New*! w I i . I m Most Horriblk.?A Woman oored to death by a Bull.?We And ihe following in the Montreal Transcript. It relates to the death of a Mrs. Young of Ormstown, on the Chateaguay ltivcr, Canada. 'The unfortunate sufferer was, we understand, the widow of a farmer of that nam6f*l>ut continued to reside upon the land, and to derive from it such return as | the industry and labor of herself and daughter could procure. She raised a, bull calf, on account of his beauty, which,1 having been familiarised with his mistress ever since his birth, and having always1 , been fed by her hand, displayed a natural attachment by no means displeasing to Mrs. Y., whom he followed about the farm like a dog. The animal is now a little! more than two yeurs old. Towards the end of last week, he had, as usual accom-1 panicd the cows to the homestead, and { they were fastened in the cow-house, when Mrs. Y. and her daughter proceeded thither to milk them. On entering the building, the girl proceedtd to the far end, to milk the cow fastened there, and the loose bull advanced with his usual familiarity to Mrs. Y. who pushed him away with the pail she carried in her hand. The animal ; immediately turned upon her, and with] the first thrust of his horn penetrated the/ abdomen, and violently raising his head,1 ripped her body in the most shocking,< manner, fie immediately fled to the yard, 1 : 1.:. i n ? ' liiiryiug ujjuii ins iiurus u sniiiii fragment of the clothing, and a portion of the reeking entrails of his victim ; here he tossed and shook his head in a most frantic manner, and roaring, returned to mafce a second charge upon the hapless Mrs. Young. By this time, however, the daughter had seized the pitchfork, with which she gallantly faced the animal, and after a long struggle, and two or three very successful stabs at the head of her antagonist, she' fairly beat him from his purpose. Her lirst care was now her unfortunate mother, who, with such assistance as she could give, was with much difficulty removed to the dwelling house, where, after a night passed in inexplicable torture., she died the following morning." Sharp Shooting.?Affair at Rodney.? By a letter from Mississippi, we have an' ( account of a rencounter whirh took place in Rodney, on the tt7th July, between Messrs. Thos. J. Johnston and G. u \\t: i i.-.l r i * ' M.a. ifnujA, uuui lormrny oi tins City. | In consequence of certain publications j made by these gentlemen against each other, Johnston challenged Wilcox. The latter declining to accept the challenge, t, Johnston informed his friends at Rodney,' that he would be there at the term of the court then not distant, when he would make an attack upon him. lie repaired ; thither on the 26th, and on the next morning the following communication 'was1 read aloud in the presence of Wilcox and a large crowd ' Rodney, July 27, 1837. I Air. Johnston informs Air. Wilcox, \ that at or about one o'clock of this day, ] he will be on the common, opposite the ( Presbyterian Church of this town, waiting !, and expecting Air. Wilcox to meet him |, there. i I pledge my honor that Mr. Johnston 'l will not lire at Mr. Wilc??x until he ar- , rives at a distance of one hundred yards < from him, and I desire Mr. Wilcox or s any of his friends to see that distance | accurately measured. , Mr. Johnston will wait there thirty t minutes. J M. DliFFIRLD. ' , Mr. Wilcox declined being a party to j any such arrangement, and Mr. D. told | him to be prepared for an attack. Ac- U coldingly, about an hour after this, John- L ston proceeded towards Wilcox's office, i armed with a double barrel gun, (one of the barrels rilled,) and three pistols in his belt. He halted about fifty yards from i "W's door und leveled his gun. W. I withdrew before Johnston could fire, and | seized a musket, returned to the door,"' ar.d flashed. Johnston fired both bar- 1 rels without effect. Wilcox then seized J a doublo barrel gun, and Johnston a musket and both again fired. Wilcox i sent twenty-three buck shot over Johnston's head, one of them passing through ' his hat, and Wilcox was slightly wounded i on both hands, his thigh and leg. Here lbr? ?fT:?5r t n . m ~ ? -I T ' ' viuiiitaicii>"xj(/i((s('(hi' %?uur. | She woold be a Sailor.?It will be recollected that about two years ago, an in-J dividual was arrested in this city, upon a charge of stealing a horse, and was tried and found guilty of the oflence and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the State Prison, under the name of Charts} Stewart. It was soon afterwards discovered , by the prisoners