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2 eijroiucU anU Sentinel. AUGUSTA. TUESDAY MORNING, MAA’ 30. Astounding Rumor. The N. O. Tropic of the 24th says :—For a week past, it has been whispered .about in this city, that a draft drawn by the Mexican Govern ment in favor of Sam Houston, President of Tc..- as, far twenty-five thousand dollars, has been paid al the pountcrof one of the most prominent commo > ~ “ ' halites inNho Orleans!! ~ .We learn further, that by the steamship Nc *’ York, which sailed on Monday evening tor ■ • Galveston, information of such a character was transmitted to Texas as will leave scarcely ti e shadow of a doubt upon the minds of the people there, of the truth of the rumor, which was only whispered here. The next news from Texas will be most anxiously expected, and may be fraught with intense interest. jCfThe Norwich Courier states that one of the first acts of Mr. Catlin, member elect of Congress from that district, was to write a letter to President Tyler, urging the removal of Mr Downer from the Norwich post office, and the appointment ofEnochC.Chapmaninhisstead. This he asked as a personal favor, and signed himself "George S. Catlin, member of Congress elect." The change was made immediately after. Camden Races—The Great Day.—The weather, on Thursday, was again fine, and the attendance at the course large. The racing was ’ ’ good, but terminated briefly, as follows: Result for purse of S4OO, three mile heats. Col. Francis Thompson’s b h Pryor, by Priam; dam by Eclipse, 5 years old, 2 2 ’ Col. W. R. Johnson’s b h Regent, 4 y’s . old, by Priam; dam byArchy, 11 Time—6,o-1-6,09. The contest for the jockey club purse will be great. Those celebrated horses Fashion, Regis ter, and Blue Dick, have been entered. ■ President Tyler’s Northern Tour. . . The following is quoted at the North as the programme of President Tyler’s visit to that region in June: . * President Tyler’s Proposed Visit.—We - understand, says the N. Y. Sun, that in proceed- ' ing to Boston to attend the Bunker Hill Cele bration, on the 17th June, the President will re ’’ main a day or two in New York. From Bos . ton he will take the Western Railroad, visit the ' • U.S. Armory at Springfield, Mass, and the Ar senal at Watervliet, New York, stopping at Al bany and Troy. Whether he will extend his tour to Buffalo, around Lake Erie to Cleveland, 1 and thence by the valley of the Ohio and the Baltimore Railroad back to Washington, we have not been informed. It may' not be amiss to quote in juxtaposi tion with the above, a certain sentiment given by President Tyler in 1839: Travellino Presidents.—The whole nation will respond with acclamation to the following, in which Mr. Tyler himself must join, if he ad heres to the principles laid down in his own toast, on a former occasion. Hear him! A Toast from John Tyler in 1839 “By • John Tyler—Pilgrim Presidents and Travel ling Cabinets: The fruitful offsprins of the se cond Presidential term. One term and no re election—the best interests of the country de pend upon it—will not the popular suffrage de cree it in 1840.” The above is a clincher. It alluded to Mr. Van Buren and his Cabinet, who were then on a pilgrimage beating up for “a second Presiden tial term.” Has Tyler changed or have the people chan ged?—Taunton Whig. Terrible Disaster. The New Orleans Tropic of the 24th says:— We are pained to record another sad disaster, attended with serious loss oflife, in our waters. At about 12 o’clock yesterday, the towboat Phe nix, Capt. Annable, having in tow the ship Fla vius, from Liverpool, burst three of her boilers, when just below Carrollton, scalding and other wise injuring nearly every person on board.— There were twenty-one persons on the Phenix of whom three men, named Charles Davis, an Irishman, John, a Portuguese, and George, an American, were instantly knocked overboard and drowned. John Clarite, the Pilot of the Phenix, s . erely scalded, and not expected to live. Janies Skinner, Second Engineer, is also dangerously scalded, with but little hope of his recovery. In addition to the above, five fire men, names unknown, were scalded, one of whom died last evening. The Captain of the Flavius was slightly bruised by a plank hurled against him, but Capt. Annable escaped unhurt. More of tile Treasury Notes. The N. O. Tropic says:—Holliday, who was ’ * arrested at Cairo some days since, on suspicion of having participated in the robbery of the Customhouse in this city, was on Wednesday last committed to jail in St. Louis. In his pos session was found some $12,000 in specie. The St. Louis New Era says:—The person arrested was in this city some weeks ago, and it is said that some of the cancelled Treasury Notes have been traced to him as having pass them. The case will come up for hearing be fore Judge Manning, to-morrow morning, on application for a writ of habeas corpus. Locofocoism going fora Bank or the U" States ! —The Knoxville (Tennessee) Post con tains the following paragraph, A Word to United States B ink Men.— The greatpopularity of a United States Bank all over the State of Tennessee, has induced many , of the Democratic party (who are candidates) tor seats in the next Legislature, to avow them selves infavor of the establishment of such an insti tution. In many counties where there is a nomi nal democratic majority, the leaders of that party , know that they can only make success certain by falling into the current of popular opinion upon thisimportant subject, endeavor to deceive the people by declaring, that they entertain the same views, and that they will use every' effort in their power, if they should be honored with the c. n fidence of the people, to promote the success of this vital measure. * • Escape of one of the Canadian Patriots from New South Wales.—Mr. Louis Bour don, (son-in-law of Major Papineau, so well known in Canada,) who was one of the number of the Canadian patriots of 1839, sent into exile in New South Wales, made his escape from that place, and arrived in this city on Wednesday', bv the brig Russian, from Rio Janeiro; but de ’ clines to state the manner of his escape, as it would implicate other persons. He immediate ly proceeded to the frontier, where he expects o meet his family. He has been engaged as clerk for the govern ment in New South Wales, and was closely con fined for two years.— N. Y. T/wc Sun. A Tyler Meeting in Maryland.—The , . Somerset Herald of Tuesday gives an account of a Tyler meeting held at Princess Anne, Md., L. D. Teaekle, Esq. was elected President, and Messrs. Jones and Overly, Secretaries. The Herald says—" But three votes were received in favour of organization and these were given by those gentlemen who officiated; consequently' they appointed themselves." There was a large attendance of Whigs and Democrats on the oc casion who took no part in the proceedings ex cept to vote down all the resolutionsand the mo tion to adjourn. Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot. New York, Thursday, P. M. The Great Western sailed to-day- punctually at 2P. M. She takes out 130 passengers and a full freight—making one of the best trips she has had. The Packet ship Sheridan also takes out 40 cabin and upwards of 100 steerage passengers Previous to their departure a moderate busi ness was done in exchanges. The supply of bills was large and the market closed heavy at 108 on London, and 5 30 on France. The sales al the Stock Exchange were very large, and prices continue to have an upward tendency. There appeal's to be much better feeling in the cotton market; the sales to-day exceed one 1000 bales at yesterday’s quotations. Flour is in de mand, and prices firm; sales of Gennessee were made at $1 87}, Ohio 481 a l 75, Michigan 4- 68j a 4 75. Suspicious Vessel.—Captain Roberts, of the Br.brig Queen Victoria, ladaysfrom Turks Island, saw, oft*Grand Key, a large clipper top sail schooner, lull of men,’ supposed to be a pi rate: she had been cruizing off Turks Island several days. Tills is doubtless the same ves sel seen off St. Thomas on the 20th ult., and near Sail Rock on the 25th. Jonathan Lawrence, Esq., having resigned as President of the Merchants’ Fire Insurance Co., Nathaniel Richards, Esq., has been unanim ously elected President in his place. Receipts ofthe Western Railroad, week end ing 20th inst., $11,836; being an increase of $3,- 194 above the corresponding week of 1842. The New York Methodist Episcopal Confer ence, now in session at New York, has decided mot to divide that Conference. Jjr’Heniy B. Holcombe, Esq., was elected Cashier of the Branch Bank in Mobile, in plat e atf B. Gayle, Esq., resigned. Correspondence <f the Newark Sentinel. Natchez, May Dili, 1843. I cannot give you a very' flattering account ol the prospects of trade or politics in this country. As to the latter, the minds of the people appear to be unsettled. There is no prevailing feeling for any man or policy. The Whigs all look to Clay as their representative, and the Locos are divided between Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Cal houn., Neither Cass nor Johnson, nor Buchan an are ever thought of. But there is very little excitement on the subject. The friends of Mr. Calhoun are making strong efforts to secure the vote of the south, and talk confidently of his being the nominee ofthe Convention. Butthey have stern prejudices to contend with here as well as at the North. Mr. Tyler is universally despised. During extensive lours through Lou isiana, Alabama and Mississippi, within the last sixty days, I have not met a man who en tertains any respect for him. The Whigs call him a traitor, and the Locos charge him with an attempt to bribe them to support him for le election. Between the two he falls to the ground. Mr. Webster is every where spoken of respect fully, but he has injured himselfbj' this connec tion. Business doesnot revive much, though Col. Benton’s gMen dreams are realized., You would be surprised to see how the southrons have retrenched their expenses. Every- body cries “Retrenchment and Reform,” and it is safe to say- that the domestic expenses of this whole section have been reduced one half. A New England Yankee could not live nearer the wind than those once prodigal planters. In this way they are relieving themselves very- much. One dollar goes as far with them now as five did a few years ago. Domestic economy is more studied too. I attended the Agricultural Fair of this county a few days ago at Washington (six miles from Natchez,) and was surprised to see so many evi dences of domestic and rural economy, and im provement in all the arts of life. It would have done credit to Massachusetts. There was a fine display ol domestic manufactures cloths, wool len and colon, silks, stockings, counterpanes, &c. The richest Counterpane I ever saw was ex hibited by- Mrs. Julia Cashell, being wrought of silk of her manufacture, from cocoons of her own raising. 