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To my Mother.
V.’lid was it, wbcn cross and tour,
A sprawling babe in childhood’* hour,
Restrain'd me with her gentle power ?
M.v Mother.
When grown a lad of riper a ;e, *
Who thought me quite a youthful sage,
\\ ho’d figure o;i the world's wide stage >
My Mother.
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V. hen 1 assum’d a sickly male,
Tor fear 1 should on birch-wood bask,
V. ho physick'd me, and nut my task f
My Mother.
Improv’d in siz", and bold withal,
To whom did 1 quite loudly bawl,
' When brother’s arm bad gave a fall >
My Mother.
When I’d whin’d out my snuffing song,
And blubber'd out both abort and long,
\\ bo took my part, or right or wrong }
My Mother.
’T was 1 that was thy last born child—
On me beam’d fund those eyes so mild,
Though I was swayed by passions wild,
My Mother.
Though wayward still, yet oft I feel
Stern mem’ry’s pirturc ’fore me steal,
And point to wounds I now may heal,
iVIy Mother.
Sitclr is the raro with fickle man •,
He alights the gifts that £od doth give—
He proudly scorns his boon or ban,
And thinks fur self alone to live.
Tims cours’d I on through boyhood’s hour,
A careless youth and pest to friends
Ne’er thought to yield to human power,
Nor gently wave my private ends.
Those days arc past—the power to teaze
Has given way to other’s wiles j
Where once I’d thwart, I now would please,
And learn to win a Mother’s smiles.
’T is mem’ry’s voice which speaks so loud,
And brings to mind thy constant care—
Bids me ne’er let affliction cloud
Thy calm sunset, or health impair.
Thy spring of life was cold and drear,
With scarce a single sunshine ray—
May quiet now thy autumn cheer,
And soften winter’s rugged way.
Far hence lot sorrow take his flight,
And smiles of love around thee gather
Mine is to soothe you, e’en make light
The cares of life, my dearest Mother.
SKLVVVN.
Dksekt or Oamfouma.—The immense
plum, the existence of which was. until very re
cently. unknown, is situated in (lie central part of
Upper or New California,in Mexico. It is limit
ed on the north by a mass of rocks, which sepa
rate it from the head waters of the Lewis river,
on the west by an irregular chain of mountains
extending in parallel ridges along the shores of
the Pacific ocean; on the cast by the western
branches of tiro Colorado, and on (he south by
the valley of the Colorado. Its area is equal to
that of Virginia, and consists of an elevated pla
teau or fable bind, flanked on all sides by descents
more or less inclined, according to their geological
structure. In all its essential fealurcs, this re
marka'du waste resembles the (.rent Sahara of
Africa. It presents little else than an uneven
surface, broken at intervals by a few detached
mountains of limited extent; but rising in some
instances above the region of perpetual snow.
From these mountains small streams How during
the rainy seasons.
Qn reaching the plains, these torrents disap
pear in the sand, leaving no other trace of their
existence than the fragments of rocks aud other
debris, which are borne down by the current, and
deposited at the basis of the hills. No region can
present a more dreary and desolate appearance.
A solitary antelope, or black tailed deer, wild in
the extreme, and a few straggling Indians among
the most wretched objects in creation, may some
times ho seen traversing the plains. The country
beyond the mountains, which hound the desert
on the west, is inhabited by numerous tribes of
short haired Indians, They occupy the valleys
»f the Buenaventura, and hunt the elk, antelope,
black tailed deer, grisly hear, Ac. Immediately
adjoining the desert on the north-east, is situated
on one of the most extensive lakes in this part of
the continent. In common with all other isolated
lakes of great extent, its wafers are strongly im
pregnated with rock salt, which abounds in lire
mountain* on (he east.— Vantier's Geographical
Notes.
Syr ift s E uilv Lick.— At Moor-park, an
eccentric, uncouth, disagreeable young Irishman,
who had narrowly escaped plucking at Dublin,
attended Sir William Temple as an amanuensis
for -0/ a year and his hoard; dined at the second
table, wrote bad verses in praise of his employer,
and made love to a very pretty, dark-eyed young
girl, who walled on lady Hillard.—Little did
Temple imagine that the coarse exterior of his
dependent concealed a genius equally suited to
polities and to letters; a genius destined to shako
great kingdoms, to stir the laughter and the rage
of millions, and to leave to posterity memorials
which can only perish with the English language.
Lil'.le dal he think that the flirtation in the ser
vant's hall, which he perhaps sea.eely deigned to
make the subject of a jes*. was the beginning of
a long and prosperous love, which was to ho as
widely lamed as the passion of Petrarch or of
Abelard, bur \\ illium’s secretary was Jonathan
b-witt—La ly Hillard's waiting maid was poor
Stella. —Edinburg U view.
