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Charleston, (S. C.) March 21. 1 To li's Excellency " t Don AnPtfiirit Lopez dc Santa Anna, : President of the Republic of Mexico. t Sir:?Ait'rmgh I have not had the honor to < . receive, in manuscript, the letter which you ad- ' ^ hwseit to rne, through the gazettes of Mexico, i * <":de,- the date of the I9ih February, I feel too i "c isihly this distinction not to make my ac- ; "o-.vlelge.nenls through a similar medium. However gross the violation of confidence, of which your Excellency' has been guilty, in 11 nnhlisinntr a lot'er marke confidential. fwhir.h seal you yourself have recognized); I shall take r.o exception to your employhig the occasion of i vaunting your own honesty, anil catering for a' popularity of which you may stand greatly in need. When I offered you an indemnity of five mil- ] lion - of dollars, for a pacification and boundary, I between the Republics of Texas and Mexico. I i acted under a commission, which was unrevo- i bed by the Government of the former, and under which I had negotiated a treaty of media- ; tion with the Government of her Britanic Ma- i jesty, providing for the payment of this sum, ; lor.the same objects. i The supplementary offer of two hundred 1 thousand thousand dollars for contingencies aid t secret service, were to defray the cost of run- i ning the boundary line, the expense of the res. t pection legations, and for secret service. t You are too disciplined a veteran in the poli- ( tics of your own country, not to know the ne- j} cessity and value of this last item. Yet you ] have thought.proper, it appears, to pay yourself t the compliment of supposing that I designed a that this money should be insinuated as a bribe t to yourself. 1 assure your Excellency that I t am ion wc.i aware or xnc sponess integrity 01 c Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President'" is of the Republic of Mexico, to have hazarded p such an experiment 011 the virgin purity of your s Excellency's honor. I i your Excellency can perceive "impudence t and aridacitv" in a friendly offer of peace, and a 1 pledge of my exertions to induce a gallant peo- b pie to pay five millions of dollars for a realm which they had already won, by every title a a jus4 revolution and a victorious sword could con- s for. f am quite content to suffer under the re- tl proai h of having less modesty than yourself. p . f A or thus discourteously disposing of myself, lj your Excellency is pleased to lavish upon the ? j e.iplc to whose mercy and magnanimity you owe d . .you- life, the grossest abuse; in the course of rr which, yen say there never was4 a more scandal- p \ l ous robbery" "than the forcible possession of the n territory of Texas, by its present settlers. ft Ilave you forgotten, Sir, the charters and y, guarantees, under the faith of which Stephen tl Austin brought his colony into Texas, which in n life, liberty and property were so camlalously g ^ violated by .our own government! And this too, tl towards a man, who resembled in the purity of yi liis own life, and in the wisdom and moderation yi of h:s character, the venerated founder of the State of Pennsylvania. These colonies of the y< Anglo-American race were introduced to pro- in teet your own Mexican settlements from the of hordes of the Camanchee Indians, from whom et in spite of their vaunted bravery, your troops js had so ingloriousiy fled. ar Arp von riot aware that one of the causes of tp the revolution of Texas, was your own usurpa- bl lion! Your tyrannical overthrow of the Consti- di tution of 1623, and with it the Federative sys- st torn, of which as an integral portion of the S^te tl of Cuhulia. Texas was a member? Have you ol forgotten that by the establishment of a centra.1 ol despotism on the ruins of this system, you fur- w nislted the citizens of Texas a stronger justifica- in tion for revolution than is to be founded in the B; causes which led to the resistance of the thirteen North American Colonies to the injustice . of their parent State? After inviting the young Hercules iuto your country, you attempted, perfidiously to stifle him in his cradle, and you have reaped the full harvest of the consequences. You'say, sir, that when you commenced your memorable campaign in 183(5, it was illustrated by a scries of victories, until the occurrence of what you are pleased to call the unfortunate 4 