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By T Wursdaytj's Mail. Corrispondence of the Baltimore Patriot. ANNFXATION OF TEXAS. WAssirsoTos. Jan. 25, 1845. IHouse.-Ater an explanation by Mr Adams relative t6 his remarks of yester. day-a. Mr Saunders inoved that the House re solve itself into Committee of the Whole for the purpose of resuming the Texas de bard. Mir. Stevens, of Gn., being entitled to the floor, arose and delivered an animated and able speech. He was in favor of annexation, and would go for the hill in troduced by Mr. Brown, of Tennessee, which does not assune the Texas debt. and which settles the question of slavery. He would not, however, as other gen tlemen said they would do, go for any measure of annexation, if he thought the sole object of the measure was to extend' slavery, and *9ould have that effect, he would go against it. It would not, how ever, make one more slave than were existing now ; so that by adlmituiog Texas; there is no extention of slavery. Some further debate by several members took place. when. As the hour of 2 o'clock approached. the members began to come in, and when the discussion ceased, there was a filler H1ouse than has been present at any time heretofore d.uring the session. The galle ries were also crowded to excess. and so full was the one appropriated to the ladies, that many of them were forced to take lodgment among the gentlemen. At 2 o'clock the Committee proceeded to vote upon the proposition subtmitted by Air. Owen, of Indiana, and accepted by Mr. Douglass, of Illindis. as a modifica -tion of his own. It does not assume the Texas debt, and directs that there be formed forthwith one Slave State,.the balance of the Territory to be divided hereafter into thrce or more States, in* Which slavery shall exists or not, as the people there may deterini-e. The vote stood-Ayes 96. Nays 107. The proposition of Mr. Weller, of Ohio, k-as then up, which erects Texas into a .State without anything being said about slavery, and this grvernmeut to assume the Texas debt tothe amount of 810,000, 000. 15everal amendments were ofiered and iejected. The amendment of Mr. lilton Drown, of Tenessee- was then read, wbich pro. vides 'forone s1atve State, and four others to be erected hereater, in which it shall exist or not, south or the Alissouri cort. promise line, as the pe6ple in each of them May determine. The Texas debt not to be assumed, but to be paid out of the pro ceeds of the publte lands. A t the suggestino of Mr. Douglass, of Il linois. Air. Drown mtoditied his proposi tion. so as to exclude slavery north of .the Aiissouri Compromise Line. The atmendment was adopted.-Yeas Jo9, Nays 99. The original proposition as amended -was ihen adopted.-Yyes 110, N;ty 08. Chairman reported Mr. brown's proposi. tion to the House. Mr. Uave Johrson, of Tenn.. moved the previoius'questibn, and he hoped no further debate would take place, and .that the 190u'se wottld put ad. end alionce to the distracting question. The vote on seco.neintg the previous questiotn stood ayes 107. nays 07. So there was a seconitd. The Speaker then put the question: "Shall the maitt questittt he ntow put." Mlr. Biritnkerhof, of Ohio demanded the yeas atnd nays, which were ordercd, antd stood; ayes 113; nay< 108. So it was tdeterminted that. -the main -queetion should be out. It was on cotn curretnce itn the amentdmtent ndopted by the Comtmittee of~ the Whtole, bteintg the proposition submitted by Mr. Milton, of Tennessee, to annex Texas. On mtotion of Mlr. Vinton; of Ohio, the yeas and bays were otdered, and the amentdment was decided in the afimhative -ayes 118, nays 101. The vote was thent taketn by yeas and .nays on the engrossmient of the resolution ue-es 119, nnys 97. The resututiutns havintg been read a third time4 attd being put tupotn their final passage, they ni ere passetd. The vote was taket by yeas and nays; and stood-ayes 129, nays 90. A tmotiotn was then made to reconsider the foregoing vote which .'t as rejected. Tte H-ouse then agreed to the resolu -tione, and at 4 o'clock adjourned. From the Mtobil Herald, Jaitary 22. LATE FROM M EXICO-SANTA ANNA CA PTUR ED. The schooner Sarah Ann, at - New Orleans, - n Sunday frott Tanmpico, brought diates thence or the 14th, with the intelligence that a destruc tive battle htad,beent fought and Santa Annta captured. *Frotm ant extra of the Picayotne, we get the following sumaary of the principal .events-prvio~usly to the battle : To make the narrative more intelligible, we go back to the 1st instant,-when