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[From the Chicago Democrat.] Council Bluffs, Oct. 15, 1838 Western Indians—A Little Sioux liirl Burnt at the Stake by the Pawnees. — The Sioux and Pawnees, only 100 miles from here, arc in constant hostility.— This war lias continued for about 200 years. So the indians here (the Potlawa tamies) says. The Pawnees in a war ex pedition into the Sioux country last Febru ary, took prisoner a Sioux Girl only 11 years old whom they kept about two months, until corn planting, and fattened her as they would a hog. They then de termined to make a sacrifice of her.— This they kept to themselves. Two days before the sacrifice, a council of eighty of the warriors and head men of the nation met to see whether they would accept the offers of two traders of the American fur company who offered them valuable pre sents if they would release her to (hem, so that they might let her return home. But all would not do. A majority of the coun cil was for a sacrifice, of course those in favor of her release could do nothing. At the breaking up of the council, the prison er was brought out and accompanied by the whole council, was led from house to house: when they gave her a small hilict of wood and a little paint which she hand ed to the warrior next to her, and he passed it on to the next until every wig wam had contributed some wood and some paint. On the 22d of April she was led out to be sacrificed, hut not until she came upon the ground did she conjecture her fate. They had chosen the place be tween two trees which grew within five | feet ot each other. They then made her ascend the three bars tied across from( tree to tree, her feet resting on the bars below, where a slow fire kindled beneath! would just reach her feet. Two warriors llien mounted the bars, and there, stand- j ing one on each side of her, held fire un der her arm pits until she was almost dead, j Then at a given signal they all shot ar rows into her body so thick that hardly a pin could be placed between them. The' arrows were immediately taken from her 1 flesh and it was all cut from her hones in ! pieces not larger than half a dollar, and putin baskets. All this was done before j she was quite dead. Then the principal J chief took a piece of the flesh and squeez-' ed it until a drop of blood fell upon the corn that was just planted, and this j was done to nil they had in the ground. j This is the way they treat prisoners of war out here. The foregoing was told me ! by a trader of {indisputable veracity, who 1 was on the ground at the time. In June! last, the narrator’s wife’s brother was taken i prisoner by the Sioux and treated'in the j same manner. I have visited the Otocs, 8 miles from here, and have been forcibly struck with their superstitious burials of the dead.— W lieu n warrior of note dies, they kill one of the best liorses of the nation on bis grave and then cut off bis tail and tie it to a pole 15 feet high and there leave it.— They believe the spirit of the horse will serve the spirit of the warrior in the next world. New Orleans, Jan. 19. of the Merchants Exchange.] Vera Cruz, Dec. 31st, 1838. As the Mexican government has not ratified the capitulation of 28th tilt, tlit* French admiral will not permit the land ing of cargoes and it appears that the .Mex icans are determined to act in the same manner, I therefore fear that all the ves sels and their cargoes which have arrived and are to arrive (rom your port and Ha vana, will he under the necessity of re turning. A fleet of 12 sail of English vessels of war are in sight, some of them very large. Mexico, Dec. 27th. The Mexican government has refused to permit vessels to laud their cargoes at Vera Cruz: another humbug to commerce, the whole country is going to the devil. A letter of 4th inst. from Vera Cruz states that a Spanish ship and brig from Havana, had arrived and were ordered out of port, and on their way to Sacriticios got ashore and were lost. Several ves sels from N. Orleans had arrived at Sac rificios. There are 14 English vessels of war at anchor, and the English and French admirals are on the best of terms. The postmaster general recommends that increased postage be charged on newspa pers, according to their size, supposing that it might reduce the size of the sheets, and thus diminish the weight of the mails. He has also submitted to the House, a pro position to alter the present tariff of post ages, so that it shall correspond with the Coin of the U./.'3ed States. The following scale lias been submitted to the Commit tee, as calculated to produce very nearly the desired result, viz: 30 miles and under, 5 cente. 100 miles and over 30, 10 cents. 200 miles and over 100, 15 cents. 400 miles .and over 200, 20 cents. Over 460 males, 25 cents. 'Phis would be a small reduction, say from I to 3 cents on a letter; according to distance. Caroline Augusta Chase, and saveti hundred and thirty five other ladies, in Eyuii, have petitioned the Legislature for the privilege of marrying bfilfck husbands. 1 his is rather a cut at the white Lynn beaux—or perhaps some of these ladies despair of having a white offer, and so are willing to try ,h eMoned race.