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Dmoasuc'Wetvs,. Head Quarterisof theArmy, Adjuti antGeneral's Oice, WAN5U5 TOW, April 10, 1888. OKNIAL OnIKas, No. 7. 5 1. Major General JesupJ)aving reported that the operations in Florida will have terminated by the 1st of May, and that a portion of the troops will be disposable, the following arrangements will be carried into effect as soon thereafter as practicable. ii. The 1st and 6th regiments of Infantry, the six companies of the 2f Infantry, and four companies of the 2d Dragoons, will constitute the regular force to remain in -Florida, with as many companies of the volunteers or militia of the Territory as the officer in command may deem necessary. The three companies of the 6th Infantry, now in Louisana, will forthwith join the Head Quarters of the regiment at Tampa Bay Ui. The fourth regiment of Artillery, the 4th regiment of Infantry, six companies of the 2d Dragoonsi, and "the detachment of Marines, will repair to the Cherokee coun try by the most converient and expeditious routes from the several points at which they may be found ot the receipt of this order. The troops, as far as practicable, will move by regiments, and be accompanied by all the officers belonging toench. Should any of the companies ordered to the Cherokee country, occupy stations in Florida fromn which theyshould not be immediately with drawn, they will continue in position until they can be relieved by the troops designated to remain in the Territory; after which rol low their rekiments without delay, it being important to concentrate the companies of each regiment. V I. Two Surgeons. -nd as may assistants as the service may require, will be retained in Florida, to be selected from those who have served the shorcest period in the Ter ritory. All other officers of the Medical Staff will proceed With the troops ordered to the Cherokee country. V. Major General Jesup will take all the necessary meastires for the prompt execution of this order, and will then turn over the command of the troops in Florida to Brevet Brigadier General Z. Taylor, Colonel of the 1st infantry; and on being relieved, lie will repair to the seat of Government, and resume the duties of Quarter Master Gen eral. VI. The officers at tihe heads of the sev eral branches of the staff will make the necessry arrangements for moving and supplying the troops on their routes to their destination, and for the service in which they are to be employed VI 1. Major Gen. Scott is assigned to the immediate command of tie troops ordered to the Cherokee country. and the direction of afthirs in that quarter. The commanders of regiments and detachnments ivill report to his head Quarters at Athens, in Tennessee, or whereevcr else they may lie established at tie time. By order of Alexander Maeomb, Major General Commanding-in-chief, R. JONLdS, Adjutant General. SAvANNAr, April 13. FRoM FLoRIDA.-The ateatmer William Gaston, Capt. Freeland, n'rriVed yesterday aflernoon from Garey's Ferry, (C[arksville) E. F. From Capt. F and a passenger in the Wm. Gastou, we learn, that the planters have abandoned tihe crops between Fort Harlee, Miennopy and Ncwnansville, and had gone into the torts for protection. An Express rider, it is said, vas recently shot in an arm withmin a mile of Fort Har lee, on his way to Micennopy, and Newnians~ ville, but made his escape beck to tihe fort. On Monday, two men named Snowdetn atnd Tomwnsend, were murdered on New River, 12 miles from Fort Hlarlee, by a par ty of Indians. Col. Sanchez, on Friday last, was driven - frotn his plantation by a party of 18 or 20 Indians, tand had gone to Newnansville. From our valued corresponident inm Florida, we aiso learn thmat on the 4mlm inst. Alligator came int to Col. Taylor at Fort Biasinger, and stated that lie had buried the hatchet forever. lie Jeft on the samec day fur his fanmily. It is thoumght that time prospect of termi natinmg existing dillicuimiesis more fRivorable mow than ever. More, however, will be knownm in a few days. A detachment of time 2d dragoons, left Fort Brooko on thec 5th instant for Black Creek. The 4th inmfanm'ry tundmer commtand of Col. Foster, arrived at Fort Brooke on the same day, and three comnpanmies of 3d infantry, under the comnmatid of Major Reiley, were to have left Fort Brooko on time 19th inst. for Micanopy. WVe were yesterdamy gratified to see a hotse, with chimneiys standing. steadhily moving up Southm Bay