Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 44, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 17 November 1832 — Page 1

By David 1. CuIIey. Knil S3 PEP. YEAR 33i PER CENT. DISCOUNT MADE ON ADVANCE, Oil ICS ON 1 1 ALK YEARLY PAYM KNTS 0. VOX.. VIII. I,AWREjCE1BUMGM, (IA.) SATURDAY, MOVEMBEia IT, 1833, ftTo. 441.

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From the London United Service Journal. Matches!, the Pirate. 'Well!" I slid; 'ho is certainly a noble looking fellow, if that bo the famous Mitchell. I have read the lives of the Buccanneers and most of the modern novels, where pirates are commended into generous cut throats; but remember no hero of them all can compare with the picture of this fine fellow. Bulwer himself could scarcely have imagined a more magnificent villain This was about eighteen months since, when I was standing on the wharf, observing

the vessels that arrived with a fine breeze, j sand dollars you have on board, Captain.'

only chance of escape from a band of twenty well armed pirates. Mitchell was accordingly conveyed above to the brig, and entered into C3sy conversation with the Captain. "Well, Captain, what sort of a passage have you had from Kingston?' 'Oh, a tolerable passage. How have you been lately Mr. Mitchell?' 'Very well, indeed; but we are rather short of money now about Cuba.' 'Ah! every body is short of that; times never were so bad reallv.'

'Well, I must just borrow those ten thou-

and anchored in succession abreast of the

city of Charleston, in South Carolina. A tall and most remarkable person approached the spot where I was standing, and where a single sailor within a few yards was similarly engaged watching the vessels that moved about the harbor. The stranger appeared to be in the prime of life, though somewhat weather beaten, and his tall, erect and singularly commanding person, with an enquiring eye, rendered him an object of instant attention. He was in the dress of a seafairing per?on, with a round jacket, the buttons of which displayed an anchor, and his flowing white trowsers and large Havanna hat induced me to suppose that he was a naval officer. Ho approached the sailor, and I overheard the following dialogue: 'Do you want to ship, my friend?' 'I don't know; where is she bound?' 'Oh! never mind where she is bound. I want six good men ; and FI1 give an advance of fifty dollars, and fifty dollars a month.' 'She carries guns, I suppose?' 'Why, the guns are amongst the ballast till she gets outside--you understand?' 'Yes; but I think I have seen you before. What's your name, if it's a fair question?' 'Mitchell is my name.' 'Did you ever sail out of Baltimore?' 'Yes, I commanded a Columbian privateer out of Baltimore.' 'So I thought. I know you very well Mr.

Mitchell: You area pirate. I got a ball through my left arm out of your schooner when we drove you off the James Taylor, Indiaman. You stood off and on at the mouth of the Chesapeake waiting for her, and I was one of the fortv men that the ownera sent down in a pilot boat, to see her out of soundings. You had to up stick and run, you know.' 'Oh I I see you arc a fool.' 'All! you want six good men, do you? Clear out you b y villain.' Thereupon the tall stranger did sidle off, and disappeared round the bow of a vessel

close by. I then advanced to the sailor and learned from him that this was the renowned Mitchell, who for years carried terror to the remotest corner of the 'Gulph of Mexico. 'He is in low water now,' said the tar: 'as he has nothing left but a little fine toggery; and I expect he is trying to knock up another gang. He came over passenger in that sloop yonder from Nassau, New Providence, and I'll bet my soul he wants to run away with her; but I'll go and give them a hint.' I afterwards ascertained that Mitchell was a native of Belfast, of most respectable pa

rentage; but of the intervening periods of

life, until his career of piracy commenced, I could learn nothing. He appears to have carried on his Diratical operations upon the

Gulph of Mexico, and passed through a va

riety of strange adventures, through all of

which he is said to have preserved high no

tions of honor, and a gentlemanly manner of

committing the most atrocious robberies. He was, indeed the Robin Hood of the Gulph of Mexico. For a long period he

was encamped on a rocky point of land, at

the northwestern extremity of the Island of Cuba, commanding a gang of eighteen men, amongst whom, though assisted only by a single lieutenant of a character for determination similar to his own, he is said to have maintained the most slavish submission to his will. He usually sallied out of his rocky hiding-place in a sixteen oared boat; by the superior management of which in calm weather, he could approach under the quarter of a vessel without danger from a single gun. Upon one occasion, Mitchell

had received information that a certain vessel was loading in the harbor of Kingston, in Jamaica for an English port: a seaman tvho had come over to Cuba declaring that he had seen the sum often thousand dollars in boxes stowed away in the bread-room.

