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Imtrrbstino ini’iurnt in Kmnitiuv History. —At the tirst meeting ot the Ken ■tticky Historical Society tin; following anee. • ,<lote of Indian gsncrosily and magnanimity : was related by a gentleman dislingu shed m the annals of Kentucky, with whose porm s- 1 gion wc give it to tin’ public I brougb our paper. About the year 1781 or 1785, Mr. Andrew Rowan embarked in a barge at the Fulls id the Ohio, (where Jvuiisvillo now sin nils,) I with a parly to descend Iho river, 'i’ho boat having stopoed at thn Yellow tlauks, on the : Indian side, some distance below, Mr. llowan, borrowing a rifle id one id the company, step • ped on shore and strolled into the boilnin, probably rather in pursuit of amusement ilmi gnme,- for trom having always been of a tec hie constitution and averse to action, he knew not how to use a rill ', and besides had with him hut the ging'n charge of ainunilion which was in the gnu. No nneonse ously protracted his stay beyond what ho intended; and, re- i turnin'*’ to the snot where lie load landed, saw nothing ot the In at nor the company ho had left, it being a time of hostility w ith the In- ; (linns, and suspicious o( the r approach I living ■ alarmed the party, they 1 ad pul Hi’, and made down the stream with all possible haste, not diirni'' to linger for their companion on shore. Mr. It. now found h m-e I' 100 urn-lull d in the use of the rifle to profit i vou hy I bit, and liable at any moment to fall into the hands of 11.0 savages. f l ho nearest settlements ot toe whiles was Vincennes, (now in Iml ana.) dis lant probably id out one nun .'red iml s. Slia pmg lus course us near y as he coo'd ealen ate t<>r (Ins. ho commenced Ins perilous and hope less journey. Unaccustomed to travelling ill the forest, ho soon Install m lunnng el h s way, and wandered about at venture. Impel l-'d by the gnawings of hunger ho iliseluegcd , bis rifle at u doer ilia 1 happened to pass near Jmn, but mi-BcJ U. The third day round him still wandering whether towards \ iiieenm s or ■ nun it he knew no’,—exlniu-toil. faimslnM and dcspa’ring. Several turn s had ho laid down, as he thought, to die Housed by tiio . found of a gun not liir distant, heio uming, as 1 bo well knew, the presence ot the Indians, he proceeded towards the spot wheiti c the report had proceeded, resolved as a a<t I ope ot ire, to surrender liimselt to those whose leader, mercies he knew to be cruel. Advancing a short distance ho saw an Indian approaching, who,on, discovering linn—as the lir.-t impulse , was on any alarm with bo'h the whites and ; Indians on’ the f-onliors in time of hostilities ' —drew lus r fl : to has sluin' -!er, in readin .-s to Crc. Mr. R. turned the but of his, and the Indian, with a. French politeness turned the hue of hi* aMi. Tlicy approached each otjier. fbc Indian seeing Ins pale and emac at' d ,ip peatvnee, and understanding the cause, look 1 .»<•> .w.» o i ■£ * *•> i j him to his wigwam a few miles distant, where I 1 he cook-.d for him for scvcinl days, ai d treated ! ! him wit h the greatest hospitality. Then learn ing of him by signs that he wished to go to 1 j Vincennes, the Indian immediately left his ! hunting, look ins title and a small stock ol i provisions, and conducted him in safely to that settlement, distant from his cabin of about i e-glily miles. Having arrived there, and wish j ing to reward well tint generous Indian to i | whom he owed his life, Mr. 11. made arrange- 1 I ; ments with a merchant ot the settlement., to] whom lie made himself known, to give him j three hundred dollars. lint the Indian would i net receive a farthing. When made to un-j j del-stand hy Mr, 15. through an interpreter, j that he could not bo happy unless ho would j accept something, lie replied, pointing to a ni' A Idanket near him, that he would take that; | and added, wrapping Ins own blank' I mound . Ins shoulders,” when 1 wrap myself in it 1 will | i think of yon.” . Where was there ever a white man, that | 1 even in a time of peace, would have so be friended an Indian! 1,. 