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n.i ea<'h day did Theodore discover something new m the traits of her character to admire. The domestics ol the establishment began to consider her, not as one of their own number, but as the mistress of the place, and consulted her or. many uccasicns as ifshe actually was—none of them but old Margaret having served under its former mis tress. As has been previously stated, when she urst came she was remarkably pale, and to the domestics very retired and even distant iu her jn.inner. A change in both hail taken place, dhe iulhieaß of youth to 4 vehq e itself, and her cheeks began to tinge with a iiusli, whilst her movements to and fro were distinguished by an observable increase of activity, and to the ser ' ants, who voluntarily rendered* their deference, she uas complaisant and kind. In the eves of ‘J heodore she seemed to grow younger, and more and more to resemble liis lost wife. We all have our peculiarities— Mrs. West had hers, and her husband fancied that iu the seamstress he detec ted a similarity ol predelictions, taste and prefer ences. There was the same small white hand, the same pretty little foot, and—but for the dark hair—ln* would often have concluded that it was really Julia standing before him. '1 here was mystery around her ? Was she a widow or not ? She did not say she was, nor to the contrary. To have asked her the question, would uot have incurred a breach of politeness, nor would it have bern anything more than an ordinary interrogation. But so it was—as it of ten will occur—notwithstanding his desire to know, he could not summon sufficient confidence to make the inquiry-—something always transpired to deter him—a trivial thought perhaps, or a vet more trilling incident, lie was himself conscious this inconsistency, nor did he at all suppose -Trs. lienact would be oifended if he asked her the question, but—and thus the time was wasted in delay. The mere interrogatory would imply nothing,-—it would by no means reveal his motives for asking: but so delicate were his own feelings on the subject, that the cause which actuated him could be seen through, he considered as inevita ble. “But why do I entertain these thoughts,” he would say. “Os what importonce is it to me, whether she is a widow or not? I’ve no intention ol asking her hand, have J ? have 1 really such inteutions ! No!—no second-marriage shall des- Tl ".V the hallowed charms that breathe around the early remembrance of the first! But what is this- -this warmth within my heart for her ? is it hue,—or i* it gratitude?” Jbiily and almost hourly within each other’s society they were, and had consequently every possible opportunity to study the disposition and ♦ lie character of one another. “That she has ’•”‘ en the direct means of restoring me to health i ■".n convinced," said Theodore, “and am I not in • buy bound to make her a recompense ? But ' hat recompense ? She is here residing under ♦in- same roof with me, and I have become so in*., ii attached to her, that 1 am only contented ' hen in her society. If she is a widow—as 1 be li -ve she is—under the present circumstances, is it riot imperatively my duty to offer my hand ?” Thus it continued till September, 1832 Mrs. Bermet had been nearly a year at the mansion; a i I by this time Theodore had prevailed upon himself that it positively was his duty to make the o.lcrof his hand—provided there existed no oh stacles to the union. “Could I bear to part with i—r ! no! then why not make her my wife?” lie would ask himself. “Besides, (he world is censorious, and it' I defer it longer, the tongue of scandal will perhaps be at work.” A tcordingly he fiually resolved to avail himself •of tin fust opportunity, to make the necessity in quiries. and, in ease there was no hindrance to a marriage, to offer himself if she acknowledged a reciprocity of feeling. • Margaret— do you think he loves me?” said tae seamstress, speaking with an air of playful ness to the housekeeper. “\ es, I do,*’was the plain good-humored an swer. ‘•lint as well as lie loved his wife whcu he first married her? do you think that ?” “Why, indeed tna’in, that’s a difficult ques tion for me to answer—bait I see no reason why o' should not love you as well as her. To tell } s ’t the truth, 1 believe he now loves you because he once loved her. If it was’nt for your dark hair, you look so much alike that were you both ■>'<.ruling together, I could’nt tell which was which.” • She had linht hair, had she not ?” *• \ es—-beautiful. She never wore caps as you do ; and, but lor your cap and the color of your hair, you are as much like she was as two could jios-ibly be.” "ilut should Theodore make me a proffer of marriage, would you advise me to accept it ?” “Certainly ! —you have been married once— so has he—and if