Knowing the time at which the brig would sail from Kingston, and consequently, when she would round the northwestern extremity of Cuba, a strict watch was kept for her appearance, and accordingly upon a calm evening, a little after sunset, a vessel with her marks was seen gliding along the course

about five miles from land. The sixteen oared boat was soon cutting through the sea, filled with twenty well armed men and a small swivel in the bow. The brig was rapidly neared, and Mitchell hailed her as follows : 'Halloo! brig , ahoy; how do you

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count, marrying a young woman with money; and for two years he carried on a flourishing business in this line at Mobile. After that time, however, it became pretty generally known whom the sail-maker was, and the merchants of Mobile, not knowing how to secure their vessels might be against the i machinations cf such a man, or what associates might secretly be around him, determined upon withdrawing their support from him as a sail-maker, and in various other ways to induce him to depart from the place, lie was accordingly banished in this manner from Mobile and passed over to the Bahama Islands, whence he came to Charleston, in the sloop which the sailor pointed out. What his intentions there were, appeared very plainly from his conversation on the wharf, but having occasion to leave Charleston on the following day, I never heard farther of his adventures. Expressing

afterwards much surprize at the public ap

pearance of th;s well known piratical adventurer, I was informed that the extreme difliculty of procuring satisfactory evidence,

rendered prosecution lor piracy almost una

mmcnt peril and alarm, requiring the instant j As the legislature Ins disappointed our rxinterposition of the soundest heads and J pectations and defeated our palcuhtion hv purest hearts m the country for the common refusing to enact a law to - id tl nVilnr M TT tt n i;"7'- lh-v cscrti0S5 f ,h0 "cictv, i Xow be! 'Ihe Hon. Henry Dens was re-elected rn:n nrrrn- r.r i Vi

My dear sir, I have not ten thousand far

things in the whole brig.' 'Oh, yes! now you have: they are in five boxes marked J. J. stowed away in the bread-room. Bear a hand, and let us have it up, because it is growing dark, and my men will be up the brig's side to look for it if you doivt save them the trouble.' Upon this the boxes were speedily produced, and lowered into the boat; Mitchell saying that he would walk into the cabin,

and give the Captain a receipt for the money vailing, and that the passing cf the Island of

winch he was so kind as to lend him. He ; Cubr

pcaker of the Senate, and Henrv L. Pinck

ncy cf the House of Representatives. Gov. Hamilton's Message was received immediately, and referred to a joint committee of both Houses. The Committee, en the next morning, reported a Bill calling a Convention of the people of the State, "to consider and determine on the TuriH question." The bill proposes that on the second Monday and Tuesday in November ensuing, cachdistrict and parish shall elect a number of delegates, equal to their number of senators and representatives in the Legislature, to me et at Co

lumbia, on Monday, the lVlh proximo.

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to avail Uicmselvea ol all their resources and to r.ppoal to the liberality and public spirit cf individuals fir additional pecuniary means, it is all important that the impulse already given to the spirit of emigration should not be checked or disappointed, but that those anxious to depart to the land of promise, should be furnished with an immediate opportunity, and that the state of Tennessee should net be behind her sisters in tlie west, in the promotion of an enterprise so important to every description of people; so .eminently calculated to nromoto the welfare and e'levate l -""mijn of tho

Ultitonis nNJ at IMlUO tUHO tO CwlK.I

hy tins bill, the convention will be se- bute to tho increased prosperity and securilectcd precisely in the form of the legisli- ty of our community. Xashvillc Uanncr.

ture, and consequently, even it l:i j elections

declared that he had a very great respect for the Captain, and would be sorry that any inconvenience should befal him with his owners for lending the money to a friend, and, therefore to clear him from blame, he wrote the following receipt: 'Off Cuba. , IS. 'Received of Cap. ; , of the brig

