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il JQNES&tX " ATOTOTA, 6A MOBNW6 MAT 9, 1839. Vol. IlI._No. THE CHiIOJVIt LE ANI) SiOSTI.XEL PUBLISHED, daily, TRI-WEEK lv, and weekly, At iYo. Broad-street. terms: Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in-advance. Tri- Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in .advance or Seven at the end of the year. Weekly papir. Three Dollars in advance, or Four at f the end of year. /CHitONICI.K AND SKNTINKL. AUGUSTA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 8. From our Correspondent. Milledoeville, May Gth, 1839. The Convention assembled at the State House this day at 10 o’clock, A. M., and was called to j order by the appointment of Joseph Dav, (Speak er ot the House of Representatives,) Chairman, and Fuedeiuck H. Sanfoiui, Secretary. The Governor’s proclamation,announcing the member elect to the Convention, was then road, nip’ l^e members present answered to their nam 6 — on b' 10 failing to appear. Mr. Ke.vax, of Baldwin, the" moved to dis pense tvith the oath prescribed by the Legislature, butafterwards withdrew it, and moved to proceed to elect a President, and other officers ol the Convention. Mr. Ghat, of Jones, nominated the Hon. James M. Wayxe, of Chatham, for President, and no opposing candidate being in nomination, he was appointed ncm. con. On being conducted to the chair, by a committee con sisting of Messrs. Gray, Stocks, and t one, Judge Wayne made a very handsome and highly ap propriate address. The Convention then pro ceeded to elect a Secretary, a number of gentle men being nominated as candidates, Mr. Kenan moved that a plurality of votes should elect— carried. Upon balloting, the following was the result:— Lucien LaTaste, 135 F. H. Sanford, 87 Scattering, 88 Mr. LaTaste was therefo c declared duly elect ed Secretary, he having the highest number of votes. J. R. Edson was then elected Door Keep er, and A. L. Robinson, Messenger. About three hou s having been consumed in making these appointments, and discussing sun dry unimportant points of order, the Convention adjourned until 3 o’clock this afternoon, in order to complete the organization. The State Rights Convention, for the nomina tion of a candidate for Governor, will assemble in the Representative Chamber th evening, at half past seven o’clock. As the mail closes at 3 o’clock, of course I am unable to give you the proceedings of this eve ning. P. S.—ln your paper of Saturday morning last, you committed an error in saying that the Legislature had prescribed certain limits for the action of the Convention under oath. The oath extends only so far as to preclude the C onvention from touching any other articles of the Constitu tion except that relating to representation. The oath has no relation to the other restrictions con tained in the bill. The Southern Recorder of yesterday says:— Perhaps a stronger evidence ol the deplorable state of things, in regard to pecuniary matters, of some of the States South and West ot us, could not be presented, than one that passed before us the other day. A gang of some sixty or seventy negroes, passed through this place a few days ago, ffrom Mississippi, seeking as we understood, a market. Such is the pecuniary embarrassments of that State, us well as others, that in order to lessen the sacrifice on the sales of negroes, which sales have to be made, they arc brought back to the old and impoverished States, for sale, from the very region of inexhaustible fertility'. 1 his is n strange and unnatural state of aftairs, and speaks trumpet-tongueu of the lamentable pecuniary situation of the States from which they come. We arc informed, that a great number of planta tions, of the greatest fertility.are lying uncultivat ed and uncared for, the laborers having been sent oil, to Orleans and other places, to find a market ) to pay the debts of the owners. This is a gloomy representation, and we lear no iess true than sad Atrocious Murder. The Natchez Courier of the 30lh ult. contain 3 the particulars of a deed of blood perpetrated in that city on the morning of the 29th. An indi vidual named Tewksbury had a quarrel with his wife on the day previou s, in which he received some severe contusions. Among those who in terferred was a Mr. Ogg, between whom and Tewksbury blows were exchanged. On the 29th, Tewksbury mot Ogg and levelling a pistol at him shot him in the breast. Ogg tell, and in a few moments expired. Coroners verdict wilful murder.” Tewksbury was immediately taken * into custody, and alter a tedious judicial investi gation, Justice McClure decided that he should j 1 not be admitted to bail. lie accordingly, in close ! confinement, a a aits his trial at the next term of the criminal court. Another Steamboat