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iitQtl i/?e counter to aemat the clerks in .taking i? their paper. * A large nu?n!?er of citizens Irave vo?pnt*ered V U guard the city to night. Several of the rm 'tenders of the mob :r.ive been arreted, j . ani we hope there w li be no d sturbance 0 durng the nigut. h P. d.?Since writing ihe *b>ve we hear n there were upwards of of money in <| ^the vault of the Afanii Bank #218,(HK) of / ihis was in tlnrir ownucttes?51,261 in specie, and tho balance in paper of ether banks, a I of ' which was taken. Four persons have been arrowed, upon whom were found ^4,000, l , tome of which wn in bankable paper, the ^ balance io their own paper. .From the tunic Paper. " Tat Mom.?Thtt w Jd spirit of disorder <j < Which prevails uw?re or less over our ccun. try must be stayed. It is idle to palter 4] with it longer. It is worse than idle to ^ *.?*? !i ft* mnv r>tn?e It must be re. VT"'" " ?v 7 ' i. | a ' v. baked?crushed?even {if human blood ; be abed to edict it. Better tlial than anarchy. .. The bite outrage must Ke humiliating " iocv^ry good citizen. In broad sun light * y*nd tn the very thickest throng of buntftss, 11 - a bbob wot allowed to ride, supreme for a * tcholt day ! Havoc wis made ??T property p before our eyes, good citizens rudely ueiz* ; eci nod threatened, and yet the civil an- c jthortily was not strong enough o arrest ^ . .'it* progress ! That authority was silent, v stout-hearted ahlc-bdtlied men looked k as if they were palsied. fi 'File re are citizens who excuse this . H itiuh. "Look, say they, at thejascalitv )} of those money shavers ; see how they [ 'have swindled the community: they Ijfeitthis punishment." Beit so. No 0 think less of this ciass than we ? <i<H and none have labored harder than ? 1 U*tn dnwrr. Kul. hntl ns thnv nmi mischievous, nay, ruinous as [j ffbe traction has Ix-on to hundreds and ^ ?-'?<indreds of honest men, ovon this doos . ' justify this outbreak. It ' < ianflotker foul i?!ot u;hvi tbo city's char- j *' ac'ef that it- was toleratcul. , ^Where, besides, in this to end f ; What is j ^ , to ch?ck thfofoob tewUncy among us? The . tl itetigHoi spirit which se^ka to gratify Jt^el f by ' r, Violating the 1**' for a justifiable cause, -'S thi* I OJ . J is termed, to day. may tlnso for an unjustifiable to tmrrroir. It iathe .ir?k step wlucii ' atifotf. if we tolerate that others * ill l?c taken, y and the gutted appearance of the i leg al shav^* I ers shop ? now,-will *i:np.'y servo to shadow :l forth what is to S? J he ?>*i I;ti >n h-rraflir of J ill r?Ur fogaitzed institutions and private dve I- ' j, .trigs. VVem s' e.ruah dnt spirit ? oat it out ; f. ?- "** . t/J i ! n. , uiKitnv if ufrt - W):j|J-i* 1"^. mw rw c ?VIIUI\i UK. I llfvt'^1 T ??% ? * - ? . .piweeife hfeor properly-tro>n ir? <yra*o. |ul r^^Dnt it ta c!e?r, ouiwr from ttr.nt of p uver nl gk". or i-tfi leucy t r werhAps th ?.t rh? c?v?I ^^^Rtarltor ty i? nut Kirotig en-vii^h te cpitM popn>? "t hi" morn iug^*0/1he IT.h 'instaM.l \ r' crowd coiti ot^d and !>r?kc into the office Joi! Lo:ig.-*c & On. in tho latter oit\. which I .gutted, and proceeding to demolish, ?,j when Mr. Turner, the cay marshal, urnv. 1 I i- ' ed, w<?i mil) the room, nad, with the aid I i>f:i lew citizens, soon cleared it, and re- Hl .- elided s*>me degree of quwt. It is sup- |jl 'posed that the ir&^.cannot tve groat, n* j I morning been removed from the ? n v J?niliUng, whirl) probably w.?u)d not have I " ns.?w?lf(i it'it had iwon opened at the c Uauai hour for b?w?iie.<?. n 11 .' - - -,"? " -?* , '_ .??? ' WAIVK. J We have received the mesvngo of(?Wrrnor Fmrrteij, (ran .