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most alarming evils. Ramified as it is, and extended to every neighborhood, the puritv of its administration, and necessariiv of its agents, should he particularly guarded. For a Deputy Postmaster to use his franking privilege (a privilege bestowed upon him for the sole pupose of exonerating him from oppressive charges in the necessary corresponpenGe of his office) in scattering over the country pamphlets, newspapers, and proceedings to inHuence elections, is to outrage all propriety, and must not for a day be tolerated. t Ua ln(V Jn tlw> nntihi-lml4. I liCl (ills UC ICIl IU il|U should be happy if one or two examples shall be found sufficient to correct an evil which has so extensively prevailed. I will take this occasion, also, to add for your instruction, thatthe appointment to, and continuance in the office of postmaster of any one editing a political newspaper is in the highest degree objectionable. Is involves most of the consequences above stated?introduces poli ics into the post office?diminishes the revenue?and con* fers privileges on one editor which all can* not enjoy. In a word, it is my fixed pur* pose, as far as in me lies, to separate the Post Office Department from politics, and Ki*in<r ukinit that rpfnrin which the countrv has so loudly demanded. Skpt.28, 1841. JOHN TYLER. We inserted in our paper, a few days ago, the letter of Mr. Bell, the late Secretary of War. It is part of the history of the day. and must therefore be preserved. Mr. Bell's letter, we. think, , upon the whole, praves that the President was rather trying to be satisfied, that he was actually satisfied, with a Bank Bill. Mr. Bell, in his letter, says the President requested that they would take care not to commit him by what they said to members of Congress, to any intention to dietato to Congress?they might express their confidence and belief that such a bill as ha:l just been agreed upon icould re- \ ccioe his sanction; but it should be a mat. ter of inference, from his veto message and his general views. He thought he might request that the measure should be j put into the hands of some friend of his own, upon whom he could rely. Mr. i Sergeant was named, and he expressed himself satisfied that he should havej charge ofitr He also expressed a wish j to see the bill before it was presented to j the House, if it'could be so managed, it can hardly therefore he said that he had ; fully made up his mind, at that time, as he ! had not seen the bill to which he was to give his signature. There is another part of Mr. Bell's letter that seems to indicate the serious doubts of the President on the i Bank Bill, and we think it grew out of | Mr. Badger's remarks, when the Cabinet; and the President were discussing its pro. v isions Mr. Bell says that Mr.. Badger.re- j marked, 44 that nothing would have heen gained by the use of the terms of 44 Ba nk j of discount and deposite," ip his messago; j for. as to the charge of inconsistency it; m'ght, and probably would be made against him, for party, effect, if he sanctioned the i hill then proposed by him, inasmuch as dealing in, or buying bills of exchange, I would be discounting, and to that extent; make it a Bank of discount." Mr. Bad* j ger was clearly right. It is here that we think the President took the alarm for we, find Mr. Bell adds the following : 44 When all the material points appeared to be disposed of, and the members of the j Cabinet present had expressed their deci- j dod approbation of the plan the President had suggested, he said that after all. he would not sanction a bank, in the form just j agreed upon, if he supposed thai it would; he made the ground work or basis of a' bank, with all the pewers of the late. Hank i o f lh' rnited States. He never would; give i.issanciion to the power of local discount Now, who can censure the President, when a* hill (for it does not appear that " the bill" was ever shown to him, before it was submitted to Congress) was passed ; and presented for his approbation, that he | refused to sign it, particularly as he was j satisfied that the u Exchange Bank'* was hut another name for a "Bank of Dis. count," and came within the reservation which the President made, and which Mr. Bell, in his letter, savs he made at; the time. It might have been the inten- i tion of the President, when the Cabinet i met, to have prepared a Bank Bill, if pos-' sible : hut the declaration made by one of j bis Cabinet, that it would be called a : " Bank of Discount," induced him, we j think, to make the emphatic declaration, that we have copied into this article, rela- i five