Burnt. We learn from the Louisville Journal of the 271 h ult. that the steamboat Glasgow, a few days before, on her passage from Louisville to St. I Louis, took fire on lbs Mississippi a few mi'es j above the month of the Ohio, and was consumed. J The boat and cargo were a total loss. Two per «rn»perished in the flames. i from the V. York Commercial Advertiser of the 3rd Later from France. Uy the packet ship Polond, Captain Anthony MUh V ° reCe ‘ Ved ° Ur P,,riS f ' leS tu thc 3ut, ‘ oi On the 28th, Marshal Soult, had another in tcrvtew with tlie King, in which lie proposed, it I s . “ , new ,ls( of ministers, as follows: tlie* Conned'^— ni " iStCr ° f War aud l )rC!iide, “ 0< Foreign affairs, the Due do Broglie; hoc minuter, M. Passay; finance, H. Humaiw the navy, Admiral Duperre; justice, M, c [ the ; commerce, M. Duchatcl; public instruc [S M. ieste, or M. Cunin-Gridaioc thc t'ham or M. Dupin, to be the presider * " hero! Deputies. , , The Due de Broglie 1 couscnl , Cll ' T ■aid. to come in i° X rlnrimr .• Jesaion ot thc Chambers, curing the approachir . . One • -‘P ers sa >’ s in an intor une or the Part.,, t u e oQ»h M Thiers px view wiib the V * 1 ,' . “ ? f Dressed bis ,• •■ngnees to accept a foreign mission tor the J of removing the difficulties his pre sence r -oaioned, in the way of forming a minis trv. ut that Messrs. Passy, Sauzct and Dutiiure used to join any ministry ot which M. Thiers should not be a member, and that the arrange ment proposed by Marshal Soult had therefore fallen through. The Moniteur Parisicn formally contradicts the reports set on foot by some of thc other pa pers, that military preparations had been made in Paris, in apprehension of popular commotions. Intelligence had been received in Pans of sig nal punishment having been inflicted by the French frigate Heroine, upon thc natives of Chatham Island, for attacking thc whaler Jean Bart. Two villages were destroyed. The Belgian Senate adjourned March 27, after concurring with the House in accepting the treaty as agreed upon by the live powers. Sir Herbert Taylor, private secretary to George 111, died at Rome on the 13lh of March. He en tered thc army in 1794, and obtained thc rank of major general in 1813. Commerce ol New Orleans. It appears from official statements of the col lector of the port of New Orleans, published in the Louisianian, that thc total amount of exports of domestic produce from that city during the quarter ending 31st March, was as follows; Coastwise, §8,357,788 51 To foreign ports, in American vessels, 7,860,850 00 To ditto, in foreign vessels, 2,007,478 00 Total value, §18,220,116 51 The shipments up thc Mississippi river arc not included in the above aggregates. Front the Philadelphia United States Gazette. Important Decision. The supreme court of Pennsylvania, it is said, have recently decided that the pay and emolu ments of officers in the revenue of the United States arc subject to taxation for county, and it may bo inferred for corporation purposes. No opinion was expressed as to naval and military officers, as they may be employed and spend their pay abroad. If settled here, they seem to come within the decision. The answer to the objection that they were officers of the superior government was, that thc principle on which the decision was made is thc same as that on which the stock of the United States bank, held by a resident, was declared taxable, ns of a slate institution. If the officers of the United States have not heretofore been taxed, this decision is one of importance to the country, and especially to the city, whcre’the great body of the officers of thc general govern ment is located, whose salaries, even including judges, are now considered rateable; the same court having decided that the office of a president judge of thc common pleas is subject to taxation. Although his salary cannot constitutionally be reduced, thc court said there was no more reason to exempt a judge from contribution to the public burthen, than any other person. On referring to the blue book, we find, on a rough estimate, that there are at least one hundred custom house offi cers, with aggregate salaries of from 1 10,001) to 112,1)00 dollars. If to these salaries arc added the salaries of all thc officers in the post office and mint, with many connected with the war and navy departmenrs, salaries to thc amount of at least 200,000 dollars become rateable to the coun ty and city tax. The geheiial hanking law tir New Yoke. —Since the 10th day of July, 1838, there have been filed in tbc ollice of the secretary of state 109 certificates of banks under the above law. The amount of capital actually subscribed in these institutions is §25,769,175, and thc amount ol prospective capital §856,980,000. From the Newark Daily Advertiser. The New Indian Evieinr,.