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WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE I, 1839 „ r „
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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 31.
Virginia Elections.
We have given below, from the Richmond
Compiler of the 28th, a return of all the Districts
from which they had heard. The returns are thus
far too incomplete to enable us to draw any satis
factory conclusion as to the result.
The Compiler adds, we have no Whig losses
or gains to report to day. So the account stands
—loss 8, gain 4. The Administration party
have secured unqualified Van Burcn men in the
following counties, last year represented by Con
servative-Rives men—Frederick 1, Hampshire
1, Prince^ George 1, Botetourt I, Roanoke 1, and
Montgomery I—6.
Botetourt —Craig’s majority over
Moore, 289
Mortoomeut, 392
Ftorn, 308
Roanoke, 182
Majority, 1171
In Augusta and Rockbridge, which complete
the District—Moore’s majority, about 600.
Campbell —Witcher (Whig) 538, —Coles,
' (Admr.) 421.
Pittsvlvaria —Witcher, 484, Coles, 467
Halifax —Witcher, 264, Coles, 586
Majority for Coles 322, which elects him in
this District by at least 100.
'L Bedford —Wm. S. Goggin, (Whig) 623,
A. Stuart, (Admr.) 315.
In the counties of Frederick, Clark, Berkley
and Jefferson, Barton’s (Whig,) majority is 49.
The counties of Morgan and Hampshire, which
complete the Congressional District, yet to hear
from, will probably give majorities for Lucas.
Cu mberlarb —Hill’s (Whig) majority over
Daniel Wilson, (Adm.) 57.
Buckisgham—Hill’s “ do 87.
Prince Edward—Wilson obtained a majori.
ty of 12 over Hill.
Charlotte —Hill’s majority ovci* Wilson,
about 50.
The above 4 counties compose a Congressional
District. Hill is elected by about 200 majority
a whig gain.
Mecklerburg —Dromgoole 407, Gholson
180.
Lurerbubg —Dromgoole 253, Gholson 210>
Drumgoole re-elected.
Essex —Hunter, (Whig) 298. Scott, (Adm.)
82.
Pb ince William —Grayson, (Adm.) 258,
Taliaferro, (Whig) 45.
Polls kept open at Dumfries precinct—the
vote it is said will be little changed. Contest lie
tween Grayson and Taliaferro, dose and doubtful-
New Corn. —We were yesterday presented
with a fine roasting car of corn by Dr. F. M.
Robertson, of this city, in whose garden it grew.
It is the first we have seen, and the first we think,
* that has been plucked, which had attained suffi
cient maturity for use. We shall eschew for the
‘ future all such presents unless they have passed
a certain culinary process, our mouths having
to do penance, while our eyes were feasting upon
the luxury.
Florida Election. —The returns, as far as
received, give Mr. Downing a majority of six
hundredaudihirty-two votes. The Tallahassee
Floridian thinks the counties yet to be heard
from will increase it to nine or ten hundred. The
Constitution is probably lost, thus far the vote
stands five hundred and thirteen against it.
The Senate of Connecticut did not agree on
the 25th, in the choice of a Senator. Mr. Sher
man had more votes than Mr. Betts.
Vicksburg Sentinel says that there
Mississippi about 1,000 men employed in mixing
liquors, and 750 engaged in the production of pa
per money; yet the whole male population over
the age of 21, amounts to only about 35,000. Is
it any wonder that the people of that State com
plains about “hard times.”
Ot'R SquAnRON in the Gulf of Mexico.—
» k The Norfolk Beacon states that there will short
' u ly be a very formidable squadron of our vessels
of war in the Gulf of Mexico, —greater in num
her and calibre of square rigged vessels than, per
haps, has ever been under the command of a sin
gle officer, or assembled at a single, foreign port !
in peace. In the first place the frigate Constitu
tion will shortly be at Vera Cruz. The squadron
of Commodore Shubrick consists of the llag ship,
the Macedonian frigate the Ontaria, V andaliai
Levant, Eric, Warren, and Natchez, sloops of
war. When the Constitution joins the squadron
wc Will be aWe to -frighten the Mexicans as bad. \
ly as the French did. There must be some de
\sign in keeping such a heavy naval force in the
Gulf of Mexico.
