mage. CHRONICLE. THE ARABIAN SHIP SULTANNE. A committee of five from each board of the common council has been ap: pointed to receive Ahamet Ben Amen, captain of said ship and representative of the sultan of Muscat, and extend to him the hospitalities of the city. This is done partly in consideration of the very friendly demeanor of the said suitan towards our country and commerce, and partly because the Sultanne is the first vessel of his nation which ever visited our shores.-On one occasion, a few years ago, when an American sloop of war (the Peacock, if we recollect right), got aground on his coast, in a dangerous position, he immediately sent as sistance, by which she was got off without material da[N. Y. Jour. Com. BANKRUPT LAW. The United States senate have three several projects for a law before them, and have occasionally devoted some time to the subject. The Baltimore American suggests that "in addition to the powerful reason why the general government should extend protection to the unfortunate debtor in the way of a bankrupt law, is one which probably, has not been thought of. We have actually many single women who are bankrupts. Having lost their incomes in fire stocks, or bank stocks, or being thrown upon their own enterprise they have commenced business in shops, boarding houses, &c. which, having failed from the pressure of the times, are actually insolvent, and the worst feature is, they cannot be married, for the husband will be compelled to assume the wife's debts. It is a most unfortunate position, and adds one more reason to the pressing ones for a general bankrupt law. of kin. burning. The invention seems to be regarded in TOAST. The following toast was given by col. Jes- GEOGRAPHY. A London weekly paper informs its readers that "the two governments of Washington and Maine are exceedingly embarrassed in keeping the people of their respective provinces from actual hostilities upon the litigated questions of the American and British frontier;" and that "her Majesty's troops are stationed there to protect vessels passing between New Brunswick and Lower Canada." An English country journal 'regrets to hear that recent disturbances in Albay threaten a repetition of the late border warfare?' ICE. Three hundred tons of ice, the cargo of the barque Eliza, from Boston, sold in Natchez a few days since, for $24,000 in specie. ments. THE ROTARY POWER STOCKING LOOM. A correspondent of the Boston Courier gives the following description of the powers and capacities of this machine, a notice of which was given a few days since. It is a beautiful piece of machinery, occupying but about twenty inches square space, with motions quick and regular, with very little friction so that it must be durable. It is easily worked by hand, and is therefore well calculated for domestic purposes, as also for steam or water power. The loom is superior to any apparatus for hosiery knits with equal facility, hard or soft twisted woollen now known in this country or Europe, inasmuch as it yarn, cotton or silk, and will with less hand power, L.L. D. An English paper says that during the past received from America the degree of L. L. D. year no less than forty-one individuals in that country bert of Saxe-Coburg, is the prodigy of the age. So rapid ty of fabric. It costs forty per cent. less than an EngThe ex-lieutenant of Austrian dragoons, prince Al-produce four feet of hosiery for every one foot that can be produced by any other loom, and of a superior qualihas been his progress in learning since his arrival in this lish loom, is much less complicated, less liable to get country that the university of Oxford has seen fit to out of order, and it will cost fifty per cent. less to.keep confer on him the degree of a doctor of civil law. it in repair. [English paper. LETTERS. The number brought out by the Great MORUS MULTICAULIS. The Journal of Commerce states that thirty thousand multicaulis trees, in good order, were lately offered by auction at 25 dollars for whole, but nobody would take them. The lot would have sold, a year ago, for some fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. The proper motion for the machine is forty revolutions per minute, although it may be driven fifty, without risk. Forty revolutions of one hundred strokes each, make three inches of stocking in length, in a minute, or fifteen feet per hour, so that each day of ten hours gives fifty yards of beautifully executed stocking web. But apply power to the loom, and allow one tend to six, and we have from one hand six hundred girl to attend four only, although she may as well atand fifty feet of web per day being four hundred and of the best English looms, within the same time. fifty feet more than four hands can produce upon four TOBACCO. Ancient legislation. The writer of an inAmerican Review, on the Plymouth laws, remarks as teresting article in the April number of the North follows: BRUCE. The sword which king Robert Bruce wield-the ed at Bannockburn has, with his helmet, survived the entire family. Mrs. Catherine Bruce, the last of the royal house, died in 1791, at a very advanced age; only a short time before her death Burns called upon her, that another parcel of pig copper, from the celebrated MISSOURI COPPER. The Commercial Journal states and, though she was almost speechless from paralysis, she entertained him nobly, and conferred the honor of mines on the Currant river, in Missouri, has been reknighthood on him with the Bruce's two-handed sword,ceived by the agents in this city. saying she had a better right to grant the title than THE MORMONS have deputised twelve of their num"some people." After dinner the first toast she gave ber (answering, we suppose, to the twelve apostles), to was "Awa, uncos!" that is, away with the strangers, go to the Holy Land and preach the gospel to the Jews. which showed her jacobite feelings to the house of John Page and Orson Hyde are two of the number. creasing hostility to the use of tobacco, and of the inef"The legislation of the colony bears traces of inHanover. The old lady bequeathed the sword and hel- The head quarters of the Mormons are now at Com- fectual attempts to suppress it. As early as 1641, its met to the earl of Elgin, whom she considered the next merce, Illinois, on the Mississippi river. Their num-importation for home consumption was prohibited.ber is increasing. Three years earlier, the general court declared, that GENERAL CLINCH. Among the evidences says the NaPOST NOTES UNLAWFUL. The vice chancellor has "whereas there is great abuse in taking tobacco in a tional Intelligencer of the deserved popularity which decided that an issue of post notes by a banking asso- very uncivil manner, openly in the town streets, and the gallant veteran general Clinch enjoys throughout the ciation is unlawful. The question came up incidentally, as men pass upon the highways to the great reproach country, and especially in the south, we perceive that in some proceedings against the association calling of government, it is enacted, if any one is found or seen a volunteer corps in the city of Augusta, in Georgia, itself the Tenth Ward bank, which has been issuing taking tobacco in the street, or in any building or field, has taken the name of the Clinch riflemen. We no-notes as low even as $1, "payable on demand, six within a mile of a dwelling house, he shall be fined tice the circumstance in consequence of having ob- months after date"-the latter words in type so small twelve pence. And if he be a boy or servant, without served in the Augusta papers an account of the pre-as to escape notice. money to pay his