1 counted 30 specimens of female industry and skill of various descriptions. The products ofthe Dairy were very superior, quite equal to Jersey butter. Numerous improved agricultural instruments, some ofthe very finest specimens of blood cattle, South-downs sheep, and Berkshire Hogs, were on the ground giving testimony of a wonderful change in the habits and pursuits of lhe people here. The best cattle were bred at Lexington, Ky., but Col. Wm. St. John Elliot and Thomas Hall Esq. exhibited some fine Durham cows, with hides as smooth as a blooded horse, raised on their own planta tions. There were several pens ol remarkably fine sheep. With some few exceptions, the horses were inferior. 1 have been the more particular because this is a new scene at the South. It shews better than words that the people are awaking to see the true means of independence. The northern virtues of Industry and Economy are becoming domesticated here, and they will do more than all the “southern chivalry” to redeem the south, and preserve the balance of power. The Fair was very numerously attended. Nearly all Natchez was there the first day, and in the even ing I attended a large party, which assembled the fashion and beauty of Adams county. Truly yours, J. R. B. Important Decision in Missouri. —The St. Louis Organ, of the 6th., say-s, “We learn that Judge Mullanphy made a de cision in court, y-esterday, which may be re garded as very important, if the laws as laid down by- him shall be confirmed by the Supreme Court. The question rose upon an appeal taken from the recorder’s court by a free negro, who was apprehended and fined for living in the State without a license. It will be recollected that the statute ot 1835!requires certain free negroes to obtain a license to live in the State, and compels others to remove out ot the State if they- do not come within lhe terms required for a license. An exception is made in favor of ‘/Ac citizens’ of any- other State who shall come here. “Judge M. decided that the ‘citizen’ as used in the Constitution of the United States and in our laws is equivalent to ‘subject’ as used under the British Constitution, and includes all persons who were born in the United States. It will be seen that if the decision stands, it strikes a death blow at once to the contemplated effect of our aws prohibiting free blacks from entering or residing in the State, and grants free access into our State to all persons who were born in the United States, no-matter what their complexion. The Judge may- be wrong, but we do not see how it is possible to limit the signification ofthe word to a more restricted sense than that given it. Judge Mullanphy, we are told will publish his opinion at length.” Life and Death ofthe Sexes. The laws of life and morality between the sexes are very’ remarkable. They are stated thus: 1. In the present condition of the white popu lation of the United States, the number of fe males born per annum is about 12,000 less than the males. This determines of itself that polyg amy is not a natural condition of man, and that the laws of our religion and nature are the same —that one man shall be the husband of one wo man. 2. At 20 years of age, the females exceed the' males. This proves that between birth and 20, the mortality among lhe boys has been much greater than that among the girls. 3. From 20 to 40, the men again much exceed the women, which shews that this is the period of greater mortality among women. 4. From 40 to 70, the difference rapidly di minishes, the females, as in the early- part of life, gaining on the males. This shews that this is the period of greatest danger and expo sure to men, the least to women. 5. From 70 onwards, the women outnumber the men. This shews conclusively- that, rela tively speaking, in comparison with men, the healthiest period of female life is at the close of it. Absolutely, however, no period to either sex is so healthy as that of youth—the blooming period ol boyhood and girlhood. The above deductions of statistical tables cor respond with every- day observations of human life. Women are exposed to peculiar hazards in the middle of life; but in the long run, far the largest part of this exposure, danger, and risk, in civilized nations, fall on men in the active periods oflife. From lhe Picayune of Tuesday. The Murdered Mier Prisoners.—O. C. Phelps, a fortunate individual among the un fortunate Mier prisoners, and one of those “deci mated" and marked out as a victim to the Molochiot Mexican vengeance, arrived in this city yesterday- by the brig Architect, from Vera Cruz. Happily for him, when Santa Anna was a prisoner at Orasembo, Texas, his father, at whose house he was, treated him with kindness, in consideration of which the life of young Phelps was spared. Santa Anna took him to his palace, and after keeping him there some time provided for his passage to this city. We are pleased to have this act ol gratitude to re cord ofSanta Anna. The bright spots in his character are so few that it would be injustice to screen or conceal them. Although the names of the prisoners, who were decimated and shot, were published on the first receipt of the news, we give the list furnish ed by Mr. Phelps, as many of the unfortunate sufferers have friends in this country': Capt. Win. M. Eastland, J. W. M. Thomp son, J. D. Cocke, J. N. Torres, Thos. L. Jones, J. L. Shephard, Hy. Whaling, W. H. Rowan, C. H. Roberts. E. E. Esty, J. Turnbull, R. H. Dunham, K. W. Harris, W. C. Winn, P. Maher, J. L. Cash, J. M. Ogden and Capt. Cameron. From the same of Wednesday. The Mier Prisoners.—We had the plea sure of an interview yesterday with Mr. Phelps, one ofthe Mier prisoners who arrived here on Monday, in the schoonei Architect, from Vera Cruz. His account of the. battle of Mier, in which the Texans fought with such desperate bravery, though so unequal in numbers to their enemies—of their daring attack on, and victory over, their guards at Salado—their escape, suf fering and subsequent recapture —of the shoot ing in cold blood of the decimated numbers, and of their march in manacles to Mexico—is exci tingly interesting. Their suffering, from the time’they escaped trom their guard till they were retaken, is inconceivable. For six days they were without water or any kind of drink! Some of them, to preserve life, had recourse to an extremity to quench their thirst which here we forbear to name! The time of drawing the lots, too, which was an act of life or death, must have been one of the most anxious solicitude. One hundred and four white beans and seventeen black ones were deposited in a hat—the prisioners were marched up to draw, every two handcuffed to gether—the poor fellow whose evil fate it was to draw a black bean was then separated from his comrade, on whom he was never to look again—he was put into a high walled yard, and four hours afterwards a volley- of deliberately aimed Mexican musketry separated his mortal soul from his suffering body! Base was this victory ci cowardly vengeance. Nothing to do with you, Sir!—lt appears that this, in effect, is the language to be used to wards Mr. Tyler, as an aspirant for the “Dem ocratic nomination to the Presidency,” so far as the New York wing of that party is concern ed. At a Convention held at Utica, last Fri day, a resolution was adopted positively rcjvs iii"'te rereg .tree John Tyler as a candidate for the Presidential nomination, and declaring that his “desertion and treachery to those who confi ded in him form no recommendation to an hon est democracy.” The Utica Observer accom panies the publications of these proceedings with the remark that they think very well of Captain Tyler for removing Whigs' and ap pointing locofocos, but that nevertnelqss they “regard him merely as President for the residue of his term, and not as a candidate for re-elec tion.” This Utica resolution expresses undoubt edly the sentiment of the whole Locofoce partv —-V 1”. Express. From the N. O. Picayune. Occupation of the Sandwich Islands by Great Britain. By the arrival ofthe Architect, we received the official announcement of the occupation of the Sandwich Islands by the British. Differ ences having arisen between the royal authori ties of those islands and the British Consul, Mr. Simpson, the Hon. Lord George Paulet, Cap tain of H. B. M. frigate Carysfort, made a pe remptory demand upon the Governor of Oanu for a personal interview with the King of the Is lands. This was done on the 11th of February last, and the King was at once sent for. He de clined a personal interview, but delegated a Dr. Judd to negotiate. Upon this Lord George be comes indignant, and on the 17th Feb. he sends an ultimation to the King, threatening immedi ate resort to force unless certain conditions pro pounded by him, six in number were acceded to by- the 19lh (Sunday.) The couditions com prised: first indemnification to a Mr. Charlton and his representatives, secondly a recognition of a Mr. Simpson as Mr. Charlton’s deputy- as H. B. M.’s Consul, and an apology- to her Majes ty, by- saluting her flag and receiving her agent; thirdly, a guarantee of British property; fourthly, compliance with a previous promise of a fair trial to one Skinner, which promise is said to have been evaded; fifthly an immediate settle ment of the difficulties between the two govern ments by a reference; and lastly, a direct com munication between the King ofthe Islands and the British Consul. These terms were announc ed to Capt. Long, of the U. S. ship Boston, as well as to the authorities of the islands on the 17th. in his reply on the 18th, the King accedes to all of them, though under protest, and names on his part Sir George Sampson and William Rich ards to negotiate directly with the English gov ernment, for the arrangement of all the points of difference. Lord George replies by naming 2 o’clock on the same day for an interchange of salutes, and demanding an hour to be named on Monday, the 20th Feb. for receiving himself and H. B. Majesty’s representative. The King named 11 o’clock, A. M. The presentation was made, we presume, but the next we hear of the affair is an appeal ofthe King to his subjects, dated Feb. 25th, stating that he is in difficulties, but that he hopes for the best when justice can be done him in England. Bearing the same date appears a formal cession on the part of his majesty (named Kamehameha III.) ofthe whole groupofthe Sandwich Islands to Lord George Paulet, representing Great Bri tain, which cession is stated to be made in (ton sequence of the impossibility ot acceding to the demands of Lord George. Terms are annexed to the cesssion, guaranteeing the security of the natives; a provisional government, mixed ofna tives and the English; the enjoyment of their ex isting legal rights; the continuance of the native revenue service conditionally; astipulation that the titles to lands in the islands shall remain in the natives’ hands, until the receipt of notifica tion from Great Britain of the arrangements which may be made there; and lastly, the fulfil ment of the existing engagements of the native King and Premier. This occupation of the Sandwich Islands would appear to be a high-handed measure on the part of Lord George Paulet. It shows, however, how promptly the English Governmentever acts in a case where the rights of its citizens are invaded or are thought to be invaded. In some aspects, it resembles our Com. Jones’ proceedings at Monterey, but now having a hold upon these is lands, we fear England will not readily let go her grasp upon them. Our information upon the subject is derived