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H’T In thin pnper the Lhwh of the United State# .me published. Laws of the U. States. 25p [PUBLIC ACT.]’ AN ACP to establish an additional Land Office in the Stale of Illinois. Be it enact'd by the Semite and Home i)f Ueprcsenlaliees of the Vailed Slnlr.s uj America in. Congress assembled, Thai, so much of the public lands ol the United Slates as lies cast ol the Mississippi rivet - , north oftheline separating the thirteenth and fourteenth tiers of townships north ol the base line, and west ol the third prin cipal meridian, in Ihe Slate of Illinois, shall lorm a Land District, for the dispo sal of lltcsaid lands, and for which pur po-e a Land O.fice shall be established at Such place therein as the President ol the United Stales shall designate, until the same shall be permanently fixed by law Sue. 1. ,l.t ■ he it further marled, That there shall ho i Register and Receiver appointed to the said Land Ollice, to superintend Ihe sales, of the Public Lands in tlie said d strict, who shall reside at the plat e where tlie said oliii o shall he established as aforesaid, give security in the snme manner, in the same sums, and who e compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authorities shall, in every re spect, be tlie same in ralalion to the land which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are, or may he by law, provided in re litiou to the registers, and receivers ol public moneys in tlie several offices estab lished for the sale of the public lands : Provided, That the said appointments shall not bo made until a sufficient quan tity of public lands shall have been sur veyed within the said district to author ize, iu the opinion of the President, a pub lic. sale of lands within the Fame. Site. .1. And he it farther enacted, That the provisions of the second, third, and fifth, sections of the Act, entitled “ An Act to designate the boundaries of dis tricts, and e-tahlish laud offices, for the di-qiood of Ihe public lands not heretofore olferc I for sale in the States of Ohio anv Indiana,” approved March third, ciglr teen, hundre 1 and nineteen, and the Act, entitled “ \n Act making further provi sion for the sale of the public lands,” ap proved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty, lie, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the said district au l olfice, so far as they are not cli mgml by subsequent laws of the United States. PHILIP P. HARBOUR, Speaker of the House of Hepresenlnllveii, JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. Washington, May tl, 1022.—Apppinve.t JAMES MONROE. ‘ AN ACCOUNT op the \u\ewvVc-vV Insurrection AMONG A PORTION OF HIE BLACKS IX CHARLESTON, prut.istl ED By the authority of the Corporation o, Charleston. [continued.] APPENDIX, (A.) “ Every slave who 'hall raise, or at tempt to raise an Insurrection, in this Pr wince or -hail endeavour to delude an entice any Slave to runaway and leave tlie Province, every such Slave ami Slaves, and his and their accomplices, aidoi-H an 1 abetters, shall, on conviction thereof, as aforesaid, suffer death. Pro ridei always, that it shall and may be lawful, to and for the Justices who shall pronounce «outonce against such Slaves, by and with the advice and consent ol the Frcehol Ws as aforesaid, it several Slaves -h .It receive sen tern e at one time, to mitigate and alter the sentence of any .Slave, other than such as shall ~e con v ic *1 of homicide ( fa white person, who th sh <ll iliitik may deserve mercy, and may inflict such co-poral punishment (o- Hier tHaudmslh) on any such Slave, as they in discretion shall think fit, any Hiin*- - horeiu contained to the contrary thereof it any wise not Withstanding. Provided, Put one or more of the said Slaves who shall be convicted of Hie crimes orof feii e aforesaid, where several con' ern cl, s'ia 1 Iv wkxecnled for examplo, to vl - or others from o!T< n hug in the like kind, A. A. 17 Id. P. L. 167. (II.) A negro mn testified ;« follows 1 I know Peter, ho belongs to Mr. James Poyas; in May last, Peter and myself met in Legare Street, at the corner of Lamhol street, where the following con versation took place—He asked me the news—l replied, none that 1 knew of— He said, by George !we can’t live so. I replied, how will we do ? He said, we *tando very well, if you can find any one to assist us—*-will you join ? 1 asked him, how do you mean ? He said, why ! to break the yoke, 1 replied, I don’t know. He asked me, suppose you were to hear, that the whites were going to kill you would you defend yourself? I replied, I’d try to escape. He asked, have you lately seen Denmark Vtse.y, and has he spoken to you particularly. I said no. Well then, said he, that’s all now ; but call at the shop to-morrow after knocking off work, and I will tell you more,! We then parted.