fine, he shall be put in the stocks or sentation of an elegant stand of colors by the daughwhipped." In 1650. it was provided that every juror, ter of general Clinch (through a female friend in Auwho used tobacco, should be fined five shillings. In gusta) to the corps which bears her worthy father's 1669, it was enacted, "that every person found smoking in the streets on the Lord's day going to or returning from meeting, within two miles of the meeting house, should be fined twelve pence." All of these provisions of law, without any material alteration, remained in force till the end of the colony." name. "On one side is the likeness of general Clinch, in a Medallion, surrounded by banners; on the edge of the Medallion is a quotation from an order given by the general at a battle on the Withlacoochee or the 31st Dec. 1935-charge again; extending from the top of the Medallion is a scroll, in which is inserted 'Clinch rifle men. On the opposite side are the national emblems, in the centre of which are two clasped hands, from which radiates a circle of light, each of the radii terminating with a star, over the whole of which floats the American eagle with appropriate mottoes and em blems." COLORED POPULATION EMIGRATING. The ship Belvidera, capt. Oliver, sailed from Baltimore on the 7th inst. for Trinidad, with one hundred and thirty-five colored emigrants. "They appeared, says the Sun, highly pleas ed with the prospects of exchanging their situation here for one which promises so much." COTTON. The New Orleans Courier says:-"Nearly 850 000 bales of cotton have been landed here since the commencement of the season, in October last, and it is anticipated the receipts of cotton, this season, will exceed one million of bales. Although there are nearly 180 vessels in port, so great is the quantity of cotton on hand (215,000 bales) the holders are obliged to pile it up in the streets, and on the side walks in the vicinity of some of the cotton presses. DEATH. The celebrated astronomer, Oibers, died at Bremen on the 2d inst. at the age of 82. GAS. The city of London is supplied by 18 gas works. They consume 118,000 tons of coal annually. The consumption has doubled within the last two periods of ten days. RAIN. The depth of rain which has fallen during hear that the silk company at Northampton have com- a STEAM VESSEL. Experiments are in the course of being tried with the model of an entirely new form of steam vessel, and, as far as they have yet gone, with every prospect of a successful result. At present we can only state of this remarkable invention, that there are no paddle wheels, nor external works of any kind. The whole machinery is in the hold of the vessel, where a horizontal wheel is moved by the power of steam, and, acting upon a current of water, admitted by the bow and thrown off at the stern, propels the mass at a rapid rate. By a very simple contrivance of stop-cocks, &c. on the apparatus, the steamer can be turned on either course, retarded, stopped, or have her motion reversed. This will be literally a revolution in the art of steam navigation. [Liverpool paper. said to have been the most beautiful woman in Texas, SUICIDE. A Mexican girl, named Gaudalope Lass, Gas for light-Important and curious discovery. A lately killed herself in consequence of her mother inpaper has been read in the French academie des sisting upon her marrying a man she did not love. She sciences on a gas discovered by M. Jules Seguin, shot herself through the heart with a pistol. which is perfectly free from any hydro-sulphurous ele- TEA AND COFFEE. The amount of tea drank in Engment, and also from all carbunet of sulphur, and it is land is enormous. It was stated a few years since in stated to be admirably adapted for the purpose of giv- the house of commons, that the quantity of tea coning light. It is made of materials which are not only sumed by rach person annually, on an average, was two useless but noxious, as dead horses, old leather, spoiled and a half pounds. In 1722, the quantity was only wool, &c. and is at the same time free from any of about one ounce! A war with China would probably fensive odor. One old horse will, it is computed, af- increase the demand for coffee-the consumption of ford on an average, 25.000 littres (about 1,525,701 which has greatly increased within the last 90 years. cubic inches) of gas, besides sal aminoniac and animal In 1760, the whole sale of this berry was 262,000 lbs: black, and 22 litres per hour will keep a single jet) and in 1833, it was 20,691,000 lbs. states-The total amount issued $1,256,985 71 tisement of the secretary of the treasury for an exThe Globe, of the 7th instant, says "The adverchange of one million of treasury notes for specie, has resulted in an arrangement to take the notes, payable in one year, with permission to redeem them sooner, upoa sixty days' notice, at less than five and a half per centum interest." WESTERN NAVIGATION. The New Orleans Courier announces the arrival at that port of the sloop Enter rise, from Lake Michigan via Detroit, entering Lake Portsmouth, and passing down the Ohio and MissisErie at Cleveland, coming out of the Ohio canal at sippi rivers, to New Orleans. The Enterprise is bound for the coast of Texas, having been built expressly for that trade. WEATHER. Snow fell at Hosack, N. Y. on the 27th ult. to the depth of six inches. Hosack is ten miles north of Troy. There was quite a snow storm in Paris on the 25th of March-and a letter from Rome, dated March 26, mentions that the day preceding, there had been half a foot of snow on the ground, a very extraordinary cir cumstance, but which had occurred exactly 245 years tican, No. 8,066, which says, "on the 25th of March, ago, as appears from a manuscript preserved at the Va 1595, (the feast of the annunciation,) there was a fall of snow, which remained on the roofs of the houses and covered the streets the whole of the day." Russia, has increased greatly during the present cenWOOL IN RUSSIA. The exportation of wool from tury, and now forms a staple commodity of great value State Gazette of April 1: "In the year 1800 to 1814, it -as appears by the following paragraph in the Prussian amounted on an avi rage to 19,513 poods a years; from 1814 to 1824 to 35,173 poods a year; from 1824 to 1834 to 111,546 poods a year; from 1834 to 1837 to 306,347 poods annually. In 1838 it amounted to 360,760 poods, which were worth 12,090,337. FIFTH SERIES. No. 12.-VOL. VIII.] BALTIMORE, MAY 23, 1840. THE PAST-THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE. [VOL. LVIII.-WHOLE NO. 1,495. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY, BY JEREMIAH HUGHES, EDITOR AND PROPrietor, at $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. INDEX OF CONTENTS OF No. 12, VOL. 8. APPOINTMENTS-by the president 178 ARMY-orders, fight near Fort King, &c. mutiny at Pilatka 179; Florida, tribute to col. Worth ARABIAN SHIP SULTANEE BOUNDARY QUESTION COINAGE of the U. S. 180 177-8-9 undertook to withdraw without delay her military force from the disputed territory, leaving only a small civil posse to protect the timber from the lawless depredations of bodies of lumberers of each nation, who would otherwise have taken advantage of the provisional state of things to clear the district of that which constitutes no inconsiderable part of of its value. The British government wished for nothing more than to have this agreement faithfully observed during the short period which would probably elapse before the final settlement of the whole affair. the adoption of the intermediate line proposed by the king of the Netherlands, and the payment of a sum of £200,000 to the state of Maine, by the British government. These rumors-for which, 179 we believe, there is some foundation-have, of 192 course, set the conductors of the tory press in mo176 tion, with a view of attacking the proposed arCONGRESS-Senate 187; house of rep. 188 rangement, just as they would have attacked any FOREIGN ARTICLES-London markets, boundary ques- other course which ministers might have pursued tion, Mr. Parish's speech at Glasgow, parliament, in the matter. If they keep the question unsettled, 177; Great Britain and the Sicilies; France, mar- they are abused; if they propose to compromise it, riage, mediation offered, duke of Orleans arrives they are abused; and if they were to propose to inat Algiers, riots, take the island of Minorca, Napo- sist on the immediate surrender of the whole quesThe government of Maine has, however, counteleon's remains, crops; Switzerland, conflagration of tion by the American government, they would be nanced, or, at least, not prevented, its citizens from Sallenches; Russia, preparations on the Black sea, much more loudly abused for plunging the country entering disputed portions of the territory, and erectCircassian victory, disasters in Khiva, clerical exiles; into a war in order to enforce a claim of very doubting block houses, in which they have placed canGreece, suffering in; China, letters of marque, plague ful justice, to say the least of it. Of course the non, muskets and what they are pleased to call at Damascus; Rio La Plate; Texas, items; Canada, colored population in 178 ground now taken is, that ministers ought to con: arined laborers. Against this evident infraction of FLORIDA-Indians and army operations in 179, 180 cede nothing; and the very parties who abused and the agreement with sir John Harvey, the British NATCHEZ-awful tornado at 181 still abuse them, for not enforcing the award of the government have firmly and decidedly protested.NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION-address of the 182 king of the Netherlands, fall into the ridiculous in- So far, however, from wishing to urge hostilities NAVY-order, court martial, McBlair acquitted, the St. consistency of denouncing that award as exceedingly upon a collateral question which will disappear of Louis, squadron at Pensacola 180 unjust towards England, and one that ought not to itself as soon as the present amicable negotiations STATES OF THE UNION-Rhode Island, case of E. Mahe; be submitted to. We think that, before these par- have brought the really important question of the Massachusetts, whig convention; Connecticut, Mr. ties attack ministers, they should make up their boundary to a satisfactory settlement, government Huntington elected to U. S. senate; New York, ad- minds as to the course which ought to have been have already (more than a month ago) sent out injournment of the legislature, aid to rail roads, cur- taken, and not prefer charges manifestly inconsist- structions to Mr. P. Thomson and Mr. Fox to enter rency 150; Pennsylvania, meeting of the legislature, ent with each other. and their proceeding, Mr. McElwee, burning mouninto a fresh arrangement with the United States, tain; Maryland, state senator, Boteler, canal celebraclearing up all doubts as to the territory to be left tion, items; Virginia, revolutionary claims, bounty provisionally under the jurisdiction and in the poslands and commutation pay, election returns, Bank session of the respective parties. of Va. and Dabney; South Carolina, political meeting; Georgia, political meeting; Mississippi, awful tornado at Natchez 181; state credit, Brandon bank, public sales; Arkansas, the river; Tennessee, nomination of governor Carroll, Ohio, loan, canal; Indiana, political nomination and movements; Missouri, explosion; Iowa, emigration; Michigan, canal 182 WORTH, COL.-tribute of respect to FOREIGN ARTICLES. -180 From the London Morning Chronicle, April 23. There are two questions pending between us and the United States. 1. The great question of the settlement of the boundary line. 2. The subsidiary question growing out of it, of the provisional arrangement respecting the occupation of the disputed territory. It is with regard to the last, and least important only of these two questions, that any difference of views between the two governments is developed, in the recently published correspondence between Mr. Fox and Mr. Forsyth. The president of the "From various commercial letters I have seen United States in assuming the duties of his station, written from all parts of the continent, it appears avowed his determination, all other means of negoto me that (as regards trade) they are, in Europe, tiation failing, to submit a proposition to the gomuch in the same position as we are here. Moneyvernment of Great Britain to refer the decision of abundant, and little opportunity to employ it. Eve- the question once more to a third party. This de ry thing dull, and waiting for a reaction,' which termination, Mr. Forsyth, in the name of the presiterms I see used on three or four occasions." dent, explicitly repeats, and expresses his extreme satisfaction at the communication from Mr. Fox, the detailed report of the British commissioners rethat "her majesty's government are only waiting for order to transmit to the government of the United States a reply to their last proposal, upon the subJect of the boundary negotiation." GREAT BRITAIN. The British Queen steam ship left Portsmouth on The latest accounts from Maine show no intention on the part of the government (however remi33 they may be in checking the improper acts of their wild border population) to embark in act of hostility; while, from the intelligence from New Brunswick and Canada, it is clear that our troops will remain quiet unless attacked. Every thing therefore seems to hold out a prospect that this minor difficulty will not be allowed to disturb the amicable relations between England and the United States, or to interfere with the tranquil settlement of the question so unfortunately left by the negotiators of the treaty of Ghent as a germ of dispute between two nations linked together by every tie of mutual interest and common descent. A tory meeting was held at Glasgow, April 18th, to the number of 300 persons, called together by Mr. Monteith, "for the purpose of putting them in possession of facts and views of the deepest importance, the 1st and arrived at New York on the 16th inst.cently employed to survey the disputed territory, in respecting the state of our (the British) foreign rethirteen and a half days from pilot to pilot. She made her voyage out in fifteen days. Flour and wheat had both declined; American flour had brought 28s. in bond, but that price could no longer be obtained-the nominal quotation for the best western canal, being 37s. per barrel. American flour was selling, at the latest dates, at 27s. 6d. duty paid, at which rates 10,000 barrels had changed hands during the week ending the 28th ult. The weather was very fine in England, with a good prospect of large crops. to. So far, therefore, from government having brought the country to the verge of a war, by their supine. ness and neglect, it appears that the principal question in dispute is at this moment the subject of most amicable negotiation. So far from having neglected the question, the government have been taking active steps to remedy the evils entailed upon them The cotton market had been steady, and holders by the extraordinary and culpable neglect of their having evinced more firmness, an advance of 4d. had tory predecessors. The appointment of commisbeen obtained