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Mr. Rathbun.?Buffalo is gradually recovering from the shock occasioned by the failure and forgeries of Mr. Rathbun, who, though so recently employing the heads and hands of a thousand men, and wielding millions of dollars, is now the inmate of a prison. Yes this extraordinary man, who hut yesterday was lord of most he surveyed, is now consigned to a cell four ' feet wide and eight long ! He was struck down in the very mid-day of a career of unparalleled enterprise, the memorials of which attract the eye in every direction. All the various and beautiful specimens of taste and genius which adorn the magic city, are the creations of Mr. Rathbun. This spacious church, yonder beautiful i theatre, that splendid hotel, those numerous blocks of stores, and those elegant man- | sions, were ai! erected by Kattibun. i nese stores, tilled with merchandise, invite custom under the name u B. Rathbun." This blacksmith's shep, this coachmaker's shop, these brick aud lime kilns, and that saw-mill, all belong to Rathhun. Those stages running hence to Cliatauque, Rutavia, to Rochester, and to Niagara Falls. v\:c. fee. all bear the name of "Ik Kathbuu." In short, this most extraordinary man was either directly or remotely connected with all the business relations of Butlalo, and the surrounding country. His brother, Lyman Rathhun, who managed the money departmeut, is confined in another cell. His nephew, Rathbun Allen, the clerk, who is supposed to have committed the forgeries, was arrested in Ohio, and was yesterday committed to the same prison. The wife of B. Rathhun is held in universal regard. In her praise every tongue is eloquent, and for her every heart in the city bleeds. Lvman Rathbun, also, has an estimable witb. who is overwhelmed in allliction.?Albany Evening Journal. The editor of the Brussels journal says, We may now go to Antwerp, in one hour. Shortly we shall be able to reach Paris in six hours, Berlin in sixteen, and St. Petersburgh in sixty. I fit were possible to make a journey round the world on a continuous rail road, it would be accomplished in six weeks." The following paragraph is copied from the Railway Magazine. "A gentleman left Manchester in the morning, went to Liverpool, thirty miles off*, purchased aud took back with him to Manchester on the rail road, 170 tons cotton. This he immediately disposed of; emd the article being liked, an oiler was made to take another such quantity. Oil* he starts again, and, actually that evening delivered the secoud T " B tfxifiilloil 1 in I IIUI 111^ UU?riivvi i-u lliuvo ill . lour journeys; and bought, sold, and deliv. ered, thirty miles otf, at two distinct and j consecutive deliveries, 300 tons of gooJs in twelve hours!" Frotn the Bangor Advertiser. Sea Serpent!?This creature was seen at the inlet between Mr. Desert Rock and the main land, on Saturday, by Capt. Black of the fishing schooner Fox, ofSedgewick. Capt. Black is an elderly man of Intelligence and veracity. He says that lie was within fifty yards of his snakeship for an ! hour; that at least sixty feet of his body were exposed when iu morion, and that be -must be at least twenty feet longer.? The head w as only two or three feet above the surface: it was precisely like the head * * j % i^i 1_ ol a land snaae, and me neca was sumircr j just below the head, in this particular re. i sembling the snafce family; his color was perfectly black, and look like a porpoise.? When in a state of quite, about one-third of his diameter was exposed, and Capt. B. judged that the exposed part was about the size of a half barrel. There wen.1 no protuberances, but when in motion it answered the1 description of the humps. The Captain at-! tempted to near him, but the noise of the boat alarmed him, and he sunk and rose at some distance off. If he had had a gun, bethinks he could have killed him. He is going again immediately, prepared to give him battle. He has never believed in the mooster before, but is now ready to make oath to the above statement. There were j with him a man and woman. At the Bucksport Hotel is au old woman who was in the boat with Parson Cumrnings in the revolutionary war when he saw the serpent, and her account coincides with this city, who conversed with Capt. Black at * Bucksport.? NED OF THE TODDEN?AN AFFECTING STORV OF AN IDIOT. From the interesting letters of Espirella. just publislted by Dearborn, we make this ii A ls-v*%*? Hinn o i flmmx tono tn CAUaw - lung iiitiu uiviic n u.i tit these parts a poor idiot, who, being quite harmless, was permitted to wander whither lie would and receive charity at every house in his regular rounds. His name was Ned of the Todden, and I have just heard a tale which has thrilled every nerve in me from head to foot. He lived with his