—l met him the next day, according to appointment, when he said to me, we intend to see, if we can’t do something for ourselves, we can’t live so. I asked him, where he would gel men ? He said, we’ll find them fast enough, wc have got enough, we'expect men from country and town. But how; said I, will you manage it. Why, we will give them notice, said he, and they will march down and camp round the city. But what, said ’ I, will they do for arms, Heanswcrcd, they will find arms enough, they all bring ’ down their hoes, axes, kc. 1 saki, that \ won’t do to fight with here. - fie said, stop! let us gel candidates from (own with arms, and we will then lake the t Guard-House and Arsenal in town, the i Arsenal on the Neck and the Upper r Guard-House, and supply the country people with arms. Mow, said I, will you approach those Arsenals, kc for they • are guarded ? Yea, said he, 1 know that, but what are these guards, one man here, and one man th» re, we let a man pass be fore us. Well, said I, but how will the black people from the country, and those from the islands, know when you are to begin, or how will you get, the town peo . pie together. Why, said he, wc will have prayer meetings at night, and there notify them when to start, and when the < - leck strikes twelve, all must more. But, said I, the whites in (he back country, Virginia, kc. ; when they hear flic news, will turn to, and kilt you all, and besides, you may be betrayed. Well said h«, what ofihat, if one gels hanged, we will rise at that minute. We then left his shop, and walked towards Broad-street, when he said, I want you to take notice of all the shops and stores in town with arms in them, take down their num bers, and give them to me, i said, I will see to it, and then we parted. About.the lal of June, 1 saw in (he | publicpapers a statement that the white I people wer > going to build missionary , houses for the blacks, which 1 carried and showed to Peter, and said, see the good they are going to to do for ns ; when, ha said,—What ot that ?—Have you not heard, that on the 4th of July, the whites 1 .ire going to create a false alarm of fire, and every black that comes out will be killed, in order In thin them? Do you think they would be so barbarous ? (said !I) Yes 1 (said he) Ido !—1 fear they have . a knowledge, of an army from Sat} Domin go, and limy would be right to do it ; to prevent vs joining IHHt army, if it should march towards this land ! I was then ve ’ ry much alarmed. We then parted, and I saw no more, of him till the Guards 1 were very strict, (about a fortnight ago.) At that (imo I saw Peter and Ned Ben nett standing and talking together at the “ > orncr of Lambol and Lngare-streets. They crossed over and met me by Mrs. Myles’, and Ned Bennett said to me— did yon hear whattho;*) boys were taken up for (lie other Bay? I replied, No ! but some say it was for stealing. Ned I asked me if 1 was sure 1 had never said any thing to the whites about what Peter II Poyas had spoken to me about? I repli '■ ed, No ! Says Peter—You never did ? e Noll answered. Says Ned, to me — 1 How do you stand ? At which I struck 1 the tree iiox with my knuckles and said, as firm as this box —I’ll never say one !’ word against you. Ned then smiled and I nodded his head, and said—That will do! '■ —when we all separated; La«l Tnes- II day or Wednesday week, Peter said to me j —Yon see, my lad, how (he white peo l" pie have got to windward of us ? You 1 won’t, said I, be able to do any tiling. O, J yes ! (he said) wp will ! By George we are obliged to 1 Ho said, all down this way ought to meet and have a collection to purchase powder. What, said I, is the use of |iowder —the whites ran tire three times to on - * mice. He said, but ’twill be such a dead lime of the night, they won't know what is the matter, and our " horse companies will go about Ihe streets and prevent the whites from assembling. 1 linked bim—where will you get horses ? Why, said he, there are many butcher , boys with horses ; and there are the liv ery stables, where we have several can didates ; and the waiting men, belonging to the white people of the horse compa nies, will be told to take away their mas ter’s horses. He asked me if my master was not a horseman ? I said, Yes ? lias be not got arms in his house ? I answered, ’/[ Yes ! Can’t they be got at? I said Y'es ! Then (said he) it is good to have them. I asked what was the plan ? Why said, he, after have taken the Arsenals and Guard Houses, then we will set the town on tire, in different places, ami as the whiles come out we will slay them. If ’ we were to set fire to Ihe town first the ' man in the steeple would give the alarm loo soon.—l am the Captain, said he, to I lake the lower Guard-House arid Ar senal.