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* NG NEWS. in. cooper. hompsoh, EDITOR daily pAper $4 00 | triweekly. $2 00 All Now Advertisement* appear in both papers. SMirinf Morning, March Id, 1800. ____ J.AUGF.KT CIRCULATION S ty The Daily Mobnino News ban now a laiuj- ** CITY circulation limn eltlier of the other daily import, and consequently iH the bust advertising ■WIPE. We Hate thf» fact In justice to ourselves and for the benefit of Hie advertising public. ‘ See first pagoTor our rates oi advertising. * Advertisements should bo handed In at an J hour, to insure their appeoraneo in tho paper of l next morning. m y£Ss »* 'See first page. **r. E. H. KNAPP is our authorized Agent to receive subscriptions for tho Morning News. Mr. K. Visits tho uppe# section of tho Htnto. Mr. Webster’s great sponch lias boon n ans fated into Gorman, and is published in the Wash ington City Spectator, a German paper print ed In that city. Melancholly.—Tho Camden Journal comes to assays the Charleston Courier, clothed in mourning, for the loss of Mr. Jus. M’Knin, his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth M’Knin, citizens oftlmt town, and Mrs. Vaughan, and Miss Virginin, her daughter, formerly of that town, and on their way to pay a visit to^heir former place of resi dence ; all of whom lost their lives by the destruction of the steam boat Orliao St. John, on thq Alabama river— an account of which was published in our paper on Monday. Tho body of Mrs. M’Kuin has, ns is learned by a telegraphic dispatch,' boon recovered, having been found neur^hc sfc'eno of disaster. Death of Chancellor Caldwell.—Chan cellor James-I. Caldwell, of South Carolina, died at his resideneo near Columbia, on tho Jlthinst. Chancellor Caldwell was a’dis tinguished jurist and worthy gentleman, in whoso death the staid has*sustaihed an irrepara ble loss. Cy Tho U. S. ship Raritan, Com. l’ago, ar rived at Barhaduos on the 29th of January, jpd and sailed for Martinique on tho 12th of Feb ruary. GP* The Falmouth (Barbadoes) Postnoticos tho reception of two samples of cotton 'grown on a plantation nour that pluco. ! Arrest or B. F. Brown.—Tho Washing ton correspondent of the Philadelphia Ameri can, states that Mr. B. F, Brown, who it isal- lodged wos recently tho recipient of large 'sums of monoy from the Treasury, obtained through theagoncy of forged and fraudulent pnpcrr,ha| been arrested in Michigan, and is now on his way to- Washington, tu answer a criminal in dictment, width was lull on Friday. W ^ id before the grand jury Seadoarp and Roanoke Rail Road. Norfolk bridge Proposition Rejected.—Tho first locomotive on the “Seaboard and Roanoke Rail Road” passed through ‘Pdrtsmouth, (Va.) on Friday, amid the rejoicing of its citizens- On Friday, in tho Virginia Hoi so of Delegates, osition to connect the flail Road wjth lity of Norfolk, by bridges across the th and Eastern btjmehos oftho Elizabeth liar, was debated and defeated.» JisVaEssiNG Occurrence.—On- Friday of Inst week Mr. Knrr, toll-gathor’er on Mayo’s bridge, (Richmond, Va.) while attempting to s rescue his little daughter, who had fallen from tho bridge into the river, was carriod beyond his depth by the rapidity of tho current, and both father and child were drowned.- Robbing the Mail.—Horace S. Allen was arrested in Lynn*. Mass., on the Gth inst., on suspicion of havihg rubbed tho Manchester (N. H. 1 ) "mail on Saturday week, on its way to Bos> ton. He was hold to hail. California Countie8.-*-TIiu following are the names of the counties, as sot forth in the bill subdividing tho Stato into counties, and estab lishing the seats of justico therein : San Diego, Los Angeles, Suuta Barbary, Sr\n Luis Obispo, Monterey, Branciforto, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Mount Duiblo, Marin, Sonoma, Solano, Yolo, Mendocino, Sufmmon- to, Column. Sutter, Bute, Yuba, Colusi,Shas ta, Trinity, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Muriposu— twenty-five in numlirr. Foreion Seeds.