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AUUUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 7.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES DOUGHERTY,
OF CLARK COUNTY.
Virginia Election.
Braxton axii Lewis. — We learn, says the
Richmond Compiler of the 4th, that those coun
ties have returned an Administration delegate.
They were fast year represented by a Whig, Mer
cer and Giles, one delegate, and Logan one, to
hear from, both Administration last year. If there
he no farther change, the vote in the next Legis
lature on joint ballot will be Whigs 78, Admin
istration 75, Conservatives 13, In this estimate
we place Bath among the Conservatives, which
one report states to have elected a Whig.
Col. Bek’s Reception in Mexico. —The
New Orleans Bulletin, of the 31st ult. says: “It
may be within the recollection of our readers that
a short time ago Col. Bee was sent from Texas
as Minister or Envoy Extraordinary to the court
of Mexico. The following extract from tha Vera
Cruz Censor will show what kind of a welcome
the ambassador of the single star received :
" “‘We do not know which most to admire the
audacity of those brigands in sending us their
pedlar, ( marchante ) to ask us to allow them the
quiet and pacific possession of their robbery, or
the answer the commandant general gave to the
individual who apprized him of the arrival of this
Quixotic ambassador. From the tenor of the
reply, it appears that if he lands he will he accom
modated with lodgings at the prison. Neverthe
less, the supreme government will designate what
definitely ought to be done. The commandant
says, he is not aware of the existence of a nation
called the republic of Texas, hut only of a horde
of advenlnrers in rebellion against the laws of the
government of the republic.’ ”
Daniel Harvey, a Narragansclt Indian, has been
convicted before the Supreme Court of Washing
ton Co., Rhode-Islan(l, of the murder of Christo
pher Ross of the same tribe. The mnrder was
committed in a drunken frolic. Harvey is sen
tenced to be hung on the 9th of August.
General Post-Office. —The corner stone
of the new edifice intended for the General Post-
Office, on Seventh and E. streets, Washington,
was laid on the 25th ult., in presence of the Pre
sident and heads of Departments. Upon a plate,
affixed to the corner stone, was the following in
scription: General Posl-oftice United States
Founded 1775. Buildingdestruyed by fire 183(1
Rebuilt fire-proof 1839—together with the names
of the chief officers of government, at the time
of rebuilding the edifice.
A Western Editor, says the Editor of a Michi
gan paper, wants to know whether the laws le
cently enacted against the carrying of deadly
tveapons, apply to doctors who cany pills in their
pockets 7
The expense of cleaning the streets in New
York last year, amounted to $150,000. The
number of miles cleaned is 134.
The New York Journal of Commerce says
that the great steamer British Queen is announc
ed to start from London on her first voyage to
the U. States, June 20.
Mrs. Betsey Rebecca Sawyer requests infor
mation through the Boston papers relative to
Joel Barlow Sawyer, her only child, and main
dependence, who left Boston two years ago to act
as engineer on the railroad route from Charleston
S. C., to Georgia, and has not been heard from
since. Publishers at the South will please circu
late this inquiry.
Fiiance. —Very few can comprehend, precise
ly, the various shades of political opinion that con
trol the ruling parties in France. The droite, the
gauche, the centre-gauche, the centre-droitc, the
doctrinaries, the legitimists, the tiers parti, &c.,arc
worse than Chinese puzzles to most readers. We
doubt if the leaders themselves understand pro
foundly the complexion of their politics.
1. The droite (right) was formerly meant for
the administration party generally.
2. The gauche (left) for the Opposition.
3. The oentrc-droite (right centre) and
4. The centre-gauche, (left centre) are made
up respectively of cither of the foregoing us the
central or neutral members, coalesce more to one
side or the other.
5. The doctrinaries are the academicians, phil
osophers, literary professors, those who affect at
least to have the light of reason and truth and
science for their guide, and the industrial arts of
civilization and peace for their object and aim,
rather than warn for conquests and military glory
—the conservative rather than destructive policy
—yet wc see Soull ranked as a semi-conservative;
so far true, we believe, as lie is opposed to any
practical interference in the war in Spain, of which
he himself saw the fatal policy in the time of Na
tirae of Napoleon. The doctrinaires, as men Avho
worship an academic scholastic life, prefer of
course a strong and monarchical government, so
long as their laboratories and lecture rooms re-
main protected from the intrusion of military
bayonets on the one side, or loco foco "but-enders,”
such as our city boasts, on the other. Guzot,
‘•membre do I'lnstitut” and former preceptor of
the Duke of Orleans, lecturer and writer on the
philosophy of history, &c. is at their head.
