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B ANNER ~Uk~3 Y IX0Rv ING LoGAN & FRANCIS. "3MC L.LARS in advance, Two Dollars ftV Cnts at the expiration of six months, F hPl a-at tho end of the year. p6 e ipsrOcontinued until all arrearages arte ID,')n it the option of the Proprietor. Alverisements inserted at SEVENTY. .I Cents per square, (12 lines or less,) for fir.and half that sum for each subsequent The number of insertions to be marked k Advertisements or they will be published tiltrdered to be discontinued, and charged cordifls. kNE DOLLAR per square for a ningle userion. Quarterly and Monthly Advertise will be charged the same as a singre in on, and~serni-monthely the same as new nso Terrible Catastrophe I ecking and Burning of the Steamer Ideperdente- Great Destruction of Life-One Hundred and Twenty Lives Lost I The editors of the San Francisco Daily Whig give the following particu. Jars as related to them by Dr. Corbett, surgeon of the ill-fated steamer: "When the steamer was heached with her bows on, and before the flames had broken out, a rush was nade for the lidw, but the sea, though smooth oft'the shore, ran in heavy surf on the beach, and there was a distance of some -thre hundred yards between the ves sel arnd the land. Capt. Sanson, now gave .the order to lower away a boat, and the chief mate, with one other, ndertook, to carry a line to the shore; the progress of the boat was watched with eager eyes by the assembled minu titude on, board the ship; but as some of the sailors on board had predicted, she was swamped by thesturf, the line was lost, and the venturers, with their boat, were thrown upon the beach, the twq men barely escaping with their lives. A second boat was now lowered :-ud manned by volunteers from among the firemen, who we do not hesitate to :ay hive shown themselves the most n6ble hearted and heroic men by their fortitude and courage through the ter rible scenes which followed. These brave fellows reached the shore and succeeded in making a small thren inch hauling-line ftst to a project ing rock, which was at once hauld taught by those on board. The precise objectof this line we do not perceive, as it seens that immediate use was not made of it, and a third boat was lowered by order of the Captain; this boat was put in charge of Capt. Steel, an experienced shipmadter, who was a passenger on board. During this time the ship remained immoveable, the surf striking her in the stern, and, per haps, tending to set her firmer into the sand. The third boat having been lmbvered, it was found that s10 was half full of water and of no service. un less bailed out, and Dr. Corbett sprang into her for that purpose; this cffIcted, six ladies were passed down into the boat, among whom were Miss Conway, Mrs. Haley, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Coots; there were two other ladies whose niames we have not learned; thg boat rode the first breaker, but was * filled and swamped by the second, and those already on shore rushed into the rescue of the ladies and dragged them on to the beach. Doctor Corbett was in this boat, and gaining the shore, turned towvards the ship at thecries of terror proceeding from her, and beheld tne quarter deck enveloped in flames. And now ensued one of the most harrowing scenes ever recorded in the history of shipwreck; the flames leaped * rapidly across the after part of the * ship, driving the masses before it, and dozens sprang into the water, and were seen struggling in the sturf. All the boats were now gone, and it w~as im possible to regain the ship from the shoere, or to render any succor whatev er; dreadful cries and screams proceed ed from the ship, which, mingled with the roaring of the sea, the crackling of the flames and shouting of' those on shore, who could only gaze helplessly on the sight, must have been an era of terror in the lives of' those who beheld it from the beach. As the flames ad vanced, the nnhappy victiums were forced into the sea, and every surf came freighted with corpses, or exhausted, half-drowned meni, women and chil dren. Such a scene has never before been ivitnessed on the Pacific coast. *To add to the excitement, the flames had now communicated to the powder magazine, which exploded, tearing the run and stern to pieces, mind splintering all that portion of the ship; the two guns, surrounded by the flames, also sent their solemn boomaing over the scene. - Those 'who were fortunate enough tget within