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tlV WILLIAM C. KEEX. TJCItMS For fif'v-lwo numbers, three oixRs,if not p;rd u-ii.il liie exiaiion of the year two dollars nmlFiFrv cksts, if paid within tlie year and two doli.rs, paid i.i iiuvance. IMo subscription received for less than six monlhvmles Pa' advance. Subscribers, who receive their papers by private post, to nay 25 cents postage. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, and notice to stop it sent to the of nee in writing;. A I ; - : i l iui.iin.-iiicipii iMsciicu, hi uie uviat rates Ltcept persons advertising cloned companions, w hen .$'. will be demanded for a female, and 5.. for a male. CO" Approved produce, delivered at this of fice, or such oiher place at may be agreed up on, laKen in payment. A sjriilrr thief. The following anecdote is from a French work; "M. F. of Saint Omer, laid or the chimney piece of his chamber, one evening on going to bed, a small shirt pin of gold, whose head represented a fly. Next day M. F. would have taken the pin from the place where he had put it, hut the trinket had vanUhed. A servant maid, who had only been in the service a lew days, was solelr suspected of having carried off the pin, and "sent away. Hut at length Mons. Fs. sister putting up omc curtain, was extremely surprised to find the lost pin suspended from the ceiling in a pider's web. And thus was the disappearanceef the bijou explained: a spider deceived by the figure of the fly, which the pin presented, had drawn it into his web' Tht Crrt-ls in motion. The Milledgeville (Gen.) Journal, of April ISth, furnishes the alarming intelligence that the Creek Indians arc exhibiting a vciv turbulent and hostile spirit. Teii or fifteen families have ftVd to Colnnibu-. One man h id been shot. The Creeks can biin into the field 10,000 warriors. The whole nation is 25,000. It is ascertained that they have begun te re-assemble in large bodies. There is no doubt, that they have been induced to take this hostile attiludc ny me intrigues 01 usccola. wno nal cven sent a war-belt among the Winnebagoes. on the extreme northern confines of thecountry. Singular occurrence.. The ne r is bissextile. The figures forming its' date are 1-8-3-6. The two first figures are the quantity of the two latter, each two figures combined make 9, the four make 18, which two figures combined make 9; the products is 16,521, which figures added together make 18. Such a combination rarely occurs. DISCOVERY OF AN ENGLISHMAN. Who had resided for thirty-three years among the savages at fort Philip. Abridged from the Van 1 Neman's Land Mag. azinc. Mr. Batman, and otliers referred to, had rciroved from Van Dieman's Land, to fort Philip, on the coast of new south Wales, with the intention of establishing themselves there as settlers and large sheep larmers. Soon after their arrival they were struck by the Stately cait of the natives, by the color of many, and the European countenances of some individuals, and by the comparative civiliza tion which prevailed. Ilude embankments with tolerable stone facings were found in parts eonstrucfed across creeks and inlet with convenient sluices for the purpose of catching fish at the fall of the tide. Several of the bark-shelters, or wigwams, were form ed in a superior and comfortable manner, tol erably well thatched, with a narrow opening for the door wa-, and fire-place in front. Pieces of wood were hollowed or scooped out rve as calabash buckets to carry water, and f ""c dresses of kangaroo skins were neat lr ioinea' together with regular stitches, and rut ztvemv 0 as frn' convenient vesti The settler J evcr,had notdomiciled them- .!.... : l: ' w position many days when these and various c her indication, oringcnuity were satisfactorily pl"-d .J e appearance of a white m.n ,othlct, n. a Ja,,Sa" Too cloak. He was at firs rather liinid in Ins approaches, but when spokeu' klndvyV". offered a piece of bread, he -hrcT h" reserve, and after eating the bread w,'th aPParent relish, arf looking at it as if endr,ng to bring something to his recollection, .ne exclaimed with symptoms of deJ'ght glowin in his face. "Bread!" Otherengl.su words sou n returned to his memory, and he was al ,asI enabled to communicate that his name wasf William Buckley, tint he had been one o. those who escaped from the encampment of the prisoners by the ship Ocean, formed by the late col. Collins, in attempting, agreeably to the instructions of the British government, to form a settlement at Port Philip in 1803; that he had lived ever since with the tribe of the aborigines whom he then met with in the bush, and oyer whom he had long exercised (lie rule of a chief, lie is a very tall man, having served s a grenadier in Holland un

