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WILLIAM L. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, G a. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 23, Vol 111. No 58 THU CHROXIi IjK and s,-;x pixel, I‘UDUSIIED, daily, tri-weekly, and weekly, At No, Broad-street, terms: I Daily paper, Ten Dollars por annum, in advance- I Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or k Seven at the end of the year. Weekly paper. Three Dollars in advance, or Four at ' the end of year. AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 22. During the session of the late Reduction Con vention, the union party held what they call a “great meeting” at McL’omh’s Hotel, the object of which seems to have been, to pass resolutions about matters and things in general. They adop ted a resolution commendatory of the adminis tration of Mr. Van Buren ; another nominating Mr. Forsyth for the Vice Presidency, and anoth er approving the nomination of Judge McDon ald as their candidate for Governor. All this was to have been expected as a matter of course, and should not surprise any body, but the fol lowing resolution is certainly one of the most cu rious specimens of arrogance, which the fecundi ty of modern political tactics has yet produced. “ Resnlued, That we have seen with pleasure the course recently pursued by many of the pro- / minent and leading men ot the State Rights par ty, in other Stales as well as our own, evincing a dete mination to rally under the principles of ’9B, as being calculated to preserve the Consti tution in its original purity, to sustain Southern rights and our domestic institutions and perpetu ate the Union of this confederacy. I We have long foreseen, that so soon as our I principles and our party name should become ■ popular, our opponents would attempt to filch f both away from us and here is the evidence in black and white, before our eyes! Here it is ar rogantly asserted that “ prominent and leading Slate Rights’ men in other States, ns well as our own,” arc just now 11 rallying under the principles of’93"! What is the inference 1 Whyclcarly, that the union party are State Rights men, and those of the Stale Rights party in South Carolina and elsewhere, who have recently gone over to Van Buren, were never the friends of the State Right doctrines of ’93, until they did so!! What a deep cut—what a home thrust this is at Mr. Calhoun, and his f iends in South Carolina! They professed as we in Georgia do, to have based their principles upon the resolutions of ’9B and ’99, and they as well as ourselves were denounced j by the union party of Georgia, as disorganizes and traitors ; but now, when Mr. C. and his friends have gone over to Van Buren, on the tsuli-lreasury question, this same union party very modestly V steps forward, and welcomes them as just now rallying under the principles of ’9B!—just now becoming good State Rights men!!—just now becoming the friends of Southern rights and in stitutions !! ! We hope that our South Caro lina friends will not take this rebuke of their new allies in high dudgeon. It is the price that generally has to he paid by new converts, who like themselves, are too forward in attempting to take the lead in ranks in which they have just enlisted. The following are the amendments to the Con stitution, proposed by the late Reduction Conven tion. To-morrow we shall publish the yeas and , nays, on the final passage of them in the Con vention, toaelher with a catalogue of the coun ties, showing how many members each will be entitled to under the amendments, if ratified. g The Senate shall consist of forty-six members, * elected annually on the first Monday in October, until such day of election shall be altered by law, and shall be composed of one member from each of the forty-six Senatorial districts, following; 1. Chatham and Effingham. 2. Scriven and Burke. 3. Richmond and Columbia. 4. Lincoln and Wilkes. 5. Elbert and Madison, 6. Habersham and Lumpkin. 7. Union and Rabun. 8. Forsyth and Hall 9. Jackson and Franklin. 10. Clark and Oglethorpe. 11. Greene and Putnam. 12. Taliaferro and Warren. 13. Hancock and Baldwin. 14. Washington and Jefferson. 15. Emanuel and Montgomery. 16. Liberty and Bryan. 17. Tattnall and Bulloch. 18. Mclntosh and Glynn. 19. Camden and Wayne. 20. Ware and Lowndes. 21. Telfair and Appling. 22. Laurens and Wilkinson. 23. Pulaski and Twiggs. 24. Bibb and Crawford. 25. Jones and Jasper. 26. Butts and Monroe. 27. Gwinnett aud Walton. 28. DeKilb and Henry. 29. Newton and Morgan -20. Gilmer and Murray. 31. Cass and Cherokee. 32. Cohb.and • ’ampbell. * 33. Coweta and Fayette. 34. Meriwether and Talbot. 35. Pike and Upson. 36. Houston and Macon. 37. Dooly and Irwin. 38. Thomas and Decatur. 39. Baker and Early, 40. Lee and Sumter. 41. Randolph and Stewart. 42. Muscogee and Marion. 43. Harris and Troup. 44. Heard and Carroll. 45. Paulding and Floyd. 