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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 23.
In our remarks yesterday, in relation to the re
solutions adopted at the great Union meeting ii
Milledgcville, we omitted to notice the importan
fart, that not one word is said about u Nations
Bank. That institution hag been for some tins
past, the subject of abuse by that parly, ever;
where, and up#n all occasions. In trumpetini
forth the articles of their political faith at this time
why did they omit to ride the usual hobby 1 Wln
did they not as usual denounce it as uncunstitu
tional, dangerous and inexpedient I The nnswei
is plain—their candidate for Governor has beer
uniformly a Bank man, since his first entrance
into public life, and it would have seemed rathei
inconsistent to denounce such an institution ai
unconstitutional, and at the same time rccoinmenc
to the people a candidate for Governor, who be
licvca it to be, perfectly constitutional, and has neve:
yet, that wo have seen, changed his opinions ttpor
it* expediency. They were right in observing
silence on that point. It would have looker
rather awkward to have seen Judge McDonald
an old Bank man, mounted as the rider of the
anti-bank hobby, and they therefore very wisely
"ope’d not their mouths" upon a subject likely to
become so troublesome. That party, although
they can speechify and resolution ize the year round
about principles, do not care a fig what principlci
a man has always professed or may still be tainted
with, if he will only act with them in elections—
only say he's for Van Buren, and is ready to
‘‘sink or swim with him,” and that is all they re
quire of him. The avowed and clamorous op
ponents of a National Bank, they nominate a
dyed-in-the-wool Bank-man as their candidate for
Governor—the pretended enemies ol the Tariff,
they support for President, a man who voted for
both the odious bills of 1824 and 1828—and
professing to bow with more than Eastern de
votion at the holy shrine of the “Union,” and
deprecating with up-turned eyes, the “monster
nullification” as e heresy and a treason, they
welcome to their ranks ns worthy co-adiulors and
congenial allies, the Prince of Nullifiers and his
chosen friends, the moment they have learned to
pronounce the watch-word “Von Buren!”—
Glorious party ! Like tho caldron of Macbeth’s
witches, it becomes the receptacle of every thing
incongruous in political faith, antagonist in
principle and discordant in doctrine—
“liver of blaspheming Jew,
Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lip”—
which are to “boil and bubble” together, to make
“thick and slab,” tho magic charm of Van Bu
renism. It is the grand slew-pan of modern poli
tics—the great political alembic in which Bank
ism, Tarifßsm, Federalism, and Nullification arc
fused together into that wonderful composition,
modern Democracy—the universal crucible, in
which politicians dyed in every color, imbued
with every principle and stained with every sin,
are melted down into pure, patent, Van Huron
democrats!
This day the election takes place in Virginia,
for monitions of Congress, and the State Legisla
ture. The Qontest will be one of great animation,
and although the result may be considered doubt
ful, yet we incline to think the chances arc in fa
vor of tho administration. The Legislature which
is now about to bo elected, will have to elect a U.
S. Senator, in the place of Mr. Hives, whose term
of service expired on the fourth of March last.
The following arc tho yeas and nays on the
final passage of the amendments to the Consti
tution, in the late Reduction Convention:
Those who voted in the affirmative are Messrs.
Allen, Ballinger, Barclay, Baxter, Beall of Car
roll, Bell of Coweta, C. Beall of Wilkinson, 8.
Beall of Wilkinson, Beek, Berrien of Chatham.
Bird, Blair, Bostwick, Uradberry, Brinson of
Emanuel, Brinson of Thomas, Brown of Cam
den, Brown of Hall, Bryson, Bryan of Wayne,
Burnett, Burney, Bull of Union,'(lull away, Carl
ton, Carson, Carter, t ‘handler, Chappell, Charl
ton of Ell'ingham, Chastain of Gilmer, Clark,
Olcaveland, Cobb of Dooly, Coffee, Cone of Bul
loch, Cone of Camden. Connelly, Conner, Craw
ford of Columbia, Crawford of Decatur, Creech,
Davis ol Lee, Davis of Talbot, Davis of Walker,
Day, Denmark, Dcunard of Baker, Dennard of
Houston, Diamond, Donaldson, Durham, Eehola
of Coweta, Echols of Walton, Evans, Ford, Free
man, Gamble, Galhright, Gill, Graham, Gray,
Gresham of Walton, Hull, Hammond, Hanson,
Harris of Columbia, Harris of Emanuel, Harris
of Wayne, Haynes of Baldwin, Haynes of Han
cock, Heard of Chattooga, Heard of Elbert,
Hemphill. Hilliard. Hines of Decatur, I lines of
Liberty, Hopkins, Humphries. Host, Hutchings
of Forsyth, Hushing* of Gwinnett, Jackson,
Jenkins, Johnson ofHenry. Jones of Gwinnett,
Jones of Walker, Kellogg, Kelly, King, Knight.
