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Irp..hoU-bv a soldier's grave; hispmepoqy ofl ill Gring the Sol di,-tis.4 the same ill-fated spot ame the orfpooir Brenham, than whom a noble s ~rit never lived. Thei also. P..yaw'.in and desolate plain, are the 'reisof Fitgerakl, Ogden, Jones,East aad. ad others-names which shouhl be ebiished and eve -remembered by the constry of.1their adoption.. Alas! poor fellows ! though. met by a frte aisabappy and nomerited, without a mouinment or single besp to mark the fatal spot, and show to th passer by the destiny of the brave, "Fon memory ne'er wili be con trolled-tbey ne'er can be forgot." For several weeks we enterta;ned bright hopes of liberation, Ihaving been assured by the U. S. Minister, and others high in adtbority; thaLuesbonld be released on the 19th of Jose, which, we are told, is Gen. Santa Anna's birth day, and which time has passed, as you will- observe from the date of my lotter ; and more, all hope as ied .We have again resumed our f ^ 'ofC'inddifienee and despair. at 100Ckthe present. When we shall be libarated, is a question which cnn be an swered alone by the President of Mexico. On last night, sisteen of the Texps prison ere, among whom is Gen. Green, made their escape throuth the walls of this Cas tie, shich was supposed to be impregna ble, having been erected more than seven sy yearsand regarded as one of the strong est fortications in the world. and through whicb.a passage had nevcr before been efected. This may he regarded as an extraordinary achievement. The forti6 cations are generally Jroug, and their officers vigilant in tihe .dicharge of their duty. The escape produced great excite ment. Having been allowed previously the privilege of the Castle. with as many liberties as are usually extended towards prisoners, and some ixemnptcd from chains entirely, we were now all put into the prison we had previously occupied. chain ed two and two. mod strongly guarded. A large number ofcavalry was immediately despatehed in every direction, who have not returned. For a short time, no small degre of excitement prevailed among ourselves, feeling naturally a warm solici tude for our companions in so dangerous and hazardous an'undertaking, as well as for our orn condition, not kuowing the efect which might be produeed upon the o&ibers in charge, relative t& ourselves. T'itorm, howdver, is appeased, and we aselofeujoying that feeling n hich usual ly succasee tempest. Very truly. WM. A. S(IEPHERD. . MISCELLANEOUS. .-em as Pkidelphia Wger. Aug. 8. ?-- ?Awfst Cnaly *1 Great Flood at Ches ter.-Lou of Lie and Property !-Tbe storm of Satyrday preveutud the Southern mall from reachig ttiiity- by the regn er- route.--The following ktter, w'uld we have received from Chester, by a pri. O9ate band gives a full accuant of the ter ribie disasters ii that neighborhood. It bsars the dat of Sunday, and comes from a eedqman bo was in the vicinity at the time.- - -& '"Chester and its vitinity are bowed dowa beneath the chastening hand of Pro. ildede. The borourh and its neighbor bod present scenes ofdesolation. such as in the absence of the terrors of war, have never been witnessed in this State. Our shores, are strewn with wreeks. ourstreets illed with ruins, and from :every section we hear tales of terror nd desolation aud death, sailcient to appal the stoutest heart. The recent rain had fully saturated the soil, and that of yesterday thercfole flowed on the surface. In the anlernoon the rein becam'e hieavy beyondl description. ifell as if in a moss. The very hills were sheetipd with water ; andi iu the valleys, rnlets became creeks and creeks were swollen into rivers. A frwshet was, of eoarse, anticipated ; but a flood, such as ensued, could not have been apprehended. It is said that thje pastenigers in the after noon boats saw a watrr-spout burdt upon the heights between Ridley and Chester Creeks; buti though any orudinry fall of rs'i however copious, seems inaudegnate to'hagse prodneed the subsequent Ilnod, thesals,nsaisfaetory evidence of the ex stace of.7a watei--epou. A bout six a' oek; It was found that Chester Creek wa rapidly rising. Every ellbrt was in staatly mnade th place such property as was tnoveable out of the reach of danger;t batis. itstantaneous was the swell of wa ter,.that the next moment left no feeling bat the dastinct of self preservation. Thg -seiarose; it is said by sonme, six feet in. lye miistes; others aver that it rose six feet am one~ minfte. The water poured downuas if a svavc of the sea land swept onward by an earthquake in about two S-..surs it had risen t wenty-three feet. The ..aoring creeks were swollen in the : g jroporion.; and the roar or the im petnons torrents rang for miles through the eonntry, The-Bond swept irresistibly on ward..