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A ffairs in Washington?A Ft to? j i Probable Recall of Mr. lluhocr, <Cv,?A j Washington correspondent of the Express I writes, ylpril 24, as follows: U nplensant rumors are beginning to 1 find circulation again, Ono is that President Taylor has staled to a prominent M. C. (who, in turn, has r -pealed it in public) that in case the California bill is dovetnilcd to the Territories, he trill not sign it, i l..i 1 *- ' ^ uuv wnu u oacK to Uotv_rress. Beoton has had a conference with Gen. Taylor. This id looked upon as suspicious. There is mischief brewing, and there may he an explosion of some kind on board soon. i However, the Compromise Committee in the meanwhile in working industriously. There are many difFe enccs of opinion, it is true, but 1 can nssuro you the very Knct oninf ni'Ai'olla ? 1 ..w. |j|v<nim, j^uui tl'CllOll Will I labor on, until this important enterpiise I is executed. The Oalpin business will all end in smoke. A/ark that. The probabilities of any immediate changes in the Cabinet are perceptibly diminishing. Important despatches from France, T hear, were received by the last steamer? indicative of seiious trouble there before long. It is reported in circles, best qualified to know something of the matter, that Sir Henry Bulwer will shortly be recalled. Why, it is not stated. English politics ore as torturous and sometimes as inexplicable as our own. From Bkownsvim.k.? TPc have rc ccived from Brownsville papers of the 18th inst. Tlie Indians continue to commit great depredations in the vicinity of Laredo. On.i person writes from that place, under date of the 4th inst., as follows: The Indians have got this country? they took the San Antonio mail on the last trip, and hut few of the letters were recovered. We aie actually confined to the limits of the town. A man was killed *'t Roma on the tth inst., and two others are missing, pup- j po>eu to have been killed. The Corpus Christi mail was taken on the 4 th, sixteen miles from Laredo, the rider being allowed to depart almost in a state of nudity, having stripped him to his pantoloons and shirt. Lieut, Hudson, with eighteen men, went in pursuit of the party who took the San ylntonio mail, and came up with them on the Nueces river, and captured their camp, horses, &c. On his return from tho Nueces, when near the Twenty-Four Mile Water Hole, l.e fell in lvnn me party wno toon the Uorpus Christi mail, numbering about sixteen savnges. and an engagement ensued, in which Lieut. Hudson received three wounds from arrows?one in bis right side, one under bis left arm, and another in bis thigh. In this skirmish one soldier was killed, a sergeant desperately, and three men severely woo.uled. Four horses were also lost. The extent of the loss by the Indians is not stated, but it is said none u ere found on the field of ac tion. Lieut. Yiudson is hardly expected to survive. [N. O. Picayune. Shocking Affair'?Loss of Life.?On Wednesday last, llio residents at llnzclymph estate, wero suddenly alarmed hy the report of what at first appeared to have originated from the discharge of a 1. - r i .? 1 very nenvy piece oi orunance, me sounu of which was heard two miles distant, nnd on their rushing to the plicc from whence it issued, tlu-y wero by a heartrending scene which bnfiles all description. A sea of liquid fire met their affrighted viev, emerging from which in a mass of flames, were seen four human beings wrapped in spirits in a state of ignition, nnd screaming in all the agony which the tori mis natural to so horrible n Munition wrtiitH produce?on they ran, until they readied the river, into which they madly plunged, in the hope of extinguishing the flames, and affording them some relief of their pain. The water certainly did at once quench the fire that was outwardly consuming them, but only to leave them in the consciousness that no hope was left