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PUBLISHED r v E R Y 7 T n . JJ-* s n A Y morni Wg , m JAMES VAN NESS, In the ‘‘Granite Building,” on the corner of Oglethorpe and Randolph Streets. 0 t e r"m s7 Subscription—throe dollars per annum, payable in atvauce, three dollats and a half at the end of sis ‘ninths, or four dollars, (in all cases) where pav >n :nt is not made before tne expiration of the year. N • suhscrip tin received for less than twelve months with i it payment in advance, and no paper discon tinued, except at the option of the Editor, until al arrearages are paid. Advehtisfmkivts conspicuously inserted at one dol lar per one hundred words, or !‘<s, for the first In sertion, an 1 tifty cents for every subsequent contin uance* Those sont without a specification of the n,, ~*’ - r of insertions, wii be pubiisbed until ordered o'’ , and charged accordingly. A dvr ktiskm ents. —For over 24 and n>texcecdin2 3i lines, fifty dollars per annum ; for over 12 and not exceeding 24 lines, thirty-five dol lars per annum ; for less than 12 lines, twenty dol lars per annum. AH rule and figure work double the nbovc prices. Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates, and with strict attention to the requisitions of the law. All Sa ees regulated hv law, must be made before the court house door, between the hours of 10 in the morning and four in the. evening—those of End in Idle county where it is situate; those of personal property, where the letters testamentary, of admin istration or of guardiatisqip were ob ained—and are requited to be previously advertised in some public gazette, as follows: lsiiEßtt'Fs’ Sales under regular executions fir thir ty days ; under mortgage fi fas sixty days, before Ihe day of sale. Sales of land and negroer, by Executors, Adminis trators or Guardians, for sixty days before the day of sale. iS Ales of personal property (except Negroes) forty days. fcjtTATioNs by Clerks of the Courts ol Ordinary, upon application for letters of administration, must be pub lished sot thirty days. Citations upon application for dismission. SyTUxer utors. Administrators or Guardians, monthly for six months. Orders of Courts ofOrdinarv, (accompanied with a copy of the bond or agreement) to make titles to land, must be published three months. Notices by Executors, Administrators orGnardians, of application to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell the land or negroes of an estate, four months. Notices by Executors or Administrators, to the debtors and creditors of an estate, for six weeks. Sheriffs’, Clerks of Court, &c. will be allowed the usual deduction. QfF fitters on business, must be post paid, to entitle them to attention. MILLS AND LAND, FOR SALE. THE subscriber offers for sale, on very accom modating terms, the settlement of land on which ho resides, situated in Ihe north-eislern part of Mus cogee county, on the Upainie Creek, 17 miles from Columbus and 14 from Talbollon. The tract em braces One thousand and twelve acres, seven hundred acre* of which are first rate Oak and Hickory I.and, and the remainder good pine land.— Two hund ed acres are clear and, well fenced, and in a good stale of cullivaiion. On the premises are two good frame dwelling houses, of small dimensions, and a good log house, besides negro cabins and all nece sary out-buildings. There, is also on the place au excellent Saw and Grist Mill, just completed and in perfect order. Tile Mill is four stories high, and Is on the IJpatoie Creek, a stream which rarely fails to allbid sufficient water to keep the Mill in operation. The engagements of the subscriber alone induce him to offer the place for sale. It is Situated in an excellent neighborhood, near to a Church, School house and Post Office. The p'ace will be sold low, nnd the terms cannot fail to satisfy any one desirous ofpurchasing. HENfrY KENDALL. Jiiy 8 22 4t E. 11. .PLATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, (Cuthbert,Randolph County,Georgia.) WILL promptly attend to any busim ss entrusted to his care in the counties of Stewart. Mari on, Randolph, Early, Decatur, Baker. Lee, Sumter, Macon and Ooolv , Georgia, and Russell and Harbour of Alabama. nrrE’ fni’ps : Columbus —Tlon. T. F. Foster and Colonel John Hanks. Lexington—Joseph llenrv I tttnpkin, F-q. B. F. Hardeman, Esq. Lewis J, Dupree and George F. Platt. VV shinglnn—Hon. Garnett Andrews. Macon—Col. D. C. Camnbo.ll. Jerry Cowls. Esq. Forsyth—Messrs Dunn Si Martin Thutn tstotl —John J. ‘ arev. Ksq. T. R. Bethel. Apalacht’ iMa. Flo.—William G. Porter, Esq. Charleston, S (J.— William Harris. New York. —Messrs. Collins, K esc & Cos. March 11 5 ls SPECIAL NOTICE. tri IVOR the Steam Boat. Tallapoosa, has been ly ing at the Columbus Landing, and a abort dis tance below it, she has been visited liv persons known to the subscriber, and valuable irons, bol.s, screws and 0 her nrtir'es iielon ring ‘<• the boat, taken from her. This notice is intended to ap rise the individual who have abstracted the above articles front the Tat -1 tp tbev nr* ili well known to the snbscn l„,r, and that unless said art cles, one and all, are forthwith returned to him, he will immediately com mence prosecutions agreeably to the hw in suehease.s ill ado and,provided. DIJ.VI. .\R. June. 17 10 u TO BRICK MASONS AND CARPEN TERS. rj EALED proposals wtd he rent ived by the Clerk J 5? of the Inferior Court <•! Heaid eotm y, for the btul ,lhiit of a court house in the town of Franklin, Heard county, until the first Monday in June next. Bids to he for three sizes, viz : onedO by sf> t. , t, one SO by SO, the oilier 40 feet share, a led lor each ; (he hall mnl court room below, finished; also a bio for eat ; finished complete, alter the style of the court 1! ’ l.aGrange or Nevvnatt. 1 *r furthei pet lit ,at- ‘ , nlv at the luferior Clerk’s Os! ee. ) y et-d- re; ‘ lie ‘ li fe rior Court. H- BLEDSOE, cr. April 22 11 111 HEAD QUARTERS, 10th Div. G. M ! Coi l’misus, May 24. 1341. | Division orders.—in pursuance of the General Orders of the Comm.an lei-in-Clnef, the j < .Lowing “ ill he the order for the Ann u.l Review and Inspection of llic 10th Division. In t! . county el Talbot on ihe 2S, 29,and30 June next. Macon, _ > M irion, ** Sumter, ‘ Ste ‘art, }° t o Muscogee, J - Harris. M, la lo . . , ; The Field Staff Company, and nnn-comtnisionod o'K --r< will he assembled on the first named dav. in each county, f>r the purpose of I >.'iil ; an I tlm Kegi- | ments entire, will be assembled on toe - iccee. .tig d.t\ s Review and Inspeetion. tn eon- r-u'v with the to. By * of oaxiki. v.