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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. N *—Uw WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3. CC/’No mail north of Charleston last nigb;t- The] Charleston Mercury of yesterday stfi — By the schr. Stephen & Francis, Capt. Mageei we have received a slip from the office of the SrjAja gastine News, dated 2Sth ult. confirming Um* ac count of the attack and murder ol several perkohs belonging to the Theatrical corps of W. C. of Savannah, also the attack on Mr. Jenckes plan tation, at the head of North River, in the neighbor hood of St Augustine, by the Inl.ans —Wildcat, it is said being in command —the particular? of which have already appeared in our columns.’ 1 ,.— i | Columbia, May 10., To the Editors of the Charleston Courier: ] - ) Gentlemen—Since ray last, the river contijai-e* to fail. One of the piers of the Broad River bfidge ha* partly fallen ; it ia therefore impassible, hut by Coot passengers. If the rest of the piers standi the superstructure will stand; if it doe* in the course of a few weeks it will be trussed up ; when the public can use it. I have jnst seen Thomas Stark, from the Rail Roau works, on the River To ray Ip-cat satisfaction, he tells me the works have withstood the shook The in,u*v done to the Columbia C - nal from ivhat ha* since been learned,confirm* ny last opinion. At the head df the Canal, from E‘ro,*d River bridge to Bull • slice, and as far as the- eye can see below, the waters of the rivercominglo it. The embankments are all gone, and |rnut h iof the masonry. { ft Two negroes one belonging to Stadker & Hill, and the other to Mr*. Myres, were drowned in Dying to save their boats pEHRSTLTARIA I-iEGISLATCRE. —ld the H'Otpe on the 26th, the Internal Improvement Appropri ation Bill passed, yeas 4S, nays 41—no fuKhcr amendments having been made (o it. It Drakes appropriation amounting to something over s3 r 000,000. It contains a revenue provision, re quires the United States Bank to loan to the /State H ,000.0‘ 0 at four per cent, and forfeits its char ter if it refuses to toe the mark. I Fatal Duel.—The Toronto (U, C.) Trans cript, of the 21st in«t., reports the fatal isi«»|e -of « duel which was recently fought at Montreal, be tween Lieut- GwJ. White, cf the 7th and Mr. Grant, late of the 79th Regiment. !'l:he Colonel fell from the fire of his opponent, \ 1* he cause of quanel bad reference to the condi|c( ; of Cokmel White towards a young lady related i to Grant. * \ ■ - * i Mr. Cooper is goingback info antiquity* -Ha has sued the Albany Evening Journal for i. 11 1 al leged libel, published three years ago, ancl Ibid his damages at “ten thousand dollars,” The Alle ged libel was contained in an article on the ifa -mous “ Three Mile Point” controversy. ’ i I > Frgm ’the Rithmond Whig. j den. Harrison’s Corresponding Commit tee— Casein point. The Baltimore Pilot, referring to the Federal -charge against Gen. Harrison of being in the hands of a committee, adduces some interesting reminiscences to show that Gen. Jackson occu pied precisely the same altitude when he wjis a candidate. He not only refused to answer inter rogatories, but he resigned his seat in the Sebate because he would not subject his motives to [mis construction by participating in any of toe dues -tions agitated before the country. To rel.evefhim a confidential committee was organized in Nash ville, which undertook to answer all letters to him touching public matters. Tho very men who are now most clamorous against Gen. Harrison were then most vociferous in lauding tha 'deli cate course of Gen. Jackson. But still there was and is a very wide difference, and that! too, in favor of Gen. H. The opinions of Ge|i lack son were not known to the country on the lead ing questions oi the day, or on the great queUioiis which had previously divided the country. He had made no speeches—written no despatches or let ters—which circumstance once prompted R ; ilchie to ask—“ Where are his speeches ? Wh&e his despatches ? Where the evidences of his itut.es manah'p ?” He had taken no steps to jpilt tho country in possession of his sentiment;;. | The People, therefore, had a right to inquiry [what they were.—Nut so wkh Gen. Harris-yni He -has taken an active and prominent part yn every great question for the last thirty years. Hr. has been as open as day with his opinions—ha has concealed them for no one, but has published them from the house-tops.—Every man who can read, scan know them by referring to his public speeches, his letters and his voles. In answer to inquiries, he has only to say, as he does say, ‘"here are my opinions—they have undergone no change.” The Pilot states shat the course of Gin s Jack son excited much clamour at the time—some im puting his silence to fear tc declare hie opin ions. The Legislature of Indiana, composed of his friends, formally addressed him on t|ie sub ject, and desired an expression of his opinions. But they could only succeed se far as to obtain a reference from him to his sentiments formerly expres-ed. The following is an extract of his letter in reply to the Governor of Indiana; “Hermitage, February 28i 1828. Sir :—I have had the honor to receive yiour ex cellency’s letter of the 30lh ultimo, endorsing res olutions of the Senate of Indiana, adopted, as it appears, with a view of ascertaining rrjy opin ions on certain political topics. I The respect which I entertain for the /Execu tive and Senate of your Slate, excludes from ray mind the idea that an unfriendly disposition dic tated the