Santa Anita I was at the village ofAyottia, a few miles south- it east of the capitol On the march from Hue huetoca to this point he is said to have 1ast over - 2000 men by desertion, attdfreom want ofresour ces to pay his remaining troops extensive dis affectbotn existed among them. To encourage this spirit, atid to enable those itnclitned to de sert his st-ndardl to do so with safety, General .Bravei sallied forth from the capitol on the 1st at the head of 3000 picked men to harraus the ty .tant int his operatiet, but wvithtont offering him battle. At the same ime, Congress issued a -d'ecree by which it was ordered that all officers .under- Sante Afma should be depriv-ed of their commissions, and be incapable ot ever after holding ohe--irr -the Mexican servIce, unt'es, -withitveight days. they gave .in their adhesion to the- Acting Governmewnt. This, of course, increased the progress of disorganizition in the I tyrants forces, apd .hie was rorced to meiastures of extremnerteity te checke it. Finding all de *nonstrationuSgainlst the capital astless, anid 1iaving accomptished nothing by intri'gues and! maChmattioshe no6w directed his march upon Pueblas, wiiktineview to carry that city. before the-forces of the(bovernment should be concen-' trated by ths .amuvab.of General .Paredes from -Queretaro. at the head of .700 troops, and of Gen. G;utzman with.abott1000 nen. -Ptebla had been pint in a complete -state -of defenee, anid ste commnandanit was cortfident df his abil ity is hold ont against Saints 'Anha until the complete concenitrationl of the Government for ees. Troops of cavalry, too, were organized In theoties of .lacaia. Huaxnmntla, Orizaba icrote and Jalapa, with a view to apprehend, ants Ana. should he be forced to fly. The next news is the following copy'of a let Or in the Tropic and Bee. TAMrIco, Jan. 14th, 1845. P. S. Dates from Mexico to the 9th arrived ast night by express. A desperate battle had aken place on the plains of Apan, lietween Santa Annit on one side and Bravo and Parades in the other. who was captured while attempt ng io escnpe-500 are reported to be killed. Gen. Paredes had been despatched by Bravo in pursit after routed troops. while Braio him self was on his march back to Mexico with his august prisoner. This is all I have time to wt ite you. -T-. T The news ofthi battle (says the Picayuane,) is somewhat doubtfd; at any rate there must the some error in the date. Capt. Davidson says that he sailed from Tampico on the morn ing of the 13th, and made 195 miles thatday by be log. He further states that the ThatbAme in from Mexico on Sunday the 12th and the la test news it brought from Mexico on thb 4th. He likewise spoke with his consignee the morn ing he sailed. who assured him there was no later news in, town, The letter announcing the battle says news to the 9th had beeh recei ved by express from Mexico. Capt. Davidson himself puts no confidence in this. We have no means ourselves of forming any opinion on the subject. The Ne*.Orleans Picayune mentions a rumor in that city that Santa Anna had arrived in Natchitoches, in Louisiana, and thrown himself on the protection of the au thorities. It does not believe the report. Charleston Courier. The Senate of Virginia have refused to talce up and consider the resoition of the House of Delegates, to go into the election of U. S. Senatur.-Ib, Pennsglvania.-Francis 1i. Shunk was inauauraled in Harrisburg, as Governor of Pennsylvania, on Tuesday last.-lb. rio Jersey.-Charles C. Stralbii, ihe first Governor elected by the poople of New-Jersey under tie hew constitution, was inaugurated at Trenton on Tudsdiy The ceremonial took place in the Senate Chamber. The oatb of office was admin istered by John C. Smallwood, P-esident of the Sente.-lb. Correspondence of the Mobile Register. TUSCALOOSA, Jan. 7. Mr. Phillips, from the committee on federal relations to whom sundry matters of national concern had been referred,' made a learned report which is too long to be incorporated in this letter. I send you the resolutions which accompanied the report, and which were unanimously adopted. as was also the report: Be it resolved by the Senate and House ol Representatives of the State of Alaba ma in General Assembly convened, They they regard the proposition of Missacho setts to amend the constitution, and her constitution, and her declaration that this was necessary to the stability and perma neuce ofuahe Union, as a determination that she is both reaAy and willing to dissolve our political conpact. That .the federal constitution resulted from a compact between the several States and is founded in compromise - r 'Thai the question o vepresentaltin *as adjusted by the conventioti upon equitable principles, and that Alabama will neither relinquish this right on the request of one State, nor at the bidding of any greater number. [The right here referred to is the representation of three-ffJY of slaves und free persons of color, as granted to the slai'e holditig States by the Constitutioni.] Resolveil, That the repeal of the 25 rule by the present congress, w as a weak and truculent submission to thbe spirit of fanat icismi. That it adds another atid impor tant triumph to the faction which, now for feited in the walls of legislation, may dspatch its fiery arrows over every ecc 'ion of our conifederamcy. That we sympathise with the patriotic tpiirit of the legislature of Sooth Caiolina, which so promptly re.sisted the insolent mit empt to disturh her domestic trantjuility. -The power of slavery belongs to the St ates respectively; it is local in its char icier and effects." Each State has a right o guard its citizens against its inconven ences anil danger s. "The right to exer ise her p.ver by a State is higher anid< eeper- than the toitstitution" "The evil nmvolves the prosperity and may endanger I he eristence of a State. Its powver to ;urd against, oi- remedy the evil rests up in the laws oif self preservation-a lawc rigil to every community, and espiecially I o a sovereign Sta'e. The other resolution authoristd to trants nit copies of the report atnd resolutidad .to he other States, etc. Padpers of Foreign Birth.-The fol owing extraordinary statements have been >ublishicd on the authority of a corhmittee 1 if the Coromotd Coucil of New York: "It appears that the bonds of nane firms nm this city exhibit the-enormous liabilities V S16,000,000-t hat of the 602 children upported fly the city, at the Farm SchoolsI 57 are the children (matiy, if not most of hem, illegitimate) offoreign parents-that f the latest born infants at nurse, at the 'ity expense, 32 are foreign, and 6nly 2 merican-and "that the tvhole nuenber f children 626 have foreuggn parentsg., nd 195 Atmeriban, ethibiting the average frmore than thr-ee foreigtzers to one native nd an alarmuing increase of the ratio of orianers in the more reeent births," "The whole number of 'ntnriaee in 6ui >enitiary is 1419, shewing an increase of 00 since July last-of these 338 are mesicans, and 1198 'oreigners. The urumber of prisoners and paupers to sup ort, we all pay-taxes is 4344, showing an nrease since July last of nearly 1000." The Lowell Journgd, -.ays-,has not terd of the Association of Factoty-Girfs, t vho thought-of establishing amFaosory to I s worked by themselves.-Shetild such a cheme be successfully put in operation, it sould not be long-before-the pr-opr-ietora vould liove plenty ofap'pications for part- I ers. A young man .might thus jallier io postrophise a fair stoef-holdet. 'Galley Slaves.-Aocording to the statis icts of Fratice, published this year by the ibister ofagrieniture end commerce,'from 833' to 1843, 2.004,000 francs were paid 1 or .10,9338galley-slaves, bei-,g 82 centimes 14 cent'u~pein dafor ad; . . From the New Orleans Tropic, January 15. FROM TEXAS. The sloop Cutter, 3 days from Galves ion, arrived at this port yesterday. We received no letters or papers, but from a gentleman who came passenger on the Cutter, we learn that President Jones.had issued a proclamalion annulling the recog nition of Gen. Duf Green as American Consul at. Galveston. The President. we understand, states, that the honor and in terests of the nation imperatively deman ded such a course. . The cause of the flare up between Pres dent Jones and Gen. Duf Green. we u'n derstand to have originated in a most int 'solent attemlpt on the part of GIen to die tate to the President. The lattipr geqntly insinusted that when he desirell Gen G's. Addice ie wourd solicit it., '66 an'swer it seems raised Green's dander, hereupon it is sajd he had the indellcacy.!'nd want of good bense to threaten theii 9idestive, atfil intimated that he Wrould hfiafethe Ex eentive office a veiy. uhpleisb&t resting place for his Excellenbty the Preside-ai. Such condutt could lead to tMW one 1-e sult. The Presieh very progly orde red Green from p reence, and cit- short his official functions. From he New Orleans Picaymne, Jan. 35. MEXICAN N WS. Further Items.