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WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1839. v ttt 'xr
5 Vol. lII.—No. 49
THE CIiaaNKXK AND SENTINEL.
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CHKdNICU*; AND SKNTINKL.
AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1.
The editors of the ' 'harleston papers have be en
amusing themselves with a map of rare and ex
traordinary virtues, which they say is to he seen
at the office of Messrs. Jervey.Wa ing & White,
of that city. This map, it seems, discloses to the
Charlestonians, the important and astonishing
fact, that Charleston will, in a short time, engross
all the cotton of the Southern States, and all the
trade based upon the sales of cotton, except that
which must necessarily go down the Missiasipp 1
river! “One million of hales!" “Forty millions
of dollars!!” “looks like doing something” says
the Mercury ! And so it docs upon paper, but
a million of hags of cotton, we assure our breth*
ten of the quill in Charleston, will never find its
way to that city in one year. They may figure
to their hearts’ content —they may conjure cotton
bags from the waters of all the rivers, but they will
not come. We wish Charleston all the prosper
ity she may deserve, in common with the other
sea parts of the South, but it is idle to expect that
she will ever bo able to overcome the opposition
of her rivals and the obstac'os which nature has
thrown in the way to the accomplishment of the
extravagant and visionary calculation of con
centrating upon her wharves all the Cotton
and trade of east of the valley of the Mis
sissippi. It is worse than visionary to suppose
that the Cotton raised upon the Alabama, Chat
tahoochie and Flint Rivers will seek a market in
Charleston. Why, she docs not even command
a half of the Colton raised in the valley of the
Savannah river, and yet she is making her calcu
lations upon grasping all of that which is raised
dn rivers far to the W estward of us ! Before
she talks of commanding the Colton of the Ala
bama and the Chatlahoochie, let her take steps to
comrnmd that which is grown much nearer to her
wharves; for if she cannot command the Cotton
which descends the Savannah, it is folly to talk
about that which fl vats down the Chattahoocbie.
We admire the efforts which Charleston is ma
king, to secure to herself a large proportion of the
trade of the South, but it is sheer extravagance to
talk about a million of bags of cotton, and we
will endeavor to-morrow to point out, briefly the
obstacles which are in the way to the accomplish,
ment of such expectations, if they are seriously
entertained.
We give below one of the articles to which we
allude, from the Mercury of Saturday last-
Our attention has been drawn to a map on the
subject of the direct trade, in the office ol Messrs.
Jervey, Waring & While, From a cursory re
: view of it, we would say that it deserves the at
| tention of the citizens of< harleston; for it ap
‘ pears to bear on its face most of the gieat inler
csls which have attracted the notice of the South
for the last lew years.
The first object that strikes the eye, is the im
portant lines which divides the labors of our Con
federacy : the black and wh.te, or the malaria and
• be Ithy Districts of the Union; and we were
surprised to find th it, even with the exclusion of
Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and Mississippi,
the Slates arc so equally divided upon this im
portant subject.
The second characteristic, is the all important
truth, that the termini of rail roads, of canals and
of steam navigations, are the only points, com
ment ally speaking, worthy of serious attention.
Upon this principle—aftei having located Charles
ton at the most commanding point over the black
basis Districts above noticed, y.m are transferred
involuntarily to the three Western termini most
essential to us, viz. to Gunter’s Landing upon the
k Tennessee River, Montgomery on the Alabama
River, and Saint Joseph, on the Gulf of Mexico,*
a city somewhat new to us, but whose destiny '
was foretold fourteen years ago, by that distin
guished Engineer, Gen. Bernard, then of the
United States service.
The third convicti >n that forces itself upon
* you. is the ease with which thise points are con
" nested with Charleston. The first, Gunter’s
Landing, may be reached through Macon in ten
days: steam boats, with freight worth one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, arriving in Macon
in seven days, and their cargoes transferred in
thre3 more by cars, over a distance of two hun
dred and twenty miles to the Tennessee River,
the great Eastern feeder of the Mississippi. The
second point. Montgomery, will receive goods in
seven days from our wharves: four days by steam
boats to the present bend of the Ocmulgee River,
and by rail road via Columbus, in the th ce days
more, over a distmee of two hundred and twenty
miles, to Montgomery. The third, Saint Joseph,
it is said, may he reached in six days, four to the
Ocmulgee bend by steam boats, thence by rail
road in six to eight hours, to the Flint River, from
whence goods are transported in forty hours to
Saint Joseph ; for we were surprised to learn that
this enterprising town is not satisfied with two
rail roads and a steam boat navigation by the nar
rows of the Apalachicola River, but has now
actually placed under contract a steam boa canal
of 15 miles, to avoid the narrows, and thereby
throw their goods upon the Atlantic in the short
e*%tm!e possible.