from bare official docu ments, utterly without commentary. To give the documents themselves, would uselessly cum ber up our columns. Supreme Court—lmportant Decision. United Slates vs Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania. In this case Judge Watts, of the Commercial Court, appointed C. Adams, jr., and W. W. Frazier, receivers or registrators, with the con sent of parties, to administer the assets, amount ing to a very large amount, say a million and a half of notes, bills, &c. One of the defendants, in a suit instituted by Adams and Frazier in the Commercial Court, where judgment was ren dered in favor of plaintiffs, appealed to the Su preme Court to reverse the judgment in the court below. The unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court was delivered yesterday morning by his honor Judge Garland, sustaining the decision of the Commercial Court in all the numerous points raised in the case, except one, and that was in regard to the interest, the Judge of the Commercial Court having curtailed the plain tiffs’ claims for 10 per cent conventional inter est to 6 per cent, which was overruled by the Supreme Court, that court allowing the full conventional interest of 10 per cent. No cause has been decided by our courts for many years which excited so much interest. It involved a very large amount of money, and presented many questions of law which have been considered as unsettled in our courts —such as the right of a corporation of another state to loan money, purchase bills, &c., in our state; -he power of such a corporation to take more interest than that authorized in the charter to be received in the state in which it is located; the power of a court in Louisiana, with the assent of the parties, to appoint registrators or receiv ers to collect the fund in controversy. In this case all these questions were present ed by the defendants. They repudiated the debt altogether, they pleaded usury, and denied the capacity of the receivers to sue. None of these grounds found any favor in the Supreme Court; repudiation received a set ere rebuke in this o pinion of the Court, which, we learn, was ex tremely able and learned. Counsel for plaintiffs, Balie Peyton, U. S. District Attorney, Grymes and T. Slidell; for defendants, Eustis, Stawbridge and Josephs.— N. O. Picayune. The Cincinnati Gazette, referring to a cur rent report, that the Hon. John McLean, of Ohio, is to be brought out as a Whig candidate for President, decidedly observes : “Who are the supposed projectors of this mysterious plan, or what may be their views, we cannot divine. But we do know from an authority which cannot be questioned, that Judge McLean has no knowledge of any such design, and that he will not sanction any move ment, come from what quarter it may, which would make him a candidate for the Presidency n opposition to Mr. Clay.” What Is the Piratet It has been positively asserted during the last few weeks that the piratical craft that has seve ral times been seen in the vicinity of the Isle of Pines, is the missing Texian Schooner San Antonio. Facts are daily accumulating that go far towards a justification of the assertion. In lhe New York Commercial Advertiser ol the 10th inst., we find the following: Extract from a letter received from an officer of the U. S. Brig Boxer, Lieut. Com. Oscar Bullus. The detailed account of our chase ot the pi rate off the Isle of Pines was furnished you in my last. In aN. York paper I observe that our report of the character of the craft in question (based on occular demonstration, viz: her build, annament crew, her evident attempt to overhaul us, and then bearing away when our disguise was detected,) is objected to on the ground that a slaver had arrived in Cuba, reporting she had been chased by a U. S. brig. Our belief as to the character of ‘the chase’ has been strengthened from various sources, and recently confirmed by the relation of a de serter from her, with whom I conversed, as also by the Captain of a vessel who spoke to her in a heavy gale of wind, and such a sea as render ed it dangerous to float a boat. Their descrip tion corrresponded in every particular with our observations of her. The former stated that when he shipped, he was led to believe he was entering on board a Texan man of war; that she is armed with a long 32 pounder amidships on a pivot, six carronades, and a crew of 80 men —appendages unusual for a slaver. 'I his evidence seems to be uncommonly strong —the description of the armament of the San Antonio is exact. We have been quite dispos ed to believe, until recently, that the gallant Seeger was lost in one of the disastrous hurri canes of last autumn, but late information is effecting a rapid change in our opinions. That Seeger is alive, nothing can induce us to ima gine. Il the San Antonio has been transformed into a piratical vessel, the change was not ac complished until her commander had sacrificed his life. A braver officer, or a more irreproach able gentleman never held command on the ocean. We had a conversation yesterday, with a brother of Capt. Seeger, now in this city. He does not hesitate to declare it as his opinion that the San Antonio is still afloat, an opinion which, we find, is entertained by almost every person in this city, acquainted with the peculiar powers of that vessel. Circumstances that came to the knowledge of Mr. Seeger, just before the schooner sailed from Galveston, induced him to warn his brother, her eommander, against cer tain men on board, men, he was satisfied, capa ble of any atrocity, one or two of them holding offices of considerable importanee. His appre hension is that the crew, led on by two or three officers, mutinied, murdered the Captain and such other persons as could not be made useful, and entered upon their unholy enterprise. We are informed that just before the depart ure of the Texian squadron from this port, in telligence was received that two seamen known to have sailed from Galveston on the San Anto nio, were in this city, and that one of them had incautiously declared that the San Antonio was in good hands, and that site could be heard ot on application at St. Jago de Cuba. Search was made for these men by some of the Texian offi cers but they could not be found. It is worthwhile taking into consideration the fact that no acts of piracy have been reported during the last few months. If Pirates have been at work, they have managed to conduct their depredations with extraordinary secrecy.— It appears impossible that they can have been very active in thair vocation, without subject ing’themselves, through accident, to some de gree of exposure. At all events, curiosity and alarm are now so fully excited that we may an ticipate speedy and important developements.— -V. O. Tropic. i From the New Orleans Picayune. Later from Mexico. By lhe arrival, i,t this port yesterday, of the brig Architect, we have received late intelli gence fi om Mexico. Our files of Mexican pa pers and letters from our correspondents are complete. They had received advices at Vera Cruz, with the details ofthe action off Campea chy, between Com. Moore and the steamships, but with fewer particulars than reached us di rect. The $270,000, the first instalment of the in demnity due the United States, has been paid to our minister, Gen. Thompson, and were to have been forwarded on the 20th inst. by the Dolphin. The Government had great difficulty in raising the sum. It addressed circulars dated the 17th of April, to 280 citizens of Mexico, askingltheir attendance at the office ofthe Minister lor For eign Affairs. Some thirty attended the meet ing, and the necessity of raising the $270,000 for Uncle Sam, was laid before them in supplicato ry terms, but only trom seven to fourteen thous and could be so raised, in consequence of which the Mexican papers talk in very despairing tones of the situation of their government. The domestic news which we receive from Mexico, is ot little interest to this country. — The forced loan by which the Secretary of the Treasury raised the money to be paid to this Government, was resisted in some cases, and El Siglo Diez y Nucre contains the correspond ence between the victims ofthe loan and the de partment. The sufferers were arranged in classes; the first was mulcted in three thousand dollars each, and was not numerous; the sec ond in twenty-five hundred dollars, and still but a few; the third in two thousand, and their number swelling, and so down to the thirteenth class, who were made to pay but twenty-five dollars a head. The names of individuals in each class were promulgated in the papers.— The whole affair looks a little audacious to a bonafide republican. The complainants against the arbitrary tax allege that the Government placed its friends in lower classes and its ene mies in higher ones than they were entitled to. Intelligent men have become impressed with the idea that the sway of Santa Anna is to be of short duration ; that he will not enjoy his pres ent power for another month, but that his down fall will be maiked by atrocities characteristic of the man. We understand that the Architect brings over a Spanish gentleman named Ayala, who has tfeen banished by the country on the most frivolous and unworthy pretexts.’ Rumors were current of domesticMnsurrec lions and qaKeaUMiSA no more deti individuals—all occurrence not unheard of in the Mexican republic. Still we believe that important events are about to transpire, which will shake that Government to its centre. The Architect brought over about $15,000 in specie. The yellow fever was raging in Vera Cruz when she left that port. The Courier of last evening gives details of proceedings off Campeachy, which we do not find in our own correspondence. It represents Com. Moore as avoiding a meeting with the Mexican fleet, and as being now blockaded by it. We wait to hear this news confirmed. Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. Philad. & Camden Race Course, ) Friday, May 26, 1} o’clock, J There are a large number ot persons on the course, all anxiously waiting the four mile heats to come off at two o’clock. The horses entered for the race are Fashion, Blue Dick, and Reg ister. The first named carries 118 pounds, the second 121 pounds, and Register but 104 pounds. The betting at the present time is three and four to one on Fashion, against the field, and but few takers of these offers at that difference. The day is delightful, and the track, as well as the nags, are in the finest older. At a quarter to 2 o’clock the bugle sounded, and the horses were brought upon the ground— Fashion first, the other two closely following. Betting had by this lime almost entirely ceased at every odds offered. Five minutes to two the riders ivere called and prepared to mount. At 5 minutes past 2, all being mounted and read}', the horses were called up, and on a sec ond attempt, they were let off, “Register” taking the lead, which heh Id gallantly until the fourth round was nea'ly half completed, when the mare, which had closely pressed him from the commencement ofthe heat, brushed up and pass ed him with apparent ease, coming in more than halt a distance ahead. Time 7:58. Blue Dick run from one to three lengths behind.