6. The legitimists are easily understood as the
ultra-Carlist believers in the divinity only of the
Bourbon dynasty.
7. The tiers-parlt, and the republicans, and
Bonapartists and the just milieu, seem to have
disappeared from the arena. —Evening Star,
Expedition fkom Illinois to Oregon.—
We learn from the Peoria Register that a compa
ny of young men, ten or twelve in number, was
to leave that place, bound for Oregon, on the first
day of May.
The articles and expense of the outfit as fol
lows :
A good riding horse, say $75 00
A rifle, carrying ball from 16 to 42 to lb, 15 00
Brace of pistols, 10 Oil
Hunting knife, 1 00
lbs. of powder, with lead in propor
tion, 5 00
2 woollen blankets, 5 00
A pack pony, to be purchased on frontier, 25 00
For contingencies, 25 00
$l6l 00
Every man has a horse. The company has a
wagon, which will be drawn by two or more of
these horses to the frontier, when it will be dis
posed of, and the loading taken on upon part
horses. The loading consists of a large tent, 18
feet diameter, capable of accommodating 30 per
sons ; cooking utensils; provisions; wearing
apparel, and some other articles. The sum all
lowed above for contingencies will cover the cost
of the wagon, cooking utensils, and such other
portions of its contents as are held in common.
The Register states that the outfit makes no
allowances forexpcnscs on the journey .which will
be light, as all provisions and provender will be
bought by wholesale, and tavern charges never
encountered. From the day of starting, it is not
intended to sleep in a house until the company
build one on the Columbia river. The first
stopping place wilt be in Independence, Missouri.
Here the party will probably dispose of their
wagon, and purchase pack ponies. They will
also purchase one month’s stock of provisions,
upon which they will subsist until they reach
the grounds of the buffalo. That animal will
furnish their subsistence afterwards fill they ar
rive at the mouth of the Columbia river.
Upon reaching the Columbia, the party will
proceed to take possession, as American citizens
of a few of the most eligible points, and make set
tlements. These “claims” (to use a pioneer
phrase) will be held in common by the whole
company, until the title is recognized by the Uni
ted Stales. Should any of the party, however,
previously become dissatisfied, he will be at liber
ty to leave, but his interest in the possession thus
claimed will be forfeited.
After thus making their locations, the compa
ny will engage in such purs jits as may offer the
best prospects of gain—whether the fur trade, the
fishery, or agriculture. These enterprises may be
carried on in common or independently, as shall
be deemed most advisable after arriving upon the
ground. At all events, farms will be opened, in
order to secure one certain means of subsistence.
The same paper states that the Rev. Mr. Grif
fin, with his young wife, had just left Peoria, un
der the patronage of the Presbyterian Church, on
a mission to the territory west of the Rockcy
Mountains, to labor among the Indians of that
vast region.
Alfalfa ok South American Clover.—
We have been favored with a stalk of this luxu
riant grass from Mr. Bryan Jackson, near this
city, raised from seed impoited from Buenos
Ayres by Dr. Thompson and distributed by him
to many members of the agricultural Society of
this county: —This stock measures upwards of 4
feet in length—the leaves arc more abundant and
larger than our common red or while clover and
the head or blossom nearly the same.—This val
uable variety of the clover family we hope will be
more fully tested by our farmers and become an
important acquisition to our slock of grass. We
should be pleased to hear if this clover has suc
ceeded with others in this country to whom the
seed was given—and indeed all the information
that may be possessed by any one respecting it.
It will certainly, from the sample exhibited to us,
make a most abundant and heavy era]) of hay to
the acre—ripe enough for cutting by the middle
of May—and it is said a succession of cropscan
be raised from it the same season, and that cattle
and horses are very fond of it. We arc fully
persuaded that great benefits are to arise to our
country by the careful introduction into it from
other countries, of all the best seeds, fruits and
plants that will bear acclimation among us and
add to our gratification and comfort.— Wilmi?ig
ton Del. Gaz.
