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L A U «U S T A.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12.
Immense Cheering !!!
“ A stormy time and a stormy crew."
And they were all stormers who attended the
“celebration of the Union party of Twiggs coun
ty on the 4th inst,” an account of which we find
' in the Macon Telegraph of the 9th. It appears
from this printed account that there were no less
than 103 cheers given to the regular toasts, and
491 to the volunteer toasts, making a grand total
of 596 cheers given at this celebration ! what a
crowd of Stentors 1 Gen. Jackson alone received
•even toasts and 112 cheers—Judge McDonald
three toasts and 50 cheers—Mr. Van Buren two
toasts and 24 cheers!! what a cheering time!! what
a glorious jollification!! we wonder if they didn’t
get tired of shouting huzzas 1 But no! the last
toast received 20 cheers!! and it deserves them,
here it is:
By Capt. George W. Bostick. Nullification —
A mongrel offspring, clad in the habiliments of
Kthe Constitution; like the prostrate possum, it
affects to be dead, that it may continue to live, &
grins most treacherously even in death. (20
cheers.)
What says Mr. Calhoun and his Carolina
j friends to this I Don’t flinch gentlemen—don’t
play possum—’bliged to take it—comes from a
brother dinwerut —a “Constitutional Treasury
ally ! bitter dose, but don’t mind it—hold your
noses and down it goes ! So much for bad com"
pany!
I Many other toasts were equally
“immense cheering” which succeeded them. We
give a few samples for the benefit of our readers.
By the Reader of the Day. May the Hickory
i club, by the faith of Van Burenism, break down
||- tile barriers of corrupt monied monopolies, &
buiilfthe chains which Federalism and modern
Whigism are attempting to bind around the limbs
of freemen, as it did the foul demon of Nullifica
tion. (15 cheers.)
We never knew before that the Hickory club
wrought its miracles by the "faith of Van Buren
ism.” But this “faith” having enabled it to ex
orcise the “foul demon of Nullification,” it will of
i course perform many other wonders. We hope
I it may " unb'in/c ” Swartwout and Price and gel
I the money they cabbaged ! But here comes ano-
I ther.
I By Elijah Anglin Esq. Gen. Jackson —He
I has whipped the British, he has out Generaled
I the French, he has choakcd down the Bank, and
I gutted Nullification. (12 cheers.)
I The “faith of Van Burenism” no doubt worked
I out these miracles for the “Hickory club”—Eli-
I jah understands—but look ! another; •
| By Caleb Low, Esq. The Henry Clay party
of Ga. —Expelled from the Church of God, and
delivered over to their hardness of heart and rep-
I robacy of mind, may they have long corns, short
shoes, poor horses, and a high gallows. (20
, cheers.)
!ty cheers! fie on ye stormers, it deserves
wo hundred. Only twenty cheers for
iantand original wit—such pearls should
rown thus to swine—They but half do
i Twiggs. But lo! another—“the cry
ey come”—better and better.
aj. Richard Myrick. William C. Daw
liepresent alive in Congress—
pon the heel-tap, and then upon the toe,
time he wheel about, he jump Jim Crow,
i an excellent toast—it will make a man
Myrick. The first time Dawson goes
;s he’ll call on the Major, shake hands
i, tell him a few stories, rally him upon
Icncc and severity of this very toast, and
y minutes he’ll think Dawse the great
living. Next winter he’ll get a package
nn Washington city marked “Pub. Doc.
C. Dawson” and that fixes him forever.
,vson knows how to come it over such
s! he’s dead sure of Maj. My rick’s vote at
election.—Hold, let Mr. Ruily speak.
siah Raily. Free Trade and Sailors
-He who attempts to legislate upon Tem
is taking from the people, rights that arc
)le, privileges secured to them under
titution, and we would like to see the
non Big Sandy.—(6 cheers.)
! there's a challenge lor you Mr. Flour
town nn Big Sandy is where they want
u ! Do you take up the glove 7 Don’t
3il— they’ll cheer yon, .whether they quit
not; cheering is all the rage in Twiggs.
J can’t dwell—let Mr. Chapman be heard
id a dasli of poetry—
in. B. Chapman :
ealth to the widower, health to the bach- I
>r, and to the old maid ;
• not neglect to marry before they get a j
d old to trade. [6 cheers.
Mr. Chapman has our thunks—at
of us—it is a sad thing for people to i
•er they get “too old to trade!” Their !
might suffer for bread if they are “too !
