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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL,
f AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7.
FOR GOVERNOR,
€IIAit L 13 S I) OUG II 13 It TY ,
OP CLARK COrXTT.
A lot of Cotton, mixed qualities, consisting of
139 bales, the crops of the late A. Muncrief of
Warren county, for five years past, was sold yes
terday at public outcry at the warehouse of'Tho
mas Dawson in this city. It was knocked off’
at eleven and one-sixteenth cents per pound.
CCj* We are indebted to the editor of the New
Orleans True American, for a copy of the “Trial
for label” of John Gibson, the editor of that
paper. We have perused it with much interest-
Prone the Charleston Mercury of yesterday,
important from Florida.
By the Stephen 4' Francis, Captain Magee,
arrived yesterday morning from St. Augustine,
we have received the following intelligence front
our correspondents at that place : M
Herald Opfmie, 7
St. Augustine, Aug. 3, ! 83/h 5
News has been received to-day from Tampa
Bay, that Col. Harney was attacked at his post at
Coleosahatchie, early on the morning of the 33d
ult. Os his command of 38 men 13 and the 2
settlers were killed, and the Colonel with t£y re
mainder escaped. This is the most trcach*oua
act committed bv the Indians since the war. Col.
H. confiding in their good faith, and supposing
himself a favorite with them, ventured to go to
a post nearly 200 miles from any other with only
a guard of 28 men.
The inhuman attempt to massacre this little
parly by Indians who were daily coming in and
going out in a friendly manner is definitive of
their hostile determination, and proves that all
we have said since Macomb’s order was publish
ed is correct.
Office of the News, £
St. Augustine, August 3. 5
The War Renewed !
The following treacherous account of the sur
prise of Col. Harney’s command, reached here
this morning by express. Col. Gates, command
ing cast of St. Johns, has transmitted orders for
the immediate defence of the posts South.
I Ass’t. Ads’t. General’s Office,A
I Army of the South. C
I Fort Brook, (E. F.) July 29,1839. j
I Sir—lt becomes my painful duty to inform
J you of the assassination of the greater part ofLt.
I Col. Harney’s detachment by the Indians, on the
I morning of the 23d inst. on the Coleosahatchie
I river, where they had gone in accordance with
I the Treaty at Fort King, to establish a trading
house. The party consisted of about 28 men,
armed with Colt’s Rifle; they were encamped on
the river, hut unprotected by defences of any kind,
and it is said without sentinels. The Indians in
largo force made the attack before the dawn of day,
and before reveille, and it is supposed that 13 of
the men were killed, among whom was Major
Dallam, und Mr. Morgan, settlers. The remain
der with Col. Harney escaped; several of them
severely wounded. It was a complete surprise.
The Commanding General therefore directs,
that you instantly take measures to place the de
fences at Fort. Mellon in the most complete state
of repair, and be ready at all times to repel an at
tack, should one be made. No portion of your
command will, in future, he suffered to leave the
garrison, except under a strong escort. The De
tachment at Fort Maitland, will be immediately
writhdrawu.
Should Fort Mellon prove unhealthy, and the
Surgeon recommend its abandonment, you arc
/authorized to transfer the garrison, and reinforce
some of the neighboring posts,
I am, sir. GEO. H. GRIFFIN,
Asst. Adjt. General.
Lieut. W. E. Hasson, Comr. of Fort Mellon.
From the N Y. Commercial Advertiser of the \st.
Lute from China.
By the arrival of the ship Omega, Captain
HiHert, from Canton, we. have the announce
ment that the foreign trade with the Celestial
Einnirc is stopped. The Omega narrowly es
caped detention, having succeeded in getting off
just in time. Two English ships, which got
under way at the same time with the Oraego,
were actually taken back. The stoppage of the
trade took place on the 22d of March.
All foreigners were forbidden to leave Canton
until further orders. In short, the most rigid
measures were adopted by the commissioner to
e(f ec t bis object, which he declared to be the utter
annihilation ot the opium trade.
prom the New York Express.
Rates of Interest.
The revolution in the price of products now
going on in Europe and in America, must not
only involve a reduction in the price ot labor, at
least in the United Slates, as we have before ex
plained. but, in fact, aided by other causes revo
lutionize the rales of interest between Europe
“"ioudoTand New York being but 13 or 14 or
13 or 16 days apart, it is impossible that there
can bng be a difference of’three and bur per cent
, be ween New York and London. Ibe Bank of
V I ,i vn-iv cause attacks to be made upon our
securities at will, but these attacks will be but of
line avail, when an investment can bo made in
he Unite Stales on terms of two and s.x per
cent, better than an investment ... Bondon
at be an approach toward an cquah/.a-
T ‘ Vhl mm of interest, the stability of the
tion ol th othcr tllings being equal. The
the price wi(hin six years sprung up
• T II T jw i htbe Directors of the Bank
in London.olwhicniD 3ware __ ;inJ that
of England hanky kindred language,-
,s an American >• f capacities to ex-
T U "btain aid deli mi itself in words against
plum, maintain auu
■MT. *—" II •—1 ~ M '| , M ~j I - I ----- M1,,,, y-i
which there is no prejudice and which every
body can understand. The periodical struggles
of the Dank of England against it arc all in vain.