—Tho American Institute at New York has received n package of seed from Tipper and Lower Egypt, consisting of lentils, sesame, linseed, beans, und seeds of the black, Egyptian cotton, for which they aro in debted to the kindness and attention of Lieut, James H Rowan, U. 8. navy. The seeds will be distributed ul tjio next meeting of the Far mers’ Club, which will ho held at tho Reposito ry of tho Institute on the 19th inst. Mr. Webster’s Speech was published oh ‘Monday last in pamphlet form by the editors of the Washington Republic. The editors says that orders for upwards of forty thousand copies had already been received. New York University. Medical Depart ment,—Tho annuul commencement of this popular school wns held on the 8ih inst. The graduating class numbered 95 young gentle men, among whom wo observe the nnmesof M. B. Bryan, H. L. Battle, E. M. Grim* s , R. Iverson, A. M. Pitts and A. H. Saf- fold, of Georgia. Cincinnati, March 11. The range of stables belonging (o Mr. Itoss- v4!lo, were burned last night, nod twunty-nm- Jjurst-s.perished in the flumes. [Correspondence of tlio Dally Morning News.) Drcndfnl Tidings from Cockapur ! Tho following thrilling letter from our espe cial correspondent wns brought to us fast night by the fast sailing Fishing, Smack, Cockle, winch reached,our prharf fifteen minutes be fore 10 o’clock, Wo have no time to transcribe, but givo tho document in its original shape. [Ed. Morning News. Terrible cnt^nlcr ’with the Sea Sprpcnt!— Great Fannie on the coast! ■'—Three- Nig gers and one White Man swallered alive!!! CoCKSfuit, March the 14, 1850. Mr. Editor : Dear Sir:—I tnko up my pen to inform you of one of tho drendfulost entas- terfys that ever tuck plnco on this const. I wish some body was here to write it out, for I’m so flustricatcd by wliut has jest lock plnco here, that I cant hardly git my ideas together; but bein as I am tho only ono left alive to givo a account of tho circumstance, I will try to give you nil this porticulnrs I can of one of tho drendfulst and most nstonishin tilings tlmt ever happened in these parts. You know we’ve "bnd considerable rniny weather for moro’n a week past. Well, as Is al- wnys the ense in rniny times, we’ve had somo terrible heavy fogs ([own here,sometimes so thick that you couldn’t see Yibee light not moro’n a cable’s length off, and so you couldn't tell day light from dark without lookin ut your watch to find out when the sun ought to rise and set. Of courso this kind of weather has prevented our doing much, as it was impossible to haul tho sain, or set out lines when abody couldn’t hard ly find himself in tho dark without feelin- about awhile. But yosterduy uflurnoon a smart little breeze blowcd up From tho land, anti pretty soon the lmpk of fog hauled off to tho south west giving the daylight a chance ognin, and jostafore night the weuther begun to look a lit tle more favorable for opprnshuns. So Munky Joe and I turned out tho hands and got the smack ready, and taking advantage of the wind, run out over tho bnr, whar wo cum to'nn- kcr, within til mornin,'when wo was gwinc to cruise nceordin to circumstances. Well, wo snugged up everything and 4iung out a light so nothing wouldn’t run into us, and after taking a littlo something, Joe and I turn ed in lcnvin, tho nfggors apiojectin about,.eat- in ther suppers and riggin out night-lines for ■drum. Old Pave had brung a shark hook wl.at ho stol^'from a brig what was lyin down to the Lazyrctto last week, and had a lifie to it about fifty*fathom,Tand strong enuff to hang n whale. Old Dave always had a monstrous avarsion to sharks ovory senso ono tuck his brother Termi nation’s leg off, and ho baited good for ono and laid out his lino to luward, bound os ho thought, pore old feller, to have a shark afore mornin. Well, nothing uncommon didn’t happen til near aitout daylight, when tho fust thing I hoard was Dave n singin out tp tho