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executor to his will, and he bequeathed the sum of £50,000 to my cousin Maria. Ho# woo ed and won this beloved being, and the extra ordinary crosses which came between us and otir affection, I shall relate in some future pa per. THE ADVOCATE. (Ga.) FEB. B,T*». ~ State Rights 'Picket for Congress. ELECTION FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER. THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn. WILLIAM C DAWSON, of Greene. JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Trodpe. WALTER T. COLQUITT, of Muscogee. RICHARD W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham EDWARD J BLACK, of Seriven. MARK A COOPER, of Hall. EUGENICS A NESBIT, of Bibb. LOT WARREN, of Sumpter Ts I ELAT ESTIUJ M BUG. Animal MaC.nitism. How many of us are there who arc not only credulous, but who in sist upon being deceived! Animal Magnet ism, though the latest, is by no means a new humbug. Os the many w hich have at different times engaged the attention of tiie world, few can claim more warm or enthusiastic advocates than this, or to have maintained its ground for a longer period. Since it originated with Mesucco, ora date we think, a little later than the middle of the last century, it has chamelion like, many times changed its colors. At that time the magnetism was not supposed to be merely animal and spiritual—but magnets ac tually metallic, called tractors were used.— Then the end proposed by this, so called, science was to cure diseases. Os course, what within the influence of the imagination in some cases, and of chicanery and confederacy in others, a most respectable array of precedents was procurred. In later times the miracles of Prince llohenlohe, or the existence of the Sea Serpent, have not been better or more formal ly attested. This overwhelming mass of evi dence had its effect to produce a strong faction of partizans from among those who are ever Tcady to adopt extraordinary opinions, or to maintain stoutly what they are determined to believe. The advance of science! and human life exte.nded! cried this party. — Down with the humbug! quietly answer ed the sensible world. Persecution! — We will die martyrs in this cause! — furiously replied the scientific faction. So you may, rejoined the world, very moderately : and there the argument ended, —for nobody caine to raise the zealots to the dignity of martyrdom. In the process of a very short time the fire died out for want of fuel, and beside there was no body to stir it up. Thus closed act the first, we have neither time nor patience to detail its particular scenes, nor should we expect the most indulgent read er to bear w ith us if we did. Suffice it to say, that they were many and various. The delu sion broke out —as we say of contagious diseas es—in many different places, and under a di- versity of forms. Now it appears on the stage again. Mr. P oven’s lectures aud Col. Stone’s letters, and divers other able and certainly most sincere advocates take it by the hand, vouch for its good character, and propose to introduce it in to society. What shall we do about it? Shall we receive it? It comes under a different form from that it first assumed. Now it dis cards the metallic magnets. A professor of the science is himself the magnet What this supposed science proposes to effect, it is diffi cult to say. It beats the Tree of Life alto gether. That would only communicate know ledge of good and evil ; but this proposes to impart information upon the most indifferent subjects. Already hundreds are persuaded of of a mysterious influence of a class of men, calling themselves magnetizers. Their sub jects are thrown in a trance, or, as it is called, magnetic sleep, and during its continuance .are said to be possessed of powers of a most miraculous character. Tlie feats of reading sealed letters and describing locations, utterly unknown to tiie patient when awake, and sup posed never to have been described to him— we will not repeat, having no personal know ledge of them. We refer the curious to Col. Stone and Dr. Poyen. We remark, merely that we find no difficulty in believing many of these wonderful stories as they do not differ materially from tlie common casss reported of the remarkable pow ers of somnambulists who labor under Dervous disease, but of whom it is not pretended that they have been expos ed to any magnetic influence. Again, the practical question recurs—what shall we do about.it? and shall 'r? Tceeive these doctrines thus maintained, attested and believed. We confess we have not as yeti seen any evidence that compels belief It is not pretended that tlie robust and healthy can be subjected to this magic influence, but only j the infirm and diseased—most commonly wo-' men who are suffering from, or most liable to , serious complaints. All that can be said is; that very curious and remarkable phenomena attendant upon a state of nervous disease are presented and are as yet unexplained. But wc do not feel called upon to adopt this mysterious I and visionary theories that are urged because we can offer no better. We