' The New York public schools have )fi.395
pupil*.
George Spencer, the Cashier of the Phoenix
Bunk at Litchfield, Conn., has absconded. Va.
rious rumors are in circulation relative to the
amount for which he is a defaulter. The Di
rectors have not been able to discover that more
1 556,500 arc missing. /
The New Bokuek Thouulk,—The Bangor
Democrat upsets the story about an aggression
by the warden of New Brunswick, of which we
copied an account the other day. The real facts
of the case are thus stated.
The land agent, Mr. Jarvis, had received a let
ter from Mr. L’Laughlin the British warden, da
ted Fredericton, in which he said he was on tho
point of starting with a posse of 30 men to visit
St. Francis and Fish Rivers, and saying he should
be gratified to meet him there, as he supposed the
object of both was the same, viz : to secure the
timber cut by lawless people last winter. He
farther said that a few days before, while at Mada
waska, he had occasion to address a letter to the
olhcer in command of the posse at Fish River,
and had received a very laconic answer. It also
appears that Mr. M'Laughlin had subsequently
visited Fish river, and some of the logs had there
been set adrift, but by whom it had not been as
certained.
From the Oswego Commercial Herald-
Another Outrage. —The Schooner Weeks,
I of Oswego, was seized and dismantled on Friday
last by the Canadian authorities at Brockville
The Weeks cleared from this port on Wednes
day or Thursday last, with merchandize for
Brockville, Ogdensburgh, and other ports on the
St. Lawrence—and was seized immediately after
discharging her freight and procuring her clear
ance at Brockville, under pretext, it is said, of
her having on board one piece of State Ordnance
for a company of State Artillery at Ogdensburgh
Under these circumstances, the simple freighting
of a gun from one American port to another,fur
nishes, in our humble judgment, no legal justifi
cation for the seizuic of the schooner.
As soon as the fact of her seizure was known
at Sackets Harbor on Saturday, Col. Worth left
immediately in the Government Steamer Oneida,
for Brockville, with a detachment of U. S. troops
on board. The result of his visit is not yet
known at this place. We learn, however, by the
steamer Hamilton, which came in last evening
from Kingston, that Col. Young, the command
ing officer at Brockville had demanded the sur
render of the schooner to her owners, and that
the Militia who had possession, refused to give
her up. Aid was consequently requested from
Kingston, and two companies of 83d were des
patched yesterday morning for Brockville by
steamboat.
It is unfortunate for the peace and commerce
of this frontier, that a portion of the Canadian
people, and especially of the Militia, act in con
cert with the Canadian refugees in their unhal
lowed effort to embroil two great and kindred
nations in war. It is also to be regretted, that
this coincidence of purpose should be encouraged
by the general tone of the Canadian press, while
the Government of Toronto is acting, as may be
seen by a correspo dcnce in another column of
this paper, in good faith and *n harmony with
the mutual efforts of the British and American
Governments for the preservation of peace be
tween the two countries.
The same paper adds the following in a Post
script.—
Since our paper was made up, the steamer
United'States has arrived from below with in
telligence that the schooner Weeks has been sur
rendered to her upon the formal demand of Col.
Worth, after the arrival of (he troops from King
ston at Brockville.
Let the People Remember —That while
Martin Vanßuren professes the Southern State
Rights doctrines, he has failed to practice a sin
gle one of them.
He voted in the Senate of the United States,
for the “Bill of Abominations” in 1828 1
He voted for free negro suffrage in the New
York Convention 1
He voted in the Senate of New York for a re
striction as to slavery, upon the admission of
New States—the Missouri question then pend
ing.
He voted, in the same body, for a resolution
claiming for Congress the power to appropriate
money for Internal Improvement 1
He has since professed Stale Right doctrines,
yet as President of the United States, signed
every bill making appropriations for Internal
Improvements!
He has recommended a National Bankrupt
Law, giving the General Government authority
to annul tho Charters of Banking Institutions
granted by the States, in contempt of the States
authorities.
Ho is at the head of a party claiming to be the
friends of Reform, yet the expenditures of the
Government have been increased from Thirteen
millions to Forty \
He has permitted known defaulters to hold
office for years after their frauds were delected,
whilst he has hurled honest and faithful officers
from their stations, without notice and without
cause !
