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FOREIGN. FRANCE. Gen. Guillemminot is definitively nominat ed Governor of Algiers. Paris, April 2. France has lost one of its most worthy and useful citizens. M. Ternaux died at his resi dence, St. Owen, on the night of the Ist inst. April 4. The ships Superb, Dugusne and Suffern, are to be assembled forthwith in the harbor of Toulon, together with the Nestor and Ville de Marseille. The frigates Circe, Melpomene, and Herinoine, with several brigs and corve- j ties, will complete a squadron, which is to be ready for orders at a moment’s warning. The diplomatic conference continue here, almost without interruption, relative to the af fairs of the East. Since the change in the Spanish Ministry, the passage of diplomatic couriers between that country and this, has been very frequent. Yesterday, two couriers arrived from Madrid ' for the Russian Ambassador. The influence of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh on the modifi cations brought about in the Spanish Cabinet has not been small. March 30. The following letter addressed to M. Bel- I monlet, a man of letters, will be read with iu teiest;— i London, March 20. J Sir—The unaccountable too real proscrip- 1 lion to which 1 and my family have been sub ject for so many years, will prevent me being present at the fete which is to take place for the benefit of the imprisoned patriots, and Winch is to be presided over by the illustrious friend of Washington and the Hon. M. de Cotmenin. As you are one of the Stewards, 1 request you to present my offering. The ' bearer will deliver you to that effect a decora tion of the Legion of Honor, set nt diamonds,' winch belonged to my brothei; the Emperor Napoleon, which he wore in the camp at ; Boul. gne, and during the campaign of Ulm and | Aurterlnz, and which he gave me on his return. I wish that the events which it calls to mind, j may so enhance its value, as to render it of j some utility to the generous citizens who are ' the objects < f the fete. 1 add to tins decoration I the sum of 600 ir. for the same purpose. Ac cept, etc. Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte. The entertainment tor me benefit of the im prisoned patriots referred to in Joseph Napo leon’s letter, was to have taken place in the Salle Ventadour, but that building was refused by the Prefect of Police. A hotel, situated in the rue de Sevies, has been hired lor the pur pose, and the day that is fixed is said to be the I 7tt> of April. The following letter has been addressed to the Editor of the National; March 23. Sir—l learn by the journals that a subscrip tion has been opened for the putpose of buying in the hotel of one who in July, sacrificed his fortune with a view to insure the prosperity and liberty of his couutiy. The people arealways generous; they do justice o the pure intentions of M. Laffictte, and are now rewarding, oy a token of iheir esteem, his strict integrity and his noble patriotism. Desirous of associating myself with all who are generous in France, I send you my offering; for in exile we are affect ed, even in a higher degree, by the glory as well as by the misfortunes of our county. Ac cept etc. Louts Napoleon Bonaparte. GREECE. A letter of the Ist ult. from Nauplia, says;— ’‘Greece has been divided into three principal sections, namely, the Morea, Continental Greece, and the Islands. Plapontas, one of the three Commissioners sent to Bavaria to j congratulate the King, is appointed Governor' of the first division; Colletti of the second; and Zami of the third. These appointments as ' well as many others, show that the first object j of the Regency is to calm the animosity, and put an end to the dissention that separated the different parties, nevertheless Colocotroni, and some of his warmest partizans, h ive been put aside, as well as others noted for their re publican principles.” - & &« * & ££ MISCELLANEOUS. o ■-!< 'k >•< v'.vi rii'i J’i visit to a boston hiell.’ The public papers have informed us of sev eral suicides in Boston within a few months, of persons who have once moved in the higher circles of society, and in every case, we be lieve, the crime has been traced to despair grow ing out ot some species of gamtiling. The aw ful deaths of Ackers, Curtis and others, follow ing each other in quick succession, have had the efft-c to arouse the community, and we are g ad to find that there are some zealous spirits determined to bring to deserved punishmen* tir merciless authors of so much misery. Mr. Ent iling, the editor of the New-England Gal axv, a tew days since, visited in disguise a fa mous gambling establishment on Craigie’s bridge called ‘-the gymnasium” for the pur pose ol obtaining such evidence as would enable kirn to prosecute to conviction several noted blacklegs who frequent that establishment, and we are happy to learn was completely success ful. On his evidence, George Coolidge, a fa mous gambler, John Brown, the keeper of the gymnasium, and several others have been fined and punished. Mr. Snelling gives the follow ing account of his visit, which it seems was made on fast day.