General Armstrong. I General AaM.TROKt. distinguished himself e Minister at Pari, but he lout nearly all hia credit by the loss of Washington City, when bo was -8 cretary of War,' where he was charged with tital neglect of meana to defend the Capital or (he N t on, even after ha had been earnestly solicited tn aupply the mean. That waa the end of General AaxsTito.io'a public career. V. S. Gazette. And it ought to have been the end of his pub lic career; or, rather, hia public career ought to have ended many year before. The dis grace that the whole Nation suffered on account of the capture of Washington City by small body of British troops, not exceeding three or four thousand, can never be entirely effaced. Well haa it been observed, by the Editor of the United States Gazette, that Gen. Akmstrono "was charged with total neglect of ineens to defend the Capital of the Nation, even after he had been earnestly solicited to supply those means." The writer of this article (now the Senior Editor ef the Steubenville Gazette) was in a position to know something about how eav netthj General Arustitono hod been thus so licited, and how utterly he disregarded those solicitations. That position was the editorial management of the Philadelphia Aurora, a pa per which enjoyed to a high degree, the confi dence of the then Administration of the Gener al Government, and one of the entire Democra tic party. The late Col. W. Diane was iu proprietor, but at that time, and for a consi derable period previously he held the office of Adjutant General in the U. S. Army fur the Fourth Military District, which District, we believe, embraced Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The British were, from time to time, hovering off our coast, in more or less force, occasionally making descent upon our territory. It became, of course, the duty of Cul. Duanb to keep a constant and vigi lant eye upon those movement?, to ascertain the ttrength of the enemy, and the points where he would most probably strike. Some time, perhaps a month before the attack upon Wash ington, the Colonel observed to the writer in about these words : "James, the enemy is concentrating his forces towards the South ; they lately landed a small corps at , (the name of the place has escaped our memory.) and, after committing some depredations upon the inhabitants, the officers, like fools, busied themselves in trying to procure a map of the District of Columbia, and made inquiries as to the defences about Washington city; from this and other evidence, I am satisfied they mean to make a dash at Washington city. I shall start for the city to morrow morning to see Gen. Armstrong. Let no one kno v where I have gone, nor upon what business ; and write me every day, under cover, to the Ad jutant General U. S. Army, Washington city. Colonel Dcank started the ensuing morning, and in a few days returned, apparently much mortified. lie stated to the writer hereof, that, without even taking time to chango his clothing, he hastened to the War Office and communicated the information he hud recei ved, and his npprehensions growing out of it, to Gen. Armstrong; at the came time urging it strongly upon the General to throw a corps of riflemen into the forest that skirted the Potomac between Washington city and its mouth, and to concentrate all the Infantry and Artillery, and every other arm of defence with in reach at a suitable point, to sustain the rifle men in repelling the enemy. The General as Col. Di'ane stated, heard him through, and in a sneering manner, observed, that he ne ver knew it to be a port of his (the Colonel's) character, to take counsel from his apprehen sions. Thereupon, without another word. Col. Duanb left the office, the Secretaiy ejacula ting, as he turned his back "Impossible! Im possible !" and, aa before observed, returned home. After detailing these circumstances to the writer, the Colonel observed, in a most emphatic manner : "Now, James, you may de pend upon it that in two weeks the British will have possession of Washington, and all through the fault of the fool-hardy man at the head of the War Department." And sure enough, in two weeks the British were in possession of Washington ! The Colonel came into the E ditor'a room, as before, with an open letter in his hand, his honest and intrepid countenance presenting a mixture of indignation, mortifica tion and shame. Throwing the letter on the table, he exclaimed : "James this comes by Ex press Washington is taken the Capitol burn ed the Government scattered to the winds. In