He failed to require an official bond from
Swartwoutfor three years, in direct and palpable
violation of law, by which millions hare been lost
to the Public Treasury 1
In short he has administered the Government
loosely, profligately and corruptly.
Can the honest yeomanry of the country, who
despise fraud and falsehood, give their support to
such a ruler, or to men who sustain such enor
mities!—Richmond Whig,
.✓lncrease of the growth of cotton in
/ U. States. —In 1791, only 188,316 lbs. cotton
were exported from the U. Slates ; in 1798 it was
less than 1,900,000; in 1802 the amount wan
27,501,075 lbs; in 1819 it was 87,997,0-15 lbs;
in 1820 it was 127,860,152 lbs; in 1830 it
amounted to 298,459,102 lbs; in value §29,675,-
883. This amount in value was less by §7, WO,-
000 than in 1825, when the quantity waslessby
122,000,000 lbs; the price in the latter year being
more than double that of the former. The amount
exported during the year ending with September
1 838, was upwards of 639,000,000 lbs. leaving
of that year’s crop, including nearly 8,000,000 lbs.
of stock the previous year, which remained on
hand, upwards of 98,000,000 lbs., for home con- t
; the year’s crop in round numbers exj
Veeding 720,000,000 lbs.
The British steamer “Urgent” recently burst
Xher 1-oilers at Liverpool, by which nine men were
f severely scalded.
“ I’ll be damn'd if you do,” as the brook said
ven he heard a man say he should build a mill
tip on if.
S A Remarkable Thei.— A Tennessee paper
gives an account of a remarkable tree, which is
growing in Williamson county, in that Slate
It is a peach tree, well filled with fruit, almost
every peach on which is double, triple, and in
''f*' lnC 'Stances quadruple, closely Joined together.
I here arc a few scattering ones on it, but the lar
ger portion are double and triple. This is the
first year it has borne fruit.
A correspondent of the London Times gives
the following account of a recent miracle, wrought
by a parish priest, which, he says, is extensively
circulating in Ireland.
A report has in general gone abroad among
the people, that a man called Henry Farland has,
inconsequence of his dishonesty, been struck in
to a sound sleep, in the middle of a field near Lur
gan,in November lust; and still remains resting
on the spade with which he was digging when
the occurrence took place.
The following is the account of this affair:—
Some time lasi harvest Furland was on his way
to pay his rent (ho occupied a small farm jointly
with a woman named Harriet Guthrie,) and
called to know if she was ready. She had the
money, but said that as she could not go, he
might take it for her, so he took the widow's
rent. He proceeded on his way, and no more
was heard ol the matter for several days, when
Mrs. Guthrie saw the agent approach her door,
and ask her for her rent; she said it was already
paid, that she had given it to Harry Farland, and
mentioned the day on which he paid his own.
I he agent said he had received no money but
Farland’s own. “Well,” said she, “there is
Harry in the field, and you can satisfy yourself
regarding it.” “No,” said the gentleman, “I
cannot leave my horse, but go to him and tell him
to give you the receipt; she went and asked him
what he had done with her money ; he did not
deny he had got the money, but said, coolly,
where was her witness'! She said there was no
one present but God and herself; “Your God,
then madam,” said he, “was asleep at the time,
and therefore could not see.” “Then,” said the
poor widow, “I suppose you have not paid the
money ; you cheated me, but you cannot God,”
So she left him. He was seen by a man stand
ing on his spade, who observing him to continue
in that position without moving, was surprised.
On approaching, inquiry was made but no an
swer. He attempted to waken him, but could
not. The man then gave the alarm; so the
neighbors flocked round Farland, but no means
could be found to waken him. At last they sent
for the clergy, the Church minister, the Presby
terian minister, and the priest successively, to
make him speak. The first two had no influence
on him. When he spoke he said, “I am to stand
here to the day of judgment.” The people then
thought to move him by force, but could not stir
him. They got a saw to cut the spade on which
he was leaning, that he might fall, but the first
cut the saw broke into pieces. Then they got
blankets to cover him from the cold, but they
were blown away : so he, it seems, by fate, must
bear all weather.
Kev. J. Bollard,
H Kr.nvs,
G. Megaiiv, Parish Priest.
Belfast, 1839.