class this with the many delusions that have had their day. We do not wish to stifle enquiry, and only fear that there may not be enough of opposition to it Exciting and interesting. Alchemy waa the foundation of chemistry. Astronomy was built upon astrology. Phrenology has somewhat developed the organization of the brain. And if no better effect is produced by enquiry into Animal Magnetism than a more thorough knowledge of diseases of the nerves, it will not be without its use. THE GLOBE AND THE COMMON WEALTH BANK. The New York correspondent of the Wash ington Globe says: “The Commonwealth Bank of Boston has closed its doors; another example and warning to our working classes how they sbffer them selves to be cheated out of their labor by these fraudulent institutions.” Now this is a little too impudent even for so reckless and unprincipled a print as the Globe. The Commonwealth Bauk denounced as a fraudulent institution by the Globe!! That Bank which was got up and owned, and from first to last controlled by Ilenshaw and Simp son, the very principal purveyors and scaven gers of the famous Kitchen of the White House!! That Bank which was among the very first selected as a depository for the pub lic money because the UrS. Bank was unsafe!! “ Tin pleasant to see the Enquirer, Hoist with his own petard ” And yet there is so much of sadness and mel ancholy in the situation of these political spec ulators and profligates, of late soaring on ea gle’s w ings, now grovelling in the mire of de spond, that we forbear to exult. The Globe need not hope by its prompt and dastardly denunciation of its late allies to es cape the merited infamy which overwhelms their acts. The only effect of its lato course will be that the responsibility which it assum ed in guiding public opinion at the time of re moving the deposites will be the better re membered against it; while the treachery and cowardice which shrinks from the defence of friends in distress will only bring its declin ing influence the more into contempt. We refer our readers to the following inter esting articles in relation to the affairs of the Commonwealth Bank, from the Boston Atlas. The Commonweal tit Bank of Boston, the failure of which announced on Saturday, has been ever since the seizure of the public mon ies, the great government bank of N. England. Around it have clustered the immediate coun sellors and confidants of the Federal adminis tration in this quarter of the country. Its man agement has been exclusively controlled by agents friendly to the administration, and we may say has been conducted immediately un der the eyes of the President and his cabinet. Those who have partaken of its facilities have been, almost without exception, the zealous partizans or official stipendiaries of the admin istration. Isaac Hill, F. O. J. Smith, David Ilenshaw, William Pannenter, Amos Kendall, and a few more of the original contrivers and abettors of the removal of the public money from the U. S. Bank, are the men, who have been immediately aggrandized bv that foul deed of violence and plunder. The developments of every successive day prove this assertion beyond a cavil or a doubt. But there are two or three facts in relation to the explosion of this Jackson and Van Bu ren banking institution, which we would lay before our readers before indulging in further comments. The capital of the Commonwealth Bank was $500,000. Its president was John K. Simpson; Cashier, Charles Hood. The fol lowing is a list of its directors:—J K. Simpson (pension ngent,) Adams Bailey, John Mills, Oliver Fletcher, 11. J. How, Wm. Freeman, Elisha Parks, Samuel S. Lewis, F. S. Carruth, Otis Rich, Charles Hood. We would now direct the particular atten tion of our readers to the following extracts from the revised statues of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chap. 35: Sec. ft. Tlie total amount of debts, which any bank shall at any time owe, shall not ex ceed twice the anumnt of its capital stock, actual ly paid in, exclusive of sums due on account of deposites not bearing interest; nor shall there be due to such bank, at any time, more j than double the amount of its capital stock ac- j tuallv paid in. Sec. 11. If any bank shall become indebted j beyond t!«e amount allowed by the two precod- J ing sections, the directors, under whose ad- J ministration it shall happen, shall be liable, for j the excess, in their private capacities; and an I action of debt may be brought against them or | any of them, their or any of their heirs, exec- j utors or administrators, by any creditor of such corporation, and may be prosecuted to final judgment and execution; or such creditor may have a remedy by a bill in equity against them in the supreme judicial court. Sec. 12. Any directors, w ho may have been absent w hen such excess of debts was con tracted, or who may have dissented from the resolution or-net whereby the same was con- j traded, may exonerate themselves from being j so liable, by forthwith giving notice of the j fact and of their absence or dissent, to the j governor and council, and to the stockholders, ! at any