that Charley belonged to the feminine gender, and information having been given to the keepers of the fact, she Was divested of her rmiiwlalinni nn/1 ? Ifi/u ? UIIM (IUU3CI9) and sent over to the female department of Bellcvuc prison. Yesterday, the term of her imprisonment expired, she was told that she was at liberty to depart, offering her at the same time, a deacent address of female attire to begin the world .inevv with. This proposition, however, she indignantly rejected, demanding, as her right, the same clothing that was taken away from her. Find- I ing she could not obtain them, she came, down in the forenoon, in her prison dress, and solicited aid of the Almshouse, and was. told to wait till one of the commissioners! arrived. In the mean time she paraded! herself upon the grass plots of the Park, and I excited so much interest, after the spectators iound put who she was, as to attract a con-1 siderable tuob, when she was persuaded to submit to a temporary commitment until a hearing of her case could be bad. It appears that this singular young qr.nnan, who is not over 19 or 20 years of age, had for six years followed the sea in the capacity of a common sailor, doing all sorts of hard , duty, and subject to all the privations and j toils of a sea life, without her sex ever having been discovered, 'the reason for assuming the character of a sailor, she would never disclose. -She is a Scotch girl, and is represented by the officers as the most violent being they wer had under their vnuigc. ouiiiriuiics miu lias urtui kiiuwii iw maintain a good battle with two of her keepers at once, while they were endeavoring to punish her lor stubornncss. 8he never I worked a day in prison, although she has I been beaten, starved and chained, to effect the object; she has been chained to the floor 18 months of her imprisonment.? Scarcely any one dared to approach her cell to give her food, as she would knock them down wilh a kid as soon as they entered. Her moral character, with the exceptions above alluded to, is g>od. Her object is to gel a suit or sailor's clothes, and go to I sea again ; and as it is possible that she will commit another crime to obtain them, per-11 haps the wisest course would he, to let her |! have her own way, for the sake of getting 1 ] rid of her.?[N Y. Express. j i _ 4 Flying Artillery?An Experiment.? 1 A Frenchman in the Texan army," a j scheming, inventive, hall crazy soul, lately I' made an experiment of what he called i lying artillery, which in the sequel well nigh cost him his life. in the first place, the Frenchman par- " :bases a imnlc; on his hack lie pluv cd a ox pound cannon, heavily loaded. The 1 muzzle of the canon wus pointed in an \ opposite direction from the head of the , mnle. Whether that the mule would prove mulish, refractory, and unwilling io advance head first towards an onetm, >r whether the tiaul thought he could do jetterby backlog up towards some ''deadly imminent breach" we know not. It night have been intended as a kind of stern chaser lor ought we know. Having fully equipod himself, our liero started for a place where he understood some hostile Oumanches were lying in tmbush. Planting his force, consisting of lin.self, cannon and mule on the summit jf a hill, which commanded a thicket vhere the Indians were supposed to he lurking, he assumed a hostile position by turning the tail of his tome in that direction from whence he expected and was ! j anxiously waiting an assault. There he kept his ground for a long lime without any manifestations of an attack. At length his small stock of patience was entirely exhausted and finding that no attack was to he made upon him bv animate, he determined upon giv- , ing inanimate creation a small sample ofj bis flying artillery, just by way of liver. He pointed bis six pounder in the direction of the thicket, took his bearings, made his calculations, and blazed away, j' Balls, slugs, &.C., went down one side of ' l.ill .n!.U .K- ? - -? -? - * I.*; nun me grcuitsi. velocity ? Frenchman, mule ami six pounder just as ! ast down llic other?the recoil of the ! ;annnn being so great that it sent the mule lown the hill with the swiftness of light- 1 liny, wlnther he would or no. On final-I y bringing up, after having ran entirely lown the first hill and half way up another, the Frenchman began to collect his ?eattered senses?finding himself alive, le broke out with, "Saere ! I vouder how ' nany dam Ingen 1 kill. By g r, de next, inie I try my. grand experiment, 1 til get' ne one mule vat vont run avay as though be (liable whs after him. l)is artillery ? if flv too quick." We have not heard vbether be has made any further experinen s with his "flying artillery."