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... <vyjU 9 : uie captaincy of the same name, 15000 ; ‘and Rio Grande, 5000; there are other towns in these captaincies of one, two, and three thousand. The remainder of the population j* scattered in villages, farm houses, and planta tions, occupying patches of cultivated lands, sitr roandei by forests and unsubdued tracts. The dimate is salubrious and ‘temperate, the ther mometer rarely rising above the eighty-fourth ile ?ivc ; and the soil, though difficult to bring into ultivation on account of the luxuriance of spon taneous vegetation, yield? in prodigious* abun dance. The pure atmosphere and healthful cli mate give tone and sensibility to the physical or gans of the inhabitants, while nature spreads be fore them a perpetual bajiquet, and unceasingly regales their senses with the mingled beauty of flowers and richness of ripened fruits. Til** provinces of South America were nodoubt remind *d, bv our revolution and subsequent, na tio nl importance, that they were but colonies, though they might be independent and powerful states; yet the Pejmambucans, with the other in habitants of Bra7.il, lived on in contented and in glorious loyalty, till Bonaparte drove their sov ereign from his European capital. The news of the prince’s voyage having: preceded him, the governor of Pernambuco fitted out a vessel laden with provisions, to meet the royallleet, and the people testified their lovaltv and joy bv voluntary contributions of all sorts of delicate refreshments with which to welcome their sovereign. On his arrival and establishment at Rio Janeiro, they that the era of the glory and happiness of tho Bra7.ili.ihs, had commenced. These hopes were disappointed, as was to be expected, but the disappointment was hot sudden, and produced little sensation among the people. They antici pated some great and glorious good, they hardlv defined to themselves what, which, when they failed to realise, they felt rather the regret of parting with a pleasing illusion, than resentment at having sustained a serious wrong. They have never, like us, been in the habit of coming over their grievances till they had learned them bv note, or reiterating remonstrances and demand ing with respectful, but bold and per severing importunity. iJit though they were not Versed in the a-ts of resisting and controlling the adm : ui if ration of government, and had not made a m iltit.ide of political maxims a part of their ha bitual system of acting and thinking, still tlvey were not regardless of the aTairs of government, Ur oncojisciols that they had personal rights and interests. The moral and political commotions, tha* have been agitating society, produced some *e nation in the p.>-t tgee colonies ; aud the iiw cceaiingand steady ‘plendour of reason, as well as toe fitful and faring coruscations of the new Shilosoohv, emi Rod faint glimmerings into that Htant region f)T mental obscurity. Tjiiejr hid been taugm by in*<rco*irse with ftugfishnien and Americans, that kings were at least, made as Y \ * ; sixth, arrest of Domin- ..jaruns; a distinguished merchant. But to prevent alarm, the officer was ordered to direct Martinis *o wait upon the governor. He readily attended the messenger through the streets, and over the bridge that separates the different parts of the town, till they came to the common gaol, when he was informed that he was a prisoner, and was put into confinement. Three military officers were in the meantime arrested,one of whom, by name of Domingos Theotorio Jorge, understand ing the cause of the arrest, exclaimed against the injustice and tyranny of the proceeding, as he was passing through the streets to the place of his confinement, and called upon the citizens to take up arms. It was now about one o’clock, when another officer went to the quarters of the soldiers, to arrest a captain by the name of Joze de Barrosj Lima, who drew his sword and stabbed the offi cer, and being seconded by his son in law, they killed him on the spot. Intelligence of this trans action being carried to the governor, another of his officers, coveting the glory of bringing rebels to punishment, offered his services to go and fetch Banos. The governor would have dissuaded him* but he persisted, and was accordingly dispatched on the commission. But he volunteered his ser vices in an unfortunate enterprise, for the scene that had just been acted, and the address and ap peals of Barros and his son ih law, had wrought up the soldiers, about two hundred in number, to the highest pitch of enthusiasm and desperation, so that on coming to their quarters, he found them under a n ras and was saluted with the cries of liberty , Jong live Joze de Barros Lima, long • live onr country : and as soon as the soliders saw him, they exclaimed another tyrant, there is our enemy, and