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m SOUTHERN RECORDER. VOL. II. MILLEDGEV1LLE, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, lb21. No. 9. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, („n Tuesdays) JIY S. GRA.VTLAJYD V R- M. OR.ME, XV THREE DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE, OR FOUR DOLLARS AT TI1E EXPIRATION OF THE YEAR. (IT* Advertisements conspicuously inserted at the r.nstomnrv rates- in 11 ^rfort # FHOM Till'. NATIONAL INTEI.I.IOENCKH. LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA. Tlie iiiial settlement of the titles and limits of these ceded territories, in the most har monious and effectual manner, with the roy al and national authorities of Spain, and with the most friendly understanding of all the Bourbon sovereigns and other powers in amity with France and Spain, is a consum mation devoutly to lie acknowledged by the friends of peace. The part the President of the United States has taken in these affairs, in his ministerial characters of 179. r > and ISO4, in Europe, and in his more elevated stations of President, Senator, and Secrota- ary of State and War, in this country, have identified his name and character, With that extensive combined acquisition. ’I’lie ripest fruit, which is yet unphickrd, of these fair acquisitions, is the suspended capital of our injured citizens, to the amount of five millions of dollars, which will come to the hands of its owners in the appreciated money of the present time. This great res toration of active capital, under the judicious and equitable arrangements of the govern ment, will sensibly contribute to the re-ani mation of the business of our country, hear ing, as it does, a serious proportion to the whole specific medium. The addition to our coasts of more than twelve hundred miles, according to its cur vatures from Saint Mary’s to the Sabine, in a temperature capable of producing Hit Chi na orange, corresponding with those of the bays of St. Ubes and Cadiz, must give us, with the Keys and little islands, a complete and extensive new faculty for the manufac ture of salt for our whole consumption, and for exportation. The numerous ports from Amelia Island to New-Orleans and thu Sabine, as well from their connexions with our own interior and adjacent country, ns from their ministering to the foreign and the coasting trade, and, by their salt, to the fisheries and wet provision business, und particularly with that of the W. ■st Indies, the Gulf of Mexico, and foreign America, will give a spring, an expedition, and an extension, to our foreign and domes tic commerce, of the deepest interest at the present time. It will enable us also to cure or to prevent evils to us cif that buccaneering and marauding spirit, which, created during the wars that grew out of tile French revo lution, has been particularly nourished by many obvious circumstances, on all the A- mericari coasts south of Georgia, since the changes in the government of St. Domingo, in 1791, the embarrassments of Spain and ortugal, and the civil and revolutionary ggles of the various communities and ers in southern America, on the Gulf of ico, the Atlantic, and the Pacific. The momentary depression of the prices of American productions, bread stuffs, in cluding rice, tobacco, sugars, and cotton, und of distilled and fermented liquors, gives a great importance to every opportunity, fa culty, and discovery, which shall, by adding to the employments of our people, limit the excess, and prevent the depression, of the various present fruits of cultivation. It is manifest that the climate and soil of the peninsula of Florida must be capable of yielding all the productions of the Bahama Islands, including the pine apple ; and all those of Spain and Portugal, south of the orange temperature of Lisbon or Cintra, the orange of which is rivalled by that of our St. Augustine, at less than thirty de grees north latitude. This demarcation in cludes the olive of Spain, with its oil, salt as before mentioned, flip fig of Spain and Por tugal, the silk of Spain, the suspended sugars of Muditerranean Spain ; the lemon and the sour or Seville orange, various minor fruits the grape vines of Xeres, St. Lucar, Malaga Benecarlo, Lisbon, Oporto, Carcavelly, with their fabrications of wine, brandy, and the dried raisin, and the fresh grape, by short voyages to the northern ports. The climate of the Turkey, or Smyrna, or drum fig, in 31! deg. equal, (at the usual difference of 1.0 deg.) to our 28 degrees, must be found in the peninsula of Florida, and the great olive countries of lower