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The above facts have been withheld by the press in Texas; but as they are topics of daily conversation in the streets, see no , objection to calling on Louisiana to watch her neighbor! You may rest hesured, gentlemen, that I am retailing to you no vague rumor, but facts which have been derived from the most indisputable source. GALVESTON. jFrom N. Y. Courier $r Enquirer.) Mexico.-The Retail Trade Prohibited to Foreigners.-We are indebted to Jo seph Fleming, Esq., a passenger in the Eurotas, from Havanna, for a manuscript copy of a decree issued by Santa Ana, at the Palace of the national government in Tacubaya, on the 25th uIt., prohibiting to foreigners not naturalised, all trade by re tail in the Mexican Republic. The fol lowing are the principal articles of the de cree: Art. 1. All trade by retail in the Mexi can Republic is prohibited to foreigners, and they cannot follow it, either publicly or privately. Art. 2. from the above prohibition are excepted foreigners naturalised in the Re public, those married to Mexican women, and those who reside in the Republic with their families. Art. 3. Foreignners excepted by Art. 2d, and who wish to continue in said business, must ask permission from the supreme government, through the Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, before the expira tion ofsix months,.and must present the fol lowing documents. viz: Those who have obtained a certificate of naturalizations, and authentic copy of the same: Those not naturalized, 1. A certificate of the fact of marrige, duly authenticated by some one of the Mexican diplomatic or consular agents abroad, or by the parish curate of the place in the Republic where the marraige was comsumttated. 2. A certificate from the chief political authority of the place where they reside, declaring the fact of their residence there, and that they exercise the conjugal relations. 3. A certificate from the Legation of their res pective'countries, that the capital which the employ, is their own. A want of either of those proofs is sufficient to exclude thera from all retail trade. . 4. Foreigners who may hereafter emi grate to the Mexican Republic, can en gage in said business after having cotmpli ed with the conditions of the foregoing article. 5. Provides that the names of the per sons excepted from the operation of this decree shall be registered at the office of the Minister of Foreign affairs, together with a statement of the facts in each case. 6. Six months from the date of the de cree is allowed to those not excepted to wind up their business. 7. Any foreigner not excepted, who af ter the expiration of the said period shall epgage or continue in any specie of retail trade, shall forfeit his goods, andincur a penalty equal to their value. 8. Foreigners can have workshops in any part of the Republic, and can sell by retail the articles of their own manufac ture, provided they employ any Mexican apprentices of workmen. THE UNITED STATES AND'MEXI CO. The N. O. Courier of last Friday Eve ning has the following remarks under this head. We announce with regret, that the eommunications that have passed between our Minister, Gen. Thompson, and the M~exican Mittister of Foreign Affairs, ap) pear to have had a pernicious influence upon the commercial relations between the two countries. We publish itn another chlumn of our paper, a decree which has been sent to us by the Mexican Consul, w bich is one of the consequces of these communications. It is a decree frot: thte Provisional President of the Mexicatn Re public, that closes to all foreign commerce, the custom houses on the fronitiers adjoin itng the~ territory of the Utnited Statest that is, the customhnuses at Taos, the Passo and the Presidio Del. Norte. Accordingly, the commercial relations that have existed for sotne years past with Santa Fc, and which promised such beno Sicial results, are enttirely suspended. The diplomatic communications refer red to above are those relating to the Tex an ma.rauding parties whic~h were atlledg ed by the Mexican Government to be com posed of citizens of-the Unaited States, to he got up in the United States, and armed and supported by its people. antd that titerefore our~ Government was re sponsible for any mischief tihey had done or might do. This conclusion wvas per emptorily rejected by General Thompson, and the consequence is this sort of imagi nary blockade of the frontier. It will not probably prove very efictual. The following is the diecree. Art. 1. "Are closed withottt restriction to all exterior commerce, the frontier cus somahouses of Taos, in the department of New Mexico, at the Passe del Norte as well as the Presidio del Norte, in the de partment of Chihuahua." Art. 2. "This declatration shall have effect iorty five days after its publicarion in the capital. In consequence, &c. National Palace at Tacubya, the 7th August, 1843. (Sigaed) Lopez A ntonio de Santa Anna. "Ignacious Trigeros, Minister of Finance. From the European Correspondent of the .