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from the Denial raliv Hecieu . Old Ironside* on a Lee Shore. AN htK WITXWd. It was at the close of a stormy day in the year 1835, when the gallant frigate Constitution, un der the command of Captain Elholt—having on board the Lite Edward Livingston, late Minister at the Court of France, and hia family, and manned by nearly five hundred souls—drew near to “ the chops” of the English Channel. For four days she had been heating down from Ply mouth. and on tho fifth, at evening, she made her last taek for tho French eoast. The watch w as set at eight P. M.—The Capt ain came on dock soon after, and having ascer tained the hearing of Scilly, gave orders to keep the ship “full and bye,” remarking at the same time to the o/lieer of the deck, that he might make the light on the lee beam, hut, He staled, ho thought it more than probable that he would pass it without seeing it. Ho then " turned in," as did most of the idlers and the starboard watch. At a quarter past nine, P. M., the ship headed west by compass, when tho call of “Light O!" was heard from the foretopsail yard. “ Whereaway 1” naked the officer of the dock. “Three points on the lee bow,” replied the look-out-man; which the unprofessional reader will readily understand to mean very nearly alraighl ahead. At this moment, the Captain ap peared and look the trumpet. “Call all hinds,” was his immediate order. “All hands," whistled the boatswain, with the long shrill summons, familiar to the ears of all who have ever been on board a man-of-man. “All hands,” screamed the boatswain’s mates, and ere the la -t echo died away, all but sirk wi r i upon deck. The ship was staggering through a heavy swell from the Bay of Biscay ; the gale, which had been blowing several days, hail increased to a severity that was not to he made light of. The breakers, where Sir Cloudeslny .Shovel and his fleet wore destroyed, in the days of Queen Anne, sang their song of death before, and the Dead- Man’s Ledge replied in hoarser notes behind us. To g i ahead seemed to ho death, and to attempt to go about was sure destruction. 'l'he first thing that caught the eye of tho Cap tain was the furled mainsail, which he had ordered to lie carried throughout the evening—the hauling up of which, contrary to the last order that he had given on leaving the deck, had caused tho ship to fall olf to leeward two paints, and had thus led liar into a position on a “ lee shore" upon which a strong gale was Mowing her, in which the chance of safely appeared to tho stoutest nervei almost hopeless. That solo chance con sisted in standing on. to carry us through the breakers of Scilly or by tt close graze along their outer ledge. Was this destiny to he tho end of the gallant old ship, consecrated by so many a prayer and blessing from the hem tof a nation ? “Wiiy is the mainsail up, when I ordered itsef!” cried the Captain in a tremendous voice. "Finding that she pitched her hows under, I took it in, under your general order, sir, that the officer of the deck should carry sail according to his discretion,” replied the Lieutenant in com mand. •• Heave the log,” was the prompt command, to the master's mate. Tho log was thrown. " How fast docs sic go?” “ Five knots and u half, sir,” “ Board the main lack, sir.” “She will not bear it,” said the officer of tho deck. “ Board tho main tack,” thundered the Captain. —“ Keep her full and bye, Quartermaster.” “ Aye! aye, sir! Ihe lack was hoarded. “ Haul till the main sheet,” shouted tho captian, and ail it went like tho spreading of a sea bird's wing, giving the huge sail to the gale. “Give her the lee helm when she goes into the sea,” cried the Captain. “Aye! aye! sir! she has it,” growled out the old sea-dog at the binnacle. “ Bight your helm ; keep her full sud bv«.” • v r1 o-v'tast dues ahego ! ” “ Nine knots and a half, sir.” “ How hears tho light. “ Nearly a beam sir,” " Keep her away half point.” “ How fast docs sho got” “ Nine knots, sir.” “ Steady so!” returned the Captain. “ Steady, answered the helmsman, and all was the silence of the grave upon that crowded deck except the howling o( the storm—for a space of tiim- that seemed to my imagination almost an age. It was a trying hour with us—unless we could carry sail so as to go at the rate of nine knots an hour, wo must of necessity dash upon Scilly, and who over touched tiro rocks and lived during a siorrn I The sea ran very high, the rain fell in sheets, the sky was one blaek curtain, illuminated only by the taint light which was to mark our db liveraneo, or stand a monument of our destruc tion. The wind had got above whistling, it came in puffs that flattened tho waves, and made our old frigate settle to her hearings, while every thing on hoard seemed to he crocking into pieces. At this moment the carpenter reported that the left holt ot tho weather fore-shroud had drawn. “ Gel on tile hills, and set them on all the weath er shrouds. Keep her ot small helm, quartermas ter, and ease her in the sea,” were ther orders of the Captain. The lulls wore soon put upon the weather shrouds, which of course relieved the chains and channels, hut many an anxious eye was turned towards the remaining holts, for upon ilium de pended the safely of the ship—for with one foot of canvass less she could not live fifteen minutes. Onward plunged the overladened frigate, and at every surge she seemed bent upon making the deep the sailor’s grave, and her live oak sides,his