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THE HERALD: PIU’ITe AND IK'KW.ItY OK FLORIDA. Tun gcneml appearance of Florid* is unin teresting. One-half of Uie Territory i* *n im mense pine barren, where little i to he wen beside the palmetto, the myrtle and the pine. j Here and there, however, may be found ‘ham inorka’of lire oak, |kwl oak and hickory; and j by the border* of the take* and river* are de lightful prove* of orange* and fig*. Our Aral ! approach to Florida wn* by the conveyance of n yawl boat hired for the occasion. ‘Though j it wa* the depth of winter, yet the atmosphere was. a* it had been fora fortnight, singularly balmy and soft. Hueb air wc may believe the inhabitants of Elysium enjoy. Our little sail being hoisted, the wind wafted ua with apreed across the bosom of the river, then onward* through canals or ‘cut#,’ till at last, when ap proaching the shore, our boat tv tut grounded in a narrow pas*, livery hand tvas roused toac- i turn; five or six pole* were instantly plunged ‘ into the water, awakening in their deacent the slumbering young alligators imbedded in the mild. The tide threatened to leave us. To render the perplexity still more provoking, one 1 of the company, in transport of fun, exclaim- j •d—“Till* la the unkindest cut of all.” We feared a practical iilustrtion of the proverb that ‘Tunc and tide wait fur no man.’ Every nerve wn* strained, and on a rolling swell wc floated away. Noon our boat grated upon the strand ; we stepped forth, and the soil of Flo rida wa* beneath our feet! The Ht. Johns is the. most important River of this Territory. It* source isntnong arhain of lake* in the Middle Eastern District. These lake* are accessible to sloops. They are often deep, but of a living clearness and brilliancy. In their depths dwell unnumbered fish of vari ous kind*—the trout, the flounder, and other*. Alligators dwell tit these waters, and are some time* found of the enormous length of IS feet! Their average size, however, is by no mean* so great. During the heat of noon in winter, and nt all time* in aunttner, they mny be teen lying upon tin- sand-bar* of the rivers ami lake*, (leieuremoving monsters!) enjoying the repose of almost perpetual alienee and warmth ; indif ferent to all war* and political tumitlta ; savage ly desirous of young negroes; laughing at bul lets and ‘accounting them ns stubble, and with ‘dignified disgust’ turning from the crack of the rifle a* though it Were but the small voice of a pop gun. They nru the enemies of bathers. A boy from one of the town* lying on one of the Southern river*, while bathing, was attacked by one of these “ugly insect*,” (as they were laughably termed by an ‘ancient marinere’ of our acquaintance.) The advances of the mon ster were unforeseen. A ahout front the com panions of the endangered youth failed to warn him from the spot,—and—my Wood freezes while I write!—he rushed into the very juws of the water demon before him. Oh, dod! what an awlul moment to the young specta tor* was that! They saw their companion struggling in the waves, his heqjl locked in the very jaw* of the enemy. The combatants sank. 11 ith admirable adroitness, the youth seized the alligator by the eye holes, forcing the balls instantly from the socket*. With a timid like howl, the monster relaxed his hold and retreated tothe bottom of the river, w hile the unlucky youth, blinded and drenched with Wood, staggered to the shore. This is no fancy ‘ sketch. It occurred near Darien in Georgia.* Other encounter* of this kind were roinniuni cated to us. One more relation shall conclude j our present remarks upon tht* subject: **♦♦♦* Alligator vermi# Steam.— This w as n forced, an unavoidable combat, and a brief one. The Captain of a steamboat, while at his post, per ceived oue of the inhabitant!* of the river push ing his way across directly before the boat.— At its apprpaeh, the animal sank, and rose im mediately before the wheel! He rushed nt the shaft, which struck him with great violence, dragged him upwards in it* revolution, and flung him through the shivered boards of the w heel house, a mangled and quivering victim upon the deck. This anecdote was told us by the Captain himself, and struck usas being very horrible. We might say some things fttrther relating to the alligator. We might tell how he swal loweth pine knots previous to the lethargy of his winter life, and ronsldereth them not infe rior to pastry and pancakes ; also, how excel lently well his tail lastcth to the epicure, who j cookcth said tail and considered! it equal to bass; furthermore, how the ladies shudder at such feat and such opinion, and consider it bar barism to devour any portion of said ‘varmint’ —with other remarks of like