom 34 were military.
“ An idea may be formed of the impetus of the
earthquake in this quarter, when I mention that
between ten and twelve feet in front of the base
lie the iron railings which tan along it. Adjoin
ing these masses of shattered planks and strewn
fragments, is the cemetery, or burying ground.
Hither all the killed, after being gathered together
from different points, and deposited in dead carts
on la Place d’Arrnes, and that of des Quarlres
Noirs, were huddled into two enormous ditches,
( dug for the occasion, which were instantly filled
up with quick lime. Some without arms or legs,
others wanting an eye or a nose, women whose
breasts had been torn off, were plunged in with
out distinction of age, rank, or sex ; and (says a
French writer) as these hasty sepulchres could not
contain the mass of bodies which clogged them
up, the assistants were compelled to squeeze,
crowd, and stamp (hem, as one packs herrings
into a barrel! Well might he doubt the evidence
of his senses!
“We found it difficult to ascertain the exact
mortality. It would appear that about nine hun
dred sulfcrers were dug out of the ruins, and in
five hundred of these life was extinct. The others
were carried to the artillery barracks, fitted up as
a temporary hospital, and nothing can be better
than the arrangements there perfected. Amputa
tion was resorted to in numerous instances, but
none survived the operation. Government tries
to conceal the extent of the calamity, in order to
rcinspirc confidence in the colonists; but it admits
a loss of 260 dead, and about an equal number
wounded. Having been courteously received by
his Excellency the Governor, Admiral dc Mogcs,
and conversed with his aide-de-camp and various
respectable individuals, I shall detail such further
incidents as may probably gratify the curiosity ol
our fellow-citizens.”
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
The Mulberry Mania.
We agree with the Northampton, (Mass.) Ga
zette when it says,—“The speculation now rife,
in mulberry trees must be short lived. It may
continue through this year; many think it will.)
Hut we. arc inclined to the opinion, that mulberry
trees will sell for a very much lower price next
autumn than they did last. We are led to form
this opinion by the fact, that so many mulberry
trees and cuttings, and so much seed arc fur sale;
and also by the additional fact, that so many in
tend to engage in the cultivation the present year,
to a greater or less extent. We scarcely receive
an exchange paper which does not contain adver
tisements of mulberry trees or mulberry seed; and
thousands will raise trees this year who did not
last. Great quantities o. mulberry seed have been
distributed in this vicinity—and, by the by, sold
at enormous prices. It has been sold in Hatfield,
we are informed, at from $3O to $5O per ounce 1”
The fever rages most violently in regard to the
Morus Multicaulis; a tree which it is probable will
never thrive in N. England, or the Northern (it
any) part of New York. Some experiments re
cently made in Rensselaer County, under favora
ble circumstances, clearly indicate this fact. Many
who deal in the article, we have no doubt, fully
expect it will prove a failure in this climate; but
it answers the purpose of speculation just as well,
| notwithstanding.
We do not mean to imply that in our opinion i
ho culture and manufacture of silk cannot be car
ried on profitably in this country. Wo believe it
can be, for wo know it has been. Hut there is a
great difference between silk growing, and the
mulberry mania which we now witness. This
last will go down with a crash. The former will
grow up moderately, and become eventually a
large business,
Reduction Convention.
Morgan —Porter, Floyd, Swift, Evans.
Greene —Stocks, Dawson, Terrel, Daniel.
Who auk the Tories'!—Kucl Williams,
lately re-elected to the U. S. Senate by (he loco
foco legislature of Maine, “ aided (savs the Vcr
gennes Vermonter) in burning President Madison
in effigy in the streets in Augusta, during the
last war.”
Extract of u letter received at the Philadelphia
Exchange, dated
“Montevideo, January 20,1809.
‘ This Government has declared xvar against
Buenos Ayres, and arc fitting out an expedition
in conjunction with the French. Produce is high,
and getting scarce, from the increasing demand.”