to his not sanctioning the Bill, if it! could he supposed to wear the character ! of a B.iiik of Diseoont. % Pha. Sontincl. I j EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM WASHING- ' TOV. Amidst the gloom which, at one mo-1 meat, threatened the dissolution of the j whig party, it is gratifying to know that j brighter prospects now arise. I am persuaded that we are vet to realizeall the results "anticipated from the1 glorious revolution accomplished by twelve year's perseverance against the misrule of j despotism and delusion* of a majority o| 1 fhe republic. The President admits that there "is a virtual dissolution of the Union, for all commercial purposes, while exchanges are | from one to ten per cent between the | IStates composing the confederacy, and: his mind is anxiously devoted to apply the ' 4-.orrer.tive in any mode consistent with 1 hi* constitutional scruples. ' The resumption of specie payments by ithe banks would greatly facilitate this ^ important object. Surely, in Maryland, j wbere our paper is but 11-2 per cent be-1 |ow' -coin, the approximatation proves the J mensnre to be one of easy- attainment, j While every facility will be afforded by ! the Treasury Department to realize thisobject, be assured that a system wil! he! 555551E555S^^S5S55555H515595m5BS59 4 T > devised that can meet the approbation of ( | Congress and the nation, and thus the i heart burnings consequent on our recent disappointments be allayed, and the whig i cause triumphant, hy the utility of all its constituents?executive and legislative. The threatened outbreaks on our borders, evidences the importance of Mr. I Webster's being retained in the Cabinet. The confidence reposed in his wise, judicious and politic course, is manifested by the recent debates in the British Parliament, If any man can avert the horrors of war between two of the most enlighten,ed nations, bound together by kindred sympathies and identical interests, Darnel Webster is that man. He also can and will successfully aid | in devising a system of finances, which shall realize the anticipations first conceived hy the triumphant success of the whig party, in confiding the destioies of the nation to a whig Congress and a whig President. * * Let us not despair of the republic?all may yet be well. It is understood that the Princo de j/oinville is specially charged to convey | the congratuations of the King of the French to the President on his accession to that station. The Prince will be received and enter* tained with all the honors due to bis rank and worth. ? ' Although Gen. Clinch, of Florida, and J G. C. Verplanck, of New York, are talked of as prominent for the War Department, nothing is or will be known until it is ascertained that the nominee accepts. In my opinion, this vacancy in the i Cabinet will be fille<!|!rom the State of New York, with great propriety, as none of her sons now occupy prominent stations. [Ball. Patriot. From the Lexington (Ky.) Observer. hon C. A. wickliffe. Our readers w:ll have observed that this distinguished cittizen of Kentucky has bee^n appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, Post Master General. Gov. Wickliffe arrived in this city on Wednesday last. We understand he will accept the cabinet office rendered hirn by the President and alter returning to his residence 1 in Nelson wdl depart for Washington as soon ( as the necessary arrangement of his private affairs can be made. We regret to observe that the Washington 1 correspondent of the Louisville Journal, and ' perhaps other papers attribute this appoint- i inent to Gov. Wickliffe's supposed hostility to Mr. Clay?a motive equally disparaging to. Mr. Tyler and to Gov. Wickliffe. Those who are in the least acquainted with ' the political history of the country know that the President and the Post master General Berved together many years in Congress, and that the mo t intimate relations, l?oth personall and political, subsisted between them.? He is admirable qualified to discharge the do- i ties of the high station to which he has been ( called. We do not feel disposed to draw any invidious comparison between Govenor Wickliffe and any other gentleman, but we confidently believe that his appointment is highly acceptable to the people of Kentucky, and predict, that, and T his adininislrat:on, the t Post Office Department will be conducted j with method, economy and to the satisiaction of the Nation. | hon. DANlEt WEB9TKR. , The Secretary of State reached New York by the Philadelphia line to-day noon, and put ' up at the Astor House.?N. V. Express. Sept. 1 29. 