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■ 1—......... C?M«IUNir,I,K AMf) SKNTINKI.. ( I <• IST a . SATURDAY MORNING, Al Gl ST 24, FOR GOVERNOR. CHAR LE S I) O I (; II KItT V , • or ci.aHk mi m. Seventeen days lattr (rnut Europe, AlltllVAl, or TIIK LIVKHI’UOi.. The steam packet Liverpool arrived at New York on the morning of the 19th. bringing Liv erpool dates to the Ist August, London to the evening of the 31st Ji.lv, and Paris to the 27th of July. \\ c a;C indebted to the N. Y. Com mercial Advertiser and Slur, for the following summary by this arrival. The Liverpool, we understand, brings out 113 passengers, all that could bo accommodated on board. There were a number of applicants who had to be turned away. The Liverpool arrived out, on her passage from N. York ott the 20th July, in thirteen daysand n half. Among other interesting news by the Liver pool, we have intelligence of the death of Sultan Mahmoud, Lady Hester Stanhope, and Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin. An advance in the rate of interest on the part of the Hunk continued to he a matter of discus sion, but no advance had taken place, though we judge from the various accounts that money was us scarce as ever. In English politics nothing of great interest, but important intelligence lias been received from Constantinople. ■So I bin Mahmoud is dead, and his Army tototally routed by <he Egyptian* un der Ibrahim. The Captain Pasha hud treacher ously delivered up the whole Turkish fleet to Mu hemit Ali. Fire son of the Sultan had ascended the throne of his father, lie had appointed his Ministers, and negotiations were going on for an adjust ment of the difficulties with Egypt, under the aus pices of the great European powers. The Chamber of Peers of Prance had pissed sentence on the insurgents, Harhes alone was condemned to death, and the rest to different de grees of punisment. The sentence of Buri es was contrary to the advice of his Ministers, chan ged by the King to confinement at the gullies for life. The celebration of the three days hud pass ed over without any material incident. An entente broke out at Hanover, on the 17th July. Hngenian, the first magistrate whom the King sought to impose on the city, had been near ly flung out of the window, and the King ul last recalled his appointment. Hi h m r Nun am, July 20, 1839. We havbi had sad limes in this place since I wrote you by the last packet. My letters will have advised you of the riots at Birmingham, early in the month. It was reserv ed, however, for Monday last to bring on more se rious events, among wlucli was an effort to burn down Ibis place, whose population is about the same ns that of New York. The magistrates had hern engaged in the ex amination ol witnesses relating to the previous riots during the whole of Monday. Up to this period the magistrates have been engaged in the examination of witnesses, and 1 am informed that the fire arms belonging to the numerous manufacturers have been ordered to he sent for safety to the military depot. I hnrsilay and Friday have passed away, and we are still in n measure of quiet, but things look very unfavorable for its ccmiinuanrr. The mili tary and police are prepared for any attack, if it he iqien but udlut I four meat is tVuiu llio d,ii.|irl nte characters ol those who are concerned with the t hartists, and who are said to he secretly arming in vast numbers. One of my fellow pas sengers in the (beat Wester.i, who must have seen some little service in the outbreak at Toron to, was afraid to remain in this town and fled in the cars to Liverpool. You wdl see by the papers that the Chartists do not confine their operations to Birmingham, They are very uctiie in all the manufacturing towns, and the end of their proceedings no one can conjecture. The working * short time,” or in other words only a portion of that time, gives those men too many idle hours. Many, howev er, and those who are bettor acquainted with the habits of tire working classes, tell me that a ma jority ol them do us well for their families when working hull the time as they do when employ ed the entire six days, for the more they earn, the inure t Uey spend at the ale house. Lon min, July 30, This was court-day at the Bank of England, and there was some expectation that the directors would put forth a further notice either in respect to the "dead weight,” or to the rule of discount, hut they separated without doing any thing par ticular. us far as wo have been able to learn. It is now indeed pretty generally thought, as we sta ted a few days since, that they arc resolved to let mutters take their natural course, and let the ex changes right themselves. Events certainly have occurred to make things in this respect look rath er more cheerful, for specie has been imported from several places during the last fortnight, and some continental orders for qx ports have been carried into effect; while the accounts fr.vm nil parts of the world respecting the harvest ant par ticularly encouraging. July SI. From the Paris papers and letters it would ap pear, not only that the accounts were substan tially true of an attempted arrangement between the Bank of England and the Bank ol France,, lut that the additional mortification is imposed, ol two failures in the applications made—one to the Bank of France, and the other to the capital ists ol Paris—a disgrace which, certainly, never before betel Ibe great English banking corpora tion. The government, too, the natural conse quence of being in bad company, come in for u •hare of the disgrace. The usual average return of the liabilities and assets ol the Bank of England, embracing the p< no.l from the 30th of April to the USd instant, which appeared in Friday night's Gazette, gives the following results viz: Tne average of the month ending tin l 2tihe instant, as compared with ■the average of the month ending the 30th of Ap cil. shows a decrease in the circulation of £150.