accident" of San Jacinto. in Your victories, sir, if history is not a greater ri novelist than the most authentic of your bulle- to tins, consisted in your beleagurjng, with a well I appointed corps of three thousand men, a post 1; defended by some one hundred, who kept your ra whole force for several days at bay, the gi capture of which found every man gloriously tli r. s'aughtcred at his post?in the still more remar- to kable gallantry of murdering in cold blood five 1) hundred brave men, under the unfortunate Fannin, who had laid down their arms to a force of p: . six times their number, under the faith of a 'J' copulation which even a horde of Calmuc Tar- ci ters would have respected. g At San Jacinto you were defeated by the ti "accident" of your having more than two men to ci one of the band, who were led by the benefactor to whom you owe your life, and by the still b more marvellous "accident" of his having kill- tl ed in your ranks more than his whole force, and 'I captured an amount of prisoners who out num- f( hered the victors. These your Excellency must admit are such remarkable "accidents" in the tl history of war, that neither Marshal Saxe in his a reveries, or the great Conde in his strategy has o made the smallest provision for-their occurrence, ir ' Your Excellency not content with affording S Vine the instructive history of your campaign, d " lias been pleased to touch a chord, which you u well knew, would vibrate most sensitively ri 1 i.r/.in-limit the civilized world.?when vou are p picked to tffinounce, that one of the objects of tl your meditated crusade against Texas, is to ex- u tirpate domestic slavery. Before you commence n your inarch for this purpose, had you not better oaiancipatc the miserable victims of compulsory tl labor in your own country, who are slaves in U every thing but in the terms of nominal bondage, tc and who would be in a conditibn of qualified ei freedom, if they had half the temporal comforts s; of the blacks of Texas. Do you suppose, that n when, debauched by power, you are riding di rough shod over the miserable victims of your T own ambition and cupidity, ycu can hoodwink, ol and deceive any other than those victims of fa- bi niticism, who frequent Exeter liall to be plucked by tax gathers more cormorant than your own excisemen at home? This flimsy expedient it to gain popular favor, is really unworthy the h good sense of one of your disciplined knowledge I of the .world, and comes with a truly scasona- c We grace,' from, a man of your own regard for tl the vahicof human life and liberty. v If your letter, Sir, is commenced in the pur-. I pie light of the aurora boreali?, it concludes m thunder, darkness and defiance. Texas, with p her 20,000 inhabitants, if 6he has even so ma- c ny, is threatened with the very extremity of the 1 vengeance of eight millions of the most gallant i people under the sun!! . i I take rjo exception to your arrogating for your -J subjects even {lie title of the vanquishers of t the conquerors of the world, or your disputing j with the inhabitant: of tlj? cQlqstjjtl empire tile < ? ' " '* ? - argest possible manufacture of bombast. All, hat I have to say, is, that you had better 'make mother experimental campaign?and perhaps :he "accident" may, this time, turn out the Jther way. I can assure you, that although rexas begins in her successful industry to blossom like a rose, you will find that you have a more stumpy road to travel, than even during your last visit, however much that vist may have been illustrated by a series of brilliant victories. I But all badinage aside, let me, in conclusion J say one word to your Excellency, in sober ear-1 nest. You are pleased to say that "Texas will find great advantage in covering herself with the Mexican flag," and that I, "who possess the talents of a Statesman, must think seriously of this step." I thank you for the compliment.? If I could lay any claim to the forecast of pror*linto tvhrv o/-? lilrftlir nAirarfKoIacC. tfl llP HIJU aic ou jmcijf ucrgikiiuivwct v? -- ?fault, I would in reply venture to give you coun- 1 =?el?and that is to make peace with Tex- i is with the least possible delay. The policy i which I have recommended hitherto towards pour country has been pacific, as every public j man in Texas very well knows. For three J pears I have strenuously opposed an invasion ] if your territory. My treaties in Europe have < looked to a guarantee of the integrity of your < soil, under the faith of a public compact, by 1 which the respective boundaries between the c :wo countries might be clearly ascertained. I i lecmed this most consistent with the interest i >f the country I represented, and the cause of lumanity. I desired that your people might be < eft free to cultivate the arts of peace, and you ' o make every imaginable experiment in the e [melioration of their moral condition. I am sure s he people of Texas would have been content fc hat you should have taken a Constitution out a if every "pigeon hole" in the Cabinet of the p 'Abbe Siees," from the "dry acidulous meta- h ihisics" of the German theorists, down to tho a elf regulating political ethics of Robert Owen, c i\>r Ihnew that, to establish her own institu- v ions and develope her own resources, all that v rcxas wanted was a little breathing time?el- o ow-room she has enough. ' - p But you seem to have willed it differently; b nd to have decided that your young neighbor fi hall fulfil her destiny some fifty years sooner I han she otherwise would have done. In res- ii onse to this determination on your part I be- I eve there is but one sentiment in the country p diich I have so recently left, and that is emboied in the brief declaration, "Be it so." I d loreover believe, that the only feeling of ap- i rehension that is felt at your resolve, (and I r< lention this to you as a secret, in the mo6t iendlv confidence,) is lest you may not come our self at the head of your invincibles. Altho' te Texians like the Presbyterian Parson, have 0 "courage to boast of yet I am sure they will g ive you a cordial reception in consideration of oi lose unrequited claims to their gratitude which q ou have left so largely in arrear since your last p isit. IJ As to the humble individual who addresses li ju, altho* entitled to the honors of Citizenship u t Texas, it is not necessary that I should speak b ' my position. Would to God you had accept1 the olive branch, which, as her public min- si tor, I offered you in both the spirit of peace ti id friendship, and that you h*rl humanplv at. tl mpted to heal the wounds < f your own country1 a/ eeding at every pore. tc sdained this offer in terms of the highest per- M >nal indignity to myself, and public affront to vi le country. You accuse me of the impudence n r having offered you silver, I will not be guilty la P the gasconade of offering you steel; but ci hen you do come, I hope I may hear the neigh- tl cr of your war steed on the Banks of the Rio p< ? - k ravo. > hi I have the honor to subscribe myself, tl With due consideration, vi Your Excellency's most obedient serv't. pi J. HAMILTON. A n Correspondence of the Mercury. -r WASHINGTON, March 22,1842. J SENATE. j Mr. Mangum, in pursuance of previous notice, ai troduced a bill for the augmentation of the Ma- fn ne corps, and for other purposes. It propose? S i add to the present force, 1 Brigadier General, hi Lieutenant Colonel, 10 Captains, 15 first, and $ j second Lieutenants, eu, sergeants, ou oorpo- $ ils, GO musicians anil 1000 privates, in the ag- ti regate 1222. It also appropriates 830,000 for B le construction of marine barracks at Charles- n< in, and the same amount at Gosport and Brook- tr rn, and 815,000 at Pensacola. in Mr. M. also introduced a bill to regulate the O ay of pursers and warrant officers in the Navy, w 'his abolishes the emoluments of pursers, and m ampensates them by a fixed salary, the highest tt rade being 84,000 per annum. The coinpensa- w on of the warrant officers is proposed to be in- b< reased about 20 per cent ir Also a bill to authorize the appointment of a c< oard for the preparation of rules and laws for al ie regulation and government of the Navy.? e 'hese bills were severally read twice and re- in trrred to the Committe on Foreign Relations, pi The special order was then called up, being tl ie resolutions on the subject of the revenues t\ nd expenditures nf the Government, whereup- bi r. mv niov mcp and stated that on account of ri /disposition, he would not be able to address the si enatel'oday. This announcement was a great A isappointrnent to the numerous young ladies fc ho had thronged the gallery in anticipation of a m ch rhetorical repast; and whose presence, it is if enerally supposed, is necessary to stimulate tf le energies of the veteran orator, frun the pains e: sually