The Paris Ga.miietno Houses,—The action
brought by u banker against the farmer general
of the lately closed gambling houses to recover
107.340 francs, lost at Frascati’s by one of his
clerks elicited much curious information. After
the evidence proving that upwards of 730,000
persons were admitted, and 800,000,000 francs
yearly played in the seven “hells,” the defendant
labored to show that if exulting bulletins were
hourly transmitted to him, announcing the arri
val of high players and their successive losses, his
paternal solicitude exclude all such as his con
tract with the city of Paris prohibited him from
receiving. Thus, in 1837, the last year of the
existence of these creditable establishments, 49,-
403 persons were rejected, viz: 19,710 minors,
G 340 students, 105 door-keepers, or office mes
sengers, 18 females in male attire, 11,058 servants
and workmen, 1910 intoxicated men, 9125 ill
dressed persons, 1139 stopped by the police. The
admission and exclusions were superintended by
cloven commissioners, appointed by the farmer
general, whose combined vigilance and sagacity
could scarcely frustrate the slratcgcms resorted
oby gamblers. Thus one day, an old gentleman,
with a snow white wig, spectacles over his nose,
and bis decayed frame propped by a gold headed
cane, turned out, on closer examination, to be a
very young and very pretty woman. On anoth
er occasion, a blind gentleman was led by his
valet de c/iamhre, when the latter proved a stu
dent of the ecclesiastical seminary.
A clerk of M. M. Berthoud’s firm contrived to
get n unpetc i\ed. On his exhibiting a bundle
ol bank notes, be was questioned, and bis em
ployers being sent for, they recovered 45,000 f.
M. Milleret recovered in the same manner 80,900,
which a confidential agent of his bank was about
to gamble with, and the late Duke de Duras, on
on receiving due notice, hastened to one of the
Palais Koyal houses, in time to intercept a sum
which one of Ids servants was transferring from
his masters’« pocket to the collers of the state,
city of Paris.
Peusecvti on. —We take from the Pennsylva
nia Sentinel, the following very affecting para
griph, and recommend to all benedicts in Mary
land, either to cut slick, or ask for mercy.
dia^s,Wx’Jl, mAUflJMß»„Bacukloiis.—ln
having been driven beyond the pale of civilization,
by the rougher sex, the ladies are striving like
wise to deserve the thanks of posterity, by driving
a hitherto untamed class of animals into said pale,
and let them persist until full success crowns their
praiseworthy efforts in behalf of suffering human
ity. In the Maryland House of Delegates lately,
Mr. Leary presented the memorial of fifty women
of the city of Baltimore, praying the passage of a
law imposing a direct tax upon all unmarried
men of 21 years and upwards, for the benefit of
orphans. The reference to this memorial crea
ted some diversion in the Mouse; it was moved to
refer it to a regular Committee, also to refer it to
the Committo of Internal Improvement, also to
refer it to the Committee on Manufactures, also
to the Committee on Militia, which were sever
ally rejected and it was laid on the table.
Wiikckkii Goons.—For the last, two or three
weeks considerable quantities of soft goods and
hardware, of various descriptions, have been
brought from the wrecks of the Pennsylvania, the
Lockwood, and the Victoria, and have, from lime
to time, been disposed of by public auction. The
drapers and hardware dealers, who have been the
principal purchasers, have exhibited their respec
tive lots in their windows, with (for the worst
part) the trifling reduced prices affixed to each
article; and by the additional aid of large bills,
announcing “further arrivals from the wrecks.”
“.More large lots of goods.” “Just arrived, ex
tensive lots of linens, lawns, diapers, cambric
handkerchiefs, table cloths, rovers, &c., from the
wreck of the Pennsylvania.” and so forth, —the
parlies, if we may judge from the crowds that be
set their promises, have, since the fatal catastrophe
that threw these articles in their way, been dri
ving a most successful business, thus verifying
the old saving, that “it is an ill wind that blows
nobody good.” Certain it is the retail sab s have
been extensive, whether from the cheapness, or
supposed cheapness of the damaged goads, tr
from, in some instances, (who knows!) an idea
amongst intended voyagersor emigrants, that in
a shirt or garment, fashioned out of materials
that had once been “wrecked,” they would pos
sess a charmed habiliment that would serve them
against all similar disasters, we shall not say. In
one hardware shop in Dale street, we find “ 259
pair of wrecked fire irons advertised, besides fen
ders, tea trays, and finally, fish hooks, in bundles
of 500, for the small sum of one penny ! —for the
articles comprise literally from a best bower an
chor to a cambric needle.” And to crown the
whole, a quantity of “fire shovels, just made out
of wrecked iron.” The force of wrecking could
no further go. What recommendation this will
be to the shovels wc are at some loss to conceive;
but if we mistake not, the mania that has spread
abroad to purchase the articles received from the
ill fated vessels, superinduces a shrewd suspicion
that this is not the only “manufactory of wrecked
goods” in the town. Who knows how many
pieces of goods that have been “shopkeepers” for
many years for lack of purchasers, have been
brought down from their dusty shelves and be
ing moistened and outwardly smeared with sand
and mud, have been displayed amongst the “last
lots from the Pennsylvania,” before the eyes of
sympathizing customers as having veritably been
“wrecked I” —Liverpool paper.
