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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
A I! (iI!STA.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUi.Y 23.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CIIAIt I- E S DOlMi II EU T Vl,
or miiK COUNTY.
The Columbus Argus. the Editor of which
some lime since declared for Van Huron, ha* now
come out for Dick Johnson, for the Vice Presi
dency. That paper discoursed! as follows:
"As to the Vice Presidency, as matters at pre
sent stand, we are very much inclined to support
the present incumbent; first because we believe
he has some very Rood republican principles about
him ; second, because we think bis opponent will
be a United iSlales Hank man; third, lieeausn we
do not think one term is sufficient pay for killing
Tccumsch, if he did kill him. and if he did not
it is not sufficient pay for the humiliation of
feeling he must have suffered in silently perrnit
tiiiß his friends to claim for him the credit to which
ho was not entitled. As to Mr. Forsyth, wo
look upon him as out of the question, the leaders
of the Van Huron party are not going to run him,
because Van Huron can Ret the vote of Georgia
without his aid, and he might by possibility get
Kentucky by holding on to Johnson.”
Now this is rather cold comfort for the Van
Horen papers which have stuck up Mr. Forsyth’s
name at the head of their eskimna, as their can
didate for the Vice Presidency. Hut there is
colder comfort still, in store for them. Listen to
him on the Governor's election. After dealing a
side blow at the Editors of the Recorder, which
he doe. verv handsomely, about the “big and tbo
little iniquities,” he holds forth alter the follow
ing fashion;—
" Hut to return to the candidates : we shall
commit the little iniquity and support Dougher
ty ; and we shall support him as a choice of evils.
He is an advocate of the Stale bond system ; so
is McDonald ; —and for that cause we would
boat them both if wo could. We consider that
question in the election of a Governor us impor
tant as that of a National Hunk. We believe
that Dougherty does, and always has believed the
establishment of a National Hank by Congress
an unconstitutional exercise of power.—We do
not know whether he prefers Clay to Van Hu
ron for President, if he does wo suppose he will
not attempt to do any thing for him. McDonald
we have known many years and have always
deemed him the most unadulterated Federalist we
ever knew; he has always been a bank man, and
we believe has believed in the constitutionality of
a protective tariff and the internal improvement
system. We have heiml it rumored of lute that
he believes a national bank unconstitutional; wo
hope he has not said so, for while we have enter
tained high respect for Ins private character, we f
have believed that his honesty was the only rc
deemingtrait in his political character. We may
do him injustice in the opinion, hut we believe
that devotion to the powers of government is so
deeply interwoven with his nature, and that his
inmost soul has so long bowed down and wor
shipped at the sbiine of general government su
premacy that it would he impossible for him to
bring himself to feel that the creation of a Nation
al Hank by Congress would be a usurpation of
power.
We thought the nomination of Judge McDo
nald by the Union party exceedingly unfortu
nate. The candidate of a party professing such
decided and inveterate hostility to a National
Hank and to all lutitiidinnrian construction ol the
Constitution ought to be above suspicion on these
subjects.”
We commend the above to the Savannah Geor
gian and Athens Hannor, and others ol the Union
Editors who chuckled so much not long since
over the Argus when it came out lor Van Huron.
“The most unadulterated Federalist wo ever
knew !’’ This is certainly the most comprehen
sive expression the Argus could employ, and it
unbounded latitudinurialilsm in politics consti
tutes a Federalist, we agree to ills truth of the
assertion.
But what is to become of the Argus 1 But a
few short weeks ago, the Van Burcn Editors
hugged its Editor with a most nffiecliouato and
loving embrace. Ho was pronounced then the
very personification of “impartiality !" What
will be done with him now ! Will he be east out I
Wo shall wait with impatience to see the result.
Wo rather prophecy, however, that they "won’ 1 ,
let on ns if they heard him.” They will bile their
thumbs and keep dark. “Tun most i suh i-
TEHJtTKO FkUKRULIST WK KVKB KNEW ! !”
And from a Van Uurvuito too! That will do
for the present.
The Vice Presidency.
The impression appears to be very general,
that the present Vico President of the United
•Status will not boa candidate for re-election ; and
hence, the friends of t'ol. Denton and those of
Mr. Buchanan have recommended each as (it to
fill that office, and entitled to the support of the
Republicans of the Union. It has been stated in
some of the public prints, that both of these gen
tlemen decline u nomination for the Vice Presi
dency .
Under these circumstances, 1 beg leave to call
public attention to the distinguished man who
now represents our country at the t ’ourt of Great
Britain. The offices which Mr. Stevenson has
filled, &c. &e.— l'ntjtiirer.
