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Mislcellaneous8. From the resille Mountaineer. THE SPRINGS OF SPARTAN BURGH DISTRLcr. It might seem superfluous, at t-,is time, to speak of the distinguished watering places to be found in the District of Spar tanburgh, were the facts as well known abroad as they are at home. The libera lity which has estahlished, and the ele gant taste which has adorned these fash ionable places of resort, is beyond all praise, and worthy of the most extensive encouragement and patronage. Thou sands during the presen season have al ready tested the ntfic'acy of the waters and the hospitality of the establishments. They have been the resort of the young and the beautiful-the wealthy and the in tellectual, as well as the aged and infirm the sick and the alicted-all have been henefitted or gratified by their visit to the Temples of Hygeia. and the season pro raises fully to sustain the popularity with which it commenced. No South Caroli nian can visit the extensive establishments at theLinestone andGletin'sSpings with out a feeling of honest pride as he views their comfortable and valuable improve ments. He reels that we are beginning to rival Virginia in watering places. and that the time has come when we may claim the favorable consideration of the whole South for our own State, and point to our own places of fashionable resort as the rivals of the best in the land. The Limestone Springs during the last week, had upwards of one thousand visi tors-the establishment itself accomodat ing between three and four hundred at the same time. The establishment proper consists of the principal house, built of brick, two hundred and foriy feet long, and four stories high. and eleven other houses of different sizes. The waters tre the purest limestone and chalyheate. In the vicinity are several elegant and private residences, owned by geutlemen who make the place their permantient place of abode. This is the favorite temple for the votaries of pleasure, and gallantly do they worship at its altar. The military ball of last week was really dazzltng in its gorgeous splendor, excelling any thing we might meet with in a lifetime. fn attendance were ttte Governor and suite, the Major General and suite, the suite of the Brigadier Ge neral, the General of Cavairy and suite. the Adjutant General, Quartermaster Ge neral, Colonels, Majors, and Captains, unt counted and almost uncountable, all dressed in full uniform, and prepared to grace the ball room. As a counterpart to this mi!itary show, were found as brilliant an array of elegant females as the most fastidious and critical might desire to look upon. The ball room and drawing room were crowded to excess, and presented as large an aggregate of beauty. taste, and elegance, as any hall room welt could. The first half hour was ahsolusely intoxi cating in its imaginative effects. Brighter eyes, more smiling faces, and happier countenances, can never assemble atny where. Glenn's Spring is beyond all doubt one of the most valuable in the Southern States. Each succeeding year, testing the ellicacy of its waters, adds to its steadily increasing popularity. It is a cold saline, of the character of the Harrodsburgh Springs in Kentucky, and the Saratoga Springs in New York, wanting only the carbo.ruc acid cas to make it the sane in all essential particudlars. rThe vations well authenticated cases of e-ures it has accomt plished, have established its repurationi on the firmest basis, andl it a ill soon become fashionable to bottle it up for consutmption in the manner in which it has been com mon, for years, to do with the Congress Waters at the North. The. Cherokee Spring is thte intdividual property of J. WV. Martin, Esq., andI lacks only the outlay of capitai, ns htich a joitt stock compatty c-an fur-ish-, to miske it a rival of the preceding natted watering places. The Camerokee Spritng is a red sulphaur, equal in purity and elfreacy to the celebrated red sulphur of Vir-ginia. It bus bee-n found highly cturative for miany dis eases, particularly those arising fromt itm * purities, or a phlogi~tic state of the bloo worth- all te Brandretha's p)1ils in the world. it is a sovereign retmedv for all cutaneous affections-a co)uttic that tie ver fais, and