- 000. and increase in the deposits of £1,164.000, and u decrease in the stock of bullion of £1,67 i ,- 000. Flohida ami uku I)kiit.—The St. Augus tine Herald publishes a statement of the debts ot the several States of the Union, showing an average of $l3 per head, while that of Florida alone t *l4O. The debt of England, counting the pound at the par value, four dollars anJ forty-four cents, is precisely $142.08, or only two dollars eight cents per head greater than the present debt of Florida. A planter living about twenty miles below tins city, tells us (says a Natchez paper) that a baud <>l bis who is only an ordinary picker, on the 29th July, pick* 1 74 pounds of good clean cotton,— 1 his is considered for July, the best picking dons lor several years. I Ap.’oimmf.s i., in tin Pnt»int>'T. — Hen ry Ledyard to lie Secretary of Legation of the I . Slalfs at Pais, j John A. Parker, of Virginia Jo hr Clerk to llio Commissioner lor Marking the Boumlnry Imtwccn I the I 'ailed Stall's and the Republic ol Texas. From the Nashville Banner. Origin of the term \\ big. The Whig newspapers throughout the Inion I are copying from the Tennessee Telegraph the following spirited and true definition of the term “Whig," ns given hy t,’ol. Gentry, of William son, member of Congress elect, in one of his re cent speeches before the people of his District.— | The Telegraph says:— ( “When did the name Whig first make its ap ( pearaiicn in Tennessee 1" That question is of-j | ten asked hy the presses and orators of the ad- ' j ministration party. We heard it answered u | few days since hv Col. Gentry, the Whig candi i date for Congress from (hisdistrict. “The niiine ; Whig, said the speaker, m ide its appearance in 1 Tennessee, when power lirst began to encroach lon the rights of the people: It made its appear ance in England when the Kingly power sought to destroy every vestige of human liberty! It j made its appearance in the thirteen colonies when the British crown attempted to fasten cords of slavery on the people, and compel obedience to the dictation of a single man? Is the name a reproach ? Then do all those patriots who have stood up for the rights ot the people, in opposi tion to tyranny since the foundation of the world bear the slain, for they all were Whigs. The name | implies opposion Ito power, and that opposition I wasexeiciseo in Tennessee as soon as the enemies of political liberty endeavored to stretch their do minions so ns to include her. I urn a Whig, and I am proud of the name! In connection with the foregoing, which was utli red hy a freeman and a Tennesseean whom the Whigs in Congrsss will he proud of as an el -1 oqurnt and fearless eo-lahorer in the great work of rescuing the liberties of the country from the grasp of the Spoilers,the Richmond Whig copies the following passages from the speech of John C. Calhoun, delivered on the 6th May, 1834, on the President’s Protest: “I am mortified (said Mr. Calhoun) that in this country, boasting ils Anglo-Saxon descent, any one of respectable standing, much less the President of the I idled Slates, should he found to entertain principles leading to such monstrous results; and I ran scarcely believe myself to he breathing the air of our country, and to he with in the walls of this Senate Chamber, when I hear such doctrines vindicated. It is proof of the wonderful degeneracy of the times—of a total loss of the true conception of constitutional liber ty. Hut, in this degeneracy, I perceive the symptom* of regeneration. It is not my wish to touch on the party designations that have recent ly obtained, and which have been introduced in the debate on this occasion. I, however, cannot hut remark, that the revival of the parly names of the revolution, after they had so long slumber ed, is not without a meaning— not without an indication of a return to those principles which lie al the foundation of our country.” “Gentlemen ought to reflect that the extensive and sudden revival of these names, could not lie without some adequate cause. Names are no' to he taken or given at pleasure. There must be something to cause their application to adhere. II 1 remember rightly, it was Augustus, in a 1 the plentitude of his power, who said that lie found it impossible to introduce a new word. What, then, is that something? What is there in the meaning of g Whig and Tory, and what in the character of the times, which has caused their sudden revival, as party designations, at this time? I lake it. that the very essence of Toryism— that which constitutes a Tory—is to sustain pr rota tive against privilege—to support the Executive against the Legislative Department of the Gov ernment, and to lean to the side ol Power against the side of Liberty ; while the Whig is, in all tliouo fmrit.