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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL,
A U O I 8 T A .
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHAU I, E S I) «U a II E lITY,
of ri.AHK cowry.
Writs have boon issued by the Governor,
(says the Columbia S. C. Telescope) appointing
an elrrtioii to lie h(4d in that District on the sec
ond Monday in October, for a Representative in
Congress, in place of the Hon. F. 11. Elmore, re
signed. The candidates are Col. Jamison, of
Orangeburg, Col. Holler, of Barnwell, Col.
Caughman, of Lexington, and Major O'Hanlon,
of Richland.
A company is aliotlt to start from Indepen
dence, Missouri, in search of a silver mine a id
to exist somewhere on the Bed River, and which
was first discovered by some of the dragoons en
gaged in Col. Dodge’s expedition. Only one of
them is reported to know the precise spot where
the treasure lies, and he will accompany the pre
sent expedition.
Far Wkst Tu amahs.—The Far West (Mis
souri) papers stale, that a company of twenty
five men are about to set out for the Rocky
Mountains, and two more companies, with a
large alock of merchandize,.arc about to set out
for Santa Fe.
The damage in the riots at Birmingham, Eng
land, was estimated at £40,000.
Council Chamber,
Ilamih!H(.,S. Aug. 20th, 1H39.
He it therefore ordained, by the Intcndant aad
Town Council of Hamburg, that from and after
the passing of this Ordinance, it shall not lie law
ful to bring an) person that is known to he sick
in the incorporate limits of said Town, without a
special permit from a majority of Council, under a
penalty of five hundred dollars, for such o tie ace,
and that the Marshal is hereby ordered, ami the
citizens requested to report all violations of the
above Ordinance, and that the above penalty he col
lected from such persons who receive and brings
them into Town.
A true extract from the minutes,passed this day.
JOlkf: VV. YARBOROUGH,
Clerk of Council.
By the above paragraph it appears that a dis
eased person may he brought into this town by
the consent of a majority of Council, or by pay- 1
ing Five Hundred Dollars, by the bringer or the '
receiver, of such diseased persons ; suppose noi- *
liter of them be worth five dollars, or suppose the
five hundred dollars were actually paid, our |
health, our good name, and the life of its citi- I
zens, cannot he sold for live hundred dollars, nor a
he pul at the caprice of two or three men; —a 1
decision of such vital magnitude at the present
juncture, when a disease is at our door, belongs c
to the citizens of the whole town, and until such *
derision is had, I shall most solemnly and abso
lutely protest against the luhnittiug a diseased t
person in town, under any terms whatsoever, at I
this particular time. '
HENRY SHin ,T7«,
Founder ofHatuburg, H. C.
Hamburg. Aug. 30, IHIH*.
I'Toiu llnenos Ayres,
Extend of a Letter dated Montevideo, May 20,
1830.
1 went off yesterday to dine with Com. Nich
olson, on board the Independence, and from him
1 learn the late negotiations for peace arc broken
off entirely. The French Admiral has received
letters from the Minister of Marine in France,
that, in the spring, eight thousand troops will
embark for this river, and the French have com
menced warfare in earnest, taking possession of
vessels, burning properly, &c. They will doubt
less take Buenos Ayres tu they did Vera Cruz.
I feel inclined to think it impossible to have any
peace for some months to conic. Yours, truly.
It is said that Rnlhhun, the Buffalo forger, now
in the Auburn, N. Y. Penitentiary, has been re
leased from hard labor as a convict. It is also
said that he will he pardoned.
1 vinana Et.r.crioN.—The result of the Con
gressional election in Indiana is that three Whigs
and four Eoeo Focus are elected. The delegation,
will stand thus—the Whigs in Italics:
1 Hist licnryr 11. I'roJ/ill vice Ratliff Boon.
2 “ John W. Davis vice John Ewing,
3 “ John Carr vice William Graham,
4 •• Thomas Smith vice George 11. Dunn.
5 “ James Rnnden re-elected.
6 “ William IV. Wick vice William llrrrod,
7 “ Thomas A. Howard vice Alb. S. While.
This gives a Loco Poco gain of three mem
bers.
Mr. Wick is set down in the Indiana papers ns
a Clay man. lie ran as an independent candi
date, and as such was voted for by a considerable
portion of the Whigs.
In the Legislature the Senate will he Whig,
and the House Loco Foco.
Frorn the New Vrleiins Ifee of the 2WA.
From Mexico.
Tly the schooner Camanche, from Vera Cruz,
which she left on the 9lh instant, we have re
ceived late Mexican intelligence. Little that is
novel or interesting has transpired. At the time
of the departure of the Camanche, business at
Vera Cruz, was at a very low ebb, and then' were
but few vessels in the port. The repoil of Santa
Ana’s assassination is certainly false.
Lemus and Canales have had no encounter
with the government troops. Insurgents were
■coming in from nil quarters seeking pardon for
having taken up arms against the central govern
ment.