street, having alrea dy proceedled upwards of 700 feet, atnd, in time coutrse of the wseak, to lbe taken near 1000 feet further, to a new site. Tme liro eess by which this removal is necomplished is simple, but its practical exhibition, has, we beiheve, never before taken p lace in Charleston. We have freqtuently observed, m tihe Northmerni papers, statements of tihe removal of brick btuildings, chitmneys and furmture standing, and time occupanits en gaged in their musumal avocations; and on mnentionmng the circumstanmce to the ingeni ins, operator, engaged in this undertaking, he in formed us that he had' frequently re muoved buildings in that way. We woumld advise our citizemns to take a view of this, wmth us, unusual operation. Trho owvner stattedi that te dmy and dusty weather'-only, prevenited him from having the house paint edi, inside andi outt, whmile on its toeyage... Chsarleston Courier. Moving Buildinga.-Mechanical feats in time wvay of moving large brick biuildinigs are constantly goimg on. The great house of time Dispensary int Cenutre street, has been some ten feet, without injury. A large store ont the south side of Ftulton Market is now on time screws, and is to be raised three feet. T1here are a hmunmdred and fifty tonis oftobac co in time lofts, whlichm it'was not thouight necessary to take out.-V. Y. Jour. Corn. The State of Ohio is said to have more children in proportion to time numnber~ of in habitats tihan any otme ,atitt:...ri. Fei eWCrreappenee 0"s Chadrleston Mer. WAsatRorot, April 10. The Navy Bill and the Exploring Expe dition were the principal topics of discussion In the House to-day. Mr. Sergeant, of Pa., made an animated und strong speech in favor of the Expedition, and Mr. Wise spoke in opposition to it. It appears to be very certain that we have already spent se ven or eight hundred thousand dollars in the enterprise; and that, if we prosecute it, we must spend as much more, and with out any good results. Our navy is too small and too factious, and too badly man aged by Government to be efficiently or useful in any undertaking. Were we again to be involved in war, the Navy would, it is feared, lose some of the laurels which it formerly acquired. APRIL 14. In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Walker made some enquiries of the C(hairman of the committee of foreign relations. (Mr. Buch anan,) as to the course of the Government in regard to the outrage on an American vessel by Mexico. Mr. Buchanan replied, that the relations of this Government towards Mexico were of such a nature, that they admitted of but one step, and that was a declaration of war, or some measure akin to it. Such a step, however, must be proposed only by the House of Representatives, and he presum ed that the Committee of the House would make an early report in regard to it. Mr. Clay of Ky., accused the Adminis tration of some precipitancy in regard to its demands on Mexico,and Mr. Benton defended the course of the Administration by a rererence to the nature of our demands on Mexico. The conver sation, which w as altogether informal, here dropped. '1 he bill to rednce and graduate the price of the publierlands was taken up, and Mr. Clay, of Ky., spoke at length in opposition to it. In the House, the motion to discharge the committee on the District of Columbia, from the further consideration of the resolu tion to re-cede the District of Columbia to the States of Maryland and Virginia, was taken up, and on motion of Mr. Bouldin, the whole subject was laid on the table. But Mr. Wise earnestly protested against this course, and appealed to the Southern members 'particularly to support a motion to re-consider, for the purpose of referring the subject to the Committee of the Whole on the Union. lie said the subject otaght to be fully discussed, and that it should be decided whet' -r the Abolition excitement should be in titls way put to rest or not. As long as the District remained in its pre sent political condition, so long would Con gress be harrassed with abolition memo. rials, &c. Mr. Bouldin remarked, that the question would open the whole Abolition subject. Mr. Adams said it would not onlv involve the question of holition, hut the propriety of the removal of the seat of the Federal Government. Mr. Harlin moved to reconsider the vote laying the subject on the table, and Mr Mason of Ohio, moved to lay this motion on the table, which was agreed to, Yeas 82, Nays 62. CNIALLF.JGEs Dunrs.