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The Pirate.
S urcolj had the Gascon given utterance- in
his discontent, when the man at the mast-head
suit out, ‘ Deck-a-hoy ! —a sail to windward !"
Stamar went aloft with his glass, ami in a f w
seconds returned, and said—“ Every one to hit
post. We're in luck at last.”
Cardie’s whistle responded to the order. Every
man took to his arms, and we bore up towards
the stranger under all the rail we could carry.—
It was a truly horrible thing to observe the sinis
ter expression worn by all the hideous counte
nances of our lawless crew. Uirty, bearded, and
already scenting blood, their eyes flashing with
tires ot cupidity and cruelty, the wretches alt
gazed in the direction ot their prey, as though
they wished to annihilate the distance which se
parated them from it. In a very brief space we
neared our victim, n large merchantman, whose
appearance promised at once easy conquest and
a rich hooly. At a signal from Stamar, a shot
was fired across her hows to bring her to. She
immediately hoisted a white flag, and began to
lake in her sails; hut this obviously pacific in
clination was quite thrown away upon the com
mander of the shark. Give that fellow a shot
between wind anil water,” cried he ; “it will per
haps leach him to be quicker in his manoeuvres,
and not keep worthy fellows so long waiting.”
We were now within pistol-shot of the stran
gers, and Peter’s bringing his musket to bear
upon one of the crew, fired and knocked the
nun’s straw-hat from his head, frightening the
poor devil a good deal, no doubt, but doing him
no fartner injury.
“Pretty fair that!” said Stamar; “hutanother
time level lower. Holloa, you sugar hogshead !
send a boat aboard us I”
Pile order was obeyed on the instant, and the
boat coming alongside ns, a young and hand
some man I,n led upon our deck, without the
slightest appearance of fear or suspicion,
“Who the devil arc yon ?” demanded Stamar,
“loblolly-hoy of your cruft, or cook’s swab’s se
cond mate?"
“I am neither one nor the other, sir,” replied
the young man, firmly, “I am her lieutenant.”
‘ Oh, well, Mr. Lieutrnuut, yon see my flag?
it’s red as perhaps you can perceive. (Jo you
back and send your i aptain hither, I am not in
the habit of treating vvitlt swabs of lower rank.”
Pale with anger, and knitting his brows, the
young man preserved however sufficient mastery
over his temper to depart without reply ; and in
a lew minutes the boat returned bringing the
captain.
“Where are you bound from?” demanded
Stamar.
“From Martinique.”
“What’s your lading ?”
“As usual (roin that port—sugar ami coflee.”
“Uut how about specie ? Mono of that, eh?”
The French captain made no reply. The
sound, of his voice, when ho first spoke, had
struck me ns being very familiar to me; and the
more I pondered the more certain I became that
tliis captain who had so unhappily fallen into our
power, was well known to me. Stamar, guessing
tte truth from the captains, silence, resumed—
“l sec how it is—you have specie on hoard!—
Well. your boat will Just do to bring us so
much of your freight as wo may find it conve
nient to accept of.”
“There is no help for it,” replied the unfortu
nate captain, “and falsehood would he disgrace
ful without being of any service. I frankly con
fess, then, that wo have specie on board. To it
and to every thing else wo have you are wel
come ; but 1 trust that in return tor my giving
you'no trouble, you will allow mo and my crew
to depart without experiencing any personal ill
treatment.
“I 1 or whom do you take us, messmate ?”
I 1 ie upon your suspicions ! Von may go as
soon as our visit is paid. My lieutenants will
accompany you.”
The captain of the merchantman bowed, and
returned to go to his bout, accompanied by Lo
renzo.
Five or six times tho merchantman’s boat went
and came, bringing off to us all that the pirates
judged to bo worth taking.
All this time the captain of the luckless mer
chantman had been standing in silent expecta
tion ot the final orders ot Stumar, who now said
to him, “You can go on your way now, my
friend; and of a surely you cannot say that we
arc so very wicked—we others!”
The captain thus addressed bowed in silence,
hauled up his boat, and commenced veering to
proceed on his route. The Shark then gently
laid herself broadside to; Stamar gave a signal
to the infamous Lorenzo, and exclaimed at the
same time to the merchantman’s captain, “ Adieu!
s pleasant voyage to you !”
Scarcely were the hypocrite’s words uttered
when a fearful explosion of our whole range of
guns shook every plank of the Shark, and for a
tew moments both vessels were completely hidden
in the thick black clouds of smoko. Stamar now
gave the word, the Shark darted forward under
all sail; and when the smoke had somewhat dis
persed, wo could seethe unfortunate merchant
man dreadfully torn by our shot—her deck cov
ered with wounded men, whose cries and groans
were truly dreadful.
On perceiving that our broadside had merely
crippled the merchantman, instead of sinking her,
Stamar flew into one of his fiercest paroxysms
ot rage.
“Fools! brute beasts!”he exclaimed, stamp
ing on the deck; “why did they not give it her
between wind and water? It’s a mere waste of
.powder and shot! Master! start mo all those
■novices—put the very best men on board at tho
guns; above all see that they ram homo well,
and level low!”