These were among the important farts that
struck us at a first glance; we vi 1 examine this
map farther, and submit such impressions as may
irise upon the subject of which it treats. I here
S one other remark that we would make, howev
£7 One million of bales of Colton were set to
he credit of Charleston : equal to forty millions
if dollars —and it appears that seven hundred
housand of these were made to descend the Ala
iama River; wc wib see to this—for with forty
nillions vve can make a diversion upon the trade
if Europe; it looks like doing something.
It is supposed the census of 1840, will show a
emulation in the United States of between 17,-
100,000, and 18,000,000. In 1830, it was 12,-
166,020.
Post Offices in t.'eoigin.
A post office has been established at Selma,
Chattooga County, and another ul Pace’s Ferry,
DeKalb County.
1 he name ol the post office named Liberty
Hill, Heard County, has been changed to ‘•Hous
ton.”
The folloa ing post masters have been appoint
ed :
L. B. Moseley. Selma, Chattooga county.
Hardy Pace, Pace’s Ferry, DeKalb county.
John Audulf, Chisolm’s, Stewart county.
For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Pro Bono Pubt.co, of the Constitutionalist,
exhibits a commendable degree of public spirit,
in telling all llio world—wnut nobody knew be
fore—mat tbe City ol Augusta is on the verge of
bankruptcy. We owe 5150,000, says this econ
omist; and he waxes warm, in pointing out the
dangers of further engagements, because, f or .
sooti), “ there is nocUbt, now hanging on us, or
llia t may hereafter be contracted, tvh.c/i will not
have to be paid. A most notable discovery !
the concoction of which so exhausted the writer’s
powers of research, that he did not notice what
were the means, belonging to the city, to pay her
debts. He forgot to tell us, that besides the
South Common, and all her other properly, the
city holds $155,000 of productive stocks, the
dividends on which are considerably mo e than
the interest of her debt, and that her usual in
come exceeds her ordinary expenses. Perhaps,
if ho had looked thus far, he would not nave
been so dreadfully alarmed, at the prospect of pay
ing $lB (100 in six per cent, scrip, for a property
yielding about 53,000 per annum. How long.
I beg to inquire, would such an income be in ex
tinguishing such a debt, interest and all 1
But the writer objects to purchasing the water
works, because there is good well water in the
city. True—there is good well water in the city,
and there is good spring water in Habersham
county, and for the prat tical uses of our popula
tion, the one is about as available ns the other.
Mr. Pro Bonn will confer a favor by telling us,
in what part of Broad street, between the mar
kets, this good well water is to be found—and by
informing us how much benefit the bulk of ou
population can derive, from a pump in r arof the
City H 11, or below Lincoln street. It strikes me
that the Turknetl Spring, even without the water
works, would be about as available as either.
TRITON.
Communicated.
Foreign Items,
The King of Bavaria has taken the “Mortis
Multicaulis” mania to en eminent degree. The
public authorities of Munich have established a
silk manufacture, and Munich is surrounded by
groves of Silkworm food. It is thought that the
great population of the capital would be main
tained by this new branch of industry, and cer
tainly if any people out of the heavenly empire
aic calculated by their frugal habits and skill, to
make raring silk a suhslenance.the trial willsuc
cccd under the mild climate of Southern Germai^
Gas Light. —This new invention was
' lately made by Thomas Mad, of London, and
proves how little our Philosophers dream of what
is hid in heaven and earth. The doctrine of the
four elements has long fallen to the ground, but
the p iniev .1 causes placed in their rtoad are
daily taken to pieces aiid new ones substituted,
still more immaterial and indefinable than the
ones last known. Louvoisicr decomposed water
into two kinds of air, hydrogen and oxygen.
Mad has discovered that these two are the produ
cers of both light and heat, and that consequently
water will burn. He conducted steam into the
point of a flame of such a heat that it ignited,
and continued to ignite by its own power without
the aid of the first auxiliary. The heat which
was produced was enormous and the light only
trifling, but the moment he put a wire of Plalina
i nto the flame, its light became equal to th ee
hundred candles. Conducting this flame upon a
cylinder of chalk the light became so intense
that it could only be seen through dyed glasses,
and being equal to that of tl e Sun. he named it
solar gas light Mad has forthwith taken out a
patent and obtained permission to construct a
solar gas light at the new Exchange which is
building in London, and he also is building a
tower in St. Petersburg, which will light that city
like the Sun at mid noon. The sensation which
is produced by this invention is enormous, the
sh ires of the gas companies have fallen from 70
to 15 per cent, and the oil merchants have peti
tioned government to delay the introduction of
the new invention for twelve months, so as to
enable them to dispose of their stocks. Mad re
tains as his secret the manner of igniting the
J
The Washington Globe of the 24th says that
We understand that Mr. Orme, a Teller in the
Bank of the Metropolis, took $50,000 from the
bank. The suspicions of the Cashier being awa
kened by appearances, he counted the money,
and, discovering the deficit, charged the Teller,
who confessed everything, and pointed tothepe -
son who had it in possession, Mr. Goodrich, a
clerk in one of the Departments. Mr. G. was ar
rested and the money recaptured.