coffin of glory. She had been fitted out at Bos ton when the thermometer was below zero. Her shrouds of course therefore slackened at every strain, and her unwieldy masts (for she had those designed for the frigate Cumberland, a much larger ship,) seemed ready to jump out of her. Aud now, while all was apprehension, another holt drew ! —and then another ! —until at last, our whole slay was placed upon a single bolt less than a man's wrist in circumference. Still the good irong 1 lung to the solid wood, and bore us alongside the breakers, though in n most fearful proximity to them. This thrilling incident has never, I he i we, been noticed in public, but it is the literal fact—which I make not the slightest attempt t > embellish. As we galloped on—-for I can compare our vessel's leaping to nothing else —the rocks seemed very near us. Dark as was the night, the white foam scowled around their black .1 Mils, while the spray- fell over us, and the thunder ofthc dashing surge sounded like the aw ful knell that the ocean was sighing for the vic tims that it was eager to cngulph. At length the light bore upon our quarter, and the broad Atlantic rolled its white caps before us. Dining this time all was silent, each officer and man war at his post, and the hearing and coun tenance of the ( apt.nn seemed to give encourage ment to every person on hoard. With a bare pass; i ity of saving the ship and those on hoard, he relit d on his n lulical skdl and courage, and by carrying the mainsail when in any other situa tion, would have been considered a suicidal act, wrath-red the lee thore, and saved the Consti tution, The mainsail w ls now hauled up. hv light beans and strong hands, the jib and spanker ta ken in, and Irom the light of Scilly. the gallant vers 1 im .or closed reeled topsails ,„d main try. bids, tons her d parture and danced m rri!x over tho towards the linked Suit's I'ipa down." said the Captain to the First Lieutcnsn , - andsph.- c the main brace.” -I'i,,. down,” ic'o-’d tli* 1 First Lieutenant to the boat* swain. “ Pipe down,” whistled the boatswain to the rrew, and “ pipe dow n it was. Soon the “ Jack of the Dust’ held his levee on the main gun-deck, and the weather beaten tars, ns they gathered about the grog tub, and luxuria ted upon a full allowance of Old Uye, forgot all their perils and fatigue. “ How near the rocks did we go,’ said I to one of the master's mates the next morning. He made no reply, hut taking down his chart, showed me a pencil Wne between the outside thuul and the. Light H<rw Inland, which must have been a small strait t>r a fisherman to run his smack through in good weather by day light. For what is the noble and dear old Irigalc re served ! J went upon deck ; the sea was culm, a gentle breeze was swelling our canvass from our main sail to royal, the isles of Hcilly had sunk in the eastern waters, and the clouds of the dying storm were rolling oil' in broken masses to the north ward and westward, like the (lying columns of a beaten army. I have been in many a gale of wind, and have past through scenes of great danger ; hut never, before nor since, have I cxpericncec an hour so terrific, as that when the Constitution was labor ing, with the lives of live hundred men hanging on a single small iron bull, to weather Heilly, on the night of the I llh of May, 1836. Noth.— During the gale, Mrs. Livington in quired of the captain, if we were not in great danger, to which he replied us soon as we had passed Hcilly, “you arc as safe as yon would he in the aisle of u church ” It is singular that the frigate Boston, Capl. MeNcal, about the close of the Revolution, escaped a similar danger while employed in carrying out to France, Chancellor Livingston, u relative of Edward’s and also Min ister to the Court of St. Cloud. He likewise had his wife on hoard, and while the vessel was weath ering a lee shore, Mrs. Livingston asked the Captain—a rough hut gallant old fire-eater —if they were not in great danger; to which lie re plied—“ You had better, Madam, get down upon yonr knees, and pray to Cod to forgive you your numerous sins, for if we dont carry by this point, we shall all he down in five minutes.” CIIIUJNICLE AND SENTINEL. A L C II H T A. THURSDAY MORNINC, APRIL 11. Concert. The Soiree Mtisirale given at the Masonic Hal on Tuesday evening last, by Madam Otto, Mr. T Bishop, and Mr. Brough, delighted a numerous and fashionable audience. We are pleased to see a second Concert announced for Friday evening. For Programme, see advertisement. The largest steamboat on the Western waters, is said to la’, the St. Louis, of eleven hundred tons burthen, and DlOfeetlong. She has two engines and eight boilers, and runs between St. Louis and New Orleans. The Now Vnrlt Canal Commissioners have pre sented to the House of Assembly their report in relation to the enlargement of the Eric Canal It appears that the whole estimated cost, inelu. ding the proposed enlargement and improvement, would he $23,402,803. Public. Meeting. A portion of the citizens of Madison and its vicinity met in the Court House on the 9th hist. to take into consideration the propriety of send , . ...... ..no in v.iiurumun on me uuru mon day of the present month— On motion of Dr. Win, Johnston, Col. S. Floyd was called to the Chair, and N. (4. Foster Esq. appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting being briefly slated by the Chairman, a committee of throe, consist ing of E. E. Jones, J. W. St ark and J. W. Por