der the late duke of York, is from fifty-eightlmoney, means a slave, and not one who sold

m ) can 01 age, ana in excellent health, ""fc'i .i?Mi;tiiiu 01 me new seiners, ne has forwarded a petition to the lieut. governor, praying for a pardon, mainly with a view, we presume, lo enable him'to remain where he is, and to communicate the result of his in limacy with that interesting country, and the" many valuable discoveries which he had made in it. This, wc are glad lo learn, his excellency has kindly been pleased to grant, impressing at the same time upon him the expectation that he will continue to do all in his power to maintain an amicable intercourse between the aborigines and the whites; for he had already been the means of preventing a sanguinary Attack of his tribe, through misapprehension, on the little party already settled there. In a philosophical point of view, this discovery is truly interesting, and a narrative e-f his various vicissitudes during his long sojourn, well told, would rival the classic work of Robinson Crusoe. Two other prisoners from the Ocean absconded with him, but he had never seen or heard of them since the end of the first twelve-months, when he joined the natives. Athenaeum. From the Philanthropist. SLAVEHOLDER'S BILL OF FARE. The following itemsare from the Yicksburg Register, ol March 10: 'There is not at the present time, in the city of Vicksburg, a solitary professional gambler no gambling establishment of any des cription not a house of ill fame. Is there another town in the union, of the same popu lation, and similarly situated, that can say ai much ; ' 1 1 ne population ot V lcksburg do not, we suppose, exceed 1200 se-uls. Fd. ML "FOR SALE. Two second-hand billiard tables, in ecel lent order. Inquire at the exchange. March 2, 18:56." Dr. Wilkins advertise land and negroes for sale. "Tne negroes will be divided into lots to suit purchasers. J. Mcuiiicn advertises as a runaway, Zelia Ann. He facetiously says, "she was inveigled from her 'subordination' and duty.' etc. Stephen M. Jackson advertises at a runa way Antony, Mils left hand cut with an axe and one of his ears off." Jesse H. Chaney advertises three, Charles, Joe, and Harry, Charles has two under teeth out in front. J. M. Payne, executor, offers for sale four negroes large stock of horses, cattle, and hogs, farming utensils &c. John Briscoe offers for sale "fifty negroes; twenty-five head of horses, fifteen yoke oxen, ane hundred head of cattle, and farming utcnsils, potatoes, cotton seed, corn, oats, and fodder." Mr. Everett, jailor, of Warren county, ad vertises as committed to jail thirteen negroes; one, 'his upper teeth gone one, "his breast scarred with the whip or some other cause" one, 'had round his neck a strap of iron'; one 'ith a scar running from the right cheek acioss the right corner of his mouth, near two inches lone Out of the whole number, two alleges they - t - r : 1 - are iree. one sas 111s piaie 01 renucmc 1in Hardin county Ten. There is no publication f his name. The other is named John J. Robinson had kept a bake shop in Colum bus, Mississippi had peddled through the Chickasaw nation had sold his horse at Memphis, and come to Vicksburg by water. Information about him is asked of any person at Columbus or Pontotoc, saying it will be attended to. The number includes persons frem twentyone to sixty years of age. They are, without exception, advertised to be Sold for the I jail fees. From the Philanthropic DID SLAVEHOLDERS PARTAKE OF THE PASSOVER? It requires a good deal of something like fanaticism to believe, that an ordinance commemorative of one of the most signal emancipations was intended for the refreshment and cemfort of slaveholders. A single glance at the design of the institution, its regulations, and the exercises necessary in profitably partaking of it, will decide the matter. In the order of the passover, Pharaoh, with his dri vers and the arch enemy ofrtaou, are suppos ed to be related as tpyical and anti-typical oppressors. The lamb, whose bloed sprinkled on the door posts, saved the Israelites, while the work of death was going on in all the houses of their Imastcrs, nre the typical and anti-typical saviors. The proper exercise their de.'iTCrnce from slavery in Egypt, and for the destruction ot their tyrants; prayer, that the same right arm of the Lord would deliver the oppressed in nil time to come; and repentance ana faith in the true Lamb of God. Every family by itself, if large enough, was to eat a lamb, and every servant bought with money, was to paitake with his master meats Islavtholdcr; and that a servant, bought with

