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[From Johnstone's Magazine.] The Yellow Domino. In the latter part of the reign of Louis XV. of France the inasquorade was an entertainment high in estimation, mid was often given at an immense cost on court days and such occasions of rejoicing. As persons of all ranks might gain admission to these apectacles, provided they could afford the purchase of the ticket, very strange ren contres frequently took place at them, and exhibitions almost as oorious in the way of disguise or assumption of character. But perhaps the most Vhimsical among the genuine surprises recorded at any o! these spectacles, was that which ore urred in Paris the 15th of October, on the day when the dauphin (son of Louis XV.) attained the age of one-and-twenty. j At this fete, which was of a peculiarly glittering character —so much so, that the details of it are given at great length by the historians of the day—the strange demeanor of a man in a yellow domino, early in the evening, excited attention. This mask, who showed nothing remark able as to figure,—though tall rather, and of robust proportion,—seemed to he gifted with an appetite, not merely past human conception, but passing the fan cies even of romance,* The dragon of old, who churches ale, (He used to come on a Sunday;) Whole congregations were to him, But a dish of Salmagundi,— he was a nibbier-—a mere fool—to this stranger of the yellow domino. He pass ed from chamber to chamber — from table to table of refreshments — not tasting lmt devouring l —devastating all before him. At one board, he despatched a fowl, two thirds of a ham, and half a dozen bottles of champagne; the very next moment lie was found seated in another apartment, performing the same feat, with a stomach hotter than at lirst. This strange course went on until the company, who at first had been amused by it, became alarmed and tumultuous. “Is it the same mask—or are then several dressed alike?” demanded an of ficer©!" the guards, ns the yellow domino rose from a seat opposite to him and quitted the apartment “I have seen hut one—and, by Heaven! j he is here again,” exclaimed the party to 1 whom the query is addressed. The yellow domino spoke not a word, but proceeded straight to the vacant seat! which he had just left, and again com menced slipping, as though he had fasted i for the half of a campaign. At length the confusion which this proceeding created, became universal ; and the cause reached the ears of the dauphin." “He is a very fiend, your highness!" exclaimed an old nobleman—saving, your highness’ presence —or wants but a tail to be so!” “Say rather he should be a famished poet, by bis appearance,” replied the prince, laughing. “But there must be some juggling; he spills all his wine, and hides the provisions under his robe.” Even while they were speaking, the yellow domino entered the room in which they were talking, and, as usual, proceed ed to the table of refreshments. “See here, my lord,” cried one—“l have seen him do this twice !” “I thrice!”—“l live times!"—“and 1 fifteen!” This was too much. The master of; the ceremonies was questioned. He knew nothing—and the yellow domino was in terrupted as he was carrying a bumper of claret to his lips. “The prince’s desire is that monsieur who wears the yellow domino should un mask.” The stranger hesitated. “The command with which his high ness honors monsieur is perfectly abso lute.” Against that which is absolute there is no contending. The yellow man thr u oil his mask and domino, and proved to be a private trooper of the Irish dragoons ! “And in the name of gluttony, my good friend, (not to ask how you gained admission,) “how have you contrived,” said the prince, “to sup to-night so many times ?” “Sire. I was but beginning to sup, with reverence be it said, when your roy al message interrupted me.” “Beginning!” exclaimed the dauphin, ; in amazement, “then what is it 1 have heard and seen ? Where arc the herds of oxen that have disappeared, and the ham pers of Burgundy! I insist upon know ing how this is!” “It is, sire,” returned the soldier, “may it please your grace, that the troop to which I belong is to-day on guard. We have purchased one ticket among us, I and provided this yellow domino, winch-] fits us all. By which means the whole of the front rank, being myself the last man, have supped, if the truth must be told, at discretion! and the leader of the second rank, saving your highness’ com mands, is now waiting outside the door to take his turn.” An old Soaker. One Martin Power, an Irishman, of Tipperary, aged seventy two years, has challenged the world to bca* him at whiskey drinking —his usual consumption having been (or the last titty years