Scarcely two minutes had elapsed from the
giving ol the ferocious order, when the new
broadside of the Shark vomited death and de
struction upon the crippled and helpless mer
chantman. Again for a few minutes the horizon
war, obscured by dark and heavy clouds of smoko;
and some minutes elapsed before they cleared
awuv sufficiently to enable us to see the effects
produced by our volley. F rightful, but impotent
imprecations reached us through the atmosphere;
and, at length we distinguished the aged and un
fortunate captain mounted on the bulwarks of
his shattered vessel, now tearing his hair, and
anon extending his clenched fist towards us in
• vain menacing and detestation. Traversed us his
ship lind been in every direction by our balls, she
was rapidly sinking; and just as she was finally
settling down, some of her crow sought shelter
in her tups, while others plunged into tho sea,
and swam towards us. Alas! the case of those
who still clung tc the masts of the sinking ship
was not a jot more hopeless than that of the un
happy men who looked for safely in the mercy of
Sttmar. Seeing that they swam vigorously and
perscveringlv towards us, he shouted, “ Shoot
me oil a few of those jolly fellows, Mart dim !
they seem marvellously well inclined to aid in
the consumption of our grog and biscuit. Take
good aim, 1 say, there, some of you and shoot mo
them off.” His orders were obeyed to the very
letter. Shot following shot in quick succession,
* and man after man fell beneath the murderous
aim of the ferocious pirates. Now and then a
cap or a straw Gal rose to the surface, and floated
round the shalteie.l vessel which the foaming
waves were now fast engulphing,
•suddenly with a sound like the rushing of a
huge water-spout, an immense chasm opened in
the waves, the merchantman balanced herself for
a moment or two, and then, with one lightning
like bound, descended; the tops of her masts
were for an instant seen lashing the waters, and
then she and the unhappy wretches who were
still clinging to her, disappeared forever. To the
tumult ol the horrible scene that had been en- .
a tod there succeeded for n few moments a fright- j
lull)'expressive silence, which was broken by ihc
'oil col Hiamar, who in tones of infernal irony
exclaimed, "Adieu! a pleasant voyage to you.'
CIIIIoNICLK AND SKNTINKD.
AIGI S T \ .
SATURDAY .MORNING, JUNK 8.
FOR CiOVKRNOR,
ciia it i,l; s i> ou«iii: it t y ,
OF CLARK COUNTY.
From Florida.
The relurtiH for delegates to Congress, says
the St. Augustine News of the 3d, from the terri
tory of Florida, received at St. Augustine, were
yet incomplete. The vote stood thus : Charles
Downing 2289, T. Batzcll 1891. For Consti
tution 1443; no Constitution 1749.
Gen. Macomb's treaty is again ratified in the
blood of our countrymen. On Wednesday night
last, a party of Indians attacked the house of Mr.
Ostein, at Alligator, on the road to Newnansville,
killing Mr. Ostein, and wounding Mr. Simeon
Dell, and Miss Ostein. On Saturday afternoon,
a detachment of dragoons, brought in from Pico
luta, a free negro named Morris, taken up under
some circumstances of suspicion, connected with
the recent murder of Brockenbury, ut Picoliti.
It is however satisfactorily ascertained to have
been the work of Indians, as the command which
went in pursuit, followed their trail, for several
miles. The situation of the people of this Terri
tory, is now infinitely worse, than it has ever been
A nominal treaty of peace is proclaimed—our
citizens are murdered with impunity—and by the
order of Gen. Macomb, if the Indian is met, on
the road, the white man must give way. The
position in which Gen. Macomb has left affairs,is
a disgrace upon his fair escutcheon.
June 4.
On Saturday last, an altercation occurred at
New Smyrna, between two privates of Capt Bry
ant's Company, 2d Dragoons, resulting in the
death of private Kearns.
Dr. Dyott was convicted of fraud on Saturday
last, in Philadelphia.
The real estate of the late Henry Eckford, of
New York, was offered at auction in that city, on
30lh ult., and IOS lots, about one-half of the
whole quantity put up, were sold for $251,090.
Baltimore Post Office.— J. S. Skinner,
Esq. retired from the Baltimore Post Office, on
the 31st ult., and was succeeded by Joshua Van
sant, Esq. Mr. Skinner filled the office for up
wards of 20 years past, faithfully discharging it s
duties, and now retires with the general good
wishes and respect of the Baltimore public. The
appointment of bis successor is by the Baltimore
Post, to have bocnAvell received by all purtieva.
The nit eat extent of tub Teiiuitouy
of t'Eoiioia.—Our attention lias been called,
says the Brunswick Advocate, within a few days
past to find out the whereabout of i; new. County
lately introduced into notice in this State, called
“Chattooga.” Upon casting our eye across the
map in a North Western direction some 450 to
five hundred miles up to the extreme oorncr of
the State wo find its location. It takes itsnnaem e
from a small stream which empties into the Ten
nessee; its distance however, is so short do tha 1
noble river, that the whole County iinny be said to
be in its fertile valley.
