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HISTORY OF A ROBBER. A traveller, says lr National, who was lately passing through Turin, collected the following authentic account of a famous robber, who was executed there about three months ago. He was named Itondino. He was an orphan from his childhood, and left to the care of his uncle, the squire of the village, au avaricious man, who treated him very ill. When he was old enough to serve as a conscript, for which purpose lots are drawn, the squire openly said, ‘I hope that Rondino will be caught, and go into the army, and so the country w ill be rid of him. That lad will never turn out well. Sooner or later he will he a disgrace to his family. He will certainly end his days on the gallows.' It is asserted that this man's dislike of Rondino iiad an unworthy mo tive. His nephew had a small inherit ance opining to him, which the squire ad ministered, and of which he was in no hurry to render an account. However this may have been, when they came to draw, Rondino’* lot was to serve, and left the village, persuaded that his uncle had been guilty of some fraud or stratagem with the urns, to force upon him a sol dier’s ticket. When he was placed in his regiment, he was insubordinate, frequently absent when ths roll was called, and so restive, that 1 tinally he was sent into a battalion under discipline. lie was extremely mortified, at this punishment, swore to change Ins conduct, and kept his word. At the end of a few months he was restored to his regiment. From that moment lie become j exact and soldierly in his deportment, and endeavoured to gain the notice of his of ficers. He knew how to read and write, and was very intelligent. He was soon made corporal and then serjennt. One day the colonel said to him, ‘Roti •dino, your time of service lias expired; Imt 1 hope that you are going to stay with us.’ ‘Thank you colonel, 1 would rather return home.’ ‘You would do wrong; you are well off here; your officers and fellow-soldiers like j you; you are a serjeant now. and if you go j on as you have begun you will soon be serjent-major. If you stay with the regi-; nieut, you arc provided for, if you return I to your village you will starve, or be a bur then on your relations. ‘Colonel, I have a little property at home.’ ‘You are mistaken; your uncle writes me that the expenses of your education have swallowed it tip, that and more. Be sides if you knew in what light he regards you, you would be in no hurry to return ! to him. lie writes mo, begging that I would detain you by all means, that you are a good-for-nothing scapegrace, whom every body is afraid of, and that not a I farmer in the place would give you cm-1 ployment.’ ‘He says so!’ exclaimed Rondino. ‘Here is his letter,’ was the laconic an swer. ‘Never mind,’ said Rondino, ‘l’ll go. I want to see my own place again.’ As lie was bent upon his dismissal it was giv en him, accompanied with approbatory certificates. Rondino on his return, proceeded im mediately to his uncle’s house, accused him of his injustice,‘and demanded of him, very haughtily, the property which he said was his, and detained without aright. The squire replied, (lew into a rage, pro duced some crooked accounts without head or tail, and at length the dispute rose so high that he struck Rondino. That blow was tlie fatal pivot on winch the fate of Rondino turned. With one stroke of his stiletto lie sjrctched his uncle dead at his feet. He then fled the village, and took asylum with one of his early friends who lived in a lonely cattle-shed among the mountains. Three gen-d’armes were soon despatch ed in search of him. Rondino took post in a rough, winding road, and lay on the look out. lie tired and killed tho first appeared, wounded tlie second, and the third ran awav. Ever since the persecution of the Carbonari, the gen-d’armes are out of favour in Pied mont, and the popular feeling sides with those who overmatch them. Rondino, therefore, was looked upon as a hero hv tlie neighbouring peasantry. In several successive engagements with armed peace officers lie was again fortunate, and t his increased his reputation. It is said that in tiie space of two years and a half he killed fifteen gen-d’armes. He very often chang ed his hiding-place, hut never went further in any direction than se\en or eight leagues from his native village, lie never pilfered or robbed; only when his ammu nition was nearly exhausted, lie would ask the first passer by for a quarter-crown piece to buy powder and shot. Gcncrallv lie slept in some deserted or retired farm house. His custom was, to lock all the doors, and take with him all the? keys in to the room that had been assigned to him. lie kept his gun at his hod-side, and out side of