The Camanche brought ? 16,500 in specie,
•consigned to different commercial houses.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer of the 22rf.
A I art her Seizure of Smuggled Coeds.
The day before yesterday, we mentioned the
seizure by a euslon house officer from New-Vork.
et a large quantity ol woolen cloths, that had
been consigned to a Commission house in Front
sticet. Me reg-v’, to be tailed upon to state
that anotlu i ■ ' tit .1 tlbs. and to a very eon
ndcra . am winch rumor varies from $60,-
*lOO to $90,000, took place yesterday at one of
the ware-rooms of a Philadelphia importing
house, —a house that has heretofore done a very
extensive business. We withhold all names for
I the present, anil trust that the matter will, in
! the end. turn out less culpable to the parlies im
| plicated than the first statement would seem to
! infer,
The story is, that si New York Custom House
; officer communicated his suspicions to the Phi
ladelphia Custom House—that an affidavit was
made before one of our Aldermen, anil warrants
granted to search certain premises. On reaching
the principal warehouse of the firm in question,
the suspected goods could not he discovered. A
further inquiry led to the examination of an
apartment in another building, where the cloths
were found, seized, and taken in drays to the
Custom House. It is the belief of some of our
merchants, that speculation to the extent of
•£500,000 sterling in woollen cloths has been
entered into in Yorkshire, for the purpose of in
troducing them at reduced duties and under false
invoices into this country—chiefly at New York.
Philadelphia, and Boston. The goods seized
here, and now libelled, are said to form a portion
of that great speculation ; —whilst those lately
seized in New Vork and Boston,constitute other
portions.
Til E Dismiss in liiKi.Asn. — We arc pained
to he compelled to stale that the late English
papers furnish further details of distress and
starvation, in various sections of Ireland. A
letter from a clergyman was read in the House of
Commons, n short lime ago, which stated that
the misery of the people of Newport, in the coun
ty of Mayo, was frightful to think of. Mr.
O’Connell Kind that owing lo the failure of a se
cond potato crop, the people were on the very
verge of starvation. He spoke with a knowledge
of the state of things in Kerry, in which county
the gentry made every sacrifice and done, all they
could to alleviate the sufferings of their poor
neighbors. The ease was of that pressing na
ture that it was absolutely necessary that some
thing should he dune In the way of relief with
out the least delay.
Mr. Serjeant Jackson said that he hud received
four letters on this subject from llandon and its
neighborhood ; and, to mention one fact only,
it appeared that, id’ a population of 7,000 per
sons, there were 3,000 in a state bordering on
starvation, and 1,000 utterly destitute. Avery
small amount of relief from the Government,
promptly administered, would save great num
bers of the population from perishing.—l‘hila
dclphia Inquirer.
IMnonta vr to Dkintists.—The Baltimore
American says : 11 We are informed by a scienti
fic gentleman of a fact which may he of consider
able importance to dentists, and to all who have
the operation of plugging performed on their
teeth. It is this—that when two sorts of metals
are used in filling up the cavities of curious teeth
—tin and gold, for example,—a galvanic action
takes place between them, the moisture of the
mouth serving us a conductor. By this process
the tin becomes speedily oxydized, and, being
stimulated by the galvanic action, causes irrita
tion lo the nerves of the tooth in which it is lod
ged, producing, of course, severe pain. One kind
of metal should bn used alone —gold, which is the .
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least liable to be allocted by acid, being the best.’ i
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Tnn Kmm urn i) nkw Govkunoiis. — Very
little is known here of the Earl of Clarendon.— (
It would seem that ho is favorably considered as (
a politician, diplomatist, and whig, under the
name of Mr. Villiers. His lordship wo learn, de- r
dines the appointment.
