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Chaumicre, Ball? CliampcUcs have ruined e? very thing. ' ?r It is very truo, citynalU are now not much bettor. Witneas tweuty ftotty >!!*??# that I ^fcould mention, who nover fail to attend every fVme, andaro not married a bit tlMt i Iname rioboay, but ?w wl yours site (dm been cAHed tfye rin j shohesdam ' tlitf capital i ho^ r. shehftd? Nol a single onoj and why ? Because thev avoid gifU who dance,too well j be^ow. t com mpre to take a wife 1W? or aix timea a year to a ball, than to keep two children >.. w& cause thp love Oancing doee not. agrco with the cares of house-keening, without meutiouing many other reatona which you can very ea?ity divine." , Madame Choquet mnde a pause here, and a? she perceived I was about to takead vantage of it b) 'edging it aworj, " I beg pardon for In n<uu[>ti?iy you 'ft continued one, "but 1 must n*k permission^ lea veyou a little earlier to day than usual. 1 have not a moment to lose,| I an? going;to a wedding if you mtat know ? ?.. ? ft, Yes, roony to a wedding I Did you never observe a young girl who sometimes comes with me, little- Henrietta* *the daughter ?if a master batcher a few doors froin us. One of the richestljiParty. He might have done, an many others do. who have not fia)f his fortune, placud his daughter in.a smart boarding school, fciveii her masters, and in a word, have made a flue lady of her j but Courtois had ho mo good ficnse j he hnd hU daughter taught to read and write,and placed her with mo to learn needle work. These two years that she has left me, ahe has been at ih\e head of her father's house, and keeps his books as welt as the best of clerks could do* 'With her-twenty years, her pretty features* and her crowns, Henrietta has not, as von may very well believe, wanted admlrtm.? She has refused, that is to say, her father has refused for her, a notary?* clerk, a clerk in the customs, a lamp contractor, and a grocer in La Hue do la Vorrerie, who counted on her pdrtlon to restore Ida credit, 4 If. Courtois has cast his evea on the son of a cattle dealer of Poissy.-? After the nuptials, thb good man will leave his shop to the children, ind retire to his farm in the Pays d'Augc, where, by way of doing something, he will occupy himself in fattening oxen. ** To day is the betrothing ; I must not full 10bo there. I have mailt*, the bride'* linen: it is worth seeing: all in doxenfl, nnil ho good, nnd t>o fine ! The father ha? spared no expense. The young man is s strapping good looking Ind. lie hasmsde two campnigna, but thin has not prevented him from providing a substitute, for whom he has paid two thoUHaiid crowns. '* I must teuvtf you to go and dross the bride ?I understand such thing* a little, I have not been a lady's maid for n > thing. Tl>cro will be1 some talk about the nuptial foast, 1 unsure you: a hundred covert at tufl Feu Eternal on the Boulcvatt du Jardfn de iMantea. I know many folk* in this part of the world who will not bo Very will bleated at th|s marriage. It is e iiongh that things are well done to excite the ?jpileen of the envioUi. Already satirical verses are written upon it. 1 have somo of there in inr pocket. Ono says that good-man Courtois, will h^rdjy.know himvelfin a merry making) that it is.a long while since lie has treated his customers | and a tliousand other sucli -foolish pleasantries, which don't prevent JtftC being a very good follow, very serviceable, ami one Whose, only fault is that hie bestows his kindness es in tlio Wrong place, 1 khow something of hint | to has just raised my rent, and at the Mlnstilt his forbidden the goods of an old ^UlltMakt'to'Jbe.sMd who lives above me in his house* and whft-owes him livo or six quarters. Whence comes such a preference ? Because 1 am worth'something, and the other has not a sixpences Bltt why has'nt lie a sixpence ? He cause, inste?