-The Senate took -Op, on itshirdeaihobr~ iatob4PhMbWI the giving and accepting of challenges to duels in the District of Columbia, for the punishment thereof. Mr. Clay. of Kentucky, said that lie had takei no part heretofore in the debate to which this bill had given rise; but his silence did not proceed from any indifTerence which he felt to the laudable object which the Senator from Vermont, (Mr. Prentiss) pro posed to accomplishi by its introdtuction. No man would rejoice molre sincerely than he should, in witnessing the absolujte sup pression, forever, of the unjustifiable p~ract ice which the bill denounces and seeks to dis countenance. But (Mr. C.) thought that the object of legislation, on this st.bject, shotuld be dereeted to the correction and purification of public opinion. Jn sections of the Union, where the practice was not tol erated, it was public opinion that kept it downi bp discouraging a resort to comblat to avenge or settle personnl injuries. There it was no disgrace to dcclinec such a comn bat. The man who should decline it wvas more, certainly not lcss, respected thtan if he had engaged in it. But it wvas otherwvise in those rcetions where the practice pre vailed. In these, the man fights a due!, actsa tinder th~e constraint of putblic opinion, which- brands him with cowardice and dis honor if _he does not resent, wvith spirit, a' personal itsult or wrong. There the alter- I native presetnted to a person of honor and of nice sensibility is whether he shall live, covered with disgrace, an object of repracli, scorn and contempt, or encounter the haz ard of death, without dishonor. Buit few honorable anid high spirited men wecre reso Itite enough to avoid the contest. Public opinion. wvhich exacts the sacrifice, is as censurable as those who fall victims in con formity to its stern commands. It wvas when I puhkle opinion should be rectified in this respect, that we might expect to see the abandonment of a practice which was con trary to humanity, abhorrent to reason, and ' condemned by our religion. In the mean time, it is the duty of the legislator to exert all -his authority to bring about this desira ble state of things. And he (Mr. C.) should C vote with pleasuire, the passagv. of the bill. before the Senate. under the anxious hope that being the deliberate expression of the judgment of Congress, it may contribute toP sniighten the public mind; and that, if it should not totally eradicate, it may tend materially to diminish, a practice which all ~ aught to unite in completely destroying.s The bill was then passed by the follow. ig vote, and sent to the other House for ~ eoncurrence. s Yeas, 34-Nay, Mr. Sovier,-1. s flesumption of Specie Pat/ment.-T he fol lowing letter from the Necretary of. the 'l'reasury .has appear "e in the Newv York papers WAssimovoN, Mancen 18, 1838. tI Dear Sir:-In reply to yours of the 16th a nst. I hasten to remove any erroneous in erences from the rumor mentioned. The s~ ettled -policyu of the Department, and one et which it makes known to all inquiries, i.. to ht yromote the resumption of speeie payments t )y the banks, so far as its limited powers nay permit. t C'onsequently, it has niot, & will not hero-. et thor. patmchase Specie beyond. wht.. b needed fuorsturnediate dlsbufteuentftna'6 that way will neither hoard it nor compe' with others for its possession. - All we receive, in any way, will ianei diately be lpid out again to defray the a propriations. I make these stntemeuta explicitly ad promptly, and have forwarded similar odes to Boston, in order that no injurious-a rehensions need he entertained as to the nancial operations of the Govorument,.. Respectfully, yours, LEVI WVOODBURYv' EDGEFIE LD C. II THURSDAY, APRIL 26. 1838. By the last accounts fromr Liverpool, L-e learn that the glut of the market by the pr rival in one week of upwards of 60 vessEls, at that port alone, laden with cotton, and from other causes, prices have receded. Tr SunLtar.