The Staten and the Canadas.
The American- and Canadian Fron
tier. —The late report of Lord Durham on
the affairs of Canada thus contrasts the appear
ance ol the American and Canadian shores:
“On the American side, all is activity and bus
tle. The forest has been widely cleared; every
year numerous settlements arc formed, and thou
sands of farms are created out of the waste; the
country is intersected by common roads; canals
and railroads arc finished, or in the course of for
mation ; the ways of communication and trans
port are crowded with people and enlivened by
numerous carriages and large steamboats. The
observer is surprised at the number of vessels
they contain; while bridges, artificial landing
places, and commodious wharves arc formed in
all directions ns soon as required.
“Good houses, warehouses, mills, inns, vil
lages, towns, and even great cities, arc almost
seen to spring up out of the desert. Every vil
lage has its school-house and place of public
worship. Every town has many of both, with
its township buildings, its book stores, and proba
bly one or two banks ami newspapers; and the
cities with their fine churches, their great hotels,
their exchanges, court-houses, and municipal
halls of stone or marble, so new and fresh as to
mark the recent existence of the forest where they
now stand, would be admired in any part of the
old world. On the British side of the line, with
the exception of a few favored spots, where some
approach to American prosperity is apparent,all
seems waste ami desolate. There is but one
railroad in all British America, and that running
between the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain
is only 15 miles long. The ancient city of
Montreal, which is naturally the commercial capi
tal of the Canadas, will not bear the least com
parison in any respect with Buffalo, which is a
creation of yesterday.
“But it is not in the difference between the
larger towns on the two sides that we shall find
the best evidence of our own inferiority. That
painful and undeniable truth is most manifest in
the country districts through which the line of
national separation passes fur 1,000 miles.—
There, on the side of both the Canadas, and also
of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, a widely
scattered population,poor, and apparently unenter
prising, though hardy and industrious, separated
from each other by tracts of intervening forests,
without towns or markets, almost without roads,
living in mean houses, drawing little more than a
rude subsistence fiom ill cultivated land, and
seemingly incapable of improving their condition,
present the most instructive contrast to their cn
‘'terprjsing and thriving neighbors on the Ameri
can side,”
The “Winter Studies ami Summer Hambies”
of Mrs. Jamison has a passage to the same ef
fect:
“I hardly know how to convey to you an idea
of the difference between the two shores; it will
appear to yon incredible as it is to rne incompre
hensible. Our shore is said to be the most fer
tile, and has been the longest settled ; but to
float between them, (as I did to day in a little
canoe made of a hollow tree, and paddled by a
half-breed imp of a boy,) to behold on one side a
city with its towers and spires and animated pop
ulation, with villas and handsome houses streeli
-1 ing along the shore, and 100 vessels or more,
gigantic steamers, brigs, schooners, crowding
the port, loading and unloading; all the bustle,
in short, of prosperity and commerce, and on the
other side, a little straggling hamlet, one schoon
er, one little wretched steamboat, some windmills,
catholic chaoel or two, a supine ignorant peasan
try, all the symptoms of apathy, indolence, mis
trust, hopelessness ! Can any one help wonder
ing at the difference, and ask whence it arises 1
There must he a cause for itsuerfy—but what js
; it! Dors it lie in past or in present—in natural
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or accidental circumstances 1 In the institution
of the Government or the character of the Peo
ple 1 Is it remediable I is it a necessity ! is it a
mystery? What and whence is it 1 Canyon
tell? or can you send some of our colonial offi.
dais across the Atlantic, to behold and solve the
difficulty ?”— Nut. Intel.
The Porkofurte is the name of a new musical
instrument lately invented at Cincinnati. It is
described by the Sun as being a large, long box,
fitted up with as many compartments as there arc
notes in the scale. Holds are then bored 1 in the
side of the box, and within, each* compartment a
fig is placed, with his thill extending through the
hole. Outside, the instrument, seems only a cu
riously shaped piece of furniture, while the tails
stuek through all in a raw and properly straight
ened, tssemblo very racch Hie keys of a piano.
The instrument requires little trouble iu tuning,
since, if the pigs are carefully selected they will
last for three years, and the intervals always bo
found correct. The effect produced by this in
strument is perfectly uidike that of any other;
the crescendo and the clearness of the high notes
especially, aie almost electrical.
