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AMERICAN ADVOCATE. No. XXXVII ] PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY— fY GEORGE W. WHEELER AND WES CLARKE, ATTHEIU PRIN TING OFFICE, IN THE (LoweiO SUUTH-WEST ROOM OF THE OLD STATE-HOUSE—AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM ONE IN ADVANCE. ‘ .ISKS%Ct- iHMiMinwwtNMMamwMnMM “'X Communicated * JOB THE AX&RICAti ADVOCATE. THE darina? atrocities of the negroes, particularly io the upper country, are dai ly increasing. Mnrderg $ and even a more horrid erime upon the persons of females, are frequently added to the catalogue. Is it not the duty of citizens, holders of this property, Jo be vigilent in their exertions to #oppm theae evils ?—And may nojt the pri mary cans* of this state of thing ß “ e traced to an ill-judged, & erroneous degree of len £w towards them? ■ ft is foreign from the sentiment, or Nslah of the author of these remarks, to vourAojaiea undue severity towards this elan of our eomimmty \ et to trespass in ldbe smallest, degree on ibe most strict prm eipleg of humanity, in the government of them.—But it is an incontrovertible fact, Shat in this State, and in the State of South Carolina, all attempts at insurrection, and Bint tenths of other daring and criminal acts, committed, or attempted to be commit ted,have originated with those negroes who had th greatest liberties aliened them § and who were uot kept in that subordina tion, which their real good, and the policy of our country requires. This may he ac tttsntpd for from the natural propensity of the ham an mind to be free and its aver sion to restraint. In proportionas they en ioy the one, and elude the other, this pas ties increases, and they go from one step to anther, until their lives pay the forfeit; and often preceded by the sacrifice of one of mere individuals. How for their state of servitude can be TttltjSecS in a free and Christian country, Sa or Intended for Considerat ion in these brief remarks ; but eomrnon sense, & qommott observation must prove the abso lute necessity of their being kept in sab jnetioo* *ed made to know their proper Tfcdo this, and at the same time ob- i sortre aknmane and careful (treatment to- j Vgards them, will undoubtedly prove the {post effectual means of securing the mu-; Hial safety and happiness of master aud j servant; It is to be lamented that many! persons who have hot one, or only a few, set I up no mark, or blit Ve#f little, o/ilistinetion, between the white and. the black fatally, ! from whence, the idea of equality creeps in to the maud, natr. rally prone to evil, ami genders a long train of evils, the effects r.f many have, and it may ba feared, w’ y many more will feel, unless efficient Reason* are adopted for its suppression. A more vigilant 1 and 4 isereet discharge af the Patrol duty would be a strong aux iliary to thi attainment, of this object. 90* Should tbeaa be thought worthy of circulation, thi editors of the dif ferent p&perg in the jfea&s are requested to ivuhbshtW —i nun;•*• —fiTTir* —utrn —•• - frcmthu Weekly MegUtt,. “! INTERESTING. ig'Vtritci of c tetter from Netv-Orj&ws, to the Editor. a Ever elaee the deehration cf vrar, in I#t3, the disaffected negroes have been run ning away, to a place called Appalachieo !ft. X bolipve, even before t?Je event alluded to, took place, a Colonel Niehalls, of tnf*~ mnu# uidtoory, (no doubt you recollect him) suet e EafnoabeT of ibeai in the neighborhood of Peaked* s having, with a Captain Woodbine, of equal celebrity, after survey ing ilhe country, fixed upun a spot on the river jti*t mentioned, as a proper place for * forttSeatiev, and to which, from its con tra iy to Georgia,the Oaroiinas, Louisiana aad I,he Mississippi Territory, they could {anc!(>avous without much inconvenience..— The place was, in consequence, fortified With all due care,and according to the most approved modern method $ and the batto- Jrces Mounted with four long 24 pounders, Tit* Jti?g 6%, attd & 4 pounder field piece, and a 5 tj inch howitzer, well stored with ail the munitions of war, and considered as al- Blast impregnable, from the difficulty of |pHug bitterieg artillery to bear upoo it. Atetfrifea, peace, it wfse given up by the mtisb,fc, the Negroes and Indians, us it I a(cotS, v|th ail its stores of artillery, arms, m>d amnittctiiiott.—-CoL Niefcolia only de aiaaded.dij path, that ifaey wpuld never per mit x white mac, qgcfgftf an Englishman, R.ipjt,*pa if, e* {ape il* aliVjj',**Siace LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY , OCTOBER 31, 1816. when, it had beeome a great nuisance, not only as a harbor for the hostile India ns, but for all the discontented Negroes, in the country, whose desertion were frequent.