thirty glasses a day ! The whole quantity which is estimated to have gone down h» throat is me hundred and thirty hogsheads, enough to float a man <if war, and costing something like ten thous and dollars. Who will accept the chal lenge ? ADVICE TO UNMARRIED LADIES, j Found among some Mss. of a late Dotcnger. ! If you have blue eyes —languish. If black eves —leer. If you have a pretty foot—wear short petticoats. If you are in the least doubtful as to that point —let them he rather long. If you have good teeth—don’t forget lo laugh now and then. If you have bad ones—you must only simper. W hile you are young —sit with your face to the light. While you are a little advanced—sit with your hack to the window. If you have a had voice—always speak in a low tone If it is acknowledged that you have a fiiig voice—never speak in a high one. if you dance well—dance but seldom. If you dance ill—never dance at all. If you smg well —make no previous excuses. If you sing indifferently—hesitate not a moment when you are asked : for few persons are competent judges of singing, but every one is sensible of a desire to please. It’ in conversation you think a person | wrong—rather hint a difference ol opiu ; ion than oiler a contradiction. If you find a person telling an absolute j falsehood —let it pass over in silence ; it j is not worth youi while to make any one your enemy, by proving him a liar. It is always in your power to make a I friend by smiles—what a folly to make i enemies by frowns! When you' have an opportunity to j praise—do it with all your heart. , When you are forced to blame—appear at least, to do it witli reluctance. | If you are envious of another woman i—never show it but by allowing her every j good quality and perfection except those ‘ she reallv possesses. ‘ln the small village of Bielodin, twelve years ago, two male twins were burn join-' j ed together, back, to back, anil placed in ! such a position that when one stood up j lie was obliged to carry his brother on his back, bis legs above and liis head be-i I low : in this position they could change al ternately. The children were both per i fectly formed, and their growth has been | equal, which gives rise to the idea that the adherence is neither organic nor so ' firm but that they may be seperaled ; this, at least, is the opinion of the medical men who have visited them. M hat is ; curious,is, that they change their positions ; with great regularity ; when one is fatig jued, he utters a faint cry, and the change of position or jump takes place imincui j atoly. This happens every quarter of an I hour, with such precision, that the number of turns they make, serves as a sort of clock to their parents. About a year ago while they were playing, they executed a. number of evolutions or summersets, in such away that they went over a great deal of ground with much rapidity; and since this discovery, they have been em ployed as messengers, as they are able to reach any spot with greater rapidity than a horse. The summerset is similar to that executed by clowns, who throw them selves over with the hands and feet. The difference is, that the movement is perfect ly natural to the twins. In the country they are called the brothers furstiva (four footed brothers.’) Titles of old Books. —The follow ing are the titles of some of the books | which were in circulation in the time of Cromwell. The authors of those days! must have thought there was “something in a name.”—“A most delectable, sweet perfume Nose-Clay, for Clod's saints to smell at.”-—“A pair of Bellows, to blow otf the dust cast upon John Fry.”—“The Snuffers of Divine Love.”—“Hooks and I lives for Believers’ Breeches,” —“High i heeled Shoes for Dwarfs in Holiness.”— I “Crumb: of Comfort for the Chickens of the Convenant.”—“A Sigh of Sorrow i for the Sinners of Zion, breathed out of j a hole in the wall of an earthen vessel, ; known among men by the name of Sam uel Fish.”—“The Spiritual Mustard Fot to make the Soul Sneeze with devotion.” —“Salvation’s Vantage Ground! or, a 1 Looping Stand for heavy believers.”—“A j Shot aimed at the Devil's head-quarters, j through the tube of the Cannon of the! Covenant.” —“A Reaping Hook well |tempered for the Stubborn Ears of the ! Coming Crop ; or, Biscuits baked in the [oven of charity, carefully conserved from the Chickens of the Church, Sparrows -of the Spirit, and the sweet Swallows of ■ Salvation.”