-noraAtn , MaiorGeneral. IfMi Division. O. M. , BENJAMIN HENRY, j June 3 17 4t D.vision Inspector. [ general orders. Head Quarters, Ist Brigade S'h Division, G. M. ■ Fkask-uv 20th May, IS4I. rVIHE foil >wing will be the order of Review and JL Inspection foi the First Brigade, Ninth Divis |ii the county of Heard, on Monday and I uesu,a\ the sth and 6th of July next. In the county of Troup, on W ednesday and Thurs day the 7ih and Sth of July next. In the county of Meriwether, on b nday and Sat urday the;9th and 10th of July next. . . The Fiell Stats Company and non-Ooimiissioncd Officers, of each county, will be assembled on the h.st named day, for the purpose of a Drill, ami on ihe suc ceeding day. the regiments entire wdl be assembled for the purpose of exercise, review and inspection, in U 'y n T L SMiTH M S"-mn. May 27 16 U REMOVAL JNO. j. B. HOXEY, has removed his of -1 1 lice to the room over the store of T. A. Bran ca few doors above Taylor and Walker’s, and nearly opposite Col. John Banks’ Drug Store. Jan. 12. JOHN L. LEWIS, IS mr authorized Agent to iransact any business of .nine, during in/absence fron^CdundHis^ June 3 17 ,f jIcOOUGALD & WATSON, 4TTORKIES AT LAW, Columbus, Georgia * “ |{ROl (iHT TO JAIL ON the 17 h inst. a negro in-.n wlk) ca is himsell A ilrew. and so vs he I. ones lo Nathaniel De auu-v. of Russell county. A'. >, The owner is desired to co nc f.rward, comply **uh ihe law, pay ex penses an i take him , , ’ WH.LIAM BROWN, Jailor. ~ 15 if May A VOLUME I.] From the Memphis Enquirer. Caution to Slave Owners. — The follow ing article Ironi a Cincinnati paper shou if be i a sufficient caution lo slaveholders travelling | towards Oitio. Our fellow townsman, Di. j .Shanks, ou his ruAiit return from Virginia, had a slave stolen front him in Cincinnati, i hi is card in ti.e Louisville journcl, suiting j lacts ol the case, elicited fbe subjoined at tide. It will he Keen Irani it that one species of Southern property is no longer held sacred in Ohm, and that a Southerner had as wed throw it away as to place it within ihe control oi her laws. We should he sorry to believe, in the language of the Republican, that “any con siderable portion of the fifty thousand citizens of Cincinnati desire the present stale ol things, 5 ’ we would remind our brethren of the ‘■liueen City, 5 ’ that salting as it is permitted to exist, the effect is the bame upon Southern rights and interests, us though every man, woman and child had given their aid directly j towards producing and maintaining it. Cm cinnati has become a den for negro stealers, who;perpelrate their robberies ii[>on theSoulh with perfect impunity. The South can do nothing to protect itself, but by estsiblishing a system of non-intercourse. T his it does not desire todo. it does not seek to interfere with the domestic affairs of Ohio, and only asks that protection of its rights which common honesty justifies it in demanding. It desiies to maintain friendly relations with Ohio and her citizens; hut this is hardly practicable, so long as the cil zens of liie South are robbed with impunity the moment they set foot with in her borders. The “fifty thousand citizens of Cincinnati” owe it to themselves to put a stop to the system of wholesale thieving which now disgraces their city. From the Cincinnati Republican. “ Abolition in Ohio.” —The Louisville Journal of Saturday last, has a communica tion with ihe above title, signed Lewis Shanks, givit.g a statemeni'of the writer’s late troubles at Cine nnati, on his “way home from Virginia to Memphis, Teuin, on board the steamboat Sylph, with a family of eight negroes, the fa ther mother and six children ” As the facts in this particular case, given by Mr. Shanks himself do not implicate, in any sense, the citizens of Cincinnati, we deem it unnecessary to make them the subject of re maik. What Mr. Shanks was ‘•inibrmed,” too, is of mmor importance. We deem the present a proper opportunity however, for a few genet al remarks upon the concluding paragraph of his article, which reads as (bl ows : “ I have been thus particular in giving de tails, that travellers naving servant- with them may be apprized of the difficulty of passing Cincinnati without losing them and losing them irrecoverably, if the late opinion of the laws and constitution given in Ohio be sustained.” The only question arising here is, whether there is any real necessity lor the caution con tained in ihe above paragraph? However, in the present slate of our feel ngs. \\e could wish it otherwise, candor com pels us to admit tiial there is a real necessity tor <uch caution; and that Southern travellers will ‘find difficulty of passing Cincinnati,”at the present time, without losing their servants, rims much we are forced to acknowledge in j istice to those gentlemen of tfie South, who, eiTier travelling !br hea!;h or business purpo ses, have heretofore been in the habit <4 v,si ting our city, and bunging wish than the ne c -ssurv set vants. Indeed, it were even cul pable to conceal the truth of this statement, when at least two instances, within the last no tb, have come io our knowledge of South erners losing their servants whilst tarrying here even f, ra single night. Any inference drawn from this admission, however, ilia! any of the considerable portion of the 50 000 cit izens of Cincinnati desire this state of things, would be bobi untrue and unjust. We verily believe, and think we cannot tie mistaken, that at least fifty-nine fiftieths of her citizens are not well pleased with that opinion, believed to be o'tiler dictum of the supreme court o! Ohio, which would make the slave free, in all cases, the moment he touches the the Slate with the consent of his master. ‘Nothing fur ther is true, front our admission, than that we have in our city a few misguided men who, heretofore accustomed lo think they were do ing God’s service by taking the slave from his mast r, either with or without law, now that they have the color of law, seek every oppor tunity of enticing this species of property front the rightful owner. In the meantime, tlie wisli prevails in Cin cinnati, (except wiih the few al> ve referred to,) that a case may soon be presented in > which this whole question may be fairly, an.; fuly, and finally adjudicated by the highest judicial