Loss or Muscim.au I’owun.—The following
singular case is related in the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal.
A min has been walking the streets of Boston
lately froD the eastward, who has suffered such a
perfect loss of contractile power in the posterior
muscles of his neck, that he is wholly unable to
hold up his head. Such is the sensation of weight,
and so inconvenient is it n have it dangling, as it
were, on the breast, wholly interferring with the
eyes or month, that a somewhat complicated ma
chine has been invented expressly to leniedy the
case. An iron rod runs down the line of the
spine, supported by straps from the hips upwards,
encircling the body. Upon the top of the rod a
broad band embraces the forehead, and thus the
organs ot \ ision arc hept on a horizontal line—
on 1 thus the poor fellow threads his way over the
city, hooped up almost like a cask. How ndmi
raoie. s.rnplc and symmetrical is the apparatus na-
Ut:o employs; snugly packed away on the back
of the neck, which maintain* the head in an up
right condition farts ire perfectly than the clumsy
contiivatiecsof man, when his ingenuity ha*been
taxed to its utmost.
A New Evuumi State Eonneeticut
owes nobody, and has $21,000 in her coffers, be
sides a school fund of $2,000,0’ 0, yielding an an
nua' revenue of $104,00a. The 'Stale paupers
cost $l7Ol a year for their maintenance, but the
>- tate prison earns a nett sum of $5,000 or over.
CHRONICLE AND SKNTINKL.
a v <;csta.
THURSDAY (MINING, M.\, IS.
From our Correspondent.
Milu.diikvii.lf, May 13, 1839.
'i'lio Convention met this evening at 3 o’clock,
am] wont into Committee of the whole, on the ■
report of the Committee of 30, the organization
of the Senate into Senatorial districts, being lire
matter for consideration. The plan I have al
ready forwarded to you ns the report of the Com
mittee, is a plan prepared by Mr. Spiiinkfr, of i
Carroll, who appears to assume the lead of his
party, and the assumption appears to be acqui- I
eseed in, and is a plan manufactured with an eye
single to the future ascendency of his party in the j
Senate.
The Committee of the whole took up this plan
and went through it, district by district, without
making a single alteration to change the political '
complexion of the plan. There were changes j
tirade in five districts to accommodate local and !
sectional wishes, but every attempt to make any
change go as to produce any thing like a just
equilibrium of parth s was voted down by a strict
party vole. The following are the alterations
made. The 18th. district is to he composed of
Liberty and Bryan, instead of Bulloch and Bry
an—the 17th. of Talnall and Bulloch, instead of
Tatnall and Liberty—the 27th of Morgan and
Newton, instead of Morgan and Walton—the
28th. of Dekalb and Henry instead of Newton
and Henry—and the 28th of Walton and Gwin
nett, instead of Dekalb and Gwinnett. The bal
ance of the districts all remain as reported by the
Committee,
The Committee of the whole then made its
report to the Convention, and an adjournment
took place.
Tuesday, May 14.
The Convention met this morning at 10
o’clock, having under consideration the report of
the Committee of the whole, the particulars of
which 1 have already detailed to you.
Mr. Stark of Butts, offered a substitute giv
ing to each county one Senator, and busing the
House upon population, exclusively, giving one
representative to every 4(10 inhabitants on the
federal basis plan, by which the House is reduced
to 113 members. Tire small counties are thrown
together to form representative districts of 4000
population.
Mr. Start. in submitting this substitute made
a few remarks, in which he told his own party
in plain terms, that they wore endeavoring to |
force through the Convention a plan for party |
purposes, which the people would not ratify. t
They had rejected a similar plan once before on |
account of its party character and its gross irie- n
quality, and they would reject the one adopted by t
the Committee of the whole. He declared it to a
bo his solemn conviction that the plan oflered by p
him, altho’ far from perfect, was the best that could
be obtained and ratified. g
A long debate on various points of order, and
amendments to the substitute, ensued.
Mr. Patrick of Franklin, moved to lay the !
substitute and amendments to it on the table, for
the balance of the session. On this motion the
yeas were 140, nays 145.
The substitute was then amended in several I
particulars of no material importance. Attempts l
were made to strike out 8000 as the ratio for 2 ,
members, and insert 7000—and to strike out
12,000 for 3 members, and insert 11,000 —all lost
by large majorities.
The Committee then adjourned, till 3 o’clock.
When the Convention assembles this evening,
a vole will be taken on adopting the substitute as
amended, in lieu of the original report. If the
substitute carries, the labors of the Convention
are at an end—if not, there will boa multitude
of other substitutes debuted, unless the previous
question is called.