'his services let us see how they would tret a

long. According to thi9 theory, the familj would sometimes consist of the young master and mistress, with from ten to fifty slaves in chains in that very condition in which God saw their fetters, when he said to Moses, 'I have surely seen tkeir affliction, and heard their cry by reason of their task masters; for I know their sorrows, and I am come down to deliver them." The solemn scene was always to commence with stating distinctly, the origin, and design of the institution. A little child was to ask, "what mean ye by this service?" In the absence of children, one of the slaves would have lo ask the question. The master of the house was to rise and. aay. "We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and sore upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and his household before our eyes," Deut. vi. 21. This would be "highly incendiary" in a congrega tion of slaves. The master would no doubt, tmd it necessary to omit this part of the service altogether. A chapter from John on Archaeology, would have been in the judgment of some in our day an admirable substitute. "Slavery existed before the deluge. Gen. ix. 25. Moses therefore, although he saw the evils of slavery was not in a condition to abolish it; and it would not have been wise for him to make the attempt &c." This satisfies the consciences of hun dreds of slaveholding ministers; and some of them assure us, it is perfectly satisfactory to then slaveg. We think, however, (hat a Je iSll master would bnre found som difficulty in convincing his household, that, when thei father stood before Mount Sinai, to receive the law, they were so ardently attached to that Egyptian institution, that Moses was a fraid to abolish it, though sensible of its sinful ncss. But there was another difficulty, which would be likely to occasion some demurring on the art of the conscientious slaves. 1 he first celebration; the night on which they left Egypt, was to be model for all future genera tions, in keeping the passover. On that night there were no slaveholders in the houses pro tected by the blood of the lamb. They were all outside. It was from their houses, that the cry of lamentation was beard over all the land: because there was not a house in which there was not one dead. One of the promin ent designs of the passover was to commemo rate that terrible display of God's wrath, when he punished the Egyptians for the sin of slave holding. How could the master and mistress enjoy themselves,' with this fact staring them 111 the faca? Again: there could be but little harmony oil feelinc and exercise in such, a household. Would it not disturb the devotion of the master and mistress, to hear the sighing of the poor slave, accompanied, occassonally, with the clankinsr of their chains! We can almost see them watching and listening, while the poor wretches were nourinc their petitions in to the ears of the Lord of Sabbath, lest there should be some prayers of an 'incendiary char acter. amoniT them. There was in their cir cumstances, nothing to hinder the slaves from engaging in all the exercises and leehngs suit able to the occasion. With all sincerity they could thank God for their glorious eman cipation from slavery in Egypt, and that ter rible destruction of tyrants, they could pray devoutly ,'that the right arm of the Lord would be made bare, for the relief the ppressed in all ages. The calling of their own chains, and the sight of their own oppressors, would help to nuicken their devotion. But the master and mistress could not join them. The great anti-tvpe of Pharaoh and his successors with iII his devihsm, dare not stand up and pray, that the Almighty would make his forehead the mark for his thunderbolts. If they prayed at all, one would suppose their petitions must have been that the Lord would never again be the same God, he was on that dreadful night in Ecypt that he would bless all the Phar aoh's and their drivers secure them from in surrection among their slaves, and save them from such incendiaries as Moses and Aaron. It has been said, that although it was a sin for such idolators as the Egyptian, to enslave men. it could not be sinful for the Israelites who were members of the church, and professots of the true religion, and of course, would "use their slaves well." The Israelites in the days of Jeremiah, seem to have thought so; they tried the experiment, ana me result was most fearful. For the sin of refusing to let their brethren go free in the seventh year, they were doomed to slavery seventy years in Babylon, after a displays of Ged's anger, not less terrible than that which was seen in the land of Egypt. See Jeremiah xxxiv. 822. CAUSE OF THE REVOLUTION IN TEXAS, We have had the pleasure of a personal in terview with eeo. Austin, on the subject ofl the troubles m Texas, and nave received Irom 'him a cony of his late address at Louisville,

which embraces a brief history of the country. Gen. Austin has the fullest confidence in the success of the Tcxian arms, and the final establishment of a free government. The population of the country, he informs us, is already about 70.000, and the number