Yankee Perseverance. —An initcrcntmap
seller went into a merchant’s counting room near
our office the other day and asked the occupant
if he wished to purchase a map, “No,” was the
tart reply. “Will you look at one?’’ “No, I
have mure of my own now than I have time to
examine.” “Will you allow mo to look at yours
then’” ‘,Yes,there they hang.” “Well, while
I am looking at year’s I’ll just unroll mine—that
you know wont hurt anybody.” So the map
vender displayed several of his best at full length
upon the counter and then quietly commenced
looking at the merchant’s which hung against the
wall. After making a few observations about
some curious water falls, caves. &c., at places
which he traced out upon the map before him, he
managed to engage the merchant’s attention, and
at last referred to his own map, lying on the coun
ter, for a more perfect illustration of his descrip
tions, and finally so much interested the auditor
that he bought three different maps, at six dollars
each, of the pedlar, and very politely asked him to
call again when he got out a new edition!—Bet
ton Dust,
Amusing Blunders. —ln May, 1784, a bill,
intended to limit the privilege of franking, was
sent from Ireland for the royal approbation; in it
was a clause enacting, that any member who, from
illness or any other cause, shall be unable to write,
might authorise some other one to frank for him,
provided that on the back of a letter so franked,
the member doth at the same time give, under his
hand, a full certificate of his inability to write.
In another bill for pulling down the old Newgate
in Dublin and rebuilding it on the same spot, in
which the old materials were to be employed, it
was enacted that, to prevent useless expense, the 1
prisoners remain in the old Newgate till the new !
one was finished. Two Irish lieutenants being
once at Portsmouth, and talking of the gallant 1
defence of a Spanish frigate which had just been
taken and brought into port, a dispute arose ;
whether it was thirteen men out of fifteen, or sis- \
toon out of thirteen, that were killed at one gun ;
on which they referred lo one countrymen
standing by, who answered, “That really he could
not be positive which of the two it was, but he
rather believed it was the latter”
“An Irish servant inquiring for Lieut. Palls,
among other descriptions, added, he was either
nephew or niece lo Colonel Wilkinson, he could
not tell which.
Lieutenant U. L. P. of the Preventive Service,
disputed concerning the proportion allowed the
military of the produce of smuggled goods seized
under their protection. Doth agreed it was a
moiety, but how much a moiety was they could
not tell, and u man was actually sent some dis
tance to the collector to ascertain whether a moiety
was a third or fourth.
Flic Rev. Mr. Ncwmro, of Froylo, having writ
leu an acrostic on Miss Huirst, one of the beauties
of that day, Ensign B. begged leave to copy it,
saying, he would present it to Miss Beever, as an
acrostic of his own composition made upon her
name.
During the building of the Theatre in Dublin,
two laborers were eating their dinners, reposing
upon their hods, when the long and somewhat at
tenuated Colonel Leigh passed by them, on which
one of the laborers exclaimed, “Onus, now did ye
ever sec such a thin match of a thing as that !”
“ Faith,” replied the other, “I know a fellow as
thin as two of him.”
Mr. O. Smith plays the same line of characters
as Mr. T. P. Cooke. One night our most celebra
ted dramatic writer was introduced to Mr. O. Smith
in the green-room at the Adelphi, and expressed
his pleasure by saying, “Ah, I had the honor of
being introduced to your namesake, Mr. T. P.
Cooke, last week.
These arc scarcely of the common order of what
arc generally called hulls, but they show a con
glomeration of mind, a kind of mystified method
of calculation, producing results which are to he
found in no other mind in the world but that of
an Irishman.
The rapid growth of the West is well shown
in the progressive population of Illinois. In
1800 there were in the limits of thatstat;, about
1000 souls. By the Census of 1820, there were
54,000. The next census, in 1830, exhibited
157,455, as the number of inhabitants. And
live years after that, according to the State Cen
sus, the population of Illinois had reached to
209,797. In the election for Governor, in 1838
there were 64,000 votes given, in a territory
which {contained about 3,000 inhabitants, less
than forty years licfore! Such arc the strides to
population and power—sneh the marches lo “ em
pire,” of the great West.
Rklioious Toleration.— The following law
was passed by the Legislature of the State of
New York:
No writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, de
cree or other proceeding of any court, or office of
justice of the peace, which shall be served or exe
cuted upon the seventh day of the week, com
monly called Saturday, by or upon any person
whose religious faith and practice is to keep the
Seventh day as a day set apart by divine com
mand, ns the Sabbath of rest from labor and dedi
cated to she Worship of God, shall be valid ex
cept in cases of breach of the peace, or apprehen
sion of persons charged with crimes and misde
meanors.—The service of any such proceeding,
in all other cases, shall be utterly void.
No person shall be subject to do or perform
military duty on the seventh day of the week
whose religious faith and practice is the same as
stated in the first section of this act, except in
cases of invasion, insurrection, or in time of war.
From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
Henry and Mane :
on, TUE FAITHFUL ONES. A PRIZE TALK.
CII AFT £ll I.
In the dealing out of the affections and feelings
to the human race, how unequal the distrlmtion !
The natures of some overflow with kindness—
others acidify every thing with which they come
in contact!