reach of' their friends on shore, wvere dragged half dead out of the reach of the surf, while others were swept around the stern of the steamer, or out to sea, there being a strong current making seaward fro~m -., the ship. At one moment, not less tathrycorpses and3 bodies o the dying were in the edge of the surf.some of them divested of clothing. Out of a party of eighteen Jews who were on board, sixteen perished fromu the weight of coin, it was supposed, whtich they * attempted to bring wvith them through the waves. The outward current above mentioned, carried off nurbers of per sons who were good swimmers, or fluated, who would otherwise have been saved; several women thus fion~ig were swept away*, the baggage, such as would flo'it, alo 'i cnt out '-ith the ebb; none of it was saved by drifting to the shore. We have spoken above of the mnw ly cirnduct of the r.'ilors, firemen, and -coal-passers. Somo of these noble follows, dieop.rding their own danger-. selves. Wejiaveno spae or.,heart to insert the numerous affeodig instances of'courage and self-sacriico of ~whicl we have received accounts. Among them most conspicuous is that of Mr. Tater of Sacremento, who lost his life In attempting to save a sdn of Mr. Watson-the'y came ashore together both drowned. One of the firemen, whose name we did not learn, brought en1 shore two children whose parents were both drowned. Another firemen brought a beautiful boy ashore to his mother who had just been washed to the beach; her husband and two chil dren were drowned, and she supposed this child had shared the same fate. The meeting may be imagined. The Purser of the ship, Mr. James Freeborn, remained upon the deck un tif driven off by the fire, when spring. ing overboard, he clung to a floating spar and was washed ashore insensi ble; but barely escaped with his life be ing attacked with a violent fever. There is one fireman, known as Tom Saw. yer, a wild, reckless scamp, but whose faults, be they what they may, should henceforth be forgotten. This brave fel low, entirely stripped, went to and from the wreck four times. He is on ly nineteen years of age. After the third time, and when nearly exhausted with his exertions, he learned that the Chief Engineer, Mr. Collins, was unable to swim and likely to drown. He immediately started off again through the surf with his life preserver, fasten. ed it around the helpiese man, and ac companied him to 'he beach; he was also instrumental in preserving the lives of several others. Most of those ashore were too exhausted to render assistanee to-those beating about in the snvi People ran about the beach perfeetly frantic; one party at tenlmpted to launch a boat to reach the steamer,but it was overwhelmed by the surf and this accident intimidated others, so that it was impossible to muster the requisite furce to launch a second. Meantime the ship had be come a living mass of fire; the heat was intense cren on the shore, and eve ry moment the beach received new ac cessions to the list of the dead and dying. The scene was truly harrow ing, and when at laqt the steamer was a charred and smoking hulk, her stern lifted, and she swung heavily round, and went broadside on the beach. Sume fvew provisions were saved from the wreck, such as salt beef, pork, mo lasses, vinegar, a few tin cans of pre served meats and some cheese, but no water nor was there a drop of water on the island, which we have be fore observed was utterly barren and uninhabited. The usual amount o' suffering, particularly among the wo men and children, was experienced. During the first day, attempts were made by the survivors, after bury ing the dead, to procure water by con densing steam, but the experiment fail ed. 'There were now some two hun dred and seventy souls congregated on the beach, and they all went with out tasting water for fifty-six hours; the salt provisions only aggravating their sufferings. Shortly after the scene we have described above, a party started for the neighboring mountains, and on reaching their sumnmit they were ena bled to descry Magdalena Bay on, the mainland oppcwnte, frotm which the Is land of Margarita is removed some fif teen umiles; h-ere they ohservecd four ships at anchor; they proved to be w hmlers, busily engaged in trying out oil, while beyond in the vast pano rama they discovered several small boats in full chaste after a whale, for Magdelena Bay is resorted 'to by whales in the winter season. Ob serving this, the party