interrogatories which are proposed. But I will confess my regret at being farced by this sentiment to depart in the smallest, degree, from that determination on which 7 have al ways acted. Not sir, that J woald wish tocon e ceal my on any political or ;national subjects; but as they were in various pro mulgated in 1824,1 am apprehensive [hat my appearance before the public, at this li.ye, may be attributed, as has already been the. case, to improper motives.” H ] ■ *2 1 Such was the case with the Old Kero; when questioned by his own friends, who w ine in good ikith, seeking information. All Gen.'Harrison's friends know his opinions—it’s hi* enemies only who are so very solicitous to hear from him, that they may have a pretext for voting for him ! But how stands the case with Mr. Van Suren? He has been questioned, and he has replied, when he has condescended to reply at all, by re e9 Jferring his catechists to his letters and 'speeches. On some points, however, of deep and vil-tl interest to the South, h* has uniformly refustt ti give any answer. In 1836, a meeting of thei Jj’eople of Amelia appointed a Committee to interrogate him about bis views on the slave-trade between the States —Whether or not Congress luid the pow er to interdict it, and whether it wov/ld be expe dient to do so, if it had the power 1 To this re spectful inquiry no response has been received )to this <Jty. Mr, Thomas Giles, if our rscoliec- J lion is not at fault, was the Chairman of the Com mittee. The proceedings were published in the papers of the day; we will look them op and re fresh our neighbor’s memory with them. It is obvious th'.t the baneful effects of the Abolition mania could not reach us in any sum. so readily a* by prohibiting the removal of slave* from one State to another. The passage of such a law would exert a most baneful influence upon \ ir ginia particularly, which would in consequence, soon be overrun by her black population. Judg ing from Mr. Van Buren’s past course in respect to slavery—his vote on Missouri Restrictions — for Free Negro Suffrage—his admission that Con gress had the power to abolish slavery in the District, and, lastly, his refusal to answer the re spectful inquiry of the People of Amelia, the pre sumption is violent, that he entertains the belief that Congress can and ought to pass a law inter dicting the migration of slaves from one State to another. Certainly until he does answer to this important point, he and his hirelings are the last to object to General Harrison’s refusal to answer any inquiries—more especially as all the Gener al’s opinions touching slavery are known to be Southern, and known to be based on the immove able principles of the Constitution, He is not with us to-day, when he wants our votes, and may be against us to-morrow, when the popular current has taken another direction. He has been with us from the beginning, on high Con stitutional grounds, and will be with us as long as the present Constitution endures. Proceedings of Council.— Extra Meeting. Cocxcil Chamber, 7 June Ist, 1840.3 Present, Hon. D. Hook, Mayor ; Aldermen — Parish, Richards, Robertson, Jackson, Harper, Miller, Bones, Crump, Dunlap, and Fleming. The minutes of the meetings of the 25th and 29th May were read and confirmed. The Mayor stated to Council the objects of the meeting to be to report the measures he had adopted to repair the damages to the streets, See, j and the removal of substances injurious to health, thrown up by the Freshet; and to request some more efficient action of Council in furtherance of the work. Council unanimously approved the steps al ready taken by the Mayor, and recommended strongly the most untiring attention to carry out the plans suggested. By Mr. Robertson— Resolved, That the Mayor be added to ths Committee on streets. By Mr. Parish— Resolved, That one thousand dollars be placed in the hands as his Honor the Mayor, as a con tingent fund, to be appropriated fi r work done on account of the city. By Mr. Harper— Resolved, That the Mayor be authorized to pay Thomas Hackle, James Alien, John Bohler, and John McKenney,five doHarseach, out of the contingent fund m his hand*, and the same amount to a negro, the properly of J. P. Seize. By Mr. Miller— Resolved, That the sum of twenty dollars be paid .o R. P. Spellman, for the service rendered by him to the citizens of Augusta during the late Freshet; and that the thanks of the City Coun cil be also tendered to him. The following bills were read and ordered to be paid : John H. Mann, for cash paid by him for work done by order, $23 00 Do do hire of horse, cart, and boy till date, 129 00 Council then adjourned. a H. OLIVER, Clerk. Bully Duncau, one of the big guns and or acle of the Van Buren party, makes use of the following insulting language, in -derision of the suffering condition of the people, brought about by the humbugging of Benton, and the experi menting and incapacity ®f Jackson and Van Bu ren. “ The yelp of panic, ruin and distress, is sow overspreading the land, and doing its base and dirty work of slander upon the character of our country. Where is the panic and distress to be found? Where it always will be found ; among the PENNYLEsS LOAFERS OF YOUR COUNTRY.” Can you read the above paragraph and not say that Dr. Duncan has earned his distinc tion, as leader of one of the most unscrupulous factions that ever disgraced a nation ? No Johnson, No Vast Hares. The article which we copy below from a tho rough-going loco foco paper in Pennsylvania, shows that Col. Johnson’s fiiends will -not pass over in