taken to drum them up when it is an- a< ounced that he is to address the Senate. pi The bill to amend the pre-emption clauses of hi ie Distribution bill, of last Session was then cc iken up. The principal amendment proposes ei > take off the restrictions imposed upon foreign- tl rs in the Distribution bill, and to give them the I c< tme privileges in obtaining pre-emptions as the tc ative born citizen, provided they have filed a tf eclaration of their intention^to become citizens, ol 'he bill was ordered to be engrossed by a vote m f 23 to 17. After the passage of some private h ills, the Senate adjourned. hi HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. l.i The consideration of the question of privilege ?- ?~? 1 mL ^ o 1 UiaamgB ? case w^wiuouiucu. lilt; opcanci vi ad decided that the question ordered by the ir louse on the resolutions of censure, did not pre- U lude the member from Ohio from addressing C be House in his defence. This decision, which h fas palpably wrong, was overruled by the n louse, by a vote of 118 to 64. . v Mr. Weller said it was not his wish, nor, he fi resumed of any other member, to condemn his ts olleague unheard, and he moved that he be now tl icard in his defence. The Speaker, however, p low decided that no motion could be received, jj< mtil the question was taken on the resolutions, a Vlr. ^ohn Campbell then expressed a hope tbat o Jie.xIou6e would, by general consent, permit the ti number to be heard in his defence. The Speak- i fi it raid it would require unanimous concept.' o sErl .- : 5 ir?^ V .*?-. : ??r : ; . '' $ -. -y'-r ^ ; v Mr-Barnard, a whig; and an Abolitionist 6bjectJtl. ;* : r Mr. Triplett then moved that Mr. Giddings be permitted to defend himself. The Speaker said that by the rules no motion was.in order, excepl i motion to adjourn or to lay on the table, 'until krt rrtntiAn 1-! _ L *1 1. _ J uu? iuuuuu vi/ jjicn trie previous question- Jiau been ordered was decided. Mr. Tiplett appeal, ed from the decision, but it was sustained by a large majority. Mr. Adams then moved to lay Lhe resolution of censure on the table, but the motion was negatived?ayes TO, noes 124. The question was then about being put,- -when Mr Campbell again arose and expressed a hope that by general consent the member from Ohio might be heard in hfs defence. No member objected, but Mr. Giddings declined availing himself oi privilege. The question was first taken on the resolu:ion, which was adopted?aves 125, noes 69; and it was then then taked on the preamble, which tvas also carried?ayes 118, noes 66. The Southern Whigs on this vote were cornjelled to desert their Northern and Western alies, and recorded their names in the affirmative. Mr. Giddings, as soon as the vote was announced, picked up his papers and his hut, took leave )f his friends and annoucced his intention of resigning his seat, and throwing himself upon constituents. What a blessing to the country t would be were the House well rid of him, and ibout a dozen others of the same kidney. The house then resolved itself into'Committee >f the Whole, and the Loan bill was taken up. rhe Committee of Ways'and Means had proposid to authorize the Secretary to dispose of the tock below par. Mr. Everert moved to amend iy authorising the Secretary to extend the time t which the Loan would be reimbursable to a leriod not exceeding twenty years, to enable lim to negotiate it. at par This amendment was dopted. Mr, Everett then moved to amend the lause pledging the current revenues of the Goernmerit for the redemption of the Loan, by proiding that duties should be laid as high as those f 1840, and devoting the proceeds thereof to the ayment?f the loan. The Chair decided this r\ Ka a?i!am nrAa onnAolofl -? uo uuy ui UIUCI, WHICH UCUIMUI1 wno ajjjjcaicu rom. The appeal was debated at much length, hiring the discussion, Mr. Wise declared his itention of hereafter proposing the repeal of the )istribution Law, and devote the proceeds to the ayment of the public debt. The Question being taken on sustaining the ecision of the Chair, the vote was ayes 6*2, noes 9. No.quorum being present, the Committee 3se and the House adjourned. WASHINGTON, March 23. . SENATE. Mr. Merrick presented resolutions of the Lcislatureof .Maryland recommending an increase ( the naval strength ofour country, and thatadeuate defence might, be afforded "to the Chesa eake Bay. The bill authorising the