The late Speaker of the. Commons, Mr. Alter
cromby, recently raised to the peerage, under the
style of Baron Uunfernline, is named us the most (
likely successor of Sir John Colhorne. Mr Abcr- g
cromby was known as a decided Liberal in puli
tics, before he was Speaker; and we presume he t
has not changed them since he joined the IVer- (
age. These Liberals are generally hard workers, ,
who rise before noon, and goto bed betimes. j
These customs suit the Colonies belter than
those of the class at the other end of the political (
rope. Mr. Abereromby’s qualifications for tho |
office are, no doubt, ample. His election ns
Speaker,in opposition to Mr. Sutton, shows how |
highly he was appreciated by the assembled “wis
dom” of the nation.— Montreal Courier. ,
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Mr. Rives, the able senator of Virginia, has •'
accepted the invitation of his friends lo dine at
Louisa Court House. In his reply he says: <
“ This measure, so justly obnoxious to the ob- I
jections you have stated to it, and so repeatedly 1
and decisively repudiated by solemn sense of the
nation, is (it seems) still to he pressed upon a
reluctant people, until “they .shall be fatigued
into compliance" —a vexation, he it remembered,
specially enumerated in the list of grievances and
wrongs sot forth in the Declaration of American
Independence. The President himself has re
cently entered the field of political controversy
in behalf of Ins favorite policy, and has announc
ed that "the period is rapidly approaching"
when all opposition to it, sustained now, as he
says, only by " private intercuts and personal
considerations ," will unavoidably cease. By
what "private interests and personal considera
tions” tho Chief Magistrate supposes the great
body of tho American people lo be actuated in
their opposition to his cherished scheme, or by
what appliances their opinions, founded on and
matured by years of deliberate and careful reflec
tion I know not; but 1 am greatly mistaken in
the spirit and character of my countrymen, if ei
ther Executive dictation or Executive denuncia
tion, any more than Executive blandishments,
cun prevail on them to surrender the honest con
victions of their understandings to the requisition
of power. 1 think 1 may answer for you, gentle
men, that though most, if not all, of you wore
ardent supporters of the President’s election, no
inducements of that sort can operate on you to
abandon an opposition which, as freemen, it is t
your right, and ns patriots, it is your duly, lo j
make to every public measure which your judg
ments condemn ; and for myself, honored by
your generous confidence. 1 promise you that,
whatever other individual efforts map be discon
tinued," mine shall never cease to be exerted
with all the humble ability 1 possess, in every
lawful and proper mode, whether in private or i
public life, to arrest a measure which, 1 believe
with you, to be fraught with the most imminent
buzzards to the liberty and happiness of our com
mon country."
Items from English papers.
The magnificent Cathedral at Bruges has been
entirely destroyed by tiro, occasioned by tho care
lessness of same plumbers at work on the roof.
The hosiers of Nottingham and Leicester a.o
making gloves and stockings, having hands of In
dia-rubber web knitted in at the wrists, and sni
der the knees instead of garters; a patent has been
obtained for the invention, and licenses, at £5 a
year, each, are sold lo the framework knitters.
The Argylc steamer, with 200 passengers on
board, on a pleasure excursion, burst her boiler
just a'ter she had touched at Renfrew Ferry,
Scotland, to take more passengers. Two engi
neers were killed, and 7 or S persons dreadfully
scalded.
Tho lust rehearsal for the tournament look
pla c on the 13tli of July, m the presence of
.I’.H-m (built persons. L.aiy ■Seymour has been
chosen " Queen of love and beauty " at the tour
nament. The knights have become quite expert
in tilling at the lay-figure, and support the weight
of their armour with sufficient ease. It has been
ound necessary to enlarge most of the ancient
! armour worn by tbc knights—whence rl appears
f that there has been rather an increase than a dis
i ; linction of size, iu lire progress of modern degrn
i cnary.
A Frenrh soldier, not many weeks ago, was
| railed up by his sergeant to receive a letter that
had just arrived. The letter not lasing franked,
i : and the postage of a considerable amount, the
I soldier refused to receive it. allegingihat he could
, | not afford the money. His officers shortly after
j wards heard of the fart, and sent to redeem the
I letter at their cost, when, on being opened, it was
i j found to contain somr family documents, accom
panied by the announcement that the soldier to
whom it was addressed had just inherited a for
tune of two million of francs.
A dog belonging to a gentleman at Oswestry
was Inst at Liverpool some time ago. Its neuter
offered a reward for its recovery without success.
Some lime after he received a letter from a friend
in New York (who knew the dog well in Eng
land) that the dog had arrived at his house-, im
mediately recognised him, and had become ex
ceedingly comfortable in the society of h» old
master’s friend.— Shreivnhuri/ Chronicle.
LlVUienOl, A>ll Ma VCHBSTKII IiUMTATj
It appears, from the Report of the Directors of
this railway, that the aggregate receipts, for the
six months ending on the 30th of June, have
been very nearly the same as those of the corres
pondent period of last year. The receipts have
been 123,814/. (is. Bd., and the expenditure, 75,-
602 /. 7s; leaving a net profit for the half year,
ending 30th of June, of 48,211/. 19s. 7d. The
Directors have declared a dividend of 44/. 10s.
per share.
Mehkmkt A i.i.— A letter from A Ic.ramfrta .
under date of the Gth July, says :
The impression hero is that Mcbnnnicd Ali
will declare himself independent of Turkey, which
has violated the treaty by which lie holds fcyria,
on payment of the tribute. Turkey has brought
this disaster on herself, and I think the great Eu
ropean powers will scarcely take her part. The
battle shews how very badly Sultan Mahemmed’s
troops have been disciplined.
Unless Mchcmmed Ali have; more moderation
than I give him credit for, lie will declare his in
dependence. In that event, h e will be ruler of a
land extending from Kurdofan to Mount Taurus,
over 23 degrees of latitude, or I (100 miles, with a
population of six millions, 'i'lirse are conquests
greater than those of Sesostr is.—The Ptolemies
had not a more populous empire. Die when he
may, he leaves it to a successor, bold, wise, ex
perienced, and trained in his own policy.