This is a sign, which bodes Tecuniseh no good.
But whence was the "general impression” that
Col. Johnson would not be a candidate lor re
election. derived ? Not from his late letter—for
in that he asserted he was in the hands of his
friends (not the Richmond Junto) and knew of
nothing at present, which would prevent his be
ing a candidate again.
This is designed as a hint of the disposition of
the clique here, in whose nostrils the savoury
fumes oftlie ilesh pots are forever ringing. They
want the Colonel’s place for one of their number
and he had as well retire and save his credit by
doing that volun'arily, which he will have to do
by compulsion.— Richmond _ Whig.
For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
To Theodore.
Having been attracted by your advertisement,
so felicitously setting forth my own situation, and
expressing so appropriately my own feelings, I
take the liberty of uttering you my sincorest
wishes for the re,dir.ilion of your hopes. From
the analogy of our situations, 1 feel drawn to
wards you by strong bonds of sympathy, and
enlisted heart and soul in your cause.
I take the liberty of requesting that when vou
succeed, which 1 hope will be soon, in obtaining
the object of your heart’s desire, you will give
me an inklin ; .■ it through the editors, that 1
may try the same experiment. 1 have, tried
every other plan I could think of in vain—should
this of vour invention, at lead sn novel in this
community, succeed. you rieservc the lasting
gratitude of all forlorn bachelor*.
1 would moreover, request the use of youi
advertisement when you are done with it, as it
describes me and the lady I want exactly, and is
so aptly expressed that I could not hope in any
other form of words to rmke known with equal
force, my situation and wishes.
Li isrißn.
From the Charleston Mercury.
Augusta Bridge^
Extracts from the interrogatories and answers o(
William Lamki.v, former Sheriff.
In the Circuit Court of the I idled Stales for the
District of Georgia.
Henry Shull/, and Christopher Hrci-*)
thuupt, complainants,
vi. fin Equity.
The Hank of the Stala of Georgia 1
and others, defendants, J
Interrogatories to he propounded to William
Li m a in, formerly sheriff of Richmond (bounty,
now residing in Dooly County, in the Stale of
Georgia, a witness for ihe complainants, and to
be examined in chief in the above cause.
Question. Did you or did you not, on the 3d
day of March, 1821, hy the, direction of Richard
Henry Wilde, Esq. anil Samuel Hale, acting as
tlie agents of the Hank of the State of Georgia,
take forcible possession of the Georgia end of the
Augusta bridge from John McKinne and Henry
Shultz!
Witness answers that In- did, hy the direction of
R. 11. Wilde, Esq., plaintiffs’ attorney, levy on the
Augusta bridge, and by the direction and personal
assistance of said Wilde and Samuel Hale (who
requested witness to summons them to his aid)
take from Henry Shultz, hy violently seizing his
person and forcing him from the gate, forcible
possession of the Georgia end of the Augusta
bridge, but on what particular day ho cannot now
tell, as his books and papers arc at his residence
in Dooly County.
Question. Did you or did you not, hy order of
Richard 11. Wilde, Esq., acting as attorney for
the Stale Dank of Georgia, receive the toll of the
bridge on the Georgia end, anil did you or not de
liver up said Georgia end of the Augusta bridge
to some person, and to whom, who received it as
the agent for said hank ?
He answers, that by direction of R. 11. Wilde
and Samuel Hale, acting as agents of Ihe Dank
of the Stale of Georgia, he did for a considerable
lime receive the toll payable at the Georgia end
of the bridge, hut in consequence of the want of
his papers knows not how long. During his ab
sence from Augusta, (hy leave of the Judge of
the Superior Court, while court was in session,
carrying convicts to the penitentiary,) an order,
as he understood, issued from the Superior Court
of Richmond County, directing the keeper of the
bridge to deliver it to certain persons therein
named, (which persons were directors of the
hank,) which order was obeyed, and possession,
during his absence, accordingly delivered, hit
knows not what day.
Question. Did you or did you not, after the
Uridgn Hank had stopped payment, receive mo
ney from llcnty Shultz, in payment for bridge
hills ! If yea, what amount.
Witness answers that ho did receive from
Henry Shultz, after the Dridgo Bank stopped
payment, large sums in payment for bridge hills, (
hut to what amount docs not recollect.
Question. If you know of any thing else of
importance for the complainants state it fully ?
Witness says that he did, hy direction of R.