-Since our last, more of our private correspondence has reached us, and we have had time to run over all ex change . We d6 not find howiVer, -in ei ther, much 'to id'y ieforetfie reader. It is quite certain that down t'o tle 28th of lie cethber no. action had taken place; that the leadt-s. of the GoveI'hment .were using every effortjit pirent a final recourse to a contflict of dims; that Santa Anna main tained as bold a front as if he were at the libad o'a lirge and well appointid.army. In the city of Vera Cruz, from which we have mast copious intelligence,-the dpinion is unanimous that the downiall of Santa Anna is beyond questiod; but by the citi zens of that town it would seem that he id hated more cordially than in aty pafttf the country. On the 1st iiisi. i reinforefnit o10000 men 'was expected daily in'.era Cruz from Camobachyj which would swell the force of re'Witri and miliatia cnllected Ahereto dppose ;tie advance ofSarita Ania to upwards d fd6r toiinsand nieti.. It was known in Metico da.tiie 23d December that Gen. iParedes commenced his march on the 11th instant froei.Grad alajary, to attack Santa Anna. ;I'was supposed that he would be.at0ifnajzasto by the 20th at the head of5000 min. On the 25th news was received in Mezied that he was on his march to aid the iriops of the capital, and his troops, it was thdught, would number at least 6000 from the ein forcements he would receive wiil'eon the route. Ile was proceeding by forced marches. Gen. Bravo entered the capital on the 23d. Up was appointed Commander-in Chief of the army and entrusted with the defence of the city the day following, and two days subsequently 2500 troops of the division he had previously commanded arrived in the city. xesd"yievery ix re-sionf i Crowds went forth to meet bi ad he was escorted to his quarters by a dense culumn of citizens. A aon-ofSanta Anna was made priso ner dear ?nebila on the 16th of December, while etidia~iihtg to escape from that city, a'chompaiieZI by four -dragoons. One nf his sons has -bieo represented as a young man of rerhatkalte eleverness. hut in hip statut-e he is almost a dwarf, and although p ossessting mu-h-taleist 'is terri blj deformed. It may be that -this is the same son. Hie was arrested .b? somec guaids attached tb the tobaeco exemse.. Thte ,extreme ancor of ihe Meilean press towards Santa Anna .is one of the most striking featuires-in rhe' impressions "'e gather from the late newvs. It sbowvs low-debaseod the conductors of the press must have 'been, or how severe the con lorship exercised by the tyrant in'the day >f his pd*er, for until now there were 'but a few paspers in the jeountry wthieh could ind themes so grateful Es to sound 'ihe raises of the Mr*Et1-deserving" of his ountry. The comiileralida which thi officials of he Acting Governmeoit, even after the he revolution of the 6th of-December, bowed towards Santa Amta gin all thteir tommunications with him, is cotnspicutous, "rom the letter of the. 7th (of -December, -om the Secretory Wei-, depriving hin. if his command, and devolving it upon Tortezar, down to Gen. Jierrera's letier a the 27th of December. In tbis partic lar the courtesy obs-ertl towards him ,y the Government is utterly at variance #ith the fierce and sanguinary denuncia ions of the press. ..ien. Ignacia Basadre. the ex- Minister f War, the principal instigator of thme lpeeree of the 29th November. suspending l'e dessions of Congress-which was thme >reteat forall the demonstrations against anta.Anna in the capital-was arreste'd it Tula and takent back to Mexico. Gen..D. Melchor Musquiz, one of the nest illustrious Champions of Mexican odependence, died at the capital on the ith of Decemnber. U. SAi-se Sziurons.-The Hon. Daniel Vebster has been elected a Senator of th~o U. tates for the State of Massachumsetts. for th'e arm' of six years fromn the 4th' day of Mareh ext. 6'en Albert C. Greene. a Senator of the U. .. for the State of Rhode bsland, for six years rom the 4th.of March .next. The Hon 'Dbifet .SIirgean 'has been re leeted Senar of the U. States, for the~ State if Pensylvaniq, for the terms of six years.from ha'4th of March next. The H on. John M. Clayton. has been elec ad Senator of the OY. States,.for the tState of yelaware, for six years from the 4th of March iet. The Hon. Reverly Johnson has'bean elected senatpr of the Untted States, fiur the State of arland, for th'e term .of six years from th'o It of March. The Senate of Indianau have'.nostponed in lefbhitlythe resolution of the liouse for goin~g n an siection' :for the'U~nite-j States' Senator. The 'Treatri 1eita C'hina.