mother, and there was no other in the family ; it is remarked that idiots are always particularly beloved by their mothers, doubtless because they always continue in a state as helpless and dependent as infancy. This poor fcl/low, in return was equally lbnd of his x mother: love towards her was the only feeling which he was capable of, and that feeling was proportionately strong. The mother fell sick and died : of death, poor wretch, he knew nothing; and it was in vain to hope to make him comprehend it. He would not suffer them to bury her, and they were obliged to put her into the coffm unknown to him, and carry her to the grave when, as they imagined, he had been decoyed away to a distance. Ned of the Todden, however,, suspected that some, thing was designed, watched them secretly and as soon as it was dark, opened the grave took out the body and carried it home. Some of the neighbors compassionately went into the cottage to look after him : . they found the dead body seated in her own place in the chimney corner, a large lire blazing, which he had made to warm her, and the idiot son with a large dish of pap offering to feed her. " Eat mother!" he was saying,"you used to like it!" i ___ Presently wondering at her silence, he looked at the face of the corpse, took the dead hand to feel it, and said " Why d'ye look so pule, mother? why be you so cold." From an old Paper. THE WAV TO CURE A BAD HUSBAND. One Farmer Potter, offhe parish of Bow, in Devonshire, a man much inclined to sottishness, hav ing occasion to sell a yoke of oxen, drove them to Crediton fiir, about six or seven miles distance?and meeting with a good fair, agreeable entertainment, and jovial companions, he was mightily in his element, and did not cry to go home, but tarried there some weeks, singing the songs of the drunkard, until at last he was disposi ej to set out for Bow, and taking his Land. I lord \vi:h him. they ?n arrived at the farmer's house, where he expected to meet j with a warm reception irom his who; bill ' the good woman had formed a better resolution. I'pon the sight of his wife, wlw crime to the door, lie necosvd her with "J^o. (irace, lam returned;" to which she answeri ed, "I see you be, mv dear; von are very welcome." "Hut," said ho, "I have brought another man with me." Quoth she, "Ho is welcome too for vour sake."?"Hut. mv * I love," said In*. ? ! have sold my oven." "My j dear" replied she, "you went to the fair for j that purpose." "I've spent the money." "Il j you have," rjuo'h she, "'twas no more than I your own." "Hut farther than that," said he, "I have gone a score to the amount ol forty shillings, and here is my landlord eomr for it." "If so," said she, "I'll go up stairs and ft itch it to him," which she immediatej !y did ; and afterwards treating the landlord i with a pitcher of cider and a pipe of tobacI co. in an amicable manner, he took hi? f leave. The fanner being so charmed with I the good economy of his wife Grace, told j her, with tears in his eyes, he would do sr ' no more ; and declared her his darling, anr ! the best of women ; and from thence liver; temperate and luippy with Dame Grace tc the day of his death. Hut had she stormet him in the manner too many women arc wont to do on such occasions, there is the greatest probability in the world, he would have pursued his vicious course of life, and brought down poor Dame Grace's gra\ ; hairs with sorrow to the grave. I 7 Religion in I\ora Scotia.?The population of Cape Breton, New Brunswick, and I Prince Edward Islam}, is estimated a! | 450,000, or half a milliou. The different , denominations are rated as follows : Epis. j copalians 25,000; Presbyterians, kirk, and I secession, 40,000; Catholics 250,000; Methodists 10,000; and Baptists 25,000. In 1620, the church members In Nova Scotia were 2,225, now 4,540. Antediluvian Discoveries.?Dr. Kipp| stem, A German savant, who has long devoted himself to the study of geology, and who is directing the excavations, in the neighbourhood of Elizi, (a small town in Rhenish Hesse,) where numerous fossil bones have been found, has lately made a most valuable discover}' for natural history. In digging 29 feet below the soil, near Eppcishiem, about a league distant from Alezi, he found, in a state of the most perfect pres. ervation,the head of a d inotheri umgiga ntcum probably the most colossal of the antedeluvian animals, whoso existence was first in. dicated, and nearly specifically determined by Dr. Caup, the learned zoologist. The head measures six feet in length, by three and a half in breadth; and its weight is nearly five quintals. Near the head was found an humeral bone, six feet long, weighing two quintals, appertaining apparently to the same animal. No remains of this kind have ever been found before.?Gazette Ala. rnande. RA.IL