character. But wc return from the digression to the subject of our paper. The scenery of Florida is not all uninterest ing. He who has seen from some quiet nook i a graceful bend of the river bordered —;th orange bowers and groves of the holly and magnolia and oak, and (truly tropical and state ly) the cabbage palmetto mid cocoa-nut, will find in his memory recollections wherewith to frame a dream of the loveliness of Mahomet's paradise. There are ‘sinks,’ too, in Florida— ■ places where rivers suddenly sink or vanish in the sand, or where they rush with abandoned plunge into dark caverns, mingling there with subterranean torrents, and gliding away through thickest gloom with many murmur- ‘ mgs and discordant sounds. At some future time, the post, looking iuto these dark and mis ty caverns, may imagine, while he feels the in-! spiral ion of horror, that these melancholy and subterraneous sounds are the moans of the * The lad referred to above is now living in ! our city, and is well and hearty. We seen him a day or two ago. He often speaks of the ad venture and “the tussel” he had to get clear of his Vlligatorship. It occurred about five years ago at a place called Cat Head, a small stream NsV-rkb empties into the Altamaha river. £jal jwj. ‘ water-genii, lamenting that the river amid whose spray they spread their wings has left the cypress shades and open sunshine to wan der on through the ehinittcas and mist and sun less gloom* of cavern*. Hume of these Mtygian water* rise and sink with the tide, thereby indicating their connec tion with the sea. Lake* once wide and beau tiful have sunk In a single night, leaving their | i bed* covered w ith the fi*h. During the pre , sent winter a lake aattk thus, leaving million* . us fish dancing upon the land. Cart-loads of these were carried off und cured by the neigh i boring ‘crackers,’ (squatter* and herdsmen.)— The remainder, puirifying, tainted the whole atmosphere for miles around, reminding the traveller of the plague* of Egypt. I was speaking of tree*. Unanimously we voted the magnolia to be the most beautiful.— The exquisite fragrance of its blossom*, and i the ‘imperial pride’ and beauty of its foliage, have made it a great favorite. The live oak at | tain* however, to great size. We passed some grovescertainly magnificent. W hen growing | in the low grounds, they are hung with dismal ! festoons of moss. A contractor, furnishing i timber for naval purposes, informed tne of an enormous tree growing on the bank* of a river. < lie measured it and found it lit I feet to the first | bough, and 36 feet in circumference at base! lie compared its trunk to the shot-tower at New York. 1 regarded hi* assertions a* exag geration and extravagance of language, bill wa* assured by the planter over whose grounds its m ighty shadow moved, that the statement wa* correct. Tbits giant of the forel was be ginning to feci the inroad* of decay. It wa* not cut, a* it was found hollow in the middle. Hut what a sound w hen this monarch falls, shaking the earth around! YYhut a start of terror and amazement among the wild beasts of the field, when they hear the echoing crash of it* dethroned and falling grandeur, breaking through ami drowning the roar of the tempest! These tree* are almost invariably hung with the festoonerv of tin-grape. The vines of the grape in Florida are sometimes of great size, bearing abundantly. Front tile fruit good wine ha* been made. The iu:oonla or Indian bread is a vine which clambers up the forest trees. Its thorns are very sharp and malignant. From the root the Indian prepares a specie* of flour in tuste not unlike the flour made from potatoes. The palmetto is a shrub which gives character to the scenery. Its leaf is fan-shaped and beautifully green. The pine of Florida is the long-leafed kind. It grows sometimes ton great height, towering above all lit lordly stateliness and strength.— When the wind rages, the roar of the pine forest is indescribably grand. In Alcchua County, the soil is generally rich ; there the pine is oft enormous in stature, and its roots strike deep into the fertile earth, so that the ploughman may drive hi* plough close to the very trunk. The cabbage palm resembles the palmetto ill its leaf, but it is a tree, and grows sometimes to the height of fifty feet. The trunk is point ed witlt a thousand shafts of bark, shooting out like bayonets. It resembles the cocoa-nut. The orange is of three kinds—the sweet, the bitter-sweet, und the sour. The latter arc not unlike the lemon as to flavor. The first men tioned is the delicious fruit brought to the North from the West Indies. The bitter-sweet is most abundant and is certainly pleasant. Figs, white and purple, arc found in the hammock* I of