Vincennes Gazette, Volume 6, Number 40, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 March 1837 — Page 2

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IntetMl Improvement. In a lirief paragraph we informed our renders some weeks ago, that me. state tax ol last year is increased one-half the present year; and wo might have added, the entire amount c-f this increase would not pay even the interest to accrue upon a state debt useless ly authorized to construct an extension of the central Canal south of "White river to Evansville: it is only the "entering wedge" to the pockets of the people. Upon that paragraph, however, the very sensitive editor of the Evansville Journal, gives a long and gratuitous homily; and it is not the folly autl inexpediency of the Canal glanced at which troubles him, (because speculation at Evansville is rife,) it is only our enquiry to excite reflection of the farmers and merchants north of the forks of Whit.? river by w hich his disinterested patriotism is aroused. Only hear the Journal "With the expiring struggles of tins winter's "calf,"' perished the hopes of Vincennes, at least for a time; and hence the thrust which is made at the system, and through it indirectly at Evansville in the above" article. The "unobtrusive'' editor (ourself) asks how many of the farmers and merchants of the 'Wabash and White River valleys will consent to pay tolls upon that part of the canal south of the forks of YV hite hiverf W e answer oil who have any thing to export or import to or from a southern market. Let tne ca nal go into operation and the "farmers and merchants of the Wabash and White Riv er vallevs" have too much good sense to depend upon the hazardous, and uncertain navigation of those rivers, in prefer ence to the more cheap,sofe,ccrtain,ii ex peditions conveyance afforded by a canal, and that not aroun d by Evansville, but in the most direct route to the Ohio river, and we venture to predict, that the merchants of Vincennes will not unfrequenty find it to their convenience and interest to have their goods, which are landed at this place from steam boats, forwarded to such point on the canal, as will make the least land carriage in reaching t heir town.'' We give the foregoing extract to show to our readers the absurd notions (which the "good sense" of every farmer and merchant will observe) cherished by the (peculators north as well as those south of tis no "calf" can by such ilummery, cause Vincennes to perish, however "1111cbtrusive" we may be. Indeed, the presumption of such indirect thrusts r.t Vincennes, can only excite laughter and pity. Our Legislature have been imposed upon instead of improving our river which conveys more of the products of our state to market than passes Evansville on the Ohio, obstructions by mill dams were authorized at the late session the people north of us will not long endure such imposition. But it seems a canal to Evansville is the most cheap, expeditious and eafe outlet to a southern market! "The round-a-bout way is the nearest way," says Bob in the farce; but then that canal boats are more expeditious than steam boats that freights in canal boats are less than in flats, or keels, or steam boats that our farmers or merc hants will resort to Evansville to pay commissions, when 3100,000 expended afhe'Rapids will give them as g"od a navigation as the Ohio, i nc ics worthy of notice! We cry "O Lordv" to all such predictions; and now repeat with due respect, that the Wabash river and White river to its forks, supercede the supposed utility of the speculators canal to Evansville. The Evansville Journal asks us "how much of the loan made last year for internal improvement is to be expended south of the forks of White River;'' We answer, more than that section of country can repay by any equal or general exactions, and much more than would afford a steam boat navigation to the falls of White river, by which produce and freights could be conveyed south more expeditiously and at much less cost. t Tho Evansville Journal says, the farmers and merchants have reflected upon the subject of internal improvement, and have determined to sink or swim with the system as it now is "the system as i! noio is!.'