—“Seven Sobs of a Sorrow fill Soul for Sin : or. seven Penitential BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. Psalms of the Princely Prophet David, I whereunto are also annexed Win. Hmn nis’s handful of Honey Suckles, and di vers Godly and Pithy Ditties now newly augmented.” [Phil. Messenger. From "The Native American.” The Citv of Washington. It will ■ strike every one as remarkable, that in the year 1663, one hundred and thirty | years before the city was laid out, that the site was called Rome, and the stream then ran through it, and which Toni Moore, in order to compass a witticism, called Goose Creek, was denominated'l i ber. Rome —Tiber —singular coinci dence —to be prophetic of the splendor of the Western Hemisphere! There is another anecdote relative to this city, which seems to mark it with a solemn and impressive character. Prior to the Revolution, there was one house on the hanks of the Potomac, on the j ground now occupied by the city of Wash ington, and that dwelling is still standing, ■ and known as “Young’s Mansion House," near the long bridge, an old family dom | icial. Mr. C , the father of a ! man who made himself illustrious in the; Revolution, and a relation were on a vis it to the family who occupied the house ; j and, standing on the hanks of the river, Mr. C— , lifter some conversation, which has not descended to us vvitlMhe . tradition, remarked—“ This place is des igned to he the seat of an immense em pire.” We give an extract from the survey, in which the names Rome and Tiber ap pear ; and are glad to have an opportuni ty of preserving so authentic a relic. We will remark, that the paper on which the ■ survey was written, and the hand-writing, I were both executed in the reign of ! Charles 11. tiie extract. June sth, IGG3. Lnyd out for Francis Pope, of this province, Gentleman, a parcell of land in Charles Countv, called Room, lying oil the'north side of the Anacostian River; beginning at the marked oak standing by the riverside, the hounded tree of Capt. Robert Troop, .mil running north by the river for breadth the length of “00 per ches, to a bounded oak standing at the mouth of a hay, or inlett, called Tiber; hounded on the north by the said—■ —, and line drawn east for the length of 320 ps. to a hounded oak standing in the woods, on the oast with a line drawn south from the end of the former line, until you meet with the exterior bounded tree of Robert Troop, called Scotland Yard ; on the south with the said land ; on the west with the said river; containing, and now laid out for 400 acres, more or less. 'Pile same manuscript describes the lines of the tract called “Scotland Yard,” which we deem it unnecessary to traus -1 cribe. Lightning Tiif.es —The Buffalo Ad- j vertiser says ; —“Trees of a pyramidal shape, whose leaves are sharply pointed, j like the pine or hemlock, are, as a gener al thing, much more liable to be struck than other kinds. One of the most mag nificent sights we ever saw, was an old hemlock set on fire by lightning. It was a relic of the primeval forest, and tower ed upwards someone hundred and fifty) feet. The tree had been girdled, and i stood dead, solitary and alone, on a height lof ground. One intensely dark night, in midsummer, it was struck, and imme diately the whole trunk was enveloped in a sheet of tiame. There was no wind, j and the pyramid of fire shot up clear and bright, nearly two hundred feet in height, illuminating with its broad glare the coun try for miles around—AN e have since wit nessed many displays of tire works, hut none that equalled the burning of that old hemlock. It is notorious that in traveling through the vast pine wood tract in the Carolina?, these trees constantly hear the mark oftlie electric fluid. When the grain is straight it descends perpendicularly, hut when oth erwise passes down by a spiral course, leaving a white line cut into the 'nark, ex posing the wood beneath. [l’hil. Mes senger. Improved C.wai. Boat. In the broad and deep canal which extends from Tren ton to Princeton, a canal boat is used of a very excellent model. The contri vance originated with Mr Burden, and was improved by Mr. Edwin Stevens,un der whose direction this boat was built. The boat consists of two hollow cylinder’s oG feet long and 2 1-2 feet in diameter, flattened into a cut water at the ends. The upper part of the canal boat, which is, in fact, a iarge and commodious hall, SO feet long and 14 feet wide, is built up on these cylinders. The whole structure is light and elegant, and is drawn at the rate of G to S miles an hour, by three horses. The great advantage of the cyl ; inder boat, as it is called, consists in its not occasioning a ripple in the water i sufficiently large to injure the hanks of ! the canal in the slightest degree, while j one of the ordinary structure, drawn at | the rate of 8 miles an hour, would soon demolish the banks completely. [Phil, i Messenger. Original Joke —“ Doctor,” said Mr. B. to his medical adviser one day ; “isn’t ! there a disease called shingles ?” “Yes, to be sure,” replied Galen.