other nig gers to help him to haul in. -“Ki, ho\v him hold,” sos Dave. Thoy all got hold, und then I heard-MuNKY, Joe, say, “Its foul, you cussed fool!” “No,” sos. Dave,“no, um nint,for I done feel um jerk jest now, same like a sturgeon.” Then all the niggers and Joe made a terrible fuss payin away on the line, like they was tryin to weigh the best bower of a seventy-four. “Gosh-».pighty!” sos Kill, “um hold hard •for true!" ‘Ht foul, I tell you,” sos Joe, “on some oyster hank or something.” t * By this time I mndo out to git to whar they was, hut tween ther boin no sun and the fog, what had. como back in tho night, it was so bominablo dark that 1 couldn’t see my hand aforo my face; so I had to feel about some time before I could git a hold of tho line. “Yare he como," ses Dave, “Yaro he como!” and shore enuir,' jest then tho lino hauled in clear about fifteen foet, and then it hung agin.— “Hung to um, Mussn Jos. Wharyer harpoon, Bill,” sos old Dave. ’ AH hands paid away ugin, but it never moved a peg. Thinks I, wlmt in tho name o’ thunder can it be to pull thut-n-wny. Jest then I heard u hissin sound, something liko a steamboat’s whistle, blow in ubunt twenty yards to luward. “Da,” ses Joe, “Itulo you hinijfoitl. You doi/fe cotch do Ogle- top or Stone, or somo of detn steamboats wtd yer shark-lino. Dont you hear him blow his steam.” I begun to think Munky Joe wns right, shore cntifT, and ses I, “let hqr clear boys— lob- go the lino.” But tho lino was tangled round Dave and Silves’ legs, and while thoy wus tryin to git clear, it fetched a jerk that tuck ’em both right over tho side into tho water. “Git clear tho boat Dave,” sos I, and us soon as wo could git her loose, Joe jumped with Nigger Bill, and I lowered uway. By this timo tho hissin was louder and n'curcr, and sounded different front anything I ever hoard afore in all my life, and between ltoarin that and the cries of tho niggers who was tryin to holler with ther mouths full of water, und tho terrjr, bio splashin, I was so turrified that I didn’t know which eend I stood on for about two miuits. “Wahl Oh my—’’something, sung out ora Davy, hut the last part of tho word sound ed like it wnssaid under water or down in a well Then ther was a teit ihlo hissin agin, and tho noxtthing I heard Munky Joe say “Oh Lord! Quick* haul in Jones." Then tliar wos a splash in and hissin so I couldnVheur nothin. The,. I heard Bill give ono terrible squall, and Joe tryin to say something like no was chokin.— I hollered to ’em and ax’d ’em what was tho matter, hut no body didn’t answer n word, and the fust ‘thing I sofid was two great red halls of firo mtn up along side tho boat, with a his. sin sound tlint almost deafened me, and the ter- rildost smell I over smelt in' all my life. Then slop went something agin the must, jest gruz : n me, and down I tumbled, fiat on tin- bottom uf the bout I must havo stunned myself, 1 suppose, fog I didrf’tknow nothin for somo time, nml when I cum too the fog was nil gone, and it was light asdny. But never till the longestday of my lift- will I fo»git the awful spectickle what met my eyes when I looked out on tho water. About forty yards from tho boot was tho alfiredest, mpnstrouscst lookin vnrmint that ever human man sot eyos on, with its heat raised, fifteen feat opt of the water, and pore old Davy’s shark-lino ltangin out of his mouth, ns much as to .say, its owner und his companions was all a- bnard. The body of tho infernal thing quit-led away behind him, about a hundred and fifty feet, all covored with bumps and humps, and away heyant that agin his tail stuck up about ten feet, with a great big hnrppon head on the eend of it. I never had sicli terriblo feelins in all -my born days, and jest sot down on tho bottom of tho boat and blowod like a porpus, while the groat bigdrnps of sweat rolled out o’ mo liko fat out of a crackiin. I seed then, plain enough, what had becum of Joe and the niggers. That terrible monster, what had tuck Davy’s bait, had swgllcred the whole pnrty of ’em, and now it wns waitin to make a breakfast on me. I was darst to move for fear ho moughtsoo me, and then he’d jest pick’d me out of that boat aforo I had timo to say my prayers. I laid close, and watch’d him, my hair standin on eend liko bristles, all the time, and my teeth rattlin in spite of oil I could do.