five minutes I shall be off upon duty. Take care of every thing. When I shall return, or whether I shall ever return, God only knows." These facts never having before been made public, it is obvious that the earnest solicitation spoken of by the United States Gazette, must have come from other quarters. This renders Gen. Armhtronu's conduct the more inexcusable. Many persons, in their in dignation, accused the General, in those days, of having been bribed by the enemy; but we never hud any idea of that kind. Had Col. DoAWsbeen Secretary of War and no man in the nation was so competent to fill 'hat station not one man of the enemy, had ten thousand landed, would have returned to their shipping. The writer deemal unnecessary to follow up the events of the war any farther, as they are matters of history. But justice to that distin guished patriot and accomplished soldier, Col. Di'ane, required that wa should give this de tail, inasmuch as, from the circumstance atten ding it, and from the facta themselves, no one alsanow living cW.ddoio. Sttubemillc flat. Death from Hydrophobia. The New York Bulletin give the partial- lars of distressing case of hydrophobia, which occurred at Nyack, Rockland county, in that state, lust week. The victim was Miss Sand ford, daughter of Mr. Sandford, formerly a gro cer in Hudson street, in New Vork city. The young Imly was bitten in October last, by a favorite little dog, which had been for years a pet of the family. The dog was killed on the same day in consequence of fears being en tertained that he was in a rabid state. As time passed away1 and the wound healed, the circumstance waa almost forgotten, until last Sunday, when Miss S. experienced a peculiar sensation in the thumb which had been hit ten, and discovered a red discoloration along the hand to the arm-pit. The sensation soon spread along the line of discoloration, and in creased until it became painfully intense ; and on Sunday evening, when attempting to drink some water from a tumbler, she waa attacked with an agitation, which in a few minutes prminAtiil in seeismndir tinned to increase in intensity, accompanied by foaming at her mouth, until her frienda found it necessury to tie her. She continued in one uninterrupted agonizing convulsion until Mon day afternoon, when death terminated at once her suffering, and her life, in the very bud of womanhood, surrounded by every thing calcu- luted to mako lite desirable, and just two weeks prior to the day on which she was to have been married! Dtsth In the Woods. The Bangor Gazette gives an account of a death by starvation, in the forest, near Linnius, Maine. Two boys wlxwe names are not men tioned, left their home, near the above named village, in pursuit of deer. After hunting in the woods until late, they started on their return home, but soon discovered that they had lost their way. Nigljt overtook them, and they were obliged to remain where they were upon the snow till morning, when cold and hungry, they resumed their wandering for the day But darkness again come upon them, and they were obliged to pass the night upon the snow. At dawn on the third day they Btarted once more upon their uncertain journey, but before night one of them sunk down upon his snow shoes in a state of complete exhaustion. The oher, being stronger, kept on, hopinjr to meet some one to whom he could communicate the situation of his companion, and at length reach ed a lumberman's camp ; but be was so over come that, for some time, ho was unable to give any account of what had taken place. When he had in a measure recovered, he stated in what manner he hud left his companion, and several men immediately went in search of him. Thev found him, but he was dead He had fallen backward from the position in which he had been left ; and evidently had breathed his last but a short time before. He was not frozen his limbs were hardly stiffened he had evidently died from starvation, lNor.Niot'8 Invention. A Washington cor respondent of the New York Aurora thus de scribes an invention which is now in operation in the former city There has been lately constructed at the na tional arsenal here, a contrivance for testing the strength of powder by the recoil of heavy ord nance and the momentum of the shot, which is truly admirable in its way. I will try to con vey to you some idea of this valuable invention, A thirty-two pounder is suspended by an iron pendulum ten or twelve feet long, at the top of which is a heavy bar of the same metal, the extremities of which rest upon smooth iron