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M A C © N G E O It 0 14 TELEGRAPH.
From the St. Francisrille, (La.) Journal.
THE INTENDED REBELLION.
The attention of Northern Abolitionists is rc-
jficsicil Id tlie plain ttuvaruishei account of iho
pr ice, dings of our fellow-citizens of East Feli
cia uni, in suppressing the intended servile rebci-
Jion, and mast: re of the inhabitants, oil the 25th
December. Such will he the fate of evefy lik.
Attemiit in Lousi.mn. . Wha, after reading this
account, can wonder at the Executive Commit
toe ol East .Feliciana, should offer a reward *>f
$50,01)0 for Arthur Tttppan, the prime mover oi
t|io intended .massacreI Again we say. unless
tbos ■ men desist, the two 'I'appatis, Gcrrit. Smith,
L ‘P i i>u aud Bimey, will lind thomselves in ’h*-
Jnttds of tho b'xeciitive Cotnniittco of East Pc-
iicima, list; orders of tho New-York Suit. that
wo shall dgjfBt i; :>m t arrying men to summary
OJjfs'uti n, to 'h -contrary notwithstanding.
The reran Providential discovery of an insur
rectionary plot iu tho Parish of tho’East Felici-
nua, and the subsequent proceedings thereon of
tho inhabitants of that Parish, will necessarily at
tract universal attention. With u view, there
fore, of sendiug abroad correct iufnrmatiou on
tha subject, the following statement of facts
have hem authoritatively drawn up and subiuil-
ed for publication.
Mr. Philip Kit h.mlsou, a rcqtectahlo planter of
the Parish, and who resides about four miles front
tho towu of Jackson, is the owner, among a
number of other slaves, of a negro girl, who has
always evinced a strong attachment to Mr. It.
nud his famdy. On Thursday last, the 24th insl.
this girl voluntarily made such communications
loiter master..ns induced him to believe, that
tome of his own slaves, in conjunction with oth
ers, and sumo white men, had in contemplation
a plot to rite upon the whites, murder them, and
sack tho country/- .Mr. Richardson immediately
eximined his negroes, and thereby porfectlv con
vinced lum.clf of the truth of the girl's communi
cations. lie lost ii i time iu setting out for Jack-
sou, where uc undo known the circumstances
which it id transpired, and solicited assistance to
arrest the conspirators. A posse of geutlemai
accordingly assembled, and proceeding to the
plant itious of Mr Richardson and others, sue
ceeded in securing all the negroes implicated, a-
inouutiiig to eighteen, and two white men, also
concerned. The names of these while men,
were Juntos Williams and Robert Nesmith
The prisoners were all brought to Jackson,
where they were coufmril iu the church, kept se
parate, and not allow.d to speak together, aud
strictly guarded through the night.
On the next morning. Friday the25th, a gene
ral meeting of the citizens of tho parish took
place in the College Chapel, which was attended
by almost every inhabitaut. The meting, after
appointing a chairman aud secretary, took into
consideration the mode in which this serious mat
ter should tie investigated, and I lie manner in
which the prisoners should lie fairly tried. After
due dcliheratiou, it was unanimously resolved,
that a jury ot thirteen citizens should ho chosen,
w ho sli mid proceed to the exapiinatioo of the
evidence, find a verdict of gniliy oruot guilty, on
the accused, pass a judgment accoidmgly, aud
see that judgment carried into effect, \ccoid-
iugly, thirteen of the most experienced and re
spectable citizens were selected by the meeting,
who, afier choosing their foreman and secretary,
proceeded forthtvith to hold a public investigation
of the whole matter.
Mr. Philip Richardson was examined. lie
testified that his attention was first called to the
subject by. his daughter, on the 22d of December,
Tuesday, who repealed, to him some remarks
raado confidentially to her hy tha negro girl be
fore alluded to. Alarmed, hy the intelligence, he
questioned tht* girl, who. after some hesitation,
told him that the negroes intended to riso at
Christmas, to kill him and other white men, and
that his hoy Sain was one of tho ringleaders.—
That some white men were also engaged iu the
plot, and that she had got her iuforiuuiion by o-
vorheariug the negroes talk about it. dr. *Kicb<-
ardsoii then examined some of his negro men.
but they deiiied all knowledge of tho matter.
lit .subsequently got them all together, with
the exception of Sam. nud telling them that Sam
had confessed, advised them to come out aud tell
the truth about the matter, for that they wore all
criminated. They then acknowledged that it
they were to
•tfier white
people, and that the hoy Sam was cue of the loa
ders iu the plot.
James Williams, a white man, was next exam
ined, separately, and out of the hearing of the
rest of the prisoners. 1 le testified that about three
or four weeks ago he had entered iuto a plot with
tho -uegro boy Sam and several other uegrocs,
whim lie named, together with so mu white men,
whom he also named ; whose object was to col
lect as large a force as possible, proceed to Jaciv-
so i, murder tho, white inhabitants, aud /oh the
stores. They were ihcu to push oi: to St. Fran-
cisvillc, collect forces on the road, and lake that
fair u. If succc sf-.l there, they wore to proceed
quickly on to some wilderness country ‘icar Tex
as, and wc.re to furnish ihe negroes with fiee pa
pers at that place. They were to spare such of
the white fcmalos as were likely, and take them
a'ong as wives. Williams further elated that
they had held several meetings with the negroes
or» this subject, at which he had attended, aud
where their plans were talked over. He also
designated the spo* where soino of tho meetings
were held, and staled tho lime agreed uposi
rising, to be the present Chris'.-ne* holidays.