Ax Appai.uno Situatkijt.—ln Cooper’s
Naval History, wo find the following interesting
description of a scene on shiiphoard, which illus
trates in a striking manner, the effect of discipline
in a man-of-war.
“ On the Kith of April, the New York, John
Adams, and Enterprise s ailed, to touch at Malta
on their way to the ener ny’s port. While ma
king this passage, just as the music had been boa
ting to grog, a heavy explosion was heard near
the cockpit of the flag-s Kip, and the lower part of
the vessel was irnmediat ely filled with smoke. It
was an appalling monr lent, for every man on
board was aware that a quantity of powder, not
far from the magazine must have exploded, that
(ire was necessarily scattered in the passages,
that the ship was in flames, and that, in all hu
man probability, the magazine was in danger.
Captain Cliauncey - was passing the drummer
when the explosion occurred, and lie ordered him
to heat to quarters. The alarm had not been giv
en a minute, when tho men were going steadily
to their guns, and o l her stations, under a standing
regulation, which directed litis measure in the
event of a cry of fir e, ns the most certain means
of giving the officers entire command of tho shjp
and of preventing e onfusion. The influence of
discipline was well exhibited on this trying occa
sion; lor, while tin ire is nothing so fearflil to tho
seamen ns the ala rm of fire, the people went to
their quarters, as regularly ns in the moments of
confidence. The sea being smooth, and the
weather moderate, the commodore himself now
issued an order to hoist out the boats.
The common d, which hod been given under
tho influence of the best feelings of the human
heart, was most unfortunately timed. The peo
ple had no soon er left the guns to execute it, than
thojih-boom,ho< vsprit.sprit-sailyard, knight-heads,
and every spot forward was lined with men, un
der the idea of getting as fur as possible from this
magazine. So me even leaped overboard atul
swam for the nearest vessel.
The situalio n of the ship was now exceedingly
critical. With a fire known to be kindled mac
the magazine, and arrow in a great measure dis
organized, the chances of escape were much di
minished. But (’apt. Cliauncey rallied a few
followers, and reminding them that they might
as well bo blown up through one deck as three,,
ho led the way below, into passages choked with,
smoke, where the danger was rapidly increasing
There, by means of wetted blankets, taken Sana
the purser’s store room, and water throw® by
hand, he Logan to contend with the lire, in a spot
where u spark scattered even by the efforts latex
tinguish the flames, might, in a single instant,
have left nothing of all on hoard, hut their names,
Mr. David Porter, the first lieutenant, who
meets us in so many scenes of trial and danger,
had ascended from the ward room, by means ;«fa
stern ladder, and he and the other officers, si con
do! tho noble efforts of their intrepid commaadter-
The men were got in from the spars forward,, wa
| ter was abundantly supplied, and the ship was
] saved. This accident is supposed to have occur
red in consequence of a candle having been liken
from a lanthern, while the gunner was searching
somo object in a store room that led from the
cock-pit. A quantity of marine cartridges, and
the powder horns used in priming the guns, and
it is thought some mealed powder exploded Two
doors leading to the magazine passage were forced
open, and nearly all tho adjoining bulkheads
were blown down. Nineteen officers am 1 men
wore injured, of whom fourteen died. The senti
nel at the magazine passage was driven quite
through to the filling room door.”
From the New York Mirror.
Kail road Travelling.
The poetry of travelling is gone—the romance
of road-side travelling is at an end ; in vain will
J tho modern novelist attempt to distinguish kis
heroine in the passage train—forms and fuses
glide by but like mingled colors on a school boy’s
whipping top—an amalgamated mass of hues
which the rapid motion seems to blend into one.
Elopements may now be made in safety, if the
lovers can only secure the first train ; asthmati
cal guardians can never give chase—the rapidity
with which the vehicles move will prevent the
shoi(winded from breathing; no being overtaken
by brothers; duelling and changing horses and
| i separate rooms at an end—our light literature
i must now become woven with steam —our inci
dents must arise from blow-ups,and love he made
over broken logs; while here tho novelist will
have to record the tailing in of a tunnel, the only
chance left for -a touch of the sublime,”
The good old days of chance courtship have
vanished ; if a lady happened to let her glove fall
, from the roach, there was an opening for some
gallant to leap off and return it with a goad grace.