-..'if i n:i the 7:/? ' ()j ifisf. It is fommemlably brief, equal to j pi -tfhrmt a column and a half; and in- : c' no variety of topics. Fust ' the Governor touchy upon- the debt *fj,n , |he fit.tte, wh ch amounts, not including;1* ihe fndrnn and school funds to $1,700,. ^ <HK); a considerable portion of which has Uj arisen from the neglect, for several years w to foy a tax for the sup}?0rt of the Govern- ^ wwnt, under the idea that enough would y, i>e realized from the sale of public lands, ; ii Other causes have beon the large sum* i }>aid as bounty for raising wheat, and the j J. heavy expense attending the boundary "" a< The Governor recommends 'J1 economy and vigorous measures to pay ' 0e expressf* a hope that the distrihu- u h'ea act will not long he permitted to | mflEHOSlu llta atutdtA kniit ?* nri PPPIIin . P o?mmv uv-r| mhw vw?r- t etions to the Maine Sena. )' Nw?? to vote for its repeal, ^ >e jfte*n time the state re. t* te her portion of the mon. ru (arther restrictions on the ^ fe prohibition of small hills ??j revisions to prevent frauds ai ^r' ^~ ^H^ii ti' <UA 5K fT i^ ~ ~ |^ WEDNlSSiMY, January '88, 1S42. \'y< ! (( The countenance given mo generally y the Democratic press to the repudiation P' t her debts by Mississippi, seems to have ad little or no effect upon the great hody ? f the party;?particularly in the old sr it t^s, where the doctrine of repudiation neets with little favor from any party. . ^ ... ! cr A meeting of the Democratic members of K?? Ifiricln r?irp of Kentucky, which was j j*' "v ' i y% itended also by oilier Democrat?, have nom. lated Col. R. AL Jam?3ont late Vice Presi. ent, as a candidate for the Presidency. g Rkodb Inland.?The suffrage" Conren- . ion of Rhode Island met again at Providence n the 12th instant, to count the votes on the uestion of adopting or rejecting the cmistitu. P ion lately proposed by the same convention d a the people of the state. A majority of the tale inhabitants of the state ov.er 21 years of p ge (hut how large a majority is not stated p n the recount before us) voted for the consti- c ution. The convention adopted the following 11 ireamble arid resolutions: 11 * Whereas, it satisfactorily appears that the itizens of this slute, in their original and overeign capacity, have ratified and adopted aid constitution, by a large majority; and lie will of the people, thus decisively inade nown, ought to bo implicitly obeyed, and f, ii.lifully exi cu'ed ; and we do tlierefo'd 0 Resolve and Declare, That said Constitil- fl. on rightfully ought to b? and i# the paramount ' i\v and Constitution ot the State of Rhode ? daiid and Providence Plantations. Vl And we do further Resolve and Declare, for ? urselves, and in behalf of the People whom ir re represent, that we wilfestablisn such Con- $ titu'.ion, and sustain and defend the same by il necessary means." - V . >. The convention also determined upon issu- p< >g a proclamation for the election of delegates in y popular vote, to meet on the 10th February it >r the purpose of nominating candidates lor a ie offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor >c w. the election for these officers to take lacc in April. It does not yet appear whether ie present organic government under the (j ?yal clurt'er will acquiesce in this proceeding ruoL< ' " cf KKiTfCTS OF UUACKRUY, Wo, some months since, publislved ^ u evlruct from statistical reports con. cusod f?y by Or. Cnrtwriglit of New Or. :a:is, shewing the great increase of nrior. iJ.iy <** trial city caused ny ttieex tension < [\pi ickery. especially I)/ Thf?r?.}isi?ni;tn l(J until docU)rs. Dr. Thomas-Al.