niever injures, th,- mtost transparent complexio-a beau.tifyer of the skiti, far beyond, the reach of art. The accommttodations at this phice are very fair for a stmall comwpatny, and will donibtless increase as the waters baecome 'o be properly appreciated by the public. The Limestone is 20J miles E., Glenn's IS miles S. E., and Cherokee 8 miles N. of Sparitanburgh Court Houise. Aug. 3. A VISzToRt. Frons thec Americazw Farmer. ON THE PRESERVAT[ON OF THE HE~ALTHU OF NEGROES. It is a well known fact to physicians of the Sonthern States.that "negroes,uhough less liable to autumnal diseases thanLt the whites, yet suffer muchi more severely from winter epidemics thtan they do." The negroes. for itnstance, will escape the bili ous al'ections of the hot season., while thte white inhabitauts are falling victims;. but, when wimer takes place, the blacks are swept of,~ while their masters' families-arc secured. There would be, in-the extraordinary na ture of the fact, a sufiicieut incenti-ve to-the investihation of the cause or causes of th-is diff'erence; but therec are motives of a still more urgent ttatttre, that demaund at at temipt at discovering the cauise, andh pre ventitng the effects. The blacks constitute, either absorutely or instrumentally, the wealth of our Soniliern States. If a plait ter, as it oftent htappenas, is deprived by sickness of the labor of onae-thirdl, or one half of his negroes, it becomes a loss. of no small magnitude. If we should. thetn suc ceed in ascertaitning the cause, andl point ing otut a preventive. weshtall not only have gratified curiosity, and served the itter ests of'the planuter, btut also feel the alpro bation of our own mntd in havinig aided the cause of humanity We have seentin our last tnmber, ' On Heat atnd Clothing, " that white antd pol is/ted surfaces let off heal slowly; whereas blac n- roug-h surfaces, r-adiate it frecly. This is admitted as a fact in chemlistry and physiology. We know that liquids cool soonest in dark vessels, and retain their heat longest in bright ones. We also know that animals in polar regions, which are of a darkcolor in the summer, change to white in the winter; nature, 4 doubt, intending by the change of color as much as by the thickening of their coat, to se cure them against the severity of the cold. The negro ont the other hand, was designed for the sultry regions of the torrid zone. His surface is therefore adapted to the eady escapement of internal heat. Hence, when transplanted to colder latitudes, he and.his posterity are less capable of resist itig external cold, because they are less capable of retaining their internal heat. It is also a fact well known to physiologsts, that the body of a negro is cateris paribus, several degrees cooler than that of a white person. We know too, that blacks uni formly show themselves fonder of the fire than whites. That they are then really more chilly, we cannot doubt, after taking into view all the circumstances just noticed. It there fore, necessarilly follows. that they are more liable to diseases brought on by the cold of winter, than white persons. They are likewise more subject to disease on ac count of their great exposure to wet and inclement weather. In the enumeration of the causes of the ereater liability of negroes to wtiter epide mics. we perceive an immediate answer to the question, - how can the health of slaves he best preserved ? We see that if they had a white skin, it would prove a se curity to them: hut as we cannot " wash ile t hiop white, " v e must use such other means as may prevent the free escape meur of their heat. They ought in the fir r place, to wear woollens next their skin, intte d of linen and cotton. Long woollen shirts would retain their h,-at, equalize the excitement, and secure them again-t ihr et'ects ofwet work and rainy weather. These shirts should be white, for reasons too obvious to need repetitton. The) should also be frequently wa-&hed. as cloth ing loses very tmuch of its capacity for re aining heat, whenl filled with perspiration. &c. The truth of this we experience every time we change our soiled cloiltev for clean ones; for an increased and per nanent glow of heat is the consequense of putting on clean clothes. W hen % et, ne groes hould