—[Bos to* l ost. 1 ■ [From the Boston Post ] The Liuiitnino Telegraph. —An As sociation has been started in New-York and Philadelphia to establish a line of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph, invented by Professor Morse, between these two cities. The distance the wire is to be laid is 100 miles. The Association are to pay Professor Morse 8200 per mile, or 820,000 for the exclusive right of estab lishing the Telegraph from Washington to New-York. The expense ot laying the wires is estimated at ¥520 per mile, I amounting to 852,000, w inch with tne purchase of the right, will make the whole cost $72,000; keeping the Telegraph in operation, which will require two managers at each end, and contingencies is put down at 810,000 per annum, j Professor Morse estimates the power of the Telegraph equal to communicate 45 letters per minute, or 32,400 per day, w hich at one cent a letter for postage would j yield $138,000 per annum, deducting one half the year, or $59,000, if but one fourth the capacity is employed. The average number of letters in the ordinary words of the English language, is seven. Thus a telegraph communication of ten words would cost seventy cents. A cap ital of 72,000, is to he raised in shares of sloo—the work" to he commenced next June, and completed by December, 1839. The route need not lie straight or level, and the wire may follow the course of a Rail Road, or divernge without affecting tlics communication. The plan is to communicate electric shocks, in other words, to set lightning to running an express, along the wires which are to be so contrived as that tlie | instant the shock is given at one cud, the j wires will indicate on a cord at the other ! end; the letters corresponding to the de sired intelligence. The application of the electric fluid to such a purpose is a high ly scientific invention, and it may be destined to work grea changes in the despatches of intelligence. Os course it mils! be very much wanted, as the go ahead propensities of this age are al ready weary of the slow progress of Lo comotives, at only twenty miles or thirty miles an hour, but the difficulty will be preserving the line of electric communi cation along the wires. We opine that after all the Seinaplioric Telegraph des patch, brought to such perfection by our worthy townsman Capt. Barker, will bo found much more practicable and effi cient, than riding a post on a streak of lightning. Harrisburg, (Pa.,) Jan. 18. More Disorder in the lit pri st illative lfall. —We learn that the evening, when the result of the special < lection in Cum berland, Franklin, and Adams was ascer tained, Mr. Pray, from the county of Phi ladelphia mounted the clerk’s stand, and proclaimed in aloud voice, that he had ! “glorious news for the Democratic party.” Me then announced the result of the I election, upon which the Hall resounded with the shouts of Van Btircn members and spectators present. llovv long arc the friends of law and order to be subjected to the mortifying spectacle of | having the Capitol made the theatre of scenes like these?—[Pennsylvania Intelli gencer. It was stated that Judge Wilkerson, who was engaged in the late affray at Louisville, visited that city for tlie pur pose of consumating a marriage contract. —The following notice which we find in a Kentucky paper, shows that the unfor tunate affray did not alienate the affec tions of the fair one.—[Baltimore Paper. Married, ln Bardstown, Ivy, on Thursday evening, the 3d inst., Judge Wilkerson, of Mississippi, to Miss Eliza Crozier, of the former place. The main papers appear to be very well satisfied with the proposition said to have been proffered l>y the British Government, to make the river St. John the boundarv between that State and New Brunswick. 'Flic Albion, British paper, of this city, is however of opinion that no such propo sition lias been made. The next packet will probably make the matter certain, one way or the other.—[Jour. Coin. The Boston Journal states that the con tinuance of the Eastern Rail road from Salem to Newburyport, is all tinder con tract, and that more than three hundred men are already at work. It will be re collected that the road from Boston to Sa i k ni is complete, and is found much more favorable than was anticipated. It is con fidently stated that the whole cost of the road from Boston to Newburyport w ill not exceed 81,390,000, and from thence to Portsmouth, N. H. a distance, we think of about 22 miles, the cost wiii fie less than 8350,000, making 81,050,000 for a road of GO miles. The whole length of the Rail road parses through a populous part of Massachusetts, and in the vicinity of several very large and flourishing inanu i-iCturing establishments. The enterprise of the east is taking the lead in several similar works; we hope our citizens will not lag, for the projects now before them, in our State, are of v ast importance. Army Movements.— Three companies of the 3d Artillery under Major Childs, Capt. Davidson and Lieut. Mock, will proceed to take post on the coast south of St Augustine. Major Childs and Lieut. Mock at Fori Pierce, and Captain Davidson at Fort Lauder«lalc, Key fliskaen. Captain L. J. Beall’s company 2d Dragoons, proceeds to Traders Hill, & Capt. I Winder’s to Fort King and Mtcanopv. No news from Tampa Bay, of Indians coming in, matters are pretty much "in statu quo.' —[Sav. Georgian. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. Spain. —The Paris correspondent of the New York American thus speaks of the Spaniards in their present disgraceful and destructive war. The Spaniards revile, plunder, pursue and butcher each other; ravage and de- j populate their own country; sustain no government nor claim on the throne, to any real effect or consummation. They | fight under different titles and banners, j but their motives, dispositions and acts, 1 are not distinguishable in a degree to j justify, for the cause of liberty, humanity,! internal or external welfare, the least pre-j ference between the infuriated parties — Christinists and Carlists seem to be alike j in every point. The reciprocity of rancor,: vindictiveness, evil, good or bad fortune, j is perfect. Their victories and defeats,] blunders and excesses, are all balanced, as if by invariable design. Thousands per ish monthly in battles and seiges; squad rons of Carlists threaten Madrid at one , season; armies of Christinists march into and out of the capital; Madrid is relieved; the Government soon trembles again, fear ing equally the Carlist maurauders and the city mob; cabinets are dissolved, re-; composed; every Minister and General is merely ad interim. Be the vicisitudc what it may, the denouement of the whole: contest always appears indefinitely remote. Central America. —By tlie arrival of the brig Patsy Biount, Captain Pederson, from Belize, sailed December 20th, we have the Belize Advertiser of the Sth and 15t h. The latter gives some details of the civ il war raging in Guatimala. General M or azan bad had several conflicts with the insurgents under Carrera, at Chiquimuli lia, and dispersed them. A priest and friar, with two other persons, had been tried and shot. The priest Lobos, who was in the councils of Carrera, had re quested a conference with General Mora znn—probably to liegociatc for a cessa tion of hostilities. Capt. Pederson reports that the federa-j tion of Central America lias fallen to: pieces, each state declaring itself indepen dent. The state of Honduras, however,' was divided, some of the counties at!her-i ing to the general federation. The gov-' eminent of Honduras had issued a decree, ] declaring itself independent, and assuming ] the receipt of customs at the different ports. To this th-r ports of Truxillo had acceded, hut Omoa had refused and de clared itself in favor of general govern ment. The Augusta Chronclo and Sentinel of the 17th instant, says: “There has been an unexampled scarcity of money here for some weeks past, owing to a disagreement among the Banks as to the mode of mak ing settlements witli each other. They have almost ceased discounting, except to renew running paper. It is to be re gretted, that in the midst of the business season, at a time when no class of citi zens exhibit a disposition to run upon the Banks, or to press them, and when their vaults are plentifully stored with coin, that any causes, in which the community arc not interested, should create such a pressure upon the business of the city. It is, indeed, as much a matter of surprise as regret. Banks, although ow ned by indi viduals, were created by public authority with an implied understanding that they were to benefit the public as well as their owners. Upon the faith of that under standing the public roly upon the Banks to furnish a currency adequate to the bu siness of the country; and if for any petty rivalships and disputes among themselves, they disappoint that reliance, they incur a heavy responsibility, which will perhaps not be forgotten in the day of reckoning. We h ave been favored with the perusal of a letter from Mr. Howard, the Agent of the State to procure from the public officer in Loudon, documents illustrative of the early history of Georgia. In addi tion to the documents of interest found by this gentleman in the State Paper Office, of which there have been former accounts, Mr. Howard, upon an examination of the office of the Board of Trade, has found papers more interesting and important, if possible, than those Hitherto discovered. These papers consist of eleven volumes fo lio, containing records from 1743 to 1780. They contain among other matter, a number of interesting documents relating to the Indians; the correspondence of Gov ernors Reynolds, Ellis and Wright; many interesting letters from Mr. Habersham, and others; the Journal of the Assembly in 1780, »scc. Mr. Howard says that the papers already found, with those At-home, “will afford as valuable materials for history, as arc pos sessed by any State in the Union.” He further states, that he is rapidly progress ing in the accomplishment of tUe object of his agency. —[Milledgeviile Recorder. The following Toast was given by E. 1 Richardson, President of the Philadelphia Typographical Society, at their late an nual meeting: The Evils of Rum. —lt gets into our heads, throws us off our feet puts us out of register and sorts, batters our forms, makes us to see ** s on a cloudy night, causes us to mal& a wrong use of our CT 5 * sand knock down the standing matter of others, brings us to +Us points with our best friends, reduces us to the condition of