ter was, on motion of Dr, E. E. Jones appointed by the Chair to nominate suitable persons to rep resent us in said Convention. The Committee reported the names of John Robson, William (). Solluld, John Wingfield, William Johnston and T. 15. Rees, Esq’rs. as suitable delegates, which report was unanimously adopted by the meeting. On motion ol Dr. E. E. Jones, Resolved, That the delegates appointed, have power to fill any vacancy which may occur in their number. On motion ofT. 11. Rees, Esq. Unsolved, That the proceedings of this meeting he signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and published in the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. The meeting then adjourned. S. FLOYD, Chairman. N. (!. Fosri.ii, Secretary. Communicated. Frederick Hie Croat and the United States. Frederick was never doubtful as to the issue op the revolutionary war between this count.y and Creut Britain, and openly declared his sentiments in a treaty which he concluded with Russia in 1781, of armed neutrality. Franklin, Adams, and Jellcrson, valued the fiieudly disposition of the great monarch so highly, whose influence over his age was great, that they invited him be fore any other power to q treaty of amity and commerce, which was concluded at the Hague | 20lh September, 1785, and which was the last I i national act to which the king nnexod his signa" litre. Part of this treaty reads thus:—“lf one of the two powers he ot war with a third parly, the commercial intercourse between the said two powers shall thereby sutler no interruption, and their respective (lugs shall protect even the prop erty of the enemy; and in ease this properly he amunitions of war, it shall he simply kept in de -1 o ale without being seized. If ever there should j be any difficulty between the two countries them- I selves, the contest shall he confined to the armies i | ami commerce shall go on unmolested, and no ! letters of marc shall be issued. The prisoners of war shall ho treated in the most urbane manner, j and have the same pay, and enjoy the same treat ment as their own soldiers of the countries accor ding to their respective ranks.” Q. Finn in Bbidgkpokt.—We learn that the large carriage factory of Haight, Fairchild & Co., was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning las!. I Loss *25,000 —insured 810,000—85000 at the i Hartford office, and 85000 at Springfield. —Xiw I Haven Palladium. The palace of the Sublime Porte at Constan tinople was destroyed by fire on the night of the -Oth of J 11 ui is -loss estimated at >500.000. i i'ruin the Sew York ihi aid vj the 4th, Money Market. Walt street pres< nls an appearance of general quiet ami languor—approaching almost perfect ex- | haustion. Thu immense important o attached to the new s expected on Hominy next, hy the steam er Orc.it Western, occupies the mind of every one with its probable results, Capitalists and gener al operators therefore remain nearly inactive.— Exchange and stock operations are very limited, causing prices to remain w ithout material change. The Block Market continues very inactive.— The sales are to a limited extent, and prices do not vary in any great degree. United Stales Hank closed at a slight decline from yesterday s rates. In some other cases more firmness was manifest.—Delaware & Hudson improver! A per cent; Kentucky 1 percent; Vicksburg J percent; Paterson 1 per rent; Harlem 2 per cent; Boston & Providence J per cent; Canton J per cent. , This is the day on which the hank of Com merce was to go into operation, accordingly its doors were opened, and some fewdeposiles made; hut the event has attracted far less attention than the trumpeting of its friends led me to imagine it it would. The extreme scarcity of money causes the instalment dun to-day to come very hard; es pecially as no immediate relief can he expected from its operations, and money is far too valua ble to he allowed to lie idle in times like this.— The public mind also, apart from the prospect of unfavorable news from England, is becoming alive to the fact that the Southern banks have re sumed too noon, and men are inclined to recur with regret to the letter of Mr. Biddle in April lasi, wherein he warns the community against too early a return to specie payments. Already in the rise of exchange the depreciation of South ern paper—the frequent explosion of Southern banks and the stagnation of business we see a verification of the fulfill;; extracts from his let ter to Mr. Adams of last year. “The Atlantic cities, for instance, are credit ors of the Southern and Western Slates for goods sold to them, to he paid for cither in those States or in the Atlantic cities —their currencies being so nearly the same that the exchange would not cost them so much us the mere transportation of the specie. When theday of payment arrives the creditor city suddenly makes an artificial scarcity of its own currency—renders the only money it will receive in payment almost inaccessible to its debtor—reducing, at the same lime, the rate of exchange, and the prices of every thing. This rigor instantly recoils on the creditor. If pay ment is made in the Southern and Western States, the Atlantic merchant loses the whole deprecia tion in exchange. If payment is to he made in the Atlantic cities, and the debtor sends produce to pay his debt, the scarcity of money obliges him to sacrifice it—if he sends the hunk note of his country, they sink to seventy-five per cent in va lue, and he loses