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Advertisement not having the number of insertions tuarket on-them, will be continued until ordere-d on and charged accordingly. Commnunications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. 97 TIhe followinggentlemnen are announcet by their friends as candidates for the Olfice o Tax Collector, at the ensuing election: Col. JOHN QUATTLEIUIU, GEORGE J. SHEPPARD, EDMUND MOltRIS. SAMPSON B, MAYS, . Lieut. JAMES B. HARRISf .4 Maj. S. C. SCOTT, LEVI R. WILSON. JAMES SPANN. GIVINN 1h 0 rs. ther e live - emnarkablf for lii - y ibr..p culia ,ion e Q I of et luii the l iteWrvng, turn 'out of- .the way h a(equdntteipt lc been in .Irce. him to give up thh darling tile, but they had -al proved una i Nevertheless a vount man in his neig od, not.at aldiW couraged by these failures,.IA a wager. that he wou nike-- the gentleian yield to hin. Alo having summoned up.jhis resoluton, set out on what he were we s crusade. driving Jogstr botkidd little to on sid "Not ezaci!y- s9 turn out for nie? 1"Oh ! thee does,- does' M can wait a little while, L suppose ? "Certainly, sir, with pleasui e !" ' On this, the Fiiend quietly filled hi! pipe, struck a light, and comnmencec smoking., Our hero took a cigar fron hris hat, and soon made a mnodel of a lo. comotive of his face. The smoking foi some time was conducted by both parici with the composure :aul gravity becom. ing the occasion. After a while, ti old gentleman laid aside his pipe anc drawing a paper from his pocket, begar to read. Our friend, on the other hand, also produced a paper and was soot deeply er.gaged in the perusal of itu contents. This went on, and the dai went on. The Quaker got through will his news first, and looked at our hur< with a benevolent smile, as if lie were disposed to encourage the youth's devo tion to litera-tre, but did not touch tIh reins, while the two houses had fallm asteep) wvith their heads couching eacd other. Tire young mran having read tht paper entirely through, advernisueet! and all, and occasionally gone brack t( read some obscure part over again, iha he might correct any erroneous imipres. sian upon Iris mind, folded it up urt returned it to iris p)ocket. His eyes nrou - met those of hris antagonist, whose fea. tures were expanded with tihe same im. movable smile. Our hero w~as not to b( out-mranwuvredl, so he very deliberatel3 - took out another paper and commenrncet reaiding. He was deep in the secomt page, whren Iris studies wvere interruptet by at loud exclamrationi of: "flo, Blaze, get up ! go along ! frient thee is the most obstinate mant I evej met!". Tihe wvager was won, forr threr'e trottet old Blaze past him, wvith wargon, !uggag< driver.and-all, at Ihis heels. Thn other day, an amiable ladly nol far off, uas reading an account of a tria in a case of horrid murrder. At thet conclusion, she found thre following: "P. S. WVe stop the press to say :bal the jury wvere hung, and the prisoner remanded for another trial." 'Good gracious !' staid tire amiable old lady, "what were tire jury hung for '1 Whry didn'rt threy hang that bloody mind ed prisoneri"-3Why, madam,' observed a persorn stanrding by, "yotr must observe thatithe court didn't harng thme jury ; they hurng themrselve-s. "La trme !" replied the oldlirdy, 'how hocking, ; ihave heard that thiide wvcedmen who wounld hrang thei6tes if yon gve them rope en dli wol Singular.-One of the workmen, in the enployent of Mr. John Phyfe, Mur ray-street, dealer in ivory, was enploy ed in cutting sone piano keys ; the saw was interrupted by some resisting sub stance, and on spliting the piece of ivo ry, an English rifle bullet was found. As the piece was from the centre of the tusk, it is presuable that the bullet was lodged there when the animal was quite young, especially as no trace of the passage of the bullet can be found, al though daik line or seam runs longitudi. nall in the neighb9groilThe onto coat of [te ball ws'nuch crroded. N. Y. Corn. Adv..A The Aztec Clui .