general meeting: which meeting they shall have power to call for that purpose. It will be seen from the above extracts, that 1 there is a provision in our statutes expressly j prohibiting any bank from becoming indebted j ! more than double tlie amount of its capital I j stock, and holding tlie directors personally rc- j .sponsible for the excess, except in case of ab j sence or dissent, which be forthwith! * made known to the governor and council. In i j direct violation of tiie statute, we loam that j \ the Commonwealth Bank, w ith a capital of j $500,000, has extended its liabilities to the' ( amount of sl,4oo,ooo—leaving an excess of ' four hundred thousand dollars, for which the ! directors become responsible. It is under j stood thut only one of tlie directors, Elisha j Parks, Esq., has been enabled to avail himself 'of tlie means of exemption presented in the statute, thereby exonerating himself from the i guilt of participating in this infraction of the j iaw. j Among the remaining directors, who are im • mediately implicated, we find the name of John Mills, the prosecuting attorney of the U nited States for this district The officer, whose express duty it is to prosecute all offen i ces against the general government, is here ! «e«B lending hie countenance aid authority to BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. the corrupt management of an institution, in which large deposites of the public money are made, ana which has violated its faith to the community and the government in & manner that called for the severest application of the law. The man, who by his official oaths was bound to observe the laws of the land and to watch over the public interest in the discharge of his function of prosecuting attorney, has acquiesced in the violation of the law he should have revered, and betrayed the inter ests, whicli it was his duty guard. In the Morning Post of Thursday last, We find the following advertisement, bearing the date of its first api»earance:— Notice. Persons holding checks Rgainst the Custom House, are requested to present them either at the bank, or this office for pay ment, immediately. DAVID HENSIIAW, Jan. 11. lw. is. Collector. Is it not most remarkable that this notice, calling upon the holders of checks to present them at the office, where we may fairly presume they would have received the bills of the bank, should have been published just thirty-six hours before the failure of the bank was made public, and on the very day the directors de termined to stop payment Why should the holders of checks against the Custom House have been called upon at that particular and most suspicious time, to change them, for the hills of a bank on the verge of bankruptcy? What need was there of a public, imperative call upon the holders of checks at that time? Did the Collector wish to save further losses to the government at the expense of the com munity, or did he wish to rid himself in the easiest way of his own personal responsibili ties? The transaction wears a bad aspect. The public may be wrong in their suspicions; but immediate and ample explanations must be made to the public before those suspicions can be removed. This explosion of the great administra tion bank of New England naturally calls to mind an incident, to which we may trace the origin of the financial disasters, which have harrassed the people of this country for the last three or four years. It was in this city, while enjoying the hospitalities of our munici pal authorities, that General Jackson, at a time when his physicians had despaired of his recovery from a prostrating illness, signed, in obedience to the solicitous instigations of Van Buren, Ilenshaw &. Cos. the order for the removal of the public money from its author ised place of deposite. It was in this city that the plan of partizan aggrandizement and plunder was carried into elfect—and it is in this city that the fruits of that detestable sys tem have been developed in the overthrow of the bank, whicli was the first to solicit and contract for its portion of the spoils. “We still have justice here !” The bloody instruc tions have returned “to plague the inventor!” The spoilers have been spoiled! The plun derers plundered! We can now understand why Mr. Wood bury refused so pertinaciously, to publish the returns of the pet banks. We can now under stand why the gagging system was adopted by the administration in respect to these institu tions. Day after day—for months together— the Whig presses called on Mr. Woodbury for the returns of the banks under his supervision. Still he refused to publish them. A mys terious silence was the only reply to the reit erated demands of the public. When Mr. Wise attempted his investigation—what was the reply ? The President has vouched for .Mr. Woodbury's integrity and ability, and all at tempt at investigation was denounced as an issue with the hero of ,\’ew Orleans. Inquiry was repelled—investigation was baffled—the just demands of the public were evaded or treated with contumely and neglect Mr. Woodbury knew that the system must explode, and he was atraid to let