—Probably no event has occmrcd in thc progress of our country, since the establishment of the Federal Govern ment, more interesting in itself, or fraught with more important consequences, than the settle merit of the native tribes beyond the western limits of the Union. There are now in the ter ritory set apart by Congress for the r permanent residence, about 95,000 Indians belonging to 22 separate tribes, and speaking as many different languages. About 20,000 of thc whole number belong to tribes native to thc soil. But the es timate does not include the wild Indians of the prairie or mountains, or those residing north of the Missouri, or around the sources of the Mis sissippi, as all of these are without the limits of the Territory. The average breadth of thc territory is some thing over 201) miles, and its length about 60n. It contains an area of about eighty mi It. tins of acres of the public land, and is healthy, well wa tered, sufficiently timbered, and a great deal of it remarkably fertile, and is well adapted for agri cultural and p istoral purposes. Lead ore, iron ore, and salt springs have been discovered in it. And it is said that all who reside there are well pleased with their situation. Some few of these, the Choctaws, thc Chicka saws, the Cherokees, have, to some extent, writ- I ten laws for the internal government of their re- ! speetive tribes. The Delawares are about imita- I ting their example. With these exceptions, the j whole of these 95.000 Indians, divided into up- j wards of 20 tribes, who speak different lan guages, and many of whom entertain for each ! other mutual hereditary animosities, have for their government no internal mal 1 w. It is manifestly both the duty and ihe policy of our I Government to provide against the consequences of this critical state of things. And it was with that view the Senate once passed a bill for a Ter- Trained by a convcn ‘ • ritoriiil Government, lives, requiring only that turn of the tribes tbr Governor should be np y, the Supcrintemhidcnt and Senate, and that the as pointed by tluapproved by the President, and laws shouldthe appointment by the Indians of I- providinodelegate to Congress. We trust the it one lurlllbe resumed and successfully prosecu - aub'the next session of Congress, if b From the Natchez Free Trader, April 17. Cold Blooded Murder. —We have just learned that a murder was committed on < hoc taw Bayou, Parish of Concordia, Louisiana, about thirty miles distail above this city, on Satur day last, which for fiendish deliberation and bar barity, caps the climax of all acts of the kind which we have heard of lately. The circumstan ces were these ; A man named J. A. Johnson (the murderer,) and a Mr. Jones (the victim.) lived on adjoining lands on the Choctaw Uayou. The police jury of the Parish in defining and laying out the pub lic roads within their jurisdiction, having found it necessary to run a road thro' a part of Johnson’s land, he, Johnson complained loudly at the pro ceeding. and declared intentions of violence against any one who might use the road; and to prove that he was in earnest, erected a sort of gate or fence on the spot where the road entered his lands. Thus standing the matter, it happened that on Saturday last, Jones had occasion to tra vel the public road so made thro’ Johnson’s land, the course of which was a.ongsidc his house.— Johnson from his window saw Jones passing over the road, whereupon he attacked him with the threat that if he did'nt go back he would shoot him. Jones replied that ihe road was public and that such threats were unnecessary. Further alter cation did not take place but a discharge from Johnson’s rifle laid Junes weltering in his blood. The murderer fled from the scene and in his flight, communicated the circumstances of the bloody affair to persons whom he met. These persons on repairing to Johnson’s house found Jones on the ground, a litoloss corpse. Johnson was in this city on Sunday and Mon day, but the tidings had not then arrived. As soon as our vigilant sheriff and his assistants got notice of the affair, they started a close and un ceasing watch for the criminal, but helms not yet been found, and it is thought that he has fled from this vicinity. It will be a pity indeed if such a heartless and inhuman villain should escape Ihe full reward of his bloody crime. When all laws both civil and divine arc thus recklessly braved, public justice cannot be too active. Another Atrocious Murder was perpe trated at Richmond, Madison parish, Louisiana, about 100 miles above this city, on the 15th inst. A few days before a dispute had taken place re lative to the shipment of some Cotton. On that day a Mr. Booth, one of the parties