46. Chattooga, Walker ai.d Dade. And when here star the Leg’slntusc shall lay j off - and establish a new County it shall be added ! to the most contiguous Senatorial District, having the smallest representative population. In relation to the House of Representative!;— The House of Representatives shall he com posed of Members from all the counties which I now are, or hereafter may he included within this | State according to their respective numbers of free white persons, and including three fifths of all the people of color, to be ascertained by an ac tual enumeration, to be made from time to time, at intervals of seven years, as now by law provi ded. Each county shall be entitled to one mem ber. Each county having a representative popu lation as above specified, of six thousand persons, shall be entitled to one additional member, and each county having such representative popula tion of twelve thousand persons, shall be entitled to two additional members, but no county shall have more than three members. The number of members of which the House of Representatives will be composed according to the aforesaid ratio, and the last census, shall not hereafter be increased, except whon a new county is created: and it shall be the duly of the Legis lature at their session, to be holden next after the enumeration provided for by law, so to regulate the ratio of representation, as to prevent such in crease. The Representatives shall be chosen annually, on the first Monday of October, until such day of election shall be altered by law. This plan upon the final vote was passed, 171 voting for and 106 against it. The Hon. Richard G. Dunlap, was last week introduced by the Secretary of State to the Presi dent, and delivered his credentials as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the Republic of Texas. Csxsus of St. Lons. — According to the . eial report, published in the St. Louis Argus, the population of that city is ascertained lobe 16,207 of which 8,507 are white males, and 4,563 white females. The number of colored people, free and slaves, is 2012. There arc engaged on board of steamboats 843 white men, and 279 colored persons. From the Savannah Georgian. Latest from Floiida.*-~ Our attentive correspondent, has furnished us with the following late news, per steamboat Flo rida. OißEr’s Fbrut, May 17, 1839. Dear Sir—Every thing is going on wall and smoothly in the ncgocialion line; and in a very short time, I expect to be able to apprise you of the successful termination of Gen. Macomb’s mis sion. Col. Harney arrived from the south a few days ago, bringing with him a very important chief of toe Mickasu kie tribe, ho with fourteen others, came into Col. H., whilst on the southern coast, and says the Indians arc anxious for peace and will gladly accede to the General’s terms. Gen. Jones (Sam) says that if he comes in, it 1 will be after peace is made and every thing set- ' tied. Coacochec entertains and expresses the ' same opinion. Several Indians have also visited the General, at Fort King, and promised to bring in more. Murders cofhmittcd by straggling par ties of Indians may still be heard of, but as soon as the news of our wish to make peace is known to all.no danger even of this kind is to be appro-,' bended. s' New Line of Stages. Our enterprising citizen, John 13. Guedron. has established a new line of post coaches between this cily and Savannah. The coaches are from the manufactory of Eaton & Gilbert, and for neatness and co nfort, will bear a comparison with any we have heretofore seen. These coaches are intended for the new line between this city and j Savannah, leaving this city every evening at I 1 P. M., (joining the Central Rail Road at the 70 \ mile station.) and will arrive at Savannah the next day at SP. M. This will be a new route to pas- \ sengers visiting the north—particularly om coun try merchants, who have hitherto been in the 1 habit of visiting ! harleston as a market in which to make their purchases. By the new route they can find an easy conveyance to our principal sea- | port, and should prices suit, the difference in | transportation will be considerably in their favor —should they not be satisfied with the Savannah market, they can take the steam packet to Charles ton, which runs regularly, and visit both places, , and be their own judges as to which market offers the best facilities. This route will also be found j worthy the attention of travellers in general, as | by taking it they will have an opportunity of visiting the two great southern sea-ports, with the loss on their part of only one or two days travel. Constitutionalist of yesterday. The General Post Office. To the New York Courier and Enquirer we ' are indebted for the following particulars concer- | ning the late administration of the General Post i Office, disclosed in the course of the trial between I the United States and S. L. Gouverneur, before ] the Circuit Court of the United States for the , Eastern District of New York during the last ( week : Mr. Gouverneur assumed the duties of Post master of New York on the first of January, 1839. A letter from Mr. C. K. Gardner, the Treasurer ' of the