-A Mr. Aaron Cloud of DeKalb county, Ga., is building a tosfer upon the top of Stone MIountain, which he intends to ie 300 feet high. It is his design to mount it with a Telescope, and make it an Observatory for the lovers of nature Andi science. On the morning of the 21st, we were vis ited with quite a destructive frost. We know one gentleman who had 150 acres of cotton killed. Our gardens have suffered no little. We infer from the follon ing x tract of a letter from a friend at Greenwood, Albbeville District, that the up-county has sustained great injury. "We had a most killing frost this morn ing. The corn in this neighborhood. is lit to the ground, and some cot tnh. The gar dens are all ruined. Vegetalies of nearly every description killed. We have com nenced the second time upon our gardens. It is thought by some ofour farmers that wheat has suffered severely." From all quarters we hear of the re-ap pearanco of that new, but dreadful enetny to oats, wheat and corn, whom we lonored with a short paragraph during the last sea son. It is a species of fly, known here by the nameofthe Chinch ly, fron the resem blance of its odour to tiat of the celebrated little animal whose whole pleasuro consists in pouncing upon the weary pilgrim, whea seeking "nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep," and boring him wiith its probscis,'as if to draw the last drop of blood out of ham. List year the Fly was confined to huta few neighborhoods in this District, butso :..pidly has it multiplied, that the enuro District is now threatened with its ravagd. The oat scoms to be its favorite element * fiance it is always found frat upon i other grain. From this fact we infer,-that its generation is somehow dependent upon the culture of oats, and it ii probable that the speediest and most effectual remedy will be found in a discontinuance of that crop for a few years. Without this, it seems to us, that no one can limit its rate of increase or its ravages. $'everai of the most intelligent plantters of t he District have told us, that al ready their ont crop is destroyed, and that ltheir young corn is attacked. An old Vir Iriniatn now residitng amnong us, 'says, that manty years ago, a similar F ly made its ap pearance in Virginia, and that it was dIriven mff'in the way which weo have suggested. The article below is from tile Mountain eer. It is a fact that we have beeni too little :oncerned in dlevelopintg the resources of >ur own State. Our mountain regions abottnd in mineral wealth, and we are too azy to gather it. We are proud to believe that the dawn of new anid more glorions day is bursting up in tus. A spirit has gone forth from the Jonmercial Convention, wichl we fondly rust will emancipate our whole people rrom he degrading thraldoms under which theye ave so long suffered; a thraldom which nakes them look elsewhere tor every thing ut cot ton, andl forces them even to pay otih rs for carrying that to market, when they an do it cheaper themselves. "BL~acK ElAD AND BLAC K SAND.-We resume it is not generally known, eveni to he citizen's of .the upper cotuntry, that this )istrict contains aI minec of Phtumbngo, or Ilack Lead Such is the fact; but we un erstand there has never been an attempt rind. to convcrt it to any valuable purpo es. At some future period, we have no oubt but it will he a source of parolit to the wners of the latnd. "Black. Sand, such as is tused for drying ~ ik in wnrting, is also fouand in our vicenmty. 'his article can be furnished at a very lmw rice; and wve have tno hesitation in saying mattit is fully equal to that which is brought Urm the North. If this Sand-banik wvasin nime sectione of the world, it would be con dored very valuable; but here, we are in me practice of paying more for foreigsi comta lodities of all kinds, thtan for those ofa tspenior quality parodneed at home. Such state of' things should not. and will not much longer exist. .t SPECIE PAYMENT'S. 0 Mr. Biddle, President of the United ti tates Bank, has written a long letter to n me Hon. J. Q. Adams, in which he takes tc me Strongest and boldest stand against a re Imption. This certainly but poorly ac irds with his former declaration, that bad g consulted his owvn strength and condi- a mn, he never would have suspendedl; hut re at he made the sacrifice for tho sake of the an Pt haer banks, which were 6o mnech Worse off d an himnclf. and for the goodno ate c--- a r}. We pretend not to give his words, but we believe that we state the substance. Kow, when a large and respectable portior Df these other banks. representing the mosl commercial State in the Union. propose in obedience to a resolution of their Legis lature, to resume specie payments, he telli them, that they don't understaud the inter ests of the country; that they are fools rushing blindly to the consumtation of at act, which must plunge the dear peopli into still deeper distress. Mr. B. pledge himself not to follow