descended to the wreck, and the chief mate, the en gineers, and a few others, slung one of' the cannons of the Independence, dragged and lugged it with great toil to the top of the hill, and with what little powder they had, fired t wice to attract the attention of the w halers; the boats, in their pursuit of the whale, had insensibly neared the Easterni shore (of the island, and were at once attracted by the discharge and the smoke agust a clear sky. T1he sound was also heard by those on board the ships, and signals were ob served to go up to each masthead re calling the boats. While this system of telegraphing was going on between the shipwrecked and the whaling fleet, another party had takan an iron boat belonging to the steamer and carried it bodily across to the lee side of the island, and there launched it, to pull fur the fleet; on their way they fell in with the re turning whaling boats, who wore obeyinmg the signal to'- return. The news of the wreck of the steamer and the dreadful sufferings of the passen gers aroused all the natural instincts of sailor hospitality in the crews of the ships. Every boat was at once called into regnisition,--they were loaded down with provisions and dlispatched to the scene of' the wreek; the assis tance did not arrive a moment too soon ; the women and children were comnpletely exhausted by abstinence, and their snifferinigs by the depriva tion of water- were mnost'acute. Pur ser F13reeborn wvent on hoard the ship Omei(ga, Capt. Fisier, whbere every attention was shown him arid his comn pani ..;. Capt. Fisher also sent direc tions ::t the snifler'ers should cross over to the lee sidu of'the island whore boats would be in readiness to convey them on board the ships: Amomig tI. incidents of the day af ter the wreck, a child was horsi on the beach. and is now healthy aind thi-iv ing; tho mother was carried across the monata.asB in a hammock, and oven walked p. rt of thme way to the boats. rho n n6V k"o0n 'tohave perished is one hundredt and forty, and as the graves nuiber sixty there were, of 3ourse, eighty who were drowned or burned and whobe bodies were not re. 3overced. We have not yet completed our list of those who were buried (n the island, but notice among the names those of Mro. Mary Ann Carnes, of Englund; Otis Hittle, of Massachusetts; Rutus Mosler, of Newport, N.. Y. Mr. Chansey, San Jose, Mich*an John Baum, Newark, N. J.; ~Mrs. Hlowland and three children, of Mich. gan,(Mrs. 11. was on her way to join her husband); Mr. Lehman, of Missoui ri; Morris Kemp, Maria Wilson, stew. %rdess ; Mr. Carrington and wife(two children, both saved); Asa Kittredge, Wakegan, Illinois; Willaii Abram. Cornwall, England; a lame man, name inknown, had a wife and child near Elizabeth, l1inois; Robert Taylor, Boston; C. A. Ward, No. 3& Broome -street, New-York. All of the above had money on their persons, which is in the keeping ofMr. Brigham, at the Dflice of the Vanderbilt Line The bod ies of Mr. Tarr, of Sacramento; Mr. Knox, of R. I., and of Senor Larco, of Valparaiso, were not recovered. The last named was a Chilean gentleman :f wealth and standing in Valparaiso; rinding himself driven into the waves by the flames, he turned to a few who were about him and offered $50, DOO to any person who would as sist him to save his life, but in such i moment none could think of the of fer; seeing that his end was near, Sen or Larco said "Farewell! It is only once!" and plunged into the water; he was quickly drowned. The body of Martin O'Mera, an Irishman, was also lost; he had many Friends in New-Orleans. Dr. Shaw, who was among the passengers, went back to Mexico, by the way of La Paz and Mazatlan; he was car. ried out by the tmder-tow of the surf be yond the steamer, but eventually reached the shore by incredible ex ertions. When he had landed he threw himself upon the bcach and wept like a child. After the Indepen ence swung round broadside to the beach, her coal took fire, and the sight will long be remembered b, those who saw it. The mass of coal be. name thoroughly ignited, and seen through the blackened ribs of the ship, it gave her the appearance of ,t gigantic grate of coal fire. Living Beyond our Means. For the. sake of appearance, to keep up a display and make a figure in the world, multitudes adopt the vicious habit of spending more than they earn. Pride and fashion exercise a merciless despotism over their purs Ds. The rich in their abundance do not feel the burden, but when