A stiiovi Tukatt. —We mentioned yester
day that tlir treaty of division between Ksolland
and Bclgiuu was signed on the UHh of April,
by the representatives of those kingdoms, and of
the five powers under whose management it has
been negocuted. At the same time treaties were
signed betwoen each of the two and each of the
other five powers—all likewise Hearing the sig
natures of ill the representatives.. A London
paper states that in the completion. »t these di
plomatic documents, received nearly
300 signatures. Each of the representatives of
the five powers, England, France, Russia, Prus
sia, and Austria, signed his name 216 times.
More than 1200 seals were affixed to the papers,
and no less than 20 attaches of the different em
bassies were employed in getting file papers rea
dy. If there is any virtue iu signatures, these
ought to be binding treaties.— New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
Abstracted from a Paris Periodical.
A Judgment of Heaven.
During the whole of the late protracted trial of
bouffiard Lesage, and their accomplices in the
murder of Madame Renaud, the humblest scats
in the Assize Court of Paris were eagerly sought
for by the most elegant and most celebrated wo
men in Paris. This passion for the horrible has
at all limits been displayed by the Parisian fe
males, and ills never exhibited with more effronte
ry than after a political commotion. Thus, in
the year 1799, it was the fashion to go and. visit
the lunatic asylums, and shudder at the wild say
ings and violence of the unfortunate beings im
mured iu those refuges of the worst of human
infirmities. So numerous wore they who would
enjoy this cruel pastime that tile municipal au
thorities were compelled to interfere, and order
the madhouses to be closed upon all women. The
prohibition did but stimulate their curiosity, and
the nurnowt iht am.-sement was forbidden to ill,
each strove to have the privileged enjoyment of it.
The commissioners were overwhelmed with ap
plications which they could not always reject, and
it was thus that one of the prettiest, richest, and
most favorite actresses of the Comodie Franeaise
found her way into the Salpetricre, an asylum
open to infirm as well as insane females. Made
moiselle Vanhove was a relative of the artist of
the same name, who became later the wife of the
celebrated Talma. Nothing could be more charm
ing than her person; her talent,indeed,consisted
much more in the loveliest countenance than in
her dramatic powers. At a period when women
vied in displaying the most extravagant snniptu
ousness and prodigality, she was conspicuous for
the richness of her equipages and the extreme
splendour of her dress. She had adopted the
costume which Madame Tallicn, Madame Reca
micr, and other leading beauties of those revolu
tionary times bad rendered a transient fashion.
Clad with a Grecian tunic, which was tied upon
her shoulders, diamond buttons of enormous size,
her arras and bosom as bare as an antique ntutuo,
she was exploring the cells of the female lunatics,
when, suddWrly one of Ilia poor wretches rushed
upon the young actress, seiiad her arm, and ap
plied her teeth to it with such violence that the
blood flowed from it. The keepers hastened up,
threw themselves upon the ferocious assailant, and
with great pains tore her from her prey; she was
dragged away howling horribly, licking with de
light her bloody lips, and vociferating, “ Let me
drink, I’m thirsty!” Fortunately Mdlle. Van
hove’s wound was not a serious one, the mad wo
man’s teeth had not gone much deeper than the
skin. A few days after, the fair actress re-ap
peared on the stage with the more success, us the
public had been, not unintentionally, informed of
the singularly exaggerated peril she hail been ex
posed to. On her coining forward she was ap
plauded for above a quarter of an hour, and, on
the close of the performance was- recalled!
Much less was required to eonfepcelebrity upon
the female cannibal of the Salpetricre, and'whether
he would or not, the. Home Minister was com
pelled to let upwards of five hundred women—
the great ladies of a period which had no great
ladies—have access to the lunatic asylum allotted
to tbeir s at. All were surprised to find that she
who had attempted to devour Mademoiselle Vun
hovc, was a woman of thirty-five, finely and deli
cately formed, with an arch look, a turned-up nose,
the prettiest manners, and the lightest and most
graceful gait. Their astonishment was much
greater still when the keeper of the creature thus
shut up in a cell which was not unlike the cage
of a wild beast, informed them that that very wo
man had been loved in turn by Count Strogonoff,
Duron Clootz, Barnavc, Mirabeau, Felion,Camille
Desmoulins, and the atrocious Danton himself!
