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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BV WILLIAM A.CAMERONA NCW SONG. Xcne "The Campbells are Comin The Van-Jacks are coming! Hurra! Hurra! The Van-Jacks are coining! Huzza! Huzza! The "loaves" ami the "fishes" are cut and dried, And nothing remains but to count and divide, From North and South from East and West, They come by command of the "greatest and best," Through mud and mire, and wet and dry, To raise the Van-Jack standard high. The Van-Jacks are coming! Hurra! Hurra! The Van-Jacks are coming! Huzza! Huzza! They're coming and shouting, Encore! Encore! What bold Uucker shouted at Baltimore. From hill and dale from mountain height From river and lake by day and night Let every good Democrat (!) shout, to a man. Hurrah! for old 'Cumseh and "sweet little-' V an. The Van-Jacks are coming! Hurra! Hurra! The Van-Jacks are coming ! Huzza! Huzza! They're coming to silence these querulous Whigs, And provide good beds for their own little pigs. The snarling Nullies may grumble and growl The Woolfifeh Whiggies may cry and howlWThatcare the whole-Hoggers for all their noise I Hurrah! for old Dick and the Van-Jack boys. The Van-Jacks are coming ! Hurra! Hurra! The Van-Jacks are coming! Huzza! Huzza! They're coming to prove that there is no sham In saltings preserving and hoisting a ham. Old Lucas defended the rights of the State, And quarreled with Cass at a terrible rate Po down with Lucas, and up with the man Who will "stand to the trough" for our Cajs and V an. The Van-Jacks are coming! Hurra! Hurra! The Van-Jacks are coming! Huzza! Huzza! The-re coming to teach every rascally lF ed" How "patriots" act with a fan at their head. The Harrison Whiggies are simpleton doltsState Right Whites but untrained colts The Webster Feds but a sorrowful clan Hurrah! for Dick Johnson and Kinderhook Van! The Van-Jacks are coming! Hurra! Hurra! The Van-Jacks are coming! Huzza! Huzza! They're coming to regulate low and high, And distribute the "spoils" to the hungry sty. No more of your prating 'bout Liberty's cause, And coed Constitutions and well ordered Laws The conquered spoils are "th' rights ot man, Hurrah! for old 'Cumseh and "sweet little" an : The Van-Jacks are coming! Hurra! Hurra! The Van-Jacks are coming! Huzza! Huzza! they're coming like occean floods wave upon waveHurrah ! for the Thames and old Dicky the brave . Here's a hurra for Cats and another for Hamm And Hurrah, if you choose, for Seringapatam ! t-, ..om.rlnrtnr Rurker and everv cood man. Hurrah! for ourselves, boys! and Hurrah, for V AN , MISCELLANEOUS. NIGHT, ON BOARD A SHIP OF WAR. . "Night came, and now eight bells had rung." The cabin lamp has expired. Before me is a solitary candle,my faithful inkstand, aud my "vade mecutn" in the form of a port folio. The wind is fresh from the South; tho ship moves along at an easy rate though every now and then the bows encounter a wave, that seems to jar her whole frame. It is i pleasant eailling, with the straits of Gibraltar four hundred miles distant. But hark! "eight bells." Tis midnight. This tells you "the watch" must be changed the man at the wheel relieved the ship pumped, and the log hove to determine the rate'ef the vessel's motion. The second oflicer has yanwned; and from the sound, is turning over; and now Jack's sharp voice, peculiarly modified by the wind, strikes my ear as he cries to the slumbering inhabitants of the forecastle, "Star-board watch, ah-o-o-o-y eight bells turn ouU-sleepers, do ye hear there ?" It seems they are awake and moving. The second mate has gone on deck rubbing his eyes; and already I hear Dick giving up the wheel to Tom, who responds to him in a harsh tone "east-by-south half south nothing off;" the sailor with the glass has called out "Up," and the pumps are going with their peculiar intonations, three long strokes and an interval. The deck has become quiet again, except the creaking and clanking of the chain over my head, and the'measured tread of the officer of the watch. Come, suppose go on deck a moment; perhaps you never have been there at this hour. It is novel and pleasant, I assure you. You seek the windwardside of the ship, instinctively lean on tho rail, and cast the eye intently around, above, and at the atom which sustains you. You are impressed with awe and sublimity. Tis night and nothing but the trt7i expanse Of ocean, deep and dismal, now appears On all sides round; the firmament hangs full Of stars that with a flood of glory glare Upon the night, and make nocturnal day : The solitary vessel sweeps along The graceful rolling wave. Enjoy this awhile, and then call thought to the little world that floats you. 'The wind is on the beam," and the yards are well braced. The officer wrapt in a monkey-jack et and surmounted by a "nor'wester," has ceased to walk the deck, and is at your side. Now and then you see his healthy American brighten, the dense and fragrant fumes of which as often follow in columns from his mouth and nostrils. Ever and anon his eye is turned "aloft" to the sails and polar star, and you are startled occasionally bv his sudden and bold exclamation to the helmsman, "near," or "pon, to wnicn resomiua tne gruff voico of Tom, "near sir,-7 or "port, ivith an inri-MSRd creakini? at the wheel. sir," Now