The Southern Recorder of yesterday says:—
Public attention will no doubt be specially di
rected to the report of the Darien Bank, from the
circumstance of its present suspension of specie
payment The report will be found in another
pait of our columns, of which the community
will judge for itself. For ourselves it but con
firms our former opinion, that the bills of the
Bank ought not to be sacrificed ; as theie can le
but little doubt of the solvency of the institution
itself. The State owns seven-tenths of the sto, k,
and in the event of the ,( ank being in a far worse
position than she now is, the State would sustan
her, as she has done before under greatly worse
circumstances. There can be no danger of ulti
mate loss to the bill-holder, in any event—there,
fore there should not be suffered sacrifices on the
bills by those who hold them. The bills of the
Branches of this Bank at Macon and this place,
are taken in payments at the Central Bank.
The Southerner.
The Savannah Georgian of Monday savs;—
“ Another line steamer, intended to p y us a pack
et bet cen Charleston, Savannah and Augusta,
arrived at our wharves last Friday on her first
trip. She is commanded by Capt. A. Chase, and !
owned in Charleston, where the was built. Htr
■» dimensions are as h Hows—
, Length, J 27 feet—beam 20 feet—hold 7J feet
he lell this port before we had an opportunity of
Malting her, hut we learn that she is not only a
handsome boat, hut swift in her movements and
. comfortable in every respect. She run from
Charleston in the brief space of ftj hours.
\V e view this boat as an evidence of that good
spirit which is bein* felt in Charleston as to the
necessity of connecting the two cities, and hail
her appearance as indicative of that honorable
competition in consulting the convenience of the
travelling public, which regulated by safe and pro
per speed must insure patronage.
George R. f, Shower, one of the hand of pa
iriots who, in 1773, threw the tea overboard from
, Dartmouth, in Boston harbor, is still liv
j. i n o> at die advanced age of one hundred years.
hr ora the Charleston Mercury.
Emancipation in the West Indies
1 he article below we cut frow the Jamaica Roy
al Gazette ot March 15. Its statements are au
thentic facts, embracing the results of emancipa
tion in one ot the largest Parishes of Jamaica. It
is the bitter commentary of nature on the folly of
man. V\ here now shall magniloquent theory
hide his head ! What has become of the enthu
siastic industry of freemen, the great advantage
to the master of tempting labor by wages—where
is the promised fruit 1 The following facts are
the great result. The number of laborers is di
minished about three filths—the daily labor per
formed by each individual is diminished about one
third-—the price of labor is raised above that of
the Northern States—there has been a general
and systematic encroachment of the negroes on
the property of their former masters! It should
also bo remarked as a natural consequence, that
the English and Colonial Abolitionists, not con
tent with emancipation, are exciting and hurrying
on every evil element. The end of these things
it is not diflin.lt t« sec. This noble and fertile
Island will very soon be abandoned, as utterly
worthless, by the English, and the upshot of
emancipation will be to reduce a race of men half
civ,l.zed, hack to utter haiharism, through a series
of horrid ciimes and sufferings. Alas, poor Wil
berforce!
From the Cornwall Jamaica Courier.
Falmouth, March 9, 1839.
Th L ACTUAL ST ATE OF TH IS IjAUOIII KO POPU
LATION, and of Surah cultivation in the
Parish of Thklawnt At a meeting of the
Freeholders, Proprietors and Managers of prop
erties in the Parish of Trclawny, held on the 4th
ultimo.
It was Resolved, That with a view to ascertain
the real state of Agriculture in this Parish, a com
mittee should he appointed, who should issue Cir
culars to the different managers of properties, with
an earnest request that they would afford every
information in their power relative to the cultiva
tion of estates under their diiection. The Com
mittee so appointed having received and carefully
examined the several returns transmitted to them
in number 04 now proceed to report on the au
• swers therein contained.