—‘Then I’ve .got it, for certain,” says B —, “for the roof lof my mouth is broken out in a dozen ! places !” Vert late from England. By the arrival of the packet' ship Hibernia, Captain Wilson, we have received Liverpool papers to the Ist of August, and London papers to the 01st July, both inclusive, j The intelligence from Spain of what has 1 occurred since our last advices is important. Thc forces of Don Carlos have been twice en gaged witli the Queen’s troops near Valencia. In the first action he sustained a serious dis . coinfiture and lost from two to three thousand men. In the second he is reported to have , suffered considerable loss. At the last dates , lie was seeking to recross G.e Ebro. The London money market has undergone no considerable variation. The Bank of En gland continues to purchase specie. Accord ing to its returns on the 25th of July, its stock of specie exceeded the amount stated in the returns fhree months previous by about half a million. The accounts continue to speak of the abundance of money. Great Britain. The English Journals are much occupied with the elections which j arc now going on with zeal in different parts 1 of the kingdom. Dr. Bowring, who stood for ( Kihnarnoch has been beaten. Sir George j Murray, who was the tory nominee for West minster lias lost his election. Ewart and El-' pi tinstone, the reform candidates for Liverpool are defeated. In London tiie four reform can didates have succeeded. The Liverpool Times oi August Ist, says : “Radical candidates have at this election fared very ill almost every where. Mr. Grote escaped with the skin of his teeth ; Mr. Roe buck lias gone to the dogs; Col. Thompson has been beaten by that superlative coxcomb, D’ls : raeli the younger; Mr. Hunt has iost his elec tion ; and here Mr. Ewart, with innumerable claims on the constituency, and Mr. Elpliin stonc, after having fully established his repu tation as a man of sense, information, and ex cellent intentions, have been defeated. The advocates of .organic reforms will be exceed ingly few in the new Parliament, and cf those who are in, scarcely any have gained seats ex cept as supporters of Lord Melbourn’s govern ment. Sir Robert Peel continues indisposed. The London Courier of the 31st July con tains a table of members elected to the new Parliament, from which it appears that 205 Reformers had been returned, against IG!) To ries. Letters from Malta, of the 28th of J unc, states that the Cholera appeared there on the Pth of the same month. Between that time and the 27th, GOI cases had occurred, and 422 deaths. The number of recoveries was 83, and the rest were under treatment. 'l’he packet ship Pennsylvania, of the eighth of July, arrived out with J GO,OOO dollars in specie. France. The Paris dates are to the 29th of July, inclusive. The journals are princi pally occupied with the festival of the three days of July. The usual preparations for fu neral services, charitable donations, military parades, pantomines by daylight, illuminations and fireworks had been made. The follow ing is an account of w hat took place on the 28th. The French police has been unusually vigi lant since the return of Prince Louis Bona parte to Europe. Travellers are visited even on leaving France. Paris Bourse., Saturday 29th July.—The three per cents continue to improve. At the close of the Bourse on Friday they were for the end of the month, 79f. 30c, and the Five per cents, 11 Os 25c. Speculation is at hand in Spanish Bonds, and prices have been ill sup-1 ported; the Active commenced at233-Bf. and gradually receded to 23 l-Bf. at which they closed. Telegraphic despatches. —Bordeaux, July 28, Five, P. M.—Letters from Saragossa ol 2Jtii state that the Pretender was inarching to wards Camarillas, where he had ordered 8,000 rations. This route indicates his intention to return upon the Ebro, towards Todela, by Da roca and Tarazona. Espitero was on the 10th at Villar de Domingo Garcia, near Cuenca, prepared to march upon Teruelor Molina, ac cording to the direction that Don Carlos might take. Bayonne, July 27, Six, P. M.—A report published at Pampoluna, the 25th, announces that Don Carlos reached Daroca on the 22d, ! marching in the.direction of Borga. Espartero i and Oran were following his precipitate re j treat — Monilmr. Portugal, 'July 30.