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[From Ike Baltimore American, Not. 93.] President’* Proclamation. The Globe of yesterday contains a Proclama tion! from the President of the U. S.,a copy of which will be found below. It has been called forth by the recent renewal of hos tilities in the neighboring Provinces of Gepeda, and its promulgation we trust will Se effective in restraining those whom a false, "sympathy” for one of the contend ing parties might mislead into the commis sion of act* of an unlawful character.— We hold the opinion that, as a people, we hare -«© • more to do with the contest in the Canadas than if those Provinces wer&dt thousaud miles off; and our houn dea doty to our own country and regard to it*laws, in the first place, and our obii gctkms to maintain a strict and honorable neutrality towards a nation with whom we are.at peace, in the second, solemnly and l<Mldly forbid us from taking part in the contest, iu any way whatever. By the President of the United States o f America. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, there is too much reason to believe that citizens of the United States, in disregard- of the solemn warning here tofore given to them by the Executive of the General Government, and by some of tho Governors of the States, have combin ed to disturb the peace of the dominions of a neighboring and friendly nation: — And whereas information lias been given to me, derived from official and other sources, that many citizens iu different parts of the United States are associated, or associating, for the same purpose; And whereas, disturbances have actually broken out anew in different parts of t lie two Canadas; — And whereas, a hostile in- vasion has been made by citizens of the United States, in conjunction with Cana dians and others, who, after forcibly seiz ing upon the property of their peaceful neighbor for the purpose of effecting their unlawful designs, are now in arms against the authorities of Canada, in perfect dis regard of their own obligations as Ameri can citizens, and of the obligations of the Government of their country to foreign nations: Notv therefore, I have thought it neces sary and proper to issue this proclama tion, calling upon every citizen of the U. States neither to give countenance of any kind to those who have thus forfeited their claim to the protection of their country; upon those misguided or deluded persons who are engaged in them to abandon projects dangerous to their own country, fatal to those whom they profess a desire to relieve, impracticable of execution without foreign aid, which they cannot rationally expect to obtain, and giving rise "to imputations (however unfounded) upon the honor and good faith of their own Gov ernment; upon every officer, civil and mil itary, and upon every citizen—by the ven eration due by all freemen to the laws which they have assisted to enact for flieir own government —by his regard for the honor and reputation of his country —by his love of order and respect for that sa cred code of laws by which national inter course is regulated—to use every effort in his power to arrest for trial and punishment every offchder against the laws providing for the performnne of our obligations to the other Powers of the world. And l hereby warn all those who have engaged in these criminal enterprises, if persisted in, that, whatever may be the condition to which they may he reduced, they must not ex pect the interference of this Government, in any from, on their behalf; but will he lefi, r6proached by every virtuous fellow citizen, to be dealt with according to the policy and justice for that Government whose dominions they have, in defiance of the known wishes and efforts of their own Government, and without the shadow of justification or excuse, nefariously in vaded. Given under my band, at the city of Wash ington, the twenty first day of Novem ber, in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and thirty eight, and the sixty third year of the indepen dence of the United State s. M. VAN BUREN. By the President. John Forsvh, Secretary of State. Macon, Nov. 27. On Thursday last, the Locomotive (te rn ulgre was started on this road, hv wav of trial, and run up to Singer's Hill anil back at the rate of 21 miles an hour The Ocmulgee is a handsome article and works like a top. The cars arc not vet completed, otherwise locomotives word'd be kept in operation, making pleasure trips every day. There is but a small piece of the road yet to be finished. In less than two weeks, we expect to make an excursion to Forsyth, to the pleasant tune of “sittin on a rail.” I lire in