concerned, with a pistol in his hands, suddenly accosted a Mr. Rusk, another one of the individuals arrested with, "Sir, I understand you have threatened my life” and instantly shot him through, Husk fell and in a few moments expired. Booth was in stantly arrested by th Sheriff and committed for trial. When our informant who witnessed the assassination, left, great excitement prevailed. The New York Star has an excellent article on the subject of Mechanics, and the estimation in which they are held abroad, and very properly opposes the adoption in this country of the opin ion which assigns to them an inferior degree of appreciation. It will be admitted that on the score of usefulness those who practice the me chanic arts arc surpassed by no portion of socie ty, and there can be no good reason why knowl edge and intelligence in a mechanic should not be entitled to as much consideration as in a profes sional man. Mechanical pursuits in general interfere in some degree with the sort of social intercourse which accompanies wealth, and con sequently may unlit those who follow them for frivolous indulgences, known to what is termed the fashionable world ; but it must be borne in mind that these frivolities are entirely unessential to the making of a great people, and are at best nothing but the small change which passes cur rent in society. If we look back to the history of our own and other countries, we shall find that in numerous instances, the founders of fami lies claiming pre-eminence have been practical mechanics, whose worth and intelligence have conferred a respectability on their offspring, which possibly would never have been acquired through their own instrumentality. The notion of graduating a man by his pursuit, instead of his intellect and enterprise, is absurd, and those who would do so, do great injustice to others as well as to themselves. —Baltimore American. Correspondence of Brigg's Bust-n Bulletin. Bangor, April 28th, 1839. Destructive Fire at Fort Fairfield.— Serjeant Brown, of the land agent’s party, who arrived last night from the Aroostook, reports a fire at Fort Fairfield, which broke out in the guard-house between one and two o’clock P. M. on Monday last, 22d inst., and consumed the guard and store house attached, with all their contents, consisting in part of 125 barrels of pork, about 300 barrels of bread, a few boxes of fixed ammunition (cannon cartridges,) &c.. amounting to near $lO,OOO. A military guard of 150 mrn was left by the major general ot the 3d division, to protect the properly of the state, but they were probably engaged in other duties when the fire broke out. It is attributed to accident. A Leak in the Treaburt. —The last move of Mr. Woodbury is thus stated in the Kt. Louis Republican of the 11th ult: "Lately the Bank of Missouri was required to transfer a large sum of the money which had ac cumulated in her vaults, belonging to the Govern ment, from the land olliccrs, to New Vork. We have understood that the arnounlwas about $700,- 000. Following this, comes a circular from Wash ington, directing the officers engaged in purcha- I sing subsistence and supplies for the army, for the Indians, &c. &c., to make all their purenases up- I on time, and not to i onlract to pay for any of these things until after the first ul July next.” The facts here stated are well calculated to as tound Ihe people. The transfer of the specie from St. Louis to New York, is a natural result of the sub-Treasury system now partially en- \ • forced by the administration—but that the fi- | nances of the Government were so embarrassed. ! and the ten millions of treasury notes and the proceeds of the sale of the United Stales bank I bonds, so near yif not entirely exhausted, as to j leave the general government without the present j means of paying its obligations, and to requireit to make its purchascsof supplies on time, at of | course, a material advance on cash prices, we hardly supposed to be possible. There must be ! some secret leak in the vaults of the Treasury, which is letting oil’the ample supply of funds furnished by Congress, and the receipts from customs- -perhaps the leg treasurer- arc at work. ■' ' —---I f Certainly some unusual »nd unexpected demand linalieen made on the government, which it will i become the next Congrcuilo in<(uire into.— Unit, i I‘ulriol. I lutkkkstinoI utkkkstino M dinnct. —A man named Ra- i muel Wilson, was marriid to a Mias Eliza Row ers, of Portsmouth (N. M.) jail, on 'he 12th ult. and in three days the renter, Ramuet took rosi- ( deneo in the state prison at Concord. lie is to remain there two tears. - i ( A Limit Ki!»rii>oM.-t-It requires from Jif- i teen hundred thousand In tivn millions of dollars : annually, to keep up the government of the city j of New-York. \ ■ 1 Thames Tunnel.