- The dares built for its restraint were as reeds befpre the ocean that rushed b;theehannels were lost, and the vast vebtas o~aer spread over the plain, ~ii~p~b~arre t ttes, and sweeping be s~'like bubbMer bpon Fortumately, thide~i lace before darli, or the scenaelwonld have been even more terrible thas It was." In Chester, the tor '-u'irose as if by magie! and swept angri ~ihuh the, streets. The. buildings ~~wetomost frail were sept away;, and fihes,females were boie through -and rushing waters, half dead .Honses, dams, bridges, an aan- immense naass of lumber, srr lil-whesais,'c., shot by upon y tJntwhile'the assem ~snthe railroad at an a espense, wa. from its fmiosa and Sang dows theZiream. -~ e'tot dilow was the suspie'nsion T'his streture was one of which e tlhened Americmn was proud. as the ?rstcebaim-hridge built in the whas sinceeclaimed the in yen00 .etood--alas !.it stands - ereeted thirty~years * gtiskat to belongs the creditof ha saesstrueted the first snapatles bid oa.the mass of~ sjanr which shote EOetatfiey and a1R torent, sta teilgiiad men's restsanee. its vast iron fastalngs gave way with a crash, and lb chaihs, as they grated oipon each other, sparkled and lashed lik lightning. It swung heavily for a moment and fell into the flood. The water now swept through several of the lower streets. I saw this mornin a house in the middle of one street, and a shallop in anotherlell there by the receding stream. The nature and extent of the injury done could not then be estimated; but it was with a dismnay which approached despair that citizens saw the flood roll into their storehouses and sweep their hard earnings away. This morning, however, disclosed in part the extent of the =ain. It was found that wharves, tan-yards, machine shops, storehouses, lumber and coal yards. &c., had been either carried off I the flood or ruined by the inundation. Mesurs. Eyres, Kitts, Bronston, Paxton. &c.. are severe suflerers. But the consequences in Ches ter are trivial in comparison with those which have occurred high up on the Ches ter and Ridley creeks. Every bridge. or nearly every ono on these two streams,has been carried away. Many of these were costly and substantial structures, and it will cost an immense sum to replace thetn. Most of the mills and factories upon thos streams have shared the same fate. The factories of Mr. Crazor, of Mr. Dickson, of Mr. Riddle, and others, have been swept away. Immense numbers of bales of cotton, boxes of Roods, barrels of dyewood and barrels of four, have been carried down to the Delaware, so scatter ed upon the meadows into which the food, in its fury, broke and deposited its spoil. It is believed that all the dams are gone. The pecuniary loss to iudividuals is fright fully great ; and that which hii fallen upon the country is not less appalling. The lowest estimate los of $250.000; but this is made uop, to a great extent, upon conjecture. The county will probably be constrained to raise: by loan. the means of reconstructing her brilges, as all inter course between the different sections of the country is now cut off. But the loss of property. terrible as it is, is inconsiderable to the lrss of life with which this affliction of Providence has been attended. It is.believed that not less than tweniy, and probably many more, persons have been found the shore and in the meadows. This fatality is to be ascribed to the unparalleled sad-lenness of the rise of the water. It was as if the earth hand opened and poured forth her secret flood. Scarcely -as the presence of danger known, before it was followed ly the 'hhsenre of hope. Hundreds of hair-breadth scapes are narrated. The whole country is overspread with gloom, and the consequence of last night's calami ties will loig overshadow the prosperity of this lovely section of country." From ihe N. Y. American. The Prirates takrn-Confession of one of ato.