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in be on upon or the in in without which meets such one ol chill, upon THE LONG ISLAND STAR. Steamboat the severity of last the sympathies of the community were strongly excited re- the foundering of several shipseupon our coast. The of of the drowped emigrants went up to heaven, and measures were taken to pro serve ships against the fault of pilots. We have latterly had some of those equally awful disasters, which result from the abuse of steam. Upon the rivers and waters of this vast Union, hundreds of steambonts are in use, some of them gu'ded by incompetent men.

the captains, in order to increase the speed of their boats, of' reckless of consequences. The engineers are unskilful, thus human life, in awful amount, is often sacrificed. sidering the vast use which is made of steam in our internal navigation- -considering how much the comfort and ness of our peopis depend upon its regulation, the subject appeals, with awful force, to every State Legislature, and the Legislature of the Nation. Whatever can be done home to the captains of steamboats a full sened of bring responsibility, should be done. An act was passed in Congress, during the last session, having the safety of steamboat travelling in view.

Of extent of the provisions we are not aware. We only know that we have now before our minds the frightful results late explosions of the Moselle and Oronoko; and with these before us, it is evident that much more is yet to be accom. plished before the debt of justice is paid to the most important subject of human legislation--the preservation of human life! What can exceed the appalling idea, as it is forced upon the mind, that, for a single indiscretion, hundreds of human beings, full of happiness and hope, may, in a moment, hurried into eternity, leaving, moreover, numbers of mangled and tortured wretches, under the most awful sufferings whieh human nature is liable? Let jurisprudents talk they will of frauds and crimes, of murder and of arson, here is a crime which, in diabolical magnitude, outswells them and yet, when the vengeance of heaven does not 'whelm tremendous aggressor in the mass of slaughter, he lives make apologies, and, in the end, society encounters new hazards. In England, steamboat accidents are very unfrequent. The law there visits the individual to whom is committed the high trust of human life, with the severest penalties if sleeps upon his post or fails of his duty.

The occurrence an accident presupposes fault somewhere. There should the most rigid and unerring scrutiny and vigilance in governments in regard to all the incidents of safety. The utmost degree of skill and science should be required, both in construction and management of boats. When this is had, our hearts may be seldom shocked with these heart rending narratives. We publish the later particulars of the loss of the Moselle and Orono ko.

Of the unfortunates on board the former boat, the papers publish long lists of names of persons belonging to all parts the Union THE MOSELLE. A very large meeting convened at Cincinnatti the 26th ult. for the purpose of taking into consideration the late melancholy explosion of the Moselle.The Mayor of the city, Hon. S. W.

Davis, was called to the chair; when the following proceedings took place, which we copy from the Cincinnatti Whig.The number of victims to the disaster, is highly increased by the report. Soon as the Mayor took the chair, he read to the meeting a list of the dead, missing, wounded, and survivors, so far as he had been able to obtain them. The members of the meeting were then requested to report the names of all, within their knowledge, not contained in the list reported by the Mayor, when number of' additional names were given to the Secretary. Resolutions were then offered by several gentlemen, appropriate to the occasion, and committees appointed to provide means for the relief of the wounded, and the burial of the dead, and to ascertain with as much certainty as possible, the cause of the accident, and the extent of the injury, together with as many particulars as practicable. Number of persons on Board.

-The second clerk of the Moselle, sent a communication to the chair. man the meeting yesterday, stating that the numher of persons on boat was two hundred and eighty; of 1 whom eighty five were cabin passengers. Not more than 96 (including children,) are known to have been saved. According to this, the number of persons killed and lost is about one hundred and eighty four From the Cincinnati Express. THE STEAM BOAT MOSELLE.

The bodies of many of the unfortunate passengers are dreadfully mangled; one of them cut in two; another divided into five or six parts, and several mutilated in various ways, too shocking to relate. A stick of wood was driven through the head of one man; and a Mr. Watts, a merchant of Springfiell, was driven head foremost through the roof of house, on the Ohio shore, at least a hundred yards, with about half of his body inside, and the remainder out. He was so completely wedged in, that his corpse had to be cut out. One venerable looking gentleman on the beach, was weeping for the loss of his wife and five children; while another old man was in agony at the loss of nine members of his family.

From the Louisville Journal. THE ORONOKO. THE OTHER STEAMBOAT BUTCHERY. The Explosion of the Oronoko. -We have received from G.

W. Jackson, clerk of the Peru, the annexed statement of some of the circumstances. Mr. J. informs us, that the statement, as far as it goes, can be fully relied on, it having been obtained from 15 or 20 of the passengers of the unfortunate boat, who came up in the Peru.