the some thing is attempted by those in noder %te and humble ci rcumstances, then "comes the tug of war." In order to ipo the attitudes of wealth, they ex haust all their resources, and ev en strain their credit till it is perfec tly threadbare. There is much in the habits and customs of so'ciety furnishing a strong temptation to this course; yet it is a serious evil. It is not right as be tween mnan and man; it is an extrava gance that carries in its train a pecu niary injustice. He who lives beyond his means must supply the deficiency from the poc'kets of his neighbors, very often upon the strength of a deceptive credit. is very display gives him an appearance of ailluence that mis guides the judgment of others. He knowingly passes him-self ofT tir more than he is worth, and what is this but a species oif fraud? There is of course an end to this habit, somewhere, the commercial rep. utation of the in*'ividual must finally be swamped by the numnher of his unpaid indebtednnss; yet the whole process is one of dishonesty, even be fore this catastrophe reveals it. No Christian ought to be gu;ity of it. H~e not only disgraces haimrself thereby, but also jeopards the reputation of religion among men. It is moreover a very uncomforta ble habit. H~e who lives above his means, generally owes more than he can pay; and the farther he goes, the worse he makes his condition. Hie becomes a stereotyped borrowver; pays one debi. by contracting another, has a great many debts to pay-little, pet. tv, annoying hills scattered in all di rections, which he does not know how to meet. Tihey are constantly haunt ing him with the unp~leasant clamors; they sacrifice his reputation, and give the community the just impression that he is a poor pay-master. All this must be a source of great inconveni ence and perplexity, far too great to find an adoquate compensation) in a little meaningless parade. It would be far wiser, involve much less fric ion of the nerves, to shine less and en joy mnore The temptations of the habit are both numerous and dangerous. It tempts a man to sacritice his sense of honor, to place a light estimate upoIn his. word, to be easy in promising, and very slow .in fulfillinig. His moral principles become loos~e, and pass into the state of decay. His wants bribe him; and he is likely, uinder the pleab of necessity, to do what uinder other cir cumstances lie would not think of do. ing. Sometime~s he is led to con ract dIebts, and then imove away, leav ing them ursettl Ad unpaid. Per. hiaps lie runs his - .. in one place till lie runs it (out; and then (does the same t~.ng in another, till lie finally rurns himself ouit. lie is tempted to acts of mencnss, ni..., to say dishonesty such a d !ging his er. 1'ors, and mnak~ne romises t, the pathe3 lain and imp e bon es in made VCry difficult. Sins sel do go alonefone form of wrong gen. er y leads to another; and hence he w proudjkers requires what his lax Oonfejleco permits, Is on the hi4way of tengtation..- What he'may be d to do in! certain crises made by hia Vlly, he cannot tell. Ile my be so a erely cha14d and pinched, as ov. en to'be guilty of the crime of mur der. Aid then again, he who con. sulien all hd more than all, for the PmljDPoppf. display, of course has not a p;nnj M1r the ofices. of charity; he can give nothing 'to aid the poor, to prcnote the public good, or dissemin ate the knowldge of the gospel, He is 4lways himself too poor for this work, and quite likely soothes his conicience and corrupts his heart with the plea of his own poverty. IIe would be glad to dio imething, but. he can not-he is so poor. Very true; but let him inquire into the reason of his poverty. le lives too fast; he spends tbo much on himself and fami ly; he keeps up more parade than he ean support, and this is the chief rea son why he is unable to contribute to the interests of charity and benevo lence. 11o much more commendable in the sight of earlh and Heaven is that man 'Who is economical and frugal that he may be libe.al; who restrains his own frssions, From excessive indul gence, that he iMay devote at least a portion of his substance to the cause of God and the 'interests of philan thropy. His a rare and valuable vir tue, and when it-shall be more com mon in the ( lirch of Christ. it will be less difficult to find the means for sustaining and enlarging all her in stitutions of love.