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I I ■ .KONIOLE ANlii SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6. The Knavery Exposed. The following letter from General Harrison to Mr. James Lyo«s of Virginia,;exposes the true cha racter of the “ Last Curd ” of the Locofocos : Cincinnati, October 21, 1840. Mr Dean Sir ;-—I have received a Hand Bill which contaitrs a tetter eaiti to have been written by me to Artfew Tappan «mjl-others, in which I proclaim Abolition principle*'. It has my name to it, but is a VILE FORGERY. On the aay, 2d October, I was at Columlj is. Yours tr haste, the ma;i just closing, Jas. Lyons, Esq. WM. ;E. HARRISON. Pennsylvania and Virginia. In this morning’s papei wife'be found all the re turns we have been able to coi-lact of the election in •hese two States. We give ti)=em as we find them in our exchange papers, and hey must be taken for what they are worth. Ti e news from Penn sylvania, if tiue, is highly encouraging to the friends of Reform ; and that from Virginia is fa vorable to the Locofocos. A few days more, unless we have our accustomed failures of the mail, will enable us to present the true state of the case. If Virginia has gone for the Lpeofocos, we confess we shall be disappointed, though we should not feel disappointed to see Pennsylvania go either way. Spkc-ial Election in Kentucky. Col. Thompson, Whig, has been c eded to Congress in the district represented by the late S. H. An derson. His majority over Daniel, V, 8., is a bout 800. ! From the \ew Orleans But of the 31 st ult. Arkansas’ Last evening we received l;he Arkansas Star of the 21st, which contains retunpt from ten counties, showing a gain of 650 votes ? to the Whigs since 1838. The locofoco majority >vas then 2,500. If ■the remaining counties show.; a similar gain, the -election has been very close. "The Star says not a word of the legislature. Indian News, An Extra from the office rs the Apalachicola Advertiser, of the 2Sth ult, srjys—Capt. Smith, of the Louisa, reports having a raft, i.bout six miles below Ochese, on whicii the Indians had crossed to the East side of the Apalachicola River, sometime between Friday ami Sunday last. Col. Mapes, of the‘U. S. Army, exatrjined it, and declares it to be his conviction that the raft was made by white men, which the belief that the Indians have been, and are sti ,;1 aided by some de praved whites. Pennsylvania I lection. Majorities, with the gain o: loss on the vote of the 13th. V.B. Har. V.B. Har. gain. gain. Philadelphia city and co. 205 138 Berks, 3880 153 Bucks, 327 305 Chester, ,784 159 Delaware, 713 114 (Lancaster, 4300 591 Dauphin. 947 434 Cumberland, 1 122 308 York, 589 166 Lehigh, 47 246 Northampton, 980 ; 109 Montgomery, "768 35 Ademe. 846 277 Franklin, 834 312 Schuylkill, 308 4 284 Centre, 811 186 Juniata, 105 25 Perry, 924 j- 71 Lebanon, 968 418 Bedford, 555 210 - Northumberland, 1016 ( 238 Huntingdon, T 550 271 Mifflin, 42 ; 38 Union, ovcrj!000 134 r ■ __ !908 4314 908 3406 Correspondence of the Baltn/iore American. Philadelphia, f_Vt 31st, 8 P. M. Gentlemen—We have jusj come out of the warmest political contest we have ever had in this city,—-The -votes polled are’larger than at any former election, but our majority of 2882 is eight hundred less than it would have been at a fair .election. The returns from the interior are of the most cheering chajacter, and have conclusively settled the question that Harrison aped Reform have carried the day in this State. [ The population of Charleston, according to the official census, is 41,139. For the Chronicle Sc 'tontine/. 'To the Editor of the Staiuiasd of Union. Sir—When the W higs of thisd ounty made their first rally, in April last, you Acre pleased, with that felicitous purity of expression so peculiarly your own, to duo them “ bar#--ridden, can'ing knaves .” Through the columns of this paper I then informed you that your master should pay for this piece of/insolence. 1 now r ill your attention to the returns of our late election;, and ask wheth er your master has paid for it f\ Where are the ( -“ tones of terror” in which you bud us the demo;- i racy of Richmond would speak t l us at their meet- ing in May ? And, above alii what think you now of General Harrison’s “ cqbweb pretensions to the Presidency ?” ; A WHIG. Byway of postscript. How roes a swaggering | bully feel wiien well whipped ? ( Give us your ex- i pericnce, and learn better manners. I Tiuf. Cotton Crop.—lt gives us some pain rto add-to the testimony already: before the coin- ( mercial world, concerning the failure of the cot ton crqp, that of an eminent planter, Col. John L. Hunter, of Alabama ; a gentleman of great experience.and .intimately connected with the cotton planting interest. Inwiin, A);.., Oct. 23rd. “ The crops have suffered considerably from the heavy rains in July and August, producing a casting of the squares to a great extent; also from the ravages of the bug—flic bolls having been perforated, which causes I Is* rot: aso from .The Caterpillar, which has destroyed the leaves j «n(l young fruit, causing a blight similar to an ( early frost. Indeed, the season; has been most unpropilityis, and, from what Ucan understand, although my crop has sustained less injury than , those of my neighbors, we shall lose not less, but most probably more, than r,ne third.” ■ i a The Goods Seized. a j J, The Baltimore Sun says: —v I'he cloths and cassimeres under seizure in this city since August, -j 18J9, were sold by the ma.sUal, lor casa, «u tin- j 15th and 16th ult. and prouuced $43,534 44.” p ELECTION RETURNS. ~ PRESIDENTIAL CONGRESSIONAL VOTE. VOTE. La y \ II II COUNTIES. s- « 2- 3 ° 5 § 3 > * • • <t» • . . Appling, 100 115 Baker . 