plates, which arc sustained by strong abutment? of stone. Underneath the gun is placed a seg ment of a circle, regularly grauuatcn, upon which a piece of iron slides, the upper part co ming in contact with the gun. When the cannon is discharged, this piece of metal is pushed, by the recoil, along the scale, and indicates exactly the extent of the vi bra lion of the pendulum. Opposite the alrove, at the distance of about sixty feet, is a similar contrivance, which, instead of a gun, is pmvi ded with a receiver, resembling a large mortar, filled with sand. The ball in passing from the cannon enters the mouth of this mortar and cau ses it to recoil, thus indicating, in the manner before described, the velocity or lorce with which the shot is projected. You will see at once that two important points are thus ascer tained, to wit : the distance which a gun will recoil with a given charge, and the force with which a ball of a given weight can be thrown with a certain quantity of powder. This, it is believed, is the only ilynameU r of the kind in this country, and should you, or any of your rea ders, visit Washington, is well worthy of a vi sit. A Tar-NCMMii's Crop. Col. II. D. Robert- Don, near Clinton, Hinds Ca, with ten hards, made and gathered last year 100 heavy bales of cotton, IKH) bushels of corn, and 15(10 bushels potatoes! He killed some seventy-five large hogs ; stall fed three fine beeves, aa big aa those they paraded about Cincinnati, with a baud of music, and 100 yards ribbands about their horns ; and beside all this, he made the first hogshead of nour krout ever put up in this State ! Nalchet Free Truder. Mexico Mr. Kendull of the Picayune thinks that one of the principal reasons why so many Americans and Enghh leave Mexico with regret, is on account of a custom preva lent among the young ladies of the country, of embracing their male friends when they meet Tnt" Boordart Qurstio and tub Newi.y Discovered Map. The English some time since the conclusion of the late treaty, discover ed a map of the North Eastern Boundary drawn by Dr. Franklin, which, it appears, led their newspapers to charge the American Secretary, &c, with practising, "fraud and treachery" up on their Minister. Another map, being one of those used by the commissioners who agreed on the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and remained in the possession of Jay, one of the American Commissioners, was lately handed to the New Vork Historical Society by Jay's brother's nephew, Peter A. Jay. On this map the Boundary line is laid down precisely as claimed by the United States in the negociations which resulted in the late treaty. If there has been imposition practised, Mr. Ashburton exercised it upon Mr. Webster. The United Slates hac relinquished their right and title to a large portion of territory that re ally belonged to them. Wealth is Boston. The Boston Courier thus speaks of the amount of taxation in mat city : "The highest amount of real estate taxed to one concern is to an individual, $004,000, who is also toxed for $1100,000 personal property ; the second on the list is to a corporation, $572,- 000 ; the third is to an individual, jjslSO.OOO, who is a partner in a concern whose personal estate is valued at $100,000 ; the fourth is to an individual, $475,000, and he pays tax on $ 10.0(H) personal property, besides his share of the personal and real estate of a film of which he is a partner, amounting to $05,000. On real estate there are seventy-seven individuals and companies taxed for more than $100,000. "There are fity-two individuals and compa nies taxed for over f 100,000 personal estate, in addition to real estate, and the highest on the list is a trust, amounting to 500,000 ; and the second is a firm in mercantile business, whose property is estimated at $150,000. Two brothers are taxed $"250,000 each, besides for real estate, and a third brother of the same family for $2'J0,000. Good Lvck. Some workmen engaged in building a wa'.l in the yard of Mr. Benjamin Wilcox, corner of Eleventh and Walnut streets, found yesterday morning about ten o'clock, a canvass bag containing upwards of one hundred and fifty Spanish dollars, all antecedent to the date 1752, buried about four feet under ground. The bag was so decayed that it fell to pieces as soon as it was handled, but the specie was of course as good as ever. Mr . Y ilcox, with Ins accustomed liberality, refused to accept of the three Dcmoc atic papers at Harrishurg the Key money, and it was shared among the laborers, atone. Reporter and G.nette