— N. Y. Observ. I This gymnasium is kept by a Mr. John Brown. The building, beheld from the out side, resembles a barn, except that a grog-sho, is kept on the lower floor, and that it stands ot piles sunk in the river. We entered, an< went through a door in the back pait of the shop and up a flight of stairs. The upper sto ries were divided into bowling alleys, in all but one of which parties were actively engag ed. At the door of the exception stood a i large table, covered with decanters and glasses. We were about to pass it, when a fellow whose very looks made us scratch, stepped up, point | ed to the table, and asked us, “if we did not in tend to do something for the good of the hoi.se.” Among wolves you must howl, and we are no enemy to an occasional glass of whiskey; so we drank one. The room—but its description desetves a separate paragraph. The infernal region was redolent with the fumes of sick stomachs, gin and tobacco.— > There were about a hundred persons assem bled; blackguards, swindlers, and reprobates lof every discription. Many of the sons of the l aristocracy of the city were there, as well as others, who, from their garb, one would have taxen for honest gentlemen. The rest were [ foreigners and unwashed villians. To the hon jor of the colored population be it spoken, not one of them was there. Here was seen the i husband, whose wife sat lonely at home, pining , for his company; there the father, whose chil dren were crying for the bread he was casting on the waters, not to return again. There stood the hopeful urchin, whose father, good man, supposed his pride and boast wis at that ; very moment edifying in church, Full half the assembly were boys from ten to sixteen I years old. It will presently appear that they were preparing to graduate from the state pris on and to die on the gallows. I In the middle of this earthly hell was a polygonal inclosure of boards, about 10 feet in diameter, the floor of which was sn owed with : tan, to drink the blood of the cocks. Here j two cf the gallant birds weie engaged. R mnd , the south end of the hall were ranged a score i of tea chests, in each of which a cock was crow ing at his neighbors. 4s many more were hanging in bags at the walls of the building.— In one corner stood a genteel blackguard, singing an obscene song, to the infinite satis faction of his auditors. Right opposite to him sat a bloated wretch, viscera crucians cum gemitu, and in the intervals of his intestine syncope, holding forth in praise of temperance. Oaths and blasphemies rang on every side, and I a few fisticuffs were exchanged. On entering we went straight to the cock-pit, , where a slate-colored and a red bird were stri vine to kill each other with steel spurs, which bad been affixed to their legs, probably because the natural weapons could not draw blood fast 1 , enough for the taste of the spectators. The feathers flew and the gore streamed. Present ly the slate-colored cock drove his gaff through the brain of his adversary, who fell dead on the spot. We turned away to a gambling table, which stood in another part of the room with a sensation of relief. I The play was Roulette. In the centre of the table was a wheel, resembling wheels of fortune, gaudily painted and marked with hier oglyphics. There were little compartments round its edge—an ivory ball was made to run round its periphery, and as it stopped the gamslet lost or won. On each side of the wheel was painted parallelogram divided into squares, with figueis, on which the players placed their stakes. One ill looking gallows bird turned the weeel, and another marked the phases of it. The marker had under bis hand j a pile of silver and gold eighteen inches high, I which had been won. We observed that the bank gained five times out of six. The man ' agement of the table was heathen Greek to us; ■ nevertheless, we put down and lost to the a mount of seventy-five cents. We did this that we might the better bo able to swear to the facts, and identify the two scoundrels who kept the table. We have seen them since on, change among honest men. A boy about fourteen years old staked his last fourpenny piece and lost it. He stood for a moment the im <ge of despair. 'Then tears gushed from his eyes. He went out tearing his hair and exclaiming, “O my poor father! O my poor mother/ What will become of me? O how I wish my boss hail not sent me afier that money.” This incident was a mine of mirth to the gamesters —a horse laugh shook the buil ding. But now Cooledge with a stentorian voice and a bottle swagger, proclaimed that two , more cocks were to be gaffed. He took a cock out of -i bag, and called to a brawny Irishman who stood at hand, ‘'Henry, give me Imy saw! a dentist’s saw was presented, and the I villains proceeded to our inexpressible horror to saw off' the biped’s spurs close to his legs.— The blood streamed down and the operator proceeded to fasten the gaffs upon the raw stumps. When a second cock had been ac coutred in the.like manner. Cooledge and Henry hel J them up and excited them to peck at each other. When they were sufficiently furious, they were set down, and the set-to com menced. ■ One of tho birds was red, the other black.