— The running was beautiful, Register being as pretty a runner as Fashion. After the usual interval allowed between four mile heats had elapsed, the horses were again called and made a beautiful start, Fashion tak ing the lead, which she maintained te the end of the heat, Dick occasionally lapping her. The heat was run in 7.53, beating Dick half a length and distancing Register. Dick was hard push ed particularly the last mile, Fashion running easy the whole distance. She is a great animal, and probably without a rival in the world. Outrages at Philadelphia. Outrage.—Ou Monday, the party of brick makers now on a strike tor increase of wages, committed an assault upon John S. Smith, brickmaker, of the Northern Liberties, while ri ding in a wagon with two friends, when one of them was severely hurt. The same day they committed an outrage upon Mr. Weekliam, of Kensington, an employer, and rode him upon a rail until he signed a paper yielding to their re quisition of pt ices.— Phila. American. Still Greater Outrages.—Yesterday a large body ol the brickmakers, after parading in various quarters of the county, proceeded to the steam brickworks of James Harper and Sons, on the Gray’s Ferry road near the United States Arsenal, where, alter committing sundry out rages upon the property and tearing out the ma chinery, they set fire to the factory. The build ings, which were of brick, with an adjoining double brick dwelling, in which some of the workmen lived, and the sheds and outbuildings, were entirely destroyed. Not content with setting lhe place on fire, they carried out their purpose of destruction by opposing the efforts of the firemen, and actually stopped several companies on their way to lhe scene of conflagration. We understand that the Messrs. Harper were insured. The loss must any how fall upon the county. They subse quently left the ground in procession with drums and fifes playing. The value of property destroyed in the brick yard of Messrs. Harper is, as we are informed, about 915,000. The buildings, independently of the press, cost about .$9,000. There was a bout SI,OOO worth of wood on the premises, which we believe was also destroyed. It is stated on pretty good authority, that several of the fire •ompaiiies, on learninglhenature ofthe fire, refused to assist in extinguishing it. This is another illustration of the necessity of a re form in the fire department. If men who assume the business of protecting the city trom conflagration, who are periodically assisted by the city government and oftentimes by private donations, undertake to determine when they will not, it is full time that a new system was adopted, under which the agents will enjoy no such discretion. Several disgraceful fights took place among some of lhe fire companies on their return from the fire; one in Arch and another in Race-tree:, in which stones and bludgeons were freely used. —Phil. American. Mail Robbery.—A letter was shown us last evening, says the Mobile Advertiser of the 26th, written by the Postmaster at Coffeeville in this State the day before yesterday, to the Postmas ter in this city, giving the details of a robbery ot the Greensborough mail on Monday. The rob bery appears to have been committed by the dri ver, who has been arrested and examined before a magistrate. Sufficient evidence has been eli cited to warrant his committal. The driver’s name is said to be Tarburton. A part of the contents of the mail bag was found in a creek, about 5 miles below Coffeeville. Several letters were found brok -n. open and among them quite a number addressed t > persi .ns in this city, a list of which may be seen by calling at lhe Postoffice. The Postmaster at Coffeeville states in his letter that he was about making further search in the creek and elsewhere for othermissingpackages. Emigration to Texas.—Our readers, says the Picayune of the 26th ult. may recollect the presence in our city some weeks since of two Geiman noblemen on their return from Texas, where they had been to purchase large tracts of land. We presume they are among the individ uals alluded to in the following paragraph which we met w’ith yesterday, received by the Great Western, and credited to the Magdeburg Jour nal, of the 13th of April: Among the many projects for colonization which have lately been brought forward, it is in tereting to learn that twenty-four German prin ces and noo'emen have subscribed several hun dred thousand florins to a joint stock (the shares al 5,000 florins,) and have purchased a consider tract of landin the Republic of Texas. Two of the shareholders have been sent to Texas, who have concluded the purchase with the President of the Republic, and are now on their way home. Count C 1, in Mayence, who was in the Austrian service has the whole direc tion of the affair. The humane object of this undertaking is to enable the shareholders to pro cure fortheir subjects who emigrate a sure means of subsistence in America. Should the plan succeed, as it is to be expected, it will be mnch enlarged by an increase of the funds. When the body of Paine was taken from the house where he died, in the city, to New Roch elle, to be buried, a negro man, who had been assisting, inquired, when the interment was completed, if there was to be no prayer. “No!” was the response. “What! noprayer?" “No, unless you make one!” “Well," said he, “is nothing to be said ?” “No, unless you say it!” “Well!” said the negro, striking his spade into the ground— ‘•P.aor Tom Paine ’ here he lies, Nobody id nobo«y cries! -Where he has gone, or how he Nobody knows, and nobody cares!" During a brief visit at New Rochelle last sum mer, we found the old negra still living, and his account of the funeral is an instructive com mentary on the mournful effects of a long course cf vice and intemperance upon one of the most gifted men of his day .—Newark Advertiser. I" - 1 -' Y MORNING MAY 31. ements IN Massachusetts. Express says, “some o( the rgingthe nomination of Dan ivernorof the State. jr., (Locofoco) declines run in the 2d district, and J. C. ' Lynn, has been nominated generally supposed that Ran toul declines, inlexpectation of being appointed Collector of Boston, in place of Levi Lincoln.” IS-Thc General Assembly of the Presbyteri an Church, School), now sitting in Phila delphia, have resolved to meet next year at Louisville. \ Bank Agenc^r.—The Apalachicola Journal ofthe 20th saysi~“Ouragencies have all rtlosed their business fol the season, with the exception ofthe agency ofthe Bank of Brunswick, Win. G. Porter, EsjjMtarnt. We trust their business may have be)Was profitable as their conve nience has beeOreat. We now boast a better currency than aky part of Florida. The river is reported very low, so that our largest boats meet with difficulty in getting up and down. The smaller class boats are yet bringing good loads of cotton, ot which th ere is quite a large quantity yet to come. From the National Intelligencer. The TWO Distributions. In partial compliance with the request of some friends at a distqace, we give below a table of the distributive share ot the surplus revent le to which the Secretarv ofthe Trea ury gave notice that each State was entitled, on the Ist of Janua ry, 1837, under the Jeposite act of June, 1836. It must not be forgotten that ot this great sum the entire payment, in fotirqu rterly instaln Kents was legalized by a Jackson Congress, ami re ceived the Presidential assent ot General J ack son himself. Three-fourths of it—or above twenty-eight milfcns of dollars—were accor. sing ly paid over to in these proporti ons; but the remainiffljhtiartef could not, in cimse quence ol the explosion of that year, be so paid. Van Buren recomm end ed a postponement o f the steadfast and strong friendss of the States, their rights, finances, &c. Perhaps, however, it was all for the best; for large as was the excess of money in the Treasury when Mr. Van Buren came to the Presidency, he had spent it all before the end of his term, got rid of a very large yeatly income, and been obliged to borrow considerably—an operation which, to say the truth, might have been rather difficult, if he had been forced to raise by loan an additional sum equal to what was thus w ith held from the State treasuries—say nine and three-eights millions of dollars. Here, then, we have a grand measure ol ■dis tribution, meant (every body knows) as stitch, though taking the illusory name of a deposite with lhe States. It was a loan made with no sort ol intention or expectation, on either side, that it would ever be paid. This is abundantly shown in the single fact, that though all the ter rible financial difficulties in which the govern ment began within three years after to be plunged not a single intimation or suggestion has ever yet come from any quarter, public or private, of such a deposite in the hands of the States, sub jec. to the order of the Federal Government whenever it should be needed—as it certainly has now been most greivously, for several years. Nay, what do we see and hear at this very mo ment? The party whose wasteful career flung the country into these difficulties, and which nosv rails as it somebody besides themselves were the criminals, constantly declares : hat the Treasury is bankrupt, enumerates our deficient resources, and never once alludes to this depos ite w.th the States as lorming even a part ot what, in the schedule of a broken man’s effects, is usually set down as “bad debts on W’hich some little may be collected.” In a word it not meant to take effect as a mere gift—which was really the sense in which the thing was taken at the time through the country at large—yet the deposite act has been clearly rendered a gilt only by the common consent of every body, people or politicians—they being in cluded who so vocilerate against the illegality of a distribution of the proceeds of lhe land sales. We find, on recurring to the Congressional Journals, that the deposite act passed in the Sen ate by a vote of 40 to 6, and in the House by 155 to 39—majorities of more than six to one in lhe former four to one in the latter. It would be more difficult to point to any other great meas ure adopted with the like unanimity. Such a measure—except that it was to be sim ply and directly what this (as we l.avesaid) was only in purpose and effect —was originally re commended by General Jackson in his two ear liest messages. In conception, as a puhlic poli cy, rests, we believe, entirely with him. He ptop wed it as a regular expedient to keep down, the yearly surplus likely to be accumulated in the Treasury by the tariff act of 1828. The direct paternity of the bill, however, is Mr. Calhoun s. It was introduced by him de fended and magnified with his utmost splendor of falling enchantment the visionary glories of a thousand high benefits, such as never before were conferred by any Leg islative or administrative act. To it he looked as sufficient to cure nearly every vice, every wrong tendency in the Government, as then ad ministered. He spoke of it particularly, as pro viding “the only efficient remedy tor the deep seated disease which now afflicts the body politic, and which threatens to terminate so fatally, un less it be speedily and effectually arrested.” That tendency (as he goes onto