— In consequence of the hostile attitude lately assumed by some of the Indians, it was found necessary to forward provieious and munitions of war, to our army, on the head waters of this river $ and this could only be done by passing the Fort, which it was un derstood, the Negroes would uot suffer any vessel to do. Application was made to the Commandant at Pensacola, fur permis sion to ascend the river, it being within the Spanish territory—this was granted ? aud two of our gun-vessels, under command of sailing-master Loomis and Bassett, reached the mouth of the river,on the lOih day of July, with their eouvoy, which consisted of two small schooners. On reaching the fort a boat and a watering party, with a mid ship man, Mr. Lufborough, of Georgetown, land four met), were cut off and all murder ed but one, who escaped by Swimming.— This was aa act that eftuld not be passed o v<V, and it Was determine.! to destroy the fort, if possible. Our vessels were order ed to co -operate with the arpy. lam sor ry to say they received no support whatever and that on she contrary, they weredistsm - ded freffi attempting to pass to destroy the Fort, an being impracticable from the sfe? Pftheir guns, only twelve pei-ydcrfi, and but two cf them. Not disheartened how ever, our gaifrnt little band, less than fifty ia comber* ell told , began to warp up, and every now and them throwing a shot to as certain .their distance correctly—(be ne grocs firing; their large guns, but evidently without skill,’ As soon as they found the shot readied the village in the rear oi the fort, they determined am they ey, to see,if they could not make a bonfire, having pre viously cleared away their copper. 1 ! to*heat the shot, neither of thena having a furnace It seems somewhat extraordinary and al most miraculous, but the very first shot, fi red by Mr. Basset, a judicious, cool and ve ry promising ofiiaer~who commanded gun vessel No. 154,■ #ufr.ird their principal nm gszfiie and blew up the fort. The concus sion was felt at Peosacoiu, a distance of sixty miles. The fort contained übuut three hundred negroes and twenty disaffected In i diao warriors, with their families ; 270 w ere . killed, and the remainder, nearly ail nior- I tally wounded, only three escaped univntt. Both the principal leader* cf the Indians ! were made prisoners—on examining them, j it appeared that one of the unfortunate sai lors, was made a prisoner, but only to ex ; perieuee a more dreadful death—-h was i tarred and burnt alive 5 when this was knoVvQ, the two ehiefj were seized upon by the friendly lodians, who scalped them ami executed them ou the spet—a terrible, bm juSt act of retributive justice. They fougtt under the British Jack , with tho fed or bloody flag. In the fort there wereuearSy SOOO stand of British arms, in fine order, never used or opened $ about 500 carbines; between 300 and 1000 pair of pistol* ; 500 steel scabbard swords, and an immense quantity of British uniform clothing, a inounting in the whole to 800,000 dollars worth of property— were also COO kegs of powder secured, which had been stored in the village outside the fort. You have gathered probably, from the forego ing, that the two vessels were simply to eouvoy the provisions, &r. to the army, und to co-operate if necessary. You will also pereeive, that they received no aid what ever, from ike land troops, other than that they confined the negroes in the fort, dur ing their getting up with the gun boats.*- Col. Clinch, w ho, it seems, commanded the troops, had made an agreement with the Indians to give them all the plunder, ex eept the cannon and balls, that they might capture ; but surely he had no right to give away (hat takoa by the galantry of & separate and distinct corps. Yet such is the fact, that the Indians have borne off nearly the whole j a remnant only is left. “ The merits of this transaction, as it regards the navy, in a few words are these —surmounting the diffieiitliea of navigation to which they were entire strangers—ap proaching a fort whose guns were not on ly double their number, but absolutely twice their calibre, with eight times their force of men 5 and destroying a fort that had cost the English so much time, and more money to erect, in the space of fif teen or twenty minutes from the first shot, without any other aid than their own re sources afforded, and without the loss of 0 single man, the unfortunate capture of the boat before mentioned, being exeepted. “ It will, among other of its effects strike terror into the Indians. It was Iheir der nier resort in all desperate easts. From .the quantity of arms left in the fort, I am clearly of opinion, that they were designed 1 as a continual supply far the Indians, or is a secure depot by the British in any future tfainmßuuu against us in this quarter. “ They are. however happily frustrated; and I think, if they should ever have the temerity to visit us again, they will meet i with a repulse similar to that of the 3th of January.” ‘ ‘ ’ 1— (?