the other banks ii their oad course. What will be the effec of this proclamation, we know not. It i not to be believed, however, that it wil have the elTect of making the New Yorl banks recede. As desirable as it woutl b to get the co-operation of the U. S. Banlt burely Air. D. is not so perfect an Autocrai but that tile others may get 'ong withot him. Sorry would we be to know the foc that a return to specie payments depend entirely tpon tile nod of any one Ban! President. Air. B. concludes with the following ad vice to tle ltanks: "The bunks should remain exactly a they re-preparing to resuine, but not ye restumtg. "They should begin, as the Batik of Enn land did, tinder sinilar cirruistances. b paying tle small notes. so as to restorecoi to all the tiior channels of circtlation btt tint mnie any general resumption unti they sertain wlint course the governmen will purste, employing in the neantimn their whole iower to forward the crops i market. 'Tlie Americati baiksshould (1oi short n hat the A merican A rmy did at Nei Orleans, stand fast behind their cotton bale until the eneny has left the country." Thus it will be perceived that the perio is indefinite, and tint lie holds out the ide that they never should resuine, until the can control Mhe gocerinmnt. We conclude this article by a short cx tract fron a recent messnge of Gov. Mar cey to the Legislature of New York, ii which lie denounces the settled purpose c she United States Batik to continue "-tlh issue of an irredeemable currency." "I am confidently persuaded that a vas majority, if not almosi the entire niass ofou constituents, are opposed to, and will ex pect their representatives atd public fune tionaries to resist tie policy put forth by th United States Bank, of continuing the issu ofuan irredeemable ctrrency. In the divi sion wlici will spring f1romn the extraordi nary position taken u pon his subject, th people of this State, and its btanking insti tutions -ill, I trust, lie fotul amiong th friends anl( supporters (if a sound currite -a curreney equivalent, in value, to the Ji gal stlandard; and vill lie arrayed again the policy of continuing the issue of irre decimable paper. To carry out their view iml ielatio to this subject, to sustain our in stitutions in the measure oflresuiption, ant to put an end to the pvils of a debased cir will tiipri-ovb ' gisluture, in the manner I have stggested, oi it any other mure eflicient manner whicl may be devised. "Viewing this subject in reference to the present posture of our pectuniary alrairs, t( the eimbarrassment in which almost all branches of business are involved, atnd es, pecially in reference to the attempt, by formiidahiie moneyed poweir, to prolong tie us~penIsionl oh specie payments bieyomd the pe iodl impocsedl by necessity, I believe rh< prtesentt crisis mutst lie generallhy regarded a: 11me' i which it is -the dutuy of te State ic standl forths in its strength, atid b'y the use if its credit rind the santetion of its name, t< rhieldl its instituitiotns atid its citizens~ from~ liartm.' I iam r.cadly to co-operate with tie ither departmnents of the govertnmentt ir avery proper eilort that shall piromnise such r result.' The Legislature of South Carolina con isiss of l68 miembers--45 Senators, andi 123 Representatives. As a matter of curi >sity, we have looked at the constitutiotn oh he Lonern louse, atnd find the various itt erests oh the coutitry reptresented as foillows: ?hanters 53, Lawyers 32, Physicians 22, blerchantts 13, anid Mec-hatnies 3. The 31ergy, it n ill be remembered, are excludl d utnder rte Constitution. Mitsccelancons. NEw-.OnLEASs, A pril 13. Te.rrs.-Bly thle steamt packet Columiiibia, rota Gamlvestotn, we have rece-ivedh files ol lie Iloustotn Telegraph in the date of.March list. TIhte listrict Court was ini session at houston. Of its ptroiceedintgs lie Telegratph emtarks, thle decorum tha~t hans utniformrtly ecen observedl, the cordiality and even oili inousness, n~ hichi have becn evecry where hown .mi sustaining the officers of justie i the discharge of their dutties, the initelli ence anid respecrtbility of the jurors, the eorous andl getletmanly depiortmeiit of lie several attorneys enigaged, anid rte r ility, initegfrity anid dhecision of te piresi itng Judge, haveC comtbined to render this ,our one of the tmost nunugist and interest. ig spectacles, n bich out- city has ever af mrded. Ott the 28th, at Houston, WV. C. Quick ud D.aval Jones were executed for mrurder. 