11. < oimuodore Porter. Wo had tho pleasure and the honor ol meet- i ; mg Commodore Porter in Delaware county,, (hi Saturday lust, and wishing linn welcome \ to Ins native land, aOer a sojourn abroad ns charge d'all’i res of the \nii-nenn government 'j at the court of the subl mo porter lor several j j years.—Tno coniniodorc will soon again re-j \ | turn to Consaiilinoplc; and resume Ins time- I t ons. It is impossible to describe the emo- 1 | lions ilial th illed within us as we gazed tip-. lon this extraordinary man—who, perhaps,; 1 more limn any o her American sailor, carried i , farther the terror uflits name and the renown 1 \ of Ins flag—spreading alarm and dismay) \ among the om-niy along the youth American j coast, and inlln-t ng severe and devastating ■ ruin on tlieir important comm- /re in Ihe south- i ' cru seas. We will briefly recur to a lew of C the prominent inc dents in Ins naval career, i On the ltd of J nly, IS I*2, Captain Porter sailed , tr>':n New York in command of the Essex, I j and after some minor captures, ltd) in with i the British sloop of war Ak r. on the 13th ofj 1 August, and altera hot action of eight min- | ) : nles, the stand ini of St. Georg • was lowered | ito the stripes and s'ars. In C)ctobcr of the : 1 I same year, Capia n Porter again put to sea, I ' 1 in Ins favorite vess I the Essex, and repaired j' i agreeably to Ins instructions from Commodore ! 1 ; Bainbridgo, to the coast ol Uraz 1. On this 1 coas' lie captured his Britannic Majesty’s ship N'-iclmi, bin lii-anng of the victorn.us action ! between the Constitution end the Java, which would oblige the form -r to return t.i port am) informed that the cou-t swarmed with British cruisers, lie abandonedsj dang-TOUS a vicinity , i and, alter runnmg down as fur as tho Km de | 1 1 ■* 1 ‘I lu H I it 'HIm v 'I w () la Plata, stretched away fur the shores of the Southern Pac fie. During his cruise in this sen, he inflicted the most irreparable injury upon the commerce of Great Britain, ami was particularly dost rue live to their shipping employee! in the sperm whale fishery. 11 is numerous prizes supplied him in abundance with provisions, clothing, medicines, and naval stores of every dr.scrim lion, ami he was consequently enabled for a long time to kt rp the sea without sickness or inconvenience to his crew ; living entirely on the enemy, and enabled to make considerable advances of pay to officers and men, without a single draft on government. IPs name be. came a terror alongthe whole coast, and among the islands of the Pacific, and at length roach 1 ed the ears oflho British adraiiality, who des patched vessels in pursuit of the daring Amer-- . lean, who laughed to scorn tlie boa. Med supre« j macy of the British navy. For a long time Porter effectually baffled all pursuit—keeping the open sea, or lurking among the numerous and desolate islands that form the (lallipngos group, lie loft no traces hy which he could be followed. At loti h, in the harbor of Valparaiso, the Essex became u prey to superior force, and af ter one of the most sanguinary defences on naval record, surrendered to the Phoebe and Cherub. On his return home, Commodore Porter was received with t fiat grateful eiuliu. siasm by his admiring countrymen, so well accordant with the high merit of lea career sincetho war. The untdrtuiiate affair at Fox nrdo, which resulted in depriving the Ameri> can navy of its brightest ornaments, it is pa n (ul to speak of. Since then the gallant com modore, in the civil station to winch ho was appointed by the late president, has equally, as in his naval sphere, represented the digm tv and honor of Ids country. May u gracious Providence ordain that Irs declining years be cheered by health and happiness.