floor pi, gets us into the wrong bor, brings us before the bar, attd prematurely puts a period to our exist ence. FROM THE OKEFINOKE. The following letter from Gen. Charles Floid, to the Governor of this State, will be read with interest. Gov. Gilmer has issued ; an order calling, for volunteers, to supply the | place of the troops now under command of; Gen. Floyd, whose term of service is about to! expire. Head Quarters, Okefinokeii District, ] Camp Hope, January 4th, 1839. Sir: —Since my last communication to' your Excellency, of December 7th, every exertion lias been made to bring the ene-! my to battle, without success. They have! fled before my detachments, leaving their clothing, cooking utensils, &c., without firing a gun; and have either gone to Flor ida or are so securely hid that they have escaped the most active movements from various points, both inside and outside the swamp. By their signs they have been greatly distressed by hunger—and their whole number does not exceed 35 or 40, including women and children.— The smallness of their number, their wolf-like habits, and the extent and num erous biding places of the swamp, have enabled them to evade us. On the night of the 12th December, a small party of them, pressed by hunger, sneaked from j the Okefinokee in the night, and stole, some provisions from a deserted house] near its border. They were immediately pursued, but scattered so that their trail j was lost. Its direction, as far as it could be followed, led towards the St. Marys riv-j er: and it was the opinion of all my guides ; and trailers, men well acquainted with In dian habits, that they had crossed into] Florida. Hoping to overtake them, I en- : tered Florida at the head of Captain; North’s Company and a small detachment of the Georgia Regiment, under Lieut. Newbern, and examined the St. Marys to its source, (Ocean pond) but saw no signs’. At the same time I had several parties I searching in and round the Okefinokee. During my absence the Indians, or some evil-disposed white person, (as many ■ supposes with good reasons) burnt the de serted house which the Indians plundered ]on the 12th December. I sent out imme diately fresh detachments to follow if pos sible the trail of the enemy, and bring I them to action. They were absent sever al days and returned without any material ■ discovery. Since then the troops, as here tofore, have been constantly searching the, Okefinokee, and scouring the surrounding" ] country. They have discovered a large lake between Floyd’s Island and the Eas j tern border of the swamp, which a detach- I tnent under Lient. Col. Revill waded thro’,! 1 waist deep, in very cold weather, break-! ! ing the ice with poles. The troops have I j endured great hardships, and are nearly I exhausted by fatigue; yet I am glad to in form your Excellency, that the severity of their sufferings lias produced no unmanly i complaint. I cannot yet report positively to your Excellency, that no Indians remain outlie I soil of Georgia, although it is my belief, from the late discovery of trails leading to Florida, (near the Suwannee) and oilier circumstances, that they have gone there. If they are still in the Okefinokee, they cannot remain there much longer without discovery. Detachments are now search ing the swamp from North to South. A road for pack horses has been made through the swamp from Fort Tattnall to Fort Walker, 4 miles tinder the superin tendence of Major Browning, of the Geor gia Regiment. The smallness of my forces, and the active field duties required, have prevented me from constructing a good road to Floyd’s Island and establish ing a strong post there as 1 intended. The five Companies of my Regiment (in ser vice) amount only to 250 men; three Com- ! panics are yet wanted. All my arrange- i ments to supply the deficiency have failed, owing to the short-lived patriotism and valour of numerous volunteers. My command is rapidly diminishing, and in a few weeks will be entirely out of service. The Companies under Captains Sweat and D. Miller, called into serv ice by Gen. Taylor, were discharged on the 20tli December, their term of service hav ing expired. Capt. North’s Company of Florida Militia, which has been very use-: ful to me, will be mustered out on the 12th 1 instant. Capt. Holton’s, of the Georgia ! Regiment, on the Kith.; the Companies mi- j der Captains Lasseter, Newbern and! Williams, on the 25th; and Capt. Tracy’s; on the Ist February. None but a few j regulars will remain—too few to garrison the posts around the swamp, and afford protection to the inhabitants, should the Indians return to the Okefinokee when the volunteers are disbanded. , [ I mentioned in a former letter to your; Excellency, that at least 500 men should be kept in service for the protection of this part of Georgia while the war lasts in Florida. That number may be sufficient for defensive warfare, on the frontier; hut to continue the explorations of the Okefi nokee, establish posts inside the swamp, and construct roads to them, and carry on at the same time active offensive opera tions against the enemy, 500 Infantry and 300 mounted men would be necessary.