the house lie left for sentinel an ' enormous large dog, who followed him ev ery where, and whose formidable teeth had been felt, on more occasions tine, one, by the enemies of his master. At break of day Rondino restored the keys, thanked his host, and very often the fam ily, before he could get away, would press some provisions upon him. Mr. A , a rich' land owner in those parts, saw him about three years ago. It wap harvest-tune, and he was in the midst oftlie laborers, overseeing their work, " ' ,tjn n strange iello-.v appeared of a sud ticn, and came direct towards him. He was a large well made man, with a strong, hardy, hut not fierce countenance. Lay ing down a musket from lyp arm, at about fifty paces from the workmen, be side a tree, he ordered his dog to keep watch of it, and then stepped up and ask ed an alms. ‘Why,’ said .Mr. A -,‘are j you not willing to work; suppose you take ‘hold with my reapers;’ he spoke thus, supposing him to be a stout imprudent beggar. The outlaw smiled, and answer ed, ‘I am Rondino, sir.’ .Mr. A. immedi ately held out to him several pistoles. ‘I 'never take more than a quarter crown piece,’ said the fugitive, ‘that fills my i horn. Only, however, if you are anx -1 ions to oblige me, be so kind as to order me something to eat, for 1 am very hun gry just now.’ A slice of bread and ba con was given to Inin, and lie was about moving off with it in his hand, when Mr. j A ,whose curiosity was alive to see j a little more of a man, of whom the whole country was talking, called him back: —‘Rondino,’ said he, ‘you have no | way left but toquit tlie country, or you will be caught at last, as sure as you are there, (jo to Genoa, or to France, and from there lake for Greece, where you will find employment as a soldier, and that too, perhaps, among some of your own com rades and countrymen, who will receive you well. I shall willingly make you a present of your travelling expenses.’ Rondino listened lo the proposal with a thankful and thoughtful air, cast down his eyes a moment and considered it; ‘I thank you,’ said he, ‘but 1 could not live elsewhere than in mine own country; and it will go hard, hut that I keep the gal lows at a distance for some time yet.’ One day some robbers by trade, who skulked in the same hiding-places, took Rondino aside, and made him a proposal. ‘To night,’ said they, ‘a lawyer from Tu rin is to pass through such a road, with ill, hilt) litres in his carriage; if you will head us, we shall stop him, and you shall have captain’s share.’ Rondino haughtily drew up, and looking at them with a glance of scorn, exclaimed, ‘ VVliat do you take me for ? 1 ail) an honest out law, not a robber. If ever you repeat it, I shall make you repent such impertinence.’ lie then made all haste to waylay the lawyer’s carriage. Having come up with it just at night fall, lie ordered the driver to stop; lie mounted the coach box &, then hade the driver proceed. .Meanwile the lawyer, all consternation, expected to he assassinated. The vehicle moved on, and presently, in defile, the robbers sprang out across the road. Rondino instantly cried out, ‘Seniors! : you know who 1 am; this carriage is un-j tier my protection, and whoever attacks it will have to deal with me.’ His unerring lUUvikvtt wuu jxmth tl \\n r>|»hKc, «nnA Wo* < monstrous dog stood bristling beside lhe J wheels, ready for a leap, at a sign from his i master. The banditti slunk away as sud denly, leaving the carriage to proceed un molested, and it soon reached a place of safety. The lawyer offered a very large present to Rondino, Imt lie refused it. ‘1 have only done an honest man's duty,’‘ j saitl (lit: blood-marked wanderer, and : now 1 am in need of nothing; however, ; if you are really as grateful as you pre i tend to be, just leave word with your tenants not to refuse me a quarter-crown piece when my powder-horn is empty, or I something to eat now and then when I am pressed for food.’ Rondino was captured two years ago, in the following manner, lie had crav ed a night’s lodging at a parsonage: lie asked as usual for all the keys, hut the curate had the address to reserve one, and through the door to which it belonged, as soon as the outlaw was sleeping, lie sent a little hov to give information to the nearest brigade ofgen-d’armes. Rondino’s dog had a most wonderful instinct at observing every suspicion of danger, and tin' most distant approach of his master’s pursuers. His harking awoke his master, who betook himself to (light, but lie found every street of the village already alarmed and guarded, lie returned to his night’s quarters, climbed into the beifrey of the chapel, and harricudoed himself. As soon as day broke, he began to take aim through the loop-holes, and soon drove the brigade of gen-d’armes into cover. They gave up all thoughts of storming tlie belfry, and took shelter in the neiglt- homing houses. A continual discharge oi musketry was kept up during tlie great er part of tlie day. Rondino had not re ceived a wound, and had disabled three ; gen-d'armes: hut lie had neither food nor i water, and the heat was suffocating. Ho perceived that his hour was come. Pres ently those below saw him thrust his mus ket out of a window, waving something white at the end of it. Tlie gen-d’armes ceased firing. He then came forward and cried out, ‘I am tired out w iti) such a life, and am willing to give up: hut no gen-d’armes shall have my surrender to boast of.’ There was a detachment of regular troops not far limn the village, the captain ot which yielded to the de mand of Rondino. lie drew up his troops before the belfry, and Rondino came down forthwith. He stepped up tothe officer and said with rn unfaltering voice, 'pray sir, let me present you with my dog; you will he pleased with him, ro ly “pon it : promise me to take good care r ' him. I’lie officer promised. Bondi n') immedi.iteiy wrenched off the lock of hi# gun, and threw it r.w.iv; then gave up . m- -to-.; and ium-elt without resistance, i and a,.- led off by the soldiery, who treated him with much n .: ; -t.' lie awaited his trial, iti pri. o:\ venr.-- BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. hcard his sentence with firmness, and met his fate without a tremor—or a bravado. The Great Eci.ipsf. of ]s:K — The eclipse we perceive begins to be the subject of comment in some of the news papers in our country, and this early no tice is no doubt owing to some peculiar circumstances connected with the plie* uomcnon itself. For many years past We have had, at short intervals, a large eclipse of the sun—either total or annular—and this one lias been styled, by way of emi nence, tlie last of the series—for we shall not witness another similar eclipse for sixteen years, nor a total eclipse lor near ly a generation to come and we cannot withhold the solemn reflection, that this will be the last remarkable eclipse that many of us shall ever be permitted to see! Yes, before another conjunction of the heavenly bodies, which will cause a total obscuration of the sun’s rays, a whole generation of our species will have pass ed the ordeal of death, and the retribu tion of eternity! and yet the undisturbed af fairs of the Almighty move on—and those splendid spheres, launched from his hands, with undeviating certainty fulfil their des tined round —praising tiieir Creator ei ther in lustre or in shade! Rut we leave our reader to moralize upon the subject at leisure. We hope the day may he fine —that not a cloud may obscure the hori zon or dim the “setting sun’s” Effulgence —that all may enjoy the pleasure of be holding —though none cun experience tlie delight of such a spectacle but the stu dent of Nature, and the humble worship per of its great Author. As it regards tract of country to which the eclipse will be central and an nular, it is stated in tlie American Alma nac to be as follows : Beginning to be visible in the unknown regions near the north pole, the central annular eclipse will puss through Kam scliatka in Asia, the British possessions in North America, not far west of Hud son's Bay, Lake Superior, Wisconsin Territory, Michigan, the northeast part of Ohio, the southeast part of Pennsylvania, tlie eastern part of Maryland, northeast part of Virginia, and into the Atlantic Ocean; its course being from northwest to southeast. The eclipse will ho annular over a space of 420 miles wide. The ring, in tlie places where it may he seen, will continue only from 4 to about li 1-2 m. At Baltimore the eclipse will begin at fim. past 3P. M. The ring will he fbrmed at 25m. past 4, and be central at 37m. past 4. The eclipse will end at 40m. past 5. At Washington city and Rich mond, the several places will he within a small fraction of a minute of the same ; time. At Raleigh within about 2tn. of the , yantu aino. I>ut lltovo iso rmg ** »li Mjn»o«ir. ‘The sun will lie a very slender crescent i This crescent will he wider, with horns less and less sharp, as we go south and | southwest, and north and northeast, from the path of the central eclipse. I This path first touches the earth at a point near the north pole, a little east ;of the meridian of Greenwich. In a few seconds afterwards it attains its greatest northern latitude, whilst for the first eight minutes it moves rapidly westward, until it is 9rv degrees west of that Meridian. In ten minutes after passing out of tlie Fnitcd States into the Atlantic Ocean, it i leaves the earth at a point about 34 de grees north latitude, and 5# degrees west i longitude; just Hi. 50m. 82 sec. after its first touching the earth; linking traversed a somewhat circuitous track of .