In our paper of to-day will he found an adver
tisement of u sale of lots in a new town founded
within its limits. We call attention to the sub
ject as one illustrating strongly tho vast benefits
of Internal Improvement. The Great Western
and Atlantic Kail Koad passes through this new
County.
Wc learn from the Army and Navy Chronicle
that the Board of Engineers and Naval Con
slructora met in Washington on Wednesday
22d May, and adjourned on Tuesday evening
sine die, having completed the business laid be
fore them.
It is intended lo bui’id two steam vessels of war,
and the attention of the Board was chiefly di
rected, wc believe to the model of the vessel, the
size, form, and location of the engines and ma
chinery.
From Terns.
Cordova the Mexican leader of the Nacogdo
ches rebels, has returned to the frontier at the
head of 108 men, accompanied by 40 pack males,
loaded with ammunition. Captain Andrew
commanding a Company of Kangers in Bastrop
county, discovered his trail, and found his camp.
Soon afterwards an express from Bexai, brought
the news, that a party of Surveyors, on theGau
daloupo north of that place, bad been cut ofi'and
murdered, with tho exception of one (Mexican)
who was found badly wounded. Ho stated that
the party was 108 strong—loo Mexicans from
beyond tho Rio Grande, 7 Shawnee Indians, and
1 negro, the whole commanded by Cordova and
that the packs contained ammunition for the
no*hern Indians residing within our territory,
whom, Cordova had promised lo rejoin in three
moons from the time he loft them.
Seventeen men of Captain Andrew’s Compa
ny pursued the trail. A Company of twenty
five citizens immediately followed from Austin,
with Judge Waller and his workmen. On re
ceiving tho intelligence at the camp of Maj.
Jones, below Austin, Captain Lewis joined the
pursuit with 85 men, from his Company and
Captain Owcnsby's—and Col, Burleson, march
ed fiom Bastrop at the head of 50 citizens to cut
them off at the Brazos before Cordova, as he was
incumbered with baggage, and his horses were
worn out, several of them having been found
loose upon his trail. —Houston 'Texas ) Intel
I geneer.
Extract of a letter received in Charleston, dated
Sumtkhvillk, Juno 3, 1839.
“ Our farmers, in portions of our District, arc
in a woful predicament, in consequence of the |
! severest Hail Storm that was ever known to have !
■occurred in this portion of the country. On
Friday evening last, about half past 5, a cloud
from the North M i st, accompanied with the most
singular roaring, approached, evidencing the dc- j
termined fury in its course, suddenly, and in a
moment it "as upon us. and poured down its fury
; with a crash as impetuous as it was possible. Hail j
varying the size of a hickory nut, and plenteous |
. as a summer shower till for alvout S or S nunutea,
I aecornjranini with the most powerful blow 1 e'er
1 witnessed? Directly after the storm, 1 went into
the street, ami to my utter astonishment,® large
number of our I'ritlc of India were prostrate,
with many other trees in the various lots.
“To give you an idea of the devastation in the
woods, 1 rode out this morning, and, in the spare
of an acre, I counted between 30 and 40 pine
j trees prostrate. Many of the cotton crops are
ruined, and the corn severely injured. A largo
I field of promising cotton, last week near the vil
lage, this morning was cross-ploughing for the
purpose of plantingcorn. The storm was about
five miles wide, and run through the district in a
South W est course. About half past 9 the same
evening, for two or three minutes, another storm
passed over with hail, though perhaps with only
half the fury of the former; and this morning
another passed over us, accompanied with a blow
and large pieces of hail, lasting, however, only
for a few n^ftients.
“ Our roads arc in a had predicament, crossed
every five hundred yards with large pines, and
rendering it necessary to cut about in every by
way to get along. A large number of birds were
killed by the hail.”
Baltimore, June 1, 1839.
Episcopal Convention.—Theamiualmcet
ing of the Convention of the Episcopal Church
for the Diocese of Maryland, commenced on
Thursday last. After disposing of various church
matters the Convention yesterday proceeded to
the election of a Bishop, when the Rev. Benja
min I. Dorr D. I), of Philadelphia, was elected by
an almost unanimous vole—a choice wo under
stand entirely acceptable to the members of the
church generally,—and it is understood that the
appointment will be accepted.
The Convention is numerously attended and
holds its sessions in Saint Paul’s Church, in this
city. The Rev, Dr. Wyatt, was chosen to pre
side over its deliberations.— Patriot.
From the Correspondent of the New York Star
dated
Liverpool, May 7,
One of the daughters of the late milhonnnaire ,
Rothschild, has not only married a Christian,hut
has abjured the faith of her fathers! On Mon
day week, April 29th, Miss Rothschild gave her
hand in marriage to the Honorable Henry Fitz
roy, M. I*. for Lewis, and brother of Lord South
ampton. The bridegroom was 32, two days
after his marriage, (having been horn May 2,
1807) and he is heir presumptive to the titles and
estates of his eldest brother. Lord Southampton,
who is travelling with his lady in Egypt, and has
no children. He is a man of fashion, was a
visiter at Crockford’s, but has been a quiet char
acter of late.