-The step of justice has in this case been sure withamv being tardy, and within a few clays (Sunday) of their -tting foot on shore, the mutineer. and murderers of tip schr. Sarah Lavinia-found at sea and towed into port, as related in our pa per of Tuesday-are secured, at least two out of three, and the third can hardly es cape. Two of the pirates of the schr. Sarah Lavinia were this morning arrested in this city. The circumstance are as follows: The pirates remained all night at Se coonet Point. after landing frum the schooner. The man with whom they lodged, ques tioned thenm iQ afn ordinary mnneur. but they giving pretty fair answers, did not geite any suspicion in his mind of any I hing wrong ln the morning they took the steam boat fur lFall River atnd then for Provi dence, where they took the steamer Mas satchsjsfor New York~on Monday even img, arrvung hero on Tuesday morning. On going on shore they accidentally left a bag, part of their -haggage, on board the boat, whbich was takena back to Provi In the meantime the Innkeeper at Se connet had heard of the piracy and im mediately traced them to Providence. where he foua'd thme Massachusetts, and went on board. The baggage room was then searched and thobhag found. Capt. Coamstock opened it and found the'shirts of the Captain and Mate, and oilher clothes, completely saturated with blood. Thha Massac'iusetts arived this morning wvitha the innkeeper. The cartman who carried the haggage wvas then found and the men tracle the boanling house of Mr. Knowles, No. 7 Washingtot-stre-et, where the youngest of' the three pirates, Mathews, (American) was arrested and taken on board the Massachuaetts. A watch was then set for the other two and in a shot time Babe, and Englishmana, was arrested: when arrested he preten dled great ignorance and was very hots terons and whished to know what ho was .rrested for. lIe was told that he was wanted on board the steamboat. When he arrived there and was confronted with Mathews, his contenaince fell and he shewed guilt in that he, Webster and the cook were below, ad that Babe came to the companion way and called him up, and told them that the captain and te had had a scuffle and .fallen overboard: that Babe then took charge of the vessel until they came near the land, when he ordered the cook to go forward to do something to the Isails. While cook was busy. Babe went be hind him,'and wiih a mallet killed him and then ordered the others to throw him oterboard else he wonld serve them in the same manner. This (hey did, and then an came on shore. Capt. Comstoek also questionsed the men when they came on hoard the stee rner at Prorihence, but receiving fair and apparentl answers, no suspicion was ex cited in hi mind. The pirates would have left this cIty yesterday, but were persuaded by Mr. Knowles to remain antil t6-day to obtain the bag which the1 had left ont board the steamerd-Mr. Kioles being entirely unsaspicioos of tb~a - any thing in the hag except their own hkaing. Webster, the third pirate, is pot yet arresled. The mber' t*o Were taken' in cargea by the U. 8. MaembiL The commercial Advertiser :of Thurs lay afternoon says: The prisonars will undergo and exam nation for commitment this af-ernoon or o-morrow. The third person will un foubtedly soon be arrested, as several of )f his places of resort are well known, and a number of officers are in pursuit. The accused having been arrested in this city, hey will, if committed be tried in the Uni ted States Court ror this district. BosToN, Aug. 1. Murder. Muriny, and Piracy!-We learn from the New Bedford Bulletin of last evening the following facts. On Sun iay, about nine o'clock, the sloop Fair. haven at Providence, from New Bedford ror Now York.when 6 miles S. E. of Cut tyhunk, fell in with a schooner running before the wind. all sails nct, but no per. son visible on board. On. boarding her found one anchor out with a short scope. longboat gone. hole cut in the cabin floor with an axe, Captain's trunk broken open and rifled, seaman's chests gone and the schooner scuttled, with considerable water in the boe. She proved to be the schr Lannia, from Alexandria. whence she sailed July lit, with a cargo of corn, flour, &c. for Anti gua, and a market in the West Indies. The following is a list of the ofaeers and crew : C. H. Dearborn. master Wolter Nicholl. mate; J. Johnson, cook, and David Bade. Win. Webster, GeO. slat thews, seamen. The last regular entry, in the logbook. was in the mate's hand, under date of July 10th. b A small book was found in the cabin. containing a few entrics without signatore, in which it i. stated, that on the evening of the 14th of July, the captain and maie quarrelled and fought on deck, and rolled or were swept overboard. The infercuce. however, is, from the state of tl'e vessel. &c., that the officers were murdered in a mutiny of the men, but the whole trans action temains shrouded in mytery. Times. From the Richmond Compiler. A A Tribe of Pilgrims Discovered.