—Mr. Brunei has recently i stated that the advance of the Thames Tunnel i was now at a rate of three feet pe t week; they were now O f feet unfy from low water mark. Villain |. —The Supreme Court of Ohio, now sitting in this city, devoted last Saturday, the ‘2oth lost., to the hearing of applications for divorce. The evidence adduced in one cave, ti/- vealed a caret r of villainy which has seldom been exceeded. The husband of the applicant came to Pleasant Valley, New York, several years since, and introduced himself to a Presbyterian clergy man of that place, as a graduate of some College in (Quebec, lie stated that his father was a wealthy man of Upper < amnia, who was anxious that he should go to Europe, and com plete his education at one of the Universities of Edinburgh; but that Ac was anxious to remain in America, and prepare himself foi the ministry; and that in consequence of his declining to fol low the plan marked out by hia father, ho was left without means to prosecute his theological studies. The charitable clergyman took him into his family, and for a year supplied him with every thing— and several times relieved him when under arrest for debt. At the close of the year he borrowed money to return to Canada, saying thut ho still hoped that his father might he induced to aid him. From Quebec, he wrote that his father’s properly had recently been consumed by lire, and requested the further loan of $3O to enable him to return. The money was forwarded to him, hut be was not again heard of. He is next found preaching and distributing tracts in the Western Reserve, and finally comes to Hamilton county, Ohio, where he introduces himself under another name to a clergyman, as a licentiate of the Presbyterian church in Scotland, preaches frequently, and at last he marries the daughter of a respectable phy sician. He then removes to Kentucky, with his wife, and employs himself as a teacher. Altera year’s residence in Kentucky, he purchased a horse, for which he gave hia note; came up to Cincinnati, sold the horse, wrote a letter in a dis guised hand, under a feigned name to his father in-law ; communicated a very flattering obituary notice of himself to one of the Lawreneelmigh editors, and escaped down the river. He is next heard from at Mobile, from whence lie writes in a very penitent style, to the clergyman in this coun ty, upon whom he. hail so shamefully imposed; and subsequently ss a proof of bis entire reform, he goes to New York, again changes his name, represents himself us a Frenchman, again marries, and in a few months afterwards again writes to his first father-in-law, saying that he is in prison, awaiting his trial for bigamy, and beseeching him not to appear as a witness. The court decreed a divorce and allowed five hundred dollars alimony. Cincinnati Cironicfe. Officers of our x*vr.— The following list shows the placet of nativity of all the commis sioned and warrant officers in the U. R. Navy; Virginia, 192; New York, 171; Pennsylvania, 157; Marylard, 124; Massachusetts, 102; New Jersey, G(i; South Carolina, 49; District of Co lumbia, 40; Connecticut, 40; North Carolina, 37; Maine 3t; New Hampshire, 3(1; Rhode Island. 29; Georgia, 24; Kentucky, 25; Dela ware. 2(1, Ohb, lb; Vermont 14; Tennessee, 12; Louisiana, 9, Alabama, 4; Missouri, 4; Illinois, 3; Mississippi. 2; Michigan, 1; Indiana, rida I; Ireland, 12; England, 9; West Indies, 5; Germany 2; Greece, 2; Sweden, I ; Belgium 1; France, i \ Spain, 1; Gibraltar, 1; Italy, I ; Sicily, 1; Canada, 1; at sea, 1. It is a curious sac;, that in the address of Sir Francis Head to the people of England, on his mission to Canada, a paragraph directed against W. L> Mackenzie, the Canadian refuge#, is oto len, word for word, from Mr. Prentice of the Lou isville Journal, and was intended by him for a political adversary who had awakened its wrath ! It is not curious, however, that the paragraph sto len is the most piquant and pointed in the whole address.— Halt. Pat. Taxation in Boston. —The Boston Tran acript gives a list of some of the highest tax payers in Boston, from which we find that there arc six persons who pay over $9OO per annum, and less than $ 1000; 19 who pay over $lOOO and less than 2000; 14 who pay over $2OOO, and less than $3000; 1 over $3OOO and less than 4000; and 1 over $4(100 and less than 5000. Those who pay over $2OOO arc Ehen Francis, Thomas 11. Perkins, Jonathan Philips, David Rears, John Welles, John D. Williams, over $3OOO John Parker; and over $4OOO, Peter C. Brooks. The new vaccine virus. —The last num ber of the liomlo i Medical Gazette, contains a third letter from Mr. Estlin, continuing the ac count of the recent supply of cow-pox matter from its original source to the