Middle Florida and are a* agreeable as the cultivated fruit. Peaches nrc also found wild, strange as it may seent. Perhaps the botanist may say that they must have been introduced by the. natives—by the men who wandered through the w ilds of the Territory, before the savage had passed tile frozen ocean in his de scent to the temperate and tropical climes of America, ‘i he cocoa-nut has been introduced from Cuba, as well as the plantain und banana, the myrtle or orange, the lemon and pine-ap ple. Os the latter there are very few to be found, though the soil and climate are highly favorable. In the North-Western parts of Florida, there is some interesting scenery. “The ground,’’ says the gifted Chateaubriand, “gradually rises, ns you leave the river,* by natural terracas, rc >etrembling those of an artificial garden. The summit of the hill is composed of rocks. A thousand fountains bubble up among the ter races, mid, spnrMiug in the sunlight with gol den lustre, leap away in beauty towards the river. The whole aspect of the place is im posing ; it may be likened to the Temple of Nature und the magnificent steps which lead to it.” G. 11. •In the lower part of Florida, they make no winter retreat*. •The Apalaehicola. Immknsk Claim or Property.—lt will probably be new to many—it was to us yesterday morning—that a poor journey man printer, named Htnith Ilarpending, j now a resident of Tennessee, but formcr ; ly of tliis city, where he is well known, has instituted in the United States Circuit Court of this District a claim to an itnnten isc estate in this city. His action is brought | against “the ministers, ciders and deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, ofthc city of New York, and others, and 1 the estimated value of the property he ; claims is about twenty-five millions of dol lars. lie makes his claim as heir at law, j in a direct line, to a tract comprising about sixteen acres, bounded by Broadway, | Maiden Lain, Fulton, Nassau and John ’ streets. The documents comprising his : bill, of which a copy has been sent us. are i very voluminous, too much so for perusal; ■ and we can offer no further evidence of the j support they give his claim than we our ! selves draw from the known character of his einment counsel, Messrs, Graham, Hoff man and Sanford.— New York Sun. Freedom of the Press in Cauda. —lt is believed that every editor of a French paper of Canada, is now either in prison or erile. TMV WOXNTOSH COUNTY HEKALD. UIUTIHII EMPIRE. The empire of Great Britain embraces large portion* of territory in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and may literally be said to begirt the globe. The immense extent, however, of Iter possessions is rather a cause of weakness than of strength ; to her home government, which is neccs- I sarily compelled to divide its means for offence and defence, and to spread them so vast a surface, a* to render them insuffi- , cicnt for the repulsion of a formidable foe, who hat concentrated his resources to at- j tack any given point. The military power lof England is justly considered second, at | least, to many in Europe, and in her late war* on the continent her success was mainly owing to her ability to subsidize 1 powerful allies, whose armies fought Iter ; battles, and won her victories. The down fall of Napoleon was owing to such alliances i —and Russia, purchased by British gold, gave the first fatal blow to the power mighty Corsican. Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Sweden, followed up this blow, and ! drove the conqueror of Kings and Emper ! or*, bark to Lis capitol, and to exile in Elba. After the restoration of this chief , lain, hi* power wa* taken from him by the combined armies of Prussia and England, | and but for the timely aid of the former, i the army of the latter would have been j destroyed or captured. The strength of ! England is on the ocean—in her naval arm. i There she is indisputably powerful — her | naval force, however, is so much divided : among her possessions in the four quarters |of the globe, and in the protection of her expanded commerce, that it* capabilities I for offence at any one point are far less than the great number of her war vessels would induce us to believe. Still she may he called a great sea-mon* ater with which no nation in Europe can contend, with an equal amount of available mean* —wilh an equal number of vessels, guns and men, if ail the power of each were brought into the conflict. It is only by cutting up her fleets, and by rapturing her vessels in detail, that her naval prepon derance can be arrested from her. Accord ing to our naval mean* this nation, more than any other, can inflict deep injuries on England, as the results of