Italy, Asiatic Turkey, and Attica, after the same allowance of 10 de grees of difference, must be presumed to ex ist in our new acquisition. Being singular ly peninsular and affected by (he constant and near course of the warm gulf stream, the climate must be favorable to growths of more southern countries, and annually more so, as the country shall he cleared arid drain od. The seaweeds for barilla and kelp me i it a careful research. We have not yet no ticed any thing but the climate, as a distinct and most important point. \\ e have not vet spoken of the soil. We presume that the important productions of coffee and ca- r.oa, or cocoa, with the date,the lime, pimen to, or allspice, or Jamaica pepper, the benni oil and castor oil plants and other produc tions of the West Indies, may succeed on millions of acres of southern peninsular Flo rida, in which there are no frosts, so far ns those productions depend on climate. In regard to the land, coffee, the universal favorite of the world, does not require a rich soil, especially for the more delicate and esteemed qualities. Neither docs the olive nor the grape vine, nor the fig, nor the date. The success of coffee in some sufficient places, in so large a country, are to he con fidently expected, and will prove an easy, heathful, and profitable new employment of a considerable portion of both our poor and our African population. The vine grows in France, in gravels, pine barrens, and blow ing sands. Attica, famous for its ancient commerce in olive oil, is a very sterile coun try. The olive, occasionally failing in France jn the 43d degree of north latitude. The date grows in the countries under the equa tor, and thence to the island of Sardinia, in Su’degrees north latitude, equal to our £9 degrees, and must succeed in our new pe ninsula, The temperature of Grenada in Spam, is the only climate in Europe in which Inu dried grape or raisin is well and abun- dantly produced by the sun and skill. It is supposed by some that the warm tempera ture produced by the passage of the air over the Gulistream, enables the planters to raise the sea-island cotton. If this be founded, Florida will greatly extend our advantages in that respect. The warmth of the Gulph Stream has been often proved by the ther mometer. The Zantc, or Corinth fruit so called, grows in the temperature of Florida. The magazines of the live oak, peculiar to America, and other limber and useful woods, cannot lie unknown to any who have attend ed to the subject. Much of it grows on the coast and navigable waters, and may he ren dered highly valuable by local ship and house building, and by water and steam mills.— Tlie West India trade in lumber must be immense and very active. The breeding and use of asses ana mules, and the easy ex portation of them to our foreign neighbors, must constitute a great business even in tlie poorest districts of land. The ingenuity, versatility and activity, of our countrymen will subject the capacities of soil, conforma tion of the country and coast, and the cli mate, to innumerable experiments, in order to make the best of a good bargain. The three Spanish Commissioners are not yet appointed. There are several persons who have been brought to the President’s nolice, perhaps not less than r J0 for these offices. The applicants for places of all s*ts are numerous, and op pressive to the President. An estimate has been made of 50 or GO members of Congress, who are on the nomination oil. This power of appointment is thus not less a source of pain than of power to the Chief Magistrate of the United States. The amount of claims under the Flori- Treatv has been estimated in the newspapers .it forty odd millions. We learn from a gentleman who is conver sant with these claims, tiiat they may rohably be set down at about 20 mil lions. The sum of 5 millions will there- fore considerably fall »bort of the de mand ; and the claims will have to be scaled. There are five classes bf claims : of which the fifth is “ claims of citizens of the U. S. upon the Spanish government, statements of which, soliciting the inter position of the government of the United States, have been presented to the Ue- partrnentofStute, or to the minister of the U. S. in Spain since the date of the con vention of 1820, and until the signature of this treaty.” A question has been made whether Mr. Meade’s case came under this description. It alone is es timated at near half a million ; and is for provisions and other articles fur nished to the Spanish armies. He has laid a Memorial before the President and Congress upon this subject ; the Secretary of State made a report upon it to the Senate, who took no order upon the matter. It is said, that Mr. M. claims the whole debt from our government— and that the Secretary of State is of o- pinion, the claim, being once admitted by Spain,.