We have conversed with several of the passengers, all of whom declare their inability to give any thing like all adequate idea of the scene of horror: To the Editors of the Louisville Jonrnal. The steamer Oronoko, Capt. John Crawford, left New Orleans on Monday, April 16. On Saturday morning the 21st, abont 5 o'clock, having made but two revolutions after leaving Princeton, she burst one of her boilers, blowing overboard some 15 20 persons, and severely scalding between 40 and 50 that remained on board. Some 6 or 7 of' the latter died previous to the departure of the Peru.

Among the scalded there were on board, as near as could be ascertained, there were between 20 and 30 white men, chiefly deck passengers, 5 or 6 women, and about the same number of children from the age of' 1 4 years, that have since died. Among those that went overboard about 4 or 5 were saved. Some few cabin passengers were supposed to be missing. The engineer was badly scalded. The 2d cook, who was badly 'scalded, jumped overboard some time after the explosion and was drowned.

The general supposition of a physician that was boar was that few would recover, having been ted inwardly. The Peru remained 80 short a time that it was impossible to ascertain the names of scalded or survivors, some having gone back on boat, which was towed to Vicksburgh, and some the Peru and N. Albany bound up. 'The number cabin passengers on board the Oronoko at the time near as could be ascertained, was from 75 to 80; deck, 60 to 70, including blacks and children.Most of the passengers in the cabin were in bed at time of the accident, otherwise the loss of lives would have been immense. Every effort was made both passengers and crew to alleviate the suffer.

of the unfortunate beings, but of little avail. 'The screams and groans were heart-rending in the ex: prayers and supplications for water, or to put S. period to their existence. Many thanks are dne to Captain Shrodes of the Captain Young of the N. Albany, and Capt.

Wheeler of the Independence, for their prompt anto the call of distress. May they never witness lar scene on their boats. There were also number of valuable race horses belonging to Col. the and others, badly scalded. The fallowing is a of the cabin passengers on board the Peru, and what few could be recollected on other beats.

the Wm. Chapman, Louisiana: James W. Palmer, ed Poughkeepsi, N. Y. David P.

Palmer, do. from C. Vansickle, L. Island. Wm.

R. Davis, Saun- N. Wm. D. Barrett, Cincinnati, Ohio; De.

ders, Lexington, Wilson K. Shinn, Clarksburgh, W. Greer, Washington Pittsburgh; City Thos, Plant, N. Orleans: A. Gelsum, Col.

Oliver, Va. F. Lane, Iron Banks, Ogden, Evansville, Whiting, Louisville, J. B. Bogart, Rice, Mouth of Arkansas; GardSmithland, Fitzsimmons, do.

Warner field, Louisville, R. W. Wood and lady, Natchez; Colonel Daniels, Lexington, Peyton, Virginia. The New York Evening Star has the following liten Oronoko Incendiary of Vicksburg killed. -'The New Orleans that papers place of the 25th show that the citizens of have been as greatly shocked by the dreadful explosion of the Oronoko, the news of which had just reached them, as those of Cincinnati by the still horrid -fair of' the Moselle.

By the New Orleans 'True Anie-can we perceive 70 individuals are supposed perished in the Oronoko. The boat was new, to have remarkable elegance for and Sited up wow ascertained she had, with private is all families, and it this show, old boilers. 'The same paper relates the following awful retribution Among the vietims to this calamity was one who, by his own acknowledgement, justly merited his doom. He was a known blackleg, and in the extremity of agony in which he died, confessed himself the incendiary who lately fired the Pinkard House, with the fiendish hope of burning the city of Vicksburg! Revenge for the acts by which his fellow gambler were routed out, he avowed to be the cause that influenced him, and denounced another gambler, Doctor Saunders, not only as his assistant in the but as his partner in the intended sack of the city. 'That some such purpose is still entertained by the inforiated gamblers, there is too good reason to believe, and it behooves the citizens of Vicksburg to keep an active look out.

We hope to acquire still further information on this subject. Col. Oliver's horse Joe Kearney, was too badly scalded to live. Among the list of those severely injured, we note Geo. Pettibone, Genesse co.

N. Joseph Duke. of' Brooklyn, N. and S. Smith, of Onondaga co.

N. Y. 'The dead was buried at Vicksburg, followed by an immense procession. Heartless conduct, if true. Captain of the steam boat Peru, near by the Oronoko when she exploded, is reported in the New Orleans Bulletin, to have evinced the utmost indifference in affording relief to 'survivors.

