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ffr fl* i u |<% 0 010 j i -... i j 3! I *!* l —***—>—nir»g|,ijMMa:». J r.f m - ’ ' WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15 |S,W „ TtT ' | Vo:., lII.—ISo. 93 THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL PUBLISHED, DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. B road-street. ■ • terms: Daily 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. .i CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. A U « U S T A. % WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14. It is a source of gratification to announce the election of Col. Janies Delict, the Whig candi date for Congress in the Southern District of Alabama, by a handsome and decisive majority. Col. D. is spoken of by several of the Alabama papers as one of the ablest and most eloquent men in that State, and eminently qualified to fill a scat La the House of Representatives. lie is a staunch, consistent and unwavering Whig, and boldly and openly advocated the cause of Mr. Clay and a National Hank, before the people of the District, which has elected him. The fol lowing is the state of the polls in all the coun ties in the District : Delict (Whig) Murphy, (V. B.) Mobile, 904 911 Baldwin, 152 170 Dallas, 840 644 Monroe, 675 334 Washington, “ 28 maj. Clarke. “ 385 “ Wilcox, 3(i9 Matcngo, 22 maj. 2902 2472 2472 Delict's rnaj. 4:10 We heartily concur witli the following senti ments from the Tuscaloosa Intelligencer, but at the same time must express our utter disgust to hear the friends of Mr. Van Buren, who enjoy their wealth as much-as their opponents do, al ways mouthing about their “ democracy” and friendship for “ the people,” the “ rights of the poor,” etc. In this country, whore the road to wealth is open to every m in, and every man is * striving to become wealthy; where property changes hands every generation, and the descend ants of the rich become poor, and those of the poor become rich, it is the veriest nonsense to claim for either class peculiar rights. The genius of our institutions makes no distinctions between up right, good citizens, without any regard to their wealth. “ Honor and fame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies.” CCJ- We regret to see respectable Whig papers urging as an argument against Mr. Van Buren, that he travels in a genteel carriage ! Such slang is unworthy of our cause. Thu President of the United States should travel in a genteel vehicle ; and we are glad to learn that he has discharged from service the “ second handed barnuch” in which he visited Monticcllo, and of which Loeo focos talked so much. Although the mere trap pings of wealth can never supply the place of cor rect, honorable feelings, which can alone form the gentleman—yet wo ser no reason why a public man should not enjoy his wealth—Tom. Euwin of Ohio, for instance, was as true a gentleman whilst digging for salt at Kanawha, as when oc cupying his seat in the United States Senate. From the Charleston Courier of yesterday. Capture of Forty-Si* Indians. The steam boat Chhrlestoiy'Capt. Love, arriv ed at this port yesterday afternoon, from Fort Mellon, via Black Creek, having on board Lieut. Hanson, of the U. S. Army, with several U. S. soldiers, who had in charge 46 Indians, consist ing of men, women and children, captured at Fort Mellon, on the 7th hist. The Indians, it r appears, had come in to receive the rations which ■ is had been the practice to distribute among them, when Lieut. H., being in possession of informa tion, (received by express the day previous,) re specting the massacre of Col. Harney’s detach ment, promptly determined to make them prison ers. In accomplishing this, however, it became necessary to shoot two of the Indians, who made an attempt to escape. Pho Charleston proceed ed to Castle Pinckney, where the Indians will, doubtless be imprisoned until orders cun be re ceived as to their final destination. We must express our gratification at the course pursued by Lt. Hanson, and hope that the promptness and decision he has exhibited on this occasion, will bo followed up by other officers, should a like opportunity offer. No confidence can be piaced in any treaty, or arrangement with this trcacheious people, and in their entire remo val or extermination only can the inhabitants of Florida hope for safety. Since writing the above, wo received the fol lowing, from our correspondent at St. Augustine. Office of the News, j St. Augustine, (E. F.) Aug. 9, 1839. S Lieut. W. E. Hanson, in command of Fort Mellon, on receipt of intelligence of the massacre of Col. Harney’s command, immcliatcly seized some 40 Indians who wore encamped in the neighborhood of the post. So prompt and ener getic a course of conduct is worthy of the hi ghest praise, and reflects great credit upon the decision and firmness of Lt. Hanson. It seldom falls to the lot of a junior officer, to exercise any discre tion, or assume responsibility—but in this case we cannot but feel rejoiced that the post was in command of a gentleman, w ho has acted with all due regard to the rights of others, as well as what was due the interests of the service. Lieut. Hanson has abandoned Fort Mellon, in conse quence of its unhealthiness. From the Alabama Stale Intelligencer. It is painful to lo ik upon fallen greatness.