Jo.” Squire Chapman,you are righl—
-1,”
yJ. H. Gillcland, Esq. Thomas Jef
f he valorous deeds he has done, will
im to a station among the advocates of
iglits. [Drank standing and in silence.]
again! Mr. Gillcland is patriotic-—we
gotten however, where Mr. Jefferson
ir ' n vv ' mt battles he commanded ; hut
know* and that's sufficient. Neither
do wo exactly understand how a company that
had to give 596 cheers at one dinner, could tike
time to drink a toast “standing and in silence''
or how there could lie any silence at all among
such a crowd of toast-makers—but it is put down
so and we believe it. We must omit many oth
er sentiments on this occasion, equally bright and
racy with the above, and close with the following.
By Geo. Anglin, Esq. The Union Party of
Twiggs County —May it triumph over its ad
versaries ; and as for myself, the Stale Bights
Party shall never attempt to dupe me, as hereto
fore. (12 cheers.)
Poor soul ! he has been chisselcd out of his
vote by the Nullies ! If they are smart on the
first Monday in October, the fellow can be chis
seled again.
Two very neat and beautifully bound volumns
bearing the impress 1839, have been laid on our
table, by Messrs. J. W. & T. S. Stoy, of this
city, by whom they are for sale. The first and
largest is entitled “White Sulpher Papers, or life
at the Springs”—the second is entitled “Fau
quier Sulpher Springs.” Each of them are well
written accounts of the respective watering places
in Virginia, whose names they bear, and which
have become the most highly fashionable sum
mer resorts in the United States. Interesting to
all readers, they are more so to those who have
visited those places. To those who design visit
ing them they are highly important.
Tor the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Our Schools.
The complaints of the Charleston Parent’
against our system of teaching, require attention.
If 1 did not fear that they would pass off without
notice, I should not attempt to reply to them. I
feel that I, in common with all other parents, have
a right to speak; moreover, it is our duty to
speak, for the dearest interests of society are in
volved in this question. I doubt not that the
grievances of “ A Parent” are very burdensome,
but justice compels me to say, that I think he is
wrong in laying all the sin at the doors of the
teachers. They doubtless are, many of them,
blameworthy, but there are two sides to this sub
ject, and as ho has taken part against the teach
ers, I will at first confine myself to those faults in
our schools which are beyond the teachers’ con
trol, hoping this collision may strike out a few
sparks of truth. He complains that he must
teach his children at home. This is very trou
blesome, and seems hard, but while we admit the
evil, let us examine it more closely, and see how
it can be remedied. Nothing is easier than to
find fault with any thing, but the remedy for
faults is not so easy. All persons will, perhaps,
admit that children, unless very quirk and perse
vering, require some assistance while learning
their lessons. Without explanations they are
often spending their strength for naught, it few
years since I sent to a school, where, in order to
avoid the evil complained of by “ A Parent,” there
was an hour set apart each day for looking over
lessons for the next day. and asking questions
thereon. The diligent availed themselves of the
opportunity, but very many, knowing there was
a whole day to intervene before recitation, put it
off, and adopted some one of the many expedi
ents found in the annals of all schools for urging
on the slow-footed hours, and at night were
doubtless annoying the family for assistance.—
But. it may lie said, the teacher ought to see to it,
that they look over their lessons and find the gor
dion knots ;hat they cannot untie without help.
The assertion is easily made, but nothing is
easier than for a pupil to sit and play the roll of
student, while his thoughts are wandering to the
ends of the earth. Now how is the teacher to re
move these difficulties? Again, I was once a
pupil in a school where another remedy was tried
for the same evil. The principal required no
lessons to bo learned at home, although of course
studying at home was not forbidden; but from
the difficulty of pursuing it to advantage it was
not enforced. The teacher was a man of the
highest intellectual and moral worth, but his
school became unpopular, there was a general
complaint that he was too easy, that the children
did not study at home, and of course could not
be improving. Now how could the teacher have
avoided this Scylla without stumbling on some
Charybdis equally formidable.