(probably since the date of the ignature of this treaty) is still a fair claim upon the treasury of Spain ; that he ought to goagainst her, not against us. The Memorial has been published ; and we wish equal publicity could be given to the report.—Richmond Enq. FROM THF RICHMOND COMPILril. NEW-YORK SCHOOLS. The account of these schools present ed by Governor Clinton’s Message to the Legislature is fully confirmed by tlie Re ports of the Siiperintendant of common schools, and of the committee on colle ges, academies mid common schools in the Assembly of New-York. The schools arc in the most flourishing condition.— By the returns for the preceding year, it appears, that in 515 towns from which returns have been received, there are G332 school districts, organized accor ding to law—in these have been taught, during the whole or some part of the year, 301,559 children—the number of chil dren in the same districts, between the age of 5 and 15 years, is 317,833. There are 27 towns, which have not sent in re turns. The amount of public money, report ed to have been received in the differ ent districts, is $140,118—the sum of $80,000 is annually distributed out of certain funds set apart for that purpose for the support and encouragement of common schools ; besides this, they re ceive the half of certain quit rents and commutations for quit rents, and the net proceeds of escheated lands—and also extra sums which many towns have di rected to be raised by tax, over and a- hove what they were required by law to raise. This system is evidently increasing— We have the returns for six years ; from which itnppears, that in 181G, the num ber of towns which sent in returns was 338 ; the number of districts in those towns was 2G31 ; the public money re ceived in them was $55,720 ; the chil dren taught were 140,10G ;—and for the preceding year, the number of towns is 545 ; school districts G332 ; money $148,418 ; and number ofchildren taught primary schools of Virginia ; the Com mittee of the N. Y. legislature propose to set apart a new fund to obviate all pos sible deficiencies in the school appropri ation. We may add, that this new con tribution is not to stand in the way oT o- ther sums which are solicited for other meritorious establishments ; for instance, the committee propose to give to Colum bia College six of the lots, reserved for literary purposes in the county of St. Lawrence, valued at about $8000, be sides making a transfer of certain bunds and mortgages to an amount not exceed ing $10,000—They propose to give Ha milton College certain lands in New Stockbridgn and in the Onondaga Re servation estimated at about $10,000; —to different Academics also they pro pose to appropriate different contribu tions, among others to the Waterford Female Academy. This is a scene of public munificence, which it is really refreshing to contem plate. The common Schools alone are a noble monument of public spirit. 'Clio’ most of the hoys do not go to school for the whole year ; and in most schools the public bounty does not defray the rx- peiice for more than three months in the year, vet such are the facilities given in different wavs, that the siiperintendant calculates “ that of the rising generation hut very few individuals will arrive to maturity, without the enjoyment and protection of a common education.”— There is to be noted this difference be tween the situation of New-York and Virginia—that the former owned a large mass of hack lands, which, as population wont westwardlv, became more valuable, and poured large funds into the coffers of the stale', to be devoted to public Im provements—whereas, we, pursuing ge nerosity on a large scale, gave up our hack lands in the immense region N. W. of the Ohio River—thus preventing the growth of our finances—and diminishing the fund of public improvements. MURDER—MOST FOUL ! ! ! Norfolk, March 21. Yesterday afternoon, between 4 and 5 o’clock, an inquest was held over the body of a man, found lying dead in a house immediately back of that part of Church- street opposite to Flume’s Rope-Walk, owned by a Mrs. iletherington. The verdict of the inquest was, that he had been murdered by some person, or persons unknown. The state in which the body was when discovered, furnished incon testable evidence of a murder, w hich for preconcert, deliberate turpitude, and diabolical