But now there is no stopping; one might us
well call upon the wind as upon the conductor to
: check the speed of his fiery dragon; 'tis as much
I as the guard can do to make him hear with his
i shrill whistle; ere one can say ‘-my lint’s blown
■ off. ‘we have shot a mile ahead, and the conduc
t lor mourns the accident at the next station ; and
t i there is no lack of sympathy at the distance of
i i thirty miles.
t j The tables within the carriages are like those
which held the feasts of the enchanters; what-I
ever is laid upon them less weighty than a brick,
is whisked away by a viewless spirit, and carrii d
you wot not whither. Wo he unto the wight !
that layelli down his gloves, handkerchief, or
umbrella—that unlooseneth his pocket-book to
spread out his letters, for they will Ins given as a
prey unto the winds, unless he earricth his own |
curtaining, or is rich enough to travel in a first ,
class carriage. Then there are those gloomy
tunnels opening their grim portals to receive us.
and darkening around us like the valley and |
shadow of death. Von are immersed within the i
bowels of a black cavern—the groaning monster
which has borne you away utters his most hellish j
moans in the darkness—flakes of lire here and :
there flutter along the low browed vault —the i
earth seems rocking beneath, while one dull, pro
longed echo throws back the continued clatter.—
Perchance a solitary lamp is fixed in the roof of
your carriage, and the sickly yellow light falls
upon the face of some wrinkled old man who has
closed his eyes from fear. All beside is dark—
nn'hing is visible hut that hideous face in the dis
tance. At first he appears like a fiend ; you
cannot separate him from the lakes of red fire,
the darkness, and the bellowing of the monster.
By degrees ho becomes a bandit; you have seen
just such a face in the caverns in Salvator Rosa's
pictures; then he is dead—his face grows sharp
and thin in the yellow light—his eyes move not
under the lurid gleam—you are in the tomb with
him ! By-and-by you feel the wind of heaven
upon your cheek—the daylight breaks in upon
you, and you arc again rolling between upheaved
banks, or on the brown hacks of massy arches—
rubbing the (lakes of soot from your face, or
writhing under some shaep particle which has
chosen your eye for an abiding-place; you seem
as if racing against the wind, and that, out of
sheer vexation at being beaten, it blows witli all
its might, as if it would lift the heavy train from
tlie ground.
Hope and Destiny.
There are some beautiful passages in the
“Gentleman of the Old School” —passages full
of poetry and philosophy. Witness the follow
ing;
“It is strange—perhaps the strangest of all the
mind’s intricacies—the sudden, the instantane
ous manner in which memory, by a single signal,
casts wide the doors of one of those dark store
houses in which long passed events have been
shut-up for years. That signal, be it a look, a
, tone, an odour, a single sentence, is the cabalistic
word of the Arabian talc, at the potent magic ol
which the door of the cave of the robber, Forget
| fulness, is cast suddenly wide, and nil the treas
i urea that he had concealed displayed.”
| This also:
“From the cottage to the palace, from the cas
tle to the hovel, through all the imperceptible
shades and grades of life and station that inter
vene between grealness and littleness; from the
sage to the idiot, from the conqueror to the worm,
fate, in darkness and in silence, with movements
that men seldom see and never appreciate, is
spinning that small, fine, hut binding thread
1 which weaves their common destiny into one in
i extricahle web. It is not alone that the mouse
I disentangles the lion from the toils; it is not
' alone that the stronger saves or destroys the
weaker ; hut it is that every being at every step
: affects the destinies of millions of others, present
' and to come, and carries on the train of cause
: and event that is going on from eternity to eter
-1 nity.
The dependence of the great upon the small,
and the continual reference of our fate to petty
1 circumstances, is a consideration full of weighty
moral, and is never to be forgotten.”
Boz-Inim.
Excerpts from the writings of Dickens.
Lant Street, Borough. —The chief features in
1 the still life of this street arc green shutters, lodg
ing hills, brass door-plates, and hell handles; the
principal specimens of animated nature, the pot
hoy, youth, and the haked-tater man.
The population is migratory, usually disappear
ing on the verge of quarter-day, and generally by
night. Her Majesty’s revenues are seldom col
lected in this happy valley, the rents arc dubious,
i and the water communication is very frequently
I cut off.
Popping the Question. —“I think an inn is a
good place to propose to a single woman in, Mr.
Pickwick; she is more likely to feel the loneliness
ol her siualion in travelling, perhaps, than she
■ would be at home.”
Prosperity in Perspective. —“l warnt always
a boots, sir,” said Sam Weller; “I was a waggin
cr’s hoy once.” “When was that I” asked Mr.
Pickwick. “When I was first pitched, neck and
crop, into the world, to play at leap-frog with its
troubles,” replied Sam ; “I was a carrier’s hoy at
starting, then a waggincr’s, then a helper, then a
a hoots. Aiow I’m a gemman’s servant. I shall
he a gemman myself one of these days, perhaps,
with a pipe in my mouth, and a summer-house in
the back garden. Who knows? I shouldn’t he
surprised, for once.”
Domestic Affections. —They little know, who
talk of the poor man’s bereavements coldly as a
happy release from pain to the departed, and a i
mercilui relief from expense to the survivor—
they little know what the agony of those bereave
ments is.—A silent look of affection and regard
when all other eyes are turned coldly away—the
consciousness that we possess the sympathy and
affection of one being, when all others have de
serted us, is a hold, a stay, a comfort in the deep
est affliction, which no wealth can purchase, no
honor bestow.