Langston, Law, Lawson of Burke, Lawson of
(Houston, Lofils, Linder, Lindsay, Long of Cow
eta, Lowe, Maddox, Marsh, Martin, Mays, McAf
fee. McCollum. MeGaughy, Mclntyre, McCall,
M.-Klesky, McLendon. Mealing, Miiler, 11. Mit
eboW of Franklin, W. M. Mitchell of Franklin,
Mitchell of Jackson, Mitchell ofThomas, Mitchell
of Walton. Mobley. Mot >nov« Moon* ol («lvun,
M oss. Murphy of DeKidb. Murphy of Wilkinson,
Murray, Neal, Nesbit, Nixon, Oliver, Fulmer,
Patrick. Poddy. Perdue, Pills, Pooler, Pope,
Powers, Radford, Ramsey. Render, Kilev. Rives,
Robertson of Appling, Robertson of Laurens,
Scarlett, Sbley, Searcy, Shropshire, Sloan, Smith
of Bryan, Smith of Hancock, Smith of Tattnall,
Smith of Twiggs. Smith of Walker, Spencer,
Springer, Story, Swift, Talbot, Tatum, Tcrhune,
Thornton. Tiff, Tomlinson, Tompkins, Tootle,
Troup, Varnum, Walthall, Wallhour, Ward,
Whitfield, White, Willis, V\ ilson of Early,
Wofford, Wooten, Wright of Floyd, Young
-181.
Nays—Messrs. Adams, Andrews, Bailey, Bald
win, Banks, Bass, Battle, Beasley, Bently, Ber
rien of Burke, Bivins, Boynton, Branham, Brooks,
Bryan of Macon, Bulloch, Butt of Warren, Cab
iness, Calhoun, Cannon. Cato, Chaffin. Chastain
of Lumpkin, Chastain of Union, Clayton, Cobh
of Upson. Colley, Cowait Crawford of Harris,
Crawford of Newton, Crutchfield. Conyers, Dan
iel, Davis ot Upson. Dawson of Columbia, Daw
son of Greene, Dennis. Dickinson. Dickson,
Dougherty, Fears, Fletcher, FlewelL-n Floyd,
Fowler, Gardner, GauMcn, Gibson, Grnyliill’
Green, Gresham of Stewart, Grows Guyton’,
Hardeman, Harman of Monroe, Harman’ol Dao
ly, Haralson, Harris of Burke, Harris of Madi
son, HoJges, Ho'.loway, Kelt Hudson, Hunter,
Johnson of Monroe, Jones of Harris. Jones of
Muscogee, Jordan, Long of W aB hj n g )on
H hone, McKenzie, McMath, Meriwether, Mills
M nier, Moore o'. Clark ( Northern. Ft rks, Pat'er
aon, Pegg, Perry of Newton. Phillips, Porter
Redding, Roberts, Sentell, Simms of Coweta
Sim ns of Oglethorpe, Smith of Washington
Stephens, Stokes. Siark Stocks. Strickland,Tay
“ lor, Terrill, Thomas, Trippc, Wallace, Watson
e- Whitaker, Williams, Wilson of Warren, Wood
l n Woodson, Wright of Laurens—lo 6.
I 'J’he following table, taken from the Southen
Recorder, shows how many members of th
House of Representatives each county will b
entitled to, under llie proposed amendments ti
ig r
the constitution if ratified.
c,
Appling, 1 Jones,
Baker, 1 Laurens,
a- Baldwin, I Lee,
ar Bibb, 2 Liberty,
Bryan, 1 Lincoln, 1
Bulloch, I Lowndes, 1
c Burke, 2 Lumpkin,
:r Butts, 1 Macon,
IH Camden, 1 Madison,
, Campbell, 1 Marion,
Carroll, 1 Mclntosh,
Cass, 2 Meriwether, I
:r Chatham, 3 Monroe, 1
n Chattooga, 1 Montgomery,
Cherokee, 1 Morgan, '■
g Clark, 2 Murray,
: d Cobb, 1 Muscogee, I
] Columbia, 2 Newton* !
Coweta, 2 Oglethorpe, '
Crawford, 2 Paulding,
y Decatur, 1 Pike, ’
o Dc Kalb, 2 Pulaski, 1
I, Dado, 1 Putnam, 5
Dooly, 1 Rabun, 1
“ Early, 1 Randolph, 1
;s Effingham 1 Richmond, 5
d Elbert, 2 Serivcn, 1
Emanuel, ) Stewart, » 5
Fayette, I Sumter, I
0 Floyd, 1 Talbot, 5
Forsyth, 1 Taliaferro, 1
Franklin, 2 Tattnall, 1
Gilmer, 1 Telfair, f
1 Glynn, 1 Thomas, i
r Greene, 2 Troup, £
f, Gwinnett, 2 Twiggs, 2
r Habersham, 2 Union, 1
Hall, 2 Upson, 2
1 Hancock, 2 Walker, 1
Harris, 2 Walton, 2
1 Heard, 1 Ware, 1
r Henry, 2 Warren, 2
Houston, 2 Washington, 2
r Irwin, 1 Wayne, 1
I Jackson, 2 Wilkes, 2
, Jasper, 2 Wilkinson, 1
Jefferson, 1
From the New York Herald if the IS/A.