-vilu i„, ,o‘ 11 in respective partus, whig and l ory, the opposite, and the parallel runs through their application in all the variety of cir cumstances in which they have been applied, either in this country or Great Britain. Their sudden revival and application at this time, ought to admonish my old friends, who arc now on the side of the Administration, that there is lomc ihing in the limes—something in the existing struggle between the parties, and in the principles and doctrines advocated hy those in power, which has caused so sudden a revival, and such an ex tensive application of terms. I have not conlri hnled to their introduction, nor am I desirous of seeing them applied—hut I must say to those who are interested, that they should not he, that nothing hut their reversing their course can pos sibly prevent their application. They owe it to themselves—they owe it to the Chief Magistrate (whom they support) ns the head of their parly, that they should halt in their support of despotic and slavish doctrines which we hear daily advanc ed, before a return of the reviving spirit of liberty shall overwhelm them with those who are leading | them to their ruin.” Locofoco Pm vciplus.— lllustrated in New \ llmpshire. —Uncofthc editors ofthe New York I M big, who has passed most ol his days in New i Hampshire, exhibits the following picture ofprac j tical Locolbcojsm in his native State : 1.1 hey have passed resolutions, in one or ! h°tli branches ol the Legislature against the equal 1 distribution ol the proceeds ofthe public lands. '• I'hcy have relused to establish a board of education, providing lor the better organization ol the tree school system oftheStah'. j 3. They have not only refused to loan the cre j dit of me Stale in aid of railroads, where two thirds ol the capital shall he actually paid in, and : ti'e whole pledged to the Stale for security, hut 1 they have refused to grant to the town of Con j curd, the capital ol the State, peimission to raise { on ils own credit $lOO,OOO to extend the Nashua j railroad to that place. 4. I’hcy undertook, three years ago. to starve i out the W big Registers of Probate, whom thov I could not legally remove, hy ml a ring their sula j rits lo $5O (i year,- and as two of them, with | true yaiikco pluck, held on to their oflices to the j present year, they have at length been got rid of 1 —one hy an act in violation ol the Consti ulton, and the other was induced lo resign, under the cLi.au sol the Governor that tic should be re-ap ; pointed, winch pltdgt was deliberately violated, \ and a rabid Locofoco appointed m hi* stead. fi. They have removed an Adjutant General, against whom not a word of reproach could he uttered, for the simple reason that he was a Whig —and this in the very lace ol the Constitution, which presetilies the tenure of that office to he during good behaviour. (i. As nine-tenths of all young men at the schools, academies and colleges in New Hamp shire are Whigs—naturally so, because they read, study, and reflect, with (holiest opportunities be fore them—the Legislature has disfranchised them all ! Aw young man id college has now u r ght lo rule. Jack (Jade is triumphant. 7. And to crown all. as if, in tolly and absur dity, they hud not already “damned themselves to everlasting fame,” they have wound up their worsted by the solemn stupidity of passing reso lutions declaring their right to annul all bank charters, or other corporations, whenever il shall | suit their sovereign will and pleasure ! Ye disciples of Fanny N\ right every where, hang your diminished heads ! Ye are outdone by the Loeofocos of New Hampshire. A Loco Foeo orator in a Fourth of July ora lion, contended that the Declaration of Indepen dence is an immortal document, but the' Sub- Treasury scheme is immoialrr' ' Communicated. Messrs. Editors :—I noticed in your papff | of Thursday morning, that the Mayor of your city give* explanation of five deaths in that city in one day, and ascribed it to a local cause, which has liccn removed, and say* that Augusta i is the healthiest city in the Southern States. 1 | think the Mayor might have excepted Hamburg, for wc have had only one death in two months. HENRY SHULTZ. Founder of Hamburg, S. C. Hamburg, August 23, 1833. A iKW Political sou those j who Tilixi, —Who are the aristocrats in our j country ? | Are they not those who are constantly endea voring to create distinction in society between the laboring and professional classes—between the rich and the poor? Which oflhe two great political parties is con stantly writing and talking about the poor and the rich —the working men and those who li'e hy professions; and thus creating prejudices and distinctions between these classes. Is it not the Van Uuren parly ! Is not the Van Harm Party, then, the aristo cratic parly ? W Inch party in their actions, their talk, and their publications, I.eat all decent, moral, sober men, as having equal rights, and being entitled to equal respect. Is it not the Whin party P Is not the Whig party, then, the true Demo cratic parly ? Do not those of us who are now poor, intend to acquire property, and, if possible, one day to become rich I If so, do we act wisely in aiding to create a prejudice of which we shall one day taste the hit ler fruits? For what class of society is credit useful! Is it for the rich or the poor —for those who would acquire property, or those who have acquired it? is it not those who have.yet to make, money, who need credit? If so, is not a war against the credit system, a war against the poor ? Who are the true friends of the poor—those who flatter them, play upon their prejudices, and profess to he their friends, in order to secure them for party purposes; or those who give them em ployment—give them credit—treat them as ha ving equal rights and privileges, and thus assist and encourage them to become intelligent and wealthy ?