let, us go forward. "The watch" is awake, except Jack, whose "corporosity" is at full length behind the "cook's gaily." On the windlass, vis a rts, are seated Jim and Bill leaning on "the fiferail," with their legs gathered under' them. They are "spinning long yarns" about Kate and Suo,and all that sort of thing. Thus we find tho night-watch employed tho

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officer with an eagle eye surveying the sails and clouds, and seeing that the ship is kept "her course" the helmsman steadfastly observing the compass and exercising the wheel; and the others "on the look out," whiting away their vigils by the narration of auto-biograpies and threadbare talcs. From the New Orleans Courier; Dec. 24. LATEST FROM TAMPICO, Horrid Butchery of the 23 Prisoners taken from Jilehia's Expedition. We are informed by a passenger arrived this morning in the brig Attakapas whence she sailed on the I7th inst., that 23 Americans, 3 Frenchmen, and 2 Germans were shot there a few days before his departure. The object of the Mexicans was not only to kill them, but to make them suffer as much as possible before this was effected, ror this purr pose, their guns were fired within a few paces of their bodies, and aimed at those parts which would not cause instantaneous death; in this way, gome of them were shot ten or fifteen times beforo life became extinct. Our informant further says that their clothes were set on fire by the wadding of the Suuol mine and sunerea to hum on tnem. Amonrr the number shot, were two youths, apparently about 17 years ot age. A large pit was then dug, and after these unfortunate but brave men were stripped of their shoes and boots, they were thrown in indiscriminately. A few moments before they were shot, one of them, an American, implored the guards, in the presence of a priest, for a drink of water, which was refused I It will be recollected that Mehia's expedition was fitted out at this place. Among those who were shot, we learn the names of William II. Morris, J. Ives, and a Mr. Demausen, who in a particular manner, distinguished himself with a courage and a firmness seldom equalled. On his executioners wishing to tie a bandage round his eyes, he indignantly repulsed them. "Do you think" said lis, "I am afraid to look death in the face? No! rl die the death of a matyr of liberty." lie then ordered the soldiers to shoot, and on the first fire, more fortunate than the rest, he was killed. We are told that he djd every thing to inspire his comrades with courage and resignation; and to meet their fate as became men. Two hours before the execution Mr. D. wrote a song to the air of the Marseilles Hymn, which he sang from the jail to the place of execution. The song was in French. Wo are further informed that martial law had been put in force the utmost consternation prevailed amongst all the foreigners they considering their lives and property unsafe. Indeed, the lower classes of the people had threatened to rise en masse, and murder the whole of them. A Conducta for Tampico, with 900.000 dollars of specie, said principally to belong to merchants of INew Orleans, had been stopped at St. Louis, by or der of Santa Anna. Another with about 00,000 dollars, arrived safe at Tampico, a part of which has been brought to this place by the Attakapas, There was not a single armed vessel of any nation at Tampico. The Americans complain a great deal of this neglect of our government, their lives and property being thus at the mercy of the Mexican rabble, who, it is said, are always ready on any occasion of popular excitement to rob foreigners. Since the above was in type, we have conversed with several respectable merchants who have received letters from Tampico, who represent the cir cumstances of the death of the 28 men who were shot, as entirely different from what we have stated, and that the barbarity which our iuformant alledges against the Mexicans, in this case, is quite unfounded. Our endeavor is always to arrive at truth, but when we are compelled to take verbal information it "is very difficult. We therefore give our account for what it is worth, without vouching for its general authenticity. We, the