11. Wilde, levy on the Augusta bridge an execu
tion against John MeKinnie, in favor of the Dank
of the State of Georgia, and another execution,
obtained for bridge hills, as lie understood, against
Henry Shultz by David Eeion, whose interest,
witness, ns sheriff advertised to he sold under
said executions. That on the sale day the money
to satisfy I,cion’s judgment was tendered to wit
ness in lulls of the Hank of the State of Georgia,
amounting to about four thousand dollars, which
Mr. Wilde refused to receive, hut demanded spe
cie or an immediate sale of the bridge. The
whole conduct o( Mr. Wilde and Mr. Halo in the
various transactions connected with this business
witness considered oppressive in the extreme, ex
hibiting a settled hostility to Mr. Shultz, and a
determination to obtain the bridge at as great a
sacrifice as they possibly could.
W. LAMKIN.
! Answered, subscribed, and sworn
to before us, this 6lh day of
November, 1823.
Elam Alkxaiuif.ii,, Com.
Wm. 11. Toiuianck, Com.
McDuffie.
(Complainant's Solicitor.
Filed Bth August, 1823.
GEO. GLEjN, Clerk.
GeonoiA, Richmond county;
Came before me, Richard Hush, one of the
Justices of the Pence for said county, Joseph
Wheeler, Lawrence Brock. Ezekiel Evans, and
Lewis Barrie, who, being duly sworn upon the
Holy Evangelist, deposed) and snith, that being
present on the 3d of March, 1821, at (ho Georgia
end of the Augusta bridge, William Lnmkin,
sheriff of said county, Richard 11. Wilde, and
Samuel Hale, Esqrs. did dispossess Mr. Henry
Shultz, by force, of the Georgia end of the
bridge aforesaid.
JOSEPH WHEELER.
LAWRENCE BROCK.
EZEKIEL EVANS.
L. BARRIE.
Sworn to before me, this lath day of May, 1821.
R.BUBH.J.P.
The following is a statement of toll received
at the. Augusta bridge for six years, while in the
possession of John MeKinnie and Henry Shultz.
Received in 1816, $9,642 18|
“ 181(1, 1 1,437 68J
“ 1817, J 6,589 00
•• 1818, 18,134 87^
“ 1819, 14,645 50
" 1820. 16,196 8?4
Am’nt received for six years, $85,656 12 J
Thus if the six years produced the above
amount, it is to he supposed that eighteen years,
say from 3d March. 1821, to 3d March, 1839,
which is a low average, as the toll sorely has in
creased, would bring the following sum. viz;
$250,978 37
Add interest for nine years,
at 8 percent. 185,017 22
Total, $441,985 59
Deduct one-half, 220,992 70
Credit, $220,992 80
Hy cash received from
Saitt’l. Hale, the 15th
of September, 1829, $lO,OOO 00
Interest on above sum,
from 15thScpt. 1829,
to 3d March, 1829. 7,573 32
517,573 32
Balance due H. Shultz, and one
half the bridge, $203,419 4S
The above is part of the secret which caused
me to he locked up in jail for two years, and ac
tually had to say I was a bankrupt before the,
would let me out again. The taking of this
bridge was the building of Hamburg.
HENRY SHULTZ.
Hambciig. (S. C.) July 16. 1839.
8 Messrs. Editors ; Will you be so good as to
publish the following account of the celebration
r in Boston, of the 4lit inst. from the Boston Cou
it rier. A good thing should not he lost, and with
» out entertaining anv hostility to the temperance
y cause. 1 hope you may find room for it in your
d columns. My motto is “laugh and grow fat!”
From the Motion Courier.
TVe.Total Celebration at Uoslon.
The assembly at Faneuil Hall was not quite
so magnificent as had been expected, owing to
the singular circumstance that a great many peo~
if pie did not want to go;—an accident that al
ways puzzles the lee-lotallers, when they try to
c explain it. However, there were enough of them
to help each other sit down, so we take it for
granted they all found themselves comfortable—
ifa tce-tolallcr ever it comfortable in his constant
horror of the “comfortable creature,” Wc did
not hear of any accident in this preliminary part
of the solemnity, for which wo trust they duly
congratulate themselves. No person wan admit
' ted who could not spit white, and those who had
■ cobwebs in their throats were allowed the upper
end of the table—an honor justly due to so une
• quivocal a mark of total abstinence. Those who
could show “mealy months” claimed the next
I rank, though there was some suspicion of certain
crafty ones among them, wbo were caught with
sawdust in their pockets, which they slyly rub
bed on their chops, shamming a sanctimonious
dryness. Several wet quakerswere surreptitious
' ly smuggled in, while. l)usly Boh, the doorkeeper,
was regaling himself with a bottle of bay; but
all “old sails” were savagely denied admission,
as their very appointive would have operated as a
provocative to drink.