I UK \ KIUIfCT AT LAST—Thk GiiCVEHNKUH
Case.—Yesterday afternoon, after a lediouscon
sultation and debate of twenty-six hours, thejury
in the case of the United Stales versus S. L.
Gouvcrnour, brought into Court the following
written verdict:
United States vs. Samuel L. Gouverneur—The
Jury in this cause find for the plaintiff (United
States) twenty-six thousand dollars and seventy
five cents, and six cents costs, without prejudice
to the claim of either party to the following drafts
viz.
1833, Sept. 24, paid J Recside $2,000
1834, March 24, “ do SI,OOO
“ July 4 “ do [draft] $1,5(10
“ Oct. 1 “ do $1,500
1835, May 5. “ do _____
$6,000
New York, May 17, 1839.
Thus is it established by a Jury, that Mr. Gou
verneur is indebted to the government $20,000,-
75 with an additional claim for $O,OOO, which
may he subjected to a fresh trial. We have not
examined the ease with any degree of accuracy,
and therefore cannot say that the verdict is any
other than just. At all events, it has gone through
the usual forms of law, and possess Jirima fade
evidence of its justice.
From the Lynchburg Virginian.
The Tariff.
Among the prominent grounds of objection
urged against Mr. Clay, by the Jackson-Van
Baren party, is his alleged disposition to favor
high protecting duties. And when we ask for
the proof of this allegation, we are referred to his
past course, while all his mo e recently expressed
opinions, indicative of his determination to abide
by the Tariff Compromise of 1832, are disregard
ed or forgotten! If this he a legitimate mode of
argument against Mr. Clay, we should like to
know why it is not equally so against Gen. Jack
son and Mr, Van Burcn 1 And if it Ire as fair to
resort to it in relation to the two latter gentlemen
as to the former, with what consistency can those
who have heretofore supported Gen. and who are
now prepared to support Mr. V. B. reproach those
who sustain Mr. Clay I Gov. Pope, who was a
warm and confidential friend of Gen. Jackson
from the period of Mr. J. Q. Adams’s election till
the year 1837, declared, in a speech, delivered at
the last session of Congress, that the system “was
too popular to be directly resisted, and the high
tariff of 1828 was a contrivance of the Jackson
party for effect, calculated to injure Mr. Clay.”
If this be true it was a most unworthy and con
temptible motive of action;—and it becomes the
South to enquire whether it is willing to he made
the victim of legislative experiments, in order to
overthrow one political party and to exalt another.
Uni if this was not the motive of the old Jackson
party, then the only other inference of which their
course on the Tariff question in 1828 is suscep
tible is, that they were as honestly in favor of the
highest rales of duties ns Mr. Clay himself, or
j any other man. Nay, it is worthy of remark,
j that Mr. Clay was not a member of Congress in
i 1828, and did nor therefore vote for the Bill of
i Ah mun itions, whilst Mr. Van Bureu was then
lin tlio Senate, and voted for it!! And now we
I are called upon to denounce Mr. Clay because he
j was a Tariff man ; just ns if, in this respect, Mr.
I Van Burcn were less guilty than himself!
But it is said that Mr. Van Burcn acted under
j instruction in 1828. If he did, they were doubt
less solicited by himself, for the purpose of ena
| tiling him to get rid of an implied pledge, given
| to the Southern members, that he would oppose
j that system. —But Mr. Van Burcn was not in
structed in 1824 and he then, in company with
j his “illustrious predecessor.” (Gen. Jackson,)
i who was also a member of the Senate, Mr. Ben
ton. Mr. Eaton, R. M. Johnson, &c. &e. voted
! for the highest protective duties. On the consid
| eration of that bill, numberless efforts were made
j by the Southern Senators to reduce the proposed
duties; and in every instance they were foiled by
j the votes of Jackson, Van Burcn, Johnson. Ea-
I ton. Beaton, &c. who now. with unparalleled im
| pudence, claim to be the Anti-Tar jT party, and
| who denounce Mr. Clay for his relinquished opin
ions on that subject—opinions relinquished upon
i the altar of Peace and Patriotism, upon which
the distinguished Kentuckian is always the first
i to lay his offerings and to make his sacrifices. In
1824. # nn the passage of the Tariff bill of that year,
in the Senate, the vote stood ns follows;
Yeas.— Mr. Barton, Bell, Benton. Brown,
Chandler, IVWolf. Dickerson, Eaton. Edwards
Findley. Holmes of Maine. Jackson. Johnson of
Ky.. Knight, Lanman, Lowrie. MTlvaine, Nol le.
Palmer, Ruegles, Scymou-, Talbot, Taylor of In
diana, and Van Buren—2s.
