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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. # 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 • ’ 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. • 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. ap6 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