undersigned prisoners of war, condemned to be shot on Monday next the 14th inst. at 7 p. m. by a military court martial, conformable to the established custom of the country, and composed of officers of the Mexican army, .ho sentence being read and interpreted to us on Saturday at 4 p. m. by captain Alexander Faulac of said army, as our last dying words, do declare ourselves innocent of the charge of either participating or colleaguing with any person or party, having for its object the revolutionizing or disturbing in any manner the tranquility of the government of Mexico, and that the testimony given before the honorable court of enquiry will corroborate this declaration, the facts and circumstances being briefly as follows: That abont 130 men, composed of Americans, French and Germans, two-thirds of which being ot the first named class including those who are natives of foreign nations but naturalized embarked on the 5th Nov. last, on board tho American schooner, Mary Jane, Capt. Hall, said to have been chartered or employed by a committee, of which Mr. Wm. Christy, of New Orleans, was tho agent, to convey emigrants to the Texas, then understood to be at variance with the 3Iexican government. This opportunity afforded iiany in pecuniary circumstances a passage free, which was readily embraced and accepted of. The terms agreed upon were, that it was optional whether the party took up arms in defence of Texas or not; that they were at full liberty to act as they pleased when landed on the Texian shore. That taking advantage of this favorable opportunity they accordingly embarked the vessel proceeded on the voyage, and nothing transpired to indicate a belief but that all was right as it should be, until the 6th day we were out from the tialize, altho it had been previously understood that a general with his officers or staff, was on board the vessel, whose design was to act in concert with the Texians, and induce us to join him. Of this however we received no certain assent, but the truth is Tampico was our destination and an attack on the city, the design, which was now evident, and not before the land being in sight and the vessel standing in, it was announced that it was Tampico; that the steamboat then also in sight would have us in tow, and Tampico would be in our possession. Elated with this harangue proceeding from the authority through the instrumentality of capt. Hawkins, one of the aids of Gen. Mehia, some were in duced to join his standard, but of those the number could not have exceeded 50, thirty-five of whom were French and Creoles, of New Orleans, who doubtless had a previous understanding, they being exclusively privileged, having the quarter deck to themselves and seemingly armed and equipped prematurely. The boat had us in tow soon, and all that could bo crammed below were driven there until she struck the bar, and the steamboat soon afterwards. In this awful predicament night closing on us, the sea breaking over us, efforts were made to reach the shore, which at imminent danger was ef fected safely, and were all landed during the latter part of the night and early part of the morning of the tollowimr dav. A formidable fort surrendered without an attack, and we built fires to dry our clo thing. The party were now tendered arras and amumtion. and never having been soldiers before, some probably took them from curiosity, others from ne cessity and others from compulsion; and it is asserted and believed that no one person was or had been

acquainted with two others of the number of us, so added to the hurry and bustle of the officers, that before we could have an understanding we were commingled and bundled together more like a drove of swine than a company of soldiers competent to act as such, particularly against regular trained soldiery. At about 5 r. m. on Sunday we were formed and made ready for the attack having added to our number about from 35 to 50 citizens, soldiers or adherents, and which were all judged to be Mexicans, a number being fellow prisoners with us, but without trial to this moment. Having no other resource we were necessarily compelled from obvious reasons reluctantly to join the party, with a full determination not to act in concert with it, but submit ourselves as prisoners of war, having no design or intention to fight, and without one single exception every individual of the undersigned, from motives of conscience and oppression added to the shameful abduction or deception practised upon us, and chose to throw ourselves on the clemency and mercy of the authorities. And this being the substance of our testimony before the court, yet notwithstanding, mark the result which has terminated not in an ignominous, but christian like death.