ROAD FROM WRIOHT'S BLUFF, SANTEE, TO Sl'MTERVILE, &C. &C. At a meetfag of the citizens ofClarcndon, held at Fulton Academy on the 20th Aug. T ? .1 U l5 PL...! iooo, Jcpiiiu isysuii, x^sq. ^uujriuiuj, nuu EI. McLean, Secretary, the following Preamble and Resolutions were adopted:? A quick, easy and cheap communication between the Atlantic and the Lakes, being about to be opened, by means of a Rail Boad to Charleston, from Louisville, Maysville and Cincinnati, by way of the French Broad, N. C., and thence, crossing the Broad River, in S. C. at the easiest and cheapest place of passage, to its Eastern Bank?in faef, through the Villages of York, Chester and Winnsborough, to Columbia ? and thence, to its destined point r?i i ~ 'Pi... ?: c ? HI I'liuioiuii. x urj i JI11.< lio VM kjuuucr District generally, and those of Clarendon county, particularly, cannot avoid, on so interesting an occasion, uniting with their fellow-citizens in general, in expressing the satisfaction they feel, at finding there is so perfect a prospect of full and complete success attending this magnificent and munificent project?a project, rendered still more magnificent and more munificent, bv its C m commencement in Charleston, with the doduration recently made and satisfactorily proved to be sincere?that especially, also, as it is impossible for them to entertain a moment's doubt, that, to say nothing of the money that will be saved or the difficulties that will be diminished, in passing the 3. C. Broad, as high up the Country as in such a case, it would do?and, moreover, when the easy passage ofthe Road through the wealthy and consuming districts ofthe Fork, formed by the Watereeand Congarce is considered, the comparative ease with which the former River c.'ui be passed from Dawson's landing in Richland, to a point not far below Manchester in Claremont, a point, whence eventually there will be formed a Road to Sumterville, Darlington, &c. &c. from Wright's Bluff or its vicinity, the generally inclined plane along which it will have to pass to the Santee; and, tthen the Road is completed, from thence to Charlcstor-when all these circumstances are recollect'd, the citizens of Sumter cannot, they repeat, entertain a doubt, that a route, uniting all easttern S. C. and the Country between the Broad and the Catawba, not only with the " great West," but also with Columbia and Charleston, & furnishing to both those rising Cities the means cf an extensive foreign as well as domestic commerce?that to suppose such a route, especially when it is determined how much it reduces (fully fii miles) the distance between Columbia and , Charleston, will not become the channel of the Commerce, which is to give to South-! Carolina "the Emporium of the South" would be insulting to the common sense, I common feeling, and common patriotism of the State, u the whole State." The impediments to this route are to be found in the increased number and consequent expense of Bridges below Columbia. However, these impediments are counterj balanced, if not more than counterbalanced, by the lesser charge of crossing the Broad ! above, rather than expense to l>e incurred i by passing the Congaree at Columbia. In ' their erection, the greatest allcdged difficulty J lias been that of finding foundations for stone j piers, a difficulty, thanks to the published | declaration (ride Courier) of Col. A. H. . tn nvicton^o V o M tlmir ; Ulisuam I II' 'l IIWll 111 >?iiaivin.vi . ? ... j expense, (*) this, if an hindrance, will relaj lively, disappear, when we recollect, that if i Bridges should cost 6100, or even 6150,i 000, the local revenue to Ikj derived from j them, to say nothing of that to he generally received on the score of the great Rail Road, j to whose extensive and illimitable wants and 1 correspondent benefits they are destined to administer and to extend, the expense, whatever it might be, would be rendered coinj paratively light, and especially in the case : of one from Ciaremont into the Fork, whentfe I it would immediately open a road that is j now uniformly excellent to Columbia, and a 1 road the inosi wanting in this section of the j State, and eventually become part of the ! great Rail Road, which is to he laid down i along the alluvion of Alabama, Georgia, ! South and North Carolina and Virginia, to | Norfolk, (vide Col. Long's report.) | i Therefore, he it resolved, That a Rail ! i) J 1 : I j IVUctU* UUIIilllt'lIUUl^ Ul ?? o uiuu) uu ; the Santcc,or a point in its vicinity, conven| j ient fcrthe erection of a Bridge, and proi ceeding by Fulton to the C. House; and t' also another, from the nearest point ofjunc, I tion, in the vicinity of Manchester, across 1 the Watcree to Columbia, are not only high| iv necessary to the wants of the District, J with the interests and prosperity of which