The officers consisted of a President and sis
-1 teen Vico President*, being one for c very gallon
1 of the impossible tec-total statute. There was
also a Committee of Safety, consisting of nine
1 tailors, appointed to lake care of all who got “sew
ed tip” on cold water. The President sat on a
bundle of straw, to signify dryness, and the Vice
Presidents had each an empty jug at his button
hole, marked “Female Domestic." The “nivalv
mouths” were furnished with armchairs, because
they had no occasion to crook their elbows; and
tli e wet quakers sat on the edge of a shingle, to
show what sharp dodging they could practise be
tween principle and policy. Dinner being on
the table, the grand -temperance yardstick was
curried round to measure every man’s face, a
process which took up considerable time; but as
tee-totallcrs do not pretend to have any stomachs,
probably the delay did not incommode them.
All the faces having been found of sufficient
length, the signal was given, to fall to. The rules
of the dinner were, that every man should eliew
little, drink less, and swallow nothingat all. The
President dined with a hung in his mouth; the
Vice Presidents only shook a stick at. theirvict-
U| dn ; and the guests gave three eheersevery time
they didn’t drink anything. It happened, there
fore, as it always does among the tee-totallcrs,
that there was more noise than work, and dinner
was soon over. The regular toasts having been
drunk out of empty glasses, the President an
nounced that a song, written expressly for the
occasion, was ready to he sung: and ho request
ed that every person who designed to take a part f
in the melody, would swallow a handful of saw- I
dust, that he might sing as dry as possible. Dr. 1
Daniel Dryasdust then stood on the head of an f
empty beer-barrel, and led the strain ns follows:
The Dry Dummies. i
An Anti Bachanallan Ode.
Tunc —“Drops o’ Dust.”
My jovial eodgers! What a show !
Was ever such n bunch in townl W
Three hundred “dryhoncs” in a row:
Jolly companions, come to blow
It out like sack at this tee-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin' down !
Churns.
Out like sack at this tee-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin’ down !
•* —dinner we’ve been munchin’ down !
’Tis sad to think that years ago,
Willi liquor, folks would lunch in town,
But now we’ve mighty cause to crow,
jMy glorious milksops, don’t you know
There's not a drop at this lec-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin’ down.
Chorus.
Not a drop at this tee-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin 1 down.
dinner we’ve been munchin’ down.
Here's precious prog to-day, but Oh!
Your thirsty dogs will crunch and flown,
And swear 'tis such a crusty go I
A n’t it a blessing that there’s no
Such liquorish loon at this lec-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin’ down ?
Chorus.
No liquorish loon at this tec-lo
lal dinner we’ve been munchin' down?
dinner we've been munchin’ down!
1 would not give a po-ta-to
For all the whiskey punch in town.
We’ve stopt their toddy, faith ! and woe
Betide the wicked wags, who throw
Their saucy jokes at this tee-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin’ down!
Chorus,
No saucy jokes at this tee-to
tal dinner we've been munchin’ down !
dinner we’ve been munchin’down !
But gaffers, don’t be gaping so.
Because I’ll soon be hurt chin’ down.
Mcthinks my brains are soft as dough,
1 wish I’d just a drop, for Oh!
The weather’s lint, and 1 feel glo
rious dry at this divine tee-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin’ down !
Grand Chorus.
Dry is this divine tee-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin’down.
Dry is this divine tee-to-
Dry is this divine tce-fo-
How dry is this divine tee-to
tal dinner we’ve been munchin’ down !
Alter the song was concluded, the tompany
took an empty glass all round, and the speech
making began. We regret that we are not able
to furnish a full report of these masterly exhibi
tions ofeloquer.ee, but our inkstand was unfor
tunately sucked dry by one of the female domes
tics that waited on the table. We shall endea
-1 vor to give a sketch from memoiy, and go dry
shod over the wlmle ground.
’ Colon nr. Coppkknose rose to address the
Chair. He hoped the company would keepcool
—it was a glorious occasion to keep cool : he had
been trying all bis lifetime to keep cool; and the
number of cool things he had done lately was “a !
1 caution," as people say. For instance, had’nt he
! thrust bis nose into every man’s porridge, to
, | serve the great cause of temperance I People ‘
• who bad porridge-pots grumbled at this, but the
" ! fact was that the porridge was all the cooler for
, it. Ho begged leave to make one cool remark: he
> had done the State some service with his nose.