It is earnestly to be hoped, that the substitute
of Mr. Stark will be adopted. Altho’not the
best plan that could be devised, it is no doubt the
best that can be got. It does not give reduction
enough, but what it does give, is upon correct
principles—upon the principle of equality. By
it, the House ol Representatives will be organized
so as to give expression to the popular will, which
is not the case in the report of the Committee.
Ido not, however, believe that it will pass.—l
think it will be hat by a small majority.
(C/* Our attention has been called to a remark
of our Correspondent in his letter of the 11th. In
speaking ot Judge Wayne’s voice and its effect,
the term “sharsh and grunting" instead of “harsh
and grating” has been uncourteously, yet unin
tenlially applied. The error was noticed, yet
loft uncorrected. We now offer the amende
honorable both to Judge Wayne, and the writer
whose remark has been thus perverted.
For the Chronicle and Scntidcl.
Messrs. Euitous. — l see in your paper of
the 13th instant, an advertisement of Mr. .lost ah
W. Shaw, giving notice that the “ Gainesville
Hotel is now open fur the reception of transient .
and summer company,” and 1 would advise those |
who are desirous of learning where they may
spend the summer most agreeably, in their own
State, to pay Mr. S. a visit, and 1 am sure they
will find his accommodations, for families us well
as single persons, all that they can reasonably
desire.
In addition to Mr. Shaw’s, there are two ex
cellent Hotels in the place, and I firmly believe
that as regards a healthy and delightful situation,
respectable and agreeable society,and the prospect
of good accommodations for the summer, Gaincs
v illo offers inducements which are rarely met with.
and the opportunities the placej affords for the
education of children ol both sexes, I believe are
nut surpassed in this or the adjoining Stales
Several of the first families of this State, have of
late years made Gainesville their summer resi
dence, and a’.l agree in recommending it to those
who arc in search of health and pleasure.
Passing through Gainesville some time since, I
made a short stay at Mr. Shaw’s Hotel, an en
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’ lire stringer, end ficm the very hind teccpun I
met with, from the obliging and attentive hes^
; as well an from lbs amiable lady, who omitted no
opportunity of making my stay pleasant and
agreeable, I feel that I cannot too warmly recom
] mend their house to the liberal patronage oftheir
1 fellow citizens.—Their charges will be found
■ quite as reasonable us at any other well kept hotel
! in the interior. A Traveller.
Communicated.
Messrs. Editors.—lt is generally undcr
, stood that a Southern Book-room for the use of
| the Methodist Episcopal Church, is about to he
I established in Charleston. Ills certainly a most
I injudicious choice, inasmuch as the matter is for
the whole South, or more particularly for North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and
Alabama. Augusta is evidently the best place—
being approachable at all seasons of the year,
with perfect safety to the stranger, and capable
of dilfusing its books and periodicals, for the
i benefit of nil concerned, much easier than C'harlcs
| ton. Its proximity to the points above—and its
facilities for every tiling, are fully equal to its
wants, to carry out upon a most liberal scale the
benevolent object in question.
1 am not inimical to the city of Charleston,
but to do the greatest good to the greatest possi
ble number is my object.
Bertram. *
The Milledgevillo Journal of Tuesday says:
“ A murder was committed near that place on
Saturday night last, at the house of a Mrs.
Thompson, upon the body of Aaron Searcy, by
Josiah Thompson, a son of Mrs. T.—Searcy was
first shot, and then stabbed with a Bowie knife,
and died in a few hours. After committing the
deed, Thompson came to this place, gave him
self up to an officer, and is now in jail, to await
his trial.
The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette announces the
death of Robert T. Bincksell Esq., long and
favorably known ns a Broker and the conductor
of a Periodical devoted to fiscal matters in that
city.
Communicated.
Foreign Items.
A Tory paper in England recommends to the
Government to encourage the culture of cotton
in India and to render England independent of
America ns concerns that staple. We do not see
ho(V that could he accomplished without a heavy
protecting duty, which would ruin the manufac
turing interest and accomplish what the corn
laws of England are daily effecting, viz: encour
age the manufactures in other countries where
labor and bread are cheap. How much India
and other descriptions of cotton are driven out of
the Liverpool market is apparent from the last
accounts giving the relative stocks of that date
this and last year ;
20lh April, 1839. 1838.