silence the act of the Convention in throw ing him overboard. Their cause was desperate enough in Pennsylvania before, and now without any prospect of success far their favorite, we can hardly believe that much enthusiasm, in the com ing contest, will be manifested for Mr. Van Bu ren. More Treachery. —A faithful public ser vant laid upon the shelf by Southern intrigue and Northern craven heartedness, —lt is wrJh feelings of burning indignation that we notice the meanness and political degradation of the so called Democratic (but more properly office hun ters’) Convention held at Baltimore last week. It is time that the iodepenvlent press, of a true Democratic stamp, speak out, when a body of men, professing to speak the wishes of the De mocracy of the Union, dare to hesitate when the question is between the gallant soldier and the noble-hearted patriot now filling the chair of the Vice Presidency, and some one of the many in triguing spirits who aim at displacing him. Where was the free spirit of Pennsylvania— pledged to support his renomination—when that sneaking artiffi e was employed in the Conven tion to remove the danger which they feared would attend the support of the noble Johnson? Were our delegates afraid that the chivalry of the South would bolt! Is Pennsylvania to be considered an appendage to the political despo tism of Tennessee and Alabama? Is Ohio, also, to be sold fur Southern votes ? Is Kentucky considered so certain for the enemy that ve must insu ! t her in the person of her gallant son ? Are Indiana and Illinois conceded to Harrison, that we dare to remove their gallant defender to make way for a Polk or a King ? It is well for the Convention that Mississippi was not represented, or she would have spoken her rebuke in tones of thunder. But the conspirators must beware. The States of the Mississippi valley, that glorious belt of young giants, will not thus he imposed upon. New Hampshire, Arkansas, ay, and Penn sylvania, wiR teach these aspiring demagogues that it is one thi..g to plot, another to succeed. We feel that with the name of iohnsoa, the cause of Martin Van Baren would have prosper ed; but (and let all mark the prediction) the De mocratic Convention have placed a worm there - lost may eat away the vitala of success. We - fear, even while we burn with shame; we doubt : the future because what can the people think ol • measures which have 'or their guide, and leading ; object as w«il, to truckle at the foot-stool of Sour t them intolerance 1 r Richard M. Johnson is the choice of the Dcm ? ocratic party in all the States where the Demo s cratic ticket can succeed. If, then, he is not elec ■ ted, neither can Martin Van Buren be. Mark , the assertion, fellow citizens, and remember it well when the ides «f November arrive !—Pitts burg- Constitutionalist, (~ V. JS.J From lie New Orleans Bulletin of the 21. h. Important News from Mexico. By the steam ship New York, Captain Wright, ' which arrived last evening from Galveston, we have f received the latest Texian papers. From tne Aus tin Sentinel of she 9th instant we copy ihe folio w- , 1 ing important news : From the West. i An express arrived’ic this city on Sunday, bring ’ >ng a confirmation of the defeat of the Central for ces at Guerrero. CoL Zapata, as before stated, was taken near Meat, by Gen. Arista, und at first well treated, but subsequently decapitated, and bis head siuck upon a pole and placed in front of fas own hoo*e at Guerrreio. This provoked the resentment oi a brother of Zapata, who raised about four hun dred rancheros, and the Central array having been divided into several small parties, cut them all into pieces. The pen pi e have taken fresh courage, and the Federal flag again waves in triumph over the States ol the North. Mexico will be compelled to return to the consti tution of 1624, or the whole territory will be par celled out into independent Slates. Federalism >s the cause of the people against the priests and array, and il must and will prevail. But a few days ago, n was said ail was lost—now the boasted array of Arista, which was, after flogging the federalism, to sweep over Texas with the besom of destrucuon, has been destroyed by a few rancheros, and feder alism m the north is more prosperous than it has been before since the days of the usurper. The Comanche* had come down in a large num ber, and brought in two .Mexican women taken from the San. Antonio river about a year ago.— i hey still have some American prisoners in iheir possession, which appear very unwilling to return. From the New Orleans Bee of the 28 th. Daring act ol'Piracy on the Coa*t ol Cuba. Letters received in this city yesterday, from Havana, dated 22d May, 1640, contain the follow ing particulars of one of the most daring acts of piracy on record: The Br. brig Vernon, capt. Cunningham, of Halifax, sailed from Falmouth, Jamaica, bound to Halifax. When eight days out at sea, being off Cape San Antonio, a a open boat, with seven men, wis seen approaching the brig, and when within musket sbot, 4 fired a discharge of muskets at it. The brig having hove to, the captain of the boat informed captain Cunningham that a revenue cutter was standing at the Cape, and that his pa pers must be inspected. Captain C. immediate ly set eut in his boat with three men aud bis pa pers, to comply with the summons. He bad not proceeded far before theetker boat pulled up, and having taken possession of her, they striped the crew of their clothes, and began the work of de struction. The captain and two men were in stantly killed, and the