(l of attending to his scholars, since the rfeith.of his wife,Hie passes ill his time at coffee-house* playing it domino. ' Tor it Is well said* that i woman is the treasure of n hound ? ? * *>** ,( tTie. tongue'df Madame'Choquet is Ijke a coach wheely wmch inffimies ind heats by the rapidity of tf * motion. The more she speaks the more she warm*, and the less possible it is to foresee the termination of, or to stop such a torrent of vrnrds {?but fortunately for ine ond * for the ceremdtfy which iwaited nor, my, ser vant carte in *? usual, and hastily interrupted her in th?S middle of her harangue ; lie knows as Well as myself the danger to vfhicli wo aro exposed by permitting Iter to finish it. Mildame Cheque!, after add reining mo with theitu^omary ffttttl question, M |s there any thing mojo lean do for you, 6Ir f** retired, dropping i?e a very low curtsey, and leaving me well convinced that if (as stoine learned man savs) a woman's tongue is her sword* sho Was full si.well qualified to give I won* in fencing ?s bet* husband. . roNTftNKi.tr, Tlie Baron de Orlmm relates an extraordina ry instance of the Insensibility of this eccen tric author, in his historical Ik literary memoirs and anecdotes, which places the character of this literary veteran in no very agreeable point of view. Fontenelle was particularly Fond of suparagUB, hut preferred them very much dreo'sed with oil. 11 fine of Ids fiiemls, 1 think thi Abbe Terrauon,'going in one day, intend ing to d|tfft' With him, M. de Konteiielln fiftid that ho would make igreat sacrifice to Idm, nnd havehiff the aspirtjgtts dressed with but* t#t. Jftfori the time rtf dinner arrived, how evei*, the visitor was tiken ill, and fell down af ter a few momenfs in an apoplectic fit; M. de Fontenelle, on this, ran with great haute to the kitchen, tilling out ill kith oil, ill with till.? Hut the most hprrlMe part of this story is* that n short time iffer* being it dinner with lord llydf. when i dith of ispirigus mid* part of ?he p{ff of fire, )ie .observed that whit he had -jr.* ? of .? _ HHIStoS H*. wu deiVof Alt VMneli iead(My? Aihl'of *' academics of Science tod Inscriptions j was the author of several philosophical w which will tranaRiit hla nam* to tlio latest terlty*?Portico, r, ? ? ACCOUNT OI' Till". PON1 In a conversation with an I .considerable knfiwlwlga and ncu I received thefollowing account dinns, hitherto not taken notice of by,any hlstp Han. It appears to mo sufficiently interesting to bo more gcifprnlly known* particularly an tho twister is n man or undoubted veracity* who baa teen and traded with the poopte described. ?I1?o Pondonder are of short stature, fair com plexion*, and short curled hair of ia lifeht brown color. They live In excavations maae In the sides of theoanka of rivers and lakes* from a' dread of thoir enemies* the Sioux and Chtppe ways. They dress altogether in blue, use no nafnt* and wear no ornaments of any kind, rheir spatterdashes* or leggings* as they are Usually termed* are sewed up at the side* after tho manner of our pantaloons* and not tlko those of other Indians.wno show the hems on the out side. Their language is a peculiar one* resem bling the Scotch more than any other* in sound* though there is ho resemblance In tho words. The Sioux, call them bastard white men} but my informant does not hesitata to say that this is not tlipir trup character. He had seen about I four hundred of them oh A hunting party* but is unnhle to tell of what number their nation con-1 si?t4. They pluck their beard like other Indians, i and do not appear to be of a more religious turn, j They aro not warriors. They neither frolic, sing nor dance, as tho other Indians do* but aro a reserved* sober people. Thin trader was not able to ascertain tho ex act placo of their residence t but he thinks it is between three and four hundred miles below the Mandall towns. Ifo met with them on the great prairies, lying between the river St. Peter and tho Missouri t ho left tho former river at the Cut Hanks, on the head waters, and struck the Mis* souri at a right angle. In tho neighborhood are manv extensive fortifications. Tho French call them llawnoss, (slaves) but this ought not to be considered their proper name, as it is applied to all prisoners or captives. The Sioux ami themselves agree in their name, Pondondcs* the signification of which word 1 have not been ablo to learn. Tho river St. Pe ter is called by tho Sioux, fyinterbfwminit/iote? the liver with the troubled waters.-?Portico, INTELLIGENCE. FltOM TMK MHDITEItUIUNEAN. Captain Ml., of the brig Boxer* arrived at N. York, from Smyrna and Gibraltar, communi cates (ho fallowing news:?" The British frt cuto with the Algerino ambassador to the Sub lime Porto, remained nt tho inlc of Teiicdbs, the st and seiajnor refusing to al/ hqr to pass the Dardanelles. The ainbatsadur wished to tic landed at the Island, but the commander of the frigate declared he would carry him hack to Al giers, unless he was allowed to land him at Constantinople. Messrs. Savary and I.allc ntnnd had been some time at Smyrna; the foi> titer still remained there, ami was preparinft, I narative of tho late event** He sav* that Na poleon was received bv captain Meitlaml otf condition that ho shoulu remain in Kngland.