Stock of East India ? „
Cotton, Suralt, 5 J2JO 29480
Bengal, 510 . 2020
Egyptian, 4640 12750
South American, 20730 34770
33,170 79,620
A Splendid Theatre.—One of the gigan
tic masses of granite which compose the city of
St. Petersburg, in the most elevated forms of Ar
chitecture, is the “ Alexander Theatre,” roaring
its vast dimensions into the clouds, and forming
a city in itself. The performances of this stage
arc principally pantomines and operas, being too
spacious for the effects of mimic and voice of
conversation ; but the ballets which arc produced
here surpass in grandeur every other in the
world, ns is most undeniably proved by the one
called the Gipaey, produced last winter. The
principal performer in it is Madame Taglioni, a
dancer engaged at a salary at the rate of about
$20,000 per annum.
The scene opens with the market place of one
of the ancient hnnso towns, composed of three
storied houses of gothic structure, each of them
furnished with a balcony and real glass windows,
every one of which crowded with spectators. In
tlio centre of tiiO theatre are about fifty wooden
booths, with merchandise representing a fair,
amongst a throng of people surrounding the gip
ecy dance, and various oilier shows.
The second act represents a beautiful country
at sun-rise, a natural river traverses the stage,
over which are several bridges of so firm a struc
ture, that a train of carriages, some with six
horses passes over them, and is ended by a eate
ract of real water exhibited in another part of the
scene.
The last act represents a scene at court, where
hundreds of couples are seen dancing and walk
ing about; the walls of the hall arc glasses in
which twenty chandeliers, with five thousand
candles reflect their light, and fountains are
springing along the sides, amongst furniture of
velvet and gold.
To change this scenery between the acts, seems
by enchantment, for it never lakes more than ten
minutes, and is done by three hundred and fifty
laboreis, always in attendence.
The King of Ashantee beats our banks in the
art of coining money or representatives of the
same, for he has claimed as his property all th e
females born within his realms, and sells them to
his subjects.
Mogsin in London pretends to possess a tellc
scopeof such accuracy, that he has not only dis
covered tho waters of the moon, but ships sailing
upon the same, which leads him to tho conclusion
that the moon is inhabited with human beings.
The Theatre is now a favorite amusement of
the Turks at Constantinople, who look at tho
operas of the great composers with grave faces
and intense interest. In the Theatre of the Ar.
median, the Sultan and the Dignitaries assemble
four times a week. Some of the performances
have to undergo slight changes, viz: such scenes
where Turks are represented as being conquered
and worsted in love, are reversed, and bursts of
applause fill tho house on such occasions—thus
in Meyerbeero, 14 C racial o,” the Knights Tcm
| piers arc beaten, and in Rossini, Indiana in ail*
gero, the heroine, marries the Dey instead of es
caping from him.
The Emperor Nicholas has oilered to Mr.
Daguerre, of Paris, the sum of half a million of
francs for the secret of constructing the Dagucr
ram.i, which is a box in which a sheet of a kind
of metal is placed, and admitting the light into
it, the scenery placed against it is copied in an in
stant. Daguerre has refused the offer.
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From IhcN.w Orleans Sec of the Wth.
From Texas.
By the arrival of the New York, we have re
ceived our files of Houston pdffers to the 4th,
and of Galveston papers to the 3d inst.
The first sale of lots in the new seat of gov
ernment takes place in August. The president,
it is said, will under no circumstances, convene
congress at Houston.
The crops, especially cotlon, are said to he
unusually promising this season. Much larger
quantities are in cultivation than at any previous
season.
Two men have been imprisoned at Houston
for negro stealing.
General Douglass and several citizens of Na
godochcs have agreed to meet the chiefs of the
hostile Indians on the Ist of May, for the pur
pose of arranging articles of peace. It is suppo
sed that the complete defeat of the party under
Cordova, will induce the latter to accede to the
terms offered by the government. Capt. Cald
well and company have returned from their pur
suit of Cordova, having followed him to the west
bank of the Rio Frio without being able to over
take him.—He has probably reached the Mexican
settlement in safety.
The town ol'Seguin, which was commenced
about six months ago, is stated to he now in a
very prosperous condition. It is delightfully sit
uated on the east bank of the Guadeloupe, about
thirty-five miles above Gonzales.
The Houston Into ligencer, of'thc2d, contains
u highly interesting statistical view of the finan
ces of Texas, of which we furnish an abstract.
The whole amount of paper money issued by the
government since its formation, is $1,098,453,
about $198,453 has been withdrawn from circu
lation, leaving a balance of $900,0(i0. Funded
debt of the government redeemable after 1842,
$667,800; military and other scrip, $248,000;
whole amount of debt due or bearing interest,
$2,299,800.
The resources to meet this debt arc estimated
a follows ; Import duties for the present year,
$954,000; —amounts for land dues, $504,000 ;
supposed amount of direct taxes, $250,000; sale
of lots in the city of Austin, $500,000; sale of lots
in Calhoun, $500,000; total, $3,018,000.