—Ohio Stale Jour. “The Viniiictivk Hemal-dock” is said to have gone to the Falls ol Niagara ! Is he about to open a branch oflhe mule trade with the Can adas l. He is also to visit Saratoga—He had bet ter slay away from that point. Burgoyne was there before him, and did not make much hy the excursion; besides, he may meet the Little Magi cian there, who may conjure him into a noneni ty. I lie contrast between the polite gentleman and the vulgar braggart will he so strong, as to result in the utter contempt of the “ vindictive demagogue ’ in the minds ol all observers at the springs.” I pou this the United States Gazette remarks; —“ 1 he above quoted article is from the Cincin nati Advertiser and Journal, mid “ the vindictive demagogue” who is placed on a par with Bur goyne, the loader ol a hostile army—the man who is called a “ vulgar braggart," is HkMir Clay, the ptide ol the nation—the man whom any party in this nation is proud of as a citizen, whatever may he the stronger attachments to an other as a party candidate.” The Gazette might have added that the Editor of the ! incinnnti Ad vertiser, Moses Dawson, is a foreigner, who al though he has lived in this country until he has grown grey, is not, if we are correctly informed, a naturalized citizen. If he is at present natur alized, he has become so within a few years, for we know that he received an appointment under Gen. Jackson, the same, wc think, which was af terwards hold hy Col. It. T. Lytle,and could not retain because of the want of the accessary qual ification of citizenship. The countrymen of Hkniiy Clay, of whatever parly they may he, should treat with scorn and contempt so loathsome a being as this, who had not sufficient fellow feel ing with them to take advantage of the legal enactments of the country to become one of inthe.— Halt. Chronicle, Mu. Web stub in Lonlox.— A letter be fore us, from an English friend, says;—“Were i you to ask me who was the greatest lion now ir i London, I should say, unhesitatingly, Danie t Webster. He is feted and dined without inter mission. Artists are besetting him to sit for hit i picture, and phrenologists are crowded to get a sight of his wonderful celchral devclopenient.— • \\ ehster is one of those men who carry that stamp ■ ol greatness, unequivocally, upon their brows No one cun see him, and doubt his intellectual pre-eminence. 1 have perceived in the manner ot most ot the Americans whom I have encount ered in society here, there was an obvious con straint of manner, an assumption of dignity, and constant apprehension lest, by some solecism, they should do discredit to their country, or be tray their ignorance. How different the demean or of Webster! With what an unconstrained consciousness of equality, and what manly sim plicity and ease, does he mingle among the first tilled dignitaries of our land! Talk of the aris -1 locracy of birth ami the graces of hereditary gen -1 lility—how paltry and ungrounded do they seem hy the side of such aristocracy as Webster’s the aristocracy ot talent and the gtaecs ol conscious power! We are all expecting, with interest, to hear a specimen of Mr. Webster’s oratoiv, and 1 an opportunity will soon be presented, ala public dinner to he given him by your countrymen, in London, for his display. We have no man in 1 this country who is his superior in conversation- • al powers.”— N. V. Mirror. The Olii Would and the New.— lt is i • j highly refreshing to the mind, to feast on such . i j a liberal quantum ol kind feeling, as is contained ■ ( in the following, emanating with the Knicker- ■ I bocker, lor last month:— . “Our wildernesses are rank for want of men.. J and our own geography is written in river, lake ■ and hill, “the puumise to pax,” in abounding . interest, all rational investments in money. Tlu • Swiss who is perched on a declivity oflhe Alps ; . 1 the Irishman who earns but a miserable livelihooc 1 • | on rejected bogs; the Hollander, who can re sc us ■ ; j no more of soil from the sea; the Sicilian, who> . i has hardly enough of maccaroni and wine for e I his being ; the Swede, from his sands of pine ; j the Pole, hunted hy the Kussinn cossack ; the c | German, from the historic battlements of the - \ Rhine, oi the rich graperies of the plain, we in i' | 'ite; we welcome here, each ami all; whether ■ they come from the burning land of the Moor, or J the frozen regions of SiU-na; for this ever has i ! been the asylum, the refuge, of every people of ! the old world, from the time the puritan English - man landed on the rock of Plymouth, to the s landing ot the Swedes on the Delaware; the r the Dutch in our own New York ; the Germans “ in Pennsylvania; the Spaniards in Florida ; and k | the French in Louisiana. It is the glorious pre- II rogalive of a republic, to mould all nations into i one ; to change the subject to the citizen; to tame the monarchist to the republican ; ami to e I raisr up l |le disorgunizer and the agrarian to the dignity and grandeur of a sovereign himself. j 1 rue. in ibis lusion of conflicting elements, there i. ' is Mien danger; but the experience not of the half i. a century alone ot the constitution, but of the 1 two ui xDKi.u tears of prevalence of repub i licanism of America, proves in can all be done.” t Tragical Adventuic iu a Cave iu lieu- UK-ky. Wo extract the following from an interesting ; article in the American Monthly Magazine lor | May, entitled, “The Mammoth Cave in Ken ' lucky— Four or five miles from the Mammoth Cave, a j f w paces from the bridle path over the Knobs, by | 1 which the visitor, corning from Fell's at the j ; Three Forks, reaches it. is a cave known as the I Pit Cave, though sometimes called VV right’s j Cave, after the name ot the person who first at- | j tempted to explore it. This