-National Intelligencer. TaE Revo~toN ots GREECE. You.will scarcely- be surprised at the occurrences in Greece, except wvith regard to the exact limits odemand and coer cion. of decorum and forbearance, which the insurgent patriots prescribed.to their jnst- cause, and strictly observled. From the extracts of the British correspocdence at Athens, and the reports of travellers, which I have occasionly sent to you an the nature and composition of King Othbo'! Government and the grievances of his nativesubjects, you may have expected an early attempt at revolution. WAhen the Greeks learned that the recent London conlerence of the powers that installed the young' Barvarian over them would not engage to extort from:himn directly a con stitution more or less.free they resolved to manage the ease for; themselves. The soncert of military had- civil conspirators was universal, perfect, andlbeautiful. In the night of the 14th and 15th 'instant, at 2 o'clock A. M. they sallied forth, sur rounded his magnificent new palace, roused the absolute monarch, destitute o1 all aid, seat to him the Council of Start for whom he had asked and with whom they had arranged the: =form of his prom ise to convoke a national assembly and dismiss all the Bavarian functionaries. Otho yielded at once, and implicitly. The diplomatic corpse ssayed to obtain access but were repulsed, with elaborate politeness, by the masters of ceremonies, at the head of the troops and the citizens, until the Council of State bad come forth with the required concessioons and decres. Every body was in the secret of the conspi racy,save the sleeping pair cfsovereigns. A "movement" in support of the revolution was executed by agreement at the same time at Colchis, the capital of-the island of Negropont, at Corinth, and at Nauplia, and indeed at all the chief points of the realm. Complete unanimity was the as surance of complete success; obviated all inducement to an effusion of blood any where. The new Cabinet-accepted with like promptitude-is admitted on all hands to consist of estimable trust-worthy men. but it is singularly cast: two.are of the Rusian party, two of the British and two ofthe French; the only member whn had not been deemed a votary of one n those foreign rival interests in Canntis. the fireship hero (brulotier) of the war with the Turks. Front this distribution of partisans, it is conjectured that the three Powers conspired with the people, having lost hope of the reimbursement of their loan at any period until the Bavari an consumers uf the public revenus were driven away. and the royal spendthrift subjected to legislative control in the ad. ministration of the finances. You may recollect an oflicial note of M. Guizot com municating his impression that the Greeks niere not ripe for representative system. It was affirmed that Russia concurred with him in this opinion, and the policy of deferring the grant of a constitution. The London Morning Chronicle, whose correspondents et Athens have uniformily complained of the French, on this score exults in the revolution as the overthrow of M. Guiz"t's scheme. It says: "The French Government is singular ly unfortunate. Wherever or whenever it extends its patronage, even with the best intention, this patronage is sure to produce an insurrection or disaster. For the second time the restoration of the Mderados in Spain by the French Gov ernment has ;hrown the whole country in to chaos. It is now some weeks since the French Government undertook the aff'air of Greece. King Otho, jealous alike of Russia and England, trusted his fortunes io France, and had just appointed Gen. Colletti, head of the French party, and breathing nothing but French ideas, chief )f the Ministry, when a telegraphic des patch in the Moniteur tells us the result, in the announcement of an insurrection." The Paris National, as the Republican organ, is quite satisfied with the retention ,f a monarch in Greece, and argues from the arrangement of the cabinet that the three powers wili manage. by intrigue and intimidation, -to remain joint masters, and trample on real Greek interests. What ever real national independence the Greeks may enjoy will doubtless; he due to the good pleasure, or the mutual jealousy and antagonism of thz Pentarchy who now compose politigdf and diplomutic Europe. They will myintaii their annointed on the hrone, trayh him to behave better, and, in order to keep him in closer dependence on themselves, will allow the Greek Na ional Assembly to hedge the royal prero ~aive in accordance with the theories o1 liberalism. They have little to fear from tht Assembly, whtich is called for in the 14th proxitmo; the numbers atid the terni ory of the Greeks are too small for mutcl weight in the rivalry and calcula'iotns o the fivejPowers; the kingdomi could estree l now, single-handed, resist thte Turks. The getnius and habits of the Greeks are lemocratic; they wvere left in possessiorl uf their municipal freedom, their opet courts of justice on the French model, and an almost absolute liberty of the