Tltcnegro hoy Sam. belonging to .Mr. Richard
son, was then brought in and .examined in flic
same manner. This boy fully corroborated the
statements of W illintns, ns to the existence of a
plot among them, to tire nud murder the while
people, staling tho time fixed upon .to ho this
GhrLtma*, and that white men were c-ugag> d in
the plot. Ho also stated that he and Williams
had consulted together on the subject, and that lie
had attended the meetings at which Williams
was present,
. Negro hoy Nelson, belonging to Mr. Robert
iMuOsoii wap next examined. Ho fully corrobo
rated the statements of Williams and Sam.
The statements of Willhins. Sam aud Nelson
ware funher confirmed on the ex a min n lion of
nrgro linuo and others, all taken before the pub
lic separately, nud opt of tin* hearing of one a-
notber, as lias been before slated.
Having gotten through with nil the testimony,
iho jury retired, and after a long, aud careful aud
serious deliberation, came to the following con
clusion.
That James William-: and negro hoy Sam, arc
guilty of engaging iu a plot lo raise an insurrec
tion in this parish, and to murder its white inhab
itants, Whereupon judgment of death was pro
nounced upon the said James Williams and ne
gro buy Sam. Several negroes were also found
guilty of being privy to the plot, in a greater or
le-is degree*, and were srotcurcd to iie whipped.
Kobeit Nesmith nud the rest uf-lhe nccuscd were
acquitted. On tin: following day,'Saturday, De
cember 26, preebely at 12 o’clock, M. tho sen
tence of ih Jury was carried into effec.t, by the
sheriff appointed by that body. wlic*i June- Wil
Inms nmi negro boy Sam were both hung hy the
neck till they were dead.
Theptini-hmem of whipping was also indicted
Upon the' negroes condemned, agreeably to this
'-sememe.
/row the Vie iork Courier _
LATEII & IMPORTANT PROM FRANCE
ARIUyAL OF OUR CHARGE D’ AF
FAIRES.
The packet ship Albany, Captain Jobnsou, arri-
v ’ R d last night. She sailed on die 3d ultimo, Mr.
Barton our late Charge d’ Affaires iu Paris has
returned in her. . - .
The dates'reached us by this conveyance arc
of the 1st from Paris, 2d from Havre* ami 30ib
November from London, We make full extracts
The character of tho neivs so far as it relates to
French affair*.will wc think, he considered
elusive as regards the payment of the stipulated
indemnity. All questmu a3 to the intention of
l* ranee on that subject, must now he removed :
and the most sceptical can no longer doubt, tha
she is determined not to do us justice withou
having some apology from our Executive. Itoi]
Jy remaini for us therefore, to resort to a noni
tercoursc; and iffor so doing, France should ven
ture upon a declaration of war, we must abide t le
consequences.
now estimated, nrnouul to 24,000 hales of all
kiuds, agaiust 148,000. the estimated stock this
time last year; of American, 134.000, against
97,000 bales. As wo are gettiug down to low
the stocks of all kmds of Cottou in tho ports at
the end of 1629 amount to about 290.000 Dales’,
of which 107.000 American; and at the end of
1831, tho stock was, estimated at 275,000, of
which 154,000 were American, and the prices of
Upland Cottou during these two years, were
generally from 4} aud 5d to 6gd per ll>. and if
the crop iu the U. S. be as large as now repre
sented hy some of the late accouuis, the above
con- facts ought not to be lost sight of by tlic shippers
of Cotton.
JLatest from Texas.
New Orleans, Jau. 4
On Sunday. December 20, four schooners, the
Pensylvania. Camanche, America, and Santiago,
arrived at Valasco, having on hoard about 220
volunteers iu the cause of liberty, from the State
... , , of Georgia. They immediately iulisted as a por-
\\ e deprecate as sincerely ps t iou „j- ,| ie p ennauent volunteer corps, and elect-
any one possibly cau. a war with France : hut if
she will tint comply with her solemn treaty slip i-
latious, we are prcpareil to urge upon our Re >-
resntutives in Congress the prompt declaration
at a non intercourse.—This much is due to oursil-
ves. to onr national honor and to (ho necessity
which exists for every nation to.cause i.self to
lie respected abroad. The consequences, wldit-
cvcr they may be weshou d lie prepated to nifccl
with unanimity, aud under a full couvictiou dial
however indiscreet were the rccommciidatiouf of
our Executive iu his Message of'34, there exists
unjust cause fur tho contumely and iusult which
France has endeavoured to heap upon us. ;
When we originally and exch sivciy announced
the refusal of the French Ministry to pay the in
demnity. and the intended retnru of Mr. Barton,
our motives were impugned, or hy the more chari
table, we were pronounced croakers. What is
the position of affairs now!-Mr. Barton is in Niw
York—Mr. Pageol on the eve of departure lV
hut all parties in France proclaiming “ apology
.Makau, with
bad a good many of his sheep lost, ernbed, or
seized, or impounded, or taken away by ‘Trig
Now, *• Prig"’ made no secret of his doiugs, and
did not purloin hut took «>pr-uly what he did take.
prices again, it may not be improper to state that still it was not less true that Smiths lost his sheep
cd Wm. Ward their 1st Mujor, W. Wadsworth,
Captain of the Columbus volunteers, Uriah J-
Bullock, Cnptaiu of tho Macou volunteers, and
James C. Wynn, Captain of the Georgia rifle
men.