199 239 Baldwin,.... 731 533 330 323 Bibb, 18 675 676 Bryan, 5S 89 36 Billoch, 25 386 J 7 365 Burke, 593 195 523 271 Butts 233 392 Camden, 190 227 Campbell -••- .... 199 530 Carroll, 256 451 Cass 14? .... 489 662 Chatham.... 591 647 .... 556 651 Chattooga, 211 268 Cherokee, 361 504 Clarke 630 319 , 619 360 Cobb, 42S 658 ’ 407 659 Columbia,... 470 223 .... 479 274 Coweta, 50 .... .... 682 684 Crawford,.. . 435 459 417 448 Dade, 23 145 Decatur , 404 248 DeKalb,' 664 759 < 616 753 Dooly, 228 330 Early, ... 240 354 Effingham,..lsß 55 .... 173 75 Elbert, 958 105 . 909 133 Emanuel,,... . [ 124 1.70 Fayette, 130 ; 406 543 Floyd, 271 266 t 264 281 Forsyth, 348 457 1 330 511 Franklin,....’ .... .... ....{ 433 815 Gilmer, .... < ...J 84 338 Glynn, .... ....[lid 28 Green 894 127 I 840 106 Gwinnett,... 125 703 680 Habersham,.. .... 344 802 Hall 527 624 Hancock,... 482 241 .... 469 248 Harris, .... .... 933 386 Heard,. 1 .... 32> 374 Henry, 931 794 853 782 Houston, 667 6i7 Irwin, 60 I*B Jackson, 544 569 Jasper, 495 494 510 509 Jefferson.... 457 89 .... 438 96 Jones, 497 456 Laurens, .... .../ 442 4 Lee, 302 153 Liberty, 65 151 121 Lincoln, 317 D 3 294 154 Lowndes... J .... ,i 412 123 Lumokin,...' 355 736 294 -748 Macon, .... .... 355 325 Madison, 357 256 324 297 Marion, .... .... 357 312 Mclntosh, 16 10( 145 Meriwether, .... .... 736 790 Monroe, 796 675 818 733 Montgomery, —• .... .... 202 7 Morgan, 478 27S 4SI 330 Murray .... 234 481 Muscogee,... 235 rn J 959 8-48 Newton...... 988 355 r .... 959 398 Oglethorpe,.. 654 127 604 132 Paulding. ..... i ! 243 263 Pike, ...... 526 626 Pulaski, ....... 210 315 Putnam,..., 468 310 1 440 346 Rabun, ; ...... ; .. .., 26 314 .A ...» ' .... .... 54U 592 Richmond,.. 939 406 ....; 593 501 Striven, ]M) 199 .... 172 237 Stewart, .... .... 887 775 Sumpter, .... .... 446 371 Talbot 888 820 Taliaferro,... 431 47 396 60 Tatnall, .... .... 259 24 Telfair, .... .... 187 131 Thomas, .... .... 410 145 Troup, Hl6 433 Twiggs, ; 376 423 Union, 94 422 Upson, 632 293 637 308 Walker, .... ....: 3SO 509 Walton, 1t,2 52*- 681 v ire,,. I 201 46 Warren,.... 552 243 , ...i 552 336 Washington. 593 453 . .... 579 617 Wayne, 1 .... .... *....' 75 80 Wilkes. 438 353 462 384 WiiJijsoL, • •.... ‘ .... •,... 46-5; 50* From the Apalachicola Commercial Advertiser Ex tra of the 28 tn ult. I.oss of the Steam boat Le Roy, nix Lives LosU Tiie steamboat Siren, Capt. Field, brings in telligence of the loss of the Le Roy, Washing ton Smith, master, and reports the melancholy news that 6 persons were killed, and several dangerously scalded, burnt, or olhewise wounded, j —The accident occured on Sunday last, about 2 i o’clock, P. M., opposite Blount’s Town, ou this j liver. The Le Roy was employed on the Brunswick line, in the conveyance of the mail, and passen gers, between Chattahoochee, and 101-a, and in hei last trip was coming from the first named place. She is represented to have been an old , boat, but was not considered unsafe. It appears that first her boilers exploded, and afterwards she caught fire and burned down to the water's edge. The wreck now lies opposite Blount’s Town to which place the wounded were conveyed. Among the passengers was Mr. Willis Alston, and we believe he was the only one who escaped unhurt. He is reported to have slated, that be fore leaving Challanoochee, he observed some thing about the boat which created a feeling of insecurity. Thus impelled, he kept as near the stern of the boat as possible, that being the safest place. On hearing toe explosion, he immediate ly jumped into the yawl boat, and thus made his escape while the vessel was on fire. The kiiled are reported to be Daniel Rowlet, passenger. Washington Smith, master. John Ashton, engineer. Pressly Hicks, fireman. John Waller, da. Henry Carter, a free mullatto steward. The names of the wounded we have not learned. Fortunately, there were mot'inany pas-engers on board, otherwise the disaster would have been still more mel incholy. The Le Roy was owned by the mail contractors on the great Southern Route, Messrs. Stockton. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Since the above was in type, through the po liteness of Cupt..James Y. Smith, of the Steam boat Louisa, we have received a more circum stantial account of the melancholy catastrophe a bjve related. The Le Roy left Chattahooche on Sunday, at half past 10, A M. conveying the mail to lola. The accident occurred two miles above Blunts, town, at the hour before slated. The names of the wounded are Holloman, Pilot, Sam. Smothers, a free mulatto, book. A b ack woman belonging to the .boat, .and a negro ooy, belt ngingto Judge Spang. There were three persons who escaped unhurt, making in all thirteen persons who were on board at the time of the accident. The wounded were conveyed to the plantation of Mr Sutton, where they havojrecetved every attention, and in a fairway of recovery, 'i’he pi lot is much bruised, having been blown several fi’et into the ai<-, and fallen on the wreck, with the ( wheel in his hand. Nothing was saved but the mail which was "j blown on to the forecastle. The river, Capt. i Smith says, is literally strewed with fragments, and since the accident the boat, has entirely dis- ■, appeared, leaving nothing but the stern pole to ( indicate where it lays. After the explosion, and before the fire a Mr. t I upper went on board the wreck alone, to ren- I r d er assistance to liic wounded and recover the j t bodies. While thus engaged the wounded ‘ a were taken away in the yawl hoat, leaving him without a living companion. In its absence the flames spread with fearful rapidity, but with un daunted, and true bravery, he still persevered to the imminent danger of his life, and had the re turn of the yawl been delayed a few minutes, he would undoubtedly have fallen a sacrifice to his heroic benevolence. We are happy to state that he escaped, but such noble conduct should not go entirely unnoticed. Capt. Smith, master of the Lc Roy, was only in temporary command, the regular master having engaged him during his absence at a Camp Meeting. The mail was rescued by Mr. Sutton, and conveyed to its destination by the Loqisa.- Virginia Election. The Charleston Courier of yesterday says - The following statement of the vote in the coun ties named, was furnished us by one of the pas sengers : Bedford county, 350 Whig majority. Campbell county, 223 Whig majority. Caroline county, 83 Administration majority. Richmond county, 410 Whig rnajnjity. Chesterfield county, 280 Administration major ity- Petersburgcounty, 17 Administration majority. Norfolk county, 137 Whig majority. Hanover and Stafford, nearly equal. The ladies did look lovely l , we saw a dark eyed brunette who might have set fiie to a soul of ice.— Clipper. “ O ! whar did she kum from ?” — -hieh. Star. From Richmond — Clipper. 0 where, and O where does the lovely creature dwell ? — Picayune, Augusta, to be sure ; where <dse do you suppose ? Did’ntyou know that Georgia was famed in song and story as the land of beauty. New Jersey.— William Pennington, tfie pres ent excellent Governor of New Jersey, was yester day re-elected to that office. Charles G. McChes ne.y was elected secretary.— New York Commer cial Advertiser 31 st. Ihe Hon. James F. Simmons (whig) has been elected a Senator in the Congress of the United Slates from the State of Rhode Island, in the place of the Hon. Nehemiah R. Knight, whose term of service expires on the Ith of March next. 1 he recent election in lowa Territory, for a de legate to Congress,has resulted in the election of General Dodge, tfie Locofocos candidate for Con gress, by about 60U majority. The Extra Globe has run its race—finished its distinguished career. Kendall has pocketed his dollars, and the office-holders have the Extra Globe.—Valuable equivalent! The last number is graced by the “ hist card” of the party, and if its readers ever learn the trutn, they must look to other sources. Kendal has issued proposals hi publish a semi-weekly paper to be called ‘<Ken<* d .ll*s Expositor.”— Madisonian. Execution of Jack Sheppard and Jona than U ild. As public attention has been drawn to these worthies, we present our readers with an account of the execution from the records of the lime. The London Weekly Journal would be a curi osity in these broad sheet days. London was remarkably quiet from the above period till November, i 724, but that year pro duced a thief that seemed calculated to nerlonn successfully every scheme of desperation. He en joyed a limited sway, and during the lime he was at largo the public were in constant apprehension. Bucppard finished his career at Tyburn, in the midst of an incredible number of spectators; and t.jeir conduct occasions this notice of him. The sheriffs officers, aware of the person they had to contend with, thought it prudent to secure his hands on the morning of execution. This in novation produced the most vuilcht resistance on Sheppard s part, and the operation was perform ed by force. They then proceeded to search j him, and had reason to applaud their vigilance, I for he had contrived to conceal a penknife in some part of his dress. '1 he ceremony of his depar | tore from our world passed without disorder ; hut ; the nstant the time expired for the suspension of the body, an undertaker, who had followed by | his fricuds’ desire, with a hearse, and attendants, ' would have conveyed it to St. Sepulchre's churchyard for interment; hut the mob conceiv | ing that the suigeons had employed this unfor tunate man, proceeded to demolish the vehicle, and attacked the sable dependents, who escaped i with difficulty. They then siezed the body, and in the brutal manner common to those wretches, beat it from each to the ether till it was covered | with bruises and dirt, and till they reach Lung , acre, where they deposited the miserable remains lat a public house called the Barley-mow. Alter it had rested there a few hours, the populace en tered into an inquiry why they had pot coylri- I