State of llinois to tax the public lands sold within her mits from and after the time of such sale, was iken up, and after some debate, was ordered to e engrossed by a vote of 23 to 15. After the transaction of some unimportant buiness, the special order being the resolutions on le subject of the revenues and expenditures of ic Government, were taken up, and Mr. Clay Jdressed the Senate at much length in reply > Messrs. Calhoun, Wright, and Woodbury.? ie contended that liis resolutions involved no iolation of the Coinpr'omise Act, though he deied that he had ever considered that Act invioible but merely as worthy of high respect He 3ntroverted that the Compromise contemplated ie abandonment of the protective policy. That' alicy was recognised in the principles of the I ome valuation, and cash duties. He denied latthe passage of the Distribution Law was any iolation of the Compromise, but that the Comromise would have been violated, had not that ct passed; as it was expressly provided that the jvenues of the Government should be derived om the customs alone. It was said that the ^hig party had attempted no retrenchment in ie expenditures of the Government This ia.rge came with a bad grace from the friends of i Administration whose average expenditure] - iu f?.:- v?ars it was in DoWer amounted to 28,000,000. The resolutions submitted by m proposed to reduce the expenditures to 22,000,000 annually, being a reduction of 6,000,000 per annum. lie aover'ed to the posireof affairs between this country and Great ritain, and expressed his opinion that there was 3 danger of a rupture between the two counies, if there was anything like the ability thrown ito the discussion which he hoped would be. ine of the most important questions at issue as the North-eastern Boudary, but an arrangelent had been already agreed upon by which lis question was to be submitted to rn arbiter hose decision was to be final and binding on 3th parties. The Caroline was a mixed affair, i which there were 6ome palliatives for the rurse pursued by the British. In the Creole fair, he thought. Great Britain was wrong, and ven before negotiations bad been commenced istructions had been sent abroad and have been ublished to the world. On the right of search lere was no difference in principle between the vo countries. Lord Aberdeen admits that in a ana fide American vessel, Great Britain had no ght to intetfere, even were she crowded with aves from top to bottom; but he says that the .rnerican flag was often assumed by vessels of ?reign nations, and even by pirates, and it was lerely to ascertain whether, the vessel wearing le American flag was really American property lat they wished the right of search to be acquisced in. On the other hand, Mr. Stevenson Inifts that none but American vessels could be rotected by the American flag. He (Mr. C.) id no doubt that a compromise on this subject )uld be 'effected. He hoped there wa6 no greatr danger of war on our {South-western border tan there was with Great Britain; but he must infess that his hopes were faint when he called i mind the vio'ent language used towards us by le upstart tyrant who now wields the destinies "Mexico?language the less justifiable and the lore contemptible, when our kind treatment of im was considered, and that we had rent him 3me, at the national expense, in one of our pub c vessels. Mr. C. then argued at much length in favor F the protective policy?he would live and die i the belief of its advantages. But a protective irifF, en nomine could not be carried through longress, because the Democrats, as a party, ad set their faces against the principle, and iany of the Whigs of the South and West ere opposed to it He instanced Pennsylvaia, once the foremost in favor of a protective iriff, and now not a Democratic member from bat state, in either branch, but what was oposed to it. Jrle was, therefore, compelled -.to - ? ?V.. amnlii'lfi luu vy wiiiuu fjruietuu" fforded incidentally. He thought that a duty f 30 per cent, would be necessary to carry on he Government, or 33 per cent if tea and cof3e were continued in the free list The close f hie reraarks.wae devoted to aw elaborate do' 'jjuftrt. -1 *' * jy - . - ; HfgfT -'if. ^ ' ' i> A^t g? - , >' V->> '*: ' *' .' ELV?' w>; * " -2&& '"., * ' Wfcjg-i v- / *v ;t' *' *" J '" i i rn T'n ' ?? rate tracker of trailer,to ttespot'designafed by the negroes^ne of whom" whs taken along as guide. We are glad to learn dia? the scout and ft "examination resulted in an unqualified donvicr tiouof-buth the'officer and the trailer who acih" chmpanied him, that t^re' was not the slightest 4 , vestige of Indian sigM^ 'aught to.warrant the 10 supposition tlkt Indians hadv?cef been there; and ' is thatat alleyanteiWwa#whoUy impossible that>r they could have bedn so recently as'reported by to the negroes.