J and lie took it upon him to say that no cooler
• | means could be devised to promote the glorious
'• i cause of tec-totalism, than for all modest gentlc
s 1 men of the coppernose stampjo thrust their smel
j lors into their neighbor's porridge pots. Depend
| upon it. nothing will cool the public mind and
| the public porridge but this. These were terrible
times: society was in an “awful stew,” when eve
ry man instated on cooking his own porridge.
He hoped the united voire of the assembly would
go forth in a roul declaration from the cradle of
liberty, and inform the world that thedescrndanls
at tie heroes of’76 were resolved not to be sad
dled with the liberty of eating and drinking any
longer! 'cheers.] Bat to return to the subject—
with all his coolness—he was not cool enough for
one tiling, and that was to arrogate to himsclt all
the coolness under the sun. There was his
friend the Hon. Mr. Humm, had also done cool
things in his way. Had’nt he made a hundred
thousand dollars by trading in rum, and now hav
ing retired from business, was’nl he a tip-top tee
totaller,crying out that rum-sellers were robbers
and murderers? [Hear. 1 hear!] He rccom
| mended the great example of Mr. Hunim to the
whole world, and he particularly commended his
noble behavior in coolly refusing to refund a cent
of the money which he had acquired by robbery
and murder. [Cheers.] Again he must say to
them—keep cool, do the coolest thing you can.
Tce-totallers arc noted for having the coolest way
about some things ! Let them strive to grow
cooler and cooler, ami never do a single thing
■without saying, “Is’nt that cool !” [ Great
cheering.]
Doctor tSlipsop begged the indulgence of the
c meeting while he attempted a scientific exposi
j' tion of the great subject. The matter might be
! treated in various ways, “But,” said the Doctor,
i - I shall go into alcohol ; I can say nothing but
f. alcohol; 1 wish to say nothing but alcohol : —1
| need say nothing hut alcohol. My mind is full
t of alcohol; my thoughts are full of alcohol;
! head is full of alcohol, and I was a going to say,
i my stomach is full of alcolyol. The only way to
t do any kind of good at the present day, is to cry
“alcohol !” It is the imperative duty of every
man to leave his business and his home—his
wife, children and friends, ami run up anil down
crying “alcohol!” “alcohol !” I think it would
be a capital device, and contribute to bring about
a tremendous moral revolution, if vve could have
parrots, jackdaws, and hoh-o-links, taught to cry
“alcohol ! alcohol ! alcohol!” Surely there is
no doubt that everything troublesome in society,
government, hydrostatics, meteorology, and the
(Jopeinican system, arises from alcohol. What
makes volcanoes, earthquakes, tulfoons, scolding
wives and mad dogs, hut alcohol 1 What keeps
up the price of green peas '! alcohol. What
j makes movchetoes bite ? alcohol. Who upset
the house that Jack built ? alcohol. AVho killed
cock robin ? alcohol. Who cut off the tails of
the Kilkenny cats ? alcohol, alcohol, alcohol! In
short alcohol is hero, alcohol is there, alcohol is
everywhere. It is utterly astonishing how much
alcohol there is around us, and how little some
folks appear to he aware of their danger. It is
quite hazardous now-a-days to cat a potatoc, for
ton to one, there is alcohol in it. I don’t dare go
out of an evening, because I am convinced there
is alcohol in moonshine I repeat it therefore,
vve ought to talk of nothing, think of nothing,
and dream of nothing, hut alcohol—alcohol—al
cohol ! ! [lmmense cheering.]
Mr. Goodman Dull then rose to speak, and
alter hesitating some time, he only informed the
company that he couldn’t make a speech, hut if
any gentleman would make a speech for him he
was ready to hold his hat. [Great cheers.]
Mr. Fussfuddle, Corresponding Secretary of
the Busy Body Association, rose to state to the
meeting that he had invented a patent temper
ance screw auger, by which any genuine tee
lotallcr might boro his neighbor’s ribs through
t and through in the true spirit of inquiry,
i Dr. Drinkwater moved for a committee to sit
upon the town pump and ascertain whether there
! was not too much alcohol in it.
Phis proposition caused great alarm in the
assembly; several gentlemen with red faces im
mediately stuck their noses into the pitchers. A
loud hiss was the consequence, which raised such
a panic, that the whole assembly immediately
cut and ran. In the confusion of the scramble
the following was picked up from the door:—
Jonathan's Independence.
Tu »e— Yankee Doodle.
Father and I went down to town,
With crockery ware and wooden,
And there we found the dough-pates all
As soft as hasty puddin.
Yankee doodle keep it up,
Yankee doodle dandy,
Empty bottles you may suck,
But not a drop of brandy.