present time. It appears that the virus is extensively used in Eng land, nod has hern sent to the continent and to America. Its activity is described as being undi minished by its passage through about twenty human subjects. Mr. Estlin bus sent some of it to the national vaccine cstaUishincnt, in London, to faci itatc its being transmitted to those medical practitioners who may wash ',o use it, as the gov ernment grants the privilege to that institution of receiving letters of application, and of forwaiding vaccine matter to every part of the kingdom free of postage. The trial of Marsaud and Raymond, of the ship Alexandre, on the charge of murdering the * captain and seven others, and feloniously taking the vessel to the United States, had commenced * at Brest, and had been going on two days when the last accounts reached Paris. Marsaud hud 1 made u full confession, alleging, however, that he took no part in the murder, and that Raymond * was the instigator and projector of the crime. * We learn that an ingenious mechanic has for some time past, turned his attention to the inven tion of an instrument for diseng.ging the hones p from shad, after that excellent fish is prepared for , the table, secundum arlem, and deposited in the j t i plate of the hungry epicure.— Poston Eve. Jour V\*Ki,t directed MrxiriCßHci.—lt is stated in the New Orleans Hoc, that Thomas F. M’Kinny and James Ferry have subscribed UGOO dollars per annum for ft years, to sustain a female neade my in Texas. Suck acts of generosity are de serving of all praise. There lias been much said of the purity of our Court, and of the propriety of excluding certain nobles who have not strictly observed the seventh commandment. What the Court was in Queen Charlotte’s time we know. There is an old and well authenticated story of the Countess ofC applying to a lady about her Majesty’s person to gel her (tha couutesa’s) aiaWr, who had cummit ted a faux pas, restored to Court. The Queen made no reply, and at length the lady was in duced to ask wlmt reply she should make the countess. “ Tell her.” replied Charlotte, “ that you had not th<j impudence to ask it.” Despite her faults, the purity of her life, inducing purity at her court, throw a halo around the character of (leorge the Third’* consort, and forced tho peo ple to respect even when they hated her.—Lon don Times. Steam Ship* ov Wab.—An English paper says,—“ The success of the Uorgon, just returned from a six months cruise’ on the coast of Spain, has been so pre-eminent that the Lords of the Ad mirably have given orders for five more pair of engines on the same principle, to he fitted into five new frigates. One of these (the Cyclops,) will be of I :)00 tons burthen, with engines of 320 horse power. She will curry 2f> guns, and be the largest man-of-war steamer in the world.” Heavy Salvaok. —ln the ease of the ship Na thaniel Hooper, stranded on Nantucket Shoals, several months since, the U. 8. District Court, in lloston, last week decreed one half of the pro ceeds—above fdtO.OOO to the salvors.— New Bed ford Mercury. Tram the New Orleans Picayune. i'uu on board a Steamboat. Playing a Strung (lame with a Poker Player. Not long since a gambler had a game played upon him by the deck bands and firemen on board one of our Western steamers —a game even stron ger than that played by our Second Municipality on this class of the community in New Orleans. It seems that he hud made out to “strike up a small game” of poker with some of the deck hands, and that by dint of cheating, putting up tho cards, ami other tricks known only to those up to and who make a living by “handling the papers,” he had transferred nearly all the surplus revenue from their poekJt* into hi* own. He “cut and shullled” to all appor.rancn fair fur some time, but was finally caught at some trick which at onco let the honest steamboat men into the secret of “how the thing t~ : dons," and proved that they had lost their money by any other than the “clean thing.” Thu game, as a ms-Wr of course, was “blocked” at once, and a dornontfrmron immediately made that tile gamblci should foils over tils 111-gotten gains. This he flatly r efused to do—said that be had won tbs money fr.ir, and that he was very clear of parting with what he had come honestly by. They still per. L.ted, and he still refused. The boat <sC, length stopped to wood, when the men, finding it useless to attempt regaining their money by fail means, resorted to a plan which the gambler undoubtedly thought foul. Having gained the consent of tho engineer to use the en gine fur a short time, they forthwith put a plan in execution—a plan rather bordering on that code of laws generally known as coming under the especial jurisdiction of Judge Lynch. They in the first place made one end of a rope fast round the neck of the wondering gambler, while the other was tied to the end of the piston rod, allowing him only two or three feet slack.