? N. O. P c yunc. , A Touching Valkdictory.?The Editor of the Hamilton Free Press, in I pper ['anada, being cou p lied io rel.nqu sb ilie publication of his paper f r want of support, bestows a parting bl< ssing upon his friends in t lus patty, in ti>e affecting words ' ihat follow, viz: * i j ..r .i . ?I.!-L ? ? - in?irau ??i ine support which was promised by the reformers. ! have inet with the most insulting neglect, whilst some are making false assertions and empty boastings, 'with every third wo d a lie, mor- religiously paid th in the Turk s tribute,' regarding what they have done for the Free Fress. In one of the ancient Greek Republics, ingratitude was punished hy death. If the same law prevailed in Upper Canada, the heavens wiuid be darkened by the ceaseless smoke of the hecatombs of reformers, which would be ofTered ?ip as an atonement for outraged feeling. Ample experience convinces me of the intrinsic worthlessness of those who designate themselves reformers; and, henceforward, any one who wastes his time and energies in the ungrateful task of supporting their cause, will be to me an object of nitv. ?/ It/ if they possessed a tithe of the spirit which characterizes the opposite parly, to state their wrongs would he to redress thcrn. Hut, void of principle, talent and energy, they deserve to live und die despised and unpitied slaves. Their miserable crouching to those who have patronage to bestow, and the facility with which they can be influenced, through their vanity and venality, inark them as fit objects for the chain and the letter. I shall ever deplore that I have spent some of the most valuable years of my life, struggling for liberty for those who are too ignorant to kti'-w its value, and too base to enjoy it if they did. Let them hug < their darling abomination, meanness of spirit and sordid thirst for pelf and drivel out their stingy existence, secure of the utter con \ tempt with which e*cry man will regard' them who knows the in as well as does WILLIAM SMITH." j Age op toe Land Tortoise.?The great age at which the land tortoise attains; is illustrated in the case of one recently found in the orchard of Mr. G. Bowersox, near Hanover, Penn. It had engraved on its shell?** J. R.?1760." This record was made 77 years ago; and, from the habits of the tortoise, it is quite probable that it was made in the -neighborhood of the place where the tortoise was last found. The age and habit of the tortoise constitute an exception of the general rule, that exer cise is necessary to health and long life. The finding of the tortoise with the above marks, as noticed in the Hanover Gazette, recalls to mind what we once heard related by an aged and respectable citizen of that Slate. He had when a boy found a tortoise in a small copse skirting his fathers meadow; on which were traced the initials of a neighbor, whom he knew with a date twenty yea re beforo. The boy added his own iui tials, and date of the year, and then let the tortoise run." Thirty years afterwards, the boy?boy ind'-ed no longer?found the same, tortoise, and added his initiuls and date a second time. The first date was 1755?the next 1776?and the third 1*05--comprising i period of fifty years; and yet it was satisfactorily ascertain; d that the record had >eeu made each time within ten or fifteen ods of the same spot. A circle ol twenty -ods might possibly have hounded its .pilgrimage for half a cen'ury".?[Bait. Pat. Amputation?a shout tale of truth. ?A short tune since I was invited by a , friend to accompany him to Ilospi- I Lai. to witness the operation that was to be j performed that day. 1 consented?not that: I wish' d to looked upon the suffering man, I but rather thai f might have an opportunity ' I seeing how operations were conducted in tho-e dweJIi gs of the afflicted. I seated myself l?y ihe side of my friend, while my eye wandered about the room, resting un knives, saws, and other instruments which iay on the table before tne, painting to mv imagination the scenes of anguish which those walls had witnessed, and exciting in my heart pity for those poor sufferers who were from day to day extended on I hat sheeted table. As I was meditating on the "many ills which flesh is heir to, ' the door opened, and upon a board was brought in a man exhausted with disease and worn out with pain, lie was laid upon a table, and the instruments of amputation readily prepared. The bloodless face and the trembling