, the sum of ten thousand dollars,

marked J. J. which I have not time to count,

but do not doubt that it will prove correct.' 'J. Mitchell.' He then, as if really concerned for the Captain, drew out a purse cf one hundred guineas, which he ottered to him, saying that it would be some recompense if he should lose his birth by this adventure; this the Captain refused as a favor to himself, but would be glad to reserve the money for his owners. Mitchell, however, said he had no respect for owners, who were always insured above the mark; "but this watch," producing a most splendid one, "'will perhaps, suit you better than the money, Captain?" The Capt. however would accept neither money nor watch unless to be given up to his owners. Mitchell then shook

hands wishing the brig a pleasant voyage, and stepped into the boat with the ten thousand dollars, was conveyed to his own party, who were waiting at a little distance; and after a gentlemanly gratuity to the sailors of the brig who rowed him, the sixteen-oarcd

boat disappeared towards tho shore and the brig proceeded on her way.

Mitchell remained at his encampment

upon the Island of Cuba till he obtained in

adventures, similar to the preceding, money sufficient to load his sixteen oared boat to

the water's edge, and then determined to leave off his piratical career, and pass into the United States: he now thought however

that a boat load of money, though a good

fortune for himself and his lieutenant, would make a small figure when divided amongst

the entire ot twenty men. The lieutenant was of the same opinion, and that on a calm day, Capt. Mitchell and himself might easily

carry the sixteen-oared boat and tiie boxes of money to the Florida shore, without any assistance from the gang; and moreover it would be quite as well to cut off pursuit, lest thee fellows when disappointed of their share of the booty, should revenge themselves by turning evidence against them; "but on the other hand, dead men," said the lieutenant, "tell no tales." The two officers then determined upon destroying the whole gang'and by ordering them in various

detached parties for pretended purposes of bringing wood, water, and other supplies to the camp, Mitchell and the lieutenant actually murdered the whole gang and reached the coast of Florida, whence they coasted along the Mississippi river, for the purpose

of ascending to the city oi New-Orleans. Here, however, their golden dreams were suddenly dashed to pieces; for the strange appearance of a sixteen-oared boat, loaded with boxes, and navigated by only two hands, attracted observation from the banks of the

river, and when Mitchell and the lieutenant

Cuba into the power of a great maratimc

naticn, is the only effectual method ol suppressing the desperadoes of the Gulph of Mexico.

rKDIITIVE DOIXGS IX PENNSYLVANIA. In lv333, William Penn established a Post

Office, (probably the first on the North American Continent,) and appointed Henry Waldy, of Sackony, Post-master, with authority "to supply passengers with horses from Philadelphia to Newcastle, or to the Falls of Delaware." He fixed the rates of

postage thus: "Letters from the Falls to Philadelphia, 3d. to Chester, 5d. to Newcastle, 7d. to Maryland, lid." The Post went once a week, ami its movements were regularly published "on the meeting house door, and other public places." As early as 1GS1, there were about eight hundred persons in regular attendance on first and week days, at Friend's Meeting in Philadelphia. This was remarkable for a

are contested, will be but the same body in

another form. Tiie Union party having determined to offer no candidates, the Nuliiliers will have tho whole matter to themselves. The message of Governor Hamilton contains no new views upon the question. He simply congratulates his party on their triumphs throughout tho State, in the late elections, and announces brieily the grounds of his hostility to the Tariff act of last ses

sion.. He declares it to be a sacrifice of nil the just claims of the South to be 'at war with every acknowledged principle of wise and clli ient taxation' and declares that if

the 'Southern States had been subjugated j

provinces, and had surrendered under the

sword,' the 'conquerors' would h.ive desired no other ill than that of 1N'1, lie recommends the call for a convention, without any reference Jo the measures to be projected in that body. JuWf cation, however, understood. Tiie Columbia Telescope, the leading organ of the nullifiers, treats these resolutions in the following threatening terms, by which are plainly signified pains and penalties bills of attainder confiscation of estates

-it may be death on the seal

people who were contending with the vari

ous difficulties incident to oneninc the wil- imprisonment

derness. No wonder tlsev urosnered. i

In 1G1K5. the Yeavlv lUnrtin-r ndonted ''To this cautious and determined mode

measures to discourage the introduction of I ration of a Parl tint is now the State, w