will take place almut four in number. Among the coins was a very rare old silver piece of the Province of .lassa- chusetts Bay, one of the first everatruck in this country, and commonly known as a pine tree shilling. It was purchased by Mr. bamuel Hayes, who no doubt will now take pleasure in exhibiting it to his customers at his grocery store at the opposite corner. Sun. Monument at Tri ho We learn from the Barnstable Patriot, that a monument has been erected at Truro, on Cope Cod, in remembrance of the melancholy loss ol life amongthc citizens of that town in the drcadlul gale of October 3, 18-11. Our readers will recollect lUatffly seven persons perished in thatdikastrousstorm, all of whom resided within the short circuit of two miles. The monument stands in the buriol trrw'nJ the Congregational meeting nnuse. 11 COlisiMS 01 an uuensn ui intuitu mm- ble, with a record of the names of the deceas ed, and other suitable inscriptions. Arother Mexican Outrage. The Ameri can schooner Vigilant, Capt. James Barber, for merly of this city, had been seized and detained by the Mexican authorities while attempting to enter Vera Crur., in a leaky state, the port be ing under blackade. Capt. Barber writes that he was taken prisoner, and his cargo sent to Iiguna. He says further that it was expected at Vera Cru that the American minister would demand his pawnor! n the 1st of April, as the instalment due this country would not probably be paid. Boston Timrs. Mikmno Men. The New Orleans Bulletin says : "At this present writing we are cognisant of the fact that several gentlemen from the in terior, up the river, and 6ome fr m this city have within a week or two past mysteriously disappeared, causing the motit painful anxiety on the part of their friends and relatives. Most of them wero known to have had money about their persons, and it is supposed that they have been decoyed into some den of villuny, waylaid and murdered." New Native Grape The editor of the Natchez Free Trader says that the only white cluster or bunch grape indigenous in the Uni ted States, has been discovered in a remote and unsettled part of I-ake county, or the Voka- nodkanariver. The bunches are very large; the fruit transparent, thin skinned and oval; pulp soft, with three seeds inclosed; it is a great bear er, and of delicious flavor. Only one vine has been discovered. The editor has been promised some cuttings. This v'n.e haa been long known to the Indians, and called the Yokonodkana Grape. l'rtfntinr a Frts:drnl. Tha Grand lury of Travis Co., T, ia, has presented Pia-ideM Hous ton for "inning and excerciaing powr's belong. ing alone to the other coordinate branchts of the Government. ' ' THE AMERICAN. Saturday, Jtfap 13, 1843. fXj- We hae on hand sixty learns of print ing paper, similar in size and quality to the sheet upon which this is printed. Also 36 reama of Hi rer Royal 21 by Sfl inches, which will be sold at coat and carriage, for rash. f5 A i-hort, hut eloquent memoir of the lute dis. lino" "tied naval hero, Commotio?; David Por ted, and several other interesting article-, will l foun I on our first ('age. The North and We-t branch and Susque hanna division of the canal, ate now in fine navi- i u'.lz'., nd tr?1' has actively commenced up on them. We have observed a number of boats j passing, ladened wiih coal from the Wyoming re gion, and boa's are daily freighted at our wharves with coal fr.m the Shamokin mines, for the south ern market. From present indications, the coil trade of the Susquehanna will l prosecuted with vigor during ihe present season. The increased trade ly the wav of the Tide Water canal to Philadelphia, has induced the Steam Tow Boat Company to place new ati smer, the Virginia, on the line, and hereafter tt ere will be a daily tow between Havre de Grace nnd that c tv. Boats have hitherto !een au'iject to eonaideraMe de tention for want of a tow, which will now be ob viated. (Ej,ArroiHTMrT The Canal Commission ers have appointed A. I.. Warford, Eq. Chief En gineer of the State. Mr. Warford was formerly in the employ of the S:i,te ss Chief Engineer, and a better selection could not hate been made. dj- E W. Hirr.TTR. Esq. hsa resigned the sit uation of Deputy Secretary of State. fXj The two German papers at the sent iT Go vernment have been united. The new paper, the result of the onion, is edited by E W. Huetler, Esq , whose known ability as an editor is sure guaran tee that the -Penmilranishe Slants Zeitung" will be worthy of the patronage of the German public. It is ptihl shed on sn imperial