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UISCELLVNV =tTcHAITEH FUH YQCNG HUSBANDS. Walking llie other day w i'b a valued friend who had been eonfint X u weel. or two by sickness to his room, lie remarked u husband might learn ugoodbs •on by being conl'mciT occasionally to hia house, by having in this way nn opportunity of witne-i ing the cares and never-ending toils of his wife, whose burden, and duties, and patient rndurer.ee, he might never otherwise have understood. There is a great deal in this thought—jierhapa enough for an “editorial.” Men, especially young men, are called by thcii business du ring the day mostly away from home, returning only at the hours for meal* ; and as they then see nearly the same routine of duty, they begin to think it is their own lot to perform all the drudgery, and to he excrci- ! eed with all the weight of carca and responsibility. But such a mail has got a very wrong view of the ca-e ; he needs an opportunity for more extended observa tion, and it is perhaps for this very reason dial a kind Providence arrests him by sickness, t'.at be may leant in pain what he would fail to observe in health. We have seen recently a good many things said in the pa pers to wives, especially to young wives, exposing their faults, perhaps magnifying them, and expounding to them, in none of the kindest terms, their duty aud the offices pertaining to a woman's sphere. Now we be lieve that wives, as a whole, are really better than they are generally admitted to he. We doubt if there ran be fonnd a large numlier of wives who art disagreeable and negligent, without some palpable coldness or shot t coming on the pad of their husbands. So far as we have had an opportunity for observation, they ire far more devoted nd faithful than those who style them selves their lords, and who, by the customs of society, have other and generally more pleasant and varied du ties to perform. We ptotest, then, against these lec tures so often and so obtrusively adden-ed to the la dies, and insist upon it that ilf&y must —most of them —have been written by some fusty bachelor who knew no better, or by son.e inconsiderate husbands who de serve to have been old bachelor* to the end of tiieir lives. But is (here nothing to lie said on the oil er side’ Are husbands so generally the perfect, amia ble, injured beings, they arc so often represented 1 Men sometimes declare that their wives’ cxtrsvggai ns have picked tlu ir pockets—that tin ir ncverceasing tongue’s have robbed them of their peace, and their general disagree,tbleness lias driven them to the tavern and gaming-table; but tins is generally tba wicked excuse lor a most wicked liter oil their ow n part. The Let is, men oltcn lose tlreir interest in their homes by their own neglect to make their homes interesting and pleasant. It should never be forgotten that the wife lias her rights—as sacred after marriage as before—and a good hushanit’s devotion ta the wife aft. r marriage will concede to Iter quite as much attention as his gal lantry did while a lover. If i: is otherwise, he most generally is at a fault. Take a few examples. Before marriage a young man would fee! some delicacy about accepting an in vitation to spend an evening in company where his Irdye love had not been invited. After marriage ia lie always as particular ? Buiing the days of court-hip his gallantry would demand that he should make him self agreeable to her ; after marriage it aften happens that he thinks more of himself. How often it happens that married men, after having been away from borne ibe livelong day, during which the wile has toiled at her dunes, go ut evening again to vmuie place of amu e- j incut and leave her to toil on alone, uuelieered and unhappy, llew often it happens that her kindest of , fices pass unobserved, and unrewarded even by a smile, and her best ell i, Is a:e condemned by the fault finding husband. II ,yv often it h,opens, even when the eve ning is spent at homo, that it : s employed in silent reading, or sonic other wav that dues not recognize the wile’s right to share in the enjoyments even of the ] fireside. j l.ook, ye husbands, a m uncut, and rertv n.her what your wife was when you took her, not hum compul- ; non, bc.t from your own choice ; a choice bared, prob ably, on what you then considered her superiority to i nil others. She was yonng—perhaps the idol of a hap py home ; she was guy anil blithe as a lark, and the brothers and sisters at her lather'* fireside cherished her as an object of rndearm iff. Yet she left all to join her destiny with yours; to make your borne hap py, ami to do all that woman's love could prompt and woman’s ingenuity rlev.se to meet your wishes and j lighten the burdens which might press upon you in your pilgrimage. She, of course, bad her expectations too. She could not ente tain feelings which promised so much, without forming some idea of reciprocation on your part, and she did expect you would after mar riage perform those kind offices of which you were so lavish in the days of betrotliment. Bhe became youi wife! Icfi her home for yours—burst asunder, as it were, the bands of love which Ira! bound her to her , father’s fire file, end sought no other boon than your affections : left, It Inay be, live ease and delicacy of a home of indulgence—and now, what must be her feel ings if she gradually awakes to the consciousness that yu love her has than before ; tliut your evenings arc spent abroad, tint you only come home at all to satisfy 1 the demands ofyour hunger, and to find a re: ting place [ fir your head when weaiy, or a nurse for your sick chamber when diseased I Why did she leave the bright hearth of her youth- 1 ful days ! Why did you ask tier to give up the in- | j iymcnt of a happy home T Was it simply to darn your stockings, mend your clothes, lake rare ofyour i chillren, and waste over your sick bed? Was it simplv to ((induce to your own comfort t Or was there some understanding that she was to he made hap py in her connection with the man that she had dared to love ? Nor ic il a suflkiin’ answer :!i it you reply that you give her a home ; that ou feed and clothe her, You do this for your help ; you would doit for an indiller { mt housekeeper. Sho i* yonruile, and unless you attend to her wants, and in some way answer the rea- j tunable expeditions you raised hy your attentions be fore marriage, you need not wonder ifshe be dejected, and her heart sink into ihsensihilitv ; hut if this he so, think well who is the cau-e of it. We repeat it. very few women make indifferent ives, w hose tidings have not met with some uutward shock by the indtifcrence j or