And there I spied a hundred ton
Os chaps, as I’m a sinner.
Setting their grinders down to chaw
A dry lec-tolal dinner.
Yankee doodle, keep it up, &c.
And every toast they tooted off,
1 heir throats were dry as powder,
And made a noise like little pigs,
They couldn’t squeak much louder.
\ ankce doodle, keep it up, &c.
By jingo, then how I did laugh !
It heat all nater hollow.
To see what awful grins they made,
When e'er they tried to swallow !
Yankee doodle, keep it up, &c.
And one, he choked him with a crust
As hard as bricks and mortar,
Another turned his eyes askew
A-squinting at cold water.
\ ankce doodle, keep it up, &c.
And there I spied a curious chap,
His jaws were made of leather,
I wonder’d how a mortal skin
Held such dry bones together.
Yankee doodle, keep it up, &c.
I went up as near to him
As 1 eould nuz7,le shyly,
Father went up as near again
And twigg’d the critter slily.
\ ankee doodle, keep it up, &e.
Then with a cunning wink, his head
Close to my ear he reaches,
Says he “’tis a two legged machine
That grinds cold water speeches.”
Yankee doodle, keep it up, & c .
But ah ! there was a sly back door.
Beset with trusty keepers,
And there I spied a queer concern,
By using of my peepers.
Yankee doodle, keep it up, &c.
A man he had a long-ncck’d thing,
He kind of clapt his hand on’t,
And *io! there popp’d a green big cork
Out of the little end on’t!
ankee doodle, keep it up, &e.
It scared me so that I dug off,
And though some folks may doubt it,
I guess your grave cold water folks
Can go two days about it!
Yankee doodle, keep it up, &c.
The following hit is going the rounds of the
» newspapers;
- Acrcsta, (Geo.) Ruined.— The Tallahassee
f Star considers Augusta a ruined and done over
town, as among the recent arrivals there, as ad
| vertised in the newspapers, are fifteen bushels
\ vegetable pills, assorted, three millions morus
nuiltieaulis outlines, and Buckingham, the orien
tal traveller, with a hatch of lectures!
An Old Jokeh.—A gentleman, aged 77,
having in company his sixth wife, and being the
father of an interesting batch of children, twentv
six in a!!, recently passed through Buffalo. H e
considers himself as smart as ever, and thinks it
best, we presume, for those who emigrate at all,
to do it while they're young.'
. i / from the New Orleans Courier, July 16.
. y From Texas.
The arrival of the steamer Columbia, last night
I 1 puts us in possess! on’ot news Irom Texas to the
5 j 12th insl. of which the following may be consid
' ; cred the principal items.
' I Some sickness prevailed in Houston.
It was reported that an army of 4l)M) Mexicans
r had advanced to Matamores. This intelligence
• made little impression on the minds of the Tex
’ ians, whose attention was principally turned to
1 the Indian frontier. A large body of Tcxians,
1 regulars, volunteers and militia, had marched to
‘ the Northern frontier, where it was understood
" Indian parties from 20.trihes were about to meet
s them. The result was expected anxiously. The
■ Texians, it was said, were determined to compel
! the Indians to abandon the Northern counties,
5 and it was thought the Savages would give battle
1 rather than consent. We shall not know the
' result of this meeting for some weeks.
’ More than 100 persons are said to have already
• squatted nn the site of the new capital of Texas
on the Colorado; and it was thought the compe
' tition would he very great at the approaching
: sale of the lots.
• 'The citizens of Houston appear to have had a
very serious brush with the gamblers.
- It is said the cotton crop of Eastern Texas will
‘ this year fall little short of 20,000 bales.
Besides the marauding parties of Camanehes
’ on the Western frontier, the trade between Tex*
1 as and the country beyond Rio Grande del Norte
is now said to suffer from the depredations of
land pirates, or armed bands of while men, who
\ plunder alike Mexicans and Tcxians, when the S
> offers.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
i A correspondent has sent us the following.—
i He calls it a parody, a paradox, a solo, or a par-
I asol, or something like that. As there is nothing
t in a name, however, we give it, premising by the
> way. that the writer could be more profitably
r employed fishing for crabs at the lake, or picking
s blackberries, if there be a patch near the city.
> “The last of the Loafers.”
! ’Tis the last of the loafers
Left sleeping alone;
All his coatless companions
A spreeing are gone ;
’ He lies on on the green grass,
• Mis bar is the sky—
And tho’ he’s thus laid low,
He’s in truth rather high.
i
1 I’ll not leave thee, thou lone one,
A Charley did say,
! A prey to musquitoes ;
So come right away,
• To the watch-house I’ll take you ;
You’ll find loafers there,
> Who, like you, have been sleeping
Out in the night “hair.”