— Sometimes tho cussed thing would turn his nli- gutor-lookin head round towards' the boat, and snap his big red eyes, and run out his tongue liko a streak of forket lightnln. And when he seemed like ho was cornin’ towards mo my breath wquld fool liko it didn’t cum moreen a inch down my throat. Sometimes he would take a shy round, nnd stretch himsolf out full lebgth; then he would squirm all about, shake tho ugly gray lookin main what hung down on tho back of his neck, and wiggle his tail for a while, and thon duck his head under water, or go clour under and stay a minit or two and cum up in another place. I expected every minit to see him cumin right up under me. But bimeby ho turned his head down South, and sailed olf’at tho rato of about twenty nots a ower, with his head lootnin up like tho smokc- pipo of a steamship, and old Davy’s shark- lino trailin off behind liko a pieoo of buntin on' tho top-mast of a man-of-war. When he was well out of sight I didn’t lose no time, you may depend, in gettin under way forCockspur, whar, thank gracious, 1 ariv safe and sound this afternoon. Every body hero s*s its the Sea Sarpont.— The nows bf the dredful circumstance has ntado a terrible pannick in theso parts, and tho niggers is afraid to stay on tho Island, for fear tho sur- pent mought come along and sarvo them like it did Munky Joe and Dave and the rest of out- crew. . V ,f I hope you wijl put this in the News, so that people may tako warnin by their fnte, and I think tho Governor ought to order out the mi litia to protect tho inhabitants down hero.' Sich a varmint ought not to bo allowed to ho gwinc about swallerin people, four or five at n crack, this-o-wav. SAMUEL JONES. Nola Demy.—You people up to Savannah needn’t expect to seo much fish till something is dono about it. * i "“ to remain free to all nations* or to he enjoyed only l>v citizens of tin? United States, are the questions to be solved. Harmony, it is snid, is restored to the Cnbi' net. Mr. ClSyt5n is in n good humor, nna the administration is relieved from tho ap prehension y of tlomcstic trouble. They are waiting for tho storm to pass awny, and expect then to seo some attention paid by Congress to tho measures which thoy liuvo recommended. UNION. [Correspondence of the Morning News.] Washington, March [2, 1850. Tlterfi is as much difference of opinion here as ever on the questions [tending between tho North and South, but there is no longer much excitement in relation to them. An excite ment tends to a certain height, Which is now reached, and then it must subside. Tho Sen ate will, to-day, decide whether to try tho con templated Solect Committee of Thirteen us o means of coming to somo adjustment, or wheth er to go on talking upon the general questions. If Mr. CaliiounIs speech was, by implica tion, a disunion speech, Gov. Seward’s was, plainly nnd unequivocally, an abolition speech. Mr. Webster's truly conservative views’ ought to ho, and, ns many supposo, will be tho basis of somo ultimate adjustment. But Mr. Seward, in hisspeuch, utterly re jected all Mr. Webster's concessions to tha South ; uttd particularly the recognition of the compuct with Texas for the admission of new States with slavery, .and thd enforcement of the constitutional compuct for the surrender of fugitive slaves. Mr. Seward went further in support of abolition principles than uny Senu- tor Inis ever gone before. w Ilis speech is to bo ciicuiated through the flurti), for the purpose of counteracting the effect of Mr. Webster’s. Mr. SewarP proposes to admit California with her ussumed