Nays.—Mr. Barbour, Branch, Clayton, Elliot,
Gaillard, Hayne, Holmes, of Miss,, Henry John
son, f. S Johnston, Kelly. King of Ala., King of
s, New York,Ltoydof Mias., Mac nn,Mills. Parrott, |
r- Smith, Taylor of Va., Van Dyke, Waie, Wil*
r, li.irns—23.
a, We copy the yeas anil nays, for two purposes. |
a, The first is, to show that the lending J'lcktbn- Van
y- Bunn men of this day (including Jackson ami |
n Van Ijnrcn themselves, and Renton, the heir ap
d, parent,) were the leading high Tariff men of that i
day. And our second purpose is to call public
attention to the remarkable fact that Mr. Van Bu
n ren, in voting for the high Tariff, acted in oppo
sition to his colleague, Rufus King, who voted
11 against it! He must have been very anxious for
,e instruct>linn in 1828 —four years afterwards!!
to Especially so. as, within that period, he had be
eome the proprietor of 20,0110 sheep, and was
therefore necessarily a Tariffrnan from intercut,
® as he had previously been from principle ! If
* he is now opposed to it.it is only because South •
* ern votes and $25,000 per annum are of more im
* portance than a heavy duty upon wool and woolen
* fabrics; and he may, too, in the mean lime, for
1 aught we know, have exchanged his sheep for
' "bank-rags!”
J It is really the height of impudence in the Ad
ministration party to denounce the Tariff, and
' Mr. Clay as a Tariff man, with these recorded
) votes of the leaders of that party in favor of the
most odious enactments of Congress upon that
subject. It only shows, that, with all their affec
' tation of attachment and regard for the "dear
* people,” they hold their judgments and their in
* telligence in the greatest contempt.
3
2
2 Lvkchiso.—The Shreveport Patriot of the
j 11th, mentions in two lines, and with quite an
2 air of nonchalance, the fact, that several horse
1 thieves were Lynched and branded at Little Johns,
2 in thu Parish of Caddo, a few days since. One
j would think the sanctity of the law received as
j little reverence h Louisiana as it goes in Missts
-2 sippi.— N. O, Bee.
2 From the National Intelligencer.
1 Our Navy.
2 Few readers, probably, of the present day, arc
j aware what a change in public opinion has taken
j place in less than half a century as to the neces-
I sity of an efficient Navy for the protection of the
1 coasts and commerce of the United States.
g In looking into a file of Philadelphia papers for
2 the year 1704, we came across a warm Debate,
1 which took place in the House of Representatives
2 ol the United Stales in February of that year, on
j a proposition for building lour vessels of 44 guns
2 and two of 20 guns, in order to protect our nicr
j chant vessels against the attacks of the Algerines,
2 who had recently not only committed repeated
2 depredations on our commerce, but had seized
j and carried into slavery a large number of our
2 citizens; and, to our surprise, found that the
I measure was carried by a majority of two votes
only. Indeed, but for the animated zeal and
ability with which the hill was advocated by the
lately deceased Gen. Samcki. Smith, who had
just become a member of that bodv, it is likclv
i tHs movement toward a Navy Establishment
* would have failed altogether.
Such ot our readers as are not already acquain
ted with the facts will doubtless he curious to
' know on what grounds the measure was opposed.
We will state the principal reasons assigned ;
’ _ J- Phe vast expense which the building and
filling out of this small fleet would subject the
country to.
2. i hat if these vessels were built, a Secretary
of the Navy and a swarm of other oflicers must
be employed.
3. 1 bat, as it was supposed the Algerines would
he aided by the British Government, this fleet
would prove insufficient for its avowed objects.
4. That it would be cheaper to purchase a
peace of the Algerines, or to pay a tribute to the
Portugese Government to fight the Algerines in
our behalf, than to fit out a squadron for the
purpose.
5. That the Government ofGrcat Britain whoso
Ministry, it was argued, had the power of prevent
ing the aggressions of the Algerines, could he
more effectively induced to this course by corn!
mercial regulations, and increased duties on the
importation of her manufactures, than by a few
armed vessels.
Strange as some of these arguments may now
sound in the ears of our readers, this is a
true story of some of the objections, which had
nearly defeated the first step taken 'under the
Constitution towards the construction of a Nava!
force.
HonimiT.r. Tiussactiox.—An atrocious vio
lation of law and justice occurred in the circuit
court of Copiah county, Mississippi, a few days
since.
A man named Alva Carpenter, had been tried
on a charge of murder. The case was submitted
to the jury, who, after a brief absence, returned
a verdict of manslaughter. As the officer of the
court was about removing the. prisoner, a tumult
arose, the lights were extinguished, and Carpen
ter was stabbed in three or four places, one of his
hands cut off. and he fell a corpse, in the h >ll of
the court. It is supposed the person who were
engaged in this heart sickening piece of cruelty
are relatives of Mr, Keller, the individual mur
dered. (Jan such awful outrages he tolerated in
a civilized community, or is Mississippi degen
erating into barbarism !— N. O. Bee.
Poor John Fitch.
In Judge Hall’s " Notca on the \V eslcm States,”
is the following interesting account of John Fitch,
who in his endeavors to solve the great problem
of steam navigation, long preceded Fulton.