other effected his escaped in leaping overboard, and swimming ashore. After escaping the melancholy fate of his com panions, he remained in the woods during five days, where be was met by Don Antonio, captain •f a small craft, to whom be related the circum stances. Captain Antonio immediately went in search of the pirates, and soon found them on shore, near the Cape, actively employed in un loading the cargo of the hi ig. Being alone, and fearful of being murdered it they mistrusted him, he accosted them as one engaged in the same bu siness. He bought a few guns, and contracted to sell them a sloop he bad at his residence, which was near the spot, and invited them to come in the morning and examine her. 7"hey accordingly set oat next morning, to con clude their bargain with Antonio. As soon as they arrived at his house, Antonio, assisted by several of his neighbors, arrested the pirates, and sent them under a good escort to Havana, where .they will he tried- Anlonio returned on board the brig, where he found the remainder of the crew who bad been spared by the pirates until the cargo could be ta ken out- Their intention was to murder them as soon as they bad finished their work. The sailor who escapedsaw a great number of sails and pieces of rigging concealed in the woods. 'The conduct cf Antonio in rescuing these un fortunate victims, aud bringing the pirates to .punishment, is highly commendable. From the New York Timet. On* of Kendall’s “Extras.”—ln a Globe article, headed “t«c federal fartt,” and which wc can scarcely be mistaken in attributing to the pen of Amos Kendall, the writer says of the celebration of the sortie at Fort Meigs, held at St. Louis on the sth inst., that it was “ con ducted by old black cockade, dyed in the wool alien and sedition, and British Bank Federalists/ deadly enemies of the people and their rights.” One of the individuals included in tnis cate gory, indeed the most prominent of them all, was Col. John O’Fallon, who was General Harrison’s aid, and was with him in »U his battles during the late war. The Editor of the Baltimore Pilot thus vouches for his democracy. *• He was my class mate in early life, and I can speak of him because I know him. He was not more than ten years of age when Jefferson came into power, and he and his entire family have at all times been democrats .” Yet this honest and consistent partiot, and such as he, are denounced by the bloated specu lator and hireling scribe who wields the pen edi torial of the extra Globe—so called, we suppose, from its extra mendacity—as “ a British bank fed eralist and and an enemy of the people.” “ The President and bis friends were never more confident of success.” So says the Richmond Enquirer. If this be true, why the extraordinary exertions of the party! Why the secret circulars of the Federal members, urging funds to he collected, and the whole land to be subjected to party discipline? Why so many calmunies against Gen. Harrison 1 Why deny the prodigality of the administration? Why refuse to let the People see the official project for a Standing Army? if the triumph of the Feds be so certain, why the«eßai-weekly appeals ol the Editor of the Enquirer, “To arms! To arms! Rally! Organize!” and hiafrantic enclama tion, “the Philistines be upon you!” Why har rass the People? Why not give them quiet? If the confidence in the success «f the office hol ders be felt which it expressed, why do not the Feds, one and all. consult their own ease, like . their venerable leader, go to sleep until after the elections.— Richmond Whig. From the Troy Daily Whig, Foul slander upon th* Patriots of th* Revolution. —The present administration par ty not-content with heaping every species of ca lumny and vituperation upon the heroes of the i last war, have at last opened their foul mouthed i batteries upon the Patriots of the Revolution. In , the addresses of the Van Buren members of the f late Legislature of New York, may be found the , follow in g passage : [ “The early History of this Republic too abun l dantly proves that mart of those who took part . m the Revolution, fought for independence rath i er than liberty - They rebelled against a mon , arch abroad, for the purpose of selling up a mon i arch at home. Placed at a distance from the . throne of Great Britain, they had Hide chance to . participate in its honors. its titles and its pen i sions „• and they aimed to «rect a throne in Ame- rica, around which they might form a band o privileged noble*. No sooner was the object achieved, and the States separated from their pa ten land, than these subjects began to develope themselves in the writings and acts of some of the revolutionary leaders.” ■To what a pitch of audacity has the Tory par ty of this country arrived when they dare thus to insult the memory of the heroes of the revolu tion !