The bite Baron do Rothschild left two daugh
ters. Each have a fortune of X’150,000, depen
dent on the consent of their brother, Baron Lio
nel de Rothschild, to their marriage. One of
them, I believe, is married to Montfiore, late Sher
iff of London, a Hebrew gentleman of great
wealth and respectability. The Rothschilds
move in the very first circles in London, and thus
Mia Rothschild became acquainted with young
Filzrny. Ho was formerly in the army. When
her father was alive, a young Austrian noble
man, Private Secretary to Prince Esterhazy,
proposed for her; but her father declared she
should marry none but one of the Jewish faith.
When Miss Rothschild determined to marry
Mr. Filzroy, she went to see the Archbishop of
Canterbury, and told him that she wished to be
comes a Christian. His Grace inquired into
particulars, and then very properly told her that
he did not consider a love affair sufficient reason
for her abandoning Iter religion. She is said to
have assured him that it had long been her inten
tion to become a Christian, and that her family
were aware of it. On this, the Archbishop said
that, if it appeared her sincere desire to become a
Christian, from conviction, he had no alternative
but to accept and baptize her. He communicat
ed with her family, and it appears that she had 1
informed them of tier intention. The marriage
was private, and unattended by any of her family.
Her brother has the power of withholding the
fortune left to her by her father, but it is not ex
pected that he will do more than have it so set
tled upon herself and her children as to prevent
the chance of her husband squandering it. It is
expected, also, that her family will shortly receive
her. Should she become a British peeress, as is
likely in the course of time, she will be the first
Jewess who has ever been in a like situation.
First American A aval Achievement.
Mr. Coopci’s History of the Navy of the U. S.
just published, brings to notice some early deeds
ol valor by the Father’s of the Revolution, on
the water, that are not eclipsed by the glory of
their achievements on the land, and which will
now deservedly rank with the noblest exploits of
after times. The first volume furnishes the fol
lowing account of an action which is well called
the “ Lexington of the seas:”
The first nautical enterprise that succeeded the
battle of Lexington, was one purely of private
adventure. The intelligence of this conflict was
brought to Machias, in Maine, on Saturday, the
bill of May, 1775. An armed schooner called
the Margaretta, in the service of the crown, was
lying in port, with two sloops under her convoy,
that were loading with lumber on behalf of the
King’s Government. Those who brought the
news were enjoined to be silent, a plan to capture
the Margaretta having been immediately projected
among some of the more spirited of the inhabit
ants. The next day being Sunday.it was hoped
that the officers of the latter might bo seized
while in church, but the scheme failed in conse
quence of the precipitation of those engaged.
•Captain Moore, who commanded the Margaretta,
■saw the assailants, and, with his officers, escaped
through the windows of the church to the shore,
where they were protected by the guns of the
schooner. The alarm was now taken, springs
were got on the Margaretta’s cables, and a few
harmless shot were fired over the town, byway
of intimidation. After a little delay, however,
the schooner dropped down below the town, to a
distance exceeding a league. Here she was fol
lowed, summoned to surrender, and fired on from
a high bank, which her own shot could not reach.
The Margaretta again weighed and running into
the bay at the confluence of the two rivers, an
chored.
The following morning, which was Monday,
the 11th of May, four young men took possession
of one of the lumber sloops, and bringing her
alongside of a wharf, they gave three cheers as a
signal for volunteers. On explaining that their
intentions were to make an attack on the Marga
retta, a party of about thirty-five athletic men
was soon collected. Arming themselves with fire
arms, pitchforks, and axes, and throwing a small
stock ol provisions into the sloop, these spirited
freemen made sail on their craft, with a light
breeze at north west. When the Margaretta ob
served the approach of the sloop she weighed and
crowded sail to avoid a conflict, that was every
way undesirable, as her commander was not ap
prised of all the facts that had occurred near Bos
ton. In jibbing, the schooner carried away her
main-boom, but continuing to stand on, she ran I
| into Holmes' Bay, and took a spar out of a vessel
: that was then lying there. While these repairs
j were making, the sloop hove in sight, and the |
Margaretta stood out to sea, in the hope of avoid
! ing her. The wind now freshened, and the sloop
proved to he the better sailer, with the wind on
the quarter. So anxious was the Margaretta to
avoid a collision, that (’apt. Moore now cut awav
j his boats; but finding this ineffectual, and that
| his assailants were fast closing with him, he open-
cJ a fire, the sJiooncr having an armament of
; four light guns, ami thirteen swivel*. A man
was killeil on hoanl the sloop, which immediately
relumed the fire with a wall piece. This dis
charge killed the man at the Margaretta a helm,
and cleared her quarter-deck. The schooner
, broached to, when the sloop gave a general dis
| charge. Almost at the instant the two vessel*
came foul of each other. A short conflict now
took place with musketry, Capt. Moore throw
ing hand grenades with considerable efifect, in
person. This officer was immediately afterwards
shot down, however, when the people of the sloop
boarded and took possession of the Margaretta.