He passed them by, and refused, although implored by the cries of those on shore and on board, to stop or pay the least heed to them And to place this brutality in a more odious point of ew, is added to the honor of two other boats, and the eternal disgrace of this, that after assistance was obtained from the steamers New Albany and Independence, the Peru returned, and without offering an assistant hand, obtained all the passengers she could, and proceeded on her way. THE LONG-ISLAND STAR. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1838. 17 Subscribers to the Long-Island Star, leaving their places of residence, will please leave word at the office, that their papers may be hereafter regularly served. The New Board of Whig Board of Al.

dermen take their seats this afternoon. It is a proud time for Brooklyn -it is an epoch in its history. For many years, Brooklyn has been compelled to submit to a party tyranny most odious and oppressive. This tyranny has poisoned all things among the people. It has been felt throughout all the ramifications of society.

We labored long to prevent politics from interfering with our local elections, but the party who had the power, carried out the spoils" system even to the smallest offices. In their proscription, they spared no man, whatever his repute, or however great service he might have done the city. We have always advised the Whigs to pursue a dignified course. The consequences of liberality were fully seen by the course taken last year by the dodgers" in reference to so unimportant a matter as the City Printing. They chose to make it a party and personal controversy, and their conduct was disgraceful.

Happily the city is now incumbered with but few such pitiful politicians. We still advise the Whigs to pursue a high-minded honor. able and dignified course of conduct, but still a course which will make them respected by their opponents. The acts of liberality which partizans would call weakness and folly, it is politic for them to avoid. In regard to removals, in all cases where offices are held in a full recognition of the principle that they were the price of party vassalage, the functionaries should yield them up on the downfall of their masters.

We would have no man in office who ever obtained it as the price of party servitude, or whose principles have been com. promised by the gift. Stocks Rising. Since the passage of the free banking -the resumption of specie payments, and the restoration in some degree of a feeling of confidence, stocks have been rising, and as they form a kind of currency thermometer, it may be said that things look well! It will however be some time before the currency is so regulated, that the community may feel its healthfnl effects. Many bills are at a great discount, and the amount of circulating medium of every kind by no means abundant.

The cry is still scarcity, scarcity, and the forbearance of creditors is is further required. The law in regard to free banking is about going into ef. fect. It is said that many large capitalists at home and abroad, will avail themselves of it. The effect of it will be, to make an active capital of bonds mortgages and stocks, on which would otherwise lie inert in the desks of their owners.

Besides the property basis which will be laid as the foun. dation of the issues of the bills of the free banks, they are required to keep constantly on hand 12 per cent in specie. Without this requirement, they were of course obligated to redeem all their bills in specie whenever presented, so that the system would seem to be safe. It is however to be tested. last We pledge ourselves however, to receive in any amount at par value, in the way of our dealings, any of the bills that may be issued under the law.

Money like water, although it may be forced up and down, of and agitated in every way, will eventually find its level. The lessons of quacks and men who have control over it, only teach severe wisdom, and eventually all things come focos right. gles. We are coming out of our tribulation, and although many its sad effects may be long felt and remembered, yet soon daily pressure of the calamity will be over, and society as. sume its ordinary relations of confidence and prosperity, in.

the dustry and happiness. The face of the world is not changed -the requirements of society are still the same--the means of providing for those requirements have been unnaturally affected, and they are resuming their natural channel. the ture Brooklyn would seem, from a paragraph pub. of lished in the Star of last week, calculated to a convey wrong opinion to the public, that the suits of Matthew Clarkson, farmers Robert J. Crommelin, and Robert T.

Hicks, had been demanure in favor of S. A. Willoughby. We are authorised to --two that this is not the fact. The injunctions have been die the as a matter of form, leaving all the cases open to be known on their intrinsic merits--no argument or decisions been had upon any of the points in difference between in A.

Willoughby and the above-named parties. quiet, Long-Island Insurance Company's are taking to observe in connection with the dividends of the fair Brooklyn Banks, that this company has declared a handsome It dividend -six per cent. for the last six months, payable on 15th instant. extensive There Inquirer of Friday says We understand immense house of Mr. T.

Davidson, Hempstead South, was enter. any in when the family was from hotne, and about 8250 taken their a barest. The thief has not been discovered. able LATEST FROM WASHINGTON. The administration holds, with the most determined pertihardihood, in indicating a disposition not to nacity, to its yield to the will of the people any further than it is compelled The joint resolution of Mr.