-The vote of thte anate on the resolution for the ratification of be Tresty of Ta Ting Empire, (Chitna,) Jan. , 1845, was nanimous:--Ya,4. as CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Correspondents of the Courier. WASHINGTONS , Jan. 19. It is stated, this~ evening, that despat ches have been this day received from Mexico, which shew that Santa Anna. though overnowered. is not yet entirely demolished; though hard pressed, he is still able to keep his etnemies at bay. The feeling of moderation towards Mex ico which has been so strong here, seems to be giving place to a disposition to press our negotiatious with her to an isiue. I learn that it is contettiplated to pass an act autlhoriving the President to appoint a commission to examine the claims of our citizens upon Mexico, and make amends nccordingly to the claimants, aid, if the Mexican Governincnt do not assent to the Treaty which is now before it, by-the 1st of July next,to make a peremptory demand on Mexico f'or the payment. The assent of Mexico to the Annexation f Texas is no longer insisted upon here, even by Mr. Benton. It is uederstood that Mr. Benton is exceedingly anxious that the project of Annexation should, in some form, ie consunated at this session. It is now distinctly understood here that the Oregon tegotiatioti has utterly failed in its object, and that we cn tnake no terms with. Great Britain in regard fo the matter. Congress as soon as this result shall be officially made kuown, will pass a bill for the occu'pation of the teraitory, and the protection of our citizens there. \VASUNGTON. Jan. 20. The House to-clay. ordered tat the daily sittinge should conumence horeafter at 11 o'clock, in view of the fact that more than half of tha session is gone, and very little of the proper business of the session yet done. The iouse took up the annexation <tnestion in Oommiee of the Whole, and W.' Hatiraett, of Mississtppi, mate a very effective argument in favor of the .Measure, confining himself chiefly. to the .constitutional question. In the Senate, Mr. Benton presented the ginstructions from the Legislature of. Missouri relative to the annexation of Texas. Air. Beutot remarked upon the liroad and national views -taken by the Missouri General Assembly, and upon the liberal spirit in which they were framed. If, he said, the measure should be prosecu ted in the aame spirit of cornprmnise and conciliation in which the resoluton were conceived, it would doubtless be consutn mated. Mr. Atchinson, the colleague of Mr. Beriton, seconded these views, and se tmarked particularly dpon the sixth resolu tion, to which he gave his asent, as a liberal tender of conciliation to tle hon slaveholding States. He anti the Legisla ture also would prefer that tle people of Texas should themselves determine wYhe ther they should have slavery or exclude it, out tlicy would yiell the point fur the sake of comnpromise. The question is. however, whether Texas n ill assent to a restrictioti of slaic ry in any part of her territory. We learn that Mr. Dix and Mr. Dickin livecauicus. oiAlari ^ldd -"b ii are. Mr. Diekinson is io favor of attexa tion; some say that Mr. Dix goes with Mr. Wright against the omensure. Congress.-The bill for establishinig :a utniform time for baldintg the election for Electors (if President ai Vice Presidet in all the States of the Union. has passed both Houses. The day fixed for the de tion is the fir--t Thursday alter the first Monday in November. Thomas W.* Dorr -T[he Lesia.lautnrc ofI the State ofi R' ode I slandm~. on F ridayt last, passed an act for the liberation frotm c~on inemnent of Thtomais W. D~orr, otn condti ion that he should t ake the oath of allegi ance to t-he state before its Supremet Coun. 'rThe vote on the passage of this law iv-as, i ..the H-ouse ofrRepresetita. ties; yiea-n. 49. itays 13-in the Senaite yeas 23, nays 3. A letter fromn Columbiat, 10 the editors, dated Thunrsday 2 o'clock, A. M., says: "An alarm of fir6 eias gjven about half atn hour since, ahdt itt a shtort itme the flames hatd destroj'ed two smnal fimte buildings Ott Conwavy-street, betwhen Market and streets. Luckily, no wind ivas stirring. therwise the post office and tn -inber of oter important and valuable buildings in the neighborhtood would have been in se. rious danger. Thte property destroyedl belonged to iMr. IBoattwright. Charleston Courier. The TJari in Pennsylvania.