1 OBITUARY.
■ Died in Wetumpka, Ala. on the 17th inst, of Mil—
s ions/ ever, after an illness of 8 days, in the 21st I
, year of his age, Mr. William Henry Hutchinson,
of this place.
, Mr. H. was on a visit to his mother and sisters,
whither he had gone to mingle his sympathies with
theirs for the recent loss of a husband and father, as
well as son and brother who has since followed,
and to discharge some of the filial obligations due
to his surviving friends; yet in the mysterious dis
pensations of that Being whose designs no scrutiny
can fathom,he has been added as the third victim
to the domain of that
“Insatiate archer —whom one could not suffice—
The shaft (lew thrice —and thrice their peace
was slain,”
The subject of this notice, as before mentioned,
had scarcely attained his 21st year, with prospects,
as fair, ol long life and happiness, as belonged to
others. In the spring time of life all that he has
hoped has withered—all that his friends anticipat
ed, been destroyed. In addilion to his surviving re
latives, he has left friends to mingle the tear of
friendship with their deeper sorrows of affliction ;
friends, of whom he had many—for none could say
aught against him as none had he offended.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, July 22.
Arrived yesterday. —Line ship Catharine, lies her,
New York.
Went to sea on Saturday.— Sell r. Lady Warring
ton, heard. Baltimore.
Went to sea yesterday. —Sp. brig Andalusia, Du
s'**. West Indies; Brig Chili, lionney, Havana;
Brig William, Kivans, New York ; U. L. brig Mo
ses, Brown, New-Vork.
"" —Li——■■wwf.. -"tew* 1
C Zj" Michael respectfully informs his friends
that,during the continuance of moonlight evenings,
the Hampton Course House will be kept open until
10o’clock. ts July IS
Parties of gentlemen can be supplied with pri
vate rooms.
QC? THE AMERICAN SILK GROW Ell 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.
{Or Subscriptions received at this office. a;
ffj” RESIDENT DENTIST..— Dr. Mun roe's
operating rooms, second door from Broad trect, on
Mclntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist office
march 13
QJ"NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train,
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
ollows:
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a. h.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ hranchville, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m.
“ “ Blackville, - “ - 100 p. si.
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg notbefore - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. si.
“ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730
“ “ Blackville, “ - • 930
“ “ Midway, “ . . ]Q 30
“ “ Branchville, “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 sr.
“ “ Summerville,“ - . 2 OOp. si.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance—l 36 miles. Fare Through—slo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
longer than o minutes for wood and water at anv
station. J
I , To stO P for passengers, when a white flag is
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also at !
Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinct’s, 41 mile T O
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons’
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers vp will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackville; down, will breakfast at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. m;l y o]
, ( & B J I ? I L VOLE J fT SOCIETY, for the binm !
oj the Sick Poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
Ihe V isiting Committees for the ensuing month aie I
as follows:
Division No. I.—Mr. A. McLane, Mr. C. Pike
Mrs. Smith, Miss Marshall.
Division No. 2.—Dr. B. Harris, .Mr. Win. Tutt, i
j Mrs. Trembly, Mrs. Cole.
I Division No. 3.—Mr. J. Cashin, Mr. M. Wilcox i
Mrs. Berry hill, Mrs. MeKinnie.
Any member of the committees may obtain funds
j by calling on the President, (W. W. Holt, Esq.) at
! his office, Cumming’s Plaza.
1 June 24 C. F. STU ROES, Secretary.
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DR W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOOTHING
SYHUp. for Children Cutting their Teeth. - This
infal.ible remedy lias preserved hundreds of chi -
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul
sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
feums, the child will recover. The preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that no
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it.
W hen infants arc at the age of four months, though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle ol the
Syrup should he used on the gums, to open the
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are young children; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
pores end healing the gums; thereby preventing
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. Win.
Evans' Medical Office, 100 Chatham street, New
York, where the l. octor may be consulted on all
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP.—Tu the Agent
of Dr. Evans’ Soothing Syrup: Pear Sir —The
great benefit afforded to my suffering infant by
your Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
painful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
rent how essential an early application of such an
invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
torture. My infant, when teething, experienced
such acute sufferings, that it was attacked with
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed that
death would soon release the babe from anguish,
till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp ; which as
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change
was produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by continuiug in
its use, 1 am glad to inform you the child has com
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful
complaint has since occurred; the teeth arc ema
nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health.