on the lower and middle qualities.sioners to ascertain with precision the nature of the The advices from the manufacturing districts are localities was evidently the step dictated by prudence rather more encouraging, there being a better de- and common sense, with a view to the arrangement of mard both for goods and yarns, without, however, a question which arose from the ambiguous wording much improvement in prices. of a passage in which those localities were referred The London money market is dull-money very Nor does there appear any reason to apprehend abundant at 3 per cent. without any demand for it. that now, when the foundation of an arrangement -American stocks remain without demand, confi- has been laid, by ascertaining the facts indispensadence in them being shaken by the recent events in ble to any satisfactory settlement, the two governPennsylvania, and the fear of difficulties between ments, each alike anxious to avoid the scandal of a the United States and England, on the subject of war, between their respective countries, will find the Maine boundary. Some purchases of Ohio, N. much difficulty in coming to a fair and honorable York state and city stocks, have been made for con-understanding. Even, however, if unforeseen diftinental account; but in general, the transactions ficulties should arise the formal pledge of the gowere limited, except in the United States bank vernment of the United States to refer the question shares, which had improved a little since the ac- anew to arbitration, afford a sure resource for escapcounts of the recent proceedings of the Pennsylva-ing the calamities of an appeal to arms. nia legislature with reference to the bank: being now With regard to the subsidiary question, an ar£15 10s. a £16 at which rates sales to some extent rangement was made in March last for the provihad been effected. The amount of bullion in the sional occupation of the disputed territory. This Bank of England was gradually increasing. arrangement, agreed to by the British government The boundary question. From the Manchester Guar-in perfect good faith, and from the most sincere dedian of April 30th. Reports have recently become sire to avoid every cause of irritation between the current, to the effect that ministers have agreed with two countries, proceeded on the basis of allowing the American miuister upon a basis for the settle-cach party to remain in undisturbed possession of ment of the long disputed boundary question, by their actual settlements. The government of Maine VOL. VIII-Sig. 12. was Henry Parrish, esq. formerly secretary of legalations." Among those who addressed the meeting tion to the U. States. The following is an extract from a report of his speech, which we find in the Glasgow Constitutionalist: Mr. P. then read an extract of the alarming news, this morning arrived, of the warlike preparations of the United States. So deep had been his anxiety, so confident his knowledge of the American people, that a month ago he had written to a gentleman at Bristol, whom he merely knew by reputation as the most intelligent and patriotic merchant there, to warn his fellow citizens of the necessity of a timely preparation against the coming storm. Mr. P. then pointed to the double blow which war with the United States would strike againt the community of Glasgow itself; the cotton of the southern states being abstracted from the British market to the rival inanufacturer of New England, and concluded with an emphatic appeal to every man present to apply himself, in the spirit of patriotism and truth, to the instantaneous investigation of questions affecting the dearest interests of life, property and affections of every subject in this land-to bury the hatchet of party, and unite for the salvation of our country-the noblest inheritance ever yet intrusted by beneficent Heaven to the industry and defence of man-(cheers). In the house of commons on Wednesday, the 30th, in relation to the boundary question: Mr. Hume asked whether there would be any objection, as great anxiety existed on the subject to give the house some information respecting the negotiation with America on the Maine boundary question, what was the present state of these negotiations, and whether a favorable result might be anticipated? Lord J. Russell said he would answer the question to-morrow. Great Britain and the Sicilies.-The difficulties have announced to the Turkish government that him on his retirement from this country, the best between the Sicilies and Great Britain were about they were ready to send an army to co-operate in wishes of the numerous friends he has made during to be settled by the mediation of France. Seizures an attack on Ibrahim pasha. The British govern- his residence here." had previously been made by the Neapolitan authori- ment were said to be intriguing to out manœuvre ties of two or three British merchant ships which the Russians, and to foment discontent in the had been retaliated by the seizure of a considerable Turco-Egyptian fleet, and even to meditate the number of Neapolitan vesels. landing of a force on the coast of Syria. Our readers are doubtless aware that the Chinese difficulties have arisen in part from the killing of a native by some English sailors, in a row, and the refusal of capt. Elliot to surrender the culprits for trial by the Chinese authorities. He thought it best to take the matter into his own hands, and therefore after a trial of some sort, sentenced five of the sailors to a certain period of imprisonment in England. They arrived about the end of April, and were almost immediately set at liberty, the law officers of the crown being of opinion that captain Elliott had no authority to sentence them as he had done. FRANCE. The marriage of the duke de Nemours and the princess Victoria of Saxe Cobourg was solemnized at the palace of St. Cloud, on the 27th of April.The ceremony was as strictly private as the ctiquette of the French court permits. The king of the Belgians and the infante and infanta of Spain were among the guests. Immediately afterward an amnesty for all political offences up to May 1837 was published. The mediation of the king of France between England and the Two Sicilies, has been offered, and accepted by the former. Indeed, it is understood to have been asked for by the King of Naples. The latest intelligence from Algiers was to the 18th of April. The dukes of Orleans and Aumale had arrived and, with marshal Vallee, reviewed the troops. On the 17th the duke of Orleans set off for the camp at Bouffarick, the head quarters of his division. There was a report that a daring attempt had been made by the Kabyles to recover possession of Cherchell, but the garrison beat them off with considerable loss. It was reported also that Abdel-Kader had offered to settle his quarrel with France by a private combat with marshal Vallee, and that the latter had accepted the offer. This latter statement is of course nonsense. There had been more corn riots in some of the provinces, but nothing serious. They were allayed without the shedding of blood. In the chamber of deputies the ministerial demand of 1,500,000 francs, for the blockade of Buenos Ayres, was agreed to by a vote of 260 to 10. Private letters report that an expedition against Buenos Ayres was contemplated by the French government. Trade is described as in a shocking condition in Paris, in Lyons, and other manufacturing towns of France. The French have taken possession of the island of Minorca, in the Mediterranean, for the purpose of establishing a hospital there for the sick troops from Algiers. This, it was