buled their assistance in bringing Sheppard to Long-acrc; when they discovered they were duped by a bailiff, who was actually employed by the surgeons; and that they had taken llie corpse from a person realty intending to bury it. The elucidation of their error exasperated them al most to phren/y, and a riot immediately commen ced, which threatened the most serious conse quences. The inhabitants applied to the po : lice, and several magistrates, attending, they | were immediately convinced the civil power was I insufficient to resist the torrent of malice ready ; to burst forth in acts of violence. They there fore sent to the Prince of Wales and the Savoy requesting detachments of the Guards; who, ar riving, the leaders were si—ured, and the body was given to a person, a friend of Sheppard, and the mob dispersed to attend it to the grave of St. Martini’s-in-thc-Fields, where it was deposited in an elm coffin, at ten o’clock the same night, under a guard of soldiers, and with the Ceremonies of the church. The Weekly Journal of November 21, 1724 gives a brief abstract of Sheppard’s Life, pub lished at the time, which may amuse the reader, “ An Abridgment of the Life, Robberies, Es capes, and Heath of John tSheppard, who was executed at Tyburn, on Monday, 16th instant 1724. “ J he celebrated Jack Sheppard, whose emi nence in his profession rendered him the object ot every body’s curiosity, having made his exit on Monday last, at Tyburn, in a manner suitable tt» his extraordinary merits, we hope a short summary of his extraordinary performances, be fore and since his repeated escapes out of New gate, together with his behaviour at the place of execution, will not be a disagreeable entertain ment to our readers. “ He was born in 1701, and put apprentice by the charitable interposition of Mr. Kncebone, whom he afterwards robbed, to one Mr. Owen Wood, a carpenter in Drury lane. Before his time was out he took to keep company with one Elizabeth Lyon, who proved his ruin ; of her he | gave this character—that “ there was nut a more wicked, deceitful, lascivious wretch living in England.” The first robbery he ever committed was of two silver spoons at the Rummer tavern, Charing-cross. He owned several other rob beries particularly that <4 Mr. Rarigterin Hamp stead, for which the two Brightwelis were tried and acquitted ; in relation to which he often said jocosely, ‘ Little I was that large lusty man that plucked from the ditch,’ as Purgiter had deposed at Brightwell’s trial. He was long comrade with Blueskin, lately executed, who, according to the account Sneppard gave of him, was ‘ a worthless companion, and that nothing but his attempt on Jonathan Wild could have made him taken no tice of;’ afterwards he broke cut. of St. Giie’s round-house, throwing a whole load „i’ bricks, &c., on the people in the street whostood looking at him, and made his escape. After this he broke out of the New Prison; then out of the con- { detuned hold in Newgale; but his last escape 1 from Newgate having made the greatest noise, t we shall insert the following particulars “Thursday, October 15, just before three in the afternoon he went to work, taking off first his ’ hand-cuff's, next, with main strength, he twisted a small iron link of the chain hetwen his legs asunder; and the oroken pieces proved extremely useful to him in his design ; the fetlocks he drew up to the calves of his legs, taking off'before that his stockings, and with his garters made them firm to his body, to prevent their shackling. He then proceeded to make a hole in the chimney of the. castle, about three feet wide and six feet high - from the floor, and with the help of the broken link aforesaid wrenched an iron bar out of the chimney of about two feet and a half in length, and an inch square; a most notable instrument. He immediately entered the Red-room, which is directly over the castle, and went to woik upon the nut of the lock, and with little difficulty got it off, and made the door fly before him ; in tiiis room he found a large nail, which proved of great use in his farther progress. The door of the en try oelween the bedroom and the chapel proved a hard task, it being a laborious piece of work; for here he was forced to break away the wall, and dislodge the bolt which was fastened on the other side. This occasioned much noise, and he was very fearful of being heard by the master side debtors. Being got to the chapel he climbed over the iron spikes, with ease broke one of them off, and opened the door on the inside ; the door going out of the chapel to the leads, he stripped the nut from off' the lock, and then got into the entry l»etvvcon the chapel and the leads, and came to another strong door, which being fastened by a very strong lock, he had liked to have stopped, it being full dark, his spirits began to fail him, as greatly doubting of success ; hut cheering up, he wrought on with great diligence,and in less than half an hour, with the main help of the na ; l from the bed room, and the spike from the chapel, wrenched the box off, and w s so master of the door. A little farther in his passage another stout door stood in his way ; and this was a diffi culty with a witness, being guarded with more