I give you my cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, and will gladly give any
information on tins circumst; me.
WM. JOHNSON.
TONIC FILLS. —The power of Evans’ Camomile
Pills are such, that the palpitating lira; t. the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mind,
vanish before their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sun. —
They have long been successfully used for the cure
of intesmittents,together with fevers of the irregu
lar neiv.ms kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous complaints,
general debility, indigestion and its consequences,
as want of eppetite, distension of the stomach, acid
ity. unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
the mind becomes irritable.desponding, thoughtful,
melancholy, and dejected, llypochondriucism, con
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and ail other
nervous ass ctions, these pills will produce a safe
and permanent cure.
Evans’ Camomile Pills were first introduced into
America in 1533.
EVANS’ FAMILY APERIENT PILLS are
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest pre
cision of science and of art; they never produce
nausea, and are warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the blood,
viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, Colds,
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, Asthma, Cho
lera. Liver Complaints, Diseases if the Kidnics and
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of wl atsoever kind to which human
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected.
Mure conclusive proofs of the extraordinary effi
cacy of Dr. Wm. Evans’ celebrated Camomile and.
Aperient Anti-Bilious Pills, in alleviating afflicted
mankind. —Air. Robert Cameron, 101 flowery.—
Disease—Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody Flux— .
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels, se- |
verc griping, frequent inclination to go to stool, tu
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fre
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of a pe
culiar foetid matter mixed with blood great debility,
sense ol burning heat, with an intolerable bearing
down ot the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying per
fect health, and returns his sincere thanks for the
extraordinary benefits he ha? received.
Sold by ANTONY it HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta,
J. M. & T. M. TU UN ER, Savannah,
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP A ELLS, Milltdgcville,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN,Forsyth.
W.m. B. WELLS, Druggist, Athens,
MARIC A. LANE, Washington.
July 23
GREA T A R RIVAL!
Fifteen Bushels, or 371),000 boxes of
PETERS’ PILES.
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, new 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 digestive organs, purify
the blood, invigorate! he circulation, and give tone
and energy to the mu vous system.
They 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 ofthe Stomach *
and Bowels, Incipient Diarrhoea, Flatulence, Hab
itual Costiveness, Loss of Appetite, blotched or
Sallow Complexion, and in all cases of Torpor 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 theU. States, the Cana
das, Texas, Mexico and the West Indies, since
Jan. 1533. AH persons who have used the Genuine
Peters Vegetable Pills, recommend them in terms
of the most unqualified praise, which is proof pos
itive of their extraordinary and beneficial effects,
these justly celebrated Pills are for sale by
THOMAS BARRETT & Co., and
HAVILAND, RISLEY A Co., Agents.
June 6 2m
PKKp,,,, kiTv.
HOWARD’S Chemical ShavingCoinpound
Howard’s Improved Chemical Chloride Soap
Howard’s Superior Toilet Soap
Howard’s Chemical Essence of Soap, for re
moving grease, paint, tar, Sec. from wearing apparel.
Howard’s Chrystal Cement, for mending
broken glass, China, earthenware, &c,
Howard’s Magnolia Extract, a delicate and
delicious perfume for the toilet
Howard’s Superior Cologne Water
Howard’s Florida Water
Howard’s Lavender Water
Howard’s Superior Tooth Powder
Howard’s Indcllible Ink
Just received and for sale by
ANTONY Sc HAINES, Agents,
ju'yll No 232 Broad st.
WANTED —A Wife, from 16 to 23, by a gen
tleman of this city, who is neither hand
some or homely—rich, nor very poor—good charac
ter, in a fair business, and of good family ;he is U
over 20 and under 30 years of age, who has been a ]
bachelor long enough to think and know his condi- f
tion will be bettered by matrimony ; and who owes
his living single this long, not to inclination but
to excessive timidity. So much for himself. The
young lady must ho good looking, and well edu
cated —her knowledge of music not important—of
good family—domestic in her habits— and neither ’
romantic nor affected. Widows need not apply .
unless they are rich, nor must they be over S 3 1
years of age. Any young lady wishing to form a
matrimonial engagement, may rest assured that all
communications directed to the subscriber through
the Editors ol this paper, will meet with prompt
attention ; she can state when and where she
wishes an interview. None need apply unless
they are serious, as any disposition on the part of
ladies (or gentlemen assuming a lady’s name) to
quiz, will either be exposed or severe y chastened
by the writer. All communications addressed lo
Theodore, through the Editors, will be attended to.
July !8 ts THEODOPE.