-Logan, () T Charleston, published an address last fri par, delivered in May,to (he "Charleston o| iVrcntiecs .Society," Which embraces iw \uyr inslfuciivo statistics she vying a }>e uidnr result. ' Or-, Logan jiaif published r>' ? a. paper in the SmiUifefli t?itcrn- <:<1 Joui-ml, shewing the health fulness of >Vi hi^rteston, and boasting of the Amnllness f tbenujnHer of deaths in the city com ifetj with other c?ttes. Sultsoq.ieutly to lat time the State Legislature modified ' in law of IS 17 to prohibit q tankers, by tj, 'pealing the clause which punished M}| flacks by fine and iniprisornent Tor re. |? firing fees. Although they can rait yet rrj scovi'f tees by law, rectivihg a fee is or ot now an oifence.punishable by iiidurt- w lenr. Tne consequence has been, ac q' ording to the statement of Dr. Logan, l',1 great, increase of quackery among the ^ udtifarious population of Charleston,. 'lie result, we let l>r. L. state ui Ins own j ^ ortls, a> follows . j 1 * U was in 1836, jnsl before Uie nppmranoe pj f tile cl?i;l> ra,?n disease which forms an im- j y >rtmit page in i bo history of the world, not *. j in mortality by the Black Do it h of the v lib century,?I say, it wu? just b fore the op- | tunnce of the cholera in Clinrlfhton, tliat we { tu t ide known two results ol o ir observations, at. { ^]( s'.ing the salubrity of our city, and its rank in r lint e^ inort&lit/ with the healthiest oitiea In 1*3 wiitl t; Our calculations were then brought p to 1836, when 1172 douths, 39s of which''-ec em bv cholera, yielding a proportion of nrurty j)f in 23 inhibit nits, ocoured. This unprece- . uited mortality ought to ronib r 1836 an isolated *" ar, apart fi oiualJ connected c ui .? of calcula. in onf alld C donated reasoning;; anil VW ihftil utref.irc pass i} by with one rdmniki 'there- ' ija >ro?er? commenced their operations from, this " tlo.' Four years have elapsed since then, o| id we iuve now some d,.ta on which to. base ec i?f computations. The aggregite number of iaths wnich have occured since empirics div?. id the practice of medicine with the r? got#r ' In*?iici;us in the last fun vears. '1637. '33 '39 ' ?<> A~ i ' J " V( 0, amomt to 3100; giving an average rtnuutl i , lortnliiy of 825, or I in 36 iuhaVitant* per T" nam While the aggregate number tor' the "i ur preceding yearn, (orautmg tb36, the Cholera Im ;ar,) ytz ; 1835, '3>i, '33, '32, ia only 2453 VJ rath* yielding a proportion 614 jwr annum, or. " ? to 49. Tint* |f we deduct the aggregate num. >r of death* previous to l?36, tint year memo. d< hie for the invasion of the Botanicals, from the U| rgrcgnito number since tliut period, we will find idt the reformation in the practice of medicine ?? is reformed in four years no teas than 428 pi iui* out of existence, or 2104 0,1 "I average per {f, mum. And let it be remarked hero, too, that V is t* but a very moderate estimate of die in- * cased amount- of proportionate mortality for vi iB. f?#t four yeafs, inasmuch as the imputation j): 'Charlestmt 1pm h'mn sensibly diminishing for ftm?l years pant,* the last comms allows a popn. '.ion of buf 29,963, vvhflst our c? euhtinna are . d *ed up.ii the uid compulation pf 3V&9 in- in The average number of 4catha for four ii; - ? " - ' - ? ...i - 1 l.v ..in.r.tmrir eiMtO ?/ HJP9M yenrsf wHiic , ^ unishuble by tine and imprisonment was ir ftly f m ; vvherons, during foqr yu#rs At ^ck^ur^U was ?300^ bo trig nnin create .? Bar/ waging to woe ??Jter 'mVllg; I; &hMHI jsult: During the for ner ppri/kf of four br< mr* the nvehig&fruniher of ijoathsper ire par was 348; but during the latter peri- ati 1, it was '373, being uh iocrea?e of all 24, or*just one thud. <>f? nt, an end to steaming rtndjrcd pepper leiaata in tlits part of tbe*cuiuitry.