— ! I They several timesdrove the gaffs in.o each • other’s bodies, but this did not abate their ar dor. Bets tan high. At last the red thrust 1 hisspur through the blackcock’s knee joint, i i and they both fell entangled together. They I ■ were raised disunited and set to fighting a ; gain. The black could now hardly stand. A I thrust in the brain quelled his courage, and he hopped over the enclosure. Coolege look him I up, smoothed his feathers, wiped his eyes, and put him again into the pit. Old it was ciuel, savage, bloody-. The poor bird had not, how ever, much more to suffer- A second stroke in the brain laid him asleep forever. Thus the sport continued till four the next morning, and so it is carriedon every Saturday , night and Sunday morning. We have lodged a complaint with the city marshall, who shall be I heartily welcome to our evidence, and by this ’ time the oflendets are probably in custody. He 1 has also the names of other witnesses of the truth what we have related FALSE ALARM. Galena, April 9. On Friday morning last, two men on Rush j creek, who owned some hogs running in the j (range, went out to catch and mark them. In i i doing this they necessarily made a good deal of ' noise. A couple of young men were led by their business in that vicinity, having the image of Indians imprinted on their minds, hearing the barking of dogs, squealing of hogs, and the hallooing of men in the woods, took it for grant ed that the noise proceeded from Indians, who were approaching the settlements for war and slaughter, of course—acting upon these convic tions, they very naturally gave the alarm to the neighbors on Apple river, who all, without de lay, started for Gahma. They were proceed ed by a special messenger, on a fleet horse, who • brought the alarm io town. A great many ) people being here, from different parts of the I country, crediting the report, posted oil’with- I out delay to give notice to their respective l friends. Before the report could be contta- I dieted, the whole country was in motion. The report gathered strength in its passage, ami bv the time it reached Platte it was stated that Galena had fallen into (he ban Is of 4 or 5,000 Indians. This verifies the saying of an old I idy of our acquaintance, who said, “she never knew a story to lose any thing bv the tolin of it.” Trifling as this occurrence may appear, it was attended with serious consequences to the whole country. People were flying in every direc tion from their homes: we doubt whether they have all yet got settled. People should be can t.ous how they give alarms—and he who would wilfully give a false one, be fared and feathered ' at least. LAMB, LION AND HOG. M hen Noah planted the first vine, and refer- ' ed, Satan approached it and said. “1 nurture I .you, charming plain!” He quickly brought f three animals: a sheep, a lion and a hog, and ' killed one after the other, near the vine. The i virtue of the three animals penetrated it and is ! ’ still manifest in its growth. When a man diinks J' .one bottle of wine, he is agreeable, gentle ' I friendly—that is the mature of the limb; when I 1 , he drinks two he is a lion, and says who is like : 1 .me? he then talks of stupendous things, when ' . t he drinks more, his senses forsake him, and at ’ i length he wallows in the mire—need it be said ' 1 I that lie then resembles a hoe? ; I SINGUL \R PIIENOMENON. 11 A friend has favored us with the following ' extract ot a private Journal, kept during a ( voyage from this country to Maderia, and ( 'thence to Calcutta.— Phil id. Daily Intclli- ’ I genccr. | “About midnight we were roused from our berths, and desired to repair on deck. \V<* did ; so, and wha’a scene ptesented itself! Each one of us as lie stepped upon deck, stood silent ■ and amazed, appalled yet delighted. IJc ' were floating upon a sa of fire.! Tho wind: ■ was brisk and the waves high, but each fl one I kindled into a liquid and floating conf] igratinn; 1 ! it sparkled and glowed like molten iron, and as ; the crest of the waves broke and fell, it seemed ; like a shower of fire. The sky was pallid with olbuds, and the night dark; yet in the reflected ! glare of the sea, the highest rope in our rigging ; was plainly perceptible. We ware awe Strick- . en. It seemed, in the silence and fearfulness j iof the moment, that we were careering in our l I lonely way upon an infernal ocean. As far as - i the eye could reach, the sea presented the | • ’ s line glowing appearance, heaving and flishing, • ! and throwing its deep red glare fir up into the i | misty dark air. It was awful, yet most beau i ; tifnk My imagination can conceive nothing of i equal grandeur, and my pen is unequal to the , task of its description, ft was doubtless oc-j. • casioned by the singular abud.mce of phosphor- I iic animalcul/p. • The water, when taken up in a bucket, I ■ gradually lost its glow, and finally became dark. • Thesea tetained its firey aspect for several 1 J hours, during all which time our ship dished} ■ j through it, scattering the spray like sparks of I real fire. 1 understand that in this portion of . , the sea, and at this time of the year, mariners ■ have often remat ked the same singular anpear- • j ance. At the time we saw it, we were in