— The latest accounts) from Lisbon, received yesterday by the Bra- ! ganza, seem to attach more importance to the 1 insurrection in favor of the Charter of Don ; Pedro than it was at first viewed with, The ; insurrection was evidently spreading, and an estimate of the extent its ramifications may be formed from the fact of its having broken 1 out simultaneously at Estramos, which is in the South of Portugal, and at Valenca, in the North. Although the authorities of Lisbon pretend to attach but little importance to this ( movement, the extraordinary character of the measures which they had recourse to, indi cates that they must have viewed it with con- I siilerable apprehension. Greece. It appears by accounts from Ath ens, of the 2(!t.h of June, that the discharge of ] all the Bavarian troops from the Greek service iis resolved upon by King Otho. Only some officers will remain to form the skeletons of the new regiments. The King has not thought I fit to introduce the conscription in order to ; form a national army. It seems to be intend ed to leave it to each commune to raise cer tain contingents in such manner as it shall | judge most convenient. The Crown Prince ] Eftorden has arrived at Munich. [Dutch pa per. The Magnetic Tet.egrahi. The New Wortzburg Gazette gives the following of the 30th June, from Munich; —“Yesterday some astonishment was excited among us by seeing I on the roofs of the loftiest houses in the town,! several men employed in passing iron wires, which extended from the towers of the church of Notre Dame, above the Isas, as far as the Chateau d’ Eau of Mount Gasteigberg, from j thence to the cbseivatorv of Bogenhausen, ] and back to the tower of Notre Dame. These wires were intended to exemplify a project of] Professor Steinheil, for the conveyance of in- I telligence by means of electric, magnetism. It is stated that in two seconds coinmunica- i j tion might possibly be conveyed from Lisbon, to St. Petersburg, by means of a tclepraph of] this description.” Vr - Censes of Maine. The Census of Maine, recently taken, shows the popula tion of the State to be 485,451 —being a gain of 85,979 since 1830, or 21 per cent From the Baltimore American, Aug. 30. STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION—TWENTY FIVE LIVES LOST!! The report noticed in yesterday’s American, of a fatal steamboat disaster on the Upper Mis sissippi, is unfortunately too well confirmed.— A slip from the St Louis Bulletin, under date of 19th inst., furnishes the following particu lars. The disaster is said to have occurred ! while the-boat was under an ordinary head of ! steam. We again repeat that an Act of Con gress, providing the severest personal penal j ties against those entrusted with the manage ! nient of public conveyances—whether of steamboats, rail roads, or stage coaches—*and the heaviest pecuniary damages against the ow-ners of them, can alone and will most effect ually prevent the w'anton sacrifice of property and human life which has now become a mat ter of almost daily occurrence. St. Louis, Aug. 19. The steamer Dubuque collapsed a flue on her passage to Galena, on Tuesday morning last, at 3 o’clock, about 40 miles below Rock Island. Twenty-seven persons were killed and wounded; fifteen of them were buried at Bloomington, and one at Alton; four were | brought to the Hospital in this city—they were all deck passengers except four hands of the boat—live or six were blown overboad. The boat took lire shortly afterwards, but the sur -1 vivors succeeded in putting it out without do ■ ing much damage. The Dubuque was towed ; to this city by the steamer Smelter, j The following is a partial list of the suffer -1 ers. John Littleton, 2d engineer, badly wounded in the head by an iron. Isaac Deal, fireman of Pittsburg, dead. Felix Pope, do. Kaskaskia, do. Charles Kelley,deck hand, Ohio, still alive. Noah Swain, do. Quincy, dead. ' Jesse Johnson, cook, colored man, thrown ! overboard and drowned. i Beni. Messer, 2d cook, col’d man Cincinnati, dead. ; James C. Carr, St. Clair co., 111., deck pas | senger, dead. | George McMurtry, do. do. dead. Francis Pleasant do. col’d do. do. Henry A. Carr, do. do. do. ; James C. Hamilton, Dubuque, do. ' Joseph Brady, do. do. i John Boland, do. do. Josiah L. Sams, Clay co., Ilk, do. la. B. Sams, do. do. Martin Shoughnohoy, St. Louis, alive. George Clix, Galena, dead. Michael Shouglinessy and w ife, witli an in fant the two latter dead. David Francour, France. From the Cincinnati Whig, Aug. 25. Steamboat Dubuque. Our account of the bursting of the boiler of this boat, with the consequent loss of lives, is confirmed by the ar rival of the Smelter, this morning, and sever al passengers that were on the Dubuque. A lady passenger who witnessed the suffering at tendant on this accident, and attended to ad ministering to the wounded, informs us, that the accident occurred near Burlington, not Alton, upwards of three hundred miles above St. Louis. Nineteen were buried near the spot where the explosion occurred; four a short distance below ; one at Alton; and two at St. Louis. In all, twenty-six. One female and her child, deck