—Such infernal scoundreiism needs no comment. The antidote for such bane, every freemen carries in his heart. From the New York Times. Executive Appointment in Contempt of the Popular Will. Tha Executive penchant for individuals whom the people have rejected, is proverbial; indeed, so frequently has he selected defeated candidates for offices of their gift, as the recipients of hi* favor, that it would seem as if be considered the defeitof a partisan at an election a personal affront which it became him to avenge—a piece of presumption which he waa bound to chastise by inflicting upon them in tome other shape, the nuisance which the people had declined endorsing through the ballot boxes. We will name a few among the many in stances in which Mr. Van Buren has ihown his contempt for, or displeasure at, the manifestations ofihe papular will. Isaac H. Bronson, went to Congress a conser vative-opposed the Sub-Treasury—nailed it to the table at the extra session. At the next session of Congress sew light shone in upon him —he became a vindicator of the measure —voted for it, and was appointed a Circuit Judge through the influence of the Albany Regency. Remaining at W luhington to vote for the biH of abominations, he lost the office by lapae of time. The managers of the affair intend ed to have him re-nominated, but they found the State Senate too honest to sanction their design. Mr. Bronson was again a candidate for Congress and was defeated. The people of hut district vetoed him. He therefore became the favorite of the Pre sident and received the appointment of Judge in Florida. John J. D* Graff, another m-rabar of Congress from this state, left bis home for Washington, pro fessing strong opposition to ihe same darling scheme of the Executive. After he arrived there however, he saw reason to change Ins opinion At the ex piration of his Congressional term, not daring to take a re-nomination lor Congress, ho resolved to test his popularity by running lor the Asaeraoly. He was nominated in his own county, and defeated by a considerable majority. The President shortly afterwards appointed him to an Indian agency. Eli Moore was a candidate for re-election to Congress from this city, in 1638, and was defeated by an overwheiminu raajoriiy. Tne President maue him Surveyor of the port of Yew York. Churchill C. Cambreleng defied popular opinion, and declared that the Sub-Treasury should be in operation throughout Mr. Van Horen’s ad ministration. “ in spue of tnmantations hereof else where.*’ He carae back lo his constituency, snd, like his colleague Moore, was condemned by their vote. Tha President ha* appointed him Minister to Russia. Fei.ix Grundy was nominated for the office of U. fcs. fc’tnaior for Tennes-ee, and rejected by the Legislature The President thereupon made him Attorney General. John M. Niles of Connecticut, received a simi lar nomination, and was rejected by the Legiataiure of his State. He was recently a candidate lor Gov ernor, hnd was treated no better by the people. Tw < defeats gave him a doubts claim on the Gov ernment. The President therefore made turn a member oi the Cabinet, by cooierrmg upon him the office of Postmaster General. riETH Driggs, we believe, hai never been a can didate lor the representative office. He baa never been condemned by a popular verdict rendered through the ballot box—but twelve of his country men sworn to do him justice, have virtually declar ed him by their decision, lo be unworthy of public or pm ate confidence. The President haa made him a Consul All the marks of executive favor we have enu raarat d, tave two, were bestowed on citizens or residents of the state of New York. Were we lo swell the catalogue wi:h all the instances of tha ramekind which hava occurred in reference to tha citizens of other states, a volume would be necessa ry t-> contain it. The President is now a candidate fur re-election, and these things will nut be forgot ten by the people when their turn comes. There is sound reuse in the following article from the Alexandria Gazelle : Who did it ?—We were struck, the other day, by the plain common sense exhibited by a gentle man from the country in conversation upon polities. V\e remarked ti him that we were rejotcad to hear that he wan no longer a supporter of the present administration, and observed, at the same lime, that he had undoubtedly good reason for h:s change of opinion. “ My reason is a very plain one.” said he, “ one thneiery man can easily understand. I looked around me and found every thing going wrong, and 1 asked myself what made it so, who made it so ? and my reason told me that those who had power, must have made it. The Whigs have no power— they could not have brought about this state ol things—the Van Buren men have had all the power, and they must have done it.” This reason seemed to us a good one He had come to the same point that he would have done had he waded the whole field of argument- An Incident at the Battle of the Thames. AS RELATED BT AN OLD SOLDIER. At the battle of the Thames, a laughable incident occurred, which is thus related by one who was in the engagement. The British (General had formed hia men in open order, witn their cannon pointing down the road, by which the Americans were advancing. Gen. Hamson immediately took advantage of this, and ordered Col. Johnson’s mounted regiment to charge at speed by heads of c rapanies (so as to expose the least possible front) pass through the open intervals, and form in the rear of the British forces. This movement was brilliantly executed by ihebattal lions under the co nmand of Lieut. Col. James Johnson; his brother, Col. R. M. Johnson, the same time charging the Indians with the other bat talion. It happened that in one of the companies under James Johnson’s command, there was a huge, long legged, brawney fellow, named Lamb ; he weigh ed about 240 lbs.; was a brave man, and as good humored as big; brave men proverbially are. Lamb had broken down his Kentucky horse by his great weight, and waa mounted, instead, upon a short, stout, wild Canadian ponv ; from whose sides his long limb* depended almost to the ground, while his bulky frame rose high above the beast—looking not unlike an overgrown school bay astride a rough sheep. H hen the charge waa made, Lamb’s poney took fright, and broke into a strain. Lamb pulled, until the bit broke in the animal’s mouth, and all com mand of him was lost. The litlle poney stretched himself to the work, dashed out of the ranks, soon out-stripped all his file leaders, and pushed on in advance of the company.