the late war con clusively proved. The teason is obvious —she has to fight three thousand miles ftoin home—we fight on our own orean borders—and it would require three or four of her aquadrons, to which, to inter cept, and to rapture, one of our own. Her supplies are generally brought from a diatanec—ours always arc at hand, and ready for use. But as the destiny of Eng land hangs upon her cable—which if cut will cause her to sink—so it behoves her to strengthen well this important arm of her power, lest it be broken by those who may be made her enemies. In our last war, { with six frigates and ten sloops of war, we j broke the charm of her naval invincibility —and let her now be careful how she com pels us to become a formidable naval nation j —for when we do, the power of England l on the ocean has departed. England holds jurisdiction over 4,501,851 square miles, or 1 505,435,300 actes, and counts among het subjects and serf* upwards of 1113,000, 000. England's population proper, on which she can rely in case of revolt among her conquered provinces, amounts only to shout 44,000,000. While the population of the 11. Stales including 3,000,000 of . blacks, amounts lo only 16,000,000. In s few years, however, we shall out number the European, and population of ’ England, and become for more powerful on land than she ever ran he. She has | reached the acme of her power, is old, ; and will, like the empire* that hare gone ! before her, gradually tend towards decay. Wc are young and vigorous, growing rap idly into the mightiness of potent man ! hood, and will in half a century he the greatest nation that the world probably over saw. The march of einpite has been ever westward, and the sun of time w ill shed j its last beams of power and rule upon our Hesperian realm. Yankee Spirit. —An American brig, belonging to Portsmouth, N. 11. wan once in Demarnra, disrhargeing her cargo, when she was boarded by a boat from a gun brig lying at anchor at no great distance. The crew was mustered and their protections examined—and one New Hampshire boy, ol'a noble and fearless spirit, and though young in years, of a vigorous frame, was ordered into the boat. He peremptorily refused to obey the order. The officer in a great rage, collared the youthful seaman, but was instantly laid sprawling by a well directed blow of his fist. This boat's crew rushed to the assistance of their officer, and the spirited American was final ly overpowered, pinioned, thrown into the boat, and conveyed on board the British brig. The lieutenant complained to his commanding officer, of the insult he had received from the stalwart Yankee, and his battered lace corroborated his statement. The commander at once decided that such insolence demanded exemplary punishment —and that the young Yankee required, on his first entrance into the service, a lesson which might be of use to him hereafter. Aeceordingly the offender was lashed to a gun, by the inhuman sattelitcs of tyranny, and his back was bared to the lash. Before a blow was struck he repeated his declara tion that he was an American citizen, and the sworn foe of tyrants. He demanded release—and assured the Captain in the most solemn and impressive manner that if he persisted in punishing him like the vilest malefactor, for vindicating his rights as an American citizen, the act would never he forgotten—but that his revenge would be certain and terrible. The Captain laughed at what he regarded an impotent menace—and give signal to the boatswain’s mate. The white skin of the young Ame rican was soon cruelly mangled, and the blows fell thick and heavily on the quiver ingflesh. He bore theinflictionof the barba rous and cruel punishment without a mur mur or a groan; and when the signal was S'ven for the executioner to cease, although e skin was hanging in stripes on his back, which was thickly covered with clotted blood, he showed no disposition to faulter or to faint. His face was somewhat paler than it wont to be—but his lips were com pressed, as if he was summoning determi nation to his aid, and his dark eyes shot, forth a brilliant gleam, showing that his \ spirit was unsubdued, and that he wa bent on revenge, even if his life should be j the forfeit. Ilis bonds were loosened, and he arose from his humiliating posture. He glared fiercely around. The Captain wa* stand ing within a few paces of him, with a dc- j tnoniac grin upon hi* features, as if he en joyed to the bottom of his soul the disgrace and tortures inflicted on the poor Y ankee. The hapless sufferer saw that smile of I exultation—and that moment decided the fate of his oppressor. YVith the activity, i the ferocity and almost the strength of a ; tiger, the mutilated American sprang upon I the tyrant, and grasped him where he i stood, surrounded by his officers, who, lor the moment seemed paralyzed with aston- | ishment—and before they could recover their senses and hasten to the assistance of their commander, the flovged American had borne him to the gangway, and then clutching him by the throat with one hand, and firmly embracing him with the oilier, j despite hi* struggles, he leaped with him | into the turbid water of the Demarara!