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OLD SERIES, VOL. LVII, THE. CHROMI’I.E. A. IS rrBU.-HED DAILY, TRI-WEHKLY, AND W BY J. W. W. S. JONHS. ■ zi The Weekly Chronicle & Sen® * IS PUBLISHED AT Three Dollars p«r annum or years, or two subscribers one year for 'Tri-Weekly pap'r. : ‘t Eire Hollars per Daily paper, at Ten Dollars per annum. Cask System. In no case will an order paper be attended to, unless the money ; and in every instance when for which any subscription may be paid, < before the receipt offunds to rem" ,! ' jOHil lion, the paper will l>e discontinued. < P r > , money received at its value in this city - <£trronttU ana Srntin® AIGIST A. ERIDAY MORXI>‘ } , APRIL 14. I savannah Change Bills. ’ B "|| The "real increase in the circulation Script or change bills of the City Cotmc»| Savannah, in this city demands some action on the part of our citizens and to exclude them. They arenm of our Banking institutions, either in ~r oil uepost e. ..fit a.'.Cis It.' "t.” tionable as a ■ ircnlating medium, and i<M| cerely hope.therefore, that oiiieitizens utllM||| to some gen -lai eeterminatiuii to reject together. The Banks ate authorised to ■■ and have issued change bills, which are ed in payment and on deposin' at all the in the city, and we think it is quite time ery friend of a sound currency t>. set his W : against any circulating medium which i. convertible into specie funds in the city-. And notwithstanding, the bills of our own City Coun cil are redeemed promptly' in specie or specie funds whenever demanded, we hope the day is not far distant when the authorities will with draw every dollar of it from circulation. The Bo™VT«EATv;-The Journal of Commerce says :-“We are happy to announce that evidence of an important and conclusive character in regard to the views of the Com missioners «ho negotiated the Treaty of 1783, on the subject of the Northeastern Boundary, has recently been discovered, and will soon be made known to the public. At present we are only at liberty to say that it/W sustains the American ciaim. The question of Boundary being now settled by treaty, it would be of little consequence what views have heretofore exist ed concerning it, had not the British journalists labored to produce erroneous impressions in Europe on the subject. Even now, it appears -• to us o be a matter more of curiosity than of consequence.” The New York Commercial copies the above, and adds:— “According to our understanding of the arrangements on foot, the Journal ol Com merce ought not to have had liberty even to say thus much at present. At least we have had it in in our power for several days to g ive lhe P al “ ticulars of the important discovery referred to, in detail, but have desisted, in pursuance of an understanding, as we had supposed, which was to be observed lor the present allround. We will now merely add, that the discovery has been made among the papers of the Peter A. Jay, whose illustrious father was one of the ne gociators of the treaty of peace in 1782-’B3; and that THE RED LINE maps, so much discussed of late, both in England and the United States, will be shown to be oi no-account. ’ Tut; Border Trouble—Arrest or Chav > n. ~s “ ' fl JUHU Vid-lai, .'V| uty Sheriff ot Woodstock, causes considerable commotion in N. Brunswick. The editor ol the Fredericton Sentinel speaks ot the receipt of a letter which states that Craven was kept at Fish river instead ot being sent to Fredericton ; and that the Queen's writs continue to be served on that side of the St. John, and the inhabitants voted at the last election ; but that it is impor tant tor the peace of the border population that some definite arrangement take place. Another Alleged Defaulter.—Henry R. Schoolcraft was arrested in New A ork on sh urs day in a civil suit instituted against him by the United States, to recover $16,972, the atnountol the alleged defalcation in his capacity of Indian agent in Michigan. The Court ordered him to give bail in $20,000 to abide the issue of the suit. More, TvLEßi.sM.—Mordecai Myers has been appointed, by the President, Collector of the Cus toms at, Savannah, Georgia, vice Jas. Hunter removed. Disgraceful Scene. The Legislative Hall ot Pennsylvania was the theatre of a most disgraceful scene a Jew days since, occasioned by a fight between tw o Locofocos, one a member and the other an edi tor, during the progress of business. And by way of preserving the dignity of the House the worthy Legislators appointed a committee to send for persons and papers. Oh Shame! Shame 1 American Cottons for London. —The Bos ton Journal of Saturday says, Barque Niagara, which cleared to-day for London, takes out 400 bales of cottons of American manufacture. Jacob Shipman.—The mysterious disappear ance of this person excites much speculation in New York. The N. Y. American says: “The money in his possession does not —un- less helhas some funds of which nothing is know® ' here—exceed $30,000. Os thissls,ooo in French gold belonged to the Union Bank oi this city, and was sent on bv Shipmanto be recoined at the Mint. This he exchanged for Treasury Notes and has taken; but in a number ot other cases ’but especially with the house of Beebee & Parshall, who were in the habit of sending small amounts by him, the mint certificates have been regularly relumed, and letters containing money duly forwarded to those whom they were addressed. The brokers ot the city do not, as far as we can hear, suffer by Shipman’s disap pearance, nor is there any serious loss beyond that oi the Unfon Bank. The Bank of Com- merce, it was stated in a morning paper, was a heavy loser. This, we are requested to say, i is incorrect, as the Bank never happened to em ploy Shipman either to transport money or for any other purpose. The story respecting the Bank at America is equally The Madisonian of Monday,publishes, offi cially the ratified treaty made’with the Sac and Fox Indians on the 11th of October last by John Chambers Esq. United States Commission er Bv this treaty the tribes of Sacs and Foxes ..ede to the United States, forever, all the lands west ofthe Mississippi river to which they have any claim or title, or which they have any interest whatever—reserving a right to occupy a portion of the land ceded tor a term of three vears from the time of signing the treaty. In consideration of this cession the United States agree to pav annually to the Sacs and boxes an interest ot five per centum upon the sum ot eight hundred thousand dollars, and to pay their debts mentioned in a schedule annexed to the 1 reaty, amounting to the sum of two hundred and fifty eight thousand, five hundred and sixty-six dol lars and thirty-four cents It is made the duty ot the President ol t.-.e U nited States, as soon after the ratification ot the treaty asmav be convenient, to assign a tract ot land' suitable for Indian purposes, to the Sacs and Foxes for a permanent and perpetual, resi dence tor them and their descendants, which tract of land shall be upon the Missouri river, or its waters. The imports ot sperm and whale oil and whalebone into the United States during the month of March past, according to the M hale men’s Shipping List, amounts to 11 12 barrels Xrrn *>.'*«• barrels whale ml, and 268.029 lbs. hone. Last year the imports ot oil during the same month amounted to 9.296 barrels whale. New Orleans Postmaster.—Gen. J. B Dawson at present one of our Representatives in Congress, has been appointed Postmaster for this citv, and entered upon the discharge of his duties iesterdav. The appointment will be a much more popular onetLan lylercond have been expected to make.—-V O Tropic fl/ tte 11 th inst "■ l J1 ~ J ” "VW 1\ . .Id HWrii hi ffiixoilitlx & ScutltlM* _____ ______ 1 • - ”* , J > Kimball, Elizabeth Rawlins, T J inken’s orphans, flßTCaruthers, John Sikes, jr. Matilda Hatcher, Robert Knight, Thos Grace’s orphans, Harley Attaway, sr. Enoch Rogers, Enoch W Wamble, Ann Bryan, Matthew Burke, James Martin, U Dillard’s orphans, Jas Tindall, sr. Mary W Ledbetter, S W Blount, jr. Jesse P Green, Jeremiah Vinson, Archibald Bell, Adam Wallace, Wright Griffin, Charles Sapp, Henry P Pipkin, Win W Leverett, G Royal’s orphans, Hardy Perry, Abram Boyt, Alex F Harris, J Ressee s orphans, Jas Hines orphans, Jos A Johnson, Matthew E Slain, Wm Warmuek, Josiah H Hatcher, Thos Broxton, John J Skinner, Sumner Sumner, Benj Grubbs, Wm Rawlins, Alex J Linn, George Phillips, Peter Mathis, Math Hall’s orphans, Arthur Royall, John Walton, Sarah M Marsh, Thomas Lane, Wm Poytress, sr. John Heath, sr. Leason Sneed, Amos P Whitehead, Moses Heath, Stephen Murray, LAND LOTTERY OF 1832 DRAWERS IN BURKE COUNTY UNGRANTED. Robert Barrow, Wtn Kee’s orphans, Jefferson Roberts, Jesse Skinner, Geo Tilley’s orphans, James F Godbey, Reuben Duke, Thos S Burke, James Moore, Mary Ann Cook, Sarah Dubose, H Fulgem’s orphans, Juda Garlick, Jacob Collins, Edmund Tabb, Geo F Sheppard, Sumner’s orphans, Henry Byne, Jane &Wm Bryant, James Prescott, Wm AV Davies, Wm AV S Knight, John J Almond, Leverett’s orphans, J Jackson’s orphans, Etheldred Tarver, Hurt’s orphans, L Dunn’s orphans, Chandler’s orphan’s, Uriah Skinner, sr. John Bass, Holland Skinner, AVm H Neyland, Jos Tilly’s orphans, Jesse H Lively, James Roberts, Elizabeth Sumner, C Davis’s orphans, Sarah Dubose, Robert Tuttle, E Drake’s orphans, Thos J Murdoch, John Mingledorf, Celia Stringer, Azariah Cowart, Chandler’s orphans, Bedy Sharp, Moses Cox’s orphans, G Harvey's orphans, Jordon Bell’s orphans, Ann H Dunn, T AV Davis’s orphans, Taylor.’ S Jenkins’s orphans, James Robinson, Gibson AVest, Edmund Pior, Elijah Boyed, Sarah Ann Stephens, Tas Farmer’s orphans, Wesley AV Reese, Benj E Mobley, Elias Sconyers, S Sturges’s orphans, Johnathan Johns, Eliz M Whitehead, W Humphrey’s orphs, James Farmer, John Vaughn, jr. Margaret Lindsay, Benj Brooks’ orphans, J Reddick’s orphans, S Garlick’s orphans. John Owen, Grant fees and commissions for land lots 85. .< o « “ “ gold “ $3. In all cases specie funds. Fee for giving information about value and situation of lots, one Mlar. ' Letters must be post paid. ; WILLIAM 11. PRITCHARD. Prom the Jonesborough Whig. Whig and Democratic Predictions. WHIG PROPHECY. The Hon. Mr. Binney, of the House of Rep resentatives, in the Congressional debates which occurred in 1834, only nine years ago, and in reply to James K. Polk of Tennessee, uttered the following memorable prediction, which, though disregarded then, has since been fulfilled to a letter. . , . . r “It the Secretary’s plan was carried into et fect there would be a hundred banks starting up to take the place of the proscribed United Stales Bank. They would have them shooting out their paper missiles in all directions. would come front the tour quarters of the Un- Again: Mr. McDuffie, of the House of Rep resentatives, at page 27 ot his able report, made on the 13th of April, and thirteen years ago, “If the Bank ot the U. S. were destroyed, and the local institutions left without its res training influence, the currency would almost certainly relapse into a state of unsoundness. The very pressure which the present Bank, in winding up of its concerns, would make upon the local institutions, would compel them eiMcr to curtail their discounts when most needed, or to suspend specie payments. It is not difficult to pre dict which ot these alternatives they would a dopt under the circumstances in which they would be placed. The imperious wants oi a suffering community would call for discounts in language which could not be disregarded.— The public necessities would demand and public opinion wouldsanclum the suspension or al least an evasion, of specie payments." Now we ask the candid reader, if this pre diction has not also been fulfilled, and with an e ractncss, only surpassed by the fulfillment of prophecy in Holy Writ? llasiiot the currency relapsed into a state of unsoundness, since the i Jackson di nasty prostrated the I . W. Bank. Did not th,-. State Banks curtail their discounts when they were most needed. Did they not suspend specie payments again and again . Have not the Locofocos proved to be false pro- phets in predicting that gold and silver would supply the place of Bank issue? And have they not proved to be false prophets in saying that we could get along without a U. S. Bank, and that the State Banks would supply its place. AVe next select Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, and Mr. Clayton, ot Delaware, not as more clearly pre dicting than those already named what was to follow the destruction oithe U. S. Bank, but as more condensed. Mr. Ewing was then a Se nator in Congress, (1834) and has since been President Harrison’s Secretary ofthe Treasury. He said, onthe floor of the Senate: “But this is not all. You sap the morals at the same time you thus rudely snake the prosper ity of the people. Their first resort will be to legislative aid, and RELIEF LAWS follow, or, in other words, laws to prevent the collection ot debts, (tor what Legislature can withstand the appeals ot a whole people suffering under a general visitation!) or, if not that, the creation of a host of banks with fictitious capital, which may seem tor a time to suspend the blow, but will make it fall the heavier at last. And then, instead of the sate and sound currency which we now enjoy, we shall again have a deprecia- ted and worthless mass of trash, which will pass into the hands of the people, and there sink into nothing, leaving them to bear the loss.” Mr Clayton, then as now, an able senator in Congress, held language prophetic and impres sive. He said: “The farmer must again sell his gram to the country merchant for State bank paper at a dis count from ten to twenty or thirty permit m the nearest commercial city, <xc. "Ihe loss of confidence among men, th: total dcrangcinent of I that admirable system °f ClC > u,n S es .' acknowledged to be better than exists m any oth er country on the Globe, overtrading and specul ation on ialsecapit.il in every part Mat rapid flurtralion in the standard of ralue /" r “J”' “d< ichiihAilce the unseen pestilence, vnlhersaUriM ej forts of industry, while the sufferer is in utter tg noranceof the cause of his destruction; bankrupt cies and ruin, at the anticipation ot which the heart sickens, must follow in the long train ot evils which are assuredly before us.' Thus the readci will see, what was M htg Prop hern nine and a dozen years ago, is History i now. And never did the “facts of real lite ’ t more triumphantly demonstrate the. sagacity of i any set of men, than do the existing evils ot the < cjuntry demonstrate the sagacity of these enii- 1 nent Statesmen. Inspiration from on high, i could scarcely have more luminously foretold, t the miserable future, than did the sagacity ot ( these Statesmen foresee and predict the ruinous i tendency' of Gen. Jackson’s war upon a Nation- 1 al Bank. LoCOFOCO PROPHECY VS. AVIIIO PROPAECY. ] We now propose, byway of contrast, to show 1 what contemporaneously was Locofoeo Proph- i ecy! Listen to its great expounder The IDis/i- i ington Globe, which, torso manyyears hascotn- ] manded the confidence of the entire Jackson Van ; Buren Benton Locofoeo party, and which is still the acknowledged organ of that party : I “AVhile every pan of America rejoices- i while even'heart not enslaved to the scrub-ar- < istocraey of the paper system —while every in- I dependent and patriotic citizen exults in the re- i I covery and restoration of the long-lost gold cur- < rency —the West, and all western citizens have j the deepest and greatest cause for proud exulta- ] | tion and manly rejoicing at this propitious < | event. For, ol all America, the West is, the : I part which needed most, and will profit most, I I ironi the circulation of gold. Happily, they < have but few banks in the west, and therefore 1 need gold to carry about and to travel upon. I Happily, again the greatest supply' of gold will < go to the AVest. The emigrants removing to < I that great region, will all carry gold in prefer lence to either silver or paper, for it is lighter : (than silver, and safer than paper. The land of- I Mees will become receptacles and reservoirs ol I told: whence it will lie distributed to the couu- : ■►-ilirougli he Government dfsbursi ments, Through the military’, the surveying, and the In dian departments; and wo to the officer, who, ; having received gold from the Government, shall presume or dare to oiler paper to the sol diers or citizens. Then a great stream of gobi millfiam up the Mississippi J rum New Orleans, and diffuse itself aU ovet the great IFesf. Nearly all gold coinage of the New AVorldwill come to the United States; for, all the coinage of the new Governments of Mexico and South Ameri ca, being the coinage of rebel provinces, cannot go to old Spain, or to any of her dependencies, and, therefore, will come to the United States as its natural and best market. This will fill the West with doubloons BXid. half joes ; and, in eight or nine months from this time, every' substan tial citizen will have a long silken purse, of fine open net work, through the interstices of which the yellow gold will shine and glitter. Then travellers will be free from the pestilence oi ragged, filthy, and counterfeit notes. Every substantial man, and every substantial man’s wife and daughter, will travel upon gold. The satellites of the bank alone, to show their sur vile subjection to their leige monarch, will re pine at the loss of paper.”— Globe of July HiW, 1834. From the Jonesborough If hig. In 1835, Mr. Clay, in the Senate of the U. S., uttered the iollowing memorable warning. Tell us, ye Locofocos, was not this prophecy, and has not the prediction been fulfilled to the very letter 1 “There being no longer any sentinel at the head of our banking establishments, to vyarn them by its information and operations of ap proaching danger, the load institutions, already multiplied to an alarming extent, and almost daily multiplying in seasons of prosperity, will make free awl unrestrained emission! All the channels o circulation will be gorged ! Prop erty will rise extravagantly high, and constant stantly looking up—the temptation will be irre sistible ! Inordinate -speculation will ensue, debts will be freely contracted, and when the season of adversity comes, as come it must, the Banks, acting without concert, and without guide, obeying the law of self-preservation, will all,.'it the same time, call in their issues; the vast number will exaggerate the alarm, and general distress, wide-spread ruin, and an ex plosion ofthe general banking system, or thees ablishment of a new Bank ofthe U. S., will be the ultimate eflects.” AVe add one more extract, and that is from a speech delivered in the Senate ol the U. States, by Judge Porter, the present able Whig Sena tor from on Tuesday, the 22d ol March, 1836. This speech was in opposition to the motion made by Mr. Benton, to expunge from the Journal ofthe Senate, the Resolution of the 24th of March,’34, disapproving ot the Removal of theDeposiles bv President Jackson, -iwki.