* But, I replied, when you are ’ coming up, the Centinel will give the a -1 hum. He said, he would advance a lil ’ He distance ahead, and if he could only | get a grip at his Ih oat, he teas a gone man, for his sword was very sharp; he ! had sharpened it, and had made it so sharp, it had rut his finger, which he showed me. As to th - * Arsenril on the [ Neck, he said, that it was gone as sure as fate, JVtd Bennett, would manage that t Hh Ihe people from Ihe country, and the I maple bi tween Hibheus' Ferry and Santee would land and lake the Upper (iuard f House. .1 then said, then this tiling seems , } n,p- y 'y man, said he, God has a hand * in it, we hare been meeting fur four years, ' and are not yet betrayed ' I told him, 1 ' was afraid, after all, of the white people b-oiu (he l ack country and Virginia, ,tc. He said that the blacks would collect so numerous fioni the country, we need not ’ tear the whites from other parts, for when ? we have once got Hie city we can keep them all out. He asked if I had told my boys. I said no. Then said he, you i should do it, for Ned Bennett has his peo ■# '* pic pretty well ranged. But, said he, take care and don’t mention it to those wno receive present! of old eon It, ice. from their nutters, or Ihey'U betray us. 1 will speak to them. We then parted, and 1 1 have not since conversed with him. He said the rising was to take place last Sun day night, (16th June) —That t any of the coloured people who said a word about this i matter would be killed by others. The lil lie mate, who can’t be killed, shot or token is named Jack, a Gullaft Negro. Peter said there was a French Company in town of three hundred men fully armed —that he was to see Mond (Jell, about expediting the rising. I know that Min go went often to Mr. Paul’s to see Edwin, hut don’t know if he spoke with William. Peter said he had a sword, and I ought to get one. He said he had got a letter from the country ; I think from St. Tho mas’, from a negro man who belonged to the captain of a mililiacompany, who said he could easily get the key of the house where the company’s arms were put af ter muster, and lake them all out, and help in that way. This business origin ates altogether with the African Congre gation, in which Peter i-a leader. When Bennett’s Ned asked about those taken up, he alluded particularly to Mr. Paul’s William, ami asked me if 1 said anything to him about it. The voluntary confession of Uom.a, to the Court, made after his trial, but before sentence was passed on him. 1 know Denmark Vesey, on one occa sion lie asked me, what news? I told him ■ none. He replied, we are free, but the white people here won’t let us be so; and the only way is, to raise up and light the whites. I went to his house one night, to learn where the meetings were held. 1 never conversed on this subject with Batteau nr Ned.—Vesey told me, he was leader in this plot. 1 never con versed either witn Peter or Miugo. Ve sey induced me to join. When 1 went to Vesey’s house, there was a meeting there, the room was lull of people, but none of them white. That night, at Vesey’?, we determined to have arms made, and each man to pul in twelve and a half cents towards that purpose, i’hough Vesej’s room was full, Vdid not know one individual there. Ait this meeting, Vesey said, wc were to take the Guard-House and Magazine, to get arms; that wc ought *o rise up against the whites to get our liberties, lie was the first to raise up and speak, and he read to us from the Bible, how the children of Israel were delivered out of Egypt from bondage; he said, that the rising would take lace last night week, ■ (the 16th J une) and that Peter Poyas was one, (C.) I Examination of Sai.j.y, a negro woman ! belonging to Mr Alexander Howard. , 1 know Jesse, and heard him speak l several times about it ; one day in parti i cular, he was anxious to see his brother, , who has my mother for his wife, and ! waited until he came, when they con i versed together. Jesse said, he had got 1 a horse to go into the country, to bring p. down men to fight the white people : that - he was allowed to pass by two parties of » the patrol on the road, but that a third i parly hud brought him back, and that, if - there were but five men like him, they 1 would destroy the city. This was on last s Sunday week, (the 16th June,) he said, ) that before J o’clock, that night, all the white people would be killed. Thai, if s any person informed, or would not join . in the fight, sucli persons would be killed or poisoned. He frequently came iu(o - the yard to see his brother, and 1 threat i ened to inform, if he came there, and ! spoke in that way, to get us all into I trouble. We nevrr had any quarrel. 