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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 . > least liable to be allocted by acid, being the best.’ i i 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. , . i 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.