'he confession andh dying speech of the armer was forwatrded to us, but there is no pace for its pubtlien-tiomn. On the frontiers ere was no distutrhance except an occa onal skirtuish between wanderleitng hands r savages. A party of suirveyor-s, fromt te head wvaters of the Guadatlotipe, repot n engagement, it wvhich a troop of Shiaw ees fought the Carnanches atnd put iliem > flight with the loss of 8 mcen killed. By way of improvitig the cutreitey, some igenious phersons have suggested that the >vertnmient of Trexas inste:,d of sisuing -omisory noles, should issue hills, each of htich, mnay be art immediate title to land, presenting somte specified ptortion, dhesig trod in advatnce, and numbered on a map eparedh for rte purpose. The scheme es not seem to take, and will scarcely be tempted, The Mexican fleet hal disappeared from the Texian coast, whether driven off by the fright they received from other enemies equally formidable, has not been revealed. i Recent arrivals from Tampico. states that i the blockading squadron hod returned to I that port and sailed thence for Vera Cruz. From this it would seem, that all the parade of this blockade was got up more as bravado than from serious intention of shutting up an enemy's ports. Perhaps the prime me- 4 tive of this excursion, wgs the hope of booty, of which a rich harvest might have been gathered from unarmed passengers, but for the rencontre with the Columbpia. FROM JAMAICA. We have files from Kingstwn to March I51,h inclusive. The iti policy of giving an extenvinn of liberty to negroes where they live ina com 3 mumity with the whites is deplorably illus trated by the had use the Jamaica slaves make of the privileges conferred upon them by the apprenticeship. This species of se mi-emanepation has only tentded to make t them more dissolute and reckless, and em s boldened them to make further demands though by that apprenticeship they only work 9 hours a day, and have a day and a halfa week to themselves, besides Sunday, - also land to cultivate, besides lodging, clo thing, salt provisions.and medical attend ance gratis! Many of our own white people would like such an apprenticeship. The U. S. sloop-of-war Ontario, Com mander Breese, sailed from Kingston for Havana, March 24. A Vice Admiralty Court was formed in Spanish Town. 5th March. Sir Wmll. Colebrooke, Governor of the Leeward Islands, haid called n general as seinbly of the islands. The legislative bo dies of Antigua and St. Christopher, hail protested against the.convocation, but Sir William would not yield to their remon strances. s St. Domingo, as the Kingston Chronicle well remarks, is a beautiful illustration of the I effect of negro emancipation: I "Once the garden of lte West Indies, the I grand emporium of sugar and coffee to sup ply Eturope, and from the nett profits of which six millions of French subjects were - supported in Europe, exclusive of the inlia - bitants of the Colony, which then amounted a to 36,000 resident whites, 25,000 free peo f ple of color, and 250,00 slaves. A nd the coinmodities produced in the island paid, in 1788, for export duty at the Custom House orSt. Doming. $835,535 which dis t charged the expenses of the executive gov r ernment, of the administration of justice. - and :3000 men in garrison. We ask what - has caused the loss of this revenue derived Srom the cultivation of the Colony of St. Domingo? And we are told the en)ancipa - tion of the Blacks, and their aversion to - agricultural labor, whereby the country, once a garden, has become a wild. Tile - beautiful plantations are destroyed-the 3 palaces are reduced to ashes" - The followiug is a condensation of the t most important statistical information, re - cently made in a report to the legislature of Massachusettq, by the Lunatic Hlospital of the State. It will he interestig on marny ac I counts; particularly, as showing a renmark able diffirnce (oa the popular opinon re and as evmeuig most clearly the immense destruction of intellect, made bv the rava i ges of intemperance. It may- also show that love, if it do not break hearts, plays the deuce with men's brains. Of the whole number of cases, 91 were remales, laborers 76, manufacturers 21, shoemakers 32, seamen 21, merchants 21 carpenters 17, teachers 14, blacksmiths 10, machinists 7, printers 8, tailors 4, paper makers 3, clothers 4, millers 3. calico pr in ters 3, cabinet miakers 8, bakers 3, steve dores 