-An English traveller, Capt. Harris, has pub lished in India, a volumt of his researches in Africa and the Eait. It has not been republished either in England or this coun try, bit we derive from It, through the Boston Daily Advertiser, the followicg nn tie of a remarkable tribe in Africa. This a,:count of a race of men. who from their diminutive statue are aciually obliged to conceal themselves like wild beasts from their taller neighbors. recalls the so called ficticious narratives of pigmies in the works of Ilerodotus and Pliny. "In the midst of the monotony of such inconvenient journeying, some singular events constantly transpired servitng to di vert the travellers. How it was the sight of an abandoned salt spring. to'vards which men and beasts rushed eagerly ; thinking that they were approaching a lake; now it was the passage of Orange River. whose transpareut. deep anci wide waters Raw along betweco weeping wil lows, bathing their flexible braabes in the shady shallows of the borders of the streanm now it was the diverting spectable of a troop of Griquas pursuing the ostrich on foot. These Griquas. among whom a mission has been established. are mulat toes of lotentot; their whole foree of fighting men was destroyed in 1531, vith the exception of two individualls lby Mose lekatie. (This is the name of the kin ef the Matabilis, the most powerful tribe .a Southernt Africa.) It is almost :.pim race, subsisting on bulbous roots, lucuets and repcilcs. Compelba-d to'ontceal them. selves because thjty are not so tall or strong as the people of neichboring tribecs, the Griqua% excel in nothing but in run. ning, and this quality. we might almost say. receives its chief exercise in their es capes from their enemies. The cabains nre hardly visible to the traveller. and they lways retire to such a dlistatnce from the springs and rivers. that they are obliged to go four or five miles from their dlwellines to obtain water ; nor have they atny ves sels besides ostrich eggs, in which to draw and carry it." M.r. Mofiat, the missionary, whose in teresting travels in South A frica have late ly been published in thiscountry, spent some time at the Missionary station n innng this tribe. It appears to be a small race-the first tribe to the north of the English colonial frotierct in Southern Afri ca. None of them, according to Capt. Harris, are five feet high. Captain K. was travelling with a fuiend on a sp rtiog expedition of a larcer scale of exdcutin than the English Prcserves' ar'or. They subsequently arrived at the Couirt of King Moselekatse, of whom we have spoken a'ove. Among his subjects lhey found euE in use in the manner de mrihed ont thae following extract: --The Mlatabilis carry their snuamgourds pendant from the ear, which is bored for this surpose ; few of them smoke, taut t hey have a great passion for snufT, which is bus used :With an ivory spoon half the tontents of the gourd his heaped into the palm of the hand,-the epicuare then sits at his ease under the shade of a tree, antd having prepared himself for his enjoyment. bya strong inspiration, inhales the wvhole of the tobacco at a breath. From this ac lin there results an inexpressive delight. greater er less, as more or fewer tears are etorted from the practitioner." The Late Forgeries.