Trusting in God and bearing in mind his promise, anu witn our trust n his mercies, we die both as chrrstians and men. We have now but nine hours allotted us, and conclude hastily by requesting all who may hear of our fate to entertain no erroneous impression. List of persons under sentence of death by order of a military tribunal, held at Tampico, tojbe shot on the 144 Dzc. 1835; Arthur N. Clement, native of Pennsylvania, aged 40 years no parents. Thomas Whitaker, do dq do 30 father in Pennsylvania. Vm. C. Barclay, native of New York, aged 20 parents in New York. Jacob Morrison, do. do 21 ? parents in Kentucky. Edward Mount, do do 23 mother in the state of New York. Charles Gross, native of Pennsylvania, aged 33 mother in Pennsylvania. Isaac F. Leeds do New Jersey, aged 20 no parents. Mordecai Gist, do Maryland, aged 53 father in Maryland. His own last residence Indiana. David Long native of Ohio, aged 25 mother in Ohio. Wni. II. Mackay, native of Virginia, aged 20 mother in Virginia. James K. Stuart, do Vermont, Canada, England, do do do do 33 mother in Vermont. Daniel Holt, do parents in Janada. James Cramp, do 18 oo 21 23 20 oo parents in Oswogo, New York. Lewis Jacobs, do mother in Lower Canada. Thomas II. Kogers, do do Ireland do parents in Ireland. Daniel Donelly, do do parents in St. Johns, New Brunswick. James Farral, do do do do do father in Greene county, New York. John 31. Ives, do England, 85no parents (two brothers in New Orleans. Aujrusto San S. Sear, native of France, do oo. parents in France. Augusto Demoussent, native of France, aged 25 patents in r ranee. Fred Delhoy parents in Dantzic. Fk. Wm. Mauer, pareats in Saxony. Henry Wagner, no parents; last res John Ivisli, no parents. Andreas Helm, no parents. George J. Selin,

do Dantzic, do 24 do Germany, do 22 do do do 31 nee Philadelphia, do do do 24 do do do 50 do do do 27

father in Germany. Wm. H. Morris, native of New Providence, aged 28 pq parents. L. 31. 13elicpont, native of Hanover, aged 25 no parents. THREE PRISONEUS DIED IN THE HOSPITAL, VIZ: Fleming, aired about 25 native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Harris Blood, do 40 Jas. 31'Cormick, do 30 do England, do Kentucky, From the Charleston Courier of December 28. IMPORTANT FROM FLORIDA. By the schooner, "George and Mary." Captain Wily, we have received the Jacksonville Courier of the 21th ult. containing the following important intelligence from the seat of Indian hostilites in East Florida. We learn from Capt. Wiley, that news reached Jacksonville on tho morning of the 5th, that Capt. Lancaster, of the militia, had been seriously wounded, supposed mortally, and Mr. Woodruff and one negro were killed. In the victory of Forester's plantation, the Indians had laid waste the country from Clack Creek to Fort King, a distance of 80 miles. From Lako George to Picolala, they had burned all the houses and destroyed property. A store and bindery establishment of Dr. Brush, at Polatka, were destroyed by firo on Wednesday last. INDIAN HOSTILITIES!!! Latest Intelligence from the Theatre of War. We insert a letter from Colonel Warren to Gen. Clinch, which will be read with great interest. Judging from the proportion of tho slain and wounded, the engagement was a severe one. Our anxiety is great to hear further particulars, and to know the names of the hvo slam whose names are put down in the letter as unknown. This letter contains our latest intelligence, ex cept a report that two of the wounded are since dead that Weeks, one of the above, who belonged to the Mandarin Company, fired at the Indians three times twice after he had received several balls, the last discharge mado when he was down killing an Indian that had jumped into one of the wagons; and that Capt. McLemore had two horses shotundtr him. How much truth is in this report, we cannot pretend to say. Head Quarters, ) Fort Crum, Dec. 19, 1835 J . Sir The troops under my command, took up the line of march yesterday morning, to scour out the Wacahoutsand adjacent hammocks, and not wishing to be encumbered with baggage,! despatched baggage waggons, to take tho direct route for Wetumpka, via Micanoby ; on arriving at the Kanopaha prairie, I immediately took Captain McLemor's and Captain Lancaster's companies, and puisued on the trial, and on arrival at Benjamin Warren's, found his house in flames; passing on, wo found '.hat a party of Indians, fifty or sixty in number, had attack