'I [We understand also, Mr. Tyler visits Vir- 1 gitua in a few days?as soon as his Cabinet is fully organized. All nomineess have ac- i cepted, except Judge McLean. Should he ( positively decline the War Department, Mr Wickliffe is spoken of for that office?and \ Mp?cra WhiitIpspv. Hohbie. &c.. &.C., for M the Po*i Office VVe understand to assure j I the Public that the Cabinet is decidedly An. ti-B ink?hut wha/ever be its bear ngs, that , the Chief Magistrate is determined to throw himself upon his ancient principles, and to do ' what he thinks to be right.]?Richmond n- < quirer. ] From the National Intelligencer. The packet ship Shenandoah arrived at Philadelphia on Thursday evening, ( bringing Liverpool dates to the 9th ultimo, 1 several days later than before recei. ved. j The British Parliament met on the6th, I and the various leading members took i theirseatsin conformity with the political l change that had occurred. Thus the < Duke of Wellington accupiedthe seat < latelv held by Lord Melbourne. In | ii r n .u? ?..u; . me nouse ?>i v^uinuiiiiia me auujcv;i ui i , supplies was made the order of the day on the 7th. Deep excitcmcn was still felt in relation to the the Corn Laws, and a letter before us, from a friend,Jsays: "It 4is impossible for me to depict the distress that exist in some of the manufacturing 1 districts. Indeed, without some change in relation to the Corn Laws, the Tories 1 must expect a stormy time of it, and great 1 difficulty in preserving the public peace. We are looking with much anxiety to | your country for the result of the Mc i Leod case; and all the reasonable, moder. i ate, and patriotic of our people hope for a speedy adjustment, and thus a perfect ( reconciliation between the two coun* , tries." The Overland Mail from China had arrived, bringing dates from Canton to the 19th, and Macao to the 18th of May. Captain Elliot was temporizing with the Chinese authorities, and had succeeded in obtaining a shipment of eleven million pounds of tea, and expected to get out as much or more by the close of the month. A ship from England, loaded with pro- < vission for the expedition, had sailed north direct to Chusan, knowing nothing , of recent alterations, when her comman- ( der, Capt. Steed, R. N. was seized and killed by the MandarinR. The trade , had hcen partially resumed, Invt greatly to the disadvantage of the English. Ort the 19th of May Capt. Elliot, at Canton, moved up the ri^er in a steamer, follow, ed hv other vessels. The city began to be thronged with Chinese troops of a superior class as soldiers. All sale of British and other goods had . ' v. ' conned, and purchased of tea were to be made in hardjtashi Great preparations were making by the Chinese, and great numbers of troops were Hocking into Canton. s ... t i i CHEttAW GAZETTE. WEDNESDAY, October 13,1841. i ??e " 11 sa^? Mr. Barnwell, President of the South Carolina College, has been compelled by ill health to resign. No officer of the state held a more responsible station or discharged his duties more entirely to the satisfaction of the public. The lost of his services to the state is most deeply regretted in all quarters. Since the above was written we see by the S. Carolinian that accounts have ( been received at Columbia which afford ground to hope for the restoration of Mr. Barnwell's health. The announcement of his resignation had, of course, set the friends of the college to looking around for a successor, and we have heard more than one person spoken of for the office. But the announcement of even a possi. hility that Mr. Barnwell may speedily recover will put an end to all speculation on that head until more certain informs* tion shall be received as to his condition.A correspondent of the Camden Jour* nal states that it is rumored that the Hon. Thomas D. Sfmter will decline a re* election to Congress, and nominates Mr, John G. Bowman, of Lancaster as a can* didate. A correspondent of the Madisonian writing from Lexington, Ky., says that Mr. Wickliffe has determined to accept the office of Post Master General. It in announced in the papers that Jonx C. Spexcer, Secretary of State for New York, has keen appointed Secretary of War by the President. Hi is a very decided Wh'g, and said to he the author ' of a Whig Address to the people of New York setting forth the reasons for calling a Convention of the Whig party of the State at Syracuse. The address takes strong ground against the veto messages. .Movements are making in soma parts | of Pennsylvania, by a portion of the , " Harrison party" to run Gen. Scott for ( the Presidency. ( The people of Maine have so amended * their constitution as to make the state * elections, and the sessions of the Legisla. ' ture biennial instead of annual. The Trial or McLeod commenced at ^ Utica, N. Y. on Monday the 4th. in. stant. A jury was made up without dif. \ ficulty from the original pannel. There < were eight peremptory challenges by the < prisoner's counsel, and none by the Attor. $ riey General. Three or four were ex. * j c ; i ,1 zuwea irom serving, uecnusw wiry eiuur- j tained conscienscious scruples against j taking human life under the authority ( !)f law. i After the einpannelling of the jury, .