dry by a good fire.. They should also be allowed to sleep by a fire, if convenient; the out laborers especially. By attending to this regimen, we feel no hesitation in saying, tha&a planter will greatly secure the health of his slaves ; and we sh'all conclude with remarkitg, that it now lies with hiia to determine, as soon as lie may see proper, whether the trouble and expense of this preventive is rather to be chosen than the risk ot' losing much by the sickness or .leath of hi, aegroes. JOTTINGS DOWN IN LONDON. The last number of the "Corsair" has the fo.lowing article fromt the pen of N. P. Willis, who is now in London I was at Almack's on Wednesday. All at once, at a quarter to 12, the car riages began to pour into King-st., the let down steps rat-tat-tated, the - all right" of the footmen followed like the answers to a roll call, and up the broad staircase in a long and steady procession, came the shawled and flowered adventof aristocratic girlhood. Five hundred belles, beaux and chaperous, entered the dazzling hall within fifteen minutes, and within twenty minutes from the hushed and cotmplete dlesertion I have described, Weiptper's band was pouring forth its intoxicating music, and the five hundred " 'arave and beauti ful" whirling rn the waltz. The bust anid neck of almost every lady ii hint reach of omw eyes, might have ser ved as models for sculpture. From the zone to the chin Enalish, women from se venteen to thirty, are almost invarieably superb. We lo'oked ini vain for a hollow chest or a bent back. or what issomnetimnes called a "thread paper looking girl. " The shoutlders full, weve dazzlinag fitir, atnd of the healthiest tint of white, anid the car rigeof thewhole bust gracefulatnd stately. Within these litnitb aI thiti:Mand my tend agreed wlh tme) lie all the Pirefections of the Emanelish Venus. We looked at features. There was scarce a classic lorehead or n~se itn the room. A t the feet-thaey wete rather of useful thatn ornamental piropor tion to the figure. At the grace of the daa' ers-you could not find inoill France so -diferen-t a dance as the best at Al ack's. At iheconmlexioni-rttddy and coarso; though for the best of reasons, tnat probably every lady Ott the~ floor had been on horse hack tor three or four hours every day in the season, exposed to the tender mercies of a riding hat, and such sun and wind as pleases the clerk of E~nglishi wa We busied ourselves composing n Ven us front the national beatities. The Fretich furjished the limbs and grace of miove ment, the Greelas and Asiaticsthe nose and forehead, the English hair, throat, neck. and bmsts; the A merican complexion, feet eyes. The mouith was still to be provi ded, but we- agreed to share the hottors of that eature betweeni us. All this of course might he disputed on individual exceptiotns, but it is curious how nearly universal are these perfections to the nations to which we named them. In the course of the evening'I found my self is-a-vis in the quadrille to theQueena's nost beautiful Maid of H onour. She is a dauger of Lord Rivers, rather tall, atnd combiing a tmost majestic embonpoinzt of. figure, with a slightness of limb, and a slendeess. anti stateliness of neck seldom seen in such graceful proportion. To the 30) a year, which the maidis of Honor eceive for dress, thte Queen, tmy partner informed me, has. added another hundred, bittkitg the sonm insufficietnt. You know. probably, that on their marriage they re eive afso. a dowry of.C1000. Thetn thmee are the Ladies in'Waiting, who are of die highest rank of nobility, and the Bedcham ber women. who receive also ?300 a year, ani are generally ladies of good birih in reduced. circumstances. These all take thei turns of-service for two months to My pretty and noble informant gave e these household statistics very good n~nrel e twween j~nntornlc and dos a dos, and as she was closely connected with those who had the best opportunity of knowing, I asked her a question or two touching the personal tualities of her Majesty. She thoughit Victoria fancied herself very beautiful, 'which she was not, " and a very good horseman, " which she was not decidedly," and that she was very impatient of a differencte of opinion when in. private with her Ladies. She admitted, however, that