ed and captured our baggage as it passed over the prairie, and set tho wagon on fire. The officer in command of the baggage train, with several of the escort, had retired to Micanopy, and I havo not been able to ascertain correctly what loss has been sustained. Two Sergeants and four men have returned into camp unhurt, and one Sergeant and one private, belonging to Captain McLemoro's company, mortally wounded, still lingering at this Fort. I am not able to make a correct return, as I am unadvised of the members who have escaped to Micanopy, but will make a more full return as soon as possible. By this unfortunate affair, all our papers, such as orders, reports, &c. and all our ammunition, surgical instruments, &c. are lost.

I am assured that the whole body of Indians are in the Wacahouta, and adjacent hammocks; the sign is great, and from the force seen in different parties, we arc assured that they are all here. I think it advisable that you send all the regular forco to cooperate with us immediately. The fighting is to be done here. We are in want of ammunition and camp equipage, having, as I before stated, lost all in our wagons. . Yours respectfully, JOHN WARREN, Col. and Com. Mil. in service. Gen. D. L. Clinch. P. S. Killed Sergeant Hunt, privates Tillin and U. Roberts, and five others not known; wounded six, one mortally (Weeks); escaped, sixteen, five horses killed, six wounded. Gen. Call has just arrived in camp with 240 men, and assumed the entire command. A report has also arrived that the Indians were penned in a hammock in the prairie, and that on Monday iast.fir in was heard; and a general engagement had taken place. The mail rider, from Micanopy, via Newmansville, who arrived here on Sunday morning last, one day later than the mail was due, reported that he saw on his route fresh signs of Indians, and that he might probably have been "picked off" by some of them, had he not joined a company of persons with whom he travelled as far as Blanck Creek. He said every house was abandoned by the inhabitants on the road leading from Black Creek to Newmansville, and Micanopy, also from Newmansville to Allegalor, and from Picolata and Palatka to Micanopy, Picolata is the highest point on St. John's unabandoned by tho inhabitants. The rider brought also the first intelligence of the attack on the house of Mr. Simmons. The following letter from CoK Mills to a gentleman in this place, probably gives a more correct version of the attack. HEAD QUARTERS, Near Fort Crump, 12 o'clock at night, 17th Dec. 1S35. Sir Intelligence has arrived in camp, that about 30 Indians made an attack on Mr. Simmon's house on the Pulatka road, about 8 miles from Micanopy, and 20 from this camp. They rushed on the house with furious yells and heavy firing; but Simmons and J. Carr and two others, who happened to be there barred up the house and defended themselves until davlicht when the Indians took a drove of fat hog3 out of the pens and drove them off. Immediately Captains Sumrnerall's and Gibbon's companies were de?patced off at 20 minutes notice (with Carr to show the trail) and with orders to pursue and destroy the Indians wherever found. Wo marched on for Wacahouta in the morning, whero it is reported ihat a great show of Indians is seen Further I have not lime to say. Yours, truly, W. J. MILLS. We have not heard any thing in reference to the success of the detachment under Capt. Sumraerall and Capt. Gibbons, despatched in pursuit of them. An intellligent gentleman of Alachua, in a letter to a gentleman of this placace, states that Captain Priest, whose plantation at Wacahouta was devastated, and buildings burned by the Indians, and son wounded, as noticed in onr last number, lost, at least, one thousand bushels of corn, and all his cctton, of which he had a large crop. All the horses save five, are probably lost; he had about 30 head. I he corn and cotton were consumed. Iwentyodd fat hogs, ready for the butcher's knife, were ta ken from the pen and driven off. Captain Priest is, we understand, one of the greatest loosers of tho great number of those whose plantations have been devastated, and homes laid in ashes. Another writer