rumored, had occasioned some sharp diplomatic correspondence between the French and British governments. The money advanced by the Bank of France to the Bank of England has all been paid by the latter establishment. A letter from Odessa brings intelligence of another victory gained by the Circassians over their oppressors. They have taken a Russian fort with a battery of 20 guns. The Russians, on the other hand, are on the eve of invading Circassia with another army, and it is supposed that 40,000 men now at Sebastopol are destined for that purpose. The last news from the expedition to Khiva con. firm the previous accounts being from St. Petersburg, where nothing unfavorable to Russia is permitted to be published, the failure is softened down into concentration of troops near the Emba, in the entrenchments erected by the Russians at the commencement of this disastrous campaign. The troops are said to have encountered tremendous hurricanes and intense cold, 25 degrees and more below the freezing point. They had not met with the Tartar enemy. The English government, it is said, has intimated to the Russian ambassador that if the expedition be renewed or persevered in, the government of India will send an army upon the Oxus, and will occupy the most important points in that quarter by its troops. Thirty-three priests of the Romish united Greek church have been exiled from Russia for having signed an act signifying their adhesion to the church of Rome. GREECE. CANADA. The colored population. A meeting has been held in Upper Canada and a petition to the queen agreed upon, asking to be allowed the means of settling all together instead of being scattered throughout the community. They number as ascertained, amounts to 12,510. NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Churchill C. Canbreleng, of New York, minister plenipotentiary to Russia. Aaron Vail, to be charge des affaires to the court of Spain. Rogers, to be charge des affaires to Sardinia. J. P. B. Wilmer, to be a chaplain in the navy from the 7th of March, 1839. Rodman Lewis, to be a chaplain in the navy from the 13th of March, 1839. Thomas B. Nalle, to be a purser in the navy from the 17th October, 1839. Thomas P. McBlair, to be a purser in the navy from the 11th November, 1839. Thomas Eastin, to be navy agent for the port of Pensacola, West Florida, for four years from the 10th May, 1840, when his present commission will expire. Joseph W. Curtis, to be a second lieutenant in the marine corps from the 4th of May, 1840. Great distress prevailed in Greece, and the price of provisions had been considerably augmented. COINAGE OF THE UNITED STATES. The followThe severity of the winter had been such, that up-ing facts are taken from a report of the secretary of wards of 50,000 cattle had perished in the snow in the treasury to the senate, relative to the import and Romelia alone. export of coin and bullion and the coinage of the United States mints: China. The only paragraph relating to Chinese affairs is to be found in the French journal, the Uni. verse, which states that a rumor was current that the English government had offered letters of marque to such French shipowners as are willing to take part on their own account in the war with China. It was added that several great capitalists had formed an association to take advantage of good will thus manifested by the ministry of lord Melbourne. The plague, it is said, had broken out in Damascus." SOUTH AMERICA. From river of Plate. A slip from the office of the Salem Gazette gives the report of brig Mer maid, thirty-four days from Pernambuco, which states that by the last accounts the blockade was to be removed on the 10th April. TEXAS. We are indebted to the officers of the steam packet Amount of American coin and bullion exported from the 20th September 1828 to 1839, $8,230,676. Amount of coin and bullion imported into the U. States from the 30th September, 1821, to 1839, $168,841,504. Amount exported during the same period, $121,222,821. The coinage at the Philadelphia mint, since its establishment in the year 1793 to the year 1839, înclusive, was Gold coin, $25,913,602 50 cents. Silver coin, $53,077,328 90 cents. The coinage, in the years 1838 and 1839, at the branch mint at New Orleans was, gold, $23,490; silver, $280,403. At the Charlotte branch mint, during the same period, $246,932 50 cents were coined in gold; and at the Dahlonega branch mint, $231,795. The amount of gold from North Carolina coined at the Philadelphia mint, up to 1838, was 2,648,500 dollars. The coinage at the mint in London from 1816 The Galveston Courier publishes the act to sup-to 1836 was, in gold, £55,151,716 4s. 14d., silver press gambling, passed by congress, and accompa- £10,260,284 11s. 10d.; copperd £ 180,107 49. Total nies the publication with some very correct and £65,592,107 199. 11 1-2d. creditable remarks. A. Bringham, esq. treasurer of the republic of Texas has been suspended from his office. Charges The removal of the remains of Napoleon from of speculation with the public money exist against St. Helena to Paris is said to be the subject of him and the chief clerk of the department. A negotiation between M. Thiers and Lord Palmer-committee has been appointed to investigate his ston. conduct. The crops. The crops (says the Breton of Commodore John Taylor late of the Texian navy, Nantes) are looking splendid, and promise a fine died at Galveston on the 24th April. He was buried harvest. The drought has done no harm, except with military honors. [N. O. Bee. to a small quantity of bad land, the produce of By an arrival at New Orleans, Galveston papers which is always feeble. We learn that in no part to the 7th inclusive have been received. of France are there any complaints as to the appearance of the crops. Hay alone threatens to be deficient, but even this fear would be removed by a few days of rain. The arrival of the duke of Orleans at Algiers, had created great enthusiam among the troops, and the most active preparations were making to defeat Abdel Kader, who on his part, was not idle, but fortifying the mountain passes. The Sheik proposed to marshal Vallee to settle the difference between them by single combat. SWITZERLAND. The mines in the gold region of North Carolina are estimated to have yielded, since their discovery, $10,000,000; and their annual product at this time about $400,000. Mr. Bechtler's private manufactory of coin in the above region, produced from January, 1831, to February, 1840, of coin $2,241,840 50 cents; and 1,729,998 dwts. of fluxed gold. FOREIGN RELATIONS. The boundary question appears to have occupied as large a share of public attention in England, consequent upon the receipt No rain had fallen in Galveston for many days, of the correspondence between Messrs. Forsyth and the city was almost destitute of water. Very and Fox, as it did in this country. At first it oclittle rain falls in Texas between the latter part of casioned some alarm, but as the views and wishes March and the first of October. The citizens were of the government of England became known, conpreparing reservoirs and cisterns to secure a copi-fidence was speedily restored. The English paous supply at the first rainy spell. pers speak quite confidently of an amicable adjustThe Courier says: goods are selling here now atment of the matter, and the private letters which auction at an unusually low rate. follow this article, from the Philadelphia North American, and which is said to come from a source entitled to much consideration, confirm the public statements. The interests of the two nations are one and inseparable, and as the