--T American army oficers, sincejheir entrance into the city of Mexico, hhfve formed a club, called the Aztec club. The object of this club is similar to thoseof the miliairyclubs of England that of com-ingogetffir in friendly in, tercourse. Evety geperal officer of the army, with the tiception of one, is a member, and thI club pronises to be one of nutual anidio i benefit to all. The followingre its office P.resident, Gen. J. A Quitman-t 1st Vice Presi den ColHarney ;2Ice Presidont, C iintgMagruder,; reasuer, -6. Ander. q d peretary E amandEsq.; co U19,of a rrangements; Capi .Gra Vson, o Itai*nAr.iFaAd Liui .Gz afton. An nczati,n. Linct Thonaits J. My r o th. lassachuse t..olunceers, and-apiri~terhy tade, b asked and redeivedlisdischarge fro~ s comip )any, Sanoin.xedlu imselto 4ieautiful Mex dfcanSel rtaiear i'nerey. It is saidiet gsim the pleasant little - 30OOO, ani that lie intends -MURThSlia newspaper at lonterey on 4tie-gth of. it. ss attend lim in as-good Sty r aslie the falt ideitiiely her own. bor has a neat, capable and indisrt wife, and that makes the difference. [us wife, on the other hand, is a whirlpool into which a great many silver cups might be thrown, and the appearatce tf the waters would remain uichaoged. No Nicholas, the driver, is there to res tore the wasted treasure. It is only an in suit for such a woman to talk to her husband about her love and devotion. Somebody says, "that sonic people are s econstituted, that the;e is very small ittlet by which ot her people's wit can get access to their braii ; and you have to convince tht Iem, by argumont, that thtere is a certain joke to b, laugh. ed at."--To let iff a good joke, anl then have to explain whereini the joke consists, before it cani be understood, is exceedinigly pleasaint. Inufiated Ilorse Callar.-A htorise collar ha~s beent- invented in Englantd miust be regpraled as a ve ry great imt provemetnt. It contsis:s of a tube of I ndia rubber or oter sutitabb:e sutbstamnce, inflated witthair like a life preserver. Its advantage is that it tits the horse exactly, easily, withoutt undune pressureu upon any atad leaves thte breast andI the joints of the (ore leg free fromj joltitng and sudden pressure to which the coim mon collar sub'jects them. Capt. Phil: Kairney, who host an arm at Chiurnbutsco, is a niephew of Gen. Karntey, and a ntativye of New York. HIis pirivate incomte is $30,000 per ati nuim, andI like Gen,. Taylor. he follows the wars for the love of the thirng. N. Y. Globec. There are fowv officers in the army more htighily esteemed tatn the gallI at Captain whom the fate of war hias tImts curtailed. He was sonme yeats sitnce one of a Commission to visit Europe, to teiport uploni the Cavalry tactics of the; several governrwntts olfthe old wot Id. In the prosecution of this diuty, a por tion of the comtmisston visited Amgiers, where they wete hopitably entertained by the French offiers, atmong whlom, was one of the sons of Louis Phthippe. Soon after the return of the comtmission to Frattce, a number of thte French ofhcers whlo had thus entertained theni, visited Paris, and as an expressioni of their apprecia, tion of genei Otns treatment which Capt K. atd Ihis associates had tmet withI, he re p ofer them a banquet. Tho t ~ ~omptly accepted. The Captain felt himself the represeiitative of the Aramiican army, and deternined that the f1east should ie worthy t'ie Ataneuican name. He accordingly or dcred a full set of silver plate prepared for the occasion, upon wihich his initials, as an officer of the army, were engrav. ed, and when his guests ara ived, they were astonished at the nagic-like mag, nificence of the scene which presented itself. It was the most costly banqei ever spread by an Amn ican, (with. a single exception) in P iris ;srnd well it niight be, for it cost tlhe! Captain over $50,000. He is, in his whole deport ment, quite unostentat'ous ; but he "let out a link" upon this occasion, not to gain eclat for himself, but in honor of the American nane. Tie motive was apprecikted by hi;s foIlow oticers, and secured their grateful thanks.-Alb. Eve. Jour. From the Y. 0. Pi!:ayune. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSIP A LA BAMIA. Ten Days later from the City of Mh1ex ic,-Arrival of Cal. Iarney's Train at Vera Cruz. By the arriva I last t iuhit of the steam ship Alabama, Capt. Witdle, we have dates from Vern Cruz the 18th, and from the city of' Mexico to the 8th inst., more than a.week later than our previ, ous advicesc: The news, alhough not possessinga.ny special inortanco, is still interesting-, and we hasten to lay it before otar readews. The steamship Galveston sailed from Vera Cruz with te Alabama, on the evening of' the 18h inst., to touch, we believe, at Tampico. The New O'rcleans was to leave on the 19th, as was also the Gen. Butler. A number of officers on their way from the army, as also a por tior of the Encarnacion prisoners-a naines, Capts. Heady rand Chur i__f a fe w of E'~~l~ltversity. overnment makes W @ for its sick, disabled diers than our own. 