boundaries, nnd either do nothing else, or puss tbo Wilmot Proviso. Tito House is a very pcculiur hotly, and apt to run from one extreme to another. It is a mutter of choice wliut they will do. They would, if thoy could, admit California, and without rendering any equivalent to tho South,by recognizing the compact with Texni, or by possiftg the fugitive skive act. But the. obstinate resistance which the minority oppos ed to this course has b«d a very good effect. The House is quite perplexed, und uncertain flit to do. Mr. Thomas Butler King has not yet fin ished his report upon the condition, resources, nnd-wnntj iff California. His illness lias very much' shuttered his constitution. Tie is to re- c4f$rtmond to the government some schema, for the dj*jiositi{||j of the gold and other mineral Tatfflsjn California. Nearly all the vumahle lands are government property,, Whether they ’are to he sold or leafed, and whether they are [CoCrcppowlence of the Morning News.] New York, March 11, 1850. Th6 abundance of news from Europe, Cali fornia &c.,&c.-,has occupied the public .mind for the post <[av or two; although it possesses no particular features either of interest or im portance. Cotton speculators urn rather down in the mouth; nnd naturally so, for the large sums, in their “minds’ eye” to bh realized from their spoliations, nro likely to bo “all in my rye," and no where' else. Wc have no lack of Californiaites in the city just now—they are to he seen eveiyXvhere, and Appear very desirous ron ' of being singled oat from umong tho crowd, and to that pnrposo assumo a peculiarity, a sort of I’ve-boon-nt-the-diggings manner, and convey ing tho impression that their pockets are fall of rocks. There is n fine chance now for a rogue with a small capital to realize considerable from it, by tnking advantage of the general, hut er roneous impression, that every body coming from El Dorado must of conscquenco he wealthy. If a fellow could only pretend’to havo just arrived, go it very strong, and create the belie) - in his immense wealth, his credit would be unbounded, and some fine morning he might bo found among the missing to the surprise ar.d loss of innumerable creditors. I am surprised that somo adventurer has not al ready tried it. Wo are to have a general “pow-wow” in tho l’urk somo day this week, when, it is announc ed that tho “Phantom of Disunion” is to be burnt. It is intended to construct a gigantic figure of a man .encircled with tho insignin of each state, joined together in union. The fig ure, (fitted with slow combustibles,) will he represented ns straggling with his outstretched arms to brCSk the bond of union around him. It will bo carried on a car drawn by six horses, from Union Squ&rc to the Park. A scaffolding will bo erected, with an iron chain to suspend the figure and its encirclement. Tho figure, allegorical oftho embodiment of disunion, .will be burned nnd tho encirclement of the union of the States will remain unharmed. Whether this figure is to bo an effigy of any particular person, I um not aware, though it is whispored about that it is intended for Matty Van Buren. Poor Matty! “Van, Van, is a used up man” indeed, nnd I don’t think that Prince John even, bneked by his rowdy friends and clients, can ever turn tho current of public favor towards his fallen parent. Thq truth is; that father and son are pretty much in the same predicament; the Wilmot Proviso will sink all the party, and it must bo many years before tho leaders can, by sincere and heartfelt re pentance, redoem tho pust, and ho raised ftom tho ashes, in which, in snckriloth, they are doomed to mourn their great mistake. As to the proposed bon-firc, of course all Now-Yptk almost, will bo present to see tho sight. Tho expedition in sda'rch of Sir John Frank lin leaves hero in May; an agent has gone East to purchase two vessels suited for the ser vice. A Lieutenant and passed Midshipman are to take the command. Some of tho