thoughtlessness of their h ts'm ds. It is our candid opinion that in a large majority of the instances o! do- j irmstic misery the mar. is the aggressor. — Siw York Mirror. A MELTING STORY. No other class of men in any country possess that facetious aptness of inflicting a good humored revenge which seems to l? innate with u Circen Mountain hoy. Impose upon or injure * Vermonter, and he will seem the diollest and liest natural fellow you ever knew in allyour life, until he sudJenly pounces upon you with some cunningly devised offset for your duplicity ; and even while he makes his victim smart to the core, there is that tnanly npcn-hcartcdties* about him which infu ses balm even while the wound is opening, and renders i: quite impossible that you should hate him, however j severe may have been the punishment he dealt out to you. These boys of the lireen Mountain- seem to possess a natural faculty of extracting fun from every 1 vicissitude and accident that the changing hours bring; even what are bitter vexations to others, these happy (ellow treat in s manner so peculiar as to completely alter their former character and make them seem to us 1 a {recabla, or as least endurable, w hich v\ as before ini the highest off,.-naive. Another ntun will repay an ag- ; gra'a ion or an insult by instantly returning injury, cutting the acquaintance and shutting his brail forev- { er against the offender; but a Vermonter with sntil* ! upon his face, will a nuse himself while obtaining afar j deeper revenge, ere king a joke in conclusion, and making his former enemy forgive him and even love] him after eho“tisemcnt. One winter tv • uing, a country store keeper in the Mountain Stale was about dosing his doors for the night, and while standing in the snow outside putting up his window shutter*, lie saw through the glass a lounging, worthless fellow within grab u poui u of fresh butter from the shelf and ha-lily conceal it in his hat. The act was no sootier detected than the revenge was hit upon, and a very few moments found the Green Mountain store keeper at once indulging his ap petite for fun to the fullest extent, and paying off the thief wiih a facetious sort of torture fir which he might ime gained a premium from the old inquisilicn. “ I cay,shiih ! ’ said the star* keeper, coming in and dosing the door after him, slapping his hands over his shoulders and stamping the suow off his shoes- Seth hid his hard upon the dsor, his bat upon bis Lead, and the roll of new butter in hts huf anxious to nviVe hi*exit e* soon as jtoa-.ib'e. I say Seth, sit down ; I reckon, now, on such an eternal night as this, a leetle something warm would’nt hurt a fellow ; come and sit do.’ n.” Stilt felt very uncertain : lie had the nutter, and was exceedingly anxious to be oil but the lemptat on of ‘something warm sadly interfered with hi* resolution lo \ go. Tins hesitation.however was anon settled by the : right owner of the butter, taking Selh by die shoulders , and planting him in a seat close to the stove, where he was in sueh a manner cornered by barrels and box es that while the country grocer sat before him there was no possibility of his getting out, and right in Ibis place suie enough the storekeeper sat down. “Selh, we’ll have a little warm Santa Crux,” said the Green Mountain gincer, as he opened the stove door, and fluffed in s many sticks os tbe space would admit, “ Without it you'd freeze gong b me such a night as this.” Seth already fi It the butter settling down closer lo iiis hair, and jumped up. and declared lie must go. “ Not till you have something warm. Selh come. I’ve gut a story to tell you, 100 ; sit down now ; ’ and Selh was again pushed into his chair by bis cunning tormentor. “ O.i ! it’s tu darn'd hot here,” sold the petty thief again attempting to rise. “ Set down—don’t be in such a plaguy hurry,” re toited the grocer, pushing him buck in his chair. “ But I’ve gut the cows tu fodder, and some wood tu split, and I must be ugoin,” continued the persecu ted chap. •• But you miisn'l tear yourself away, Seth, in this manner. Set down, let the cows take care of them selves, and keep yourself cool, you appear fidgetty,” said the rougisli grocer, with a wicked leer. The next thing was the production of two smoking glasses ot hot ruui toddy, the very sight of which, in Seth's present situation, would have made the hair stand upon his head, iiad il not been well oiled and keptd inn by tbe butler. ••Seth, I'll give you a toast now, and you can butler it yourself, ’ s lid t e grocer,yet with such consummate simplicity that poor Setli still believed himself unsus pected. “Sh ill, Imre’*—here's a Christmas goose— (it was about Christmas lim) —here's a Chrismas goose, well roasted and basted, eh? I tell you, Seth, it’s the greatest rating in creation. Anil S>. th, don’t you lie liogsfjt or common looking butter to baste a goose witii—come take your butler—l mean Seth, lade your toddy.” “ Poor Seth now began to smoke, as well ns to melt, and bis mouth was as hermetically sealed up ns though he had bom horn dumb. Streak afler streak of tire huttei came pouring from under his hat, and his hand- j kerchief was already soaked with the greasy overflow. Talking away as it nothing was the matter, the grocer ! kept stuffing the wood into the stove, while poor Setli j sat holt upright, with his hack against the counter, and his knees almost touched the led hot furnace before ! him. *• Donation cold night this.” said tho grocer. “ Why Seth, you seem to perspire as if you were warm ! Why don’t you take your hat off! Here let me put your hat away.” “.No,” exclaimed poor Selh ul last, with a spas modic effort to get Iris tongue loose, and clapping both hands upon his hat, No ; I must go—let me out —I ain't well—let me go.” A greasy extract was now pouring down the poor hllows face and neck, and: soaking into his clothes, and tinkling down his body into his very hoots, so that lie w as literally in a perfect ; hath of oil. ,‘ Well, good night, Setli,” said the humorous Vcr- ■ montcr, -• if you will go; ’ adding, os Seth got out ntu the road, “neighbor, 1 reckon the fun I've had out of you is worth a ninepenee, so I shan’t charge j you for that pound ol butter ?”