the difference. If he brings the stock of his State the scarcity of money renders their negociation impossible. Once disappointed in this way, he sends no more produce—no more bank notes—and the creditors in turn sufi'er more than the difference hy the delay. “So in respect to foreigners. Wo owen large debt to France and England. Why should we destroy the value of our only means of [laying if! We can pay it only in cash or produce or stocks. As to cash, this debt was contracted in an abun dant currency. By this artificial scarcity of mo ney, wo arc obliged to pay it in a currency more valuable hy one half or one third. Even at that rate, we can neither borrow the money nor raise it hy sales, except hy ruinous sacrifice. We then may pay it in produce or in slocks, hut the same scarcity sinks the value of both. A debt contract ed when cotton was twenty cents we have to pay when cotton is ten cents a pound. Ifwe propose to pay in stocks, these, too, have sunk perhaps twenty-live per cent on their price last year.— Our resources then arc diminished in value, while our debt is increasing hy interest. The consc- I quencc is, that the foreign debt is postponed.— This eiier.itijooji-'""•' i'“7" I mom—-to the foreign creditor by the delay and hazard of his debt. It is true, if he could now receive his money, lie could remit it homo at a low rate. But then the same scarcity which low ers the rate of remittance, prevents Ids receiving any thing to remit—and so far from being inter ested in the early resumption, it essentially in jures him, because the forced preparation for it, by crushing the resources of his debtors, renders them alike unwilling to pay. What the foreign creditor wants is payment—payment of the debt, not in it hotter currency, and if, necessary, in an inferior currency, because he can better support a high rale of remittances than a reduced or a post poned payment.” Os the three modes of payment for our foreign debt described in (his hist paragraph, ids favorite measure was to make the produce of the soil, com bined with economy in imports, the slow and easy means of liquidating our debt. The clamour of the present Bank of Commerce clique tempted them into making stocks the medium of present payment in order to force a resumption, while the splendid success ol'Mr. Biddle's cotton movement forced them into following up the measure in or der to raise prices still higher, which has been done in a greater degree than consumption war rants. Thus their prematura resumption has ren dered their lial ilities immediate. While their policy of holding cotton Inis absorbed all their means and prevented trade from re-organizing, thereby clogging that demand for goods which is necessary in order to perfect their cotton move ment, and the crop must now be (brown upon a falling market at a ruinous loss or a second sus pension, and utter failure of the banks interested will lake place. Already there is a caution ob served in the exchange market towards bills drawn against cotton. They sell at 9 per cent where others will in some instances command 10 per cent premium. The inland exchanges which were so much disordered last spring, at the time the New York banks resumed, in consequence of the improved currency in this city and the continual expansion South, became gradually equalized as the South ern banks contracted in order to resume, verify ing (he following passage in Mr. Biddle’s letter; “The state of exchanges in New York proves nothing whatever, except the scarcity of money in New York. The exchanges are even less depre ciated than many other things. The bank notes I of the Southern States are at a great depreciation. I But store rent and real estate, in the very spot where these notes arc sacrificed are much more | depreciated than the notes themselves. So, too, j in New York, the notes of Philadelphia are at a* ] discount: yet, at this moment. New York has to j pay to Philadelphia not less than ton millions of dollars, for actual debts to Philadelphia, and to foreigners represented by Philadelphia. It is not, therefore, the abundance but the want of means tit is not strength hut weakness which causes tlilv difference. By the same process bread and meat may be reduced in price for the want of purcha sers. You make an artificial scarcity of money and then boast how much the little which remains will buy—hut your superiority is punished by the | debtor, who does not settle with a creditor so much above him. “On the whole, the course which, in my judg ment. the banks ought to pursue, is simply this: “ The Banks should remain exactly as they are —preparing to resume, but not yet resuming.” Exchange are now again rapidly falling into confusion, not from the comparative but from the j actual depreciation of the currency. As an in stance of which we will mention the fact that the bonds of the Vicksburg Bank, (Miss.) recently suspended, were otiered in Wall street to-day at ! -1A per cent per month, equal to 44 cents in’ the I j dollar, without finding buyers. Money lias boon exceedingly scarce to-day. | The old banks yet show no disposition to increase >• / their loans. Perhaps one reason lor tire conllli- | nance of this extreme caution on tiieir part, may , , be the uncertainty of the action of the legislature | on the question of renewing the charters of the old Banks. To relieve this anxiety, wc would suggest that the legislature pass a law autho rizing the old banks on the expiration of their charter, to