is continually increasing by emigration. Its ilcwuilli ivi i3duiiiig uic nai aic iiiuvii greater than is generally supposed, and the means of the usurper, Santa Anna, much less. Gen. Austin supposes that the federal republican party of Mexico comprises a majority of its male population, and that the minority, consisting of the old aristocracy and the priesthood, is the chief reliance of Santa Anna in his effort to subdue Texas. He has probably concentrated all hu available force in the ter ritory, and this, it is said, is far from being able to cope successfully with the free spirits of the Texian army. They have raised the standard of independence, and under no circumstances will they yield it. Cut down and butchered they may be, but they surrender tbeir purpose only with their lives. As some diversity of sentiment exists as to the nature and causes of this struggle, we make the following extract from ten. Austin's address, After stating that the country was settled under the auspices, and by the invitations of the Mexican government, the writer proceeds: When the federal system and the constitution were adopted in 1824, and the farmer provinces became states, Texas, by. her representative in the constitaent congress, exercised the right which Was claimed -and xercised by all the provinces, of retaining within her own control the rights and powers which appertained to her as one-of the unities or distinct societies, which were confederated together to form the federal republic of Mexico. But not possessing at that time sufficient population to hecome a state by herself, she was with herowii consent united provisionally with Coahuila, a neighboring province or society, to form the state of Coahuila and Texas possessed the necessary elements to form a separate state of herself." I quote the words of the constitutional or organic act pas-ed by the constituent congress of Mexico, on the 7th of May, 1821, which establishes the slate of Co ahuila and Texas. Ihis law, and the prmcipies on which the Mexican federal compact was formed, gave to Texas a specific political existence, and vested in her inhabitants the special and well defined rights of self-govern-mentasa state of the Mexican confederation so soon as sne "possessed the necessary clek .1

ments. Texas consented to the provisional .()!,! if H,;,t is your onlv objection we shall union with Coahuila on the faith of this guar-'soon gct ovcr it; come along, my mother i anty. It was therefore a solemn compact,!prerared to receive you." Suzette hesitated which neither the state of Coahuila and Texas no loriirr.r. but she wihed to take with h-r

nor the general government of Mexico can change without the consent of the people o. Texas. , In 1S33 the people of Texas, after a ful examination of their population and resources, and of the law and constitution, decided in a general convention elected for that purpose. that the period had arrived contemplated by said law and compact of 7th May, 1S21, and that the country possessed the necessary cle ments to form a stale separate from Coahuila. A respectful and humble petition was accor dingly drawn up by this convention, address ed to the general congress of Mexico, praying tor the admission ol 1 cxas into the Mexican confederation as a state. 1 had the honor of being appointed by the convention the commissioneror agent of Texas to take this pcti tioa to the city of Mexico, and present it to the government. I discharged this duty toi tne uest ol my lecble amhtici, and, as I beheved, in a respectful manner. Many months passed anc nothing was clone with the petition except to reier it to a committee ol con gress, where it slept and was likely fo sleep. I finally urged the just and constitutional claims of Texas, to become a stale in the most pressing manner, as I believed it to be my du ty to do; representing also the necessity and good policy of this measure, owinc lo the al most total want of local government of any hiiiu, cue Husoiuie wane ei a juuiciary, tne evident impossibility of beinjr iroverned any lon ger by Coahuila, (for three fourths of the le gislature were from there,) and the consequent anarchy and discontent that existed in Texas. t was my misfortune to offend the hiirh au thorities of the nation my frank and honest exposition of the truth was construed into threats. At this time, (September and October, 833, a revolution was raging in many parts

of the nation, and especially in the vicinity of:200 in silver, some on the ground and, some

the city f Mexico. 1 despaired of obtaining any thing, and wrote to 1 cxas, recommending to the people there to organize as a stale de facto without waiting any longer. This letter may have been imprudent, as respects the injury it might do me personally, but how far it was criminal or treasonable, considering the revolutionary slate of the whole nation, and the peculiar claims and necessities of Texas, impartial men must decide. This letter found its way frem San Antonio de Bexar (where it was directed) to the government. 1 was arrested at Saltillo, two hundred leagues from Mexico, on my way home, taken back to that(

city and imprisoned one year, three months of the time in solitary confinement, without bocks or wiiling materials, in a c'ai k dungeon of the former inquisition prison. At the close of the year I was released from confinement, but dc-