press. They have many citizens with at education of the best European stamp, and the considerable advatncement of the classes of the population in contact witi the civilized wvorld and its action canno be denied; yet no small part of the in habitants of the provinces are semi-barba rons; and the modern Greek characte has ttot risen materially in general esti taion. Fine things have been writter and spoken about the new kingdom as bulwark against the ambition of Russia and as a revival of glorious antiquity. Trhe more plausible notion is, that it wil be rendered subservient to that ambhition through the influences of a comtmon reli gion and the superior tactics and more auspicious position of the ever-growing etpire. As for the generation of a pec pe-that is. restoration of ancient great ness; after long and complete decay a degeneracy, there is no instance of it whici I can recollect in human annals. In thi respect, I can cherish no fond hope Greece, nor of Turkey, nor of any the peninsulas, A usonian or Iberian. Thb Italians. the Dutch, and the Belgians mas be in'itslrious cotmmnunities-productive and tmore or less free, according to th< tendencies of the age; but we can expec from them nothing like the tmoument and performances of their ancestors of thi higher centuries. The Germans, British Freadh, have never declined; they will at cend' in power and grandeur: the Swis have not d windled nor spoiled within ma teially; their,aational importance and mo menum are, however, gone: internal di visions weaken and loosen them yearly. Russia and the United States are in thi outset of their first career, with splendit means, vast resources, unprecedented ad vantages. It might he salutrnry for therr to conclude, from history, that there is u redempton for vitiated, unrighteous, all. grasping nations, once fallen or. in thi .ane: An orator, in any other countr3 might envy a itew Pericles or Demosthe tes, in the National Assembly at Athens the opportunity of the opening speech. With all the essenlial differences of -situa ton and horision, yet. what an approxirri tion- rhetbrical-what reminiscences, whi examples, what anticipations fur patriot ;m and alonnence! .ln the ancient hin. a ry there is a never-failing interest and in r spiration for the present and future. But -to alight from my 'stilts-we may fear that the debates and other transactions of .the Greek Chamber wi'l possess very lit tle consequence for the world, and excite very glender or very transient concern a broad. MISCELLANEOUS From the Charleston Courier. St:-I have read the communication in your paper of the 28th, under the sig nature of "Hold on," in relation to the shortness of :he present crop, and agree so fully with him, that I. cannot refrain from adding my evidence and views in confirmation of his. It is too true that the long spell of dry and beautiful weath er was considered by the planters them selves as very favorable to their crops. The cotton they gathered, in consequence has been very clean and white, but every one has been disappointed as to its effect on the late cotton. Having picked all the cotton that opened during the dry period before the frost, and expecting that half of my crop still remained in the fields, I find, to my astonishment, that it has ceased in - a great degree to open. Day after day I overlooked it, but the fields will not be come white. The same thing occurred to ime in 183J, then planting in a different pan of the State. The overseer.- until frost, said le would make 200 bales. Thu frost came on several days after the 20th Oct., and I made but 130 bales, scarcely a holl opened afterwards, though " the fields were filled with them full grown. With the present prospect of my crop, I believe it will be the shortest I have made for years. I am positively alarmed at ap pearances, though I have been predicting a failure fromt the beginning of summer, but it is a sadder deficit than I had antici pated; * Not an individual in my neigh hood but will fall far short of every cal culation mode ott his crop by himself or - his neighbors. What cotton is hereafter gathered cannot be as good as that. here tofore gathered; but I cannot doubt but that it will hear as good a .rice. What in some degree efTects thu market, is the rapidity with which the Rail Roads hurry all the early cottur into market. I ques tion if half (if not more) of the crop with in reach of this Rail Road has not already gone to market. Formerly this market was distributed over the period of six or seven moths, now it is hemmed into the space of two or three. This must have its temporary effect on prices. Such is the improved conditiun of conveyances throughout the United States that the crop is now carried to market in one third of the time it formerly required. But for our excessive tariff, I believe no more fa vorable period has occurred for great im provement in commerce in every respect, than that now existing within the reach of our comnercial intercourse. ST. MATHEWS. Watch-House inhumanity.