— They told him that unless he shelled out their money instanlcrthey would woik the engine, and at the same time that they were not responsible fur any injuries he might sustain. Loth to give up his gains Ike fellow cast one look at the new f system of extortion, coolly calculated his chances and then told them “they might work away and be d d.” No sooner said than done; and the gambler, was immediately seen first chasing the piston rod, upon nil-fours and then backing out of its way. Mis eye all the time was as firmly set upon the rod us ever that of Herr Clina or (iuliriel Havel was upon the tight rope. After working him forward and back several times, one of his tor mentors asked him. ■ Pont you think it best to hand over?” “ Dont bother me,” retorted the gambler. “You’ll get sick of that fun,” said another of tho boatmen, as he was following the piston rod up in the attitude of a hear. “ Not as you know on,” rejoined tho gambler, as bo backed out of its way- In this way they ran upon the poor fellow for some time, he still manifesting an unwillingness 1 to give up his spoils. Hy this time all the cabin passengers bad beard of the fun going on below, j and went down to witness it. After a few mo- j ments respite the engine was again set in motion, . and the gambler along with it. The laugh from the bystanders was boisterous ami hearty in the extreme as the poor fellow, intent upon nothing but bis own safety, followed the piston rod ii|j to prevent his neck licing jerked off. and then backed out of its way to avoid being fairly ran over and crushed. Wc can liken his looks and actions to nothing save an old bear being dragged 1 by a chain up to some point against bis will and j backing out the moment a foot of slack was given j him ; orelse to a savage ami hungry bull dog with ' a rope round bis neck, fiercely endeavoring to 1 get at sonic prey and then being dragged back tho I moment his mouth was o|>ened to secure it. “ Fire, and fall hack,” was heard from an in- | dividual in the crowd. I “Hoot hog, or d’e,” came from another. “Twig him—only look !” say* one. “ Here he goes, there ho goes,” said a second. ( "Ha ha. he he, hi hi, ho ho,” laughs another. , “ Aint he in a pretty fix !” cried still a third. | “ Serves him right,” says a fourth. “ Hood enough for him,” said a fifth, the piston j rod all the while keeping him in full exercise, with I the perspiration rolling down his checks in streams. : “Aim you most ready to hand over now?” ] said one of tnc plucked deck hands. . | “ Dont bother me, 1 say,” retorted the gambler, | “If you do I’ll lose my lick.” “ Wont yon give up the money ?” said another ! of those he had fleered. “If I do, Ido ; but If I do, I’m d d,” eon- ! filmed the companion of the rod. “Iv’p got the • bang of this game—understand the principles of this machinery now, and you may work me from i one end of tho Mississippi to the other before I’ll i give up the fisrt red cent —that you may.” , | The gambler was worked in this way until the ■ boat was icady to start,without flinching or shew- | mg any disposition to give up. Considering that j they had got tho worth of their money out of him 1 in the. »hape of fun, and that he had worked hard 1 \ *nd afforded sufficient amusement to more than compensate for their odd bits and picayunes, the engine was stopped and the man let loose. After puffing, blowing, and wiping the perspi ration from his face, the gambler looked at hi* tormentors with a self-satisfied air, and exclaimed. “ Vou can t come it over this ehild with any of your common games. I’ve stoed three pluck one too often to he bluffed off even if there was forty against me. Any time you want to get up another game, and there's any thing to be made by it, I’m your man.” , The boat was soon under way ami all hands adjourned to their respective callings. Editorial Address. Rivington, the King’s Printer, it is known, was a terrible Tory during the Revolutionary War, and was always assailing the Rebels. Ethan Allen, the daredevil of Vcmuut, determined to give him a licking; and some reminiscences in the New York Express, show the clever man ner in which Rivington got rid of the unpleasant affair : He hail been bold in his misrepresentations of the “ Rebels ,” and so personal in his remarks, that although he had assurances from Governor Clinton,of safely for his person and propelty, yet there were some expected visitors that he did not wish to see. The foremost of these was Ethan Allen. Rivington was a fine portly looking-man,. and wore powder. At lust Allen appealed. His clerk who first saw him, well knew his master’s horror for Allen. Rivington afterwards gave to Mr. Dunlap '.ha-following account of the meet ing ■—“f was sitting after a good dinner, alone with my bottle of Madeira before me, when I ' heard an unusual noise in the street, mid an huzza from the hoys. I was in the 2d story, and on stepping to the window, saw a tall figure in tar nished regimentals, with a large cocked hat and. an enormously Long sword, followed by a crowd of bnys, who occasionally cheered him with- -i huzzas, of which ho seemed insensible. He came up to my door and stopped—l could sec no more —my heart told me it was Ethan Allen. I shut <. down my window and retired behind my table and bottle. 