them. and to show to the alarmed spectators tho certainty of their fate. While one party of those who hastened t<v tho spot was busily endeavoring to prevent tho ignited spirits from consuming the build ings of tho property, ano'her was engaged in alleviating by alf possible means the torments of the sufferers. Mr. Groves, with prompt lmnianitv. immediately despatched exp-esses to Dr. John F. Chambers, but that gentleman arrived too hite to be of any sen ice, Mr. Clarke, the book keeper, MoLennan, the head stillermnn, and one Coolie bv name Juggernaut* having expired ero ho reached the scene of t\ie accident. The other unfortunate individual, a Coolie, is still lingering but witlioutthe slightest chnnce of recovery.-?[Afow/<^0 Bay (Jam.) Un A J Jm v/* tft* irisl* A New Dance.?All Poka-doni will be del-tfhtcd to learn that a new dance was , produced at ti e bn!l of the Turkish ambassadors, recently given in puns. It i^ ' ?n enblamatic dance called the 'jJ/onths,' j performed b/ twelve ladies and gentle- 1 men, and n correspondent of the New- w York Express gives nn account of it as tli r.n IUIIOWK .Q "Jnnunrv was dressed as a prince pal- x.. nline, and wrapped in a sable. April J wore a lilace crape dress with two skirts, the upper one looped up at short spaces in by bunches of lilacs; on her head ahe wore a wreath of violets. February wore g, a bhick velvet doublet, slashed with cc flame-colored gauze, cut in such a way aj: :is to represent flames, and on his b- east p, the arms of the city of Havre, the Sala- ij, mander which lives in the fire. His lady v{ was Mav, a lovely young woman with a I _ 4 - ? i *? ?' ' 1 uiws nuiuii accmi'u maae ennreiy oi out- | r.et flies' wing?*, nnd whose fair forehend 1 (>| was covered with a wre'th of thornless | or roses. 3/inch wore the dress of a farmer i with a plough at d rake embroidered on 1 ni his breast, nnd he danced wi\h June, ! ,M whose green silk dress was trimmed with ' jc moss ro?es nnd little bunches of stmwber- j j)( rii*s. oepiemoer was dressed as a hun- JU ter, with his gnme bag nt his *ide. Au- g, pust was very beautiful as a young vine dresser, with her white dress lirnmed with bunches of grapes; and her head fc wreathed with vine leaves." ? It is added that the effect was so pleasing that the dancers were compelled to keep 011 their feet all night ;o satisfy ^ tlie admiration of the spectators. S KEOffliE COURIER. ? 11 ; .1 mw ^ . ? ~ 1 i rauay, iway ??, I SOU. 111 With ft view of accommodating our Sub pcribcrs who live at n distance, tlie following gentlemen nre authorized nnd rcouoptod to act as agents in receiving and forwarding Sub cription* to the Keowrr Courier, viz: Maj. W. S. OnisiiAM, nt West Union. Edward IIuoiif.8, Esq., " Horse Shoe. J,; E. I'. V7 kbnkr, Esq., " Bnuliolor's Retreat M. P. Mitciiei.l, Esq.. " l'ickensville. P J. E. IlAooan, " Twelve Milo. \ J. T. Wuun. for Anderson District. COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS, ?tc? f J Met nt this place on Monday, and <le- . tcrmined (o build a new bridge across tlic . si Keowec River, but have not fixed its lofr cation. We understand a committee was ^ appointed to whom the duty of loenti sg thebiidge was assigned, within presciihed ^ limits. Now, it seems to us most reason- { able and natural t hat the bind go should ,j he located at such place as the roid< lending from this p!ac* shall cross llic river. Certain commissi tiers have; been { appointed to hy out n rmd, and when that road is marked by them, the Commissioners arc under obligations to open it and build abridge where it cros-e^ the river, unless it can be shown beyond doubt that those Commissioners have not fciithfullv flU??bnrr*nil tlii.ii- iliilv tlml ()><> 1 j to j ? ?