(Children are prone to ask unnecessary ques
tions, from a laudable and natural inquisitiveness,
and sometimes to keep from studying. My little
girls at night frequently bring questions to me
that they can solve as easily as any teacher in the
country. Children often interrupt teachers with
such questions, and when told to think and sec
if they cannot find them out, they sometimes be
come irritated, and tell their parents that their
teacher will not assirt them. While thefactmay
be, that they are willing to render any necessary
assistance, nay, happy to have a real difficulty
brought to them, but they know that some exer
tion is necessary for the mind's progress in any
thing. There are other great and sore evils.—
One of the first that occurs to me is irregularity
in the attendance of pupils. In winter all our
schools begin at nine. Let any one for a whole
week, look from the window in the morning, and
sn!.’ the numbers of school children thronging
t'/Tough the streets after that hour, until and after
ten, and he may well conclude the march of in
tellect has been overrated. It is one of the signs
of the times which bodes no good. Happy will
that man bo, who lives to see the time when
school children all disappear at nine. ’Tis a very
easy thing to have the Hunks close and open
with precision, because there's money in them;
but those far richer treasure houses, the school
rooms, have to wait on every casualty. The pa
rents of these tardy children are often complain
ing that they do not improve, never seeming to
dream that they have contributed to the failure.
Suppose, now, the teacher should keep the school
waiting for his arrival, half the time until ten
o’clock, would this be unheeded ? And whv is
the parent less responsible for fulfilling his part I
of the contract than the teacher? I know not, !
unless it is because the teacher’s compensation is
money, and the parent’s only unsubstantial, in
tangible, uncommercial knowledge, which it is not
worth while to be at so much trouble for, as it !
does not pass at any of the Banks in the city-. [
I fancy I hear some well-meaning but thought- \
less mother replying, I do want to get my cliil- ■
dren to school it lime, but dear me, you don’t \
know how difficult it is to get all my family up '
in time when the mornings are so short and cold. ;
And sometimes we have company, and arc up so
late that we oversleep ourselves, and sometimes j
we are out late. All this may be true, perhaps
the evil may be cureless, but don’t blame the
teacher when your hopes are disappointed. Per- j
haps it is impossible to have children at school in
time if would sfir "0 from the many fruit !<■* I
struggles that have been made. But 1 can solve *
the mystery, and tell you when it can be done. '
When people learn what the sun was placed in j
heaven for. When our imitators of the morbid j
sentimentality of the tottering aristocracies of I
Europe shall have the independence to acknow.
ledge no leader but common sense. La ! says
some one, what difference can fen or fifteen min
utes make 1 The Teacher says it is highly im
portant, and when you send to school you’ve no
right to complain, while conscious of not having
conformed to its regulations. When you send
for a Physician, do you take his medicines how
and when seems best to you, and think him res
ponsible for the result 1 Suppose your little boy
arrives at school after his class in Geography has
recited, think you not he will conclude the neces
sity for studying not so imperious, as he may
again be absent ! Perhaps during the recitation,
the Teacher may have given some limits or ex
planations, designed to throw much light on fu
ture lessons, say on latitude and longitude, that
great mystery to the Geographical tyro, would it
be no loss '! For this want of the facilities,
which might have been afforded him by a skillful
Teacher, had he been present, he may bo com
pelled to spend weary hours of profitless study ;
and when utterly disheartened, he throws down
the book in despair, and says he can't learn the
hard lesson and bursts into tears, will that make
no difference with any one who hasa heart to pi
ty the keen sorrows of childhood '! This is no
fiction. Would it were 1 Such cases are occur
ring daily.
There are many girls in our schools who lose,
on an average a fourth part of their lessons.—
I his can be proved by examining the records
kept by many of our teachers. I have known a
father, while reading a newspaper, call on his
daughter to locate some conspicuous town, and
on learning the extent of her ignorance, I have
heard him pour the vials of his wrath on schools,
teachers, and th every art of printing. Still the
girl’s failure was because on the day that the
very lesson that included that town was learned,
she was kept at home for some one of the mystc
rious nothings, that are considered more impor
tant than education, Any one who ever attempt
ed to learn a science, may also easily perceive
that under those circumstances, those lessons
which are learned, cannot be understood, con
nected as they are with so many principles in
other lessons that the pupil hasneverseen. Any
one may perceive this who has common sense.
