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; WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1839. v nr x | 7 V 01. 111.—]\o. 79 —————— THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL 1 PUBLISHED, (L't DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY', At No. Broad-street. terms: Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. , Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or ,-yl Seven at the end of the year. Weekly paper. Three Dollars in advance, or Four at J 1 the end of year. I CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. 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 • I l< L)