-c mi the ueiUKTcm.s ui uie-nijir-ur JarJsmiism, in 1836, it will be seen, that this sa gacious Statesman, from the proud eminence on which lie stood, looked at the full extent ot the evils which were to befall this country in 1842-’3. He drew from the past, and the then present, salutary lessons lor the future, which we are now realizing the truth of. Only look at what he predicted would accompany and fol low the destruction ofthe U. States Bank! — Will not his prediction be found complete ? He says: In 1830, our circulation was sixty-one mil lions of dollars. In January, 1835, or rather in June, 1834, it was one hundred and three mil- I lions. In 1836, it cannot be less than one hun dred and twenty millions. An increase of six ty millions of dollars in six years! I give the tachs from the official returns made by the Sec retary of the Treasury. They come, sir, it is true, no lower down than 1834. But if we take the average increase for two or three years be fore that time, and reflect on the enormous rise of property since, (a sure indication ot an un healthy circulation,) we must be satisfied that * there has been more than seventeen millions ’ added to the circulation within the last sixteen 1 months, and that one hundred and twenty mil j lions is below rather than above the real esti mate. You see sir, therefore, at a glance, the caus es ofthe present state of things, and who can not also, sir, see at a glance how it is to end ? If the evil should be checked now', and the re duction be slow and gradual, we might escape the consequences which time has inevitably in store for us under another policy. But, sir, far from expecting this, I look to ah increase ofthe decease. It appears to me inevitable. A uni versal madness has taken possession of the pub lic mind. Within the last four months, I have heard of augmentations ol banking capital, pro posed or passed, to the amount of fifty millions of dollars, and more I am told are projecting; so that we may expect to see this system continu ing until it breaks and falls front its own weight and magnitude. In the present state of things, the States are all interested to increase the cir culation ot their own banks, and prevent that of their neighbors. Indeed, we already see symp toms of a war of legislation, the result ot jeal ousy, by v. hich they are attempting to restrain the notes of banks in other States from passing within their limits. This deplorable state of things must yet get worse ; and well might the Senator from Mis souri depict it in the colors he did a tew days ago. He could not overcharge this picture—a picture, sir, rendered more painful to contem plate, by ti e recollection of our condition before the war w'aswagedonthe Bank oithe U. States. For sixteen years it regulated the currency ot the country witha wisdom and success of which there is no parallel. AVe threw it away, and we seewh t we have got in its place. Sir, all the project of regulating and checking the ex cess of bank emissions by law, refusing to re ceive at your Treasury their notes of a less sum than S2O, will have no more effect than would have a bucket lull of earth thrown into the Mis sissippi river to stop its current. And as to pushing gold and silver into circulation when you have five hundred and fifty banks interest ed in gathering it all up, and supplying its place with their notes, that is equally impracti cable ; a cheap and a dear currency never can exist together; the former always destroys the latter. Having no power by the Constitution to interfere directly with State Legislation in this matter, I see that the country is destined to go through the same scenes of agitation and suffer ing which it did previous to the ruin ot the late Bank ot the United States. Alter the evils have come to a height when they can no longer be endured, we shall have another National Bank, and not until then. But I submit it it would not have been as well to have prevented this state of things two years ago? 1 enquire, what good has been, or can be attained, by put ting the People through this fearful trial?— , Five or six years hence will be the time to get , an answer to these questions." The President. Proscription is to be the order of the day. Wide-spread, undisguised, tyrannical proscrip tion will be practised by the President whenever any Federal officer repels his wish, or denies fealty to his will. The livery of office in our free land is to be made synonymous with the livery of servitude. Ofthe terrible evils which must How from the conduct, if tolerated, we need not speak. It will mud the fountain of power, and corrupt all who come in contact with it. AVhenever, there fore, any President, be he Whig or Democrat, [ inflicts upon us so deep a wrong, the country should at once, and indignantly, repel it. No toleration should be shown to the crime; no terms made with him who commits it. That Mr. Tyler means to proscribe—that he is proscribing—all know. His past construc tions of the law, and his solemn pledges to the people, on this subject, he laughs at, as being a political toy, which was convenient to dupe in nocent or ignorant people with, and which men out of offiee use always to break when they get AUGUSTA, GA THURSDA in. He plants himselfopenly upon the doctrine, that the Executive must have a party; that his power and patronage were conferred lor that end; and, therefore, that he may dismiss and ap point when he pleases, and direct whomsoever subsists through his will. Hence his Postmas ter General, and other Heads ot Departments, (save one,) following the President’s example, remove all who are not deemed faithful; hence his partizans build up presses by levying taxes upon the incomes of office holders, a refusal to pay' which subjects the parties to instant dis missal; so that the proscription of Mr. Tyler is in the most offensive and oppressive form; a di rect tyranny over the minds of those who hold place under him, and a subsidizing of the Press so tar as he can do it 1 And what a picture does this man’s course present! Discarding old friends, and his proler ed alliance with the Democracy spumed, fallen as a man, degraded as a magistrate, an object hardly worthy of pity or insult, Mr. Tyler has the vanity to believe that he can be the scourge of both. Marching straight forward to his ob ject, regardless of the solemn admonitions ofthe past, or the perils of the present, unappalled by any violation of the spirit of the law, he will spare no means, f air or foul, which he dare use, to accomplish this end. Wldle the country was overwhelmed with distress—her commerce, her manufactures, her agriculture, herlaborall pros trate —States dishonored, and the Nation’s cre dit shaken—he could plot with Democratic lead ers to secure for himself a countenance of office, w ithout lifting a finger to remove that distress; and now, when all hope from that quarter is broken, he is imbecile and mean enough to seek to build up a party for this end, by a tyrannical and corrupt use ot his patronage and power!— Nor will he stop tit anything. lle W ill disavow whatever he has heretofore sanctioned, even to a denial of the treaty—the only bright spot in his administration—or disown any man, deep as he may' be indebted to him—even it it be the great mind who made that treaty —if he can only gain, from any quarter, the promise—for that is all he will get —of strength enough to grat ify this, his mad ambition. And as such is his mood, let him indulge his tyranny to the full! It is time the question were settled whether proscription and usurpation are virtues. The freemen of our country, not long since, spoke what they thought on this subject, and, we mistake if they do not utter saon a stern er rebuke against vices as hideous to all honesty of purpose, as they are destructive to all free dom of opinion.