1 t. The average number of laborers during the
\ apprenticeship, on 56 of the properties that have
’ ''sent in returns, was 5156. Eight properties have
not answered the questions Nos. 1 and 2.
2d. The average number since the Ist August,
1623, on the same properties, has been 2,207.
3d. The rate of daily wages paid generally
throughout this Parish for field labor previous to
the commencement of crop, has been Is. Bd. first
class, and Is. 3d., second class, but it must be
here remarked that the quantity of labor obtained
is by no means what is considered a fair day’s
work, never exceeding seven, and in most easts
only six hours. The expectancy that the culti
vation would he curried on by fewer people than
during the apprenticeship, in consequence of the
laborer working better in a free Slate, has not
been realized—on the contrary, the daily labor
now performed by each individual has fallen oil',
as compared with the apprenticeship, one third.
4lh. Job work, when obtained, has been per
formed at the following rates per acre: —
Cleaning Canos, 15s. to 20s.
Thrashing do. 10s. to 15s.
Cleaning Pastures, ss. to 15s.
Digging Cane holes, per 100 ss. 4d. to 4s. 2d.
The variation of the foregoing rates has refer
ence to the condition of the Cane fields and
Pasture land. The returns shew the general
backwardness to the Estate’s work, in all its
branches, from the idleness and disinclination of
the laborers to a steady and continuous e nploy
ment, and it is in the knowledge of the Commit
tee that great loss has been experienced by job
work not being performed in the proper time, and
as a proof of this, Cane fields that were dug in
Qftoher, are not yet planted.
f stlt. Rent has been demanded from the head
of families, on a few Estates, from Is Bd. to 3s y
4d per week, but in a very few instances only,
lias been paid.
6th. The cultivation generally in the Parisli is
in a most unpromising and backward state, and
not more titan one third of the usual quantity of
fall plant has been put in for crop 1840, and even
that not yet established.
7th, The labor, so far from Icing continuous,
has, in many instances, nearly ceased, and in no
case has anything like the steady and necessary
work been obtained, so absolutely essential to the
carrying on of Sugar cultivation.
Bth. Labor ceased on the 20th December,
1838, and was partially resumed on the 7th Jan
uary, 1839, hut so little effective, in consequence
ot the uncertainty of continuance, so much time
idled away in the performance, and the work so
badly completed, as to render it frequently quite
useless to the Estate.
9th. Great loss has been sustained in Pimento,
and in many instances the crop it s been totally
sacrificed, in consequence of the laborers refus
ing to pick it, though offered five shillings per
barrel, and even one half of the crop. Cofi’ee is
not a staple of this Parish.
10th. The manufacture of Sugar seldom com
mences in Trclawny before the first or second I
week in February. The falling off in the quan- j i
tity of Sugar on the Estates has not yet hcenJ/
ascertained, but the Sugar of this year’s crupp™
sent down to the two public wharves in Fal- i
mouth, Hamilton’s and Itellingers’ between the I
first of February and the Blh of March, shews a y
defalcation of (as compared with the same dates >
last year) 241 hogsheads.
The prospect of the present Sugar crop is most
gloomy ; many acres of Canes have been al
ready sacrifii ed from the impossibility of prevail
ing on the laborers to cut them, and destruction
is still going on in the Cane field from the same
ca«se. —The pastures are in a foul state ; the
fences are broken down, and the cattle conse
quently wander over the Estate, trespassing on
the Canes to a very great extent, and the evil is
increased by the difficulty there is in getting peo
ple to watch the stock, and their very great neg
ligence and inattention when in charge of the
! cattle.
On several Estates the people are refusing to
take oIF the crop, excepting at a cost fur uliove
what the value of the produce, when manufac
tured, will admit of, independent of the cultiva
tion.—On some properties they keep the mill
about one day and then stop: on others they
have cut utew cart loads ot Oanes, and then re
fused to grind them; and in all cases the laborers
are demanding and receiving much higher wages
for manufacturing Sugar than it is possible the
Estate can continue to afford ; 3s. 4d., 4s. 2d.
and os. is being paid on some Estates, as the
only moans of inducing the people to take off
the crop.
Under the foregoing complicated difficulties, it
will naturally he expected that some comment
should be made upon the causes of these evils,
and the committee therefore dose this report by
offering their opinion on this subject.