— i They parted to receive the tyrant and his : victim—then closed over them,and neither \ were afterward* seen. Both had passed to their last account — o , -Unanointed, unanealed With all their imperfection* on their head.” j But a brighter day has dawned upon the British navy. The odious system of im pressment is abolished—neveragain I hope to be adopted.— Bos. Cultivator. Da. DyotT. —The Grand Jury have found a true bill against this notorious person upon various charges of fraud and embezzlement, and in due course of time he will be put upon his trial before a panel of impartial citizen While wc disclaim any desire of fermenting the prejudice which already exist against him, we canitol refrain from expressing a hope that the law will be meted out lo him in the full measure of justice. If he is innocent, we earnestly pray that his innocence may be made man ifest, and he be acquitted; but, if guilty, w c should be sorry to sec him escape through any mere legal technicality. .Small rogues are made lo undergo the penalties which they invoke by violating the statutes, and there is no reason why your great rogues should not bear their share of the burdens. We reiterate the hope wc have here tofore expressed, that Mr. Jacob Riilg way’s connection with this business w ill be strictly intestigated. Wealth anti station must not be allowed to screen him from public censure if he is properly censurable, any more than they should be allowed lo expose him to unjust condemnation. There is a strong and constantly growing desire in this community to have this whole mat ter throughly sifted—to look iuto its inmost recesses —to examine all its mys teries; and we trust the counsel employed will not suffer any considerations to deter them from an unflinching discharge of their duty. No matter who may he im plicated—no matter who may be injured in public estimation—no matter what dark schemes may he brought lo light—no matter what plots may be unravlled—it is the w islt of the public that the whole ‘ truth should he made known, so that punishment may fall wherever it ha* been deserved. Let the counsel for the Commonwelth prode this ease tothe bottom, and if there are any person legally implicated with Dr. Dyott let all such persons be made the object of prosecution. The Ledger furnishes the following as the result of the meeting of the creditors of Dyott. The Creditors oi T. W. Dyott met on Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock, lor the purpose of hearing the report ol their At torney, YV. L. Hirst. Esq., as to the li ability of Mr. Ridgeway to pay the debt of Dr. Dyott. Mr. Hirst, proceeded to argue, that from the evidence adduced before the Court of Common Pleas, it was his opinion, that at the time Mr. Ridgeway was published in ihe newspaper as being a trustee of Dr. Dyoil's hank, and when he received the bond of #.">00,000, he was per fectly aware of the inability of Dr, Dyott to proreed with his business, and that con sequently an action might he sustained against Mr. Ridgeway, for the recovery of the moneys due to Dr. Dyott’screditors. After Mr, II rst had concluded reading his report, resolutions were drafted and signed by the meeting, which was very numerous, authorizing Mr. Ilirst to insti tute action against Jacob Ridgeway for the recovery of said moneys. The meeting thru adjourned. An English gentleman was recently walk ing under the arcades of the Rue dc llivoli, in Paris holding in his hand a gold headed cane of splendid workmanship; a man supported by two cruchcs came up and asked for aims in a mysterious manner and pitiful tone. The gentleman moved to pity, gave the beggar a small silver coin. At the same moment, a person near him suddenly exclaimed,“ How can you, sir. allow this rogue to deceive you ? Please to hand me your cane, and I will soon show you that the rascal runs better than I can.” The Englishman, taken unawares, without reflecting, lent his cane; the beggar, the moment he perceived it in his detractor’s hands, threw away his cruchcs and took to his heels as if his Satanic magesty in person was running after him, and was fol lowed by the titan with the cane, whilst the spectators, and the Englishman par ticularly, remained in convulsions of laugh ter at the sight, and exclaimed alternate ly. “Oh, he will be caught !”