merge themselves into banks under the general law, wiihout being obliged to cease their operations. Such an arrangement would have a very beneficial influence on the market at this time. From the New York Commercial Advertiser. The Kingdom of Canada* The two great questions now before the Legis lature of Upper Canada are the disposition of the Clergy Reserves, and the union of the province with Lower Canada. The latter is strongly in sisted on by a large portion of the members, as w*ll as of the people, who believe that it will form a principal ingredient of the panacea which distresses of the province so urgently require. But such is not the opinion of Mr. Hagerman, the attorney general. His eyes are lixed on a higher mark, and nothing will satisfy him short of elevating tho provinces to the dignity of a kingdom. We have only a brief sketch or outline of his speech in the House of Assembly, on the 21stof March. Wc copy from the Toronto Patriot, where Mr. Hagerman is reported to have Proposed two questions to the House, which opened a new and important view of our future relations with Great Britain. Ho asked First — Whether it was the opinion of the House that the people preferred a constitutional monarchy as' a form of Government, to a democracy,—And, sec ondly,—lf the answer were in favor of the former, as no one could doubt would be the case, he would next ask, whether in the course of events it was not certain that these provinces would as sume that rank among (he nations of the worM,to which their vast extent of country—commercial importance—natural resources, and increasing population entitle them to look forward. In commenting upon these propositions he contended that all schemes for meliorating the political condition of these vast possessions of the British empire, short of erecting them into a kingdom, would be more expedient for a tempora ry purpose—and that no plan, in his opinion, could so effectually and certainly perpetuate the connection with Great Britain, or advance their general prosperity, and remove (lie evils by which they were oppressed, as raising them to thatdigni ly—giving it representation in the British Parlia ment, and governing it by a Viceroy, as Ireland is governed. Mr. Hagerman pointed nut many ad vantages that in his opinion would result from the measure; which, when published, will deserve and unquestionably will receive, the deepand anx ious consideration of tho people of this province. P. tS, Since the above was in type, we have received tho Montreal papers ofthe Ist instant, in one of which wc find it stated that a resolution in favor ofthe legislative union ofthe two provinces has passed the House of Assembly of Upper Can ada, by a large majority. Tho resolution also declares the importance of despatching agents to England, to advocate the measure there. Execution in Cannda. The course of justice in the Canadian provin ces appears to give great dissatisfaction in Eng land. It has been spoken of in Parliament with strong expressions of disapproval; and the press denounces it with extreme severity. For exam ple, the following paragraph, from a leading arti cle in the London Morning Herald. The government which deluded the ignorant multitude into acts of violence and insurrection by courting, flattering, and conciliating Papincau | in the very rage of his agitation—the government that promoted some of his co-agitalors to the judi -1 ci-.il Ucrw-V, 'on agitation, is the same government under whose orders acts of cold blooded civil slaughter are now pcipetrated in the Canadas, which shock and disgust the hearts of Christian men, and will be productive of fresh ca lamities hereafter to that society whose human blood is thus lavishly and revengefully shed, after rebellion has been punished with the triple scourge of the sword, and flame, and famine ! Did not the Canadian journals of the successful party contain triumphant accounts, not long ago, of the slaughter of rebels in the field, followed by the wide-spread devastation of their dwellings, given to the devouring flames, whence thousands of helpless families of the insurgents and suspect ed insurgents fled into the woods, in the depth of a Canadian winter, to die of cold and hunger in the midst ofthe howling wilderness 1 Was there not hero punishment and suffering more than enough both for revenge and example ? The liritisli Steamers. The Boston Patriot says,—“Wc learn from good authority, that the Liverpool and Great Western arc the only steamers which arc expect ed to ply between Great Britain and the United States.— J lie British Queen, heretofore expected to leave in April, wouldnot he ready until autumn, some mistake having occurred in her construction which would make it necessary to raise her deck before she could receive her boilers. The Presi dent, of course, will not lu ready before the Brit ish Queen. The Royal William has been with drawn from tho route, and now piles between' Dublin and Bordeaux.” A few weeks since wo published the marriage ot a Mr. Dill, stated to he 14 years ofage, to Miss Langley, aged 13. The Augusta Chronicle re published the article, from which it was copied in to the Charleston Courier. The Editor of the latter paper censured the parents of the parties, and the Parson who officiated upon the occasion, in very severe terms. The Clergyman in ques tion culled upon us the other day, and requested us to slate, that the perron who furnished the no tice was mistaken as to the age of the parties, theyoung man being 17, and the lady upwards of 14 years of ago; that the parents of both gave their consent to the union, and they were married at the house of the young lady’s mother, (she being a widow.) We trust that the papers above alluded to will correct the error which wc and they have innocently been lead to commit. Wc are satis fied that the gentleman who handed us the notice was not correctly informed of tho ages ofthe par ties himself, as wc believe him incapable of wil fully misstating that or any other fact.