It is to be deeply regretted that one of the
causes for the refusal ot the people to work, and
' the exorbitant wages they have been, and arc de
manding, is to he attributed to the mischievous
advice given to them by the Baptist Preachers,
and on all occasions, where a combined strike
has taken place, it has been traced to the influence
exerted by the Baptist Rulers over the laborers
on the Estates, such Rulers a ting upon the doc
trine promulgated by their Preachers. It is evi
dent to the committee that one great object of the
Baptist Missionaries has been to prevent, a* much
as possible, all good feeling on the part of the
laborer towards bis employer: and it is a justice
to the laborers to stale, that but for the evil in
structions given to them by their Pastors, their
conduct, as free people, would have been more
creditable to themselves, am! property never
would have been reduced to its present almost
ruined condition; nor can it lie expected that
labor will be resumed upon any tiling like fair
and equitable terms to the proprietor, whilst the
Baptist Missionaries, (so directly interested in
the earnings of the laborers.) not only arc allow
ed, hut encouraged to exercise their present un
warrantable interference between master and la
borer—in short, heading a combination, which if
not speedily put an end to, must inevitably brim
dcstruc ion upon the lauded interest of the Parish.
Secondly, a belief exists on the part, of the la
borer, that the master cannot deprive him of his
house and grounds, and this belief, (so mischiev
ously instilled into his mind) —lias been strength
ened by the mal-adminislration of the Law, on
the part of the Stipendiary Magistrates, who,
whenever it has been necessary to apply for the
ejectment of a laborer, in consequence of his dis
orderly conduct, have resorted to every quibble
that the Law would admit of, to defeat the mana
ger and support the laborer in a system destruct
ive; and tlie committee have no hesitation in
stating, that so far from the Stipendiary Magis
trates in this Parisli having done what the Brilisii
Governmcn sent them here for, viz: to conciliate
ail parlies and classes, and to deal out even hand
ed justice between proprietor and laborer, they
have identified themselves with what the com
mittee is sorry to he obliged to term the Baptist
Faction, and have h e.i,and arc, so completely
upholding the laborer in his negligent and tres
passing propensities, try the very extraordinnry
decisions they give on the Bench, that the pro
prietors and managers have lost all confidence in
obtaining justice and the consequence is that tile
labororsare daily becoming more confirmed as
squatters, retaining forcible possession of the
houses and land which they occupied as appren
tices,
i'hirdly, The refusal on the part of the women
to work is general all ovei the Parish, ami wh m
spoken to, they invariably reply “the Governor
told us were not to work.” Much pains has
been taken by some managers, but ineffectually,
to remove this impression.
Lastly. It is the opinion of this committee that
the people never will he brought to a state of con
tinuous labor while they are allowed to possess
tile large tracts of land now cultivated by them
tor provisions, which renders them perfectly in
dependent of their employe) s, and so far from
their having any respect for the rights of properly,
they are in defiance of all remonstrances, opening
fresh land, and increasing their grounds to a great
extent, filling them with provisions far beyond
what is necessary for their own consumption,
whilst the Estate to which the ground belongs,
is left ruinate.
Tlie report having been read and unanimously
agreed to.
It was Resolved, That the same be adopted and
printed.
f l hat the Chairman lie requested to forward
copies of the report to His Excellency the Gov
ernor—to the Commissioners of Correspondence
—to tlie Jamaica Association in London—to the
Island Agent—and to the different Custodcs of
the several Parishes in the Island.
WM. DAWSON, Chairman.
the Charleston Courier of <
' From St. Augustine.
By the Schr. Stephen & Francis, Capt. Ma
gee, arrived here yesterday, we have received the
St. Atgusline Herald of the 25th inst., from
which we copy tlie following:—
Indian News.—' aptain Kenyon, of the s«hr.
Elizabeth, 7 days from Key Biscayne, has polite
ly furnished us with the following:—
A Uay ui two pievious to tils sailing from Fort
Dallas, a party of about 20 soldiers were sent
out, under command of a sergeant, to cut steam
boat wood. After tlie sentinels were poslcd, and
the men commenced tlieii work, one of them, to
alarm his companions, gave a mimic Indian yell,
at the lop of liis voice, when suddenly rose up in
full view, almost within gun-shot, a body of about
fitly Indians. Tnesergeant promptly formed his
men, and commenced a pursuit joined by Lieut.
Rugglcs, who on hearing tlie alarm, left orders for
the remainder of hit, company to follow. The
Indians moved off leisurely, preserving their dis
tance, running when tlie so dierg run, and walk
ing when they walked. Finding pursuit una
vailing. the detachment returned.