— To see one whose intellect has commanded our ! admiration ; whose mind seemed able to grasp 1 the universe within its bounds, and to be as pat riotic and as pure as his arguments were unan swerable. For such a min i to become the prey of the gros-est error; for it to employ its old age j in undoing what its most masterly efforls have ; been employed to accomplish—to see it fall into i the grossest inconsistency, and advocate schemes 1 on vitally important questions of political econo- 1 my, ns opposite to each other, ns light is from j darkness; to seethe mighty intellect condescend to consort with those whom it once, in just in dignation, despised—denounced as the support ers and minions of a corrupt Executive; is not only painful, hut it is almost disgusting. Disa greeable ns the lesson is. it tenches us the little confidence that ran he placed even in the loftiest minds, when they are given up to an uncontroll ed and insatiable ambition. One distinguishing trait of Mr. Calhoun’s character, is the entire possession which any scheme he may conceive, seizes his whole mind. He sees in it a perfect panacea for all evils—a remedy which will purify the government of all disease and render perfect all its functions. A scheme, to his enthusiastic vision, which is not only the best, but the unit / out! that can save onr Republic from all the horrors of a despotism.— We look upon him as a political mniwmaniac— one not to be trusted upon any question in which his diseased brain is required to perform the func tions of a healthy mind. That he has stumbled upon the right side of several questions, we cheerfully acknowledge, and that his oratorical talents have done much to advance the cause of truth, on several occasions, is undeniable; but how could he fail to he right, when he lias occu pied both, sides of so many important ques tions? In 1818, we find him denying to the States any rights at all; making the Federal Govern- j ment absolute, and irresponsible ; in 1833 so far on the opposite extreme, as to declare that a State had a right to nullify any act of Congress which it thought unconstitutional. In 1816, ho delivered a speech in Congress, in advocacy of a Tariff for protection ; in 1833 we all remember the ground he assumed, and so ably sustained, against his former opinions. In 1830 he was the avowed friend of a magnificent scheme of Internal Improvement by the General Govern ment; he is now denouncing Mr. Clay for his support of a much more confined scheme, —hut which the Kentucky Senator has now entirely abandoned, unless it be called for by a majority of the People, In 1816, Mr. Calhoun was the warm friend of the United States Bank, and his arguments on that question will hand his name down to poste rity, as a worthy representative, in point of ge nius, of the Palmetto State—now he is in favor of the abolishment of all Banks— it is unconsti tutional, forsooth in the Federal Government to receive its dues in the same currency in which the commerce of the country is curried on ! Destructive Fire. —A fire broke out in Lexington, Ky. on the 19th ult. consuming 8 houses and a great quantity of merchandise. At the commencement of the fire some horses broke loose from one of the stables near, and ran over three or four persons in the street, seriously injur ing a lad by the name of Metcalf. Bernini; Mine.—Mr. Dougherty’s Mine on the Broad Mountain is still on fire, and burns with increased fury. Mr. D. has advertised for proposals to extinguish the fire; hut we appre hend he would scarcely find a contractor who would wait for his pay until the job is finished, as from the length of time it has been burning and our own personal examination, it will probably continue to increase in fury until the whole Ju gular vein of half a mile in length above the wa ter level, shall have been consumed. It is now the greatest curiosity in our region—and will doubtless attract the visits of many from our East ern cities, who would rather view a volcano in this healthy neighborhood than visit Vesuvius.— Reading Dem. Brunswick and Altamaiia Canal.