man was a specula- j ! tor, who having some reason to believe the cave a valuable one, resolved to examine it; but possess ing little knowledge of caves, and less of the busi -1 *ess of lire nitre maker, he applied to Mr. Gate- I wood, the proprietor of the works at the Mammoth Cave, and of course experienced in both these j [ particulars, to assist him in the search. A day j i was accordingly appointed, on which Mr. Gate- I I weod agreed to meet him at the cave, and con dunt the exploration in person. But on that clay | ask happened, there arose a furious storm of rain and thunder, and Mr. Gatewood, not supposing i that even Wright himself would, under such cir- I'Cjmstances, keep the appointment, remained at his-works. In the meanwhile, Wright had reach ! ed ike cave, in company with another man, a mi ; ner, though of no great experience irt rave hunt ing ;and with him, finding that Mr. Gatewood did j not come, and having made his preparations, he ! resdtvcd to undertake the exploration himself.— I This the two men commenced, and pursued for eavaral hours without accident and without fear, seeing, indeed, nothing to excite alarm, except a cluster of very dangerous pits, which they passed while engaged in the search. But by and by, having consumed much time in rambling about, they discovered that by some extraordinary over- I sight, they had left their store of candles at the room of the cave, having brought with them only (hose they carried in their hands, which werenow | burning low. The horror of their situation at | once flashed on their minds; they were at a great ' distance from the entrance, which there was little j hope they could reach with what remained oftheir j candles, and the terrible pits were directly on their : path. ft was thought, however, that if they could succeed in passing these, it might be possible to grope their way from the cave in the dark, as the portion beyond the pits offered no unusual inter ruptions, and was without branches. The at tempt was made; and as desperation gave speed to their feet, they had at last the inexpressible sat isfaction to reach the pits, and to pass them in safety, leaving them several hundred feet behind etc their lights entirely failed. But now began their difficulties. In the confusion and agitation of mind which beset them at the moment when the last candle expired, they neglected to set their faces firmly towards the entrance; and in conse quence when darkness at last surrounded them, they were bewildered anil at variance. Wright vehemently insisted that they should proceed in one direction, the miner contending with equal warmth that the other was the right one. The violence of Wright prevailed over the doubts ofhis follower, who allowed himself to be governed by tire former, especially when thedes perate man offered to lead the way. so as to be the first to encounter the juts, supposing Ire should lie wrong. An expedient for testing the safety of the path, which Wriirht hit upon, had also its ef fect upon his companion’s mind; he proposed as he crawled along on his hands and feet, the only way they dared attempt to proceed in the dark over the broken floor, to threw stones before him, by means of which it would be easy to tell when a pit lay in the way. The miner, accordingly, though with many misgivings, suffered himself to be ruled, and followed at Wright’s heels, the lat ter every moment hurling a stone before him, and at eveiy throw uttering some hurried exclama tion, now a prayer, now a word of counsel or en couragement to his companion, though always expressive of the deepest agitation and disorder «>f min.t They had proceeded in tills way for several moments, until even the miner himself, believing that if they were in error, they had crawled far enough to reach the pits, became convinced his employer was in the right path ; when suddenly the clang of one of the stones cast by Wright, falling as if on the solid floor, was succeed by a rushing sound, the clatter of loose rocks rolling down a declivity, and then a heavy hollow crash at a depth beneath. He called to Wright; no answer returned; all was dismal silence; not even a groan from the wretched employer replied to the rail. His fate the terrified miner understood in a moment; the first of the pits was, at one part of its brink, shelv ing; on the declivity thus formed the stone cost by Wright had lodged, but Wright had slipped from it into the pit, and slipped so suddenly as not to have time to utter one cry of terror. The poor miner, overcome with horror, after calling again aad again without receiving an answer, or hearing any sound whatever, turned in the op posite direction, and endeavored to effect his own escape from the cave. He wandered about many hours, now sinking down in despair, now strug gling again for life, until at last yielding to his fate, in exhaustion of mind and body, incapable of making any further exertions, a sudden ray of light sparkled in his face. He rushed forward it was the morning star shining through the mouth of the cave! The alarm was immediately given. Mr. Gatewood, with a party of his la borers, hurried to the cave and to the pit, on whose shelving edges were seen evidence enough of some heavy body having lately rolled into it. The otter of a reward conquered the terrors of ono of the workmen, who was lowered with ropes to the bottom of the pit. a depth of fifty or sixty feet; and Wright's lifeless body was drawn out. The above tragical incident we have hoard confirmed by the lips of several different persons; one of whom, however contested the righ: of the morning