--We per ceive that much feeling has been occa sioned at Boston by the melancholy death of Lieut. Wyche. Suspicios are inti mated that his treatment was harsh and exasperating, and fault is found with the composition of the corrocer's jury, several of the jurors being persons conrected with t the watch department. A fuller investi gation is called for, before a tribunal that cannot be suspected of bias. The event suggests what we have often suggested, the propriety, the humanity, of having better provision made at watch houses and prisions for rendering medical assistace. Even supposing Lieut. Wychte to have been merely intoxicated, there can be no doubt that by the proper aid arid counsel his lire mighit have been spar edl. A mutn in his situatiotn should not lhe left alone in a cell-abandoned to his own m tiserable reflections-without a cheeritng Iword or the tone of a kindly voice to pour consolation upon his~ bruised anad despair inag soul. But if he was temporally ale ranged, and not under the infiluence of liquaer, how barbarous was the treatmet he received. We do not blame the watchmen, but the inhuman system of neglect under which they acted.-N. Y. Corn. Ada. Two persons fought a duel near the swamp on Monday last. They will not abe imtmortalized by having their names published as neroes and men of honor ; -the dany is gono by when a man could -strut about town with a certain notoriety, rand be gazed (tn as the lion of the day, - hscatnse he had been engaged in an "aff'air a of honor," as it is called in conventional Sparlance, or had perhaps murdered (for ,that is the right term) his fellow mnan. - These matters are becoming supremely I ridliculous, and so they are considered by ,tall right thinking men.-N. 0. Tropmc, - 18th ult. ;Bee Duelist.-Man has arrogated to -himself a superiority of intellectujal en -dowments, w hichb eleva te hitn high above r all other classes of created intelligences. 5 How far the claim is warranted, depends, s in a great degree, on our knowledge of the I econiomy-domestic as well as political f of the inferior animals of creation. Acts e are somtmes performed by tbis exalted y creature, exhibiting less intellectuality ,than is displayed by the "worm we tread e upon." Personal accountability for of 1 fence or insult is held right and proper, as s a etanservative principle in society, calcu e lated to preserve dignity and honor, where ,none have ever existed, and probably ne -ver will. Good results may have been a anticipated from this cut-throat code of - honior; hum none have been realized. One - human being after another has been hur - ried into an awful anud tnysterions eterni - ty-widows and orphans have had cause m to regret that "blood-stainedl hotnor" de I manded so great a sacrifice at his htonor -less shrine-but evil, and that continually, Shas followed. Man, however, is not the >only creatureassuming to possess dignity -and honor ! The wise, frugal, and indus i trious bee-that culls sweets from everys ,flower-has a high and chivalrous sense -of honor, and hesitates not to challenge to ,mortal combat the fellowo who dares to -look saucily at him or 'who brushe' against his aristocratic coat, 'as may he seen by perusing the antiexed paragraph, from a small but interesting volume pub - lished by the Harpers, entitled "Natural History of Insects." And afterreading this, may we not. say with Knowles, "Man, that is above them all, doth ape them all !" "On those fir~e spring days in which the sun is beautiful and warm, duels may often be seen to take place between two inhabitants of the same hive. In some cases, the.quarrel appears to have begun within, and the combatants may be seen coming out of the gates eager "for blows." Sometime a bee peaceably settled on the outside of the hive, or walking about, is rudely jostled by another, and then the at tack commences, each endeavoring obtain the most advantageous position. They turn, pirouette, throttle each other; and such is their bitter earnestness, that Reau mur has been enabled to come near, to ob. serve them with a lens wittont causing a separation. After rolling about in the dust, the victor. watching the time when its enemy uncovers his body, by elonga ting it, in the attempt to sting, thrusts its weapon between the scales. and the next instant its antagonist stretches out its quivering wings. and expires. A bee can not be killed so suddenly, except by crushing, as by the stitg of another bee. Sometimes the stronger insect produces the death of the vanquished by.sqneeziu its chest. After this rent has been done. the victorious bee constantly remains, says Reaumur, near his victim, standing oni his four front legs, and rubbing tt'e two posterior ones together. Sometimes the enemy is killed in the hive; then the victor always carries the corpse out of the city, and leaves it. These combats are strictly duels, not more than two being concerned in them; and this is even the case when armies of bees meet in com hat.'' Anecdote of a Goose.