hardihood, could find but few parallels in the black catalogue ofhnman butcheries, An entirely new axe, two large knives, and two buckets were I.ty ing on the floor near tlie body, from which the head, legs and arms had been severed ; the two last at every joint, with a precision which surgical skill could scarcely surpass. From an examination of the head, which with the hands, and one of the arms, had been put into tlie fire and al most reduced to a cinder, it was evident that the deceased had been despatched in the upper rooms ; that on yesterday morning about ten o’clock, some chil dren who were playing in an adjoining garden, heard the cry of murder! issuing from the house, and informed their par ents, who supposing it to proceed from a servant undergoing correction, did not immediately attend to it ; that soon after, however, n man being seen in tlie lower room, walking up and down, apparently under the influence of violent feelings, they communicated the circumstances to Mr. Cherry,, one of the police officers, who proceeded to the house about 2 o’ clock, and finding it fastened up closely, made forcible entry, when the shocking spectacle we have described above was presented to him. No person but tlie deceased was in the house when Mr. Cherry entered ; but we learn, that about 1 o’clock, a man, very neatly dressed, came out of the house, and locking the door, went into a negro kitchen in an adjoining yard, light ed a segar, and desired an old woman who stayed there, il any one caine to say that he had gene to dinner. He did not return. A Mayor's Court was held last night, for the purpose of collecting information respecting the case. He believe no thing likely to effect the apprehension of the absconder or absconders, was obtain ed.—Beacon. From the Charleston City Gaseltc - ( M!i jiff. Commercial Reading and .News Room, Norfolk, March 22—Noon. Ml. I)’IIILDEN, Sir—1 have just time to inform you before the mail closes, that the Murder ers are taken, and are now undergoing an examination at the Court-house.— They had been traced yesterday, and last night were pursued by captain Ja cob Sinister, and a friend or two whom he raised for the purpose : and were this morning taken about 2 o’clock, on Sewell’s Point, where they had gone no doubt, for the purpose of getting on hoard of some outward vessel, in the Roads, or Lynhaven Bay. Information had reached (own of the taking of the felons, (two in number), before they arrived, and Church-street was thronged on every side, ns fir as Fort Barbour, with spectators, to see the miserable cul prits as they were brought in. As they passed, driven in a chair by capt. .Shus ter, the first hurst was—“ Huzza for capt. Shuster I” followed by the hisses and the most opprobrious epithets on the hanging looking scoundrels whom he had in charge, i: These men (Spaniards) arrived here on the 10th of this month, from Balti more, and passed by the names of Josse Garcia and Juan Gomez. The conduct of captain Shuster, de serves the highest applause. He start ed uninfluenced by any offer of reward, (for there bad none been signified) to take the villains, anil lie succeeded. Respectfully yours, \V. G. LYFORD. From the Frigate Macedonian. On the 22d of February, the sebr. Phi lo, arrived here on Saturday from Smyr- ing the exasperated state of the public feeling. Lord Cochrane, who was still cruizing ofl the port, declared his intention of de stroying the town of Callao, on his next attack. His treatment to American ves sels in that neighbourhood wns not com plained of, notwithstanding it was known to him that many of them had Spanish property on board. The American and British merchant vessels had dropped down the harbor, nfter being fired upon from the forts. The ship Panther left Callao about a fortnight after the above event took place, and proceeded, in company with the Macedonian to Fata, a port about 4 degrees to windward, where she left the frigate oil the 14th December. [Charleston Courier.] by a blow on the skull, given with the | tin, fell in with the ship Panther, capt. axe, the eye of which only was stained Austin, of Boston, from Callao bound to with blood. One of the buckets was used to catch the blood, and the other, no doubt, to wash the limbs as they were taken off, for it contained the feet, legs, and one arm, with a small quantity of wa ter, scarcely discoloured.