lati- tude 7, N. and longitude 17, W.” POLITICAL. From the Cincinnati Republican. The circular copied below has been re ceived by a gentleman of this“city. To say that the object intended in it, meets our cor dial approbation, is but imperfectly expressing our feelings. We love the American Union and we love every thing connected with its history that tends to throw glory and beauty around it. Sometime last winter, we published the speech of Mr. Pointsett, made, we beleive, in a meeting of the Unionists, in Charleston, South Carolina, in which the almost magic tri umph of our American, fl ig, in Mexico, was related. No American, u hose heart is still a live to the Revolution, can read the little inci dent referred to in the circular, and which is so touchingly and elftqently described by Air. Poinsett, without feeling proud of our Union. The intention of the circular is to proclu e the means of embodying that one glorious triumph of the star spangled banner upon canvass—to construct, from lite circumstance, a memento of our national greatness, fl attering alike to our patriotism and our taste. Copies of (he circu lar have, we presume, been sent to all the oth er cities in the United States, and the funds necessary to the execution of the design, will be speedily raised. The gentleman to whom tho circular was sent will submit it to the considvratiuu of our patriotic citizens next week. CIRCULAR. CIIALESTON, S. C. April fl. At the period of the Revolution of the Arciirda la t which compelled ths Congress of Mexico to reserve tho election ofPedrauzi and place Guerrero in the Presidential Ch .ir, the city was taken by assault, and the army es Guerrero attacked and plundered the houses of the European Spaniards, who are peculiarly ■ odious to the native Mexicans. Many of [ these persons had taken refuge in the house of j the American Ambassador, and it was pointed out to tiie exasperated soldiery as the asylum of their enemies. They rushed to attack it, and in a few minutes would have massacred all within its walls. Al this moment, when hun dreds oi muskeis were levelled at the windows, Mr. Poinseit, with his Secretary of Legation, Mr. John Mason. Jr. threw themselves into ait open balcony which overlooked the crowd, and unfurling the SCAR SPANGLED BAN NER, demanded that ail persons in bis house should be protected while the fl ig of his coun try waved over them. Tne scene changed as ImPenchantment; and the very men who were about to mike the attack, cheered the Stand* ard or our Union, and placed sentinels to guard it from o ttrage. The history of tho world presents no parallel to such a scene, and its moral beamy and grandeur should be equally preferred on the pageofihe historian and the canvass of the pain er. It is the’(‘fore proposed to raise by subscription, a sulfi - frit sum to It tve this illii.-drious tt innipA of one Na tiounl Flag reptesented on canvass and after ward engraved. 'The painting will be pre sented to some public institution of the Stale, or United States. I'he minute particulars attending the un furling of the United Slates flig at Mexico, fiirnish matcri ds for a splendul National Painting, d’lte section’d exci om-.nws, at pre sent existing among the States, are oldiberning national fellings. These must bo revived, the arts are powerful in their operation, and lasting in their inflntmee. We mi it ha ve Nit ion i| Paintings, N tlional Sonus, N ition il Celebra tions to excite and perpetuate National enthusi asm. Though it is difficult lor the mind to cal cul t’e the value of (he Union, yet the hand of a mister may success fully exhibit at a single glance, that N ttional protection, which, like the pressure of the atm tsphere, though omni present and powerful, is neither seen nor felt. I’ite fl ig <>f every cou atry is its cm 'de,'n. It should command respect abroad—adoration at home. Tim man who loves and reveres not his Country’s t lag, is prepare! to vi >! tie her 1 tws and destroy her itistiimion<, To ponr tr iy, llum, the Star Spangled B timer overaw ing, in a foreign I tmi an infuriated and hwless soldiery, and protecting bom revolutionary violence the objects of imlitica) hatred—is to spread before the eyes, of our counirvmen, and particularly of the risim.’generation, the unseen, but high moral protection afiordl d by a great, because a United people. The chief object, however, is to hive this scene engravej, that the Flag of our country miy wave m ( very house, in every cottage, even in eveiy log house, beyond the ino’ieiains; tb it our ( hiidr<»i> may learn befoie they can read, to love and reverence the emblem of their coun'iy’s pow er and miy realize thttii is their guardian an.l protector, not only in their nalite soil, but in a land of strangers. The amount of your subscription von will please transmit to the joint addins of. * WILLI AM DR \ Y PON. I> \NIEL E. HUGER. BE NJ. F. PEPO ON. SFA SERPEN"’’. A Capt, Knight, arrived at Poril md, savs that he had a view of a Sea Serpent, w thin five or six hundred feet, for an bmir and a hub He was a hundred feet Io tg, w : <h alm<d a : large as a barrel. Tim Por land Dailst ti:or recomttmnds that Col. David otkoi by sent to c itch this odd 1’...h.