bolts, bars, and locks, than he had hitherto met with. The chimes of St. Sepulchre’* were then going the eighth hour; he went first upon the box and the nut, but found it labor in vain ; he tlien proceeded to attac k the fillet of the door ; this succeeded beyond expectation, for the box of the lock coining off with it flom the main post, he found his work wis nearly finished. He was got to a door opening in the lower leads, which being only bolted on the inside, he opened it with ease, and then clambered from the top of it to the higher leads, and went over the wall He saw the streets were lighted, the shops being still open, and therefore began to consider what was necessary to be further done. He found he must go back for the blanket, which had been his cov ering a nights in the castle, which he accordingly did, and endeavored to fasten his stockings and that together, to lessen his descent, but wanted necessaries, and was therefore forced to make use of his blanket alone. He fixed the same with the chapel spike into the wall ol Newgate, and droppeu from it into the turner’s leads, a house adjoining the prison. It was then about nine o’clock and the shops not yet shut in. It fortu , nately happened that the garret door on the leads | was open. He stole softly down about two pair lof stairs, and then heard company talking in a I room, the door being open. His irons gave a ! small clink, which made a woman cry, “ Lord ! | what noise is that?” A man replied, “ Perhaps the dog or cat;” and so it went off. He retnrn ed up to the garret and iaid himself down, being terribly fatigued, and continued there lor about two hours, and then crept down once more to the room where the company were, and heard a gentleman take his leave, who being lighted down stairs, the maid, when she returned, shut the , chamber door. He then resolved at all hazards |to follow, and slip down stairs. He was instant- I ly in the entry, and out at the street door, and J once more, contrary to his own expectation, and I that of all mankind, a free man. “ He passed directly by St. Sepulchre’s walch j house, bidding them good morrow, it being after twelve, and down Snow hill, up Holborn. leaving Si. Andrew's watch on the left, and then again i passed the watch-house at Holhorn-hars, and j made down Gray’s inn lane into the fields, and ; at two in the morning came to Tottenham court, j where getting into an old house in the fields, he j laid himself down to rest and slept well for three i hours. His legs were swelled and bruised iniol i erably, which gave him great uneasiness, and ; having his fetters still on, lie dreaded the ap i proach of the day. He began to examine his pockets, and found himself master of between forty and fifty shillings. It raining all Friday he kept snug in his retreat (ill the evening, when after dark he ventured into Tottenham, and got to a little blind chandler’s shop, and there fur nished hi.nself with cheese, bread, small beer, and other necessaries, hiding his irons with a g>eat coat. He asked the woman for a hammer, but there was none to he had. so he went very quiet ly hack to his dormitory, and rested pretty well that night, and continued there all Saturday. At night tie went again to the chandler’s shop and got provisions, and slept till about six the next day, which being Sunday, he began to batter the basils of the fetters in order to beat them into a large oval, and then to slip his heels through. In the afternoon the master of the shed or house came in, and seeing his irons, asked him, “ For God’s sake, who are you 1” He told him an un fortunate young man, who had been sent to Bride well annul a bastard child, and not being able to give security to the Parish, had made his escape. The man replied, “ if that was the case, it was a small fault indeed, for he had been guilty of the same thing himself formerly,” and withal said, “ however, he did not like his looks, and cared not how soon he was gone.” “ After he was gone, observing a poor looking man like a joiner, he made up to him, and ic peated the same story, assuring him that twenty shillings should oe at his service, if he could furnish him with a smith’s hammer and a pun cheon. The man proved a shoemaker by trade, hut willing to obtain the reward, immediately borrowed the tools of a blacksmith, his neighbor, i and likewise gave him great assistance, so that 1 before five that evening he had entirely got rid I of his fellers, which he gave to the fellow, besides his twenty shillings. | “That night he went to a cellar at Charing- 1 cross; and refreshed very comfortably, where ; near a dozen people were all discoursing about < Sheppard, and nothing else was talked on whilst t he staid amongst them. He had tied a handker i chief about his head, tore his woollen cap, coat, i and stockings, in many places, and looked ex- i a tly like what he designed to represent, a beggar i fellow; and now concluding that Blueskin would ' have certainty been decreed for death, he did fully ( resolve and propose to have gone and cut down i | the gallows the night before his execution. s “On Tuesday he hired a garret for his lodging i at a poor house in Newport Market ; and sent for f a sober young woman, who for a long time