laineu fix months in the city on heavy bail. It was nine monts after my arrest before I w was 0U.C1..H) lmormed ol the charges n"aint me or furnished with a copy of them. ""The constitutu nal requisites were not observed, my constitutional lights as a citizen were violated, the people of 'J cxas were outraged by this treatment of their commissioner, and t'nt irrcpectful, humble, and just petition was disregarded. Subsequent, in 1631, the constitution of the country was subverted by Santa Anna, at the head of the army, the rights of the states abolished, and all the authoiify consolidated by military power in the central government. Texas revolted, and to bring her intosubjeciion, has the usurper invaded her territory, and thus driven her to a declaration of absolute independence. The Sti ffed Cat. An old chiffonier (or rag picker,) died in Pari9 in a state of th mnsf abject poverty. His only relation'was a niece: who lived as a servant with :i green grocer. The girl always assisted heuncle as far as her slender means would permit. When sho learned his death, which tock place suddenly she was on the point of marriage with a journeyman baker, to whom she had been 'long attached. The nuptial day was fixed, bu. Suzctte had not yet bought her wrdd: ) clothes. She hastened to tell her "over "i.n her marriage must bed.fe-red, ;.she wai led the price of her brit'al linerv, to lay her nc Indecent lr in the grave. Her mistress ridiculed the idea, and exhorted her to leave (he old man to be buried by charity. Suzctte refused. The consequence was a quarrel, in whirls ll e yon lg woman at once lost her place and he- lover, who sided with her mistress. She ..astcned to t ie miser; ble garret where her uncle had expiree', and bv the sacriiirp ii,t only of her wct'ding rlti-e, but ne; y all rest ol her slc-iuer wardrobe, she had the old man oVccntly iineived. Her pious task fulfilled, she sat alone in her uncle's room weeping bitterly, when the mnsterof her faithless lover, a VOUn?. food InoLimr m-m nilnrn.1 "So mv rood Sezelte. I fintfl vr.11 r 1,-tcf cniiM B Hill I V, I VI pl.,rc!'" cried he, I am comJ to offer you one J for life will you marry mef ''J, sir? you are jokinq. "No faith, I want a wife, and I'm sure I can't find a better." "II l.-m.rh ni m,i rr m..rr.; .. :.i m. !... - w u VVI T II II I ;I memor al of her dfw.wd nndn- ;. rat that he had for many years. The old man was so fond of ilm .-n.Imr.'l i!,-,f l, . -,c At,. ,nhed that even death would not senara'e them; for he; had her stuffed and placed on ithc fester of his be.'. As Suzc tte took down 'P'ls, she uttered an exclamation of st rtrise at findinjrher so heavy. The lover hastened :'o open the animal, when out fell a shower of Kold. There were a thousand louis conceal ed in the body of the cat, and Ihis sum, which the miser had starved himself to amass, became the just reward of the worthy girl and i her disinterested lover. 'THE PUBLIC MONEY. The refusal of ti c house of representativi s to allow any inquiry into the condition of the Public money, is calculated to give rise lo tin; worst suspicions as to the safety of theiminense 9V ""w m pw' a rare inmg ur It is c ither house of ccngrcssto vote dow n, uncere moniously, a resolution of inquiry but all sense of delicacy and courtesy is set aside, when its indulgence might lead to exposures npalafnblc fo the party in power. There is but one opinion in Washington as to the critical situation of the public funds. All agree, that that portion of them lodged in some of the Western banks is in imminent danger of being lost to the government. And yet a resolution, proposing fa inquire what has beron e of it, who has got it, and w hat chance there is of recovering if, is voted down by the trained bands of the administration. Halt. Citron. VENGEANCE A'OT SPOILS. One fact which strikingly shows the nature of the contest now going on in Florida, in the treatment which major Dade's detachment, received from the Indians. The gallant band was slain, but their property was untouched. Amonc their remains were found, about .k8,'jn the clothes of the officers and men The Chinese, according to the testimony e-f the-Jesuit Missionary du Halde, place above thedoorsof their temples,lhe follow ing inscription: 'To the first principle, without beginning and without end. It has made all it govern all. It is infinitely good, infinitely just it ei -lightens it sustains it regulates all nature. The Egyptians inscribed upon the temples of Isis the following "I saw what is. I am what has been, nnd what is to be. No mortal shall raise my veil."