-^ jVetos. ;K f * - ^ r. We, are gratified to ie&m tT>? rvj txr*%WT*? & : ^ fence Of the constitutionality of the Distribht^ Law.- " i; HOUSE OF REPI^pSENTATIYES. ;; I More than an hour yvas consumed in tire coi : sideration of amendments proposed to the jou 1 nal, in connection wit&Giddings's case, whic I were all laid on the lafflt?by a vote of 104 to 6 Mr. Everett then movetT that so much of tl l journal of the 21st, 22d, and 23d of March, '< ' relates to Mr. Giddings's case, be published f< the use of the members. Mr. Stanly moved I amend by adding the resolutions offered' by M . Giddings, which was agreed to. Mr. Joh . Campbell then suggested to Mr. Everett tl j/rujjriuLy ui luciuuiug ms uwii reJuuxuBj * , which he expressed his utter abhorrence of th r firebrand course pursued by the gentleman froi j Ohio. Mr. Everett declined to act on this sug gestion. The motion was then negativedI ayes 50, noes 107. Several other amendment were offered, which, after considerable discus ! sion, were all rejected. A letter was then pre ' Rented to the House from Mr. Giddings, resign i ing his seat, and the Speaker was requested t notify the Governor of Ohio of the fact. ' The Loan bill.- was then taken up, and Mi ' Wise moved an amendment, providing for th 'repeal of the Distribution law, and the pledg of the proceeds of the land sales to the redemp tion of the loan. The Chair decided this amend , ment to be in order, but Mr. Fillmore appeals I from the decision. The vote being taken hu 1109 members answered to their names, beiuj I less than a quorum. After several ineffectua ' attempts to get a quorum together the Hous adjourned. Correspondence of tip Courier. v Washington, March 27. Several gentlemen have arrived here fron Mexico, and unite in representing that Sant. Anna is aided by England, in his enterprisi against Texas. Others suppose, however that the Catholic Church furnished him with th< means to pay ofF his troops and to undertake the expedition. From this source he will doubt less obtain further supplies, or perhaps confis cate the whole of tire Church property in aid o his objects. The impression gathers etrengtl that the United States will become involved ir ?i._ mi. _ l... ,,f ?1 uiu war. 1 ne repuuiauuu uy wi ? * lier debts, except that due to England, wil aione be a just cause of war. The claims pio vided for under our treaty with Mexico, and foj which Mexican Treasury notes or bonds hav( been given are of course embraced in the gen. eral repudiation. It would bo a good point foi us to war upon, in order to show liie world thai our States do not intend to repudiate. The agent dispatched to Mexico, by Mr. Bailey Peyton, District Attorney at New-Orleans on the occasion of the capture of the Santa F? expedition, has arrived here, and states that his reprcsentatiorts were of no effect and were nol listened to. The more formal and authentic demand foi the release of Mr. Kendai.l, and other American citizens, has been treated with equal disdain. In the mean time Gov. Yanness, wh( was and still is in this city, and Gen. Leslii Coombs. of Ky. who is now here, interfered per sonally for the release of their sons, and sue ceeded without difficulty. Voung Vanness wai Secretary to the expedition, and Mr. Coombs was a volunteer?and both were Texian citizens; yet these gentlemen were set at liberty, b) Santa Anna, from respect to their connexions, while the demand of our government, for the release of its citizens is unheeded. Mr. Kendall is a citizen of the United States, and he went out with the expedition, from motives ol curiosity or information, jind, by the. usagos of war, was entitled to immediate release. But the requests and even the demands of this government are unavailing for that object. This is cause of war?it is a direct insult to the gov eminent of the United States, and ought not to be borne. We shall have a warm discussion in the House on the motion of Mr. Raynek, to reconsider the vole taking the loan bill out