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.4ay> were brought before the' Court, and arraigned; yiz: Alfred Cooper, William Ogle, Pe ter White, Neil M’Neil, Daniel Hol land, Thomas Hcnnesy, William Phil lips, William Hanton, Joseph Fleming. Although the evidence in the case of these prisoners elicited some re deeming circumstances, yet the fact of their being accomplices in the crime with which they were charged, was clearly established on the testimony adduced in the previous cases.. The Jury, after an absence of a fevv min utes, returned a verdict of Guilty a- gainst the prisoners, recommending William Ogle, from bis youth, to the suercy of the Court. Sentence of death was prounced, to be carried in to execution on Tuesday, the 30th in stant, Josef Lazaro Buysan, with the ten persons first name in the indictment in which he was arraigned, expiated their offence this forenoon, agreeably to the sentence of the law'. We copy the following articles of For eign intelligence from the N. Y. A civ. From the London Courier, Sept. 19. Intelligence from before Cho- umla, Odessa, and Constanti nople. We have received intelligence from the above places; and the quarter from which we received it enables us to say that the greatest reliance may Toe placed upon its accuracy. The emperor Nicholas, as we an nounced yesterday, sailed from Odes sa on the 2d. on his return to his ar my. Lord Heytesbury did not ac company or follow his Imperial Ma jesty, who, however, has-plaeed a fri gate at his lordship’s disposal when ever it may be deemed necessary for him to repair to the Imperial head quarters, to communicate with his Imperial Majesty. The other Am bassadors, who are military men. were to follow the Emperor in two or three days. General Ivinoff is dead of the wounds he received. The Turks have made a desperate sortie from Choumla, in which they bad the advantage. They succeeded in destroying three of the Russian re doubts; the Russians who occupied them were all cut to pieces in the sanguinary conflict. Eight guns were taken and we lament to add that Gen. Wrede, a brave and distinguish ed officer, was killed. The loss of the Turks was, as may well be supposed, considerable. There was sickness in the army, •and it was feared that it was on the increase, the weather having been so hot, and a great scarcity of water. The accounts which have arrived from Constantinople are of the 20th and 29th August. Constantinople, Aug. 20. Among the most recent measures of defence is, that all the troops which ■were in the forts of the Dardanelles have been summoned to the capital; so that that side is now open to any attack. This would excite little no tice, as the King of England s speech, on prorogning parliament, affirmed that Russia had engaged not to make any hostile attempt on that side; but the Mussulmans are now disposed to consider it as a certain indication that the Divan has already opened the way to secret engagements with England, and ventures to withdraw it's troops from that coast, in full confidence that assistance will be afforded it in case of need. It is said that Russian prisoners ta ken at Esti Stamboul were all massa cred in a fit of rage. Their number is Btated at five or six hundred men. MEXICO. From the Washington Chronicle, A letter received by the Editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, from Mexico, gives a very gloomy •picture of the political state of that country, as exhibited in the events ^connected with the election of a Pres ident, which took place about the be ginning of September. The candid ates were Don Vincent Guerrero, called.the Hero of the South, and Don Gonez Pedraza, nicknamed the •second Emperor of Mexico. Guer rero V party is said to be composed of ihc most violent spirits, and they had calculated with confidence on the e- lection of their partisans. His oppo nent, Pedraza, was, however, elected, by a considerable majority of States. VeraCruz had protested against the election, stating that there was foul play in taking the votes. The spar ring between the parties is said to have been more violent, than that be- V • •ffe . . . t weeh the Jackson end Adams men a- mong ourselves. A civil war is the result, ab will be seen by the follow ing postscript from the New York Journal of Commerce: Postscript.—Our fears are too soon realized! A CIVIL WAR has broken out in Mexico, and the Repub lic is in a state of terrible anarchy and confusion! This we learn by papers just received by the Independence, arrived from Vera Cruz on the 12th Sept, and brought us papers to the latest date. The election returns had been received from twelve States, on ly three of which gave votes for Guer rero. There was no longer any doubt of the issue of the election—Pedraza is chosen President. The remon strance of Vera Cruz has been inef fectual: General Santa Ana has ac cordingly raised a rebellion against the Government, and the Guerrero party in Vera Cruz have taken up arms. A body of troops has been marched, un der the command of Santa Ana, to Pe- rose. On the day when (he Indepen dence sailed, advices were received from that place, informing that he had taken possession of the castle. Awful Depravity.