Suppose your politician, who in the winter
is anxious to know all that passes at Washing
ton, could only read his intelligencer or whatever
other oracle he may receive from that place in
the following order. Reads three and misses
one, four and misses one, two and misses two,
six and missesone, four and misses two, and then
one and misses six ; think you not he would
find politics rather a puzzling science. Or sup
pose your silk growers, who wish to understand
their Culturists and Manuals, should hove to
glean their knowledge from them with similar
obstructions; or to bring the matternearer home,
suppose the merchant after a few month’s visit to
the north, should be forced to examine his books
on his return in this'‘skipping” style, would he
not be at his wit’s end in adjusting the loss and
gain ! This mode of study is emphatically time
and money thrown away. Nor does the mis
chief end here ; the bad effects of irregularity on
the habits of the mind, swell the mighty torrent
of wrong done to the helpless victims of misman
agement. It converts study into intellectual tor
ture. I think “a parent” ultra in lauding the
“old time’s” systems of teaching; although I be
lieve with him, that the regulation of teaching in
the afternoon much the best; unless it may be
in summer, when (be long cool hours of the
morning seem more appropriated for study than
the oppressing hot afternoons. Neither should I
think it fair (o decry a school simply because
there, was no teaching in the afternoon if its other
regulations were good. Some prefer this plan,
and all cannot be suited. There certainly has
been a very great improvement in our modes of
teaching within the last twenty or thirty years.
The reasoning faculties are more exercised ; for
merly memory performed all the labor. The
keeping “judgment books,” or, as they are termed
by some, error books, is another encouraging
feature. These are teachers journals, in which
the advancement and behaviour of any pupil for
any day of the year may be known. Extracts
are taken from these weekly, and sent to parents,
and if they would heartily co-operate in the plan,
a great reform might be expected. But if the
mother takes but little interest in these tickets,
the child soon considers it a trifling ma;tcr.—
There are many other decided improvements
since the “good old times,” which we are apt to
think the best in the world, simply because they
arc connected with our fondest recollection.—
Prospects appear gloomy enough as it regards
education, but truth compels rne to any, that I
should be sorry to go back to the time when
learning Murray’s Grammar by heart, made a
grammarian, and geography was learnc 1 without
Maps or Globes, and when each pupil formed a
separate class, thus leaving emulation dormant,
as if it were placed in the breast for nothing.
As it regards the high prices of teaching, in our
city they arc not generally higher than meat,
butter and house rent. When these are high, it
follows that tuition must bo high, for the Teacher
must eat and live in a house too. Another great |
“evil under the sun” is the great number of stu
dies that girls learn at once. A thorough know
ledge of fundamentals is frequently neglected, for
a smattering of things They never think of again.
They arc often employed upon almost a complete
encyclopedia at once, while at the same time, they
can’t write five lines without bad Grammar, if not
bail spelling. “Drink deep or taste not the Pie
rian spring,” is but little headed nowadays; Girls
are always sipping, and so modestly, [ don’t
think they retain much recollection of the flavour
of the waters. SPECTATOR.
We arc gratified to learn that a Volunteer
Company of Cavalry has been raised in this city.
The following gentlemen have been elected offi
cers, and if any inference us to the success and
prosperity of Volunteer Companies can be drawn
from the character of their Officers, we have the
strongest guaranty, that the Richmond Hussars
will long be an ornament to our city.
Samuel Bon p.s, Captain,
•l as. T. Giiav, Ist Lieutenant.
Nelson Cauteii, 2d do.
Titos. Jen Ninos, Cornet.
j
Noiiek Act.— A boy aged 15. fell from a ca- f
nal boat into the Schuylkill at Philadelphia on I
Monday. A young clerk, named Overshine, ta
king off his watch and gold chain, dove in sever
al times, and finally, holding fast to the rudder,
fell for the boy with his feet till he found him,
and thus saved his life. A scoundrel in the
meantime, stole the gold watch, which, however,
was dropped when the crowd wort* in chaff of
■"
him. 11 is lamentable, side hy side, to see such
heartless depravity, braving as it were the noblest
of generous actions.— N, V, Star.
From the National Intelligencer.
John Adams. ••.(George 111.
The accounts that Mr. Adams gave, in a letter
to a friend, of his introduction to George 111, at
the Court of St, James, as the first Minister from
the rebel colonies, is very interesting.
“At one o'clock on Wednesday, the Ist of
June, 1780, the Master of Ceremonies called at
my house, and went with mo to the Secretary of
Stale’s office, in Cleaveland row, where the Mar
quis of Caermarthen received and introduced me
to Mr. Frazier, his under secretary, who had been,
as his lordship said, uninterruptedly in that olllce
through all the changes in administration for
thirty years. After a short conversation, Lord
Caermarthen invited me to go with him in his
coach to Court. When we arrived in the ante
chamber, the Master of Ceremonies introduced
"him, and attended me while the Secretary of
State went to take the commands of the King.