It is supposed tli • Indians contemplated sur
rounding the working party by surprise, wfen
the accidental whoop of the soldier caused them
S' e discovered,
here is no later news from the high con
cting parlies, Major Gen. Macomb and Sam
es; hut as there is strong presumptive evi
dence that tile Indians are generally out of am
munition, Sam will probaldy not exact too hard /■
'
Tlie following is copied from a slip of the Nor- 1
folk Herald, dated “Saturday—4 I*. M.” I
Fat At Dr el. —A meeting took place on Fri
day last, in Norfolk county, near the North Caro- |
lina line,lietwccn J.Scawell Jones, Esq., of North i
Carolina, and A. Wright V\ ilson. Esq. of New i
York,to settle by the barbarous appeal to tlie duel, I
a point of honor, which had originated between i
them a short time before, at Petersburg. They I
fought with pistols at six pares. At tile first fire,
Mr. Wilson was shot through the body and died i
on the spot. His hall grazed his adversary’s i
temple. This fatal event is the more to be la- |
mented from the circumstance that the parlies had
long known and esteemed each other, and up to
the mormvt ot their tued had reciprocated the
most friendly and respectful sentiments.—This is
evidenced by the survivor, in the hitter agony of
his feelings and the avowal of his high apprecia
tion ol the worth and character of the deceased.
Both, however, were under the infatuation which
chains the votaries of false honor to its bloody
code, and deemed their quarrel irreconcileahle by
any other course than that which involves a vio
lation ot the laws of God and man ! How long
will reasoning in in permit himself to he the victim
ot this accursed Moloch.
More Iruirkctior !—Wo understand the
Mexican consul in this city yesterday received a
letter from the collector ot Mobile, informing him
that theschr. General Jackson had just arrived at
Mobile under circumstances which might require
the attention of the consul. The General .lack
son is one of the vessels taken up by tho Feder
alists at Tampico to convey troops and munitions
ot war to \ era Cruz. The General Jackson had
cannon, powder and muskets, with a sum of mo
ney, put on board of her by Gen. Mexia. In
stead of landing them near Vera Cruz, we hear
the (’apt. turned about and steered for Mobile.
This act will greatly embarrass the Federalists, if
not defeat them, and accounts for General Mexin’s
inactivity.—A - , o. Courier,of the 25//;.
The New York Correspondent of tho National
Intelligencer, under date of the 25th ult. says:—
The cost of Governor FiiimKi.n's movement
in Maine is estimated at from $700,000 to $1,000,-
000. He is about to call upon the Federal Gov
ernment for pay 1 What a farce all this was!
Hut, poor Uncle Sam, we shall he told, will have
to foot the bill, else Mr. V. U. will not get the
Stale of Maine.
The prospect in the money market continues
to brighten. Stocks advance, unit the feelings of
merchants are elated. Confidence is increasing,
and the hanks become more liberal. There is a
sensible relict here, and a pleasing revival allect
ing all classes of business. I have heard of one
large firm, (grocers,) who have Id clerks, whom
they keep at work past midnight, and about whose
shop from 20 to 30 cartmen are constantly em
ployed.
AcCIIIKXT AT TEH Isi'I.INKII Pt.ANK..—We
learn that the rope at the Inclined Plane on the
Columbia Rail Road, broke about 7 o'clock yes
terday morning, just after the passenger cars had
passed. Four burthen cars loaded with (lour
were attached at the time, and rushed down from
near the top of the plane with tremendous veloc
ity. The cars were of course destroyed, as well
as others which arrested their progress and were
standing at the foot of the plane. Tho West
Chester stage, full of passengers, was on the
bridge at the time, and had not the rapid career
of tho cars met with an impediment, the destruc
tion of life would probably have been very great;
but luckily no personal injuries were sustained.
The new rope ordered by the superintendent of
Motive Power, has not yet been received from
the manufacturers, but is daily expected.—Penn
sylvanian 23 d inst,
Wheaton and the Panther.
Ren Wheaton was one of the first settlers on
the waters ot the Susquehanna, immediately after
the war, a rough, uncultivated and primitive man.
Like others of the same stamp and character,
lie subsisted chiefly by hunting, cultivating the
land, but sparingly, and in this way raised a nu
merous family amidst the woods, and in a hall
starved condition, and comparative nakedness.