Department, under date of October 3d, 1 proves that at that time the treasurer did not • know what acceptances were out, what amount 1 was in bank, or what checks he had drawn on ac- 1 count of the office in this city; and begs of Mr. * Gouverneur, the defendant in the present action, I as a favor, if within his power, "to make good 1 the deficiency!" Shortly after, he returned 11 thanks to the defendant for having provided funds I to meet a check of $5,000, which had been pro- < tested; and adds, that the letters of the defendant 1 showed a disposition “highly gratifying to the ' Postmaster General, and to all.’' Other letters j 1 introduced in the case, from Mr. Gardner, show > that the Department at that period was not only 1 I reduced to the most beggarly condition, but that j ' it was repeatedly indebted to the defendant, when ; ( it was extremely hard pushed for the arrangement I 1 of its difficulties w ith the banks, anticipating the i ' day of adjusting the quarter’s postages, and pro- < tecting its paper in a variety of ways from dis- j honor. For all this service, the Department ! ' seems to have been at the time sufficiently grate- 1 ful, and Mr. Gouverneur is assured that himself | 1 and his office are "in the highest repute , xi.t 1 iioi’Xd!” What the circle may be which is 1 here described we can readily imagine. > In February’. 1834, Mr. Postmaster General - Barry, wrote to the defendant, requesting him to 1 raise money for the Department "at almost any i discount.” "The character and credit of the 1 Department depend upon it.” “I have the full | ' and entire confidence of the President.” “Taney ,i declines affording even the countenance of the ! Treasury.” “He will not even do what the Bank \ ' of the United States and its branches have done |in transferring fund*. It was on the tenth of the i month that Mr. Barry thus wrote to Mr. Gonver ncur, portraying the desperate situation of the | Department. Five days afterwards, he wrote that “he had counted on his friendship, and not in vain. And then follows an extraordinary account of an interview on the subject with the Hero of New Orleans. In the gratitude of his heart, Mr. Barry went forth to General Jackson, to tell him all that Mr. Gouverneur had done for the Department, and consequently for the credit of his Administration. “I have told all to the President, and he rejoices with me in the sincer ity of his heart.” Then he enjoined emphati cally upon Mr. Barry that he should “never for get” the defendant. “Remember that, air!” “I told him I should”—adds the Postmaster Gcnur al, “with feelings of the sincercst gratitude.” In Mr. Barry’s letter ofthe Bth of March, 1834, to Mr. Gouverneur. Mr. Barry acknowledges the signal services rendered by the defendant to the Department, and adds: “Congress will sustain the President in his course, and we must rely on the State banks. The President assures me the SEVENTH WARD BANK SHALL BE RE MEMBERED!” A few days afterwards, Mr. Barry writes again, informing Mr. Gouverneur that the President is assured that if the Department “ got through their difficulties,” it was to him, the present defendant, they would “owe (heir salvation.” He says that it was net necessasy for the President to enjoin on him to “take care of his friend;” but he was pleased with an opportunity of showing the Presi dent that the defendant was worthy of his station. After this comes the gist of the letter, in which he desires the defendant to “protect the drafts” of the D apartment; and, as if fearful that the Presi dent’s emphatic assurance to the Seventh Ward vßank might bo misinterpreted, he suggests that the deposites should not “ be withheld from the Manhattan Bank. The Whites aiu: true friends!” Thus it seems that while the Sev enth Ward Bank was to be “remembered,” the Manhattan Bank was not to be forgotten.” In April, 1834. the Investigating Committee of the Senate was actively engaged in ferretting out the abuses of the Post Office. Mr. Barry had long before commenced borrowing money to sus tain his sinking Department. Among other mat ters, he had borrowed a considerable sum of Mr. James A. Hamilton. On the 12th of April, Mr. Barrey wrote to the defendant; “From certain queries propounded by the committee, I am sat islibd that they have by some means become apprized of the arrangements with Hamilton. * * * I shall report these matters as drafts, and not as loans — the amount of liability will not he changed, our drafts being the same, which will, of course, he reduced in proportion as they have been protected by the defendant. * * • 1 have conversed with the President, who knows all about it, and says it is right, and that 1 have a r 'ght to b rrow of whoever will lend!” In the June following, Mr. Barry arrived at what he considered a “ crisis” in his moneyed concerns. He wrote again to the defendant to •‘ protect his drafts.” “I am sure,” he said, “that our friends Hamilton will help us again.” But here it is in evidence that Mr. Hamilton would not “go it again.” He testified to the