_ Volunteers from various States arc hourly ar
riving by the different land routes, and in a short
time there will he a fotce sufficient iu Texas to
carry tho war, if uecessary, cveu to fhe walls of
Mexico.
Aud. on the morning of tho present new yev r *
the national armed vessel of Texas, “Liberty,’.’
met in tho river near Fort Jackson, the steam
boat Yellowstouc, hound lor Texas, with more
than 100 volunteers ou hoard. An iuterchange
of salutations, cheers and artillery took place,
which was truly animating. Siucc tho galling
and unconstitutional oppression attempted to he
practised upon ’*'exas lias been made known, the
sympathies existing between freemen have been
developed in a degree hitherto unknown. Vol-
was understood among them, that the
riso on Christinas, to kill him and at
France—all diplomatic intercourse between tho. unteew are iushiugmto Texas from every sectiou
two countries suspended—nut only the Ministry, [^jhis Union.
~1’ALL OFdSAN ANTONIO.
This ever to he remembered event, took plate
on Thursuay, Dec. 10th. On the Saturday pre
vious (the 5th.) 300 of the colonial troops enter
ed the town under the couimaud of Col. llenj. R.
Milam. They could not at first get possession of
the public square owing to the walls aud ditches
across the mouths of the streets, each of which
was likewise defended by two pieces of artillery,
aud in consequence of this, they occupied some
buildiugs aud tops of houses adjacent- Here
they remniued hattliug unceasingly night aud day,
until \\ eduesdity, the (ith. when they forced their
way into the square aud drove the enemy across
the river iutu their fort calleddbo “ Almo.”
In these relative situations the battle contiuued
uutil Thursday 10th, when the enemy capitula
ted.
MURDER IN CINCINNATI,
fsp.ac McGuire, n hatter, was .hot through ihe
breast on the 21st December, iu Cincinnati, b\
Charier F. Gedncy, n Watchman. .McGuire
win had a g*-iidge against Gedncy, nttempwd to
strik** hi:n oil meeting, when Gcduoy drew a
pistol itr. i «sbot Fim. JJc -die*! « few Jiours af-
Xfl*.
nr war”—and finally. Vice Admiral
fifteen sail oftlic lino and a;propriiouate number
of frigates and smaller vessels of War, at this mo
ment in our neighborhood as a “fleet of observa
tion!” If we croaked when wc cautioned our
merchants against confiding in the dies of peace,
snrh croakings onld at least do no liaiin ; but how
different the reflection <>f those who. \ ieldhig to the
wishes of the public rather than their owu sense of
right, wickedly aided in eoiitiiiuiug a delusion
whteh can only he productive of evil.
Another change in :he Portuguese Ministry has
t tkcii place, and >otno accounts from Lisbon
speak iu disparaging terms of tha conduct of the
youog Queen.
It is stated, though not in an nuthcutic form,
tint Iviug Otho had been com pelled to quit
Greece, aud that the country was in a state of
an ireliy.
From the Journal of Havre, of 2d Dec.
Vice Admiral Mack iu has recently been ap
pointed to the command ol our West India
Station, and the Govemient of .Martinique. This
is an appointment of which we hasten to ex
press our approbation, aud which, iu our opiuiou,
indicates ntmo than all that has boon said hereto
fore. on the late and unfortunate niisuudcrstati
ding which lias arisen betweeu Fiance and the
United Sates.
No one is aware of the mariritjie importance
ou. little sugar i-lamis of Mnrituique amt Guade
loupe would acquire in caso of a war with North
America, as roads for the anchorage of prizes,
and as places for the victualling ami refilling of
our cruizers. These two colonies, together wtih
the little Archipelago des Saiutes, will possess a
degree of utility which the Chamber of Deputies
alone of ail the people of France,appears not eveu
to have understood,
The admirable roadstead, nud fine national
harbor of Fcrl Royal, may he compared in a
maritime point of view, with the most perfect 1,1,1
ports in Europe, and situated ns it is, at the en
trance of the Carrihhentt sea, is perhaps one
of those of which all Europe envies our pos
session*
The reputation which the brave admiral Mac-
kau Ins lately ncqui ed iu the West Indies, during
his long resilience as commander of our Station
in those latitudes, will contribute, we hope, not
a .little to render easy to him the new service to
whii-h lie bis been appointed, through the eottfi
deuce reposed in him by the .Minister of the Marine,
who is well aware how greatly a service such as
this, will require the efforts and good will of tho
inhabitants of our colonies. Monsieur de Mac-
knu, young as he is for the elevatedstatiou whiich
he holds ia our marine, will bo fully equal, wc
have no doubt, to all tho oxigeuccs of tho active
duly he has just taken upon himself To bring
into play the resources which our two West In
dia colonies are able tonfiordio us in time of
war, a leader must lie popular, vigilant, and ex
p.-ri; tired, ami in these three points of view
Mon;. dc .Mackau is the best person government
could have selected under rirrauistauces, by
which our witulwnrd Islands may li>* required
to protect once more the seas that surround them
from those formidable privateers, which during
the late war, rendered she resistance of our cnier-
pri>ing colonics so happily conspicuous.
I.ivkiifool Market, Dec 4.