The feelings of some swell up from the heart
fresh, generous, and pure : their bland influence,
like a flood of sunshine, harmonizes the troubled
spirit; others would render turbid the clearest
fount—would cast a blight on the richest fancies.
T have looked for him long and earnestly, and
yet he comes not. I wonder why he delays !
This boquet, which I gathered for him, has nearly
faded. They say, that man's love is as mutuble
as the leaves of these flowers. It may be so; but
he is not as other men ; he loves not as other men.
His heart’s feelings have a free gust; his heart’s
fibres arc turned to a greater unison.’
Thus mused Marie. The rich fires of sunset
were yet fresh in the west, and the light was
flooding on, as it floods the Dalmatian shores,
from the bosom of the Adriatic. The zephyr was
there—the brilliance of the ‘rosy-cycd’ star was
there—and Marie was there—alone.
Bright had been the day-star of Marie; it had
ever been in the ascendant. It seemed as though
her life had been a life of joy. The hyacinth
bloomed for her ; her foot pressed on violet beds ;
the crocus opened its early beauties to her eye.—
Once only had the dark shades of life gathered
around her; it was at the death of her mother
Long did she remember the light of a mother’s
eye. But time, which raises up the bowed
down, and bows down the raised up —which
snatches the rose from the cheek of one, to crim
son more deeply the cheek of another, healed that
young heart. Her father lived, but he was too
deeply absorbed in his mad schemes of ambition,
to heed his daughter. Under the care of a wid
owed, childless aunt, she trod the bright places
of childhood. Oft did her laugh break over the
hills, and call up the bird’s wild song. .She grew
—grew in beauty. Oh! it is sweet, supremely
sweet, to sec the bands dissolve away which hold
a lovely girl to childhood, and to see her hurst
forth, like a spring bud, in the beauty and sym
metry of womanhood.
CHAPTER 11.
‘Marie, is not Mr, Mardoii frequent in his visits
here!’ asked her father one evening; and his
dark eye flashed full towards her.
•Yes, father; is there harm in that!’
■Daughter, there is harm ; I would not have it
so. The only child of a Wieland, methinks
should not be too intimate with a country law
yer.’
‘What objections have you to Henry, father!’
‘Oh, no objections to Mr. Mardcn ; but—but
—he’s only a country lawyer.’
‘Father, I ’
‘Say no more, Marie ; his frequent comings
must be broken off.’
And Marie said no more, but her heart was
| full. She admired Henry ; ho was above the
i crowd around her in nobility of sentiment, if not
1 in birth. His mind was rich in classical irnago-
I ry, and his thoughts gushed out seemingly as the
untroubled distillations of a child.
Burn under an inauspicious star, and thrown
| on unfavorable places. Homy Mardon had re
-1 tislcd manfully all opposition. With a high
soul, anil a nerved arm, he had dashed abide the
enticements of youth, and with a mind, free from
every shackle that would restrain it to earth, lie
drank from the reservoirs of Nature. Hedrank,
and was tilled.
There is something God-like the soul, low
of birth, seeking after high places, and reaching
alter the pleasures of intellectual existence. Oft
had Henry communicated with Marie. Their
spirits were congenial.
Marie Wieland was the betrothed of Henry
Mardon • • » *
Laughter was on the face of the morning.—
The garments of earth glittered as a gemmed eor
notj The dew-drop shrank from the loath of
the sunbeam, as the sensitive plant shrinks from
the touch of man. Proudly and beautifully
swept the lark, the messenger of day. The air
was melody, the heavens bright, but how weak
were the attractions of Nature to her, the temple
of whose heart was invaded by grief, and its altar
despoiled!
Marie arose from her bed unrefreshed, for care
had hung upon her eyelids, and mingled its trou
bled intlnenecs in her slumbers. Oh ! Oh how
the. cheek loses its rosy blush, and the rich eye
its lustre, by one night’s sleepless passing! She
had seen Henry—seen him for the last time.—
Severe was the parting. It is hard to wrest away
the ivy, strong bound and untraeeable amid the
branches of the oak, but more difficult to separ
ate hearts whose tendrils are interwoven by a
thousand secret tendencies.
Sad was Marie. Aunt Dorothy done idl she
could do; but she, simple soul, could not admin
ister effectually to a wounded heart! She had
lived in other days, when marriage was not a
speculation; when repellant minds were not
constrained together, nor congenial minds con
strained apart!
CHAPTER 111.
There are men ever restless—ever changing.
They endeavor to break away from every restraint,
like the untamed bird, holdcn from the flowers of
a spring morning.