-A series of resolutions itnstructing the Sentators and requesting the . Represontatives of thtis state in Congress, to oppose any redtte lion ol' the present Tarill, has passed the louse of Representtatives bty atn uttani nous vote-ye;.s 99, nays nane. In Wath-s there is a nian living aged 120 years, hanvitng been born in 1724; he as cottequently lived through. the reignts f the four Georges. WVilliano.IV., cond inito hat of Queen Victoria. hlis health and aulies are sotund, and he (valks tw~:o or hree times a week to a neighborinag vil ae u6 -visit a daughter, aged 88. 'TEe Devil Mlarrird.-This is no jake, t is a stubborn fact. In Mitent, (Penntt ylvatia.) on-Christmas day, by the Rev. Mr. Stoevetr, Mr. Johnt Devil wasejoined it holy matrimony to Mliss Elizabeth Shad all, of Mlilton. .This isa marriage extra rditary, arn event abisolutel) unpreceden ted in anciet- or modern ilmes, mhhat the Devil should datch a~ Shad in mid-winter. and1 take hter "alive and kicking'' to his weddinig supper. iMir. Devil is said to be a-ery-respectable young butcher. Many of our greatest ment have sprung from the humblest uorigin,as the lark'w hose est is otn the ground, soars nearest to hea en. Narrow circumstances are the most powerful stimulant to mental expatnsion, and thle early frowns of fortune t he best se'. urity foriher fittal smiles. Indiana U. S. Saaor.-The Senate of this State have postponed indefinitely resolutions f the House of' Representatives. Cor goirg n an electi;n. of t.S Sanentor. .s Pa. The Recent Mviurer- Arrest of McCurry.-1. We annouinced yesterday in our regular edition the arrest of Henry M1cCurry, the supposed murderer of ihe late Mr. Paul. Roux, who felt a victim, as is justly sup posed, to his blood stained hands on Sun- I day night or Monday morning last, at the tavern of air Nolan, in S Charles street; opposite the depot. MeCurry, as we have mtated, was arrested in the city ofr No%% York. by Mr. A. G. Ridgely. of the police firm 'of Hays, Zell, Ridgely and Cook, of Mercer street Baltimore. There is, it would seem, a Providence that so overrules events and shapei the ends of justice, ihiat "murder will out," and the polltied perpetrator of it be soo ner or later overtaken by ajust retributioan. Officer Riatgely left this city, io pursuit of the accused at 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening. 24 hours behind McCurry. He proceeded direct to Philadelphia, and thence to New York, where Thursday morning, about haif past 10 o'clock, assis ted hy officer McGraih; the supposed mur lerer was discovered, almost miraculously. arrested and placed in prison. If Air. Ridgely had been les vigilant, in all hu man probability. the accused might have etcaped. at least for the present. as he had iaken passage on board the shi It Yorkshire, and weuld have set sail for Liverpool in less than two hours. Whilst McCurry was taking a parting drink with some of his friends. near the steamboat landing and dobbiless anticipating a safe and sure es cape from violated law, human and divine, he was arrested. - In his possession was found a gold watch, guard and gold fob chain, which were subsefluently recogni zed by Mr. Treadwell, oftie firm of Gels. ton & Co.. No. 1 Astor H 'eense, as having been sold by him to Mr. iRoux about a year ago. Air. Treadwell etime on 10 Baltimore. in company with Mr Ridgely, and proceeded to treen Mount Cemetery vesterday wh : en the body of the murdercel man w-as taken from Ahe vault, -tind fully identified by him as Paui Roux, to whom he had soli the % atch The trutk of McCurry. had been plaiced on board the Yorkshire, whperp it was ob iained witi dtficulty by the officers, when the shii was nuder weigh. In it wire found a coat. two shirts and a treast pin supposed to have belotged i; the dece, sed. A large Spanish knife, was found in the iru'nk The breast pin having embletns of 01d Fellowship 'iipon it, %%as stained with blood. The evidences of the prise .ner's guilt were so concltsive, as to admit scarcely of a doubt thut he. iithe identical murderer. After being placed in jhil. in a fit of des peration, ie attempted to commfit suicide by cuttin his throat with a knile which lie borrowed from a ,fellow prisoner. In this. ho% ever, h.e was Uinsuccessful.