passengers, were among the number. The conduct of the Captain of the Dubuque, in leaving them exposed on the deck, when wounded, is represented by our informant, as any thing else bn; gentlemanly. Hurricane in the W. Indies. St. Darts. A letter from St. Bartholomews re ceived in New York, stab's that on the 2.1 Au gust there was one of the most severe storms ever known in that island. It states that the town in which the writer resided, composed of about 300 houses, is two thirds destroyed, among them some of the most substantial buildings, dwellings and stores—the greater number the dwellings cf the poor. As yet between twenty and thirty lives only have been discovered to have been lost in the town, most of them crushed to death under the ruins, and others horribly mutilated, and since dead, and very many others severely injured, with broken bones, &.c. Hundreds have lost all tiioy possessed, and are thrown destitute i upon the charity of others. The sea, during the gale, had unprecedently, risen over G feel. [From the Baltimore American, Aug. 20.] Gai.e av St. Johns, P. R. Captain Nor ris, of the brig Frances Jane, at this port yes terday from St. Johns, reports that the hurri cane which visited that place on the 15th inst. destroyed an Immense amount of property in and around the town and killed a large num ber of persons. The brig Gracchus, of this port, was totally lost, together with five other American and twenty-eight foreign vessels, out of which twenty-one persons were drrown ed. Previous to the sailing of Captain Norris, the British Mail Packet from Barbadoes arriv ed at St. Johns, and reported that the island of Barbadoes had been visited a second time by a hurricane, on the 2d of August, during which thirty-five vessels were driven ashore, sunk, or otherwise injured. Captain N. states that the schooner Wm. A. Knox, of Norfolk received considerable injury from the gale at Barbadoes, and went to St. Thomas to repair. While lying at the latter , port, she had the misfortune to be again in a ) gale, during which she lost her foremast and received other damage. It was was estimated at St Johns, from the accounts which had reached there of the dis asters in the different islands, that about ONE THOUSAND PERSONS had lost their lives by the late Hurricanes. When Napoleon was wedded to Marie Louise—as an act of grace, lie issued a de cree, ordering that all convicts confined for fines and expenses, should be set at liberty. He also directed the discharge of all per sons arrested for non-payment of taxes— and the remission of all the dues for nurs ing children in the public nurse office in Paris. He also ordered that six thousand old soldiers should be married to girls belong ing to their towns —and as an inducement for the girls thus to reward the veterans for : their services in the wars, he gave each a | dowry of eighteen hundred francs—or about three hundred and fifty dollars each. The value of the jewels and nuptial orna ments, which Napoleon gave his bride on this occasion, was equal to 18 millions francs. M obile, Aug. 3d. The Land PiUat esi The following letter from Captain Mclntosh will explain the move ments of the U. S. ship St Louis, which now lies at anchor in the Bay. We stated on Mon day, that the Constellation had sailed from Pensacola—which proves to have been an er ror. We learn that is the intention of Com mander Haine to drive the gang on shore, where they are to be met and disposed of by Major Hall and his company of armed vol unteers. There is now, we think, a fair pros pect of bringing these vagabonds and out laws to merited punishment, and ridding our vi cinity of their depredations. United States Frigate Constellation. Pensacola Buy, Aug. 2Gth, 1837. Iffy Dear Sir—l have the pleasure to inform you that immediately on receipt of your letter with the accompanying papers, I w r as directed by Commodore Dallas, to order the-United States ship St. Louis, to Mobile Bay, to aid the civil authorities in bringing to punishment the individuals complained of; and I have the further satisfaction to inform you, that the St. Louis has at this moment a signal for a pilot, and Commander Paine informs me he will be ready to proceed at early daylight to-morrow morning. With very great respect, Your mostobd’t serv’t. JAS. McINTOSH, Flag Captain. To John B. Hogan, Esq. Collector, Mobile. From the Mobile Corn. Register, Aug. 28. A letter from General Jessup of the 9th inst. addiesssd to a friend in this city, contains s.ome interesting items of intelligence. We learn from it that the motive which prompted Gen. Jessup to propose relinquishing his com mand in Florida, was an opinion somewhat hastily formed as it proved, that public senti ment in Florida would require it. On this sub ject the General remarks: “I am anxious that my motives should be understood and appreciated by my friends.