—Freeman Mat thews, for .the murder of Jonathan Brooks, was executed on the 24th of last month. The murder was perpe trated on the 25th of August last in the Beech Woods, Pennsylvania, near the Newburg turnpike. Brooks found Matthews in the country destitute of money, and paid for his meals, and took him into his wagon with him.— They had not proceeded far, when Matthews pretended there was some thing the matter with the axletree, and Brooks got out to examine it, and while stooping down, Matthew’s struck him on the head with a stone, killed him, then robbed him, and in Brooks’ wagon came back to the house where they had dined. Suspicion was ex cited. and he was pursued and taken. Brooks was in the habit of buying droves of cattle, and it is said Mat thews had followed from Orange coun ty to rob him of the money he supposed he carried with him. It is remarka ble, says the Oswego Gazette, that the prisoner continues to manifest not the least interest as to his fate beyond the gravte. He received the sentence of death, evidently without the least sensation of sorrow or regret. Thus has the career of this man nearly come to a period. He was first no ticed in active life, at the age of about 20, a rovin% gambler; and from the commencement of this practice he can, no doubt, date the train of inci dents which led to the perpetration of this horrible deed, for.which in con-‘ formity to the laws of our country, he is to suffer death. Ascent of Mr. Robertson.—Mr. Ro bertson s ascent from Castleton Gar den, which had been postponed two or three times on account of the weath er, was effected yesterday [Wednes day") in fine style. The weather was uncommonly auspicious, being very miid and clear, and a gentle wind blo wing towards the land. All the preparations succeeded as well a6 could be desired. At four o’clock, the balloon began to fill, at five, the car was appended to it, and the young lady (who by the way, is said to be a wife) took her seat in it apparently without the least excitement. At a quarter past five, the cords were loos ed, but the ballast was found too hea vy to allow it to rise, and it floated ofl' to the other side of the garden, and sunk to the ground. It was restored to iis former position, a part of the ballast was discharged, and the cords were again loosed, when it rose grace fully above the'battlements, and soar ed away over the heads of the im mense crowd assembled on the Bat tery, accompanied with the discharge of cannon and the cheers of at least ten thousand spectators.. The spec tators were highly delighted,-pronoun cing it the most elegant ascension they had ever witnessed. As for the In dians, it is impossible to tell what they thought of it, but we never saw’ the wild Indian come quite so near ex pressing surprize in his countenance on any formar occasion. In about fifteen minutes tho car and the waving flags dwindled to a speck, and finally disappeared. The balloon, however, was still visible, and continued to be out of sight. Mr. Roberson effect ed bis descent at Corlaer’s Hook, only about three miles from Castle Gar den; but he landed so near the river that the wind drew the car into the water, ft was’found necessary, wc are informed, to let off the gas, before they could regain the shore, which was done by the aid of a boat near by. Of course, Mr. R. was unable to return, as he had proposed, for a second ascent in the evening.—lb. Power of Gunpowder.—On Wednes day of last week, the Messrs. Boyn tons, of West Stockbridgc, while en gaged in uncovering a body of marble, discovered a hole in the rock, which upon examination prpyed to be about fifteen feet deep, penetrating in near ly a perpendicular direction. Its di ameter at the top was about eighteen inches, narrowing towards the bottom to about four itches. This hole they determined to marge with gunpowder, in order to raiie up the strata of mar ble. They accordingly poured into the hole 204 Us. of powder, and se cured it in tht manner usually prac tised in blastiig. Upon firing it the effect produced was ti uly astonishing. The earth trembled, as though shaken by an earthquake. The trees in the immediate vicinity of Yhe powder seemed to rise several feet in the air, bowing gracefully from side to side, as if tossed upon a billow. The mass of marble which was raised, is about fif ty or sixty feBt square on the surface, and eight feet thick, weighing by mea surement upwards of 2000 tons.—Star. An Eagle killed by a IVeazle.—A short time since*, a gentleman of this town was out in the suburbs endeavor ing to get a shot at a large eagle.