Jury that he would not trust the Department further. Mr. Barry, in this exigence, appealed to the defend ant, telling him that his services were not only important to himself and the Department, but “ vitally to the Administration,” of which the present prosecuting attorney, Mr. Butler, was a member. From all this testimony, it is abund antly apparent that the embarrassments of the De partment had long been notorious with the Ad ministration, and that General Jackson himscll was fully aware of them ; that Mr. Gouverneur had in various instances rendered important ser vices to the Department as a financial agent, and in business entirely independent of the duties of his office; and that, while Congress was endeav oring to institute an efficient examination into the affairs of the Post Office, M r. Barry was diligently engaged in attempting to baffle their vigilance, and to represent the “ loans” which he had ille gally contracted for the Department, with the sanction of the President, as drafts which had arisen in the legitimate course of its business. When Mr. Kendall came into office, he wrote to the defendant, making certain inquiries into the extent and nature of the obligations he had contracted for the Department, by accepting, pay ing. or providing for the payment of iis drafts or checks. In his report of December, 1835, Mr. Kendall makes some remarkablcadmissions, which appear to us to preclude the possibility of estab lishing any action of account on the evidence of books kept after the fashion here described He states that the system on which the books of the Department had been kept precludes an exact statement of the revenue and expenditure which have accrued within any given period. When he took charge of the Department, he soon found that no satisfactory account of its debts or means could within any short period be drawn from its hooks. There was a debt of §300,000 due to banks; the outstanding acceptances of the Trea surer exceeded §390,000; and a considerable portion of the reventfe of the “ largest offices” had been anticipated by drafts; a balance of the hooks had not been effected for twenty years; and, after full consideration, he had closed them, and opened a new set. Silk Culture—Gay’s Machines. Silk is going ahead. The signs are more favo rable for the cultivation of this new staple, than they were when the South began to turn her at tention towards the growth of cotton. The Mu rus Multicaulis which grows with such rapidity, that it furnishes food for the worm, in the verv Spring when it is planted, furnishes one essential link towards its production. The new invention of Machines for reeling and manufacturing the silk into various forms enables the planter to turn his cocoons at once to account. The weekest part of our slave population, the young and the old may be profitably employed ; and as we heard a Virginia Tobacco Planter declare the other eve ning, it would not he as onishing, if Gay's Ma chine were to effect a singular revolution in Vir ginia, by keeping many of our people at home w ho would otherwise have gone to the cotton re gions of the South and South West-arid by bringing more population and capital to our State, and thus creating a new and important element of her prosperity. The public confidence seems indeed to increase in this new branch of business; it is very evident that the tage for the Morus Multicaulis would have soon expended itself, unless its cultivation had connected with the raising of silk. 'The multiplication of the tree during the present sea son, will he very considerable. Many of our farm ers are devoting small portions of their land— from 3 or 3, up to 17 or 20 acres. A silk compa- \ ny near Washington has 400 acres in cultivation. But the mechanical ingenuity of our countrymen, which exceeds that of any country in the world, is already “rising to the level of the occasion” I and striking out new machines for the manufac- j ture of the cocoons into silk. The best reel in ! Fraur-c or Italy, is the Piedonorbese reel—but al- 1 ready the genius of Mr. Gay, of Connecticut has outstripped this boasted machine. This sin gle improvement alone will give a new and won- , derlul impulse to the growth of the Mulberry, i and the raising of the worm. Our attention has , horn drawn to this interesting subject by the visit I of Mr. Gay to our City. His reel has been ex- , hihited at the reading rooms in the Museum Build- I ing, and no one can see it without admiration and delight. It has suggested the following reflec- | tions: i Raising the mulberry and feeding (he silk worm i arc already familiar to many, and of easy accom plishment by all. The production of cocoons has in fact been a matter of amusement, if not a ( profit occasionally and on a small scale, sines he- . fore the Revolution; but hitherto, insuperable difficulties have appeared to stand in the way of | pushing it so the extent of making it a national | staple. The chief impediments have consisted in | the lime and labor required to grow and gather ' food for the worm, and in the absence of suitable , labor saving machinery for working up the beau , tiful product o' its brief labors. True it is, that , most excellent silk has-been made from worms fed , on the*white, and on onr indigenous Mulberry | trees; hut these were of such slow growth, as to | discourage the steam boat locomotive go-ahead • genius of our people, especially in the South. , This first impediment has been completely rtpio- , ved by the introduction and rapid growth ofi the • Morus Multieaulia, which springs with wonderful , quickness from birth to maturity, like the insect, j for which Providence obviously designed it; and | the remaining difficulty, want of machinery to , make the cocoons available—seems now to have , been most opportunely surmounted by another invention of American ingenuity'. We allude to Gay’s Machinery, which has been exhibited for some days past in this city. By the turning of a wheel, which any chiid can, cocoons arc wound 1 off, and converted at once into the imrst beautiful ' silk for the needle or loom. All who have seen | it, have been struck with the. ease, regularity and result of its operation, and the mechanical genius ' of its inventor. A view of the process appears 1 to have inspired all with the same impression, that now we can make onr own silk, and that we ' must no longer pay a tax of twenty millions for a commodity which every circumstance and facility * invites us to make for ourselves—Richmond Wing. 1 i A Novel Divorce Cask.— The New York Gazette says: A petition is before the Legislature 1 of Connecticut, which cxritrs a great deal of in- f tcrest, and as it appears to us a good deal ol ill 1 feeling. It is an application of the lady of the Rev. 1 Samuel P. Jarvis, D. D. L. L. D., lor a divorce from her husband, and for the settlement of an alimony of five thousand dollars per annum from his'estate. The lady urges the measure on the j ground of unhushandlike and illiberal treatment — niggardliness and impecuniosi!y of provision for her maintenance. The friends of the Reverend respondent, who is a son of the late Bishop Jarvis, I ami a clergyman of the Episcopal Church enjoy- 1 ing a very high reputation for his talents and ox- J cellent character, insist upon the vixen disposition , of tlie petitioner. They say she is an uneasy, uncomfortable and extravagant woman, whose conjugal conduct affords much stronger grounds fr ) an application for a divorce on the part of her husband, than she can claim herself. She too, belongs to one of the most respectable families in Connecticut, and her sisters arc married to some of the most distinguished men in the country. To confess the truth—though wo would very re luctantly take sides against a lady—we arc very much inclined to hope the Legislature will not grant the separation, upon her application, at least. Penh La f hairs, —I have wandered through that far-famed cemefry, that overlooks from its mournful brow the pay and crowded metropolis of France; but among the many inscriptions up on those tombs, I read scarcely one—l read—to stale so striking a fact with numeral exactness— I read not more than four or live inscriptions in the whole Perc La Chaise, which made any con soling reference to a future life. I read on those cold marble tombs, the lamentations of bereave- 1 ment, in every affecting variety of phrase. On 1 the tomb ofyoulh, it was written that, “Its broken 1 hearted parents, who spent theirdays in tears and I their nights in anguish, has laid down here their ( treasure and their hope.” On the proud tnauso- 1 leum where friendship, companionship, love, had i deposited their holy relics, it was constantly writ- | ten, “ Her husband inconsolable.” “ His discon- i solate wife“ A brother left alone and unhappy f raised this monument;” hut seldom, so seldom, s that scarcely ever did the mournful record close a with a word of hope; scarcely at all was it to be r read amidst tha marble silence of that world of « the dead, that there is a life beyond ; and that | surviving friends hope for a blessed meeting I again, where death comes no more.— Rev. Orville < Dewey. From the Mobile Journal. , The Lever Cotton Press, the progress of which I has been watched with so much attention by the > cotton dealers in this city, has been finished at t last and is now ready for work. At this distance i from the foundries, where parts of the machinery c could be altered and fitted to suit the progress of t experiment, great delays necessarily occur in per- ( feeling any work of magnitude. This has been v severely felt by the gentlemen engaged in con- t strucling this press. They have, however, at last e succeeded in pulling the principle of the lever in to satisfactory operation; and have so arranged matters, that any little defect that might exist in a the machinery can he remedied i n the spot, and i all necessary repairs can lie made without delay. < We congratulate them upon the result of their s labors and expenses, and wish them heartily, an i abundant reward for