— Wc were informed by a gentleman visiting this place a day or two since, who has been recently tra velling through the South Western part of this State, that reports are in circulation highly pre judicial to our city, being nothing more nor less than that our canal has hern abandoned, and the work entirely given up. We assure the friends of Brunswick that nothing could he more foreign to the truth. The canal is rapidly progressing to completion, and will certainly he finished and in operation during the corning year. This work, it is true, has been somewhat retarded, hut the excavation is now more than three quarters done, and will he completed in the course of the next winter, it being the determinat'd! of the contrac tors to put on a force sufficient to accomplish it. The Chief Engineer is also engaged in making the necessary arrangements to commence build ing the locks forthwith. We make this state ment simply that our friends in the interior, and those living at a distance may not be deceiv ed by the false rumors of our enemies—to those living nearer, it is not necessary. —Brunswick Advocate. It is stated in the Philadelphia papers that the Hon. George M. Dallas proposes an early return from St. Petersburg ; having been resident there as American Minister something more than two years. This is longer than the usual terra of Pennsylvania ministers. His predecessor and brother-in-law, Mr. Wilkins, made a special ar rangement with Gen. Jackson for two years. — Mr. Buchanan staid abroad hut about fifteen months, and pocketed $27,000. It is suggested that Mr. Cambreleng is to succeed Mr. Dallas at the Russian Court. The Constitution. —The editor of the Apa lachicola Gazette, would know whether the Con stitution framed at St. Joseph, was adopted at the recent election, or not. He says that we live hard by the State House, where the big folks keep offices, and that we ought to know all about these matters. Well neighbor, we do. On yes terday the returns were forwarded from the Ex ecutive Office to Judge Reid, who was the Pres ident of the Convention, containing the votes polled for and against the Constitution, in all the j counties in the Territory, except Alachua, which ■ returns show the result to he 64 votes against I the Constitution; and the verbal reports from Alachua assure us that the vote of that county cannot elect the Constitution.— Tallahassee Slur, From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. “ I Hate Railroads.” I hate railroads. Any one can love railroads, or like railroads, or praise railroads, hut 1 hate railroads. I hate to he obliged to arrive at a rail- j road office a quarter of an hour before starting. 1 hate to he obliged to go and stand between certain pieces of wood nailed across and along to ask for a place. I uate to he made to go in at one end and out of the other, just as if I had already com menced my imprisonment, and as (hough the turn-key had fastened down upon me oil his Iron, i steam and coal. I hate to see all my luggage | and baggage taken from me and placed, “ nntlgro j moi,” on a stone pavement, quite naked and un protected—boxes, trunks, shawls, ruffs, hooks, umbrellas, maps, Sandwich boxes, all in one hur -1 Uy-barky— and then to he told that I may go | mill claim my luggage, and arrange my luggage, ;nsl as I like. I hate to have to do with porters who never touch their hats, and who cannot, lie civil because you are forbidden to give them a li ver sixpence. I believe the poor fellows have not even pockets in their breeches. lest a stray shilling should by chance find its way into them, lhate to he made to wait for a steam-engine, and for a steam-engine never to wait for me. Horses will wait, and men will wait—and even some times, when you are young and handsome, or old and wealthy, or neither, and very agreeable, (pre cisely my case,) women or ladies will .wait for you; (ay, ami the Lancashire witches, too;) but a steam-engine will not wait, for all iUcnjoymenls appear to consist in rattling away, as hard as ils lungs will admit, from Dan to Beorshcha, and from London to Jericho, without so much as kiss ing its hand to the nymphs and maidens on the road. Then I hate to bo “ numbered.” I had rather be named than numbered—and both are very disagreeable. To think that I was No. 71, and my daughter No. 73, though I am only 40, and my daughter only 18. It is a monstrous unplea sant thing when the “ guard” asks No. 71 if he will give his ticket, and if No. 74 wishes to get out at “ Tring.” Then sometimes No. 74 “ takes the liberty of observing to No. 70 that it is a very fine day,” and “begs pardon of No. 73, and would he glad to know if he would have any ob- I jeelion to change places ?” This ticketing sys tem looks so much like the incipient portion of prison discipline—like the preparatory steps of a police surveillance —and so much resembles the system adopted at Paris, where a poor old apple woman is numbered 13.194, and her apple stall 17,643.—her dog, who is blind,and asks for alms with a leather saucer in his mouth, 33,375; so that the police agent, if he has to make a charge against the aforesaid dog, begins his complaint as: Monsieur Commissaire, as I was proceeding down tile Hue St. Honore, in the section 10 of the district D, I saw 33,275 seated near 17,643, which was presided over by 13,194.” And then followed the charge of the dog beg ging, and of the policeman reproving, and the old woman getting angry, and the dog barking, and of the table falling, and of all being taken into custody; the result of which is, that 33,275 is or dered to beg no more, 17,643 to fall no more, and 13,194 to scold no more a policeman such as 263, belonging to section Y, of the arondisement No. IX. Well now, for my part, I hate this