she was generous, forgiving, and "clever than most girls of her age. " When alone with two or three of her maids, she said, the Queen was "no more like a Queen than any hody else," and was , very fond of a bit of fun or a bit of scandal, or any thing that would not have done ifother people were present." As far as it went, I should think this might be relied on ae the impression her Majesty makes upon those who daily associate with her. . From dte Georgia Journal' SINGULAR INCIDENT! - THE TENNEssEE MOTHER. Some few years ago, a young man left his home in the State of Tennessee, with a horse drover, for t he purpose of alasistin in driving a lot of horses into the "Georgia narket." The Tennesseean, mteetine with a sale for au his horses, and not wishing to relain one to mcary ihe young man home, advised him to remait in Georgia, and seek employment as a laborer on one of our railroads, stating that it was a profita ble bsiness. 1y pursuing which, he could not fail to make tioney. Naturally a sintpleton, the onng man followed the ad vice of the individual who should have protected him, and who had enticed him from his hoime, ani sought employment ot the Monroe Railrond. Here he was most unfortunately thrown into hoad company. and was induced io forge an order, amount ing to abott forty dollars. on a store for goods. The forgery discovered, lie was indicted. tried, conv icted, and sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years. His trial took place at the March terti of the Sn periorCourt. inMonroe county, 1838, since which time he has been coiined to hard labor in the Penitentinry. His mother, an old lady of sixty years, residing 450 miles frosm Milledgeville, hear ing of the unfortunate condition in which her son was placed. and knuowin the im becility ofhis initd, with all a mother's af fection, determined to proceed at once to this place, and to tmake his true situation known to the proper authorities. But alaw! how was a poor and lonely woman, without money or friends. having no con vevance of herown toget to Milledgeville? With a resolution truly heroic, this old lady determined to travel on foot, the whole dis tance. and accompanied by a sister ten years younger than herself she walked the -xtraor-linary dist ance of four hundred anti fifty miles. to petition the Governor to par duin her unforunate son. An investigation of the case induced the Governor to ex tend to the unfortunate yotth a remission of his sentence, and we had t he melancholy pleasure of seeing the old lady, and her sister. together with the son, slowly wend. in their way back to their hyme* in Ten nessee. What will not a mothe's affee tions accomplish! The incident, in the 'lleartof Mid-Lothian,"of Jeannie Dean's trip to London, for the purpose drprocur. ing a pardon for her sister, hears no. com parison to this proof of maternal.afdection on the part of a mother to an .unforiutate son. May they all reach their homes in safety and may the young man, nder ihe gu ardianship of his aged mother, he restrait ed, in furure,fronm the corrnnisfts of crime! The dcnver who etnriced hitm from 'home, and left him to suffer in a land of strangers. knowing his imbeedity, should supply his place in the Pentitentiary. From thme Augusta Daily Netws. THE wEALTH OF A COUNTRY DEPENDs UPON ITS l"ARhafEtS AND MECINANIcs, We taki' the fosllmowing remarks from the Texas Register. If they are not rep~lete with soundl andi wholesome truth, all of our excperientce atnd ou'servation have resulted in tmaking false estimates upon the real stamina of society-"nature's noblemen" our laboring class; whether they ime muer chants, farmers or tmechanics-" If we are right in the position we have taken, that wealth consists in. natural productio~ns canged and wrought upon by the labor of man, it follows that the country whi-h potssesses t he tnost of the elements or ma tet ials to work utpon, such as good soil altbudatnce of water power-forests of itum her-quarries of dihi'erent stoes,mines,aund also, ut ditlerent kuids of minerals, &c. &c., miust htave the nmost natural wvealth. It thtetn only requires te hand of industry anti skill to put these muateriaisiinto shape atnd to put them together to form real sub stantil weath. This is the duty of the