Hut as the Susquehanna country rapidly increas
ed in population, the hunting grounds of Whea
ton were encroached upon, so that the chance
with the smooth bore among the deers and hears ;
was greatly lessened. On thisaccount Wheaton )
removed from the Susquehanna country, to Ot- 1
sego county, to the more unsettled country of
the Delaware, near a place yet known by the
name of Wait’s settlement, where game was more
plenty. The distance from where he made his
home in the woods, through to the Susquehanna,
was about fifty miles, and a continued wilderness
ot that time. Through these woods the almost :
aboriginal hunter was often compelled to pass to.
the Susquehanna, for various necessaries, and
among the rest no small quantity of whiskey, as
he was of very intemperate habits. On one ol ,
these visits, in the midst of summer, with his
smooth bore on his shoulder, knife, hatchet, <Stc.
in their proper places, he had neatly penetrated
the distance, when he became weary, and having
come to the summit of a ridge—sometime in the
afternoon—which overlooks the vale of the Sus-
Mliiehanna, he selected a convenient place in the
nSvade, as it was hot, for the rays of the sun from
'mo west poured his sultry influence through all
the forest, where he lay down to rest awhile
among the leaves, after taking a drink from his .
pint bottle of green glass, and a mouthful of cold ■
Johnny cake from his pocket.
In this situation he was soothed to drowsiness
by the hum of insects, and the monotony of the
passing winds among the foliage around him,
when he soon unwarily fell asleep with his gun
folded In his arms. Hut altera while he awoke
from his sleep, and for a moment or two still lay
in the sane position, as it happened, without stir
ring, when he found that something had taken
place while he slept, which had situated him
somewhat differently from the manner in which
he first went to sleep.—On reflecting a moment
he found he was entirely covered over, head and
ears, with leaves and light stuff, occasioned, as he
now supposed, cither by the sudden blowing ol
the wind, or some wll animal. On which ac
count he liecame a little disturbed in Ifs mind, as
he well knew the manner of the panther w hen it
hunts to support its young, will often cover its
prey with leaves and bring its whelps to the ban
quet. Ho therefore continued to be perfectly
still, as when he first awoke, when he heard the
steps of some kind of heavy animal near him; —
and knowing if it were a panther the distance be
tween himself and death could not be fur, if he
should attempt to rise up. Accordingly ns he
suspected, afle, waiting a full minute, he nowdis
tinctly heard the retiring tread of a stealthy pan
ther. of which ho had no doubt from his know
ledge of the creature’s ways. It had taken hut a
few steps, however when it again stopped a lon
ger time; still Wheat >n continued his silent posi
tion, knowing his safely depended much on this.
Soon the tread was again heard, farther and far
ther off. until it entirely died away in the distance ■
—but he still lay motionless, a few moments lon- <
ger, then he ventured gently and cautiously to ,
raise his head and cast an eye in the direction of 1
the creature. Whatever it was, it bad gone, and 1
he said nothing. He now rose up with a spring,
for his blood had ligen running from bis heart to
the extremities and bark again with uncommon s
velocity, all the while his ears had listened to the
steps of the animal on the leaves and brush, i’e
now saw plainly the marks of design among tho
leaves, and that ho had been covered over, and !
that the paws of some creature had done it. And
if, as lie suspected, a panther was the animal lie
know it would return to kill him, on which ac
count he made haste te deceive it, and to put him
sclt in a situation to give it a taste of the contents
ot old smooth bore. He now seized upon soine
pieces of old wood which lay about, and placed as
much as was equal to his own bulk, exactly
where he slept, and covered it all over with leaves
in the same manner the panther had done, and
then sprang to a tree near by, into which he as
cended, from whence he had a view a good dis
tance about him. and especially in the dlrectioa
the creature had gone. Here in the crotch ol the
tree he stood, with his gun resting across a limh,
in the direction of a place where he had been left
by the panther, looking sharply as far among tho
woods as possible, in the direction he expo, ti d the
creature’s return. But he had remained in this
position but a short time, and had barely thrust
the ramrod down the barrel of his pioe, to be sure
the charge was in, and to examine his priming,
and shut down the pan slowly, so that it should
not snap, and thus make a noise, when his keen
Indian eye, for such he had, caught a glimpse of
a monstrous panther, leading warily two panther
kittens towards her intended supper.
Now matters were hastening to a climax rapidly
when Wheaton or the panther should finish their
hunting on the mountains of tho (Susquehanna,
for if old smooth boro should flash in the pan or
miss her aim, the die would be cast, as a second
load would bo impossible ere his claws would have
sundered his heart strings, in the tree where he
was; or if he should but partially wound her, the
same must have been his fate. During these,
thoughts the panther hud hid her young under
some bush, and had come within some thirty feet
of the spot where she supposed her victim was
still sleeping, and seeing all as she left it, dropped
down to a crouching position, precisely as a cat
when about to spring on its prey. Now the hor
rid rustling of her hinder claws drawn under its
belly was heard, and the hem ham strings were
seen but halt an instant by Wheaton from where
he sat in the tree, when the tremendous leap was
iimde. It rose on a long curve into the air of
about ten feet in the highest place, and from thence
desccnding.it struck exactly where the breast and
bowels of its prey had lain, with a scream too hor
rible for de c/'ption, when it tore to alou s the
rotten wood, filling the air for several feet above
it with leaves and light brush, the covering of their
deception. Hut instantly the panther found her
self cheated, and seemed to droop a little with dis
appointment. when however, it resumed its erect
posture, ami surveyed quite around on every side
on a horizontal line, in search of its p ey, but
not d’seovering it, she cast n furious look aloft
among the tops of the trees, when in a moment
or two the eyes of Wheaton and the panther had
met. Now for another leap, when sli'i dropped
for the purpose, hut the bullet was off, and two
buck shot of old smooth bore were too quick, as
he lodged them exactly in the brain of the savage
monster, and dropped her dead on the spot where
the hunter had slept hut n short time before, iu
the soundness of a mountain dream.