numbering and ticketing system—just on the very principle that I always did hate algebra. “ Figures arc figures, and letters are letters,” said my dear maiden aunt Betsey; and she meant by that a great deal more than the ignorant would at iirst imagine. In fact she meant “ down with algebra,” and “long live the four rules of arith metic.” She would have had a horror of num bering a man, for she used to repeat the portrait of man by liulfon, and say “every thing pro nounces him the sovereign of the earth.” Then 1 hate to he boxed in the coach or rail wagon, with a projecting impediment against ail love and* affection between myself and my next-door neigh bor. Why, some of the pleasantest hours of my life have been when some soft, gentle creature, in the form of a female stage-coach companion, over come by sleep, or wearied out with laughing, has at last placed her soft head on my soft shoulder, and gently slept for two or three hours, uncon scious of all that was passing around her, and absorbed in visions of bliss, or in dreams of noth ingness. But none of these shoulderings, none of these tender and delicate attentions can he practised or enjoyed in a steam-carriage. Oh, no I on the monster goes, sometimes at 20, then at 30, and often at 40 miles per hour, hissing, foaming, firing, snorting, groaning, and even bel lowing, dragging behind kirn so many isolated beings, all divided by bits of lined and padded wood, called “ head cushions,” from eacii other, tin aide to speak to a neighbor, much less to make love to one. The man who invented such contrivances as these was some fierce Malthusian, some unregen erated Godwin, some deplorable, cross, fusty, wretched, disappointed, ugly old bachelor, who, after having made as many offers of marriage as he was years old, took to hating the softer sex, and condemning the rest of his species to travel with some No. 75 or 77, in a coach from Lon don to Manchester, without scarcely being able to see her features. Then I hate to be fastened in a coach, from which I cannot escape, except with the certainty of immediate death, without the ’permission of a steam engine. 1 have seen horses for forty years. I have seen them on a theatre and in a field of battle ; in camp, a sta ble, a carriage, a palace, a drawing room, and every where I have found them obedient, tracta ble, kind hearted, gentle, timid, noble. When I say “ whoh,” or “ whoa,” to a horse, why, he whoh'a at once—or, in plain English, he stops. But you may shout “ whoh” or “ whoa,” to a steam engine, till your heart shall break and your very lungs shall hurst, and he will pay no sort of attention to you whatever. There you are, six of you, isolated, each so many indies of coach, great or small, Daniel Lambert, or good Mr. Beardsall, the anti-temperance Baptist minister of Manchester, as thin as a shaving; and quite as dry—you must have the same number of inches and'no intrusion on the territory of your neighbor. Yes, there you are fastened in, boxed in, so well secured, that, if you had to make O’Uouke’sjour ney to the moon and back again, you need not be afraid of heingjolted out. How infinitely preferable is the dear old-fash ioned system. When there is a long hill and line prospect, the horses stop, the guard gets down, opens the door, invites you to alight ; you offer your arm to a lady, or, what is more agreeable, the rest of your fellow passengers descend, but the lady “prefers your pleasant society,” and re mains tete-a-tete with you, whilst thoughts breathe and words burn. But nothing of this “senti mental” travelling ever takes place in a railway coach. Poor Sterne would have been sadly put I to it if lie had thus been compelled to journey in ! the French provinces ! Then I hate never to be I jolted, never to be rumbled about, to he whirled along iron bars, just like bales of goods, without a road, and only with rails. Then I bale not to alight when the horses ought to change;and when coals are taken in, instead of a fresh team, and cold water, instead of oats and beans. I hale not j to hear the horses shake themselves, after having run their stage; not to see the fresh and bright blood four-in-hand, harnessed so brightly, and looking so pretty and prancing, ready for starting waiting our arrival; not to receive the visit of the agile bar-maid, or buxom landlady, arranging their lips so invitingly, and asking you: “If you would like to take something?” Why we are deprived of their soft and sweet invitation, only to have in exchange the groan ings of a huge iron tea kettle, bursting with rape or with steam 1 I do protest most heartily ' against the substitution of ugliness for beauty, hot steam for sweet breath, and angry roaring for i smiling looks. Then I hate it “to lie expected” i that I am to eat Banbury cakes and drink bottled i ale a precise distance from London, and so to eat and so drink, wet or dry, light or dark, cold or 1 warm, in the open air. No soup—no glass of I li»i brandy ami water—no lunn sandwich—no I quiet mutton chop just done to a turn, and nil ready for eating