farmer and the mechuanic. They are the secotnd creators of wealth.. They take the raw material as it catne frm the hantds of the Almighty, and change it by their ha bur into the thousands of dillerent forms which render it useful to mtan, and sub servient to the wants of human life. The muore industrious and skilful this class is, the more wealth will be accumulated in the country. Do farmners-and tmnehhames cosider these thitnfgs rigthtly! Are they not too apt to think thtemselves as tmere plodders andl servmttsrather thant second to the Great Frirst Cause in productive ini crease of weahth ! and, indeedt, is there not a false standard of respectability moo mnuch in use in society, and are notu productivo classes apt to measure themsselves by it ? This standard appears to be IDLENESS AN D A FINE Co&T and consetquently thte more idle a man is, atnd the fitner the dress, thne more of a genttlemanau. Not so-Respcft taility consists in an itmproved mind, atnd skilful and itndtustrious handls. Morld qualifications being equal, he should. ha-ve the miost honor, w'ho by the comtbimt;ion of the efforts of his mitnd andI physical pow ers, htas contributed moust largely to the in. crease of those things which constitute wealth. "Such an one has done more for the amelioratiohn of society. than a thousand noo-prodtuctive DANDIES, who loll in the shade and waslr in' Cologne, and society should bestow ttpour such a corresponding teedh of honor." Neverchase a lie, for ifyou keep r.uiet, truth will eventually overtake and de ~ it OBITUARY TARIFr.-WC have daily at in our counter grull grunts at our charge Of de two shillings for inserting, in addition to the announcement of a death, a notice of c4 the time, place, and mauner prescribed for the burial of the deceased. What will m the grumblers say when we inform them sti that, in one paper at least in Great Britain, which, instead of circulating thirty In two thousand daily, issues not thirty-two hundred weekly, the insertion of obituary at notices costs from two shillings and six pence (sterling) to five pounds! The a, Waterford Chionicle has recently estab- d, lished an obituary tariff which throwR our two shillings exaction entirely in the shade. h And what is worse, the tariff is so estab- ii lished as to effect a direct tax on virtue, rt ,nd wakes it costly business to die wilth a good name. Only reflect what serious consequences to morals and virtue are cal culated tuie wrought by such a tax as the R Chronicle's, which extorts, for simply in- p serting a d -ath, two and six pence; "for it the death of a person who lived a perfect patteru of all the Christian virtues. and b died regretted by the whole country, ten ti shillings, for the death of a person who a possessed extensive literature and profound a erudition, superadded to which, his whole lile was reiarkable for piety, humanity, charity, and self denial, one pound; for te death of a lady, whose hursbaud is in. consolable for her loss, and who was the s delght of the circle in A hich she moved, one pound ten shillings; for the death of a gentleman who had been only six months married, who was an example of every a conjugal and domestic virtue, and whose V widow is in a state of anguish bordering 0 on distraction, two pounds; for the death or an aristocrat, who was a patternof meekness, a model of humility a patron of iistressed genius, a genuine philantrop- el ist. un exemplary Christian. and extensive It almisgiver, prohIundly learned. unrennt ting in his attention to the duties of his station, kind, hospitable, and affectionate 91 to his tenutry, and whose name mill be a remembered and his loss deplored to the latest posterity, five pounds; and for eve ry additional good quality,whet her domes tie, moral, or religious, there will be an additional charge."b Labor Saving Soap.