These American interests in London come into
conflict there, not only with British interests, but
with East Indian, European, South American,
and Canadian and Provincial interests. Europe
wants money to pay men for carrying the musket.
The United Slates want money and men to dig
canals and make Rail Roads, so as to settle the
wilderness. South America wants money to pay
old Debts, of which but little good is left. Can
ada and the Provinces but few will emigrate to
when compared with the United States, for most
emigrants prefer being citizens to being subjects.
Well, the American Interests go into the Lon
don Market, with the capacity to pay a high,
what is considered in England, a prodigiously
high rate of interest. The only alarming thing
about them in an Englishman’s judgement, is
their immmense promises, which generally they
more than have the capacity to realize. Now the
London Times may call these securities “plague
spots” at will, —and they will amazingly plague
even English securities, —for some of our States
can well aflbrd to pay 15 per cent, interest—but
nevertheless, Englishmen will invest in them.—
Take, for example, a prairie. State, where rich
wheat land can be bought for §l,2scts. the acre,
even twenty per cent, is nut a ruinous rate of in
terest for a Rail Road or a Canal to lake the rich
wheat products of such land to a market, Eng
land has no such investments: the world has
not, —among such a population.
This struggle then we see is to go on for some
time between the Commercial City of the Old
World, and the Commercial City of the New,
for an equalization of the rates of interest. The
rates must go up or keep up in England. We
need their capital, and can afford to pay for it, —
that parts us two weeks only will be
but a little barrier to him whose business it is to
study out for capital proper investments.
St. Augustine, July 25.
The wirf the monkt goes. —A small
schooner by government at $6OO a
month, rtAmcd here on Friday from New Smyr
na, a distance of 00 miles, having performed the
voyage in the short space of thirty-epic days—
the sixty miles out, was performed in thirty days.
All humane persons will be pleas d to learn that,
though the land road between this and Smyrna
is unsafe, the anchorage is in man’Aplacos excel
lent and fishing grounds delightful*
From one end of Florida to the other, we have
heard the following story told, never contradict
ed, and therefore should not .doubt it to be true.
A little rteamboat drawv/21 inches of water
was offered for sale to i.VJjElilccr of Government
on the west coast, at §5OOO, and refused ; but
was taken into service, and retained about a year
at three hundred dollars a day. Eighty odd
thousivid dollars, have been paid for her hire, and
about ten thousand more remains in dispute.—
Herald.
From the New York Star.
Mu. Star — l never should have been so thor
oughly convinced of the propriety, or perhaps
necessity of reading the publications of both po
litical parties, in order to arrive in some degree to
the knowledge of the truth of the character and
services of the distinguished men who are at
times brought forward as candidates for the most
exalted stations in our government, had 1 not by
chance taken up the American Sentinel of Phila
delphia, in which was recorded the toast given
by Mr. Joseph Springer, at a “Democratic” Cele
bration of the 4th ofJuly,at Hickman’s, Kensing
ton, Pa., as follows:
“ Martin Van Buren —His wisdom and pat
riotism in the cabinet , correspond with his shill
and courage in the field."
Having been long a reader of your paper, and
never having learned from its columns ought of
the deeds of “high and noble daring” performed
by this distinguished ornament of American chiv
alry, it is to be hoped that your sense of justice
will alone induce yon to give publicity to this
sentiment of the “democratic friend” of Mr. Van
Durcn. Con.
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
Pkuilous Aiivextuke at the Fails —An
occurrence of most thrilling interest took place at
Niagara Falls yesterday afternoon, attended with
imminent peril to the lives of two individuals, but
resulting in a most happy and providential deliv
erance.
The new bridge to Iris island is planted in a
frightful rapid where the current is from 20 to 00
miles an hour, and is only about 100 or 150 yards
above the brow of the great precipice or perpen
dicular/all. A carpenter by the name of Chapin
was engaged with others in covering the bridge,
and while at work, upon a staging about one hun
dred feet from Iris island, accidently lost his foot
ing and was precipitated into the rapids, and in
the twinkling of an eye swept away toward tile
great cataract. Speedy and inevitable destruc
tion seemed to await him ; but fortunately he was
uninjured by the fall, and even in this most hope
less condition retained perfect self possession.