— Though all my military measures had been successful, I had failed tq accomplish the emi gration of the Indians—a measure deeply in teresting to the suffering frontier inhabitants of Florida, and one to which public attention had been directed by the repeated failures which had preceded mine. Believing that public opinion, particularly in Florida, would demand my recall, and wishing to disembar rass the government and leave it free to act, w ithout any consideration personal to myself, I asked to be relieved. The Secretary of war left it at my option to relinquish or retain the command; and finding, as I believed, that public opinion was different from what I had supposed it would be, I informed the General in-Chief on the Bth of July, that I would retain the command, unless the government should otherwise determine. That is my purpose now ; but I am entirely indifferent whether or dered to retain or surrender the command. Gen. Jessup further adds—“ Gen. Gaines is a pure patriot—he sent me the Gth Regiment of Infantry at a time when we had not spoken for more than ten years, by which I was enabled to assume the offensive—without that timely aid 1 should have been compelled to remain on , the defensive. Few men wmuld have acted with the magnamimity which distinguished his conduct on tli it occasion. I shall never forget the act, nor cease to feel grateful for it.” From the Jacksonville Courier. The Micasukies. This tribe of Indians who were originally a collection of criminals tnd fugitives from the Creek nation, and who were removed from Middle Florida, after the cession by the treaty of Camp Moultrie, were not only the chief instigators to the present war, but in conjunction with the negroes among them, have been mainly instrumental in keeping it up—and are perhaps the worst set of Indians in the U. States, —being, in fact, a set of Banditti, distinct from the Seminole nation, who are over overawed and enrolled by them, Micanopy, Philip, and the other Sem inole chiefs and people, possess property to considerable amount, negroes, cattle, horses, &.c.—and would, we are satisfied, be glad to make terms by which they could be secur ed in their possessions. Had Gen. Jessup se cured the Micasuki chiefs at Tampa Biy and Fort Mellon, the Sejninoles would have been glad of it, and this, if possible, should still be done. It would prove more effective than pitched battles with them, however, suc cessful. One of the most eminent of the British statesmen told the writer of this article, when in England, that no power on earth should induce Great Britain to relinquish its claims upon our North Eastern Boundary, for said he, his eye brightening at the time, “ice are making Halifax impregnable,—Halifax is the. nearest accessible American port to England. Hilh a rail-road over .Vova Scotia, and a rail road from St. John, in JVew Brunswick, to Que bec, in a single week we can surround the United Stales with a cordon of British bayonets stretch ing from St. Andrews to Toronto in Upper Canada, —with the power to concentrate on any point we choose. To do this, we must have the strip of land in dispute, and when the rail-road is done, it is worth more to us than the whole British Navy!” In pursuance of this plan of tactics, we saw the British Government but a year age, ap propriating 50,000 dollars for the survey of this Rail Road, which was to run over the land oftlie State of Maine an.l the njoment Sir George Harvey, the new Governor of New Brunswick, arrives, he issuer an order for the arrest of an American citizen, sent to the dis puted territory b v the State of Maine, and that American Citizen is now in the Frederick ton gaol, at w hich place is one of the best disciplined of the British military corps!—[N. York Express. Goon llumor. The New York Times says : There is “a counsellor in that city that laughs the jury into a verdict in his favor,” There is a great deal in laughing philosophy. It was onco said of the celebrated Lord Cas tlereagh, that he carried ten points by his courtesey and good humor where he carried one by his logic. This laughing gentleman can’t have many notes to pay, we fancy. Chateaubriand, in his work on English liter ature, speaks of sitting, when he was a young man t next Mirabeau, at a dinner, while the subject of conversation was Mirabeau’s ene mies, “He looked me full in the face,” says Chateaubriand, “with his eyes of wickedness and genius, and laying his broad hand on my shoulder, they will never forgive me my su periority.” Methinks I still feel the impression of that hand, as if Satan had touched me with his fiery claw,”