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'- I,^MI i, i i■ ii iimi i|| - m-,1, nm rnn— ii— ■■»■ n i iu i mih-iw mu -ihimiii ~ , I , m 4 f .»»» — ll *" lll *—*— l i E—j——kwirw ■ ________ WILLIAM E, JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Gv. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 183& V()I ni —N O g 0 TUB CII!U)\U:LIU AND SBM'IXBL PUBLISHED, DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad-street. terms: Pitily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or Seven at the end of the year. Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance, or Four at the end of year. 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