—A'. U, Vic yune. From a late Foreign Journal. UAH,WAY TALKING MACHINE. A meeting was held at Blackburn last week—Mr. i Turner, M. I*., in the chair—at which it w as resolved to take steps for the pu'poscof promoting a line of rail way, blanching outof the Manchester and Leeds Kail way, at Todmorderi, throng i Burnley, Blackburn, Ac., to Chorley and Preston. Mr. G. Stephenson, the father of railways, was present, and ill a speech ill support of railway, lie said that his plan invloved live use of locomotive engines, and he was sure he could woik the line from Burnley to Todinorden as well as a dead level. He would place apu Hoy on tho summit between the two towns, uiid through this he would run a rope, of u new construction, being formed of wire, and consequently loiing lighter and stronger than or dinary ropros. The plan was working beautifully on the London and Blackwnll line, tbe distance being several mill s ; of course the length of the rope wu- just half that distance. The trains on that line went reg ularly at the rate oflroni 20 to 30 miles an hour. On the same line there was a talking-machine, constructed with galvanic wires, by which moans conversation could he carried on between London and Blackvvali with the greatest ease and precision. By wav of illus trating the efficiency of this talking-machine Mr. Site- ; phenson said that he went to the station in London one day to ir.qure for one of his assistants. He was not there, but the attendant said that lie would inquire if lie was at the other end of the line ; he di i so ; in u lew seconds the answer was that lie was not theie. But in a few minutes afterwards the talking-machine, informed him in London that his assistant had arrived at the Uhicl.vvaff terminus; upon which he instructed the attendant to say, by the same agency, “Tell him ‘o come here directly.” In tt n minutes from that time he arrived, the distance being nearly seven miles.— (Hear, her.) If the distance were 100 miles the con versation could be cartied on just as readily, for the communication travelled at the rate of 20 miles a second. By means of this galvanic talking-machine and tho plan lie had mentioned, the line between Burn ley and Todinorden could he worked with the utmost ejse and regularity. Tht dead Napoleon. — flic following singular inci dent ronneeted with the funeral humus paid to the great Emperor, is given by the Pads Correspondent of one of the French papers : — S.w. Republican. You are aware that the eonvoi reached Cour'oe-oi on Monday afternoon. In the night of that day two men en liurgeois, or if you w ill, in plain clothes, pre. scnlcd themselves on board the Idorade stenmer. The elder of them desired leave to approach the Imperial remains. He was re used, but a whisper from him to ,ho officer in command produced an immediate change, lie was instantly admitted, and usher.d to the plaii'snm. He gazed for a moment, fell heavily on his knees, and I urying his face in his hands and resting both on the foot of the coffin, he remained for twenty-five minutes, weeping and in prayer—the for mer certainly, for bis face was deluged with tears. When at the etui of that time he attempted to rise, whether from ctnntion or that lie was benumbed by die dreadful severity of the night, or from both causes together, he was un iblc, and w as obliged to call for as- j sistanca of some seamen who were at hand wondering ] at the spcc acle, and who now found it was Marshal j Sou It. Rut her S. cere. — A young buck of ihe soaplock or- | der, who wore an c.nshavod face because as he said it 1 looked •• foreign,” lately accosted a Yankee at one of our hotels as follows : “ I say, fellow, some individuals think I am a Franc hman and some take ntc for an Etalian : now what do you think lain I” •* 1 think you aic a darned fool!” replied Jon athan A Rich Sjiinsttr. —The will of the late Miss Jane | limes, spinster, formerly of J'ickardy pluce, Edinburg. ’ but late of Blow, in North llriton, hasjust been proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canter- J bury, in Doctors’ Commons, by Geoige Scott and John ! Thompson, Esqrg., the executors. The deceased was I possessed of upwards of £BOO,OOO in the funds, and I property in different pa ts of Scotland to the amount ol 1 t 1,200,000, making, together, the enormous sum of | (wo millions, the whole of which the testatrix has be ! queathed to be equally divided amongst all her rela lions who can be found, without respect to the nearest lof kindred. About five years sin e, the testatrix be came entitled to £500,000, upon the dentil or her biother, he having died intestate, and she buing Ins only next ol kin. It is a most extraordinary fact, that notwithstanding the immense wealth of the deceased Indy, he habits were very petuious ; and, as proof of it, it is only necessary to mention one fact. One dark evening she ( had occasion to go up stairs, but would not even light a candle, and, in conscqucnce'of her ad | vanced age, (nearly eighty) she slip|*d down and broke > her leg. which accident ultimately caused her death. The amount of probate duty alone wili amount to a princely fortune, and the supposed weal'hiest spinster tttlhe wlrld (Miss Durdett Conil-) was net entitled ‘to that appellation until the present time. There is every reason to hi lieve that the property of the dcccas | ed is the largest ever proved in Doctors’ Commons. Louilon Vuptr. DOMESTIC. WESTERN 1 AND ATLANTIC RAIL ROAD. lii-griiding the policy of Internal Improvement adop ted m Ireorgia.and the advantages we possess in geo graphical position for its prosecution, it must be con ceded that we have the strongest argument , deduci blc from experience and analogy to anticipate giejt re suits. The works of improvement in the Sffa'e of Ne.v-York, produce annually u nett income of more lima s million of dollars. We have an advantage ill nur genial climate over the Northern States which is no small consideration, because our mil roads can lie i constructed ami kept in repair for about SSOOO per mile less than llieiis ; tile expense of precautions ne cessary to guard against the effects ot frost and of re pairing the injury it causes by displacing the super. ! structure of roads being fairly estimated at that sum. We shall moreover be enabled to continue active bu siness throughout the whole year. This important consideration remains to lie urged, viz. that Savannah is at a shorter distance from the mi ulli of the Ohio, the centre of trade of the Mississippi valley, (and lo this point our systorn of Improvement is aimed) Hum any other sea port on the Atlantic coast. Our line of rail road traverses our own Cherokee country, which has hitherto been exeluded from any hut u tedious end expensive access to the markets. I s soil and climate are admirably adopted to the culture of gram and grasses. Its mineral wealth (we w ill not speak of gold—hut of a material fai more valuable to the country — Iron ) is inexhaustible. In a single county and within a distance of five miles from tbe rail toad there is enough ore and of the host kind (the red hermitage) to supply the world for centuries. Had there not been an ulterior and more important object in view, the enlerprize might well have terminated here. Tbe resources of tlut beautiful district dr.