The keeper would next throw to the woman a.
piece of raw meat, which she would seize and
devour with abominable delight; and, at length,
he would utter her name, when all shrunk back,
still more terrified at the recollections if revived,
than disgusted with her hideous voracity, for that
fearful name was Theroignc dc Mcricourt!
Theroigne de Mir* iru'. Yes, it was she, the,
very same liend who, in the memorable days of
October, led to Versailles the bags of the Place dc
Grcve and Halle au Die—she who stormed the
palace and conducted the assassins into the
Queen’s jusiLroom—she who incited Che mob to
fire at the Royal Family who had hastened to the
balcony of the marble court! She subsequently
compelled Lewis XVI., bis wife, and children to
get into a carriage; she stationed herself at its
door, and ceased not to instill the Royal captives
in the most opprobrious terms, and to inflict on
their ears the narrative of her achievements of the
preceding day ! —what achievements! —she bad
murdered three Gardea-du-Corps, helped the “man
with the long beard” to cut off their heads, and
had dipped her arms in their blood !!
After such deeds Theroignc could not stop in
her sanguinary career. She was to he seen rant
ing in the most violent clubs, and on the 17lh of
, July, 1791. yelling among the Federri of the Rue
Saint Antoine against Ikillv ami Lafayette. In
the following year,on the 80th of June, she helped
to push the wheels of the cannon which the popu
aice forced into the private apartment of Lewis
‘ revenged herself upon Muleau, the
editor of the “ Actes des Apotres.” He had ven
tured to ridicule Theroigne, ami accuse her of bc
tng. ugly! Chance having thrown the unfortu
nate young man into her power, she had him dis
armed, stripped him, pounced upon her prey like
a tigress, strove to tear him to pieces, and wal
lowed in his blood! a sabre in her hand, she was
about U> strike him, when Sukmu, who was nimble
and robust, dashed at the hog, fastened upon her,
K f ru St;led witTi her, wrested the weapon from her
hand, and put her to flight, for her cowardice'
equalled her savageness. Ho was on the point of
escaping,, when lire President of the Section came
up with one of his worthy statcllites. They rush
ed upon. Sulenu behind him and kept hold of him.
fhcroigne then grasped her sabre again, plunged
it three or four times into Suleuu’s breast, sawed
the unfortunate man’s throat, cut of his head, pla
ced it at the end of a pike, and. carried it in tri
umph through all the streets of Paris.
I'o the murders of August succeeded the still
more atrocious murders of September. To The
roigne dc Mcrieourt those dreadful days were us
perpetual revels. She went from ono prison to
another, to the Abbaye, the Carmen, and La Force
—she hastened Irorn massacre to- massacre, she
bathed her hands and legs in blood 1 , she would fall
with fury upon corpses nut yet cold; she would
bite and mangle them; and, if we must credit the
frightful record, it was she, who, in male gar
ments, propose Ji to die noblb untilgenerous Made
moiselle cfo Hbmhreuil to save her Ikiher's life by
drinking a< gjho*af blood !
From this period Thoroigno r » intellects were
impaired, and an occurrence in tho'following year
consummated the monster’a madness. Ileing re
cognised at the Palais-Koyal by some relatives of
her many victims, she was surrounded, seized and
publicly whipped.. Ncxtday the sbo-camiibal was
to be seen prowling about the streets of Paris,
springing at all who were on her passage, in order
to bile and devour them. Two children, it is af
firmed, wore thus destroyed. She was first shut
up in a unison dk smite of Rite Saint Marceau,
and subsequently removed to the Salpotriere, where
she expired in the year 1817, insatiable to the last
of flesh, blood, and filth.
Such' is tho history of Theroigne. Now let us
conclude with the denouement' of another life.
Eighteen months ago at most, two medical gen
tlemen, impelled by charitable motives, ascended,
accompanied by a pollcrcoinimssary, the six or
seven stories of a house in the neighbourhood of
the Palais Royal, and with much difficulty found
tlioir way into a wretched garret occupied by an
aged female. They found the poor creature In
bed} she apologised for receiving them so ill, not
without blushing at being thus taken by surprise
in her morning neglige, nor without strongly in
veighing at the absence of an imaginary femme
de chum hr e, who wofully neglected her duly!