While I stood in this place, where it seems all
Ministers stand upon such occasions, always at
tended by the Master of Ceremonies, the room
was very full of Ministers of State, Bishops, and
a\l other sorts of courtiers, as well as the next
r aom, which is the King’s bedchamber. You
iioay well suppose I was the focus of all eyes. I
was relieved, however, from the embarrassment
■ol*it by the Swedish and Dutch Ministers, who
c; ime to me and entertained me with a very agrec
al )le conversation during the whole time. Some
ot her gentlemen, whom 1 had seen before, came
to make their compliments to me, until the Mar
q\ tis of Caermarthen returned, and desired me to
go. with him to his Majesty I went with his
10 rdship through the levee-room into the King’s
cl oset. The door was shut, and 1 was left with
hi s Majesty and the Secretary of State alone. I
made the three reverences: one at the door,
ai mther about half way, and another before the
pi -escnce, according to the usage established at
th us and all the Northern Courts of Europe, and
th ,en I addressed myself lo his Majesty in the fol
io wing words:
“‘Sike: The United States have appointed
m e Minister Plenipotentiary to your Majesty,
an d have directed me to deliver to your Majesty
th is letter, which contains the evidence of it. I t
is in obedience lo their cqpress commands that I
ha ve the honor to assure your Majesty of their
unanimous disposition and desire to cultivate the
mi ist friendly and liberal intercourse between
yo ur Majesty’s subjects and their citizens, and of
tin ;ir best wishes for your Majesty’s health and
ha ppiness, and for that of your family.
• * ‘The appointment of a Minister from the U.
Sta tes to your Majesty’s Court will form an
epo eh in the history of England and America.
I lb ink myself more fortunate than all my fellow
citii '.ens, in having the distinguished honor to be
the first to stand in your Majesty’s royal presence
in a diplomatic character; and I shall esteem
rays elf the happiest of men, if I can be instru
raen ial in recommending my country more and
mon !to your Majesty’s royal benevolence, and
resto ring an entire esteem, confidence, and affec
tion ; or, in better words, ‘the old good nature and
the ; ;ood old humor,’ between people who, though
sepa. rated by an ocean and under different Gov
ernor lents. have the same language, a similar re
ligio: a, a kindred blood. 1 beg your Majesty’s
perm ission to add, that although I have some
times before been instructed by my country, it
was never in my whole life in a manner so
agree able to myself.”
Th e King listened to every word I said with
digni ly, it is true, but with apparent emotion.—
Whe tiler it was my vissible agitation, for I felt
more than I could express, that touched him, I
caan ot say; but be was much affected, and an
swered me with more tremor than I had spoken
with . and said:
“ Sir, the circumstances of this audience are
sj extraordinary, the language you have now
held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you
have discovered so adapted to the occasion ilia
11 not only receive with pleasure the assurance of
(the friendly disposition of the United States, but
I am glad the choice has fallen upon you lo be
their minister. I wish yon, sir, to believe, that
it may be understood in America, that I have
done nothing in the late contest but what I
thought myself indispensably bound to no, by the
duly which I owed my people. I will be frank
with you, I was the last to conform to the sep
aration ; but the separation having become inev
itable, I have always said, as I now say, that I 1
would he the first to meet the friendship of the
United Htates as an independent power. The
moment I see such sentiments and language as
yours prevail, and a disposition to give this coun
try thcgprefcrence, that moment I shall say, let
the circumstances of language, religion, and
blood have their natural, full effect”
“I dare not say that these were the King’s pre
cise words; and it is even possible that I may
have, in some particulars, mistaken his meaning);
for, although his pronunciation is as distinct as 1
ever heard, he hesitated sometimes between mem
bers of the smie period. He was, ,n 'eod, much
affected, and 1 was not less so; and therefore I
cannot be certain that I was so attentive, heard
so clearly, and understood so perfectly, as to be
confident of alt his words or sense. This Ido
say, that the foregoing is his Majesty’s meaning,
as I then understood it, and his own words, us
nearly as I can recollect them.
“The King then asked me whctherl came last
from F ranee, and, upon my answering in the
affirmative, ho put on un air of familiarity, and,
smiling, or rather laughing said, ‘There is an
opinion among some people that you are not the
moslattached ofall your countrymen to the man
ners of Franco.’ 1 was surprised at this, because
I thought it an indiscretion, and a descent from I
his dignity. 1 was a little embarrassed ; but,
determined not to deny truth on the one hand,
nor lead him to infer from it any attachment to
England on the other, I threw off as much gravi
ty as I could, and assumed an air of gaity and a
tone of decision, as far as was decent, and said,
•That opinion, sir, is not mistaken ; I must avow
to your Majesty I have no attachment but to my
own country.’ The King replied as quick as
lightning, ‘An honest man will have no other.’