—“ No, he will not be caught !” But both the racing heroes disappeared at the next turning in the street, and the good Englishman re mained waiting for his splendid cane, w hich cost five hundred francs. The Mayor of this city has received a letter from the Sheriff of Jones County. Georgia, in which the writer states that “Henry Jones, the prisoner received from the authorities of South Carolina, has been committed to prison to await his trial, and that the Court will commence its session on Monday the 15th inst.” Inclosed in the letter was a subpeena for a witness in this city, whose attendance at Court is earnest ly desired to establish the truth— “for,” j says the letter, “the truth is glaring, and if it only can be produced. I think he will pay the penalty due to crime.” Charleston Courier. —— 1 New-Oklear*. \p r ;t 3 I LATEST FROM MBXtdb. ‘ YVe have converged with the captain of! thesehr. Arm Maria, lie left Taiapi eu or . ‘ tlieJlst ult. Gen. Mcxia had arrive* at I Tampico the day befaje, hut unatlcndtg.! Gen. L'rrea was expected on the day th I vessel sailed. It wa* reported at Tampico l that l'rrea had been defeated in two battles | wilh the Centralists, whose troops, 7000 strong, were ahout 15 leagues from the town. Home fear* were entertained for the j safety of Tampico. The federal troops in | the place are reckoned at 1000. The U. 8. j Cutter was still in port. Tampico, March 17.—Dy an express, which arrived this morning, we have an j account of a signal victory obtained by the federal army over the hosts of our ty rants. 11. Q. LIBERATING ARM Y. Tuscan, March 15, l**39. I have tne *“*tfeiion ( U announce to i | you that just now at 1 o o—l federal i ! army has obtained a most complete triun. r i., | over the division of the vanguard of the 1 central troops, commanded by General Cos. 1 have only time to state that after three ! hours and a half of the hottest firing, the 1 j action terminated by a capitulation, in j which it has been agreed that the w'hole ; ■ army of assailants shall fall hack on M cxico hv regular inarches. During the action I I made “00 prisoners, and was joined after wards by 150 of the centralists; all their! artillery, mule* and baggage, 350 muskets i ; and many other articles have fallen into our I lands. I lost I ollicers and 1“ soldier* j 1 killed. The enemy's loss amounted to 8 j officers and 76 privates. Jose Antonio Mexia. Hr. Augustine, March 30. An mv In tki.lioe.nce. — Lieut, (.‘ol. liar* | ney, 2d Dragoons, sailed for the Military ; postsHouth, on the‘27lh inst. Two Indians and a Negro accompanied hint, as guides | and interpreter. The Ith Artillery isordered North. The Topographical Survey of the Mil j itary Districts, as contemplated by Geu. : Taylor, is rapidly progressing. A Corporal 1 attached to the command acting with Capt. Mackey, T. C., was killed in the Etanaya ! Scrub, ahout a fortnight since. The In dian* escaped. General Macomb is expected at Black 1 Creek today. It is said thut the object of j his visit is to hold an inteiriew with the i enemy. It is further stated, that the Gcn i era! is furnished with dollars by way of ) closing the war. The Baltimore Suit, of the iMth ultimo, states that an iron steamboat, the hull of) ] which was manufactured in Knglaud, sent j to Savannah for Mr. B. O. Lamar, .ft that; |city, und thence transmitted by him to 1 this city, to he put together by Messrs. Watchman and liralt, is now nearly com- i ’ pleated, and lying alongside of their wharf, j i Another of the same description is now on j the stocks. The boat is 125 feet in length ! 45 feet beam, and 7 feet in depth of hold, j : and couse jucntly measure considerably | j upwards of 400 tons. Thev at* of very 1 j handsome model, and draw only about three I i feet water, when every thing is in. Their j ’ engines, which have been made by Messrs. W. A. 11. are low pressure, and each of ‘OO horse power. YVe understand that j these boats are to ply he l wen Savannah and | j Macon, in Georgia Only one of them is ! { yet named—the De Ros? et. Ac. 01 nt of American Mamitacturer* bv j !an Englishman. — At a great Anti-Corn Law i Dinner, recently given at VI a licit ester. Eng-’ i laud, one of the speakers lit the course of his 1 j remarks, made the following statement: that, I lin 1811 the people of America consumed one ‘ | hundred bales of cotton. Last year the con j sumption was n urly three hundred thousand I bales, entirely the growth of the short period I which haselapsedsinct IN||. She now stands, j in point of consumption, where we stood in I | the year 1810. Sixteen years ago Lowell, the .Manchester of America, w asadesert. Its 1 ’ forest echoed no sound but that of thecatrract. It now