TU cjicacy of Hie Can.phcr trcat.r.rrJ, again. One of our most "respectable citizen: fends r.s tho following additional evidence of the excellence of Cdiajwor in arresting the Cholera. 7 the Editor j cf t!:c Hi aeon (i i:tli ::-u:.: You c-umot render a great, cr scivice to this community, than bv making public the great benefit derived iiom ths

of (';.;:". or in d i-troying the baneful eliVcts f Chokn. Veteid.iy a friend of mine had a tioU'nt attack, to whom I immediately gave j'v? drops f the Syi.'ttg.of f '(;;;;r, dropped on Sugar with very lilt Its water, in a table epcou, vl:ch was repeated in h.aif an hour, when it gave relief. The ih.rc drops were rgahi repeated in one hour tiro drops an hour .'.fier.v.rd; rial then one drop the next hour next d:iy a dose of

trustor U.I w inch product d a complete cure. Please uive the above nulliciiv in

vour own wav, and oblige.

A SUBSCniBEU. Norfolk, August 13, lSo'J.

slaves; this concern was renewed on the re-

must avow in the strongest terms, that such

lcmi:rlnllc fact i t Antural History. The Turf lleg:ster contains a communication from a gentleman in Virginia, fietn which the following is c.xtr;:cttd.

-l ' i j c man. wt.

of Cmnhcr-

turn of William Penn to the Province from i cascs as l!wt presented by the last proceed-

England, in 1700. The monthlv meotiii" ! inor 01 1110 Uiarleslon Lniou party, should

land county, Vu. l::.s a p( ?id well replenished with what arc denominated hero Jr.mcs River, or N. Carolina Chub; they are a veracious fish, in disposition like the pike or jack. They feed on almost every kind of fish which they devour greedily, and exterminate, like pirati s, every other fi.-h th:t

of Philadelphia in that year thus make re- j lonn an exception. If it be no more than cord: "Our dear friend and governor havin a11 expiring ctfurt offuolishlj rancoious hate

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iaiu uuimt; ui & u cui a concern, mat inui ' t ....v n ... ... J4, ............ , ,,.:! u , i.:. c : ' ! the aonius of tho mm- P.m. if tbm- rrVdr i u'm wU Uu J,M'J vauiiu the.: tou-ieagii

1 . 1 1 ' 1. , mo-Au wbr-.t tW qm- n,.,t .!,. I',,;....-! ft-.o- 'Htic imisLietioii. I was at the house

10 uio negroes aim lnmans, mar. menus . " .. ,

kii in., jninv. lu.ut aunt liii-JiUOm u, uim py a singular whistle, and one peculiar to himself, he can cull up every ji?h, little nnd big, of the chub kind, to the margin of his pond, where ho feeds l!: m with minnows, iiogs, worm?, and they are so docile r.r.d so well trained, that their owner cm ps&s around his pond, end allured by his whistle, they will play in gambol?, and follow him in his circles, lie can, after feeding them, and they are disposed to ruminate, titillate their

sides while tucy are suspended, apparently dosing en the surface of the pond."

ought to be very careful in discharging a j s to say iUassacisttscits, Kliotfo islam!, good conscience towards them in all res-! or Connecticut) not Carolina is their counpects, but more especially for the rood of' try tIiat they owe no affection nor al-

ir souls, upon consideration whereof this xific u iney say im.s, anu suymg cting concludes to anoint a meeting for i U' ACT vi:0!l s' aml proceed to set nt defi

ance tnc conttitutcd acfnontics cj t!ua rcahi of South Carolina, it will be lime to teach

the council that I llieni lnt l'ie lalc whose l ip they have alhe Almanack set i rcay 100 0I1S encumbered, can itinkc than

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meeting conciuues to ap

negroes, to be held once a mouth." On the 10th of the 11th month, 1GS3,

the secretary reported to

in ';thc chronologic of the

forth by Samuel Atkins, near Philadelphia, there were these offensive words to wit: "the beginning of government here by Lord Penn.1' The words, 'Lord Perm,1 were ordered to be struck out, and tiie printer charged not again to print any thing on this wise which had not the licence of the common council.'