-The following is 4 a reripe for miaking the labor saving boap, (so called) which is an excellent article for washing. and a saving of labor. The re ceipistor making have been sold from 5 to $10-and the soap 7 cents per pound; a but can be ianutactured-or about two y ceits. Take two pounds of Sal Soda- tI two pounds yellow har soap; and ten quarts of'water- cut the boap in thin slices and E boil all toget her two hours-then strain it through a cloth let it cool, and it is fit i)r use. Directions for using the soap: put f tho cloth-s in soak the night before you t ash, and to every pail of water in which you boil thet, add one .pound of soap. They will need no rubbing;.merely rinse them out, and they will be perfectly clean I and white. EDGEFIELD C.11 TaUaSDAr, AuGUST -4, l1.d9. His Excellency, Governor Noble, ar rived at Columbia, otn the 17th inst. He has since, r-urned lime. The Hon F. H. Elmore has resigned I his seat in Cosgess. David LF. Jamison, t' Esq., is a candidate to fil the vacancy in rhe Congressional Distriet, composed of liarnwell, Orangebtwg, Lexington, and .J Richland. A sPLEnft: P~L5sENT. C On Tnur-4a'y morning rast, as we were siting it our study, reading about Indians,y Congressional elections, Cotton Cirs-slars, I &c., we heard our namre called, asd1 stepped into the parlor, to ascertfain who wished to see us. We naturally, sup.-t posed that sotme pe-rson wanted our pre sence, on a mere matter of business. A smiling servant girl presented us a hanl some basket, neatly covered with a nap kin, aid said touns: -A present from some young ladies, to( the Editor !" We uncovered the basket, and whbim did we behold ? Several large and deticious peaches, English grapes, damson plums, 1 and figs, as sweet as ever grew in th-- gasr. I den of Eden.. All were tastefully, and beautifully arranged. We inqjuired .of she servant the names of the fair donors, that we might chronicle them, as is the custom of editors, and transmtit them to posterity. * The girl would ncar inform us, but we know them. it i-s but t,-nih' to say, tha-t they are among the loveliest of their sex.I They are worthy to he Queens of May, in the vernal seasonl. Charming maidena! accept our heartfelt thatnks for your well tned donation.4 lSiajor John WV. Wimbish, of tftis Dhis trict, wras elected, on the 17th instant, Brigadier General of the Second Brigade of Infantry, South Carolina Militia, by ' nearly fity votes over his opponent, Col. J. Edward Calhoun,.ol Abbevillfe. The Bugs again!/-A few days since, we wvent uentitinely, and innocently, intot the corn-field of a near relation, to look at the darlias pulling fodder. Never did we1 behold such a q.uantity of bugs in thet stalks of corn, and on the gtround immedi ately around! Thbeir name was- literally Legion. Black bugs, brown bugs, spec kled bugs, - big hugs, little bugs, and we know tnt how many other sorts of bugs,t were rioting on the corn, and deprivinig it of the juices wvhich are its very life. The corn-field was one of great promise, and would have yielded bountifully,btnt fore the ravages of these insects. We believe ... .t.m. .t,.m -avemesroyed nearly onc ird of the crop. rhey caused mbe rod- I r to dry prematurely, and before the 1 rn was ripe. In a field adjoining the one ve have entioned, they have also been very de ructive. We are informed, that they are likewise be round in great numbers in other fields this place, and neighborhood. In many sections ofrthis District, they e much more numerous than they were nring the last year. We do not believe, wever, that they have caused as much jury to the crops, generally, as fine ins have fallen in many parts of the istrict, and as these insects are not so )structive in wet weather. Nero, the oman emperorwished that all theRoman ople had but one neck, that he might cut off at a blow! We wish that all the igs could be collected in one mass, and iat some of our farmers were placed round. They would, assuredly, make an wful fire! THE ELECTIONS. Alabama.-The State Intelligencer ys, the Van Bureniles have, doubtless, ected their Governor - three out of the ve membersof Congress; and a majority r both branches of the Legislature The Vhigs ran no candidate f;. Governor, in pposition to the present incumbent, A. P. aaby. - In Montgomery county, the Whigs lected all their candidates for the Legi4 iture. Dr. Oliver, (W.,) was elected ver Mr. Mays. (Sub Treasury,) the pre mit State Senator, and Messrs. Baldwin nd Hutchinson, (W.,) were elected Re resentatives. tn that Congressional Dis -ict. the Democrats elected Dixon H1. ,ewis, without opposition. In the Mobile District, Dellet, (W.,) has een elected to Congress by a majority of 30 votes over