— Green ville Mountaineer. Loniion Men. — London mud is unlike the mud of any other city or town in the empire. The paving stones ofthe metropolis, for perhaps near ly half a century, have been imported in the little blocks from the granite queries of Aberdeenshire; this is ground down by the everlasting roll of wa gons and other carriages, and the abraded parti cles of the metal, when moistened by a shower, i assume all the adhesiveness cf Roman cement. To remove it rapidly would require a brush with bristles of the strength of “heckle teeth;” and wc have the authority of a commercial traveller for stating, that the London raud is well known and cordially hated, by the “bootc” of all the inns within 200 miles of St. Paul’s. An article which is comparatively worthless elsewhere is of much value here; and the sweepings of the streets are farmed out to contractors, by the parish authori ties, often at a high premium. The mud is sold for many purposes, but chiefly to he used as an ingredient in the process of brick-making, and thus a large sum of money is turned over bv means of the very dust we tread beneath our feet. ' —London paper. > The At v. \ ork 'Slur ul the bill stales tliat ru- | mors arc again rile that Amos Kendal is appoint ed Secretary of the Treasury. We still doubt it. The trade and commerce of the country v.oulj buy him oil’cheaply from accepting the office by a bonus of two millions of dollais. Laugh Cargo.—The Br. ship Columbus, Gapt. Pcntrieth, cleared on the 6th inst. at Sa vannah for Liverpool, with 1871 bales of Cotton, valued at $151,000. This is the largest cargo ever taken from that port. Correspondence of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, Habtford, April 5. iThe result of our state election you arc now acquainted with. We have accomplished all that *\c dared to hope for—all that our most sanguine wings anticipated. We have elected six whig members of Con gress. In District No. 1, Trumbull elected by plu rality of 1080 over Toucey. District No. 2, Storrs elected by plurality of 134 over Ingham. District No. 3, Williams elected by plurality of 90 over Billings. District No. 4, Osborne elected by plurality of 300 over Whittlesey. District No. 5, Smith elected by plurality of 510 over Phelps. District No. 6, Drockway elected by plurality of 576 over Cleveland. Whig plurality, 2690. In 1837, in No. 1. Toucey was elected by 76 plurality. No. 2, Ingham was elected by 1201 pluiality. In No. 3, Haley was elected by 115 plurality. In No. 4, Whittlesey was elected by 365 plurality. In No. 5, Phelps was elected by 102 plurality. In No. 6, Holt was elected by 304 plurality. Loco foco plurality. 2163. In Connecticut a plurality of votes elects mem bers of Congress, bat for governor a majority is necessary. Matrimonial Balance. —Not long since a reverend Clergyman in Vermont, being apprehen sive that the accumulated weight of snow upon the roof of In barn might do some damage, was resolved to prevent it, by seasonably shovelling it off. lie therefore ascended to it, having first, for fear the snow might all slide off at once, and him self with it, fastened to his waist one end ofa rope, and given the other to his wife. He went to work, but fearing still for his safety. “My dear,” said he, “ tic the rope round your waist.” No sooner had she done this than off went the snow, poor min ister and all, and up went his wife. Thus on one side of the barn the astonished and confound ed clergyman hung, but on the other side hung wife, high and dry, in majesty sublime, dingling and dangl.ng at the end of the rope. At that mo ment, however, a gentleman, luckily passing by, delivered them from this perilous situation. “Putting in mind.”— This common phrase was used by a Hibernian, a day or two since, in rather a ludicrous connection. Pat was driving pigs in Lowell street, when Barney met him, and after the usual interchange of “How d’ye do,” and “ Sure it’s myself that’s glad to sec you,” Barney pointed to one of the quadrupeds, with—“lt’s a tine pig that sow, Patrick.” “It is that same Barney, which puts me in mind of asking for your wife, thecrathur, is she well !” A MODE OF DETECTING COUNTERFEIT CoiN. —The following simple experiment, which has laid the foundatisn of one of the most splendid of modern ......i,i Take a clean slip of common sheet zinc, about two inches by one half, and lay it upon the tongue, place a genuine silver coin under the tongue, and on bringing the silver and zinc together, a pung ent and disagreeable taste will be perceived. Sub stitute, now, a coin suspected to be counterfeit, in the place of the genuine coin, and a very slight, if any taste will be perceived. The false coin of half dollars, quarters, dimes and half dimes, is made mostly of German silver, and produces scarcely any galvanic action with a piece of zinc. The above test is almost infallible, and recom mends itself from its simplicity. An American Citizen Murdered.