in a quarter of an hour—no din- i ner—no breakfast—no supper; but Banbury I cakes and cold ale, from January to July, and I from July to January. "If this monopoly shall be submitted to.” said I, “we shall soon be pro hibitod from eating ami drinking any thing else; and besides this, we shall be compelled each man to eat so many rakes and drink so niueh beer,”— Then I bate to go every .where m the same rate. Over the moor, through (not up) the hill, along the valley, across the river, every where, though the country he dull and uninteresting, verdant and laughing, or bold and romantic—every where, along we rattle and along we roar at the rate ot forty miles per hour,excluding stoppages. I once saw an Englishman (but then be bad a cork leg) stump through the Louvre in sixteen minutes. He boasted of his feat of rapidity, though he had but one foot; and I believe he un dertook to see Europe in a month. Just so acts that steam-engine fellow, who draws you along up hill and dawn dale, without giving you per mission or time even t« exclaim “how beauti ful !” Then I hate the horrible shriek of the wheels and carriages some three minutes before they stop, so horrible that your very teeth chatter, and your very head and ears ache and burn. 1 hope Ur. [,anliner will have the politeness to examine tliis crying evil, and invent some remedy for this awful system of setting our “teeth on edge.”— Should be not succeed in this matter, iron rail ways will soon be deserted. Then I hate not to be allowed a moment’s time to tell a follow traveller, “Do look at Strafford Castle,” for, before 1 have finished my sentence, we are a mile oil'. And I hate not to liaveja minute even to look at the Cheshire hills, or the Welsh mountains, hut to be hurried by them all as it it wore a sin to look at a hill, ami an offence against Nature to admire a mountain. Then 1 hate the insolent notice to passengers, couched in the following terms, as though the steam di rector* were Government inspectors of their pas sengers’ health and stomachs: “No smoking is allowed in the station-houses. A fiuH-stantiul [hang their impudence!] breakfast may he had at tho station-house, at Birmingham, by parties going by the early train; but no pea sou « allowed to soil liquors or eatables of any 3dj«£ upon the line.” Now, really, this way of treating “their pat rons-, the Public,” Ido hate most cordially.— Why should not lale breakfasts be allowed as well as early ones? and why not “light” break* J’s.-ds lie allowed as well as substantial ones? and ■why should not smoking be allowed in the stu ftion-houses? Surely we do not travel by gun powder as well ns by steam. If we did, there would be some danger in a segar; but there can be none possibly from smoking in a station-house. “It’s the old system of straining at gnats and swallowing camels,” said friend Lloyd, the Qua ker banker at Birmingham ; “the smoke of 10,- 000 segars would never equal that of one steam engine. Yet the coal smoke is healthy, I suppose, and the segar smoke otherwise.” Bravo! Friend Lloyd. 1 think thy criticism well merited. Then I hate to he left alone without tho en gine at all, as I was lately, between Wolverhamp ton and Stratford, because the engine would not work well, and on it ran alone, leaving all the carriages forsaken, whilst the engine, being first unyoked, worked its course to Pankridge, and there got mended. Some three-quarters of an hour afterwards the passengers heard it roaring hack again, and then again we were dragged, nothing loath, the rest of our way. The guard gave no explanation. Horses there were none; coachmen none. The engineers had brattled off with the engine, And the “boxed up,”will-ini primmed passengers were obliged to remain in quietness and sulkiness till it pleased the master to return. Then 1 hate to have a leg torn off my poor body if I get out of a carriage before it is locked, or an arm quietly borne away in triumph by another train, if I happen to pul it for a mo ment out of the window; or both eyes put oat with dust and scalding steam, if I only forgot to close the windows as we pass through a tunnel. Then I hate not to be able to stop in less than five minutes, and then at some three miles dis tant, in case I desire to change my route or alight; or should illness suddenly assail either myself or a fellew passenger. Then 1 hate, when 1 arrive at. the end of the journey, to have to watch for my luggage as a cat does for her mouse, and pounce upon it and drag it away, (in spite of the furies,) or else have it carried off in triumph by some one more nim ble than myself. Then I hate to have to travel some two miles from the station-house to the town or city to which lam about to proceed, though the night lie darkand gloomy, and though the train he some hours “en retard.” All this I hale—yes, hate most cordially; and so, really and truly, I hate all railroads ! More celerity is the only advantage secured by these inventions; and, as I am no Manchester warehouseman, Li verpool merchant, or Birmingham manufacturer, 1 cannot