Clay, submitted on the 30th of May, to the following purport, was left to the Committee and will not pass with the consent of the Ad. on Finance, ministration. Party, party, party, still stands, wherever its feeble power continues, with iron front against the country Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, That medium no dis. of crimination shall be made as to the currency or payment in the several branches of the Public Revenue, or debts or dues to the Government; and that, until other. ordered by Congress, the notes of sound banks which are payable and paid on demand in the legal currency wise of the United States, under suitable restrictions, to be forthwith prescribed and promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be received in payment of the revenue and of debts and dues to the Government, and shall be subsequently dis.

bursed, in the course of public expenditure, to all public cred. itors who are willing to receive them." The report on the subject of the duel, presented by Mr. Toucey, is universally considered as injudicious and incorrect. Instead of taking the high moral tone which the subject de. manded, it is partizan in its tone and character.

It can do neither good nor harm. Where are the -Gov. Wall, a staunch supof the administration, a short time since, in the Sen. porter ate, expressed his strong attachment othe principles of the old federal This was doubtless honest; and if many party. foremost in the ranks of Jacksonism of those who are now the truth, they would make a like avowal.

should confess credit for his honesty. In this mat. Governor Wall deserves ter he does not coincide with the rest of his party. Here is the Argus, in this State, the supporter of the rank. est tyranny, who, nevertheless, dubs the Whigs federalists." It has known the magic of catch.

words, and therefore its pertinacity. The day of delusion and humbug is over, how. ever. Our friends must cling ro their legitimate appellation, WHIGS, and never abandon a designation so well deserved by their opponents, as that of locofocos. They have lit the torch for the destruction of the country, but our republic was not destined to die so soon.

THE CHARLESTON FIRE. The following is a summary of this awful catastrophe, which has left a thousand families without homes, and thrown many of them destitute upon the world. It is to be hoped, that the blessings of humanity which belong to our state of civilization will soon enable many of them to build up their dwellings and hopes anew The Charleston slip from the Charleston Mercury of Monday the 30th ult. received by this morning's says, Total number of dwellings and stores destroyed, including Norton's old Rice Mills, Kerr's wharfe, set on fire by flakes falling on a pile of light wood and burnt to the ground, 560. The number of out buildings destroyed esti.

mated at about 598-total number of buildings destroyed, 1,158. Such is the mere arithmetic of this frightful calamity -who shall count the mental suffering, the less of hope, of security, of comfort? Upon the best estimates which have been made to us, up to the latest hour, we set down the loss of property at over $3,000,000. The whole amount covered by insurance, is not far from $1,500,000. Of this, $75,000, falls upon the Georgia offices, at Augusta. The new Hotel was insured in this city for $60,000, and $40,000 in Augus.

ta. It is believed now, that offices here will pay all or very nearly all, of their liabilities. Firemen's Friday last, the firemen of this city made a brilliant display of their force, and of the beauty of their engines, on the occasion of a visit from the Philadelphia firemen. The finest part of the display was the sinewy strength of these useful men. When a city can shew so sturdy a body of men as were assembled together, it creates a feeling of safety not only in times of peace, but also in times of war, should the same men be required to as sume the sword, or the musket.

It was we suppose in exemplification of this iden that some of the firemen carried muskets. We understand that a hand. some entertainment was given to the Philadelphia firemen, who departed highly gratified with their reception. A Philadelphia Engine called the Columbia, made a fine appearance in the parade, and the fire dresses of the Phila. delphians seem appropriately made for shedding the water.

Hempstead Inqui er -We stated in our last Star, that Mr. John W. Smith, had succeeded Mr. Watts in the edito. rial management of this pager.

The Inquirer has won itself a very respectable reputation, which it will no doubt main. tain in the hands of Mr. Smith. From a personal acquain. tance with this gentleman, we have reason to believe that its course will be characterized by fairness and liberality.

If the people of Queens county do the paper justice, they will double its subscription list, and pay in advance. The retir. ing and the adrancing editor, have each our cordial friend. ship and best wishes. Court of Common Court holds its monthly term for legal arguments, to-day.

A small light. is ascertained that one solitary constable remains to Mr. Van Buren in the late clearance of the kitchen at Albany! While there is life there is hope! We wonder the Argus does not trumpet this as a great victory! 17 Since writing the above, we understand the constable disclaims the aspersion with great indignation. He says he no loco-foco, but worthy the company of the whigs who elected him. POLITICAL ITEMS.

The Legislature of Rhode-Island convened at Newport, Wednesday. George W. Curtis was re-elected speaker, without opposition. The official returns of votes, make Gov. Sprague's majority over all others, 381.

All the senators (ten in number) are whig, and 45 out of 72 members in the House. Last year, Van Buren had a majority of 41. In the Oxford district, Maine, Virgil D. Parris, a loco. foco, has succeeded by a trifling majority.

The majority of year is reduced from 894 to 200. 17 Mr. Slaughter's (Whig) election in Mr. Patten's dis. trict, Virginia, is positively aseertained.