sheet, at the low price of f 1 50 per annum. fXj-The Keystone stv, that the union of the the first of June. The paper will he enlarged and improved, and we trust it will be found equal to the State papers of any of our sifter States, Bank of Northuinkrland. This Bank now pays spei ie for all iia old'gati ns except iu relief issues and i'a note are now recei ved at par in Philadelphia. This Bank has always I een under the direction of able snd faithful officers, and although forced into a temporary suspension by the eiigencies of the limes, hss never for a mo ment lost the confidence of the community in which it is locsted. We hope it will soon I a! Ie to resume its tegular business, and afford that relief to business men, which they so much need. State Frintrr. The i lection of this officer, which has been the cause of so much bickering snd railing bargain ai d sale somersets ground and Ate tumbling, a- motig the printers of Hani-burg, snd about which ur legislature vs-ted some eight or ten dsys st the coft f a re ty round sum t "he people, is not yet difinitively t tiled. The Governor has not ap proved of the surt ties of Mr, Isaac McKiuley. the printei elect, and il i said wi'l not, because the e lection did not take place agreiahly to the terms ofibe set of assembly. Without the Governor's spproval of the bond, the Slate piintcr cannot be legally installed in'o office, and distribute i s pro fits between himself and parti era, Messra. Patterson, Brttop, Fenn and McCurdy. The two latter, it will be recollected, are ihe proprietor, of the whig and anltmasnidc presses at the teat of government, and it U understood that they aie each lo receive f 2.000 from Mr. McKin'ey, in consideration of the whig and amimnsoiiic voles which elected him Thev are in gre-l fer of b-sing the fruits of their most excelb ni bargains, and, in concert with the three democrat ;e presses interested in the spoils, keep up a most dolorous cry against the Oosernor We have i.o doubt, hut that (Joieruor I'orl. r will act in this matter according lo hit eonseienli u convii tions of duty, and with his chaucierisiic f ar. less independence, "legardless of denunciations from any quarter." Monty Mattcri. The Money market is much the same as quoted in our last. Relief, according to Uickneli'e Repot ter, is as follows i Kelief Nolea of Penn Township, Moysmensing Msnufaetureis and Mechanics, Lewistown, Beik county, Erie, Northampton, Townnda, Wilkesbarre and West Ursnrh banka. 6Jj7 Pittsburgh hanks, Columbia Dridge Co., f ar mers bank of Lancaster, 6J6 Mechanics batik of Philadelphis, Northern Lilr ties, DeUwsre county, Chester county, Getinsn town, and Farmer bank of Bucka county, par Olhci Relief Notes. CiJ ry Cossicticct. Gov. CisriLiaD (Dem.) raa re-elected on the 4th Instant, by the l.egisla lure, having fai'ed by a few votes, in a choice be foi the people. All the Democratic offiors were chosen at the same time, The last news fiom Europe bad a favorable in fluence on suxks iu New Yotk. MURDER W NEW JERSEY. fXjT The Governor of New Jersey, haa offered a reward of ihree hundred dollirs. and the surviving re'atlves one of one thousand dollars, fir the arrest and convletion of the person or persons who com mitted the following atrocious murder, near Port Golden, Warren co., New Jeraey, on Monday the 1st instant, the particulars of which wa find in an extra from the office of the Trenton State Gazette : "Mr. John B. Pake, an aged man, who for year has had the mania of converting all his pro perty into specie, and the folly of boasting of the amount thus accumulated, lived on his farm a bachelor having in hia house, his brother-in-law, John Castner, who worked the farm his wife and fou-children together with a servant wnmtn. On Tuesday morning the neighbors were thrown into consternation, by hearing that all these persons, except the maid servant, who was not at home the proceeding night, were murdered. They p-ncecd ed to the spot, and found Castner partia'ty thrown into a lime kiln, with his head broken to fragmen'a by a rail, which was picked up near the spit. On entering the house, Mr. Parke was found in hi. bed dead, with t'fst cut from ear to car. His sister, Mrs. Csr-t'er, and the infant at her tide t in like minner murdered, and a little son of 4 or ft year old stabbed in several places and only not dead. There were two o'her children, but they sle t in a distant part of the house unknown, probably, to the murderers. Th house was com pletely plundered, but what wis obtained is un known. Mr. Parke boasted of having a