\V lien the three visitors urged her with all possible
courtesy to quit so ntiaerablc an abode, and come
to a more suitable resilience, she resisted, wept,
and attempted'to fascinate the Immane strangers
in a thousand little ways, and by a thousand little
tricks, which her superannuated face and figure
rendered loathsome. She ultimately complied,
and left her garret, taking with her all her lug
gaga, which' consisted of a rouge-pot, and
an old greasy pair of gloves, such us certain
women wear of a night, to keep their hands
fair and fresh. The liaekncy-coaeh which
she got into conveyed her to the Salpctricro, whore
she was placed among the peaceable portion of the
lunatics, for there is nothing dangerous in the old
lady’s insanity. She is ever persuaded that invisi
ble beings, and rivals jealous of her beauty, burn
about her unclean odours, and atnve to overwhelm
her with humiliations and persecutions. She
dwells in a little cell in a park, sings, recites poetry,
talks of her youth and beauty, deems herself still
impossession of those gifts, puls rouge on, in
dulges in minauderics, and issues her commands
to her mad companions as if they were her femme
de chanibre. She loves to exhibit her withered
arms, and to show on one of them the vestiges of
a bito. wlten she will exclaim, “The teeth of that
horrible Theroigne de Mcrieourt have fortunately
not deformed my plump and well-shaped arm ;
they have left on it but these little while marks!”
Waii—War has been well called a destroyer
—it reveiff upon blood and treasure. The mighty
inroads which its makes upon the finances of a
nation, may be seen by the following table of the
expenditures of the British Government for six
successive years ending with the battle of Water
loo, which gave penes lo Europe :
Periods. Expenditure.
1810 £89,110,145
1811 92,190,699
1812 104,421 528
1810 120,952,657
1814 116,483,889
7815 116,491,051
£639,009,988
A very largo proportion of this 639 millions of
money, wrung from the people of Great Britain,
and irretrievably lost, was,squandered in prosecu
ting the Peninsular war!
Discovr.nr of Comm.—Wc arc told, says
the St. Ijouin-ltepablican, that a batch of copper
ore him been l recently discovered on the tract in
this state, known as the Mina La Motto tract,
from which about 70,000 lbs. of mineral lias al
ready been taken. The prospect is said to be
fair for the discovery of a lead of the same miner
al.
Salaiiiks or Mkmhkiis of Buitihh Cabi
xi;t. — First Lord of the Treasury, $22,222 22
Lord Chancellor, 22,222 22
Lord President of the Council, 8,888 88
Lord Privy Seal, 8,888 88
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 22,222 22
Sec’y ofStato for the Home Dcp. 22,222 22
“ “ Foreign All'air.s, 22,222 22
“ ’• Colonial Affairs, 22,222 22
First Lord of the Admirably, 20,000 00
Pres, of Board of Control, 15,555 55
“ “ Trade, 8,888 88
Secretary a tWar, 11,466 66
Chan, of Duchy of Lancaster, 17,777 77
Salary of Lord Lieut, of Ireland, 88,888 88
Co.miitiom of tub Pa ess.— The condition
of the press in this country, in reference to the
system of indiscriminate credit on which it has
been so generally conducted, is beginning to en
gage the attention of tho conductors of journals
in.various parts of the country. * The system,
the Philadelphia North American remarks, “is
injurious both to publishers and to those subscri
hers who pay. The amount of money thus lost
would, if expended on the paper us it might have
lieen, have increased its attractiveness an hundred
fold. It is a fact which we tan vouch for, that
there arc standing on the hooks of a large estuli
lishmcnts in an adjoining city, had debts lo the
amount of $ 100,000, and on those of another to
the amount of #OO,OOO. These arc but two in
stances which nave fallen under our own obser
vation, and there are doubtless many papers in
the country which could present a long and ap
palling array of delinquencies. The press would
be rendered more independent by a cash system,
and would avoid many imputations which are
cast upon it. •’
In London this system is universal; the papers
are hawked through the street# as the penny pa
pers arc in this country.”— Baltimore American.