the public know it We are no longer left to wonder why the leading men of the administration—those who have enjoyed the facilities based upon the pub lic deposits—those, who have expanded to an unnatural degree the banking capital of the country on that basis—-who were the first to seize the public money, and then to squander and misapply it converting it into an instm inentfor their own aggrandizement and the re ward of faithful coadjutors—we can no longer wonder why these men were so strenuously and anxiously opposed to any investigation in to the concerns of the de|K>sitories of the na tional treasury. Their corruptions were too hideous for the light The event has proved it One of the circumstances made public by the explosion of the Boston pet bank is the fact that six of the immediate friends of the admin istration in New England, namely John K. Simpson, Hall J. How, Charles Hood, S. S. Lew is, Wm. l’armenter, and Isaac Hill, are collectively indebted to the Commomvcalth Hank in a sum exceeding the w hole amount of its capital of §500,000. Let it be borne in mind that these tremen dous abuses and corruptions have been perpe trated and countenanced by men professedly hostile to the credit system. Had they not been manifestly laboring l for their own aggran dizement without regard to popular interests, we might almost believe that they had origi nated and provoked these abuses and corrup tions merely to prejudice the public mind a gainstthe system to which they were opposed. We do not doubt that the Globe will pretend to urge this flagrant instance as an argument against well conducted banks. Fortunately the facts in connection with the affair are too notorious and too recent to operate to the pre judice ot any but the administration, w hich o riginatedthe Plunder System. Who originally selected the Pets, ns places of deposit for the public money ? The Execti tive. Who vouched for their solvency, and guar ! anteed the safety of the public funds ? The \ Executive. Who opposed all investigation into the con | dition of the public revenue, and the connec ! tion of the Deposite Banks with the Treasury ? I Tio .lljiixntive. Who was the father and patron of the whole I scheme—from the first theft of the public mon eys—down to the final explosion of the Pet Bank system, and the ignominious failure of the Commonwealth Bank of Boston ?—The Executive. Who denounced the system as w holly un safe, unsound, corrupt and rotten at the out set ! The H'higs. I Who told the people that their money was !in the hands of a set of banditti, who would \ soon convert it into “unavailable funds,” thro’ ' the instrumentality of the pet Danks ? The H'higs. On whom ought all the responsibility of the selection of depositories—their treachery and mismanagement—the squandering of the pub lic money—the explosion* of the Pet Bank jof New England, and the consequent loss to i the community, to rest ? The Executive. Let any one read the labored reports of Mr. | Woodbtlry, in which he attemps to refute the j objections of Adams, Clay, Webster, Binney and Calhoun to the pet banks—to show that the government would never lose any thing by i employing them—and to prove their entire I competency to furnish a “better system of ex ; change, a more sound, uniform, safe (!!!) and j convenient currency,”—and their ability to an- I ewer all tlie fiscal purposes of the Treasury i and of then say on whom the | responsibility of their explosion should rest— J on whom, but the Executive and his support ers ! If the calamities that now oppress the peo ple had not opened their eyes to the miscon duct of their public servants, then would they be deservedly abused and plundered. The retrenchment of the administratiou has trebled and quardmpled our annual expenses ; and their improvement of the circulating medium lias destroyed the best and soundest currency that any nation ever possessed—and lias given us in exchange for millions on millions of a cres of the public domain—nothing but reams of paper and bushels of rags ! One word to those who have been induced by the advertisement of the Collector to ex change their custom house checks for bills of this broken pet bank, or who have been paid their demands against the government within a few days in the same currency. Let them appeal to Congress for indemnity and redress. It is the administration that they should hold immediately responsible for their losses. Let the fishermen of Gloucester and Marble head, wffio a few days since were paid off by the Collector some thirty-five thousand dollars in bills of this broken pet bank, petition to j Congress for relief. Let them claim to be in- j demnified in the amount of the depreciation j of the bills, which have been palmed off upon them,—bills of the administration bank palm- \ ed off by the principal official partizans of the administration in this city. Their claim is a good one, and if it is not admitted by a Con gress, in which the plunder party appear to have a majority, let them be assured that it will be udmitted in the next Congress, which the people will make a Whig Congress. By those who