A new literary paper, the first ever published in
Texas, lias been started in the town of Rich
mond. It bears the title of “The Richmond
Telescope,” and is devoted to literature, agricul
ture, commerce, &c. &c. It appears to be con
ducted with considerable spirit and ability, and
lias our cordial wishes for its success.—This is a
striking evidence of the march of intellect in the
youthful, but rapidly advancing republic.
PitKVCII Ft.F.ET OFF THE BIIASSOS.
Tiie Galvestonian of the 7tb has been received,
from which we copy the following paragraphs :
“ Yesterday a rumor came to town that a large
portion of the French squadron, returning from
before tiie Mexican ports, was off the Brassns.
Expectation has been on tiptoe ever since. We
believe the gunners at our Navy yard were kept
at their pieces to return the expected salutes.
This morning, about 10 o’clock, the thunder of
artillery thrilled through the city with the exci
ting news that the French were in sight. Eve
ry garret window was open; every ridge pole la
bored beneath its load; galleries were crowded,
and'spy glasses were worth a doubloon per minute.
The white caps of the waves wore shown oflTby
the sharp glances that searched acioss them.
But the fleet was not there. The guns had giv
en a false alarm; only his excellency the president
had arrived —nothing more. 11 o’clock.—The
fleet is said to be in sight: the Zavalla is gelling
under way to go outside to fall in with it. At
the same moment the New Yoik is towing out a
proud British barque—several smaller steamers
are plying in the distance, and the bay is alive
with sails and vessels at, anchor.”
From the Oswego Herald , of May 6.
melancholy Disaster.
On Saturday morning last a schooner was
seen standing in for this harbor under a close
reeled mainsail, with a strong wind from the
northwest, which had blown fresh during tiie
preceding night and raised a considerable of a
sea. About 8 o’clock, A. M., when she approach
ed within about two miles of the pier, she went
down all standing, in full view of our citizens,
and all board must have perished. The steam
boat Telegraph, lying the river, was despatched
ns soon as her steam could be got up, with a large
number of persons on board, to the spot where
tiie vessel went down, but ail had disappeared
save a pair of oars, a coat, two hats, and a pair
of boots, which were picked up. Before the
Telegraph had got out of the harbor, the iden
tical spot had been passed by a Canadian vessel,
coming in before the wind, under full sail, upon
the track of the lost schooner; and not more than
five or six miles astern when she went down,
but discovered no traces of her.
From the articles picked up, some of which,
we understand, have been recognized, the foun
dered vessel is believed to be the Atlas, of Dexter,
and to have been loaded with stone, and the shift
ing of heavy stone on her deck, caused by the
action of tiie sea, is supposed to have been the
I cause ol iter loss. The Atlas was commanded
I by Capt. Westcott, and is reported to have had
I on board five men and two women.
From the New Orleans Courier.
The experiment which, at tiie instigation of
the fanatics, England made in tile social condi
tion of her West India Islands, is turning out so
badly, that public, opinion will probably undergo
a great change in that country. Already, one
of .her most powerful periodicals openly attacks
the emancipation of the blacks, as will be seen by
tiie following extraqt, -‘When we survey the
actual possessions, almost the only source of
trade which our foreign policy lias left us, we are
filled with shame, despondency and alarm. The
revolutionary principles of our present govern
ment, and in the injustice an I spoliation which
are the offspring of those principles, have filled
all the corners of our vast colonial empire with
brooding discontent. In tins ominous state of
things, we turn our eyes with eager solicitude
to every source whence our declining commerce
may be refreshed. * • » » Unless we are
greatly mistaken, Spanish America is destined
to be our restorative.” We cannot be blind to
the fact that all that has been hitherto done (by
the Abolitionists) has only scivcd to exaccrheale
the evil it was intended to remove. The slave
trade, if diminish ’d in quantity, is undoubtedly
aggravated in kind. As it is legitimate, it has
fallen into desperate hands, and is carried on in
a manner which it is horrible to think of. Wo
are inclined to believe that if the energy which
lias been employed in the hopeless task of extin
guishing slavery, had been devoted to the amelio
ration of the , slave’s condition, it would have
achieved more solid good. Hopeless , we say,
because we consider that tiie race to which the
African negro belongs is included in the prophecy
which doomed Gnnaan to lie “servant of servants
unto his brethren”—in whom were included the
rest -of mankind. All the legislation of vain
J a
man is against the word of God. A servant of
acrvona will that race be as long as the present
dispensation of Providence continue. Like- the
J sand ti.e Arabs, they are fulfilling a prophecy
in h sight 01 ail ra 11 ; i;e them, beuiing con
tinual wuncss to the truth of God’s word and the I
unchangeableness of the decrees. Seeing how |
the case stands, it were hotter that wo manifest
our kindness towards them, not in vain efforts
to achieve their liberty, which because they arc
vain, do only make their condition worse, but in
mitigating and sweetening their slavery and
making it as far as possible conducive to their
temporary and eternal welfare.”