{ the remaining jurors were discharged t till Friday night, indicatirg an expecta. j tion on the part of the court that the trial j would not be brought to a close before \ that time. i Tiie Judges arc Gridliy, White, c Kimball, and Jones. The counsel for J the prosecution are W. G. Hall Attorney c General of the state, Timothy Jenkins, f District Attorney for the county, G. L. t Wood, District Attorney for the county ' fi af Niagara, and Seth L. Hawley of 13 uf- J c falo For the prisoner, Joshua 0. Spen. * cer, D. Gardner and Alvin C; Bradly. f The Attorney General, addressed the c jury after they were sworn, at some < length. What he promised to prove * igainst the prisoner was that he asserted J that he was present and aiding at the t destruction of the Caroline, when Durfee a was murdered; and also that he had ? been busily engaged in enlisting persons ? * u c for the expedition ; that he was at Schtos-. t ser, the place from which the Caroline t was carrying provisions and arms to the t insurgents on Navy island, and asked at ^ what time the Caroline would he there; ^ and further that after the destruction of the boat, he exhibited a pistol and sword r stained with blood, which, he said, was ^ (?the blood of a damned Yankee." The 5 Attorney General did not promise to t prove that McLeod boasted, or at any r time admitted that he was present at ( the attack. , The only Witness examined the first day was William Wells, the owner of ^ the boat. From his testimony it appears ' that he understood that the object of those t who had possession of Navy island was J 1 " to concentrate there andyVee Canada." \ His aim was to carry passengers and ^ frieglrt to and from the island for money. He had carried to the island, the day he- ' fore the attack, a six pounder, and some 8 muskets?the number might be 10 or 15, t or it might be 100, The attack was 1 made at night while the boat wasancnor. c ed, and no one on board apprehending fi danger. Numl>er of assailants supposed ^ to be from 40 to 50, in 5 yawls?heard such expressions, during the attack, as 1 the following: "Give no quarters"^ ' "Kill the d?d Yankees."?heard 40 or i 50 shots, saw one man, not Dmrfee, dead -i on the boat befor^ he escaped from it. On board the boat were a crew of 10, and , 23 strangers slept on board who were "* travellers waiting for a train of cars to r r- 0 irrive next day, and were accommodated ] ?n board because there was jiot room for hem in the tivern. Two or three were 1 rounded. Durf'ee was a. stage driver, ind on board as a hand. He was shot . hrough the head. Cff those on board as nany as 7 were missing next morning, vho have never since been heard of, so rar as the witness knew. It will he renembered that the Caroline was set on 5re by the aisailants and sent over the falls of Niagara, which were only two or three miles below. Since the above was in type we have eceived a report.in the N. York Sun, of the testimony on the second day. Four >!f them said nothing bearing on the case. One testified that some one struck at him in the water after he had jumped off the Caroline and rose to the surface, and he supposed it to be McLeod, but was not at ill siita. Another, a har keener in a tav. ... 7 ? , srn, 8wore that he saw McLcod among tliose who landed from the boats which carriedthft men that destroyed the Caro. line, and heard him boast of having killed one or two Yankees. When asked how tie knew McLeod, he said, by his voice &nd appearance.When asked if he ev. or conversed ^vith McLeod, he replied, wNo, except to pass the time df dav."