past r had been the real mistress of his affections, who L came to him, and rendered all the assistance she wascapable of affording. He made her the mes senger to his mother, who lodged in Clare street. * She likewise visited him in a day or two after, c begging, on her oended knees of him to make l the best ot his vvay out of the Kingdom, which t he faithfully promised, but could not find in his b heart io perform. d “He was oftentimes in Spitalfields, Drury p lane, Lew pencr’s lane. Parker’s lane, St, Thomas » st. See. those having been the chief scenes o hts fi rambles and pleasures. “At last he came to a resolution of breaking the house ot the two Mr. Lawiins’s, brothers, and ii pawn-brokers in Drury lane, which he accordingly cl put into execution, anil succecdcti: they ho.h heating liim rifling their goods as they lay in i*u together in the next room. Amt though there were none others to assist him, he pretended t icre was, hy loudly giving out directions lor shooting the first person through the head that presumed to stir, which effectually quieted them, while he carried off his booty. With part whereof, on the fatal Saturday following, being the 31sl of Octo ber. he made an extraordinary appearance, and fiom a carpenter and butcher was novy transform ed to a gentleman; he went into the city, and was verv merrv at a public house not tot f oin t te place of his old confinement. At four the same afternoon he passed under Newgate in a hackney coach, the windows drawn up, and in the evening he sent for his mother to the Sheers alehouse, in Maypole alley, near Claic market, and with her drank three quarterns of brandy ; and after leav ing her, drank in one place or other about that neighborhood all the evening, till the evil hour of twelve, having been seen and known by many of his acquaintances; all of them cautioning him, i and wondering at his presumption to appear in s that manner. At length his senses were quite overcome with the quantities and variety of liquors he had all the day been drinking, which paved I the way for his fate, and when apprehended, he was altogether incapable of resisting, scarce know | ing what they were doing with him, and had but two second hand pistols scarce worth carrying | about him. “From his last re apprehension to his death • some persons were appointed to be with him con | stantly day and night ; vast numbers of people came to see him, to the great profit both of him self and those about him ; several persons of qual ity came, all of whom he begged to intercede with his majesty for mercy, hut his repeated returning to his vomit left no room for it; so that, being brought down to the King’s Bench bar, West minister, by an habeas corpus, and it appearing by evidence that he was the same person, who, being under a former senctence of death, had twice made his escape, a rule of court was made for his execution, which was made on Monday last. The morning he suffered he told a gentleman that he had then a satisfaction at heart, as if he was go ing to enjoy an estate of JB2OO a year.” A tumult of a different description in some par ticulars, but originating from an execution, hap pened in May, 1725, when the famous Jonathan Wild expiated his numerous offences at Tyburn. The mob in the former case were willing to have rescued Sheppard, because lie was a man utterly unlit to be at large; but they would have torn Wild to {daces because he was the means of rid ding the public of many villains, though of the blackest dye himself. Jonathan Wild was born at Wolverhampton in 1684. and commenced his active life as a buckle maker, whence he migrated to London, where he became in a short time thief taker general. In this office his body received a greater variety of wounds than the oldest soldier ever exhibited; his skull actually received two ■ fractures; and his throat was scarred by theerring knife of a wretch hanged by his means, the com panion of rshepparu. That the reader may fullv comprehend this man’s crimes, I shall insert an abstract of libs indictment: “That he hath for many years past been a con federate with great numbers o highwaymen, pick pockets, house breakers,&c. ‘•That he hath formed a kind of corporation of thieves, of which he is the director, and that nis pretended services in detecting and prosecu'iug offenders consisted only in bringing those to the gallows who concealed their booty or refused to share it with him. “That he hath divided the town and country in to districts and appointed distinct gangs for each, who regularly accounted with him for their robbe ries. He had also a pirticu ar set to steal at churches, in tune of divine service ; and also olh- I er moving detachments to attend at court on [ birth days, balls. &c., and upon both houses of | parliament, circuits, and country fairs. “That the persons employed by him were for the most part felons convicts who have returned from transportation before their due time w as ex : pi red ; of whom he made choice for his agents, be : cause they could not i>e iegai evidence against him, and because be bad it in Ins power to take i from llicrn wbat pari of the stolen goods he plea ! sed, and otherwise abuse or even hang them at : Ins wi t and pleasure. “That he