1 Examination of Lot, a negro man belong r ing to Mr. Forrester. I know Jesse; he met me just Sunday ? week (16th June) at the corker of Botin - dury street, as 1 was coming into town; c he said, he was going to get a horse to go , into the country. From what my mas b ter had told me the Tuesday before, 1 J distrusted his errand, and gave him a ! caution. When, ns I was goiug down - into town towards Mr. Hibben’s ferry s slip, and conversing with him, he said, - you shall see to night, when 1 come down, i what lam going up for, and, if my own , father docs not assist, J will cut off his j head. He said, he was going ai Tar as s Goose Greek bridge, and would get a i horse if it cost him nine dollars. The s church bells were then ringing, and at ; half past eleven o’clock, same day, I t saw him at Mr. Howard’s, and after / wards understood from Sally, that he r had set off for the country, and had been * brought back by the Patrole. • . (U> ) ? Examination of Frank, a negro man r belonging to Mrs. Ferguson. I know Denmark Vesey, and have - been to his house ;1 have heard him say, g that the negroc’s situation was so bad, - he dul not know how they could endure - it; and was astonished they did not rise r and fight for themselves, and he advised s m» to join, aud rise. He said, he was I, going about to sec different people, and ! mentioned the names of Ned Bennett I and Peter Poyas, as concerned with him ; . that he had spoken to Nod aud Peter on 1 this subject, and that they were logo i about and tell the blacks, that (hey were > free, and must rise and fight for theni f solves : that they would lake the Maga » vines and Guard Houses, and the City, i and be free; that he was going to send > into the country to inform the people • ‘here, too ; he said, he wanted me to > join them. 1 said, I could not answer. - He said, if I would not go into the coun try for him, he could get others ; he said, ’ himself, Ned Bennett, Peter Poyas and ■ Monday Cell, were the principal men, ■ and himself the head man.—He said, i they were the principal meu togoabout i ami inform the people,aad fix them Sic. ; 1 that one party would laud on South Bay, one about Wappoo and about the Farms ; that the party which was to land on South Ray, was to take the Guard House, and get arms, and then they would be able to go on; that the attack was tc commence about 12 o’clock at night ; that great numbers would come from all about, and it must succeed, as so many were engaged in it ; that they would kill all the whiles ; that they would leave their masters’ houses, and assem ble near tlie Linos, march down ami meet the party which would, land on South Bay ; that he was going to send a man into the country on a horse, to bring down the country people, and that he would pay for (he horse. He gave two dollars to Jesse, to get tha horse on Sa • % lurday week last, (15lh June) about 1 I o’clock in the day, and myself and wit ness (No. 8,) also pan iu 25 cents a piece, ] and he told Jesse, if he could not go, he I ■ must send some one else. I have seen Ned Bennett at Vescy’s, I one night i metal Vescy’s a great number of men, i and as they came in, they each handed ■ him some money.—Vesey saujl, there i Was a a little man, named Jack, who could not b« killed, and who would fur nish them with arms ; he had a charm, and would lead them; that Charles Drayton had pron ised to be engaged with them. Vesey said, the negroes were living such an abominable life, they ought to rise. I said, i was living well. He said, though I was, others was not, and that it was such fools as 1, that were in their way, and w'ould not help them, and that, after all things w'ere well, he would mark me. lie said, he did not go with Creighton to Africa, because he had not a will, he wanted to stay and see what he could do for his fellow creatures. I met Ned, .Monday and others, at Den mark Vesey’s,. where they were talking about this business. Thaffirsl time I spoke with Monday Cell, If was one night at Denmark Ve sey’s house, where 1 heard Vesey tell Monday, that he must send some one in to the country to bring the people down. Monday said, he had sent up Jack, and told him to tell the people to come down ai d join in the fight against the whites; and also to ascertain and inform him how many people he could get. A few days after, 1 met Vesey, Monday and Jack in the streets, under Mr. Duncan’s trees, at night, where Jack stated, ho had been into the country, round by Goose Creek and Don hester ; that he had spoken to 6,6oo,persons, who had agreed to join. Monday said to Vesey, that if Jack had so many men, they had belter wait no longer, but begin the business at once, and others would join. The first time 1 saw Monday at Vesey’s, he was going away early, when Vesey asked him to stay, to which Monday replied, he ex pected that, night a meeting at his house, to fix upon and mature the plan, Sic. and that he could stay no longer. I after wards conversed with Monday in his shop, when he asked me, if I had heard that Bennett’s and Poyas’ people were taken up, that it was a great pity. He said, he had joined in the business. 