you make matters suit, marry him. There lie is now, out on the piazza—go to him, and if he should take it into his head to make you a proposal, don’t refuse.” So saying the old woman laughingly retired from the room, and Mrs. Bennet went out to meet the person spoken of. At this period Mr. West was in his twenty eighth year—still handsome, but pale compared v. iih w hat he once was. Ilis sorrows had not alter ed him materially—he was not as vigorous as formerly, but returning health and regular exer cise it was expected would restore him to his ori ginal strength, lie was seated when Mrs. Bennet approached, and us she sat down beside him he took her hand in his own, at the same time calling her attention to the beauty of the sky and the setting sun. Scarcely a breath of air stirred the foliage of the trees, and the scene seemed as calm, as quiet, as holy, and as pure, as an infant sleep ing. As the radiance of the suulight, fell upon the countenance of Mr. West, it seemed to im part an unusual beauty to its expression, and ab sorbed with her thoughts and feelings the seams tress gazed on him with a look he could not but understand. Yes—that gaze—that one look, re vealed it all—she loved him! “How much like her— how like the w ife that I have lost!” he exclaimed. “Mv wife and child ; both dead—both lost! A child that 1 idolized— a w ife that I adored!” ••Adored !” “Yes, —though T injured her, 1 loved that wo man as a man has seldom loved! Had I loved her less,—better, better, would it have been for ns ! There was one who secretly envied ourhap t>ine>s —he poured into my ears the poison of jealousy, to which I listened with ready hearing —(relieved the falsehoods that he uttered, and treated her so cruelly, that she was forced to leave m“ —forced to its This suited the villain’s scheme—on board of a vessel she was ensnared, and out at sea he tried— yes—but she rebuffed his hellish purposeswhen he, rather than she should ever he restored to her husband’s arms, in owl x uJood murdered her !” ‘•How know vou this ?” “From his own lips I received the account of it. With fiendish smiles of triumph lie cried it in my ears. A relation too—a cousin of my wife. Oh ! it was the darkest plot that ever came to light! But she—so fond and so confiding, so lov ing—and so loved—to think that she should fall a sacrifice ! I remember now how she implored to know the cause—how at my feet she knelt, time after time, and 1 walked off in silence and contempt or else abuse! it comes home to me now aud whilst I live I can never forgive myself. It the sea could render up its dead, aud give her hack to me alive, then might I hope for happiness, but not without!” “ You loved her though, through it all you say, ” “I did.” “She would forgive you, then, I know, were she alive—for such is w oman’s love! ever readv to for get, to forget and to forgive!” Here, abruptly rising, she hastily entered the house; and though the movement astonished Mr. West ho did not at tempt to follow her, liis thoughts were in a kind of reverie, and leaning back on his scat, he suf •'‘rod bis mind to indulge iu ii, whilst his eyes w an dered far over the shadowy scene till the twilight rendered it dim and darkness of night entirely hid it from his view. “Why, bless me, girl, you are weeping,” said Margaret, as the one who left the side of Mr. West entered the apartment, aud fell upon her neck. “Weeping! yes! but they are tears of joy 1 shed! of joy! Me loves me still, and lain once more happy! These arms again shall cling a round his neck! these lips again shall mingle kis ses with his own! what joy! what bliss! and then to know that 1 am hr ; again—that he is mine what rapture! rapture!” Thus she exclaimed in the fullness of her heart, and added, “the past shall be as easily forgot as ’tis forgiveu.” Turn ing to Margaret, she continued, “here, this cap and this false hair, away with them,” as she tore them from her head and dashed them aside, whilst the flowing ringlets of her own bright locks grace fully fell over the snowy w hiteness of her neck and shoulders. “My wedding dress! bring me that! quick, gdod Margaret, quick!” The dress was brought and put on. “And now the piano, draw it out from the wall. Bring a lamp—quick there is no time to he lost. Peace—peace, my fluttering heart!” Her agitation was considera ble, as she gave the necessary orders, but Mar garet bustled about aud performed her command with cheerful alacrity. It was now qfffte dark, and as the lamp was brought into the main, its brilliant light shone upon the glowing cheeks and white satin dress of her whom we have hitherto seen in an humbler guise. Mr. West was still in the piazza, still abstrac ted iu his reverie, when all at once im heard the l»ng solemn keys of his wife’s neglected piano touched—and then a voice—“ That voice! that tone! I have heard before!