-tin. ed to become the Garden and Grauerv of Georgia have lain doimant, but the magic wand ot Internal Improve ment is about to touch and vivify the sleeper—and like a young giant it will arise and put forth its en ergies. After having rega-did the probable results of our rail road system, let us examine tbe means at our com mand for its accomplishment. The Central Kail Road is under able management; the resoutces of tlie Com pany are ample, its speedy completion is as certain as • o-morrow's sunrise. Tue Monroe Kail Road has struggled manfully against nil the adverse circumstan ces which have encompassed il with such a spirit and energy, that public confidence in it has already reach ed a point to ensure its support. The State Road is our tliird stride towards the goal—on this $1,800,000 have beer, expended. Now for tho means of compe tition: These are based upon the credit of the State, which, alas! urged by mischievious legislation, and miserable linanciercing. or rather no financiering has I been pushed on the down-hill road, till the last legis lature extended its timely aiding hand and arrested its downfall. They passdd the following salutary laws : They repealed the Central Bjnk law of ‘3o—thus clipping its wings to prevent its flying again into the regions of mischief and absurdity: They icnacted a revenue bill, ample in its provisions for meeting the expenses of the government; They appropriated a sufficient sum to pay the interest of out small debt and to create a sinking fund : They provided for tin payment of our long neglected debts in New York anJ London, (our great money markets.) Thus have they evinced their determination to keep faith w ith the cred itors of the Staje. The dawn of a bright day of prosperity is break ing upon us; aud if Georgia is tiue to herself, she will soon reach the high station which her immense resources enable her lo occupy, and to which her des tiny points. Boston and Worcester liail Road Company. —By an abstract from the Superindent’s weekly reports, it appear! that the receipts for passengers and freights or. the Boston and Worcester Kail Koad were for 1836 {175.200 79 1837 194,288 62 1838 190,562 70 1839 216,12983 1840 254,758 67 When the Western Kail Road is completed to Al bany, the Boston and Worcestor will probably Iw the most productive Rail Road in the country. — Baltimore American. Rail-roads. —There are 3,319 miles of railroad con structed and in use in the United States, constructed at a cost of about eighty-six millions of dollars, and yielding an average revenue of about five and half per cent- 1802 miles more arc in progress of completion ; and the whole number of miles projected, including finished and unfinished routes examined is nearly ten thousand. FLORIDA—A TOUCHING SCENE. We have just read an account of the cruel murder, by a party of Indians, of Mrs. Montgomery, wife of Lieut Montgomery, of the Army. Contrary to in structions from the war department, and in opposition to positive orders, issued by the commanding general, forbidding any escort being sent from post to post, under thirty men, a wagon was despatched from Fort Micanopy to Fort Wacihoota with only eleven moun ted infantry under command of Lieuts. S'hcrwood and Hopson. As the morning was fine, Mrs. Montgomery rode out with them —About an hour after tiieir depart ure, sonic of the horses returned to Fort Micanopy without tiieir riders, and shortly afiertwo soldiers rode tip aud announced that the party had been attacked, and several soldiers killed The garrison immediately sallied out, and within 3 miles of the fort found the Mending corpse of Mrs. Montgomery, with a soldier still breathing, lying by her, with just strength to say to her agonized husband, who threw himself on the ground by his wife’g bleeding hoilv—“ Lieutenant, I fought for your wife as long as I could.”—Lieutenant Sherwood was well mounted, and might, it is reported, have escaped, but would not ahan.on his fair charge. This barbarous act, it is believeJ was committed by a band of the cruel and blood-thirsty Mikasuckies. The frontier posts in Florida are not fit places for the residence of ladies. The same reason which ren ders il improper for them to Ire nn board of ships of war, might he urged against their l>eing allowed Is ac company tlieii husbands lo those posts of danger. Of ficers ought to be left to act free in moments of emer gency, without the uneasiness of having to protect helpless women and children. This unfortunate lady had been only three weeks in Florida, and hut lately married.— Globe. From Ihe St. Augustine Herald. To the politeness of Lieut. Col. Gate-, lid Artillery, we are indebted b>r the following important report Major Childs will he remembered in Florida for the perseverance and energy which so happily resulted in tile capture of the Indians that we announce to-day. FORT PIERCE, Fla., } Jaunty 15/A, 1811 y Si a :—I have the honor to report that I arrived at this post with a rcinfu cement of A. and F. companies of the 8d Ait’y on the 20th ultimo. Learning that Indians had been seen at Gilbert’s Bar, I immediately tilted out six boats with thirty five men, and on the 23,1, at night, left for Gilberts Bar, and from thence to Jupiter Inlet, searching the shores during the night for Indian fires, and lying concealed during the day. at certain points whcie it was most probable Indians would pass. j Having failed in discovering Indians by scouting ] nights, and bring satisfied by a stay of neaily two days ! in the water near Jupiter, that Indians no longer even I visited the vicinity, I closely examined the coast and ’ main land on my return, und am confident that the 1 Indians seen a f Gilbert’s Bar came from Saint Lucie j On my regaining this post, I forthwith made prepa ration for a morp extended scout to the North, for the purpose of routing the Indians supposed to be in the vicinity of Cape Carnaveral and Merritt’s Island, and on the 4tli inst. started with 42 men in seven boats ac companied by Lieu's, Taylor, Steptoc, and Van Vliet, together with Asst. Surgeon Simons, who promptly volunteered for duty in the line, as wall as to act in his official capacity, piloted by Messrs. Athloek and Bay ard, both of whom were of essential service. On the 2d day, discovered a large field on the coast side, and opposite the southern end of Merritt’s Island, culfivaled last year, and preparations node for another crop the coining spring. Here I took