-Evangelist. Til SUMTER BANNER. Suterville, So. Ca. J. RICHARDSON LOGAN, EDITOR. TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1853. COTTON MAR KET. Char'loston, May 2, 1853. The last news from Europe being of rather a favorable character, the sales on- Saturday were active at from 7 1-2 to 10 3-4 cts. IV The Black River Watchman, came to us last week, in a new dress -that being the begining of another Volume. We wish our friends many happy returns for the occasion, and a new suit for every one; Decies repetita placebit. The Marlon Star. Tus conduct of this excellent paper has passed -lito iUe hands of A. Q. AMcDUFFIB Esqr;-C. WV. MiLLER Esq; having retired. To Mr. MILLEa, un der whose hands the STAR was ever a welcome visitor, we extend our best wikhes for his future prosperity and to Mr. McD~UFFIE a brothers hand of fellowship. Blackwood'u Edburg Magazine for A pril has reached us. WVe have only had time to cut its leaves and find the fol lowing contenIts: Temperance and Te*ntot:0 Soecties, John Rintoul; or the 'ragmenat of the wreck. Part 2., A Modern French Comedy, Lombardy and its Irrigation, Lady Lee's widow hood. Part 4., Trwenty years in the Philippine Islands, and Hints for Leg. islation. The Southern Agriculturst.-W e have received the April numrber of this welcome monthly. We think few of our farmers would be without it, if they would only read one copy. The present issue is full of interesting matter and beautifully illustrated. The Pick.-This Comical llustrated Weekly published by J. A. Scoville, New York, is well worth its price, one dollar a year, and though it comes from the far Nort ih, may be trusted. WILurINOTON 0& MANCHEsTER R. R. -\Ve had the gratification of seeing, on Saturday the 10th of' April inst., the first cylinder which has been sunk in the Great Pee Dee River, beinig the commcncceent of the wvork of' erecting the iron cohanins to support the Railroad bridge. This cylinder was sank by atmrospheric pressure iand is the first that has been employed for bridge building, in the United States. 'The resuh,. is perfcc tly satisfactory to tihe engineers en. gaged, and to all persons who have witnessed it. 'The road is progrcssing rapidly tc completion, and this mnificent and useful work will he finished througlh the entire line of 158 miles, from: W il mington to tihe junction of the Wa. terec, near Manchester, during the present year.-1arion Star. Tus .EFFECTs oF OUa RAIL ANI) PLANK ROAOs.-We somec t'ime age briefly noted sonme of' the effects of ou, projected Rail and. :ank Roads upota the prices of' real estate, in their -. icini. ty. We are "ow able to state that. -.ht i.llprovement, then noted is not confin. ed to a few i -.zed, cases, but that it is general. ,'&ithin the past week an assessment oIf the real estate within the corporate limits of the towi.. inas flind ready,'uc itia t good priks. Out of the corporate limits of the town, the Improvement is not less, marked. Every acre of land In 'the neighborhood h4s been. enhanced In value to a greater or less extent, by our Rail and Plank Roads- Nor are the effects of these confined to real estate. Every other spefes of prop. erty has felt the Impulse, Now, If such are the effects of these improve ments, by anticipation, who can pre. diet their results when we reap the full harvest of their fruition. (Cheraw Gazette. Col. T. EDWIN WARE.-We have the pleasure of announcing 'to the frifends of Col. Ware that he re. ceived, last Bunday morning, from his Excellency, Governor Manning, a free and fall pardon, but that he instant ly paid over to the Clerk of the Court the fine of five hundred dol lars, imposed on him by his Hon. or, Judge Withers. His Excellency enclosed, the pardon to Mrs. Ware, and wrote her a very kind letter in reply to the one she wrote him, in fa vor of her husband. It wil be re membered that Mrs. Ware was the only child of the deceased Capt. Adam Jones. We have no doubt that the Colonel will, in the beautiful language of his Excellency, repay his affection. ate and devoted wife in love and in. creased kindness for all the ailliction and sorrow he may have caused her by his recent mNfortune, which no one can feel e. eply as himself. The coming of a ..'e, with'a pardon in her hand, under the great seal of the State, to release from prison her hus. band, and carry him home once more to his children and herself, was an interesting spec-acle, -and appropriate to woman's mission on earth. The short sojourn of Col. Ware in prison (one week) was made, by the kind attentions and visfts of his friends, as pleasant as it well could be.. It very often happens that a man does not know how nuch he is cared for and resected. till misfortune overtakes him and developes the true feeling and heart of his friends.