On Saturday the gentlemen who were appointed
to make a fair division of the real estate of the
late George Lorillurd, finished their labors. The
property consisted ot upward of four hundred
houses, stores, and blocks of property in the city,
and is valued at upward of three millions of dol
lars. Alter the same was completed, the five
heirs drew by Jot for their parcels. The estate of
Jacob Lorillard took one part—Peter Lorillard
one—Mrs. Hubert Uarstow and niece one—Mrs.
John G. Coster ami brother one—and the other
to a sister, the name we did not hoar.
It will be recollected that Mr. Lorillard died a
baclieloi, leaving his property to his nephews and'
nieces. Some of the heirs being dissatisfied,
they contested the validity of the will, which
was declared void by the Court of Errors. By
this decision ‘this immense property will now
come into use in a much more advantageous man
ner for the public, than if the will had been sus
tained.—JV. y. Express.
Effects of Vkoetablek upon Animals.—
The botanical professor, in a lecture delivered at
King’s college, said that “ horses will not touch,
cruciferious plants, hut will feed on red grasses,
amidst abundance of which goats have been
known to starve; and these latter again will eat
and grow fat on the water hemlock, which is
rank poison to other cattle, In like manner pigs
will Iced on henbane, while they are destroyed by
common pepper; and the horse, which avoids
the bland turnip, will grow fat on rhubarb.—
Farmers' Magazine.
For the Chronicle If Sentinel.
Lilies written ut Scu.
’Tis eve, the sun is sinkingfar in the glowing west.
His last pure ray is beaming upon the ocean's breast?
The day is o’er, and now he dips beneath the dark
blue waves,
To light the mermaids’ revelry within their coral
caves.
His pathway through the day was bright, and
peaceful was his set,
And lovely tints of amber are streaking heaven yet;
burnishing the bioad expanse of heaven’s ethereal
blue,
With dyes that rival in their change the dying
dolphin’s hue,
• * • • •
The wanderer thought, while gazing upon the
lovely scene,
Os one he loved in brighter days, whose .heart was
like its sheen ;
A blessing lingered on his lips, for that one far
away,
Oh ! may her pilgrimage through life be IBe that'
sunset ray. J. E. K.
On board ship Calhoun, April 21.
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, April 29.
Cleared. —Ship Cariolanus, Mcrrel, I iveqool ;
brig Augusta, J.ivermoie, New 1 ork ; brig I pelou
sas, Ferre), Baltimore; s hr. HoM. Bruce, Carow,
New A ork; schr. Extra, Wilson, Philadelphia. {
stbr. Hurd, Jones, New 1 ork.
Arrived yesterday —Ship (iov. Fenner, Bennet,
Havre; hr. bork City of liochestcr, Campbell, Bar
badoes; brig Poland, (lardner, Havana; steamboat
Lamar, Cieswell, Augusta.
Went to sen. —Ship Orbit, Latham, New York;
ship Newark, Thatcher, New i ork ; br. bark Hibs
hoio, Lamb,Liverpool; hr.bark Victoria,Chalmers,
J.iverpoo'i bug Havre, ( aipenter, Liverpool, brig
Edwin, Fitzgerald, Baltimore ; brig Exit, Sisson,
Charleston ; brig* petousas,Ferrel. Baltimore; biig
Augusta, Liveimore,New York; schr. Hurd. Jones,
Baltimore; schr Extra, Wi son,Philadelphia ; schr.
Holt. Bruce, Carson, New York.
Charleston, April 30.
Arrived yesterday —Brig Exit, Sisson, Savannah;
schr Bold Commander, Adams, St Marks, via Key-
West.
Cleared —Brig Emeline, Heath, Kingston, Ja.
Wmt to sea yesterday —C L brig Buenos Ayres,
Stuart, New York.