instigated General Jackson to the prosecution of that scheme of plunder and usurpation^of which the explosion of the Commonwealth Bank is one of the develop ments, the Hero of New Orleans has been al most apotheosised as the second Washington the second saviour of his country. The sa viour of his country ! ! Let her prostrated commerce—her desolated marts of business— her ruined currency—her bankrupt treasury— her labor unemployed—the loss, the distress, the despondency, the despair pervading the community—all the legitimate fruits of the Experiment—bear witness to the merited dis tinction ! The Spoils system and the Com monwealth Bank. It it understood that the three hundred and seventy thousand dollars of the public money deposited in the Boston Pet Bank, which has recently exploded, will prove a dead loss. This chosen depository, which was to keep its proportion of the public treasury more faithfully and safely than theU. S. Bank— which was the favored instrument employ ed by the President in his “humble en deavors” to improve the currency—has now nothing to offer for the amount of the people’s money consigned to it but worthless rags. Truly the “experiment” works to admiration. The excitement in this community, in relation to the failure of this administra tion bank, appears to increase as further facts in relation to it became developed. The indignation is general and irrepressi ble. The holders of a large proportion of the bills are among the poorer classes, and a considerable amount of the depreciated paper lias been put into circulation in the country by the fishermen who were paid off by the collector in the bills of this tottering, corrupt, profligate, Van Buren ized institution, a week or two only be fore its bankruptcy was made public. It is reported, that among the list of debtors to the Commonwealth Bank, the following names are conspicuous, in ad dition to those we mentioned yesterday. Simpson &. Hood (President &, Cashier) £170,000 Hall J. How 150,000 Alt. Washington Association 100,000 Parmenter’s Glass Company 120,000 We have good reason now to believe that the directors of the Bauk determined upon its failure on Thursday, without giving notice of their intention to the As sociated Banks of the city. That this is the fact, we have a right to infer from the course they pursued. A gentleman was advised of what had taken place in the hanking room on Thursday at a late hour that night, and being assured he could re ly on the correctness of what had been told him, he forthwith hastened to the houses of the officers of the other banks and communicated the information. As tonished at the intelligence, and even in credulous, they promptly decided to take immediate measures to ascertain the truth of the report. They succeeded after a while in finding one of the directors, and learned to their consternation, that it had been decided by the Bank to fail. Anxious to prevent a public calamity of so overwhelming a magnitude, the officers of tire associated banks enquired how much assistance was needed by the Com monwealth Bank to enable it to liquidate its pressing demands. The answer was three hundred thousand dollars. It was concluded to furnish the sum asked, hut when a majority of the board of directors of the broken bank were as sembled to act upon the proposition, they declined accepting the assistance. The motives which led to that determination may be imagined —we shall not undertake to j explain them. Failure of the Middlesex Bank.— j The Middlesex Bank of East Cambridge, i which has been a sort of tender to the ex- ploded Government Bank in this city, and of which the Hon. Wm. Parmenter, the Loco Foco member of Congress from that district, was President until his election to Congress, has closed its doors and stopped payment. The capital stock of this institution is $150,000. Amount of bills in circulation is said to be 68,000, and and the probability is that they will event ually be redeemed. It is understood that an equal amount of the public money is in its possession. How does this public money seem to have contaminated every one, individual or body corporate, who ha3 handled the unclean thing ! Like the wages of sin, it has proved a plague and a curse to the holder. If it be true that the receiver is as criminal as the thief, the retribution, both for the seizure and ac ceptance of the public money, cannot be regarded as unmerited. We trust that a searching operation into the management and concerns of the Middlesex Bank, will be made by a Legislative committee, and that they will let us know to whom its funds have been loaned, or how the money has been disposed of.