“The King then said a word or two to the
Secretary ot State, which, being between them,!
did not hear, and then turned round and bowed
to me, as is customary with all kings and princes
when they give the signal ‘o retire. I n treated,
stepping backwarks, as is the etiquette; and,
making my last reverence at the door of the
chamber. I wont to my carriage.” —Hu ;j ward’s
N. E. Gazetteer.
From the New York Herald.
Swurtwout and Price in Paris-A llrutus
and Cassias (juarrel.
There has been quite a funny denouement
amongst the sub-treasurers at Paris. About the
time that Mrs. Price reached Paris, the accounts
of her husband's defalcations sent out liy Jesse
II °3 ■< afeo reached his eyes. By these despatch
es, Price w»i. said »o be a defaulter to the »„imint
ot only $78,000. When Swarlwout cast his rye
over the accounts he said "it is a d d shame
that Bill Price’s peculations should he hushed up
in that way,” and swore by Heaven that Price
was as large a defaulter as himself. This Price
denied. One word brought on another, until at
last they had a regular Roman quarrel after this
fashion:—
Sam. — 1 hat yon have wrong'd me doth appear
in this;
\ on have defaulted to a large amount,
And made it seem that I alone
Did steal the public money ; whilst you
Kan off with what they owed you.
Bill. —ln such a ease us outs, it is not meet
J hat every thousand dollars should be answer’d
for.
Sam. —Let me tell you, Billy, you yourself
Are much to blame to have an itching palm
To rob the public chest of all its gold,
And then deny it.
Bill. —l an itching palm! 1 rob the public
purse!
You know that you are Sammy that speak this.
Or be assured that speech were else your last.
Sum. —The name of Bill Price honors this cor
ruption,
And chastisement doth therefore hide its head.
Bill. —Chastisement!
Sum. —Remember March—the 4th of March
remember,
Did not great Jackson—
Bill. —Stop, Sammy,stop! you touch me on the
tenderesl point.
Great Jackson’s self durst not just thus have moved
me.
Sam. —Peace, peace! you durst not so have
tempted him!
Bill. —l durst not!
Sam. —For your life you durst not.
Bill. —Do not presume too much upon my love;
I may say that I shall be sorry tor.
Sam. —You have done, that you should be sor
ry for;
There is no terror, Bill Price, in your threats,
For I am steep’d so deep in defalcations,
That they pass by me us the idle wind
Which 1 respect not. I did send to you
For certain sums of gold to pay my grog bills
When 1 was in England, which you denied mid I
For I could raise no money by vile means.
By heaven, I’d rather coin my heart than wring
From the close hands of merchants their vile trash
By any base attempts. 1 did send
To you for gold to pay my wine bill,
Which you denied me; was that done like Bill
Price!
Should I have answered William M. Price so!
W hen Bamuel Swartwout grows so covetous
To keep a lew base dollars from bis friend,
Be ready, locos, with all your thunderbolts,
And say he’s a defaulter!
Bill. —l denied you not.
Sam. —You did.
Bill. —l did not. He was a whig
That took my answer back. Sammy, you've
rived my heart.;
A rogue should bear a rogue's infirmities,
But Sammy makes mine greater than they are,
Sum. —l do not. But you push your defalca
tions off on me.
Bill. —You love me not.
Sum. —l’m d d if I do.
Bill. —There’s no love lost between us.
Sam. —Agreed. I’ll sec the again at Phillippi
And with that these two sub-treasurers separa
ted. Sam cleared out for Boulogne, and Bill look
a cottage just outside the barrier de I’Eloile in
Paris. From this elegant situation he has a most
commanding prospect with which to solace his
troubled soul for the loss of his boon companion.
On one side he has a view down the route St.