-A few days aince, we published a report of the arrest of a man named David Crowley, charged wIth having for-ged four checks bearing the name of Mlinott blitchell, of Wes cho er county, which were drawn on antI passed at the 7th Wanrd Bankt anda also the forgery of a check on the Chemical Bank, all evidently emanating fronm the same source. Since the arrest of Crowvley, officers Relyca and Kellinger have been on the look out for other parties supposed to be ronnected with these forgeries, and they arested a genteel looking man named ianselle-ri Becker, who had a furnished nuse in ,lliver street, and in con etion eith another man, opened a hat ltre in Lhaham street, under the name of,Ford tam & Co., no sneh firm being in exis enee. Beker it appears managed the whole business, and by writinmg letters to lifernt wealthy individuals tinder for and then. through the iusmiumentality of of skilful penman, he was enabled to suc cesfrully counterfeit the signatures of those individual# to checks on the diffe rent banks at which they had busincss. Tho business of preseutiug the checks, at the banks, it appears, wan confided to CroAley. who was successful in soveral instances. Amongst other forgeries per petrated by these men, were the name or the magistrate and clerk of the Fulton street Justices Court, and of Patrick Henry, one of the city marshalls, to checks the money was obtained. This gang of siwndlers, some of whom are not yet diseovered. also obtained goods to a large amount from different merchants, by one of them purchasing the goods and referring to the fictitious firm of Fordham & Co., where a satisfac tory account of the purchasers was of course invariably given to the duped mer chant. A large quantity of goods thus ob tained, were found in the possession of R. Becker, in Oliver street. and the owners have fortunately recovered them since his arrest. Becker, it appears, is an of. fender. or at least was charged with being so. having been about two years sin& said in be concerned with others in coun terfeiting foreign coin. He was also charged with being concerned with Otis Allen. now in the state prison, in coun terfeilinz Wt5 bills, on the Bank of San dusky, in Ohio; but he has hitherto con trived to escapeJ unscathed. le is, however, now in prison and committed for trial ; and it is expected numerous persons. who have been swindled by him. -Jour. of Coat. British Reasoning.-We were not a little startled in reading some remarks from the Earl of Aberdeen in a debate in the louse of Lords. upon a bill before that body ror the apprehension of offend ers from the United States, found within the British dominions. We presume tbtt the bill under con %ideration had some reference to the Trea ty of Wishington, relative (6 the giving '.;y of criminals from either country. who might be apprehended withii the jurisdic tion of the other. The noble Earl re marked, "that it was supposcl under this hill fugitive slaves would he given up. but' there was no intention of introducing such a provision," and further. -to e-cape from slavery was no crime," but on the contra ry was to lie "regarded with sympathy nor was it theft or robbery, if ho in his flight took his master* clothes. horse, or boat." and we suppose that as a slave, wishing to run away might find it conve nient to kill his master. they would still be --regarded with sympathy." by thi en lbghtened and humane government. This is a sublime code of morality, emanating from a philanthrop'ic and benevolent Brit ish statesman. but yet it is only what lie English Government unceasingly pracii ses, that rapine and plundefshould all lie regarded with sympathy? The slave will have nothing to do, hut to escape to Cana. dlo, and he will there he screened from the punishment due to his crimes ; if he has robbed and plun-lered his master, it makes no difference. he must be regarded with sympathy. ant must he withheld from the person who "calls himself his owner." I, the South prepared to subUnit to s':h a coostrucion of the late treaty ? Will the American people yield t"1 England the right to legislate for them ? This she seems to bevrohitined by the treaty, not oni!s ,vtpon the present subjce: but upon ->tI.-rs, stuchA as the right of search," "African squadron" &.c. We now see Entglanid matting a formal demand for a personi accttsed of murder. (Mrs. Gibmao-ar) apiprehended in New York, but she tells uis in the samnebreadlth, that if one of our oll'endir4 be caught within her dlominions, if that ofl'ender lie a rn-a-way negro he shall be protected and regarded with sym pathty. Hoew long, will it he before w e are -'thimble-igged"' and negotiated out of every thing like National rights, by the cunnig' polic-y of this ambitious monar chy !-Camden Journal. Th~e Great fndian C'ouci.