— This force would be able to effect rapidly, fully and permanently the objects desired. It is large compared with the small num-! her of the enemy; but it could beat, with less difficulty, double its number of them, who would bravely give battle, than it ; could find a handful of skulking Indians in the Okefinokee, or protect an exten sive frontier from their midnight incur sions. I would respectfully suggest, that such force as your Excellency may dcctni sufficient, should be prepared to take the place of the Georgia Regiment, immediate ly on its retiring from service; and that it should be called out for six instead of three months. I send herewith a Map of the Okefino kee, roughly drawn on .the field by Lient. McLaue, Topographical Engineer of the United States Army. The mean diame ter of the swamp is between 35 and 40 miles. * I am, with high respect, Your Excellency’s ob’t serv’t, CHARLES FLOYD, Brig. Gen. Commanding (as Col.) Okefinokee Dist. His Excellency Geo. R. Gilmer, Gover nor of Georgia. Norfolk, Jan. 18. j We have been politely favored with the following extract of a letter, dated U. S. Ship North Carolina, ) ] £allao, Oct. 6th, 1838. ) “The Chilian army is encamped within a few miles of this place, and daily expect 1 a battle, which will decide their fate. If] they are beaten the Peruvians will not j leave one of them alive; and if Santa Cruz ! is defeated, the Chilians will have posses sion of the country. “Callao is almost deserted. Provisions are exceedingly high and scarce. Some times we have no market. “It is very probable that the affairs of this country will keep us here a few months longer than we expected, as the Commodore thinks it would be better to remain until affairs assume a more quiet ; aspect. “Very few vessels arrive here from Valparaiso on account of the Chilian fleet, consequently we are deprived of all intell igence from the United States.” Benefit of Life Insurance. —A mer chant of Baltimore who died a few days ago, effected insurance on his life in March last, at the agency in that city of the New \ork Life Insurance and Trust Company, for the sum of SSOOO, for which he paid the annual premium of one hundred dol lars. He also took out a policy with the Baltimore Life Insurance Company, for the same amount. lie paid to each office an additional premium of fifty dollars for the privilege of making a voyage to Asia and back. He returned to Baltimore in October, and died of the tpylius fever.— By this timely act of prudence, involving an expense of only three hundred dollars, his family will, before the expiration of this week, be put in possession of ten thousand dollars. The Republic of Hayti, about which so much fuss was made the other day in Congress—lias a population of 953- 235, nearly all blacks and mulattoes; 40,- 000 regular troops; and 113,000 military. The President is elected by the Senate for life, and receives an annual salary of $40,000. Its Legislature is composed of a Senate, elected every nine years from a list presented by the President—and a House of Representatives elected by the ! people every live years.—[Boston Post. “A Muscovite noble, ’ as the Quoti dienne states, “whose whole fortune con sisted only of a few hundred square leagues of barren lands at the foot of the Oral Mountains, producing nothing but bears, sables, and marten cats, the hunting of j which afforued him his sole occupation and amusement, has, it is said, lately dis covered within his domains, two or three \ mines, containing gold of a purer quality, and in greater abundance than even those of Peru. With this accession of ine.x-i haustible wealth, the modern Crosses re-; solved to come into the gay regions of France, to have the most magnificent ho tel in Paris, with six boxes at the French Opera, four at the Italian, and as many at the Theatre Francais; to hire the cha teau of Rambouillet as a sporting-box, and to prevail upon the Civil List to grant him the Palace of Fontainebleau as a sum mer-residence. All these dreams of luxu ry and enjoyment have been, however, dissipated in a moment, by an order from the Emperor Nicholas, that the wealthy lord shall not leave his native land: his Majesty being unwilling that the produce of Russian mines should be dissipated in a foreign country. Since the receipt of this interdiction, their unfortunate owiver languishes as if he were a prisoner, be ing limited to the pleasure which St. Pe terslmrgli, Moscow, Warsaw, and Tobolsk can afford him, and the narrow coniines of the Russian Empire!” | "4 he Americans pay an outrageous price for clothes. A London paper gives the following prices there:— “Dress coats, cut in the first style of fashion, six dollars; superfine, from eight to ten; frock coals, from seven to eight, superfine, with velvet collar and silk fac ing, ten dollars; trowsers, from one and a half to two; fancy vests a like price. Pe tersham great coats, from five to six doi- j lars. An entire suit of clothes, eleven dollars; of superfine Mack, thirteen dollars. | The People’s Presb, of Augusta, has, after a lingering illness, been numbered among the things that are not; and as fa- j vorably as we can speak of it, (although we dislike to disparage the dead,) is, that it had but few virtues that will live after it. Like a buccauier, it showed false colors, aud has only counterfeited their character by a natural