Germain to Versailles and the beautiful valley of
the Seine; and in an opposite direction he has a
fine prospect along the Avenue de iVuilly and to
wards the city, where his eye can rest u|>oii the
spire of Notre Dame, and which at least he can
worship if he can’t pray. With regard to the
discoveries in the way of defalcations, tliey still
continue to an enormous extent. Jesse Hoyt
and his e.lerks have worked night and day for
many weeks, and one entire week the former lost
his entire sleep. His fi"st discovery was $78,0110;
hy dint of more searching he found a further de
falcation of $10,000; then on one fine Sunday
morning he found another defaulting item of
$15,000 ; they then stumbled upon one sum de
ficient of $OO,OOO ; they then discovered $O,OOO
more ; and the probability is. that they will go on
discovering until after the next Presidential elec
tion. Altogether it is the richest mine of discov
ery that ever was stumbled ujron, and by the time
Swartwout and Price meet at Phillippi, we think
Price will have the greater sum placed to bis
name.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
The Strongest Game Yet.,
A Nr.w Discovkiiy.—The machinery for
carrying on an extensive gambling game was dis
covered yesterday in the second story of No. 20
Camp street. The individuals who carried on
the game, as arrant rascals as run unhung, left
some time since, and their plan of operations was
only discovered yesterday while the building was
undergoing repaiis.
Some time in the early part of the winter, an
individual named H. W. Hamner, believed to be
a Virginian, arrived in our city and rented the
second story of No. 29 Camp street for an office.
He gave out that he was about commencing the
commission business on a heavy scale, and had a 1
huge number of circulars printed in which he ho- I
ped that his long experience, strict attention, and i
all that sort of tiling, would bring him a liberal i
share of patronage; and to show that he deserved 1
I it, had a long string of highly respectable persons j
attached, to whom he said he bad the liberty of I
referring. He was a smooth-faced, specious ■
looking, gentlemanly fellow, and succeeded in |
making some few believe he was all ho appeared
to be. The front part of the second story was !
neatly fixed upas an office, and every thingiook- :
ed fair above board.
Some little time afterwards a fellow calling |
himself Dr. J. King, rented the back part of the j
same story. He did not appear to have any ac j
quaintance with Hamner, further than that form- j
ed while bargaining lor some of his surplus room i
which he hired for on office. King, too, was a !
plausible fellow, gentlemanly in his manners, and |
one calculated to take in almost any body. He i
called upon us and inserted several medical ad
vertisements, one of which had a request for sev- !
oral papers throughout the country to publish.
This was about the last of March,
j King fitted his office-up in great style, had it 1
neatly carpetted and papered, and from the evi
dences which appeared yesterday, always kept the
best of liquors. No one knew but little of cither
of these gentlemen, and every thing in their Hue
undoubtedly went on swimmingly.—Their game
appeared to be a fair one—they knew but little of
their neighbors, and their neighbors but little of
them. They kept possession of the premises
sometwo or three months duringthe business tea
ton. when King made himvrlf ■'viree lea-ing ut
s une $lOO in debt. Whether Hamnrr left at
the smiie lime is more than we can say.
VV hile tearing down nud repairing yesterday,
the whole secret ol the operations ol lliese swind
lers whs let out, and a game made known which,
tor ingenuity, goes ahead ofany thing we have
ever seen, read ol or heard of. In the centre of
|tr. King s room was a neat table made fast to the
floor by iron brackets or supporters screwed down.
On taking up the carpet, which was left in the
room, a piece ol thin sheet copper was nailed
down diagonally across the room, extending Irom
the outside leg ol the table directly under the one.
next the partition and th, nee to the corner clone
of the doors which led into the room. There
were four legs to the table, two of which rested on
the plain floor. On ripping up the copper it was
found that a small groove had been cut in the
floor, that Ibis groove was lined with buckskin,
and that two small hut very strong rords ran along
it, one connecting with two of the legs of the table
which were hollow. On tracing the cords along
it was touud that they connected with lire parti
tion, which was made double to receive them, and
thence up into the third story. At every turn a
brass pully. ofthe finest workmanship, was placed
in order that the cords might work Iree and with
out noise. In the centre of tire room in the third
story, a hole was cut.some.-eighteen inches in di
ameter. This was in the upper floor. Another
hole, about, nintn inches in diameter, was cut in '
the ceiling ot the- second story and immediately
over the table. To cover this hole a rveul and ve
ry tasty cover or wheel was made, rut in open
work, and so that a person in the third could eas
ily see what was going on in the second story. .
Around this, and in good keeping with the open
cover, the ceiling was ingeniously painted, the
wheel looking, it a person hy chance should no
tice it, like a ventilator. A small nook was fas
tened to the cover, to which was suspended a
chandelier hanging immediately over the table,
W c have given the best description our time would
allow ol this intricate and admirably constructed
machinery, in order that the game, which is an
old one and one which, has been kept as secret as
possible, may be broken up in other places.