-* Ocn, Lallcmatid had loft Smyrna it was snppo scd for England. The Captaln-Pachu, with 25 salU.was on a cruise in tho Archipelago, 'l*he UTti. sloop of war Peacock, captain Rogers* arrived at Gibraltar on the 15th ult. x and tho Hornet lieat Claxton, two days before from Malaga. On the 14th nit. Kxniouth /ailed for Algiers with a second invincible armada, con sisting of twelve sail, among which were twd 3 dcckers and three 74's, .together with a flotilla of gu ft-boats, bomb ketches, See. Tho Dutch admiral followed in the wake of his lonMilp.? Advices received at Gibraltar from Algiers, sta ted that the Hey was well prepared to. receive lord Rxmouth, and was. determined to defend himself desperately. Many French, engineers had ontered the service." , It was generally thought at Naples that Mr. Pinkney, the American Minister, wo'jld effect the objeot of Ids mission, as two of thn Ameri can vessels sequestered under the. government of Murat wore in the service of the present reigning king i that though tho government might not be able to pay at preuont, they would acknowledge the debt. Cant. Smith, arrived at Jlo?ton, statesthat Mr.Uibb*, the American consul at Palermo, in conseuuence of his embarrassed circumstances* committed tho act of suicide about the 17th of July* lie failed it is stated for hfclro million sterling. /.J v Among the singular occurrences of the pre sent day* it is mentioned that the emperor of Aufetria has fallen deeply in love with Maduute Murat! This lady luis long been esteemed as extremely faciuating. ious St. SrKffip.NS. Sent. C.?\Vc have beruanx h to hear of the destination of tho Patriot fleet which parsed the mouth of the Mississippi some time since, but have not been able to get any satisfactory information. Pensacola is still unmolested. We are unwilling to give credit to every report wo^hear, particularly one of mi improbable a nature ) but we it as we hear it, without vouching for its authenticity?rA ru mor is afloat, and gained tome currcnc v, that the Spanish loyalists were preparing and medita ted an attack on Mobile or Mobile Point.-** The force is said to consist of between 3 and 400 men.?//rt/cyoH. ' OPKCm PAYMfcVTS Delegates from nearly all the chartered hanks of Ohio convened at Chllllcothe on the Oth Sep tember, for the purpose of agreeing on some ge neral cowse/espeeding the resumption of specie rewme the payment Of their notea In IguSm ?ktS fswoMei convention, v9tiK thAj>twWirtt?nd 6crrctovy ofthU tut ami thnt tlio pre#Mcnt commUhicite ? misagjSfe s&hbHI letter of the **I ofltttyUet, ARYMJM FORTHB MAT ANT) DUMD, . It give* iit much pleasure to state that Mr. Gallaudatt and his companion, Mr. Lament Clerc, Imve arrived in lloston from Hartford* 'Hie obj-ct qf Mr. Gallaudntt'a visit is to solicit BubscrintionH for the education of the deaf and dumb children of the indigent. It is understood that the f^ndi alread/ raised, or to be raised in Connecticut, will be sufficient for tho ejection *f tho necessary buildings. AH contributions ob. taiircd from other states will therefore bo devot ed immediately to the support of the scholars. It has.tyeep ascertained that there arc 100 deaf and dtnab persons in Connecticut. If the pro Krtion to population holds good, we may expcct find nearly SO subjects of this misfortune in the town of Boston, and at least 800 in Massa chusetts l'rbper. When the.peculiar sufferings of the deaf and dumb are taken into considera tion, we trust that the benevolent in tho metro polis, and throughout the country, will bo libe ral in their support of an institution, which is to open the sources of moral and intellectual plea* suro to so many of our unfortunato fellow-citi '/.ens. Let it be remembered that no family, not already reared, is secure against tho visita tion of this calamity. If proofs are wanted of the efficacy of the proposed method of instruc tion, a few moments' conversation with Mr. Clero will supply tliein. This gentleman was n pupil of the Aobu Sicard, and under Ids instruc tion lias made great