of Committee next Wednesday. The whigs generally, arc bitter against the President's last special message, and against Mr. Wise, many wish an opportunity to reply to Mr. W. and to attack the message. I do not think, however, that the motion to reconsider will prevail. As was expected, the President's recommendation of a suspension of the land distribution creates the greatest sensation here. It is considered, notwithstanding the President's explanation of the circumstances under which he assented to the law, as a direct attack upon Mr. Clay, the extra session, and the whig policy. Even the more moderate of the whigs say that Afr Tn pp nnorht nnt tn send in such a message after the House had decided not to repeal or suspend the law. The fact is, that the House has made no such decision. But on a point of order, they ruled out Mr. Wise's motion to pledge the land revenue for the redemption of the loan. This might have been done on strict parliamentary principles, without reference to the merits of the proposition. 1 believe, however, that when the proposition comes to a direct vote in the House, it will be rejected. The Pennsylvanians all go for the distribution. The democratic members from some of the indebted States cannot oppose it. Mr. Wise anticipates, as a consequence of the failure of the proposed recall of the land fund, the defeat of the revenue bill. [From the Savannah Republican, 2Qthult.] LATE FROM FLORIDA. ' The U. S. steamer Col. Harney, Capt. Pear son, arrived from Florida yesterday. By this arrived we have received the St* Augustine News of Saturday last, together with a private letter from an esteemed friend, from which we make the following extract: "The war should be closed instantly. There are so few Indians now out that warlike operalions do more hurt than good. They nearly all would come in if they could be seen and talked to, and shown a few silver dollars, calicoes, <xc. But they are as wild game and timid as the deer they roam amongst." The News 6ays that a letter has been received in St. Augustine, which states that Col. M'Clelland has killed two warriors, and captured several women and children, near the Siiwannee. Ud . . The News confirms the account we published on Saturday last, of the coming in of twenty-six Indians at Pease Creek. Another False Alarm.?Two negroes who have been for some time past engaged in cutting wood near the five mile post on the Picolata road, came into town in great haste on Wednesday last about noon, assering that they had seen Indians hovering about them while at work, and by their manoeuvres apparently endeavoring to get a chance to capture or kill them. Upon notice being given, to Captain Gwynn, commandjjngthe trooj>6 atthis place, he promptlydispatchl$dLt. I>ee, and party, accompanied by a first ' .. ..t - .* : " " - ' ' - ' ^ " - & jA ,n|has followedtfpthat energetic eyetem of scoufc-' ie ing, whieb resulted in capturing' some of the n most troublesome of those Indians who haveie heretofore iufested the country East of the'St. ji Johns, and driving the residue'across the d river r. into the mfdrior^ by the establishment of barrier - Posts south of the JPicelato road!,, between the i river and the Eastern seaboard. We think this i- arrangement Will afford to the settlements North, i- of the line dfthose Posts, protection to as greet i- an extent as is in the nature'of things practice- v o blp.'vThat it will wholly exclude or keep back straggling prowlers may be doubted; for tp do r. this would be no more easy of achievement than, e an attempt to shut out any other wild animals of e the forest. So thorough and perfect a repulsion of the enemy, every .sensible roan acquainted l- with Indian habitB and' character knows, [could d not be effected with>ony^iing lesfe than a close t and unbroken hedge of bayonets. Under existg ing circumstances therefore, Coaccohee, and his J band (erstwhile thei terror of this region,) shipe ped to the "far West," Short-Gaass and gang rantnrorl nn,l in rnnfinomont r"~ "? ..