hath from time to lime supplied such 1 convicted felons with money and clothes, and lodged them in his own house the better to con | real them, particularly some against whom there are now informations for dirnmishingand counter feiting broad pieces and guineas. “That he hath not only been a receiver of stolen goods, as well as of writings of all kinds for near fifteen years last past, but frequently been a con federate, and robbed along with the above mention ed convicted felons. “That in order to carry on these vile practi ses and gain some credit with the ignorant multi tude, he usually carried about him a short silver start as a badge of authority from the government, which he used to produce when he himself was concerned in robbing. “That he hath under his care and direction se veral warehouses for receiving and concealing stolen goods, and also a ship for carry ing ofl’jew els, watches, and other valuable goods, to Hol land, where he has a superannuated thief for his factor. “ih.at he kept in pay several artists to make alterations, and transform watches, seals, snuff boxes, rings and other valuable things, that they might not be known, several of which he used to pre.-ent to such as he thought might be of service to hun. “That ho seldom helped the owners to lost notes and papers, unless he found them able to specify and describe them exactly, and then often insisted on more than half the value. “That he frequently sold human blood by pro curing false evidence to swear persons into lads ot which they were not guilty ; sometimes to prevent them from being evidences against him self, at other times for the sake of tne great re ward given by the government. This consumate criminal, after dealing so wide ly. and to an enormous amount, fell a sacrifice to a paltry theJt of a little lace, stolen from a win dow on Hoiborn Hill, when Wild’s usual fore sight so far deserted him as to enable the person he employed while he waited on the bridge to turn evidence against him. His execution at tracted the greatest concourse of spectators ever known to have assembled on a similar occasion ; and an incredible number of thieves of every des cription attended, to wreak their vengeance on their i eneral enemy. They shouted incessantly with frantic yells of joy, and threw stones at the miserable man as he rode, till his head streamed with blood; but, when he fell from the cart the air was literally rent by reiterated cries of triumph. Wild had endeavored to commit suicide; but the dose of laudanum intended for the purpose prov ing too great, his stomach rejected :t in time to save hts life. It, however, rendered him nearly insensible, and consequently prevented the an guish he must have experienced in his last mo ments from the conduct of his enemies and the brutality of the populace. ImPOHTAST TO ScFFKUEIIS FROM THE Too l ll acne.—At a meeting of the London Medical So ciety. Dr. Blake slated that he was able to cure the most desperate cases of tooth-ache, unless t.ie disease was connected with the rheumatism, by the application of the following remedy to the decayed tooth ; Alum reduced to an impalpable powder two drachms; nitrous spirits of ether, seven drachms. Mix and apply them to the Sooth. The annua! revenue of trie established church 1 “ ls 524.0U0.00U, and the value of •hurdi edifices and parsonage houses, 96,000,61)0. I Limit Houses.—The corporation of T louse, Lon 'on, owns 53 beacons, li ? i u , cc. on the coasts of England and BcotU '| U * essels passing these lights are subjectedT' A ain charges rated by act of Parliament I'* whole amount thus collected by Triruu in 1835 was $459,801. The whole !M jr,i first class English and Irish Light House- and the number of lights 183.—The house on Lundy island is 79 feet high tern is 542 feet above high water mar j. " e : clear weather the light can he seen 30 at sea. The whole number of Light Jp'/* 01 the United Slates coast is 194 ; with These facts we gather from Vethakc’s e,l„ M’Culloch’s Commercial Dictionary n/ i7 ° n _I • 7 ’ 'd-Jn Ax ExTHAOnniHAIIT Womax.— -\ named Mary Shellneck, (says the Jo,' Flandres ) died on the Ist of August •, j She was a native of Gnenf, and in March i- 1 * entered the 2d Belgian battalion as a inaleV, " teer. On November 6th, in that year, s / 5 tinguished herself at the battle of received six wounds. She afterward* the 30th demi brigade, (Batavian) and campaigns of Germany. She was next rp J' to the Bih Light Infantry, and <lisp! aV cd ~ bravery at tire battle of Austerlitz, in received a severe wound, which led to St covery ot her sex. She, however, confirm, follow the regiment, and at last presented a ’ tion with her own hand to Napoleon. The f peror received her with marked distinction | her tenth on the list of lieutenants, and her with his own hands with a cross of the I ' of Honor, which he himself had worn. J n p she was granted a {tension of 673 q e * neral, which was celebrated in the chu;4 Mcnin, was attended by every member of, Legion of Honor belonging tc the garrison an immense concourse of people. On Sunday morning a train arrived from Lee on the North Midland Railway, containing carriages and five enginess; there were upvU of 2,500 passengers; in the evening, at hatf-p* six o’clock, the train started from Sheffield hack' Leeds, having ten more carriages, making tbec traordinary number of 73 carriages besides em nes, and containing 3000 peopi e.