From the Niagara Chronicle of May 2.
A batch of sixteen “ Windsor patriots” were
to-day brought to this place in the steamer Bur
lington, for the purpose of being delivered over
to the American authorities. We understand the
sherifl will give them up to the sympathetic Lcw
isloniaus to-morrow.
One day last week a deserter from Major Webb’s
colored corps was shot dead by a comrade, not far
from Chippewa. It appears that when the de
serter was on the point of being captured, he sud
denly presented a pistol, which was loaded to the
muzzle, and while in the act of drawing the trig
ger, was shot through the heart by his pursuer.
A coroner’s inquest was held on the body. Ver
dict, justillcablc homicide.
On Don’t !—The London Age, one of the
most ribald papers in the world, thus speaks of
the refusal of Congress to give Miss Vespucci a
“corner of land.”
“What a dirty souled confederation of black
guards these scoundrel Americans are. Swind
lers in commerce, pirates, murderers, robbers, un
der the plea of universal liberty, whenever it
' suits their turn. What could poor Signorina
America Vespucci expect from the reprobate rob
bers of the universe 1”
Patent Cohn Planter.— lt is stated in the
Norfolk Herald, that a very ingenious and yet
simple contrivance for planting corn, has been
invented and patented by a Mr. Forrest, of Prin
cess Ann county, Va. It is represented to be in the
form of a plough and as the furrow is laid off by
the share, the grains arc dropped with it through
an aperture in a round, revolving box, containing
the corn. A couple of hoes, attached to the ma
chine, throw the earth from both sides of the fur
row, and cover the seed corn thus strewn, to a
proper depth. The machine is one which effects
a great saving of labor, and is said to perform its
allotted task with mathematical precision and
certainty.— Ball. Put.
Caradori Allan carries every thing before her.
—[Natchez Free Trader.
She surely doesn’t carry her bustle before her,
docs she ! If she does, the article has advanced
considerably, that's all.— Chi. News,
(E/- THE AMERICAN SILK GROWER AND
FARMER’S MANUAL —A monthly publication,
designed to extend and encourage the growth of Silk
throughout the United States. Edited by Ward
Cheney and Brothers, Burlington, N. J., and pub
lished in Philadelphia, at the low price of One
Dollar a year.
iO~ Subscriptions received at this office. ap
The following gentlemen have been ap
oo.inted by his Honor the Mayor, as Health Com
mittees in tlie Wards respectively attached to their
names:—
Messrs. G. F PARISH, -y
P. H. MANJ'Z, ?- Ward No. \.
S. H OLIVER, 3
M. M. DYE, -j
T. I. WRAY, f- Ward No. 2.
J. G. DUNLAP, 3
J. D. BISHOP, y
B. IV. FORCE, f- Ward No. 3.
T. RICHARES. 3
C. It. HITT, -y
E. B. BEALL, V Ward No. 4.
J. J. COHEN. 3
May 1
03= RESIDENT DENTIST..— Dr. Munroe’
operating rooms, second door from Broad treet, o
Mclntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist office
march 13
(D* BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—The next
regular meeting of this society will take place a s
the Presbyterian Lecture Room, on Friday evening
next. C. F. STURGIS, Secr’y.
may- 15
The following are the Standing Committee
appointed by the Mayor for the year 1539 and ’4O :
Accounts —St. John, Warren and Harper.
Streets —Parish, Rankin and Hitt.
Magazine —Hitt, Crump and Dye.
Hospital —Dye, Ilitt and Thompson.
Drains —Harper, Crump and Parirh.
City-Hall —Rankin, Hitt and St. John.
Pumps and Wells— Bishop, Rankin and Dye.
Market —-Bush,Nelson and Thompson,
Police —Warren, St. John and Parish.
Jail —Crump, Nelson and Bush.
Health —Nelson, Hitt and Parish.
Engines —Thompson, Nelson and Harper.
South Commons —Hitt, Clump and Dye.
Charity —Bishop, Crump and Rankin.
River Bank and Wharf— Bishop, Warren and
St. John.
RECAPITULATION.
St. John—Accounts City-Hall, Police, River Bank
and Wharf.
Parish—Streets, Drains, Police and Hea'th.
Hitt—Magazine, Hospital,City-Hall, Health, and
South Commons.
Dye—Hospital, Pumps and Wells, Magazine, and
■ South Commons.
Harper—Drains, Accounts and Engines.
Rankin—City'-Hall, Streets, Pumps and Wells,and
Charity.