— Philadel • phia Focus. Experiment on Rah, way Speei*,—The lessening the locomotive power, a - TuPier meins hitherto employed, in eider to railroad trains,and bring them up at stations, «fcc., are shown to he unnecessary. A broker, with a magistrate’s warrant, for poor’s rates can readily stop the engine, by merely stand, mg in the middle of the road as it approaches, and waving Ins handkerchief. Toe experi ment was tried lately near Walsall, in Staf fordshire, England, and completely succeeded. Manchester Railway. —The present number of passengers by railway between Liverpool and Manchester exceeds fiOOOOO p-r annum. Previous to the cons' ruction of the road, only 140 passengers travelled the same route by couches in tin; same period. '“'H , m _, ~ „ , —in ■■■ rr« z. '' -* '' A** —^—■< Cl IRON 10 DD AND SHNTINKL. AIJWIJST \. Naturduy Morning, October 13. <;cn. Waddy Thompson re-elected 1! Wc learn by a gentleman who arrived in this eiiy last evening, in the Greenville Stage, that Gen. Waiiiiv Thompson is re-elected to Con gicss in the Greenville, S. C. District, by a ma -1 jority of ONE THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE VOTES! 11 is majority in Pendleton ! ) was 1010, and in Greenville 15. This is the 1 best news since the re-e’celion of Dawson, with ' the balance of the State Rights Ticket in this j j Stale. Congressional Election. I • Wo publish tn day returns from 85 counties. Seven remain to he heard from, six of which at the last election gave Schley a majority of 013 voles. The seventh i j Dade, a new and very small i j county. Daioson, 32003 IlaherUmm, 31303 Alford, 31300 Cotijnell, 31280 King 31 ISO Mshct, 30968 Warren , 30850 Black y 30838 Cooper , 30771 Campbell. 29830 Iverson, 29500 Patterson, 29709 Graves, 29077 llillyer, 29005 Pooler, 29501 llurney, 29520 Nelson, 29118 McWhorter, 29391 Legislature. linker —Holmes—Cawley. I Care —Mallon—Hilliard. Swindling on a small Scalk.—A gentle man of this city who visited the North lust sum mer on business, during his absence wrote two letters and mailed them at Providence, Rhode Island, directing them by plain and legible en dorsements on the hack of each to be sent by the “Express Mail,” and paid the postage, 75 cents on each. Upon Ids return home this fall, ho found that his letters had been forwarded by the slow mail, and marked paid 25 cents each ! Some of Amos Kendall’s hireling’s therefore pocketed one dollar and the gentleman's letters failed to arrive at the expected lime ! Public Meeting. Whereas, a Convention of Merchants is about to convene, in the city of Augusta, to take into consideration the important subject of a direct trade with foreign nations; and whereas, the Town of Hamburg, growing in commercial imporlancei favourably situated by nature to share largely in the benefits of such an enterprise, and at all limes 'literal in her encouragement to prnjec's which tend to encourage Southern interest and South ern enterprise. Ho it theiefore Resolved, That wo fully ap prove the object of said Convention. liesolvetl, That wc appoint, W. W. Starke, T. Goldsmith, E. E. Anthony, Henry Shultz, H. 1,. Jeffers, M R. Smith, H. W. Sullivan, M. Gray, Edward Dclicus, J. W. Stokes, Charles Lamar and James Hubbard, delegates to represent us in said Convention. On motion, J, P, Hcatd was added to the com mittee. I ( Gn niui’u nos Mr. Smith it was ordered that the above preamble and resolution be published in ! ' the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. HENRY SHULTZ, Chairman. 11. F. Gour.nr, Secretary. Hamburg, S. C. Oct. 12, 1838. i ■ 1 Public Meeting, . In pursuance of notice previously given, a number of the citizens of Jeflerson county, con- 1 1 veiled at die Court House in the town of Louis r , ville, this day-, 10,h October instant, to consider . the propriety of appointing Delegates to repro t sent this county in the contemplated Southern 1 Convention, to he held in the city of Augusta on j i the third Monday of October hist. On motion, Capt. John W. Bolhwell was . called to the Chair; the object of the meeting - being slated, Dr. P. S. Lcmle addressed it rcla ' live to the object of the contemplated Convcn- i - lion, and the advantages and benefits to ho detiv, | rd to (ho South from the direct importation of , foreign merchandize—and On motion of Dr. Lcmle, the Chair proceeded to appoint tho following named persons to repre , sent this county in the contemplated Convention, I to wit: Asa Holt, Dr. P. S. Lcmle. Robert A. ' L. Atkinson, John Campbell, and William H. - Connelly, which appointment was unanimously adop;ed. On moiion, Resolved , That the proceedings 1 ' ,O signed by the Chairman, and that the editors of the Augusta papers be requested to