—Latah was no longer master of his horse or himself, and he was in a quan dary. If he roiled off, he would be trampled to death by his own friends—if the horse rushed upon the British lines with him, so far ahead of the rest, he must be killed Either way, death seemed in evitable ; and, to use bis own expression, he thought “ he’d jist say some hing they could tell his blends in KemucKV, when ibey went home.” He stuck both heels into the pony’s flanks, and urged him to the inmost speed. On they drove, some 50 yards in front of the leading file ; Lamb’s gigantic pe son swaying from side to side, and his legs swinging in a most portentous fashion—the lit tle Canadian “ pulling fool” all he knew how, his tail straight, his nostrils distended, his ears pinned back, and his shiny eyes flashing from his shaggy foreiun, wit.t all the spite and spleen of a bora devil. Just as he got within a stride or two of the British, Lamb flourished his rifle, and roared ounn a voice of thunder—“ Clear the way, G — d d—m you ! Pm a coming /” To hi* surprise, the line opened right and left, and he passed through unhurt. So great was their astonishment at the strange apparition of such a ri der, and such a horse, moving upon them with such furious velocity, that they opened mechanical ly at his command, and let him pass. So soon as he gained the rear oft heir position, Lamb rolled off on the grass, anti suffered his pony to go his own road. A few minutes more, and he was with his comrades, securing the prisoners. —Quincy WAig. The Rev. J. N. Maffit has become one of the editors of the “Western Visiter,” a weekly de- Imocratic paper published at Cymhiana, Ky*— St. Louis Pennant . For the Chronicle and Sentinel. To ft Lady who requested some Lines from the Author. I oft my untaught lyre have strung. Since truant from a far-off home ; I left my loved and native clime, ’ Beneath thy sunny skies to roam: > —Have careless swept the trembling strings At sunset hour and evening’s gloam. And bid the passing breeze to bear Its wild notes to my sister’s home. But scarce could deem my humble song Would find a lisfning ear in thine, — 1 That one who beauty’s sceptre sways r Would list to minstrelsy like mine. J Yet sweet the task when Woman calls, t To him who owns her magic (oner ; 1 Mo welcome still when Beauty’s smile . With sunlight gilds the Muse’s bower. Then be it mine to breathe to thee j A wish, a thought, in Friendship’s name; i Love’s torch is often dimrn’d by time. While brightly bums her sacred flame. Air— m Thi Meeting of the Waters.” > i There is not in this wide world a pleasure so sweet, 1 As remembrance of those whom our hearts love to » . meet; • Oh, the last fond emotion of life must depart, Ere the bloom of thy beauty shall fade from my , heart. 1 Yet it is not that Nature around thee has thrown i Her mantle of beauty —Ob, ’tis not alone The soul-illumin’d ray that is shed from thine eye. Like the soft sunny light from thy own native sky ; I , ’Tis that each iovely charm that can render life dear. Seems blended before us whene’er thou art near ; ( And we feel that this cold world an Eden would prove, I Were its deserts adorn’d by the light of thy love. Sweet vision of beauty, oh, calm be thy rest. And unclouded thy life till its sun’s in the west; , May thy bark safely glide o’er the world’s troubled stream, And the bright star of Hope round its prow ever gl«am. 11. Kentucky Bisk.—A meeting of the stock" holder* of the Bank of Kentucky, resident in this ci'j, was held yesterday noon, in the loom of the Board of Trade, Thoma* P. Cope, Esq. in the Chair. The object was to hear a formal re port of the committee (Col. Dayton, B. W. Richards, and George Handy,) appointed at a former meeting to visit the Bank, and ascertain i the situation in which the stock held through the late Philladelphia agency *tand* in the Bank. The resolutions and formal report were not or dered for printing, and as they may not be sent to the press immediately, we state what are our impression*, derived from conversation and from the Kentucky paper* since the visit of the com mittee. The Bank of Kentucky will we think do what ever can be required at her hands—probably ac knowledge the whole of the stock, and look to the Schuylkill Bank for remuneration. Os course we have only an impression. Action of the Stare Legislature would be required for any important measure, and that body will hold an extra session in September or October. The gentlemen of the committee were admitted to vote at the meeting of the stockholders in Ken tucky : and it was resolved, as a matter of course, that no dividend should be made until the mat ter of the fraudulently issued stock should be adjusted.— U. S. Gazette. Matrimonial Expobt.