explain) is con solidation. Now, this bill so perfectly includes every con stitutional objection ever urged by the ultra dem ocratic party against the land sale distribution bill, that it is easy to close every issue of escape for the democracy from their own hot and clam orous denunciations ofthe latter law. First: They will, perhaps, attempt to say that it was a Whig bill, because Mr. Calhoun (then in the opposition) introduced it. But if both parties coalesce (as was here the case) upon a public measure, its accidental origin from a man of this or that party is ol no consequence. The body of both parties supported it in both Houses. Besides, if it is constituted a party measure by the fact of its casual authorship, then Gen. Jackson, not Mr. Calhoun, is its ori ginator, for he invented the plan and the princi ple, and advised its adoption, not as a single and temporary law, but as a regular and ordinary resort of legislation. Secondly: They aver it (and that istheirgreat battle horse on the question) to be unconstitu tional. So protests Mr. Calhoun, who now treats it is a perfect crisis in unconstitutional le gislation: he who considered a bill more com prehensive—doing as to the whole revenue what this does as to but the least objectionable part — as “the only efficient remedy tor the deep-seated disease which afflicts the body politic andthreat ens to terminate so fatally.” The smallest and most legitimate portion of that, the whole of which was so blessed and healing, is now utter ly accursed and fatal! So thunders President Jackson, who originally proposed a measure as much wider than Mr. Calhoun’s as that is wi der than Whig distribution. So shouts the full concert of harmonious democracy, they them selves having sustained a distribution of twenty eight millions, while this is of only one and a half—a distribution of all ti e public moneys from every source of income, while this was confined to the land sales, of which they them selves had again and again legislatively declar ed the whole right to be in the States, not the General Government, as soon as the public debt was paid, to provide lor which they were origi nally conveyed in trust to the Confederacy. Bur, if according to the plan of Gen. Jack son. (wiiom it is “glory enough to have follow ed,”) it was both constitutional and expedient to partition out at.:.u:.!ly among lhe Sta e.s the sur plus r venue ot the year'trom all source , was iL. Mr. Calhoun’s bill constitutional, which dis tributed, by a singlediiiTthe surpb s accumula ted during a succession of years? The letter was the more j ustifiable, as a single act provid ingfor a remarkable and a threatening conjunc ture must be he’d more warantable than the do ing the same thing systematically and ordinari ly. But, besides, the former was intended to keep up the tariff; while the latter was passed when its gradual reduction to the wants of the Government was provided for by the compromise act. A future surplus being thus guarded against the justifiable purpose of the deposite act was to take out of the hands of the Go zernLient an enormous balance, dangerous to have in the Treasury, aud litt'e likely .-gain to occur there. It is, then, incontrovertib e that the deposite act stood on much beuer constitutional g ounds than the measure twice brought before the nation by President Jackson. So much for all who ac knowledge that chieftain as the great expounder of constitutions. It is equally clear that the land sales distribu tion bill (limited only to that part of the revenue which arose from lands, of which the right had been so often recognised as in the States) must have been vastly more legitimate than either of the other mods of distribution. If Gen. Jack son’s distribution was positively constitutional, Mr. Calhoun's was comparatively constitutional, and Mr. Clay’s superlatively constitutional. So much for the’Calhoun democraty. All, then, that Locofocoism can say must at last taper down to this; that the distribution, though constitutional, was inexpedient; because a part of the public revenues ought not to b« ali enated, while the M are now inadequate to the support of the Government. To this there are several decisive answers; first, that the fund in question being the proper ty of the States, the Government (whatever is lack of revenue) has no right to keep it from the States, who are still more in want of it. Se condly, if th-r reasons for withholding the land fund are good for this, they are good for much more. The sums placed ip the Stale Treasu ries by the deposite act are much more clearly the property of the General Government than is the land fund. It wants this twenty-eight mil lions: let the States therefore return it; and they can talk both heroically and becomingly about the lofty principles that forbid them to take the pettv amounts distributable to them out of [he land sales. Theatre Burnt.—On Saturday night, 20th inst. the City Theatre at Louisville, (Ky.) was burnt to the ground, together with the adjoining Coffeehouses, one «n each side. It is stated to have been the work of an incendiary, fire hav ing been communicated to’several places at_the same time. The Theatre belonged to Mr. S. Drake, and was not insured. The Journal says—“We do not know wbat losses, if any, were sustained by the several actors and actress es in the burning of wardrobes, &c. We un derstand that fifty or sixty dollars, the proceeds Saturday night’s performances, were stolen from the manager’s room during the fire.’’ From Havti.—The schooner McDonough, Captain Small, arrived at New York in thirteen days from Jeremie. Capt. Small reports that a President had not yet been elected. Tranquility prevailed throughout the Island. Letter from Mr. Webster. On the 28th of April, Messrs. David Sears, H. G. Otis, T. H. Perkins, P. C. Brooks, and a number ot other gentlemen of Boston, address ed a letter to Mr. Webster, stating that they had “unexpectedly feard" of his intention to retire from the Cabinet, and hoping that it was not his purpose to retire altogether from public life. — They suggest that he is “the only individual to whom the several interests of the North and South can look with equal confidence for pro tection, and with whom may be safely trusted, fully and freely, the adjustment of preliminaries in the important question of the settlement of international trade, based upon free principles and reciprocity of benefit, which is soon to agi tate this country and Great Britain.”—And they say that “nothing would give them greater plea sure than to learn that some commission was contemplated, by which these matters might come under your (Mr. W.) management and control, either at Washington or elsewhere.”— Balt. Fatriot. To this letter, Mr. Webster replied in the fol lowing letter, we. copy from the Boston May 3d, 1843. Gentlemen, —I have received your letter of the 28th of April. You look, gentlemen, with a degree of solicitude, which I can well appre ciate, to the probability, that an adjustment of important questions ot international trade, be tween the United Statesand other countries, es pecially Great Britain, will be attempted. I fear you estimate quite too highly my own abil ity to render useful service to the public, in such transactions; but, by whomsoever conducted, I should feel the strongest interest in their suc cess, should they take place. 1 contess, that, being truly and sincerely devoted to the protec tion of American labor and industry, I consider it to be of the highest importance to give to that labor, and that industry, a security, a steadiness of support, ape ~ rneney of encouragement, which they have not lately enjoyed, and which, I fear, they are not likely to enjoy hereafter, un less a more comprehensive policy be adopted than that, which has hitherto been pursued.— The question of protection has mingled itself, to such a degree, with questions of supposed local interests, with political questions, and struggles lor political power, that it has not been suffered to be at rest, on any basis. It has had no re pose. This is evidently a great evil. All inte rests demand a steady and settled policy, and a conviction of this truth appears to be becoming general and strong. Those who possess the means of living, desire to feel secure in their enjoyment; and those, who have such means to earn, must wish, above all things, to know' W'hat they may depend upon, when they devote their capital and their labor to particular pur suits or inodes of occupation. It was thought that something was accom plished, and certainly something was accom plished, by the tariff act oi last year. Yet, it hardly passed, before the events occurred, crea ting the highest probability that the whole sub ject would be agitated anew in the next Con gress. Are we always to be in this fluctuating state ? Are we never to be able to look for any thing, but a succession of changes? Is there no way ot bringing the whole country and all in terests to an adjustment that may promise some degree of quiet, and ot general satisfaction?— No doubt the various pursuits of the people of this country have really and truly in themselves a strong mutuality of interest. The grain and com producing States must always find the best market tor the surplus of their products in the manufacturing and commercial population of the east; as they will always find the price of manufactured articles, such as they need, kept low, and the quality good, by the productions ot eastern labor. But so rich and abundant is the grain crop of the country, that beyond what may be demanded for the consumption of manufac turing and commercial districts, there is still a surplus, for which, or a pan of which, a foreign market is desirable. The cotton crop, too, tho’ it finds a market at home, the value of which, I think, has never been sufficiently appreciated, requires, nevertheless, free exportation and a large consumption abroad. Cannot those who. are concerned in these inu rests be brought into a harmony and concert of action, proportioned to the real harmony, and mutuality, which sub sist between the interests themselves ? For my part, I think the experiment worth trying, and should have great hopes of its success, it there were no tear of opposition, from collateral or ex trinsic causes. My inquiries at the North, and through the centre, and at the South and West, have been extensive; and the result has led to the conclu sion which 1 have expressed. I would not speak with confidence, upon a matter yet untried, and which, 1 know, may encounter a variety of ob jections; but I repeat that, in my opinion, the ex periment is worth a fair trial. We may well make one earnest endeavor, even upon slight encouragement, to give permanent support to the industry of the country, and stability to the business and pursuits of lite. As to myself, gentlemen, I have no expecta tion ot being concerned, in any manner, in ne gotiations connected with this subject; and am happy to know that the country has many hands, abler than mine, that wieldsuch concerns. The Government has eminent ability at its command, both at home and abroad. 