—The linea ments of the face were so destroyed by • lie operation of the fire, that it was nearly impossible to trace a resemblance to any thing human, mid there can be little doubt, that it was the first intention of the fiend who perpetrated this shock ing deed, to consummate his purpose by destroying, as rapidly as the size of the fire would permit, every vestige of his victim ; but, apprehensive of detection, lie left his hellish work unfinished. An ordinary sized trunk was found in the house, containing some genteel ap parel, a few articles of jewelry, a silver watch, a pair of pistols, some gold smith’s tools, a masonic apron, sash, and a diploma issued at Baltimore in Dec. last, and signed by the Grand Master of Maryland. From the last named article, which doubtless w as the property of the deceased, it would appear that his name was Fetich Laoaudktte, and, from what we have been enabled to learn, that he was a peddling jeweler, who had been in this place about three week trafficking in such wares. Several articles of the cloathing bore tlie imprint of bloody hands, doubtless made by (he murderer in searching fo that which it may be presumed impelled him to this woeful deed. No money of consequence was in the trunk. A hand some gold watch, we understand, was left in the room, the chain of which too was stained with blood. The follow ing is tlie result of our in quiries among the neighbouring resi dents.—That the bouse was rented a- bout the 1st of the present month by three foreigners, of decent exterior, of whom they knew nothing further than Gibraltar, who put on board George Har ris, a seaman, to assist capt. Fercival in navigating his vessel, & also, despatches from capt. Downes, of tlie U. S. frigate Macedonian, for Government. From this seaman we learn that he left Callao, in the Panther, in the month of Nov. last ; and that the report of the massacre of a part of n boat’* crew of the .Macedo nian is correct. The following are gi ven as the particulars :—Lord Cochrane entered the harbor of Callao, as already stated, in the month of October, and an chored just without gun-shot of the forts. The following night, he attacked in the boats, captured, and succeeded in bring ing out it Spanish frigate. This exas perated the Spaniards of Callao, who charged the crews of the .Macedonian and the British frigate Hyperion, lying at anchor in the harbor, with aiding Lord C. with the means of carrying his attack into execution. The next day, a boat from the American frigate, on approach ing the town, was tired upon by the sol diery—three of her crew , (the Purser's Steward and two seamen) were killed, and most of the others wounded ; but they finally succeeded in making their escape A boat from the Hyperion, ignorant of what had happened to the American boat, was also approaching the town, when they were cautioned against doing so, by a boat from a Spanish government brig, which had aided in saving the remainder of the crew of the Macedonian's boat, and who appeared to be much exaspera ted nt the conduct of the soldiery. At this time capt. Downes was at Li ma, a distance of nine miles ; and Lieut. Murray who was in command, immedi ately dispatched a letter, privately, to apprise bioi of whr.t had taken place.— He directed that a boat from the ship should he in readiness to receive him at a small port about 30 miles distant ; and FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE. By the politeness of Cap,. Johnson, of the Brig Rover, in 12 days from Port-au- Prince, wo have received a llaytial) paper of the !)tli inst. containing a pmtieuliir detail of the insurrection at St. Marc and Goiihlves. The editor says, that In oflhring to the pub lican account of the events which have tak en place at those two points since the 2rid February last, his object is to dissipate the fears which the citizens might have enter tained, as to the rebellion—and to warn them against the false reports, spread by the dis contents with the perfidious intention of di minishing themnlldence and respect due to the gnver*M0jp|Rd to convince those who desire to kindle the fire of discord, that their attempt is vain and their desires impotent. He states that the principal cause of what has happened, was the unmeasured ambiti on of one of the principal ministers of the ty ranny of Ohristnplie— Jean Pierre Richard, a general of division, who had, long before the. death of the despot, conceived the plan of hurling his master from.the throne, nod putting himself in his place—and that to him must ho attributed all the fermentation w ich has for a long time existed in the north west of the republic, and which burst forth on the 23d of February. The account goes on to state, the machi nations of Richard, for rendering hiinselfpo- pular with the people, and for rendering Christophe odious. That