We continue to have a very fl.it market for cot-
toif. vvitli unsteady prices, the extreme qualities
of ffljj* 1 and interior American are much depres
sed" iho lai,‘ 4 ' r having '»ccn sold at jd to Id uudor
tho’ rates or lust week; the middling qualities
have been little affected ,ha „ u l' 1 ,b ’
speculators havo taken 2. **0 bales of the lower
class of American, and cxpo!L' rs , American
ami 100 Sunil. Theie was f<«r*vtn. 1 Bd^iuto the
coutrrj Inst monili, without being hroagu* ou t,us
market here. l5t)0 hales of Atii.-rienii for expo.”'*
The import this week arc 21.176 bags, aud sales
aro 6,070, viz : 8,670 Bowed, 6} to lid; 3,700
New Orleans,6d to 12d; 19:30 Alabama, &c. Ga
to lUJd, &c. &c
Dee. 5.—Our cotton market is still laboring un
der tho b/d cfl'ects "of the I a to .accounts from A-
mcricn. Big Crop is riding us line anight mare.
The trade, seeing nil increased anxiety to sell,
seem slid more firmly determined nut to huv, hut
as compelled hy their wants : the consequence is
easily told, our market is lower. The sales nl
the week include 8870 Upland. 6} to lid; 3790
Orleans 7j n 12,22 at 12^; 1930 Tennessee and
Mobile 6 a 10*-
Speculators took about 2l09 hales American—
export buyers, about 400 do. We reduce our
qiMtaiianstn square, ns near as we can. with the
general business doing, hut some forced sales have
been made nt a much greater reduction—the fal
ling olT in price has been chiefly felt in the higher
and lower qualities. Tennessc. for example, has
been sold vivid per lb. and new Upiauds at stilt
lower p&M^, than loose of last week—there is lit
float market of this description which will com
mand over !0d per ll>. jflK
Tho apprehension of war^^^vecu America
and France, should it bcewiWWtronger, may for
a moment steady, nr possibly improve the prices
of cotton ; Knt this appreheusiuu, otice removed
again, nud the belief in a large crop kept up, we
mutt have low prices in spito of every thing.- -
Let the trade feci assured th.it there will be plenty
of cotto'i, nud they will continue the system
which tiny arc now pursuing, and which tlt.-y
have found to so well answer their purpose.
The imports of all surts of cottou into th<
Kingdom during the last II months, amount t<
I1 ,<W0. against 834.U'k). received dutiuu lic
it, tine time in 1834. and of American, the receip.s
h ive bccu721,0l)0, against 695,690 bales.
The stocks in the ports of the Kingdom, as
15v the capitulation upwards of 1000 yielded to
less than 300. The town itself was surrendered
with 20 pieces of brass artillery, 1900 I’ouiids of
of powder, hall, grape and cauislcr, with the pub
lic stores of every description.
Tho glorious conquest was achieved, with a
loss on the part of tho conquerors of only 3 kill
ed aud 30 wounded, while the loss of the enemy
iu killed, is variously estimated at from 60 to
150.
But the joy of tho triumph was sadly diminish
ed by the circumstance that the brave .Milam, the
dauntless leader of the storm, was nittnbcrcU
uiuug the slaiu. lie fell by a hall through his
head while fearlessly animating Ills men to victo
ry. Long! long will Texas and the frieuds of
liberty remember and lament his fate. Amtng
the gallant hand who stormed the town were more
than 100 voluutcers from the United States.—
The New Orleans Grays aud Blues constituted
a great majority of the^e, and the remainder
were from different parts of the State of Missis
sippi. The u hole of them w*cre among the first
nid foremost where the battle raged hottest; aud
displayed throughout the undaunted bravery of
disciplined regulars,
CINCINNATI. (Ohio,) Dec.29, TtxasVol-
unlerrs.—\\e understand that fifty-two volun
teers feont this city, Newport- nud Coviuztou,
will depart from the steamboat lauding nt 10 o’
clock this i. ortiing, unde/ the commaud|ofCup-
tain Sidney Sherman, for the Texiau army.
* FRANCE.
We lay before onr readers a paper on tho pre
sent attitude of France towards this country,
from the pen of a statesman, fnmilar with our
foreign relations—familai with the ethics which
the powers of Europe are accustomed to adopt
in their transactions with us, and who may,
therefore, anticipate truly the designs of France
iu Ihe present juncture. If he does—and the in
dications in tho Frcuch ports in the French prints
strongly corroborate his bodings of coining events,
to what accountability will those be held, who,
iu the last Congress, denied all menus of pie-
pnratiui) against the threatened storm ? who de
feated even the regular annual appropriation for
the gradual completion nud armament of the
fortifications which have been for years ill pro
gress ? The three millions would have put our
navj iu a state of equipment—and the strong
points of defence to our most important harbors,
would have been rendered impregnable to the
sudden attempts of even that wellprepared power,
which it seems the Frcuch Gnvcriim rut have not
lost a moment, during our long period of false
security, aud inactivity, to make as foruiitinbie
as possible. And wili tho Representatives of the
American people now remain supine, and waste
months in deliberation, when every hour should
he preparation ? Tho immediate represenalivos
of the people, whose appropriations of the last
year were nullified in the Senate, hy the intrigues
u f the managers of the majority there, will soon
iutpvjs? i;p on that body the responsibility of
aciin*' uotf'* •he subject, under the accumulated
weight o? consl'^rations arising out of tho delin
quency of the last /ear. and the greatly increased
exigency of die present. - Clobe.
THE DISPUTE vi'JTH FRANCE.