! This is news worth repeating on the the first Monday 1:1 August next. Taxation to counteract the advantages afforded bv nature to Vincennes, and enrich a few new towns at the expense of the working classes of the country, is notour creed. The position of Vincennes is not to be circumvented by humbug-. How far is it from the mouih of the a bash to Evansville, and how far from Evansville by Canal route to White river, and is it certain that White river will afford water for the useless work, and what will i the difference of time and cost of freight? Will our friend of the Journal answer? H'aUace's Poems. .V friend has directed our attention to proposals issued by William Wallace, Esq. to publish his poetical works. The battle of Tippecanoe, and other poems of great merit, will lie embraced, and we most earnestly hope the publication may b liberally patronized. In these busy imtter-of-fart times, we know the fewest r.umber of readers seek poetry; but there is, or should be, a local an' state pride connected with thi gentleman's muse; and independent of this, all his poetic aspirations arc well worthy of patronage. We have been pleased and

delighted wiia nu..;y v. Vv ,. vcasional pieces; we know they :r: in 't genius of no ordinary ca3t are full ol high associations, lasting sympathies, anil

remarkable events of no ordinary interest to tins community and we cannot refrain from inviting every citizen to subscribe for a copy. A subscription pape r is left at this office. Fine Marble and good Limestone. Recent discoveries in the neighborhood of Vincennes, may prove to be of great value lo their owners, and worthy of public estimation. During the last week samples of tine brown, yellow and speckled marble, found in Knox and in Sullivan counties, have been exhibited here; the texture is exquisitely elegant, and the polish equal to any in the United States. An extensive quarry of limestone is ready to be worked within three miles of town, said to be of the lirst quality. "Go ahead" we say nature is bountiful. JO I n the act "for the distribution of the surplus Revenue," Capt. B. V. Beckes was named the agent for Knox county; but as he declined the station, it devolved upon the Board doing county business to appoint an agent. We learn the Board have appointed Capt. Win. Seott, who has accepted, and the selection of this worthy and deserving citizen, is viewed to be not only judicious, but well calculated to insure general satisfaction. The following hoci.v is going the rounds of the Eastern papers: "One-half of the world but little dream what the othfr is enduring. A letter in the Philadelphia Gazette, from Vandalia. Illinois, speaks in frightful terms of the su tiering which the people in that region have experienced from the recent cold weather. One would almost imagine it was the scenes of Bonaparte's retreat from Moscow acted over again the rivers frozen the air of freezing keenness, though no snow on the prairies the mills suspended the inhabitants about Vincennes and the Wabash dreadfully frost-bitten. Two travellers, it is related, killed their horses and took shelter within their carcases to obtain warmth. The log-cabins of the poor on the prairies, remote from wood, are said to present scenes of indescribable distress. The w hok of this picture is no doubt exaggerated." Xiiw the winter is over, and it is a re markable fact, that th W h h not been covered with ice at this point, (luting the season; and during the last two weeks, lias been navigable for heavy steam boats as high as Lafayette. Who is the let'er writer that trilled so extravagantly with th Philadelphia Gazette? Whoever he be, let his living "carcase obtain warmth" in a horse-rug until our river be frozen Vincennes is not a climate for frost-bitten inhabitants, let that of Vandalia be as it may. By the Circular letter of Col. Sig'er. Senator of Putnam county, we find that an act passed allowing Grand and Petit Jurors each one dollar per day, for every d ay they may serve, and that an act likewise passed, late in the session, appropriating 82000 of the 3 per cent fund, to the several counties in the state. Introductory Lecture. On Wednesday evening next, at 7 o'clock, Doctor Oi'futt will gratuitously deliver an intro ductory lecture, to a short course, on Chemistry, in the Presbyterian Church. 