Commodore Eu-iott. —A Court of Inquiry
Upon Commodore Elliott, is ordered by the Navy
Department. It is to convene at the Navy Yard
in Philadelphia, on the 22d »f next month.
ills 1' LOW til NOK THE Se* A TIIHILLINU
t NTiiKr.—An extraordinary story is told by Cant.
1 Wallace, of a lover and Ilia mistress, who were
e Silvc( ' •" « singular manner from the jaws of a
? I shark. A transport with a part of a regiment on
I ( hoard, was sailing with a gentle breeze along the
1 j 4 ’°ast of Colney; one ot the officers was leaning
over the poop railing, conversing with a young
lady who had inspired him with the tender pas
sions. The lady was in (he cabin in the act of
handing a paper to her lover, when over-reaching
herself, she fell into the sea, and supported by
her clothes, drifted astern; the officer lost no time
in plunging in after her, and upheld her with one
- arm. The sails were quickly backed, the ship
lay too, and preparations were made to lower a
boat, when, to the dismay of all on board, a large
shark appeared under the keel of the vessel, and
gliding towards his victim, a shout of terror from
the agonized spectators called the attention of the
officer to the approaching danger ; ho saw the
monster’s fearful length nearing him; he made a
desperate effort, plunging and splashing the water
so us to frighten the shark, who turned and divi
ded out of sight. The current had now curried
the officer and the lady close to the vessel, when
the shark appeared a second time along side, and
was in the act of turning on his back to seize one
of the hapless pair when a private of the officers
company jumped fearlessly overboard with a bay
onet in his hand, which he plunged in the back
ot the shark, which instantly disappearing, the
three wore released from their perilous situation.
An Excellent Svogestion.— Seventy-four
ladies of Niagara county have petitioned the Le
gislature of New York to pass a law punishing
seduction by imprisonment. A correspondent of
one of the New York papers suggested that while
they are about it, they had better enact a law
prohibiting women from being seduced. We
think this suggestion worthy of respectful consid
eration.
“ Sw.uiTworTKii is a new verb which has
lately found a place in our language,” says the
Baltimore Transcript. This is a mistake. The
verb isSwartwout, a verb compound—being active
in taking the funds, and passive in vanishing with
them. Swartwouterf is the participle.— N. Y.
Sun.
While the Stage was attempting to pass the
Ferry on Flint River, this day week, it was car
ried away by the flood, the result of the severe
storm and rain before alluded to, and drifted sev
eral miles below, being entirely beyond the con
trol of thoso on board. The passengers four in
number, leaped from the boat into the river, and
was with some difficulty saved. The Stage, us
wo learn, is yet in the river, and with it the
Southern Mail. We have no donht hut that pro
per efforts will be or have been taken, to save the
latter from destruction, or as much as may be, af
ter its long immersion. The particulars we have
not yet been able to learn. —Southern Post.
From Chambers' EJinhurp; Journal.
The Fortunes of n Country Girl.
One day, 1 will not say how many years ago—for
I intend to bo very mysterious lor a tune with mv
renders—a young woman stepped from a country
wagon Ih u had Jnsl arrived at the yard gale of the
iamoua Chelsea Inn, the Goat and Compasses, a
name termed by corrupting time out ot the pious
original,“ God cncotnpassclh us.” The lining wo
man scemed|aboul the age of 18, and was decently
dressed, I hough in the plainest rustic fashion of the
limes. She was well formed and well looking, both
lorm and looks giving indications ot the ruddy health
consequent upon exposure to sue and sir m the
country. Alter stepping from the wagon, which >•—,
stood lorn diofnentm apparent uncertainly whither
to go, when the mistress o( the inn who had come
to the door, observed her hesitation, and asked her
to enter and take rest, 'file young woman readily
obeyed the invitation, and soon, by the kindness ot
thu landlady found herself hy the fire side of o
nicely sanded parlor, wherewithal to refresh horsell
alier|a long and tedious journey.