Such was thecharactcr ofMr. Wieland. High
was his hearing, deep was the darkness of his
eye. The expansive forehead told that within
him were materials to effect daring and fearful
purposes.—Ambitious, ho had ever mingled in
the stormy elements of polities. Horace says,
“ Dulce cat pro patriamori.”
Wieland thought it was better ‘pro patria vivere.’
Ho lived for his country, and lived for her until
he had sacrificed his peace and fortune to the cor
morant tooth of the public.
It would he a painful task for a writer to trace
the gradually downward course of one who hud
embarked upon the high sea of politics, without
being sufficiently freighted with moral virtue, to
withstand the under currents, which would bear
him from his track. It would be useless too. In
stances of this nature are daily occurring, which
man might profit by, if he would profit by aught
on the subject.
Mr. Wieland had entered fully into the politics
of the times. Gifted with those virtues which
please the multitude,for awhile he was borneca
reeringly on. But he throws himself upon the
foibles ofthe multitude, commits himself to a lea
ky vessel, which may sink, surrounded by the
smoothness of a summer sea. Reverses will
come—and coming to a man of Mr. Wieland’s
1 temperament, they exert no amiable influence.
At this lime, the elements were gathering trou
blously on our national horizon. The stales hud
flung off the night marc of tyranny which had
pressed them to the earth, and having no common
foe with which to contend, they were disputing
among themselves. The federate bond had not
yet been adopted that made them, as it were, a
unity. The interests of the different sections of
the country were in fearful conflict; and many a
wise statesman, who had been in the ship of state
when the waves dashed high, trembled at the
ledge she was closely nearing,
jjju In this state of suspense, when the minds of
the people were eminently excited, the course
pursued by Mr. Wieland was thought to be, to
say the least, suspicious. Defeated in some of
his schemes, and maddened by defeat, he plunged
into excess of action, which his enemies construed
into a disregard and violation of the laws. Whe
ther it were true, that he designed a lawless act,
will never, perhaps, he developed; but certain it
is, the tide of public opinion bore heavily against
him—and who is able to withstand public opin
ion 1 The proud, the high, the ambitious Wie
land, was arrested as a participator in or conniver
at— treason
Public opinion, en verite, is a fluctuating sea !
CHAPTER IV.
In the meantime where was Henry 1 Had he
cast himself in the sepulchre of his earthly hopes,
and given up his hopes to a senseless weeping I
Was he a Romeo, dying at the tomb ofthe Cap
ulet ? Or, was he a man, with the Teachings of
a man, mounting the ladder to fame?
His love was not a passion, so fiery in its nature
as to burst out with a fearful luridness, and then
to subside leaving naught but a mass of ruins.
Novel readers may condemn me for not killing
him instantly. I hazard their condemnation.
Thank Heaven ! the day of sickly sentiment is
passing, and people can now love, and live.
But Henry Mardon loved as a reasonable man.
His was a pure anil steady flame, lighting up a
pathway to virtue, and discovering the secret
places of vice.
When he learned the objections of Mr. Wie
land to him, as a son-in-law, instead of yielding
to a supineness of feeling, hiaeuergtes were quick
ened into action. He parted with Marie—(in a
pathetic manner, I suspect—lovers are apt to pail
thus.) He established himself in another section
of the country, and soon gained a reputation for
logical deduction and closeness of reasoning—
trails inseparable to good lawyers. And think
you tie forgot Marie 1 Docs the Dove forget its
mate 1
He was sitting in his study one evening, in that
listless manner in which one is apt to fall, after a
day of close application, when a servant reached
him a letter. The endorsement was in a familiar
hand. It is said that ladies always tremble when
they receive a note, but had one of my female
readers seen Henry then,she would have thought
the trembling was not confined to her sex. He
broke the seal and read:—
“ Henry—Come to us quickly ! My father has
been arrested us a traitor to the interests of his
country. He must be defended—successfully de
fended—or you know the consequence. Henry
Mardon could never marry a malefactor’s daugh
ter. Come! ‘Devotedly yours,
‘Hcpt. iilst, 17—. Marie. ’
Henry done what all other young men would
have done in the same case—he went to Marie.
But as the facilities of steam hud not been so
abundantly multiplied in those days as now, we
have no authority to affirm that he went either in
one hour or one day. He ascertained the situa
tion of affairs, and ascertained too, that he had
only two weeks in which to prepare a defence for
Wieland. This was the most important ease in
which he had ever been retained, but his energies
rose equal to the task.
CHAPTER V.