pioneers in the march of civil liberty, no harsh or discordant feelings should ever be allowed to grow up between them. Extract from a letter dated London, April 24, 1840. "I write without any hope of this reaching you as The schooner Henry, from N. York, got aground on the the 5th inst. on the bar. The steam packet New York, went to her assistance and brought her off in safety. A correspondent at Geneva informs us that the A splendid ball was lately given at Houston, by Consequences of the conflagration of Salienches the hon. Alcee Labranche, charge des affaires, from have been most disastrous. Forty individuals were the United States to Texas. Öf Mr. Labranche either dead or dying of the injuries they had re- the Houston Telegraph says: "We regret that this ceived on the morning of the 21st ult. Upwards gentleman has been induced. by private considera- soon as our letters per 'British Queen,' but merely of fifty were known to be dreadfully mutilated, tions, to retire from the station he has so admirably in case this should not be the case, that you may and more than 100 had disappeared without their filled and eminently adorned. As the representa- not be disappointed should a packet arrive without fate being known. tive of a nation occupying the second place in our hearts, as a gentleman, and as a member of the society, the hon. Alcee Labranche stands among the highest in the community, and he will carry with RUSSIA. The Russians continued their preparations for war in the ports of the Black Sea, and were said to letters from us. I have learnt from an authority which leaves no doubt in my mind of its accuracy, that as soon as parliament resumes its sessions after the Easter holidays, that the boundary question will be submitted to them, and that it is decidedly | and as ugly a set of customers as it has ever been with great spirit until the leader Alectustenugge, fell; Such spare, gaunt, Cassius-looking when he was immediately borne off and the Indians the wish of lord Palmerston that it should be sub- our lot to see. retreated. Captain Rains was mortally wounded mitted to arbitration, and that it will also be re- individuals never before trod a quarter deck.commended to negociate upon a separate basis, Their mode of life is frugal and abstemious; they by the chief-when the command devolved upon should not the arbitration be adopted, but as both have but one meal a day, and that consists exclu- sergeant Jackson who behaved in the most gallant the governments are in favor of arbitration, I do sively of curried rice, which they devour after a manner, and revenged the fall of his captain, by not see how any collision should grow out of the somewhat primitive fashion. It is poured into an shooting Alectustenugge, after being severely woundpresent state of affairs, unless Maine should choose immense bowl, forming a pile as big as a mode-ed himself.-The loss of the whites was 2 killed to act for itself. We have had a report here which rately sized haystack, and the company eat it with and 3 wounded-that of the enemy 4 killed.-The gained credit, that the matter had been arranged their fingers, rolling it first into balls, which they enemy numbered 93. We look upon this as the between Mr. Stevenson and lord Palmerston, which jerk with enviable dexterity down their throats.- most brilliant affair occurring during the whole is premature. It had some effect in raising Eng. No meat is allowed. They are the most rigid of war; whether we consider the noble daring of this handful of men in sustaining such an unequal conlish stocks, which had been very much depressed Grahamites. flict, the loss of the enemy, and the gallant and by the intelligence brought by the British Queen;' they are now steady, though the rumor is no longer praiseworthy conduct of sergeant Jackson. It will lose us, probably captain Rains; a man distincredited. In the mean time, American stocks are perfectly torpid, except New York and Ohio, which guished for his scientific attainments, patriotism maintain their prices. Money is cheap, 4 per cent. and virtue; whose active exertions in Florida, thus for discounts and 2 per cent. on the stock exchange. early close a life of great usefulness, and adds another martyr to the calls of duty. The weather here is exceedingly fine, and prospect for crops very good." Extract of a letter dated London, April 30, 1840. "I find there is nothing of a political character to communicate besides which I wrote in my last. It is now generally understood that despatches go out by this steamer to Mr. Fox, directing him to inform the government of the United States of the willingness of this government to submit the boundary question to arbitration or to negociate, and we all hope that the matter may be arranged amicably. Stocks have rallied a little in consequence." The National Intelligencer says that the earl of Mulgrave (son of the marquis of Normanby) arrived in Washington on Sunday last, the bearer of despatches to the British minister. These despatches, it is supposed, have reference to the northeastern boundary question. Wine and ardent spirits they especially eschew, ARMY. 2nd dragoons. Head quarters, Fort Heileman, col. D. E. Twiggs, commanding district of Florida, east of the Suwannee. Lieut. col. W. S. Harney, at Havana, Cuba, on sick leave. Major T. T. Fauntleroy, commanding troops, 2d dragoons, in East Florida. Captain Holmes, 7th infantry, commanding Fort Russel, on the Ocklawaha, a few days since, killed one Indian and captured another. The prisoner was taken to Black Creek. A scout in the neighborhood of Micanopy, a few days since, came upon a party of Indians, who made a charge upon them, they broke and fled; the sergeant, in attempting to bayonet one of the number, was shot through the body, but made every effort to kill the enemy, until he fell from his horse, and immediately expired. Information has reached us, that in digging at Micanopy, 15 barrels of pork, and 15 or 20 barrels of bread were discovered. It is supposed that this amount of provisions was buried on the evacuation and burning of that post in 1836; but a short time previous to its having been temporarily encamped on by gen. Call's army, in a state of great suffering Can it be possible that provisions were buried there, and it unknown, whilst from five to six thousand men were enduring the horrors of hunger on the Adj't. R. C. Asheton, regimental head quarters. B. L. Beall, fort No. -> M. Florida, command- E. D. Bullock, Fort Preston, M. Florida com- The New York correspondent of the Intelligencer says "though the London papers abound in speculations on the boundary question, little is said about it here. It may be that the Queen brought despatches that may throw light on the subject.The earl of Mulgrave, of whose arrival at Washing-ing. ton you are aware, is to go from thence to Canada. The National Intelligencer adds: "too much re-ing. liance ought not to be placed on the articles which appear in the late London newspapers (and are copied into the New York papers) regarding the pending negotiation on this subject. It appears to us altogether probable, considering the present state of that question, that additional information may have reached this country by the late arrivals, through official channels, and that something defi. hite may have been answered or proposed by the British ministry to the government of the United States. How this is, we shall doubtless know in time. It is not probable, however, whatever the fact may be, that any one of the papers in London (the daily papers at least) are sufficiently confided in by the British ministry to be