spin* & manufacturer* forty thousand ! bales of cotton per annum. There is a con j eenirated waterpower, amounting to five thou i >.ind horses’power, which equals one half of 1 the warier power of Great Urittaiu w hich is : applied 10 the cotton manufacture mi l to one sixth of all the steam power so applied. In 1832. America exported two inillons eiglitliun j dred thousand dollars worth of cotton good*. In 183 H. and half of eighteen hundred thirty | seven, she exported twenty thousand bules of her cotton manufacturers round the Cape of ! Good Hope to India and Chnia, nudthirty four i thousand bales to the markets of South Amer 1u a. Nt ither is it in the cotton manufactures | alone that she is advancing. In 1835. she had j seventeen millions of sheep and lambs. Inlß3B, | 23 millions, which at three pounds per head, I would give sixty million pounds of wool, the { whole of which is manufactured there. Infe i rior woolens are sold as cheap In Ncw-York as in the cloth-halls of Leeds. For the last two years our manufacturers have worked without receiving any profit. Boston Post. InstantaneocsGinoer Beer. —A Lon don paper gives the follo wing recipe for preparing this pleasant beverage. Fill a bottle with pure cold water, then have a string or wire to tie it down with, and inal | let to drive the cork, so that no time may | he lost; now put into the bottle sugar to your taste, (syrup is better) and a teaspoon of good powdered ginger, shake all well, then add the sixth part of an ounce of super carbonate of soda ; cork rapidly and tic down, shake the bottle well, cut the string, the cork well fly, then drink ginger beer. A good resolve.—“ I resolve,” said a pious English bishop, “never to speak of a man's virtues before his face, nor of his faults behind his back.” If every one would not only adopt such a resolution but carry it into effect, the dawn ofmillenial glory would soon illumine the “whole broad earth.” The Cincinnatti Sun says that, a few eve : nings since, the editor of the St. Louis Ga zette was seen in a fit of hydrofogy, throw ing his purse at the foot of the town pump, and begging for life at the handle. The Governor, and most of the leading democrats in Main, have signed an applica tion to the President in favor of the appoint ment of Daniel YYf'cbster. as special messen ger to Great Britain. CANADA —YVe reluctantly give from vari ous sources the following accounts of the de plorable state of things existing on pari o! the Canadian frontier.—lf these domes bo not stop ped. it will eventually cause the loss on ltoih sides of tlte lh,e of private property to a Uunen table extent. If. a* we believe, these inccudn ry nets are committed in the first instanct by Canadian refuges, American citizens residing I on tile hue are called upon by (help own iuter *,W, as well as by every com ideration of na tional honor and faith, not only to give them | no countenance, but to afford them neither j .urU >r uur shelter, tul they have drivett them j into the interior, where they cannot carry out their plods of wanton, unless destruction, Ytic York Courier. From tht Montreal Herald of the 28th ult. Oi.asknceviu.e. 28th March. I*3o. Sib. —I beg to inform you of the particulars iif a small aflatr that took place in this neigh- Uvrhood last night, or ralherearly thtetnormnf. j About three o’clock, an armed party ftoin the United States, in sleighs, drove down on the j ice until opposite our piquet on Beach Ridge, ; t the scene of some of tin irburning.) and then • nmenced firing small arms, but w ithout ef fect, as Out 1a.,-.. w~,t , i.uou-d of themselves under cover, awaiting their nearer approach, the distance being too great for precise aim. The brigands then fired a cannon and immedi ately decamped in the direction of Alburg Spring*. A detachment of the Queen’s light | dragoons, and the light company of Col. Dy er’s regiment, arrived soon after in support of the piquet, and marched up the line, near j which a body of the brigands remained until the near approach of our force. I poll our arrival at the spot on the ice front j where the firing took place, we found the can j non. a wooden one, burst, and anew United i States musket, with ntt iron six pound ball, and j a quality of cannon shot lying scattered about, i From the appearauce of some pieces of the j wooden camion, I am led to believe that sev- I cral of the brigands were wounded by itsburs j ling, marks of blood being disunity visible on I the pieces and ice around. The firing on the i piequets in this vicinity is not an unusual oc | currence, but from the distance the shots came ] from, and oar precaution in placing the sen -1 tries under cover, rfb damage has been recciv j cd. Had the cannon not burst. we have eve i ry reason to suppose that a more extended at i tack was intended, as we are informed that a i considerable force from another point conven j fill to us was in readiness to march in, and as Nelson, <’ote, Gagnon and Grogan are now at ’ the Springs, only four miles distant, another I attack is expected. I*. S. I have just heard that-oue of the A -1 mericaiis is killed, and some wounded, by the i bursting of the wooden gun: they are now at ! the Alburg Springs, one mile jnd a half from I our line. 4 From the St. Albans Messenger, of March 28th. Fir at on the Frontier. —Fires on the fron lier seem to increase, in a fearful ratio. For the last two weeks there have been one *r more lire.