— Cincinnati Paper. Commander Mackenzie and the Somers. AVe give below (from the Philadelphia U. S. Gdzette) the charges and specifications brought against Commander Mackenzie, on account ot the execution of the mutineers on board the U. S. brig Somers, and we add the finding of the Court Martial in all. It will be observed that the result is an entire acquittal on every speci fication. The Gazette adds that the President of the United States has approved of the action of the Court. AVe have not for a moment, entertained a doubt of the result, notwithstanding the exertions made to disturb the proceedings, and to poison the public mind in this affair, and therefore we have oiily pleasure, not surprise, to express at the decision of the Court: CHARGE I. Murder on the high seas on board a United States vessel. Specifications first alledged, that Commodore Mackenzie, then commanding U. S. brig Som ers, did, on the Ist of December, 1842, and on the high seas, in latitude 17°, 34 min., 28 sec., and longitude 57°, 57 min., 45 sec., without form of law, wilfully, deliberately, and with malice aforethought, hang, and caused to be hanged, by the neck, at the y ard arm of said brig, until he was dead, Philip Spencer, Midshipman, then serving on board, thereby violating the 21st art. of the Ist sec. of the ac: of Congress, entitled an act for the better government of the Navy of the United States. Approved April 22d, 1800. Specification 2d alleges—same thing in re gard to Sam’l Cromwell, Boatswain’s mate, and Specification 3d, in relation to Elisha Small, seaman. charge it. Op/rression. Under three specifications, the same as the others, except that they’ allege he did without form of law, and w’ithout good and sufficient ’cause oppressively kill by hanging, &c. &e. Illegal Pnnishwciit. Three specifications as above, except that they charge that he did, ot his own authority, and contrary to the act of Congress in such ea ses made and provided, kill, &c. &c. CHARGE IV. Conduct unbecoming an Officer. Specification—ln that he used taunting, and insulting language to Spencer, at the moment of his execution. CHARGE v. Cruelty and Oppression. Specification —ln that the habitually' inflicted cruel and unnecessary punishment upon his crew. Finding of the Court in the case of Comman der Alexander S. Mackenzie. Onthe/rslctogeand its specifications, the Court finds: That the Ist specification is not proven; That the 2d specification is not proven; That the 3d specification is not proven; That the Ist charge is not proven; On the 2d charge, and its specifications; That the Ist specification is not proven: That the 2d specification is not proven: That the 3d specification is not proven; That the 2d charge is not proven: On the 3d charge and its specifications; That the Ist specification is not proven; That the 2d specification is not proven; That the 3d specification is not proven; That the 3d charge is not proven. Thatthe/eurtA charge being waived by the J udge Advocate and no testimony or evidence be ing offered to sustain it, the Court took no action upon it. The specification of the stli charge being deemed by the'Judge Advocate too vague, was waived by him. No one having complained to the Department of specific ill treatment, if could not be made more specific, as the Department had no particular information. The court there fore took no action. As far as evidence was offered under the sth charge, the Court do find no proof of mis treatment ofthe crew ofthe Sotners, generally, by Commander Mackenzie, nor of individual maltreatment, and therefore find it not proved. The Court therefore do acquit Commander A lexander S. Mackenzie, of the charges and spec ifications preferred against him by the Secretary' ot the Navy. Another Tax Levied. Extract from a letter, dated AVashington, March 31, 1843. “There is, besides, nothing worthy of note. — All is still, excepting, indeed, the clamor of cer tain ones, who demand pay either in advance or for services performed. The editor of the Madisonian has issued a circular to the post masters. supposed of the true faith, marked con fidential, in which, after a long preface about the virtues ot the administration, and the ex penses In- has incurred to sustain It, he asks tile postmaster io procure, it possible, number ol subscribers to the Madisonian. The blank in the circular, I saw, was filled up with “ten semi-weekly” subscribers at $5 a year. In a postscript, the editor tells the postmaster that if he feels confident of his ability to procure the subscribers, it would be a great favor for him to advance the money by return of mail. This, you see, is but a tax levied on the poor office holders, who are expected to make this contri bution at once to the cause. The matter about subscribers is pretty much all gammon. The faithful will be, in this way, tried by the best of tests —willingness to pay to keep office.— U. S. Gazette. If this statement is true, and the Editor ofthe Madisonian is not forthwith dismissed as the Executive organ ot communication with the people, the President himself must be held re sponsible. And what is the proposition ? If not in so many words, it is in substance a man date for every postmaster in the Union to remit fifty dollars to the editor of the Executive jour nal, on pain of removal. AVell: corruption wins more than honesty now-a-days, and the as sessment will doubtless be submitted to in ma ny cases. Let us see : There are twelve thous- and postmasters in the United States. Twelve times fifty are six hundred. Six hundred thous and dollars is a very comfortable sum in these hard times.—-V Y Com. Something fob the Ladies. —In the Provi dence Chronicle we find the following new’mode of preserving flowers and keeping them fresh. Suppose some of our fair readers in this delight ful land of flowers try it Procure a flat dish of porcelain, into which pour water; place a vase of flowers, and over the vase place a bell glass, with its rim in the water. The air that surrounds the flowerbeingconfined beneath the bell glass, is constantly moist with water, that rises into it in the form of vapor. As fast as the water becomes condensed it runs down the side of the bell glass into the dish, and if means be taken to inclose the water on the outside of the bell glass so as to prevent it evap orating into the air of the sitting room, the atmos phere around the flowers is continually damp. The plan is designated the “Hopean Apparatus.” The experiment may be tried on a small scale, by inserting a tumbler over a rose bud, in a sail cer of water. SATURDAY MORPfIWf. APRIL 15. ~ Caut lotre-Trcr^^ Notes. AVe noticed, yestarddoß acl 8? a ttl>e State Treasurer of Mississippi had Bonded, carry ing with him a large sufr‘of money belonging to the State Among ami securities embezzled by him, were a lumber of U. Slates Treasury notes, payable to him »r his order, re specting which, the following caition has been published by the U. S. Treas V yDeparment : NOTICE. Treasury Dehrtment, > ApnllO, 1813. J The Governor of the St*ttltf Mssissippi hay ing issued his proc4auiatioiys^ a mg that Kwh aid S. Graves, State Treasurer ol that State, had embezzled the money, Junies and prop erty of that State, and had<!&apd while under ariest upon the charge of such enbezzlement; and the said Governor ol the bute of Mississ ippi having, in his proclamation cautioned all persons against receiving tie said Graves any United States Treasury-froes which are made payable to him or ord^C; the becreta rv of State ofthe said Stated Mssissippi hav ing requested this DepartnWt t(give notice of the Treasury notes delivered to uesaid Giaves, in order to prevent their and protect ■ the State of Mississippi frogl ijlirnate loss, and - deeming it proper to compW w ’ a such request, the subjoined 4 the Treasury notes delivered to the said as Treasurer of the State of M s “th day of October, 1812, arm him or or der, has been prepared, published for die irifi‘l illation , All receivers and deposiliMies mpublic mon eys, to whom any of the said notes mar be pre sented, under suspicious circumstanes, will decline receiving them, and, if praeticade, will take a note of the name ot the personuflering them, and transmit it to his Excellncy, T. Tucker, Governor of the State ot Misissippi, at the city of Jackson, in that Stale. And all officers and agents of the 'teasury Department, will assist, by all lasviulmeans, in the recovery and restoring to the state of Mississippi the notes declared to have ten em bezzled. J. C. SPENCR, Secretary ofthe Treiury. List of Treasury notes referred to in tl above notice, drawn in favor of Richard S. Gives or order, dated severally on the 6th Octob’, 1842, and delivered the same day, signed by Z. Sel den, Treasurer ofthe. United States, ai coun tersigned by Michael Nourse, acting egister ofthe Treasury, viz: On warrant No. 3014. No. Ito N< 100— 100 notes of SI,OOO each. On warrant No. 3014. No. Ito Ncßo—Bo notes of SSOO each. On warrant No. 3014. No. Ito NolO—3o notes of SIOO each. On warrant No. 3014. No. Ito Noi3—23 notes of SSO each. On warrant No. 3014. No. I—one ate of $64. On warrant No. 3013. No. 31 to No>0 —20 notes of SIOO each. On warrant No. 3013. No. 2—l notnfs92 92. On warrant No. 3013. No. 24-—1 nobfsso. Jj'Aii unsuccessful attempt was rde at Buffalo, N. Y., on Thursday week, to bw up the ice in that harbor by the explosion gun powder. Twenty pounds of powder, ith a suitable fusee attached, were placedupoa pole which, upon being fired, exploded and exvated only a place of about twenty feet in diieter, the fragments rising several feet in the ail The Advertiser says: “The surrounding ice about 18 inches thick, and appeared to resist thixplo sive force of ‘the villainous compeum with great tenacity. JjfThe Millerites attempted to lecturn St. Louis on the evening oi the 29th. Thewas a tremendous assemblage, which became tre mendous mob. The lecturers were hoo| at, pelted, and dragged from the stage on ich they stood. They finally however made eir escape. Such proceedings deserve to be in sured under any circumstances. —rT— 'zwfouMi— cessful in their railroad operations, thithard as the times are, they' are about cotnnieing another road to run from Boston to Ftourg, a large manufacturing town in the norfis par t of AVorcester county. This road will to bout fifty miles in length, running midway tween the Boston and AVorcester and Boh and Lowell roads. Remarkable Phenomenon.