1'he ladies and gentlemen of Vincennes are respectfully invited to attend. Mobocrary. New York will soon beeme celebrated for her imported manners. as much, as tor her imported manufactures. V mob has recently collected in t'.iat citv. and attacked and demolished several pro vision stores, under a false impression that provisions were forestalled and huckstered so as to raise tne price. .Much hour and wheat was destroyed before the rioters could be arrested; and the price of flour has since increased from 812 to 813 per barrel. Let the industrious laborer and mechanic come west. Wages is as high here as it is in New York, and provisions, fuel, and house rent at one-half the price I'd tract rf a letter from our Correspondent, dated fun Julia, III. I eh. 23. Mr. Lditor: O.n yesterday, the 2 2d of Uebruary, the birth day of Washington, the Internal Improvement Bill passed the Senate by a vote of 2.") to 15, and also the House by- a vote of 02 to 22. At night, the splendid illumination of tho town, the tire-balls, rockets, bonfires, the firing of guns, and the acclamations of hundreds of citizens, shewed the general satisfaction with which the passage of the Bill was received. It is dissimilar in many respects from what it was when it first passed the House. Indeed, it was then a very imperfect system, and notwithstanding the able exertions of Mr. Dubois, of Lawrence, to increase the appropriation to the Vincennes and St. Louis Road, it could not there be effected. In the Senate, Mr. Ktiley being at the head of the Internal Improvement Committee, exerted himself with untiring perseverance to increase the appropriation to that route, and to cause 8200.000 to be divided out amongst counties not directly benefited by rail roads and canals. He urged the measure umoii the Senate with great force and ability, and was aided bv the powerful exertions of vie-sr-. inciifr and t.atewo;id. to 1 , whom the success of the Bill is mainly attributable. Tiie argument rf Messrs. Hacker and Gate wood as to the means rf the State to construct the works, are, it is believed, unanswerable. On the final passage of the Bill in the House, Messrs. Dubois and O'Nei'ile .supported it, though

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ij.-.wr-.Tice coun'y will of the first money exget about SSJ.OGU ponded. VANDALIA. P. S. It is supposed Mr. Riley will be appointed a Commissioner of the Board of public works. Doings in CtrngToss. Ia the Senate During tiie last two days the bill to limit the sales of the public lands, and the bill to designate the funds receivable in payment of the public revenue from lands, customs, itc, have been passed. The first, in our humble judgement, will secure) immense fortunes to the speculators during the present year. Its provisions are such as to force the Government out of the Market, and inevitably to throw the purchasers in the hands of the speculators, who now have on hand about fifteen millions of tho best lands. Whether the bill in its present shape will pass the House remains to be seen. We can hardly doubt, however, but that it will. During the late speculating mania, so many individuals have become interested in its passage, that lit tle hones are to be entertained as to the probability of resisting their influence e shall endeavor to lay the bill before our readers, as soon as we can procure copy. The bill provides in substance 1. That no person shall be entitled to enter by entry, or at auction, more than two sections of the public land; and previous to entry or to purchase, must make and file with the Register and Receiver of the land district an affidavit that tin lands are sought to be purchased for his own use, arfl not in trust for another, nor tor sale or speculation; and that he has made no contract, written cr verbal, to sell, lease, 01 mortgage, or otherwise encumber the laud, or any part of it; that he is at least twenty one years of age and has not previously purchased or en tered, under this act, any public land, which, together with what he now buys would exceed two Sections, He must then pay the money, whereupon he gets a receipt for it from the Receiver, with tin consent of the Register endorsed on it. 2. tthin five vears from the date of his receipt he must prove, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver, by the oaths of two competent and disinterested witnesses, that he has erected a dwelling-house on the land, and cleared and cultivated at least one-tenth of it; or that he has resided on it one year of the live. He mar then get his patent. If he fails in this proof he forfeits the purchase money. If he dies ".ithiu the live years, and h;s death shall be proved within six years from the dale of the receipt, the pat ent is still to lssu?. -nv saie, lease, or mortgage, or contract for .sale, Cve. before the patent, is void. 3. Pre-emption is allowed, on proof as above, that the applicant has actually occupied and resided on any tract of the public bind before the first of December, and has cultivated any part of it within the year 1S30. 