t they are so intimately connected ; hut, at J the same time, maybe made to prove as 1 highly subservient, as they are imperatively ! requisite to the progress and prosperity of j the Louisville, Maysville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road. Resolved, That Matthew James, Josia ; Haynesworth, Thomas Baker, Peter Male:, | Jeptha Byson, Edward Broughton, W. II. B. Richardson, and John Isham Moore, J Esvjrs. beappoiuted a Committee, with the understanding that a majority of the same % M t i i has the power ot'adding to its number, oy I the appointment of such other gentlemen in j this and the neighbouring District, as may I be necessary to cany its object into effect j ?these objects being also understood to be, i the obtaining subscriptions for the purpose of defraying the expense of a mere Reconnoissancc of the Road by the local Surveyj ors, well acquainted with the face, soil and i facilities of the country thro' which the Road ' * ! is to pass?the amount of such subscription ! to be deducted from the first Instalments re' quired of tlie Road, and the Digest of a plan ' *?4 iliA 1/1 nn>I I tor receiving suuscripnuus iu mo buiu ?uuu in Labour, videlicet, 1. The labour that ! will be necessary to clear, graduate, and 1 generally speaking, prepare it for cotnpleItion. 2. For bridging the same. 3. For (providing the Lumber, large and small, | which may be necessary. 4. For furnisliing the Iron. &c. <ic. 5. For die j O ' t {laying it down?that any subscriptions i lor this purpose shall be proposed to the ! above etleot, by the? said Committee, and ; confirmed at some future meeting by the ' Stockholders. Resolved, That our Representatives to the next Legislature, be required to exert themselves to sustain any proposition to be made to that body, for a subscription on the part of the State, to the Road from the Ohio to Charleston?the route being such as to be most convenient and useful to the State in general, and as conservative, as is practicable, of the "vested rights" of the holders and owners of property ut the various Court Houses of the State near to which it will be located. V r> c*r\ / ?/>/ rPkif ft T. Phnmnlnn, the | lUrtUJtC U'J X IlUk Hon. Thomas Dugan, J. Dyson, J. I. Moore Richard Regan, Joseph Richardson, Wiliam M. De Lornie, and William Folder, Es. quires, be appointed a committee to corres.; pond and confer with the citizens in the dis- i 1 tricts interested in the work, and those eni gaged in the Louisville and Charleston road I and report the result of the same to a future i meeting of this company. Resolved, That such committee be author, ised to call a meeting at the court house, at i the period it may deem most convenient, j i llesolved, That the newspapers in Charlesi ton, Georgetown, Columbia, Cheraw, York, | Camden, S. C. and Charlotte, Salisbury ! and Rutherford, N. C. and Augusta, Geo. be requested to republish these proceediinrs. J. DYSON, Chairman. II. M'Lean* Secetary. Fulton P. 0. August 20 183<>. Any communication addressed tojhc P. j 0. in Fulton, will meet with Prompt atj tention. * A short time sinco the Chester Commission, era contracted for a Bridgo across Cedar ("reek, i at $3 50 the perch. The Union Commissioni ers arc about to build a Stone Bridge across Tyi gvr River, at Hamilton's Ford, or M'Mcekin's I Ferry. Seven stone pillars, iv the water, and j two abutments like those of M Columbia." AnI other has been or is to be built across the Eu; norce, or over the Tygcr in the South corner of j Union District, at Sine'# or Tine's Ferrr. Singular Circumstance.?The Barnstable Journal says that a child six years old, who was in the habit of playing about the house, situated in the woods of \VT$st Harwich, who was heard to utter some distressing wailings and cries, which gradually ceased until they became almost extent. On going to the child it was found that a black snake, two and a half j feet in length, had wound itself around the child's neck's and nearly suffocated it. Removing the snake, it was found so closely entwined that the skin was also removed. The child, however, recovered. I'OREIGX. |} c Tho following is an extract of a letter from | ^ young Mahan, (son of Mr. Francis Mahan, of; t the firm of Mahan & Bradley, of Philadelphia,) i whose supposed death was some time since an- j liounced: t Metamoras, July 14,1836. l Dear Brother : I am at present in a very ; disagreeable situation, having been taken a i prisoner of war on the 28th of February, and j on the 17th of April sentenced to be shot on 1 the following morning, at eight o'clock. The j execution was delayed in consequence of the i ! citizens petitioning the General for a delay uni tii a petition could be s?nt to Santa Ana for a | reprieve. We are sriil (fourteen of us) in pris| on, and I have no idea of being exchanged