appreciate (as perhaps 1 ougiit to do) this steaming through England. But as the people will make railroads, why, others will go and sec them ; and thusmore from pity for the, poor shareholders than from a vvisli to travel quickly, I consented to be shot through the air from Paddington to Harrow, Watford,Tring, Towaster, Daveutry, Kugby, and Coventry, to Birmingham; and thence through Wolverhamp ton, Strafford, Whitmore. Hartford, and War rington, to Manchester. I shall not describe the perils of the journey. If I had been a young man, a young Quakeress might have stolen ray heart. If! had been a timid man, the various awkward signs and movements of the “roarer” might have shaken my nerves. If I hail been a hungry man, the Banbury cakes and ale would b»,ve been a poor substance for a steak and a boil ed potato. And if I had been a crusty man, the cejfis eyes of my opposite neighor might have made me ill-tempered. But I provided myself against youth and fall ing in love, by having a daughter of eighteen by my side—against timidity, by tearing only God and my own conscience—against hunger, by ■eating a good luncheon before starting—and against ill-humor, by remembering that cross eyes are to be set down as an infirmity, and not as an offence. JSo, in spite of ail misfortune and an noyances, we got safely to Birmingham—sup ped and slept pleasantly at “The Stork”—and learned with pleasure that the Kadieal party had been for some time past on the wane, ami that the Conservatives had waxed stronger and bold er, and had begun to speak out. ConiiKOTi.vr; a Bli’Niibii.—Lieut. O’ when a Cadet at West Point, visited the city of New York, in company with a friend, and was particularly struck with the city hall, which he examined with the eye of an architectural cox- KoissKun. —“ Well,” said his friend, “ You seem rather pleased with that affair, O’ , what do you think of it ?” “Well, I’m thinking, by ihe powers, without any disrespect to you here at all, that that same euilice was never built in 1 thiH country.” Such a beautiful bull, nml ,10 agreeably enriched with the slightest touch of thi’ brogue, was-irresistable, and a smile fruin his companion brought before die young Irishman ' the error he had made, “ Cell,” he exclaimed in his hurry to correct himsel, “ I did - nt mane that I at all, 1 intended to have said, but 1 spoke with- 1 out thinking, that the man that built it was never in this country. 1 iik Clerk ash tkk Butte* Woman. Yesterday afternoon, as a clerk, of one of our markets was travelling around investigating the weight ol huttcr, he came across mi old lady, whose reluctance to display Iter oleaginous luxury excited suspicion. Bent, upon examination, he hastily snatched tip a lump from a large tub full I and threw it into his scales. It was awfully dr 1 - ! tieieut. He tried another, it. was ditto ; another. ! and still the same result—the old lady's thee elon gating at each successive failure about *• a feet.” “ Mister, said she, “it you lake any more of mv butter, you’ll gel in trouble, I guess.” Nothing | daunted hy her threat he continued ; when en raged beyond endurance, the old lady, a strong, muscular woman, “ yoked” him, and after a se vere tussle, during which victory seemed to lean alternately on both belligorants, and a crowd of , amused spectators gathered around them, she , fluidly threw him down, jumped on him, and , taking from him the lump of butter he still held . in his hand, she smeared it all over his face, fill . ing his eyes, ears, mouth, and nostrils, full almost to suffocation. Then springing upon her feet, . site plunged her hands into her flutter tub, and [ mashing the lumps completely up into one unc tinus mass, “ Now,” she vociferated, “weigh my ’ flutter, ifyou can, you puppy—and touch it, if , you dare.” I It is needless to say that the clerk “mizzled,” , and you cannot, now Insult him more than by requesting of him some information as to the I statu of the butter marker.—jV. Y. Timex. Wonderful Oats. — We think our farnwrrs out this way will stare at the following : Oats.—A sheaf ol Oats from lowa territory is ! now In be seen at Cincinnati, the stalks measnr . ing near 7 feet long and covered nearly one half ■ its length with branches filled with fine liwge grain. The straw at the butt is nearly as huge as a man’s linger, and resembles a corn stalk.— ■ The product is said to he 1(10 bushels per acre Generosity.—The Abolition Society of the Republic of Hayti, has presented the widow of K. i’. Lovejov, who was killed hy a iuol> at Alton, 111., with four bags of Ciiffcc, The St. Louis Republican boasts of the com crop of a gentleman near that city, seventeen stalks of which produces une hundred and hnen li/ thrifty ears. This is pretty severe; but they . always do things on the largest scale out west. , Passing a lad bruising weeds in a corn-field, 1 we hailed him with “ why don’t your father make a better fence mound bis corn and keep it - better worked 1” «He a’in got time, be says.