The loss of life in this affair was not very great,
though twenty men on both sides, are said to
have been killed and wounded. The force of the
Margaretta, even in nren, was much the most
considerable, though the crew of no regular can
[ ever equal in spirit and energy, a body of volun
j teers assembled on an occasion like this, i here
was orginally no commander in the sloop, but
previously to engaging the schooner, Jeremiah
O’Brien was selected for that station. This af
fair was the Lexington of the seas, for, like that
celebrated land conflict, it was the rising of a peo
ple against a regular force, was characterized by
a long chase, a bloody struggle, and a triumph.
It was also the first blow struck on the water,
after the war of the American Revolution had
actually commenced.
Council Ciiambkii, >
Saturday, June 1, 1839. 5
Present—Hon. A. Cumming, Mayor; Aider
men, Harper, Crump, Nelson, Dye, Warren,
Thompson, Bush,and St. John.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
Messrs. Parish and Rankin appeared and took
their scats.
The police court docket was taken up and the
following cases disposed of;
J. L Mims, violation 18thsection,fined S 5 00
W. B. Myers, “ “ “ “ 100 00
Aug. Frederick, “ “ “ “ 500
D. B. Edes, “ “ “ “ 10 00
P. Hullicn, “ 16th “ “ 100
A. Adams, “ 4th “ “ 500
T Sharp, for non-attendance ns awitness 5 00
Mr. Hitt appeared and took his seat.
'Pile report of the Committee appointed to act
as delegates, at the convention of the stockholders
of the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company
held at Athens, the 2nd Monday in May last, was
read and ordered to he filed.
The following officers made their reports for
the month of May, with the collector and treasu
rers receipt for the amount attached to their
names :
J. W. Meredith,clerk lower market 99 67
Wm, Keener, clerk upper market 5 06
W. Lawson, keeper of the jail 27 98
O. Dan forth, keeper of the magazine, 4 CO
F. Dlodgct, marshal, tines and guard
room fees 38 00
The keeper of the hospital reports four persons
remaining in the hospital.
The sexton reports :wenty interments for the
last month, of whom twelve were whites, and
eight blacks.
Council adjourned to 4 o’clock.
Four o’clock, afternoon.
Present—Hon. A. Cumming, Mayor; Aider
men, Harper, Dye. Hitt, Parish, Warren and
Nelson.
The minutes of the meeting of the morning
were read and confirmed.
Messrs. St. John and Thompson appeared and
took their seals.
The following resolutions were offered and
passed :
By Mr. Wnrren,
Resolved, That so much of a resolution passed
on (he 4th of May, as thereby authorises members
of council to carry into clfect the 10th section of
the general ordinance, he rescinded, and that here
after the power of exemption be vested entirelv in
the mayor.
By Mr. Parish,
Resolved, That his honor the Mayor he reques
ted to appoint a committee of three horn this body
to co-operate with the different committees, which
may be appointed from the several volunteer
companies of the city for the purpose of making
arrangements for celebratinglhe 63d anniversary
of our national independence.
Messrs. Parish, Rankin, and Thompson were
appointed that committee.
By Mr. Dye,
Resolved, That from and after this day, all ap
plications for taking earth from the south com
mons or streets, shall be made to the mayor, in
place of members of council.
By Mr. Dye,
Resolved, That the Street Committee be in
structed to advertise for proposals for a Brick
Arch to be turned at the intersection of each cross
on Broad street, of such description as may be
deemed most suit.ble by the street committee.
By Mr. Thompson,
Resolved, That the Delegates on the part of
the City Council to the late Rail Road Conven
tion at Athens, he authorized to draw on the
Treasurer for the amount ot their expenses.
By Mr. Thompson,
Resolved, That the Mayor be instructed to
have made a good and substantial hound book,
w ith printed head and ruled columns, for the use
ol the city, and said book shall hereafter he care
fully kept by the Clerk of Council and he con
sidered as the property of the city; and that the
mayor be also instructed to obtain, if possible, the
books formerly kept by the former sextons of the
city, and have the same transcribed; and that
hereafter it shall he the duly of the sexton to
furnish monthly to the clerk of council, a full list
of all persons buried in the city cemetry, together
with such particulars as may be necessary for a
perfect record, all of which the clerk of council
shall copy into said record book.
By Mr. Thompson,
Resolved, That in the opinion of the city coun
cil, it is necessary to establish a tread-mill, to be
attached to the jail; and that the mayor appoint a
committee of three to take the subject into con
sideration, and that said committee be instructed
to enquire into the probable cost of putting up
said mill and report the result of their enquiries
to the next meeting of council.
By Mr. Warren,
Resolved, That his honor the mayor, be re
quested to have removed a certain obstacle in the
Savannah river opposite the city, called a jetty
or breakwater.
The yeas and nays were called for on this res
olution, and were as follows—Yeas, Thompson,
Dye, Wanen, Parish, and St. John. Nays,
Harper, Hitt, Nelson and Rankin.
By Mr. Nelson,
Resolved, That a committee bo appinted to se
lect a suitable place on the south common or else
where, as a depository for all trash, except dead
animals, collected by the street officer—that said
location he enclosed with a good fence; that the
street officer have privilege to sell said manure or
trash, provided said enclosure shall be thorough
ly cleansed at least twice every summer.