-We co py thc following fro's~the St. Louis New Era of the 26th uit: "We learn from Van Buren (Ark.) In telligencer, of the 15th that the great In dian council at Tal-le quan. in the Chero kee nation, closed its deliberations on thme 34 inst. Delegates from the Cherokee Creek, Chicasaw, Deleware, Shawnee, Piankasha, WVea. Osage. Seneca, Stock bridge. Ottawa. Chippewa. Peoria, Witch etah. Pottowotome, andI Seminole tribes, were present. The result of their delibera tions was a compact. binding upotn each nation party thereto, embraging the fol lowing objects. The maintain peace and friendship among each other. To abstain from retaliation for of'ettcs committed by individualet To provide for the improve mient of their people in agriculture, mann factutres, and other arts of peace. That no nation party to this compact, shall, wi'hont the consent of the whole, sell, cede, or in any many alienate to the Uni ted States any part of their territory. To providle for the putnishmetnt of crimes com mitted by the citizen, of one nation upon the citizens of another. To admit the citizen'zof one natIon to citizenship in any other nation. party to the compact. To endeavor to suppress the use of' ardent spirit. within t he limits of their respective nations:- and to prohibit its introdIuction by the citizens of one nation into the icr ritory of another." Deprate.- i~rt Jno. Owens, the iniidual who so severely woutnded young Boyd at a harbecue last week at Pine Tucky precinct, was overtaken on last Thursday.in Coosa cot.nty. and killed, by a number of persons in pursuit of him. He, we learn, refused to bytaken, and g ado a most deaperate reststanee. lie had stopped for the night at a private house on the rmad, aa on learning the ar rival of his pursuers, entrenchedi himself in an out house, prmed with pistols~dnuble barrelled gun and a supply of nmtnubtion, antd maintained hIs poutuilti dur-ing the nighl, in the course of whieb he succeeded in wounding several of the assailats and was hiinself shot several times in the body and had one band shattered. In the morning he threw open the door andI dis iharge his last load of ammemnition and rushed out and engaged In a hand to hand cnflict, and WOunde(d one petr t, t. ! bowia knife. fie was againishot twice,anl Inally killed with his own knife. Among other exhibitions of his singular despera. lion, we are informed that while on the ground be drew out the knife from liis bo dy and struck iui i! fiercely at his as ailants. A number of gun slot wounds wee found on his person receiving dur ing the nigh.which he had handagedJ with various articles of his dress. There are various rumors afloat concerning this af fair-the account that we have given i., the most authentic we have been able to olb tain.-Montgomery (Ala.) Journal. A Virious Boy now a Murderer !-We have a short history of Abner iogers. Jr. now about to be tried in Boston for mur dering the keeper of the prison, from which we learn that while a boy his parents ieg-. lected his education, and permitted him to roam about with a numberof idle boys who infested the town of Newbury. Al ass. Ne czmmenced his career with idleness; next he lef the school and despised the instruc tions it afforded; then he scoffed at the ad monitions of those who tried to guide him in the path to future bappiness and honor as a man and a citizen; he despised all their counsel, spent all his time with lazy. boys like himself, who snore, smoked, chewed, drank rum, congregated in idle squads. and laughed at the wise boys of the village as they passed to school or in dustrious employmenis. At the age ofnine teen he was sent to prison for passing bad money and from one step to another, he soon ascended the ladder of crime to where he now stands on the. to1 and is about to step on the gallows, there to end his career at the early age of 30. This isonly one among a thousand instances of the danger of commencing to do wrong. When a boy once begins, no matter how small the beginning may be, he steps into a rail car on the top of a sleep hill, down which he will run with rapidity and he dashed into destruction in an abyss of crime below !-N. Y. Sun. Schr. Sarah Lorinia.-No new facts have been brotht to light here respecting this horrid afflair Rince our last. Babie, alias Brown, and Matthews. are still in the custody of the U. S. Starshal. Their examination will take place next ' ues day. Webster is still at large, and is sup posed to have gone to Philadelphia. to to which place officers ha-.e fullowed in pursuit of him. The captain, Charles I. Dearborn. and the mate. Walter A. Nicoll, were both natives of Alexandria. and the mate was respectably connected in Virginia and al so in New-York, his uncle being a me cl-ant in this city, of the firm of Wykroff & Nickoll. The captain and mate were both young men. the latter only three and twenty. and the former about thirty years old. The sloop was onted by Mr. Thomas, of Alexandria.