1 told Ijim to take care he was not taken up. When ever I talked with Vasey, he always spoke of Monday Gell a? being his principal and active mrtn in this business. (E) Examination of Witness Ko, 10, a Kegro Man. Peter Poyas was the first man who spoke to me, and asked me to join. 1 asked him what, tha church? He said no, have you not heard, that the blacks were joining, to try and take the coun try. I asked him, if lie thought he had men enough to doit? He said yes, a plenty of and the Society will con tribute money, with which a white man would purchase guns and powder for them. He said he would call back, and I must consider if I would join them. He called back, and asked me, if I was willing now? Why Peter, said I, yon i have not got force enough. He said, if I 1 did not join, he would turn all my 1 country people against me. Said 1, if so, I’ll join you, but you must not put my , name down, when you come out, if 1 1 find you strong enough, I’ll join you. 1 (Veil, said he, if you don’t join you’ll be i killed. Peter and Harry Haig called I on me afterwards, 1 was not at home; > but the next morning 1 met Marry, who • asked me for my name. 1 refused it He I said, 1 would be killed if I did not join. > I said, 1 would join when they came out, if they were stronger than the whites. ■ I larry called on me again, and asked me, if I was willing that the thing would r break out soon. I asked him, where they ■ would begin ? He said, in Boundary ; street. At what hour? He said, at 12 > o’clock at night, or ear!j r iu the morning, • as soon as the guard is discharged. Jack I Pritchard called on me, he is sometimes i called Gullah Jack, sometimes Couter i Jack, he gave me some dry food, consisl ’ ingot parched corn and ground nuts, , and said, eat that, and nothing 1 else, on , the morning when it breaks out, and i when you join us as we pass, put into > your mouth this crab c law, and you can’l s be wounded, and, said he, I give the i same to the rest of my troops—if you ' drop the large crab claw out of your t mouth, then put in the small one. Said, 1 I, when do you break out, and have you ■ arras. He said, plenty, but they are ; over Boundary street, we can’t get at i them now, but as soon as the patrol was slack, they could get them ; this was previous to the 16th J une, on which day, t he said, they were to break ou’. On that day he came to me, and said, they : could not break out that night, as the i patrol was too strong ; he said, he would , let me know when they were ready, i That Sunday fortnight, the 30th June, • he came to me and said, I must lay by I still, they w r ould not break out then, that s he had been round to all his company 1 and found them cowards. I said, thank I God, then ! He said, give me hack my corn aud cullahi (that is crab claw). | i said, 1 would not, and upbraided him for 1 having deluded so many. He said, all ■ his country born promised him to join, because he was a Doc tor, (that is a Con jurer). He said, th? white people was looking for him, and he was afraid of be ing taken, that two men came to his mas ter’s wharf, and asked him, if he knew Gullah Jack, and that he told them, no. He said, his charms would not protect him from the treachery of his own co lour, He went away, and 1 have not seen him since. Harry Haig has since seen me several times, and told me to hold myself ready. 1 said, I’m ready when called ra. He said, all the dray men came to his master’s cooper yard, and said they were ready, but he told them, he was only waiting for Gullah Jack, fie said, he would tell me when they were ready, that they were only wailing for the head man, who was a white man ; but he, although asked, would neither tell me the white man’s name, nor whore the powder and arms were; this was last Tuesday, the very day the six negroes were hanged, about six o’cloc a, A. M. this was the last time we spoke, tliough l have seen him since. ! 1 saw Charles Drayton before the 16th, at Monday Cell’s, 1 was going to mar- : ket, and Charles called to me as I cross ed the street; Joe, who has a wife at ' Mr. llemoussin’s, asked me, if I did 1 know that Monday was at the head of j the Ebo Company, who are going to fight ' the white people ; Monday is au Ebo. I asked Joe, if lie was one of that com- j pany. He said yes, he was. 1 asked him, what he could do, as he was an in valid.—He said, he would take Remous- ' sin’s sword and gun, and tell him to lay down in his bed and be quiet. We part ed. Previous to the 16th of June, Mon- , day Gell called me into his shop; 1 went in, and sftid to him, I heard he was cap tain of his countrymen’s company, the Ebo’s. He said, be was a sort of a one. ! bid him good morning, when he said, when you want to hear the news, come here* I never saw him afterwards. I met Charles Drayton on the Ist of July in the streets, when he said, now get ready, we must break out at once, for we will not let six lives be taken. 