“And so, my poor girl,” said the landlady, after
having heard in return liir her kindness, the whole
paittcitlnrsof the young woman's situation and his
lory, “so thou hast come nil litis was to seek servic?
anil hast no Iriend lint John Hodge, the wagoner ?
Tray, ho is 1 ke to g Vo thee Inn small help, wench,
towards gelling a place."
Is, service, then difficult to bo had!” asked the
young woman, sadly.
Ah, marry, pood situations,ul least, are hard to
find. Hut haven good heart, child,”said the land
lady, and, us she continued,she looked around tier
w ith an air of pride and digiiily.“llion seest what
I have come to mysell; and I left the country n
young thing just like thyself with as little lo look 10.
I’ui 'lisn't every one for certain,that must look tor
such n fortune, and in any case it must be wrought
fur. I showed myself a good servant, before my
nuorold Jacob, heaven r, si Ins soul, made me mis
tress of the Goat and Compasses. Mu mind thee,
ill ”
The landlady’s speech might have gone on a
ong way; lor the dame loved well the sound of her
wn tongue, but (or the interruption occasioned I y
(entrance of a gentleman, wbenllic landlady rose
welcomed him heartily.
“Ha! damo” said the new comer, who wna a stout,
’ respectably attired person of middle age, “ how sells
the good ale?—Scarcely a drop left in thy cellars,
hope?
“Enough left logivc your worship a draught after
i your long walk, as she rose to fulfil tho promise
■ implied in her words.
“I walked not," was the gentleman’s return,“but
took a pair ol oars dame down the river. Thou
knowest I always come lo Chelsea mysell lo sec it
’ thou lackist any thing,"
I “Ah,sir,’replied the landlady, “and, il is by that
i way ol doing business that you have made your-ell
, ns all tie oily says, the richest man in die (hewers'
Corporation, if not in all London iisell "
“vV ell, dome, the heller lor ms if it is so," said the
brewer, with a smile; “but let u- have die mug and
ibis quiet prelly friend ol thine shall pleasure us,
may Imp, by lasting with us.
i The landlady was nut lung in producing a stoop
ol ale, know ing that h.;r visitor never set an exam
, pie hurtful to nis own iiitoiests by countenancing
die consumption ofloieign spirits.
“flight liosiiss,” said die brewer, when he had
tasted ii,“well nude ami well kepi, and that is giv
ing both thee and me our lues. Now, pretty one,”
i said he, filling one of die measures ol glasses wlm h
; bud been plated besid) tho stoop,“wilt Hum drink
tins to liar swee.hean s health?"
The poor country girl to whom dns w as addressed
dcclmod the proffered civility, and with a blush;
but tho landlady exclaimed, “Come, silly weneli,
I drink Ins worship's health; he is more likely lo gel
I thee a service if it so pleased him, than John Hodge,
; the wagoner.”
I “This girl has come many a mile," continued ibe
hostess,“to seek u place in town, dial she may bur
: den her family no more ni homo.”
“To seek service?" exclaimed the brewer; “why
1 then it is perhaps well met with us. Has sbe
■ brought a character with tier, or eon you speak for
■ her, dame?”
“She bas never yet been from borne, sir, hut her
face is her character,” mad the kind headed land
lady:" 1 warrant she will be a dilhgcnt and trusty
one."
•Lj.on thy prophecy, hostess, willltake her into
f my own service; lor Put yesterday was my house*
i keeper complaining ot the want of help, since this
depot,ship brought me more into the way of enter- |
laming the people of the warn - ”
Ere the weal hy brewer and deputy left Ihe Goal
and Compasses, arrangements weie made for send
ing tlie country girl to bis house in die city on Ibo
’ following day. Proud ol having done a kind action
I the garrulous hostess look advantage of die circum
stances to deliver an immensely long harangue to |
I " -I II- --a, s
' ‘, he J" )un f? 'Vi ,,, i nn or * h,!r ~BW <lnlien ami on the
• dangers,lo mlikm yomli is pipowd in large ciiiee.