>Sil!o miles in length: and (as wc said before) the ! whole annular path being 42i) miles in breadth. It reaches, in width, from Fair field county, in Connecticut, nearly to Ra leigh, iti North Carolina. Tiiis will lie the last central eclipse ol the sun visible in tlie United States until Mav 2f>, I SAL—The next total eclipse of the sun will be August 7, U ti'.f [Bridgeton Chronicle. [As calculated in the American Alman ac, in ('itor!l .-ton, it will Begin at 3h. 4m. I’. M. Greatest obscuration 4li. 20m. ‘ End All. 3t)m. Duration 2li. 34m. Digets eclipsed 10 deg. 30m. on sun’s North Limb. i Some time must he allowed for differ ; once between this place and Charleston, commencing with us one or two minutes ! earlier.] Ed. Adv. Steam Navigation. The great Wes tern lias now made five trips across the At lantic, with remarkable regularity as to time. Her mean time may lie reckoned at fourteen days. Her last home trip was j made in a little loss than thirteen days, and at no time, we believe, lias it been ex tended to fifteen days. The famous l)r. Lardner confidently pronounced it an impossibility, alleaing j that no vessel could carry a sufficient quantity of fuel for a voyage across a bois terous ocean, three thousand miles wide. It is very probable that had tlie experi | nieut been made with a vessel of from AGO to HOP tons, the Doctor’s opinion would have proved correct; but fortunately the enterprise fell into the hands of men whoso wealtli and liberality were equal to their public spirit, and instead oi' proceeding, upon a narrow and contracted scale, they at once adopted a stylo of magnificence that fully comported with the grandeur of the enterprise.—The Great Western meas ures nearly two thousand tons, and there is not a doubt but that to her gigantic size she is indebted for tlie wonderful suc cess that lias attended the experiment.— Heretofore thirty days was considered a! good passage for one of our fast sailing packets; but the Great Western makes it' in less than half that t ime. VVliat a fine idea this gives for the giant energies of steam. An immense floating palace urg ed across the wide Atlantic in a fort night, and of so vast a weight that seas which would sweep the decks of com mon vessels, break harmlessly against her enormous sides.—[Pittsburgh Advocate. The following additional particulars of the atlair relative to the vessel, the Alex andre, which has arrived at Bordeaux from Newport, United States, and the captain of which, as we have already men tioned, was supposed to have been mur dered by the crew, are given as authentic by tlie Courier de Bordeaux:—“The Al exandre sailed from Batavia loth Nov. commanded by M. Bonet; on the 2d of Dec. during a violent tempest, tlie cap tain, lieutenant, and five of the crew, were washed from the deck and drowned, and the vessel suffered so severely, that in order to save her, part of tlie cargo was thrown overboard. On tlie arrival of the Alexandre at the, Mauritius, tlie circumstances were made known to the French Consul there, and on the 12th of March she sailed for B(V --deaux, under command of the mate, M. Marsant. Captain Casy, of tlie Hercules, had considerable difficulty in obtaining possession of the vessel and crew from the American authorities; nor did lie suc ceed before a loan of 20,001jf._ had been made by the French Consul at Newport, in order to cover expenses claimed by tlie authorities. The Alexandre was brought across the Atlantic by a lieutenant and party of men from the Hercules, who, as ' jwe have already stated, were scut on hoard her by Captain Casy. A great | number of captains of merchant vessels in 'the port of Bordeaux have given a great banquet to Lieutenant Casy of the Ilercu | les, who brought hack the Alexandre | from Newport, United States, under the j peculiar circumstances already mentioned J in the Messenger. | Lieutenant Casy has handed over totlic owners, a box of diamonds, which was in the hands of the Collector of Customs at Newport, and was found in possession of some of the crew, hut which was obtain ed from him only by great cxertious on tlie part of the Commander of tlie Hercu les. —[Galignani’s Messenger. Secret Inspectors. It was in 1832 that Truman Jlaskell, a printer, residing in this village, and conducting a Jackson paper, left his employment of printer about three months previous to the election in November, procured a horse, saddle, Irri- 1 410, « l.vrjre |Miir of leather saddle bags. What was to be done? One morn ing, about sunrise, Mr. Haskell might have been seen wending his way from tlie village, his well filled saddle-bags lying across his Rosinaritc, and