—[Atlas. A couple of our cotemporaries are engaged in a profitless issue—to which of the two polit cal parties of the State is to be ascribed to the failure of the Internal Improvement Bill. We have before singled out the friends and enemies of the bill without any regard to party lines of distinction, and bestowed upon them accord ingly, praise and censure unqualifiedly. We do not ourselves think, that there was any party identity in the matter. The friends of the bill lost it by their culpable, their unpar donable neglect, and dereliction of duty. We have chronicled their names, and we trust their constituents will hold them in remembrance. There are some of whom both parties should be ashamed. For ourselves, in future, we will be govern ed in our choice of those who claim our suf frages by considerations such as these—The candidate must be a friend of Internal Improve ments, and of Education—if he is not —he is none of us—whatever may be his other qualifi cations, if he lacks in these essentials, we shall denounce him as hostile to the interests of the State, and as no friend of the people. The press has a controlling influence, let it be exercised boldly, and the consequences will be of the most salutary kind. Denounce every one, without regard to party, who offers himself as a candidate for the Legislature who is opposed to Internal Improvements—Extend the scrutiny to every country in the State, where the influence of the press can be felt, and the result will be —a reformed Legislature. We entirely concur in the above, which we extract from the Macon Messenger of the 25th ult, just arrived. Our dates are three days later from New York, which is distant one thousand miles than from Macon, which is but two hundred. This fact exhibits the excellent arrangement of the General Post Office. From the N. Y. Daily Express, Friday Jan, 2(5. Further extracts from Europe. The packet ships England, Capt Waite, and Gar rick, Capt Palmer, arrived yesterday morning in company, but on account of the dense fog in the harbor, the England was not reported at so early an hour as the Garrick, though she was off tlie Hook the night before. The sail ing of these two ships across the ocean is very remarkable. They sailed from this port in company, the England arriving oft* Liverpool about half a day in advance, and the passen gers and the captains going up to the city to gether. They arrived here in company, and the ships and passengers came up to this city in company, which is close sailing for 3000 miles out, and .3000 miles in. These ships bring no foreign news of inter est with tlie exception of the fact which they announce, that there is in the London market more confidence in American stocks and se curities, and an improvement in their prices. New York, Jan. 27. Eight bats latf.r from Europe. The London packet ship Philadelphia, is below, and our papers have been brought up by ex press across Ixmg Island. The ship sailed from Portsmouth, Dec. 27, and brings Lon don papers to the 23d. The accounts from Florida had created much sensation in England, and the two parties were hard at war about it In truth, there is more like to be war in the mother country than in Canada. The London morning Herald, a Tory paper, says, “We have no doubt the Canadian insurgents have the sympathies of the democrats of the United States, and that their ranks will be recruited by American ri flemen, if they are not already.” The French chambers were opened on Mon day, Dec. 17. Louis Phillippe delivered a speech of usual length. More precautions were taken than ever before, to secure the per son of the King from danger. At particular points the crowd were kept two hundred yards off. The cotton market looks better again. Money affairs have not varied much. Good mercantile paper was discounted at 4 per cent per annum. Liverpool, Thursday Evening, Dec. 21st half past six. The Shakspeare New York packet of the Ist instant, (but which left New York on the 2d) has just arrived. The intelli gence she brings from Canada is all important. The country is in a state of rebellion. The Queen’s troops have been boaton and compel led to retreat with some loss at St Denis, where the rebel army is stated by some ac counts to be 6,000 strong, by others otv’v 2,000. On the 20th of December, London was vis ited by a gale of wind, much more severe than any that had taken place during the season. In many of the streets almost all tlie public lamps were extinguished. Several houses in the western and north-western suburbs were partially unroofed, and in two instances, large portions of buildings in the course of erection were blown down. The gale was highest about 1 o’clock on the morning of the 21st, after which it fell considerably. By subsequent papers we learn that this storm was productive of disastrous results in many of the provincial towns. The Mersey and several other streams overflowed their banks, houses were blown down, bridges car ried away, and several lives lost. In Brad ford the water was six feet feet deep in the street* Awful Conflagration Canton papers received by a recent arrival, contain accounts or an awful conflagration at Surat, which com menced in the afternoon of the 24th of April last, in the house of a Pafsee, by the accident al setting on fire of boiling pitch. The wind was high, and the flames spread rapidly, but the conflagration did not reach its height until noon the next day, and continued throughout the night, destroying 6000 houses and 500 lives. The above account is no dtmbt authentic,— but what are called houses were probably but little