Mobile. —A very destructive fire occured iu Mobile, on the 21st. It originated iu the Mobile theatre, which was entirely destroyed, with live oilier buildings, total loss estimated at £201), 05)0. There was about £40,000 insured upon the real estate. Messrs. Ludlow & Smith, the managers of the theatre, lost their scenery, wardrobe, furniture, &c., which amounted to $20,000, on which there was uo insurance. A dead shot. —-The Commercial Ad vertiser of Tuesday has this “good’on”:— knfteling. —The Albany Argus of yesterday urges its friends ‘to push the tear into Africa.' We trust they will be careful uoi to shoot anv member es the Nice President’s funifv.'” The present cotton crop. —By the polite ness of* gentleman arrived yesterday from Natchez, (says the New Orleans Picayune of the 18th inst.) we have been put in possession of the Natchez Courier of the 15th instant, which contains the following unfavorable view of the present crop in that section. As ouiw informant is well conversant with these matters, we fear there is too mucii truth in the subjoined: Cotton. —Our latest accounts represent the present crop still more unfavorably than was before anticipated. All through out the cotton growing States, the pros pects of the planter have been xlampeued, and every change in the weather hitherto has rendered a very great deficiency in the amount of our staple product still more certain. The past week lias been unfa vorable for picking—the present weather is unfavorable, and promises to continue for some lime; in some cases, the same number of bands on the same plantation, picked last week, barely the half of what they did the same week of last year. We are safe in publishing that the present cot ton crop lias not been represented so far deficient, as the most experienced now think it will turn out. Important Invention. Many means have already been invented and adopted for obviating the difficulties and dangers of navigation over bars and shallow waters in harbors and rivers; but none of them -can bear competition with one lately in vented in England, and patented botli there and iu our own country. By this in vention a ship or steamboat may have but little more than half the usual draft ol wa ter, according to its burthen; and this may be effected in a very short time. The machinery to be used will be cheap and simple. Two or more buoys or light ened are to be made of canvass or other coarse material, and rendered impervious to water by the solution or preparation of India rubber, now so commonly used for similar purposes iu air-cusliious, life-pre- servers, &c. Hollow tubes of similar ma terials, arc then to be placed from those buoys or marine baloons, on the deck or along the gunwale, to an air-chamber aft, specially constructed : and in connection with the chamber is to be an air-pump re tnovoable at pleasure. This is the whole apparatus, all parts of which can be adjus ted or removed in a few minutes—the chamber alone being stationary. The air pump is to inflate the buoys for use and action, and afterwards empty them, when no longer necessary. The buoys may of course be made of any dimensions or any number required; and are calculated to raise a ship of 800 tons burthen and 17 feet draft, some (» or 8 feet out of the wa ter, just as circumstances demand. There are many rivers and harbors in our country, where such an invention when practically enforced must prove of iite most beneficial tendency. It will com pletely prevent the accustomed interrup tion to river navigation from low water or bars—which certainly can be considered no trifling object by any acquainted with the evils of such interruption at the pres ent time. The patent was taken out in June last for the United States by Captain John Collins, late of the Shakespeare, now of the-Roscius; and the machinery, with its results, will be publicly exhibited by him •n a few days.—[N. Y. Star. Startling Facts. The Lynchburg Virginian has the following array of facts showing the relations existing between certain leading members and presses of the administration party and the Abolition ists. hi New-York, the Evening Post, the organ of the democratic party, is a deci ded abolitionist, though not so violent as YVm. Lloyd Garrison. In New-llamp sliire, the brpther of Levi Woodbury, Secretary, “is chief cook and bottle-wasli re” among these modern Pharisees. In Vermont, the Van Buren candidates for Secretary of State and Lieutenant Gover nor at the last election were officers of Abolition Societies; and the two last dem ocratic State Conventions, held iu the Commonwealth, openly expressed aboli tion principles. In Massachusetts, a large portion of the Van Buren papers are abo litionists—oflhe 200 Van Buren members of tlie last Legislature of that State only six voted against the abolition resolutions adopted, after being earnestly advocated, among others, by Seth Whitemarsh, who headed the Van Buren Electorial Ticket, and by F. Newman, another Van Buren member, who said that “lie beleived the resolutions would dissolve the Union, but lie should nevertheless give bis vote— that fate democratic candidate lor Con- I gross iu the Boston District, Amasa Walk i or, is a leading abolitionist, as is George Bancroft, recently appointed by Mr. Van Buren collector of tliu port of Boston.