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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 } MW\V 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 \ . i 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