more than hovels of bamboo cane. The extreme dryness and combustibility of the ma terial, accounts for the immense extent of the fire. [ Ed. Advocate. In pursuance of an act incorporating the city of Brunswick, an election was held atthis place on Monday, sth inst The following gentlemen were elected to the City Council: Urbanus Dart, John Franklin, Jr, Andrew L. King, Charles Davis, James Moore, Henry A. Breed and George Harrington. [From the Savannah Republican.] Another Plot against the Live of Louis Phillippe. Paris papers received at New York, are full of the details of a plot to contrive anew “infernal machine.” A man by the name of Hubert, who dropped his pocket book, by which a clue was given to his project, was arrested at Boulogne. It appears that Hubert had obtained in he had apparently gone to consult some skilful me chanics of London and Birmingham, the plan of an infernal machine of a very complicated nature, but whether it was to be constructed in France or England was not ascertained, nor was there any thing to show when it was to be brought into execution. It was thought that the attempt was not to be made at the opening of the Chambers. Hubert travelled under the assumed named of Steigler. Several persons are said to be implicated, and among them a permanent magistrate, appointed to his office about the end of the year 1830. London was visited by one of its peculiar fogs on the 2d of December, which continued from 7 A. M. to IP. M. The street lamps were lighted, notwithstanding which, the ob scurity was so great, that vehicles ran against each other, and pedestrians were sorely puz zled to grope their way. Among other acci dents, a stage-coach went bang into the shop window of Mr. Hoby, the famous boot-maker, demolishing forty squares of glass. The coaches leaving town were compelled to have persons at the horses’ heads leading them.— Ihe omnibusses were forced to stop running. Several accidents of a serious nature occurred. One man was killed by a phmton running against him, the horse having been frightened. The thieves and pickpockets took large advan tage of the fog. It extended over a large cir cuit. [1 rom tlie New Orleans Southerner, Jan. 22.} Destruction of the Steamers Marmora. Chickasaw and Cumberland , by fre! — We stop the press to announce an unfor tunate calamity. This morning at about half past one o’clock, a fire broke out in the steamer Marmora, lying at the wharf, opposite the foot of Girod street, and in a few minutes she was completely envelop ed in flames. It was impossible even to save a portion of the cargo or furniture. The fire communicated with two other boats before they could be removed. At a quarter past 2 o’clock, the Marmora’s upper works were destroyed and the flames were raging furiously in the Chick asaw and Cumberland. Attention was chiefly directed to the surrounding steam ers and flat boats, many of which were in imminent danger. The Alarmora had arrived only yesterday from Natchitoches, with a cargo, principally cotton. Tiiree o’clock—The fire engines, it ap pears, have arrested the flames in the Chickasaw, and her hull will probably be saved. Another Mail Robbery. The following letter was received at the Post office in this city yesterday morning : “Mobile Jan. 21, 1838. “Dear Sir.—On the evening ofthe 19tl» instant, the great mail hence eastward! was robbed about a mile and a half front Stockton, and the driver murdered. Your mails eastward, of the 17th and 18th,. were in the bags. No description or trace of the villains has as yet been dis covered. Yours respectfully. SAML. L. ERY, Ast. P. M. W. H. Kkr, Esq. P. M., N. Orleans." NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 24 . The Mail Robbery. The bags of the great mail which was robbed on the 19th were found on Saturday last rilled of their con tents. Two men who had been lurking about Stockton, are suspected. The Mo bile Examiner mentions the arrival in that city of the mail bags, cut open and spot ted with the blood of the murdered dri ver. Mail Recovered. Extract of a letter re ceived from George Plitt, Esq. Agent of the Post Office Department, dated “Colvmbcs. Ohio, Jan. G, 1838. We have just returned with the mails robbed on the 19th September. We found them pre cisely :r. the epet? pointed out * * * lam happy to say that nearly one-half of the letter * mails are yet in a sound condition, and were not violated by the robbers. Many valuable letters are among them, and what I most re joice at is, that Uie letter and money (8518,) which was sent from Cincinnati to Mrs. Phoebe Hopkins, the poor widow of a Revolutionary pensioner, living at Sunbury, O. is one of those recovered. I have given it to Mr. Brown, who will deliver it in person to the good old lady to-morrow, as he passes through that town on his way to Cleveland. All the letters will be carefully assorted and sent to their destination as speedily as possible, with explanations to the postmasters where sent” Death of Oseola. The Charleston Courier of Feb. 1 says “This celebrated Indian War Chief departed this life at Fort Moultrie, Sullivan’s Island, on Tuesday even-