-- ati s , " . r 't. % , fatuties like the above must dp the wc r r i ime thmg in ofher places." * ^^ . cn : ?-?? ; ' ph The New York Sun states a* a rdttior that le steamer Mississippi, which the GoVeVn* j)0 lentio now hullding for the navy ir about to rove.a failure froin some error iu the ship Mh, * ^ 1 f *^ ? /j i *? i >* ? ngbt. . de ' " ' - i - ** ~ '?"|1 I " * jj / Mr. Lien Banks, late 4 members/ jCbit-- ,,y rt*? from Virginia, was thrown fffca^hi* > orseaod drowned, oil the 14th whilst ?!? ?* fQj ig Conway river. . c >: ? - ~ ' * r : >(hi> The Washington;correspondent of; 4n?* "J Ie*v Y*?rK Courier ?fc Enquirer, pndcf ?te of Jan, 10th? writes n$ folldws: . . " A few weeks, si nee; the President eXr rawed to Mr. Pendleton* (recently ap... ** ninscd Charge d' VfTaires to Chiii,^ his |<M unviction that he was in possession of 30 he greatest personal .popularity of.any M ode virtual that has lived in this country m! ince. the day* of Gen. Washington* e CONGRESS. t? Senate. tw The debate on the motion of Mr. Tall* sej inlge to refer the report ?>' the Secretary uu' fc the Treasury on the Exchequer,- 10 a ah H-cial committee was brought co'ti bMe cr< n the l?3th January, and the motion*p.^-^ ailed by a unanimous vote. The fob ^ iwing are tlie committee: Messrs. Tail* ^ ladge, Preston, Bates Walker, Evuns, lemck, Young, White and Rives. 11 Much of* the time of the Senate, has sen spent in.receiving and disposing of ex* etition*on the subject of the Bankrupt c?' ;W ; the greater number of them against pri s repeal, a few in favor of its repeal, and dej few others in favoi of so amending it as- for > embrace corporations. A number of ] rivate and unimportant bills have been 0J :ted on. On motion of Mr. Clay,, his ,lH ( solutions proposing amendments to .the re; onstitution were postponed to the *24jh- ? On (lie 19th. Mr, Evans, of Maine, ? . v * oil I tiled up tue Treasury note bill from tbe [on*Yand made a speech in its favor, he debate was to be continued the next , .* % y i '-V- ' : <fe flou^k of Representatives.. , In the House altera most violent itnt^* j** ie a bill was passed on the 17:h t??;epal ,c o Bankrupt iM?t, by ?i vote of 121/tothl. ! a lite 14th a petition was presented ^ am Kentucky praying an amendment tiie Bankrupt act to include corpora- j of ms, and Mr. Briggs jnoved to refer the ; eiti tition to th$ committee on the Jadiciu- J wo with instructions to report a hill in j livi mformity with its prayer. This motion j dor is hwt, (in the lTifii, by a vote ??t* IOT tc?' (j0 I. A petition was then presented pray- [ cnf g for the rcpe.il of the Bankrupt act. . id Mr. "iJhvd moved to refer it to the ? . ." .ms me'eorrtirHltee with instructions to fe- r >rta hill that-day at 12 o'clock to repeal ^ e /Bankrupt act. The motion was piin amended by substituting insfantrr Jtl,e r 12. oY.ibek ; and after much debute, .?ch e\( itcinent, and a great deal ofdis. ^ dcr and confusion, it was linalfy passed i the 16th, with the aid of the previous gnn lestion. A bill , was reported in con- . * rmity with the instructions which phased the ie next'day ns stated above. _ Many of those who voted for the B?f the extra session voted against it now. he reason assigned by them fof the tJie lange is that thev Voted for it undertfl^10 orniso of their Whig friend* from the** '| orth and Bast to offer such amendments :lha the* beginning of the present session r**P i should, change its objectionable feif iresj ;but inasmuch as this was not >he% they now vo;cd for the repeal of (\ ' ' ' r A > - . . e feel Oil the 18th. Mr. J._R, Ingcrsoll offer* IS* petition against the repeal of the,n v?, ifikrupt law, and moved to refer it to the 'L, ^ idiciary Committee with instructions to iqutre into the. expediency of reporting ;'f pf bill to establish a uniform sysfenf dffj irikruolcv. correcting the imperfection^. ' ilio act of 1841. T?8 nation.prevail-' ?