1 here are several guaros to tins section 01 the ii,i to cover reserved tracts, lead mines, tic. lands to which the Indian tide has not been extinguished, and lands beyond the bonds of the States and Territories. 4. The owner of a farm may enter any adjoining land, subject to private enlrv not exceeding one section. An affidavit is require, 1 that the land is sought to enlarge his farm, and not for speculation, ttc, and the w hole must not exceed two sections. o. A parent, being a citizen of the United States, may enter land for his children, but not over two sections in all; and no patent to come till the child becomes of age. 0. Purchases may be made in quarterquarter sections; but no one shall enter more than four quarter-quarter sections not contiguous. Alt land to be taxable by State authority from day of purchase. 7. The law to continue to 30th tf June, IS to. j MEXICO. Santa Anna. The annexed interesting intelligence we copy from the New Orleans Bulletin of the Tth inst. It is eminently favorable to the cause of Texas. We do not regard that republic as in any danger of being subjugated by Mexico. 1 1 or lonely star wi'l brighten and brighten on for ever unless it shall "shoot madly from its sphere" amid the fiery storms of civil commotio;;.-' Lou. Jour. By a letter published below; it will be seen that the news of the liberation of Santa Anna has reach Mexico, and is greeted with public expressions of joy and satisfaction, to decide in their character to leave any further doubt as to the reception he will meet with upon his arrival at home. He is to be received as the virtual head of the nation and will no doubt continue to exercise the same authority on the country which belonges to him prior to his late reverse in Texas. What, it. is asked will be the course he will pursue! Will he be for Centralism, Republicanism or Despotism. These are questions which time alone can answer, but for the solution of which we shall look with much impatience. Our solicitude however, will not be long, for already no doubt the chieftain is on the ocean, and soon will be wafted to the shores whore power and supremacy await him. Santa Anna must return the avowed advocate if not the friend of Texian Independence, and whether the Mexican people will it or not, his rath, his honor an i perhaps his political safety are pledged to support it. Treacherous as he may have been heretofore, the lessons his misfortunes have taught him, the obligations he is under to Texas, and the solemn guarantee he has doubtless offered at Washington, will compel him for once i;i spite of 'himself to be faithful.

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erre :p arc ;erse ci xao taaaaoia 1 .Jii'U . Wasi::.-.oto.v, Feb. 10, 1S37. There has been more excitement among the members of Congress for tiie last two days than 1 have ever known. The decision of the bouse last night on the resolution respecting the presentation of pe titions from slaves, has aroused the strongest feelings of the representatives of the slave-holding States. Many of the mopenly declared that tiie Crisis had arrived when they were forced to consider wheth er they had any furthe r business here others spoke of the Southern Convention; members eif the Van Biren party dc clared they would no longer act with men who had thus shown themselves regardless of their rights. When the house met to day there was scarcely a single memher from the South in his seat. They were holdim a meeting in one of the rooms of the Capital but I understood nothing was determined upon. May this dirk cloud which now threatens our country be soon dispersed! The letter addressed by the President to Mr. Calhoun has added to the tumultuous excitement produced by other incideV.s. Tin; Tki: a;t.y Cii: vi ar was this day repealed by an overwhelming vote! The bill designating and limiting the funds receivable for the revenues of the United States was taken up for the final action. Mr. Bun ion made a speech against it remarkably short for him, and in an extremely subdued tone. The Great Expunger was quite crest-fallen. Mr. .ii.i:s talked twaddle about it for some time. Mr. Hi luiARi) then rose and made an important amendment it was to make Virginia landserip receivable in payment of thef public dues. Mr. Clay asked Mr. Ilrr.nAKD to modify his amendment as to include the provision that there should be no discrimination made in favor of one branch of the public revenue over another, and Mr. II unit win accepted this as a modification. It required the unanimous consent of the Senate to allow the introduction of any amendment at this stage, as the bill was on its final passage. That consent was