— - “ Where is he to-day V’ “ Gone to Capt. ’s t to a shootin’ match, and to hear the candidates e speak.” True, thought we, tine poor man has t no time to attend to his own business I 1 t From the National Gazette. t Mr. Wakcly, the coroner of London, made the • following remarks upon the use of the stomach ' pump in extracting poisons generally, at a lucent j, inquest held in that city. In reference to lauda num, he said, that since he had become coroner, ■ one or two circumstances had occurred which he 1 conceived would be a great benefit to the medical r profession and the public at large to be put in possession of. At an inquest held at Chelsea, • upon a gentleman named Bush, the surgeon »ta -1 led thul he used the stomach pump twice, and on • discharging the water injected into the stomach, 1 not the slightest smell or indication that landa -1 num hud been taken was perceptible. • On inserting the pump however for the third 1 time, he extracted nearly halfa pint thick mucus, which was impregnated with opium to an extent sufficient to kill the strongest horse, ft appear ed to him that the mucus, must entirely absorb flic laudanum, and that unless the tube of the 1 pump is inserted amongst it, it would he of no [ ava ‘l- -Mr. Frazer related a similar instance where he had extracted the mucus containing ' all the laudanum swallowed upon the thin} ap ’ plication of the stomach pump. The coroner said he merely mentioned the circumstance, as it was highly essential that medical profession ’ should he made acquainted with any fact which J could have a tendency to preserve human fife. , A Bottomless Meadow.—As the fine of the Moscow and Ayrshire Railway crosses from Ayrshire into Renlrenshire, there is a meadow, about 3 miles long, belonging to Mr. W. Patrick, I W. >S, through which it has to jsiss, and where it has to he embanked four or five feel high. The contractors lately entered upon it, and commenc | cd the embankment, hut wore not a little surpris , ed to find that their labors, like those es Tantalus, , threatened to be of an endless nature; as having embanked 39 yards, they found that about 10 ’ had sunk or subsided below the level of the fine. I hey next day repeated their work, re-forming . embankment to the ordinary level; but strange , to K ®y, the under soil again gave way, and 61- , though they have since continued day and . night, to heap earth upon the spot, having but about 300 square yards upon a surface not ex > cecding 16 feet, the greedy bowels of the meadow 4 receive it as it is applied, and the workmen are j not without reason, dcsptiring of finding a solid foundation. , This most singular phenomenon attracted a 3 party of engineers' to the spot on Saturday week, who could account for it in no other way than tqat the meadow is floating on water; which sup j position seems the more feasible, that the ground I rises on each side of the sinking portion, and , splits into deep cracks or hags. The people of I the district have flocked in hundreds to have ocu . lar demonstration of the fact. ' Anecdotic or Judoe Pease.—While this . distinguished jurist was upon the bench, Mr. I C a barrister, was celebrated for bis elo- I | qucncc and flights of imagination. On one occa t sion when the latter had indulged his fancy more , than usual and roving in an ecstacy, through the Elysian fields and immeasurable wilds of ether, the Judge suddenly called out to him. “ stop Mr. C , you are going beyond the jurisdiction of this Court,” with an expression and manner so C irresistibly ludicrous, as to convulse both the bar ; and the audience with laughter. —Sandusky \ ! W7r 'g. , 1)1111), 1 On the 9th inst. at the residence of T)r, John I Carter, in this eity, Daniei, FAißcHri.n, youngest • son of 1). F. Halsey, aged 5 years and 23 days. 0 “* 1 |r . |M« I,i4 k .' UkO •I. IiUUOOtI **.««*■ • MARIAK I.\TCLLI(ii;NCK ( ii l iti,K./ro.N. .\ lll-11 st Kt. Arrived yesterday —Line brig lien. Sumter, Ter ra!, Baltimore. I'timed —SclirGi i Jackson, Jacobs, liallimoro. A-A To KENT, the Dwelling House and : d Store, comer of It road and McK iuney sts. .-Lx 1 lij Kor terms apply to S. DUOAK, aug It w4t or 1,. I’. U. CAS. SI I CATION WANTKD, by a young man who Inis had some experience in business, and por sesses a competent knowledge of Hook-keeping and Accounts, (loud references can lie given.— Any person wishing ndi an assistant will make application to Mr, Robert Lambert. _ miff 11_ iv It city sujiiurr-N salel 00 the first Tue-day in October next, at the lower market, will he sold within the usual sale hours, a.negro girl, about sixteen ye irs of age and likely, by the name of Lace or Lacy, under a mortgage ft fa from the Court of Common Pleas, city of Augusta, in favor of John 11. Weaver, vs. Daniel W ingnrd. Property pointed out by plain till. Term e-cash, bankable money, on delivery. K. MARTIN, SheriiU August 14, I Sill). CITY SHERIFF’S SALE. ON the first Tuesday in September next, at Hie lower market, within the n.asil hours of sale, will he sold, 12 Windsor Chairs, 2 common and 1 Rocking Chair, 1 mantel Clock, J small Tables, andirons, shovel and tongs, one bed, &c.. 1 hod stead ; all levied on as the property ®C Joseph liuul lonno. L. It. Rhodes vs. said Honilinino. Prop erty pointed out by said Rhode?. Term ; cash on delivery. ' E. MARTIN, Shorilf. August Id, /(REEN’S PATENT STRAW CUTTER^—- B B dust received and for sale, half a dozen (Irani’s twenty-four bladed Patent Straw Cutters, aug 9 3t\v by P. KLEM iM; ,t Co. Sgg,-.; Jk W'R RENT.