-The following account of a Ganda goose is so extraordi nary. that I a:n aware it would with difficulty gain credit, were not a whole parish able to vouch forthe truth of it. The Ganda geese are not lond of a poultry yard but rather of a rambling disposition. One of these birds, we observed to attach itself in the strangest and most affectionate man ner. to the house dog and would -never quite the kennel, except for the purpose of feeding, when -it would return again im mediately. It always sat by the dog, but never presumed to go into the kennel. except in rainy weather. Whenever the dog barked, the goose would cackle and run at the person she supposed the dog harked at, and try to bite him by the heels. Sometimes she would attempt to feed with - the dog; but this the dog, who treat ed his faithful companion rather with in difference, would not permit. This bird would not go to roost with the others at night, unless driven by main force ; and when in the mornings she was turned in to the field she would never stir from the yard gate, but sit there the whole day in sight of the dog. At last, orders were -given that she should be no longer molested but suffered to accompany it as she liked, being thus left to herself, she ran about the yard with him all the night, and what is particularly extraordinary, and can he attested by the whole parish, whenever the dog ran out of the yard and ran into the village, the goose alwuys accompanied him, contriving to keep up with him by the assistance of her wings ; and in this way of running and fsying followed him all over the parish. This extraordinary affection of the goose towards the dog, which continued to his death, two years after it was first observed, is supposed to have originated from his having acci dentally saved her from a fox in the very tnoment of distress. While the dog was ill. the goose never quitted him day or tnight, not even to feed; atnd it was appre hiended she would have beetn starved to death, had not orders been given for a pan of corn to be set every day by tte kennel. At this time the goose getn erally sat in the kennel, and would no' suiffer any person ever to approach it excep~t the person who brought the dog's or her own food. The end of this faithful bird was Melancholy ; for when the dog died she still kept possession of the kennel; and a new house-dog being introduced, which in size and color resembled that lately lost, the poor goose unhappily deceived, and going into the kennel as usual,the new inhabitant seized her by the throat and killed her. [(Willohughby's Ornithology. A Swoeetened Drum-The Temperance reform, among the many evil practices it has suppressed is one of great impor tatnce. It has p)ut a stop almost entirely to the practice atnong our friends in the country-we mneani the femtale as well as male portion of them-of giving to their children what is called "a sweetened morning dram." This custom was orig inated because it was believed that it retn dlered them less susceptible to attacks, in the fall of the year to intermittents. and was said, also, to prevent them from be ing wormy! This is or was the apology of the older women for this custom, who, no doubt. were once wise and cute in the knowledge of these things-but the old man of the family, he took his morning draim too, for no reason that he conld as sign, except habit, and because "a little would'nmt hurt anybody." lint the old uomen and the old man have learnt bet ter, and instead of buying ardent spirits, more bread and meat and more good warm clothes are bought with the mon ey which has been saved in this wray, and find inrermittents less common in their family, and the children not at all wortmy! JusT So. "Turning the Tables."-Men formerly advertised their 'better' or wor-ser -halfs,' just listen to what the worthy Mrs. Jane Vandrrgrift, of Pennsylvania. says of l'er liege lord. Her once tender heart must be as the iron of her native state.-BaL. Clip per. Notice.--The public are cautioned a gainst an individual wrho sometimes calls himself R. Chillies Vandergrift-he ab seonded from my bed&e board without the slightest cause, in company w~ith a wvoman of equally bad character with htimusel f. tic is a treacherous, had man, of an dat-k ash colnr-. wears lar-ge whiskcrs, which is a suire indhicationr of a regua.-nhoist 5 feei 8or 9inches high. rat har stoutt mr:'le. This is to enution the public from trusting him any way whatever, as I am determined not to nay one cont for him on my accont EDGEFIELD C.H. WE.NESDAY. N'OvFMBER S. 1843. lWe will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties,and af it mustfall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." FOR PREsIDENT: JOHN C. CALHOUN, Subject to the decision of the Democratie Republican Contention, to assemble in May.1t 14. as recommended by the States of Muryland, Michigan, Kentucky, Lou' isiana, Neo flumpshire, Massachusetts. Alabama and Mississippi. 