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'Very well, Sir; 1 cm obliged: but I have

not the pleasure of knowing you, though you a-r ouito correct in mv name.'

'I am Mr. Mitchell. Lower your boat, Cn plain, come OT board and take a n!S3 of wine with you.'

The boat was accordingly lowered, for the

landed for supplies at a village a few miles below New Orleans, the boat was suddenly

filled with a body of Police, and the worthies were glad to leave their ill gotten treasure, and escape into the neighboring woods.

Mitchell was now pcnnyless again, and lurked for some time in the city of NewOrleans, narrowly watched by the police, for his remarkable person rendered it difficult to conceal himself; but being secreted by women, with whom he was connected, the

exertions of the police to discover him were

long unavailing. upon one occasion information was received thatMitclie.ll was in the hut of a brown woman, in tho environs of the city, to which the police forthwith repaired, but not beinsr covetous of an encoun

ter with a man of his prowess, they determined upon discharging a volley ot musketry into tlie house. Mitchell received a ball through his arm from this discharge, but before another volley could be sent in, he sprang out of the window and escaped into

During the first month in this year, in j

consequence ol tiie cold and wet, upwards of a hundred and twenty beggars died about the streets of Canton. It is said that in Cantan, there arc good and bad, real. and pretended, as mariv as

The founders second arrival at Philadcl-! -i3,100 physicians, phia in lti'Ji) is thus noticed, "Friends love j Tor about thirty days the sun has not to the governor was great and sincere, j shone, the wet and cold have raised the They were glad to see him again. Directly ' price of fuel and oil, of rain caps and water from the wharf he went to his deputy, paid ; shoes. him a short formal visit, and from thence, j We are sorry to say that a party of Amcriwith a crowd attending, proceeded to meet- j can gentlemen, nine in number, were riling, it being about o o'clock on first day tacked and beaten a few days since, while afternoon, where he preached to the people, j walking on un island about two miles disand praying, concluded it. i taut from this city. One was felled bv a

William Penn, among other instructions j stone and much hurt: he has, however, we to tire three commissioners which he ap-j are happy to say, entirely recovered, pointed to "settle a great town,' directs as ! Canton (China) lqcr. follows: "Let every house be placed in the t n -t, - - l. 1 11 .1" !i. . 1 a . 1 . 1 1 . ! f I

m.ouie oi us pian, as 10 me ureauin way oi , ,y exceedingly regret tho failure in our

ii, uiai uiv.ii. imj uv. giuium u . cui.il siuu i lejjjgn,. auiiiLsi the hurrav and confusion

ior garuens, or orcnaru

may be a green country

never be burnt, and alw

ine nrsi prnumg press was sot un m , ...... ,i .

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llvcclcd into JVoAt. Dr. Portal, in high repute as a phyicLn, recently died in Paris. When he began buiine?:?, knowing that in a great capital like Par's, quackery enswers well enough for ihme without talent?, the Doctor determined for once to make it servo the pa; pi se of m lit. To this end he ordered his man to knock at :.ll the hotel. in the city, and enquire fbr Dr. Portal. No one, of course, knew any thing cf Dr. Port: !, but by frequent repetition of his icune, nnd stunrn d by the noise of the knockers, people' began to supeet he was joino tb'o man

in bis line, and for ence tlu conjecture was VM.b.f

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ground on each side ! ieg;sialurc amiiksi the hurray and confusion ds, or fields, that it! ot the last day's session, of an important ry town, which wi 1 ! incagsirCi uhidl hud l)iSSt.j s,f,lv? alllJ al. rays be wholesome. ' most xvil;i0Ut opposition, through uli the pre-

h tsa was up in ':.,.. t-i:,,;, via r. i: otr.d on Wi loin!