Modern Turn-out. —“Gwacious heavens!” said
his Lordship, “I thought evewibody had seen my
new mail cart; it’s the neatest, pwetticst, gwace
fullest thing that ever won upon wheels—painted
wed, with a eweam piebald; with a weal box for
the letters, and a little seat in fwont, with an iron
wail for the dwiver. I dwove it over to Bwistol
the other morning in a ewimson coat, with two
servants widing a quarter of a mile behine ; and
cwucify me if the people dind’t wush out of their
■ cottages and awest my pwogwees, to know if
I wasn't the post! Glowious ! glowious!”
Master of the Ceremonies. —The friend was a
charming young man of not more than fifty,
dressed in a very bright blue coat, with resplen
dent buttons, black trousers, and the thinnest pos
sible pair of highly polished boots. A gold eye
glass was suspended from his neck by a short
broad black riband; a gold snuff-box was lightly
clasped in his hand, gold rings innumerable glit
tered on his finger, and a large diamond pin, set
in gold, glistened on his shirt frill. He had a
gold watch ami a gold curb-chain, with large gold
seals, and he carried a pliant ebony cain with a
heavy gold top. His linen was of the very fi
nest, whitest, and stiffest; his wig of the glossest,
blackest, and curliest. His snuff was Prince’s
mixture, his scent boquet du oi. His features
were contracted into a perpetual smile, and his
teeth were in such perfect order that it was diffi
cult at a small distance to tc',l the real ones from
the false.
Puppies —Lounging near the doors, and in re
mote corners, were various knots of silly voung
men, displaying every variety of puppyism and
stupidity, amusing all sensible people near them
with their lolly and conceit, and happily think
ing themselves the object of general admiration
j a wise and merciful dispensation, which no good
man will quarrel with.
Law.—" No room’s private to her Majesty
I when the street door is once passed,” said Mr.
drummer; -that’s law. Some people maintain
that an Englishman's house is his castle; that’s
gammon.”
Twilight —The evening grew more dull every
moment, and a melancholy wind soundihg thro’ j
r- 3 ‘>V
the ik'S('*J fields, like a distahTgiant whistling
for his tftae-dog.
Stuilt/^r ßy the-bye, we scarcely ever knew a
man who read or wrote cither, who had’nl
got some small back parlor, which he would call
a study.
Anger. —The unwonted lines which momen
tary passion had ruled in Mr. Pickwick’s clear
and open brow gradually melted away as his
young friend spoke like the mark of a black lead
| pencil beneath the softening influence of India
I rubber.
Poverty vs. Oysters. —“lt's a very remarkable
circumstance, sir,” said Sam, “that poverty and
i oysters always seem to go together. ’ “I don’t
j understand you, Sam,” said Pickwick. ‘ “What
| I mean, sir, is, that the poorer the place is, the
j greater call there seems to be for oysters. Look
j sir, here’s a oyster stall to every halt dozen hou
ses—the street’s lined with ’em. Blessed if I
don’t think that when a man’s very poor, he rush
es out of his lodgings and cats oysters in regular
desperation.”
White Horse Cellar. —The traveller’s room at
the White Horse Cellar, is of course uncomfort
able; it would be no traveller’s loom if it were not.
It'is the right-hand parlor, into which an aspiring
kitchen fire-place appears to have walk'd accom
panied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel.
It is divided into boxes for the solitary confine
ment of travellers, and ia furnished with a clock,
a looking-glass, and a live waiter, which latter ar
ticle is kept in a small kennel for washing glasses,
in a corner of the apartment.
A Landowner. —Capt. Boldwig was a little
fierce man, in a stiff black neckerchief and blue
surtout, who, when he did condescend to walk
about his premises, did it in company with a thick
rutan stick, with a brass ferrule, to whom, the
gardeners—(not the stick) —Captain Boldwig
gave his orders with all due grandeur and firoci
ty ; for Captain Boldwig’s wife sister had mar
ried a Marquis, and the Captain’s house was a
“villa,” and his lands “grounds,” and it was all
very high and mighty and great.
Communicative Servants. —“Now,|sir,” ar
gued Mr. Weller, when he had concluded his re
port, “it I can get a talk with this here servant in
the morning, he’ll tell me all his master’s con
cerns." “How do you know that? interposed
Mr. Pickwick. "Bless your heart, sir, servants
always do,” replied Sam.
Turnpikes. —“ Worry queer life is a pike-keep
er’s sir.” “A what?” said Pickwick. “A pike
keeper.” “What do you mean by a pike-keep
er ?” inquired Mr. Peter Magnus. “The old un
means a turnpike keeper, gen’len,” observed Mr.