authorised to make particular statements of the views of the British government on the subject. Ahamet Ben Aman. This distinguished visitor, the representative of the sultan of Muscat, and commander of the ship Sultanee, now in port, has become quite the lion of the day. He has been honored with the freedom of the city by the authorities. He has been conducted to witness the most interesting exhibitions of the city-the institutions for the blind, the deaf and dumb as well as the United States vessels, and the public works at the This interesting act of well conceivnavy yary. ed civility to the distinguished stranger, went off in the most satisfactory manner. The usual salutes were fired, and the whole thing was conducted quite comme il faut. The Arab commander, besides the horses was the bearer of several other valuable presents from his king to our president; but, learning the usages of our government as to the reception of presents by the executive, we are told he intends to reconvey these to the power that sent them. His ship is daily crowded with our citizens. And on Thursday evening the ship was visited by the New York brass band, who gave him a splendid serenade, performing several of their best pieces in their best style. The band were invite on board, and were entertained in the most hospitable manner. M. S. Howe, St. Augustine, in arrest. C. Kerr, Fort No. 4, on duty with troops. troop. C. A. May, Fort Braden, M. Florida,, "G." N. W. Hunter, Rolls Town, commanding "F." troop. R. B. Lawton, under orders to examine the banks of the Ocklawaha. N. Darling, Fort Heileman, commanding K. W. J. Hardee, Hewlett's Mills, on duty with B. The Galena Gazette of the 25th ult. says: "The Omega, bound from St. Louis to St. Peters, came in yesterday. She had on board general Atkinson, with a company of soldiers for Prairie du Chien. We suppose the Winnebagoes will now have to walk. Those acquainted with their habits and feelings anticipate no serious opposition or difficulty from them." Mutiny at Pilatka. St. Augustine, May 8. During the last week the highest offence known to milipro-tary law occurred at Pilalka. It appears that the commanding officer of the post, brevet major Ashby, was absent, and the command devolved on lieut. Merrill. Some order was issued to a non-commissioned officer respecting the removal of prisoners, who peremptorily refused to carry it out. The company was ordered to parade, and this they refusedlieutenant Merrill at the same time being subjected to personal violence. Dr. Hitchcock succeeded in knocking down several of the mutineers, and something like order was restored, although not before a carbine was levelled at the doctor, and missed fire. An offence of this character we believe perfectly anomalous in the history of the war. Isolated cases of disobedience and mutiny have occurred; but for a whole company to be affected with a simultaneous spirit of insubordination is truly remarkable. The interests of the service require, in this matter, the closest scrutiny; such as will develop the causes which have prompted this violation of military law, and prevent by the terror of its punishment, the repetition of an act subversive of all discipline and command. In an examination there may be a development assigning, at least, the motive influencing inen to such a violation of duty. Should it be duty found that there is an exercise of authority inconsistent with law, and an abuse of power irreconcilade-ble with the security of life or limb-that the generous feelings of the soldier are trodden down in the dust, and he subjected to blows and stripes, as it nay suit the arbitrary will-then let the evil be bared forth, and its remedy be applied by immediate change. This act of mutiny is a severe offence, and we do trust that the supremacy of the law will be maintained. R. A. Arnold, Fort Heileman, on duty with K. J. H. Hill, Fort Preston, M. Florida, on duty A. Lowry, Fort Braden, M. Florida, on with G. E. M. Thayer, Carlisle, on duty at cavalry pot. Indian fight. From the St. Augustine News, May 9. Captain Rains, of the 7th infantry, is in command of Fort King, and with the most laudable ambition of doing effective service, has been actively employed in efforts at the destruction of the enemy. But a short time since, some of his men were killed, as they left the garrison; and he [N. York Star. determined on placing shells under cover of a Orders have been sent from Washington, to have blanket, in the hope that their cupidity might inthe "Sultanee" put in thorough repair at the Brook-duce them to appropriate the articles, and thus fire lyn navy yard, at the expense of the American the fuse, sending death among them. During the government. "A new foremast is to be put into night, he heard an explosion, and on repairing to her, and she is to be cleaned and painted, and ornamented throughout-the four guns now in her are to be taken out, and fourteen handsome carronades placed on board." The New York Evening Signal thus notices the strangers: The Arab ship and its crew now in our port have naturally been subjects of much curiosity for the last week. They are fifty or sixty in number, Recent Indian murders in Florida. The report of the murder of another family by the Indians, mentioned last week, is confirmed. The Indians, about fifteen in number, appeared on the premises of Mr. McLean, on the Tologee, early in the morning, and were discovered by one of the daughters, who ran the spot in the morning, with eighteen men, he dis- to the house and gave information to the family. covered tracks of blood and scattered clothing, as Mrs. M. took her children, three in number, and well as poney tracks. Suddenly he was surround made for the hammock, when they were overtaken ed by a galling fire, whilst the woods were resound- and unhumanly butchered by the Indians. Mrs. ing the war cry of the enemy. Captain Rain im- M's throat was cut, and her children beaten to mediately charged upon the Indians, who took their death with pine-knots. The Indians returned to shelter among trees, and continued the discharge the house, where Mr. M's son, about 16 years of of rifles at this little band. The fight was kept up lage, had determined to defend himself, and fired Head quarters 8th regiment, Madison barracks, April 22, 1840. GENTLEMEN: In common with my brother offi. cers, I have received, with deep sensibility, your kind and obliging note in behalf of the citizens of Sackett's Harbor. the 13th, the house proceeded to ballot for a senator in place of Mr. Betts, deceased, the vote stood: Whole number, Necessary to a choice, 203 102 112 63 28 On the 13th the senate balloted six times with the following results: 1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th frequently at the Indians. They then attempted to We are permitted says the Savannah Republican to make the following extract from a letter just received from Florida, dated May 1st. "The Indians on the coast are numerous-their fires are seen everywhere. They attacked five men from Fort Lauderdale, while they were procuring water, and shot three of them-one mortally. The Indians appear to be in parties over the country, determined on mischief. It is supposed general Taylor will shortly leave, when general Armistead will take command, who is presiding at a court martial, now sitting at St. Augustine. On the 31st ult. some men (while on parade) of the 2d dragoons stationed at Pilatka, mutined and attempted the life of lieut. Merrill, who was in command. Lieut. M. cut one of the ringleaders severely in the face, and by the aid of doctor Hitch- COL. WORTH. From the Sackett's Harbor