His majority is 14. These are precious votes against the extinguisher of the right petition 17 In the Syracuse election for Charter officers, the loco. have been beaten all round, in spite of desperate strug. 17 John Whipple (Whig) is elected representative to the General Assembly, for Providence, without opposition, Ir William W. Boardman, (Whig) is chosen speaker of Connecticut Legislature, by 106 majority over Mr.

Cleaveland. The whole number of votes for Governor, i of which, Gov. Ellsworth has 27,115. Agriculture of Long is very gratifying to all lovers of improvement, to notice the progress of agriculand horticulture on Long Island. Immense quantities manure are daily in the course of transportation on the rail-road throughout its whole extent.

An association of in Queens County, have employed vessels to collect at the commencement of the rail road in Brooklyn, bone-mills are laboring in the good work of improving soil--a new article called poudrette, is beginning to be and appreciated -gentlemen of wealth are in many instances bestowing their means, intelligence and ambition this noble and laudable field of improvement--and the moral and industrious people called Friends are par. of the spirit of the times in adorning and enriching the face of nature. is much to be hoped that the old and wealthy town of Hempstead will not continue to withhold her valuable and plains from the hand of industrious cultivation. of is good land enough on Long Island to an support 31 population, in as healthy and desirable situations these United States. Why then should men hazard lives, and sacrifice their social relatione, in the unfavor.

climes of the south and west ITEMS. A great Clay meeting is to be held this day in Philade'. phia. Major Gen. Scott has left Norfolk on his way to the Cherokee country.

Edmund Dwight, of Boston, has given $10,000 towards a school fur teachers in Massachu. setts. The Wheeling Gazette states that from sheer wil'. fulness, the steamboat oneer ran into the steamboat Or.tario, killing a little girl 12 years old, and dangerously wounding a lady and child -these steamt outs are becoming human slaughter houses! The Bank dividends in New York and Brooklyn, already declared, amount to 720, on a capital of $15,761 200--there is $5,350,000 yet to declare upon. The removals in the Custom House, New York, are said to have been determined upon by a bench of political inquisitors.

The Coronation of the Queen of England, is announced for the 20th June -immense preparations are making, and the nations are sending voys extraordinary. Mre. Hamblin opens the Olympic theatre this evening, May 7. The Boston evening papers reach New York the ensuing morning, by the Stonington rail road when the L. I.

Road is completed, the despatch will be still greater. The second engineer killed in the Oronoko, was brother to the giant Porter. Mr. George Pearne, Chief Engineer of the Great Weatern, died in the New York Hospital, from the effect of an accidental scald. ing while letting off the steam of that vessel just after her arrival.

John Kettell has been appointed President of the Granite Bank, Boston, in place of the late John Bi Abraham Keyser has been elected Treasurer of the American Bible Society, in place of the late John Mitchie, Mr. Epes Sargent, jr. long an editor of the Boston Atlas, i is as. sociated with Mr. Morris in the conduct of the Mirror.

The steamboats Buffalo and Commodore Perry, came in contact on Lake Erie, injuring two men severely--the Buffalo was towed into shallow water, where she sunk. Mr. Robert H. Morris has assumed his sent as Recorder of New York. Charles Matthews has married Madame Vestris.

Boz has published a new work entitled Nicholas Nicholby. J. Delaw, a young man at Saugerties, drank a pint and an half of brandy, on a wager, and died fool dieth. A man named Herderson, was arrested in Washington city, on suspicion of passing an altered counterfeit Treasury note. Cincinnati has voted $1000 to relieve the sufferers of the Moselle.

The Post Master General returns $1000 from the department to the editor of the Globe, to pay the defalcation of a certain Post Master, for whom Mr. Blair was security. The New York and Albany Rail Road has been organized, Charles Henry Hall, President, A dinner was given to Poindexter, at Natchez, on the 21st ult. $2000 worth of whip lashes, were stolen from Rand Co. Westfield, is offered for taking the thief.

20th April a fire occurred in Vicksburg, damage was probably the work of desperadoes. A convict, named Judson, temporarily escaped fiom Sing Sing, but on being retaken, found an opportunity to drown himself, The Indians in Florida lately murdered a letter carrier, about six een miles from Fort King; the Bank of Kensington offers 81000 for the arrest of Alfred A. Dwight and Sherman D. Dix, who rately assconded with $400,000 of the fun I of the bank. A' Mother and Daughter destroyed by slip from the Louisville Journal contains the particulars of a most distressing accident which occurred on the evening of the 13th at the house of 'Thomas J.

Pickett, Esq. of Mason county Ky. Mr. mother-in-law, Mrs. Campbell, was sitting alone in her room, when her dress caught fire and she was immediately enveloped in flames.