* road is not laid out on the best ionic? then the public convenience requires an o investigation. But it looks too wild, to j locate a bridge where there is no ro"?d ( and none is expected to be. It strikes us p the proper plan to have pursued would f have been to have instructed that com- fi mittee to locate the bridge at such point f as the void is in1f?iu?nrl tr* ? asu 'I the river And if we arc to liavc a n scramble over the location of the road v let us have the biidge included, and let 1 all share the same fate?if we are to have a no road, we shall have no use for a bridge, t THE B ATT \ LION MUSTER. [ The 1st Battalion, of the 5th Ite^'t. S. C. M., under command of Major Chas- j tain, assembled at their usual parade * ground, on iSaturdny last, for review. 1 Although the morning was wet and rainy, I citizens, soldi*rs and officers turned out r weli. The card of cv.lutions prepared t for the occasion, was creditably executed f by both officers nnd soldiers; yet in consequence of the rough, undulating ground on which they exer. is<'d, it was ev ident tlml llio ai'aI.i * ~4 t" J v....v niv viuiuuuiu nt'iv urn niriurmeo . . . n with that promptness nnd precision which hfll generally characterized the Bittalion c We hope a more favorable field will be u provided before another meeting, for J, nothing is more pleasant thnn to see mili'.ia-men performing military duty with tho accuracy and soldierly bearing of a a regular army. s H THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION. 1 Some time ago there wns a general np- I1 prohension th.it Tennessee would notnp- ? prove the Southern Convention, nnd ^ stand up to her harness, but those fears are being dispelled. The democratic b party have been favorable to it nil the ^ime, bnt now thnt party Imvc become ^ warmor on the subjt'ct, nnd the whigs nre joining them in good faith in the appoint- ^ mentof delegates. The Nashville Union P says, "Wo believe that by the 1st of the fiubmi&iionists will be in n contemptible minority of their party, nnd R bave learned to regret the infatuation hich has driven them lo prove false to 10 light of their own section of theUn ?i r .i? ? ?ir? j - ii *Miu Kudu iv vncir v/wii viirutT iiuu JIO* e instincts." The Memphis Enquirer, a whig paper, commenting upon the subject, soys: "The question now is whether tho juthern States will agree to further con'ssions to oppose constantly increasing jgressions or whether they will boldly helium hiiu pusiiim uu'ir constitutional | ifhls. ThcoJijrciof the proposed Nosh- I He Convention is to settle this question ! -?nd if the States there represented mil determine to submit and become 1 wdient slaves, they will agree and put1 ) their "iron neckhice," if not they will .'vise nnd recommend the "mode nnd ensures," which the people should : I ? TL!. /I !? '? ? * iwjn. iins v>unvt>nii(in win claim no! gislativc or oilier Authority. They will 1 i the representatives of an oppressed id aggrieved people, and will only jst the remedy, and the people will act." The people of Florida are also manisting a lively interest in the Convention -arc rejecting tl?e sickly, submissive 1 uinsels of Gov. Drown, and holding ! ublic meetings in various parts of the , :nte, in which strong resolutions aprovinif the Convention have been adopt- j 1. Measures linve been adopted at Tal- : hasseo for securing the attendonce of x delegates to represent the State in the nshville Convention. ? I The "Edgefield Advertiseh."?This aper comes up enlarged, improved, and aving 'entirely a new dress,'?she fol>ws suit handsomely in this age of news npcr advancement, Su< cess lo the Ad- j eriiser. So a u let Fever.?The Constitutional- ! d informs us that the scarlet fever has ocn prevalent in Augusta and vicinity iveral week?, and that 'the disease is row ing more malignant in type.' Herejfore, it has attacked only children of lore feeble constitution, but last week Qvcrnl adults had been attacked, and in ivo cases of grown ladies proved fatal, 'his is a fenrful epidemic, nnd if the rrntlier continues cold, we ninv yit hear :id accounts from our friends in Angus\. 