their public spir I and enter- I prise. This season is 100 far gone to give them much opportunity for profit; hut another season, for which they will he prepared at the outset, i will give them the fullest opportunity of testing J the advantages which they claim (bi their ma- j chincry over the Screw Press now in use. The principle is that of the compound lever, worked by a steam engine. The mechanical de tails cannot he understood by general readers, even had we the ability to describe them scienti fically, without diagrams. They look, however, very simple, and can he inspected at the j/rcss, c at the foot of State-street, on Townsend’s wharf, r We saw it in operation the other day, and to our ! i unpractised eye, its workings were simple, rapid, | | and efficient. Four presses wen driven by the I same engine, of five-horsepower, and more could J he worked advantageously. Superiority iselairn- a cd for it over the common press, in the following d particulars: u The first cost of construction is less than one half of a screw pri'ss of the same capacity ; Owing to its strength and simplicity where the n strain is applied, the cost of repairs will not j c amount to one-fourth of'hat of the screw press ; I Tnc presses being separate from each other, | n there is a great saving of time—the hands lying ! 3 one halo while the n«t is pressed, and so on. Sixty bales-per hour can St ptessod, tied and j delivered, with ease, requiring not more than I twenty liands to man the whole. This is the ordinary work of the machine, which could be quickened if desirable. An engine of five-horse power will drive the lour presses now up, at an expenditure of one cord of wood for twelve hours, apply nip to each bale a pressure equal to Jour hundred tom. Our readers who are more familiar than we can pretend to be with press operations, can compare these results with those attained under the pre sent system. Modern Tournament.—The following is an extract from the letter of an English corres pondent of the New York Star ; A splendid Tournament, will be held, in Sep lembcr, at Eglinton t'astle, in Ayrcshire, Scot land, by the young and gallant Archibald Wil- Uam Montgomerie, thirteenth Earl of Eglinton. 1 his nobleman is not 27. and has half a dozen es tates with castles on them. The idea is to have a regular tilt with real armour, after the mode of our ancestors. This courtly pageant will he a splendid one. The Earl will have ns guests hun dreds ofhis friends, including the gallantry and beauty of both sexes, and the highest ranks, I here will be a week’s‘Passage of Arms.’ Three days will be devoted to tilting or charging with the long and cumbrous lance used 300 years ago. There will be thirty knights, with their esquires (two to each) and pages. There will be hawk ing and hunting, feasting and fancy balls—all in fact, thatcan revive the “good old times !’ The most beautiful women of our aristocracy will be present and with " Their eyes Rain Influence and adjudge the prize.” The thirty knights are in training—for the ar mour is no trifle to those unaccustomed to its weight. Those known to have given a pledge to ‘hold the field against all challengers,’ are the Duke of Iteaufort, ta married man, but none the more Knight for that—the Marquis of Waterford, the Earl of Dunmorc, Earl of (’raven, Earl of Hillsboro’, Lord Eoiester, Lord Alford, Lord Al lred Paget, Hon. Major Henniker, lion. Copt. Maynard, Hon. C. Forester, Sir F. Johnstone, Captains Fairbe, Lamb, Houston, &c. Several Knights’ will appear as strangers, and (chal lenging the field or particular opponents) will not be known until the tilt is about commencing Asthis will be by far the most splendid show held in this country since the time of Elizabeth, 1 shall lake care and give you occasional informa tion about it and a full account, when it conics off. From the Athens Homier if Friday last. Itnil Hoad Convention. Tile stockholders in the Georgia Rail Road and Ranking Company held theii Annual (Jonventioi in this place during the present week, commenc ing on Monday, and adjourned on Wednesday evening last. We learn that they were well sat isfied with the prospects of their great enterprise as laiil before them in the reports presented by tin President, Chief Engineer and other officers, and determined to prosecute it to a successful comple tion with all their energies. The following gentlemen were elected Direc tors for the ensuing year; William Dlaiiino, President. Thomas W. Ranter, of Clark Co. John Cunningham, of Greene. William Gumming, of Richmond. James Ciimuk, of Clark. Charles Dougherty, do. Charles Evans, do. John W, Graves, of Newton. E. E. Jones, of Morgan. Wilson Lumpkin, of Clark. William M. Morton, do. Elizur 1,. Newton, do. John Nisbit, do, Jacob Pbinizy, do. C. M. Reese, do. A. G. Haflold, of Morgan. Cary Wood, of Newton. SINOULAU WAY OF AVOinitVO A I)UKL. M. H. a young fashionable of considerable wealth, being one evening where play ran high, one of his comrades, the Count dc , who had not a high reputation for