? *Did you ever do that" he was asked, and the reply wiifi, "Well I am not sartin." The correspondent of the Sun asserts that the testimony of these witnesses i made a marked Impression on the jury ' and audience. But much allowance is to be made for such statements. That paper is evidently striving to increase the excitement on the subject to make a market for its paper containing the report. While two lads at Plainficld, Conn, were lately preparing to hunt, one of them, applying his gun to the other's breast, sajd ; Take care or I'll shoot you." His finger being- at the time on the trigger,'he unintentionally shot and killed lis companion. The continual occurrence of such accidents does not teach oarents wisdom to keep fire arms out of, their boys' hands.. ( A Cincinnati paper furnishes a list of 22 steamboats snagged on the Mississip>i, from Jan. 1st:, to Sept. 1st.,?9 that were sunk or injured,?4 that were burn. sd, and 2 that burst (heir boilers. Loss estimated at $1,350,000. These are mpposed to include not more than two thu*ds of the actual losses from these :auses in the tim? stated. Gen. Houston lta& again been elected President of Texas. Present attitude of parties.?The retoofthe two bank hills, during the re. :ent extra session of Congress, and es|>e. :ially the circumstances Jinder which the tccond bill was vstoed by the President, certainly alienatud from him, for a time it least, a large portion of the Whig larty; Numerous meetings were held in liffcrcnt parts of the country, and partic. ilarly in the large cities, at which res. duticns were adopted in favor of a naional bank as a prominentWhig measure, ind decidedly approving the course mrsued.bv those members of the cabinet vho had resigned. The Democratic jourwis, on the other hand, in all parts of the sou n try, seemed inclined to support the President, as did also some of the Demo:rat?emembers of Congress, as appeared rom their speeches, and their circulars to hair constituents. The..Madiaonian, too, the ipecial organ of the President, gave signs >f very great sensitiveness at the general ipprobation with which the course of the sx-Secretarics met from the great body >fthe YVhigs, and for a time, seemed to :onsiderthe party as anti-administration; vhilsta number of leading papers in New England, known to he identified in poliics and party affinities with Mr. Web. iter,'seemed little disposed to co-operate vithlbe great body of the Whigs in oth;r parts of the country in endeavors to ieep; up an excitement on the bank quesion.' In this state of things it was a litle . ancertian what turn parties might :ak&v But recent occurrences seem to iave'dispelled alT doubt. The appoint, nemt of Mr. Spencer, a prominent, deciled and very active Whig to the office of Secretary of War, after the President had lad time deliberately to look round and eflect upon present party aspects, has jxfinguished the nascent affection of the democrats for him. The tone of the tfailisonian hits also greatly changed of ate. It is uiucli more courteous towards hose who expressed disapprobation of the 'resident's vetoos, and it pleads with the iVhigs for the administration ; contending hat as the President is with them on all >oints but one, and has manifested no > ittachment to their opponents therefore, hey ought to give him a cordial support. Phe President cannot be sustained by his >wn little party?a mere cab full of abitractionists. Ho must, therefore, seek o conciliate one or the other of the great Mtrties into which the country is divided. ? " *- L ?l:_ _ I _ IT_ flo. seems 10 nave mauo ins election. ne s evidently going back to the Whigs?if ndeed, he ever thought of deserting them. And the courteey-and forbearance with which he has been treated by the members jf that party at their political meetings ?Dce the adjournment of Congress have ? left the dobr open for a reconciliation.? The following paragraphs from leading Democratic paper# tbew the light in which the President is now viewed by I 0 the Democrats? From the Globe. 1 "It must not be inferred that it is our * purpose to enlist under the banner of the 1 Administration. The new cast of Cabinet almost forbids the hope that Mr. Ty- ' ler has come to the determination to de- < vote himself to restore Jeffersonian De- i mocrocy". From the Charleston Mercury. Tin Ah ARRANGEMENT OF THE CABINET ;.The Globe of Saturday sayt, "we understand that the Hon. JohnC. Spencer of New York has been appointed Secretary of War." This is quite extraordinary. The Herald two days since alluded to a rumor of this appointment and said that Mr. Spencer i was the author of the Whig Address, denouncing the President and calling a State Convention of the party, apparently for the purposes of raising the Clay flag. We And this ?tatement confirmed by the admission of the Whig press of New York. The Express intimates that Mr. Spencer denounced the President" under a wrong impression" and that this truly disinterested and patriotic Whig has consented to correct hja " impressions," for the trifling consideration of a place in the Cabinet. This is truly admirable. Mr. Tyler is in a fair way of buying back the New York Whigs?their organ, the Albany Journal having already