“In 1786, John Fitch, watchmaker in Phila
delphia, conceived the design of propelling a boat
by steam. He was both poor and illiterate, and
many difficulties occurred to frustrate every at
tempt which he made to try the practicability of
his invention. He applied to Congress for as
sistance, hut was refused; and then offered his in
vention to the Spanish Government to he used
in navigating the Mississippi, but without any
hotter success. At length a company was formed,
and funds subscribed for the building of a steam
boat.and in the year 1788 his vessel was launched
on the Delaware. Many crowded to sec and ridi
cule the novel, and as they supposed, the chimeri
cal experiment. It seemed that the idea ofwheels
bad not occurred to Mr. Fitch; but, instead of
them, oars were used, which worked in frames.
He was confident of success, and when the boat
was ready for trial started otfi in good style for
Burlington. Those who had sneered began to
stare, and those who had smiled in derision looked
grave. Away went the b at, and the happy in
ventor triumphed over the scepticism of an unbe
lieving public. The boat performed her trip to
j Burlington, a distance of twenty miles, but un
| fortunately hurst her boiler in roundingthe whar 1
[ at that place, and the next tide floated her back
to the city.
Fitch persevered, and with great difficulty pro
cured another boiler. After some lime, the boat
performed another trip to Burlington, and re
j tuned in the same day. She is said to have
j moved at the rale of eight miles an hour; but
| something was continually breaking, and the un
happy projector only conquered one difficulty to
encounter another. Perhaps this was not owin g
I to any defect in his plans, but to the low state
I of the arts at that time, and the difficulty of get
| ting such complex miohincry made with proper
exactness. Fitch became embarrassed with debt,
i and was obliged to abandon the invention after
j having satisfied himself of its practicability.
This ingenious man. who was probably the first
j inventor of the steatr.b at. wrote three volumes,
j which he deposited in manuscript, sealed up, in
j the Philadelphia Library, to b« opened thirty |
| years after his death. \Vhcn or why he came !
j the M’rtf we ha"e norwenjed; bu* it i? re-
I corded of him that he died, and war bud d near
the Ohio. His three volumes were of ened about
rive years ago, and were found to contain his spe
culations on mechanics. ‘ i
He details his embarrassments and disappoint- 1
1 menu with a feeling which shows how ardent y [
I he desired success, and which wins for him the
| sympathy of those who have heart enough to 1
mourn over the blighted prospects of genius.— '
He confidently predicts the future succes- ol his ,
plan, which in his hands only failed for the want |
of pecuniary means. He prophesied that in less ,
than half a century we shall see our western
rivers swarming with steamboats, and expresses
a wish to be buried on the shores of the Ohio,
where the song of the boatman may enliven the
stillness of his resting place, and the music of the
steam engine soothe Iris spirit. What an idea !
Yet how natural to the mind of on ardent pro
jector, whose whole life had been devoted to one
darling object which it was not his destiny to ac
complish! Atrd how touching is the sentiment
found in one of his journals; ‘the day will come
when some more powerful man will get fame and
riches from my invention ; but nobody will be
lieve that poor John Fitch can do any thing
worthy of attention.’
The Great Boundary Tine.
Now tell us all about the war,
And what they slew each other for ?
Southey's Blenheim.
The author of the original Jack Dmvning
Letters has been of late engaged in a correspon
dence from near the disputed territory, with his
brother olliccr Gen Morris, of the New York
Mirror, the most of which, under the head of
"Letters from John Smith, of Smithvillc, Down
Bast, in the State of Maine,” is comprised ofepis
tles from his son, a private in the border army
during the late terrible campaign.
The following is the sketch of a dreadful dis
charge of musketry over the boundary line, which
must have carried dismay into every kingdom in
England. It is told inimitably. We must pre
mise that having nothing to do, a detachment of
tire main army, fired with valor, determined (o
seethe boundary line and toe the same. Mr. _
William Wiggins clomb a tree to get the first
view.
“ What upon earth,” said Sargent Johnson, “is
Billy artcr now 1”
“ A squijrrel, I guess,” said I; “I’ll bet a pota
to. Billy has treed a sqirrel.”
When we got along up a little nearer, Sargent
Johnson called out to him to know what he was
doing up there.
“ Fm jest a looking off here to sec if I can see
the line,” said Billy, stretching his head way to
eastward, and looking with all the eyes in his
head.
“ Well, do you see it I” said Sargent John
son.
“ See it 1 no,” said Billy ; “ I don’t see noth
ing hut woods, and woods, as fur as I can see.”
Sargent Johnson told him he guessed he would
see it quicker if he was on the ground, than he
would up there. So Billy come down again,
and we jogged along. Bime by we come to a
tree that had some old marks and spots on two
sides of it. And we looked along, north and
south of this tree, for Sargent Johnson said the
line runs due north from the monument, and we
found, some more trees marked and spotted jest
like it.
“ Ah,” says Sargent Johnson, “we’ve found it.