Turning toward the only point of hope above the
fearful precipice, he succeeded, by great dexterity
in swimming, in effecting a landing upon a little
island some twenty feet in width and length, the
outermost of the group of little cedar islands sit
uated some thirty' or forty yards above the falls
and about equal distance from Goat island and
the American shore.
There he stood for an hour, looking calmly and
beseeching back upon the numerous spectators
who lined the bridge and shores, but with whom
he could hold no conversation on account of the
distance, and the roar of the rapids.
There is a man in the village of the Falls by
the name of Robinson of extraordinary muscular
power, great intrepidity, and withal an admirable
boatman—and he was probably the only one that
could have been found within fifty miles—who
generously volunteered his services, to attempt
reaching the island in a boat and bring Chapin
off, A light boat of two oars,similar in construc
tion to the Whitehall race boats, was soon procu
red and he embarked.
He proceeded with great deliberation and con
summate skill, darting his little boat across the
rapid channels, and at the intervening eddies
holding up to survey his situation and recruit his
strength for the next trial. In a few minutes he I
neareil the island, hut a rapid channel still inter- j
vened, sweeping close to the island, and rendering *
the attempt to land very difficult. He paused i
fora moment, and then with all his strength dar- j
ted across and sprang from his boat—his foot !
slipped, and lie fell backward into the rapid cur-j
j rent.
With the spectators it was a moment of thrill- j
ing interest and breathless silence; his boat seem- ■
ed inevitably lost, and himself in fearful jeopardy.
I Retaining, however, his grasp on the boat he
sprang in, and aeain seizing his oars brought up
under the lee of the little island. All again
felt a momentary relief, but still the great labor
j and hazard of the enterprise remained to be over- i
como. A cool head and a strong arm only could
effect it—Robinson proved equal to the task.
Taking his companion on board, in the same
careful and deliberate manner, though at infin
itely greater hazard and labor, they effected a safe
landing on Goat Island.
There the spectators assembled to give them
a cordial greeting. A scene of great excitement
ensued—the boat was drawn up the bank, and it
was moved and carried by acclamation that u col
lection be taken up on the spot for Chapin and his
noble hearted deliverer Robinson. It was a gen
erous one and was thankfully received; but the re
flection to Robinson that ho hag rescued a fellow
being under such circumstances will be to his
generous heart a much richer one. After the
collection, Robinson and Chapin took their scats
in the boat, and were carried in triumph on the
shoulders of their neighbors to the village.
The intense interest of the whole scene was
heightened by the presence of Chapin's wife and
children, who stood on the shore watching with
unavailing horror and agony what seemed his in
evitable and fearful fate.
Missomii Mammoth, oh oukat Masto
hon.—The meritorious projector of the St. Louis
( Museum, Mr. Albert Coch, has at length put up
for exhibition, the head entire, (with some tri
lling curious deductions) of the largest specimen
of animal remains in the world, which be has
taken from his excavations, at Captain Zalmon
C. Palmer’s farm in Jefferson county in this
State. It consists of the head and tusks of an
enormous animal, infinitely larger than any thing
ever before discovered on the face of the earth.—
The teeth are in a high state of preservation,
presenting the enamel in great perfection. The
animal was evidently carnivorous, the evidence
of which is contained in the natural formation of
the teeth. From the capacity of this animal’s
jaws, and the supposed corresponding bulk of his
entire frame, it would not be extravagant to sup
pose that an elk would boa light breakfast for
him, and that he would devour a buffalo and an
antelope or two for dinner. After supper, this
Collossus of Missouri would require more space
than thu superficcs of a parsimonious city lot
amount to, on which to lake lodgings for the
night.
The station in which the animal remains were
found, from which this prodigy was taken, inti
mates that this, with his associates were crushed
and rendered extinct, by some great convulsion
of nature, the particulars of which we leave to the
conjectures and to the scientific investigations of
the geologist.
Whoever may look at this unparalleled natural
curiosity, will have occasion to say :
“He's all my fancy painted him.”
From the National Intelligencer.
Sketches of the Personal and Public
Character of Daniel Webster.
R , Mass. July, 1839.
Dr.AnSiu: I am reminded of my promise to
write you another letter about Mr. Webster by
an incident which took place last evening. 1
have a neighbor, for whom I entertain a sincere
respect, though he is a blacksmith and a Van Hu
ron man. The state of society is such in our
village that we have few distinctions founded up
on vocation or style of living; so my friend of the
anvil often pays me a visit, and, though we dif
fer in politics, we have a good deal of pleasant in
tercourse.