1 have no wish lo go abroad, on public service. If negotiations should be entered into, there are reasons for de siring that they should be undertaken at Wash ington; in which case, according to the usual course, they would be conducted by the Head ot the Department of Stale, under the direction of the President.; With unfeigned thanks for your manifesta tion ot friendly sentiments, respect and confi dence, I remain, gentlemen, your Obliged friend and obd'l serv’t, DANIEL WEBSTER. To the Hon. David Sears, H. G. Otis, Wra. Prescott, and the other Gentlemen. Effects of Perpetual Day.—Nothing made so deep an impression on our senses as the change from alternate day and night, to which we had been habituated from our infancy, to the contin ued daylight to which we were subjected as soon as we have crossed the arctic circle. Where toe ground is but little trodden, even trifles arc interesting; and Ido not, therefore hes itate to describe the feelings with which we re garded this change. Tiie novelty, it must be ad mitted, was very agreerble; and the advantage of constant daylight, in an unexplored and nat urally' bmsterous sea. was too great to allow us even to v> ish (lira return of the alternations above alluded to; but the reluctance we felt to leave the deck when the sun was shining bright upon oar sails and to retire to our cabins to sleep, of ten deprived ns of many hoursot necessary rest; and wh ii ne returned to the deck to keep our night w .u -1.. .1 it may lie io called, and still founu the sun gilding the sky, it seemed as if the day would never finish. What, therefore, at first proir ised to be gratifying, soon threatened to be c me extremely' irksome; and would, indeed have become a serious inconvenience, had we not followed the example ot the feathery tribe, which we daily observed winging their way to roost, with a clack work regularity, and retired to our cabin at the proper hour, where, shutting out the rays ot the sun, we obtained that repose which the exercise of our duties required. At first sight it will no doubt, appear to many per sons that constant daylight must be a valuable acquisition in every’ country; but a little reflec tion will, I think, be sufficient to show that the reverse is really the case, and to satisfy a reflect ing n ind, that we cannot overrate the blessings we derive from the wholesome alternations of Labor and rest, which is in a mannerfozced upon us by the succession of day and night. It is im possible, by' removing to a high latitude, to wit ness the difficulty there is in the regulation of time, the proaeness that is felt by the indefatiga ble and zealous to rivet themselves to their oc cupations, and by the indolent and procrastina ting to postpone their duties, without being truly’ thankful for that all-wise and mt ’tful provision with which nature has endowed the more habita ble portions of the globe.— Beechy’s Narrative of Buchan’s Expedition towards the North Pole. Fire.—A destructive fire occurred at East Cambridge near Boston, on Wednesday last. It broke out in the livery stable of N. J. Daly, which was destroyed together with a large brick hotel with its stabjss, the block of brick buildings opposite occupied by Messrs. Wheeler, Perry « Co., merchants, by the Middlesex Bank, and by several others as dwellings, and an adjoining wooden building. The hotel and stables were owned by George Wheatfield of Salem who was insured. Mr. Wheeler one of the mer chants was also insured tor S3OOO.— N. Y. Tri bune. Cotton Manufacturep in Mexico.—There are in the Republic of Mexico 53 cotton manu factories, with an aggregate of!35,000 spindles. They work up daily on an average, 48,622 lbs. of cotton, and produce 43,760 lbs. ot thread, which whep woven ipto cjpth, &c. is worth S4B,- , 037. These facts we derive from a printed . statement by the Directors General of Mexican ! industry, dated city of Mexico. March 28. 1843. * From the Rome (Ga.) Courier. Life of J. C. Calhoun. We have had the pleasure of a perusal of the Biography of this distinguished individual, re cently published. Although written by one oi his warm friends and admirers, we do not think it presents the character of the great Nullifierin too favorable alight. In some particulars, it does not do him justice. The prejudices of the writer have induced him to pass hastily over a few of the “crises” in Mr. Calhoun’s life with out awarding to him the sum of praise to which he is j ustly entitled, for the very efficient man ner in which he served his country. For exam ple, the able and Statesman-like effort by which he sustained the Protective tariff bill, introduc ed by his lamented colleague from South Caro lina, Mr. Lowndes, is slurred over as a short “off-hand spaech.” Now, that his biographer may be opposed to the system which Mr. Cal houn so appropriately called “American,” is but a lame excuse for presenting a character which has become national property in an unfavorable light besot e posterity. Our opinion of the mer it of Mr. Calhoun’s effort upon this occasion, differs widely from that of his biogropher, and that our jud ment may not be entirely without support, we appeal for its correctness to the short extracts from it, tor which we, this week, have space. In speaking of Commerce and Manufactures, he remarks: “Taken in its most enlarged sense, without commerce, industry would have no stimulus; without manufactures, it would be without the means of production, and without agriculture, neitherof the otherscould exist. VV hensepara ted entirely and permanently, they must perish. War in this country produces to a great extent, that separation, and lienee the great embarrass ments that follow in its train. The failure of the wealih and resources of the nation, necessa rily involves the ruin of its finances and its cur rency. It is admitted by the most strenuous ad vocates on the other side, that no country ought to be dependant on another for its means of de fence—that at least our musket and bayonet, our cannon ball, ought to be domestic manufac ture., is moremecessary to tfie, deg fence of a country, than its currency and fi nance ? Circumscribed as our country is, can these stand the shock of war ? Behold the ef fect of the late war on them I When our man ufaclures ate grown to a certain perfection as they soon will, under the fostering care of the Government, we will no longer experience these evils. The farmer will find a read}’ market for his surplus produce, and what isof almost equal importance, a certain and cheap supply for all his wants. His prosperity will difl use itself to every class of the community.” After portraying the ruin which the war had brought upon all our leading interests, he con tinues— “To this distressing state of things there are two remedies, and only two, one in our power immediately, the other requiring much time and exertion, but both constituting in his opinion, the essential policy of this country. He meant the navy and domestic manufacture. By the former, we could open the way to our markets ; by the latter, bring them from beyond the ocean and naturalize them in our own soil.” He answers the objections which the Feder alists urged against the protection of manufac tures, in this manner— “ But it will, no doubt, be said, if they (the manufacturers) ate so far established, and if the situation of the country is favorable to theii* growth, where is the necessity ot affording them protection ? It is to put them beyond the reach of contingencies. It has been further asserted that manufactures arethe fruitful causes of pau perism, and England has been referred to as fur nishing conclusive evidence of the fact. For his part, he could see no such tendency in them, but the exact contrary, as they furnish new stim uli to industry, and means of subsistence to the laboring classes of the community We ought not to look to the cotton and wool establishments of England for the prodigious number of poor with which her population is disgraced, causes much more efficient exist. Her poor laws and statutes, regulating the price of labor, with her heavy taxes, are the real cause.” In replying to the objection, that Manufac tures caused the dependence of labor on capi tal, he said— “He did not think it was a decisive objection to the system, especially when it had incidental political advantages which, in his opinion, were more than a counterpoise to it. It produced an interest strictly American, as much so as agri culture. In this it had the decided advantage of commerce or navigation. Again (said Mr. C.) it is calculated to bind together more closely our wide spread republic. It will greatly increase our mutual dependence and intercourse, and will as a necessary consequence excite an in creased attention to internal improvement, a subject every way intimately connected with the ultimate attainment of national strength, and the perfection of our political institutions.” In relating the conduct of Mr. Calhoun in another ‘momentous crisis’ of his history, we think the work before us has done him signal injustice. We allude to his course as Chair man of the Finance Committee ot the House of Representatives, when he reported the Charter of the United States Bank, and advocated its passage in such manner as to have well deserv ed the honor which he claims, of being ‘the father of a National Bank.’ This portion of his life has been so much better written by Mr. Morehead of Kentucky, that we shall be par doned for transferring his account of it to our columns. It will be remembered that the bank as well as the tariff were the favorite measures of the Republican or true Democratic party, were passed by a Republican Congress, and sanctioned by a Republican President, and as zealously and uniformly opposed by the Feder alists. Mr. Morehead remarks: “Among the foremost in the ranks of the Re publican party oi that day, in talent, in zeal, in knowledge of the public embarrassments, in sympathy for the wants of the Government and the condition of the People, stood the then mas ter spirit of the South in the House of Repre sentatives—the honorable Senator from South Carolina, (Mr. Calhoun.) Seldom has it been the fortune oi any statesman to occupy an emi nence so enviable and commanding. Through out this extended country —in all the departments of its labor and trade—in every Stale and terri tory and neighborhood—wherever a depreciated paper dollar circulated or a bank had stopped payments every where the sei vies of the honor able gentleman were requited by the well earn ed plaudits of his countrymen. “On the occasion of taking up the bank bill in Committee of the Whole in February, 1810, the Senator from South Carolina openeu the de bate, withan argument of distinguished ability. He proposed to discuss general principles only without reference to the details of the bill. ‘The constitutional question had already been so free ly and frequently discussed, that all made up their mind on it;' and that also he declined to consider. As to the question whether a nation a! ban!; would tie favorable to the administra tion of the finances of the Goveernment, it was one on which there was so little doubt, that gen tlemen would excuse him, if he did not enter in to it’ Leaving these questions, he proposed to examine the cause and state of the disorders of the currency, and whether it was in the pow er ol Congress, by