'When it appeal's in a family it genially goes through, attacking all, or early nil the children, black and white, n ilie premises.' It is said that the fiftme fever, together ?ilh Erysipelas of a malignant type, is tie vailing in Savannah. IIow it wokks.?At the last session I the Gooigia Legislature a law was >as-:ed giving juiisdiclion to the Superior yourt in cases of capital offences by negroes. The law works wll, nnd judging rora the statements we have seen of the irst trial under the i.ew system, the peoile are generally well pleased with it. 'he cuse alluded to is tlie State vs. Buck, man slave, for an nssnult and battery mil intent to Kill 11. Tilloi, white man, >y striking Jiim on the liend with n mallet ml severely frnctuiing the t-kull. It is hought My. 7 cannot survive the blow. 3uek bus been convicted nnd sentenced o be hung. punressor Weboter.?Wt learn from liA P.Actnn nnnoiHs !>??' ' - ** Uinv iiiu \. UII1I3V| III >rofc8sor Webster, lately condemned to >e hung, are making an effort to got a icw tii.il. The grounds urged for newrial arises from some irregularity in the trocecdings. SENATE Washington, Vny 1, 1850. The bill to increnso the rnnk nd file of the army was passed. After morning business, the joint rcs lution from the House, tonuf thr expc liiion set-on fiiot by Mr. Orinnell, for be discovery nnd re icf of Sir John Frank in. wna tjiknn nn Mr, Olny advocated it. Mr. Dayton Raid the session was favorble to the enterprise. The northern eas wer?-remarkably free from ice, our allant officers and seamen we-e ready o volunteer to serve in the perilous enternisei The British Government had riot up the ex ploration* Men not ?eard in the naval service were ready tocmark. \e- u...i? ?? - * * ?>i. uiiuui tuiu uiners nuvocaicu the ill. Mr. Footc in favor of the cxpedion, but wished it to bo undertaken on lovernmcnt nooount. After much discuwion, in which Mr. ulee stated the views of the Navy Dc rriment, The question war then taken and the (solution wns passed, yeas 28, nays 10. Mr. Dnu?laM called for the Central .niiroad bill. Mr. Butler moved that the Senate go into executive session. Agreed to. m ^J'lie Senate spent some time in exeeu- an tivc session, and then adjourned. itr JIOUJ E OF REPRESENTATIVES. wl Mr. Thompson of Ky. was excused from service on the committee to inves- p tigate the condition of the public printing and /mother gentleman was appointed in 1 his place. Mr. McLnno asked the unanimous con sent of the House to allow the Senate bill on the Speaker's table, amendatory of the act establishing the mint, to be taken up and passed. The act, he paid, merely allows the Secretary of the Treasury fn to dispo-e of the money in the various depositoiies by transfer!ing it to the 2( mint, where it was greatly wanted for }]( #lw, ..r k? ii- I-"!- - wi\> |Mii 1>1 puililiil.Mil^ M1U uuiuon ariiving from California, which was being canied to England, because there was not sufficient money in tho mint, under the existing laws, to make purchases. H Mr. Toombs, of On., objected. tr On motion of Mr. P. King, of New ei York, i lie rules were suspended and the House resolved itself into Committee of H the Whole on the State of the Union.? bi (jl/ir. Thompson, of J/lss., in the Chair) and resumed the consideration of tho b< census bill. Mr. S'.epl ens, of Georgia, spoke an D hour in denial of the consti utional power . hi of the federal government to mitliur thn i ei u o statistics, such as was provided tor by this bill. Mr. Thompson, of Pa. followed in re- *1C plv. and defen 'cd the bill, when, after a j(1 word or two from Mr. Jones, of Tenn., the committee of the whole referred to struck from the bill that relating to the ; j, authorising of statistics?by afvote of ; 40 in the affirm live and 08 in the ncga- j tive. 1 Mr. A/or?e ppoke in fnvor of rejecting j the bill xmlfs;* amended by dispensing a with the