Journal. In publishing the following correspondence, between a committee of our citizens and colonel Worth, we trust there can be no impropriety in adding our own to the universal regret that is felt upon the occasion of the removal of the 8th regiment from this post. The social and friendly intercourse which has subsisted between our citizens and the officers of the regiment, will be severed, but they bear with them the warmest wishes of warm hearts for their future health, prosperity and happiness. When the call of the country requires their active services, they will prove as valiant in the field, as they have been generous and confiding in social life; and let the occasion present, and the 8th shall win for itself the proud appellation of the republic's own. We understand that the regiment will move as soon as it is ascertained that Buffalo harbor is clear of ice-leaving this post in charge of two companies. W. J. WORTH, col. commanding. April 18-Lieut. George, acting midshipmen T. Acting midshipmen B. F. Van Hook, Charles Resignations. David Marple, acting carpenter, H. McBlair has been honorably acquitted by the Baltimore. The U. S. ship St. Louis, captain Forrest, arrived at Mazatlan, March 31—all well. Norfolk, May 13. The U. S. frigate Potomac, captain Kearney, bound to the Brazil station, departed from the naval anchorage last evening, in tow of the steamer Thomas Jefferson. 9 8 6 6 4 6 5 3 3 3 0 0 0 3 3 1 1 0 1 2 20 20 20 20 20 20 After these ineffectual ballotings, the further consideration of the question was postponed to the 20th. If the vote given on the first of these ballots for Jabez H. was intended for Jabez W. H. Mr. Huntington would, but for this mistake, have been elected on the first balloting. resulted in the choice of Mr. Huntington, on the On the 20th the balloting was resumed which first ballot. By a vote of 102 to 98, the house rejected a resolution giving the election of justices of the peace to the people-and by a still larger majority, negatived a proposition to give the election of probate judges to the people. NEW YORK. closed on the 14th inst. having sat 127 days, durAdjournment of the legislature. The session was ing which 370 laws were enacted-averaging three for each day. Among the acts passed on the last day, was one extending the supervision of the bank commissioners to the free banking associations, and authorising the appointment of an additional bank commissioner. Fates Cooke, esq. having resigned the comptrollership of the state, has been, or will be, appointed the bank commissioner. New York criminal court. The bill for the re organization of the criminal courts of New York city has become a law; and James Lynch and Edward Sanford have been appointed associate judges of the new court. Aid to rail roads. In the Evening Journal we find the laws for aiding the construction of the Hudson and Berkshire, and of the Lonn Island rail road. For the Hudson and Berkshire road $150,000, in 6 per cent. stock, reimbursable after 25 years, and not to be sold under par, are to be issued by the Comptroller, whenever he shall receive satisfactory proof that the company have expended $500,000 on their road. The French West India squadron is to spend the summer months in the harbor of Pensacola. On the 1st instant, national salutes were fired by the French corvette "La Sabine" at 8 A. M. at 12 M. For the Long Island road, $100,000 of 6 per cent. and at sun down; and they were responded to by stock, reimbursable after 20 years, and not to be each of the U. S. vessels of war the Macedonian, sold under par, are to be issued by the comptroller, the Erie, the Warren, and the Ontario. La Sabine when satisfied that $400,000 have been expended Sackett's Harbor, April 22, 1840. was decked out with flags of every variety of color by the company. No part of the proceeds of this SIR: The citizens of this village, learning that and shape, and wore our national ensign at her forestock, however, to be applied to the payment of the 8th regiment of infantry is on the eve of de mast head, while the United States ships all carri parture from this place, have appointed the under-ed at their foremast the tri-colored flag. signed a committee in their behalf, to express their unaffected regret that the exigency of the public service requires its removal; and to invite you, and through you, the officers of your command, to partake of a public dinner, at such time, before your departure, as may suit your convenience. The committee, for themselves individually, and in behalf of their fellow citizens, cannot but avail themselves of this occasion, to express to you their high and proper estimation of your public services upon this frontier, and of the manner in which they have been performed, during a period of the time rendered difficult and delicate, in consequence of an extraordinary state of the public mind; and of the high sense we entertain of the kind and gentle manly deportment which has always characterised the intercourse of yourself and the officers of your command, with this community. We are respectfully, your obedient servants, No small degree of excitement was caused at Newport, by the case of Mr. Eugene Mahe, an aged and respectable citizen of that town, who was driven out to sea in a small boat, by a sudden storm, and was, after a long exposure, rescued by the schooner Maria, captain Small, from Providence for Dennis. When Mr. Mahe was in this perilous situation, application was made to the captain of the revenue cutter Vigilant to proceed to his assistance, it was unsafe to proceed to sea, although a number and was refused! The ground of objection was that of men offered to go, but no vessel fit for the expedition could be found except the cutter, which the captain refused. MASSACHUSETTS. Whig convention. The whigs have determined to hold a state convention for business at Worcester, to be composed of a limited number of delegates, on the 17th June next, the anniversary of Bunker's Hill-and also an unlimited convention of the whigs of Massachusetts is to be held on Bunker's Hill early in September. CONNECTICUT. U. S. senator. The legislature of this state elect senators by concurrent vote of both branches. On debts heretofore contracted. In both cases, the roads, and all the profits, &c. are to be mortgaged to the state as security--and a sinking fund is to be raised for the payment on behalf of the Berkshire road of 2 per cent. per annum, and of the Long Island road of 1 per cent. per annum: on the amount of stock respectively issued to them, which is to be invested for accumulation by the comptroller. Long Island rail road. The Long Island rail road company are taking measures to extend their rail road eastward from Hicksville. The Journal of Commerce says the vaults of the banks "overflow with coin, and we understand they offer to take the state loans at 5 per cent. per an num." tional Intelligencer writes on the 19th instant.The currency. The correspondent of the NaThe currency of the city and state has been growing more deranged for the last few days. The law which compels the country banks to redeem their paper at one-half of one per cent. in this city or in Albany, does not go into effect till the first of July. For the time that intervenes, no arrangements for a redemption have been made that are at all likely to be permanent. There are some fears, also, that the weaker banks will not be able to comply fully with the law, for a time, at least. The brokers are now buying country notes (of this state) at one and a half to two per cent. discount. The discount on southern money has also increased. |