- . The %i outtids were dressed by Physicians. and he was so congtned and plaed under qigard as 1o prevent a second attempt at ie-f-desirniction. In this situation be was left ly officer Ridgely, who arrived in Baltimore yesterday nfternoon, anti pro. eeded this morning to Anuapolis'to obtain the requsition from Governor Pjatt pon the atthtorities fNewYeirk for hi- leersont. [We learn front a get ileman in this cityj. that Mr. Roux left this place on. his way to New York, abou't .t4'ee weeks sicte, for the purpose of purchasing goods, bav ing made arratngements to establish imt self in Cha.reston. lIe has iesidid for the last dirrer- years in iMactn, and was urifor tena rely butrtned out at thIe fire which oc c-urred itt that city last suimmer. He wvas a nattive of St. 51arys, Ga., an'd has a sis or resid ing itn t his cit v, being his only liv itng reliutive.- ,acannahr Republican. Fromt ic .N. 0. Picaypnde, 17Tth inst. ATROCIOUS .IURD$RS. Fo'tr a few days pas we have been in potsessijon of the fact of a mtostr barbaro'. led having buett commtirted in Texa the particulars of which were furnished us1 sescdaky-btut fr-om certaitn reasons' with wid its publicatin till now. '1The facts, as narrated to us by Mr. J. W. Moore, hi-other of Comn. Moore, ttre hu:-On the 6th inat., Mr. Sitmeott Bate itan, about 74 years of age, and a worthy ilantetr of Texas. Mr. Matthew Jett and Sman named J, Shtultz, were travelling 'rom Gotnzales rounty by land to Galves Ont. A tight they arrived withitn a mile >f Vitrginiar Piint. from which place there s a ferry to G.tlveston. Not knowing ex netly wh-ere- they were, as it is supposed, he parry lay down in the ptoirie to sleep. )urintg the night, and it se-ems just before ~ ly, Shultz got tup, atnd with a pistol 'n ach htant placed himself over the sleep i ntt forms of 'Batemian -arnd Jeti. and pla ins tt pistol at thec head of each, shot them , oth at once. Besiees the wound in the ead of Jett, Itis throat was also cur from yr to oar. It appears that Mr. Batem-an ust have made cotnsiderable resistance fer beinig shot; his [teadh and face show tng tc signs of blows, atnd from a broken ifle pistol found near his hotly it is -pre utmed that, after shooting him, Shult' eat him with the weaptin. ,Sh'ere wtas Iso the matrk of a-shot in -the lip' over the notith, beside the one in his-head; bitt not -ihsta 'rding all this he lived some twenty our hours after. On the evening of the 7th inst., a gen leman, travelling by the road leaditngj o Virginia Point, discovered the lindy of e ir. Jectr; it was enveloped in a blanket as te had laid down to'sleep. The gentle e atn ditd nor thitnk nhat the man' he saw vaitfl, but supposed (buit it wtrs a per on lyfing to wait formischief. Ie there ore at once turned out ~of his .way, and4 oing to a house induced the .people he here found to accompany him hack to the c pot. wher-, on arriving, it wvas discovered , hat murder had been committed. At * iome distance from the -bod.y of Jeut, Mr. 3a'oman was found ; .ho- .was still alive, ut unoale to speak or to show any sign. if consc-intusness. The openine of the eyes e nda heavy breathing we-re the only signs , f life he manifested. .Shortly after this d t expired. Ott te folloiving day.,-the 8th, the news s f the tnurtders having reachtedGalveston. .ra intumber of people repaired to the sdedme il 'f butchtery. when the unfortunate victimS hi vere recojgnized lby a Mr. W. H. Killen. wo had lived a neighbor to thern. Jr ivas., Iso known that Shultz was traVelling in d lompaniy with Bateman and Jett on the Gtb inst,, one or the persons present wfen ihehodies were recognized having met the priv on that day about twenty miles front irg'inl, P-4in1.7 Mr. Bateman, as is stated above, wasias planter of respectability, and possessed of some wealth. It is kno'en that he had some S6000 upon his person on, leaiting home, and was on-his way to the city-lb purchase slaves. Mr. Jett was a yonnx., man of exemplary character. aoout .28 years of' age; was a soldier in :h6haUle.of San Jacinto, since which tinte he had lived on the frontier ; was a member-ef Capt. liny's Spy Company, and a gooW. one. He is supposed to have had about him when murdered from 3500 to $1000. Shtliz was overseer for Mr. Bateman, and had been in the cou6try but littre over a year. He has a father at Columbus, Miss.. ou- (he Bigbee river. Mr. Killen, who recognized ,the two murdered men, also knows Shultz, and saw him in Gal veston ihe day after the murders: hu,t he then knrew nothing of the affair.. He saw Shultz leaie on board of the steamship New York for this city pn the saime day. These facts beidg public, the - citizens of Galve-ston, with praiseworthy prompit. tude. chartered a vessel for this-port, and' employed Mr. J, W. Moore, Mir. Killen. and Mr. J. H. W. Chapman, she iltj Mar shal of.Galveston. to come on in purbult ofS Shultz. The party arrived here oi Ttei' day, and soon ascertained that Shultz had gone to