Well, ho called last evening, and began by
asking me if I had heard the news. I replied in
the negative; and he proceeded to say that the
steam-packet Liverpool had arrived, bringing a
letter from Mr. Webster, withdrawing his name
from the list of Presidential candidates. I remar
ked that this did not surprise me, as I had long
understood that Mr. Webster had only permitted
himself to be held up as a candidate at the soli
citation of his friends'. Here 1 attempted to turn
the conversation, as wo are accustomed to avoid
party topics; but my neighbor, contrary to his
wont, chose to pursue the theme.
“ What do you think they will say to Webster
in England 1” said he.
“They have the Globe,” I replied, “and that
being the Government organ, is likely to be con
sidered in London as the best authority. The
Globe always represents Mr. Webster as not on
ly a wicked but an inconsistent man. He is al
ways spoken of as inferior to Benton, Wright,
Walker, and especially John M. Niles.”
“Ah, but the Globe is a party paper.”
“True; but it always speaks of John M. Niles
as rowing Webster up Salt river in debate.”
“I don’t care for that. It’s my idea that Wch
stcrcan clinch a nail, in argument, as well as the
best on ’em.”
“That I shall not dispute. But let us consider
that Webster is now in England ; and, though
wc may say what wo please, we care more about
John Bull’s opinion of us than that of all the
world beside. A French Marquis or a German
Prince may travel among us, and go home and
say what he pleases; be it good or ill, wo cure
little. But if an English writer laughs at our
follies and foibles, even though it be some trollop
of a widow, or an acidulated old maid, we turn
red in the face, and get seriously angry. This
shows how much wo care for the good opinion of
mother England. And now I wish to know,
which you would rather have go to England, as
as specimen of our Yankee breed —Daniel
Wersteh or John M. Nuns'!”
“Fudge !” said the, blacksmith.
“But,” said I, “Niles always beats Webster in
argument—at least so says the Globe.”
“Niles is an ass!”
“Well, what do you say to Benton!”
“Benton talks too much Latin ; Websternevcr
talks any thing but English, and he handles it
just as a strong man handles a sledge-hammer;
that is, in an easy kind of way, as if ho was play
ing with it; and yet tho sparks fly right and left
from the red-hot iron. I heard Webster myself
at Bunker Hill, when the corner-stone of the
I monument was laid. It was the 17th of June,
1825. I sat right next to one of the old soldiers
who was in the battle. When tho speech was
over, riie old patriot pulled up the waistband of
his breeches with his right hand, and turned to
me, saying, ‘That’s a grand speech, I do declare.
I arn pretty deaf, you know, but I heard it all as
■ plain as I did the British cannon. Every word
lof that speech seemed to weigh a pound. Ilur-
I rah ! hurrah! hurrah!”’
“And so you think, because Webster pleased
: this old patriot, and pleased you too, that lie will
I please the English. How docs that follow !”
“Oh, there’s no gammon about him. He’s
| true steel—and that’s the stuff, whether you wish
to point a ploughshare or edge a razor. He was
j brought up a /armor, and he knows how to sit
i down and drink a glass of cider, and talk about
fat cattle, as well as any body. And if you were
to see him, as 1 have, by a New Hampshire^! re
side, you’d think he really was a farmer. Why,
there lie’s as ready to give a neighbor the time of
day as any body. Bui I went once to Washing
ton, and what do you think I saw ! I went to
i the—what do you call it I —tho levee. Well,
‘
there was a crowd of officers, r.li yellow with
epaulettes anil gold lace; and there were dark
hairy fellows looking as wild and foolish us Shot
, land ponies; and there were ladies with amazing
tall leathers upon their heads; and right in the
midst was Daniel Wf.iistku! It did me good
to look at him ; and I was just on the point of
crying out, “Hurrah for the Gianite State !”’
“Why so, pray !”
“ Why 1 Do you think 1 was’nt proud of my
native state, when 1 saw a New Hampshire hoy,
a farmer of Now England, a real Yankee, in the
midst of all that splendor; and to see him, too,
care so little about it! His eye was roving
’round, as if he thought it was all nonsense. I
was jammed in between the Brazilian Amlmssa
and the fattest woman 1 ever saw. I suppose I
was pretty much covered up: hut it seems wj
head was out, for Webster saw me, and, run
minding who was looking on, ho came right up\
and got hold of my hand and gave it a real New
Hampshire grip. I should have known it was a
New Hampshire first in the dark, for ’twus just
like my own vice.”
“ Well, what has all this to do with Webster’s
being in England !”