Mr. Haskell atop the saddle-hags. A week, and Mr. Haskell returned; so did the saddle-bags, hot not so the contents. In snort, the sad.lie-fiags were again replenished, and Mr. Haskell renewed his pilgrimage. Shortly it was ascertained that the bu siness ot Mr. Haskell was to distribute Globes and Arguses, political speeches, and electioneer the people. Thus lie con tinued occupied until the first (lav of the election, when he attended the polls that day and the two days following. What was tiie indignation and disgust of every honest and decent mail in this countv when it was ascertained that during the whole of tins time T. AV. Ilaskell was a secret inspector, and receiving two dollars a day for his services in that capacity— and at a time, too, when Gen. Jackson was preaching from the palace, that “Ex ecutive patronage must not be brought into conflict with the freedom of elections.” That Haskell was a secret inspector at that time may be ascertained, ns lias been done before, by a reference to the proper department at Washington; and that his time was employed as above stat ed was notorious in tiiis community at the lime, tlie people all along supposing that he was employed and paid by some “democratic committee.” AVe could men tion other names—men appointed for the same object, who performed the same ser vice, and received alike compensation; and who were discharged from their se cret inspectorship immediately after the election. And these are the appoint ; nients which the Globe labors to justi fy ! —[Backets harbor AVhig. Git vxt) Oit.f. —This new and rising city stands on one of the most romantic and beautiful locations (Natchez excepted,) in the State of .Mississippi. The plan on which its streets are laid out is a dead level four or five feet above tlie highest freshets ol the Mississippi, and its extent, -from the mountain bluff of rock which overlooks the city and the plain, stretches down tlie river, for miles. This bluff' seems to guard the site ot the city like some old gigantic, frowning,but ivy-arown, gray and mouldering fortress of rock on the hanks of tlie Rhine in Germany. It is certainly one of the most romantic ele vations in the state, running abruptly to the verge of that part of the river called the “Grand Gull,” just below the entrance of tlie Chitteloosa, or Big Black, into the “father of waters.” The huge rocks of its base are throw n into the river, around which, at high water, the eddies and whirl pool# of tlie Gulf writhe in foaming agony, chafing in vain at the restraints of sucii a mountain barrier. This pile of rocks covered with soil, herbage and trees will forever secure the, site of the city of Grand Gulf from the i irruptions and underminings of the vora-j cious river, and will, at no distant day, we anticipate, be selected as the site of a mountain -house, devoted to social enjoy ment and the influences of the enchanting scenery which hursts upon the eye in ev ery direction. The streets of the city of Grand Gulf are laid out beautifully, and the buildings 1 appear neat and elegant when seen from the river. This is the more remarkable when it is considered that six years ago the site of the city was a corn and pota i toe field. It has as yet no public edifices, worthy of the name, its church being a lone school-house looking building, its theatre a stable and its bank a store loft: hut public buildings, on a scale of elegance and grandeur are designed, and the bank will soon he erected.—[Natchez Free Trader. Cayenne Pepper. —The following an ecdote is related in the “Travels of the Missionaries in Southern Africa:”—On one occasion, while the missionaries were at dinner in their own tent, some of tlie native chiefs and their wives being present, one of them seeing Mr. Read help himself to a little Cayenne pepper, its red j color attracted his attention, and he asked for some of it. On getting the Cayenne, lie instantly threw a quantity of it on his tongue, hut on feeling its pungency lie shut his eyes, clapped his hand upon his mouth, and holding down his head, en deavored manfully to conceal his pain. When lie was able to look tip, he slyly touched Mr. Read with his foot, to inti mate that he shor’d say nothing, but give tlie same dose to tlie others present.. A notiier chief next got some, who instantly felt its powers, but understanding the joke, as soon as he was able to speak, he asked* ! for some for li is wife; and thus it went round to tlie great diversion of all after wards. We have known the same trick played upon each other by the stern chiefs oftlie North American Indians, with mus tard, of which each took a spoonful, when j dining at a white man’s table; hut, though i tlie pungent condiment caused the big tear to roil down their cheeks, they scorn ed to show that they felt pain, until it had gone round, and they smiled at each other with taciturn gravity.