Messrs. Nelson, Warren, and Hitt, were ap
i pointed the committee.
) By Mr. Harper,
| Resolved. That his honor the mayor he reques
ted to issue city scrip of a denomination not less
than One Dollar, so that the amount on band and
| in circulation may not exceed Fifty Thousand
Dollars ; and that an amount not exceeding .
dollars, beat his discretion placed with the Geor
i gia Insurance and Trust Company, for sale on i
account of the city.
The yeas and nays being called for on this res- i
1 olution, they were taken, and Messrs. Harper, j
i Hitt, Rankin, Dye, Warren, Parish, and his j
J mU V v
honor, the mayor, voted in the atfirmativc: and
Mr. Thompson, in the negative, ( Vr. Nelson not
voting)—so the resolution was carried.
By Mr. Harper,
Resolved , That his honor, the mayor, be re
quested to employ a competent person to take the
level, preparatory to making a canal from this ci
ty to rocky creek, and pay such portion of the
expense of the survey, as in his opinion should he
■ paid by the city.
By Mr. Hilt,
Resolved, That his honor, the innyoft apply to
his excellency the Governor, for the standard of
weights and measures, (passed by a late act of
Congress, for the use of the slates,) to be used
for the city.
The following bills were severally read and or
dered to be paid:
C. M. Curtis, sundry bills for painting
and glazing 70 69
G. F. Parish, sundry bills for work done
since and in 1837-38-39 447 21
J. H. Weaver, work done on city clock 58 00
Ann Crawford, board for M. Wilson, a
pauper 10 87
W. Lawson, Jailor, 1 month salary 66 67
12 city watch 335 00
H. Johnson, boarding paupers at poor
house 24 00
F. Blodget, oil, &c. for guard room 2 75
11. Caffin, cotfin fora pauper, &c. 4 50
K. 11. Watson, E. M'Goulrick, L. T.
Shopp, and J. Timmerman, city con
stables, 1 month salary, each $OO 240 00
W. D. Broom, work on parade ground 70 00
J. M. Dye, blankets for hospital 5 50
J. W. Houghton, sundries for a pauper 4 00
Win Moody board of patients in Hospital 45 37
J H Spencer contracts for work on streets 175 00
A. Steele, work on drains 10 00
Hulbert & 8011, new hose received fur
engine No 2. 75 00
3. Maguire, work at trash Wharf 10 00
A. Picquet,key for the use ofthe mayor 75
The proposal of 8. 1,. Basford, to grade and
pave Broad st., from Camming to Mill street, at
the rate of $l2 50 cents per 1000 bricks with sat
isfactory securities, was accepted.
Council adjourned. 8. H. OLIVER,
Clerk of Council.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, June 7, 1839.
W. E. & J. U. Jackson ; Haviland Risley & Co.;
M. & Co.; I. Moise, J. 8. Bones & Co., Clarke Mc-
Tier & Co.; A. Frederick ; C. Hoffmann ; R. Carter;
Rankin Boggs t Co.; A. Sabal; D. Antignac &
Hill; VV. Edncy; A. Johnson; J. P. Seize; Sto
vall Simmons & Co.; J. F. Benson; Jeffers Ik
lioulware; N.Jerone.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, June 6.
Arrived yesterday. —Ship Susannah Gumming,
Salter, Boston ; brig Clinton, Lyon, New York ;
brig Edwin, Fitzgerald, Baltimore; brig Pbilura,
Sherman, New York
Charleston, June 7.
Arrived yesterday. —Ship Chatham, Richardson,
Boston; ship Belvidere, M’Kuewn, Philadelphia;
line ship Niagara, Besher, New York ; C. L. brig
Ashley, Pike, New Y’ork.
Cleared. —Ship Caledonia, Brandcr, Sherry,
Hampton Roads.
EVANS’ FAMILY VEGETABLE APERIENT
ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS.
Being composed of ingredients which exert a
specilic action upon the heart, give an impulse or
strength to the arteral system ; the blood is quick
ened and equalized in its circulation through all
the vessels, whether of the skin, the parts situated
internally, or the extremities; and as all the se
cretions of the body are drawn from the blood
there is a consequent increase of every secretion,
and a quickened action of the absorbent and exha
lant or discharging vessels; any' morbid action
which may have taken place is removed, all ob
structions are overcome, the blood is purified, and
the body resumes a healthful state. The circula
tion, that important function, was not known to
the great Cclsus, Galen, or Hippocrates ; therefore,
their deficiency of knowledge led them to extract
the vital fluid as a curvative means; but upon the
principles of the circSlation of the blood, t|ie prac
tice of bleeding is proved to be fallacious.
it has been left to the directors of thi^ ; society
to bring forward Ur. Wm. Evans’ Medicines, found
ed upon the important knowledge imparled to the
world by the discovery of the circulation of the
blood.
Rian’s Family Vegetable Ayer lent Anti-Bilious
Bills, are sold in boxes of Twenty-live cents each.