This is the boundary line; we’ve got it at lust.
Now look and see if you can see the British on
'tother side of it; and let every man hold on to
his gun and be ready to fire, if I say the word.”
We looked across the line, and looked and
looked, but we couldn’t see nothin’ but trees and
hushes, and woods and swamps. We hollered
across the line as hard as we could holler, to see
if we could raise any of the British, for we all
felt as if we wanted to have a brush. And we
thought at first they answered us; but when we
come to holler again, we found it was only the •
echo of our own voices, that come back from the
lulls u Utile ways off. So we marched along the
line two or three miles, but we couldn’t see nor
hear nothin’ of nobody. At last we sot down,
and got the victuals out of our knapsacks and eat
our dinners and rested a while. When we got
ready to start again to go back to our fort. Sargent
Johnson said we shoulu give the British one
broadside before we left’em. jest to let ’em know
what the Yankee boys are made of. So he told
us to see that our guns was :ill right; and then
he ordered us to stand up all in a row, and foe the
tine, facing to the British side; and then he give
us off the word—
“ Make ready! take aim!—fire!"
“There,” suysSargcant Johnson, “now I can
go home contented, war or no war; for we’ve
poured one good grist into their territory, and
they may help themselves if they can.”
This account, which is doubtless from life, is
the only record of a battle during the whole cam
paign.
Revolution-art Anecdote.—A venerable
American Judge relates the following revolution
ary anecdote; “The morning following the
battle of Yorktown, I had the curiosity to attend
the dressing of the wounded, and among others
whose limbs were so much injured as to require
amputation, was a musician who had received a
musket ball in his knee. As was usual in such
cases, preparations were making to lash him
down to the table, to prevent the possibility of his
moving. Says the sufferer, “Now Doctor what
would you be at I” “My lad I’m gohig to take
ofl your leg; and ’tis necessary you should be
lashed down. I shall consent to no such thing
—\ ou may pluck my heart from ny bosom, but
you’ll not confine me. Is there a fiddle in the
tent! If so bring it to me.” A violin was fur
nished and after tuning it he said, ‘Now Doctor,
begin;’ and hecontinued to play until the opera- 1
tlon, which took about forty minutes, was com- 1
pleted, without missing a single note or moving
a muscle.
SoMKTHixn like Tin; Devil.—A mechanic ;
in Russia is said to have succeeded in making a
steam man. It is probably one of the most in
teresting inventions ever offered to the public. It
is a large collossal statue ; the feet of which arc |
placed upon wheels on a railroad, ami as he goes
thundering over the course, the steam comes puff
ing out of his nostrils in a manner to give the ap
pearance of Satan as pictured out in Revelation.
Will) Cat Monet—Meaner vet.—A fel
low in Michigan was lately robbed of S 14,000 in
II Id Cat money. He very generously offers a i
reward of 2o cents for the recovery ofbis pocket- |
book, provided the thief will keep the money ! I
I Picayune.
( (O' The Stockho ders of the Augusta Library ,
1 Society are requested to attend a meeting of the I '
] Society, to bo held in the Library room, on Satur- ! ,
I day morning next, at 11 o’clock.
J. C. CARMICHAEL, i I
may 33 td .... Sec’y, and Treasurer. |
MARINE INTELLIGENCE. j 1
— f
Savannah May 21. j I
Cleared. —Hr. ship Gossipium, brown, Liverpool; ■
! Brig Savannah. Hubbard. Now fork. ’ B
Arrived yesterday. —Ship Milledgevillc, Porter, :
New York. ’ ! p
Charleston, Mav 22. C
Arrived yesterday.— Ship Thos Bennett. Hague,
Liverpool; C. L. brig Perry, Hamilton, N. York •’ j
brig Charleston, Burnett, Palermo; schooner Phcebe , T
Eliza, Richards, New-York.
CUa^ed —Brig Arkansas, Hunt. Havaea •
i
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Communicated. ,
OBITUARY. /
Died, at Richmond Path, on Sunday, the 12th fl
inst.. after a short but severe i! ness, Mrs. Ruth
Lowndes Whitehead, wife of 1 r. James White
head. in the forty-first year of her age. C
In the death of this truly excellent lady, her be- )
r *aved husband and fam ly of six children to whom j
respepthely she was a wi e and mother indeed,
h ve sustained an eaith y loss, which nothing th s
sine of heaven, can fully repair, hut w.iilc their
heait? bleed at the sun cring of affection’s tender- •
est ties, and they mourn and weep wit! s rrow rot
fir her but so, themselves they are co £ uted with
the pe feet assuiancc, that ll.eir loss is to her, ’
I titling gain: an tas they look up vaid through <
t leir a fictions, they won devir ui misslvcly sa) — ,
“ It is the Loid, let him do what seemeth him good.”