■ & <” MEXICO The editors of the Mercantile Adverti ser [N York] were yesterday favored with a translation bfthe following interesting iu-j telligence from Mexico. The fact here stated of the revolutionists having taken possession of Matagorda, is confirmed by the report of captain Fowler, from New- Orleans. “ His cxeelleney Don Jose Manuel de Herrera, minister plenipotentiary from the republican government of Mexico, to the Untied States, has communicated, under tktcofS4Ui August last, from the port of | Matagorda, to a respectable person *;t Phi- : la.ieSpnia, the following information. Tlii repvbiifcan ortny of the province of Vera hnder the command of general ViUorLv laid selsre,pn the iStfi of July last to the cities of Cordova nd Uiizaho, which were than on the eve of. surrendering.— The codnn&n&er in chief of the republican troops of (I e province of Puebla Teran, whs eii<Wvorig by ioref and marches to oc cupy the parts of Gunzacualfos, which was without means ofdefruee. Geoeral Basife mantehad been Victorious overth® royalists as often ss ho had net Hr m, and was pur suing thorn with all hast*. General Arre dondo, oiiEUtiaurier-in-chief of the tHterior provinces', for (heroyalists,had fallen ba- k w iih the few forces under his orders, on Monterrey, the capital of the new kingdom of Leon, in consequence of the repnblienus having occupied (he port of Matagorda, wh**re tb?y bed fortified themselves, and where they were daily augmenting their strength. Sobs, quently to the posa ssion of that pnrlfifts been t(,a;eva€uetimi }‘Bi, Antofua do feassr, capital of the province of Texas, which was garrisoned by the re giment of Esttemadora, one of the most fa mous corps of the royal party. < * repirdtrao array of the north is, for the present under the command of aolo otil Pe;re, d&riug the absence of general Toledo, Who is now in the United Slates on busiaess oi” aicmeftt, r.nd whoso pfesenee with the army is Jiupatießtly desired. i4 The reprt .ieuta!ives who are to com pose the next emigres* are earned by the people, and by the present time will hav e opened their session it s iiarded great plea sure to see the joy and enthusiasm which pervaded the Mexicans on the days of elec tion. A person who was witness to this interesting scene says, that in the province of Valadoiid, there were various likenesses of Washington ami Frauklin, which the people carried in their processions, accom panied vmk music and sougs, allegorical j of the oaearion. “Between Washington and Franklin,) some carried the resemblance of the genera!; Cdra Balgo, the first who had the glory & | courage to raise the standard of liberty, who : was afterwards made prisoner, end shot by the cruel Spaniards at the age of seventy. • “ Never has the Mexiean cause presen ted so favorable an aspect. The next con gress formed of men of influence, will re- 1 move all those diiucalties, which umii the present moment, have paralized that rapid progress which was looked for in a revolu tion created by the unanimous and express will of the people. The immense resources which our beautiful country contains, will henceforward be administered by a govern ment, which, meriting the public confidence Will give new impulse and will cause itself to be°felt by the physical and moral quali* ties of the republic. “ The next campaign will be an object of lively interest to all men who are really lovers ofihesaered rights of nuwßoify ; it wjll complete the emancipation of that fine country from the oppressive hand of despo tism. Tho inhabitants of Mexico will here after beenablfdto enjoy and participate e~ qually the preeious gifts with which nature has favored them.” *From the Philadelphia Tints American. [A VED3RAL PAPER.] The following artiele is from a late Lon don paper.