^rvM.VM ... ?WOU? IVI CWilgtation, and Ilalleck Tustenuggee and party driven to and cooped in the Wahco Swamp, by 'a sufficient and watchful and beleaguering* force; wen cannot but feel that those of our citizens who v have gone into tlie country to re-occupy their 5 old or makemew settlements, may contioue'their-;\v , operations in at least comparative peace and safe- V > ty.?Ibid. " a . The State vs. Gihson, for the Murder of Tines. . This trial occupied most of Friday, before, the f Jury retired. The Jury continued in session 1 until twelve o'clock-on Saturday nigh*, and was 1 dismissed, without-returning a verdict Gib1 son lias therefore been remanded to prison, to 1 await his trial next October. a The case affords a sad commentary on . r Drunkenness,'as leading to crime;'but the ; press of matter before as forbids an extended . notice of it this week. A woman, the paramour r of Gibson, and the principal witness in the case, t managed to get into a Drug Store on the morn* ing of the trial and purchased two oiincds of Laudanum, all of which she drank, either with * , the view of destroying life or" of renderiug her! self incapable for the time, of giving testimony > against Gibson. " ~ t Dr. Clifton succeeded in pumping the Laudanum from her stomach, :but. she was unable to appear in Court. She too was drunk the night . of the murder.'?Temperance Advocate. > The Progress of Temperance in Columbia.? : Between two hundred and forty, and twohundred - and fifty males have signed the Washington <*' . niorlnra^?ton nr t nmlnn T> |MVU^V wvii w* mVJIU U1C JLVlWll'dlJU U IE 11 1U V * 5 Society?and seventy or eighty Students, the 5 College Temperance Society: twenty two of . the Students had. however signed the Washing. ' ton Pledge, before the formation of the College Society?so that over three hundred males have signed the Temperance Pledge in our Town.? . Besides these, about a hundred and Ucenty Jive females have signed the pledge, and thus be' come Honorary Members of tne Richland -pis- ' trict, and also of the Washington Temperance Society. The zeal of those: several Societies has not abated, and we trust will not For though much has been done, much yet remains for Temperance men to da?lb. The S. C. College Temperance Society*? How many a parent's heart will thrill with the mingled emotions, of joy and fear, at the very mention of such.;.a society. Of joy,-because a son may be one . of its members, and" thus shielded so far as a public and'.solcmn pledge of. horror can shield him, from a temptation that has caused that parent many, an hour of anxiety; of fear, lestheraavbe, andihus still exposed, at the most critical period df-fife, to a danger that has overwhelmed many a youth of promise with shame and ruin. The Students of the College, after some preliminary meetings among .themselves, resolved ' to hold a public meeting in the Chapel, and invited Judge O'Neal and Professor Thornwell to address the assembly* and then to form a/.College Temperance Society. After the address, the- Committee of Arrangements,- on the part of the Students, (consisting of Mr.. Melton of York, and Mr. Owens of Fairfield,), invited all the.Students who were disposed to form a College Temperance Society, to come forward and sign a pledge of total-abstinence framall intoxicating drinks during the time. they were Stu dent6 of the College. Sixty-Nine young men came forward at once and signed the pledge,, and we understand that others have since done so. About twenty of this number had previously signed the pledge of the Washington Temperance Society, which of course imposes a permanent obligation to abstinence. We hope to have occasion to advert to this Society frequently, and. ^halh be gratified to publish the Constitution amHist of officers. Go on young gentlemen,' in your glorious work: for what you have done, will go far to bind many an alienated heart to our beloved College, and strengthen the confidence of those who have ever clung to this noble Institution, through evil as well as through good report!? Go on then, as you are going, for there is not a true-hearted Carolinian who i¬ proud of your 1.1. ? rn ' " ' H-J if" i:*,. fr nouie stano ior jlemperanceanu morality.?-tu. South Carolina, Lancaster District. TOLLED before m? by E. S. Colvert, a gray Horse 15 hands liigli, 12 or 13 yours old, and appraised at fifteen dollars! No marks or brands perceptible. DAVID HAGINS, Magistrate. Bell Air, March 23, 1841. ~ To Kent. 'jj HE subscriber will rent during tho summer, * bis house in Log Town*. . C. M. BREAKER. March 30. . . Dr. ?. A. Salmoiid i 1 FFERS his professional Services to" the citizen* 1/ of Camden and its vicinitjr. . March 21. For sale or lien t. My House at Hobkixk. m. desaussure. March 23. - . ' * - M %X - 'y ' ' I ' . '* - * " >S. ..