2, stone cutter 1, comb makers 2, coop-. crs 2, harness maker I, tanners 2, pedlers ,currier 1, brickluyer I, clergy 3, lawyer 1, broomtmakers 3, painters 2, watchmneni I, drover 1, coppaersmiithis 2. coachmenc 2, stu dents 5. sail mnakers2, news collector I, va grants 19. Tube causes are thus classifzed:-..210 of the inmnates have or have had acestors or near kindred insatne; 112 are periodically insane, and the principal causes are as fol lows, as near as can he asceruainedf. In temperance 129, ill health 122, miasterba tion 72, suicidal 60, religious 63, loss of property 48, disappointed affection 34, dis appointed ambition 10, homicidal 16, actual< homicides 11.t ABottion DisTUaBAscF. AT NORFOLR, (VA .)-The English birig Charity, Captini Ilumbert, arrived at Norfolk it appears, a bout six weeks since. anid was on the eve ning of her departure for Bamrbadoes with s slaves, but four or her crewv having desert- f ed after she dropped down to Hampton Roads, the Captain, with the owvner, Mr. s Wma. MtcCannan, of St. Johns, New Bruins- f wick, together wirh a Police Ollicer, broke 'l into a sailor lodgitig house in WVater-st., Ontt Friday night, for the purpose of a pprehend. ing themt. Oue was capt ured anudhorne of1' ri to jail. Mr. McCannian himself was on the c enusuimg morning committed to jail fur the g act of forcible entry. and obtained his re- e lease by paying *112, as a compromise.-. Meanwile the sailor who was apprehend ed, informed that a runaway slave was se- i creted 0n board thme brig A posse went on I board and found him secr.eted among the tI slaves. He was brought up to town anad SI the Captaim then placed in custody. The ht ptresenut law is very severe on the Captain, r< whether lie knew the slave w as on boar:Lor d not. Also, on the owners of the brig,which is now attachedl, and in the Sheriffra hatnds. Thtus the exciting matter rests. E From the Baltimore Republican. The Hartford Times confirms what wet have all along bteen endeavoring to impress e upon our readers, that Clay-Whigism and i A bohitiotmim have ent red into a political - tnlliance in opplositionr to ithe Adtministration. ~ The thing i" beyond doubt. In regard to the New Ilampshire election, we gave the franik avowanl of a Whig press, tumat Gov= erntor Hlill htad the coticentrated abolitionn vote arrayed against him. So has it prov- ' ed in Connecticut. The Times says: "The secret abolitiont movements have been extensive, and a large portion of the federal members of the Legislature are elected undor open or secret pledges on this question, and will vote for abolition resoln tions. In some lnstances there were coali- t lions between tho, federalists and abblitiont- ri ;sts to elct one and one to the Le ~,;a....... Feem tAe Wseskingt->n Chre nuichr. PRINCELY MUNIVICk.NCE. The excesses of the "credit system," at; it. scalled. hive produced many &great evila rm this countr;-hut anmotig isc slumber is, erhaps, none which works more insidiously d fatally against our social and politiei Isitution, than thitt which arises from the nequality of wealth produced by this incl. maunted system. We are no enemies i, iii ustry, frugality and enterprise. Neither ire we disposed to wrest from them the re vardts to which they are justly enited. Jut we are opposed to any and every sys em which tends to accunulate wealth in the lands Of the fert at the exipnse of the many. )neof the naist profound Historians of mo lern tines, attributes the decline and full >f the Roman Republie. chiefly, if not ex lusively, to the inequality of wealth, which ad been produced by an abuse of legisla ion ;-and which engendered, and must nevitaibly engender, under any form of aovernment, meanness aid servility on the une side, and imsolence, profusion, amid cor ruption on the other. Mr. Jefferson early saw the effect of this evil, and in striking at the system of Entails, removed oneof the main causes which promised to contribute to it Bit vain is every effort to restrain, the wits of men in devising schemes of self aggratidizement, and concocting means to live withom labor. The science of life con sists in the knowledge and practi.e of such devices-mind it is remarkable how success fully they are played off oi the public. Take for example, the Pennsylvania Bank ofrtie United States. The applicaits for the charter, proffered to pay into the coffers of the State, a million and a half of dollars, for the privilege of using it as the means of advancing their individual wealth. Tickled with the sound of this enormous sum-or, it may be, operated upon by some more substantial reasons, the Legislature grants the charter.