Her connexions and friends also, to whom she was
much attached, and towards whom she wa a rela
tive and friend worthy of ail the esteem and love
which nature and religion could render in return,
feel that in her removal, a wide chasm has been
made in their society, which cannot easily be filled:
and, while they sorrow for themselves, they still do
rejoice in the undoubting confidence, that she has
gone “ to be with Christ,which is far better.’’ —Her
amiable and pious example they would wish ever
to imitate ; so that, having like her lived the life of
the righteous, their eternity may be like hers.
Likewise the church,of which she wasformany
years, a most exemplary and endeared member!
whose adversity was her grief, and pros; erity
was her joy, feel, that by this bereaving stroke,
they also are called to mingle their tears, with the
mourning of those whose hearts have been more
directly smitten. And theirardent hope and fervent
prayer is, that all who in any measure participate
in the affliction of this providential event, may find
it so sanctified to them, as that they will be per
suaded to follow her even as she followed Christ;
knowing assuredly, that in such case, they like her '
sha'l receive the crown of glory.
Greatly and deservedly esteemed and loved as
was Mrs. W. on account of the many and varied
excellencies of her character, yet her highest and
noblest eulogy is, that she was an humble, devoted
and faithful Christian—an adopted daughter of the
Lord Almighty. And now, though she has gone
home to the mansion of rest, and the places which
once knew her, will know her no more forever;
and while also, it is sweet to look up through the
tears which afflicted natuie weeps, and think of her
as among the glorified company of the redeemed,
•where “ the wicked cease from troubling;”yet the
memory of her solid worth and of her winning
loveliness of character will be long cherished and
fragrantly embalmed in the “hearts of many who
survive. Truly we also may “ write, lilessed are
the dead that die in the Lord.”
“’Tis finished, the conflict is past,
The heav’n born spirit is fled ;
Her wish is accomplished at last;
And now she’s entomb’d with the dead.
The months of affliction are o’er,
The days and the nights cf distress;
We see her in anguish no more—
She’s gained her happy ease.
No sickness, or sorrow, or pain,
Shall ever disquiet her now ;
For death to her spirit was gain,
Since Christ w as her life when below.
Her soul has now taken its flight
To mansions of glory above ;
Tojninglc with Angels o( light,
And dwell in the kingdom of love.
The victory now is obtained,
She’s gone her dear Saviour to see;
Her wishes she fully has gained,
She’s now where she longed to be.
Then let us forbear so complain,
That she has now gone from our sight;
We soon shall behold her again,
With new and redoubled delight.”
*M*
CCT 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. 1. —Mr. P. H Mantz, Mr. D. Bland,
Mrs. Meredith, Mrs. Charles Jones
Division No. 2. —Dr. E. Osborne, S. B. Groves,
Mrs. Tremb y, Mrs. J. W. Stoy.
Division No 3.—Mr. E. VV. Collier, Jas. Panton.
Mrs. J. C. Snead, ’ rs. A. Whitlock.
Any member of the committees may obtain funds
by calling on the President, (W. W. Ho t, Esq.) at
his office, Cumming’s Piaza.
may 22 C. F. STURGES, Secretary.
tfj* NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train,
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
follows; —
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a.m.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchviile, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m.
“ “ Blackvillc, - “ -100 p. m.
“ “ Aiken, - - “ . 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. m.
“ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730
“ “ lilackville, “ - • 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ “ Branchville, “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 m,
“ “ Summerville,“ - - 2 00p. m.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance—l3(l miles. FareThrough—§lo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
longer than 5 minutes for wood and water at any
station.
To stop for passengers, when a white flag is
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also at
Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. 0.,
Rives’, Grahams, Willcston, Windsor, Johnsons,
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers up will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at lilackville ; down, will breakfast at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. may 2!
CC/* BESIDENT DENTIST..— Dr. Munhoe’,
operating rooms, second door from Broad treet, on
Mclntosh-st, opposite the Constitutionalist office
march 13
O a The following are the Standing Committees
appointed by the Mayor for the year 1839 and ’4O :
Accounts —St. John, Warren and Harper.
Streets —Parish, Rankin and Hitt.
Magazine —Hitt, Crump and Dye.
Hospital —Dye, Hitt and Thompson.
Drains —Harper, Crump and Parirh.
City-Hall —Rankin, Hitt and St. John.
Pumps and Wells —Bishop, Rankin and Dye.
Market —Cush, 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—li in, 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 C ommons. ’ ,
Harper—Drains, Accounts and Engines. t
Rankin—City-Hall, Streets, Pumps ami Wells,and t
Charity. *
Bishop—Pumps and Wells, Charity, River Bank
and Wharf.
Bush —Market and Jail.
Warren —Police. Accounts. River Banl and Wharf *
Crump—Jail, Magazine, South l ommous and '
Drains.
Nelson—Health, Market and Engines.
Fhompson—Engines, Hospital and Market.
S. H. OLIv ER, Clerk of Council
3m
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CD' THE AMERICAN SILK GROWER /l,\r)
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.
lishcd in Philadelphia, at the low price of One
Dollar a year.