The London Courier has a t*?mely Jtccouiit or
our quarrel with France, from a PdriJ eorrt'Mwtn*
dent, which shows that the *-cal stato ot' ihe m-
fnir is well understood abroad—that commb'U
sense and common honesty is not altogether ban
ished from refined Europe hy the subtleties of
hollow-hearted diplomacy. The correspondent
o! the London priut, tells truth iu a story of com
mon life, where alone it can lie seen iu its true,
light. It wns iu that way Judge White’s old
friend last year before the electots of Tpuuessee,
took his case out of politics that he might explain
himself without prejudice. He told the story I
the IIkllwetueu Alice—the pet, lie was com
pelled to nhuudun because he had taken up with
rotten sheep. The sheep story of tho Loudon
Fourier is of as easy application—Washington
Globe.
Once upon a time (as tho children say) there
was a niati named Stulihs, who had a good many
•beep of his own. and ho let his sheep go a feed
ing on the hills, nud on the commons, which were
called sheep walks, aud where he had a right to
lei them run if ho though: fit. for these sheep
walks arc public property. And there was nno-
'lertiiau named “ Prig,” who had a good many
-beep too, and he let his sheep go ou tho same
sheep walks, nud feed and run with the sheep ol
■luhbs. But ns they were not the only farmers
who had their sheep on the hills and on >ito cotn-
tnoas, it came to pass, in process of time, that
quarrels arose between “ Prig’.’ mid other shep
herds, and iu the course of the quarrels, Stubbs
and that lie had uothi**g at nil, in truth and in
fact, to do with the quarrels of “Prig” and the
shepherds, which gave rise to the loss of his sheep.
And so ivhen the quarrels of “ Prig” and the
shepherd were all settled, Mr. Stubbs said to
“ Prig,” I have ajsinnll account to settle wth you
for the sheep you took of mine during your late
qunrrcls wijh the shepherds. But “Prig” drove
off the settlement of the acconui from year to
year till he died, and so left the matter unsettled.
But Stubbs was not to bo defeated by death, and
so ho addressed himself to the next of ki t of
Prig,” and said “your relative owed me a large
urn of money for sheep he took of mine, aud as
pu inherit all his property, you - must pay his
:hts.” To this demand “Prig's” successors
adc a good many objections, but at last, after
vernl years of negotiation, i* was finally agreed
I, that Stubbs should receive 100/ fot the sheep
hicb ** Png” had origiually taken, and which
e bona fide owed for. But wheu the moment
. ante to pay tile money, these great-great-great
jitep-nephews of ** Prig” insisted upon it that
Ktubh’s grand children"(for Stubbs had died too)
^hould declare that “Prig” and all his descendants
were all honorable men. aud that they had never
meant to •• Prig” the sheep and not to pay for
them; hut, that Master Prig aud all bis family
were the very pink of honor and honesty.—
Stubbs’s grand children, if they bad not beeu
complete dolts and idiots, would certaiuly have
gratified “Prig’s” great-great-step-nephews with
sufh a declaration , for though, if Prig and Stubbs
»>*! themselves beeu living, it would have beeu
tary difficult to have got the latter to make such
a declaration to the former, after so many years
o| refusal to pay; yet really, when Prig and his
scitis. and Stubbs and his sous, were long since
(Ktid anil buried, it was the stupidest thiug in tho
world, when 100/ was in the case, to mahe ma
ny words, or pick many bones about a certifi
cate for the honotof the family. Yet so it was.
that Stubbs’s grand-children wore very rich, and
would not gratify Prig’s great-great-step^nophews
by such a declaration. So the 100/ was uoi paid;
and the parties would have got from v ords to
blow*, aud from blows to serious injuries, and
perhaps, loss of life, hut for the intervention-of a
good honest neighbor named Mr. Bull Now
Mr. Bull said to Prig’s great-great-step-nephews,
nud to the grand children of Stubbs, “ Listen to
me my frienus; what matte 1 * is it to you wheth
er the moon be or be not made of cream cheese ?”
And they all answered “ No matter at all.”—
“ Nor. my friends, can it he any matter to you,
whether your master. Prig, or your ancestor.
Stubbs, were or were not the most honest men
in the universe. You. the step-nephews of Prig,
arc nil honorable men ; and you, tho grandsons of
Stubbs, you are the same. The oue claim no
more than is due, and the other pay tlijit which
their a net stor owed. Do not, then, trouble yout-
selvcs about hese matters, but shake hands and
he good friends.” So Mr. Bull succeeded, and
the “Prigs” aud the “Stubbses” wcie good frieuds
and neighbors through many generations. -
And now ray Lord Palmerston, here is the case
in poiut. Do you be John Giill. Tak« hold of
susceptible Franco with one hand, aud of “ Yan
kee Doodle” with the other, and say to the for
mer, America never doubted your honor, and to
the latter. Franco had never any inientiou of rob
bmg or insulting you. I know you both.
Dade, Captain Gardner, aud Lieuteuanis Bas-
singer, Mudge, Hendeisoo and Kean, and Dr-
Gatiiu, were dispatched on the 23d ull. .to join
Gen. Clinch at Fort King. By the repoits of
three survivors who airived about a week after
wards. all tvouuded. intelligence was brought of
the destruction of the whole detaebmeut by the
Indians
The account th**y give is, that about 8 o’clock
on the morning of the 28ih, they were attacked
hy an overwhclmuing number of Indians—Ma
jor Dade was shot immediately—Capt. Frasee
rode forward and was also cut down.—the re
mainder maintained the contest for an hour, uu
til they were reduced to about thirty in number.
The liidiaus then retired, and the survivors, al
most all wounded, th r ew up a slight breastwork.
’ r he Indians retuined to the attack at eleven o’
clock, and completed the slaughter of the wlioh
corps. The three survivors who reached Tampa
Bay, after travelling sixty miles through the
woods, add, that the uegroes rushed iu aud butch
ered the wouu ’ed. .