. I he girlheard her benefactions with modi si thank
fulness, nut a more minute observer than the good
landlady might have seen in the eye and coun
tenance of the girl o quiet firmness of expression,
such on might have induced the cutting short of
the lecture. However, the landlady's lecture did
end, and towards t) e evening of th * day Mowing
her arrival at he Goat and Compassrs, the youthful
rustic! found herself installed as house maid in the
dwelling of the rich brewer.
The fortune, of this girl, it is our purpose to foh
low. Ihe first change in her condition which look
place subsequent to i hut related, was her elevation
to the vacated post of housekeeper in the brew er’s
family. In ibis situation she was brought more
than formerly in contact with her master who found
ample means lor admiring her propriety of conduct,
ns well as her skillful I e onomy of management. By
degrees ho began to find hsr present e necessary to
his happiness; end being a man both of honorable
and independent mind heat length offred her his
hand. It was accepted; and she, who but fduro' five
years before had left her country home barefoot
ed, became the wile of one of the richest citizens in
L ndon.
For many years Mr Aylesbury, for such was the
name of the brewer, and his wile, lived in happiness
and comfort together, lie was a man of good fa
mily and connexions, and co seqnently of higher
breeding than his wifi) could boast of, but on no
occasion had he jverto blush lor the pawnor whom
he hud chosen. Her calm, mhom strength, if not
dignity of clmracer, conjoined with an extreme
quickness of perception, made her all her place at
her husband h table with as much grace and credit
ns if she had been born to the station. And, ns
lime ran on, t e respectability of Mr Aylesbury*!
position received o gradual increas He became
ati A hierman, and, subsequent ly a sheriff of the city,
and in consequence of the falter elevation wbi
knighted. Afterwards—and now a pari of iho mys
tery projected at the commencement of this story,
musl he broken in upon, as far h time is concerned
—afterwards, the important place v\ hich i he wedi by
brew *r held in the city, called down upen him the
attention and favor ofths king, Charles 1. then
anxious to conciliate the good will of the citizens,
and Iho city knight received the farther honor of
baronetcy.
Lady Aylesbury, in the first year of her married lire
gave I) nh to a daughter, who prove ! nn only child,
and round whom, as was natural all the hopes
and wishes of the parents entwined I horn-rives.
1 his daughter had only reached the ngc of seven
teen when her lather died leaving an immense for
tune behind him. It wi.s at first thought that the
widow and her daughter would become inheritors
of this without the shadow of a dispute Hut it
proved otherwise. Certain relain es of the deceased
brew r set up u plea upon the foundation of a will
made in their favor held e the d» ceaned had become
married. With her wonted firnm ns, Lady Avloa
bury immediately took steps for the vindication of
her own an 1 her child's fights A young lawyer
who bail been a frequent guest at her husband'd
table, and of whose abilities she had forrmd a high
opinion, was the person whom a fie fixed upon ni
the assert of l.er ciuso. Edward Hyde was,
indeeed u youth ol great ability. Though only
twenty four years of »go at* the period r* f rrrd to,,
and though lie had spent much of his youlhiul time
hi the society of the gay end fashionable of the day
he had not negieaed the pursuits to which his
family’s w sh, well as his own tastes,hod devoted
him. But it. was with considerable hesitation, and*
With a feeling of anxious diffidence that he consented
to undertake the charge of l.ady Aylesbury's case;
for certain strong though unseen and i naeknow
lodgeil sensations, were ni work in the bosom, to
make him fearlnl of the responsibility and anx
ious about the result.
The young lawyer, became council for the brew
er’s widow and daughter, and by a striking exertion
of eloquence, and display of legal ability, gained
their suit. Two days after the successful pleader
was sealed beside his two clients. Lady Ayles
bury’s usual manner was quiet and composed, but
she now spoke warmly ol her gratitude to the pre
server of her daughter from want, ami also tendered
n fej—a payment mnnTiccrt, inured, for the occa-
TlnringTady Aylesbury's expiVifcioii omw iwh'b o -
Ho shift* d upon his chair, changed color, looked to
Miss Aylesbury, played with the purs?? before him,
tried lo speak, but stooped short, and changed color
again Thinking only of best expressing her own
graiimJe, Lady Aylesbury appeared not (n observe
her visilcr’s confusion, but arose saying, Tn rokeii.
that I hold services above compensation in the way
of money, I wisfi also logive you a memorial of my
gratitude in another shape.” Ah she spoke thus
she drew a hunch of keys from her pocket, which
every Indy carried in those days, and left the room.