“ Why, you see, tho’ Webster was’nt afraid to
shake the hand of a blacksmith at the President’s
levee, and in tho midst of such splendid ladies
and so many shining officers, ho still seemed as
easy and as much at home there as he used to he
in mowing a meadow of foxtail with a sharpe
scythe. And now, I say, it stands to reason that
that’s tho sort of man to he looked up to any
where. He’ll be no more afraid of your queens,
and dukes, and all that sort of thing, than he
would he of so much gold luce and buckram,—
I’m told that after all, those big people do’nt pa
rade about the street with their badges, and coro
nets, and ribands, like our militia corporals on a
muster-day. A man told me that he once saw
King William, and ho was dressed for all tho
world like a common man, only that he wore a
little hit of a star on Ills breast. He also said to
me that ho once heard a person sneeze just as
natural as life, and was told it was the Marquis
Murryburrow.”
My friend here had a lurking smile upon his
face, and I perceived that he had turned from the
point of discussion by design. It was evident he
iiad been betrayed into on expression of interest
in Webster which was nt variance with his po
litical creed, for it is a melancholy fact that party
fidelity scorns to demand of its votaries unquali
fied rancor and hate towards those who are not
birds of its own feather. Enough had been said,
however, to show that my neighbor, though a
Locofoeo, was willing, nay, proud, that such a
specimen of the true Yankee ns Daniel Web
ster should lie in England. When I intimated
that he might have been better pleased if John
M. N i les had been sent to represent the country
there, he had that sort of expression about the face
which is apt to come over it when ipecac is
mentioned.
In this enclosure you will find a few of the an
ecdotes of W ebstkr which I had promised.
Fight between a Hoy and a Dog.
The Backwoodsman, furnishes an account of
n desperate encounter between a boy and a dog,
which occurred in Calhoun county, Illinois.—
When at a distance from any habitation, the hoy
was suddenly, and unexpectedly attacked by a
large dog, that evidently intended to devour him.
Though a hold and courageous boy,ho was near
ly petrified with fear at the unexpeetsd attack,
and the savage and determined ferocity of his as
sailant. Happily he recovered his presence of
mind, almost immediately, and recollecting that
lie had a dirk knife in his pocket, instantly drew
it out, and then commenced a bloody battle.—
Each fought with desperation, and tho boy for
his life. The nearest dwelling was at a great
distance, and the lad had no alternative before
him hut death or victory.
As the dog rushed upon him, he struck at him
with his knife, and at the second or third pass,
wounded him severely.. This only rendered the
dog still more furious, and he rushed upon the
lad still more fiercely. By this time the hoy had
become more cool, and the success he had mot
in aiming his blows gave him renewed courage.
He now parried t.io attacks of his assailant with
more skill, and at every onset inflicted a wound,
which rendered him more and more desperate.—
Victory still seemed doubtful, for though the dog
hud received many severe wounds, the lad also
had lost much blood, and his strength was fast
failing. He saw that his life depended on giv
ing the dug a mortal wound within in a short
time, for lie felt that he could continue the fight
hut a few moments longer. He cooly waited a
favorable opportunity,which happily occured al
most immediately, and exerting his utmost pow
er, struck desperately at the dog. The knife
reached his heart, and with a deadly howl the
dog fell at his feet, ami immediately expired.
The youth is considerably injured, hut is in a
fairway of recovery.
S'peek:.
The New York Express says: “A very large
amount of specie vent out in the two Steam
Ships yesterday—and the three Liners which
sailed for Havre, London, and Liverpool—hut
no alarm was created, and its absence is not felt
at all. Some bills of Exchange went down to
109, and the U. States Bank drew steadily at
no.”
From Mexico.
We learn by the Pensacola Gazette, that when
the U. 8. ship Erie sailed from Tampico, General
Busturnente had loft that place for Mexico, in
order to resume the Presidency. The Mexican
congress had refused to concur with Santa Ana,
in his measures towards Texas, recommended by
him, and latter had retired to his country seat.
This intelligence solves the problem of Santa
Ana’s sudden fit of disinterested patriotism of
which vve yest irday made mention. The Con
gress have more wisdom and penetration than
we imagined. They appear to have understood
Santa Ana’s motives pretty thoroughly.
Mk. Adams and the Abolitionists. —The
abolition papers are waging fierce war upon Mr.
Adams fordeclaring himself opposed to the object
of their petitions. The Utica organ seems to
have signalised itself by the bitterness of its attacks
on the ex-President, and greatly to the satisfaction,
it appears, of its amiable coadjutors. The Liber
ator says that “the ex-President himself can hard
ly fail to see and feel that he is entirely used up,,
and put hors da combat by the iron-linked argu
ment of his antagonist.”