They describe the conduct of the uoblc fellows
who perished, in the highest degree gallant.—
They obeyed every order, anil stood their ground
to the last. The fight was so close that the In
dians cut them down with knives, and they were
obliged to throw away their gnus, or strike with
the huts.
Major Bolton i3 at Tampa Bay, expecting an
attack, with two hundred men, well prepared
with blockhouses and stockades.
It is sail! to bo barely possible that Captain
Gardner escaped.
'■"ol. Twiggs has chartered the Merchants at N.
Orleans, to take thcU. S. troops there, toTanipa
Bay.—Mobile Reg.
Natchez, Nov, 24.—Horrible—This morning
as a negro man was ieading two chained hears
through the court yard to the Mississippi Hotel,
kept in this place by Mr. Barker, a mulatto wo
man from the kitchen imprudently took her little
boy out to sec the animals, and allowed him
to go uc-ar them. One of the bears immcdiatly
seized the child in bispa tvs sinking his claws into
the child’s abdomen, threw him on the grouud,
and began, with frigtfu! avidity, to feed itpou his
carcass. The shrieks of the frantic mother; who
true to nature, had thrown hereelfupon the pros
trate body of her child, and was vainly endeavor
ing to unclasp the murderous jaws of the boast,
brought in a moment to the spot the keeper of
the Hotel and a number of gentleiQcn, lodgers
there :—and an attempt was made to rescue the
hoy by striking th • bear with the head of a corn
hoe. But the rapacious animal heeded them not
and continued his deathly feast !>v sticking the
blond from a bite in the arm when most provi-
dcntidly. the other bear was instigated, probably
hy tho smell of the fresh wounds, to contest the
banquet. A battle ensued be'weeu them, which
afforded an opportunity of snatching away the
child, and also diverted tliem both from a fresh
attack of anyone else. At. that instant fire
arms were brought, and two or three deadly aims
incapacitated each of them fur further mischief.
Dr. Dashcll was called to tlie child and promptly
dressed his wniinhs. He will probably recover.
MACON:
Thursday, January
be handed in at an early day. 1 ’™’" 1 ’ 1 atlcmio >‘, li, f
l °U Nick; has sent us a letter tor •
is. too salty however for the present*' -
■ - u 0] f‘g..
a year hence it may do. Let
On another subject, his Lk ’ IC * ’■J
be acceptable—his wit quite the thin^
The intelligence from Florida
of the most disastrous character. \ t, 0be
Indians, with a desperation anti fero^' 1 ,f
cedeiited, are burning, destroying n 1!lt J ,‘“ i>rt '
within their reach. Nothing short of"^ 5
nation wc fear will quiet these
ruthless savages. * *4
The Macon Volunteers and the r.i!,|, c
we understand have tendered their i
Gov. Schley, to march to Florida at r *1°
warning. We hope their example ro8v 7“7'‘
wed hy a sufficient, number, to act dccisiv-1
efficiently, in quelling these disturbs! ^
Slices.
CONGRESS.
SE.IIINOLE WAR!
the
provi-
Exlrncts from a letter received by yesterday’s
mail from St. Augustine, describing the alarming
state of the Indian war,—“We have another se
rious dauger to appreheud, which is the scarcity
of provisions. The whole of the neighboring
country people have flocked to town, and left
their corn aud <>iovisious,-n htch nre all destroy
ed ; at least 220 to 250 country negroes to he fed;
the few horses and companies out have to get all
their supplies from here, and we have only the
schoouer S. S. Mills <u the trade, now to Charles
ton, and her trips are so long that our supplier
brought last trip, are nearly gone, any articles,
such as hard bread and pork tire not to be get;
.even now, pur butchers cannot go in the country
for beef, and the mest of our fishermen tire uoiv
on night guard ; we have not a vessel of any
kind now in port by which we could esc .pe if it
'should become uecessary, the road between this
and Bico’ata is occupied hy the Indians, nud no
doubt till intercourse between this and Jackson
ville and Pablo will he cut off.”—Savannah Geor
gian.
THE SEMfNOLES.
The committee of citizens iutrusted with tho
duty of offering assistance to our fellow citizens
of Florida, have, siuec the receipt of more unfa
vorable advices from that quarter, acted i» the
most prompt manner, mid early this morning, the
steam boat John Stoney, which was chartered
hy tho committee, left here, having on board
company of United States’ Troops, and pi
sions mentioned in yesterday’s paper.
The troops are under the command of Capt.
Porter, and ore accompanied by our young towns
man Dr. James Berncy, who was engaged to act
as Surgeon.'
It is to lie hoped that tho force now despatch
ed, will be sufficient to check the rava’gcs ol the
liidiaus, but should further nid bo deemed neces
sary, we should follow the noble example of our
sister city. SavnuiiaR. and send our volunteers,
without delay, to assist iu driving the .Savages
from the Territory—Char Courier. I'-Uh insl.
Charleston. Jan. 14.
Major Williams who arrived here on Tuesday
evening, gives a must deplorable account of the
stato of affairs in Florida. He states that the
plantation of Spriug Garden, owned by Col.
Rees, of this ritnte. has been laid waste hy the
Indians, the Sugar Works and buildings of all
description having been burned, and the negroes,
iimtiuntiug to upwards of 160, taken nvny Mr.