form told lis that the suflercr was conscious of ins situation, and dreaded the pain be was about to endure. Perhaps, thought 1, as I looked upon the mortified and deadened limb, perhaps that man is a father, who lias a wife and children to mourn over his misfortunes, and friends to mini-tor to his wants?but none are here? lie is to bear bis pains alone. The saw j followed the knife, and soon the limb was taken oflf. As the surgeon was taking up the arteries, curiosty led me to inquire the cause if the disease, and my feelings wer? indescribable wtv n I was to d?4<whil<t in a state intoxicati u, fot want of a better shelter, ! lie slept in a barn, and froze bis feet!" 11 was faint and sick with the si?ht. and rose! to leave the room. The hand of my friend held me by the shoulder, while he asked if 1 did not intend to see the whole operation? j ' 'Is it not already do..e?'' I inquired. "No. the Other is to lie ?nlinn iitV I Knaiona't from the spot again to be in the open air ami relieve my ear ami heart from the cries of the unfortunate man. The Balloon.?It seems that this skycraft. to which we alluded yes erday, was not a foreign vessel, as supposed by nearly all who saw her -but that she ascended from the gas wor s near the Schuylkill. It appears, moreover, that the public eye was d? ceived as to the freight of the cur, there being but one person on board. 1*. S.?Since wilting the above, we have been waited upon bv the adventurer whoso astonished the tov\n yesterday, and have derived from htm all the particulars of his journey. Mr. William Paulliu, #f this city. as the aeronaut in question. His enterprize was priv.itth matured,?and attended with perfect triumph. I lie left the (ias Works precisely at six o'clock, and > lighted aboui 7 at B'esham Mount, having bet n saikng for one hour between heaven and earth. The balloon was inflated with the common c.ify gas, which never before has been attempted in the United States. One amusing incident occurred as he was making his descent. A negro, who was ploughing in a field, and to whom he hal- j looed to grasp his hook, became so frightened that he fell down at his plough-tail, rolled his eyes wild with h^^r, and yelled lustily, fearing, as he uftenflFds acknowl-1 ?.| I .1... r? ? ' ruuci, innt, "mo u?i nau come lor lnrn." ?Phil. Gazetie. The Kf.nkall Express outdone.?Two circumstances have lately occurred clearly' demonstrating the advantage and expedition our community, and the public enjoy I in the travelling facilities atlorded by the I Wilmington and Roanoke Express Line of stages. Ctipt. A1 - wrote from Philadelphia to his friends in Wilmington by the Express Mail, on Wednesday the 19th ult? that ho would be in Wilmington as soen as he could arrange his business, and left accordingly on the 21st, and reached this place by the Wilmington and Roanoke Rail Road Stages, 5 hours before bis letter, sent by Express Mail two davs previous in liia # , V MI0 V<V !'(! VIII I' Tlic oilier instance is?that n gentleman travelling in haste, desirous of arriving in Wilmington at the earliest possible period, wssinduced to tsk* t|^4Jtlrtia Newborn,' t* and conaeqnentty^djlfhed *Hpre 33 hours' t< later than if he had tal^en thfe Wilmington h and Roanoke Rail Road Express Line.ih Facts speak for themselves.? Wilmington c Ad?' " " From Ncw.Orleans. fcJchr. Bouita reports that on the I8th v June, while lying of)' Brassos de Santiago ? Bar, she was boarded by a whale bouMr having 4 men in, who reported themselves n to be Wm. Thompson, 2d officer : John ^ Brown, Cooper's Mate'; Joseph Wilson |? and George Bex, seamen, belonging to the.(j Br. brig William, of Poole?that raid ves-ia sel was on a whaling voyage, and that)), they had harpooned a whale, which towed tj them out of sight of the brig; being una-'0 oie to mscover I lie vessel the following p night and day, they bore up for land, and: p made the same neirr the Bar of Mataino- M ras. They were taken on board and pro- q pcrly treated, but in a few days news ar- p rived at Matamoras from Vera Cruz, that m a British barque [Little Catharine, of L011- ~ don.] had arrived at that port, the 1st _ officer of which had been murdered, and the commander so badly bruised that he f died in a few days after ; these men were immediately arrested and confined on shore from which they devised means to make their escape and in company with the notorious Thompson, proceeded to Texas. (j Shrevfport, July 1837. Ig The course of the river above the mouth of the Sulpher Fork, is East of North, j ; for a distance of about fifty miles, then ^ West anil South of West to the junction q of the Washala?the land in the Prairies is equal to the Sulphur Fork County, but low and wet; in dry seasons the product is immense; considerable sickness was experienced the two past seasons, particularly in Lost Prairie ; travelling thro' ^ this part is exceeding laborous, the roads alter rain are rendered almost impassible . by deep mud. 1 was exceedingly rejoiced ^ on finding as my course changed to the Westward, the country became more cl 1 elevated, and but for occasional gullys {ij and small creeks, the rodds passible for | wagons?the uplands between the great! Prairies and the River, are of second rute'(j soil, they produce cotton, however, as- j lonishingly. 1 remained at the house of nn i II 1I I i troit I ?,I?it,tor lirlin i?r/\il?i/i<i.l I' iVI f IIU | ? I V ? MV/LVI ?1 A" i t | ty one bales of cotton, averaging overly, 400 lbs. from sixty acres of tins upland ; ^ a large number of plantations occur be-'|)( tween the Spanish Blufls and Pecan Point; ^ at the latter, two or three families have! resided lor more than twenty years; the! , quantity of cotton made has been small ' on account of the difficulty of getting to ( market,? the settlers are mostly herds- m men. To Joneshnro' six miles below the; Public Landing of Fort T??\vnson, the roads or trails are almost impassible; the land is not of the first quality?the place contains two stores and three or four houses ; for want of good wells, the residents use the river \vnt<T; from Pecan nt Point to within a few miles of the Cross Ji Timbers, the lands are all hold by the , cl actual settler, under the colonization laws p< of Mexico; ? to my profound r< grct, I. te found the lilies of myself and friends called for the lands of individuals whose i at claims must be superior, both from occu- ct pancy and date. Fort Townson is on the rr opposite side above, ami five miles from F< the r.ver, Lat. North. 33 43 | w Ero.n Jone-ho'o' ?o the mouth of the C Hitie #l/i A ~\t i h? ,1 ! I I ' 1 '1 no am, mc uiniiiiu tr uy luun is uooill 111 sixty miles, course, South of West; the, 01 Bois <le Ark is navigable for barges but a' few miles. The land on the stream is 01 remarkably fine, the river ihence to tlie.al Washatu is very circuitous, running pro-'ol bably not less than one hundred and iiftv hi or two hundred miles in a distance of fe sixty by land, the river reaches its great- u est southern direction about 30 miles above the mouth ol the Bois de Ark. I Y presume the Latitude is as low as 38 or 33 10 North ; it then bends oflf to North L of West ; the land improves the further A you proceed to the West, but timber he- I comes more scarce, except immediately oi on the water courses. I The river above the mouth of the False ni Washata, spreads out to a much greater In width than some distance below, and at hi low stage of water shows extensive shoals, le and is in some places fordable, it is as red hi as paint, and as salt, almost, as the sea. b< when we take into consideration the e: rapidity with which our population aug- st ments, we have ??nly to look a few years, in advance to see this country covered F with plantations. The emigration from lit the cotton growing States will very soon he equal to the natural incrca ;e of popnla- tl lion, at three and one half per cent which p is the probable annual increase; at present we have one hundred and seventy-fit e i F thousand for emigration yearly, nearly all ti of whom will remove to the country best ai adapted t<? the culture of c. -tton, which is E between 30s* 30' and 34w north latitude. ai It cannot be supposed that the consumption of cotton will continue to increase on lite same ratio that it has fur the past ten years, but the capacity for pro- l< duclion will continue developing until the w price he so reduced as to render some other agricultural pursuit more piofilahle ei to the planter. When that period arrives, f< the country best adapted to the cotton s? plant will continue ti.e cultivation, and tj other parts will he abandoned for something more advantageous. The present low price is creating a competition most L unfavorable for the northern planter. The cultivator of land yielding fifteen hundred to three thousand pounds of seed cotton I ft i \ o the acre, will hardly consider the planpr, on land procuring fifom four to seven limited pounds as a rival. The result of aw price is ohvious?emigration or differnt cultivation. Cotton can be produced n the Red River lands to more profit at ix cents'per pound, than in Georgia, at welve cents. The period has