The New Bedford Register gives the follow
ing ns the last case of absent-mindedness in that
vicinity :
“ A gentleman placed his sj/reticles on one of
Ids ears, and walked side-ways, two miles in a
violent rain storm.”
The Ibllowing neat and cfegand compliment
was paid the fair sex. at the celebration of the
fifth anniversary of the Nashville Typographical!
Society :
“The Ladies. —The specimen bbok of nature
contains no Jlowers so lovely as those which’
bloom around our fire-sides.”
Insurance Bank or Co'urMinrs,7
Macon, 10th April, 1839. y
Sin :—I have the honor herewith to hand to
your Excellency the sorm-annua). statement of
the affairs of this institution, as required by the
laws of the State; and
1 am your Excellency’s most ob’f servant,
AMBROSE BAUER, President.
His Excellency Geuriis K-Gilmbh,
Consolidated semi-annual return of the Insu
rance Hank of Columbus, and Branch at Sa
vannah, April la/, 1839 v
Dn.
Bills and notes on per
sonal security run
ning to maturity,
good, 372,782 fll
Bills of Exchange run
ning to maturity,
good, 2(56,086 59
638,86- 20’
Dills and Notes dis
counted, under
protest, and in
suit, good, 93,628 63
Bills of Exchange un
der protest, and in
suit, good, 41,546 69
135,175 32
Bills and Notes disc,
under protest, and
not in suit, good, 24,951 08-
Bills of Exchange, un
der protest, and
not in suit, good, 100'
30,051 08
Bills of Exchange un
der protest, and in
suit, doubtful, 9;800”
Due from B’ks in the
State, 51,212 87.
Due from B’ks out of
the State, 20,422 63
71,635 50
Banking Houses &
Lota in Columbus
and Macon, 20;000
I.aw expenses, 2,560 99
Expense account, 10,013 62-
12,574 61
Cash Balance, vir.:—
Notes of the B’k U.B. 40,060
Notes of the Georgia
Banks, 26,150
Specie, via:—
Gold, 89,323 31
Silver, 134,835 57
224,158 88
290,3617 88-
1.203.174 59
CB.
Capital Stock, 600,000
Circulation, 11,646
Due to Bank United State* and'i
Branches, 505,913- 44 ;
Due to Banks out of the
State, 11,996 83 '
Due to Banks in the
State, 58 85.
[ 12,055 69-
Resulting balance with office, 8,158 88
Profit and Loss, 5,641 02.
Interest account, 1,777 59
Exchange accoimJi, 5,650 33’
Discount account, 9;922 10
Damages, 250
17,606 02:
Suspense account, 1,005 19
Contingent account, 156 16 ■
1(161 35'
Contingent fund to meet losses, 8,000
Individual deposits, 32,993 20
1.203.174 59'
Stockholders. No. Shares. Ain’t, p’d. Tot’l.
Nicholas Biddle, 5000 100’ 500,000'
Ambrose Baber, 146 “ 14,500
A. H. Chappell, 25 “ 2,500
John P. Greiner, 111®' “ 11,600
Frederick B. Greiner, 65 “ 6,600'
Evcrard Hamilton, 102 <*• 10,200’
Joseph L. Roberts, 495 " 49,500
Wm. Henry Watkins, 53 “ 5,300'
4000' 600,000’
Gkoboia, Bibb county.
Ambrose Baber, President, and Joseph L. Ro
berts, Cashier, of the Insurance Bank of Colum
bus, being duly sworn, say, that the foregoing
statement contains to the best of their knowledge
and belief, the condition of the said Bank and
Branch, on Monday morning, _the Ist day of
April, 1839.
AMBROSE BABER, President.
JOS. L. ROBERTS, Cashier.
Sworn to before me, this 10th day of April, 1839;.
C. A. HIGGINS, J. IV-'***
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Chari, estun, May 30.
Arrival yesterday.- Line brig Joseph Richards
Philadelphia; schr. Gilbert Hatfield, Smith, New
York.
Cleared. —Ship Gardiner, . Jackson, Liverpool -
schr. Henry A. Wise Cromwell, Havana.
Savannah, May 29.
Cleared. — brig Madison, llulkley, Ncu York.
Hailed. —Bark LaGranpe, Lanneman, New York
Went la sen. —Prig Madr.fr. P’llklev, New York’
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