immediately discharged their pieces at him, and he was perforated by so many balls, that “ his body was,” to use the narrator’s ex pression, “ like a sieve.” This had passed in a short space of time, it being now about 2 o’clock, when Pedro de Bilva Pedroza,’ a captain of artillery, put himself, at the head of the soldiers, and led them towards” the prison, which they forced, and set Martins, whom we have before mentioned, and about 900 other prisoners, debtors, &c. at liberty. Martins harangued the soldiers, demanded aim s for the prisoners, and called upon the citizens toespoqse the cause of their country. He was answered with shouts of enthusiasm and applause. A bo dy of fire hundred was instantly formed, who, with Peilrozaaml Martins at their head, proceed ed directly to the treasury, where the marshal was already stationed with about four hundred militia hastily assembled, they hardly knew for what cause. Both parties seemed lobe fully sen sible of the importance of the four millions of dol lars dnnosited there, either in promoting or ob structing a revolution. * They proposed to the Marshal the alternative of surrendering, with the promise of departing in safety to the fort, or re sisting without the hope of quarter. He chose the former, and very prudently, as appears from „dV. But no omim.ted, ex some twelve or ,n these exclama eventh, the governor, i ‘ll him, took Ins depar w;, be> n g guarded by the . bor, and till he was beyond . and insult. Bands of music r in the streets, as signal of j>u (jeace. iat\y on the eighth, the people were assem jled in the court of the treasury, to hear and ap- Firove a paper, signed by thirty or forty of their cutlers, in which Jacio Ribeiro Pessoa, a priest; Mr. Martins, already mentioned a merchant; Domingos Theotorio Jorge, a ‘military officer, and one of those arrested ; a land holder, who had al so been a colonel of militia; and Joze Luiz de Memlonca, a lawyer, were proposed as the mem bers of a provisional government. The people elected them by acclamation, after the manner of the French revolution. During all this time and a few following days, patriots were flocking into the town from every direction, armed, some with guns and others with pikes, or whatever other rude weapon they could hastily fabricate or procure. But their be iug no service for them to perform, they return ed peaceably to their homes. Many of the. priests took up arms, and offered their services to the go vernment. l'he students of the college of Olinda were formed into a military company, for the practice of martial exercises. Some of the plan ters offered all their horses to mount the cavalry that was forming, and presented great supplies of provisions for the. use of the army. The vicar of the Cape of St. Augustine, a town on the coast eighteen miles south of Pernambuco, came into the hall where the new government was sitting, on the Sunday morning after the revolution, which took place an Thursday, and offered to to make them a present of all his own property, and told them, that if the public exigencies re quired it, the silver candlesticks of his church should be. at their service. In the afternoon of the same day he brought in a slave, the Only one of which he was master, whom he declared free, that he might enter the public service as a soldier, declaring at the same time, that he himself should be ever ready to die by the side of his manumit ted slave, fighting in the cause of liberty. Intelligence was soon received that the capt aincies of Paraiba and Rio Grande of the North, had followed the example of Pernambuco. At Paraiba the women offered to the new govern ment all their jewels and trinkets, and even desired to bear arms by the side of their husbands and brothers, and prove themselves worthv de scendants of the heroes who drove the Dutch from Paraiba in IG4O. On the ninth, the new government published a proclamation, calculated to quiet the apprehen sion of the Europeans, and unite them in tlie pat riotic cause. This proclamation was the “"first thing ever printed at Pernambuco. It was fortunate for the patriots, that about 2 years ago, a Mr. Cathauho had imported a printing press into Pernambuco. He had spent the intermediate time and about twelve hundred dollars, in conducting a petition through the ministerial avenues to the throne, and a few days before the revolution, had procured a royal license to print at Pernambuco, sich things as the governor and his council might approve. He had sold the privilege and the press to Mr. Martins, who made a present of the press to the new government. A second publication issued fromtlis press bn the tenth, which was an account of the revolution that had just taken place, and the translated tifle of .vhich is prefixed to this article. This paper is drawn up not without ability; & if. well adapt ed to the circumstances under yhich it was ount to bo somewhat favora as it probably is, still it ap ✓e among them no inconsidera ence, and liberality of views.