—ln the early settle ments of Virginia, when the adventurers were principally unmarried men, it was deemed neces sary to export such women as could be prevailed upon to quit England, as wives for planters. A letter accompanying a shipment of these matri monial exiles, dated London, August 12, 1621, is illustrative of the manners of the times, and the concern then felt for the welfare of the colony, and for female virture. It is as follows : ‘We send you a ship; one widow and eleven maids, for wives for the people of Virginia; there hath been especial care had in the choice of them for there hath not one of them been received but upon good commendations. “ In case they cannot be presently married, we desire that they may be put with several house holders that have wives till they can lie provided with husbands. There are nearly fifty more that are shortly to come, and are sent by our Hon. Lord and Treasurer the Earl of Southampton, and certain worthy gentlemen, who, taking into their consideration that the plantation can never flourish till families be planted, and the respect of wives and children for their people on the soil, therefore having given this fair beginning; for the reimbursing of whose charges, it is ordered that every man that marries them, give one hundred and twenty pounds of the best leaf tobacco for each of them. “ Though we are desirous that the marriage be free, according to nature, yet we would not have those maids deceived, and married to servants; but onlv to such freemen or tenants as have means to maintain them. We pray you, therefore, to be fathers of them in this business, not enforcing them to marry against their wills.” A Horrible Accident.—One of our report ers, in the course of bis perigrinations up town yesterday, saw a five dollar note lying upon the pavement. Elated with the sight, be stooped down to snatch it from its lonely and abandi ned position, when horrified be starbd back as if stunned with its appearance. Could it be possi ble ! He longed to be satisfied ; and securing a chip, he inserted it beneath the pictured paper, and lifting it to sight, displayed its true character. Alas ! it was too true. Trembling and sick at heart, he dropped the fearful rag, and ran with the wings of the wind, until he had placed a saving distance between him and the object of his detestation. It was a Brandon note, and the last we beard of it, the residents in its vicinity had petitioned the Board of Health for its re moval.—Phil. Spirit of the Times. Lisbon—The Doe Howl.—After II o’clock at night the dog-howl begins. This continues without intermission till morning; it is one of the most hideous noises that ever grated on man’s ear—their cry is not “the house dog’s honest bark,” but a wild unearthly howl, broken at times by the abrupt note of passion, ot the prolonged yell of anguish, distinctly recognizable even at , this distance. OccasioflKHy a civil war breaks 1 out, by some tribe invading the territory of ano [ ther; and then the uproar is truly terrific. In these struggles the vanquished are instantly de • voared by the conquerors. Notwithstanding all this canine discord, the dogs appear at present the most stable part of the constitution of Portu gal: their government is republican, formed of i several petty states, and weie it not for those nightly outbreaks, I would say was well regula • ted. Living in small communities, principally in 1 the ruins of convents, old houses, and many of the places desolated by the great earthquake, they own no masters, answer to no names; and, like i all outcasts, have become an abandoned, disso . lute, and uncivilized race, scorning the power as . well as the protection of man—the Irue Ishmael iftaaof ihs canine race. They have a peculiarly wiki and ferocious aspect, and seldom stir out; ring the day; but at night troops offif u * twenty of there ravenous creature* come ru along the deserted and ill-lighted *treei«_J. ! * ping to revel on some recent offal, and any unhappy stranger fall amongst’ them instantly set upon and devoured on the so * tt The dogs of Lisbon are nothing in number to what they were some years ag.», when it D ° W absolutely dangerous to open the doors o nr. dog-howl began. They are, however, uncer It* present po lice surveillance, a necessary evil f* being no sewers, or any means of re moving „ • ance and ofial in this most filthy of cities t j Ul ** paving corporation to compel cleanliness "tj- ** dog* therefore, are the only scavenger*, -k* clergy endeavored at one time to keep down .t ■ numbers, till the occupation of thia pl ac€ fieir French, who compelled them to turn kzxJ therm-elves; since this they have rather eocom their increase, to prevent toe recurrence of . * gt| * lar degradation. Another cause of the v™ ber of the dogs formerly arose, from the up the country having, during the larly shipped down the river to Lisbon, to them destroying the grapes, and sending L, K * m k when the harvest was over. This has. ho**' been stopped—and the government lately i~.,V r an order to have all dogs destroyed by th e not wearing a collar with lh« owner’s namT* Since then, numbers have been destroyed • son and, dying in the street at every turn T' quite disgusting, and enough to cause a Jence; in fine, though greatly diminished aJ are still very numerous. But as sewer. ,ren being made through the principal street*, the ceasily for them will soon cease. It u ver markable, that notwithstanding the numbZ * dogs, hydrophobia is hardly known— Wm/ narrative. et - From the Greenville Mountaineer. Tie Rains.—ln comman with every Dtrfn , L. S., we have been visited by excessiJe^ll f This week, a real North Eastern has been Wow. mg storm of wind anu rain, that has rai«J the water course* much higher than S have been known m this section for years. ou r Reedy River is a Niagara in mi nature, and been unfordable this week-a circumstance wIS very rarely occurs. Great injury, « nol - * tuin, is expected to be the consequence of th rams to the growing crops of wheat, which bar! been very promising this spring. The great riw in the water courses has arrested the mills The Population and Occupations nr Gbkat Bbitain.