Sauo Bukai).— Sago, which is a vegetable
production of China, gathered by the natives and
taken in junks or boats to Singapore, where it is
made into a shape fit for shipment, is beginning
to he used by the bakers of London and Edinburg
as an ingredient of bread. The article has been
long known to medical gentlemen as possessing
nutricious qualities, and has in many instances
been proscribed in cases of indigestion. Os the
bread which is made at it, Dr. Andrew Combe, ol
Edinburgh, stales that it is as light, digestible,
and palatable as any bread ho over tasted, and en
tirely free; horn the least tendency to sourness,
even at the end ol four days of mild weather,
which would not have been the ease with the or
dinary bread at the end ot forty-eight hours."
He also observes “it being easy of digestion in the
stomach, allbrds a presumption that it will be
well suited to the bowels also.” It appears the
bread in question is composed ot three fourths of
wheat flour and one fourth ot Jim* sago, whieh
enables the baker to make a much hotter loaf at
a cheaper rate. The person who first introduced
it, after its quality had horn the test of public
opinion, had upwards of five thousand applica
tions in one day, and the Edinburgh papers arc
now filled with advertisement* of “tiago Dread,”i
Hulls” and “Sago Duns.”
Oknf.uai, Haniitok,—The New York Ex
press gives the following us a recollection of 1804,
“On the 14th duly general Hamilton expired at
the country seat of William Dayurd, now at the
foot ol Dank street, on the North river. H*o fell
in the duel the day previous with colonel Durr.
Tlie city was thrown into great consternation,—
All classes, and both political parties united in
paying his memory proper respect. The mer
chants, the members ol the bar, the mechanics,
all held meetings and adopted suitable resolutions.
I'hc stores wore closed—all business was at a
stand. The ships in port, including the French
and British frigates, hoisted their colors half
mast. The procession to tho grave was com
prised ol all classes, in regular order. He was
buried in Trinity church yard. Jlis monument,
with his simple name and age, may he seen on
tho side adjoining Rector street. A largo and
hcautilnl willow which shaded his ashes was re
cently blown down by the storm. The corres
pondence and whole proceedings of the causes
and consequences, are given in the journals of
tho day, and occupy four columns. Governor
Morris delivered the funeral in Trinity
church. The grand jury found a bill of wilful
murder against Aaron Durr.”
lit)itkv 7,o DovC was an oddity of the oddest
kind. The host anecdote of him is, being one
evening at a hotel kept by one Drsii, in Delhi,
New ifork, the residence of tho celebrated Gen.
Root, he was importuned by the latter gentle
man, in presence of the landlord, to describe Hea
ven. “You say a great deal about that place,”
said the General, “(ell us how it looks.” Lo
uk.vko turned his grave face and long waving
heard towards Messrs. Root and Bush, and then
replied with imperturbable gravity—“ Heaven,
friends, is a vast extent of smooth and rich terri
tory ; there is not a rout nor bush in it, and there
never will he.”
According to a statement recently made in par
liament, the whole number of persons engaged in
the various wool, cotton, flax and silk factories
throughout the united kingdom, is 355,333, viz:
males 158,555 —females 196,818.
A Toast.—During the passage of the Great
Western, on the occasion of the anniversary of
her Majesty’s coronation, (he following toast,
among others, was proposed —“ The ladies who
are. now half seas over." —Whatever liquors were
used on the occasion, of one thing we arc certain
, —the above toast was not pledged in port.
PosTAffK.— In answer to an inquiry from the
editor of the Army and Navy Chronicle, the post
master general says, that postmasters are “justi
fied in giving the usual notices to tho publishers,
when requested to do so by subscribers, of any
intended change in their station or residence,”
hut, to avoid subsequent misunderstanding be
tween the parties, such request should always be
made in writing.”
Stubtcmino.—The Greenville Mercury says
that a gentleman of that town had the curiosity
to measure a squash vine and ascertain its growth;
and he found that in twenty-four hours it stretch
ed itself eleven inches and a half.
Pbtb Wiiktstonk’s Gai,.—Pete Whetstone,
in a letter to the “Spirit,” says, while talking of
“gals.”
“Well, I reckon it is about lime Pete was look
ing out for a wife; some how or other they don’t
fancy the Devil’s Fork, for I sorter hitched up
long side of one and commenced singing,
‘Purty Polly,party Polly, you dad-dy is rich,
And 1 have not a fortune to trouble me much,
Will you leave your old mam-my, your dad-dy also
And round the wide world with your darlingboy go.’