passage between theroist and island, wholly unknown to any one on board, examining the shore where a landing could be effected williou 1 discovering any signs ot Indians until the 4th day, when we cone upon a ramp of several palmetto houses and one board house situated in a hammock, several miles to the North of the cape, and lields under cultivation to the amount of seven acres, a large crib of several hundred pumpkins, signs of a horse, and evidently an inhabited camp within a week, and the residence of a large party for mjiiv years. I burned the buildings, destroyed the vegetables, and proceeded up the coast uOoul 3 iniiea, wueii i came to another lately inhibited camp, and signs of cultivation and the samo horse track, seen the day before, and the signs judged to be from live to sit days old. On the 6th morn ng soon after starting, rowing with muffled oars and a fog close to the shore, discovered two Calioes in a creek leading into tin Island at the head of Mer ritt's Island, landed, and finding a trail pursued it for half* mile ; when we suprised a ramp, capturing an Indian woman and child, a negro by the name ol Fri day, bis w ife and two children ; lie says he belongs to Matty Dell, Esq. and was taken with his family some lour years since between Bl ick Creek and Newmans ville. From the negro I learned that I was on the trail of the parly whose village 1 had destroyed iltc day before —that tney had lieeu gone fiw or si* days, part ofthem by land and pait of them by water, on a fishing excur sion to Mosquito Lagoon or to the G.iuulie (iround and Orange (droves in the Big Swamp, Having de stroyed a quantity of corn and vegetables at this place, [procecthd on and aimed ut the H.iulover util) o'clock at night, discovered no signs of Indians until 2 o’clock in the morning, when the lior-e whose signs we had seen for tlio last three days, came to the place where we lay concealed. Having secured him, I took his trail at day light with a | aity of 31 soldiers, leav ing Lieut, t in Vriet and 11 men to guard the prison ers and hosts. At 9 o'clock we came upon a camp ol 31 men, women and children, just embarking to return to their late residence. They took to the water with as many of their boat. as they could easily reai h. We followed, some wading, others in canoes which had been left and finally succeeded in capturing all their boats l ot one, not, however, without a stout resistance by one lioat pursued by Lieut. Taylor, and two sol diers ; one warrior keeping up a steady fire, while the other, with the women, propelled the boat; the war riors were at last shot, and in the course of two hours we found ourselves in possession of 7 boats, 24 prison eis, 2 dead warriors, and 1 woman and child acciden tally killed. The piisoneis were 3 warriors, 2 hoys, 12 and 15 years of age, 7 women, and 12 children. Learning from Negro Friday, that at a creek lead ing nto the ikt. Johns, about 10 miles from Indian ■ Liver, and 7 from Fort McNeil, resided three warriors, two women ami two children, I determined to visit llioin ; and on the 7ih day dropned down about 7 miles 1 from the Haulover and to the southern termination of ■ the Dig fSwanip, and at 12 M despatched Ids. Taylor and \ an Viet with 20 men, and Friday for a guide. ; At 2 o’clock A. M Lieut. Taylor returned with two womed and two children prisoners, leaving one dead w.irrioi on the field, destroying two splendid canoes, ■ and burning their camp—having marched through swamps and ponds upwards of 20 miles. I could ham [ of no other party of Indians, and my boats being en ! enmbered w ith prisoners, and the men exhausted Irom ■ excessive labor, I determined to return, and ai rived ut | this post fast evening after an absence of ten days-- | having rowed ujmaids ol 250 miles, at and scouted on land 50 more. To attempt to speak of individual officers and sol d ers, when all lent the entire energies of ilioir minds and bodies to thesurcessful accomplishment ol the ob i ,cct in view, would be invidious. Each and every individual endure i privations and fatigue without u murmur, worthy of a more glorious cause and more lasting honor. recapitulation. Warriors. Women. Children. Total. Killed, 3 1 15 Prisoners, 3 10 17 30 Negro man, 11 2 4 Aggregate, 39 Captured, two 4 oared boats and 8 canoes Amongst the prisoners I find toe wife and child of a brother of Co-a-roo-clieo, and a boy 12 years of age who is his brother in-law, they were on a party of pleasuie to the cainp of these Indians, ‘The husband of the above named woman was hadly wounded in the hack, but escaped in the hushes. Two warriors be longing to the Capo party, and one negro belonging to Mr. Foriester of St. Augustine, escaped in a canoe. I have, however, as prisoners the father of one, and the wife of the oilier warrior. THOMAS CHILDS, Major U. S. A., Commanding. To Col. W, Oims, Commd’g, Atlantic Distiiet, St. Augustine, Fla. On the 7th inst. G.-n. I’ead captured 3 squaws, one Indian lad, and a warrior, and two negro boys, near the Suwannee. The warrior, though chained, and his hands lied, eg caped in the night, w hile his guard was asleep, and by giving alarm to ihe neighboring camps has, we fear, fi ustrated the object of the expedition. Col. Harney possesses the only “ patent right” for securing the Indians—he dees not tie them by the legs and by the neck. — lbid. Col. Dancy was at Fort Franke Brooke on the 13th with his command—all well and in good spirits. It was intended to direct their course homewards in about ten days—scouting the country as they return. — Ibid. From the Savannah Republican, Jan. 23. I idiuns killed by Georgia Volunteers. —We are happy to lav before our readers the following interest ing letter from a correspondent. Thadib’s Hill, Ga, Jan, 19, IS4I. Gentleman : As every incident having even a re mote or culla'ernal influence in bringing to a speeJy ; and successful issue this most unp opitious Florida eonte-t, must he regarded with interest, I take pleasure in communicating to you the fallowing intelligence : On or about the 12th in.