tribunals. And in what remarks fol low, we are certain we but express the wish es and feelings of nine-tenths of the citizens af Cincinnati. They smeereiv seek and de sire tn enjoy fncndly and social intercourse with their southern fellow-citizens; they he -1 eve, as citizens of Ohio, the ins itulion of slavery to be an evil, and are happy to know that if can never gain a permanent introduc tion into their own Slate; they would he un willing to permit even a iax construction of the rule which has hitherto obtained, confining owners of slaves to a tempo rary snj turn in. or passage through the State with such property in possession ; yet, they and” not desite, nor seek such a construction o! the ordinance of : 99, or the e in titu ion o| their State, as would, without the least eartlt iv benefit to the condition oi’ ihe slaves, cause | | innumerable heartburnings, and jealousies, j | and ii ffieulties between the citizens of what I | should be sister S .n< snd one parent Ri-p thlic. j A Singular Slum on*. —Four gentlemen j and an old minister were assa-l pj on the high- j way by three robbers, who demanded and took posession of al! their funds. The old minister pleaded very hard to be allowed a dttle money, as he was on his way to pay a bill in London. The highwaymen, as our authority informs us, “beinggenerous fellows, gave him all his money back again, on con dition of his preaching.” Accordingly they retired a little distance from the highway, and the minister addressed them as follows: “Gentlemen—You are the most Ike the apostles of any men in the world, fi r they were wanderers upon the earth, and so are you; they laid neither lands nor tenements ‘that they could call their own ; neither, as I presume, have you. They were despised of all, but those of their own profession; and so, I believe, are you. They were unalterably fixed in the principles they professed; and 1 dare swear so are you. They were often hurried into jails and prisons—were persecu ted by the people, and endured great hard ships ; all of which sufferings, I presume have been undergone by you. Their profession brought them all to untimely deaths; and if you continue in vour course, so will yours bring you! But in this point, beloved, you differ mightily; for the apostles ascended fiorn tiie tree iato heaven where. I am afraid, you will never come; hut as their deaths were compensated with eternal glory, vours will be rewarded with eternal shame and misery, un less you mend your manners.” The Richmond Btar it ports the following boarding house scene. “Mr. Squibbs, is your tt-a strong enough:’ “Not quite, ruadam—the butler is, howev er.' 5 . COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 39, 1841. From Stephen’s Incidents of Travels. A VOLCANIC ERUPTION. I awoke with the ‘pilots legs resll ng on my I shoulder. It was rather an undignified posi j lion, but no one saw it. Before me was Hie j Volcano of Cosaguiua, with its lidd of lava j and its desolate shore, and not a living being I vva.-, m s giil except my sleeping boatmen, l ive years before,on the shores of the Medi terranean, and at the foot of mount Etna, 1 read in a news paper an account of the erup j tion of this volcano. Little ui I then evei j expect to see it; the most awful in the Ins j tory of volcanic eruptions, the noise of which I startled the people nl Gaulimala fourhundred 1 miles off; and at Kingston, Jamaica, eight ; hundred miles distant, was supposed to be 1 signal guns of distress It out some vessel at sea. The face of nature was changed ; the cone ! of the volcano was gone; a mountain ana j field ol lava ran down to the sea ; a forest old j as creation Lad disappeared, and two islands were formed in the sea; shoals were discov ered, in one of which a large tree was fixed up ide down; one river was completely choked up, and another formed, running in an oppo site direction ; seven men in the employ of my hungo proprietor ran down to the water, posited off in a hungo, and were never heard of more; wild beasts, howling, left their caves in the mountains, and ounces, leopards, and : snakes fled for shelter to the abodes of men. This eruption took place on the 20th Jan uary, 1835. Mr. Savage was on that day on the side of the volcano of San Miguel, distant one hundred and twenty miles, looking for cattle. At eight o’clock he saw a dense cloud rising in the south in a pyramidal form, and heard a noise which sounded like a roaring of the s-a. Very soon ihe thick clouds were lighted up by vivid flashes, rose colored and forked, shooting and disappearing, which he supposed to he some electrical phenomenon. These appearances increased so fast that Lis men became frightened, and said it was a ruina, and that the end of the world was nigh. Very soon lie himself was satisfied that it was the eruption of a volcano; and as Cosaguiua was at that time a quiet mountain, not sus pected to contain subterraneous fires, he sup posed it to proceed from the Volcano of Ti gris. He returned to San Miguel, and in ri ding three blocks fell three severe shocks of earthquake. The inhabitants were distract ed with terror. Birds flew wildly through the streets, and blinded by the dust, fell dead on the ground. At four o’clock it was so daik that, ns Mr. S. says, he held up his hand be fore his eyes, and could not see if. Nobody moved without a candle, which gave a dim and misty light, extending only a few feet. At this time the church was full, and could not contain one half who wished to enter. The figure of the Virgin was brought out into the plaza and borne throughilhe streets, followed by the inhabitants, with candles and torches, in penitential procession, crying upon the Lord to pardon their sins. Bells tolled, and during the procession theie was another earthquake, so violent and long that it threw to the ground many people walking in the pro cession. The darkness continued till 11 o’- clock the next day, when the sun xvas partial ly visible, but dim and hazy, and without brightness. The dust on the ground was 4 inches thick; the branches of trees broke with ils weight, and people were so disfigured by it that they could not be recognised. At this time Mr. S. set out for his hacienda at Zozonate. He slept at the first village, and at two or three o,clock in the morning was roused up by a report like the breaking of most terrific thunder, or the firing of thou sands of cannon. Thi's was the report which started the people of Gaulimala, when the commandant sailed out, supposing that the quartei was attacked, and which was heard in Kingston, in Jamaica. It was accompanied by an earthquake so violent, that it almost threw Mr. b. outof his hammock.