Don’t you think the little critter said \», and
she did it so slick, jist laying her thumb on her
nose, says she “you can’t come it Pete,” and then
she laughed and jumped off like a fawn, leaving
me a good likeness of a rough specimen of the
line arts.
To the Evening Wind.
BY W. C. BRYANT.
Spirit that breadiest through my lattice, thou
That cools the twilight of the sultry day,
Grateful flows thy frostiness round.rny brow;
Thou hast been out upon the deep at play,
Riding all day thowildblue wave till now, (spray,
Roughening their crests, and scattering high their
And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee
To* the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea!
Nor I alone —a thousand bosoms round
Inhale thee in the fulness of delight;
And languid forms rise up, and pulses bound
Livelier, at coming of tho wind of night;
And, languishing to hear thy grateful sound,
Lies the vast inland stretched beyond the sight.
Go forth into the gathering shade; go forth,
God’s blessing breathed upon the fainting earth !
Go, rock the little wood-bird in his nest,
Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse
The wide old wood from his majestic rest,
Summoning from the innumerable boughs
' The strange, deep harmonies Dial haunt his breast;
Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows
The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass,
And ’twixt tho o’ershadowing branches and the
, (^ass.
The faint old man shall loan his silver head 1
To feel thee: thou shall kiss the child'asleep,
And dry the moistened curls that overspread.
Hi. temples, while his breathing grows moradeep;
. And they who stand about the sick man’s bed,
Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep,
And softly part Ids curtains to allow
Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow.
Go —but the circle of eternal change,
i That is the life of nature, shall restore,
With sounds and scents, from all thy mighty range,
Thee to thy birth-place of tho deep once more:
Sweet odors in the sea air, sweet and strange,
Shall tell the homesick mariner of the shove :
And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem
He hears the rustling leaf and running stream.
H„l I —M.i . ■ ■ -,
M A R R I F, D,
(!n Sunday evening Inst, by the Rev. Mr. Key
Mr. Norman Com s, of VVurrcntuiv, to Miss Mary
Janf. Stockton, of this city.
On the 30th nit. at Camden, 8. C., by the Rev
Mr Thompson, Lewis M. Jones, Esq., to Miss
Elizaueth C. Row, formerly of Columbia.
DIE 1),
In the Ursulioe Convent in Charleston, on the
2Sth nit. after a severe and Ion)' illness, Mother
Mary Charles.Malony, Superioress of the Com*
muity, in the fifty-fourth year of her age 5 she was
a native of Cork, Ireland, and a resident of Charles
ton nearly live years.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, August G.
Arrived yesterday, —Ship Jicnjamin Morgan,
Johnson, Liverpool; Fr brig Matilda, liernaid,
Bordeaux ; Schr. Delight, Drown, New Orleans.
Savannah, August 5.
Arrived yesterday —Steam packet Savannah,
Wamhersie, Cha.l ston ; steamboat Lamar, Cres
well, Augusta.
, * TO RENT, from-tile first of October.
I ~2|j M ,u ‘xt, the two brick Stores next below (i.
* .11- Jessup Ac Co’s, occupied by Messrs. (1.
11. Noble & t:o., ami lluugerford, Frisbie 8: Co.—
For terms apply to A. N. VEKDERY,
July 2!) swtoet or LEON 1> DUGAS.
/-fe- - -ik FOR. RENT.—Two comfortable Dwel
ling Houses, on Jackson, between Green
-TaLltP! .and Telfair streets Possession given Ist
oi October next. Apply to
«Bg3 wtf ‘ JOHN U. GUEDRON,
JJroA. T() RENT, from the first day of Octo
1*® :i; ; ; M her next, two com lor table dwelling houses
■ I . Ihli .opposite Meigs’ Warehouse, liroad street.
For terms, apply to A. 1. HUNTINGTON & SON,
July 20 swflt or to BENJAMIN SI,VIS.
A—a TO RENT, from Ist October next, a
comfortable dwelling, upper end of Ellis
. Gr-.lii* .street, at present occupied by S. S. Brown.
Apply to the Executors of John Fox, deceased.
July 20 sw4t
FOR RENT.—The property of tlieun
dersigned, on Broad, Campbell and Con-
JilEl- tie Streets, 00 Mclntosh Street, near the
Presbyterian Church, at present occupied by dir.
Stockton. Apply to
McKenzie & bennocil
July 2 wtf
N. 11. The occupants of tlie property for the
year ensuing Ist October next, willgive notes pay
able quarterly, and pay for the in of the )Jy.
drant water.
NOTICE.