-Southern Patriot. INFORMATION Wa-rNED.-An insane gentleman left Columbia on the 24th of March with a Horse and Buggy. The buggy has been found near Cam. den, and the gentleman seen four or five miles west of Winnsboro, riding the horse (a compact and handsome blood bay) with a halter-no bridle or saddle. Any information about the gentle man or horse, directed to the Editor of the Columbia Banner,-in order to find the former especially-will serve the cause of humanity and greatly ob. lige the friends of the insane man. [Colunbia Daily Banner. RATTLESNARE BITE CURD.-The Southern Medical Jouinal contains the 'descripitinn of a case by'Di T.W' A tehison, in which a girl seventeen years of age, bitten on the left instep by a rattlesnake, was cured by be'ng placed in a hot bath, and whiskey anid carbonate of ammoni administered to her, until shc had taken three pints of the former and eighty grains <(f the latter. It was two hours and a half af. tecr the bite that Dr. A. visited his patiet when he found her sightless, her fa.'ce swallen, and her mind wan during. The liquor caused no intoxi cation, and the cure was complete. A Wonderful Character. It is reported that thert. new lives and old man away down in the swamps of little P'ee Dee, who never owned but one pair of shoes in his life, and he says they were so d-d hot he never wore themn but once. He never cultivated the soil, nevertheless he has accumulated a considerable suum of me. ney, which he deposits in hollow trees in the most unfrequented parts of the swamps. He effacts extreme poverty and when applied to for the loan of money, declares he has none; but if the security and premium offered pleases him, and the borrower promises to re pay in specie, he will appoint a day when lie will try to get a little, whien he never fails to do. Hie ha.. made his fortune by the sale of fish, the finest of which ho knows exactly where to fish for, and honey which he raises in large quantities, having his bees hived in the swamps for miles round. No music is so charming to his ears, as the booing of the bull frogs, and the bellowing of the alligators; for these sang his lullaby when is his cradle, and have been liar. pingers of his harvest fromr his boy. hood until the prese:nt day. He never uses any other weapon to kill snakes with, than his heel; and there never was but one known to attempt to bite him, and that one broke off its teeth without penetrating the akin of the heel, lie has never taken any Doe. tor's stutT, nor let them come neat euough to feel his pulse or to look at his tongue; and he ie now about seven. ty years of age. Strange as it may seem, that sech a character should find a mate of similar tastes and fancies. Yet such is the case, only that she is a little more like him than he is like himself. Has any of our cotempora. ries as singular a character in their neighborhood? If so let's hear about him.-Ch1eraw Gazette. ALL -rna BERaREs.-A celebrated comedian became enraged with a gro. cer named Berry, who sent In his ac. count long before it was due, and he, in his great wrath, called upon the cceen grocer, and laboring under the impression that his credit was doubted, said 'I say, herc's a pretty mul, Berry; ,kr;a~ Bm--o Ia dotil aeA st, J, k alien, usp Qre A whose suOfs ip tbeo eltu o the Grape, and many rare varieties Of ivult, has been so distinguished,.Is now engaged. in the development of a NJo raf wonder, which has reached such an advanced stage as to romise thp z#ght satisfactory result. Is Is no lessils experiment than an attempt to .raise the magnificent Victorta Regia, (Regi. na, or Regalis) the Queen of the watel Lilies, which was discovered in. South America In 1837, by Dr. Robert IJ Schomburgh, and was only successful. ly flowered in England in 1849, aft., repeated failures to introduce it. In this country the plant first flow ered at Philadelphia, and has been in, troduced only into one or two othei places. Thanks to the enterprise, en thusiasm and skill of Mr. Allen, oul florists may now hope to behold the wonder in all its magnificence. Mr. Allen's Grapery is one of the notabirties of our region. It com prises the choicest varieties, and is ca pable of yielding from 6 to 10,00( pounds of grapes per annum, and oi producing fruit at all seasons. Foi fifty consecutive months ripe clustert have been hanging from the vines ir some part of his entensive range, and they may now be seen in all stages from the incipient blossom to th., ma ture fruit., Peaches nearly ripe, cher ries, orangssy lemon. figs, and othel rare exoties, in- various periods of ad vancement, also hang, in temptinj luxurianee Fkom- we, trained and skil fully tended branehes, enclosed withii this 'crystal palae.