given. The 'amendments were adopted; and the bill embracing them passed by a vote of 12 to 5 Messrs. liiNN, Morris, Uioglks, and Wrioht alone voting with Mr. BENTON against the measure which puts down all his absurd schemes at a blow! Things are now left by the present act very much as they were before this iniquitous legislative undertaking of the executive the Treasury Order was resolved upon. The bill was passed by the following vote: YEAS Messrs. Black, brown, Buchanan, Clay, Clayton, Crittenden, Cuthbert, Dana. Davis, Ewing. of Illinois. Ewing, of Ohio, I'ulton, (Jrundy, 1 Iemli ieks, Hubbard, Kent, King, of Alabama, King of Georgia, Knight, McKean, Moore. Nicholas! Niles, Norvell, Page, Parker, Prentiss, Preston. Rives Bobbins, Robinson, Sevier, Southard. Swift, Tallmadge, Tipton, Tondinson, Walker, Webster, White 11. NAYS Messrs. Ilcnton, Linn, Morris, Buggies, Wright o. The South Sea L.rjtfdilion. The exploring fleet will consist of the Frigate Massadonian, 30 guns two barques, the Pioneer and Consort, of 230 tons each, the srh 1 Pilot, and the Store ship Relief. The force required to man the squadron, including the scientific corps, will be about ('.GO. There is no longer any doubt that expedition will be prosecuted, notwithstanding the rrels of officers, and the disagreement of the Secretary of the Navy, with tiie views of the President. The old man has put his foot down, and that is enough. Of the gentlemen appointed V1 the scientific corps, tho Atlas mentions the following as having been se lected as Naturalists: From Philadelphia; Charles Pickering, M. I)., Titian Peale, Prof W. Johnson. From New York; Asa gray, M. l. 1 10 111 .xew iianipsune, ir. Dana. 1 rom Boston, Joseph 1. t outhouy, John Witt Randall. Mr, Drayton of Philadelphia goes out as artist, and Mr. E. Darluv of the same city as Portrait painter, .Mr. Agate, a young artist 01 much merit of New York, is engaged as draftsman to the National History corps. We also learn that Mr. Horatio Hale, son of Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, of this city will be selected as Philogi-t. Fen Imnnrittnt frrm Florida. The Baltimore Chronicle, of the 1 S'.h hist., has the following most important intelli gence. We trust, that it may prove true, and that the war in Florida, with all Us long and dark train of horrors and sullerings, is at an end: A slip from the office ol the Charleston Courier, under date of February 13, 2 P. M., savs that Col. ANhklms, tuucu States Army, arrived at .vugubu.iu, 11th inst. bv express, and uiionns that Gen. Ji:ssri had an engagement with lac Indians, which lasted two days; on the second dav Jf:;rt:R and Ali.koator came in under a flag of truce, and surrendered lieuist Ives, stating that the Indians were m a distressed situation anu anxious lor peace. During the engagement, lourL. S. soldiers and four Indians, were killed one hundred Indian-i and e?rocs iccre taken Prisoners. Col. Andrew s informs that Jumper and Alligator appointed tin 18th inst. as the day to include a treaty at Dage's Battle ground, and had despatch-j ed expresses to the Indians to inform them! of the arrangement. Thev stated that Powel was on an island in the Wilhlacoochee w ith about one hundred and forty followers, they supposed that he would cotno to terms, and should he refuse they would point out where he was. All hos til i ties were to cease bv both parties unti

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The Washington correspondent of the" New Y'ork express thus describes the effects of Mr. Clay's remarks upon the President's letter to Mr. Calhoun. Luii in ilte Juurr.ul. Mr. Clay was most powerful, and th'Senate sat thunderstruck as it were. With tho concluding remark, that te majority of the Senate had the responsibility, and

could take what course that majority pleaseu, ne nnisliea rits spirit-stirring address The Senate for nearly a minute sat in perfect silence and "the extreme silence was only broken by a low voice from the 1 resident pro tern., that no proposi 0011 was oeiore the senate. 