editors in Philadelphia and else where, are endeavoring to send tho impression abroad that there is cholera in New-York, nnd thus deter merchants from coming hero to make their Spring purchases. The story is entirely untrue—not a case is reported by the City In spector this week. The few that did occur were among emigrants recently arrived, und incuutiously sent to Wurd’s Island. The city is remarkably healthy; tho deaths last week numbered 2G8. Tho Hudson River is now open to Albany; a bunt succeeded in gotting through on Friday night. Tho Canal will not bo opened for sev eral weeks. Tho reply of Mrs. Forrest to her husband’s petition for a divorce is exciting a great deal of attention. Of course, all the feminines are on her side; nnd, nsynt, I have heard hut one opinion with respect to it from tho other sex. The reply was written by tho colobrated coun seller, Ch\s. O’Connor, of this city. It is proposed, I understand, to raise sufficient funds to enable tho lady to defend thtf application, if necessury. But, even should tho Legislature grant the decrett prayed for, it would he wholly inoperative, and therefore she denies the right of that body to interfere in the matter, while explicitly denying tho charge against her. It is tho crowning act of Fokrest!s folly, or I am much mistaken. Ho 1ms placed himself in such a position, that it is equally dangerous to proceed, or to turn back. The Cherokee arrived hero this morning, front Chagre.-t, put with no lutfer intelligence; Tho journeymen house carpenters of this ci ty, have struck for higher wages, and are out to tfay in procession with music and banners, to tfte number of four or live hundred. I should suppose ns there is so much building going on just now, they will probably gain their object. As news is senreo to-day, I’ll closo with a lit tlo Theatrical gossip. Tho Olympic closed Saturday night with, Mary Taylor’s benefit. It was a jam. Mitchell’s farewell was short and sweet, lie has abandoned the idea of the tavern business, 1 learn, and very wisely too. BthiToN, they say. has' taken . the Theatre ; probably with the view of preventing ' Opened by nqy One else. A eoiluplhrteninry be,! eftf.is to be given to Mr. Ri fhu* Blake of t h! Broadway, on his departure for Now Orlea n ,, takp the stnge management of Placidk’s Tli t - a tro there. Mrs. 1); is 1’lacidks’s sister Brougham lcnvCB Boriton in May and goes to Nint.o’s, together with Lynne, a good, stcrlin- actor, Mahy Tayi.oii, Miss Nickerson, Mss/ Nickerson & Walcott, (all of the Olympic company.) Thoro Will he a first rato com,// there. Lester, (son of the Jos. Wallacr \ loaveiMAMiarN, and goes to Burton. He' ono 6f tho best light Comedians in the count/ I'ETer Richings, it is said, will.jEuceoc.l' Blake, at tlio Broadway, hut Mr.W. H. Flf.m ing fa to bn there in sotno capacity, I hear They say that Forrest intends building i„ Broudtytiy an Americnn Theatre, in which Am. ericun Actors and Actresses only Will he p or milted tb perform, nnd of which CHAu Ur Thorne is to bo managor. I dont think it ft possible to carry out the plan. But nous « cr I dont know what Bass intends to do— chance of success at tho Opera House ft Vc ^ slim indeed. C. W.'Clark, I lesrn, has boon engaged U Mr. Barnum to manage the new Theatre crcci- ing in the Museum.- The Grave of Ockola.—The Clwrlciton Courier replying to a correspondent who com- plains of tho desecration of the grave of the Sen, . olo chiof, Occola, who it will bo remember'd died while in captivity at Fort Moultry, says A. head and foot stono, it appears, had ben subsequently erected to murk the spot when: tho bones of this noble chief wore suppdfed to repose. Theso stone*, which had been procur ed by subscriptions made by officers of [he rison nnd citizens, had in process oT time ben, so mucli marred by the idle nnd curious who were desirous of obtaining a memento of the deceased, as to induce the commanding officer of the Fort, to direct tfte