—[London paper. Newspaper Profits.— General Duff iGreen late of the United Slates Telegraph, has published a statement, of the amount due to him from delinquent subscribers in the States and Territories of the Union. The sum total is fifty-five thousand six . hundred dollars; of which two thousand i and eighty seven dollars are due from the 1 State of New York. This is an enormous j amount of arrearages, but the fact is, it is I only to he expected from the manner in j which tlie business of printing newspapers is carried on in tiiis country. The system of unlimited credit iti all directions to I subscribers, leaving it in reality almost ! entirely to their integrity and sense of jus tice whether anything is paid, is sure to lie attended with a heavy and unavoidable loss The proprietors of newspaper es tablishments, out of the large cities, will never realize their just profits, until the custom of exacting payment in advance becomes generally and rigidly enforced. Tin: B vttle of Eleven Hi ’.nored Hor ses.—Two of tho (Spanish) regiments which had been quartered in Fund, were cavalry, mounted on fine black long tailed Andelusian horses. It was impracticable to bring off these horses, about 1100 in number, and Romano was not a man who could order them to be destroyed; ho was fond of horses himself, and knew tlint ev ery man was attached to the beast which bad carried him so far and so faithfully. Their bridles were therefore taken off, and they were turned loose upon the beach, i A scene ensued such as probably never be fore was witnessed. They were sensible that they were no longer under any res- ( traint of human power. A ueiiera! con flict ensued, in which, retaining the dis cipline they had learned, they charged each other in squadrons of ten or twelve together, then closely engaged, striking; with their fore feet, and biting and tearing each other with the most ferocious race, and trampling over those which were beat en down, til! tlie shore in the course of a quarter of an hour was strewn with the dead and disabled. Patt of them had been set free on a rising ground at adis- 1 tancc; they no sooner heard the roar of 1 battle, than they came thundering down over the intermediate hedges, and catch- 1 mg the contagious madness, plunged into the fight with equal fury. Sublime as the scene was, it was too horrible to be lone contemplated, and Romano, in mercy,! gave orders for destroying them; but it was found too dangerous to attempt this, and after the last boats quitted the beach tlie few horses that remained were seen . still engaged in tlie dreadful work of mu tual destruction.—[Southey. A YY ORKMAN.—-“Patrick, I want some body to kill my hogs; do you understand butchering?” “Faith, and it’s me that can lend von a hand at that same; but it’s a boss you’ll want along wid me, for an ting the fur off is the only part of the busi- j ness I understand.” [ The Eric Canal, which was pronounced a visionary and impracticable project, and to such : an extent was hostility carried, that De Witt Clinton lest tlie vote of Herkimer County, be cause it was said lie had ruined many of the Imest farms oi that aiunhi by cutting a ’■ iiV ditch" through them. ‘ The nainae of the following cadets of the U nited States Military Academy, at West Point, are to be attar lied tothe next Army Register, conformably to a regulation requiring the names of the most distinguished cadets, not exceeding five in each class, to be reported for the purpose at each annual examination in the month of June: First Class. Third Class. Win. 11. Wright, N. C. Paul O. Hebert, La. P. G. T. Beauregard, La. W. P. Jones, D. C. J. H. Trapier, S. C. C.P.Kingsbury, N.C. i S. H. Campbell, Vt J. McNutt, Ohio. J. M. Scarritt, Mo. S. Wilcox, N. Y. Second Class. Fourth Class. I. J. Stevens, Mass. Z. B. Tower, Mass. R. Q, Butler, Va. T. J. Rodmah, Ind. 11. AV. Halleck, N. Y. H. Wilson, Penn. ; J. F. Gilmer, N. C. J. Gorgas, N. Y. H. C. Smith, Me. S. Stansbury, Md. [Army and Navy Chronicle. The End of the AVorld. Two or three clergymen have recently put forth works pre dicting the arrival of the end of the world some time between 1840 and 1850. To all such prophecies we have hitherto been incred ulous; but are free to confess that facts like tlie following, which we cut from the Boston Times, are strongly corroborative of the truth ot these predictions. AVhen tailors and print ers who work on trust, begin to be paid, the symptoms are indeed alarming: A gentleman now residing in this city, who formerly published a paper in Connecticut, has recently received a letter from an old de linquent subscriber, forking over the money due, and expressing the utmost remorse of conscience for having so long deprived him of his just dues. What a b)ot will be wiped out from the fair face of creation, when men shall understand distinctly that cheating a poor printer is an unpardonable sin.