scam, j from the circumstance that the commissioners who came here to treat for an exchange of ' prisoners could not effect it, and were themselves imprisoned, which has blasted our hopes of freedom before the war closes. texas. | Col. Lainar formerly of Georgia is the only 1 candidate for the Vice Presidency. j The Texian army, JNKM) strong, under command of (ien. Rusk, was said to be concentrated at Matagorda, on their march for Matainoras. Santa Ana has been removed to the plantation of J)r. Philips, T2 miles from Valeseo; I so that the rej?ort of his having been condemn| ed to be shot must be untrue. Some weeks ago, as the attendants were j about to place in the cotiin the body of the wife of a physician of the town of St. Chamand, in Contai, (France,) who was supposed to have died ihe day before, the assistants fancied that the body was still warm, and even that it moved. It was, in fact, ascertained that the vital spark was not extinct; and the room was about to be cleared, when the sister and doctor were buth suddenly struck dead by lightning, which injured several other j?ersons present, and set fire to the upper partof the house. The flames were soon extinguished. The I shock also destroyed the feeble Itope that had ! been entertained of restojing the physician's wife, and, on the following day, three corpses were carried to the cemetery instead of one. (iulknianis Messenger. The Town Clerk of Liverpool having lost his office by the operation of the Reform Bill, the Common Council havo voted him an annuity for life of $12,000 in lieu of $330,000 claimed by him as compensation for the loss of his office. The emoluments of the place were jC7,000 per annum. NewOrleaxs, August 22. By the arrivals from Vera Cruz and Texas 1 on Saturday and yesterday, some recent inforI ...'.n./ii.'nil A linttln trie tniifrht at I Jiiauuii io-irv^iibu< 11 i/uiuv MUU .vug... ... Elm, (Mexico,) between the Federal & Government troops in which the latter came off victorious. The officers taken were principally shot. There are strong signs of a general revolution throughout Mexico, which will probably result in the overthrow of the Central Government. LATER FROM EUROPE. The packet Columbus arrived at New York on Sunday from Liverpool, whence she sailed on the 22d of July, bringing I,ondon papers to the 21st, and Liverpool to the 22d, inclusive. In the British House of Commons, on the 14th - * ? - '<l of July, tne report oiine coinimuee iu wuicji was referred the bill for regulating the salaries of the clergy was taken up, and debated at some length. Its provisions were opposed by Mr. Hume, and Mr. Buxton, and supported bySir Robert Peel and Lord Jon Russell. Mr. C. Buller moved, as an amendment, to allow the Archbishop of Canterbury 8,000 pounds per annum, the Archbishop of Vork 7,000, the Bishop of IiOndon 4,500, and the other Bishops, 4,000 each, in lieu of their present emoluments. The amendment was rejected, 82 to 4i> and the rej?ort agreed to. On the 19th, it was again taken up for a third reading, and was vehemently opposed by Mr. Hume, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Powell Buxton, and Mr. Buller. Their opposition was so strenuous that the debate was adjourned to the 22d. The bill for the reduction of stamp duties on newspapejs was again under discussion on the 15th, in committee. A clatise allowing 25 per * a- A - I | cent, discount on tne penny stamp 10 mu irian newspapers, was agreed to. The size of the sheet, liable to the penny stamp was fixed at 1,5130 superficial inches. The Chancellor of the Exchequor stated that he had under consideration a place for securing the copy-right of original articles published in newspapers. Accounts from Spain vary but little from the usual tenor of intelligence from that unhappy kingdom. A battle was fought on the 12th of July, between General Evans and the Carlists, near St. Sebastian, but without any important results. The Royalists appear to be acting more upon the offensive than they have been for some time past. The attrocious system of butchering prisoners is still pursued to a frightful extent. Don Carlos is said to have appointed the French General, Bourmont, his commander-in-chief. A popular tumult broke out at Figueras on the lltli, in which the Governor and several others were killed. LoNDO.V, JI'LY 21. Murwy Market.?It is now admitted that ! the money market here is governed in a very | great degree by the state of the money market in the United States, and the distribution of > the surplus revenue of the Federal Union among i the banks of deposite favorable to the Jackson party ; and the increased easiness in the Amer- ] ican money market has caused, as our quota- : tions will show, a greater degree of firmness in the British funds. There is, however, it is , said, a