—and hark—that song—“twas Julia’s favorite—” he exclaimed, as he rose from his seat and rushed into the house. There, at the piano, was indeed Julia—his long and lost wife restored to his arms ! “I said she was innocent—l always said it-—” cried Margaret, not merely pleased, but in an ecstacy of delight. Here she is, after all—after five years absence, alive and as pretty as ever. Bless me—l wish I was young again ;if 1 was J’d dance and cut capers like a "Frenchman.” “Ah Julia ! for how much must I ask to be forgiv en ? ' said the husband, folding liis new found treasurer to his bosom with the fervour of devoted affection. “No !” was the answer, as 6he returned his caress, “this blissful momeut is an ample recom pense. ! Little more remains to be told. In the feroci ty of his revenge, Byard had asserted that Mrs. \V est was dead—murdered by himself. We have already seen tlint this was an untruth. The tacts were briefly thus. Alter she was on board ot the schoonar the villain harrassed her continual!v with his nefarious purpose—so rudely at times that she was constrained to shriek out. Her shrieks were heard by tlie seamen composing the crew, who mentioned it to the captain with fre quent remonstrances. He at first pretended to be perfectly unaware of it ; said that he had not heard it—that he would look into it. The ladv and gen flemeu were merely passengers, he said —man and wife, for all that he knew—a private quarrel perhaps—at any rate he would sec into the matter. '1 lie shrieks were however repeated, the crew reiterated their remonstrances, and the captain, who was in the pay of Byard, called them mutinous dogs threatening* to represent them as such to the government if they did not hush. “1 know my own business! mind yours!” Neverthe less the sailors were not intimidated by his men aces, and coming to the conclusion that it was their duty to rescue the young lady, whoever she was, they one night, whilst Byiud and the captain were asleep in their berths, seized them aud ef fectually secured them with hand-cuffs. Julia was now free trom the insults and importunities of her persecutor. The vessel was heavy laden, and had been regularly cleared at the custom house for a commercial cit y in South America. The mate now took the command, and in the course of two weeks they arrived at the port of destination. The matter was immediately disclosed to the consul, who luckily proved to be one of Julia's near re lations-—However, at her earnest request there was no publicity made of it; the captain and Bv ard were set at liberty, the sailors rewarded, and the affair hushed. Julia remained with the con sul till his recall, when she returned with him and his family tv the United States, and arrived at Phil adelphia just at the time ot the occurrence in which Garcia was killed. Mr. West was danger ously sick, and her desire to he w ith him was so intense, that her relatives consented, and with the prompt assistance of old Margaret, it was so ar ranged that she should enter the establishment uo dei the character aud disguise of a seamstress. As lor the wretch, Byard, he was now no more. He lav in prison for several tor awhile and apparently unconcerned, hut as the time ol iris trial drew nigh he became distressed, and evidently dreaded it very much ; the nrnht preceding the day on which it was to commence he committed suicide. The keeper on entering his cell the next morning, found him a corpse. He had inflicted two wounds upon himself, one in the arm, the other in the throat, and bled to death. Tt is estimated that the printing business in the United States gives employment to two hundred thousand operatives, and thirty millions of capita). The Great Western was to start from England on her second voyage 2 -th May, and is expected to arrive at New-York on the 10th inst. tiu: ummuiA Miimoii Front the Vicksburg Register. rhe following article, cut from some paper, was lett on our desk during our absence. CALL TO-MORROW. Two AVords nicely put together for the accom modation of debtors at large; or, if the reader likes it better, large debtors. Alas! that glorious morrow which sever comes! that pay day still hoped for but never known ! Master button calls, bv request, w ith his bill as long as his yard-slick, with lm name flourished at the bottom, immedi ately under, -received payment,’ and directly op posite, ‘errors excepted ; ’ for tailors never allow a discount for cabbaging. His heart is bounding w ith the blissful anticipation of‘money in both pockets ; already he pictures a good tat dinner at home—his cheerful fireside : his wife’s smiles, and his prattling children’s welcome. ‘Staff, the constable, shall be paid,’ says he to himself, ‘lor lam tired of telling him to call to-morrow.’ At length he reaches the dwelling of liis liberal pat ron, the knocker falls thrice from his hand ; and then comes a livered waiter—iie presents liis bill: then follow s a doleful shake of the head by the waiter, with the astounding, ‘cal! to-morrow.’ Poor fellow! with a hard effort lie smothers his indignation, for one hasty word might lose him a liberal patron. Again he seeks his shop, and mounts his board with a heart as hot and as heavy as his goose. His journeymen come Cos him for their wages ‘callCo-morrow,’ he exclaims bitterly; ‘call to morrow,’ re-echo they into the ears of their cred itors—and ‘call to-morrow, first coming from a gentleman of the upper walks, never stops untill it rolls gracclessly from the mouth of the boot black's landlady, who, in answer to his request for dinner, shrieks out, ‘call to-morrow.!’ Could we tell all the evils that attend poverty, to ‘cal! Jto-moirow,’ there might be some hope of a man’s struggling through the world; hut that is impossible. I once had a friend who was unfor tunate enough to make all lus customers his debt ors. in winding up his business, he sent his bills in, but w as repulsed w ith the deadly battery, ‘call to-morrow. ’ That morrow never came—his fam ily were destitute, his wife died brokeu hearted ; and within the damp walls of a prison, he soon followed the beloved partner of his prosperity and adversity. In vain he bade death ‘cal! to morrow:’ the fell destroyer pays one visit: and it is his last. Mr. Editor, if any one should ask you, if t*us communication has a direct allusion, tell him to ‘call to-morrow,* aud you will answer h»m. Benedict. New York, .Tune 4. STEAMBOAT SIR ROBERT PEEL. Correspondence of the Commercial Advertiser. Bkockvu.ee, May 30,1338. Gentlemen—The Sir 11. Peel was burned bv an armed force from your side. 1 send you the captain’s deposition. No time to say more. I I‘l‘er Canada —Kingston, s. s. John B. Armstrong, now of Rroekville, in the district of Johnstown aforesaid, gentleman, maketh oath and saith that he was master ofthe steamboat “Sir Kobeit I eel, plying this season between Prescott and Niagara, and Lewiston. That he left Prescott on the trip upward, with the said boat, on the evening ofTuesday, the twenty-ninth day ol May inst. with a considerable number of cabin and deck passengers. That the boat arrived at an island called Well's Island, where the said boat usually stopped to take in wood on her upward trip about l 2o clock at night, and stopped at a wharf on the south side of the said island, for the purpose of taking wood, as usual. That about 2 o clock in the morning, when they had nearly finished taking iu the wood required, this deponent was in the gentlemen’s cabin below, and was alarmed by a great noise and shrieking on deck, and upon going on deck this deponent found that the boat had been suddenly attacked by a large number of arm ed men, who were in possession of her. 1 liis deponent was seized by several armed men and forced on shore, and he saw many of the pas sengers and men of the boat on shore, who had been driven oll'theboat by the armed force attack ing her. The boat was then cast off from the wharf, and this deponent learlul that it was the intention of those seizing the vessel to arm and man her, with a view of attacking some place in the prov ince, directly after she w as cast off from the w harf, left the place, and procured a row boat to bring him to the' Canada shore, in order to send an ex press to Kingston with the information. This deponent, while proceeding to procure a boat to bring him to the C anadu shore, aud about twenty minutes alter the steamboat had been cast off from the wharf, saw that the said steamboat had been set on lire, and was burning furiously, and this deponent lias no doubt but that she w as completely destroyed, although coming off from the Island, fertile purpose of sending to Kingston as aforesaid, he lost sight of the vessel before she was utterly consumed. This deponent thinks the men -attacking the steamboat numbered from fifty to seventy men, but it is impossible for him to speak as to their number with certainty; and they were armed with pikes, muskets and bayonets, and had boats with them, iu w hich they left the vessel after setting her on tire ; and this "deponent firmly believes that the said steamboat was attacked and destroyed by persons who had come from the American or southern shore of the St. Lawrence. The depo nent cannot say whether any lives were lost of those on board the said steamboat, but the said steamboat, and the persons on board of her, were totally unarmed, and could not and did not offer any resistance, not at all expecting any attack to be made upon them From the Osuego Palladium, Extra, May 10. By the politeness of Colonel Daniel Griffin, we have been furnished with the following state ment of tlie disgraceful burning