'ieidT those who started on the labaalil:, Hnry Kain of the Infattty, Martin Costolow, 211 U. S. Artitlhry, and Richard M3eMantus of the 2d Penn. svlvania Voluntteers, died on thte passage over. The bodies of the two later were c(tnsigned to the sea on the third day oat; the forier was broigli ht hcre for intermtatent. In this coannaection we call not bit speak of ilte kitnd & unretitting exiions oif Di. Edwards, a st. geoni of the navy, bat whto has beeni actintg with t he Ma, 'nis i A M ''xico. During tle passaige over fron Vera Crtz eIt was cotislant in his attentlmis to the sick and wounded, adilivtminiii g Itedicines an'l dressilg their wouinds by day as well as by nijiht. The poor fellows to wtomta hea, ls been so at ten tiv'e will ce, tatinly never f'orget laim . TIte great tavaina, nuambe'ring someth ling~ like 600) wvgons, lef't the city of 31'xico tan thte 1st of' Nov., arraived at Verat Crzon te 15 tha, wihout mtolesta ti on oa lindranace save a few shots fared at it from the hills at Rio Frio. Titis s ide of that place it was I'oand thtat the faridge laid been taken tap, anad that the trees ont tilhter si de the rotad for nil's had baeen felled neross the toad; butt ai cr'owd of thte LIdi.mns itn te vicinuity were ;at onace set to wot k cuattitng a te:n out, ;aml lhe delay caused to thect train was of' but shoart dau ration. After' te Amecrican atmay pas sed in August, so coinlident were the M.exicanas of achtievinag at comipltet tri timpha, they placed alt t hese obstruactionas itn thle t'oad to eat ofa' thte rtirea. The se~quetl shoiws how mtuchi they we're dis itp~poin ted. As the ;advance of the fraini neared San Martin, a f'ew hutandr'ed of G eneralf Ra'ts guerrileros wet e seen scamtpering ouat of' the place as fast as their horses woul!d carry thtem. They did not stp to fare a shtot, althougha thae gtaard to the traini hartily consisted oaf a mtan to) eachi wagon, iand this was almthost the only glimpse)5 at thie enemty at tineod oan he entire rotate down. Gean. Lane, at Pua ebla, fans beeni nctive in forretting out thec haunts of the gaterrill eras, anid sitnce the afa it's of' iiinamanat I and Atdisco they have been of buat little annoyance save to their' own unfortun~ate coutatry, men. Lr ter fetters dlirect from Quorretnro annou nce that Congress was org;anized on the 2d of Noivemiber, Setior L. Jose Mario Godoy, Deputy from Guanajuato, .was elected President of ongrae nd Sen Z, De puty de s' 'T4 r !roI an En F to his friend te news fromi at the cap' e ucre tar I e fool Dr ris tow" , p y thus - 'the n7 of Con towards, ed Preid ist C4~Y~j instead6 o rera or I en Thorag 'r present, C r I - fairs, wi ve here in the course of a w ee k idr*ew seat of Government, but the only knows how long it will be some0 American expediiion may ma ecessary for him to follow the loco capital of Mcxico sonIC w here As o-- new coriespondents says, our Eng, 'end has hit upon a capital idea i'te g the seat of the Mexican Governin he "locomiotve capital." Vith the: - rcements now going for. ward to :cott, and with a vigorous proseci.ti. the war, it is more than likely tha - Britaniic Majesty's Guv ernmehr ave to make a respectable allowanc the expenses of Mr Tlor.n% toil's sta Mr. Bankhead--. concluded 't a rheumatic an gentlema himself wout' represen ish sportsia, die, and alandun his mor fuIind, Thoiint All quiet at neighbo whenL~i through. H an enemy came al Gen. is Texan, scorting u Mr. Smythe, the latter beari es. The notorious Padre Jurata a sent in to Gen. Patterson, re illesting to give himself up provided no harn should come to him ; but Gen. Patterson sent him back *word that ho might expect no favor. Report has it that this guerrilla chief has gone off towards Querre:aro, accompanied by only some thiriy of his men. The Texans, and the Louisiina Nlounted Battalion have broken him up completely-ruuting him from all his strong holds. The 13th Infantry is stati-ned at the National Bridge, a part of' the Georgia troops at the San Juan, some sixteen or eighteen milus from Vera Croz. The road all the way to the city of Alexico will soon be safe for the smallus parties, Gen. Butler artived at Vera Cruz on the 17th inst., and was received with the honos due to his rank. Within the three or four days preceding his mo rival, several vessels had got il with tro >ps, between'2 and 3000 lantding on tihe 17ilh anld 18th. ft was thlought that Gent. 8, woutld tmarch for the-city of Mexico within a fortnight, and with somletinig like 6000 men.