eonsidera b'e qnsntitv of specie, and plunder was undoubt edly trie object of those who committed this hnr rid deed. A coroner's inquest was held on Toes dsy morning, and a verdict rend- red in accordance wi h the adove fact. The only person upon whom suspicion rets, is a tall, stout man in green spectacles, with black whisker, a stranger unknown lo every one, who hid been lingering in the neigh borhood for three weeks, without any known busi ness, and was last seen about two miles from the house on the evening before the murder. Two iersons started in pursuit of him, and it waa sup posed they cou'd overtake him, as the roads are very b-d." Virginia Elections. The result of the lute elections in Virginia ha ving now been nearly ascertained, something like result begins to be seen. Our majority is decrea sed ronsder.ddy in the House, but we ca ried a I tree numlerof members Isst year by accidental causes. This year, however, we have a I irg r ma jority than we had in many years. The following is the result : Cojghxss. Democrats 1 1 Whigs 3 Tyler 1 State entitled to 15 The Richmond Enquirer says, the elected Dele ates to the le gislature now stand Democrats 62, Whigs 52. (counting Morgan) 20 members to ear from (I .st yea', 13 Democrats, 7 Whigs. About 20 Delegates to 1 heard from these may remain ihe same as they did last session except that Henry and Wood may send two Whig, and Harrison t wo Democrats. We mar muster from 10 to (4 majority in the House, and 8 majority in he Senate ss the Wh;gs' phrase ran ome time sgo, this may be 'Sufficient for all useful purposes." Jacob Hhlpman Taken. We copy the following account of the arrest of Sbipman the absconding messenger, from the Ter ra Haute (Indiana) Courier of the 29th ult. In our last we noticed the fact of an iudivjdal, answering the descripiion of the absconding Ship man, having arrived at this place a few days pre vious, having purchased a horse which he paid for in gold, snd started immediately for the West. In consequence of a belief lhat tht individual "as the real Smelts, he waa at onre pursued by Mr. Jos. O. Joms, Dr. Brooks snd Mr. Riciurd Scoc- to of our town. Sin in was trsced without much difficulty, and oveitaken on the 13d inst. at Carl nsville, Mac cupin county, Illino's. He surrendered w ithout r sistance, saying he wss wsiting and glad to lie o- veriaken. He stated that he had made use of no money but that of the Bank, with which hs had paid some debts. That he had done nothing w r .ng and wished lo return. lie wllitalt it is said in the first steamboat go ing down the liver from this place, with the view of going directly to New York. Cancelling ttetler Issnes. OFFICIAL. Turisi st Pre.BTMX.iT,') Ilarrlsburg, April M, 1842. 5 This dav the Tre.au ret caused to be cancelled, and deliver! to the Auditor General, Filtv Thou sand Doll us, issued under set of 4th May, 184 1, by the follow ing named Banka lo wit ; Berks Cnun'y Rank, -Moysmensing Bank, Manufacturer A. Mechanics Bank, Towsnd-t Bank, Penn Township Bank, West Branch Usnk, Erie Dank, 116 362 8.430 6 560 6.400 6.95S 4.474 1 818 fi0,000 The alove amount of Fifty Thousand dollars was cancelled under tha provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, entitled ' sn act lo provide for lha payment of the Domestic Creditors of this Commonwealth, sale of S'ale Storks, and for other purposes," passed 8lh April, 1843. JOB MAN'.N. Tieasur.r. Per A. M. FARQUHAR. Ch. Clk. I acknowledge to have received from the Sta'e Treasurer, for destruction, Gfiy thousand dollar, a- grteably to lha ptovisiona of the act above named. WM. F. PACKER, Aud. Gen. Per J KRAUSE, Chief Cle k. Mr. R dgway'a will divides f 50,000 inrwgecies iiffnm $10,000 (which bis mason gats.) I J500 among b a mechanic, servants, Ac, snd givei the rest ni hia eatats lo bis three children. MISCEltlXT. Editorial, Condenaed and Selected. The Legislature of Rhode Island, under tha new Constitution, asemhted at Newport, on Tues day. The Hon-ton Telegraph talks of a secrect xpe ditinn against Santa Fe. Large numbers of emigrants are pouting into nO'lhern snd eastern Texas. Seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars are paid in Boston per annum, as salaries to Public In struclors. Rhode Inland. Tha Government of this state under the new constitution was to have been organ iied on the 2d instant. A child waa killed In New York, a few days since, by eating the ends of loco foco matches. The Davenport Gatettesays, thst at Burlington thirty-eight crsons enroled themselves to go to Oregon. The same desire