proficient^ in various do? EnrtmenUof literature aud science, lie . baa ccn deaf and dumb from infancy. Th||K months since he was wholly ignorant of fne English language. Ife now r<mds and writes it uitli the greatest facilitywer* MueB" din tions that are proposed tomSBlh a readiness and good sense wliich wHMBcrcdit to those who are in possession ofafftheflensos. Wo re joice that an Inetitution whidi dtais so much ho nor to the couafcy, as tho Connecticut Asylum, is to coniineitiH^a operation under .tho superin tendence of IPT gentlemen whom wo know to tie so> admirably'qualified for their stations.? llofton paper. ht.sday, ocTOMKIt 1, 1816. A Court of tinquiry was convened at the requestor Captain Js.wi* Harrington f of the Navv, on board the United Stated ship I tide* pemlencc, lying tW Boston harbor* on 'lucadsy the 3d taU. to ascertain 'the facts of the?0tir cootie between tlio American sloop of war Pea* eoik, and the K#st India Com nun v'a cruiser Nautilus* which took place in the straight* of Surida on the flOth June, 1813?Captain Haiti bridge, President | Captains Jones and Morris, meintyrs* and George Hlake, Judge AdvoCate. The gallant old Commodoro Triiaion has offered himself a candidate for the ofltco. of Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia. The proposition from tho Treasury Depart* inent resecting the payment of Specie oh the 1st Oct oho r, havins been generally declined by the Htilte Hanks, tile Secretary has given notice, that after the fioth ?jay of February, 1817", all duties, taxes* debts or sums of money accruing or becoming payable to the I1. Stntes* must bo paid in tlie legal currency of the same* or Treasury Notes* or Notes of the Hank of the United States* or in Notes of Hunks which aro pr.ynble and paid on demand in the legal cur rency of the United States* and not other wise. * * Ill? New-York W*torlcal Hocitttj celebrated tlic 4th ultimo a? the 206<h Anniversary of Hudson's Discovery of New.York. Improved PI (titter for (Ihimnirn.?Home yearn ?ince n Mr* ('onrow, of New-Jemey, built a chimney to a houne for hi* brother, and in doing of whir.Khe mixed in the ?t?ft* with which he plaintercd tho inside of the chimney, a certain uiuntity of salt. The quantity in unknown and the peraon i? now dead, it It slid the chimmiy hat never been swept, nor been net on fire* nor hn? it ever been foul, an the Boot had been always falling from the chimney on the hearth tin ovary damp or giving day. In the treaty lately concluded heween the llritiah power in India and the Hojah of Nepaul, after ac^iiring a large addition of the valuable possessions oi that prince* tho English have compelled him to agree to an article* whereby he is prohibited from taking into Ida employ any American officer. A second massacre of th? protests nta ha<? tnk nlace in France, and that too like the first* ie iVikqof Angouleme making a tour In | that quarter. " More than a thousand protes* jtants (says the Morning Chronicle) have fallen in th? department of the (1?rd ; several women re been whipped,to death, and their dead bo. 9 exposed to everjr kind of.indignity."?? <Tl\e*o alrocitu* flio ascribed safely to " p?f Airy V for not one of the rolrderev* of tlift. proteBtsnt* has y*t been brought tu justice* 1< is thufc that France Is a delivercd.^-A-CW. ' . # WaMBwB ? ? .'- * | ? ' * | :y ./?. ?' A London paper of Jttly SO, after sneak in the ?<inclement summer" in England, snys, ? different perts of Sweden mm i * continues bedtU ovei1 the continent*'* that ho ?aw many people ntd flo*tlIJ(F< down the Indue, on skint of oxenipttated, riding, Iastride, with n good mi\ of their bodies in tfio water. The Hottentots havo atntthnd Stain Eltar. The Mediums are called by Mr. Canrtji -'II " wooden horses," and thoy have bean des cribed by A Ir. Trotter ns logs of wood from sis. to eight feet long, haying pegs driven into thn side at a few inches distant from one of tho ends; Ou one side of then logs e man stretvh el himself at full length, holdir.g fast by the pey: with one hand, whilst with the other, and occa sionally with ltw feet, he drives it ?n by strik ing the water at in the act of swimming." Tho end of the log which goes foremost }s Held, ol> liqnely to'the stream in an angle of abont 40 deuces, by which it is pushed across without being cdrriod far down with the curreut. Tho French poets who tiave recently ilogi?. ed Louis, and