establishing a national bank, to remove those disorders.” I "As t > the ."State ol the currency of the nation,” the Senator proceeded to remark, “that it was extremely depreciated and in degrees varying according to the different sections of the corn try;” that it was “a stain on the public and pri vate credit, and injurious to the morals of the community;” that it “was opposed to the princi ples of the Federal Constitution;” that “the power was gi en to Congress by that instrument, in express terms, to regulate the currency of the United States;” that “in point of fact, that pow er was not in their hands” but was “exercised by banking institutions, no longer responsible lor the correctness with which they managed it;” that “in lieu ot gold and silver the ■ had a me dium, unequally but gererally depreciated, which affects,’ he said, “ibe trade and industry of the nation; which paralyzes the national arm; which sullies the laith, both public and private, of the U. States;” “the right,” he continued, “of making money—an attribute ot sovereign pow er—a sacred a.id important righ —was exercis ed by two hundred and sixty b..nks, scattered over every part of the United States, not respon sible to any power whatever for their issues of paper.” He next alluded to the excess of those paper issues—that “there were not in the vaults of all the banks,morethanfifteen millionsol specie with a capital amounting to about eighty'-two millions ot dollars; and “this,”he argued, “was the true and only cause of the depreciation of the currency.” He then turned his attention to “the manner in which that excess has been pro duced—it was intimately connected with sus pension of specie payments; and advantage had beeu taken of that suspension to issue still grea- Wrflofidaot it.’ Bosides, he said, “the banks had undertaken to do a new business; to make loans to the Government, not as brokers but as stockholders; and practice wholly inconsistent with the system of specie payments.” He con tended, “that the existing state of things would not cure itself—that it rested with Congress to make them return to specie payments;” and “that introduced the subject of the national bank.” “A national bank,” he said, “paying specie itself, would have a tendency to make specie payments general, as well by its influence as its example.” Such an institution with capital of thirty-five millions of dollars, “with the aid of the state banks that were ready to pay specie, would produce a powerful efieot over the un ion.” “The restoration of specie payments would re move the embarrassments on the industry of the country, and the stains from its private and pub lic faith." “It remained to see whether the House, without whose aid it was in vain to ex pect success in the object, would have the forti tude to apply the remedy.” Such, Mr. President, were the views of the Senator from South Carolina in 1816; such his account of the state of the currency; such his opinion of the efficacy of a bank as a remedy for the national embarrassments. Sir, after the lapse of nearly twenty years, and after ample opportunity had been afforded to test the accu racy of his views in 1816, what in 1834 were the opinions of the distinguished Senator? Had it disappointed the expectations of the people or his expectations? No ; it had indeed been revolutionary: but it revolutionized the curren cy. It had been sadly destructive of liberty ; but it was the liberty of state banking corpora tions to flood the country with depreciated pa per, and embarrass all the operations ol com merce and trade. It is proper, however, that the Senator should speak tor himself. In his speech on the removal of the deposites on the 13th January, 1834, the honorable gentleman said; “I am no partisan of the bank. lam connec ted with it in no way by moneyed or political ties. I might say, with truth, that the bank owes as much to me as to any other individual in the country, and I might even add, that had it not been tor my efforts, ii would not have been chartered.” “It is said that the bank had no agency, at least no efficient agency, in ihe restoration of specie payments in 1817; and that it had failed to furnish the country with a uniform and sound currency, as had been promised at its creation. Both of these allegations I pronounce to be with out just foundation. To enter into a minute examination of them would carry me too far from the subject; and I must content myself with saying, that, having been on the political stage, without interruption from that day to this —having been an attentive observer of the question of the currency throughout the whole period —the bank has been an indispensable agent in the restoration of specie payments; that with out it the restoration could not have been effect ed, short of an utter prostration of all the mo neyed institutions of the country and an entire depreciation of bank paper; and that it has not only restored specie payments, but lias given a currency far more uniform between the extremes of the country, than was anticipated or even dreamed of at the time of its creation.” Not satisfied wffh trying to wrest from Mr. Cdlhoun’s brow the brighrest flowers of his chaplet, his biographer tries still further to de preciate his services by falsely stigmatizing the republican measures in support of which he gained his renown as a statesman, as “federal.” >‘The majority,” says he, speaking of the Extra Session of 1841, “ assumes the old federal posi tion upon the bank, the tariff,” &c. Truly, if the ex-Senator from South Carolina has much regard tor his reputation, lie should utter the prayer of the ancient, “O that mine enemy would write the book.” Ta the Editor of the Chronicle and Sentinel : Below 1 hand you the list of the names of those who have not granted their lands, and who resided or gave in their names in Colum bia county. If ungranted on the first day of July next, the lands revert to the State. Drawers' names in Lotteries oj 1821 and 1827, in Columbia County, ungranted. Richard Derby, Alfred Few, Isaac Willing ham, Mitchell 'Wilkins, Phebe Seay, Arthur Slaton, John Bynanm, Nancy Brown, Elvy Langston, Le > Maddox’s orphans, Mary White, James Rowland, Larkin Edmonds, Isaiah W Madduck, James Wright’s orphans, J Green’s illegitimates, William Hall, Humphrey Evans, Henry Harrison, Joice, Enoch and Jas Craw ford, illegitimates, Stephen Phillips, Winefred Duvne, Win G Hughes, dumb, Dorson Cash, E Holliman’s orphans, John Langston, Bath sheba Liles, Thomas Burnsides, John Roberts, Susan Daniel, Elizabeth Flynn, Hugh Rees sr, Elizabeth Flynn, Moses Wade's orphans, Dor othy Lassiter, Tfios Cartledge, Elizabeth Har rison, James Whittaker, Holt Clanton senior, Archibald Offutt, Baldwin Tankersley, Wm Jones, Lettice Grinnage, Wm Palmer, Philip H Dunn, Samuel Bolton, Benjamin Grubbs, Sam'l Cartledge, John Derdin’s orphans, Sam’l W Harrison, Jona’n Tindell’s orphans, Powel Benton, James Uuizenberry, Margaret Holmes, Ignatius Moore’s orphans, Chas Nelson, Benj Watson’s orphans, Zach Roberts, Dorothy C Jones, Henry Sikes, James Walker, R Wil lingham, James Stewart, Thos Short's orphans, Capt Wm Payne, William E Offutt, Randolph Gerald, Henry B Porter, John W Maddock, Martha Allbritton. Roda Foye, John Roberts, senior, Mitchell Carrell, Thos Bailey, Archi bald Offutt, Wm Tindell, Wike Ivy, Samuel Phillips, Peter H Collins, Wm Adams, Alex H Allison, John B Collins, William Wiley, Augustus Dozier, Mary Ann Clay, Levy Guy, Dossey Howard’s orphans, Rach Powell' Mary G Pearre, Isaac Stallings, B E Winfrey’s or phans, Aletha Flinn, Greaf Grammer Twuel, Richard Meriwether. Drawers, in Land Lottery of 1832, in Columbia County, ungranted. Wm S Fuller, Samuel May, Isaac Ramsey, Joseph Prince, Elizabeth Reese, Wm Bacon, Daniel Stantord, Evan T Davis, David Wil kins, James W Pearre, Theo E Massengale, Benj McDonald, Catharine Burnside, Simon Roberts’ orphans, Elizabeth Lawrence, Lav Richardson’s orphans, Francis Darsey, John Brooks, Win Trammell, Nancy Farrar, Perry man May, William Harrison’s orphans, Pliney Wheeler, David Walker’s orphans, George G Tankersley, John H Hatcher, Evan Davis, Lit tleton B Story, John Reynolds, Jeremiah Dar by, Elizabeth Porter, Elizabeth Watson, Mary- Ann Crawford, William Carrel, Wm Tindal’s orphans, John Lucky, Jeremiah Darby, James J Dooly, Thos Kendrick, Wm Germany, Jas Langston junior, John Day, Stephen G Reeves, D C Massengale, Thos Reeves, Leonard Steed senior, David Megahee, Thos Malone senior, John T Blunt, Farley Adams’ orphans, Robert Culpepper’s orphans, Wm Prescott’s orphans. Drawers in Gold Lottery of 1832, in Columbia County, ungranlcd. Dan'i Sullivan, Zebedee Ivey, John C Smith, Wm Stapler, Wm J Evans, VV m J Gartrill, George Gray, James Germany, Henry Maddox, John Moore’s orphans, Isaac Von, Oadiah S Morris, Lain Flbming, VV illiam M Williams, Thos Malone senior, James J Morris, William Yarborough, E P Ivey, Elam Finch, Isaac W Jones, Wm Offutt, Joseph Phillips, Emberson Davis, George Hill’s orphans, Robert Culpep per's orphans, Ellis Jones, Aaron Weaver, W m Carrell, Stephen T Phillips, Wm M Williams, Alex Brown, Vincent Rees, Eli Holley, George W Barker, Nancy H Tindille, JasG Hutchin son, Wm New-som, Elizabeth Laurence, Jos Mote, Elizabeth Jones, ThosChrosbey, Tilmon Moore, James Langston senior, John Jones jr, Wm Zachry, Jas Jones, W m Tindall’s orphans, Jas Draper, Daniel Massengale, Richard W Jones, Elisha Slaten, Jonathan Pearce, Sarah Cliette, Nich V Prather, James Simons, Craw ford Johnson, Thomas Culbreth, Benjamin B Hardin, Henry Burnley, Ichabod Phillips, El bert Ramsey, John W Bealle, Thos Reeves, Georze Lasseter, Hardy Powell’s orphans, Wm Bastian, Edw'd Bowdry, Elvira Wright, David B Hobbs, Pliney Wheeler, Wm Benton’s or phans, James Ramsey, Wm Stapler, John Bol ton, Charles Liles, Thomas W Jones, George Gunby, Hezekiah Boyd, Owen Baldwin’s or phans, Elias Lazenby, Gorge W Toole, Chas T Bealle senior, Jesse Watson, orphans ofD Pace junior, Richard Tillman’s orphans, James Boyd, Jane Foies, Rufus Ray, Wm S Jones jr, Na h H Clanton, Thos B Reese, John Dorman, Wm Newman, Pliney Wheeler, Wm Binion’s orphans, David Seay, Francis Blackston, Lit. Mxilkey, Hugh S Cremer, Jeremiah Darley, Evereti Bonner, Charles T Bealle junior, John Jones senior, Wm Scott, Sam’l Rice’s orphans, Reuben Sanford, Ferd Luke, William Thomas, Jane Fluff, Aug A Paschall, Robert W Bell, H W Massengale, Wm L Blunt, James Pearce, Luvana Powell, Covington Brooks, Thomas Watson, junior, Micajah Von, James Holden, Wm Palmer’s orphans, William Yarbo.ougb, ThosNapie", Rachael Tindal, Michael Dick son, Burrell Richards, James Guy s-nior, Jas Holliman’s orphans, Jeremiah Darby, John E Moore, John Langston, James Ross, Georg Lasseter, Gun: way Martin, Nancy M Cox, Evan T Davis, Thos Bumside, Colours Bene field, Leonard C Steed, Reuben Sanders, Wm Germany, Thos W Westboy, Dorothy C Jones, Wm Lawrence’s orphans, Walter Jones, Sam’l Coulter, Thos J ivey, Obadiah S Morris, Wm Watson, Sarah Sikes, Stephen Drane, Zach. Pollard, John T Blunt, Joseph Phillips, Isaac Lucas, Nancy Morris, Charles Evans, Lewis Spence, James G Hutchisoon, Jas Southerland, Aug M Sanders, Wmßarnett, Wiley H Binion, Elizabeth Hill. 1 will remain in Milledgeville until the first of Julv next, and attend promptly to taking out grants, and affording information in relation to the situation and probable value of lots. Grant tees for land lots including commission $5. Grant fees for gold lots, and commission $3. For information of situation, value, &c., extra, sl. Specie funds. Postage must be paid a insure attention. Many of the above individuals are drawers of valuable lots, which if ungranted on the first of July, the lots revert to the State. Where drawers and owners liave fbrgouan the number, district and section of their lots, an affidavit, with those parts left blank, can readily be filled up by me. WM. H. PRITCHARD. Delightful Amusement.