1 asked him, where they would begin ? He said, in Boundary street, directly as the patrol and light horse turned in. I said, had you not better wait till after the 4th of July. He said, no, because in the mean time the people would be hanged. Charles said, they had force enough, and we parted. I met him in Market, be twixt 8 and 9 o’clock, on the 2d of J uly, and said to him, now the people are hang ed, I suppose you are sorry you joined in the business. Pie said yes, and we parted. Peter Poyas told me also, that they had force enough, that some would come from James’ and John’s is ands, and some from Christ’s Church Parish, where he generally went over to a meeting to have a talk, and that he had some about and about ia town, the number of which he would show me f oin the Society books, if I would only come to the Society. He said, they were to fight the whites, & keep on fighting, till the English came to help them. Harry told me the same thing.— Jack being the head man, I asked him about the plan, he told me the same thins; that the English were to come to help them, that the Americans could do nothing against the English, and that the English would carry them off to St. Do mingo. Monday and Charles were very great together. John, Mr. Horry’s coachman, came to me one day, and asked me what 1 thought? Every one is ready, said John, to fight the whites, are you ready? He said, lam ready. This took place sometime before the 16th June, and every day he asked me the same ques tions.—About this time George Vander horst came to me and said, they were going to take the country, and he had joined; that he was ready whenever the blacks broke out. He requested me to let him sleep at my wife’s house near Boundary street; I saw him almost every day after the 16th June, and he always said, he was ready whenever the troops were ready. On the 16th June, Jack requested me to let twelve men sleep at my wife’s, as they were to break out that night, and he wanted them to be near Boundary street. On being refus ed, he departed in anger, and reproached me. George called ou me yesterday morning, and asked, if 1 knew that Charles Drayton was taken up, and said, he was afraid Charles would name him, not because he was on his list, for he had joined Jack’s company, hut because Charles had met him at Gullah Jack’s, when ihey were consulting on the sub ject ; that, if he could hear that Charles had named him, he would run off. On Monday, Ist July, Charles Drayton told me, that there would be an insurrection on the morning of the Glh July, as soon as the Guard turned in ; he said, he com manded the country born company.— Jack told me on the Ist July the same thing, and in addition, that they were to rush in with their dirks, guns and swords, ice. they had got, kill the City Guard, and take all the arms in the arsenals ; he also said, there were some arms in King street, beyond Boundary street, in pos session of a white man, which thej in tended to take, (alluded to the arms of the Charleston Neck Company, deposited at Wharton’s, in Kingstreet.) Chas. Dray ton said, he had prepared for himselfa gun and a sword. John Horry came tome ve ry often, and once said he had a sword, & that, as soon as it broke out, he would go upstairs and kill his master and family.— On the 17th of June, on his carriage box, he expressed himself to me in the same manner he had done previous to the 16th. The blacks would have risen on the night of the 16th, had the Guards not been so strong ;'this 1 know from Gullah Jack and Harry Haig, who said, that if the Guards were not too strong, they would get the arms near the Lines, but if the Guards were out, they could not get them to break out with. ♦ Against this witness, the Court had not a title of testimony; he consented with out hesitation to become a witness, and to give all the information he possessed ; a pledge haring been previously given him by the Court, that he should not be prose cuted, nor his name revealed. NEW-YORK, AUGUST 22, 1822. BOARD OF HEALTH. The Board convened at the usual hour. The Resident Physician stated that he had no report to make. A report was received from Drs. Hardy and Hossack, of a lady ill of yellow fever removed from the infec ted district into the country.