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gri-UKcUlij Cljronick&Sentmd. WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE I, 1839 „ r „ ' ; . - 5 * VOL. 111.—No. 62 THE CHKOMK LK AND SF^TINEL published, DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad-street. terms; • * » I)lily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or I Seven at the end of the year. ijibi Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance, or Four at Jr the end of year. 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 ™^^" ei ** w **^ e * e,, *** e * l """^™*e**™^w*e*mi^*i - e* — 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’ /