paying his debts became re duced to his last Napoleon, and borrowed of M. B. two thousand francs, promising to return them next morningby hisgroom. Some time,however, passed without the money or the groom appear ing. M. B. called upon his debtor who always happened to be out, and was for some time lost sight of, when Inst Sunday night M. If. accident ally met the Count at the Bureau des Supple ments, in the lobby of the ’Theatre de Renais sance, just as the latter had laid down a five-franc piece to obtain a better [dace in the theatre, which M. B. instantly snatched up, saying “Now sir; our account stands 1,995 fr., instead of 2,000 fr.” Next morning M. B. was roused by the Count entering with two friends, and apparatus for a duel, which M. B. observed would not be fair, as they were not upon equal terms, for if he fell he should lose his life and his money too. Upon this one of the Count’s friends fetched the money inslanler, when M. B. being paid, said he now considered the Count a man of honor, and there was nothing to fight about; and as the Court of Cassation had decided that seconds must bn dealt with as principals, he could not think of bringing two of his friends into such a predicament. Ac cordingly the affair ended. John Randolph once reproached Daniel Shorty, a member from Congresi from Virginia, with be ing originally a shoemaker, when Shelly replied : “It is true I commenced the business of life a shoemaker. Had my colleague began his career in the same vocation, it is very possible he would h ive remained a shoemaker to this day.” Tiif, mnii pines of Bf.i.f has been the cause of shedding much ink as well as much blood. Even the poets have taken the mutter in hand, and one of them has perpetrated the following : “ Butchers’ meal is rig, “ And some say it wi t he rixzer, “ But now since ’tis as ’tis, “ It can’t be any tizzer.” Cmf.af.—The Salem (Mass.) Gazette speaks of an inherent preacher now laboring in that neighborhood, who holds forth at a cent a min ute. A Topkii.—Mr. Vanhorn, a Dutch merchant, drank a certain number of bottles of port daily, anil upon reckoning up the number he had d ank during 23 yea:;,, it amounted to 35,688 la t lest or 59 pipes of red port. Kr AGRICUjbrUn iL NOTh't:. —A tegular meeting of the Agricultural Society of likhmond county, will take place at Spring Hill, ora Saturday next, the 25th Inst,, on whicn occasion the annual address will be delivered by Dr. J. G. McWhorter 1 wiLLL'.M LONGST»EET, Sec’y. 'j may 25 ( wjr -r marine intelligence. Savannah, May 20. Cleared. —Brig Mentor, Slayo, Boston. Arrived yesterday. —Schooner Emetine, Gales, New-Orleans; steamboat Duncan MacUae, Colvin, Augusta j st’mboal D. W. St. John, Vumlt, Augusta, Charleston, May 21'. Arrived yesterday —Hr barque Acadian, Auld, Halifax; schr Henry A Wise, Cromwell, New York. Cleared —Barque Elizabeth, Swan, Liverpool. THE LIMESTONE AND CHALY» MBEATE SPRINGS, Spartanburg Dis trict, S. C. ninety-five miles from Charles ton, and fifty from Greenville, i lie undersigned has the pleasure to inform the public, that the elegant and extensive accommoda tions prepared for the reception of visitors at this place, will be entirely finished by the 10th of June next. From three to four hundred persons can be accommodated—comfortable and airy rooms arc prepared for fannies in the large brick building, or if prefeired, tine apartments will be assigned to them in the different Cottages. There is an abundant supply of Ice, Wines, &c. on hand. Amusements of every kind will be with in the reach of visitors. The country around the Springs admits of a variety of excursions, on horse back or in carriages. The Limestone Spring is a highly medicinal water. In addition to Lime, there is found Magne sia and Epsom balls in it; and the great quantity of Carbonic acid gas, constantly escaping from the Spring, tenders the water very light. To Dyspei. tics, and pcisons laboring under liver compaints.or of constipated habits, experience enables us to say that this water is invaluab e. If any visitor labor ing under any of these diseases has ever visited the place, and not been benefited, it is to us un known. There are two fine Chalybeate Springs, one rising out of the Limestone Quarry, and the other a short distance below it. In addition to Irony they arc supposed by many to contain other ai live ingredients. Since they have been discovered,they have been found to be very beneficial to many weak and debilitated persons. The grounds about the Springs are beautifully' laid out, and afford many line and delightful walks. Several intelligent and respectable gentlemen have settled permanently at the Springs, and con stitute at all times a delightful society. I hey have made their seti.ements w ith a two-fold object, health and the education of their children. lor this latter purpose they have established two ex cellent schools—a Maic Academy, under the di rection ul Mr. Boosa. and a Female Academy un dorthc care of Miss Williams. Both schools merit every cm ouragement—they are we 1 