Pennsylvania, m litea, by vilham Brad-' and lat Iv,lting ;n l2 Senate bv a majorih lord, lie resided at fcnacamaxon, (now : ot-ouc Yolc Wc allucio to t10'bill uwki ' Kensington,) tne scene ot tnc great Treaty. a gmall appropriation to aid the Colonizn tioi

iae- mat wuift. pnine-u mere was me aima- nt.niv u oiW rAv.ur thn o.nj.rrafion .it tV-r-

Wlliv.il (.umaiutu 011Ciibi0 WOIUS "Lord Perm,'" as above noticed. The Friend.

persons of color, who are now waiting with anxiety for an opportunity to depart from

this state lor the colony ot Liberia, bcavcelv any act passed during the session is

fcOuili CAROLINA. j fraught with more important consequences The extraordinary session of the Lcgis- to the present and future generations, th in lature of t?outh Carolina, called by Govern- would have been the measure referred to. or Hamilton, for the purpose of perfecting Its passage would have insured, without any the scheme of Nullification, commenced at ! inconvenience to the slate, tho immediate Columbia, oa Monday the 2Jd inst. The ! removal from diil'erent parts of Tennessee aspect which it presents is of so much im- j of a considerable number of emigrants, and portance to the whole country, that we shall j would have given such an impulse to tho feel bound to follow and record its proceed-1 spirit of emigration as would have led to tho

ings. A new doctrine, startling in its char- rapid and early departure of all, or nearly

all, the tree persons of color in the state.

Captain of the vessel now perceived that I fill in w::h the humor of his visiter, was th

tne bushes. He next made his appearance at the town cf Mobile , at which place he supportct. himself some time by working in a sail lolt, a business at which, though probably not breu

to

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acter, and threatening the gravest conse

quences to the peace and integrity of the whole country, is about to be put into forcible practice by the power of a whole state, exerted by her entire population, through the regular forms of her constitution. State

! interposition, to destrov the action of the

i eUe-ral uovernment in tho exercise of a special power, held to be legitimate by a

lai-u m.ijuui) o: urj siaie?, H about to be

PRO UK L A V .i A h i 1 UN. Whoir as, moar over iieertheh p, the sclybratid 1'irc-Kiug is dun awl most impessibuil forts in swallow in hot sluf, eat in red hot rno-bawls, to the aistcnishmcnt ov twl

boo sees him, un il cuv bodv will coiv.o where 1 D, ile hWulk.w the follow in ailykles, aboout ::s quick az Daw Crcckct coed eat a red hot jotmy kukc: lore hogsitsbilin hot sopc, ted hot kro burs by the acur, red hot

potas.iby the tun, seven stccm botes pus&mgcrs and awl Itv l ob sleds, wun spinnm jinny, t0 red hot PRINTERS Devili, 0 live skuks; wun rale rode, h if dozen whayl thijis, wun iron foundry, tew hegsits uv bidur, '10 doses jalbp, tew nalo i'ctry's, tiO krabapple trees, 0 'bushels bull frogs, M miles of tiie iocki mounting; 13 weeks of tin hotest wether in Janawary, U barrels of gun

powder, do live sturgcitf, l mad.i.cgs, wuu sea surpint, tew dog churns, f saw mil?, CO hair traps, (all set,) (J raw ktilms, 5 pacin hawses to settle my stomnck. If any bodo kan beet that I gets they'll shukin them air

yankecs down east, and that b cts awl n itur.

JOi; .S i RICivLAND, Jr.

part from New Orleans this sjason, liden with western emii'Tants, fnd tlie applications

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r U u u.,c c iirt to be vcrv expert, anu ; uncrteu trcm speculation into action. l:om are numerous lrom oiit-.rent prts ct tli:.

con opened as a sail-maker en hi3 own ac-'a theory to be discussed, into a stato of im-1 state to be included among

The managers of the Colonic ition So

ciety of Tennessee arc struggling to accomplish a great object, and amidst all the discouragements and embarrassments which attend their efforts, wo trust they will persevere and do all that tiie energy r.nd zeal of a few men can elfect. A vessel is to de-

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Pennmjhznia Election Remits.'

Democrats are elected to Ccugiet ; 8 Chy iiKn r.r.d 5 Anti-Mr-sm:?. Democrat?, .'J daymen and ) Anti-Masons ccn.pHJ the Senati'. d0- Democrats; ol Jwi-Masons and Chymcn tempi y the House of Heirresentatives. Sevenl of the gentlemen elected by the CI ty patty are wi'.tmf.ierule of i-M.vcvuor Wolf, and will :.&-?!vt in su:Ha:u;i2 the mearjres ef h:, t -!it! mrri.vafgk C!rcr. Iclc.