—A let from an officer in the U. S. Army, dated at vt Lea ven worth, Missouri, March 20th, statshat on the 14th oi February, at 3 A. M. “simoon, which had been obscured by a cloud h some hours, burst forth of a deep blood-red .yi - , with a'black cross of equal proportions <va'te face, extending beyond the run; while *’ thc&o sides small pieces of rainbow were 'isibe After continuing in this way for aboutn hoirthe col or of the moon changed to its otoary hie, and the cross became a silvery whi' with tte edges extending beyond the rim, anduching he rain bows. It continued so for an hair, and heavy clouds then istervertf. obscued the moon, which set unseen. Ms phenomenon was seen by the hospital attznnts, who were up at that hour, some of thetvery intelligent nien, by the guards and sentir on post, and by several citizens of Weston, ittle town five miles off The next morning sun rose accom panied by two sun dogs, as tlare comntonly called, nearly equal in brillia to the sun, and resembling two other suns, is latter scene was witnessed by numbersn addition for about two weeks past, every;ht at seven to eight o’clock, a bright streakight has appear ed in the heavens, coming ft the west, and beating about E. S. E., assembling very much what it is believed to te tail of a comet. I have thought it my duty to e these things, even at the expense of beiitgcredited, in the hope of eliciting a compatisof observations elsewhere.” Although the phensmehof the apparent cross on the tnoon can no bt be explained from natural causes, yet itvbe seized upon bv some persons as confirm' ol the prophecy of father Miller; andbevie'b.v others with superstitious dread. Monroe Edwards Fi,oca-The New’ York Herald says that the day aftlonroe Edwards was found, he was placed a whipping post, his back bared, and a stronjletic keeper se lected, whe applied some fitshes with a cat o’-nine tails to his quiverinp that made him wince again. The Central Rail RotWe understand, says the Si:ndersville Telje, that the cars will run to Gordon, eignjiiiuk from Macon, by the first of next niorjnd that there is no mistake but that the wljne from Savannah to ’ Macon will be conr by the Ist day of August. [ A Pedestrian FeatP the afternoon of Thursday last, bet west nd 3 o’clock, Col. Elworth performed the of walking round the Common, at Bostatside the railing, a distance of one mile aneighth, in 7 minutes 58 seconds, for a purse 100. Time allowed 8J minutes. Great Britain bunually ofthe United States $60,000,000 woiproduce, two thirds of which is cotton. Mhusetts buys of the other States $42,000,00th annually. A Counterfeit.—.ooo counterfeit on the Leather Manufact Bank of N. York, was offered at Clevelahio, onthe 29th ult., which is described as Nov. 4th, 1838, Let ter A. No. 19, pavablJ- AV. Goodson 30 days after date—F. Awards, Cashier, F. C. Tucker, Presidenhe engraving very well done, but indisin some parts—pur porting to be engraV Messrs. Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Cot York—the officers’ names and filling upt ently of the same hand-writing, and ratfl- jy-f-ln the New Yoterior Court on Wed nesday, a non-suit wlered in the case of Lawrence et. al. vs. The action was for the value of destroyed in one of the warehouses blow* stay the progress ot the great fire in 1835. Court held that the blowing up was an necessity for which the Corporation is nte in damages. More Tyi.EßisM.-K edfiel<l has beendis missed from office ofa s 'er of Lexington. • Mr Ficklin, who w* ed fr ° m that office ■ bv Mr Tyler’s Adrr-tion when Mr. Tyler - called himself aWF been restored to it by the same Mr. Tf d >n>nistration, now ’ that Mr. Tyler calldf a. Locofoco. And Charles A. Wickli# miserable tool of all - I this imbecility, treated vengeance ot the I Great Calamity!— Journal. G, APRIL 20, 1843. The June Convention. It is desirable that a lull representation from this portion ofthe State should be in attendance at the AVhig Convention which is to meet on the 3d Monday m June at Milledgeville; ourfriends therefore would do well to make early prepara tion, by holding meetings in the course ot next month, for the choice ot Delegates. Several candidates for Governor have been suggested by the papers in various sections ol the State—all of whom are sound whigs and ol talents and ability to do honor to the office, and any of whom, it is probable, the whole AA hig party would zealously support. For ourselves we would prefer CHARLES J. JENKINS, ol Augusta, before any other whose name has been announced, and we think the people of this and the surrounding counties hat e the same prefer ence : they however will cheerfully Unite in sup port of the candidate chosen by the Convention, not doubting that that body will make such a selection as will most conduce to the harmony ofthe party, the honor ot the State, and the as cendancy of AVhig principles. In a fair fight and no humbug, any one of the AVhigs proposed as candidates by the various papers can be elected, the only difficulty seems to be in selection among so many good men. That no contest may arise in the Convention between different nominees; that emulation may not degenerate into enmity, and thus divide the party, the opinions and preferences ofthe Dele gates should be known before they ate entrusted to express the sentiments of their constituents in the Convention. There will of necessity be some difference of opinion in the Convention relative to the claims, character and abilities ol the various nominees, but it is highly desirable that the candidate qhosen should have a large majority“of the vr-ttes—if chosen by a meagre < plurality or majority, dissatisfaction is cer tain to ensue. Unanimity in the Convention will produce union and zeal among the party, and our friends in their choice of Delegates agreed as to men and measures, can do much to produce unanimity.— Washington News. Prom the N. Commercial Advertiser. General Van Rensselaer’s Statement. We invite the public attention to the state ment of the veteran Solomon Van Rensselaer, touching his removal as Postmaster at Albany. It will be seen that the General threatens a dis closure as to the views of Mr. Tyler, on the bank question, as expressed by him subsequent to the decease of the lamented Harrison. Capt. Tyler and his guard must look out, or they will get a worse cutting up than he gave to the dusky forces of Little Turtle, at the battle of the Mia mis, in 1794. The old General never draw's his sabre but with effect. TO THE PUBLIC. Albany, April 7th, 1843. My recent removal from the office of Post Master in this city constrains me, in justice to myself, my family and friends, to publish a plain and concise statement of facts. For the present I shall not notice the vile at tack of the Madisonian, and much less the Journal of Commerce; but 1 call the particular attention of the public to the following letter.— Had I complied with their wishes, I should have escaped the animadversion of those papers and kept my office. I, who have never been an agent for any newspaper, and have refrained from politics during my present and former appointment, to be asked to force twenty-three postmasters in this county to the support of a newspaper in fav or of John Tyler—and report those who would not comply—for removal! These postmasters my friends, who aided to elect me twice to Con gress; the first time without opposition, the sec ond, (when opposed,) by an overwhelming ma jority. They ought to have known me better. I treated the fetter with contempt, and never an swered it. I may as well state in this place that I never had any notice from the Post Office Department that I was to be or was removed. The first in timation I had was from Mr. AVasson, who call ed about a week before the close of the quarter, and showed me a communication from the Post Master General, informing him that he was ap pointed postmaster in this city, and directing him to send on the necessary bonds, when his commission should issue. 1 told Mr. AV. that I should not give up the office unless I had di rections so to do, and advised him to apprise the Post Master General to that effect. Late in the afternoon of the 31st March, the last day <ijia»uus■»- • -HT aaii'nn- > ■ •*» mission, which he showed to me. lal once de termined to give up ihe office, and did so that night, although the Post Master General had not condescended to write me on the subject. When removed by Mr. Van Buren I had fourteen days notice to call in my accounts and close the busi ness ol my office; but on this occasion I had not four hours. (copy—private.) New York, Feb. 15,1843. Df.ar Sir:—We take the liberty of addressing you on a subject ol some importance to the friends ofthe Administration, in which we sincerely trust you are disposed to aid us to the extent in yourpower. You have nodoubt received acopy ofthe “Flag ofthe Union,” (which we have for warded you) our weekly paper published every Saturday, embracing the entire contents of the week ofthe Daily Union, making twenty-eight columns close reading matter for the low price “one dollar” per annum in advance, and careful ly mailed to subscribers. Our Journal is devot ed to the Administration of John Tyler whose name is at its head for the next Presidency, sub ject to the decision of a Democratic national convention. We are desirous of enlisting you in the cause, to enable us to give our weekly a good and extensive circulation, in order to spread before the people the principles and policy of the Administration. There are twenty-three postmasters in your county, with whom you are either acquainted, or can communicate better than ourselves. With these twenty-three and such Iriends as they doubt less could influence; one hundred subscribers ought easily be obtained lor us in your county, and to accomplish this we earnestly solicit your aid and exertion; of the twenty-three postmasters, on your application in a private friendly manner we do not believe one would retuse, but if we are not mistaken, would be glad to know who it is.