THESE MEDICINES
after much anxious toil and research, having been
brought by the Directors to their present state of
perfection, supersede the use of the innumerable
other medicines; arc so well adapted to the frame,
that the use of them, by pieserving the vital strength
in a pure and healthy state, and consequently
maintaining the body in the due performances of
its functions, cause it to last many years longer
than it otherwise would ; and the mind to become
so composed and tranquil that old age when it ar
rives, will appear a blessing and not (as to many
who have neglected their constitutions, or had
them injured by medicines administered by igno
rance) a source if misery and abhorrence.
“Even from the body’s purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.”
A pamphlet with general directions for taking
the Pil s, always given in at the store of the agent.
DR. WILLIAM EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP,
FOR CHILDREN TEETHING.
To Mothers and Nurses.—The passage of the
Teeth through the gums produces troublesome and
dangerous symptoms. It is known by mothers
that there is great irritation in the mouth and gums
during this process. The gums swell, the secre
tion and saliva is increased, the child is seized with
frequent and sudden fits of crying, watchings,
starting in the sleep, and spasms of peculiar parts;
the child shrieks with extreme violence, and
thrusts its fingers into its mouth. If these pre
cursory symptoms are not speedily alleviated,
spasmodic convulsions universally supervene, and
some cause the dissolution of the infant. Mothers
who have their little babes afflicted with these
distressing symptoms should apply DR. W.M.
EVANS’ CELEBRATED SOOTHING SYRUP,
which lias preserved hundreds of infants when
thought past recovery, from Icing suddenly at
tacked with the fatal malady, convulsions.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta,
J. M.St T. M. TURNER,Savannah,
11.I 1 . M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP & ELLS, Milledgeville,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN, Forsyth,
BENJAMIN P. POORE, Athens,
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
June 7
QCj’ THE AMERICAN SILK GROWER AND
FARMER’S MANUAL —A monthly publication,
designed to extend and encourage the growth of Silk
throughout the United States. Edited by Ward
■ Cheney and Brothers, Burlington, N. J., and pub
lished in Philadelphia, at the low price of One
Dollar a year.
$j- Subscriptions received at this office. ap
try BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the benefi
of Vie Sick Poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
The Visiting Committees for theensuing month aie
as follows:
Division No. L—Mr. P. H Mantz, Mr. D. Bland,
Mrs. Meredith, Mrs. Charles Jones
Division No. 2.—Dr. E. Osborne, S. B. Groves
j Mrs. Trembly, Mrs. J. W. Stov.
Division No 3.—Mr, E. W. Collier,Jas. Panton
Mrs. J. C. SneadJVrs. A. Whitlock.
| Any member of the committees may obtain fund
by calling on the President, (W. W. Holt, Esq.) at
his office,Cumming’s Piaza. ’ '
'(nay 22 C, F. S PURGES, Secretary.
(O’ resident dentist..—Vt. Mtmn'i
j operating rooms, second door from Broad treet on
Mclntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist office
march 13
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PLUTyAND THE DISEA3E3,
Old Pluto lately call'd Ills clan
Os agents round him to a man,
To know at once the reason why
The Yankees take so long to die ;
Quoth he, ‘-Alas there was a time,
They all came posting in their prime
But now 1 think the villains try ’
With old Methuselah to vie:
Since all they do is done with speed,
But dying fast to serve our need ;
for in their land of notions cunning,
Os pushing, crushing, driving, dunning,
(Upon my conscience) it would seem,
All things but dying went by steam,
So now they hardly recompense us,
For making out the yearly census,
Thus 1 have called you in a row,
The reason of this fact to show,
That wc may plan some method clever,
To coax them here as fast as ever,
And help our friends to cut a shine,
Who make great coats of bits of pine.
Sir fever you begin the story,
That robs your names of half theirglory.’
“My liege, 1 own with many a sigh,
I can’t persuade the rogues to die ;
I bake, and roast, and fry, and stew them,
J pour hot lava through and through them,
And of their heads with eager pains,
Hot ovens make to burn their brains:
But all in vain, for as 1 think
To give a fair his final pink, ( i
The villain frowns a calm defiance,
And swafows with profound reliance,
A dose of things called Peters’ Pills,
Which all my bubbling lava chills,
An instant stops the work of slaughter,
And leaves his blood as pure as water.”
Here grim Dyspe rsia put his chat in,
“My liege—my liege, the truth he’s pat in,
For even my plans are oft demolished,
By that deceiver’s arts so polished;
1 choke the stomach—sour the chyle,
Distend the spleen, disturb the bile,
And guard so well each leak and drain,
That all that enters must remain ;
But then when all is smooth and nice,
To send my job home in a trice,
He takes those awful pills of Peters’,
As gaily as a glass of bitters,
And a I my agents, left and right,
Arc put to instantaneous flight;
Indeed it sometimes makes me laugh,
To see the rascals scampering off.”
Now Palsy pale his voice intruded,
‘ 1 too, great Pluto, am included,
In the unf irtunate diseases
this doctor diubs whene’er he pleases;
1 take my man and gripe his bowels,
1 hough stup’d the while in smoking towels,
And shake him as the fit increases,
Until you’d think he’d fall to pieces;
But when I hope in earth to cram him.