—The editor of the Grand Gulf Advertiser says that “the most de lightful amusement he ever experienced was. ‘days o’ auld lang syne,’ hen he held the calves by the ears, until some pretty dimpled cheek girl milked the cows!” To this the editor of the Picayune replies: Our most interesting reminiscence in that way is, when we used to hold a skein of thread ch our hands whilst a pretty, blue-eyed cousin wound it off. The thread would get tangled,— but it was no fault ol ours! From the New Orleans Picayune.. Late from Texas. By the arrival of the steamship Neptune yes terday from Galveston, we have dales from that ■ity to the 23d inst., and from Houston to the 20th. We do not find the news ot any great importance. The papers are filled with the de tails of the naval engagement off Campeacby, copied from the press of this city. The con duct of Col. Morgan and Com. Moore is laud ed to the echo as brave and gallant, while the editors express their regret that there should be any difference between the President and the Commodore. But they not only rejoice over the success which has thus far crowned the ex pedition under Com. Moore, but give us some slight reason to hope that Gen. Houston will jet reconsider his ilt-advised, his infamous pro clamation, denouncing the Commodore as a pi rate. The Houston Morning Star of the 20th lias these remarks on this point, which we trast may turn out to be well founded: We have received private letters from Cam peachy containing intelligence that induces us to believe that Gen. Houston himself, when he learns the lull details of the transaction will freely acquit Corn. Moore of all blame and ap prove the conduct of Col. Morgan. It’appears that when Gen. Houston gave instructions to Col. Morgan io take possession of the vessels and bring them to Galveston, he believed that the vessels were almost dismantled, without men, without provisions, and rapidly decaying for want of necessary repairs. He therefore thought itadvisable to require Col. Morgan to obtain men and return with them to Galveston imme dialely—at the same time intimating that if they were in a fit condition to contend with the fleet of Mexico he would permit them to go forth and enforce his pfevious orders, to cruise on.the coast of Mexico and harass the enemy. Col. Morgan acco.dingly proceeded to New Or leans; but when he arrived, to his surprise he found the vessels well manned, well provision ed, well armed and all ready to goto sea. The officers and seamen were all eager for battle, and were looking forward with joyful anticipa tions that they would soon have an opportunity to distinguish themselves in the service of their adopted country. The wages of the men and all the provisions and stores on board the ves sels had been paid and furnished by the Yucata nese, and our gallant tars were bound in honor to make some return for the advances thus made,* by our allies. Under these circumstances Col. Morgan, believing that the President never con templated laying the vessels up to rot, if well manned and fit for sea, concluded to give his tree consent to Com. Moore “to visit Yucatan on his way to Galveston.” This permission, however, was not granted until they reached the Balize, and there met a vessel direct from Cam peachy, with intelligence that the Mexican fleet was dispersed and in a wretched condition. He believed that if President Houston had been on board at the time he would have done the same. t By the arrival of one of the Campeachy gun boats at Galveston on the 17th inst. with des patches from the Government, the Civilian has been put in possession of private letters from both Col. Morgan and the Commodore, dated the 10th inst.; although no later than hare been received here, we make extracts from each. In justification of the course pursued by Com. Moore the Colonel writes as follows: If 1 have swerved from my orders ar duty in any way, by taking the Mexican coast on our way to Galveston, it was for the benefit of my adopted country—for which I have risked my life and am perfectly willing to lose it, provided 1 can only see her tree and at peace with the world. Com. Moore could not and would not have proceeded to this coast without my sanc tion; indeed, we were bound direct to Galveston, but tor the information we received at the Ba lize on our way out, which was of such a char acter as to cause me to believe that the Govern ment would have reflected upon me, under all the circumstances, if I had not done so. It willthus be seen that Col. Morgan assumes fully the responsibility ot proceeding at once to Campeachy, and the following extract from the Commodore’s letter of the same date, is to the same purpose: It was my firm determination to have appear ed off Galveston and reported the condition of the ve-sels to the department, and the reason of my not having done so is, that Col. Morgan, who is one ot the Commissioners to carry out the secret act of Congress, (not erne section or word of which have I yet seen,) informed me that he had the power, as Commissioner, to take the responsibility, and that he would not only advise me to proceed to Galveston by the way of the coast of Yucatan, but that he would ac company me and risk his life and reputation in order to save Texas from the charge, by Y'uea tan, ol bad faith, and to see justice done to me. This was generous in Col. Morgan, and I hope it will be appreciated by the people of Texas. We accordingly sailed the same day (April 19) forTeichac, where I had learned the Montezuma was alone. The citizens of Galveston celebrated the achievements of the Texan navy on the 17th inst. Salutes were fired, a procession formed and every demonstration of public joy was made as for a national jubilee. The citizens of . ouston also celebrated the event by firing a national salute. A public meeting was held at Galveston on the 2Uih, over which his honor, the Mayor ot the city presided, to express the sense ot the community upon the actions ol Col. Morgan and Com. Moore. In our paper of the 19th inst. we gave an ac count of a second expedition to Santa Fe, lor purposes of war, not trade, which set forth in the spring. The Morning Star of the 20th, throws some doubt over the statement, and at tempts to discredit the number and character of those engaged in it, but alleges nothing definite or positive, so that we have no grounds upon which to modify the account we gare of it from the Civilian. We find in several papers a statement made by the Indian traders, that some three or four w-eeks ago a skirmish occurred above the Waco village, between a party of Wacoes and Kea chies; and a party of Tonkewas and Lipans.— It appears that the latter attempted to steal a number of horses belonging to the former, but were driven oft' with the loss of one or two war riors. The Wacoes are exceedingly hostile, and desire to prosecute a war of extermination against the Tonkewas. The Waco Chief, when at Washington requested the President to per mit his warriors to attack the Tonkewas. He said they were cannibals, and he would never make peace with any “Indians who eat In dians.’ The President, of course, refused the request; but the recent attack of the Tonkewas upon his camp will probably not pass unaveng ed. In regal'd to the truth of the report hitherto mentioned by us of Capt. Cameron’s retreat a mong ihe Apaches, we al first expressed our doubts: by the following from the Star, it ap pears that we were in the right: We i egret io mention lhatthe person who styl ed him elf Walker, and recently reported in tbe western settlements that he had left Capt. Cam eron and his party with the Apaches, is an im poster. His real name, we understand, is Ir win; he had stolen some horses from tha Gua deloupe, and endeavored to escape with his bam tv und -r the feigned name of Walker. He was pursued and arrested by a party from tbe Guada.oupe, and has been taken back to expi ate his crim s. The wretch who could thus make the sufferings and misfortunes of those gallant men a cloak toconceal his own villainy, deserves not only to suffer the utmost penal ty of the law, but should be banished beyond the tli.’ pal of civilized society The . nly other item of interest which we find in the papers brought by the Neptnne, is the Hal low ing, which we cut from the Star of the 16th inst: Successful Foray.—A party of Western vol unteers lately went to the Mexican settlements near Matamoras; and captured about a hundred horses, which they brought into our western set tlements. Another party intercepted a band of Mexican smugglers, and took from them about S4OOO in specie. These partial successes hav induced many young men to join the bands of volunteers that are scattered along the Neuces; and it is not improbable that bands of one or two hundred men will soon be congregated in the territory west of the Neuces, and at length em boldened by success make far forays beyond tbe Rio Grande. A Frolic no Joke.—A fetter from Berlin of the 10th ultimo, says:— The celebrated pianist, Doehler, while at the ball given at the Opera on Shrove Tuesday, had his pocket picked of his purse and pocket book. The next morning he published an ad vertisement, that if the thief would restore him his pocket-book and contents and the purse, he might keep the money and rely upon no further inquiries being made. After a lapse of tew days, M. Doehler recci ved a box, carefully seal ed, containing the money which was in the purse, accompanied by an anonymous letter, evidently written by two different female hands, on perfumed paper, saying, “i lere are the 35- thalers (130 f. which your purse contained.— The purse itself, the pocket-book and its con tents —being a lock of hair, a wedding-ring aa<t a biUcl-dMc— l keap, beeaus® I prefer them tc the money. This ought not to.surprise you, be cause I am one of the greatest admirers of your talent, with which I have become acquainted by attending all your concerts, which have, I assure you, aflordedmeadivineentertainment.” M. Doehler, enraged by not recovering what he most desired, immediately took the letter to tbe police, whose officers soon discovered that the theft was committed by two sisters—Anastasia and Mathilda L- The two young melo- maniac ladies were arrested as they were com ing out of the concert given at the ftoyal Sing ing School. On being brought before the crim inal tribunal, they pretended that they had act ed out of a mere frolic, and meant to return what they had taken.—They were, however, sentenc ed to a twelve-month’s confinement in the House of Correction at Potsdam, to which they have already been sent.