of the British steamboat Sit Robert Reel, by an armed mob, while lying in American waters. The statement ot Mr. Cossait, who was a passenger on board the ill fated vessel, is abudantly confirmed, and may be implicitly relied upon. Steamer Great Britain Oswego, May 30, 1838. [t being requested that I should make a state ment ot the unfortunate burning, of the steamer .Sir Robert Peel 1 have to say that l was a passen ger on board flic said vessel on my passage up the St. Laurence from Prescott; and at about bait past one o'liock this morning, while we were lying at Wells’ Island 7 miles below French Creek, we were boarded by a baud of unknown men, dressed in disguise and with painted faces, to the number of twenty-five or thirty, armed with guns, bayonets and pikes. All the female passengers were driven ashore hall dressed, and the gentlemen’s cabin door being closed we were all ordered to surrender and on doing which we were all allowed to come on deck and were all sent on shore at the point of the bayonet, many of us with but a small portion of j our clothes upon us. We were told that none of ussnould be molested if no resistance was made. A tew of us succeeded in taking a little of our bag gage along with us. On the yessel befog cleared ot all the passengers she was set ou fire and burned to the water’sedge. Unfortunately, one man, (Ist mate,) who was asleep at time of the assault, was much burnt, but jumped overboard and was picked up by our own boat. We were somewhat roughly used. One of the men, who seemed to have some authority over the rest, made use of the followiag expression, “Gentlemen, remember the Caroline.” ~ “ en tlie v,, ssel was completely on fire, the said lu.ifians took to their boats, three in number, ami rowed toward the American shore, and w e saw or heard nothing more of them. At daylight, or there about, we were taken off the ls.and by Capt. Smith, of the steamer One ida, who kindly returned with us to Kingston. WM. COSSART. of the Island of Madeira. To he heard of at Messrs. Maitland, Kennedy & Co.’s, New York. State of New A ork, Oswego co. ss—William Cossart, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that the facts above related, in relation to the burning ol the Sir Robert Peel, are just and true according to the best of liis recollection aud be lief. WM. COSSART. Sworn and subscribed this 30th day of May, 1838, before me. JOHN II LORD, J. P. * Arrest of Pirates. —We learn froma gentleman, direct from Oswego, that ten of the pirates who burned the steamboat Sir Robert Peel, have been arrested. One of the number is an American, the others from Canada. It was reported that some of the property ot which ilic boat w.„, plundered was found in possession of the men.— Albany Evening Journal. Bhe Watertown Jeffersonian says that three are in jail in that village. Os those arrested are Na than Lee, of Clayton, in Jefferson county : Bates, Hugh Scanlan and two brothers, Warner—all Ca nadians except Lee, The officers of justice are on the alert, and but little doubt remains that the plot will be fully ex posed, and the offenders brought to merited pun ishment. >B, rCP A ? '•P.’T. 1 1. vp ~x Prom the National Intelligencer, of Mail 31. the specie circular repealed. Our readers will learn, we do übt not, most of them with great satisfaction, the Joint Resolution repealing, in effect, the Treasury Order of July, 1836, and prohibiting the Executive from making any discriminating and partial orders concerning Government money iu time to come, which passed the Senate on Tuesday evening, passed the House of Representatives yesterday almost with the svvftuess of an arrow, and now needs only the Pres ident’s signiturc to be a law. The unexampled majorities in both Houses show the strength of the general dislike justly entertained against this cel ebrated Circular. Here is the end, then, of one Experiment, aud most sincerely do we rejoice at it. We eon u at ulute tlie couutry that Congress,in so decisive a manner, has extinguished one of those measures w hieh have so much annoyed and distressed the community. It is remarkable with what pertinacity the Exe cutive has withstood public sentiment* in regard to this pernicious measure. The solicitations of friends, and the reiterated decisions of Congress, have alike been unavailing to produce its repeal. Throe fourths of the Members of the last Con gress pronounced its condemnation bv the bill of February, 1837, which General Jackson put in liis pocket, and would neither sign, nor return to Congress that i might be passed into a law with out liis signature. Then there was the sub-Treas ury bill of th o extra session which passed the .Sen ate, and which contained a clause repealing the Specie Circular, Next, there is the sub-Treas ury bill of this session, w hich has aiso passed the