—A letter from Mcxibo dated Feb. 14, states that “Mr. A. Dubriellc, of New York, was barbarously murdered on the 29th ult. by a gang of robbers who attacked the mail coach, on its way to the Puebla, half a mile from the Garits (gate) of this city. He was shot dead, and several other persons in the coach were wounded. These hu man demons are daily committing spoliations and murdering travellers in some quarter. The moral and political condition of this country is constant ly retrograding.” The English will have a hard time of it if they fight with the down-easters, for some of them are so strong that they squeeze tar out of pine knots with their hands.— Huston Statesman. jAfnd so “cute" that they make first rate pump-. |kin seeds of the knot after the tar is squeezed out. S [ Lyons Argus. Dr. Duncan is a genuine Buckeye.— Ohio Statesman. A Buckeye by nativity but a Sucker by prac tice. — Louis. Jour, A Steam Navigation Company, with a capital of $500,000, and the privilege to increase it to $1,000,000, was incorporated by the New Jersey Legislature, at its recent session. John Smith—Still Further We are pleased in being able to contradict the many inju rious reports which have recently been in circula tion relative to this individual. In a late Mobile paper we see his name among the list of passen gers on board a steamer from Tuscaloosa; so that the story of his having turned Mahometan in Ceylon, and that of his being taken up in Phila delphia for stealing eggs, are both utterly desti tute of foundation. As wo aided in giving the above reports circulation, wo now, as an act of justice, hasten to contradict them.— Picayune. “ What is your business madam I asked a counsel recently of a witness on the stand. “ I keep a seminary for the destruction of young la dies,” was the answer. MARRIED, On the 2nd inst., b the Rev. C. W. Key, Doctor A. A. Cullens, of Sandersville, Ga. to Miss H \r. riet H. Bussey, of this City. On the 22th ult., by Wm. Fowler, Esq., Mr. M ASIIINGTON D. Holsonbake, of Columbia county" to Miss Lucinda, daughter of John Kcllebrew of Warren county. Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road. Hamburg, April 9, 1839. D’Antignac & Hill, T. H. IPant, T. Barrett & Co J. B. Bishop, R.C. Baldwin, P. A. Scranton. J. \v’ Houghton, T. Dawson, Reese & Beall, L Dwelle A. Cuthbert, B. W. Force, J. De Bow, T. Glascock’ Davis Grimes & Co., Stovall, Simmons t Co.’ Clark. Mcleir & < o , Nelson Carter, I.S. Beers C 0., Baird & Rowland, J. S. Hutchinson, D. L. Ciof™’ o’^ 0 ’^” 0 * 1 ’ H * L * Jeffers > J ' F » Benson, E I sj THE AUERICJttf SILK GROWER AM) ■ FARMER' S MANUAL —A monthly publication, | designed to ex tend and encourage the growth of Silk i throughout the United States. Ed.ted by Ward I Cheney and Brothers, Burlington, N. J., and pub lished in Philadelphia, at the low price of (Jnk 1 Dollar a year. iO" Subscriptions received at this office. ap 9 cef HIGHLY IMPORTANT, jp) Nervous diseases, liver complaint, bilious dis eases, piles, rheumatism, consumption, coughs, colds, pain in the chest and side, ulcers, all deli cate and mercurial diseases are successfully treated at Ur. EVANS’S Office, 100 Chatham-street, New- York. DR. WILLIAM EVANS’ MEDICINES, Are composed of vegetable substances, which exert a specilic action upon the heart, give an impulse or strength to the arterial system ; the blood is quick ened and equalized in its circulation through all the vessels, whether of the skin, the parts situated in ternally, or the extremities ; and as all the secre tions of the body arc drawn from the blood, there is a consequent increase of every secretion, and a quickened action of the absorbent and cxhalent, or I discharging vessels. Ary morbid action which I may have taken place is corrected, all obstructions | are removed, the blood is purified, and the body re- I sumes a healthful state. A These medicines after much anxious toil and re- I search, having been brought by the proprietor to . , the present st ile of perfection, supersede the use of I the innumerable other medicines; and are so well y adapted to the frame, that the use of them, by main taining the body in the due performance of its functions, and preserving the vital stream in a pure and healthy state, causes it to last many'years long er than it otherwise would, and the mind to be come so composed and tranquil, that o'd age when it arrives will appear a blessing, and not (as too many who have neglected their constitutions, or had them injured by medicines administered by ig norance) a source of misery and abhorrence. They are so compounded, that by strengthening and equalizing the action of the heart, II r, and other visera, they expel the bad, acrid o, .....rUJ I matter, which renders the blood impure, out ol the circulation, through the excretory ducts into !' -! passage of the bowels, so that by the brisk orslight evacuations which may be regulated by the do: always remembering that while the rvacunt from the bowels are kept up, the e; c-1..,. - free -'I si* the other portions of the body wi. a; „ on in the same proportion, by whidq| i..i.. blood invariably becomes purified. Steady perseverance in the use of the me ' i o will undoubtedly effect a cure even in tin . i acute or obstinate diseases; but in such case.