—You being master of the most important of fice in your county, we have taken the liberty to select you to do this much for us and the good cause in which we are actively engaged. One hundred subscribers in your county at the low price of one dollar a year, for a paper of twenty-eight columns of interesting matter; is cer tainly moderate enough, and we hope you will so far aid us by endeavoring to procure them. If, however, you have not the time or inclina tion to comply with the favor we solicit, please write us frankly to that effect, in order that we may endeavor to accomplish our earnest desire through some other channel. Trusting for any early reply, we remain, Your friends and ob’t serv’ts, ISAAC PHILLIPS & CO. Pub’r. Flag of Union. S. Van Rensselaer, Esq., Postmaster, of Albany. When John C. Spencer visited the city last fall, and before he went on to Rochester to pro claim hi- own political infamy, he offered my office, unasked lor, to Mr. Wasson. On his re turn to the city of New York, he again met, Mr. Wasson and renewed the offer; letters too, frank ed by him, to the latter, have passed through the Albany post office. It was my intention to treat Mr. Spencer with the utmost severity, but the public will not be edified by such a course. His insolent and ar bitrary conduct will soon bring him down to his own level, and they will be as happy to get rid of him at Washington, as they were rejoiced in : he public offices of this city'. At a proper time I will show', without the fear of contradiction, that Mr. Tyler, when he first arrived at Washington to assume the reins ot government, was decidedly and unequivocally in favor of the charter of a United States Bank, the proofs of which are in my hands; a state ment of the remarks of Mr. Tyler on that sub* ject was drawn up by a gentleman now abroad. It was left with me to defend myself, if assailed, as I have been, by the acting President. But it it was not to be made public on any other occa sion. Yin support of that statement my oath will be affixed. I shall further show who nominated him at Harrisburgh. SOL. VAN RENSSELAER. Unusual Lights in the Heavens.—Last evening, between 7 and 8 o’clock, the attention of those abroad was directed to several remark able and very beautiful streaks of light, which appeared in the south-eastern and north-western parts of the sky. The former were longer and more brilliant than the others. The stream of light seemed to radiate from a nucleus below the horizon, extending nearly to the vertical point in the firmament. Those to the southward which were more particularly noticed, gradual ly descended in that direction, and soon after 8 o’clock the last of them had mingled with the hazy obscurity on the end ot the sky, and disap peared. Innumerable fine and delicate lines of light extending like fibres from the main lumin ous bodies, were beautifully relieved against the clearblue of the heavens beyond, and the precision of the outline did not seem to be les sened by the brilliancy with which the moon was shining at the time.—-V. Y. E. Post of Sat urday. The same beautiful phenomena were observ edhere on both Friday and Saturday evenings. —Philadelphia Sentinel. MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 17. The New York Elestion.—The Whigs have been thrashed to their heart's content in New York. The majority for the Democratic candidate for Mayor, R. H. Morris, is accord ing to 'he Courier, 5921, to the Journal of Com merce 5755. Either of them large enough.— The Whigs have elected 5 Aldermen and 3 Assistants. The Democrats 12 Aldermen and 14 Assistants. In the city of Brooklyn the Whigs lost the Mayor by from 150 to 300, tut earned a majority of the Council. Election ia Albany, N. Y.—The N. York Tribune of the 13th says:—“The Whigs have carried the Capitol City by a majority of nearly 300—although at the last spring election the Locofoeo May'or was elected by six hundred majority. Friend Humphrey, the Whig can didate, has now a majority of 263! The Whigs have, also, a decided majority in the Common Council I’J® Neyv.ark.—Mr. AVright was re-elected Mayor of Newark on the 10th without opposition. The Common Council was not contested on party grounds, but in most of the wards union and mixed tickets were run. Os the Aidermen elec ted eight are Whigs, and eight Locos. The Bank of Pensnylvania, at Philadelphia, gives notice that it will resume specie payments and its regular business. Counterfeiters Arrested.—The Albany (Ga.) Courier, or the 4th instant sayi:—“ Two men were arrested in town late last night, lor passing counterfeit Central Bank bills. The trial for commitment is now progressing. These worthies seem to be in possession of a large a mount of this money, and have scattered it a bout our city pretty freely, at a discount of 40, 50 and 60 per cent. They represent themselves to be stock-drovers, one of them a Kentuckian, by the name of James B. Pigg, the other a Tea nessean, by the name of Samuel Overby. The Kentuckian, Mr. Pigg, is a well dressed, gen teel looking man. The other is something on the hoosier order. The bills are all S2O, appa rently engraved on wood, the impression dim, the paper of coarse texture, and of a dingy <eol or. There is no doubt of its being a genuine counterfeit. We have seen the iollowing No»s: 1107, 1108, 1132, 1151, 1164, 1141,1174,1139, 1124, 1125, 1148, and 1203; dated June 7, 1840. A Relic Gone.—We see it statedin the New Jersey State Gazette, that the old True Ameri can Inn, on Mill Hill, near Trenton, N. J., just over the Assanapink Bridge, known in the his tory of the country as the head quarters of Gen- : eral Washington, on the 2d of January, 1777; being the place where the council ot war was held which decided upon the march upon Prince ton, was destroyed by fire, between one and two o’clock on the 28th ult. Disappearance of the Small Pox at Ham ilton. —We are gratified to learn from the fet ter of the Village Physician, in another col umn that this terrible malady has been by great caution and prudence prevented from spread ing in that place, and has now entirely disap peared.—Columbus Enquirer. Prom the Columbus Enquirer. The Small Pox. The letter of the City Physician below, will furnish our readers all the information within our knowledge, concerning the state of the dis ease in our city. It will be seen that it has ad vanced beyend the limits of the house in which it first appeared, and our hopes that it would be effectually checked at that point are disappoint ed. We are not without serious apprehensions that as the weather becomes warm, it may yet spread to some extent. So far, however, the dis ease is confined to a retired section of the city, ...... pollute Unngei ill ;Visiting the business part of the town. Our townsmen will do well to adopt at once the valuable suggestions of the City Physician, in regard to vaccination and the cleanlineiss of their lots. Columbus, April 11th, 1843. Hon. J. I. Moses, Mayor— Sir: The Small-pox is still confined bo the lower part of the city. Since my last r eport, four cases have occured—two of them we re im mediately conveyed to the Hospital, and 'the re maining two are permitted to continue at their respective houses, as they are contiguo'as. to no other buildings, and remote from the business part of the city. There has been no instance of the communication of the disease to strangers or countrymen, nor need such persons ripprehcnd any danger while pursuing the ordin; try chan nels of business. A red flag is placed at eash of these houses, to give warning ot the existence of the d iseass— so that strangers, as well as our own cit izeas, may avoid the neighborhood. I would take occasion at this time: again to urge our citizens to|universal vaccination. It is the only effectual means of arresth ,g the pro gress of this truly terrible disorder. With an ample supply of genuine vaccine vir us, the dis ease ought to be promptly arrested—and those who suffer after such timely warning, will but meet the reward ot their own c ulpable neg lect. I desire to call the attention of owr citizens to another matter of vast importance to their com fort and welfare. Cleanliness willnotonly pro mote general health, but is often found essential in arresting the march of diseases strictly of a contagieus character. Let every citizen then exame his premises, thoroughly clear, se his back yard, whitewash his cellar, out housr-sand fences, and carefully remove from his vicinity every thing which may be calculated the slightest degree to impair the health of the neighborhood, or promote the spread of ccntagi on. 1 helieve that it is only necessary to suggest to our citizens what is right awl proper, and that their prompt action in the premises will prove that any argument in support of the course re commended, would be a work of supererogation. Respectfully, W. S. CHIPLEY, City Physician. Late from Campeachy.