1 here war a hasty rush of people, as the rush
rng of mist before the breath of the morning, on
the day of the trial. All classes forsook their la
bors and falling in the current were borne to the
court-room. It is useless to trouble the reader
with ?lie tecHwicidities of a legal proceeding.—
After all the preliminaries had been adjusted,
Murdon the counsel for the defendant arose. There
whs a deep stillness through the wide assembly,
as (hough a sorrow pressed npou it. All were
anxious to hear the youthful pleader, who had
sprung into notice from obscurity. He delivered
the exordium in a tone scarcely audible, but richly
musical. \V hen his feelings became excited—
when he came to grasp at the powerful arguments
of his antagonist counsel—when intellect grap
pled with intellect, and energy with energy the
minds of the multitude were borne away by the
depth of his eloquence.
When he had done, there was a mingling of
voices, like the murmurs of the sea, and half-ut
tered, halt-suppressed notes of approholion, wan
dered through the room.
Reader, the haughty ichind owed his life to
the exertions of a poor country law//<r / Ah!
Henry would not have exchanged situations with
the rich, the powerful of the earth. Ho had
gained renown, and he had won Marie.
• • • • ♦
“Mr. Mardon,” said Mr. Wieland, sonic days
after, "I have deeply wronged you, Your solici
tude in my behalf demands n reward greater than
1 can give. My all is yours.”
Henry profited by his generosity. He modest
ly asked lor Marie. Ho took her, and was happy.
The Russian Knout.— Many paragraphs
have appeared both in our newspapers and maga
zines, descriptive of the punishment of the Knout
m Russia; hut the following, related by the Abbe
d’Aulcroche, is the most thrillingly horrible reci
tal we have over re td on the subject, and is no
doubt strictly true :
Madame Lapouchin was one of the finest wo
men belonging to the court of the Empress Eliza
beth; she was intimately connected with a foreign
ambassador, then engaged in a conspiracy. Mad
ame Lapouchin, who was supposed to lie an ac
complice in this conspiracy, was condemned by
the Empress Elizabeth to undergo the punish
ment of the knout. She appeared at the place of
execution in a genteel undress, which contribu
ted still more to heighten her beauty. The
sweetness of her countenance and her vivacity,
were such as might indicate indiscretion, but not
even the shadow of guilt; although I, says the Ab
be, have been assured by every person of whom I
made enquiry thatsho was really guilty. Young,
lovely, admired, and sought after at the court, of
which she was the life and spirit; instead of the
number of admirers her beauty usually drew af
ter her, she then saw herself surrounded only by
executioners. >She looked on jhem with astonish
ment, seeming to doubt whether such prepara
tions were intended for her: one of the execution
ers then pulled oil'a kind of clonk, which covered
hci bosom: her modesty taking the alarm, made
her start back a few steps; she then turned pale,
and burst into tears; her clothes were soon after
stripped off, and in a few moments she was quite
naked to the waist, exposed to the eager looks of
a vast concourse of people, profoundly silent.
One of the executioners then seized her by both
hands, and turning half a round, threw her on
his buck, bending forwards so as to raise her a few
inches from the ground: and the other execution
er then laid hold of her delicate limbs with his
hand hardened at the plough, and without any
remorse adjusted heron the hack of his compan
ion, in the properest posture for receiving the
I punishment. Sometimes he laid his large hands
brutally upon her head, in order to make her keep
it down, sometimes like a butcher going to slay a
lamb, he. seemed to sooth her ns soon ns he fixed
her in the most favorable attitude. The execu
tioner then took a kind of whip, called the knout,
made ot a long strap of leather, prepared for this
purpose, he then retreated a few steps, measuring
the requisite distance with a sternly eye; and, lea
ping backwards, gave a stroke with the end of
the whip, so us to curry away a slip of skin from
the neck to the bottom of the hack; then striking
his feet against the ground, he took his aim for
applying a second blow, parallel to the former; so
that, in a few moments, all the skin of her back
was cut away in small slips, most of which re
mained hanging to the shift. Her tongue was
cut out immediately after, and she was directly
banished into Siberia.