- utmost every night. Apparently they are alternately each side of tlie line. Ketaliation appears to be the order of the night, j We are not able to stale the extent of the tuir- I ning, hut presume from the number of fires -n from this place, and whatwc have heard, j that quite a number of buildings have been burnt, the greater part of them barns,, and the I most of them situated in Champlain and Odle • town. In the latter place we are informed i that a largo house was burnt on Friday night | last and on the Friday previous two barnsbe ’ longing to it. Last Sunday night one or two ! burns in Alburph were destroyed. We hope to I he able to give further particulars next wee*’. Frmn the Burlington Sentinel of March 29. From the Fiio.v tier. —Tito following is an | extract from a privata letter, dated Al ia noA, March 22, 1839. * • * Captain Porter’s Company of | regulars are ordered from this post to Rouse’s Point, ami leave to-inorro* morning; the com pany stationed at Troy are also withdrawn, to i join the head quartersof the regiment at Platts burgh. The excitement at Kousie’s point is i \ cry great, in consequence of the huntings j which have heenkeptup for nearly two weeks. I —Quite a number of the families are moving ! out of the place, or rather the female, part of them. Von can form little idea of the alarm | and confusion which prevail there as soon as I night falls. Every man in ihn place is on duty, and stt mounted dragoons are stationed on (he lines, yet with all tins precaution they have fires all around them. Several fires have occurred within sight of the guard, and while they were extinguishing one, another has broken out in another direction. Uy a letter from Alburgh, dated Monday last, on which implicit reliance may be placed we learn that die barns belonging to Mr. Co vey, an enterprising farmer in Alburgh, were burnt by a gang of “loyal volunteers” on the Saturday night previous. Six or eight head of cuttle, twi horses, and about ten tons of hay, “( re also destroyed. Our correspondent adds that scarcely a night has passed for three weeks, without the heavens being illuminated by the light from some incendiary fire in that v leinity. A Ci’Riofs Ladies Man. —The editor of tho Cincinnati News pretends lobe a ladies’ man, hut from the following we should be inclined to think that lie is no man for the ladies. Af ter professing the highest respect, love and ad miration of I lie dear creatures, he winds up his article as follows: “But with all our love for woman, with all our anxiety to secure her in terest, we would rather be scalped, than to mar ry—we would sooner be roasted, than to he beat out of bed with the tongs or broomstick — would prefer transportation to a kettle of hot water—and death to the fortune of the discord of a dozen little hungry, speckled faced barba rians squalling for bread.”—Where is the boom. —-V. O. Picayune. The .Murtler of Prisoners. — Col. Priuce of Sandwich, 1 C. has been tried by a Court Martial, on a charge of shooting four of the. patriot prisoners in cold blood, without trial; and strange to say he iias been acquitcd. On the other hand, Col. Elliot, who made the charge, has been dismissed from the Militia service. It does not appear, however, that the charge was at all disproved, so far as the shoot ing. was concerned, but only as to the ‘* wanton cruelty” of the act. Probably the Court Mar tial did not consider it wanton cruelty to mur der such prisoners as were found near Sand wich. The whole affair, as we view it, is em inently disgraceful.— .V. V. Jour. Com. On Friday the types and pros* of the Au rora, published at Montreal, were seized, and Mr J. P. Bucher Belleville, the ed itor and publisher, was lodged in prison. There is a story in Pausanias of a plot for betraying of a city discovered by the braying of an ass, the cackling of gepse saved the capito], and, Catiline's conspi racy was discovered bv a courtezan, I hese are the only three, animals, as I re member, famous in historvas rriJepcrs and iit form ers. —/b an Sri ft.