* The question was put upon pub lishing the foregoing case, when Al- , derman Wyckoff opposed it. He thought no cases of sickness in the country ought to be published, and . alluded to the cases of illness at Am- ( boy, in New-Jersey, reported yester day by Dr. Yates. He thought there was no more reason for publishing such cases, than of sickness in Phi- , ladelphia. ( The Mayor suggested that the rea son for publishing them was that they got sick by going into our infected district, and it there was a propriety . in publishing any cases at all, it would i seem that those of this description < should also be made public. ’ Ihe question was then put upon < publishing, and carried — ayes 6, < noes 4. Dr. Nielson reported a caseofyel- J jow fever in Thomas street. She re- 1 moved from the corner of Green- ] wich and Cedar streets, on Monday t } ! Dr. Bergen reported a case of low fever at No. 11 North Moore street. The patient removed f ro m the corner of Liberty and Green wich-streets on Friday last. A letter was read from Dr. Dyck man, (the Health Commissioner) re* questing leave of absence from the Board for a few days, which was granted. Alderman Mann moved that here after the names of the persons sick be published ; but the motion was not seconded. The Mayor stated that he had re ceived a number of anonymous com- I mumcations from -persons who an- L peared to have the health of the city much at heart. One of them w 4 signed, “ A Friend to the Health of IS ew-York and Philadelphia,” and proposed a specific for yellow fever Referred to the Resident Physician. Another recommended that 11 500 field pieces should be procured, load ed with blank cartridges, and fired into the infected district— Rtferred to Major General Morton, (Secreta ry of the Board.) A letter was received from Dr Bliss, stating that the case of sick ness at No. 3 Wall street, and which has created much alarm in that neigh, borhood, has not assumed symptom* of malignity sufficient to warrant * conclusion that it is yellow fever. The expediency of removing the fences and enlarging the proscribed district, was referred to the Health Committee with full powers. We wish by no means to spread unnecessary alarm among the citi zens, but we do hold it to be the so lemn duty of Editors to keep the public well and truly Informed. If by incorrect statements, or by at tempting to quiet just apprehensions for the public safety, we should in duce one person to stay in a danger ous atmosphere, contract the /ever, and die, we should certainly feel ourselves highly culpable. It was stated in one of the morning papers yesterday, that there had been butse ven deaths from the prevailing fever this season. We knew this state ment to be far too small, yesterday, and took some pains to investigate the matter. The result was, that we made up a list of twenty-one ; and there have been five or six since—in all, say twenty-six or eight. The paper to which we allude, has this morning made a partial correction, by which sixteen deaths arc admitted. Os the number we give above, it is but fair to state, that two of them could not have been known to Mr. Lang when his paper went to as they died during the last night A CARD. Mr. Stone will please' to do Dr. Perkins the justice to state, that in stead of being able to obtain a aerti ficate to substantiate what Dr. P. had disclaimed, the gentleman on whom Mr. relied, is satisfied on reflec tion, that he was mistaken in point of fact; and that Dr. P. was correct. REMARKS. The matter now stands explained we presume, to the satisfaction of all. Dr. Perkins is satisfied that we re ceived the information as we stated it, and our informant, “ ou reflection/' as we are informed by Dr. P. admits that he might have been mistaken. T he mistake, it has been observed t* us, might have originated in this way. Our informant called Dr. P. to visit a case of yellow fever; and the latter I might have asked why it had not been I reported, on the way, before his ar- I rival. “ Doctors will disagree.” * Dr. P. thinks it was not yellow fever, and some other physicians think it was. We have no doubt of the fact. However we are glad the controver sy is at an end. We esteem Dr. Perkins as a friend, as a professional man, and as a gentleman. And we would be the last to say a word that would injure either his feelings or character. We have successfully vindicated ourselves and are content. * There must be some mistake in this case. The lady has never been W nearer the infected district than 151 Broadway. t Neither of those places were original ly considered in the infected district.— But the bounds have already been en larged, and will be still ra .re so. Table of Stocks. —The table ol stocks is omitted this day. The Brokers, and indeed the offices in Wall-street are preparing to remove, and as no business is doing, we ol • • it q course can give no quotations, u. -> Bank Stock, 121 1-2 sales. The Steam Boat from Albany, duf this morning, had not arrived when our paper went to press. LATEST FROM ENGLAND. The regular sailing packet ship* James Monroe; Capt. Marshall, ar rived here late last evening, in days from Liverpool. By this con veyance the Editojs of the Cominf' cial Advertiser have received Don don papers to the evening ol I * e 14th, Liverpool of the 16th, Llo} 1 * ’ Lists of the 13th, a Shipping List o. > the 13th, and Price Currents of tnc | 13th July. The most important t part of the intelligence contained m I