— Judge Morton, their standing candidate for Governor for the last fifteen years, Alexander H. Everett, one of their new converts, and many others of less note. — jin Rhode Island Dutce J. Pearce heads the Abolitionists likewise. In Ohio, Thos. Morris, the Van Buren Senator, j'heir file leader. j In the presence of seventy-eight persons | in London, a parcel of rags were recently | taken, made into paper, dried and print j on, in five minutes! The New York j Sun thinks, that whett this celerity be- I coiner universal, loafers must dodge pa ■ P cr nulls, or their ragged vestments will ,be whipped off, and tucked under their j noses iu the shape of a handbill, adver tising vagrants, before they know it BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. Wound of the Brain.—A case is re i lated in the London LauGet, whicli shows the wonderful tenacity of life after severe injuries of the brain. A boy, |4 years of age, fired offa pistol loaded with a ball.— The pistol burst, the ball passing through the gate at which it was fired, and the breech entered the head, directly over and within three lines of the left supercil iary ridge, part of the cerebrum being scattered on the grouud. On the arrival of the surgeon, no foreign body could be detected by a probe, and the patient was kept perfectly still, with saturnine appli cations to his forehead. The next day he lay perfectly quiet, but sleepy, and said be felt no pain. —The applications were continued, with an aperient. Ino second day feverish; put out his tongue when asked, but answered no questions. Cold poultices of lead-wash and bread to the wound, and a fever mixture order ed. The third day he made a correct re mark respecting bis food: feverish symp toms relieved. In a few days the wound threw off coagulm, discharged pus, and ap peared rapidly healing; strength returning. When asked where he felt pain, lie put his hand to the back of his head. —This state continued till the 22d day; when he suddenly sank, the next day was coma tose, and died on the 24th day after the accident. Post mortem examination show ed the wound of the brain bad perfectly healed. On reaching the ventricles traces of a foreign body were found; a little fur ther there was much disorganization from the formation of pus, and the breech of the pistol was found vesting against the occipital bone over the tentorium. This iron substance, weighing nine draclmTs, bad passed directly through the substance of tlte brain; and yet the boy had lived twenty-four days, and Nature had made so great an effort to heal the injury, that complete recovery would probably have followed if the foreign body had received sufficient momentum to carry it through tlte occipital bone. [Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. In consequence of the great scarcity of Flour in New Orleans, owing to the low water in the Mississippi River, the price of that article continued to advance until it reached the enormous rate of twenty dollars per barrel the whole stock in the city being held by one house. On the oth instant a flat boat arrived with u few hundred barrels, which reduced the price to sls. Provisions of all sorts were extremely high. Nor was the scarcity confined to that city, if we may judge from the follow ing list of prices which prevailed in the markets at Natchez on the 3d instant:— Butter, per lb, 87 1-2 cts; Eggs, per doz. 75; Meal, per peck, sl, Cabbages per bead, 25; Irish potatoes, per doz. 50; On ions, do. 12 1-2. New Orleans, Nov. 17. The planter’s Banner, of the Bth. states that the planters are actively engaged in sngar making, and that the yield of th e! vear is likely to he hotter in quantity an ' quality than that of any former seascn. It appears also that tin? sugar crop hi the West Indies this year, has been most ex traordinarily good; in the island of St. Croix alone, ‘20,000 hogsheads of Sugar were made, and 17,000 casks of rum and molasses. The most flattering prospect for the crop, is said to exist; and it is even thought that it will be more abundantly than the last.