he associated with him Col. Paulin of the 8lh regiment?of in fantry, who endeavored and did succeed ill part, by tlie gold he had amassed at play, in gaining over the troops under his command. The regiment however, feeling the shame ful stain which they had imposed nu them selves—returned to their duty, abandoned its unworthy leader who was sorely wound ed, and delivered to the general. Paulin was carried to thu hospital, .where he died of his wounds. I,t. Col. Bclzuncc, aid-de-camp of Chris- tophe, who hud also taken part in the insur rection, was seized and carried to Port-au- Prince, and delivered over to a military com mission for trial. fffciuquility was then completely restored by the submission of the 8th regiment, and has since been maintained by the vigilance of the generals Bonnet, Mare, Servant, and the adjutant general Constant. Col. Guillaume had been put in the place f die trailor Paulin. IVhilsl all this was going on nt St. Marc, the generals Joseph, Jerome arid Dossous, had by their perfidious conduct, corrupted the fidelity of thu 2!ith regiment, stationed at Gonaives—Si not doubting the success of Paulin, seconded him by attacking the gene ral of division Fraucisque und forcing him to embark. Gonaives was then pillaged by the rebels, who coinmited every kind of excess. They, however, now curse the inen who had per suaded them to the revolt. The most part of them have dispersed, leaving the guilty in stigators of these discords, tormented by einorsc, and trembling with fear at tlie ap proach of the punishment reserved for them. The designs of general Richard, whose conduct had been suspected, and an eye kept qion his movements, having been discover 'd at the moment he had prepared to dis play the stand.ird of revolt, he was arrest ed at Cape Haytl on the 2Mh February.— Four of his accomplice*, colonels Oiraeticre, Pierre-Paul,capt. Dominique,and lieutenant Lamisere, were taken at the same time,and with their leader, transported to Port-au- Prince, where, they arrived on the 1st of March. Tin y weie conducted to prison, and orders for their trial immediately issued By reason of his rank, Joan Pierre Rich ard, was handed over to a special military tribunal, who had condemned him to death. Tlie other conspirators were to be tried by the. usual court martini Thus has been arrested a conspiracy which menaced the safety of the entire Republic of llayli, by kindling in its Imsom tlie llame of civil w ar, and renewing the horrors to which it was for so long time a prey. And afflict ing as these events really have been, they leave us the consolation, that they have serv ed to distinguish and to destroy tlie most dangerous enemies of the Republic—and to show the government what means to take to secure its future peace. In addition to the above we learn from capt. Johnson, that the U. S. sloop of par Ontario, arrived from Annapolis, via Cape 11lenry, with Mr. \Vever on hoard, on a nfis- >iun to (he government, and had already an nterview with the President. The Ontario nid prolonged her stay at the Cape by the es, fm ginc much lighter, as well as less bulky, and diminish very materially the consumption of fuel. Such a simplification we Imlievc to have taken place. Mr. Mim s VVard ? mi ingenious townsman of ours, has contrived to dispense with almost every article of ma chinery, except ti e boiler, ilia cylinder, and the water wheel. He places the cylinder, within the water wheel itself. It revolve* upon its ow n-cemre of gravity—but its cen tre of revolution is diffeient from that ol tho revolution of the water wheel. The piston- rod is I he pihnanroH; il operates direr ly upon the w heel—and while it forces tjiat a- round. is itself carried around. The steam passes through the gudgeon, on which the wheel revolves—and is conducted to and from the cylinder, Ivy moans of lubes and sta tionary and rotary valves. The reader w ill, of com SB, conceive but an imperfect idea of the machine, from any verbal dese.ripGi" — and more especially, tnmn oHo'srt'briefas this. Mr. Ward lias printed, for the use of l.is par ticular friend's, a detailed sp* cificiUion of 'll its parts—and We hope his pamphlet will he published genet ally. Many will doubtless ray—“ All this look* very well itpmi paper—hilt has the thing been tried ? Will if work ? Wifi it go ? ’— To these questions, we think Mr. Ward made a very satisfactory answ er n few days since. Having completed a model of his ma chine, it was attached to the boiler of ('ol. Blanding’s engine ; and, in spite of various siuistruns predictions, tlie thing did work, and did go, vvithdh ease and .velocity, which we believe, astonished all present. Of course, Mr. Ward has not been prnvident, ns to neglect the proper meAtwHi 304,559. Not satisfied with this liberal | that they were generally absent in the! disguising himself, and obtaining a horse approprii as much as what wc appropriate to the mm nu » in..? _ O ” ~ appropriation, which is about three times j day, hut presumed to sleep there from from the Vice-Roy ofLirna, he succeed- • ” - a light being seen usually late at night,'ed in regaining his vessel, DOtwithstand- reqiiest ul Uu' whites, the place being in a fjitp m state of reqHr, arufjjt was generally believed that the prPstncq of the Omario vaved the whites, fionrthe horrocs of a massacre.— Capt. ,J. States that gbn. Richard Christo phe had been executed, and his fortune a mounting to 10,000 doubloons, had been confiscated, and placed in the treasury. rr.OJt THE COLUMBIA (s. c.) telescope. IMPORTANT INVENTION. All persons, in any way conversant with steam boats, have long been convinced, tfiai they would never become profitable until some simplification of the machinery should greatly lessen the original cost, make the ert« securing to himself a patent. We hope he will be. abundantly rewarded for this singu lar display of ingenuity—and (hut, as Fulton enjoys the reputation of first carrying navi gation by steam, into extensive practice, the name of Ward will stand recorded, to poste rity, as the man, who so far simplified tha machinery, as to make the business profit* able. LAMENTABLE INSANITY IN THE EAST«- FROM Till'. BOSTON OAZETTE. The premiums obtained for a prefer ence of boxes, during a part of the en gagement of Mr. Kean, (ihe English ac tor,) amounted to upwards of 3000 dol lars, the whole of which has been devo ted to charitable uses.* Mr. Kean, it is aid, has gained 5000 dollars by his visit to this metropolis. Among other in stances of popular enthusiasm, as regard* the personal attraction of this distin guished stranger, we have to notice, that on his departure from town, a considera ble body of people assembled near his lodgings, and, when he entered the car riage which was to take him on his jour ney, gave three Joud liuzzns, iu token of their respect for bis professional meats and celebrity.J * fiiiod Out of evil. f Respect for. his celebrity ! What a reason for a salutation'of three cheers by an American “ populace I” ^ * « AREAS OF THE STATES." In ap estimate recently published, showing the extent of the several states in square miles, that of Missouri is in correctly given. Her extent as laid down in the table is only 55,0014 square miles— whereas by a reference made to oliicial documents in the Land office in this plane, il is ascertained to amount to six ty-five thousand seven huudred and se venty two ; to all of which the Indian title is extinguished, except 3,240 square miles. Of this vast region of country, ' 22,985 sections have been surveyed.— This correction places Missouri second, nslead of third, on thejlist of large States in the Union—exceeding Georgia by al most 4,000 square miles—and coming nearly within that extent of the great state of Virginia, which is the largest in her territorial limits of any iu the Ame rican Republic.—St. Louis pa, The total number of Revolutionary Pensioners continued on the U. States list, under the act of May 1, 1820, is eight thousand five hundred and ten. Lord Erskinc.—Our readers may re member that some one or two' years since, this celebrated British statesman, now in advanced life, set off from Lon don for Gretna Green, disguised in the habiliments of a female, and accompanied by his house-keeper, a buxom lass, whom lie was leading to Hymen’s altar. Not quite so secret in this movement as he intended to be, the elopement came to the knowledge of Iris son, who went post haste to the destined scene of happiness, and, as was then stated, arrived in sea son to prevent the veteran love-adven turer from realizing his hopes of bliss.— But late London papers inform that hit lordship recently brought an action/ divorcC'ngainst his wife, on the charg 5* adultery. The action was tjled k the Consistory Court of E\"e1- Lndy Erskine pleaded ag'jointly diction of the court, “ b through never been in Scotland when she was married'of Otran- Gretr.a and that the? 1 *' both partiet was in kewu* Th« positively denied thmimato* tlfi* sation. Lord Ersk it ancient date, t hat he had resided fid it has given days previous to tKf M>ro w m* which he contend£fj£2!?“* ent domicile, but an < X p«4ki- personal estate wy, and. by ed to abandon thirt honor*v*o tel one iotheEngli^^^