exit. It died of j Van Burenisin and the Sub-Treasury. [Macon Messenger. FREE BANKING. The following rules and regulations of the Comptroller General and Commissioners of the General Banking Law, have been adopted and ordered to be published for the informa tion of persons, wishing to commence the bus iness of banking under the new law recently adopted in this State. Rule L Persons or associations in tending to commence the business of Banking, under said act, will be required to deposite with the Comptroller and Commissioners, funds for the procurement of the printed bills intended for circula tion as money, and for defraying other ; expenses to be incurred. (See sections 1 and 15.) Rule 11. Bonds and mortgages intend ied to be assigned to the Comptroller and Commissioners, will be made to the per ; sons or associations applying for the bene- I fit of the act, for an amount equal to the i appraised value of the property, and bonds ! and mortgages made to other persons than those applying, maybe transferred ito such persons or associations, and by i them assigned to the Comptroller and ! Commissioners; the bonds to be made payable one day after date, bearing inter est at the rate of six per cent, per annum. The property mortgaged to be free of ! every incumbrance, and to be within this ! State. The Comptroller and Commission j ers will deliver to the person or associa tions applying, hills for circulation amount ing to one half the appraised value of the lands mortgaged, and for bonds and mort ! gages on town property and slaves an j amount of bills equal to one fourth of their value will be delivered.' (See sec tions 7 and 6.) Rule 111. The valuation of lands, town property and slaves will be made by three or more disinterested persons,to be appoint edby the Comptroller and Commissioners, lands to be valued independently of the buildings thereon, and in all instances the property to be appraised according to its cash value; such appraisment to be made under oath, endorsed oil, or nttch ed to the mortgages, subscribed by the valuing agents, and attested by a judicial ■ officer of this Slate. The Comptrollers and Commissioners will exercise the right to institute further enquiry as to the value !if considered necessary. See section 8.) Rule IV. The evidences of title to property mortgaged, shall be submitted to the Comptroller and Commissioners. In regard to titles to personal property, proof of possession and uncontested ownership together with conveyances to the same, if in existence, will be required.—ln any case when property either real or person al is vulued, the oath of the valuing agents that they know of no lien, deficiency, or depute as to the title; also, the oath of the mortgager, that he knows of no de fect or dispute in his title, and that he has no knowledge of the existence of any previous mortgage or lien on the proper erty will be required. See section 8.) Rule V. Certificates of the Clerks and Magistrates of the several courts of the counties and districts where the mortgag er has resided for the last seven years, will be required; showing that there were no mortgages, other liens, or judgments, re maining unsatisfied in said courts, or eleswliere, within the knowledge, against said mortgager at the time of the execu tion of said mortgage. (See section 8.) Rule VI. Mortgages must b*. record ed in the county where the lands lie, and also in the county where the mortgager resides, and be so certified by the clerks of the superior courts of such counties. (See section 28.) * Blank mortgage’s and bonds will be pre pared and furnished, by the Commissioners, on application. [From the Louisianian.] ENGLISH SQUADRON OFF VERA CRUZ. Rumors of various descriptions have been in circulation relative to the British government in sending a stout squadron to the coast of Mexico. Some have sus pected that the intention is to impede the operations of the French squadron, and others have regaded the measure as indi cating approaching war between those powers. We are assured that both of these opinions are unfounded, and we de rive this assurnneft from an authentic source. It is ascertained that the greatest harmony exists between the two squad rons, and far from attempting to hinder the French from obtaining satisfaction from the Mexicans, the English fleet and the diplomatic agents of England were striving to obviate the«ohj*s»sS»*> of the Mexican government to render justice to the demands of France. We have reason to expect that the rupture between the two last named powers will be speedily and amicably arranged. Wisconsin Lead. —Governor Dodge in his message, says that upward of ten mil lions of pounds of lead are sent cast an nually fronfltbe mines of Wisconsin. It now goes by the way of New Orleans to New York, but from the internal improv ments now going on, in two years it will pass through the lakes and down the Erie canal. St. Louis. —The annual value of ex ports from St. Louis is estimated at two millions of dollars. The shipments of lead alone, are slated, to be equal to half a million, and the furs 400,000 dollars in a year. The aggregate valne of horses and mules sent from Missouri into the cotton growing States, during the past year, is estimated at 150,000 dollars.