-Large capitalists rush in and buy up the stock, and the mighty en gime commences its work. Now, who pays this million and a half? The stockholders ol tie bank? No-no-it is flMly to say so. I'le PEOPLE pay it, -pay it in the shape of intere.st oi the loans ol'crdit, which they have authorized these stockholders to make to them. This is the whole of the matter. By the workiig of the machine, money is taken omt of the hands of The industrious and acitulated b ands of the rdileicapitalists an d le is regarded as tie most profound finan cier who can best manage the nmachine so as to produce these rcsults, lie is held up as a man nmighty in expedients; and worthy of adulation and reward. In proof of this read the following article which has led to these remarks: MAONIFICENT COMPLUMENT.-The share holders in the late Bank of the United States are about to present Mr. Biddle with a service of plate, now exhibiting at the man facturers in Philadelphia, 'Fletcher 4- Co. It is thus described by the Philadelphia In quirer "The noble present is a splendid dinner service, which, with all its nminor details, contains no less than 360 pieces-the whole weighing 7000 ounces. On the lirg r and more massive dishem the following inscrip tion is engraved: THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE --NANWPI OFE'm'11E1ATES, TO NICEIOLAS BIDDLE,'Esq. THEIR PRESIDENT, [n taken of their gratitude for his fraitifuil, zealous and fearless devotion to their interests; and for his ser vices to the country. iii esta li shing~ the bmest currency in thme womrldi. February 19th, 183G. Tme ornamenital part oif the entire service, ms wecll as the <design, is mamssive anid hand ome; but none of' tihe specimnent, in our >pinmion, display so much beauty anti taste is the enndl~elabrta, constructed fur the ctre >f tihe table." Anid this is all dlone in time year of ruin, [838! time year in which silver and gold hid hemsealves behind time bliwarks of paper!! A e mnarv'el nt that M~r. Biddle is opposedl o resutmption,-. and in favor of the '-credit ystem," of fourteen paper dollars to ne of piecie. No wronder that fie, amid his as ociates iin Congress, are such dev'oted nil. 'ocaites of~ paper. Why mnot amelt up tihe old and silver of time cotmry in vessels of irnament to tickle the. fatncy anid minister o tihe pride of our wonihi be nobility! ['here would be paper' enough heft to fill time 'ockets of tihe people,-anmd that, we are ssured. is time very best currency. Sharp Shooting.-Tr here resides in Front reet, a gentleman, who ini castle Garden, red a hall from a rifle at sixty yards dis- { mnee unto the cen'mtre, and in a successive hot, another bamll n to the other. so as to isten them together. The same at time .hatched Cottage, Jersey City, madie a 'iling wager of 16 to 1, that lie wouldl with duel hng pistol, shoot in to the size of a ollar at 15 yards distance. lie bit the exact entre. drove the nail, amid had a six pennmy iece been placed on time centre, and its dige traced writhm a penknife, the cenitre suld not have beeni cut out more perfectly le has also hit a v'isiting card 13 times iii 5 shots at 10 paces, lie has killed at sea 2 stormy petereis in 14 shots; tihe ize of me body of this bird is so small that it i. pposed by many that it is imipossible to t it.. The sailors are very sunperstitionis garding this birdl, and nmany viewedl their ustruction with fear.--Krw-York Ga:. Death of Old Bertrand.--..T he Turf Reg ter for Apr-il, contained a report ouf time enath oftis renowned'horse, copied fronm to Spirit of the Times, but at time same me, doubted its correctness. We regret say that time report proved to be trtue, a tter fromi the owner, dtated Lexington, :3r I. ist., having been shown us yesterday, sta ig that he died the preceeding day of hotts. ism losa will be deeply regretted by all those mgagedin the raising of good horses. Inm ie same parngraph, wve fitnd the announee ent of the death of 1.anee, andi imported aientine,--Char. Cour. IMPORTANT it!tsrATy JNTE.LLioE.NcE:. -WVe learna that the P'residient of time U. mates, by amnd with the advice of time Semi e, has conferred the Breret of IBrigadier emneral on time gallant Colonmel Tavl~r, of a F-irst Retimewnt of Jnfattry, fr'his tme. oious conduct jm the last- a. ...;. wit -