Weller, in explanation. "Oh,” said Mr. Pick
wick, “I see. Yes, very curious life, very un
comfortable.” “Thy are all on ’em men as ha«
met with some disappointment in life,” said iVIr.
Weller, senior. “Ay, ay,” said Mr. Pickwick.
“Yes! consequence of which they retires from
world, and shuts themselves up in pikes; partly
with the view of being solitary, and partly to re
venge themselves on mankind hy taking tolls. If
they was gem’men you’d call them misanthropes,
but, as it is, they only takes to pike-keeping.
Verses. —“l could end with a worse,” said Sam.
“I don’t like that ere,’’ replied Mr. Weller; “I
never know’d a respectable coachman as wrote
poetry, ’cept one, as made an affecting copy of
worses the night afore he was hung for a highway
roberry, and he was only a Camberwall man, so
even that’s on rule.”
Gout. —“lf ever you are attacked with the
gout, sir, just marry a widder as has got a loud
voice, and you’ll never have the gout again. It’s
a capital prescription, sir; I take it rcglar, and I
can warrant it to drive away any illness caused
by too muchjolity.”
ie" —. • ■ ■ --
OBITUARY.
Died at his residence in Edgefield District, on
tbc 20th hist., of a fever, after a protracted illness
of twenty-seven days, Thomas H. Nixon, Esq.,
aged 42 years, lie has filled several important offi
ces in this State with credit to himself, and satis
faction to his fellow-citizens; he was well known
to this community as a high minded, just, honorable
and respectable citizen, posssessed of many kind
and social virtues ; he has long been a worthy and
efficient member, and Deacon of the Baptist church,
at the Bed Oak drove ; he has left an affectionate
wife and nine children, with a large circle of
friends to deplore their irreparable loss.
Consignees per South Carolina Kail Koad.
Hamburg, August 26, 1839.
M. Fraser & Co.; Cress & Turpin; F. Spears &
Co.; T. Dawson ; Stovall, Simmons & Co.; Geo. 11,
Jessup & Co.; H. C. Bryson & Co.; P. Fleming &
Co.; Aldrich & Shove; A. Wood & Co.; J. W.
Houghton; B. W. Force & Co.; L. Dwellc & Co.;
A. Cunningham & Co.; F Lamback; Uees& Beall;
Adams <fe Parmclee; Haviland, Risley & Co.;
Gould & Bulkley; Baird & Rowland; J. F. Benson.
George Parrott. ’
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, August 26.
Arrived yesterday.— Steamer Santee, Poinsett,
St, Augustine.
Cleared. —Schr Virginia Antoinette, Place, New-
York.
| Went to sea on Saturday. —Line ship Niagara,
Bcshcr, New York ; brig Catharine, Rose, New Or
leans,
Went to sea yesterday.— Brig Howell, De For
rest,Havana; U. L. brig Planter, Smith New York.
Zj" The President of the Augusta Bencvolcn t
Society, acknowledges the receipt, through the
Post Office, of $2O from an unknown individual,
which according to the donor’s request has been
| added to the funds of the Society.
j Qj’We arc authorised to announce Mr. JOHN
C. SNEAD, as a candidate for the offices of Clerk of
the Supeiior and Inferior Courts of Richmond
I county, at the election to be held on the first Mon
day in January next. a ug 19
i (Lj” We are authorised to announce GAUEY F.
! PARISH, Esq., as a candidate for the office of
] Sheriff of Richmond county, at the approaching
■ j election in Januaay next. aug 19 °
i TO THE VOTERS OF RICHMOND COUNTY.
Fellow citizens :— 1 offer myself as a candi
-1 date for the office of Sheriff of Richmond countv,
1 at the ensuing election, and respectfully solicit
I your support.
i . “gl? BENJ. BRANTLY.
VENEI OLE\T SOCIETY. —The Officers of
j this Society for the ensuing year are as follows
j A. J. Miller, Esq. President; Dr. L. D. Ford,
] Vice President; Rev. John Winter, Collector &
I Treasurer; Rev. Wm. Kennedy, Associate do;
I M. M. Brown, Secretary.
Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at the corner of Centre
and Telfair streets. trwlm aug 17
(O'BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, for the benefit
of the Side Poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
The \ isiting Committees lor theensuingmonth aic
as follows:
Division No. I.—P. H. Mantz, Demetrius Bland,
Mrs. F. Meredith, Mrs. Chas Jones.
Division No. 2.—Wm. E Jackson, Oliver Dan
forth, 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. r
j aug 20 M. M. BROWN. Sec’y.
<TT THE AMERICAN SILK GROWER A
FARMER'S MANUAL—A monthly publication
designed toextend and encourage the growth of Silk
throughout the United States. Edited bv Wird
Cheney and Brothers, Burlington, N. J. mi
fished in Philadelphia, at the low price of One
Dollar a year.