—The property of the un |s|sa|| dersigned, on Broad, Campbell and Ceii- J'Alii'H- tre Streets, on .Mclntosh Street. near the Presbyterian Church, at present occupied by Mr. Stockton. Apply to MeICENZIE & BENNOCff. duly 2 wtf N. 11. The occupants of the property for the year ensuing Ist October next, will give notes pay able quarterly, and pay for the use of the Hy drant water. (TBRTIFICATE OP DEPOSITE LOST.—A! J persons are forewarned from trading for a Certificate of Deposite, dated Macon, 21sl March, 1839, from the Cashier of the Hrancb Hank of the State of (Georgia at Macon, payable to my order,for the sum of one hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. Said certificate having been mailed to me, but never came to hand. .JOSEPH 11. RAMSAY,’ August 8,1839. suit Ueo. K. Komi ft Dunking Co. f Hranch -at Augusta. DEPOSITED in sums of five hundred dollars and upwards, bearing an interest of six per cent, per annum will be received at this Cilice for periods net less than ninety days, subject to the order of Hie depositors on receiving ten days notice of their intention to withdraw nov 20 wtf J. W. WILDE Cashier.-. GEORGIA AG KICl! LTD It AT. REPOSITOIt Y* . 1 ’ Va? '■ A ■ - yl-M -\<y Ir- ■, v- .-t i.. it. r,.-Lz.' ;:J IRON AND HR ASA FOUNDRY, Corner of Jones and Ciiniming streets, lust corner abovtttlic ruins of the Planters’ Hotel. Tlic subscribers offer for sale a large ami exten sive assortment of Agricultural Implements, tom prising all that is required to stoek the most exten sive plantations; Ploughs, Wood’s patent, freeborn, Davis’, Howard’s, double mould board, tc.; Culti vators, for corn and cotton ; Harrows of a 1 kinds and sizes; Wheat Pans; Watkins’ patent and Dutch Cylindrical Straw Cutters, of (Idlerent sizes ; l orn Shellers ; Corn and ( oh Crackers; Thrashing Ma chines, Horse Powers; Turning Lathes, Tyre Rending Machines, &e. Our IRON and UR ASS FOU A DRY is now hr. complete operation ; having a large stock oi mate rials, and first rate workmen, we are aide to fur nish all kinds of Castings, &c. of a superior quality at short notice. ROBERT PHILIP it SON. July 31 UW4w A,„—-T TO RENT—A two story Dwelling IbSSSM ** oUl,e street, between Centre -.liiiliilillLand Washington, nearly opposite Henry Mealing’* house, occupied at present hy Mr. Whit lock. Apply to Mrs. SERA, aug 12 -wtf 4 TANNER AND CURRIER WANTED.— . The subscriber wishes to hire a Tanner and Currier lo work at the tanning business. Liberal wages will be given to one who is of steady habits and can come with pood recommendations. His residence is near Liberty Hill, Edgefield Dist. S. C. July 89 w4t PLEASANT MORRIS. (ACTION. \BOUT three months since there came to this place a man who said his name was (JFORGE ARCHER, and by occupation a house and sign painter; he appears to ho about Uvenfy-five years of age, has black eyes and hair, spare* made, near six feet high. After having been here a short time, he changed bis name to that of George W. Rices. He is the same who was confined in jail in Sparta, Hancock county, for larceny, a short time since.— He left this place about four weeks since, in the cars lor Augusta, and when last heard of he was in Charleston, S. C,, where I learn he attempted to pass a check, purporting to have been drawn by me in bis favor, on the Rank of Augusta, for $ 114. He also exhibited a letter purporting to have been written by me, and directed to him at Augusta, conveying the check. The letter and the cheek are both forgeries. He is an artful villain,and the ■ public are hereby cautioned to be upon their guard against him. V. p. KING. Greensboro, August 12, 1539. Uw .HOllllS MIILTICAtJTLIS. The subscriber will be furnished, with TEN MILLIONS of the genuine Chinese or Moms Multicaulis, grown from trees aSSBfc- imported from the Jarden de* 'A:cities, of Paris, in 183(1, which will be sold r.ifwr -Milan any now. ollercd. They will be packed hi nrh a man- •'* ner that they may be transported to any paitpl the U. S. with safety,and will beileliverwt-ttr CTgusta, frei of expense to pnrtlia ers. All buds will b> warranted to be mature ami a genuine article. Individuals wishing to purchase will make application to W. £. HEARING. Athens, June 11 list!) RICHARD IN LYON, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW HAVING permanently established himself at Lincolnton, Lincoln county, Georgia, will faithfully attend to any business entrusted to bis care. He will regularly practice in the following courts of the Northern Circuit, and Columbia, of the Middle Circuit: Taliaferro, Elbert, Lincoln, and Wilkes, Hancock, Warren, N.C. Madison, Oglethorpe, Columbia, M. C. Lincolnton, June IT, 1839. w2m