1 have; wit nessed many exciting scenes in Congress. hut I never witnessetl one more intensely interesting than this. That silence in the Senate was most eloquent. It spoke of fear, timidy of the now over-shadow ing horror of Executive Power, and the awful degradation to which the Senate is reduced! It was a volume compressed in to a minute s reading. Not a Senator ol tho majority moved! I venture to sav everyone in his heart condemned this ae't of Gen. Jackson, but not one of the ma jority dure speak his thoughts. A Doctor Charles, keeper of a faro bank id roulette table in Mobile, was murdered for his money on the night of the 3d inst. a little past 11 o'clock. He was knocked down in the most populous part of the city by means of weights secured in a handkerchief and rifled of his watch and about 83,000. His head was shockingly bruised and he died on tho liiorningof the oth, without having been able to utter a word. Two persons, arrested on suspicion of the murder, were to have been examined on the morning of the Gth. Louisville Journal. CLIRIAX OP OUTRAGE. President Jackson has called Senator Calhoun to account for words spoken in debate. The Constitution is express, that Senators and Representatives, FOR ANY SPEECH OR DEBATE, IN EIT1IF.H HOUSE, SHALL NOT BE QUESTIONED IN ANY OTHER PLACE." A brief notice of this matter is given under the Congressional head. At the time our account was dated, the subject was not disposed of. Mr. Clay's remark was most bitter. How can MEN MEN, who have soul and spirit, humble themselves, in the high stations of Senators in Congres, to such degradation, Cm. Gar. Most Uiscrcditab'e. The facts disclosed, in the subjoined article, indicate more vicious feeding than any thing, to which the present times have given binh. The rule of action, that seems necessarily asserted, we have reason to apprehend is that, upon which the new administration propose to act. Proscription, for opinion sake, is to be fully enforced Punishments are to be indicted. The new administration contemplates sustaining itself, by appeals to the fears and the avarice of the Hucksters for office. Well, we expect nothing from them, and if such are to be tne terms of their favor, for myself, I would abhor all association with them. MR. FORSYTH AGAINST THE PRESS. Tno publishers of this paper had the honor yesterday to receive from the Department of State the following letters, Department of Slate, "Washington, Feb, U, 1S37. 3 Messrs. Gat.ks 0v Seaton, Publishers of the National Intelligencer: (ir.vn.Kirx: The subscription on the part of this Department, for sixteen copies of your semi-weekly, and one copv of your daily paper, for the Legations abroad, will cease on the expiration of the period for which the subscription has been paivl. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, ) EDW'D. STUBBS. .Igent. To this letter we have done ourselves the pleasure to return the following reriy: . Of ice of the National Jatctlia-enecr. February 10, 1S37. Sir: We have received your letter directing a discontinuance of certain papers ordered from this Office by the Department of State, after the time to which they are paid for. In conformity to our usage in such cases, not to sen t the National Intelligencer to any subscriber one moment longer than he disdres to continue to receive it, we have elirectcd the papers in question to be discontinued from this day, that is to say sixteen copies of the National Intelligencer and one cojiy of the Daily National Intelligencer. As the subscription to those papers is paid for up to the 20th day of August next, the total amount so overpaid being 837,42, we have, also in accordance withj what we have heretofore done 111 such cases, refunded the amount paid in advance, by this day placing to your credit in the Bank of the Metropolis the abovesum of 857,42. We are, very respccfully, your obedient servants, G VLES fc SEASON. Edward Stibbs, Esq. .Igent. Department of State. We mav, we presume, without any violence of construction, place this measure on the part of the honorable Secretary of State to political account. We regret that so veteran a politician has not learnt to look upon occasonal differences of opinion on public questions (for we have not always differed) with more philosophy; and that he should have been impelled by his feelings thus suddenly to cut off from the Legations 01 his Government in foreign countries, a source of information with which they have been supplied 1 from the department of State under every