QCr Subscriptions received at this office. ap
CO” HIGHLY IMPORTANT. i
Nervous diseases, liVer complaint, bilious dis
eases, piles, rheumatism, consumption, coughs ' f
colds, pain in the chest and side, ulcers, all deli
cate and mercurial diseases are successfully treated fy
at Dr. EVANS’S Office, 100 Chatharn-street, New I'2|
York.
Dli. WILLIAM EVANS’ MEDICINES ,
Arc composed of vegetable substances, which exert
a specific action upon the heart, give an impulse or t
strength to the arterial system ; the blood is quick
ened and equalized in its circulation through all the
vessels, whether of the skin, the parts situated in
ternally, or the extremities ; 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 ie - !
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 of
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
f unctions, and preserving the vital stream in a pure |;
and healthy state, causes it to last many years long- J
er than it otherwise would, and the mind to be
come so composed and tranquil, that old age when t
it arrives will appear a blessing, and not (as too .
many who have neglected their constitutions, or
had them injured by medicines administered by ig
norance) a source of misery and abhorrence. °
They arc so compounded, that by strengthening 1
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 or slight
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 elfect a cure even in the most
acute or obstinate diseases; but in such cases the
dose may bo augmented,according to the inveteracy
of the disease ; the medicines being so admirably
adapted to the constitution, that they may be taken
at ah times
In all cases of hypochondriacism, low spirits,pal
pitations of the heart, nervous irritability, nervous
weakness, fluor albus, seminal weakness, indiges
tion, loss of appetite, flatulency, heartburn, general
debility, bodily weakness, chlorosis or green sick
ness, flatulent or hysterical faintings, hysterics,
headache, hiccup, sea sickness, niglit-nxrc, gout,
rheumatism, asthma, tic douloreaux, cramp, spas
modic aifeclions, and those who ate victims to that
most excrutiating disorder, (lout, will find relief
from their suite rings, by a course of Dr. William
Evans’s i ills.
Nausea, vomiting, pains in the side, limbs, head,
stomach or back, dimness or confusion of si»ht
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 m
medicine which wi.l so invigorate their circulation *
and thus strengthen thcr constitutions as may ena
b.e thorn to withstand the shock.
Those who h ve the care and education of Fe
males, whether the studious or the sedentary part
of the community, should never be without a sup
p'y of Dr. Evans’s Pills, which remove disorders
in the head, invigorate the mind, strengthen the
boiy, improve the memory, and eliven the imagin
ation.
When the nervous system has been too largely
drawn upon or overstrained, nothing is bettor 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.
C J‘ A Case of Tie Doloreux. -TD
Mrs. J. E. Johnson, wife of Capt. Joseph John
son, of Lynn, Mass., was severely afflicted for ten
years with Tic Doloreux, vioientpa 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, nor
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 the medicine a few
days 'onger, will be perfectly cured. Rcferenc.
can be had as to the truth of the above, by cal line
at Mrs. Johnson’s daughter’s store, 359 Grand st
N. Y.
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
Dn, Wm. Evans’ Celebrated Soothing Syrup
for Children Cutting their Teeth.
This infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of
children, when thought past recovery, from con
vulsions. As soon 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 lot us gums be rubbed with it.
\S lien infants are at the age of fuur 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 V
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, &c.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta,
J. M. & T. M. TUUNER, Savannah,
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP <fe ELLS, Millcdgevillf,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A.W. MARTIN, Forsyth,
BENJAMIN P. POORE, Athens,
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
ap6
iK? The following gentlemen have been ap
pointed by his Honor the Mayor, as Health Com
mittees in the Wards respectively attached to their
names:—
Messrs. G. F. PARISH, -j
P. H. MANTA, f- Ward No. 1.
S. II OLIVER, J
M. M. DYE. -j
T. I. WRAY, v Ward No. 2.
J. G. DUNLAP, 3
J R. BISHOP,
B. W. FORCE, [ Ward No. 3.
T. RICHARES. 3
C. 11. HITT,
E. B. BEA LL, Ward No. 4,
J. J. COHEN. 3
May I
Office Transportation, 5
Aiken, ~lai 20,1539. 5
SgjSfe eTI 7*3 Notice is s ivcn > t!,at f°r tho
JS|pi]pL accomodation of Visiters end
, • ' i “. -la Travellers, a tiain of cars will
leave Aiken, daily, at S 0 clock, a m. for Hamburg;
and will return, leaving Hamburg at 6 o’clock, p. m.
WM. ROBERTSON, Jr ,
ma Y Agent Transportation.
"jVTDTICE. —The subscriber intending to remove
a.N from the city, requests persons having claims
against him to present the same for payment, and
those indebted to him will come forward and make
payment immediately. JOHN WINCKLER.
may 21 2t*
LEMONS, ORANGES, &c.
(3) BOXES Sicily Lemons
£ U 10 boxes Sicily Oran res,
20 casks London Pocter.
10 rases 'anton Ginger,
50 boxes Claret Wine,
25 bbls. Soda and Butter Crackers
this day landing. IS. BEERS & Co
may 21 !<v