017 The Members of the Executive Com mittee of the Abbeville and Edgefield Union Bible Society, are hereby notified,that a Meet ing will be held in Greenwood, at the residence "i W. P. Hill, at 10 o'clock, A. M., Tuesday December27. Preaching in the Chapel at 12 o'clock, by J. M. Chiles. As many of the Members, as can reach Greenwood Monday evening, will be cordial iy received and entertained by the brethren T L . Whitlock, T. Cheatham, S.0. Sullivan, A Waller, and W. P. Hill. A full and punctual attendance is reqested. W. S. HARRIS, Sec'nj. 07 Southern Baptist Advocate will please copy. AnOTHER REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER Govt. It becomes oar painful duty to record the death of our friend aid fellow citizen CHARLE CARTER, Senr., he died at his residence in this District, on Sunday the 29th alt., about 11 o'clock. in the 83rd year of his age. His dim ease, though painful in its character, he bore with Christian fortitude, -and manifested the most perfoct resignation to the-will of his Hea venly Father. The deceased had been a mem ber of the Baptist Church for upwards of forty. five yeats. during which time he adorned his profesion, "by a well ordered life and Godly conversation," he was in every sense of the word an honest man, and faithful in the dis charge of all the duties of a good citizen, he has left a bereaved widow and eleven children, al orderly members of the Baptist Church, and a large circle of friends and!relations to mourn his loss. - The deceased was born in North Carolina and at an early age volunteeredihia services, " at a time that tried men's souls," in the de fence of his country. Most of his services was rendered in this State, on James' Island, and the neighborhood of Georgetown; after peace was made, be returned to North Carolina, where lie remained a short time; after which he emigrate:d into South Carolina, married his present wife. who is riow eighty years of age, and settled-in the neighborhood of Cambridge, where they have continued to live, respected and be!oved by all their acquaintances. During his illness, he had the happy consola tion of seeing all his childien but one, (who had moved to the western country.) present, using every exertion to alleviate his puin and suffer. iiig. He was a true patrist, and a,zealous ad vocate of the principles of the De:iiocratic par. ty. WVe ought coumiinue to swell this humble notice, in relating the many virtues of the de. ceased, but suffice it to say, that he was one of our best citizens, and itnnf~be truly said, that "he died the death of the righteous, and may our last end be like his." 0L- Albert Rhiett, Esq., died at his residence in Charleston, on Sunday thie29th ult. 0?7 The Governor of Georgia has ordered an election to take place on the, first Monday inz January next. for a Member- of Cppgress, to fil the vacancy occasIoned by thi4death 01 Col. John Millen. . 07 The Washington (G'eo.)g~ets, says that Mr. Clay intends, on his visit to the Clay Club, tm Virginia, to pass through New Or leans, and when he returns to give South Car ohnta, Georgia. and Alabama a call. This ar rangement has been made for Mr. C , no doubt with a view of obtaining their support at the ensuing election for the Presidenry. We 'have an idea,' that he will not meet with as cordial a reception in his electionnr-g tounr through this State as his Grtorgia friends might wish' 17 About 400 Pirussian emigrants have ar rived in the State of New Ycrk, arid have joint. ly piurchased over I800 acres of land in the town of Wakefield in that State, on which they have already commenced improvements. ST The Albany Argtus of the 27th uIt. says: -The ground is again whitened with a coat of snow-a real North Easter-now a mixture of rain and sleet-about as unctomt'rtable und:-r foot as sellers of India rubbers could desire. We have had five days in October 1843 which may be termed real coal and wood consumers." Newo Currenc.-The Jourtnal of Commerce, says, that on the new Treasury Notes, it is an nounced that they will be purchased at par by the Government depositories on demand. So it appears that the promise to pay in specieg the end of the year, was not put' in from oili dience to us, hut to the law of Cnngrifes, which requires that the Treasury Notes shall be made payable in that manner. Look out for- Via ins.-Un~der this head the Ml,-dgeville Journal contains the following p~aragraphS: " There are a numb'er of ment prowling through the country stealing negroes, not only frm plantatIons, &c., hut even fr-om jails. A few days since two of these worthies camne to this place, professing to bare one or two ne. .roes in iail. One of onr citizen.. tht,.ki... that allWas frot right, wont To tis jail on the - morning -ati their arrival and fQ'ad one. of them conversing with a negre belonging tow Mr. Howard, ,of Alabama. Himnaaer's rela tives being near this place, and' 6i ciizen - having mentioned the fact to the jails in the hearing of the scoundrel, he -imnedi 1y; lefts: the jail, and a few rods off, upon meeti wit~. his friend who was coming up'topross perty, they passed a few words, put wh to their wares, and have notbeen heard of sitg*. " One of them is a man by the name of Joli son who was sent from Bibb, we are inforuree. and has served out one term in the Penitentis. ry-and the other is supposed to be an indivi dual, with red hair and whiskers, tall; stourt' made, with sandy complexion,-and professes to hail from Alabama or South Carolina. From the Hamburg Journal. H1ANDURso. S. C. Oct. 3st,- 143::> 1r. Editor of the Hamburg Journal DEAR SIR:-Will you please give the two following lett-ra on;e insertion in the columns of the Journal, for the informa tion of the public, and charge: to the 'c count of yours Most respectfully, .H ENRYF SHULTZ. EPGEFIELDC.' H. 29th Oct.