* •This may al first appear no great feat for an earthquake, but no stronger proof can lie cited of iis violence with which the shock af fects the region in which it occurs. From Stephens’ New Work. We continue our extracts from this boo]; as ihe most entertaining matter we can fur nish our readers LAZOING. It. was the season for making and number ing the cattle, and two of the benches Aychi nena were at the hacienda to superintend the operation. The cattle had been caught and broil ; lit in : but, as 1 had never seen the pro cess of lazoing, after dinner a hundred head winch iiati veii kept up two days without rood were let loose into a field two or three miles in circumference. Eight men were mounted, with iron spurs an inch long on their naked heels and each with a lazo in hand, which consisted of an entire cow’s hide cut into a single cord about twenty yards long, one end was fastened to the horse’s tail, which was first wrapped in leaves to prevent being lacerated, and the rest was bound into a coil, and held by the rider ill his right hand, resting on the pummel of the saddle. The cattle had all dispersed ; we placed ourselves on an eleva tion commanding a partial view of the field and the riders scattered m search of them - '- in a little while thirty or forty rushed by the riders at full speed, and very soon were out o sight. \\ c must tether lose the sport or fol low : and in one of ihe doublings, taking par t.cular care tc avoid the tfror.g of furious cat t e and headlong rider -, I drew up to the side o; two men who were chasing a single ox, and i.flowed over iiiil through hush, and under wood; one rider threw his lazo beautifully over the h ins of an on, and then turned his horse, while the ox, bounded to the leng'h cf the lazo, and without shaking horse or rider, pitched headlong to the ground. At this mo ment a herd swept by w, h the whole compa ny in fall pursuit. A large yellow ox s q ora ted rom tiie rest, and all followed him. For a m le he kept ahead, doubled, and dodged, hut the hersemen crowded him down toward the lake ; and, at.er an ineffectual attempt to holt, | he rushed into the water. Two horsemen followed and drove him out, and gave him a start, but in a few minutes the lazo whizzed over his head, and; while horse and rider stood like marble, thefox again came with a plunge to the ground. The riders scattered, and one horse and rider rolled over in such a way that 1 thought every bone in Lis body was broken but the sport was so exciting that I, who at the beguniing was so particularly careful to keep out of harass way, felt very much dis posed to have my own horse’s tail tied up and take a lazo in my hand. The effect of the sport was heightened by tire beauty of the scene, with the great volcanoes of Agu and Fugo towering above us, and toward evening a deep shade ever the plain. A Night's Rest.— Mr. C. and I were in a rather awkward predicament for the night The general reception room contained three beds, made of strips of cowhides interlaced. The don occupied one ; he had not much un dressing to do, but what little he -had, he did by pullingoft'his shirt. Another bed was at the foot oi my hammock. I was dozing, when’ I opimd my eyes, and saw a girl abotit seven teen sitting sideway upon it smoking a segar. She had a piece of striped cotton cloth tied around her waist,and falling below her knees; the rest of her dress was the same which na ture be stews alike upon the belle of fashiona “tiie union of the states, and the sovereignty of the states.” hie lire and the poorest girl: in other words, it was the same as that of the don's wife with the exception of the string of” heads. At first I thought it was something! had conjured up in a dream; and as 1 waked spperhnjs I raised my head, for she gave a few quick puffs of her segar, drew a cotton sheet over her head and shoulders, and laid down to sleep.” I endeav oured lo do the same, I called to mind the proverb, that “travelling makes strange bed iellows.” 1 had slept pell mell with Greeks, Turks, and Arabs. 1 was beginning a jour ney in anew country; it was my duty to con form to tiie customs of the people ; to be prepared Mr the worst, and submit with resig nation to whatever might befall me. As guests it was pleasant to feel that the family made no strangers of us. The wife of the don retired with the same ceremonies. Several times during the night we were wak ed by the clinking of flint and steel, and saw one of the neighbours lighting a segar. At daylight the wife of the don was enjoying her morning slumber. While I was dressing she bade me good morning, removed the cotton, covering from her shoulders, and arose dressed for the day. The Post Office, since it has been under the management of the present. Postmaster- General, is in a truly deplorable condition. Mr. Granger may be a very good intriguing politician, a first rate Abolitionist, and a great minister of State, but lie is a miserable mana ger of the Post. The deputies, whom he has appointed, are constantly making the most vexatious blunders; and it is high time that the newspaper press should expose them.— The first tiling that this Mr. Granger has done is to set himself in opposition to the press by suffering paltry and illegal suits to be com menced for forwarding prospectuses—a privi lege always granted by former Postmasters- General; and it therefore behooves us to watch him narrowly, and show him no mercy what soever. A package, forwarded by a friend of ours, at our request, from Washington, directed to Richmond, Virginia, as plain as it could be, was sent to Richmond, Kentucky. It was for . warded more than a month since ; and yet, as we learn from Richmond, Virginia, it has just been received ! How long are we to be com pel ed to submit to annoyances and distresses such as these! So long, we presume, as the process of removing competent officers and putting in incompetent ones is to continue. We hear that Mr. Tyler is weary of this busi ness of removals, and is desirous, if possible, to retain many of the excellent incumbents of office, appointed by Jackson ana Van Buren.. We hope he will assert his opinion and main tain it, in spite of the urgency of his Cabinet Ministers—among whom the most importu nate are Webster and Granger, who, if they could have their way* would turn the whole country topsy-turvy, to reward political ad herents and renegade politicians. The truth is, the l’ostmaster-General ought not to he considered a member of the Cabinet. lie never was consulted ministerially , we believe, either by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Ma dison or Monroe. He ought to he kept to his department, and not allowed to meddle in the affairs cf the country. This rule should be imperative in the case of such an officer as Mr. Granger.