—[Advertiser. The Legislature of North-Carolina con vened at llnleigh on the 19th instant. In the Senate, on the second day, and on the third balloting, Col. Joyner, (an i- Vnn Iluren,) was elected Speaker, in the absence of three State Rights, and one Van Iluren man. In the Commons, Wm. A. Graham, Esq., also anti-Van Buren, was elected Speaker by a majority of 12 votes over Mr. Hoke, his opponent. This result, with not more than three excep tions, says the “Star,” shows the strength of parties, and thereby enables the “people to learn who have attempted to deceive them on this subject.” A Mock Tragedy. —We find an amus ing story of the condemnation and par don of a regular soldier belonging to Gen. Scott’s forces in the Cherokee coun try, in the last Hamilton Gazette. The fellow was a private in the od Artillery, and had been found guilty by a Court Martial, for a violation of the ninth Arti cle of the rules of war; the sentence, death, by shooting. The President, how ever, granted a reprieve; but to increase the mental sufferings of the convicted wretch, the commanding officer of the regiment had him led out, at the Agency, at the hour first appointed by the Court Martial. Before a large concourse of people, he was solemnly conducted to an open grave, beside which was placed a coffin. The expected victim was made to kneel and submit to a white cap over his eyes. Twelve armed men, in file, were drawn up within a few paces, and the usual signal of the sword was given by the officer to fire! But lo ! Old Nick was cheated of his own, and the victim remained unscathed, to the great mystifi cation of all present, except three acting officers of the day. The scene closed with the reading of the President’s re prieve, and an order to the subject of his mercy to quit the army.—[Nash. Whig. “This is the day we cclebrcte,” as the fat turkey said to the pig on the morning of Christmas. The Philadelphia Commercial. List, in an article on the subject of the improve ments made in the English Locomotive Engines by Mr. William Norris, of that city, says:—"ln July, 1836, his machine the “George Washington” ascended the Inclined Plane west of the Schuylkill, with a load attached, a feat so astounding, that even at the present day, it is not credited by some of the English Engineers, al though the best and most respectable tes timony has been produced, not only for that performance, but'for a hundred others since. The result of this performance was seventy five per cent, better than had ever before been attained. Since July, 1836, the establishment of Mr. Norris has been in full operation. He has built sixty-eight Locomotives, three of which are now in use in Europe. Four more are engaged and w ill be shipped this year for the same destination. We understand that lie is al so iu negotiation with the Directors of the Boston and Gaston Railway in Eng land, for the supply of several of his ma chines for their road. His works are sit uated at Jlusli Hill, and furnish employ ment to upwards of 200 men. A Long Standing Milk Score. —lt is stated in a Paris paper that a man, forty four years of age, in prison there, is de tained for the milk which he drew from his foster mother’s breast. When he was weaned, in 1795, his father owed the nurse 300 francs, which sum was never paid; and when the son came of age, he took the debt upon himself, giving a note of hand for the amount, payable in two years, with interest. At the time the note become due he was unable to take it up, and it was renewed, with the addition of stamps, interest, charges. The process has been continued till the present time when the accumulated debt amounts to no less than 5700f besides 2213f for costs. A well dressed man recently entered the office of a money-changer, and offered him several notes of the Havre Bank to be changed. While they were discussing the rate of exchange, the customer open ed his snuff-box, and offered a pinch to the changer, who took it, and almost instantly was attacked with a giddiness, which com pelled him to shut his eyes. The owner of the notes seized the advantage, and was in the act of laying his hands on two bowls filled with gold, when the wife of the mo ney-changer entered from the market, at tended by her servant. At their appear ance ther man fled without his prey, and escaped. It is suit! that the narcotic mix ed with the snuff was the powder of the Datura Stramonium. Corn in tiie West. —The Nashville Whig of the 1 ith instant states, that the superabundance of the late corn crop in Missouri and Illinois has just been illus trated by a Government contractor, who purchased in the counties of Saline, Lafa yette and Clay (Mo.) 300,000 bushels to be delivered on the bank of the Missouri, ’.5 cents per bushel. Further down the river the same contractor we3 offered 7,090 bushels at 12 1-2 cents. T4a following :a a ber a'.'