Murphy, (V. B.) Mr. Chapiian (A.) is el--cted without pposition. General Crabb (W.) is elected over his pponent, Mr. Ellis. by a majority of 105 otes. At the last eleclion. says the We mpka Argus. Crabb's majority over llis, was upwards off9i0 voted. The Western Carlonian, of the 16th ast., states thar the Conagressional elec ions of N. C. have resulted in the elec ion of the rollowing gentlemen: H W. Connor. J. Hill, W. Montgome y, M. Hawkins, Jesse Bynuw. and 'ic Cy-6 Van Bur'n men. Jas. Graham, Lev is Williams, Ed. De erry, E.. Stanly-4 Federal Whigs. eneth Rayier, a professed State-Rights san, but practically, a Federal Whig. Charles Sheppard,%nd Charles Fisher, tate-Rights Republicans, for reform, re reement, and economy in public ex edi ures. Tenessee.-Jn.this S:tate, Col. Polk, the ran Buren candidate. for Governor, has eaten his oppfnent. Governor Cannon, W.,) several thousand votes. At the st election, Cannon beat the Adminis ion candidate some twenty thousand oes. The Van Burenites have elected a inn rity of membest to- both branchea of the .egislture, T1he follo.wing members ofCorrgresa are lectedt Democrats-A. McCellan, 3. W.Blatck vefI,* Cave Johnson,* A. V. Brown,* I M. Waterson,* H. L. Turney. Wigs --J. L. Williams, John Bell, 4. P. Gentry.' WV. B. Campbell. C. R. Villiams, J. W. Crockett, SamI. B. Car * Ness Members. The Charleston Conrfer says: In Kentucky, Sout hg.ate,4W.,) has been lefeaed for Conrgress, bty Cel'. Butler, In Indiana, Smith, Carr, Wielb. Davis, A.,) and Rariden, (W..) are elected to Jongress. Irward, (A.,) is rmning head of Evans, (WV.,) antd Profl~t (XV.) 'as probably defeated Owven, (A.? An extra from the South Alabamian, at ~ickenville, Alabama, gives the followian 'a the result for Con'gress. Ellis (V. B.,). 37, Crabb (WV.) 784. Three Van Bu enites elected to the Legislature. The Charleston Mercury, of the 13tly in tant, says-" The steamer Charleston, Ave master, arrived here yesterday, with ry-six Indians on board. They were aptred on the 7tly inst., at Fort Mellon, y Lieutenant Hansoix. The mother of )sceola is said to be among them; she is very old, with locks as wvhitel as wool. Phe prisoners are to be established at astle Pinckney, for the present. We do ~r understand that there was any fight g is makirng the capture ; but r wo war iors,.an attempting to make their escape. were killedq." We.copy the following further particn are of the capture, from the Charleston Jourier : -The Indians, it appears, had come in o receive the rations, whi- h- it had been e practice to distribute among them, rhen Lieutenant H anson beitng in posses ion of information, (receivetd by express e day previous,) respeeting the-massacre f Colonel IHarney's detachment, promptly etermined to make them prisoners. In lecompishing this, howvever,. it became recessry to. shoot t wo of the indians, who nade an attempt to escape. The Charles n proceeded to Castle Pinckney, where he I~ndians wil doubtless he imprisoned intil orders can be receiv'ed as to their inal destination." Offie of dhe- Necws, St. Augustine, ( E. F.yy) Aug.. 9, 1839. euto . E. 1iLansno.. in conmnannd of 'ort Mellon, on receipt of intelligence of he massacre of Colonel Harney's com nand, immediately seized some forty In lians, who were cncamped in the neigh iorhood of the post. So prompt and mergeiic a course of conduct is worthy the tighest praise, and reflects great credit Ipon the decision and firmness of Lieut. Elanson. The Speaker's Chair in Congress.---T he -hair has been remodelled,anid highly im. roved. The cost it is said was $2,154 ?7J cts. The Speaker's chair should :ertinily be neat, and ornamented in i manner becoming the Representative Rjall of a great nation ; but we must say, hat we think the expeuditure upon it, use css, and highly extravagant. Traellers' Tales.---We have heard nany wonderful accounts of the West,and Texas. But the following, which we re eived from a gentleman, who had lately visited Texas, exceeds all. He informed us, that a great deal of land in that leoun ry, yielded 4000 lb. of cotton to the acre ; that gourds grew there, which would hold ten gallons of water; that the deer were so numerous, that they came up to the dwellings of the settlers on purpose, we ruppose. to be shot! Now, we are not prepared to disprove ibis account, but we are confident that the statements of many travellers in the South West, are about as accurate as the history of Lilliput, Lapuia, Brobdinag, &c., by that renowned travellerCaptain Gulliver. Nick-names of the Democrats and Wfig Bankites.