— ke advantage of circumstances / and address, and to use every nding and multiplying their re whateverbe their talents or cour nt that their limited resources ren dependent on the disposition of the t ‘Brazil. or Wolcott, of Connecticut, experi jit of apoplexy on Wednesday or Tnurs y w last week. Although the attack was at iirst alarming, it passed on, and we understand his friends in this city have received intelligence from him within a dayor two, that he was so well as to be about, and was considered as nearly re covered. /V. F. Daily Jidv. 10 'h inst, Brownsville, (penn.) mine 25- Cufimis robbery.— Some” time since, a horse thief stole ahorse near Steubenville, Ohio, in the following manner :—during the night, he went to a field, adjoining the mansion house, in which were two horses—one a young horse, which was difficult to catch, the other an old one, easily caught. While he was attempting to catch the young horse, the owner awoke, and listening, heard a man say to himself—“ since I can’t cattgl you, I’ll take the old one.” The owner, know ing that with the young horse he could overtake the thief, permitted him to proceed. As sqon af” he was gone, the owner caught t>rts''yfnsfigfiorsf, and went directly, properly armed, in pursuit of the thief. On observing that he was pursued, he left the horse and run into a deserted cabin by the road side. The owner tied his nag, and follow ed the thief into the cabin—who had by this time climbed to the top of the chimney; jumping down, he ran to tne young horse, untied and mounted him, and was clear ofl, before the own er returned from the cabin. A good German Story. —The son of an old farmer, by some chance or other had travelled through several remote countries, and as is not uncommon in such cases, returned home much richer in lies than in knowledge. A few days af ter his arrival, he accompanied his father (a pret ty shrewd old fellow) to a market at some dis tance from the village. It happened that a mas tiff'dog passed that way, which as soon as the young man beheld, “Bless me, father,” cried he, “ this dog p’-ts me in mind of one I saw in my travels, at least as large as the largest of our cart horses.” “ What you tell me,” replied the father, grave ly, “ astonishes me ; but don’t imagine that in this country we are wholly without prodigies; bv and by we shall come to a bridge, which we shali be obliged to pass, and which is much more ex traordinary than the dog of which you have been talking. They say it is the work ot some witch. All I know of it is this, that there is a stone in the middle of it, against which one is sure to stumble, as he passes on, and break a leg at least, if it so happens that he has told a lie in the .course of the day.,’ The youth was a little startled at this strange account “At what aerate you are walking, fa ther ! but to return to the dog—how large did I say ? As your largest horse ?~Nay, for that mat ter, I believe it might be saying a little too much for I recollect it was but 6 months old; but I would” be on my oath that it was as big as a heifer.” Here “the story restedmntil they were a mile or two advanced on their way. The young man was very far from being comfortable. The fatal bridge appears at a distance. “ Hear me, fa ther; indeed the dog we have,been speaking of was very large, but perhaps not quite so large as a heifer ; I am sure, however, it was larger than a calf.” At length they arrived at the foot of the bridge. The son stopped short —“ Ah father,” S3ys he, you cannot be such a simpleton as to believe I have seen a dog of such a size ; tor since I must speak the truth, the dog I met in my travels was about as big as the dog we saw an hour or two ago.” London pa. At Ajaccio, in Corsica, six brigands lately suf fered the punishment of death for their crimes, with a degree of obdurate ferocity which may e qual any thing in the annals of human turpitude. Three of them were brothers, of the age of from twenty to thirty years. When asked, a few hours before their execution, if they would eat some thing—“ We will give you (said the gaoler) what ever you desire.” “Ah well then,” replied they, “ give us the heart of naming one of their enemies ! Ib, • ‘jlicy of the old y between the ns, the plain tt ofhees and mr. it speaks ■normous ex ns the people ulcates upon ty of views, • agriculture t neither the placed, and r functions, ‘.at activity ents in the ening the tdining an five legi sand live ‘tlMdiscipr • ltlwas in - .nty-i offf y (fhis ; k,be e king can that, at a y A'lvort of what ti e interior, continually har eking them off one conquerors, rk, tlmt oi:e of the entirely t blacks, are now of considerable ;ely to be so, if the revoiu-