—According to the population returns of Great Britain, exclusive of Ireland there were in 1811,2,012,391 families, of whom 691,353 were employed in agriculture; i n 1827 2,346,717 families, of whom 773,732 were em ployed in agriculture; in 1831, 2,745,336 fami-' lies, of whom 761,348 were occupied in agrirul tor*. It appears, therefore, that in 1811,34 fa milies in every hundred were employed in agri culture; and in 1831 only 27 in eve'iy hundred families. In 1831, of 3,341,926 males in til Ire land, 1,138,060 were set down as emploved chie fly in agriculture. In England, ot 3.199.984 males aged 20 years and upwards, 744,407 were set down as laborer* employed in husbandry, 94 883 as occupier* of land, not employing labo rers, and 141,460 as occupiers who did employ laborers. Yale College. —The annual report of the : president and fellows of Yale College, wa» read in the Connecticut legislature on the 26th ult. It shows the receipts for the year ending Jodi 30, 1839, to have been $30,271 67—disbar ments for the same period $29,830 45. Indian Minuteness.—For acuteness of sente, we think none can compete with the class of Indi ana whose wonderful power, of reasoning are de scrib-d below, extracted irom Thatcher’s Indian Traits. “Owing partly to hi* organization doublleu.ii well as to his mod* of living from bis ch’idhood up, the sense* of the Indian are extremely acute.— It is iclaied. in modern limes, that a hunter, Belong ing to one ol the western tribes, on his return home to hi. hut one day, discovered that his venisoa which had been hung up to dry had been stolen. After taking observitiona, on the spot, he »et offia putsuit of the thief, whom he tracked through the woods. Having gone a little dial ance, he met wine persons, be inquired if they had seen ahukoli whiteman with a short gun , accompanied by a small dog' with a short tail? They replied in the affirma tive ; and upon the Indian assuring them that the man described had stolen his venison, they desired to be informed bow he was able to give such a minute description of a person he had never went The Indian replied thus : “ The thief I know it a Hole man by bis having made a pile of siciwi vs stand upon in order io reach the venison from the height I hung it, standing on the ground,—that be is an old man, 1 knew by his short steps which I have traced over the dead leaves in the woods ; that he is a white man, I knew by turning out hi. tott when be walks which an Indian never dues; bit gun 1 knew to be short, by the mark the muizl» matte, in robbing the bark off the tree on which it leaned ; that his dog is small, I know by hie tracks, and mat he has a short tail, I discovered by the mark it made in the d ist w ».en he was sitiing, it the time bis master was taking down the meat.” Substitute fob Embalmment.—When M. Gaunai made lus process public he was not .wire himself, perhaps, of the use to which it could b* applied. Several weeks ago the body of a boy , murdered under very auspicious circumstances, brought to the Morgue— the place w here aI! penoni found drowned or murdered, and who are nst i® - mediately recognised, are exposed—and the vtinr were injected according to the plan laid down hr M. Gajanal. The corpse ol the poor boy remand several weeks in as fresh a state as when it ww found a few hours after the murder. It nu not yet nten recognised, but one cannot but admire the facility thus offered for recognition. But for th* discovery,the utmost time that the body couldh.w remained at the Morgue would have be<-n five of » six day a M. Gaunal’s process is extremely .asp*** and attended with Lufe expense He makes* 90 ' 1 ian composed of sulphate of alum and hot water, in proportion of two pound* of the snlpbste to» Pof hot wa:er, and injects by the right c.roh" arery ; in summer three quarts es ibis liquid, ,n ®* » winter loss,according to the temperature. — P unt Letter. Correspondence of the St. Louis Penant. Oft the Roof of the Cairo Hotel, Tea Feet Under Water. Citt of Cairo, May 10, 1840. Mr Dka» Mb. Editor.—“My feelings sit w* tolerable,” ana I can retrain no longer. H« fe ' I, in this confounded city of Cairo, with ibe«v heook, commonly called »he Mississippi river, rs*' sing tea feel over my devoted head. Our hotel perfect cold waler establishment, and ibe way ’ ia a plenty of the** pore element” m tbe»e is with a perfect rush. The Cairo Bank, upon wni weal! built our hope* and houses, after having w Sor some lime making daily deposiies in the «ppi river, has at length fallen ibroofh, Me B " rest of the llhnois spec elation?, and left a* wretches, n it exactly high and dry, (would ta»t were L) but buried “ full five fathoms deep, de bat red from oil intercourse, except with the Hah, buffalo and olht r such scaly character., you to sympathize with toe, and send us the t aing Gazette to comfort us in oar mi»f*>rt‘-‘ D Real estate io Caira has 'atphaiicaily fallen , / k>w that you cvsld not find it with a twenty * pote. Ob dear, Mr. Editor, allhongh I’m reff * yet r» very dry—and if you could m oiage h> 8 . my friend of the —-—, to send *ome of his**r ,r to ihifi- * nasty deep,’ you will confer a lastm# 14 ua yours; die. THE GREAT DROWNED OUT [Cairo, as most of our readers know, is ** IB at th* ju«ciioD ot the Ohio aad MtAsiwPP* r ' , on the liitneia safe- The site is very law. *>u advantages ot the pos tion were deemed m tioa times Vo be so great, an attempt wu i . chiefly with Englab casual, under ihe wireciw Mr. Holbrook, te establish a city there > ,