— “ Rencontre on 1 Change. —Those who prognosticated speedy hostilities between this country and America will no doubt, now maintain that their predictions have • eally been verified, as on Thursday, about three o’clock, a sharp action took place be tween a smart little Englishman and a lusty American coptain. The quarrel originated in a discussion 00 politics, and the name of Mr. Madison being ea*a.iiy introduced, the Englishman called him a ‘Tailor | the A merscan took immediate measures to avenge the insult—-blows followed, and a short but desperate conflict ensued; the result of which w&Bthvtiaa few minutes the Eng lishman so disfigured his antagonist, that bis most intimate friends ou the Virginia walk eonld with difficulty recognize him n So for as the character of the country eats be affected by such a transaction, or its pub lication, the British character is disgraced*. “ smart little Englishman, and a lut-fy A<r (neriean captain.” Take John Bbll’s Word for if, and on® of their smallest men is able to flog *ha stoutest American. We wonder they for got to exhibit some of their prowess during the late war l It ia sotaewhet strange that!: they did not send some of their “ smartliL tie Englishmen” £atc their navy.—Daere* 9 and Carden, and Whinyates—aud twenty other of their officers, were woundedly ia need of them. We suppose they kept th ir fighting follows at home—they were toe precious to send foto such n idle service as that of fighting our “ bundles of pine boards.” If the truth was known, wo have no doubt, that fighting an American al ine, half a dozen Cockueys resolved to revenge themselves for their discomfiture daring the* Lie war, and abused him into a and shen beat him. Mr. Madison’s politics it is well known wa do uot admire; but at woulAbe degra* ding to compare him with his rtfyal high--, ness the prince regent, either in respeet tt& private virtue, talents or public, servisss. An American who should hears foreign* er abuse his president and would not resent it, whatever might be his polities, ought to ue scratched as a pohroon. This sul ject brings to taind two anec* dotes, which we repeat because we choo£& to do so- The reader may peruse or pass over them, jnst as he please. During the late wer an American officer* haring s iroe business to transact on th& British lines, dined by invitation vrif a Bviiish officer. The first toast given by ths* Briton vag*~“ President Madison-~dea& or alive” The American said nothing ii* reply. At length it came his turn to pro pose a toast—“ Theprinceregent,” said lie, drunk or sober ” ‘ Sir ” said the Briton* very angrily, “ that is an insult ” “No* sir,” answered (he American, cooly, “ is a reply to one /” Not long after the revolutionary rrar„ oneof the English princes passed tr.-Jfigk the United States Canada. ‘ld Ver mont, he stopped at a house, the keeper of Which wa* a tailor, snd had a \&ry pretty wife. The prince rudely seizing a turned to the hl;&:ad ; “ How dot s it seeta to have an American tailor’s vTe kissed by an English prince?” VTilh beeamisg spi rit he pot Lis foot to the seat of royal honor,, saying, “ and how does it itei to have ac I English prince’s breech kicked by an A mertean tailor.” | We have no disposition to saw or keep ! alive jealousies. The liberal and manly Englishman hs our esteem. But our owe i government—onr own effeers—oor own i countrymen—we will not patiently see a* bused by foreigners. THE WAR BUBBLE BURST l i The Eastport News, a* related by the iNewbryport editor; made some noise* her© ! yesterday. The plain truth, according our information from a gentleman from th© spot, is this In consequence of the extent to which smuggling had been carried ou at Eastpcrt, the collector of St. Johns’ sent his depu ties down to seize a quantity of tobacro, ’ pork., and other contraband articles, at that place, which was done, but it cxeited no * apprehension or talk of war The squad ron spoken of, had been lying some tici© at St. John’s, and went to Eastport to try & captain of a Brisirii sloop of war, by u court martial, for having some time since, thrown bis guns overboard, while his vessel was a* shcre cn that coast.—(AVm-lVi/r Gazelle. Since the receipt of the above, we have been tah3 that the report, a a respects th# ue&ure es American property, has probably arisen from the circumstance of anew col lector being appointed at St. Andrews, in which district is comprehended E&siport, who deemed the indulgences oi the former collector incorrect ; aad accordingly bad seized on all the merchandise wbu h waa judged to have beeu imported contrary to law. The merchants having been so long indulged in a free trade, and not dreaming of such a change, Were very naturally sur prised ; and of course hsd spread alarms, akatlated tc awaken the public sensibility ; [VOL.I.