1 IKT Subscriptions received at this office. aj
AUGUSTA THEATRE.—Ttie subscriber
having again become the lessee of the Augusta
Theatre, has the honor most respectfully to inform
Hie ladies and gentlemen of Augusta, that he will
commence his dramatic season early in October
next. It is his intention to present a company,
possessing the highest order of histronic lalciit.
The management of the theatre, will devolve per
sonally upon the lessee, and every exertion will be
made to merit a continuance of the patronage,
which was so liberally bestowed during his former
management. WILLIAM C. FORBES.
aug3 d6t&trwlm
(ffj-NOTICE. —The Kail 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
“ “ Kranchvillc, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ -1) 30 at.
‘ “ Blackville, - “ -100 p. m.
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a.m.
“ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730
“ “ Blackville, “ - . 930
“ “ Midway, “ - -10 30
“ “ Branchville, “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 m. f!
“ “ Summerville,“ - - 2 OOp. m.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance —ISiimiles. Fare Through—slo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
longer than 5 minutes for wood and water at any
station.
To stop for passengers, when a white flag is
hoisted, at cither of the above stations; and also at
Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. O.
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons’
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers up will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackville; down, will breakfast at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. may 21
■ A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DU IV. EVANS’ CELEBRATED SOOTHING
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.— This
infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of chil
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul
sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. The preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that no
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it.
When infants are at the age of four months, though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are young children; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
pores and healing the gums; thereby preventing
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. Wm.
Evans’ Medical Office, 100 Chatham street, New
York, where the Doctor may be consulted on all
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP.—To the Agent
of Dr. Evans’ Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir—The
great benefit allorded to my suffering infant by
your Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
painful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
rent how essential an early application of such an
invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
torture. My infant, when teething, experienced
such acute sufferings, that it was attacked witq
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed that
deatli would soon release the babe from anguish
till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp ; which as’
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change
was produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by continuing in
its use, 1 am glad to inform you the child has com
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful I
complaint has since occurred ; the teeth are ema- 1
nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health.
I give you my cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, andwill gladly give any
information on this circurnst: nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans ’ Camomile
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart, the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mind,
vanish before their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sun
They have long been successfully used for the cure
of intesmittents, together with fevers of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous complaints,
general debility, indigestion and its consequences,
w iuf. t i p > elite, distension of the stomach, acid
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
the mind becomes irritable,desponding,thoughtful,
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondriacism, con
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all other
nervous affections, these pills will produce a safe
and permanent cure.
Evans ’ Camomile Pills were first introduced into
America in 1835.
EVANS’ FAMILY APERIENT PILLS are
purely vegetable, composed witli the strictest pre
cision of science and of art; they never produce
nausea, and arc warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the blood,
viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, Colds,
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, Asthma, Cho
lera. Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnics and.
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of whatsoever kind to which human
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected.
More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary effi
caey of Dr. IVm. Evans’ celebrated Camomile and
Aperient Anti-Bihuus Pills,in alleviating afflicted
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowery.—
Disease—Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody Flux— ,
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels, se- v
vere griping, frequent inclination to go to stool, tu
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fre
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of a pe
culiar feetid matter mixed with blood .great debility,
sense of burning heat, with an intolerable bearing
down of tlie parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying per
fect health, and returns his sincere thanks for the
extraordinary hcnelits he has received.
Sold by ANTONY' & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta,
J. M.& T. M. TURNER,Savannah,
P. M. COHEN k. Co., Charleston,
SHARP ELLS, Millcdgeville,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A.W. MARTIN,Forsyth,
Win. B. WELLS, Druggist, Athens,
MARK A. LANE, Washington
July 23
VALtTAIJLE PItOPHItTY POIISALtH
' S 'HE subscriber offers for sale, on the most rea-
I sonable 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 1500 to 2000 feet of lumber per dav,
for which a ready market can be had at lair prices.
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
tivation. JOHN JACKSON.
Athens, Ga., July ]Q, 1839. w&trwtf
A CARD.
PIIHE subscribers having turned their attention
_JL to Cutting and Retailing Goods, beg leave to
inform the public that they have returned from the
northern cities with a large stock, consisting of
American, British, French, and all styles of
FASHIONALE DRY GOODS, both Staple and
Fancy, which they will sell for cash or approved
credit, as low if not a shade lower, than can be
purchased in any other establishment in this city.
Those in want will do well to call and examine
' our stock before purchasing elsewhere.
HUNGERFORD, FRISBIE & Co.
B oad-st. opposite the ruins of Planters’Hotel,
mar 22 ts
I7KIUR months after date, application will be
. made to the honorable the Inferior court of
j Burke county, when sitting for ordinary purposes,
for leave to sell all the negroes belonging to the
| estate of Abram Cook, deceased, of said county, for
I the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate.
EDMUND PALMER, Adm’r.
I August 23,1539.