consented to think more favorably of "vetoes," "constitutional scruples"and " Virginia abstractions" in consideration of the dismissal of three Democratic near there whose places have just been filled by Whigs. PROM THR RICHMOND KNQUIRRR. We have not seen the expos.) of the Webster Whigs of Massachusetts, but one thing however is certain, that if Mr. TyIshould please them on ' whig principles he cannot please the Democracy of the Union on Republican principles. He cannot ride both sides of the sapling. If he tries to sit upon both stools, he must fall between both of them. Or, it we may still further use the Sancho privilege of proverb quotation, if he seeks to carry water on both shoulders, he will be drenched by both buckets. But the WhigiConvenlion of Massachusetts must either be deceivcd by its hopes, or is deceiving the public. Mr. Tyler can never subscribe to their favorite notion of a National Bank or National Corporation. He has already declared his determination to give to his , country a Republican Administration or; perish with his principles if he were to a- 11 bandon his old Republican States' Rights j principles, he must perish. The Whigs J of New England, with D. Webster at their j head, cannot save him. For our own j part, we are willing, until we are better advised by events, to give him 4 a little generous confidence.' But if he should unfortunately take the counsel of his * Whig advisers and conduct his Adminis ttafion upon Whig principles,' he must forfeit the confidence of the Republican [meaning Locofoco] Party. They will not abandon their principles for mortal man.. They go for measures, not men. The practical triumph of the great measures and principles of Democracy are ever, and note, more than ccer, the polar star and the leading objects of their party. Men are but subordinate objects in the matter. Such is the decided purpose of the Democratic party in old Virginia, more than ever?as it is in Pennsylvania and New York?in all the South, and in all the North, and in all the West. Let Mr. Tyler be assured that he cannot unite the Whigs of Massachusetts and their principles with the Democrats of Virginia aiul their principles" A latitudinous or a strict construction of the Constitution ? The scheme o f a third party is an idle chimera?a ridiculous abstraction indeed. He must come to see this in the same light i that wc do." The Yellow fever has abated little, if: any, in New Orleans. The Hon. John Murpiiy, formerly Governor of Alabama, and nfterwards a ' representative in Congress, died at his ; residence ill Clarke county, Ala., on the j 21st. ult. in the 56th. year of his age. He was a native of Robeson county, N. C. a graduate of the South Carolina College, and for several years clerk of the Senate of this State. The U.S. Steamer Beaufort burst one of her boilers, on the 4th. inst., between Savannah and Pilatka, killing 4 blacks and a white boy. The election for State Legislature, and Governor took place in Georgia last week. We have accounts from 20 out of 93 counties. In th'jse counties Dawson the Whig Candidate, received 8,249 votes, and* McDonald, the Democratic Candidate, 6,793?Whig majority 1456. In the same counties the Whig majority last year was 1879. For the Legislature the Whigs have lost 15 and gained 5? nett loss 10 in the counties from which we have heard. The entire gain of 5 by the Whi./s was in the county of Chatham in which Savannah is located. The Republican of that city introduces its report of the election with the following glorification: CHATHAM COUNTY!?44 Come late, . but Come she Will!" "Stand aside and let Old Chatham speak." AS GOES CHATHAM SO GOES THE STATE!! The War Horse 44 Relief" distanced by the little dutch PoNEY "reform"! OLD CHATHAM ERECT AT LAST!!! "We have met the enemy and they are ours!" GLORIOUS VICTORY!!! CRO W CHAP MAX, CRO W!! For the Farmers Gazette. SoNSTITUTIOX OF THE BlBLE SOCIETY OF CHE*TEBF1EL0 DlSTEICT. ffArt. 1st. This society shall be called .he Bi le Society of Chesterfield District. Art. 2d. All persons who shall sobicribe and pay annually any amount to the funds of this Society shall be enrolled.. is members. Art. 3d. The officers of this Society shall be a President, six Vice Presidents,, a Secretary a Treasurer, and nine Direc tors, to be elected annually, by nomina* tion, and the above named officers and Directors shall constitute a Borad of Managers, to conduct all the business of. Society, five of whom with the President or the senior Vice President shall constitute a quorum. Art. 4th. The single object of thi* Society shall be to supply the destitute, in ' the District of Chesterfiejd, with the