-t, while Capt. Jernigan of the Georgia Troops, with a small detachment ol bis company were scouting betwcei Furrs Munite and Taylor, ten or fifteen miles south of the Okef mokee, they discovered a small Indian camp lire on the bor ler of a swamp which appeared to have been very recently left hy the Indians. On fu thcr examination their trail was lound leading into the swamp. Gant. J. leaving their horses in charge of a few men, entered with from six to ten men on Ihe trail The parly in pursuit travelled through mud and wat r, from two to three feet deep a great portion of the distance, until they had penetrated three or four miles, when sudden ly an Indian warrior sprang up within a few paces of the Capt. and leading men and levelled his rifle at the foremost—happily his rifle missed (ire! Not so with the nro'c fortunate volunteer, the crack of whose title a moment after told the fate for this Indian. At this juncture a large muscular savage show-id himself in j hostile altitude near at hand, when he and Capt. Jor | nigan levelled their rifles at each other. Here again | the dexterity of the white man was dcstin and to prevail , against the savage. Jernigan tiled and the Indian I fell mortally wounded, but still attempting to rise ; the t Capt. mounted him with his knife and soon ended the struggle. Still a third Indian (believed to be tire last | of tire party) was now seen fired on, wounded, but es- I fected hts escape. The tw i scalps with two rifles and pouches a few ! dollars in silver (f >und in one of the pouches,) arid a handsome bovvie knife, were brought in as trophies. They w-cte nrored also w ith bows and and were well supplied with ammunition. It is here thought that they w ere spies, sent up to ascertain what openings existed for another Indian adventure. An honorable example. —The following we find in the Mayesvi'le IDgle. It is related of Mr. Craddock, a member of the Kentucky Senate ftom the counties of Hardin and Meade, who had been making a speecli on the Bank <]iicstiou : Sii, said Mr. C. what I have said here to-day has been said in a rough way, and if it iras wounded any I hope he will attribute it to no unkind feelings, but to my want of the polish of education. Sir, your Supcrintendant n Common Schools has said, that there arc many men of family in this Commonwealth, who can neither read nor write, and it is hut too true ; my own marriage bond has my mark to it, and my sou who sits in the other House, wus a stout hoy when I learned to read.” •• Mr. C. is not only a respectable Senator, but a final lawyer. What more need be said in his praise 1” CLINGING TO THE SPOILS. The last Globe contain r a long list of appointment* madehy the President, to ta've eft,.- -duffer \th of March/ This certainly is a Jelicate movement on the putt of the Great D< f -ated. When Mr A Inns was President, he made a few appointments to actual vacancies, du ring the list session ol his term, and the Jackson ma jority in the Senate, ol which Mr, Van Huron was one, forthwith laid them upon the table, to await ihc acces sion ol Gen, Jackson. The sentiment then prevailing was, that after Mr. Adams knew he was defeated. Its ough not lor a mom ni to lime though; of exercising the appointing power in a single instance. The popu lar will had been pronounced against him—and he lisd no rights remaining—it was indecent and unbecoming \ in him to supply vacancies actually existing. Wc now have a characteristic commentary upon this doctrine in the present conduct of the expiring tac tion. Van takes it upon himself, in contempt of his own professions, to till not only vacancies existing, but all which will occur on the 4ih of March, wlu n bis reign will be over. In this, he, in the estimation of every man of just sentiments and cotreet feeling, trenches upon the authority ofhis successor. Gcn’l i Harrison will owo it tosell-reaped ami to the rights and dignity ofhis office, to annul every appointment thus made, ami to evict the incumbents thus uncourt cously thrust, upon him. | The Boston Atlas, in respect to one of these ap j [-ointments, thus speaks:— Bichmond Wh\g. From Ih li iston Aft is. Mr. Fun B ire l practices in his own ease irhal he condemned in the c-isc of Mr. Adams. We learn from Washington that the - resident has nominated Jonas L. Sbhy, F.-sq. lor re-appointment as U. S. Marshal for this district, from and alter thi 4th of March next, when the commission which lie now holds will expire. We are somewhat surprised at this intelligence. This ad of Mr. Van Burcn is a direct interference with the rights and powers i t the new I’lesidenl. It is, besides a piece of impudence, for w hich lie deserves and for which he cannot tail to receive, severe animadversion. There is, likewise such a thing as consistency, which honorable men, amL men of true principle, always have regard to, but for which Mr. Van Boren and his party do not apjiear in the present case, to have the sliulitcst. ll wo icmi lii- Iter correctly, Mr. Van li ire i was a member ol me Senate during the last two yea's of the adininist ation of John Quincy Adonis, and one of the most hitter and uncompromising opponents ot all his mcasu res. With -i vie.v arid for the purpose, of enabling Gen. Jackson to provide for the numerous office seekers that looked to Washington, every important n miina ion i made by Mr. Adams to the Senate, for the last two i years of tiis administration, was laid upon the table ! by Mr. Vun liaren und his pa'ty friends, in order that, upon tin- a -cession oTGen. Jackson to power, the places might all he filled with good Jackson and \ an i Burcn men, without the disagreeable and painful ne cessity of m iking r.-mdVals. Flirie was, wc believe, but one nomination of any importance, confirmed by 1 the Senate during the last session ol the administration ’ of Mr. Adams, and that was the nomination of Joseph Hopkinson to be district Judge for the i astern District ; of the Stale ot Pennsylvania. Judge 11. was saved from the general w.eck hy the interposition of Mr. | Louis McLunt ol Delaware, an ardent Federalist, and as ardent a friend of General Jackson and Mr Van Burcn, who promised as a compensation for that ap- I pointment, to secure to General Jackson tlu- powerlul pen of Mi. Robert Walsh in the columns of the Phila delphia National G iz.