.ful description of a thrilling incident. .That country man of Tfk.siiinglon refneos to join the shout of tile no’j.e boy 1 T_: r. Iluzzis of Posterity. A little boy near Hagerstown in Maryland, was one ti y pointing out to me a copse of trees as the place where Washington at the head of the Virginian Rangers fought a battle long before the Revolution with some Indians headed by French from Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh. The little fellow had some balls of lead which had been fired in that battle, chopped from the centres of the now massive and aged oaks. I saw the sunbeam of some moral emotion was in his eyes, and I asked him further of Washington, the brave youth who led the Virginians into that thicket when the war-whoop shook its boughs, and the rifle rung in its glooin. His mind seemed to glance like lightning through the illustri ous deeds of arms iu which Washington had engaged and settled down at the scene ofYorktown. He told me of one circum stance only. Said he, “when the British troops were marched out of their entrench ments to lay down their arms, Washing ton told the American army, “My hoys, let there be no insults over a conquered foe! when they lay down their arms, don’t huzza; posterity will huzza for you!” I could have hugged the little boy to my bosom. Although he had not been able to read more than four years, yet his mind had drunk deep in the moral greatness of the act of sparing the feelings of a foe. I asked him what it was that Washington said that posterity would do? he quickly answered huzza. “Huzza, then!” said I; and he sent his clear wild shout into the battle wood, and I shouted with him, "Huzza for Washington /” A Peculiar State of Mind. —A pri soner who had just received sentence of two years, before the Boston Municipal Court, thus addressed the Judge:— “I think my sentence is peculiarly and unjustly severe, considering the compara tively slight moral turpitude of my offence. What have I done more than to take fif teen dollars’ worth of another man’s prop erty, when I was in a very peculiar state of mind? Ido not rise, however, to ask you to change my sentence, but only to express a hope that your official and mor al career may terminate before my sen ! tcnce expires; and when your career does ( terminate, I hope you will go where Judge Jeffrey went before you, and he didn’t go i to Heaven by ad and sight.” Arabian Horses.—One most aee the staraes of Damascus,or those of tie emir Beschir to have a correct idea of an Ara bian Horse. This superb and graceful animal loses his beauty, his gentleness and his picturesque‘figure, when he is taken from his native and his accustomed habits, and brought to our climate, and the shade and solitude of our tables. He must be seen at the door of the tent of the Arab of the desert, his head between his legs, tossing his long black mane, and brush ing his sides, shining like copper or sil ver, with his long tail, the extremity of which is always tinged with henna: he must be seen bedecked with brilliant hous ings trimmed with gold and embroidered with pearls; his head covered with a net of blue or red silk, woven with gold and edged with tinkling points which fall from his forehead over ius nostrils, and with which he conceals or shows at each move ment of his neck, his fiery, large and in telligent eye-ball: he must be seen above all iu numbers of two or three hundred, some lying in the dust of the court, others fettered by iron rings and fastened to long cords which cross these courts, others free upon the sands and leaping with one bound over the rows of camels which stand in their path; some held by young black slaves, clothed in scarlet vests, the horses affectionately putting their heads upon the shoulders of these children, and some play ing together as free and uncopfined as the wild colts of a prairie, standing around, rubbing their heads together, or mutually licking each other’sshining and silveryhair; all looking at us with an uneasy and curious scrutiny on account of our European dress and strange language, but soon be coming familiar and coming gently, hold ing out their necks for us to stroke. The restless expression of the physiognomy of these horses, is perfectly incredible till one has seen it himself. All their feelings are expressed in their eyes and in the ner vous movement of their mouths and nos trils as distinctly and expressively as upon the countenance oFa child. When we approached them for the first time, they exhibited as much dislike and curiosity as a man would feel at the sight of an unexpected and disagreeable object. Our language especially astonished them, and their ears pricked up and bent back ward, showed their surprise and uneasi ness. 1 admired especially several valu able mares, reserved for the emir himself. I offered by my interpreter, JO,OOO piastres for one of the handsomest; but an Arab would not sell at any price a mare of the best breed; I therefore wa3 unsuccessful.