star to figure in it; affirming that the miner made his way out before night, and that it was the light of day, shining at a distance like a star which gave rise to that poetical embellish ment. We believe he was right; it is thus like a star—the loveliest of all the lamps that spangle the vault of the night—that daylight breaks from afar upon the adventurer, returning from the depth of the Mammoth Cave. Miss Thompson —Enchkss of Morocco. Among other legends or anecdotes of a roman tic kind which Mss. Bianckley records, we find a story ot the Empress ot -Morocco that is quite as good as any thing furnished by the novelist. Truth, in tins case, is quite as strange as fiction, and a great deal more impressive. _ Mr. Clark told me the following curious story. I hat w hen he was at Alicant a galley arrived, w hich had just escaped from Tangiers with the first or favorite wife of Midi Mahomed the late Emperor of Morocco, who had lately been as sassinated by his rebellious son, Muli Ismael.— This lady, who with her attendants, was seeking a retuge in Spain, was originally a Miss Thomp son, ol fork, and when on her jiassage from that city to Cadiz, on a matrimonial expedition, she had been captured by a Moorish Corsair,and made a slave. Her first intended bridegroom had been a .Mr. Slice, an Irish merchant settled at Cadiz, who, during a visit which he had made to his native country, had become acquainted with, and attached to. Miss Thompson, who j»os sessed great charms, but as some impediments existed to their immediate union, they parted, having first plighted (heir troth; and with the understanding that, at some future period, she would join him at Cadiz.as it would be injurious to his commeici.il interests for him to absent lam sell again from the field of his speculations. The lady, in fulfilment of her promise, sailed to join her future husband, but, as just narrated, i \ \ \ \ her destiny was changed by the caplvh/e of 'the vessel she was in by a Marrequin corsair, whiA j carried her into Fez. Here Miss Thompson was detained as a slave, and closely confined, until a report of her uncommon beauty having le.clnd I the Emperor Midi Mahomed, she was, by his i orders, removed to the imperial palace, and eveiy | inducement held out to her to embrace the Mahe ! medan faith, and to accede to the Emperor’s de- I sire of making her his wile. Whether it wag i by persuasion, or conviction that her fate was ir revocably decided, her various sciuples were overcome, and she became the wife ol Muli Ma : homed and subsequently the mother of two sons, I who bore the names, the eldest of Muli Ismael, | and the younger of .Muli Mahomed. She was the rooslfavored of her impartial hus- J band’s wives, for he had many besides, and the I number must have been great, as I have heard j from Mr. Clark and Mr. Romans, who were at I one lime established as merchants in Morocco, that the Emperor Muli Mahomed actually formed a regiment composed entirely of his own sons, to the number of 533, most of them being blacks. Mr. Clark says that this wonderful fated lady, when he saw her in Spain, was dressed in the Moorish costume, and, strange as it appears, she seemed in all respects to have adopted the tastes ot her new country in preference to those of Christendom, for she afterwards returned to Mo rocco and there ended her days. The Upas on Poisox Thru.—The dreadful qualities of the Upas tree—the very shade of which was once supposed to be mortal—has been | reduced by the investigation and science to the mere history of a poison prepared by the hands of man. This tree of which so many fabulous accounts have been given, is a native of Java. The word upas, in the Javanese, and some other languages in the Archipelago, is the common name for poison of any description, and the. tree which bore the name of Upas, is now ascertained to be the Antiaris lexicaria. It is called by the natives the Anchor, and is one of the largest for est trees of the Archipelago, rising to the height of sixty and eighty feet, strait and largo, before it sends out a single branch. Instead of being hurtful to shrubs arouud it, creepers and parasiti cal plants are lomid winding about its stem ; and Ur. Horsetield relates that the laigest tree which he met with, was so completely environed by the common trees, and shrubs of the forest, that he had some difficulty in approaching it. The poi son is in the outer hark, from which, when wounded, it flows in the form of a milky sap. It is mixed by the natives with aromatics and other substances—such as pepper, ginger, &c. When applied to the skin, it causes pain and itching, at tended by eruption. The inner bark is of a close and fibrous texture: that of the old tree is occa sionally worked into ropes, and is employed by the poorer class of the peasantry for the fabrica tion of a course stuff, which they wear in out door labor. Great care is required in preparing the bark for clothing; as should any poisonous juice adhere to it, tire cloth, when exposed to rain, causes an intolerable irritation. A Goon Joke.