Senate, containing (in its 23d section ) a similar rescinding clause, moved by Mr. Webster. And, now, here is the joint resolution, in the identical terms of that section, substituted by the Senate, on motion of the same gentleman, for the propo sition of Mr. Clay, which has received the salic iton of overwhelming majorities in both Houses. Thus has the So nixie four different times and the House of Representatives twice, declared n effect that this Jacksonian Experiment No. 2 ought not only to he revoked, but that it ought to be & made unlawful lor tlie Executive ever hereafter to issue or authorize any sitnular order. Yet, up to this moment, has the Executive rlong to the measure, regardless of the injury which even his partisans avow that it inflicts on the country; regardless of the public will, most emphatically spoken through the Representatives ofthe People. Yes, clung to it with a tenacity which is totally unac countable upon any other hypothesis than that the Executive will has been controlled by some “ma lign influence,” either proceeding from the Her mitage or exerted here by the original coneoc ters and advisors of the measure. Be that as it may, the fate of that “experiment” is sealed. The odious and unconstitutional discrimination must now be given up. Congress has pronounced its fate in a voice that must be heard, and with au nanimity that leaves no hope to its friends, even from tlie Vela, Blamenble, however, as we hold tlie President for adhering with such obstinacy to this oppressive measure, which he could at any moment have abrogated with a dash ofthe pen, it must yet be admitted iu candor, that he has only acted in ac cordance with the solemn pledge which lie <rave, on entering on liis high trust, “to triad its the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor,” and those who approve of such pledges, under any circum stances, must award him praise for the fidelity with w hich he has redeemed that pledge. He has certainly “trod in the footsteps” as long as he could, though they have led him through a thorny path. General Jackson’s popularity, it was arrogantly asserted by his adulators “could stand any thing.” A sad popularity, it has been to the country ! Fortunately, though he left his obnoxious measures as a legacy to the incumbent of the I residency, he could not bequeath with it Unit popularity by wl ichhe was enabled to sustain them, and trample in the dust the acts ofthe Peo ple’s Representatives. Prom the same of the 2 d instant. ANEW TREASURY CIRCULAR. A Circular was yesterday issued from the Treas ury Department, addressed to all Collectors and receivers of Public Money, founded upon the joint resolution repealing the Specie Circular whic h recmverl the approbation of tlie President ofthe I ruled States on the day after its final pas sage at the Capitol. 1 The Circular instructs these officers to receive the notes of banks in all branches of the public revenue, under the following restrictions. 1. None are to be received but such as are payable and paid on demand, in the legal curie, cy of tin# United States ” 2. No notes to be received of a less denomina tion thau twenty dollars. 3. No notes to be received of any denomination unless “payable, on demand, in gold or silver coin* at the place where issued and “equivalent to spe cie where received.” 4. No notes be received of any bank which since the 4th of July, 1836, has issued “any rote’ or bill ot a less denomination than five dollars.” The provision ofthe act of June, 1836, relered to in this hist restriction, the reader will recollect has been made the subject of special consideration in the Senate, upon the.motion of Mr. Webster directing the Finance Committee of that body “to inquire into the expediency of repealing or modifying those (irovisions ofthe said act which prohibit the receipt, in payment of debts and due s to the United States, of the bills of all banks which issue bills of less denomination than five dollars.” THE SUB-TREASURY SCHEME. A sudden panic has seized the editor of the Richmond Enquirer ou tlie subject of the Sub- Treasury bill, lie is astonished to learn, bv his private lett*,-.- from Washington, that there is now a probability tiiat the hill will pass the House of Representatives. The Public lias, he says, been lulled into a lalse security as to the fate of this measure: it was thought that the public voice Lad consigned it to the sleep of death, when ail at miev it is IwimiJ to be roujiiig ltseu iv. np . possible triumph i s>n<l i,at f!u ‘ probabilities arc in regard to tlie Sub- Treasury bill we are ourselves unable to sav. We perceive, how ever, that the sagacious and generally well-infunued Washington correspon dent of the New \oi k Courier expresses the o pinion that there is a majority of the House a gafosttheb.il; but a majority so small that it is believed every member must be at his post to en sure its defeat. If tins be fact as well as opinion, it devolves a high responsibility on every individ ual member of tin: House of Representatives, and tiie country will “expect every man to do his du ty.”