Univkhsal Knowleiiok or EaiTons. —
An editor of a newspaper must know every
thing in the world and more too. He must be a
complete Admirable Crichton. Ho must be at
home on every subject. As to politics, that mat
ter of course is at his finger’s ends. He know’s
all the crooks, twists and turnings, and must en
lighten his readers according. In mathematics
he must he a Sir Isaac Newton. He must be
able to decide, and correctly too, whether the lute
arithmetic, or cyphering book, is the very best
that was ever published. In astronomy he must
tell who is the best star gazer, who points out
best, and most correctly, the great bear and the
little bear, the hyudes and the pleiades. In class
ics he must he a Stephens and I’orson at least,
as well as a Scapula (we suppose the French
would call it L’epaule) in dictionaries and lexi
cons. In horticulture, floriculture and botany in
general, he must be a Linnams, or, to come nearer
home, a Bigelow, (ahem, aside, we hardly know
a dahlia from a dandelion, or a butter-cup from a
bean pod.) In the drama he must be able to de
cide who arc the greatest tragedians and comedi
ans on the stage. He must he a Talma, u Cook,
a Cooper, a Kean, a Mathews, a Liston ; he must
know which is the best tragedy or comedy of the
day, and must decide whether a new one of cither
description will succeed or even bear a repetition,
and whether the author will gain or lose reputa
tion by his production. In medicine and surgery,
he must be a Dupuytren, an Abernethy, a ISir
Astley Cooper, a Warren, a Danforth, a Jackson ;
he must know and decide which arc the best
treatises on medicine and surgery that have ever
been published. In chemistry he must boa Sir
Humphrey Davy. In fact, he must and does
know every thing; he must be and is au fail on
every subject and in every science. If any man
wants an opinion which is decisive ami final on
all and every subject, moral, political, legal, or
any other al or gal, ho must apply to an editor,
and he is sure to got a decision at once true, con
clusive and satisfactory, and from which there is
no appeal. We would by no means wish to puff
up or flatter the knowledge or judgment of an
editor, hut we would merely intimate that he
does know a little more of and understand a little
better every subject that ever was treated on, from I
the science of astronomy down to the Thames j
tunnel, than any other class of beings that ever !
existed.
RESIDENT DKNTIS 7\c—Dr. Monroe's !
operating rooms, second door from llnxul treet, on ;
Mclntosti-st., opposite the Constitutionalist oßire
man b l'i 1
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MAKING INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, Juno 6.
C Awed—Brig Wm. Taylor, Hoey, Now Voile.
Arrived yesterday —Steamboat Duncan Mciiae ,
Colvin, Augusta; .steamboat Oglethorpe, Williams,
Augusta. nr, ,
H 'enl to sea —Ship Milledgeville, Porter, New
i °.i ’ m ‘ I' n i'' or . llooy, Now York; schr
\.*n Warrln K to u, Hoard, lla.timoroj schr Mary
\\ likes, Speights, Baltimore.
Charleston, June 6.
Arrived yesterday— Ship Silas Uiohards, Dickin
son, Now York j brig Hunter, lionney,
schr far of Commerce, ( halmers, New York j schr
4-li/a, Montgomery, New York.
" i _j-.
G% Cri SHARES OF RAIL-ROAD STOCK
FOR SALE.—The subscriber offers
for sale 260 shares of stock in the Georgia Kail
Hoad Hank, at par , in any number of shares from
«) to 250, so as to suit purchasers, the purchaser
course to have the next dividend to bo declared on
the Ist of the ensuing October. Par is considered
the principal stock amt interest thereon from Hie
last dividend on the Ist of April past, to the day of
sale of any portion of the stock.
Athens, may 27 w2t A. S. CLAYTON.
EXECI TOlt’s MOTICHi
ALL persons indebted to the estate of A. Magni
fier, deceased, late of Columbia county, are
requested to make payment, and at) persons having
demands against (he same will present them accor
ding to law. GEORGE M. MAGRUDKR,
Mai 21, 1839. wGt Executor.
NO I ILL. Ihe following resolution was passed
at the last meet ng of Council:
Resolved, That from and after this day, all ap
plications for taking earth from the South Common
or streets shall he mado to the Mayor, in place of
Menhcts of Council.
A true extract from the Minutes. June 1, 1839,
June 6 dtw S. 11. OLIVER, Clerk.
GEORGIA 1.1.1110 WORKS.
rpilE subscribers respectfully inform the public
X that they have commenced the manufactory of
LIME near Jacksonborough,in Striven county,Ga.
They have extensive quarries of Limestone, which
is considered by professor.!. R. Cotting, State Geol
ogist, to whom the proprietors arc indebted for tiio
information which induced them to embark in the
undertaking, to he of the very purest kind. They
have consequently erected large and substantial
Kilns hi the most approved manner, and procured
men from the North who are perfectly acquainted
with the business. A portion of the Lime is now in
market and has been pronounced by the principal
builders in the neighborhood of Augusta, and others,
to be of excellent quality. The subscribers take
pleasure in inviting those who take an interest in
the dcvclopcment of the internal resources of Geor
gia, to examine it, being convinced that the whole
United States cannot produce amore beautiful arti
cle.