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of party, now lor near forty years. But though it i3 the misfortune of tb Intelligencer to have suffered proscription at the hand of the honorable Secretary we know that our Ministers abroad continue to place on it ajustcr vsluc; and determined that the public interest shu'l not as far as we can prevent it, siiifcrYv keeping them in ignorance (except n officially advised) cf what is going on at home, or, what is as bad, giving tSem one-sided views of public affairs, we s'hai' regularly forward files of the National In' teliigencer from this office, beginning this day, to each of our Ministers, " Charges d'Afiaircs, and Consuls-General abroad for which they will individually pay the publishers if they think proper, but which if they do not, they are still welcome to II their Governmcntacts upon such contracted or penurious principles as to refuse them light, it shall not be our fault if thev are kept in benighted ignorance of the public allaiis of their own coun'rv. .Vat. Int. - LrsparalIo!cJ Bravery of a U'omaa. A remarkable instance of courare in a woman is relate J bv the Columbus (Ten. Obsevver. Mr. John MjiUi r..c;,t;.r tne or six miles from thnt tr. r . - - r Li j Man en: from home, and his wife, and threo small children and a dclto composed all ii , 1" . ... ;u, ;.. 1 " . , . . k.i--. i.uinii in 1111: imuH1. .MI'S. MatheWS unconscious cf danger, vs attending to icr usual business, when early in the night, a whistle was two or three times heard at the window, the negro being in the house with his mistress, having just finished making a large fire. When the whistle was heard, the negro pretending to be as much alarmed as his mistress, remarked that he would go out and get the axe to defend themselves wiih, if danger mould approach them. He did so. and placed it against the side of the house. In a short time, while Mrs. Mathews wan looping to pick up something she had Iropped, the neyro caught her by the neck. with one hand and reached the other for the axe swearing he intended to kill her. She rose from her stooping posture, broke from his grasp, and threw him so far from her by her euiek motion and strength as to be able to ge t the axe first which she did, and fearing he might take it from er, r itched ii out as far as she could in the dark, where she thou dit he u nn',1 Imrdlv id it. The nogro thinking he could ae1 his purpose without it, again n;. he :t Mrs. M v n!i tt e intention throwing her in the fire. Ho threw 1 her on the hearth, but she rose, she says, with renewed strength, and strange as it may seem, t! t.'vv him on th:' fioor. A scufile for some minutes ensued, when the negro rather getting the advantage, got her out of the house, and by her hair dragged her snmt distance in the direction of a pond, where he said he intended to drown her. Having a gate or bars to pass through, she there once more regained her feet, and determined to make another struggle for her life. He here drew a dirk knife from his pocket, with which h thought to despatch her. She saw it. ami immediately fearlessly end vigorously graspee 1 it. Each ndeavi d to wrest it from the other, in w hich neither succeeded. She finally, how eve r, turne d his own weapon upon himself, and although vet firmly grasped by each, she succeeded in cutting his throat. He supposed bis life was near enough ended, ami left her. She immediately gathered up her children and set out for the nearest neighbor's, w here .-lie g ve the alarm, and a search for the negro was commenced. He was found alive, the wound not bavin"1 poved mortal. A v ur 1 r. i.r. Oor. The S ,:Icni Gazette chron icles the iliMth cf I Star," a cr.v ticloncrine to ainwl Hnuirtr.-. t, of To, II, at the hoc of 21 ymrs. wai' li lia-1 - .-t lain, linni her Lirth roV, anii yiili'c! liim in ca'.v is :ir.l i:;i!U, flws'J CO It-Bviu;; a k.l.mre in her favor ol J lit) J 20. A clergyman w ho had formerly been a lawyer. comme nc nl his first praycrjwilh "May it please your honor. Lou Jiur. eThe Memphis Gazette of the 31st u'.t. says: "A large Company of volunteers from inccnnes.Ia. landed at this place on Tuesday evening last, under the command of Col. W. P. Miller, and bound for the Texian army. They were in high spirits, and among them we perceived several lads of apparently, from fourteen to sixteen years of age. If accounts be true, there never was a lime when Texas stood in greater need cf foreign aid, than at tho present. DIED February 1st, 1837, at her mother's residence', in Boone county, Kentucky, Mrs. Clarissa B. Harrison, ihiinrlitri-'miJ only child of Gen. Z. M. Pike, and relict of J. C. S. Harrison, eldest son of Gen. Herrison. The victim of many and heavy afflictions, in this life, from these, at least she has obtained rest. Cincinnati Gcz. M ARRIED On Saturday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Wood, Mr. James W. Gkeenhow, of Louisville, Ky., to Mis Augusta Russell of tins place. MARRIED By John Collins, Esq., on the 2nd Inst., Mr. Joseph Vanmetex, to Miss. Elizabeth JosEPH,b6th of Knox County. BISHOP, hSOFFATT, & CO. Perrysrillc, fa. Ms-.h, 3b n:t7. :o-tf