is manifested at Iowa city. There are 900 Cotton mills in the United States with an ZZ'-- piUi-f t.';3,0fl3,000 invested. Seventy rock fuh, weighing from 70 to 90 pounds each, were csught last week in tha Potomac, at one haul of the seine. The infant of Madame Perez, of New Oilean, which was so inhumanly treated by a negro girl, who attempted lo poison it, haa recovered. The negro is said to be an idiot. A revoluiiona'y soldier, named John Miles, aged 86 years, waa married in Rankin county. Miss., lo Mrs. Sally Fuzx'e, aged M years. ' Go it while you are young." , More Eurthijiwkt. From let'ers received at New Yoik fiomNew Orleans, by the way of Ha vana, we learn that there has been another Earth qual e at Guadaloupe, which occurred on the 14th of March. The amount of United Siatea Treasury Notes, outstanding on the 1st ii,s'ant, vras fl 1,632,075. At the beginning of April, three women were ex posed on the public pillory in France. A Windall. An industrious French upkoMer, who worked at his trade in Baltimore, received a letter the other day from France, st.ting that a hundred thous mil dollar legacy for him, awaitej his a rival at Paris. Ha immediately took his de parture for that city. It is stated thai Tho4S Moose, Ihe Poet, is en g iged in writing a history of Ireland. A large collection nf immense bones discovered in Benton county. Mo., have been brought tn St. L u;a. They are intended to stock some of the Europe in Mu-eums. Murderrr Sentenced.. In St. Albans, Vl., Eu gene Clifford hss been found guilty of drowning his wife in Fsirfield Pond, in October last, and sentenced tn one year's sol tsry confinement in the Ktate Prison, and then lo be hung. Dead Letter M:nea. It is stalej that in Eng. land before the reduction of the postage, ihe annu al amount of property found in dead letters was shout 443,300. Since the reduction it has only been about 298,000 ! Vie I'nk'ndett Cut of All A lar I oil manu. I ic'urer in Pittsburg, ha a cut over his advertise men', representing two fat hogs eating a whale. Actutted. Godfiey Pope, editor of ihe Louis ville Kentuekian, who lately killed Mr. Ionidas Bliss, hss been acquitted, on the ground that the killing wss in selfdef nee. Steamtouts There are now sixty, me steam boats owned in put or wholly in St. Louis, and en gaged in trade with New Orleans. Georgia Gold Mines. The value of the yield from these mines is compiled at a million of dol lars this year. Intelligence haa reached this country that a Lege body of tailors, painters and clerks hve had meetings in London, and have appointed commit tees to make arrs'ig' ments for their embarkment for the United States and Canada. A late London paper states that Forrest, the ac tor, had len ' nominated for the high and impor tant i ffici- of the President of the United S'.ates." Many nf the negroes engaged in the la'e insurrec tion at H.iv.nno, have been beheaded. It is said that in Asia there is one newspaper for every fourteen million of inhabitants ; in the United Slates one for every tn thousand. Attempt to Assassinate the Mayor QcARTtR or 2, P. M. We stop the press lo announce that an attempt to assassinate the Mayor sit made about a quarter of an hour since. An Ta'ian named Ad lihus Benedict Pi demiua a.ked to see bim, and was shown into his ptivate office, wh re he fired at him wiih a p'stol.f irtunstely inflicting but little injury the bdl s'r king the shoulder blade and glancing. He was immediately taken into custody. Wa sre bappy lo add thst no serious injury is apprehended. The prisoner has been frequently in tha habil of cal ling on Ihe Mayor for the purpose of procuring aid from him in forming a class lo teach Italian. As we learn, Ihe Mayor had juat asked him to be sea ted, and was in the acl of turning to leave the room ; he fired, the ball penetrating the coat and vest, and cutting Ihe supen.lers, but met'ly grating the skin slightly. Several balls and a bullet mould were found on him, with lha pistol. No casta ran be ascertainej for lha deed. I'Mta. Gu. t May 8th. Misaioa to Cams The Boston A ilea says We are su'hoiised In stale, from the most arv questionable authority, that the Hon.'Edwaid Everett, tha Minister of tha Unit-d 8 tales al the Court of London, does not accept the eppointmn of Minister lo Chins, which waa fully eonferret upon him, by tha nomination of lha President o the United Stales, confirmed by lha Senate, Rea aona connected with hia domestic, relations has endouhledly induced Mr. Everett lo this determ nation.
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