Mobile, wehre he arrived last Sunday. Killen and Chapman liave gone to Alabama in pursuit, and Moore has gone up the 51ississippi, to visit a son .of Bateman. aq;d to intercept Shultz, shoula the other party not secure him. WeAhink the chancei are that the inhuman wretch will soon be overtaken, and stncerely do.. we hope he may. Shuliz i% described as abont 28 years of lige, 5 feet 7 inches high. weighs about 130 ir 140 pounds; is sleudei, has sharp ea lures, dark hair, grey eyes, and badi'o whiskers when he left Galveston; has a rjuick walfk and a feminine voice. . Ho purchased in Galveston a blaek paletot coat heavilv braided. with velvet collar and facings; it had n6 buitons behind,'but was gtiiehed across the bak. The sor of Batemnin, mentioned above, is said to 6e a gentionan of wealth,and ivill no doubt give a liberal reward thr the apprehension of the murt'leier of his fathet. I6 addition to this, there-will certainij be a rei-aid o'fiered by the government for the arrei ofShuntz. It is evident that- robbery was the only motive for the murder of the unfbrtunate men. Not a cent was round upon their' persn, and Shultz itell knew that both had money. Boots for the President elect !-Some things can be done as cell at others.'"Sadi Patch. if any one desires to see the most splen-. did pair of boois ever mad s in this place; or probably n this country, or that he may expect to see in any other, let hiin call at Mr. 11. P. Dougal's Boot and She Store in Mavbitn's Range, and he will bi satin fied. A..public siirited gentfeiiti of this W,4eluDeoca, inchu.c'a u'arm-~fllei testify his 4ra:ification at the efection of Mr. Polk,' instructed Mr. Doua1 to make a pair of Iloots for the Presidetni, to wear at his inauguration-lo cost 6( less than One liundredl DollarsJ Th~ tmeasure was btanrled with the onrdef; and Mr. Dou- . ;nlI entering fully ir.to .the spirit of the - matter, tetermninedf to sheow that. %some. things can lhe done as well othters," or, in ther-wurdfi, tihat ats fine and ttea:, and 4(ientdidi and beattiful a pair of Boots catn 'a'de in Colutmbia, as any part of the wvorld. How far he has succeeded,-let he reader exatnitne and judge fur himself. -.south Carolinian. Fire.-A Fire was discovered yesterday norting between thte hours of 2 and 4 elock, in a large open brick shed, with a inined roof-running tl,e isntire width etween Hatmiton's North and Southi s'harves, and containing sorr ewhat rising f 1000 hales of Cotton. The alarm being iven, our efficient Fire Companties were. rmptly on the spot. and by their ener etie exertions, in a great measure succee- - ed in contfning thse devouring elemettts ithin the shed. They wvere, however,. nabla to save thte roof, nor a considerable tjury to the adjoining store. gale house nd wharf office attached to the same-the ooks of the tntter were, however, all ma ed. It is not known howv the fire origi ated-no fire or light of any description - aving beer :uoed near or on the premises rsome lime past. -Of the Cotto., 70 ales belonged -to Mr. Et'el Adams, 80 ales to Mlessrs. Matewee& Bonneaua, nd the halance to Messrs. J. A dger & Co, Ve understand the whole to have beea sured.-.Chas. Mercury. -Ruin Snom and Sleet. -The Yorkvitle lomnpiler sais. -We have had a full sup ly of each of these in rapid succesuion, nee last Saturday evening, at which time se storm of Rain commenced. It is now iawing, and the injtry done to Fruit? 'rees and the Pride of -lndia or China 'ree, which grows abundantly here atd in1 le neighborhood will be considerable. Free Blacks and Mulattees.-A bill of nport ance, con~ceranngthe interest of this lass, has jtust-passedlborh branches of the: laryland Lagidfatture. -By the act of.1831 hap. 323, 2d section, they were allowed > leave the state fi! an unlimited period' nd return again, upotn 'filing, with 'o lerk oiltbe county -notie of theirdeparlture c their intesntion to return.. Theselguse of(. be bill,making .this prevision was 4trick a out-whereby- under no circumst'ancies iill they -be allowed to returnilotos~& - fier having absented themselves for iifrty ays. Might and M'ain-Lori 6CN~ Somn rset was telliog .a long -story -about hia ralking int the woods as~the 'Cape -one: ny, when he cam'4d suddenly apon'a huge baggy lioan-"Thinking to -firighten lin,"" id -the nobldlorml. "I ran at bim, with all' iy might." -"Whereupon,' said another,, tierrupting him, -"he ,ran away writh all is mane," "Jutst so," s!ai his lordship. . A very valuable gold mineltas reenatly be' iscovred, in Franklin danniv.[Virginin.