---The Bankites give the Demo cra'., the annie of Loco Fuco- that is, men who shed light upon a dark subject, and bring to open day, the black doings of the Bankites. On the other hand, the Democrats give their opponents the sou briquet of Hoco Poco; that is, those who by tricks of legerdemain.have conjured the public money into their own pockets, aid. are struggling hard-:o keep it there. Principles.--Benjamin Constant, th . celebratedFrenchRepub lican, wrote much against Napoleon, before his return to the capital, in 1815. In an intertiew wilh the philosopher, after his entry into Paris, the great Corsican frightened him, but forgave him., Instead of punishing him, as a petty tyrant would have done, he no bly forgot his offiences, and made him a Baron. In the Reminiscences of the Hon. Wrt. H. Crawford, by Eugene Vail, Esq., the writer says --. I When on some public occasion, Cotr. stant was professing in enthusiastie terms his republicanism, and had auded, that strict adherence to one's principles, should be evinced even unto death. * Why,.then,' rejoined one present, 'did you, Baron, bow before Napoleon!' Because,' replied he. *I .am not a, principle. Yen may stifle a principle, bur. if voustifle a man'" * * * A very metaphysical distinction truly,. and very convenient for politicians! Alany others, besides Benjamin Constant, make thi- important distinction. It is ond thing to have a set of principles, buti a very different thing to carry out theses principle. in actinn-? A writer in the Montgomery A'dverti'. ser says-" In Vrance, the lowest deno' mination 4fpaper money is lit tle less than. one handrt~d' dollars. In England, the lowest is twenty-five dollars !" In many other countries, the small change is com posed of gold atnd silver ; and bank bills,. unless of large size, are cotmparatively un known. In our State, we have paper bills as low as twenty-five cents. Is there no t'emedy ? There is---in the enactment o a&law, when it can be done with justice' to. the banks, against all hills utnder ten, fifteen, or ttwenty dollars. Gold or silver wourld then be plentiful for all the purposes of change. The writer, above-mentioned, says : " As a circulation, gold is unkown to use and uguld vragle is handed around as an article ef'curiosity, anid exhibited to the gapingt londer of our wives and children. Yet withiti the last eighteen months, hea vy importaf ions of this precious metal have been made into our country. Where has it gone ? into the vaults of the banks, who find it cheaper to pay out dollars of their ow n making. than to p art with this '.aluoble commodity. If the dues of the government were required in gold and sil ver, the bank. would he compelled to dis goirge this precious metal in exchange for their bills, and thtts we should get into cir culation a currency which 'never depreci ates, and which, of all others, is the most convenient for the purposes of travellingi. This very wvatnt of a convenient mediunm to the traveller, has constituted a standing. argument in favor of a U. S. Bank. To this argument. .I will merely say, that gold . is more conveni..nt for travelling money,: &a baleof cotton is a better bill ofexebange' than that bank ever drew. Bumt how are we to get the gold ? I answer, by preventing. the issuing of hills below twenty dollars, g'dd would talie their place in this country as it has in every other country, in Eu rope. The death of shinplasters under one dollar, was the resurrection of silver change among us, and so it would be of' gold, if we were to banish bills tunder twenty dollars. An intelligent traveller eformed mte, that in making the whole tour of Europe, he never saw a bank bilL or a check, that he travelled through coun. tries of dilferent languages anti religions,. with a purse filled with gold, occasionally replenished by a check drawn by one pri vate banker on another. What. a conl mentary on the necessity of a U.S. Bank, to furnish a currency and exchange througth out our country !"