1 was certain the hour of reckoning, waseome. There was no retreat. Mr. Staples, my clerk, came in paler than ever, and clasping his hands, said, ‘Master, he has come.’ •! know it.’ He entered the store and asked if James Rivington lived her*. 1 answered, Yes sir. Is he at home V ‘I will go and set, sir,’ 1 said; and now master what is to b* dons 1 There he is, sir, in the SSere, and tha hoys peeping at bint from the street. I bud imp If tip f*y mind—l looked at the MaJearp—fdssibly took a glass. Show him up, said I—and I thought if such Ma deira cannot mollify hius, hpina« f* harder than adamant. Thera S’:,-* • tfcwful moment of sus pense. I listMwd—l b j«nl him the stairs, and hoard his long, ••nrd aisi&ug *n Iftery step. In he stalked. ‘I,- yoa« iw« Ml i, f. Rivington!’ It ia sir, and no n.£i eaaltl to non tappy to sea General Ethan C ti jir, nr, by the table; and afterwards 0 C.is Madeira. He sat down anti fceg«u—‘Sir, I Not u word General, till you ta«s a ami J filled—ten years old, on my own (3ii>nto—another glass, sir, and then wewill ulk of ehS affairs. Sir, we finished two bottles, and parts*] ae good friends as if nothing had ever happened to make us oth erwise. Parody.. I knew by the steam that so graciously curled From the tea-kettle spout, that hot water was near, And I said if good punch can be found in this world, The soul that is thirsty might hope for it here. ’Twas night, and in bottles that stood ranged around. The whiskey refulgent delighted the eye— Every glass was in use, and 1 heard not a sound, But the tinkling oftumblers already drained dry. And here 1 exclaimed, in this neat little spot, With a glass in my hand, and my feet on the stove How lung could I gu.'zlc the punch piping hot, An 1 forget that 1 ever delighted to rove. 'Neath the glare of yon gas-light, whose silver ray gleams On the edge of that sofa, how sweet to recline, And indulge the long night in the heatic dreams That arise from the fumes of good punch and good wine. COMMERCIAL. Latent dales from Liverpool, Mhrch 28 Latest dales from Havre, March 30 Hai-timomi. May 4, Howard street Flour — The market has been ra ther unsettled throughout the week, the scarcity of money having circumscribed transactions, and prices varying according to circumstances of cash or credit sales. Some holders, we find to day, are firm at $7,25, while others are willing to sell for $7, cash, and at this last named price sales have been made. The wagon and rail road price, until to day, has been uniform at $7. City Mills Flour. —Sales at $7,37 4 and $7,50 — very small stock. Susquehanna Flour. —A sale of extra quality,, early in the week,at $7,50. Sales nfothcr parcels at $7,374, and yesterday a parcel of 400 bhls. at $7,30, Rye Flour. —bast sales were at $5,62J lor Ist. The inspections of the week, ending on Thurs day evening last, comprise the following kinds and quantities. hbh. half-bbls , Howard street, 6431 1-t City Mills, 1388 6 02 Susquehanna, 21-15 00 Total, Havrh, March 30. Cotton. —Our cotton market has continued iu a state of stagnation throughout the lust eight days, and our rates for United States short staple descrip tions, under good fair quality, have undergone a decline of 1 a 2 centimes per 4k. —In other kinds we have no variation to notice. The sales have been 1757 hags, consisting of 1056 New Orleans, of which 13 at HOf; 703, 115 a 120 f; 323, 120 f; 50a 12S f; 17 good, 132 50; IIS Mobile. 113 a ) I Os; 180 Uplands, 1121.70 a 127 f; 63 Pernambu co, 1311 a 139 f; 18 liahiu 137 f; 322 Curnana, 120 f —the whole duty paid. » MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, May 6. Arrived yesterday. —Ship Trenton, Ilennet, New *orki Steamboat lie llosset, Wamhcrsie, Angus a-, Mcamboat bamar, Croswell, Augusta. Deported. —Steamboat Hamburg, Wood, Augus ta. Cit AUi.nsToN, May 7. Arrived ye-terdoy. —Ship Mlegbany, Michaels, Phi adelphia; ship Helen, Smith, Boston; scht George, Pendleton, Baltimore. I Fen I to sen yesterday —Ship Benj. Morgan, Johnston, Liverpool: t I- brig Ashley, Pike, !“•»•» York; schr Ajax, Wheeler, St Jagodv Cuts.