says, the people here aro very much alarmed. Most of the families have abandoned their homes and assembled at the different places where the inhabitants have erected, or aro erecting forts for protection. There are at Newmansville, the Court House, which place is turned into a fort, and the Jail into a block-house, upwards of 200 people assembled at old Mr. Crum'a where is "Fort Crum"; upwards of three hundred more are coming in. Mr. Folk, who was shot through the throat, died on the 11 th inst. Texas Volunteers. According to a letter published in the Journal of Commerce, some of the volunteers who left New York about a month ago for the land of promise in Texas, in a vessels called the Madawaska,have commenced their carreer rather unluckily, as appears by the following extract : Nassau, (N. P.) Pec. 10, 1S35. Dear Sir: I write from an English prison yard. You will laugh at this, and indeed I do myself. But so it is. Here I am, in company with my associates in tribulation, for the crime of Piracy! Don't stare now, and I will tell you how it happend. After leaving New York we had a fair wind for eight or ten days; at the end of which time we found ourselves among the Bahama banks and islands. Our captain never having sailed the rout before lost his reckoning, and we were carried into a dangerous and almost unknown harbor. He then sent a boat on shore to an island called Eleuiheria, with 17 men on board, who, contrary to his wishes, took with them a quantity of arms and ammunition. On the island they found the inhabitants to consist principally of oiacKS. Having inauigea memseives pretty treely in spirits, and finding the inhabitants rather weak and ignorant, they commenced hostilities upon their effects, such as fowls, pigs, Indian meal, &,c. and so terrified the people that they would do whatever they required. They commanded them with drawn pistols at their heads, and threatened them instant death if they disobeyed. This indiscreet conduct of course occasioned an excited feeling on being made known at the English naval station at Nassau, and two gun-ships were immediately sent in pursuit of us, with strict orders to board us. and put us all to death if we made tho least resistance. After

searching near a week, one ofthera hailed us about 1 o clock, P. M., with tho salutatina"send a bot on board or wo shall firo into you." We of course complied, and they made us their prisouers, conveyed us to this place; and wo aro now in a ptison yard." f

IMPORTANT LETTFR. We have been favored with the following extract from a letter, from high a source in the French capital. It is of the latest date. The writer has tha means of obtaining the most authentic information. VVo regard this as the most important communication by the present arrival: "We have communicated tp you from time to. time the different versions current, as to what had passed on the subject of the treaty, &, we may now add, that it has been stated to us, Mr. de Broalia had declared to Mr. Barton, that he was ready to pay the money instantly, provided the latter Kould write a few lines to the effect, that the American Government had not intended to menace vr insult France, which was declined. In the midst of these various accounts, more than, one of them perhaps partially true, thero is one thing which appears to us tolerably evident and it is) that the two Governments have advanced their respective pretensions; that they do not agree; and that one or other pf them must recede from tho ground taken up. Will yours do so? We doubt of it, under the Presidency of General Jackson at least. We can stilljless believe in retraction on the part of this country, now wido awako upon the question, nay, whose very existence would bo compromitte by the slightest false step. The late public discussion has indeed created a good deal of irritation here and we fear the same effect will be produced on your sido by recent accounts from thence ; tho more so, that excitement was already prevailing when you last wrote. Our best hop, therefore, is, that the matter may drag on painfully but without absolute. collision, until you have another President with whom it may be more easy to come! to tm understanding. You say 'that perhaps a non-importation act may be passed.' Now we have no doubt that such t measure would