— [Lord Lindsay. SIOO,OOO for a Cape ! A curious specimen of native ingenuity, and of the extravagance of despotism, is to be seen at the Missionary Rooms. It is a cardie worn by a Sandwich Island chief, which accord ing to an estimate of Rev. Mr/ Richards, must have cost SIOO,OOO. It is made of small feathers, of very bright and beauti ful colors, only two of which grow under the wing of a particular bird. These are skillfully wrought upon a coarse network, so as to form stripes of several different colors. The manner of obtaining them is as follows:—An adhesive substance is plac ed upon the end of a long pole, and some b; it a little distance below. This pole is held near the bird upon the rocks and branches—it alights on the end of the pole and by the adhesive substance is caught, and drawn up and the feathers pulled out. Mr. Richards estimated that he could have obtained 8100,000 worth of provisions with the labor that was expended on this cape. There are also two small tippets for the neck made of the same materials. Putnam and the British Officer. —It is well known that in the time of the old French war much jealousy existed be tween the British and Provincial officers. A Britisli .Major, deeming himself in sulted by General (then Captain) Put nam, sent him a challenge. Putnam, in stead of giving a direct answer, requested the pleasure of a personal interview with the Major. He came to Putnam’s tent and found him seated on a smail keg, quietly smoking his pipe. He demanded what communication, if any, Putnam had to make. “ Why, you know,” said Put nam, “I’m but a poor miserable Yan kee, that never fired a pistol in my life, and you must have an undue advantage over me. Here are two powder kegs : I have bored a hole and inserted a slow match in each ; so if you will just he so good as to seat yourself there, I will light the matches; and he who dares sit the longest without squirming, shall be called the bravest fellow.” The tent was full of officers and men, who were hugely tickled at this strange device of the‘old wolf,’ and compelled the Major by their laugh ter and exhortations to squat. The sig nal was given and the matches lighted. Putnam continued smoking quite indiffer ently, without watching at all their pro gressive hut the Britisli offi cer, though a brave fellow, could not help casting longing, lingering looks down wards, and his terrors increased as the length of his match diminished. The spectators withdrew one by one to get out of the reach of the expected explo sion. At length, when the fire was within an inch of the keg, the Major, unable to endurejonger, jumped up, and, drawing out his match, cried, “rutnam, this is wilful murder ! draw out your match—l yield!” “The devil!” cried Putnam, “ my dear fellow, don’t be in such a hurry, they ’re nothing but kegs of onions!' 1 The Major was suddenly missing, having sneaked off. EGIBLATUHE. Nov. 22d—Mr. Char presented % yp to regulate and fix the fees of editor* tad pub lishers of newspapers, for advertfaiatr for sher and to provide for the —-ffflimi of shenfis for summoning grand and petit jurors —read first time, * Mr. King presented a bill to authori* ffi e trustees of Mercer Unives—*, Emory OIW and Oglethorpe University, to tike oM Hie’ grants of such tracts es land as have revert ed, or may revert, to the State, fcc. Abo A bill to amend an act to incorporate the Brunswick and Florida Rail Road, and te au thorise said company to hold certain vacant and ungrrated lands-*** time. 24th—The joint special committee, appoint ed to investigate the cfouwe* alleged —ainst Col. Long, the Chief Engineer ofthe Stat. in a memorial of citiaen* of Caaaville, made a report this morning moat favorable to Col. Lonm This report tad documents were or dered to be printed. 26th—This morning, the kill to amend the charter of the Central Rail Read and Bank ing Company, was taken up. Several speeches were delivered, tad amendments proposed. It is my opinion that the iate of this till'will decide the fate of other bills before the Legis lature for the charter of ud Rail Read Companies with banking privileges. The dis cussion on that bill eaanot fail to tajre a wide range. 