A. Forrester, formerly of this city, who resided nt
Spring Garden, left there previous to the destruc
tion of the plantation, and bad joined tho com
pnuy of in* tinted volunteers stationed at Tomo-
ka-
Dr. Tucker, of Georgia, off*red his services as
a volunteer, and proceeded to St. Augustine, in
the John Sloney, which left here at two o’clock
yesterday morning.
Wc have been shewn a letter from Gen. Her
urmttc-2- dated St. Augustine, January 7th, from
which vve ^take the following extracts:—“1 re
lumed yesterday fron > Augusta, and am sorry to
say that the Indians i.avoJaid waste most of tho
settlements South of the TomMta. Mr. Depoy-
ster’s sugar works And oilier hu.'ldiifgs upon tho
place were burned, and all his negrocii ctiiTteu off.
At Col. Dummetl’s, they destroyed every at Role
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thu&sdav. Jau. 7, 1836.
As soon as the Journal was read,
Mr. Adams rose and said he wished, hy per
mission of-die House, input a question to the
ho i< rablc Chairman if the Committee ou For
eign Affairs. Nr. A. said he found iu a paper 6.
this morning a stoteineiit in relation to an inter
ruption of otar commerce wijh Mexico. [Mr. A.
here rca*t tho statement which is contained in the
National Intelligencer of this morning.] The
question which ho meant to ask was this—whe
ther the Committee on Foreign Relations had re
ceived any official communication on the subject
of tile relations, political or commercial, between
the Unitod States and the government of .Mexi
co? The article he had read, he said, wa the
grounds on which he had founded this question,
and he put it now because he perceived a motion
would be made to adjourn over to Monday next.
If tln-rc had UQt been a communication made he
presumed there would be one from the Executive,
itefo. / tnat time.
Mr..Mason, of Virginia, said, iu rcply, that the
Committee on Foreign Affairs had received no
communication from the State Department, on
the subject of -the relations of the United Stales
with Mexico, whether comm rcial or political—
and that they had no information on the subject,
other than that contained in the Message of the
President of the United States, delivered nt the
commencement of this session.
Having sect) a statement in a morning iter s a-
perof yesterday’s date, founded on a coir.mercii.l
letter, that the arbitrary measure nllud.-d to by
the gentleman from Massachusetts, lind been a-
dopted, by the Mexican Government, lie (Mr.
Mason) hud called at the State D-payment, a d
was informed that no iuteliigeuc na.i bee.i t<.-
ceived ou that subject. Mr. M. bad no uoubi
that, if the rumor proved to be true, information
would be promptly communicated to Ctmgrc-s.
Mr. Adams said, Re had nothing further :o in
quire of tho Committee on Foreign Affairs, hut
he gave notice, that unless a coinuiuAicttiion was
made by the Executive between -his find Monday
uuxt. ho should submit a proposition oil the sub
ject to the House ou that day.*'
Correspondence of the jllallumore Patriot.
Washington; D c. 28. 1235.
T t was gootl to he ht the 1 louse of Represen
tatives to day.—A» fdr the ,Senate, I understand
they*did some little business iu ll)e way of recei
ving petition.! fill'd then went iuto the .considera
tion of Executive, closed-dour affairs.
But the House—tho House! A Lout 20 minutes
before* 12 o’clock, wheu the members of the
House were parading tho loobies, conversing,
writing, redding newspapers, and so forth and
so on, a Quaker Lady iu the Gallery, of the
IKcksite order, commenced a plaintive exhorta
tion iu wcich she conjured all particularly more
than any otic in particular, to mind and take heed
of tfr*ir ways. Her voice had the effect to erente
quia* a sensation. Tito members who were
under the Gallery in the lobby, hearing a Lady’s
vtjjca in the llbii. rushed hack among their seats
target a sight of the fair expounder of biblical
law. Borne had their cyo glasses in quirk requi
sition ; all the bachelors seerac 1 wonderfully
delighted; nud the nullificrs caught every word
as it fell, in order no doubt to ascertain if one of
the Northern female abolitionists had uoi come
to instruct Congt'ifs in propria persona upon their
duty. Some said tac fair preacher- and she had
a fair face—was the celebrated Harriet Livermore
I Hnnicdiately wcnt from the floor of the House,
up into the Gallery to ascertain the fact, for I
formerly knew Harriet, and had some curiosity
^ to see her again. When I got there I found it
of furniture, and attempted to hunt the house, hut | was not that Lady. Mr. Uarr, the Door-keeper
More Indian Murders ! New, arrived i u *,*„
yesterday of two men being killed in H^er
by a party of 40 or 50 Creek Indians, and '
ral others wounded. We have uni ti
particulars.
It thus appears as though the Creeks and «.
mmoles were acting in concert in their^ava
warfare. ' ;t
Co.
seve.
!1C to state
did not succeed—the fire whs communicated
tho floor of the house, but put out alter the In
dians left it. Mr. Dmihain’s inrge house was
burnt. Mr. Samuel Williams’ dwelling house
was also Irtirut, hut not his sugar house, ns the
com was in it. Previous to the burning of Wil
liams’ house, they proceeded to Major Heriot’s
plantation, burnt his sugar and dwelling houses,
nud took away all his uegroes. Every planta
tion to the soul’ll of .Mr. Burlotv’s, hits beeu eith
er desitoycd or nbntidoued.
INDIAN MAS-ACRE.
By letters received in this city by the morning|s
mail via of Now Orleans, from Tampa Ray—
dated January 1st. we have accounts of the mas
sacre of a largo number, of U. Stntcs’ troops, of
that place, by iho -u tninole Iudtaus. A detneh-
ivits trying to have her desist. Some of the mom-
horn hcloiv, however, told him to let her go on
aud as the “ spirit moved” she did “go on,” un
til exhaustion canted her to adjourn.