—By the schooner Isabel, Capt. Powell, we have dates from Cam- I peachy up to the 3d inst. The captain was obliged to leave his letters and papers, having been blown off in a gale. The news by the Octavia is fully confirmed by this arrival. The Mexicans are still in possession of the heights, and throw a few shells into the eity every evening. No engagement of any consequence had taken place since last accounts. The Mexi can fleet had not returned. Capt. Boylan has been appointed to the com mand of the gun-boats. He had heard that a. schooner from New Orleans had been capturedl by the Mexican fleet, and sent into Lerma un der charge of an officer and a few men. He im mediately proceeded there with three gun-boat# and recaptured her without any loss, the officer in charge being ashore at the time. He also cap*- tured a Spanish schooner from Havana whkft had anchored near Campeachy. The report of the capture of the brig Coral by the Mexican fleet is incorrect. She had been de tained by them for some time, but arrived at Campeachy' on the night of 2d instant. They are looking out anxiously for Com. Moore"at Campeachy.— New Orleans Pieonyune. The Texian Squadron. —We are glad to learn that the Texian Squadron, under the com mand of Commodore Moore, is upon the eve of sailing from this port on a cruise in the Gulf.— The vessels are the Austin, the Commodore’s flag-ship, and the Wharton, Capt. Lothrop, both strongly manned and fully equipped, for any warm and hearty contest that may demand their efforts. They will certainly depart in the course of the next tew days. They would have sailed last night but for the necessity that existed of disposing of the mutineers now before the Court Martial on the Austin. We may soon hear ot stirring events on the Gulf.— N. O. Tro pic of 11th inst. Mr. Webster.—The Philadelphia United i States Gazette has the following paragraph re* I specting the Secretary of State: We learn that the Hon. Daniel Webster ill with the President of the United States, a® his departure from Washington, his resignation: of the office of Secretary of State, to take eSfet on ' the first day of May, previous to which he will return to Washington. We have season to believe that our information is correct:, and that the President is looking toward* Virginia fora successor. Mr. Tazewell or Mr Stevenson is thought of; but probably some circumstances must be regarded before a decision is made be tween these two gentlewa, or among the nu merous aspirants to departmental honors. Curious Fact.—Sunday is the Christian's day of publie worship, Monday is the Grecian's, Tuesday is ffie Persians’, Wednesday is the As syrian’s, Thursday is the Egyptian’s, Friday is the Turk’s, and on Saturday is the Jew’s. 1 TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18. Robbery Extraordinary. By yesterday morning's mail from Col umbus, Georgia, a handbill, of which the following is ■ a copy, was received in this city, besides some fetters, from one ot which xve make the extract < subjoined. This is certainly, from present ap pearances, one of the most extraordinary rob beries that has ever transpired in this country, and we shall await further developemenls with considerable anxiety, tor we confess ourself wholly unable to conceive how "three or more men," could, in a dark room, in the centre of a populous town, immediately on a principal thoroughfare, at eight o'clock in the evening of a bright, beautilul night, seize aud gag two offi cers of an institution before they could give the alarm to the inmates overhead, or the passen gers on the street. $5,000 Reward.—The office of the Western Insurance and Trust Company, of the city of Columbus, was entered on the evening ofthe 14th inst., while the officers were closing the vault for the day, by three or more men, dis guised, who securing the officers, robbed the Institution oi the fbllowting Bank notes, and property as far as can be determined at this time, viz: American and Georgia Gold, abouts9,ooo Notes on Augusta Insurance and Bank- ing Company, Brunswick Bank, Me chanics' Bank of Augusta, and Bank of Charleston, aboutl2,soo Central Bank notes'4,7oo Notes of Columbus B’k and other claims 'on said Bank. . 1 »175 A package containing various memoran da of moneys in the hands of agents, &c., amounting to about2,4oo $29,775 In addition to the above, there was taken various packages held as special depo sites, some containing Bank notes, a mong which were the following, viz: Package containing Bank <4 Charleston notes SIB,OOO do do do Darien taxesl4,ooo The packages of special depositee not enu merated, contained probably 10 or $15,000. The above rewani will be given for th* re covery of the lost money or property, or a pro portionate part for any portion thereof, or for information that will lead to the recovery of it. ROBERT B. MURDOCK, Sec’y. April 15,1843. The following is an extract of a fetter, dated •‘Columbus, April 15,1843. “The office of the Western Insurance and Trust Company, was entered last night by arm ed men, disguised, at 8 o’clock, while the offi cers, Murdock and Bass, were closing the vault; the light extinguished, the officers gagged and held down in the vault by main force, and left lacked up in the vault. “A reward of $5,000 is offered. A part of the funds were found this morning.—There is much excitement: the officers were released from the vault about 11 o’clock ai night, much ■exhausted.” Straw Bonnets, Palm Hate, <Scc. We take gr eat pleasure in calling the attention •stf city and country merchants to the card ot W. Birch, of New York. To those, who like t&e writer, have known Mr. B. for a series of years, no commendation of his sterling charac ter, his strict honesty, and his devoted business habits would be necessary; but there are many who do not know him, and to such we commend him and his establishment as every way worthy of their confidence and patronage. We know him well and intimately, and have for years, and we repeat, it affqrds us great pleasure to icommend such a man to the kind regards of the mercantile community. Mr. Schoolcraft. —It was stated the other <itay, says the Journal of Commerce, that this gentleman, who has for eighteen years been acti»g as Indian Agent, had been sued as a de faulter in the sum of about seventeen thousand ■doUacs. That is true still Mr. S. should iiot be set down as a defaulter, for the question be tween him and the Government is only one of the allowance of certain sums of money, which it is not disputed have been actually paid. The suit, therefore is to settle principles, and deter mine whether any, and if any, what balance is due. In other words, the object of the suit is to as certain whether the ccart will decrae that Mr. Schoolcraft shall rob the Government to the ex tent he contends he has a right to do.—En. Chkon. Jj-The follcrwing gentlemen were yesterday elected Director’s of the Georgia Insurance & Trust Company, for the ensuing year. Edward Thoma*, G. T. Dortic,* Andrew J. Miller,. Geo. M. Newton, Wm. E. Jackson, Lemuel Dwelle, Thos. Barrett, David L. Adam*. Pleasant Stovall, At a subsequent meeting of the Board, Ed ward Themas was re-elected President, and the following gentlemen appointed Directors ot the Bank of Brunswick, (owned by said Company, and removed to Augusta under an act of the last Legislature,) for the ensuing year: Edward Thomas, President. A. J. Miller. William E. Jackson, Thomas Barrett, G. T. Dortic. Shipman, the Absconding Messenger.— The Pittsburg Sun of the 11th says .in a Post script: “Shipman arrived in this city on Sun day morning last, and immediately started on ths steamboat Express, for Cincinnati. Me re gistered his name as “Mr. Johnson, of New York." Nothing was known of the fraud, while he was in the city. The police got the first intimation of the matter yesterday, twenty four hours toolate. He is doubtless on his way to Texas.” The Hon. Richard M. Johnson is a candidate for Congress from the Lexington, Ky., district, in opposition to the Hon. Garret Davis. Threatened Removal ofthe Post Master at Cincinnati.—The report has been here, says the Cincinnati Correspondent of the Bal timore Patriot of tha 10th inst., for some time, that Col. W. H. A. Taylor, son-in-law of the late President Harrison, is to be turned out of office as Postmaster in this cityl This I assure you is not an idle rumor, for I know that the in. cumbent has been expecting to reeeiwe from the Department an official notice oi his removal by every eastern mail that has arrived within the last two weeks. Col. T. is an efficient offi cer, and is deservedly held in universal respect by our citizens. A better man could rsot fill the office he now holds. His fate is considered sealed, even by himself. Shipwruck.—The brig Glide, Capt. Pray, of Mount Desert, Maine, left Barbadoes on the 14th of January for Laguna. On the: 26th Jan uary, being thick the brig went ashore on a reef 7 miles, from the Island of Carikum, <»n the East coast at Yucatan. Captain P. and c rew saved nothing but the chronometer, and prut of their clothing, only a barrel of bread, and one barrel of water, and went along the coast 8 0 miles in their boat, before they could find aniy inhabi tants, some days having only one biscuit to sub sist upon. £5” An editor out West in speaking of tire miserable policy pursued by newspaperpu blish ers in giving their patrons so long a eredit, says it is a uniform system of Bankruptcy w itluut the sanction of Congress. £s= The Washington correspondent -of the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette states that Mr. Proffit has been appointed lull Minis ’.er to Brazil. 5> It is announced in the Lexington .