— Suddenly the eagle sprang upwards, and continued to wire his flight spi rally to an immense height, nearly out of sight, when he fell to the earth, nearly on the spot from which he had flown. On approaching the eagle, a small weazle was observed to run from the body, and on examination it was found the animal had got under the eagle’s wing, and commenced feps-^ ting upon his blood, until the noble bird fell from exhaustion. The little ma rauder then made his escape—Provi dence Pal. Extracts from Anastasius. VIEW OF A FIELD OF BAT- . TLE. The next morning, before we mar ched, I walked over the field ol bat tle. Beholding on‘all' J stoes sturdy limbs locked in death, which but the day before had turned my blows with all the energy of life, lips closed in eternal silence, which had stuned me with their clamour, and eye-bails fix ed in sightless glare, which, when met by mine, had sent forth flashes of lightning; unable to avoid treading up on the mangled bodies of some who often had attempted to crush me with their very looks, and now could not keep away the already busy vultures, I felt a strange delight! I contempla ted with a bitter satisfaction that unavoidable lot of all mankind, that doom of mortality which none can es cape, that precariousness of life, hang ing alike over kings aud subjects but thanks to which, if I could not be sure of a single instant before me, no more was. the proudest of my . adversaries certain of not being the next moment a clod of clay, a mass of corruption, a feast for worms, a heap of dust: thanks to which, if any rival had over me temporary advantage, it was, how ever great" a trifle, a nothing, in the contemplation of the common fate a- waiting ajl with equal certainty and to all coming too soon; and thanks to which, finally, if I could not reach the very top of fortune’s wheel, or for the present carry my head quite as high as some of my more successful oppo nents, I knew that tbeir’s must ulti mately lie as low r as mine. THE AIMS AND PROSPECTS OF LIFE. Not only distant aims are never sure to he attained, but are not even sure, when attained, to afford the happiness they promise. They resemble the regions which from the mountain’s summit I espy at its base.’ Viewing these from afar, the valleys indeed appear a level plain; and seems as if the moment I set foot within their boundaries all fatigue is to cease and a delicions saunter over a velvet turf is to terminate my journey. But this apparently even surface—what indeed pools and torrents, and quagmires, may I not still find it to contain, a thousand times more irksome than the steep and rugged path along which I toiled? As it is with jhese valleys so it fared I thought with every object of hu man persuit. When considered in the gross, and from that point of view, from whence only its leading features could be dilcerncd, pneh.alike prom ised a series'of unalloyed enjoyments^ ©tit how different the scene, when We approached within sight of the mi nuter details! what numberless litHe troubles, nameless inconveniences, and hourly cares unthought of before, often started up when in possession, inch by inch, to devour like a gnawing worm that feheity which, viewed from a distance, seemed so entire.— What diminutive insects will, by their numbers, consume the ripest fruit ere it be ripe for gathering!—Upon this principle 1 now renounced all distant pursuits, aud resolved only to seek the enjoyments within my iriimediate grasp—forgetting that many objects even though we should never ap proach them near enough to impress the sense of touch, may still, by their towering splendor, long at least glad den the sight or the faney; that the pleasure, whether it actually thrills the body or only warms the mind, still, while it lasts, is pleasure: and that he manages his means of happiness but poorly, who, while his existence af fords ample room both for realities and dreams, gives up all the smiling visions of the future, in his blind de votion to the present. Indeed,-in my ardour for tangible enjoyments, I went so far as to deem unworthy of my seeking, every present pleasure itself, which rose beyond those of the most grovelling description. Who, cried I, would only contemplate the gilded clouds over his head that could cull around his very feet, rich, fruits and fragrant flowers? Let those rest their hopes solely on the airy phan toms of th® imagination, who possess not the means to taste the daintier sweets of the sense. I, in whose composition flesh and blood more than balance soul and intellect, am impel led to follow a different course, and to gather all I can of the milk and honey which bountiful nature, the true Ephe sian Diana, pours from the thousand streams which cover her bosom. The Indian.—In all probability, (says the Boston Bulletin) collisions will be perpetually arising between the white and the copper-tinged inhabitants of this continent—at least until the latter race shall become extinct. It cannot be disguised, that encroachments are daily making upon their haunts: and that as the white population increases, the Indian tribes are elbowed aside, or crowded forward towards the shores of the Pacific. The descendants of the aboriginal lords of the soil, feel themselves on some occasions, to be grossly wronged, according to their in terpretation of that law which secures to them the right of possession of country—a right to sell the soil, found ed on the principle of prior occupancy, and which the law of nature recog nizes only while Maintained by force— compulsion is the grand principle of that law, and by the operation of that very principle by which they original ly came into their possessions, they may finally be dispossessed. They possess rights derived from a- nother source than those said to be es tablished by the law of nature. “They have long possessed assu rances and guaranties from the gover ning authorities of the whites, that they should not be removed from their habitations without their consent, or without an equivalent.” The trans gression