Her daughter, Miss Campbell, flew to her aid, but in her efforts to aid her mother, the flames were communicated to her own dress. Mr. Pickett and young Mr. Campbell heard their screams and hastened to the scene, but the sufferers were so shockingly burned that they survived only a few hours. They were preparing to go to Wisconsin, and had just bidden adieu to thir friends, when they were thus suddenly summoned to bid adieu to the world." Duelling in olden times.

-The following remarks, taken from the New- York Express, where they appear under the head, New- York Thirty Years Ago," give an account of a duel fought in that city in 1807, and show how they did the thing" in those days: -Mr. 'Thompson, one of the warmest politicians of the day, was killed in a duel by Wm. Coleman, then editor of the Evening Post. They fought moonlight, in the Dydes Field, near where the University now stands. Mr.

Thompson was brought home in a carriage, and left in the entry of his own dwelling, by unknown persons. He survived a very short time, but refused to violate the pledge of secrecy that been made before the duel, not to disclose the name of his antagonist, Public opinion fixed on Mr. Coleman, but the whole affair had been cretly managed by the principals, seconds and physicians, that the facts were not known until many years after." Specie Payments. -The Merchants, Columbian, and North Banks of this city, and perhaps others have already resumed specie payments in full. We have little doubt that their example will soon be followed by the other Banks of this city and State; nor have we any doubt that they will persevere in it.

It was evident some weeks since, that they had prepared themselves for such a course, provided the state of the foreign exchange favored the adoption of it. It has also happened that nothing could have been more favorable than the state of the foreign exchanges, and the consequent influx of specie. 'The currency of Massachusetts therefore is restored to a specie basis, and the first step is taken for the restoration of mercantile confidence, credit and business. Boston Daily Advertiser. Great -The Loco-Foco Constable, solitary und alone" in Albany, and the Loco FocoFoco Senator solitary and alone" in Connecticut.

N. Y. Express. MARRIED, At Oysterbay, Joshua Burr, to Hannah Cheshire. At Babylon.

John Oakley, Esq. to Miss Hentietta Van Cleef of that place. In New York, on the 23th April. by the Rev. Dr.

Berrian, Alexander Newman, Brooklyn, to garet daughter of the late Richard Tredwell, M. D. In New York, Wm. C. Brown, to Jane Ann, daughter of Jas.

Wallace, Esq. Schuyler Fisher. of Herkimer to Lodema Johnson: Geoffrey Burke, to Frances Wood Jacob C. Howell, of Trenton, N. J.

to Eliza Stonaker, of Cranberry, N. Jones Hill, to Sarah Jane Fowler Rev. Anthony Ten Bruerk, of Fishkill, to Catharine Amelia, daughter of Jacob D. Stagg, Esq. of New Rochelle; Bostwiek to Frances M.

Lockwood; 'Thos. Wilson, to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Hylton, Jr. of the Island of Jamaica. At Christ Church, Middletown, Christopher S.

Hubbard, of New York, to Mary Salma, daughter of the late Ebenezer Jackson Esq. of that place. At Meridian Hill, near Washington, D. William Coil Boardman, Esq. of New York, to Miss Rosina LansJale, daughter of J.

Florentius Cox, Esq. DIED, In this city, on Thursday last, of Scarlet Fever, Susan, aged 5, eldest daughter of Robert J. Thorburn, also, yesterday afternoon, suddenly, of Scarlet Fever, Margaret Montgomery, only daughter of Robert J. Thorburn, aged 2 years and 8 months.The relatives and friends of the family are fully invited to attend her funeral this afternoon at 9 n'clock, from the residence of her father, No. 155 Sands st.

In this city, on Saturday last, Isaac Cole. At Jaimaca, John Taylor, aged about 30. In New York, George Alexander Woodhead, late Nottinghamshire, Wm. C. Cornell, aged John Ackerman, aged 66; Abbe Anne, wife of Henry M.

Carpenter, aged Mrs. Mary hart, aged 74; Stephen Demilt, aged David Grim, step-son of Jas. Collins aged 11 Wm. Mather, aged 37; Amanda, daughier of Thor, Morton, ITEMS. The Grampus has this moment returned from S'r: Vera Cruz, and brings the enclose! papers, being a from Commander Breese, dated 16th enclosed, instant, report and copy of a letter to him, with circular Commandant off Vera Cruz, defrour the French claring a blockade of all the ports of Mexico.