- >. dose may be augmented, according to the invi i of the disease i the medicines being so ad-m.ii.dy adapted to thejeonstitution, that they may Lc taken at all times. In all cases of hy.pochondriacism, low spit its, pal pitations of the heart, nervous irritability, nervous weakness, tluor albus, seminal weakness, indiges tion, loss of appetite, flatulency, heartburn, general debility, bodily weakness, chlorosis or green sick ness, flatulent or hysterical faintings, hysterics, headache, hiccup, sea sickness, night-marc, gout, rheumatism, asthma, tic douloreaux, cramp, spas modic affections, and those who are victims to that most excrutiating disorder, (lout, will find relief from their sufferings, by a course of Dr. William Evans’s Pills. Nausea, vomiting, pains in the side, limbs, head, stomach or back, dimness or confusion of noises in the inside, alternate flushings of heat and chilliness, tremors, watchings, agitation, anxiety bad dreams, spasms, will in every case be relieved I by an occasional dose of Dr. Evans’s medicines. One of the most dangerous epochs to fcmalesjis at the change of life; and it is then they require a medicine which will so invigorate their circulation and thus strengthen tlier constitutions as may ena ble thorn to withstand the shock. Those who hive the care and education of Fe males, whether the studious or the sedentary part I of the community, should never be without a sup- ? ply of Dr. Evans’s Pills, which remove disorders in the head, invigorate the mind, strengthen the body, improve the memory, and cliven the imagin ation. When the nervous system has been too largely drawn upon or overstrained, nothing is better to correct and invigorate the drooping constitution than tuf.S 0 moJioim .' Dr. William Evans’s Medical Office, 100 Chat ham street, New York, where the Doctor maybe consulted. J (Tj A Case of Tic Doloreux. <£2o Mrs. J . E. Johnson, wife of Capt. Joseph John veare with n r n’. WaS seve .'«b’afflicted for ten years with lie Doloreux, vnslentpa in her head, and vomiting with a burning heat in the stomach, reilf f“ b 6 I? leave her 100 - She cou! d find no rehcl from the advice of several physicians, nor from medicines of any kind, until after she commen ced using Dr. Evans’s medicines, of 100 ( hatham street, and from that time she began to amend, and feels satislied il she continues the medicine a few days longer, will he perfectly cured. Reference can be had as to the truth of the above, by calling at .Mrs. Johnson s daughter’s store, 359 Grand st. A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS Du. w„ Vv.\rro' CELEURATED SOOTHING SYRUP T, • Foll f n I l L 1 DHEN CUTT,KG T «e« Teeth. ’ This infallible remedy ha, preserved hundreds of chi dren, when thought past recovery, from con vulsions. As soon as the Syrup i s rU hh er . " gums, the child will recover. This’ D repLtL so innocent, so clficacions, and so ple«i nt „ child will refuse to let us gums be rubbetlifi! , When infants arc at the age of four months,/" ‘ there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of “n Syrup should be used on the gums to open th, pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup in the nursery where there arc young children ; for if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums, the Syrup immediately gives case by open ing tho pores ami healing the gums; thereby pre venting convulsions, fevers, &o. Sold by ANTONY & HAINES, Augusta, \ ■ J. M. & T. M. TU RNER, Savannah, P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston. ap6 COMMERCIAL. New Orleans, April 6. Cotton. —The receipts since our last weekly re port of 30th ult. are 27,218 bales ; exported 2G.735 do; stock on hand 130,480 do including all on ship board not cleared to date. r The sales in our market since Tuesday last, have been much smaller than for some time past,' they do not exceed 4,000 bales of all kinds, and generally at a decline of I a I cent per lb ; this falling off in price and demand has been caused by the unfavo- ! rable accounts received on Wednesday from Liver pool and Havre to the 18th February l-n -id I with 1 the receipts of the week being unexpett ' large, 1 owing to the desire on the part of the pl.n'.ers to 1 hurry the remainder of their crops to markc t f-arin 1 a collision between this country and Great Jlri’a u 1 arising out of the boundary question. We do i, * alter our quotations, since the demand is not sub" p 1 milled to generally, and the sales arc not o ' I- * eient magnitude to fix prices. The safe- >" •’ . 1 week amount to 9,000 bales, viz; Mis r • I a 18$ cents, N. Ala. and T e nn. 13$ a ij Texas cents, “ 1 Liverpool Classifications. —Louisiana a- Mississippi, Ordinary 12£ a 13$; Middling 14 ' 14$; Fair 15$ a 16; Good fair 16$ a 17; Good . > ' fine 17$ ; Tennessee and North Alabama, ( . m, ~, 1 Middling, Fair, 12$ a 16$, extremes ;Gy , . Good and fine, fair crops, 15 a loi. ' STATEMENT OF COTTON. I 1838, Oct. 1, stock on hand bales 8900 • 1839, April 5, received since 2d 12787 “ “ “ previously 436372 449150 ‘ 458109 * “ “ exports since 2d 9147 ' “ ‘ previously 318132 327079 * l Leaving a balance of stock of 130480 S including all on shipboard not cleared. Coffee —The demand remains quite limited to city use and former rates are continued. ] Molasses. —The enquiry for the last three days J has rather improved,and moderate sales are effected at quotations, the present supply is quite ample for the demand. The receipts since Tuesday are 181 hhds. and 792 bids. Sugar. — We continue our rates for sugar ; trans. j actions however have not been so extensive, and J the demand more limited. The receipts since 2d inst., are 89i hhds. with a fair supply on levee.