* !j I by a vote of 83 to .50;* . * ^ ' ~ r " . jr? REPUDIATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. ffV< In the-Senate of this State, Mr. Mc rP0Q anahan reported an able document gn ^ e subject of repudiation, accompanied the f the following resolutions, which were I me lanimou iy adopted. -Mf* Resolved, That the Senate reject the ctrihe of repudiating the State debt, as ^constitution, Jmtnoral, and subversive of 'the fundamental principles of ^>ur- re-/ nei iblican system of Iiovernment; anyd]?^ lat they will maintain the credit of the I j u.. i.; I ._ mic misumt n? (iv matting auetjuuiv p?'?* Ry sion to meet all hep. engagemonts with" (Mii|>titiule and punctuality. ita Resolved, That we sHlertain the fullest jn.idence in tho citizens of this Com- , onwealth, that they will honestly and ithfilily discharge all the liabilities of 10 Government -r and that they will pro. irys the credit of the State inviolate and RfIi iviol?b|o. ; , ha' J ft the Il^we of Representative? of the ,bt mi ! Sfalej^r. ^Vrtjrht reported thefol- -wing rcsolutwhich wore zhoyrA p tVA he v\fn l ?X?\/\rl> < fxi': v :ns is legitimately the subject on- for the firli ami entire pavmeui^f just demands, orr the TrcbisuVy'thtire-' " ' - "" >';> '*{' /1 . Resolved, That the ilhClrine of repudioiiof tl>e liabilities of-the Coinmoninllh is obnoxious in its tendencies, nmf Iculated to be destructive nf the free inci pies'on which the Government is. aed; and that every good citizen h und by all moral as well as legal con. Iterations to cheferfutlycootriliute his fire towards the liquidation of the State bt. REPUDIATION IJf EKNTUCK*. Thb'voije ol Kentucky is heard in the lowing preamble resolutions which I tr? offered in the Senate of that State rMcr.|jtight*. , K/?ry ' meinlMr who is in his place voted for them.' In this te? the jioint of union betwe-Vn Ken. cky Whigs and Kentucky Democrats is t forth in liold relief. It is a tnitftial re n? justice, of honor, and fair dealing twoen mun and man. It is the univerI prevalence of this principle that has tde Kentucky what/elk* is, and that will cp hei no.?Commonwealth. VVhnrnaa the question of the repudiain of State debts has recently been en. rtnined, to some extent, in different stions of the (Jnion, and has become a bject of discussion in the public journ. i ; and whereat, by reason thereof, the idit of Stale*, even those in which the sa if tho repudiation of debt* is, itself, .countenanced and repudiated, may ior unjustly in the estimation of tho izeus of foreign nations With which s country" holds relations of amity and ensive commercial 'inferchftrsn-wfiose itinued cdutidence it should be. our. da, as it is our duty, as a free aud i"jciident Stale to maintain j 'ttmreL, Resolved by the General Assembly the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Tbut ii [he highland sacred duty of a sorfegn Stale to observe the obligations of xl fuith in all hpr engagement^ not ly. with her own citizens, but equally I alike with tlioso of o her States an.! intries. Resolved, That the desperate ex pent of throwing ofF State obligations in y cas by failing ?o provide, as far as Nilrie, Cr>r the prompt payment of puba-Ut r.,,i h' it?'!ni#?