—New Wo Id. _ Interesting to the Christian Public.— Under rids caption tiie National Intelligencer has the following- gratifying information: —“lt will interest the Christain Public to know t hat information has la'eiy been received by the Government that Dr. lie naan, tiie Prussian Minister to the Swiss Confederation, trans mitted, some time since, a memoir to his sov ereign upon the condition of the Christian Populations in Syria, urging the necessity of embracing the favorable occasion presented) by the concert of the European Powers, inclu ding France, in the settlement of the Turco- Egyptian question) of granting them effectual and permanent protection on the part of the great Christian powers against Mabomedan oppression; and that the King was so forcibly struck with the views presented in this paper, that he caused a circular note to he transmit ted to the other four Powers, inviting them to concert with Prussia the means of accom plishing this benevolent purpose. It is stated that Dr. Benson has been charged with a special mission to the Court cf London on this subject; and we noticed, some time ago, as probably growing out of this, a declaration by lord Melbourne, in the Hottse of Lords, that the Government of England had under ils consideration the propriety of adopting meas ures for the protection of the Syrian Chris tians. much resembling those of the Church of England.” The Caledonia, which arrived on Saturday, brought about lAOOO letters. The postage on those for New York was a little more than -31 fiCO. The clerks in the post office had a hard day’s work of it, and they were as busy and industrious as bees. They had the Bri tannia to make up, which left before noon with 0,009 letters. At 35 minutes past one, the Caledonia’s mail hag arrived at the post office. The cars for New York were detained till 7, to enable the p- ■ master to forward tiie letters ■nd papers -or wo South. At 40 minutes af ter 0, every 1 tter was sorted, all the mails made up, and despatched by the two steamers: and others received and forwarded by the usual mails amounted, in the aggregate, to not loss than “5,000, which passed through tiie hands of the clerks during the day. in addi tion to those, Ne postmaster informs us that s >venty-five bushels of newspapers were sent from the office during that day.—Boston Tran script. Tn regard to the Presidential election, the Houstonian says: We consider the election of General Sam Houston so certain that neither the aid of newspapers, nor the'ordinary mods of elec tioneering. through his friends, is necessary to secure it. ‘The people of Texas know how to appreciate his important services, both in the field, the executive chair, and in our leg-1 islative halls ; and notwithstanding the com bined efforts of his enemies, and the apathy of his friends, the polls at the September elec tion will given a triumphant majority of the votes of Texas. Franklin’s Toast —Long after Wash ington’s victories over the French and Eng lish had made his name familiar all over Eu rope, Dr. Franklin chanced to dine with the English and French Ambassadors when as nearly as I can recollect the words, the fol lowing toasts were drank : By the British Ambassador: ‘England—the sun whose beams enlighten and fructify, the remotest corners of the earth.’—The French Ambassador, glowing with national pride drank —‘France —the moon, whose mild steady and cheering rays are the delight of all nations : consoling them in darkness, making their dreariness beautiful. Dr. Franklin then arose with bis usual dignified simplicity,said George Wash ington—the Joshua who commanded the sun and moon to stand still and they obeyed him. Music from the Woods.— -Wesee it stated in a St. Louis paper, that Pianos* manufac tured at the town of Herrnon, on the Missou ri river, have been brought down to St. Louis, and are now exposed to sale. This seems to be a very strange speculation—manufacturing Pianos in the wtlds ol Missouri. 1 TEXAS. Tae Kingston arrived yesterday, in 40 hours from Galveston, and we have received the latest papers. _ ihe Civilian of ilie 10th in publishing the following official announcement of the com p!ei;on of the Texian Loan, still doubts whether it v, ill be realized, as will appear by the remarks appended to the notice. TEXIAN LOAN—OFFICIAL. Treasury Department. City of Aiisiiu, June eSiU lb4l. To the Ed.tor of t!ie Austin Gazette. To quiet all apprehension and to remove the doubts that have been created by recent newspaper publications, it is thought proper to give this public and official notification to ail whom it may concern—that official informa tion has been received by the Executive of the positive sals of our bonds by our Loan Commissioners in Paris, the proceeds of which will, it is confidently expected, be real ized in the city of New Yoik in the course oftiie month of August next. JOHN G. CHALMERS. Secretary of Treasury. Notwithstanding the above annunciation, we are Compelled to doubt the final recep tion of the Loan. We understand that M s srs. Laffitte & Cos. were not aide to make a loan of such magnitude with their own means and the manner in which they offered the bonds for sale favors the supposition that they merely acted as agents of Gen Hamilton in offering to sell the bonds, although, like their government) they may have given a “ moral guarantee” of success. Besides, the terms upon which the bonds are offered are wholly unauthorized by {any law of this country, and therefore not binding unless Congress chooses to ratify them. Tii , considering their unfavorableness to Texas,, and our in creased ability to get along without foreign aid, is by no means sure to take place.