stutisties. ^ Numetotis unimportant propositions t| to amend were nin-le and voted down. Then the House, ??t 8 o'clock, adjourned, p h I t _ _ _ luorrcpponucnco ot mc Charleston Courier.] IPasimngtok, May 1. v The House made sonic progress with ' | tlio Census bill yesterday, nnd to-day, ^ the debate in Committer of the whole is | to be stopped. Mr. Vinton has brought ,j j forward an important proportion in re- jj ference to the apportionment of llepreten; talives under the new Census, lie* pro! poses that the number of llepresentaI shall be limited to two hundred, nnd ihn 11 (Secretary of the inteiicr sliiill tlx the , ratio accordingly, llerctofoic, the ratio has been lixe t by Congress, and tho e has always been a struggle between the i States wuh small and nearly stationary \ population, with tin* more populous and 1 rapidly growing Stitles. '1 lie latio, now J1 seventy hx thousand, will, under Mr. Vinton's plan, be brought up to nearly one j hundred and twenty thousand. The present number of Representatives is two 1 bundled and thirty, to which aie soon to 1 j be added, two or more irom California, * I and two more from each of the North- 11 western Territories', soon to become States. Mr. Vinton's plan will lix the ^ whole number of llejlresenUuiveB, from all Suites that may he in tho Union alter 11 the next apportionment at two hundred, " which will Co a considerable, and as some suppose, a desirable reduction. 7'he House will bejome a more manageable body with a reduced number, and the , 111. inners elected will be perhaps, men of 1 more weight of clmractcr. The {Southern s Stales which continue their efficient mem- * heiH in the House fur n number of years in succession, while the Northern and (> Western Stale- change their's every two 11 or lour years, will gain in influence, rather than lose, l>y the proposed reduction. !( The Senate have been again engaged in 1111 linilni'l ilumui-iim iS llw. I.ill |? 8 .... .....? u V4?' 'V VI lliv* UU I IU _ grant piihlicT'inds to the tftate of Illinois. * in nkI of the construction of the Central 1 lt:iil Houd. 'i he debate bus involved the J' question of Internal Impiovenunt by the 11 general Government, and also the disposition of the public land?. We have a number of land projects before Congress, ? and some of them provide for the moie " general division ol the .-poil among all the j, &tntcs. 7 he older States put in their claim to a lair share of the common pro- c pertv, and not without t>omo reason. Mr. 11 Clay's old plan of distiibuting the pro* oeeds of the sa'es of the public lands among the States is about to bo revived. H'u learn something more definitely of n the provisions of the iiulwer tieaty, and " there can be no doubt that they uie high- I' 1v fiivririihlc In lh<> llnifmi K?iii..u ??'' *- ' _J ?w V..W ** N/vtiivni (tint III 1' I he whole commercial wo. Id. The direc- ' tors of the American Company for ma- c king the Nicaragua Canal are about to I commence operations. Tl'oy will opon tl their subscription and obtain u larjge sum in this counny before th y apply to British bHpi|alist8?who have great confidence in Ameiiciin enterprise. The Oanal will c cost lew than thirlv million* nai* nnu J ? " lieved. w American Difficulty at Mayajuez, P. 1; R.?Cnpt. Given, of ?er. Delaware, from tl Mnyngucz, 15 days, informs us that (ho n U. S. ?l?ip-of-war Albany had just arii- r| ved from S\v\ Ju^n# P. It., all well. Slio fired a salute, but w is not answered. '1 Capt. Bcecher of the schr. North Caroli- n i, (wrecked at Mayaguez, 11th inst,) id crew, who luvd been ill treated and iprisoned by the authorities at M., hud iitten to the commander of the Albany, en at San Imm, who immediately came Mayuguez to demand the release of ipt. 1J. and crew, and satisfaction for treating Ami'licnn O V.?.?V?iO. [N. Y. Jour. Com. From the Telegraph. LATER FROM EUROPE. Haltimouk, May 3. The steamship Canada reached IlalixatlO a.m. this (b'ridav) morning, 'nK'"K advices from Liverpool to il?o )tli nit. 1'lie following is u summary of ;r news as far as received. commkucial. Liverpool, April 20. Tho Niagara readied Liverpool on the 3th ult., and her advices from this county caused an immediate advance of oneghth pence on all descriptions of Cotton rni i r .