The nhimatom and reply mentioned by Commander Breese was not forwarded by him, but I un lerstand they will be found in a package of papers, from our Consul at Vera Cruz to the Secretary of State, which. I this Ontario day and transmit Concord by are the now regular in mail. the Gulf, the first at Vera Cruz and the latter of Tampico. The Van sails to- morrow or next day for the the coast of Texas and Mexico. I have honor to be respectfully.

Your ob't servant, A. J. DALLAS. Hon. MAHLON DICKERSON.

S.c'y of the Navy, Washington, D. C. U. S. SHIP ONTARIO, OF THE PORTS OF MEXICO.

OFFICIAL. U.S. FRIGATE CONSTELLATION, Pensacola Bay, April 25, 1939. Sacrificios, April 16, 1838. SIR I despatch the Grampus to apprise 3 you that the French Minister, Baron Deffandis, receive! yesterday from Mexico the reply of this Government to his ultimatum, which not proving satisfactory, it has been determined to commence immoliately the blockade of the ports of the Republic.

Herewith I send the French commander's circular to that effect. I have requested our Consul to procure a copy of the French ultimatum, and reply thereto hope to obtain them in time to forward by the schooner. 'There are ro merchant vessels of any nation now in port, and one American--the Ann Eliza of' New York -expected. 'The blockade will he rigid as respects merchant vessels, but none others. The French force consists at present of one frigate and five brigs; another frigate daily expected.

gun brig leave this evening, with despatches for the French minister in the United States, for Pensacola. The Concord is here, and I shall direct Captain Fitzugh to proceed off Tampico, communicate with our Consul there, and proffer any assistance that our countrymen there may require at his hands. I shall remain with this whip here, until the excitement that the blockade may create on shore has subsided and then, if the presence of a vessel of war be no longer necessary, proceed to the coast of Texas in prosecution of your further orders, Very respectfully, sir, Your obe lient servant, SAMUEL L. BREESE. Commodore A.

J. DALLAS, Commanding U.S. naval forces in West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. Station of the Gulf of Mexico, On board His Majesty's frigate l'Herminie, at anchor off Sacrificios, April 18, 1833. The commander of the station of the Gulfof ico has the honor to inform Captain Breese, of sloop of war Ontario, that he has just made known the Mexican Government the blockade of all ports of the Republic.

He sends enclosed a copy the circular addressed by himself and the Minister Plenipotentiary of France, to the French consuls established in Mexico; and at the same time he Capt. Breese to accept the assurance of his distinguished consideration. (Signed) BAZOCHE. Circular agreed upon between the Minister Plenipo. tentiary of France in Mexico, and the Commander of the Naval Station, notifying the French consuls established in Mexico of the declaration of blockade of ail the ports of the Republic.

In consequence of the rejection of the ultimatum ad dressed on the 31st of the last month to the Mexican Government, by order of the King's Government it has been determined that the ports of Mexico immediately be blockaded, for the purpose of preventing all entry or departure from em. In this state of things, the Baron Deffaudis the Commander Bazoche have adopted the following principles for the blockade: 1. No neutral vessel proceeding towards the trance of the blockaded ports shall be detained captured, if she has not previously received from of the vessels of the French division a special cation of the existence of the blockade. This notifi. cation shall brine moreover, inserted in writing on muster roll neutral vessel, by the cruiser which meets her; and it shall contain the announcement, together with a statement of the day and the latitude in which it was made.

2. Neutral vessels which may he alrea.ly in one the ports of the Republic before the blockade of such port, will have full liberty to depart with or without cargo, during fifteen days, dated- from that upon which the blockade is established. 3. The ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico will main entirely free for the entrance and departure the British post office, military and non commercial packet vessels. 4.

'The ports of the Mexican Republic shall main entirely free for the entrance and departure Mexican boats exclusively engaged in fishing, unless the French naval division should be hereafter forced in retaliation, to withdraw this benevolent disposition. Translation of a note from the Minister Plenipoten-, tiary of France, accompanied by a document. SIR: The Mexican Government having refused accept the ultimatum, addressed with the view affecting a reconciliation, to it on the 21st of March last, by the Freuch Government, the King's minister in Mexico, who is at this moment on board the frigate l'Herminie, has just communicated to me, by means of the armed brig 'Eclipse, sent for the purpose Pensacola, this refusal, as also the measures which had induced Capt. Bazoche, the commander of the naval forces, to employ and I hasten, sir, agreeably to his Majesty's order. to make known to the ment of the United States, the following official notification.