27th—The discussion of A# bill ofthe Cen tral Rail Road and Banking Company's, was continued this morning. A bill has been introduced to incorporate the Muscogee Insurance Company with a cap ital of one millidii of dollars. A bill has alas been introduced to amend the law respecting the rctonw made by hanks, &c. By this bill the banks in their petni-an nual returns are to include the names of the directors, and the retnma to be published only in one paper of Bares—h, Augusta, Macon, and Columbus, and in two of Miliedgeville, &.c. HOUSE. Nov 23d—The following resolution was passed. Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the Bute of Georgia in Gene ral Assembly met, that his Excellency the Governor be authorised to draw his warrants in favor of the Senator ofthe county of Glynn, for the Poor School Fund due said county for the years 1833,1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, and 1838; and the academic fond for the years 1835, 1836,1837 and 1838. 24th—A bill has been introduced to estab lish the Farmers Bank of Georgia, and to pro vide for the extension and completion of the Western and Atlantic Rail Road, and for other purposes. Another bill has been introduced, under the title of, To establish a Bank at Milledge ville, to be called the Central Bank of Geor gia, and to appropriate moneys,’' Szc. Three other bills were introduced, one to compensate owners of slaves executed for of fences against the laws of this State; the other, to authorize the issuing and sale of State scrip for the purpose of completing the Western and Atlantic Rail Road; and the other to charter the Bank of Thomasville, in Thomas county, with a capital of $200,000, with the privilege to increase it to $400,000. 25th—The bill to increase the capital stock of the Monroe Rail Road and Banking Com pany $310,000, was lost yesterday—for the bill 52, against it 83L 26ih—A bill was introduced to charter the Talbotton Rail Road and Banking Company.. The bill contemplates the construction ofa Rail Road from Macon to Talbotton, and thence to Columbus and West point The capital is to be $1,200,000, with the privilege to increase it to $3,000,000. There is a proposition before the Legisla-' tore to grant a bounty for the cultivation of the mulberry and the production of Bilk. This morning, it was agreed to reconsider the bill to amend the charter of the Monroe Rail Road and Banking Company, lost om Saturday. 27th.—The House, this morning, was most ly engaged in discussing the bill for the call of a Convention to alter the Constitution so. far as respects the representation of the coun ties in the legislature. The bill passed by a large majority. South American Horsemen. We came upon an immense head of wild hors es, and Candioti, jun, said, "Now Senor Don Juan, I must show you how we tame a colt.” So saying, the word was given, for the pursuit of the herd, and off like lightning started the Gaucho horsemen,, Candioti and myself keeping up with them.. The herd consisted of about two thousand, horses, neighing and snorting, wish- erect 1 , and flowing tails, their manes outspread to the wind. Off they flew affrighted' the moment they were conscious of pursuit— The Gauchos set up their usual cry, the dogs were left in the distance? it was nob until we had followed the flbek at full speed, and without check, for fixe miles,, that the two headmost persons launched! their bolars at the horse which dach hath respectfully singled out of the herd.— Down to the ground, with frightful somer sets, came two gallant colts. The herd continued its headlong flight, leaving be hind their two prostrate companions.— Upon these the whole band of Gaucho now ran in; lazo» were applied to tie their legs: one man held down the head of each horse, and another the hindquarters, while, with singular rapidity and dexterity, two. other Gauchos put the saddle and bridle on, their fallen, trembling, and also frantic victims. The animafa made a simultane ous and almost surprising vauh; they rear-, ed, plunged, and kicked; now they started off at full gallop, and anon stopped short in. t heir career, with their head* between,their legs, endeavoring to tbrora their riders.— Vain hope, indeed? Immoveable, they smiled at the unavaihag efforts of the tur bulent and outrageous animal to. unseat them; and in less than an hour from tho time of their mounting, it Was very evident' who were to be- tile- masters.— [Roberts’ 1 son Paraguay. Why was Noah not a Republican ?. Because he lived under too severe a reign, (rain.)*