^ ractcd ?irulm ?ififthorsty "flaw, is abhorrent Ixith ; tiovermnenl and the People of Hit* inmonwralth, a id can never, directly indirectly, receive the countenanceot her : that such conduct would he -un. rthy the enlightened age in which wo ?, shocking to the sense of' christenri," a lasting reproach to Republican vcrmni'iit, and a stain on 'the Ainori. i name. I. Resolved, Teat copies of the forego; praambkr and resolutions Ik? transmittied bv the Governor to tho President the United Stales, the Executives o}' ( several States, and our Senators and preventative!* in Congress. lepudiotinn.?-The January numbei ofthe mocrattc Review bold* the following Jan* [ge with reference to r'isidi ?'ion; The Af.jwJssippi Bonds muhtbe paid? To la^t dollar, the l-mi cent, the U?t mi'l, ry pledge of the public hmh, whether by collective whole of our ginriops Uifisi, or a ?y one of i?8 constituent parts, must be lorahJy redeemed, be tho consequence, be Coat, what they miy. Re juvu'co done, r.n ? "X" lilt: in lunicnk ixm. I'liat aounds well; especially, considering ! t attempt! have been made to place the . udiating n??tion8ofMississippi oh*-ratlter ter foundation than thorn* or some other ijd bo di*hoin?t States. Bui now we I the Democratic Review holding thi? hind, anguage. we tnay hope for a belter euie of ' mgs?V. 8. Ga%. CuAKLitrros Jan 17. Vereceived by the Br. brig Czar, Capt. ver, the Dumarara Qnzette of 3t)tb uir. n which we extract the following: um the Georgetown (Dein irara) <5 xette.} imAica papers to the 10;h instant, have ched us by the arrival yeaterday morning (;e Steamer Firefly. . Die account! given in these journal! of the met* which atprefent ravage# that island, . moat melancholy. Scaret and yellow >ri? carrying offyoinrg and old, rich and r, throughout ail part! of the land, with an rulfearfultieM. The Gazette of the'doth, rrtti, says;?ft i? heart rending to wi ne#!l-j _* a. 1 ,kA nunioer 01 iuut?r?ti protcMiww, ?nu mc lancholy appearance which is manifest in face "of almost every person whom we et in the streets, who, with very few very options, has either lost some near and dear alive, or has some one then on the verge death. The - mortality of this year has rer been cqtui'ed, it is taid, in the memory die oldest inhabitants. Before^tte revolution in Spnin, the mber of ecclesiastics there was nearly pillion, or about one to every ten inhab. nfr: i ? Loxo tlFK OS UU4KKBS. Of one hundred Quaker* burled Jb lester, England, the average nge was while one hundred of various dehorn, itrons buried at the snme place, and t remnrkable for anv svstert of rcsutfr ? l)iC a?er;jg?d only 25 year? and two of the vessel* of ^Exploring Expedf.. fton, was lost off* ihfc fimuth ?ft!he Coltimr hii rtver on the ISlii of July fast. Gef officers and orev. the chronometer charts, <kc. wAre all saved. ft-was diu peeled that the hrijf Thwas H' Ppfhmi would either be bought or chaffered for: the conveyance home of the crew of the Peacock. On thedfh of October hut the Representatives appointed by General Santa Anna, two from each Department of the ItejHibltc, mot a nd chose him President of the Mexican ICfpii fi . 'Pli^.nn^t day he took the oath of office in the Hall of the Chamber of Deputies. The Provisional President had. by' prpchmatioti. convoked the Constituent Assembly for the first of June next. The Diario del Gobiernbsjf the l6tlfof October contains an official letter, da ed Atonelisco. 