demand for silver on the Continent to , replace the drain of bullion for the United | States and the Weft Indies. ! Euphrates Expedition.?The last accounts 1 i from Colonel Chesney left him at Beles, about one hundred and forty miles from Bir, down the Euphrates; and he had inspired the Arabs with such a friendly disposition and admiration of his j power, that they showed him the greatest reI gard and favor, and looked on him as a magij cian, whom nothing could resist. I The reduction of the newspaper "duty from' j four-pence to one penny will take place 011 the 1st of September. It is asserted in a recent number of the H'es/minster Review that "the mortality among the members of the House of Commons is greater than among any similar number of men belongin^ to the same ranks of life." ? THE CIVIL WAR IX SPAIN. It appears that General Evans has issued an order to the effect that ail British subjects found fightingin the ranks of Don Carlos should be considered rebels against the Kb.* of Great Britain, and suffer death accordingly. Sir Robert Peel asked the Foreign Secretary in Parliament if such a proclamation had been pu blished. Lord Palmerston admitted the fact; though, he said, he had not been officially informed of it. Ifsuchbethe case, Colonel, or rather General Evans has acted without the smallest authority from the British Government, and entirely upon his own responsibility; ' and should any British subject b?* executed by. lim, he would be amenable to the laws of that di ountry for murder J?at least so say our En- wi jlish newspapers. His having entered into w he Spanish army does not alter the case at all, sh is he is still in the British service, though at sh wesent unemployed. It is to be remembered aj hat Great Britain is not at war with Don Car- M o>-; and General Evans's troops are only levied v; is a private speculation?permitted by the Go- la -crnment, as a specimen of Bnttish noninte.r- d< rerence. Have not Englishmen an equal right si :o serve Don Carlos if they choose ? 01 Tlic English papers, generally speak of the lo Order in the strongest terms of indignation.? [ si Philadelphia Enquirer. P: From the N. O. Bee, Aug. 5. u TEXAS. j By the Soli. Schenandoah, Capt Moore, 48 fj hours lrotn Velasco. wclearn that the Texian tl army, 2200 in number are at Colet, near Co- j( pano ; several of the Texian citizens having n left and gone to their farms, it being well p understood there will be no fighting until win- w tor. The expedition to Matamoras by the ^ Texians has been abanded. w yew-Orleans Aug. 22. d LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. M By an arrival from Vera Cruz on Saturday & evening last we have been furnished with our h tiles of the "Diario, del Goberno," of Mexico, I h to the t30th July, inclusive. tl As we predicted domestic commotions have P begun and are now agitating that Republic, o The liberal party or federalists (i. e. those op- c posed to centralism) are making rapid advan- p ccs; they have made a bold attempt to abolish a the present order of things and restore the ii government to its former features, but wheth- v er their force was insufficient to obtain the s success they calculated upon, or whether the 1 government anticipated their designs and frus- e trated them by timely organization we cannot c tell: however, they were completely routed at Etla in the engagement which took place between 900 government troops under the command of Gen. Canalazcv, and GOO, federal- . ists commanded by Col. Miguel Acevedo. From Canalizo an official despatch or bulle-! tin appears in the Diaro of the 24th, which n states, the federal party had 100 men killed, 228 taken prisoners; among the latter is Ace- 2 vedo chief of the revolutionists. . fi The loss on the part of the goverment were tl 3 killed and 0 wounded. c The day succeeding- this engagement, Ace- ' vedo, Castineda, Ramirez, and Lapilladi were 1 shot; a council of war had been held upon the u other officers but the result has not transpired, c A considerable number of criminals had I been condemned and executed in Mexico, du- n ring the month of July last. t By a decree of the general government pub- a lished in the official paper of 17th July, an an- d nual distribution of three dollars upon every n thousand dollars worth of property, has been b declared upon all rural estates. Voluntary donations continue to be made b throughout all the states of Mexico, to assist e the government to meet the exigencies grow- a ing out of the war in Texas. We have made j ~ a calculation approximating to the actual ac- j ( count of subscribers, and find ten thousand ' signatures, but the total sum subscribed is not j more than from five to slx hundred dollars. ! _ Wc feel not the slightest astonishment that no more has been raised, as the highest donations are not above one dollar, and the greatest num- s< ber average less than one bit, 12 1-2 cents. '] When we consider wlnt little patriotism is ex- j hibited here by the Mexicans, in a cause which they denominate a national one, we are amazed P that they should still cherish the hope of sub-' ? jugating" Texas. ; d I\D1A> HAH. j c Charleston, Aug. 29. From Florida Direct-?The schr. George a 4* Mary, Capt. Willey arrived at this port on . Saturday afternoon. 