- It might not be amiss here to state, that whatt is h-ft of the divisinm of General Quionman at tihe calp ital has been intcorporated wihm the d ivi sions of Gens. Worth arnd&Iwiggs-the Peninsyivaniai and New Yoi-k Volunteers and Steptoe's battery with the fornmer, the South Uarolinian~s antd Matrinecs witht thte hatter.. Ant ioins mail camie down wih the train% city of frhgico, anid both dau a cti.epostmtaster at Ve i setting it to riht ~ pportuity t the officers a igam had had for months to communicate with their Iriends, and cvcry one impr oved it. rom the Rijo Gr'ande.- General TIiayhor ha )&reache~d Matamoras at last accoue was to leave M1on to rey on the Ut, Tme healtbof Matamoras is imipioving the fever fsj ppesring. Thie foi items we exttact fiom the Flag of th o1th inst. Another' -Rumor.-T ho rumor almon g the Mexicans nowv is, thatt four of the Mexican States (San Luiis do Potosi, Zacetecas, Durango, and one othecr not ioimed) have de'clared in favor of the monarchical scheome of Paredes, and united, have profered him 18,000 troops to carry out htis designs. A son of Itur-. bide is fixed upon to bo raised to the throne, and Europramn intr-svention is said to be confidently calculated upon to pnne him hee nnd maintain the an, thot ity of the crosn. The Mexicans in this quai ter are said to be very hostile to this rumored movement, and to ex press themselves as beine ready to join with the troops of Ihe Uoited States to prevent such a cenqummation. The P'almet&$mRc'iient..--TIo av e iage age of tii ribers of this distin, guished regiment is only 23 years. This accounts for . the fire 4ith which hey vent to battle, but where did they get heir steadiness I It is said that n largn 'ri ty-of &i -egiinent was composed genternlen's sons-younig 111) of lth, and brought up in ease and lux fl so this will account for the fiiry among them by disease arising en posure.- E.X pa. .4 Fruitfu ag".--The Cook Farm, BuS11wick, o.Loiiglsland, (N'. Y.) which. cntattins3 only 30Acrde, and.-was considir a few yearspago almost hopilessly 1 has sent to ma.ket this suninet 342 b els of peas in the pod-average price a bushel ; 1000 bushels of potatoesbe 684.-and 500 bushels remainilj.& dig ; -10 bushels per day of toum't 410 whole ctop estimate.1 at 1,200. 50c. per bushel, 4000 jidttit ow thickly covered with Lima grown, 1200 hushelu of ba been disposed of-ave re btushel. Corn, 3 ac U. cres ;Cabbasi f Q lit. acre; hay for bushels, C ful palltel rngi t wentteu -a . eem tti -We alt all d plantenh enrich on, n acres without suc improver gusta Chronicle % Sentinel. Arrowroot.-From a statistical table, recently published, of the productions of Bermuda, the value of Arrowroot is stated at less thant $20.000 annually. More than t wo.thirds of this goes to Great Britain. Yet from the prejudice of some and the cipidity of others, it would appear that more than five timos the whole of the pro duction of Bermuda is consuied in the United States. To those who believe that articles of Forrign growth and manufacturo are superior to those grown an producec at home, we refer to the following testi nonial, from Dr. Samnal Jackson, Pro fessor of tho Institutes and Practice of Medicine ofthe Utiversity of Pennsylvania. thin who nt one occupies a higher p. sit iona in the professiotn in the United States or elsewhiereo "1 hake examined and have p)repared someo Ar'rowroot, manultfactur'ed by Cot. 31. hlatlowes, of St. 3lary's, Ga. It is the best quatlity of' thtat.vatriety of frecula I have tmet witth, be ing stuperior to anty Bermuda, or utheur Arrowroot I have seen. -SA 3IU ELJA CKS(N, 1. D. "P~tutrIn IAx, June0 10, 1817?." Amneican Cannil'nlism.-At a meetinog of tihe .\'eaemy of' Arts am!l Scienice., tin the 27tht ult., P'rof. Shephterdt, w ho has lntely spentt somne tinme itn explotring thu maintitng region~s on1 theo shore's oft tat ko Su perior, related atn intst atntce of tti~h oist itorrible eannib.alistt am tontg the O.jibbway tribe of' Indianls, on the ttorth e'h1.i of ithel Lake. Hie freqjuently paissed on foot, atlonit anod u nartmed, by lie htut of atn Itdinot whoa had killed antd eitent htis wiflh ande two chilIdretn. T1he ptrsointal appeanmoce 'if this savage ntooster ats mnigh natuirally he supposed wa~s htorrtible beyondt desetip lit, I. lie also relalted as inlstance of parricide, amnfg the samet tribe, of the tmost heart rendeting chlaracter. 'The parents of an Indtian hail bocome old, inafirm, and inca patle of sOpptorting t hemsetves. Therefoo, the son took il eta imto a bloat, with his gun louaded', rowetd themn out inlto the take, shot hlis lather atnd itrew imt overboard. T1he astonished motthet' jnmaped into the lake and swam ashore. Tile son followed, after Itiadinig his gun, anid shot her as she was crawling up the bank.