conducted, and imparting to their icspcctivc pupils, sound and good education. Famili s visiting the Springs, will have the opportunity ol placing their children in these excellent sthoo Si Air. Saunier, wifi teach Music during the summer months, his qualifications are equal to any instruction which may be required.,. A competent instructor or instiuelrcss in Dancing; is exiic led, and wil he certainly in attendance to instruct all who may deshe it 1 hese are someoi tnc inducement* which are pre sented In the public, to favor the Limestone Spring* with their patronage. W hen it is remembered that this s iililis iinenl owes its f undation to the liberal ity and patriotism of many gentlemen who have advanced large sums of money for the purpose of presenting to the people of South Carolina and Georgia, a place of health and relaxation, almost at their own doors, it is to he hoped that it will not languish, decline and die for the want of patronage. The thousands expended in Noithein tiavelling may he saved, and the people ol the seaboard and be mountains may enjoy all the mutual henelit of travel and inter ou.se. To the religious public the undersigned would say, that gaming and all such gross ii regularities as would I e offensive to them, arc prohibited at this establishment. Arrangements are in progress foi having divine service on every sabbath, which we hope and he.ievc willhe successful. Pep-ons can be as private, secluded and ictircdas tin y please. For Dyspeptics and invalids a separate table will be prepared, where they can have every aceonimo datiun they may require. The universally admitted salubrity us the cli mate, together with the immense mineral produc tions of the neighborhood, will open a field for spec ulation and amusement for leisure travellers. In addition to the above inducements, we have six arrivals and departures of mails, each week. — Accommodation Stages to Greenville, twice a week, and after the Ist of July there will be a Hack to Union, on every Wednesday, to meet the Columbia stage. To sportsmen it may be i ome inducement to know that we have one of the most beautiful race tracks in the State, where there will be a number of horses in training from the first of July,until the commence ment of the races on the first Tuesday in October.. Rates of Hoarding, as follows; Persons per day, $1 I2J Do do week, 7 00 For less time than four weeks, 6 60 Foui weeks and longer, 6 fiO' Families stationary per month, 5 00 Children and Servants half price Horses per day, 0 62J 1 Do per week 350 Do per month, 300 The. Stockholders iH the Company are reminded to assemble on the 4th July, at the Springs, where a Dinner will be prepared, and an Oration delivered by some distinguished gentleman. The public arc invited. WM. MURRAY, Agent, L. S. Co. Spartanburg, April 26. wtA M CE NTH AI, HOTEL. This splendid and spacious new Brick Hotel, situated on Front Street, imme diately over the Rail (load Bank, in Athens, will be opened in a few weeks for the reception of. Boarders and Visitors. To those who have hereto fore favored the proprietor with their patronage, he deems it only necessary to announce his return to Athens, and his intention to keep the Central Hotel in connexion with that pleasant and watering place the Helicon Springs, which has on-- dergone considerable improvement since the lash season; by this arrangement visitors can spend their time either in Town, or at the quiet retreat which the Springs always affords to the invalid or, visitor of pleasure. To this important advantage which his establishment presents over any other either in Town or country, lie will add his personal exertions to render his ilotel ami Watering place all that his friends can desire. The Hotel is new,, commodious, and situated in a central position m Athens. and when furnished in handsome style, will p jsscss decided advantages over any other similar establishment in the place. Athens, Ga. .Way 3 ts JOHN JACKSON. A NEW LINE IN ROM Greensboro, North Carolina, via Salem, ' poplar (amp, \ewhern,Gray Sulphur Spiings, Red Sulphur Springs, Salt Sulphur Springs, to White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, in FOUR HOUSE ROST COACHES. Passengers corning to the Virginia Springs can enterthrough from Greensboro,N.C., to toe White Sulphur Springs, Va. Passengers eon ing this Ponte to the Virginia Springs, will find it a out 85 miles nearer; a good road, good stages, gojJ teams and steady drivers J Our Stands will fie found at the best houses the country can afford, and all attention will he paid to passengc ri, fur their accommodation and comfort. - Passengers leaving Greensboro, North Carolina, will teach the Virginia Springs in three days, (fj- passengers coming from .the South wishing to take this line wil take case not to enter further than Greensboro. JOHN it EDMI N ) WlLLS,Proprietors., mar 23 w3nv ifj’ The Charleston Courier favannahGeorgian Columbia Telescope, will copy the above ore* a week for three months and send their aceoun s 4a ttefir prie’or), J V E W