-. Y. Jour. of Con. 5th inst. Th.- Boutndaru Question.-Thc Cum missiuners appointed by Maine and 3las sachusctts to examine the claims of the e-ttlers on L' e St. John and run out their lots have taken a recess. The weather has been very unfavorable during the lime they have been employed. and we un derstand that they have not made m uch progress. The business will require a much longer time for its '!ompletion than hans been supp:oed. as the settlers are more numerous and the claims more difficult to he adjusted than seens to have been on ticipated. Cases too arise which the Commnisioners cannot dispose of wiathout additional au thoerity. They w ill renew their labiora the first of Septembter. lt is reported that the hloundlary Com mnissioners have disagmeed abouut the mean ing of the language of the treaty, and that one of the surveying parties has sut pended nperationts in consequnc.-Ban gor Democrat. Immense 1mplement of Destrucion. The great cannton recently in-t eted by hy Captein Stockton, of the United States Navy, is made entirely of high p~olished wrought-iron, and is fired by umearns of a lock. It carries a shot weighit:: ttco kundred and fbrty-two pounds, and uses twenty-Ave pounds of powder. at each explosion. An experiment was made, lately, with this enormous piece of ord nance, at its station near the Light Hiouse, below Sandy Hook. A point blank shot struck a line on a tat-get three miles dis taut ; and penetrated through and through the larget, which was constructed of nronm bars and wcond combined, rendering it more strong and solid than the hull of the larg est seventy-four. A writer in the New rjk Erening Post states,that he was in. Wmed by those whbo have it in charge, that it was considered no extraordinary thing to strike the target at which it was levelled, at the extreme gdistance. of frer miles across the arm of the baf. This immense piece of ordiance is destined for the stern of a large m'en-of-war, now building at the Navy Yard itn Philadel phia.-South Curohinian. Mr. ,9Adle's Plan for br nging theI States rate - Court.-h: appears that the plan whsich Mr. Biddle has suggested oh prosecuting the States which do not pay their bonds by making over the bonds to some foreign guvernment, or the national aaoernment, is not original with him. The Journal of Comtmerce says: A. P'ar ker Efrthis city, as long ago as DecemhberI last, in letters addressed by him to the President of the United States, an.! to the Governors of Illinois, Indiana, &c. which letters were plublisled in pamphlet form, and have been distributed in the money circles here, antd also at London and Amsterdam., Mr Parker has fortifi ed his doctrine, by the opinions of emi nent counsel and able statesmen! and we uunderstand thau,through his agency, some of them will soon be reduced to practice; not so much with a view to coerce the delinquent State., as etab!ished princip les in a case where none were established beforedtg throw ligh4 open the whole subjecte'U judicial investigattion, in the belief that this only is necessary to indtaee a proper action on the part of the rpeeple of said States. A t the same fti- .me . fort will be made, by no"'.-of a public agency to ha' c'...lbhtsied here and in Lon dlon, -o hioidl out facilities and. inducemncets so a he States to meat thbeir c1mgcea......... e Egej ROi~ertiger. E-'DGEFIELD C. It. Wi.oNKsDAY. ArcU'T 9. 1843. #4 4 ' We will eling to dhe Pillars of the Temple of our LibCrtues.andifitixstfall,we will Perisk amidst the Ruius." FOR PRMsIDENT: JOH N C. CALHOUN, Subj.ect to the decision of the Democratic Republican Conrention, to assemble in May.1'I4. as recommended by the Statcs of Maryland, Michigan. Kentucky. Lou isiana. New 1humpshire. Massadusells. Alabama and MLississippi. Temperauce Meeting.-A Temperance meet iug will be held at Uttle Stephens' Creek Church. on the Second Suqgay in September, at which time Dr. If. Burt will deliver an Ad dress on the subject of Temperance. Goon NKws.