~Sheffield p triot. Means.—The captain of a down easier | ate |. | hoisted a signal of distress at sea. because, i I t hough he had water, beef bread and pork emU | for his ten men, they had but three bwrek]{ [ bean* for the rest ot the voyage—a oeriodnf • j bout thirty days. The signal justifiable in the Admiriabiy Court ol Barnatabu o b i t u a rT~ Departed tins life on Thursday eveninsr, theft October, at Sparta, Ga ,of pulmonary consume Mrs. Sarah Louisa Crawford, consoitof Ms- Joe 1C raw ford. She was a native of HaliLxcoil I ty, North Carolina, but for tlie la>t twenty i a resident of Sparta. In the death of thi< exceih woman, her bereaved frmi'y have sustiiaedan reparable :oss. She met death with a lirmne?sij comp isure which bespoke her confidence > n tho» I high virtues which it lad been the business n I the delight ot her life r o practice. Died, in Mi Hedge vide, on the 28th ulb.ow 1 its oldest and most respected citizens, fiEosctl 1 • Clayton, Ksq., after a protracted illness Mr.C. 1 had been Treasurer of the Stat-, continuouslv.fcr 1 twenty years, and most honorable to the chancer , of the deceased, both lor fidelity and exceed j correctness during that long period not a single er- j j ror mistake has ever been discovered tohavcbm j 1 committed by him in his whole manage nento::* I I Treasury Department. Mr. C. was as auiiabita private as he was faithful in public 1 fe. By ha I i death his family has 10-t a devoted parent, ancthe i State a most valued citizen. COM M KK( IA i„ latest dates from Liverpool, October l Latest dales from Havre, September t ,§ Nr.w-V rk Octo er3l. i Cotton. — Since cur last there has beenacs • created inquiry, prin ipally for home use, tiiougr; i few hundred bales have also been taken fern port. Prices this week have rath r tended dotn j ward, and during this period we notice a decliw* ! s 0 I of a cent p> lb ; Upland may 1 c quotedr" , 09J cents as the extremes. The saKs of ther-: rhree days embrace 1505 bales. Poland at \.\ i cents ; 2>'J Mobile 9 0 j making a total lor the week of is- | ! 3000 hales. New Orleans 6li j Georgia South Carolina litw i Virginia ■■ Total 2$ j t To f al import from Ist to 30lh 0ct.... 14,3- Kxpoit from Ist to 28th Oct 6,1® Kxpoit from the U. S. since Ist of Oct. inst 15,43 Same time lastyeai 19,11 Same time year before 13,33 Coffee. —The stock contii ucs light, and ho 5 exhibit much firmness ; the demand, howeveu qu te moderate The sa'es include 650 bags) - zil, at 11 011 $ cents ; 700 L gnayra, lOA Iff 130 Cuba, 13, aI 4 mos ; 150 Afiican, 14 6 mos; ands(W' Domingo. Sugars. —The stock of Muscovado, though sob what increased continues unusally small; holuf are sum, but the demand is moderate. The sa incluJe 2f 0 birds. Porto Rico at 8 a Sj cents;! St. Croix 9 a Brown Havana, a S; and SO White do. > Trinidad Cuba, 9| a cents, all 4 mos. & fined Sugars continue scarce and wanted. Molasses. —Continues very inactive, and we In onlv to notice sales of 70 birds. Trinidad Cuba,? ccived coastwise, at 25$ cents, 4 mos. Flour and Meat. —Since our last, the market. Western J-lour has been inactive, partly owis; the recurrence of very mild weather for the and tire absence of other than a limited demand* |i the neighbouring markets. We quote com' brandsGcnesse dull at $5 and in ‘ omc instac r we un .ei'tand, sales have been made at *. holders generally, however, arc firm at $o a coir - f erable portion of the receipts being limited at t-* price. Ohio 6ic. are without change. There is i al!l more inquiry for Georgetown for J. 3 a 400 bbls. have been disposed of $5,31$ a which is a slight reduction. 1500 bah- bmi'- wine have been taken for export at $5,50 cas'-' The common kinds of Southern continue ' f scarce. Baltimore, Oct 31. | Coffee. —But little doing this week. Li®“ r sales us Rio at of Laguayra at 11 and of Bt. Domingo at 0 9*c. Cotton. —A sale of sl> bales South Carolin 1 * 114 c. Flour. —Howard st. Flour.—The sales of H°* atd street flout from stores during the week as we are advised reach about 3000 btib-, common brands at $4 90 to $4,91, princip* 1 the last named rate. The stock is not large there is only a liiMtcd demand. We coatii lUL quote the receipt price at $4,87. , ~r . City Mills Flour. —Some 2UOO or 301-0 bids been taken this week for export, at s4,>"i l ~ Susquehanna Flour —ls held at $5 very •' doing. New-Orleans, October 3t- Business during the last three days has cecdingly dull, more so in fact than we have nested for some time past. The approaching * lion engresses the attention and time ol ali of peop.e, and naturally interferes coasitl' 1 - j with commercial pursuits. In addition to thß •) , late news from Europe has in a measureP** a the operations in the cotton market; and the existing Jitficultics relative to the Las-- question aie satisfactorily adjusted wc cannot pect that the transactions in our great staple' beentered into with coni.donee. On Wedne.-day we had a heavy ta 11 ! since then tire weather has clear J off witi‘ at ’“ uoxtiicriy wind. u . Colton. —Arrived, since the 27th instant, 0 *