head-stone, whichnlonc remained ill any thing like its original state, a, bo removed within the ordnance yard, nml s stonecutter employed to restore it, as far at practicable, by renewing the name, &c., with[ the intention of placing it under tho shade of a weeping willow, in that incloghre, that it Might remain ns a monument to tho memory of the noble chief, who ended his days at that militmy post. So much for the information of our cor respondent, ir. regard to the desecration com- plnined of. But we ure also requested, by tlio same authority from which tho above facts nro obtoined, to stnte, that none of the bones of Oceola rest neat- the spot whore theso stones were erected, ns the bpdy wus exhumed, und taken away for aimtomicnl purposes, the nigh; after it was committed to its mother earth. Wo were pained to read tlwr fart sentence; wo knew Oceola well, and a nobler specimen of his race dit) not’exist. Ho was every inch a brave, and was entitled to decent sepulture by his conquerors. Hfa futo' was hard enough— to bo Bubdued and made captive by a powcifut enemy wn* enough. It was this that Lrok»V\ heroic heart. But could ho have known the desecration .that was to follow—could he him known that his vory bones were to be made a commerce of, his ravage nature would Lovett-' volted at the thought. —e The endless Bridge Case.—The vet eran litigator Henry Shultz, is out in the N. Y. Herald in a card, in which he make*known the merits of the Bride Case as he understand, them, nnd says that it will again ho taken before tho United States Supreme Court. Ho ft net satisfied with the decisions already made and after thirty years of litigation fa a* ready at - over to try it again. ———i Gold Dust.—The amount of California gold reccivod by tho steam ships ^ourgia ami Empire City, just arrived at Ncw^iork from Chugres, is confidently eatimatod ’ns being in tho neighborhood of $1,509,000. Thcutcara- sliip I’hiiudclphia, wlioso arrival at New York is looked for some timo this week, will bring r bout $750,000 more. The reason assigned for tho small receipts of gold dust is, that them | lias not been any intercourse £otwcenSanFn»- cisco and tho mines for several weeks, in con sequence of tho great height of rivers. Depopulation by Ottdt.Er.A.—Tho N*lch" Free Trader, ef the 27th ultimo, announce#lie entire depopulation of the thriving village c- I Trinity, in Lou’siann, about thirty mile d' i ' I tant from Natchez. It says : That awful scourge, tho Asiatic cholera, df - acceded upon the population with a fntality almost unheard of. Toil or twelve pliysfai 01 **’ I resident there, or called in from the adjacent I country, worn scarcely ahlo to save a who had boon taken sick. Flight was the om! I safety for the well, and death only reigned t* I Trinity. Mr. Snyder, formerly a resident I Natchez, kept a boarding limine them z"* | twenty five or thirty hoarders, all nfwhom, did not run awny, died. Mr. Snyder stay l and took care of them until tho lust one die - then dpscended to the mouth of the,Red th’’ 1 ' and wq ure sorry to add that ho too died oa the stetimer Cincinnati going to Natcthoz. Free. Negroes in Virginia.—Tho of the bill, by the Sennto of Virginia, nn appropriation of $30,000 per year fi |r 1 removal of t(ie free negroes of the c<n' ,nu ^ welth, was cnnrfYminieated to the House j-- Saturday, together with nn amendment t’} ' Sennto levying n tax of one dollar in ad' 1 v to the appropriation already made, upon ** ■ free rn-gro of tho age of twenty-one, and UB . that of fifty-five years of ago. The House agreed to tho amendment, hut tlio Senate P sisted. The House then tnado an anion ^ -imposing the tax only on males and * en , bill back to the Senate, hut no aclion was ,a on it in that body. The Du 1 ' thatthe rd£' Destruction of'a steamboat fulo Commercial has n despatch stating [impeller Troy was burned to tho watet a 1 at Erie, on Thursday last—loss enlimtcd 11 eight to ten thousand dollars.