-Salem Register As this is the- season when many o our fellow-citisons are about makinj a summer tour to- Europe, we repub lish the subjoined. official. instruction relative to obtaining that necessarj companion du voyage, a passport. DKPARTMIT O SrAs, W A9DIW~or, Alpril, 1850. Citiens of the United States visitinj foreign countries are liable to seriou: inconvenience, if unprovided with au thentie proot of their national charac ter. The best security against this I a passport from the Department o State, eertitying the bearer to be a citi Zen of the United States; which pass ports are issued gratis, upon applies tion supported by proof of citizenship This proof need be transmitted bu once. Oh all subsequent occasions, i simple reference to it, and to th period when it was presented, wil be sufficient. When the applicant is a native cit, zen of the United Skits., he must tram mit an affidavit of this fact, statinj his age and place of birth, signed b; him, and sworn to by himself, an one other citizen of the United State named tnerein, to wh3om he is pei sonally known, and to the best c whose knowledge and belief niade b him is true. This affid it must b attested bi-t ry- i signature and seal of . c there is no Notary in the place, th~ affidavit may be made before a Ju: tice of the Peace, or other officer auth< rieed to administer- oaths. if the applicant be a naturalizedelti zen, his certificate of naturalizatio muist be transmitted for inspection. will be returned with the passport. The application should be accomp nied with a description of the persoi stating the following particulara viz: Age years. Stature, feet, Inche (English measure.) Fbrehead, Eyes Nose, Miouth, Chin, Hair, Complezioi Face, When the applicant is to be ad companied by his wife, children,e servants, or by females under his pr<i tection, it will be sufficient to st..te th name and ages of such persons, an their relation-hi p to the applicant. Persons who leave the country, e: pecting to obtain passports, whil: abroad, from ti~ D tiplomatic or Coi sular agents of the United States, ai liable to disappointment; inasmuch it is the duty of those agents to 0o serve the utmost caution in grantiri documents in the nature of a ceri cate ofeitizenship, to those persons oi ly who are certainly known to be ei titled to them; and it is sometimi difficult, if not impracticable, to pe cure proof of this fact in a foreign coul try. Cert'ficates of citizenship or pas ports issuing from the Authorities, from the Judicial or the Municip: F~unctionaries of our country, are ni recognised by the officers of foreg Governments; ai d if the Diploms ie and Consular ag -nts of the Unit. States are called upon to certify1 the authenticit of such document, the cannot do thib for want of that oflci information in regard to those authoi ties and functionaries, and to their r spective signatures and seals of c fioe, which is indispensable necessai in the case of every such certificate. SINGUI.AR ColNCIDNxc.-It is a, Il tle singular that of five of the Pres dential candidates-one, Webster, dead; another, and the suiccessful ca: didate, lost his little boy, soon a ter his election, by a most distressir accident, and his own and wife's live were saved almost miraculously; whi the third, fourth, and fifth, viz: Fil more, Cass anid Douglas, have ea< had to mourn the loss of their wiv< since the canvass. Surely deal strikes in high places. A VanIY DEI.IAThs OMEK.ETTE. Beat six reggs, the yolks and whit, separately; melt a bit of butter in teacupful of warm milk, to which ai gradually a tablespoonful of flour. a t blespoonful of salt, and a lit tle pep then mix the yolksi of the ogs, tM t the fill goe.14rth totef womn nd hidre, Mldn frm All quartrs Of t .. breezay ba .of L4kes and Borgne, brushed suitae and preparedto Ltnghbefore the pUb11 quiet, streets of the rurG filled with crowds Oanu flocking to the arena, eght ommencd asch collected an Gretna. d e seen will be likely to eayA Te areus for tMe rspria twenty feet