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lltehljj €l)r find. WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1839. v ttt 'xr 5 Vol. lII.—No. 49 THE CIiaaNKXK AND SENTINEL. PUBLISHED, daily, tri-weekly, and weekly, At No. Broad-atreet. terms: Daily paper. Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Tri- Wee.cly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or Seven at the end of the year. Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance, or I our at the end of year. ■———■ip—— 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. --■» 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.