—Gov. Hoggs, the immaculate loco-foco executive of Missouri, discharged a pis tol within the limits of the city o: Jefferson, (Mo.) a few days since. By the ordinances of that ci ty, this is punishable by a fine. The governor violated the law, and was hauled up before the mayor and mulcted in the sum of live dollars. The governor protested a.ainst the sentence— declaring that cx-ojjicio, he had power to remit the fine. The mayor was refractory, and the ex ecutive was about being lodged in jail by virtue of a mittimus, when some of his friends settled the matter by paying the penally. As there is no precedent in the hooks, says the St. Louis Re publican, we commend this case to the attention of J urists. A doctor going into his bonding house, and not finding dinner ready, exclaimed—“ What! aie there no symptoms of dinner yeti” “N o ap pearance,” replied a lawyer. “There’s a sample. of it,” said a merchant, as a servant appeared with a turky; “Faith! a fine token it is, rejoined the printer. The Happiest Time is Now. BY S. I.OVER. Talk not to me of future bliss ! Talk not to me of joy s gone by ! For ns, the happiest hour is this, W hen love bids time to fly'. The future —doubt may overcast, To shadow hope’s young brow ; Oblivion’s veil may shroud tire past, The happiest time is now. Though flowers, in spicy vases thrown, Some odor yet exhale ; 1 Their fragrance, ere the bloom was flown, i Breathed sweeter on the gale ; Like faded flowers, each paitcd bliss Let memory keep, but how Can joy that’s past be like to this ? The happiest time is now 1 Unmark’d our course before us lies O’er time’s eternal tide, . And soon the sparkling ripple dies I We raise, as on we glide ; . Our barks tire brightest bubbles fling Forever from their prow ; Then let us gaily' sail and sing, “The happiest hour rs now.” Consignees per .South Carolina Kail lload. Hamburg. August 21, 1839. Stovall, Simmons & Co.; L. D. Ford; Baird & P Rowland; E. D. Cooke; T. Richards; Haviland, , Risley & Co.; Snowden & Shear; T. H. Plant; W & ,1. Nelson & Co.; \V. H Turpin; Cress &, Turpin; T. Dawson; Uees ic Beall; Jeffers & Boulwarc; J. F. Benson; George Parrott. COMMERCIAL. Latest dates from Liverpool, July 31 Latest dales from Havre July 2 Lt VERpooE, July 20. Cotton. —There ha? been a moderate inquiry since Friday last in the trade, and a good demand for export, the former only buying small quantities to supply their immediate wants. On Saturday and .holiday the market was very barely'supplied with cotton, at an advance of -jd on the lowest prices of the preceding week, and id. on the quo tations of friday last, was readily obtained; since j then the demand has been more freely met, and we do not raise our quotations more than id. per lb. j for American descriptions. In Brazil we have no change to notice this week. Speculation, 3,000 American. Export 5,400 American, and 500 Surat July 27. There has been a good demand throughout the week both from the trade and exporters, and ai i though it has been more freely met by bidders , J within the last few days, yet an advance has bcem : maintained ol to |d on American, and id per lb. on Brazil, and Surat on our list quotations. The' | sales amount to 41.440 hales, (of which 3,500 Anre- I fh'an, 150 Pernam, 170 Maranham, and 200 Surat., are for export, and 5,500 American on speculation ) and comprise 290 Sea Island at 20d to 36d. with ISO stained at 9d to 12 ; 8,270 Bowed 5 a l d to ; 7.500 Mobile, Alabama and Tennessee, (id to9d; 14,510 Orleans, bid to 107 d; 2.480 Pernambuco Pa rub a, &e. Sjd to 9jd ; f,lOO Bahia and Maceio’ Sd to 9jd; 1,480 Maranham, 7jid to 9jd; 520 Peru vian, Sd to Sid; 100 Lanuayra, Sjd ; S4O Civtlia gena, sjd to Old; 90 common West India, 6 4 to 90- 420 Egyptian, lid to 13d; 3.210 Surat 4id lofcth and 150 Madras at 4|d to per lb, , , July 31. The sales on Saturday last were 4000,Mondav 3,500, Tuesday 1,500, and to day 3,000 bags.-1 There has been a good demand since last week which holders have met willingly, and cotton is’ offering plentifully. Prices maj- be considered as having declined id to id per lb. in American descriptions s.nce Friday. Brazils and other kind temain steady. 1 lie import ol the week amounts , to 16,000 bags, i 1 iir Cotton marßot remained very quiet j c\ to the 26th inst. when a sale ot' 30.) hags i.oui siana, fairquality, to arrive within three mom I s took place at I at. The receipt of more favorable intelligence from England, gave an impulse to the demand, and on that and the following day about 5500 ba es were taken at an improvement of 2 a 3 centimes. Fair descriptions were the most sought for, and the transactions wete altogether for the trade, for no speculation appeared in the market To».iay, there is less doing, and business will be suspended on Monday, on account of the celebra tion of the Anniversary of tire July revolution.— The month ofjuly, which is usually considered the dullest in the year, has been, singular to say, the briskest one we have had, the outgoings being 28,')00 bales, and the arrivals only 13,G0U. The article seems now to be in a favorable position, and as no fresh supplies are looked for, our slock must necessarily diminish daily. We quote Louisiana at 107 l a lbBf, middling at 102 a 103 f. New Orleans, August 17. Cotton. —Received since 9th inst. 350 bales, ma king the total receipts to date 674,733 bales, [ex ported this week to Horde: ux 531 biles, to Havana 582d0.; New York (i3J do.; in all 1756 ualcs, ma j kin;; a reduction in stock of 1406 bales, and leaving i abalameon hahnd, including all on ship board not I cleared, of 13,108 bales. Afu r a period of near y two weeks, during which scarcely a transaction took place, the market has again opened with a few small sales, (amounting, • in all. to a little over GOO bales,) which enable us' I to resume our quotations. It w 11 be seen that, since we withdrew them on the 3,1 inst—or, rather, since the leceipt of the news ny the Great West ern, on the 31 st July —the market has experienced a decline of fully 3 cents per lb. on all desi riptions. There is now no Tennessee or North Alabama on sale,and the stock of Louisiana and Mississippi is reduced to a small amount. There are some few parcels shipping on planter’s or factor’s account. A few more bales of new cotton have been rcceiv ed.jfor which 14 cents is asked. Liverpool t 'lassifications.