been reproached with, tiAvinu praised Napoleon more, might have answered as the English bard who presented Homo verses to Charles II.?" Your lines on tha virtues of Cromwell were hotter," buiil the king. 11 Yes, nirc, (was the rcpU) poet# succecd best iti no t i o s. ?Host on Palladium. i A. man in New-York has been sent to the pe nitentiary six months for stealing uewspafccis at tlie suoscribera* doors. Tho c(fence is mean enough i yet the punishment is too severe. But (says tt\e Federal Republican) " to rob a mar. of his newspaper is as base and as criminal a to purloin his watch." Is not this a mistake '? Is it as criminal by the law of New-York* to steal RIOO as 12 1-2 ctfit* ? Is the confine ment as long? We suspect the fact is not s.< ?but if it is. the law must have been pennad by jDraco himself. In our code, th,e one would In; tho pettiest of all petty misdemeanors, while the other would be a scnous felony. No larcc ? ,ny for less than four doll,mi can send n man to,, our penitentiary?the common |ail is the prison* fur all such offenders, flut in the eye of jm 'tice, do not the oftcncca wear a very different hue ? Who values d newspaper as much as u i watch ? who wouldn'ot rather lose a hundred papers, than the most indifferent time piece ? Let auy oho' but an irritated printer, bring tho case homo to himself?and he would feel all/''" odds between the two cases?atod the prjf > himself would feel it, as toon as his iniy . ceased. Wohavobeei) sufferers ourseWf this petty nuisance \ we/hlnk it steal a newspaper ; but we should not euvj^ sensibility of that man, who would coolly si a fellow creature to jail'for more than one lid for stealing a newspaper.-*-Very often in< may it be said of it, " Whorver steals my per, steals traah".?Dkhmv 'd Compiler. j Divine Wisdom intending to detain us i . time on earth, has dona well to cover w yell the prospect of life to com** *(,r if sight could clearly distinguish tha Apposite hi who would remain on tnts t^pestuous coAj ?Mulcm* dc titucl TO SrilK JT.tHTOR Of Ttl* TtUtCorV. IVf/r. I.orrain~In answer to a Correspond! in your lnnt naper, 1 have mad* (lie f'entf * authority ant I order of the Corporation o town, and if lie donbt of it* he may en from the Tntendant or any one of the nVih If ho think it is not correct, he muy make he likes. V ; : C. nARRtUXOT, M?r?h*l of Coluir m In Columbia, on Tiiurtduy evening- but, Mr Ik-ckci to Mim *iary Habb. ? . ??afcgBIIII'll'l IIIII.H II11 UlllgB)8WBHBWBWBHffS A HOU8R AND LOT PUR SAM*l AN the main street In Columbia, one aquar f_F Mr. Aintley Hall's storo, Any pcraon w',?l purchase can view tlie premise*, by applying to P. ,,_ m>*( in (he absence ol* JOHN ?IT.W MIT.? ? Columbia, Oplotrtr 1, lfil6. 4t?if. FOR SALE, TilB following valuable property, the Houkcij | l/>t, with (Iks Improvement* thereon, on Itiofjfe, *un atecet, at the lower end of Columbia, formerly'tM cd by Mr< Tmrwitliy Hires, and has been for nrtny-M occupied M a Tavern, being oneof the most de ?ir?!f* tnation* in the town for that basnets On tin- prof it a luge two-?toiy wooden Houae, (with a ht.t k < Iwlow) contihtlhg fourteen rooma, with three's a room*, With a large awl commodious Kitchen, ?tl and Garden. Also on the lot ii another Ifmco, cofttl in* seven. room*, for the accommodation of pr.iuU m>iiet, and th* adjoining Lot to tlie State House. command rig situation of die property i* well known, Also.tho Koines ahd i-ot, with the improvements thef 6n, adjoining the above property, Ikewite formerly ow ed by Mr. Timothy R.trt. Tl?e House contain* aevl room*, with a Cellar below, and on the premise* ?rel Kitchen, 8moke-)iouse. Stable and Chair-house, witM upaeious O.irden. This property it almort emitely nca and It well calculated for the accommodation of a teel family. For term*, which will hr accommodating at re ttiect< the time of payment, fnonlre of October 1. (41) AINSf.F.V IIAI,1> b CO. |rT7? Wo are requested to announce Mr. Mi ni v.i, Thomas, of 8tate?burg? ait n Candida] to represent tfi* Congremtiol il District, cop posed of tlte; District* of Ht mptcr, KofiM Lannaster Ac Chesterfield, in the next Congrtj b.y* Wnsro author land to r(ate that JOSK| llKLMNGKIt, KfvQ. of Barnwell District, Candidate to represent in Congress, *t the Klection the untied Districts of Richland,1 ington, Orangeburg and Jtarnwfcll. LAW BLANK$7~ Neatly printed, foy *;d* At the Te1<MGop< Of