The National Intelligencer of tho 31st ti’iitno
says—“ Besides other miutiunlions hy the Pres-
ilcut of the United States, now said to be before
the Senate, is that of Amos Kendall to be Post
Master General, and James C. Pickett, to he
Fourth Auditor of the Treasury.”
Tennessee.—TJie Legislature of Tennessee has
appropriated the itamlsomo sunt of $3,600,000,
for general purposes of internal improvement—
$600,000 of which is to be applied to the location
of the Memphis and Jackson Rail lload, and
$300,000, to the Atlantic Rail Rom!, from Mem-
men t of 100 men, under the direction of Major phis to Charleston S, C«
Cotton .Uarhci.
Advices from Liverpool to .| le 7th Dec.nuke
mention of a fall in the cotton in rket ,,f j,j ? r
lb. This has produced a correspond;,,, (!((| ^
here. The market has beeu dull, and trensac-
tions limited, ranging from 10 to 13y cents.
Accident—Ou Wednesday, lj |, i nsti t
young lad about ten years old, r,f ,h fi cf
Robertson, (whose father is antor.g i|„ )Se
joined the Texas patriots.) was a,rush*.- hinjjf
on the Comm, ns wi h fire arms, hi, clothes,- aP .h
afire, and burnt his face, .breast nod arna '
shocking manner. When found, he wasuearit
naked, and almost exhausted. Ij e w.ts brought
to his distressed mother, and placed under the
care of a physician ; aud hopes are entertiioed
of his recovery.
THE MAILS.
Great irregularity exists in the mails. Scarce
ly a week elapses, that wc do not receive com
plaints from subscribers, of not getting their pa
pers regularly.
Some of tlic Mail Routes are very* bn illy ana,*
ged ; it is a week or leu days he for- die .'.Lcoa
p-tpers cau reach a post office 60 miles distant,it*
oil from the great Eastern or Western lontn;
aud longer to.get an ausiver therefrom, than from
Boston! i’hi^ is ruinous to the couture. ar..l
unjust-towards our citizens. It places it in the
power of speculators, by taking advantage of the
t;ise or fail of cotton, to receive all the licnc.
fit of the phi liter's labor, aud to aggrandize them
selves at the expense of the community.
Nor arc the citizens oi" remote villages thcoa-
ly oncs that suffer inconvenience by the irregn-
larily of the mails. The merchants of Matts
h iV6 their Share. Daily papers from Wushu:;-
t *uLily or New York aro of tint little use:
u frequently we arc several days without recei
ving any ; and Uieu get half a dozen at a time—
This is owing to ibj vast number of newspap 1
that overload the mails, and the occasional lea'*
iug of .i hug behind to accommodate passes;
-stilt Statesmen are endeavoring to alioiish
qewspnpcr postage altogether ! They inigittss
weil.abolish the mails—for such u measure wouW
h tve the effect to render them useless. They are
already sufficiently uncertain.
It is u mistake tosuppose that abolishing news*
paper postage > oulct aid the cause of li'eratML
oi promote the diffusion of intelligence. It weak'
h ive a contrary effect. It would he no advant
age to the great hotly of editors and printers**"
most of whom would he sacrificed to build
otic or two large c>tahlLhmcnis, where labor h
cheap. I; would he no benefit to .the cdt:'J Ir T*
because every town and village is liciu'Stud by
having a press of its .own. If tve had a voice*®
the subject, we should say. that iustead
<>f Bie postage, where newspapers go out uf t! 10
State, it should ho increased.
We ate glad to see by the following. •!“ u ”
General Post office Department is looking t- 10 "
buses. Let it put the screics to defaulters a ^ l '
times, and wc will ensure the punctual dc.**^
of the mails.
Post Orrtci: iLki'actjik.'*t. ?
January 5, 1836. . ) .
Ordered, That the following flues be i' n P
on Gilbert I.ongstreet. contractor on routes • •
2,295 aud 2,358, Ictwecu Augusta aud *-**
nali, viz: * B ,
1 ■ A fine uf twenty fivo dollars for f
schedule of arrival nt Savannah, in AuS n ’
n it horn ,'iuthorily from this Department* .
2. Forty dollars for failure to dcli v(T m ' ’ i;jt
due time, on the 21st, 23d, and 23th < • • *
aud the 23d November, 1835. at $ava««»»*
for delivering them wet ou the ’-'4th and ~c.
veutber, 1835. . . , -i 3 «r
Twenty dollars for leaving ,i! *' ’•
in the streets of Jacksonlroruug
3
night
uiglit of the Is; and 2nd November. . , p-il
4. Twenty dollars for nor delivering
on ilm 4th November. 1333. ot *"
Carolina.
EASTERN MAJL. I1e
A report from an agent of uwro*\
partmOut in Philadelphia, dated 5tb ll1 ’ ’ that
that eight canvass hag* of new*paper’, ^],; C U
morning left nt the Post Office in •m 11 : ’ fl lled£*
slionjd have gone South, the contra* ' wJ( goa.
mg 9^ they could not got them 1 c3[ ri
This is titi excuse. The con|f* r * ,.. he re*
die whole mail, and they will uudcu*' * -j fjO,
qnired to do itl They have l:cc ' , al ,di»*
which, wc understand, will he re P ra jjkoe**
creased, so long as a single bag or pa|*
ingly left behind*—Wof' ^lobc. [a