The, other parts of the game these finished
scoundrels plnyed upon the unsuspecting during
the winter, was very simple, lianincr issued his
circulars through the upper purls ofthis State and
Mississippi, hoarded at one of the most fashiona
ble hotels, was-every inch a gentleman so far as
outward show went, always fall of business, and,
as a matter of course, through impudence, regular
introductions and his circulars, had many calls.
Many Mississippi gentlemen called at his coun
ting room on business. This subject would bo
talked over, when Hatnner, regretting that he had
no wine handy, would invite them in to sec his
particular friend, I)r. King, who always kept
something. Here they found a splendidly furnish
ed room, with books, sofas, the best of wine &c.
&c. The victims were invited to set down, then
a small game of cards “for fun” would he propo
sed, the next step would he a game of poker or
brag, and in this way a stranger would be taken
in. Once set down, ohe swindlers would be sure
to occupy each ot the corners ofthe table where
the, legs connected with the machinery were loca
ted, while the victim or victims were placed at the
others. A third parly was placed at the hole in
the third story where he could “take items” and
see into cash hand below. Hatnner, King and
their friend up stairs perfectly understood! theiri
part of the game, if the person “who pulled the
wires” saw that either of the “pigeons” had a win
ning hand, the swindlers, hy some pull ofthe
strings, would la? made acquainted with it, and
vice versa. In this way this extensive firm made
large sums of money t he past winter.
I rom several Individsals we yesterday learned
many ot their operations. One person in particu
lar, told ns of an instance where a friend hail been
inveigled into the-siwre and lost $2OO. Such,
however, was his confidence in the fairness ofthe
game, and so well did the rascals conceal their
secret, that he could not he convinced hut that it
■was his own ill Inekand the “run of the cards,”
which lost him his money.
We shall endeavor to get some further parlic
uhirs of this high-handed and swindling, game,
which has Ireen s» successfully carried on in the
very heart of the business part of our city, togeth
er with a full description ot the operators. In the
meantime we advise alt those who meddle with
cards to see that the ceiling above them is perfect
ly whole, but before doing this, we advise them to
let cards alone altogether. The only game that
can be played successfully with n professed games
ter is to lake him single-handed, with nobody
about. Let your table be a saw log, and no ceil
ing except the blue vault ot heaven above, Ati
this game you may stand a shadow of a chance.—
at no other.
A J in'i;it Miihiiuitok Stout.—A corres
pondent ol some Western paper writes a lough
yarn about a man on(>raiid Hirer, who, being an
noyed ail hut to death by mosquitoes, crawled
under an inverted potash kettle to get out ol the
way ol the tormentors. Jits first emotions of joy
for his happy deliverance, and secure assy hi in,
were hardly over, when the mosquitoes having,
scented him, commenced drilling away at the lop.
ot the kettle, and the first thing tie knew, several
bills wen: presented him which he determined to
ha \cprnlttied at once—Having a hammer in his
pocket, he clinched them down a.s fast as they
came through, until at last such a host of them
were fastened to the poor man’s domicil, that 'hev
rose and flew away with it, leaving him ahelter
t less. We hate to leave a man in a. had tlx, but
we came off after he had lost his shelter. — A’. O.
| Picayune.
N ew Yohk Canai. Tolls. —Amount of tolls
collected at the office for the third week in June,
j .18311, is $8,289 40; amount received during
the same period of 1838, $7,306 35. Excess,,
j $1,083 05.— Albany Keening Journal,
I) 1 E 1),
In this city, on the 6th instant, in the 3Slh
j yea.i of her age, V rs. Kuz.x Crocker, wife of John
It. Crocker.
Mrs. C. was a member of the Presbyterian church
j for many years, and died in the, faith of that reli-
I gion which she professed. She was an affectionate ,
wife, akind mother, and esteemed by all who knew
I tier. She left a husband and an infant son, to
gether with a large circle of relations and friends
j to mourn her 'uss.
Consignees per South Carolina Hail Road..
Hamburg, July 11, 1539.
I- Dwellc; .1. W Houghton; li. W. Force k Cos
I T. Richards; Rees & Beall; K Simmons fc Co; A.
Sibley; A. Frederick; Spears & White; S. Knee
land ic Son; Hardelle V Khind; H. W. Sullivan;
J. F. Benson.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, July S.
Arrived yesterday. — Sp brig And i usia, Hug.'as,
Havana; Scbr, Financier, Butler Matanzas.
Cleared.-*- Bchr. Henry Cfc-tse. H’illhm*, Provi
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