-1843. DEAR SIa:-Chancellor Harper's de cree reached uq this morning. It is against you on all the points in the case; but main ly on the decree of the Federal Court, which according to the reasoning of the Chancellor, is final and conclusive; al though it may be erroneous, until it be modified, or reversed by the Court in which it was pronounced. Yours, very truly, ' N. L. GRIFFIN. HENaI SBULTZ, Esq. HAMBURG. S. C., Oct. 31st, 1843. N. L. GBIFFIa. Esq. Dear Sir:-Your favor of 29th ult,. .I at band informing me of the arrival of Chancellor Harper's Decree, in that Great Bridge Case, at your place on that day. The Chancellor has not done me justie in that case; not in deciding against ne, but in holding his Decision one year and five months, and only leaving me three weeks to prepare my defence before the Courts of Appeal, will commence its sit ting the fourth Monday in November next at Columbia, S. C. This case was tiled before Chancellor Harper at Edgefield, S. C.. June Term 1842. 1 will however follow my right in this case .to the end of the world, if I perish in the contest. Will you please to give the proper no tice to the parties for an appeal; also to 1prepare all necessary arrangements for that object. I shall be in Edgefield next week. Yours, truly, HENRY SHULTZ 070 A Chance for Printers.-As Mr... HARDMAN, our present Editor, is about engaging in other business, we design so - secure the services of some competent person totake charge of the "Fort Gaines Whig;" and either become interestedin the Press or to conduct it on our account. Immediate attention to this proposition is is desirable. Editors with whom .weeex.! change will confer a favor upon the pfr. prietors, by giving this notice a placer their columns. DILL & HARRIS Proprietors. La Grippe, or Injuenza. seems to have visit, d every city, town and village in the United States, within the last few months. Diferent papers of recent dates in this State, Georgia and Alabama, speak of the disease as being very prevalent and severe; hut we doubt whether there is any section of country where its atsacks have been more geueral or distressing than ins Greenville. We. trust, however, that it is. about to bid us a finol adieu, as she weath. er is now favorable, and very few per sous are laboring under its effects. Greenville Mountaineer. The Court has been in session at Pick. ens this week, and we have not yet beard of its atdjournmnent. We understan'd there has not been much suing, but a good d'eal of small litigation which conasumed the time of the Court. There were two in dicnmetss for murder, but we have not learned the result of the trials. Pendleton Messenger. We ti-ust -our Legislature, at the nest Session, will take the proper measures for carrying into effect an act passed two or three .years ago, to establish a uniform standard of Weights and measures throng our tij state. N~o provision was mad. fore reui ring .the law operative, and it ha~s reulifed a dead letter. Every boa st man is concernied'in having a uniform *andard. At prqtit, a bushel or a hun. dred pounds isq te'a matter' of mncer= tainty.-Ib. The State es. Samuel Lamb.*T his wats an indictment~ for the murder of a slave in St. Johns Berkley. Thef jdies. ment contained t to counts,both for wilful murder. The prisoner was atiaigned on Friday last : the whole day was taken oap in the examination of witnesses. On Sa surday morning, W. C. Ferrell, Eiqg a4 dressed the Jury in behalf of the p'risoner, Henry Bailey, Esq. Attornpey Genera?, followed for the pirosecu.tion..CU. B. Nor throp, Esq. repiled in behalf of ths priso ner. The pleading closed,.at 4 o'clocks, f'. M. The Judge wras u~eai" an houi' . chtarging the .Jury-heyleft their seats about 5 o'clock, and remained~ in, their room until yesterday (Monday) morning, at 10 o'qibek. when they came into Court with a e~rdict or'not guity. The pripso ner. on moti-on of Counsel was dischargecd. -Charleston Mercury. American Itere* in C~ina.-Tbhe last. number of the Chinese Repository states that Commodore Kenrny,of the U S frigate C..ustellasion, '*has had-more official inter course with the Chinese officers tha'n has over before been held by A tuerinan officers altogeiher1 anad this intercourse baa bee, condutcted on terms of entire equalit.. Commo~dore Kearney ha., we believeof tained the objects sought for in his coming here, and if we are rightly informed, in demuity for all losses sustained by Ameri, casi ecemberisstis in a fair way of Io. ing obtained."