—ib. A SOUTHERN BANK A correspondent ofthe Richmond (Va) En quirer suggests tiie incorporation of a Common Bank, with a capital of 40 millions, by the South ern States. r i he following are the outlines of the project 4 Iliiits on a &outlfeni Buik of America. I o lice tlie South from Abolition influence and the oppressions ot Northern commerce, let the Legislatures of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi pass a joint charter for a South ern Lank ol America. The capital to be about forty millions, and divided in someth'ug like the following pro pi Minus: V irginia six milfoils, North Carolina two, South Carolina seven, Georgia five, Alabama five, Louisiana and Mississippi five! Each of these States to have one or two branches but the mother or principle Board to be at Charles ton, South Carolina, as the most central point; aud each State to have a Representative in that Board. Each State to hold three fourths ofthe amount of capital held in and assigned to it; and appoint a proper proportion ofthe Directions. Let the States issue scrip bearing six per cent in terest for one sou it i the amount of capital assigned them send, and sell that to Europe or elsewhere, bit specie. 1 liis would produce ten millions. Require individual subscribers to pay specie or good current bank notes, which would produce ten millions more, and would be mainly bank notes, making twenty millions to commence with, I he .States would owe to the Bank twenty mil lions more, for which they shun id issue scrip file the same with the branches respectively in the .States issuing it, subject to it sale at any time to tuise specie to prevent a suspension of specie payments, tint not to carry interest until actually sold. Neither the whole corporation, nor any branch, to discount more than twice the amount of its capital stock, nor to circulate any note of less oe- oi f.c ition than ten dollars. Fail reports to be estabhshed.every quarter of tire year of the business r.f each branch, and annual reports to be laid before the Legislatures w ithin -which toe branches shall he respectively located with full right of starch and examination by the Legisla tures.’* trom the corns/ ond/ me rs the Mvrntry. "WASHINGTON, June 1,1838. An altercation and a Jighl took place to-day in the House,between Messrs. Bell and Turney, both of I er.nessee. The House, at an early hour, resolved itself in a ■Committee ofthe Whole, (Mr. Howard in the Chair,) upon the bill making ap propriations for the prevention nnd sufrpression, of Indian hostilties—Mr. Bell’s amendment still pending. i he debate has been suffered by tire Chair, for some days, to fasten upon m; nv irritating and vexed personal and political questions, and anions others to embrace tlie very ferocious politics of the State of r l earocssfc Mr. Turner, who had the boor last night, at the adjournment, resumed bis remarks, and, continued his attack upon Mr. John Leh, bringing up various charges against that in dividual. Mr. Bell replied, and declared his col league to be the scavenger of his (Mr- Bell’s,) personal and party e pponents; an instrument, employed here to defame him, by those who were too cowardly to do it themselves ; a tool, and the tool of tools. Mr. Turney, who sat next in front ot Mr. Bell, rose, and turning to him said, “that is false, basely false." Mr. Bell instantly struck him, and Mr. Turney returned the blow. Many members immediately interfered ; but about half a dozen blows were interchanged, though with out the slightest injury to either party. The Speaker meanwhile resumed the Chair, and called upon the Sergeant-at-Arms to preserve order; but order was already restored though much gitation prevailed. Mr. Mercer offered a resolu tion requiring the members concerned in this unu sual assault to pledge themselves not to prosecute the matter out of the House. Mr. Bell remarked that the occurrence was the result of a momentary impulse of feolii g, which had now passed by, and there was no doubt that, without any inter ference of the House, the parties would settle the question amicably between themselves. A Iter some debate tliis resolution was laid on the table; and Mr. Pennybaeker offered a resolution requi ring the parties to apologize to the House,-— 3 motion to lay this on the table was lost—yeas,2l, nays 135. Mr. Bell tlienroseand tendered avob untary apology to the House, adding, that as to the cause of this breach of order he would not make a single remark. Mr. Turney then rose, and said, in w hat lie had done he intended novio*