In steps that Dr. Peters—d n, him,
And makes my patient, in a shock,
As sound and steady as a rock.”
“And 1,” quoth Jaundice, “do my best
To kill, but fail like all the rest,
As when those pills begin to play,
I must be off like yesterday.
For soon the cheeks I marked for doom,
Begin like any rose to bloom.”
Groan’d Cholic —“My complaint’s the same,
And I am loosing all my fame ;
Those Pills of Peter’s I’m inclined
To think, pervade the very wind,
For wheresoe’er I go to wo;k,
They fall upon me like a Turk :
So—(all unequal to the strife,)
I run away to save my life—
And if the past were bound to curse,
The future will be ten times worse t
For by a patented machine,
Which I in Gotham late have seen,
He makes with case, I’ve heard him say,
Five hundred thousand pills a day !
So that the chance is very small, .
Os people dying there at all.”
Here Headache—Tape worm—lndigestion,
And Gout—by turns took up the question ;
Then lollowed ten blue devils, whining,
With Scurvy, Ague, and plague repining,
At that unsparing scourge of ills—
By all men known as “Peters’ Pills.”
The king of terrors look’d the while,
As though his soul were turned to bile ;
And poured ten thousand oaths of dread,
On the devoted Doctor’s head;
Then thus address’d the gentle crew ;
“Sweet devils, this will never do,
Your tyrant must be bribed by Death,
Ur there's an end to losing breath.
At least if he’s above temptation,
The only way to save the nation,
Is by a Y’ankee speculation—
For instance, pay the rogues, so prying,
So many dollars each fordying;
Or (which the end as well fulfils.)
For swearing against Peters’ Pills.”
Up whirr’d at once that hungry pack,
With Death fresh mounted at their back,
All shrieking wild with hope and will,
For vengeance on the gallant pill.
And hence, all ye who’d fain resort,
For cash in hands, to Pluto’s court,
Step forth at once, nor wait for thinking,
But take no pills, and die like winking.
But ye, who’d laugh at Cholic grim
Who’d shake old Gout from breast or limb;
Who’d makes s low fever skip away
As nimbly as a hunt d flea;
Who’d drive hot Headache from your noddle;
Who’d make both Spleen and Scurvy toddle;
Who’d force Dull Care to take a trip;
Or give Old Death himself the slip;
Come one, come all, and have your wills,
By Patronising Peters’ Pills.
June 8 St
GRE A T ARRIVAL!
Fifteen Bushels, or 270,000 boxes of
PETEKS' PILLS.
The subscribers have made arrangements with
Dr. Peters, of New York, to be supplied by the
quantity with his Pills. All dealers can now
be supplied at factory prices. Os all the Pills we
have any knowledge of, these are the most valua
ble. In no instance have they failed to accomplish
every thing they promised, and thousands who for
years have been lingering with some chronic or ob
stinate disease, nsw add their testimony in behalf
of this valuable medicine.
One great quality of his Vegetable Pills is, that
they have the alternative principle combined with
their cathartic, or operative qualities, so that they
not only cleanse the stomach and bowels by purg
ing, but they regulate the liver,change the morbid
secretions, strengthen the digeitive organs, purify
the blood, invigorate the circulation, and give lone
and energy to the nervous system.
I hey have no rival in curing and preventing
Bilious Fevers, Fever and Ague, Dyspepsia, Liver
Complaints, Sick Head-ache, Jaundice, Asthma,
Dropsy. Rheumatism, Enlargement of the Spleen,
Piles, Cholic, Female Obstructions, Heart-burn,
Furred Tongue, Nausea, Distension of the Stomach
and Bowels, Incipient Diarrhoea, Flatulence, Hab
itual Costiveness, Loss of Appetite, Blotched or
Sallow Complexion, and in all cases of T orpor of
the Bowels, where a Cathartic or an Aperient is
needed. They are exceedingly mild in their oper
ation, producing neither nausea, griping nor debility.
Dr. Peters has sold more than five millions of boxes
of these celebrated Pills, in the U. States, the Cana
das, i exas, Mexico and the West Indies, since
Jan. 1835. All persons who have used the Genuine
Peters Vegetable Pills, recommend them in terms
of the most unqualified praise, which is proof pos
'live of their extraordinary and beneficial effects,
these justly celebrated Pills are for sale by
THOMAS BARRETT & Co., and
HAY ILAND, IIISLEY & Co., Agents.
June 6 2m
M UNITED STATES HOTEL.
Broad-st. opposite the Bank of Avgusta.
The subscriber, (recently from the Globe
egs leave to inform his friends and the
public generally, that he has taken possession, and
is now the proprietor of that well known stand
called the UMTED STATES HOTEL, situated
on Broad-street, where ho hopes, with strict atten
tion to business, to receive a liberal share of public
patronage. D MIXER.
N. B.—For particulars of theorderof this house,
viz : bed-rooms, table, servants, &c. &c., he leaves
wholly for his guests to decide,
march 19 swawSrn
|T|riNE AND CLARET BUTTLES.— 40
T? of Wine and Claret Bott'es, just received
and for sale by ISAAC MOISE.
a P 25 w3m