publish the same. JOHN W. BOTH WELL, Ch’n. s I'iiblic Meeting. t At a meeting of the citizens of Warren county, hold in VVarrenton on tho 11th October, 183 S, Dr. Homy Lockhart was called to the Chair, and Dr. E. M. Pendleton, appointed Secretary. The r object of the meeting was briefly stated by the |d Chairman, to be foi tho purpose of appointing ■’ ! delegates to the ensuing Mercantile Convention. ■ j Ou motion of Dr. Butt, tho Chairman proceed. | ed to tho appointment of seven delegates, himself |to be included in that number. The following - ] are the names of the gentlemen appointed: Dr. ■ i Henry Lockhart, Dr. W:#P. Dun, Thus. P. p. ’ [ Three.\ i s, John Moore, E-q., Geoigc V. Neal 1 E-q., Col. Win, J mes, Joseph W. Thomas. Esq! * 1 On motion of Mr. Thomas, these proceedings [) i were ordered to bo publish ,1 in the Constitution ,(' 1 aiist and Chronicle & Sentinel. f HENRY LOCKHART. Chairman. Eli \v a III) M. Pesiit.lt, IV, Secretary I % «?V ii l lm ' Mr. Helaliir.l, I', .S. di trici n ioniry ana post i ! master hi Win h-.-slrr in that folate, having he- j t posited llie [lulilii- I'urulrf in an old i-locking, woke ; 1 iip one morning ami found the who e mining.—• >, I A colored woman had run away will) treasure | | anil treasury. Ii seems she was perfectly aware j 1 ot the constitutional piovision that no money I shad lie drawn from the Itea-trry hut in conse- | 1 quenee of appropriations'made hy law, and so, \ instead of drawing the money mil ot the slock- I ing, she look stocking and nil. lias not our gov- 1 eminent achieved wonders for the seittrhy of j the public funds, hy transferring them first from the ,T . S, Bank to a hundred local hanks; and secondly,from a hundred local banks to 50,01'0 local hank’.— Prentice. Tnr.ATV of CoMHF.nca with Greece.— The Globe publishes officially a Tieaty of Com- j merce and Navigation between the United Stales | 1 and the King of Greece. This treaty was signed j 1 at London on the 22d of December last, hy Mr. | ! Stevenson, oor Minister at the Court of Great | Britain, and by Spiridion Tticoupi, the Minister J 1 of the King of Greece at the same, and the rati- I 1 Ileal ions were exchanged at the same [dace on j the 25th of June last. The treaty stipulates for I the reciprocal admission of the vessels of each country into the ports of the other, and the ad> [ 1 mission and export in thorn of all goods on the 1 payment of the same duties as arc exacted on ! national vessels, from whatever ports they may 1 come, except other ports of the same country, the coasting trade being excepted. It contains, also, ' other provisions similar to those embraced in the I 1 commercial treaties of the Uni’ed Sta'es with 1 other Slates. — National Intelligencer. Finn at Cauhoiltox.—About two o’clock yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the engine and ear house at Carrolhon, which in the course . of twenty minutes, or halfan hour, completely do- 1 slroyed the building, together with fifteen eats ! and one locomotive. By some it is conjectured | that it was the work of an incendiary; others with ‘ mote reason believe it to have resulted from the communication of the fire lelt in one of the en gines. The amount of property consumed is sta- ' ted to be not less than $l2OO 000, of which about ' $l5O 000 was insured. The loss will therefore fall heavily upon tiro insurance companies. The Carrollton rail road company will also suiTer much from the delay and loss of time, before oth er ears can be obtained. W e have before remarked the singular circum stance that fires in our city occur almost regular ly on Saturday night or Sunday morninj. This fact, together with several collateral ones, would seem to corroborate tbc suspicion of there being a gang of incendiaries prowling about New Orleans, and exercising their infernal vocation at the period mentioned. We would recommend more than ordinary vigilance to our police.