11 We are indebted to Capt Willey for the Ci following information, obtained by him from ti the express Rider, who arrived at lllack Creek \[ 22d inst. A detachment of 110 men, under j r( command of Maj. Pieroe, having information that the Indians were in their vicinity, tvent in pursuit of them; on arriving at Gen.^ C Clinch's plantation, they found 300 Indians, ai with about 100 horses hobbled, and 300 head ! of cattle?the Indians were immediately attacked and repulsed, after a battle of an hour, the whites having one killed, owing to his g horse taking fright and running in the midst of the Indians, and 10 wounded. The Indian's loss was 10 left dead on the field, their woun- , ded they carried oft?the Indians retreated to ( a hammock as usual; they immediately ralli- a ed and pursued the whites to within 2 miles of 1 of Micanopy when they abandoned the pur- g suit. The Express Rider states that Lieut. Herbert had again distinguished himsehi and that 0 Major P. was making preparation to attack n them on the following day. f, Fort Drane which had been deserted by the c white troops some time since was taken possession of by the Indians Maj. Pierce, commanding at Micanopy learning this marched 13 against them with a force of 110 men, and soon t< routed and drove them three quarters of a p mile Into a hammock. The Indians were sup- ^ posed to be from 3 to 400 in number, women and children included. Their loss is stated to be 30 or 40. The loss of the whites was one killed and 16 wounded. The battle took place c on the 20th August. The chief Powell was p said to be among the Indians. The following is all we find in the last Co- r lumbus luquirer in reianon 10 uic iuie iuuyuments of the creeks: f The contractors who have undertaken the t removal of the Creek Indians are going ahead f with their good work. If nothing transpires ^ lo interfere witli their present calculations t he bulk of our red brethren will be on the way 1 to Arkansas in ten or fifteen days. e t crf.ek war. a The following report of Paddy Carr, a friend- c ly Indian commander, to Gen. Sanford, we i ropy from the Milledgeville Journal, only for the j style of composition. Few graduates of our < colleges write so well. Ge*. Sanford: i Sir:?I have the honor herewith to report j the movements of the force under my com- f rnand, consistingof friendly Indians?also, their . present number and position. On the 4th inst. 1 we received orders to inarch to the Cowagee 3 and Hatchachubbee creeks, for the purpose of > scouring those creeks, and in company with a j body of Tennessee Troops, that duty was per- ^ formed?the following creeks and swamps were thoroughly hunted; Cowagee, Hatchachubbee, Wilarni and High Log, we also ex- ] tended our search as far as to the Chewala, j only about 5 miles above Irwinton. The first j discovery we made of hostile Indians, was on the first day we went out, and on the waters of ' the Hatchachubbee; they consisted of 12 in i number, 2 Warriors, 1 W oman, and the bal- i ance children, which we took prisoners without } opposition. The next party we overtook on \ . the Cowagee, on the next day; this gang con- (] tarried about 40 Indians, who, when they fir^t 1 scovcred us shewed signs of fight; they ere all stripped perfectly naked, painted in arlike style, and several of them in the act of looting, having their Rifles raised to their loulder and cocaed. I spoke to tliem in Indian, id told them to stand, to which they agreed, [y party was about two hundred yards in admce of the Tennessee Troops, and before the tter could get up to me, the hostiles jumped nvn the bank into the creek, and were out of ght in a moment, we fired on them, but withut doing any injury. ~\Ve gaVe chase and foliwed them about six miles, we never could get ght of them afterwards, they took to the middle rong of the Cowagee swamp, where no doubt ley scattered themselves. Night overtook s and we quit the drive. On our return, and urmg the next day, we discovered fresh trails 1 Cowagee and from the foot prints to be seen, lere were some 15 or 20 in a gang. We fol>wed these trails about nine miles but could ot find the Indians. We then returned to 'ort Mitchell and there struck.Camp. After raiting two days we started out alone?no hite men with us?during this tour of 4 days, re came upon, and captured a party of 12 