—Ci vilian. The Sante Fe expedition lias been beard from dated 37th June—all well. The name of S. W. Howland, who acts as pilot of the expedition, was omitted in the former an nouncement. The number of merchants, amateurs, &c., should have beeil*staled at 37 instead of 77. Gen. Burleson, with 25 volunteers, started from Austin in search of a party of Indians, said to be encamped some distance above. A B.ble Society, under the management of the Rev. Mr. Fontaine, private secretary to the President, has been established at Austin. Three churches, one Catholic, one, Metho dist, and one Presbyterian, are being built at Galveston, and a fourth is to be commenced soon for the Episcopalians. Extract of a letter received by the ITon Secretary of War, da ed Lamar Countv, May 28, 1841. Gen. Tarrant and Capt, Stout are each ab sent, on an expedition against the Indians, to the Upper Brazos, with about one hundred volunteers. The Indians have committed many depredations upon the frontier of our section of the republic, since the regulars left. In one instance seven members of one family were murdered in open day, besides many ! other depredations of less magnitude, such as stealing and destroying property. LATE AND ITPORTANT FROM TEXAS. We have received our regular files of Tex as papers from the seat of government to the 10Ji, and from Galveston to the fffilh ult. From the Austin C.ty Gazette we extract the i'oßowing : Arrival of Commissioners from Gen. Arista with propositions for an Armis tice. —By the Hot). C. Van Ness and Col. \V. G. Cooke, who arrived in town from San An tonio a few days .-ince, we learn that three Commissioners or Agents from Gen. Arista to our government had arrived in that place and may be expected here to-day. 1 1 is generally believed that Gen. Arista proposes a suspension of hostilities, opening a direct trade between Texas and the Mexican provinces,lie restrain ing all marauding parties on his side, pro dried Texas will do the same on their side, and a joint and mutual action against the host ile In dians. It is the true policy of this government tn meet Mexico halfway whenever she does make us an offer of her hand, not only so shou Id shenot forget that, though she may have enacted the partot an unnatural parent, Texas is an offspring of Mexico, many of our citizens arc of Mexican birth or Mexican extraction, and look up to that country as their fatherland. Whatever, in our situation, tends to peace, tends also to national happiness and prosperity —whatever leads to a definite or indefinite suspension of threatened hostility, will do much toward the re-establishment of confi dence throughout tho whole extent of our western frontier, will encourage emigration, ani have a tendency to establish friendly feel ings and relations between the inhabitants res.ding east and those residing west of the Rio Grande, and from this will flow, as a na tural result, the removal of all those- national prejudices which at present unfortunately exist between the Anglo-Amqrican and thtf Mexi can races. Agricultural products of the U. States. —i tabular statement has been prepared at the State Department exhibiting the agricul tural statistics of the United States as re turned by the Marshals appointed to take the sixth census. They are not complete, the States of North Carolina and Kentucky, and the Territories of Florida and Wisconsin not being given. The aggregate annual products of agriculture and the domestic animals in the Union with the above exceptions areas follows ; Wheat bush. 70,174,9491-2 Rye “ 17,007,600 Corn “ 297,855,053 Oats “ 100,375,192 Buckwheat “ * 0,952,32(3 Barley “ , 3,848,149 Potatoes “ 101,031,439 Cos tton* lbs. 1,064,500,785 Wool “ 20,939,340 Tobacco “ 78,070,303 Sugar “ 281,265,113 Silk cocoons “ 323,482 1-4 Dairy value off $23,959,531 Orchards “ 7,259,076 Lumber “ 10,955,646 Wine galls. 316,626 Hemp ana Flax tons. 843,049 Hay “ 9,641,225 tar, bbls, 31,689 Horses and Mules 3,489,150 Neat cattle 13,433,383 Sheep 19,085,962. Swine 20,745,898 Poultry value of, $10,992,910 1-2 The value of an annual crop of grain and potatoes,’even at. the present low prices, is probably not less than three hundred miliums of dollars; and it'We include other agricultu ral productions, among which are cotton and tobacco, with a fair, allowance for the cattle, .shpep, horses swine, &c., which belong to tbe year, we shall have an annual product of ’more than Jive hundred millions of dollars in value. ‘ *Som of the Mtrshals have retu ned ginned Cot ton ; others in the seed. [NUMBER 25. j The first Methodist Preachers. —At the commencement of Methodism they were chosen by Mr. Wesley, on account of their knowledge of Scripture, and powerful, though net often cut rated minds. Samuel Bradburn (a man whose life, published, would be one of the most interesting and even amusing of Looks) was remarkable for his strong mind and unwearied labors. In wit and humor, few men excelled him ; and the early annals of Methodism brightened by the speaking of his facetiousness. “ See, (said lie on one oc casion, to one of the first chosen preachers) the good that Methodism lias done!’ * des, (was the reply) it Ins •lone a great deal for us *' — Something in this displeased Bradburn, lie im mediately said) pointing to a Mr. Marsden— “for us ! Why yes , you was a cobbler, and I was a tinker, and it. has made us gentlemen but brother Marsden was a gentleman before.” “You should not have called me a cobbler (said the preacher in question ;) it would have been more civil to said a boot and shoe ma ker.” “ Yes, (added Bradburn,) but I did not call myself a tin-plate worker, but simply a tinker.” Such were the men whom Wes ley made Ids first itinerant preachers. The writer of this lias seen and conversed with many of them; among others, with the three of whom the above story is told ; and it must be acknowledged that they were a class of men of great mental power—rough some times, and perhaps a little uncouth, but ener getic, self-denying and indomitable. They were often, too, men of great personal strength and there is current an anecdote of one who was much annoyed on one occasion, by the profanity and impertinence of a gigantic butcher. For some time he bore patiently with the man’s ribaldry ; but at last his feel ings were outraged, and, walking up to the fellow, he took him by the coliar, and the waistband of bis breeches, as though he had been a little child, and hung him by the latter to one of the great hooks of his own shop, where he remained dangling till the (exhorta tion was concluded.