-Ue. All other nominations — nominations to fill vacancies vv Inch hail existed for more than a year, and among which was itialot the highly distinguished Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Critten den) to ihc bench of the United States Supreme Court all these vveie laid upon the table, hy a deliberate and solemn v tc of the A an Burcn party, and after a most spirited debate, for the so'c purpose of enabling President Jackson to withdraw than immediately upon his entrance into office ! No sooner hail he crossed the threshold of the Wiiite House than he did as was exj eoted. The nominations sent hy Mr, Adams were all reed ed, and nominations es his own pa.ty friends were substituted hy Gen. Jackson, which were confirmed without hesitation. Such was the doctrine ami such was the practice of Mr. Van Boren in 1818, when he came into [tower. As he goes out of office, lie decides upon a different course of proceeding. Having the command of the Senate, he determines upon filling, ht anticipation, every office which becomes vacant when General Har rison lakes the official oath, and he does this sorely to compel General Harrison to take the responsibility of making removals. We do not bring forwald the case of Mr. Siblev from any desite to be instrument 1 in procuring his ejectment from office, but in order to show w hat Mr. Van Boren is doing, and what he will continue to do, to embarrass the new administration. “They who sow the wind, may reap the wbirl- BALTIMORE, JAN. 1C The faith of S ale*. —ln ihe •Pen ile of Pennsylva nia, on Thursday. Mr. Heed, ot Philadelphia, reported a bi:l to provide fora loan, ol $800.00;) at six percent, upon certificates of stock rcioibursihle in five years. The loan is intended to meet the payment of'interest on the state debt, falling due on the first of February , nex*. It is gratifying to observe the healthy tone of feeling which prevails in the legislature of Pennsy Ivania, in regard to the common duty of her sons and lawgivers, of preserving inviolate the “laith of the JState.” Some are for selling her hank stocks, and others fin a tempo rary loan, as more politic during the existing depres sion ; but all are for providing the means, by one mode j or another, to meet the pecuniary engagements of the I State. This is as it should be: And be does lasting I injury to state and to individual character and credit, I and a wrong to his own lame, for which time may scarcely ato e or apply the antidote, who “ palters in a double sense” with thesancity of State obligations. Come what may, anil when it may, the plighted faith of States, as of individuals must be preserved, at all cost and hazard. Dot there is in fact neither cost nor haz ard. Comparatively speaking, in such a course—beemtse from the hegining of the world, to this sixteenth Jan uary, 1841, honesty is the bes*. policy— Patriot. PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 15. Renrnptiun. —Yesterday morning, at an -a ly hour, numerous persons vveie seen gathering in front of the United States Bank, and at the hour of opening, these visiters were admitted into the banking room where they found not merely a single teller, but divers clerks, well stationed, und well provided to receive the notes and pay them in specie The demands were constant, but chiefly in small sums, so that the tiiaitr of specie hy such mrans was uot very considerable, though probably the demands ot some institutions were larger; but they were large and small, all promptly responded to; so that those who came with dnuh'luj faces went away with smiles. A great number of those who now demand specie, do it probably fiom a misapprehension of ih-’ value of the notes, thinking that that necessarily follows the price of the stock. Most of the city banks yesterday paid out their ow n notes, some of them new and very handsome. Proha- - bly for a few days these will be returned for specie : ‘ as the small hills will now circulate but little, there is ‘ a natural demand fur silver to supply their place, and | this demand must he supplied from the banks. The Ktnull notes w ith which our city has been sup plied from various sourtes, are now icing gathered up hy the agents of the banks or institutions by which they were issued, and will be returned for other kind of money.— U. S. Gazette. As Prgsidcrit Von Burcn professes to he an ardent admirer of Mr. Jefferson, we recommend to his con sideration the following remarks of his prototype : •* I can say w ith truth,” says Mr. Jefferson, “ that one act of Mr. Adam’* life, and one only, ever gave me a mo ment’s personal displeasure, I did consider his lasi appointments la office ns personally unkind. They were from among my most ardent political enemies, from wlmm no fiithlul co-operation could ever be ex pected ; and laid me under the embarrassment of ac ting through men whose virtues wcr. to defeat mine, nr lu encounter the odium of putting others in their places. It seems but common justice to leave succes sor free to act by instruments of his own choice.” I’ll is seems to be pretty conclusive authority for those who in knowledge Mr. Jeflerson as the personification of genuine democracy, and who pr ife-s to he govern ed hy his principles und maxims.— Conn. Courant. General Soltmifics. — In the Parisian account of the funeral solemities of Napoleon. it is stated that the jieople grew weary of aw siting the approach of the cor tege, ami formed themselves into groups and danced. GEORGIA AND MAINE. The Georgia papers say, that Gov. I r Donald has signed >ll the bills passed by the Legislature eveem some five or six, among which is the quarantine Bin relating to vessels coming from Maine. It is inferred from this circumstance, that his Excellency intends to veto it. It is well that the Governor belongs to t! e modern Democratic Republican •‘■dale Rights’ party—else h e had received a severe castigation from that just, liberal upright man, and vehement anti- aholitinnif. ■ •yho con duct:’ the Richmond Enquirer. Th ‘MM the strongest ever adopted against the Abolitionists, was passed by a Whig Legislature—heretofore accused of being leagued with the fanatics. This fact was kept out ol’ view bv the Enquirer—and the passage of the bill w a9 bailed ns a soil of Van Burcn triumph. But in time it comes to be known that the Feds in the Legislature o| posed it, and now the Federal Governoi puts his veto upon it ! Cannot Ritchie, in t his new aspeet of the case, find matter for anew und lofty eulogy upon his Excellency I Wlut reeks consistency I—liieh mond IYh ‘g. Senator Buchanan, on his way to Washington I believe at Baltimore, fell in with a plain spoken Irish man, who thus addressed him—•• Is not your name Buchanan t” “ My name is Buchanan,” replied the Senator. •‘Jamie Buchanan it is,” said Pul. “ James Buchanan,” said the bon. gentleman, smil ing, ami extending his band. “ Well, Jamie Buchanan” sard I'at, “ vvid ycr blair eye, yor Sub-Treasury, und yei low wages, ye miv go to the ilivil wid y c.” M-. Tauro’s Donation tot’ Monument Fund. It gives us pleasure to state that Judah Tauro, Esq. of New Orleans, has made a contribution ol Ten Thou* sand Dollars to the Fund foi completing the Bunker- H ill Monument—a draft for that aim unt having been leceived hy the Treasurer of the Corporation, it may be gratifying to some of oui readers to know that this l liberal contributor is, emphatically, n “ Boston Hoy.” He was not. indeed, bom in Boston, but in Newport, K- I. Having lo.t bis parents when very young, he was taken into the family r-fliis uncle, Judah Haves —a genii man of high