Bishop—Pumps and Wells, Charity, River Bank
and Wharf.
Bush—Market and Jail.
Warren—Police, Accounts,River Bank and W’harf.
Crump—Jail, Magazine, South Commons, and
Drains.
Nelson—Health, Market and Engines.
Thompson—Engines, Hospital and Market.
S. H. OLIVER, C lerk of Council,
ap "5 3m
CT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the benefit
of the Sick Poor of Augusta and its vicinity. —
‘ The Visiting Committees for the ensuing month are
as follows:
Division No. I.—Mr. A. McLane, Mr. C. Pike,
Mrs. Crump, Miss E. Marshall.
Division No. 2. —Mr. Jno. W. Stoy', Mr. George
Cocke, Mrs. Colfe, Mrs. Boggs.
Division No 3. —Mr. E. W. Doughty, Mr, J. B.
Hart, Mrs. B. McKinnie,Mrs. Berrvhill.
| C. V. STURGIS.
President and Vice President being ab
sent these committees will call upon the Secretary
i I for funds. ap 23-lt
"J!
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, May 14.
Arrived yesterday. —Bark Gazelle, Merry, New
York; brig Madison, Bulkley, New York.
Charleston, May 15.
Arrived yesterday. —Line ship La Fayette. Blair,
i New York ; sclir. Mirror, Clarkson, New Orleans.
Cleared. —Ship Liverpool, Barstow, Liverpool ;
J barque King Philip, Humphrey, Boston.
4 \
Oo' The- Young Ladies cf the Athens urn Jc :ign
holding a FAIR ou Tuesday, the 21st May, above
t e dry goods stoic of Messrs. McKee & Dow, No.
369 Broad street. Sales to commence at-1 o'clock,
r. m. The public are respectfully invited to attend,
may 10
(O* HIGHLY IMPORTANT. .£0
Nervous diseases, liver complaint, bilious dis
eases, piles, rheumatism, consumption, coughs,
colds, pain in the chest and side, ulcers, all deli
cate and mercurial diseases are successfully treated
at Dr. EVANS’S Office, 100 Chatham-strcet, New
York.
])R. WILLIAM EVANS' MEDICINES,
Are composed of vegetable substances, which exert
a specific action upon the heart, give an impulse or
strength to the arterial system ; the blood is quick
ened and equalized in its circulation through ail the
vessels, whether of the skin, the parts situated in
ternally, or the extremities j and as all the secre
tions of the body are drawn from the blood, there
is a consequent increase of every secretion, and a
quickened action of the absorbent and exhalent,or
discharging vessels. Any morbid action which
may have taken place is corrected, all obstructions
are removed, the blood is purified,and the body re
sumes a healthful state.
These medicines after much anxious toil and re
search, having been brought by the proprietor to ,
the present state of perfection, supersede the use ot
the innumerable other medicines ; and are so well
adapted to the frame, that the use of them, by main
taining the body in the due performance of its
functions, and preserving the vital stream in a pure
and healthy state, causes it to last many' years long
er than it otherwise would, and the mind to be
come so composed and tranquil, that old age when
it arrives will appear a blessing, and not (as too
many who have neglected their constitutions, or
had them injured by medicines administered byig
norance) a source of misery and abhorrence.
They arc so compounded, that by strengthening
and equalizing the action of the heart, liver, and
other visera, they expel the bad, acrid or morbid
matter, which renders the blood impure, out of the
circulation, through the excretory ducts into the
passage of the bowels, so that by the brisk orslight
evacuations which may be regulated by the doses,
always remembering that while the evacuations
from the bowels are kept up, the excretions from all
the other portions of the body will also be going
on in the same proportion, by which means the
blood invariably becomes purified.
Steady-perseverance in the use of the medicine
will undoubtedly effect a cure even in the most
acute or obstinate diseases; but in such cases the
dose may beaugmented,aecordingtothe inveteracy
of the disease ; the medicines being so admirably
adapted to the constitution, that they may be taken
at all times
In all cases ofhypochondriacism, low spirits,pal
pitations of the heart, nervous irritability, nervous
weakness, lluor albus, seminal weakness, indiges
tion, loss of appetite, flatulency, heartburn, general
debility, bodily weal ness, chlorosis or green sick
ness, flatulent or hysterical faintings, hysterics,
headache, hiccup, sea sickness, night-mare, gout,
rheumatism, asthma, tic douloreaux, cramp, spas
modic affections,and those who are victims to that
most excrutiating disorder, flout, will find relief
from their sufferings, by a course of Dr. William
Evans’s Pills.