— N. O. Bee of the 8///. We learn lhat his Majesty the King of the French has directed that the order of Knight of the Legion of Honor heconlcrrcd on our coun tryman William 11. Hodgson, a native of this District. Mr. Hodgson has been connected fur some years with the diplomatic service of the United States, and, while residing in Northern Africa ami Asia, devoted much of his lime to the culti vation of the Oriental languages and literature. His writings on those subjects, among which are his translations of the four Gospels into the Dorbet tongue, and his Life of the present Pacha of Egypt, procured (nr him a membership of the Asiatic Societies of London and Paris, and the Royal Society , to which he can now add, as the first American within our knowledge, tire order of the Legion of Honor. The distinction which has been spontaneously conferred on him hy the King of the French, has been announced to him in a letter from Count Mole, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and is as hon orable to the King, ns the friend and patron of literature, as it is flattering to (lie literary success 1 and celebrity of our young countryman. Mr. 11. has just arrived from Pern, with the ratification of a treaty between the Peru Bolivian Confederation and the United Stales, for which I purpose ho was despatched hy our Government. National InteUgenccr. From the Franklin [AUah pan] Banner. Terrible Affray. We have learned the following particulars of a terrible allray which took place near Harrison- i burg, in the upper pail of this Slate, from a gen tleman from that section of country. Our informant stales that about fifteen years since, a man by the name of Hagerly, near Har risonburg, was, as is said, by the malevolence of one Humble, charged with larceny. It appeared upon the trial that the witness was suborned, and ilageity was honorably acquitted. From that time forward, a continued and burning hostility | has existed between the two parties, producin ’ i of course many scenes of outrage and disorder, the spirit of which was most naturally and readi- { ly imbibed by the young men of both parlies. i Some years after the charge of larceny, Hagerly was murdered by one of his slaves, who at the i [ execution declared that -‘he w-as hired to kill his I j master by a man in the neighborhood.” The j : young Hatcnys believed it was one of the Hum ! hies, who had instigated the assassination. The I | war was continued with great spirit, and various | [ success, though the Hagcrtys wore generally op- j pressed, their whole force being but a young man and a little boy but sixteen years old. About tbe first of September, Humble, with his two associates, Bass and Davis, caught this boy,duck ed him, stripped him, and then whipped him in the most unmerciful manner. The next day there was a police election. The parties met. | Humble, Bass and Davis armed with rifles and I pistols!—Young Hagerty with a stick, and his little brother with a double barreled gun. Young Hagerly told Humble dial his little brother had 1 been abused by them men, and lie wished to j know whether cither of them had spirit enough :to fight him? Humble raised his rifle to shout him, and Hagerly sprang behind a tree. Hum ble loid Bass to go round the tree with his rifle and shoot him, if he did not “come out.” The boy handed his brother the double barreled gun. who insla dly stepped out with his gim at an or t.er, and told humble lie should have a fair chance if be wanted to kill him !—Humble then took deliberate aim and shot him—then turned in the door to get his pistol, advanced wirh it cocked and raised to an ‘ aim,” when ho received the whole contents of one barrel from the hands of tile little boy, and fell dead. i lie little fallow had just time to turn upon Bass, who was advancing upon him from be hind with ins rifle at dead aim. But ire die! turn without flinching, and poured the contents of the second barrel into the bosom of Bass, who fell dead at bis feet. The boy was shot in the ri"-hl breast—reeled and foil. just in time to avoid the pistol fire of D.ui--, who took a pistol shot at his bock ! The boy and Bass both badly pow I tier burnt. Davis was arrested by the bystanders, ; but a justice id the peace came up, and tel.l them 1 he did nut think it right to keep a man "tied in j that manner,” and ire thought it best to “turn him j loose.” Ii was accordingly so done, and he ab ; sconded. Os the remaining four engaged