They have now a quantity on hand, which they
will deliver at the mouth of Brier Creek on tnc Sv.
vannah river, or at Augusta. Having extensive
preparations in progress, they expect to be able do
ling the next winter and spring to supply orders to a
very large amount ; and they have every reason to
believe that they will entitle themselves to the favor
and patronage of the public by producing a choa|icr
and better article at homo than can he found
abroad.
Orders will he received by D. Kirkpatrick & Co’
otby Thos. L. Smith at Augusta, or Jacksoulioro’.
CORNELIUS & SMITH
May 7 Sawd&wtf
CHEAPER STILL.
THE subscribers being nearer tomarket than the
most of their cheap neighbors, Halter them
selves they can sell their goods still cheaper, (as it
is the order of the day to sell off at cost). Those
wishing bargains for rash, would do well to call
and sec for themselves.
June 7 trwtit THOS. If. WYATT & CO.
FRESH DRY GOODS, DI TCH HO-LT
• IMi CLOTHS, Ac.
FMT 11. WYATT & Co., have just received at
| , 206 Broad-street, a splendid assortment of
FANCY DRV GOODS, consisting in part of Em
broideries and Laces, Fancy Handkfs. and Scarfs,
Printed Muslins and Lawns, Fancy Silks for Sum
mer wear. Artificial Flowers, Sic. &c.
ALSO,
DUTCH HOL I INC. CLOTHS of the Hot Anchor
brand. Umbrellas and Parasols, Paper Hangings,
Fire Screens, Travelling Baskets and a very full
assortment of Men’s Stocks, made to order and cut
narrow, all of which will be sold at reduced prices.
»P J1 wBt
Geo. R, Rond & Ranking Co. J
Branch at Augusta. $
DEPOSITKS in sums of five hundred dollars
and upwards, hearing nu interest of six per
cent, per annum will he received at this Office,
for periods not less than ninety days, subject to the
ordcrof the depositors on receiving ten days notice
of their intention to withdraw,
nov 20 wtf J, W. WILDE, Cashier.
THOMAS s. MOOD
y Has taken a window at
•i - V. Mr. O. Unnforth's, a (we
doors below John Guima
ll/U' oßfir rin’s,below the Bridge Bank
n n JSkR No. 127 Broad street, where
Y ' 'Jf&i I,c "I* 11 punctually attend to
ivi * -iryjßS re P airin S a| l kinds of Jcw
elry in the best manner.—
Watches, Clocks and Musical Boxes repaired and
warranted. He hopes from his long experience in
business to have a share of public patronage.
apr3o w2m T. S. MOOD.
MR. k MRS. CHAPMAN, on the removal of
Mr. A Mrs. Egerton.on tbc Ist of July next,
will jtakc (Kissession of the rooms now occupied by
their school, and will continue to teach on a plan
simiar to that pursued by them.
The Hammer School will commence on Monday
the Bth day of July, and continue 10 weeks. It
is their design to vary their instruction to suit the
change of season ; and during the summer months
a portion of each day will be given to needle and
other fancy work. Mrs. Harris, who is already fa
vorably known to many of the ladies of Augusta,-
will give daily instruction U such pupils as may
desire, in Plain Sewing, Rug Work, of every vari
ety, Wax Flowers ami Fruit, Worsted Flowers,
Cheneillc Work, Embroidery, Fancy Netting and
Knitting, Poonah and Mezzatinto Painting, Coral
Work, Transferring Lithograph!* Prints, &c.
Tuition for the Term, flO
Plain Sewing, .0
Plain and Ornamental, 10
Painting, 8
Mr. & Mrs. C. will commence their regular ses
sion on the Ist of Oct. next, of which due notice
will be given,
ap JB_ trwistlstA
ADMIMSTKATRIX’S NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against Noah Smith,
deceased, late of Augusta, Georgia, are hereby
required to baud in an account of their demands,
within twelve months from this date, to A. J. Sc T. *
W. Miller, Esq., or to the undersigned.
MATILDA A. SMITH, Adm’x.
August*, March 19, 1539. gvv
NOTICE —All persons indebted t<T«h»estatc4uf
Walton Knight, deceased, are requested to
make payment to the subscriber, and all persons
holding claims against said estate are hereby m* . ““
quested to present them duly attested within the
| time prescribed by law.
April I, 1839. 6t P. H. MANTZ, Adm’r
NOTICE. —All claims on the estate of the late
Mrs. Catharine M. Cashin, must be presented
1 to the undersigned within the lime prescribed by
law, and those indebted to it arc requested to make
payment to WM. HARPER, Administrator.
Augusta, May 28, 1839. Ctw