Nausea, vomiting, pains in the side, limbs, head,
stomach or back, dimness or confusion of sight,
noises in the inside, alternate flushings of heat and
chilliness, tremors, watchings, agitation, anxiety
bad dreams, spasms, will in every case be relieved
by an occasional dose of Dr. Evans’s medicines.
One of the most dangerous epochs to females is
at the change of life; and it is then they require a
medicine which will so invigorate their circulation
and thus strengthen ther constitutions as may ena
ble thorn to withstand the shock. .
Those who hive the care and education of Fe- '
males, whether the studious or the sedentary- part
of the community, should never be without a sup
ply- of Dr. Evans’s Pills, which remove disorders
in the head, invigorate the mind, strengthen the
body, improve the memory, ami eliven the imagin
ation.
When the nervous system has been too largely
drawn upon or overstrained, nothing is better to
correct and invigorate the drooping constitution
than these medicines.
Dr. William Evans’s Medical Office, 100 Chat
ham street, New York, where the Doctor maybe
consulted.
tffj' A Case of Tic Doloreux. ,TTi
Mrs. J. E. Johnson, wife of Capt. Joseph John
son, of Lynn, Mass., was severely affiicted for ten
years with Tic Doloreux, violentpa in her head,
and vomiting with a burning heat in the stomach,
and unable to leave her room. She could find no
relief from the advice of several physicians, not
from medicines of any kind,until after she commen
ced using Dr. Evans’s medicines, of 100 Chatham
street, and from that time she began to amend, and
eels satisfied if she continues tin giAiicine a few
days longer, will be perfectly cured. Ueferenc:
can be had as to the truth of the above, by callinj
at Mrs. Johnson’s daughter’s store, 389 Grand st
N. Y.
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
Dr. Wh. Evans’ Celebrated Soothing Syrup
for Children Cutting their Teeth.
Tins infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of
children, when thought past recovery, from con
vulsions. As sbon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. This preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant that no
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it.
When infants are at the age of four months,though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums to open the
pores. Parents should neverbe without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are youngchildren ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the
gums, the Syrup immediately gives ease by- open-
ing tho pores and healing the gums ; thereby pre
venting convulsions, fevers, &e.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta,
J. M. & T. M. TURNER, Savannah,
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP <fe ELLS, Milledgeville,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN,Forsyth,
BENJAMIN P. POORE, Athens,
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
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COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, April 19
Latest dales from Havre April 13
Boston, May 8.
Coffee. —The market has further improved in con
sequence ot the unusually limited supplies, and sales
during the week of St. Domingo, have been made
at 10 a 10$c —Porto Cabello 11$ a 12c, and Java 12
a 13c, 6 mo. There was an import yesterday, of
1600 St. Domingo.
Fish. —Hut little doing in Codfish, and no change
on the quotations of last week. Sales bank 4.18 a
4.25. Bay- and Shore 3.60 a 3.70, and Hake 2.37 a
2.50 do do. 200 qt's new Haddock for the Cu a
market 2 81$. Packed Mackerel are firm at the
present advanced prices, but with small sales, to
supply immediate wants of shippers and the trade.
Liquors. —The tr ansactions in Brardy have been
at present quotations, and in rate imports of St. Croix
Rum, about 50 hhds, have been taken by the trade
at 95 a 1.00 per gal, and 100 pipes Gin at 1,05 for
fair, and 1.17 for prime fancy brmd, 6 mo cr.
M. lasses. —The market runtimes very firm, and
prices are still tending upwards Sales of 12 a 1500
hhds Cuba, 31 a 32c—Surinojl, 32 a33 150 hhds
Porto Rico, 37c —~ cargo of Trinidad, 35c, and Cen
tafuegos, in lot!, as landed t'the trade, 36c per gall, v
and bv auction, 66 hhds Po to Rico, 39 a 40$c per
gall, 4 mo—lBo do do, 36j a 37$c, 4 mo.
Sugar —There has ben a good demand from the
trade and refiners, andsa es of Havana and I rini
dad browns have bee' made, about 20( 0 bones, at
8$ aB4c per 15 ; 200-oxesdo do white, 11 a 11$ do;
St Croix 9c prlb ; 00 hhds Porto Rico, 7$ a Bsc do
do—and’by auctl* 16li hhds 70 hbls Porto Rico,
7$ a Bgc pr lb; 95 do do. 6.80 a 7.75 pr 100 lbs,
4 mos.
, New Orleans, May 11.
Cotton. Jieeived since 7th instant 5,0 U» bales
(making th/total receipts of the week 6,842 bales;)
exported » Liverpool 1,133 do, N. York 438 do,
Boston Iff do, Hartford 185 do, together 1,952 bales;
giving *i increase to the stock of 2,003 bales, and