not yet arrived to call Ugntion to a work so important as the mfclructioti of a rail road from the Red iveMfo the Pacific ocean, but the time is ot far distant when that enterprize will e undea^Jten. The distance from somo avigable puim on Red river to the Rio irande is but at^ut three hundred miles, ud thence to the ^i^if of California four undred and fifty or hundred miles? f\e Rocky Mountains present no greater bstnrles t han the Baltimore and Ohio Lai I Road has to encounter in crossing lie Alleghany Mountains. This roil road nil be fonstriirlcd ; and when it is, Now Orleans will be the commercial center of lie world. foreign Intelligence, &c. From the New Fork Gazette. IVE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. DEATH OF KING WILLIAM IV. The packet ship St. James, Capt. Sebor, rrived ye sterday, Trom London, whence ie sailed on the 21st ult. bringing us Lonon papers to the 2Chh inclusive. IJis Injestv, William Fourth, King of Great riluin and Ireland, died at twenty mintes past three, on the 20th. The Archishop of Canterbury, and several mcmers of the King's family were present, 'he most intense anxiety was manifested mong all parties and all classes in Lonon previously to the royal demise, to asertain the state of his majesty's case, trowds were to be seen watching the arrial of the different coaches by the westrn road in the hope of obtaining informaon. At St. Jaines' Palace, the number of isitors who left their names was greater tun on any previous day; and the nature f the bulletin then exhibited was not by i?y means calculated to allay the previous larm. Unhappily, the private accounts hich arrived from Windsor in the course f the day rather added to than diminished ie effect of the previous reports. Toards evening it was stated that an exress had arrived announcing the event. lany of the shops 111 the city, the Strand, id other great thoroughfares, were parally closed, and even at the Mansion>use a placard was exhibited announcing ic death of his majesty. The rumors ere, however, speedily contradicted, the lacard was t.iken down, and the papers ere compelled to publish third editions > contradict their previous announccicnt. The London papers are all dressed in lourmng for the event. NEW-YORK, July 25. STILL LATER FROM EUROPE. By the packet ship Roscoc, Capt. Delar?, we have received London papers to une, 23d and Liverpool to the 24th inusive. Our previous dates from Livcr>ol were to the 18th, and from London > the 20th. The papers are filled with documents id proceedings connected with the debase of tl?e King. The interment of his mains was to take place on the 6th July, or two or three days previous, the body as to lie in state at Windsor. The ourt went into mourning on the 22d,and e general mourning was to commence i the 24ih. Princess Victoria was proclaimed Queen ii ibc20.li, and on the 21st, theonths of It giaitcc were taken by the two Houses f Parliament. All things appeared to e> proceeding quietly, and public mani^^: i.i- .? alumni^ ui iiivHiiy io me now sovereign err every where displayed. N ews had been received from New oik, by the Mediator to June 2d. There had been two more failures in iverpuol of houses connected with the inerican trade. The house of Fisher &, Brothers broke a the 17;h at Liverpool. An extensive fire near London, on the ight of the 22d, destroyed ihe mills be nginti to Mr. Thorne, in the lower Dept?rd road. The building was 120 feet in ngtli, 50 in breadth, and four 6lories ah. No fire since that which consumed nth House*, of Parliament, has been as Klensive. The amount of property deroyed is immense. The London papers inform us that Mr. orrest was married on the 24th of June, \ London, to Miss Catherine Sinclair. The following is the announcement of^fl ic marriage, as it. appeared it) the Liver-^H ol Chronicle of June 24 : "On the 23d inst. in London, Fdwin^^J orrest. Ksq. tin- celebrated Amcrican^H -agedinn, to Catherine, the beautilul und^H ccoinplished daughter of John Sinclair?^E| Isq. of the Theatres Royal Drury Land^H nd Convent Garden. HOUftE OF LORDS?June 22. At five o'clock the Lord Chanccllor^H >nk his scat on the woolsack, when thcre^H as n very full attendance of peers. Shortly afterwards Viscount Melbourne^! ate red the house. In the course of a^H w minutes the noble Viscount rose, und^| iki DC mo iiceii instructed by her Majes-^H j to present a message to the house. ROYAL MESSAGE. S[ "i'ho message was then read by the^E ,o?d Chancellor, as follows:? "Victora, Regina. I ''The Queen entertains tlic fullest^ I deuce that the House of Lords