-The Domestic Missionaries of the Edgefield Baptist Association are now - zealously engaged in the field of their opera. tions. Many of the Churches have enjoyed inreresting revivals, and others ate now pro. greasing. TI Missionaries in this section, with other Ministers ho came to their aid, began a meeting in ptist Church in this place on Friday evening the 4th instant. which continued with increasing interest until Mon day evening last. We have rarely witneed a seapon like that through which this community has just passed. Since 1831 we have not ob served as large and as attentive congregations. - Throughout the vhole time, the people gener ally. laying aside their daily avocatios, re paired to the onse of God. We are informed' that some 12 or 15 persons liave expressed a hope in Christ during the meeting, and we knm% that many others are deeply concerned. We understand that our Methodist biethren are also enjoying interesting meetings in dif. ferent quatters of the District, The cnuse of Religion has claims upon all, even the man who does not profess it, should rejoice as a Patriot in it.s extension. for upon the virtue and intelligence of our people depend the libertips of the country. We know that in a political journal 't is not usuail to roter to this subject, but we are not satisfied with the pro prietv oif the conrse. We believe that the Preri is too powerful an engine not to lead, on all proper occasions, its notice and its aid tn the promotion of that cause which isso deeply connected with the temporal and eternal in. terest of the people. ew ChareA Coscrated.-The Protestant Episcopal Churcn, recently erected in Aiken, S. C.. was consecrated on Wednesday the 9th inst.. tinder the name of St. 7adas' CAreA, by Bushop Gadsden. The Church is said to be a very neat building, designed by Mr. Wes. ner. .Vemu Coton-The H amburg Jouna of tho 9th in-t.. says: " A planter of this district bronght to town on Monday last, ant open boil of Cotton of ihis year's growth." The SoutA Castliuias of the 10th inst. says: We understand that several bolls of new Cot ton were open on the plantation of Richard Sandley, Faq.. in Newberry District, ton the, The Washington (Ga.) Yews, of the 10th inst, says: "In all parts or the South. the erops are reported to be excellent. In this res pect this section does not differ front others. rhc crop of Corn, nottwithstanding the unfit vorable' prospect at the commencement of the isason, is better than common. and there will. re, unless cut short by an eatly frost, or by >zter misfortunes, fully an average crop of rotton. It is said to he well-belled, and to be is yet entirely free from worm or roL." A Dued.--The Hlamburg Journal ef the 9th nut. sa: We understand an "affir of ioor" came off yesterday morning, within ihout four miles of this plarce, between James iardner, Jr., Esq., Attorney General of Geor ;ia, and our brother Jones of the Chronicle ad Sentinel The cause or eases of their esort to -horridas bdis," we know not,- but ongratulate them heartily at their scathiess ec '-ape front the field ofltars. "A fter an exchange of shots, their feelings if resentment seemed to bo satiated, end they cfl the ground. -We must add, that we regret our soil being . mnds the scene of such gladiatosip, and mauhl prefer the gentlemen settling their die nices at home, in Georgia" Gent. Wanddy Thmpson.--The Soui& Cartlip int says: -We learn fromt a late number of he Galvcston Ge:ette, that the Mexican jour. alists, who seemed on the first visit of Gen.. ['bompson to Mexico. to regard him with sos os eyes, now expresses for him the high St respeet anid esteem. Hie appears to have ~ained the confidence of all p-arties. The edi or ofthie Diario del Gebinue contrasts his con lict with that of other foreign ministers, and aly, it has been uniformly frank and concilia ory, most respectful to the government and the wountry, and nevdatrked by thec insolent. -a aughty tone that others have assumed." (0T The Augusta Constitrutioualist states that ~Ifr. John B. Lamar, of Bibb county. Georgia, celeted last year a mnesaber of Conugress, fromt liat State. has resigned his seat. There wil e, in eonsequence, two vacancies to till in their leegation next O0,ot-.r. rThe Xllasisewiau states that the lion. C. A.' hickliffe, Postmaster General, returned to V'ashington front Baltimore on thme 4th inst. notirely free from pain, and rapidly reeoveng, rem tsh- e't1ccts of his wouned,