BU Li. _.!.L...? ? OWf WII11UUI IKIIC Ul kUIIIIIICIIIt Art. 5th. There shall be an annual meeting of this Society, on the seconcP Thursday in October, at such placets the President shall appoint. IfUTXEOS. A correspondent wishes to caution thw public through the medium of our paper, against the deleterious eflects of a too fret use of Nutmeg. He says*? * "Having recently purchased the article, I took a broken one and put it into my pocket, and in the course of 6 hours, I had eaten about halfofooe. Soon after, I felt a dizziness, and an unaccountable derangement of intellect?transient loss of memory?yet a perfect consciousness of all that I said, or did. 1 became remarkably loquacious and seemed to bo neither in this world nor the other, felt happy and free from any pain?I wan truly in an indescribable state. I felt as ^ I have supposed one might fee), that had been magnetized. My friends were greatly alarmed, and the doctor was sent for, post haste. Bleeding was proposed but, as I thought I knew at least as much as any one, I was not willing to be bled. After keeping them laughing and crying till about 11 o'clock at night, I retired to bed, without any thing having been done for me. I awoke in the morning, and was as well as usual, having never been sick a day io my life. Since this occurrence, several cases have come tomy knowledge in which persons having eaten of nuttneg, were affected the same as I had been. Had 1 eaten a very little more 1 have no doubt it would haveproved fatal, as I learn it has been, in other cases." Hal. Register, From the Charleston Mercury. ASSKmHjlC Uf ouicnurii/ nk.i in n ?ut> The third annual meeting of the Men of Science of Italy and foreign countries, is to he held at Florence the present month. Letters were addressed some months since to some of the scientific so* cieties.in this country, and among others to the Academy of Arts and Sciences of this State, inviting them to send delegates to represent them in this convention. The Academy made choice of two of their members Messrs. Edward Everett and Francis O Gray. They are both now in Eurbpe, and will probably be present at the meeting. ' From a recent letter from the President General of the Association at Florence, it appears that the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who is a zealous patron of science and ef~ letters, as well as himself a man of lettors has granted for the daily meetings of the ^ several sections of the Association, a suffi* cient number of halls, in the Museum of Physics and Natural History, in the royal ' residence of the Palazzo Pitta; and for the General Assembly of the Association hehas set opart the Hull of the Five Hun* dred. in the palace of the Governor, called^ the Palazzo Veochio. An office eras pro. vided in the palace of the Riecardi in Flor* ? ? A.I / LI _ A _ L. ence, where from ine turn 01 aepiemocr, a person would be in constant attendance to receive those who present themselves for admission to the Assembly, and au? thorized to recognize their credentials; and persons will also be present for thepurpose of alTording assistance in procu? ring lodgings and every other necessary information. From the St. Augustine News of the 1st inst. More Indian Murder*.?Whilst a par.ty of four persons were out hunting a few days since, near the South prong of the St. Marys, they were fired upon by In.dians, killing Jonathan Thigpin, and wounded one the others, Barber. A few days since, at the Horse Holdf. about 9 miles from Black Creek, whilst three persons were traveling, they werefired upon by Incian?,and a Mr. Bleach killed. The other two made their escape. The signs from the Executive party are a little more Whigish than they have been. The communications in tho Madisonian all wear a Whig aspect, and the Editorials say, that the Whig party ought to support Mr. Tyler. The new Cabinet is lauded for its uncoropromi* Wh irrrrorvr nncl *KKnrntlPo rtf '"6 " w,b6 V ? " Locofocoism. Richmond Whig, NEW ORI8T HILL. Mr. Jno. M. Mason, of this City, lias invented a Grist Mill, to be worked by a bci. ance-leter, and is capable of being accommodated to hand or horse power. The modal,, wh ich we hare seen, folly illustrates (be invention ; and tho invention itself it ingeoioor and promises valuable advantages to such at may desire to avail themselves of it. Fimm and planters, whose po*?srfiions ore extensive, and who resids atsope distance from. Water Mills, will undotmldfy derive themost substantial benefits from Mr. Mason1* invention, should it fulfil our expectations ^ and indeed, theie are times when ev^o Water .Mills ?ail, in some sections, during .which aft 4 -H