squarea, Ali ground and constructed .e and iron bar. seats, circularly placed, and to soommodate many 0h r About four or five thousand:: q. assembled, covering the sease as i a cloud, and crowding down * d I cage were within reach of theihar i The bull selected to sustaiwtWIbpo or and verify the pluck of Att a on this trying occasion, :as a "t animal from the Opelousats, lthq r sinewy as a four year old Oourr, with eyes like burning. coal horns bore the appearane of-hvi been filed at the 6%ps, and wanted keen and d"ahing appearance so.i *e mon with others of his kithi anill. otherwise it would have been s11 dig r with Bruin at the first passatnd . o mistake. The bear was an anipmal ofmots and called General Jackson, from th.fae of his licking up every thing that came in his way, and taking "the responsi. bility" on all occasions. He was a wicked looking beast, very leanand unamiable in aspect, with hair all standing the wrong way. He fought some fifty bulls (so they's always coming out victorious, but AU;' either one of the fifty had been ,aAt f takapas bull, the bills of the perfer . ances did not say. Had -ie .tacli . an Attakapas first, it is likely his-fifty . battles would have remained unfought. About half.past four o'clock the ,per formances commenced. The Bull was first seen standing iw the cage alone, with head erect, an4 looking a very monarch in his capacity. Atcage conaanin<'m ing the Bea81r was plaeed along-side . of the arena, and opining being ma4e Bruin stalked into the battle ground r not, however, without sundry stings up with a ten foot pole, hebgigi-a. s perienced In such matters and Esek ward in raising a row. f Once on the-battle field, 6 mals stood wondering, theb his long his .eyes dllay; Adpg4hik e The & Bear seemedIliifl me ,. begin the attack, and the ladl, ,ing a moment, made steps Grtb. ward and then forward,.as if me~u i. ring his antagonist, and meditating n, where to p lant a blow. Bruin would'nt Icome to the scratch, rio way It coulde be fized, 'till one of the keepers, with. I. an iron rod, tickled his ribs, and usade him move. Seeing this Attakapas took it as a hostile demonstration, and ,s gathering hir strength, dashed savagg-. ly at the enemy, catching 'him on 'the points of his horns, and doubling Shim up like a ack of bran against.the rbars. .Bruin "sung out" at his, and ,.made a dahfor his ,opponent'ainose. e Missing this, the Bull turned to she d "about face," and the Bear caught him by tho harn, inflicting apShastly wound. ~. But Attakapas with a kick shook hMa et off, and renewing the attack, went at ~. him again, head on, and with Aruh. eThis time he was not so fortunate,.for. Sthe bear caught him. above theaye. .burying his fang in the tough 1)1de and gholdn him as In a vice.-lT was ,owe . the Bull's turn to "singoit," ind h. . did it, bellowing forth with i voice Smore hideous than that of all: theiBull. s, of Bashau.-Some minutes, stood-mat. ~. term thus, and the cries of: the Bull; . mingled with the hoarse growls of the Bear, made hideous music,' Gt-only for . a danca of devils. Then came a puse, r (the bear having relinquishe his .1hold) and for a few minutes it ws.Z . Sdoubtfnl whether the fun was not ,up. But the magic wand ofthe keep-. t.er (the ten foot pole) again- stirred dup Brnin, and at it they went and with Sa rush! Bruin nrow tried to fasten on the bull's back and drove his tusks in al him in several places, making the, ~. red blood flow lbke wine from .the . vats of Luna. But Attakapas was pckto the 1i ack bone, and catching Bunon the tips of his horns, shulfied Yhim up right merrily, making the fur fly like f. athera ina gale of wind lr0r Scried "nuflf," in bear language) but th ~bull followed up his advantage, an s making one furious plunge full at .the figure head of the enaemy~ struck a Shorn into his eye, burying it there and gdashaing the tender organ Into dark. ness and atoms. Bloo followed the e blow, and poor .Bruin, blinded, bleed. I ng and in mortal agony, turned with ha howl to leave, but Attakapas caught Shim in the retreat, and rolled him o. er was enacted, and finally after moiK than an hour, Bruin ,curled - hims'~ up on his back, bruised bloody dlead boat. T1he thingv ws~s up Mth as Clfona, and Attakapas was declared . hevitor amiidst thodapplause of dthe muaaltitude that n ade thu heav. ens ring. It was~ armost sva~ exhibitm, and dwe chrIonic!c it as yo u d re -.Nhe.r lamntabhnaci i~t May w e nev-y er 'e 'ch na.mher . O 0 Paver..