—[N. Y. Sun. Address of the Southern Convention. There is a singular mistake in the address of the Southern Convention, which, so far as I know, ha3 entirely escaped a public notice, but which for better reasons than the reader will perceive, I would have corrected. The aggregate amount of tlie revenues received from tlie customs and public lands, are stated, upon the authority of the Committee of Ways and Means, to have been §1,053,000,000: that is one thousand and fifty-three millions. So it is considered throughout the address; and tlie items that constitute tiiis amount are given; and yet, the gross sum is twice referred to, as being one billion andf fly-three millions. The cause of tlie mistake is plain enough. 1(1)0 sum total appearing first and in figures, was" carelessly and erroneously read; and the writ er being entirely occupied with results, did not notice the plain correction of his first im pression, which the details presented. Those papers that have published the address, will please publish this correction. THE WRITER. Athens, 27th August, 1838. New -Orleans, Aug. 28, 1838. Important from Nacogdoches. A ru mor was mentioned in our paper of Saturday, of the import, that Texas had been invaded by a large body of Indians. The Courier, of yes terday, publishes advices received in town from Nacogdoches, under date of the 12th inst., which go to confirm this account. The intelligence through this source is, that the Mexicans in that part of Texas, said to be three hundred in number, had risen in arms, and proceeded to join 1500 Indians in that vi cinity, who were commanded by three Mexican generals from Matamoras. The Texian.s seemed to consider the rising of little import ance. General Houston, however, who was in Nacogdoches at the time, issued a proclam ation, calling out six hundred of the militia. General Rusk, had already assembled 400 men mounted, and 250 more were on their way to join them. It was believed that the Indians and insurgents expected to receive large re inforcements. [Com. Bulletin. \\ r e learn by the brig System, Capt. Murray, arrived last evening from Havana, that intelli gence had reached there of the assassination of the Governor of the Island of Porto Rico, and that about 250 of the inhabitants had been arrested. Immediately after the receipt of the above intelligence at Havana, an additional number of troops, amounting to between 5 and GOO men, were ordered to Porto Rico.—[Jour. Commerce. The Augusta Constitutionalist of yesterday says—“AVe learn by letters received in this city yesterday, that all tlie Banks in Columbus will resume specie payments on the Ist Octo ber next. The Bank of Rome, we learn, will also resume on that day. There remain now but two banks in this State to hear from, viz: the Bank of Hawkinsville and the Bank of St. Marys, both of which institutions we have no doubt will be able to resume on the same day.’ The Exploring Squadron. The Condor, at New York from A r era Cruz, when in the Gulf Stream, on Tuesday, the 21st inst, at 8, A. M., fell in with an American squadron, con sisting of three ships, one brig and two schoon ers, steering S. E. supposed to be the Explor ing Expedition. The brig appeared to be more fast sailing than the other vessels—wind N. E. News lias just reached us, that Thomas P. Moore, notorious as “Freo Tom Moore,’ attack ed the senior Editor of this paper in the yard of the Ilarrodsburg Springs. Mr. Moore advanc ed upon Mr. Prentice with a drawn pistol and fired at him; Mr. Prentice then fired, neither shot taking effect. Mr. P. drew a second pis tol, when Mr. Moore quailed am! said Ire had no other arms; whereupon Mr. Prentice, from superabundant magnanimity spared the mis creant’s life.—[Louisville Journal, Singular Discovery in the Eyes of Fishes, &c. In Silliinnn’s Journal for July, Dr. Wallace, Oculist of this city, states that he has observed a cavity containing water be neath the eye-socket of certain fishes, and communicating with the socket by an aperture closed by a kind of valve. When pressure is made on the cavity the water runs into the eyc-Socket, and the eye is raised so that the animal can see more directly before it. The socket of the turtle’s eye communi cates with the mouth. When the hoad is ad vanced, the eye may be blown out to a neces sary distance; while by evacuating the air, it may.be sunk so far in the socket that there is no danger of its striking against the shell when the head is drawn back.—[N. Y. Cour. & H»'l-