of such stipulations, affords reasonable ground of complaint. The following sentiments expressed by the citizens of Montgomery couuty, Alabama, towards the Creek Indians, evince a spirit of hostility towards them, which has hitherto too often characterized the proceedings of the people in that section of tho country. Proceedings like the following tend to counteract all charitable exertions of individuals, and efforts on the part of our government, to meliorate the con dition of the Indians: “As citizens of Alabama, they be hold with astonishment a tract of coun try lying within their geographic boun daries, inhabited by a people who claim the right to exercise an inde pendent government for themselves who bid defiance to the law® of our state; and who are supported in their independence by the general govern- - ment.” . “They view the present power ex ercised by the general government, in supporting the tribe of Creek Indians within the limits of this State as found ed in usurpation, and as an injury too serious to be passively submitted to. as an injury which can only be removed by the determined energy of the State. As such, as freemen, as Americans, as citizens of the State of Alabama, they feel themselves obliged to ar raign the conduct of those high in sta tion: and in arraigning them; they dp it neither with malice, with /ear 6f favor. They are well aware it is for guilt to tremble, but for honesty to b& bold. They know that false fear can only give faise courage;.and that while they avow the cause of truth an£ right, they will find their shield aa im penetrable protection, and that no at tack can be either hazardous or inef ficient, if it be but just and resolute.” Dear Bacon.—In Chatham county N. C. a man accidentally killed his neighbor’s hog; suit was brought for the value (hereof, which was kept pending in court a long time, but was determined at last superior court: the costs -amounted to two hundred and fif. iy dollars.—A lesson to litigous peoplo. “Dancing Halls.”—Our magistrates we understand, have come to the de termination to make thorough work in the suppression of certain establish ments called “Dancing Halls,” where the dissolute are brought together for the purpose ot drinking, dancing, " he number of these receptacles of* infamy in the city is said to be very great, and it is wonderful that they ba\e been tolerated so long, for most of the crimes (and there gre enough surely) committed in the city, are connected with houses of this kind. Alderman Valentine went the other evening, with a poSse of watchmen, to one of these dancing rooms, and swept the whole of its contents into the watch-house. They Were brought, 47 in number, before the Police Court the next morning, and 17 of them were sentenced to the Peniten tiary os vagrants. It was ascertained that several of the females were ser vants in respectable families.’ No wonder that servants are found to bfe growing dishonest, if they can contrive to spend two or three hour$ now and then in such places without detection, - as they can very easily, if such place* are tolerated.—Jour, of Com. CHILDHOOD. There is in childhood a holy igno rance—a beautiful credulity—a sort of sanctity, that one cannot contem plate without something of the rever ential feelings with which one should approach beings of celestial nature. The impress of divine nature is, as it were, fresh on the infant spirit—fresh and unsullied by contact with this withering world. One trembles lest' an impure breath should dim the clear ness of its bright mirror. And how perpetually must those who arc in the habit of contemplating childhood—of studying the characters of little chil dren—feel and repeat to their own hearts “Of such is the kingdom of heaven!”—Aye, which of us, of the wisest among us, may not stoop to re ceive instruction and rebuke from the Character of a little child?.. Which of ns, by a comparison with its divine simplicity, has not reason to blush fof the littleness, the insincerity, the worldliness the degenoiacy ofhis own. The following is an extract of ja letter from an undoubted source, da ted San Felipe De Austin, in the prb? vince ofTexas, Aug. 13, 1828—“I- saac B. Desha is no more. He died in confinement in this village (San Fe lipe) on a charge for murdering his fellow-traveller on the La Bacha ri ver, between this place and San An tonio. He died the day before his trial was to have been held. The ev idence ofhis guilt was circumstancia! entirely, but of the strongest kind.— 1 hat he would have been convicted there rs no doubt, bad ho lived one day longer. The name of the gentleman that was murdered was Early.’’’ Ala. Jour. NOTICE. I HEREBY forewarn iff persons from trading for a note of hand, payable in good property to R. C. Beislev, of the state of Georgia, and signed hy me. The note is dated, August 8th 1823, fcnd was due October 8th 1828; I am determined not fo redeem the said note, unless compelled by law, as the cod* sideration for which it Was given has failed,’ . TF.GENEE MURPREY. Nov. 19, 1828. • 39 tf. NOTICE. P ERSONS having business with thfe Supreme Court of the Cherokee. Na tion, will please apply to Mr. S. W.mRi' who is legally appointed Clerk, and ijualw tied accordingly; W, s. ADAIR, , A. ROJfS, HITSS> , ..... Nov