221 of'September., from Gfti ncral Manuel Armijo, the Co.nman laut General of Near- Mexico, giving an account of Jhe capture of the vanguard of the Texian expedition to Santa Ft% j?? Gejternl states that intelligence of the approach ;>f the Texian* wh* communj. cated to him by an Italian and a Nhw Mexican, who were with the expeditf8p? hut "who. fled from rt in advance for thai purpose. That on the 17th of-Scpiemhee the party of one hundred dragoon* utictet' Cook surrendered at discretion, and, were deprived uf their arms and clothing, which Gen. Annljo distributed among hi* own companions in arms. That tho intcrpreter had been net at liberty on account of his good behavior, but that the other prisoners were on their way towards Mexico under an escort. The sartie paper of tlte iSthLof October publishes President Lamar's Prodh mation Jo tiie citizens of Santa Fe, one*}; th* papers found upbnther Tcxian prisoners. The proclamation is accom pariied by a culnmeiitary front the Editor of the paper. Subsequent nutnhers of the same jour, mil contain tho other documents foun,d upon the T xians. The number for the 2t'li v?f? Oetohcj stales that President Ui ;t Aomi ha.i directed a Cross of |>erM?!iaf -distinctiveto he umpired at tiie puidie expanse; fvA ml i/i. tvilh tli;r frt'lflttillft 'Ui, urciitsftf* *? r r ?^ . ncription; ??H * <nved in .N w M. vico Ittie integrity <d th? national te rnary " |\? the c n-1^ officer-., and troops wh? ;),iriook in the capture of the Te-.:a i v^n. guard was also .1,vTin!e.i thd privilege <y wearing upon their teli ?rrn a shield, i;: which, on .1 green ground* *as-to he see:": .1 national eagle w;ih outstretched wings, bound with gold <:<>ni lor tin chiefs and officers, and with yellhw^ilf for the o her tr?>o|M, the J??HoWio? inscription appearing on theground v( tn^ shields ol" bojti: f'ltrepidity aT?d valor mi defence of the Mexican territory." An official letter to the Secretary of War from Fmticiaco (Jr. Co tide, Com. natidnnt ftwteral'of the Department of Chihuahua, dated at that place on on t^e*26 h of October, announces the nrrittif of 90 Texiau prisoners there the day be. fore, and that, for want of means to rnip-. port them, they w*uld rest thr re o ;lv two days* when thry would bo coidu ted to the border of tiic Department of Duran. go. Another letter to ti e same from the same person, dated the 5th of November, give* an account of the capture of th? rest of the IVxiun expedition at Lnk Colorado by Luuit. Col. Don Juan A'tires Archuleta, at the hendoj' 2-iO men. A report of the Secretary of AVap, dated the 11th of Xoveiiiher, *is published, recommending at or ma I campaign agaifugt Texas, and stating the quota* of tronpwhich thcaevr.ral Department* were Co contribute for the purpose of recruiting; thenrmv. , ... ,i%V-vy."'. Robbery ofihe Western Mail.? -The great Western Mail, which loft Pbilaifj. phia o >Saturday night 8ih inst , at 12 o'el.H k. carrying the m?iU for Laneniter, Harrisburj, Ctambersburg, Putabiir^ &c. was robbed in the car while on* the. Viray between lliat city and Lancaster. The Harrishurg mail wns the only one that escaped. The mail was a large one, and it is feared contained valuable remittances. The robbery was effected loy wrencning.ine ioc? irotn iue ooof ?r the car in which the mail wa? carried, ami culling open (he bng*. ft is supposed I he robbery wna camrmfterf after (he departure of the latin from the head of the Inclined Plane. A It d j cider from n" bai rol? pw.*^in lp(^9)fo ? 1 ffiTi ifr "" I '' "THM1! i'i jfM -' . ; V ^ J"^V ' i\ jp -..-.^^y^.'~y.? v*?^|5g ? 1 * ' ^"*^T^"' mm *?^???-*?J-^<iN^??J^lp^H? "C^' ' ^ ^A/l >ilYWrVi ITt^hf UTkn!JatTrfff ittffliroMBHMFj^BiiF v ui*> 'for tfp p) '^j[nljvj\ f j0 I wm.-f* i riif t\^j: VKv *> jMt.<**;lfr?v AX. Aim 1VJ tnkTMisiL ruiVIt? 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