be equivalent toan eventual, if riot an immediate declaration of war." November 15. -The Courier Francais says that some citizens of the United States assure it that the President cannot grant letters of marque lyitout permission of Congress; and that, as to the issuing a declaration of non-intercourse, this is also with tho Congress, and not with tho President. The Congress, it is fully expected, will show itself worthy of its mission, and there will be no more proclamation of war made by it than a public adoption of a system of Jacksonism. The Moniteur du Commerce contains a long article on tho slavery question in America, anci observes that tho principal difficulty consists in promoting tho fusion of the whita and colored races together. It anticipates'the abolition of slavery in the United States, uot without a dreadful struggle; between masters and slaves, and perhaps thesissolution of the Union. The abolitionists had much belter direct all their efforts towards forming Banks of Indemnity, as the only proceeding that is really suited to the habits and ideas of the Americans. . . - New York Com. Adv. " Piijxadelphia, Dec. 21. Awful Death. We regret to learn that Mrs.Bashoba Marshall, of Sansom street, Philadelphia, was so injured by fire on Saturday evening, that sho died in about fifteen minutes after the flames were extinguished. She was sitting alone in her room a few miuutes after tea, when some of the inmates of the house heard a shriek, and immediately hastened to discover the cause of it. On entering tho room of Mrs. Mi they observed her standing in tho middle of the floor, with her arms extended, aad her whole person wrapped in flames. It is supposed that while sitting a't the fire, her gown, of cotton, material, caught fire; that instead of prostrating herself upon the floor, she rose and attempted to extinguish the flames, and hence her awful death. t : . A reformed rake. A theatrical lady, celebrated for every thing but continence, at length resolved to marry and reform. Her conduct was duly canvassed in the dressing rooms of the theatres. "I am told," cied one, "that she confessed to her leTe InrH all her amours " "What a nroof of conratTft!" n. claimed one lady;. ;Vhat an extrordinary instance ot candour i" sam another. "And what an amazing lusiuuue ui mcmury: criuu me llJiru. The Louisville Journal of Tuesday last says: The roofs of a couple of large four-story buildings on the New Levee in New Orleausfell in witli a tremendous crash on the evening of the I9th ult. Fortunately no lives were lost. Why is U, that tho houses of ourN. O. friends are continually 't'Jfribling over their heads Has the city no architects, that un derstand the science of brick and mortarl" The New Orleanf Bulletin gives the subjoined picture of the lawless spirit prevalent in some parts of our country. It is an undeniable fact that public opinion is, we will not say vitiated, but not yet purified and civilized on the subject of the rightfulness of private revenge for injury. To a great extent it sanctions among men calling themselves enlightened Christians, the practice of the Jndians, who exact a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life. With the poor Indian however, self-righting is a 4 wild jus: tice,? by which be does not violate tho law; 'Our Journals are filled with accounts of attempted, and too often completed assassinations. These frequent exhibitions -of the indulgence of the wild and lawless passions, in seeking the victim of revengful and demoniacal feelings, throw a stain upon the character of our countrymen, and furnish the world with arguments against the boasted purity and perfection of our moral, social and political condition. From whence arises this baneful spirit a disgrace upon civilization bringing society back to its pristine state of barbarism; and which if not suppressed, must sooner or later lead to the annihilation of alj that is worth possessing Is it to bo found m tho freedom of our institutions? In tho abuse of them only, for they are based upon foundations, recognising love to God, and obedience to all wise and just regulations. Is it embodied in tho laws' of tho land? No, they are framed in equality and justice; but rather say in the laxity of enforcing their aaiu; Ury penalties.' Baltimore American.