in tins terrible aflray, the little boy alone survives! Our informant states that five while men and one negro have been murdered in the parish of Madison, during :ho months of July and August. We Begin to think that the dark ages arc’ re turning n [ion os; that, the Goths and Vandals have descended upon our fair Italy, bringing in their train, ranine, murder and deolation. But j [ til) rps it is wise, instead of unavailing regret present s'atc cf rocic 1 '’, !o . . seriously UTWorU lo put a slop to these outrages upon tliu feelings and good sense of the f)co j* of Louisiana; and nothing can pul a stop t 0 them, except the strong arm of (he | aw [ 'he law have its full force, ami every individual in tiie country strive to support it, and bring the gu'l vto justice—let its power and vcngcamc only ho sure and certain, and all these outran - will tease. I is therefore a duty which C v,. man in the community owes to society, to cxpo7 c ar.d prosecute every criminal offence, and to his best exerti ns lo bring every criminal to the bar ot justice. The Van Durenites of New .Jersey, wiih i], view of strengthening their Congressional ticket 0 f selected as one of their candidates, the p C v ]\[' Force, a clergyman of the Methodist church The Northern Conference having, some years ago, prohibited their ministers from being candi dales for political office, or mingling in politj ca 7 strife, the reverend gentleman tiluve named J, ! written a letter assigning his reasons for accept! ing his nomination for Congress, in disregard of Ihc injunctions of his sp.rilual superiors, one of which reason-, and ihc principal of them, it ap. pears to us, is die following : ’ * ‘sth. 1 haJffin advice ot one of the best si duns in who thought ii important for me to have some rest, in order to reg ,i n mv strength, and thus prepare rae for fuu.uT useful, ness in the min slry.” The worthy minister must have been put to it for apologies for his clerical recusancy, or ) ln must entertain very odd notions of the duties of a member of Congress.— •Mu, hit. Present slate of . Spain and PortugnlT"* To the Editors of the Louisville Journal. Paius. May, 1838. Dear Sirs— The weather has been so exltemely inclement for the last three weeks, that 1 have scarcely been out at all; and have nothing new ol Pans to tell you, I lake hack lo Spam and Portugal, lo mention some things which I did not think prudent to venture in letters written from those regions, where an offensive re ligious or political observation if detected, might have subjected me lo serious inconvenience. Much as we have heard within a few years of 'he wretched condition of the Peninsula, j had no idea until I visited it, of the niter degradation into which it is plunged ; nor indeed had 1 any idea that nations once highly polished and enlightened could ever, as long as their identity was not lost by foreign conquest, sink into the stale of abject misery, ignorance and profligacy of both Spain ami Portugal at ibis day. But such is ihc effect ot centuries ofhad government and a worse tdi gion, that these two people, for a long lime justly regarded as the head of European civilization, are now as completely harbaious as wo may suppose any ot the nations in the inleior of Africa lo he ■ and I luiy believe lhat the Kentucky slaves aio * at this moment on the average far ahead of ths mass of Portugue-e and Spanish, both in morals and intelligence. Individuals there doublle-s arc of education and capacity ; and indeed 1 met sev eral who might any where pass sot superior men • but the great body of the people—the hone ami muscle ol Ihe country, us we say—is absolutely rotten; and nothing, in my judgement, of the direct interposition of God himself can over re-tore to n health or vigor. As an instance of the popular ignorance ami superstition, I may mention (and I could name hundreds equally sinking) that the common auction pump is „ut used in those parts where I travelled, not became it is not known, nor that thetc is no occasion for it (for you every where meet with the most awk ward and expensive contrivances in its place) hut because the wretched inhabitants attribute the rise ol the water in it