% * i nc saies 01 mc week ending on the )lh amounted to sixty-one thousand lies. The mniket nt Have is represented lo ? firm and active. The accounts from the Manufacturing istricts arc more cheering than they ive been pieviously, flud business gen*a 11y is assuming a healthier aspect. l'OLITICAL. Affairs in Franco nrc still in a very critiil condition, nnd the result cannot bo dicated with any certainty. The hostility of the Socialists to tho resent Government is increasing, nnd us assumed a very determined eharnc;r. They have nominated Eugene Sue i their candidate to represent the city of 'aris. Three hundred men, forming a part of Light Infantry regiment, were drowned V the falling of a suspension bride over lie Loire. The Pope has at length returned to tome, but wc have no further particuirs. The advices from China and India aro cry satisfactory. All the leader* of the Hungarians, who id not capitulate, have been sentenced o death Kossuth among them. j lie diplomatic intercourse between 'urkcy and Austria has been ve-cstabished. The American minister wn? received t Constantinople in a very flattering man er. Nothing of interest from any other European countiics. Arrest of flulloch. ? We were shown esturdav, a despatch from Savannah, eceived hy a gentleman of this city, anmuncing that George J. Bulloch, late Cashier of the Central Rail-lload Bank, rlio absconded from Savannah nhonf. lie 1st of March last, with one hundred housand dollars ?>l it- fur.ds, has been aught, and wns bi ought over in the teamcr Cambria. The despatch gave 10 further information on the subject. We arc indebted to our Charleston oncapondentfor the same information >v telegraph, with the additional Ktetn uent that Bulloch came over in charge of , 13-oston Policeman. Constitutionalist. Singular Occurrence.?The steamer )sprev, which arrived on Tuesday last rom Philadelphia, while on her passage, truck against something which gave tho essel such a shock as to induce Captain )ickinson to suppose that he lmd touch* d upon a sho d or Inr?? 1<?r? . i - - ?e?- b' * ruination, nothing could be discovered, nit the speed of the bint was materially assened. /tbout hix bours subsequenty\ Cnpt. Dickinso, upon getting otfer the learner, for the purpose of securing a )olphin, discovered an object hanging to lie P.lll-wMlnr TM.!-. l.? "? 1 ,v? ,? ma iiv ruon innue OUl d ho n huge turtle, which took till hands, icluding the passengers, to haul on onrd. The animal, it is supposed, must iave been sleeping on the #hter, and was early out through by the shock, though t was stiit alive when taken on board, 'lie ht-ad was cut off as a trophy, and I led a good sized bucket, and the carass, which must have weighed eight or me nunan a pound*, was thiown overioard.? Char Mercury. A Fact for the People.?Only fight wmber# of the Whig parly in the 8ente of the United States voted for Mr. 'oote'n compromise committee! This r>o in the face of nil ?!??* ..e _ _ ...W y. vrivwilt/lio W1 illp, I big press nnd Wh'jf party in favor of ompromisc, nnd nil the'nr abu*e of tho )emoemcy for being opposctMo it. Will he people remember this toot. Constitutionalist. A Ball <\f Fire.?The British brig AU yone, from Ghisgow, arrived at Boston, epori* on Uape UoU, while tha>nfon rorc nloft reefing the foretopsuj^in tho liddle of a snow storm, f\ ballof/firo irger thnn an eig' t pound nhoti^(ruok lie mninmftHt, nnd without any u??:ieuftl oir.e, such as an explosion. the plit in four piece* nnd went ofjfcjrboafti ?ith all ihc yards arid Hguina| attached, "h? Alcyone had lost her uzcnnmt,