What passed during her absence brtween the
finrticH whom she left together, will he boat known
ly the result. V\ hen Lady Ayle bury returned,
she found her daughter standing with averted eyes,
but her bund within that of Edward Hyi’e, who
knelt on the moi tier’s entrance and sought her con
sent to their union. Explanations ol the feeling
which the parties entertained for each other, ensued,
and Lady Ayle.-bury was not long in givii g the de
sired content. * Giv« mo leave, howeverand she
to the lover, “to place around your nock the me
morial which 1 intend lor joh. This chain,” it was
a superb gold one—“was a token of gratitude from
the ward in which ho lived, to my dear husband ”
I ndy Aylesbury's calm serious eyes were filled
with tears as sho threw tho chain round 13dwards*
nock, saying, “These links were borne on the neck
of a worthy and honored man. May thou, my be
loved son, attain to still high r honors '
The wish was fill filed, though not until danger
and suffering tried severely the parties concerted.
Theson-inlaw ol Lady Alyeshury became an emi
nent member of the English bar, and also an import*
aul speaker in parliament. When Oliver Grom well
brought tfie king to the scaffold, and established
the Commonwealth, Sir Edward Hyde, for he had
held a government post and had been knighted—
was 100 prominent a member of the royalint party
t lOHcnpetbe enmity of the new rulers, and was ob
liged lo teside on ihe continent till the restoration
V\ hen abroad, ho was m» much esteemed by the ex
iled prince, (afterwards Charles II) aslo he appoint
ed Ixml High Chancellor of England, which ap
pointment was confirmed when the king was re
stored to his throne. Some years afterwards Hyde
was elevated to the peerega, find in Ihe rank of a
baron, snd subsequently as Earl of Clarrendon, a
tiiic* which ho made famous in English history.
These men’s, so briefly narrated, occnp ed a large
space of time, during wh ch Lidy Aylesbury pasted
her days in quiet and letiremenfc. She had r.ow the
grand tation of beholding her daughter Coun ess of
Clarendon, ami olseiing Iho grandchild who had
been born lo her, mingle aw equals with the noblest
in tlieland. But a still more exulted fate awaited
the descendants of I ho poor friendless girl who had
c me ni London, in search of service, in a v agoner'e
van. Her cmml daughter Ann Hyde, a young lady
of spirit, wit and benny ha I been appciited, while
her family staid abroad, one of the m lids of honor
tixfiie i'nnce»b ol Grange and in that silua ion had
nilrlhed so strongly the regards of James, Duke of
Y< rk and brother of Charles the 11, thal he contract
ed a private marriage with her r J he birth of a child
forced on a pubic announcem nt of this contract and
ere long the grand daughter of Lady Ay leaf U r y
was openly received by the royal family, and the
people of England, ns Dutchess of York, and i l.er
in-law of the sovereign.
Lady Aylesbury did not long survive this event
Hut ere die dropped info iho grave, nia ripe old age,
she saw her descendants heirs prsumplive to the
Bril is 1 1 crown. King Charles find married but
hud no legitimate i sue, and, accordingly, his broth
er's fimiiy bad th« prosper! and rights ofsucce«s ; on.
And, in reality, two immediate descendant aof the
> bare'ooted country girl did ultimately fill the throne
| —Mary (wife of William 111) and Queen Anne,
! princesses both of illustrious memory.
Such were the for unes of the young woman of
whom the worthy landlady of the Goal and Cora
' passes was fearful of encouraging to rash iiopes by
a reference to the lofty position wh.ch it had been
her own fate to attain in life. In one assertion, at
least, the hostess was undoubtedly right—that’
success in life must be labored f>r in some way or
oilier. Without the prudence and propriety d con
duct which won the esteem and love of the brewer,
the sequel of the country girl's history could not
j have been such as it is