lo the operation of the devil - and yet Algarve, Andalusia and Grenada are the’ be-t parts ol the Peninsula. I had no the means of judging minutely of the political condition of the two countries, but this much I may say, thrt of the two, Portugal is by far the best off: indeed just at this time, Portugal happens to ho pretty well governed ; the Queen is said to ho talented, and well dispose I, and the representative cortes (which is by no means elected by universal suf frage) seems not wanting in capacity and patriot" ism ; but here is the mischief; the present gov ernment, partly through embracing all, or neark all, the wealth, intelligence and nobility 0 f the country, is in fact a very small minority of the whole nation; the great body of the people- un doubtedly being, and probably always have been in favor of Don Miguel; and from what we have i hl!art! ol him, and from what I saw of them I judge him to be just the ill object of such a con- I atilucncy, To say nothing of its dreadful civil w ar nolh mg ran be more horrible and loathsome than the political state of Spain. As far as it can he said to he governed at all, it is ruled (under cover of the clouts ol its baby Queen and Ihc profligate m other) by a democracy vastly more ignorant than that of the french Revolution, and under their stupid and remorseless sway, acts of cruelly and plunder are daily committed, which 1 presume would at once cost any Turkish Sultan his throne and head. The government is totally bankrupt; f and not merely bankrupt, but in a stale of abso lute penury ; lor, notwithstanding the large rev enues of Cuba, and the immense resources that the suppression of the convents ought to have provided, it is now, I observe, trying to alfect a loan at twelve ami a half per cent interest, and when I was at Gihraller (he officers of the impor tant fortress of Ceuta had received no pay for fif teen months, and were living upon beans, the common soldiers being sent out from day to day to subsist by plunder. Though Don Carlos is not really liked by any body but the priests, yet I am inclined lo think that the majority of the better classes, pillaged and abused by the present government, until they think no change can bo made for the worse, are in his favor; and I think too ho will eventually succeed; though ihc infa mous Durango decree, and some fears lhat ho may attempt lo re-establish the inquisition, have alien ated many of his most influential well wishers. Ot his right to the throne there cannot be a doubt; for just as well might William IV. have transim led his crown, by a will, to the Duke of Cumberland, to the exclusion of the Prim-ess \ tcloria, as Ferdinand by the same piocess, set aside Cailos m favor of Isabella. Hut who,her he succeeds or not, is of no kind of importance; iheic is hardly room left for him lo do mischief; mid an old man like him, priest ridden, and cm billcred with pariy feelings, can do no good.— , hat b j ,a ,' n wants . ls an y thing shoit of a mirc cle car. help her, is a sovereign of great talent, encigy and patriotism—such a man as Peter of bus ia, or Cromwell, and who coming to the throne at an early ag*. ami having a long reign, during which ho shmrd rule us a pure despot, without any of the '-mdiug of a constitution, I might possibly ex’ri her. * ■ —-—. Awfl l Affaih.— Yesterday afternoon about dusk, as several regiments of troops who had been on pa ade duly at Harlem, were returning lo the city, whde on ihc third avenue near 26th street an Irish carman named Michael Dak, met iho advance column, ami seizing a rung from his cart he heal Ins horse therewith, and dashed into the midst ol ihc tr mp knocking down an I running over several, and wounding and bruising many more in a shocking manner. The Od regimeiA were in advance, and through the whole line of this body the villain forced his way, and paitly through the ninth Regiment, which followed next in order. Before his course was slopped one Die goon s horse was knocked down and the rider dangerously wounded by the fall. I he excitement among the troops and citizens around was dteadlul, —all ord« mu d suboid nation was lost, and the men rushed to* f.c scene fiom all