A,,.,,,!! TO RENT, OR FOR SALE, the large
Pc'ga house on the corner of Ellis and Washing
■ T..fr * J Oll sts.j it has just undergone a thorough
repair and additional rooms added toil. The house
now contains seventeen rooms, well adapted fur a
large family or hoarding house, as the rooms are so
constructed by moveable partitions as to tlnow two
or more rooms together without expense.
ALSO—The House on Washington street ad
joining it. Also, two houses on Green at. opposite
1 the City Hall. The house and lot would be sold a
. bargain where the snbs -vibcr lives; it is a largo
brick houne, 3 sloiies high, the internal part well
arranged for a large family, and the workmanship,
is done in the very best manner, and every conve
t nience a family could wish, and all in complete
f order. The principle reason I oiler it for sale is,
that it is altogether now, too spacious for my fami
] iy-
ALSO—An excelled close Carriage and good
a span of gentle family Horses, which will be sold a
1 grea' bargain, as I have no use for them. Also, a
lot of well made Northern Wagons and < ,'arts.
HENRV MEALING.
Mr. Jolin Morrison is my duly authorized Agent
! during my absence. H. M.
July 13 gwGt
(> t E3.TIFK'ATE OF DEPOSIT® LOST.—AI
J person* are forewarned from trading for a
Certificate of Deposite, dated Macon, 21st March,
1S3I), from the Cashier of the Branch Rank of the-
State of Georgia at Macon, payable to my order, for
the sum of one hundred and forty-six dollars and
twenty-live cents. Said certificate having been
mailed to me, but never came to Ivand.
JOSEPH B. RAMSAY.
Anptst 3,1839. sw-tt
I NOR SALE, Cheap, an elegant Sofa, almost new;
1 set of Dining Tables; 2 sets Brasses; 1 fine
Bureau with a glass; an excellent Guitar, with
double sounding board and patent keys ; I Work
Table; 1 Maple Bedstead and Maple Chairs; 1 pair
elegant Mantel Lamps. Apply at this office.
a-ug 3 trw3t*
ZEPHYR WORSTED and CHENELLE CORD.
Received at C. HOFFMAN’S Fancy Dry
Guuds and Millinery Store,
1 case, GO lbs Zephyr Worsted, assorted,
100 pieces large Chenelle Cord, do
100 pieces small do do- do
Which is offered for sale at wliolesale and retail
on very accommodating terms. trwGt-july 29
; | NOR HIRE, a smart active Boy, about twelve
g" years of age Enquire of
july 19 »w4t ROBERT CARTER.
I NOR SALE—Seven excellent Road Wagons
; and Gear. Apply to J. &D. MORRISON,
july 17 4fw
NOTICE. —The undersigned having soil ouf
his entire stock of Dry Goods to Mr. L. ROLL,
who will continue the business at the same stand.
No. 254 Broad-street, very thankful for the liberal
patronage heretofore extended to him, solicits a
share of the same to his successor. The notes and ;
hook accounts arc left in the hands of Mr. L. Roll,
who is duly authorised to collect the same,
aug 3 trwGt S. B. ROLL.
VALUABLE PROPERTY T OR SALE.
’ f 3HIE subscriber.offers for sale, on the roost rca*-
1 * sonablc terms, that well known and fashion
able watering place, the HELICON SPRINGS,
situated four and a half miles from Athens, Ga. —
Attached to the Springs are two tracts of land,
containing together seven hundred acres of land,
on one of which are erected two excellent, saw
mills, both now in operation. One of these mills
will cut from ISOU to 2000 feet of lumber per dav,
for which a ready market can be had at lair price's.
Either tract will be sold separate from the other.
Persons desirous of purchasing such property are
requested to call and examine for themselves.
The land is mostly in the woods, of a good
quality —that which is cleared is fresh and in cul
s tivation. JOHN JACKSON.
Athens, Ga., July 10, 1839. w&trwtf
BEALS’ lIA HI KF.STOKMITIVE. '
rjVIIIS valuable discovery is now introduced to
J the citizens of Augusta,
confidence and assurance that it will elfect the ob
ject of its application, viz : A COMPLETE RES
TORATION OF THE HAIR upon the heads of
those who have lost the same, and have thereby
become bald or partially so.
Numerous certificates might be given to show
; how successfully this compoundnas been applied,,
never having failed in a single instance.)
Its virtues have been fully and satisfactorily
tested. 'I lie heads ol those that were entirely
bald, have been by the application of this restora
tive, covered with a luxuriant growth of beautiful
hair.
None need despair whether old or young, nf hov
, ing their hair restored. For sale by
ROBERT CARTER, Druggist,
Broad st. and at
y T. H. PLANT’S Bookstore.
Where certificates of its successful application
may ho seen. June 21 swtf