—Louisiana and Mississippi, Ordinary BJa 9; Middling 9 J a 104; J* air 11 all ; Good fair 12 a 12^; Good and fine, 13a ; Tennessee and North Alabama, Ordina ry', Middling, Fair, — a—; Good fair, GW and fine, extremes ; fair crops, —a —. Sugar. — Louisiana. —The business in the city is limited to small parcels, at former prices—viz:— for inferior to common 4 a cents, for prime 6 a and for extra prime 7 cents. We have heard of but one sale on plantation—viz;—93 hhds at cents. Havana Sugars are in very limited de mand at our prices. '^Molasses. —The demand is extremely limited, and the small sales from the Levee are, as hereto fore, at 31 a 32 cents. Flour. —The business of the week has been ex tremely limited, the market being without demand, except for small parcels for home use. Prices arc without material change, and we retain our quota tions of last week. The supply is fully adequate to the demand, which is likely, for some time to come, to be confined, almost entirely, to the wants of ihosc customers who are dependent on our mar ket for their regular supply for consumption. A lot of about 300 bbls., made from netr wheat, has been received this week, which is held at $B. A small portion has ncensold at that price. Whiskey —There is none arriving, and holders obtain a further advance for the limited parcels to which the demand is confined. The market is still tending upwards, and some of the dealers refuse to sell at our quotations. Spirits. —Prices are without change and the de mand for all descriptions is extremely limited. MAKI \ E INTEIiLKaENCE. Savannah, August 23. Arrived yesterday. —Schooner Flor Del Mar Ver nard, Hoston. Went to sea —Ship Trenton, Shapter, N. York. Charleston, August 23. I Chared. —Brig Howell, Del'orrest, Havana. Went to sea yesterday. —Brig Arabian, Welch, Bio dc Janeiro; C. L. brig Ashley, Morris, New York. . £jr AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The Agri cultural Society of Richmond county will bold its Annual Meeting, at Spring Hill, on SATURDAY' the 24th inst.,at 10 o’clock, am. aug 20 2t WM. LONGSTRKET, Sec'y. Cfj’Rev. Wm. T. Hrantly, by divine permis sion, will preach in the Baptist Church next Sab bath, 25th inst. _aug 22 (rt’We arc authorised to announce Mr. JOHN C. SNEA U, as acandidate for the olHces of Clerk of the Supciior and Inferior Courts of Richmond county, at the election to be held on the first Mon day in January* next. aug 19 (Xj" We are authorised to announce GAREY F. PARISH, Esq., as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Richmond county, at the approaching election in Januaay next. an" 19 TO THE VOTERS OF RICHMOND COUNTS Fellow citizens:—l offer myself as a candh date for the office of Shcrilf of Richmond county, at the ensuing election, and respectfully solicit your support. BENJ. HRANTLY. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. — this Society for the ensuing year are as follows A. J. Miller, Esq. President; Dn. L. D. Ford, Vice President; Rev. John Winter, Collector & I'reasurcr ; Rev. Wm. Kennedy, Associate do; M. AL Brown, Secretary. (£? RESIDENT DENTIST.. —Dr. Munroe’s operating rooms, second door from Broad troet, on clntosh-st., opposite the Constitutionalist office march 13 ,0 ;T BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the benefit of the Sick Poor of Augusta and its vicinity The Visiting Committees for the ensuing month a.4 as follows; ° Division No. I.—P. H. Mantz, Demetrius Bland, Mrs. F. Meredith, Mrs. Chas Jones. Division No. 2. —Wm. E Jackson, Oliver Dan fortli, Mrs. Winter, Mrs. Taliaferro. Division No 3.—Porter Flemming, J. B. Hart, Mrs. Whitlock, Mrs. Hart. Any member of the committees may obtain funds by calling on AJ. Miller,at his office on Campbell street, aug 20 M. M. BROWN. Sec’y. QX/ - NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as follows: UPWARD, Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a m. “ Summerville, “ - -S 30 “ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00 “ Branchville, “ - HOO “ “ Midway, - “ . H3om. “ Blackville, - “ . ioop. M . “ “ Aiken, - - “ . 300 Arrive at Hamburgnotbefore - 41.0 downward. Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a u “ “ Aiken, - “ - . 730 ' ‘ “ Blackville, “ - . 030 “ Midway. “ - .]0 30 “ Branchville, “ - . 11 00 “ Georges’, “ . . ]•> oo m. “ Summerville,“ - . 2 OOp. m. Arrive at Charleston not before 300 Distance ISiimiles. FareThrough—§lo 00. Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20 minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not longer than 6 minutes for wood and water at any station. To stop for passengers, when a white flag is hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also at Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. {)., Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons, 1 and Marsh’s T. O. f Passengers up will breakfast at Woodstock and dine at Blackville; down, will breakfast at Aiken and dine at Summerville. may 21 I riMiE subs ribers offer for sale on accommoda -1 JL ling terms, tlic close consignments, I 50(1 pieces Cotton Bagging, of diiferent qualities, I weighing from I to If lus, some of the must recent 1 importations. 20U coils Ra'e Rope 40 bags Cuba Coffee r7O hhds Cuba Molasses 50 bb s New Orleans Molasses 10 hhds St Croix Sugar 10 bbls Phelps’ Gin GARDELLE & RHIND, [ » U E 23 turner Mclntosh and Bay st.