-Harford Journal, Front thle Columna South- Carolinian. B3IOGRAPHIICAL SKETCH 0OF COL. PIERCE MASON BUTLER. The desire to kntow every thing which relates to tile jhast career of iti gallant htero, who fell so gloriously leading his cherished Palmetto's to victory bef'ore the winlia of 'e i, s a rean...orthy of his Came. We feel it a duty we owe to his memory, to publish the following biogra phical sketch, the facts of which we have derived from the most authentic and relia ble sources. There was such a rare com hination of circumstances in his conduct and deuth-chemnstances and events cal culated to excite the pride of everjiaSoutlh Carolinian, that we feel the general curi sity to know all about his family and pre vious life, should be gratified. lie was the son of the late General Wm. Butler, of Edgefield, S. C., a dislinguished officer of the Revolution, and for many years a member of the Congress of the Unitod States. The alicestors of General Bller, caine originally from Ireland, and settled in Pennsylvania. Thence the branch of the fanuily, from which General Butler, desr-ended, removed to Loudoun county in Virginia. The father of General Butler. Captain James Butler, settled in Edgefield Diitrict, in this State, where he reided at the commencement of the war the Revolution, in which he, together Ityfl all his sons, who wereover 14 years e an active part from the com. ni !, until near its close, when he -wrafl his second son, at Turner's Yasiioaf e H confined in prison and ison ship for eighteen L which time, the most rgeatr used, and the induce him airy. With et , confined .1 mr. Gen. lered the Seof 18, nuiats e%&MI~hY~B~ethan 21, ou ofi the cbe hw fiiididis fsrh i* 1 .hsbroiser, Senator oo fthe celebrated regular classical education, and in the fall-of 1819, entered the Army of the United States as a Lieutenant, and remained in the regular service until he resigned his appointmtent as Captain In 1828. He was thou elected Cashier, and afterwards President of the Branch of the Bank of the State, at Columbia. On the breaking out of the Florida war, a Eegi tment of Volunteers was raised in South Carolina, of which Col. Butler was elected Lieut. Col. In that campaign, he gave such striking evidences of all high and generousqualiius, that without the slight eot agency of his owna he was elected Gov ernor of tie State by the unanimous vote of the Legislature. Shortly after the expiration vi his Gubertmatorial term, the ollico of Agot of the Cherokee Indians, was tendered him by President Tyler, whichl he accepted. At the period of his agency thu Cherokee pleople were unfor tunately divided into three factions, of the mtfl etmbittered character.' So high was the conduct, and so pure ntud disitnterested all the purposes of the Agent. that on the election of'M1r. Polk, to the Presidency, the leading men Bf nIl three of the parties earnestly reciiedtedl that Cal, Butler might ho retainoed in utlico. Blut it was not tdone. Hel was aft etw aids oemaployed by the Gov ernmnent, to make a Treaty with .the Ca manche, anid other itndianu tribes of Texas, in which lie etiirely succeded. It may w ith1 trub he .aidl that filling as he has d!onie, anuiman olulioes. civil and tmilitary, the dluties of tno one of thtem has ever bee& more faitld'ally atnd ably discharged. W hilar Ihe~ was abset negotiatitng the treaty with t ho Cmanochte Indians, a call was mnade upotn 'he State, for a Regiment for the Mexicant watr. Col. Butler was called to the comimnd of it, by the altmost unaimltto5usvte of the Regiment. Ho was at the ttttt pro'strated on a sick bed, thme victim of a comzplication of diseases, amtontgs: thtemt an acute neuralgic aff'ection. It was not in his natre to refuse the call, abhiough there are very few men who would not, under thle circumstauces have done so. For several months before he left home for Mexico, he was unable to walk, and .scarcely so, when lie took the cotmmand of the Regiment. From that peritud has life atd actions are knownt to all, anid ,will forever fil a glorious page in the htistory of his country. He was so gennerally known, that it' would be superfluous to -say more ; but we hope we may be prodoned, for saying, that we have rar ely known a man- more highly endow~ed--an intellect of a hight order-a heart the home of all noble and - generous sentiments, beyond all com ison the noblest f, st person, wo cv adtddres, wilt co , Th' m tae e(a ~o of