(Ky.) Observer ofthe sth instant that Mr. Clay w ould address the people at the next Fayette co unty Court, (Monday, the 10th instant,) at 12o’cl ock, in vindication ofthe Whig party and binise. If >n support of certain meosurfai which have b recently assailed. VOL. VII.—NO. 16. Two Day* Later from Hiiglaud. The packet ship South America, at New York arrived from Liverpool on the 7th March. The packet ship George Washington arrived at Liverpool on the sth—making the passegr from New York in 24 days. In the manufacturing districts, for the week ending 4th, there had been very little doing. Em ployers were reducing wages, and some deserip* lions of coarse goods were in demand. McNaughten, the man who deliberately shot Mr. Drummond, the Secretary of Sir Robert Peel, has been acquitted on the ground ol iasaa ity. The trial excited a great deal of interaM, and the Morning Post of the sth, expresses its opinion in lavor of the verdict, as being a very proper one under the circumstances. The debates in the French Chaamber of Deputies had been unusually animated, and had resulted in favor of the Soult-Guizot Miaiatxy. Upon the bill appropriating secret service moa ey, a test vote had been had, and the Ministry were triumphant. An amendment was to ths effect, that the additional million of fran«s re quired for detecting conspiraeies, and paving spies and journalists, be reduced to nine hun dred and fifty thousand. Upon the grant or de nial of fifty thousand francs, the fate of the ad ministration depended. The amendment was rejected by a vote of 212 to 197; a majority which created the utmost sensation. The bill after wards passed by a vote 244 to 155. At Dublin on the 3rd the great Repeal debate in the Chamber of the Town Council was brought to a close. On the house being divided on the question the vote stood. C For O’Connell’s motion f4l Against it, including the Lord Mayor’s vote. 4$ Majority in tavor of ‘separation’ 2C On llie numbers being announced, the Liber ator assured the ‘lwemy ; j|jx' that liicir names should be inscribed upon a column in CoUeges gieen, and handed down to posterity in the im perishable record of Irish History. He then moved that a committee should be appointed from the majority, to prepare the draught of a petition to Parliament for a repeal of the Union. H. B. M. frigate Modeste had arrived with $1,000,000, of the China treaty money, and also the Columbine with $750,000 on the same ac count. A Belfast paper states that th* Rev. Joseph Dickey, Minister of the Third Presbyterian Congregation, while preaching at Rathfrilandi was shot in the pulpit by some assassin who fired a gun through a window. The Gazette of last night contains the Quar terly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from Dec. 3d to Feb. 25th; which shows the following results— Liabilities. Assets. Circulation.£l9,739,oo6 Securities. .£22,695,000 Deposites ... 11,205,000 8u11i0n10,945,000 £30,305,000 £38,640 008 Compared to the last published of the 2d Feb. it appears that the circulation has increased £397,- 000—the deposits £7BB,ooo—the securities £l,- 023,000—the bullion £240,000. Liverpool Cotton Market, March 4—We had improved demand for Cotton this morning, and a good extent of business was done at steady prices. The sales, inclusive of 2000 American, taken on speculation, amounted to 6000 bale. Bunker Hill Monument.—The completion of this edifice will be celebrated in Charlestown on the 17th of June next. The Boston Times states that the work on the Square, such as gra ding, fencing, and laying four flights of stone steps, one on each side of the square, will be re" sumed in a few days. Correspondence qf the BalUmore American. “Cumberland, April 14, 7 A. M. “Gentlemen— This town is overflowed by one ofthe greatest freshets we ever experienced, aud the Potomac River is still rising, caused by the melting ofthe large quantities of snow on the mountains, brought down upon us suddenly by a heavy fall of rain. All is in confusion—peo ple are being taken out ot their houses by boats." g-j- George Cruikshank, caricaturing the Lou don Post Office, says: “A gentleman in London having received a newspaper enveloped, with the inscription ‘■time flies' on the seal, was charg ed full fetter postage on account of information contained on the wrapper!' ’ Interesting to Girls.—When a boat ar rives at any *£ the landings in lowa, having young ladies on board, the bachelors crowd and hover about, after the manner of New York or Charleston cabmen, and sing out “Have a hus band Miss'!—have a husband!" The Mutineers or the San Antonio.—ll will be remembered by most of our readers, that in February 1842, a mutiny broke out on the Texian Schooner San Antonio, lying at New Orleans, in which Lieut. Fuller was killed, and two other officers wounded. —The mutiny was quelled, and nine of .'he ring-leaders confined in the parish jail of New Orleans, where the most of them have been kept until the last few days, when they where delivered up to Commodore Moore, upon the requisition of the President oi Texas. A court martial is now being held on board the flag ship Austin, for the purpose ot Hy ing them, and from the testimony given on the first day, the Tropic thinks there is but little doubt that they will be condemned. One of the pris oners named Sheppard has volunteered himsell a witness on the part of the prosecution, and as his testimony is quite interesting, we subjoin a por tion of it. It appears that Oswald the'Sergeaut of Marines, was the principal instigator and leader. The plot was first broached at the. Island ofMugeres, or Woman’s Island, on the eastern shore Yf Yucatan, where the San Antonio and the San Bernard had gone to take in water. The attempt u'.is to be made by the crews of both vessels acting in conjunction to capture both schooners, take them to Vera Cruz and dispone of them to the Mexicans. In this first obvetthe mutineers were frustra ted by an occurre «ce of circumstances, and in a few weeks the San .Antonio reached N. Orleans. The second night aft er h* r arrival, when Capt. Seeger and most of th<? officers were on shore, the crew mutinied, in a ccurdance with previous determination. The fatal results are already known to our readers. li‘ appears from the tes timony of Sheppard, who was .the attendant oj Pumpelly at the time of his death in prison, that the latter was the murderer of Lijut. Fuller. But a few hours before hus death he Coasted ol the deed, and declared he shot him in icvenge, because he had ‘given him a dozen,’ when he thought he did not deserve it.— Mobile Herald. Packet Ship Switzerland Safe.—lt affords us much pleasure to report the safe arrival of the missing packet ship Switzerland, Captain Chadwick, from London, for wliose safety fears' were entertained. The Switzerland put into Newport, R. 1., on Sunday last, and left again yesterday for this port. She left Portsmouth oa ihe 12th of December, and put back to Deal ei ther on the 14th or 15th; sailed again on the2oth, ai.xl was off the Isle of Wight late in theeveu ing'of that day; since which nothing had been hea; ti h er until l he arrival of the steamboat this morning from Newport. Our Newport corres pendent reports that the Switzerland was eleven days >“ the Channel, and was short of provisio when she reached Newport; and had been on s bort allowance for forty days. The 8. has had a boisterous passage. From February 3d to 17th ?ight Easterly winds, ship in latitude 40 30 N lon titude 54 W.; it then blew a perfect gale from W N. W. to W. S. W. till March 4th ship in lat itude 40 58, longitude 50 W. it commenced bio wing heavy from the W. which lasted till April Uh. The S. has two cabin and eighteen steerage passengers,— N. Y. Com. Later From Ml ’Xico.—By the schooner Vir ginia Antoinette, t-'apl Delvaille, which left Tampieo on the 29th ult., we have intelligence somewhat later than (Hir last. One thousand troops arrive! at Tamp*® o on the 24th ult., and an embargo was laid on the vessels in port for the purpose of cohveying' soldiers to Yuca tan, to assist in the operau’ons against Gain pea chy, &c. This embargo, .however, after stand ing for tour day®, was withd.*®wn,ai>d the troops were ordered back to Mataim Has. It is anticipated that large atuonnts of specie will be coming now from Mex ico to the United States, an account of the (iper cent tax which is to go into effect npon the first oV June.— N. Q. Picayune of l'2tk. Most Distressino Occurrence. —We are just informed of a most melancholy accident that took place on one of the prariee in the western part of the State. A family <»f emigrant* eleven in number, while on their way to lowa were frozen to death in their wagon. The hors es stopped at a house when the inmates not see ing any one alight from the wagon, were induced by mere curiosity to make acloser examination. Upon looking into the wagon they were horror stricken at the appalling spectacle which pre sented itself to their view. The father and nine children were lying dead in the bottom ci the wagon, the mother, probably the last stuvWl*, was sitting up and holding the reins as if diiwlt*. We did not learn the name of this unfortUMJe family, or from what [>ait of the country ftaiy removing.”— Pekin (JU.) Pollad., 224 uU. Whole Soles vs. Hole Soles.— There is much truth in the following pleasant little wrup which wc find in an exchange: “It often happens in the world that tlio-w who go wholc-uiUd nave leas soul, than those who *- Mesoled, having >M their sfeik solely to fcoep their sefes whole.”