-- Church of England Review. Cooking— Sir,—ln the Island of Jersy, England, they have a mode of cooking which is peculiar to those Islanders whose governing principle is to make a little go a great way. —lndependent of this, however, when the process is p'operly conducted, the delicious flavor and richness which is communicated to the smallest quantity of the animal food em ployed, is a very strong recommendation for its adoption, which requires neither extra trouble nor expense. The meat to be operated upon, is first cut into steaks and fried with shred onions in butter, over a quick fire, until it is well browned and about half cooked; it is then transferred altogether into a stew pan, water being added sufficient to form a considerable quantity of gravy, when the process is com pleted; and the whole is left to simmer for the space of six or eight hours, when, the proper seasoning being added, it is served up hot—a dish lit lor a President! I well remember meeting some friends in London, who, on describing a dinner at which they were pres ent. the day before, the tickets lor which were a guinea each, they all spoke in raptures of a dish of beefstake and onions cooked alter this manner, declaring it to be superior to all the venison, game and poultry at the table. VV i!! your readers try the effect even with hard and tough meat of inferior quality, not, however, to the exclusion of that which is young, fat, and tender. I am, Mr. Editor, a lover of good living, hut No Epicure. —Farmers’ Cabinet. Formation of Hair—Some persous are puzzled to account for the formation of hail stones, in the atmosphere, when the temper ature on the earth’s surface is above ninety, as was the case on Wednesday Mr. Espy, in h s meteorological lecture, gives a beauti ful description ot tiie formation of a cloud, and after the cloud is formed, he says, rain drops are generated—but sometimes these cannot reach tiie earth on account of the violence of the upward current, but *re, on the contrary, carried to the region of -perpetual congelation, there frozen, and thrown olf at the sides ol the hail cloud.—Boston Journal. A view of both oceans. —Tiie lofty point on which we stood was perfectly clear, the at mosphere was of transparent beauty, and’ looking beyond the region of desolation, below us, at a distance perhaps of two thousand feet, the whole country was covered with clouds, and the city at the foot of the volcano invisi ble. By degrees, the more distant clouds were luted, and over the immense bed we saw at the same moment the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This was tiie grand spec a cle we had hoped, but scarcely expected to behold. My companions had ascended the volcano several times, but on account of the clouds had only seen tiie two seas once be fore. The points at which they were visible \* ere the Gulf of Nicoya and “the Harbor of San Juan, not directly opposite, but nearly at right angles to each other, so that we saw them without turning the body. In a right line over the tops of*the mountains neither was more than twemy miles distant, aid from the great height at whi -h we stood, they seemed almost at our feet. It is the only point in the world which commands a view of the two seas ; and I rank the sight with those most interesting occasions, when from the top of Mount Sinai I looked out upon the Desert of Arabia, and from Mount Ilor 1 saw the Dead Sea. —Stephen’s incidents of Travel in Central America. Advantage of Science.— Mr. Holbrook, of Medway, the celebrated bell-founder, who has put up a clock upon the Baptist church in this mwn the present week,- gave us a little in cident of his life, which is wor'h relating, if for nothing more than to show the importance of a knowledge of chemistry. An immense pile of cinders and dross had accumulated near his foundry, wiiich was supposed to be entirely Worthless, and was used to fiil up stone walls, &c. A foreigner who happened to be in town examined the pile one day, asd offered .SIUO for it. So large a price excited Mr. Id’s, suspicions that the cinders mig! t contain valuable metal, and he declined sel ling it. The man then offered <s2oo, which of course confirmed his opinion, and, after a little parley, the stranger acknowledged that be was acquainted with a process by which valu able metal might be extracted from the cin ders, which he offered to divulge sos and small compensation. A furnace and apparatus were constructed according to Iris directions, and, when the whole pile was run through,’ the mass of neglected rubbish yielded a nett prof it of thirteen thousand dollars. So much for knowing “ how to do it.”—Lynn Freeman. Ireland. —'General Dix, in his oration delivered at Albany on the sth inst- said that notwithstanding the in which Ire land is held.she actually sent twenty-four mill ions of bushels of grain annually into the island of Great Britain for the subsistence of the British people, and this was but a part of her surplus produce. What might she not become with aoindependent .parliament, and without the incumbrance of the enormous impost system of Great Britain 1 She was nfaking noble efforts for Freedom, and she was cheered on by tiie wishes and prayers of Us friends throughout the world. (Jo’-respofidonce of the Herald. Washington Crry,- July*l4th, 1841. On and about Henry Clay—Daniel W eb T stek —Insolence of the Pope to a Citi w ZEN OF THE UNITED STATES —HIS INCAR CERATION EY THE INQUISITION. James Gordon Bennett, Esq : Sir —Your admirers in the west, for west and southwest are beginning to have less con fidence in your political censorship, hut in morals and finance the confidence is unabated. Your correspondence from the Capitol has of late savored strongly of locot'ocoism, and the gratuitous tirades against old Hal, the favorite son of the west, inuuce many of your friends to boheve that you have formed a coalition with the Wall street blacklegs, to prevent, if possible, the contemplated improvement in the currency which the sovereign people now ex pect. By the people, I mean the hardy yeo men who till tiic earth, and the industrious mechanic and manufacturer, all of ‘•t horn are producers, and consequently deeply interested in having a uniform currency, w hich experi ence has proved can only be obtained, in our widely extended country, through the agency of a Bank of the lmited Stales. 