Handing, and of gnat respec tability in Boston, fifty years ago, ns i well known to many olour cider fellow-citizens. Mr. Tauro received his commercial education in the counting Louse of Mr. Haves, and went to New Orleans about the year 1801) and commenced business as a ill reliant. Louisiana it will lie recollected, wa- then a foreign State, and N' Orleans a Spanish city. He has reside there from that time to the present, and so imlef„iigal>le has been bis industry ami attention to business, tlmt h<7 has never been know n to go w ithout the bounds of the city, ex opt (iuring the invasion of the State by the British in 1814, on which occasion lie took an active [•art in op osing the enemy, and r reived a dangerous wound, which confined him to his lad and rlinniht-r for twelve inonlhs, ami from the effect* of which he lias not, to this day, lecavered. Mr. Tauro is r I J, v - i-h decent, was brought up in tl al persuasion, and conscientiously lives in ihe liilli ot bis uiucslois ; yet tiler - are f vv men in any country, who have done more by acts ol liberality, to sustain and l-utld up Christian church s. Ilis simple and unostentatious mode of life is remarkable lie is retiring in bis i.abitr and man ners. but a hinder man and a truer friend does not ex ist oil tile earth. Long may h - live to cn| y the re spect othis |. How-citizen*, and to lie a witness of tic happiness which hi- genvrous disposition in.s eri ali and Bust n Courier. Ucsumption n Pennsylvania. —The Lancaster O and Guard says, that resumption dav pa-.-cJ oil Willi iriile or no excitement, rhe aggr eg tie demand lor specie. . in Ihe three hanks in that county, contain ng a po[ u laiion ot eighty thousand, did no! exceed ; 2,700. A letter from Cincinnati to the B.ihimoe Patriot states that about 100 000 hogs have hce-i packed in tout city and iieic Manhood—they were puichascd at a price averaging ah- tit $4 per hundred. Some fears are enleitainvd that the pork merchants will not do as well this, as :o former years.— Charleston Courier. From the Sew York Herald. Singular S, auction aid Suicide in Buffalo. — One of the most remarkable suicides that ever eccuircd in this era of suicide, is one noticed briefly in the pspe's a few days since, of a young lady in Buffalo. Me have the particulars from a co respondent. She was the daughter of a substantial and respec table cilizt-u of tlrul place, and moved in good society, ot which she was nil the seluecr blasted her fa ne, an ornament. She was about seventeen, of a fine figure, and some preteuti ms to beauty , of a lively and pii-.is ing disposi.iou—and ns the sequel lias shown, of sirt ng passions, -and great strength of character. effie be came a victim to the arts of a man, well known in the financial world, by his count clion with a late banking house in Canada, winch had its blanches in L’ufialo ami Ibis city. The untortunato girl, having become eneientc, elo ped with him from Buffalo, and they were on their way to New York, when they wc-ro o.eit.il.cn hy her friends, and she taken back to her borne Unalde to endure tlie disgrace of the exposure consequent, upon this movement, and excluded from the society i.i which she bad been accustomed to move, she resolved to put end to tier existence, and selected poison by ar senic as the means ; and for the scene, a fashionable party, at the house of her married sister, to which.she had been given to understand, under the circumstances, she could receive no invitation. She took the poison, a dose snffici nt to defy ail at tempts to save her, and proceeded to dress for the par ty. “ I shall die in the midst of them,” she said, as she dressed. Its terrible cficcls commenced sooner, however, than she expected ; and while attiring her self wi h unu.-ual elegance, sin l was seized witli lhe agonies of death. Refusing all assistance, she died, lamenting only that she had failed to rcuch the [aity, anil die, as she had purposed,in the scene of social en joyment, from which the col sequences of her lolly had excluded her, arid among those, whose cold scorn had driven her to despair, madness, and self destruc tion : a victim to her ow n passions, the v illany of a base wretch, am! the customs of society, which while the most guilty esca;re almost unstatcl ci, vi.-it U{ •ou tlie w. ak, and unfortunate, it severest vengeance. Correspondence of the Baltimore Patri t. llxtoxTowx, I’a„ Jan. Bth, 1810. Office of tire Pennsylvania Democrat. 5 Ourtown is now the theatre of g-eot excitement and commotion, growing out of the arrest of Ur. John F. Braddec, of this place, and three of his susp isetl con federates, w ho are charged with robbing the mail. Suspicion fell upon Mr. Gorman, the driver of the mail stage, who was arrested at the instance ol Mr. Pill, a special agent of the Poatoflire Department, lie (Gorman s ion confessed the crime, and implicated Dr Brad-lee, his clerk, Piuncll, and a person by the name Strayer, who were severally arrested last evening about’ five o'clock. A guard was placed over the bouse and out buildings of Braddec through the night ; and in the morning search was made which resulted in find ing no less titan nine mail bags, labelled “New \ork,’ which had been concealed in the bottom of the pri’ V —further search was made—and a sum exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars was found in the hay mow—besides sundry apparatus for coining money—pistols, travell ing t links, ditto pieces. ‘J’hey are nil committed in default of giving hail, which was placed ut a high a nmunt. On the examination, Mr. Pitt pave it ns his opinion that the sum extracted at this place, in cash and drafts must exceed one hundred thousand dollars. Great joy reigns here among nil honest people, who now believe that ifthe -e men arc found guilty of the offence charged, there will lie a check put upon the dar ing depreda ions upon propetty which have been here tofore committed in this place ami vi-. inity. We un derstand other commitments are contemplated. The Rev. Nathan Bangs, D. D., has been appointed’ Picsider.t of the Weslev.in University, in the place of Dr. Olin, whose ill health, since his return Ironi for eign travel, compels him to resign that office. Southern Recorder. The Mammoth Steer. — We learn from the Philadcl ! phia papers that there is now to be seen in that city a fat steer, pronounced by •• competent judges to lie the J largest, neatest and taliest ever known in this country or upon record.” Ii was raised hy Mr. Shectz, in Berks country, and is to lie slaughtered in a few days, having been purchased bv some f the butchers for the sum of $1,500. Its weight is 3000, and will nrlt 2500 pound*.