Inians, consisting of men, women, and children, :hom we orougni wun us 10 t on Mitchell and } ecured. We took these Indians the Ahagee creek, a little way above the old Chea\v Town. From this party, we learned that fie most of the Warriors had left the Creek fation, and gone over to Florida. A portion f my command is now quartered at Fort Mitch11. Some of them are Ben Marshall's and a arty of 61 sent out to talk with the hostile*, nd say to them, they had better come in, for*, f we were obliged to hunt them again, we rould shew them no quarters?this party are till out. I have now under my command, 17 friendly Indians; only apart of them, howver, are mounted. If we all had horses we ould be much more serviceable. I have the honor to be, Very Respectfully, Your most ob't serv't, PADDY CARR. The Macon Telegraph states that a ?kifaish took place in Irwin county on the 25th tug, between a small of Indians and about 0 or 30 whites. Some whites who were ishing on the bank of Flint Rivfer came upon he Indian camp, and with such men as they ould collect by the next day went in pursuit, tfter following the trail from the camo about 2 miles they came upon the Indiana drawn p in battle array, in an open plain, and harped upon them. The whole number of ndians was 23, of whom 18, & some of the woien, were kilted; the other 5, all women, were aken prisoners. One of them speaks English nd says there are several small parties of Inians scattered through the swamps aiming to lake their way into Florida, and that a numerhave already arrived there! A man named Rilev was guilty of the bararit v of scalping an Indian whom he happend to killed in the skirmish. * :heraw gazette. TUESDAY, SEPTEHBEK ?, 1836. We understand there has been a report in ome parts of the country that Cberaw is sickly, "here have been some cases of intcrmitt&nt ?ver which generally yielded very soon to roper treatment. We know of only two ca re of continued fever having occured in town uring the whole season, and both.these were hildren in the same family. We have received a communication from a respectable citizen of Marlborough requestlg us to announce Col. John Campbell as a andidate to represent the Congressional Dis ict composed of Georgetown, Hony, Wilamsburg, Darlington,. Marion and. Mariboangh, in Congress. Air. Poinsett has addressed a letter to the ieorgetotcn Union declining the nomination s candidate for the same district. Hugh S. Legare Esq. Mr. Holmes and the [on. II. L. Pinckney are candidates for Conres in the Charleston District. Cholera m Charleston. We are pained to jam that this malignant disease has made its ppearance in the Metropolis of our State. ?he Board of health in a report dated Aug. 81 tates " that eleven cases have been announcd to their special committee since yesterday ne o'clock P, M., of which two have termi.i.J " Tli . TI/-10rri twnmtCM > faitti dlCU laiaujr. X Uk uuwu |<IUUHBV>I W il daily statement of the number of cases as. ertained to exiat. The question whether the disease is infccous or not has never been satisfactorily dcsrmined. The most prevalent opinion among hysicians in parts of the United States where : prevailed a few years ago seemed to be hat it is not; and yet many well autbentacaed facts seemed to show that, in some cir. umstances, it becomes so; or if not, that the revalence of it in a community seemed to pread in the atmosphere a Malaria which f v uore or less predisposed all persons to the dis- \ asc. Whatever opinion may be formed on his point the course of safety is to cut of? as ar aa nossible. all communication with the in ected district All will admit tint tine, ought i o be done if the disease is infectiooB; and it iiirely is even more necessary, if the state of he whole be ly of atmosphere where it pre"ails is such as to produce the disease. Because in one case persons might pass into the leighborhood of the disease without being ex. )osed to the infection, but in the other they ;ould not. We have never heard of the disease prevail. ng in the piney woods. It is said, on the con:rary, that its progress is arrested at once in amilies in which it appears by removing them nto the pine woods. We met an intelligent oung gentleman, a few years since, on his vay from Louisiana where he had spent eigbeen months with an uncle who has a plantaion with a hundred and fifty slaves on Red diver, and he informed us that the Cholera re)eatedly appeared on his uncle's and other dantations whilst he remained there, but that ts progress never failed to be checked at once jy removing the slaves into the pine woods vhich were but a few miles from the plantations; vhereas in every instance in which this was lot done the disease continued, to spread with ts usual fatality. If this be a fact, of which ,ve have no doubt, it is a very important gne.