1 admonish you to be careful, and not throw your paper, hitherto impartial, frank, and independent, into the locoloco ranks; every novice in the great west knows lull well that the harpies in your Wall street can only prosper whilst the country is suffering under a deranged currency! Do not attempt to humbug us, or attempt to force on the yeomanry of the couLtry the idea that old Hal can for a moment act in unison with the denizens of that polluted kennel, Wall street; it won’t do ; if you persist in that species of humbuggery, you will lose your reputation as a politician, and what is of more value to you, t! e power of being useful; pur sue an armed neutrality, but do not degener ate into faction. The godlike Daniel is doubtless thrown in to a quandary by the decision of your Supreme Court; how he will extricate himself from the dilemma in which he is placed time alone can determine* lid has now another gordion knot to cut that pr sents even more difficul ties than the case of McLeod. , The vicege rent of Christ on earth, his Holiness the Pope of Rome, in the exercise of his Apostolic functions, called the Bishop of Detroit to ap pear before him in the year 1838 or ’.‘l!). The latter in obedience to the divine mandate re-, paired to Rome and kissed his Holiness’s great toe with all due humility, as becomes an Or thodox Christian of that old school, and a citi zen of these United States ! It appears our poor Yankee Bishop (Reese) was thrust into prison in the holy inquisition, and urged to re sign his Apostolic function of pastor of the diocese of Detroit. He refused , and continues to languish in the dungeon of the Holy Inqui sition, cut off from all communication tvith Ms country and friends. This will be officially coinmunica ed to the department of State to-morrow by a Catholic priest, who says our worthy fellow-citizen is suffering this prolonged incarceration owing to certain cal umnies of his colleagues in the United States, who have been accessory to his imprisonment and have known the fact <SVer since its coil summation, but have carefully kept it a secret from the laity in tnis country, and especially from the flock of the sufferer. I think you will agree with me that this is a subject cal culated to exercise the giant mind of the great Daniel! A citizen of the United States call ed to Rome to be judged by his Holiness for acts alleged to have been committed in the United States, is an anomoly, at least in the history of our country. You will be in pos session of the facts as soon as the Secretary himself. Yours, &c. Ludicrous Anecdote.—A few years since, an aged clergyman in the western part of this country, speaking of the solemnity attached to the ministerial office, said that during the whole term of forty or fifty years that he had officiated therein, his gravity had never been but once disturbed in the pulpit. On that oc casion. lie noticed-a man directly in front of him leaning ever ti e railing of the gallery with something in liis hand, which he soon discovered to be a huge quid of tobacco just taken from his mouth. Directly below him sat a man asleep with his head back and his mouth wide open. The man in the gallery was intensely engaged in raising ami lower ing his hand taking an exact observation, till, at last, having got it right, he let fall the quid, and it went plump into the mouth of the sleep er below ! The whole scene was so indes cribably ludicrous, that for the first and last time in the pulpit, an involuntary smile forced itself upon the countenance of the preacher. ’Twas a lovely evening—nature was hushed in repose—naught was heard to disturb the stillness of the night—the gentle zephyrs fanned the earth from the sunny South to the bleak regions of the North ; when my dear Irena, arrayed in ail her beauty and loveli ness, came bounding like a fawn in front of her father’s splendid mansion ; she stopped, her head bent as if in the act of listening; a soft note of music held her enraptured spirit in an ecstacy of bliss. Her brain reeled, her senses were dumb, it seemed as if she was wandering in imagina tion, to that land where blest spirits will soon meet, to sing the never ending song of re deeming love—when with one wild bound, as if the shaft of death had been sent with un erring certainty, she screamed aloud, “ Get ou% you darned old sow, rooting up all our garden.” Readers ! art thou a young man struggling against difficulties for improvement and use fulness ? Hold up then bravely thy head when the surge rolls over thee. Knowest thou not that the energy that works within thee is the measure of the capability ? that whatsoever thou wiliest, thou canst achieve, if not interdicted by the laws of thy being? Look, then on obstacles with an unblinkiiw eye. Most of the good and the great of all ages have been thy fellows in suffering, and thou mayest be theirs in success. Despond not; good counsellors will t ell thee to be hum ble, their counsel is w ise; but remember hu mility is not a fiction: it is the right estimate of thyself, no depreciation, llumility is strength; it is brave; she has lifted many a time her meek eye serenely in the flames of the stake. Be humble, then, but but be strong in thy heart. Thy soul is an exhaustless en ergy, the wide world is open for thine action,’ and voices from earth and hea\en summon thee to dare and to do.—Zion’s Herald. A Lo? ; o Passage.— The Dublin Monitor of June lid, in an article relating to the fate of the steam packet 1 resident, says that a vessel Called the Jessie; Capta n Harding, left Que bec on the I7thof November, 1840, and was not heard of until the 21st of June, having beer at sea nearly seven months, without havv ing spoken a vessel or entered a port!’ Seven Deserters DrownED.- Tlie Buffa lo Commercial of Wednesday, states that one night last week, nine soldiers attempted to swim across the river a little below the Ferry. Two ofc them succeeded in breasting the mighty torrent —the remaining seven ° were drowned, and four of their naked bodies are now floating about in the Whirlpool. Mokf. Indian Difficulties in the F.a~t. —A letter published in the Red-Lander, dated Crockett, Houston county, the 2dd ult., states that the house of aM s. Cbr nor, of Bur. ct county, was recently attacked by a party ot’ Indians, while the family were at supper.— I’lie iudians were repulsed by Mrs. Cannon and her oldest son, and the nets! day pursued and overtaken by a company- Fort Houston. Two of iby. ; ntiians rg killed; and one believed to be iWta|| v WOU(J% ded. The family received no in^uiv.’