All the ports of Mexico are declared to he in a state of blockade. The blockade is rendered effective (or to be enforced) with regard to Vera Cruz, from ani after the 15th of the last month, and has doubtless been since extended to the other ports of the Republac. The orders receive by the commander, Bazoche for the execution of the duty committed to him, are, you see, sir, from the annexed extract of the despatch sent to me by Baron de entirely conformable with the liberal principles expressed by France on the subject of blockades; and they are drawn up in such a manner as to preserve neutrals, especially the vessels of the Unite States, from all restraints and vexations (entraves) which are not ahsolutely indispensable for the attainment of the lawful ends proposed by the King's Government. On addressing you, sir, this communication, I have honor to request that you would be so kind as to acknowledge the receipt of it as soon as possible, in order that the brig l'Eeli; se may not be detained at Pensacola waiting for my answer longer than necessary. I avail myself, sir, of this occasion, to renew to you assurances of my high consideration.

E. D. PONTOIS. Te the Hon. J.

FORSYTH. Secretary of State of the United States. Extract from the despatch of the Baron de Defaudis, dated April 15, 1838. "On board His Majesty's frigate l'Herminie, at anchor off Sacrificins, near Vera Cruz. No neutral vessel proceeding towards the entrance of the blockaded ports shall detained or captured, if she has not previously received from one the resse's of the French division, a special of the existence of the blockade.

This notification shall be moreover writing muster roll of the neutral vessel, by the cruiser which her and it shall contain the announcement, ingether with statements of the day and the latitude which it was male. Neutral vessels which may be blockade already of the ports of the Republic before the of port, shall have full liberty to depart, with cargo, within 15 lay-, dated from that blockade is established. Tue ports of Vera Cruz and his entirely free for the entrance and Tampico departure on a the post office, military and non -commercial packet vessels. 'The ports of the Mexican Republie shall 4. main entirely fee for the entrance and departure Mexican boats engaged in fishing, unless the French naval division shoubt he hereafter forced, in tinn, to withdraw this benevolent disposition." You ace, sir, that M.

Bazoche is of desirous himself to the enjoyment of the mildest mens. fining ares restraint, of for the purpose ofobtaining the aration due by the Mexican Government to France, unless fresh attacks upon the persons or property the King's subjects residing in Mexico, require him to adopt means decidedly severe. Now this sistence in the system of moderation indicated by ultimatum, is rendered worthy of praise, after recest conduct of the Mexican Government, which, in tolerating, (ifit did not even provoke by its official writings,) tie publication of the most odious calumnies respecting our intentions conquer the country, to dismember its territory, did not hesitate expose to the fury of the populace, with the sole end of maintaining itself in power, not our countrybut likewise all foreigners essablished in the territory of the Republic. This conduct is essentially contrary to the laws of honor, of civilization, and humunity. You also see, sir, from the principles adopted by M.

Bazoche, as the rules of his conduct, that it is our desire to preserve neutrals from all the restrictions and 1 difficulties (entraves) which are not absolutely indispensable for the purpose which we are endeavoring lawfully to effect. I am also happy to be able to state to you a circumstance which proves our sincerity upon this point, especially as far as relates to Americans. On this very day, the commander of the sloop of war Ontario called on us on board the frigate l'Herminie, to speak to 119 respecting the approaching arrival of the packet Ann Eliza, engaged in commerce, and in carrying letters New York. We were obliged to express to him our regret at the necessity under which we should be of forbidding this vessel from entering Vera Cruz, as we should also do with regard to our OWn mail packets, from Havre. But we have, at the same promised that officer, at his own request, to allow the consignee of the Ann Eliza to communicate with her at sea, to receive her letters, and to give instructions with regard to her future destination.

Accept, Sir, BN. DEFAUDIS. From the Randolph (Tenn.) Whig. Murder the most following particulars were triven to us by a gentleman who was an eyewitness to the horrid scene which it falls to our lot to record among the numerous outrages that occur almost daily in valley of the Mississippi: At Mill's Point, Kentucky, about 120 miles from this place, Dr. Thomas Rivers was shot one day last week, from out of a window, by lawyer Ferguson, both citizeus of that place, and both parties are represented to have stood high in the estimation of the community in which they lived.

The difficulty, we understand to have grown out of a law suit at issue between them. 'The scene is represented to have been affecting and cowardly, as the assassin appears to have selected a time for the perpetration of his dark and fiendish purpose, that would have shocked the monster who had imbrued his blood in the bands of his fellow-man. At the time Mr. Rivers was shot, he had by the hand his little son, and was within view of the partner of his bosom, who was looking after him with anxious eyes when he fell. His wife, upon seeing him fall, immediately made her way 10 the lifeless body; but the spectacle presented, proved too much for her wounded spirits, and she swooned away.

Upon her recovery from the shock, she repaired again to the spot to which the body had been removed, uttering the most. feeling exclamations, pillowing her head upon his bosom- -a scene that would have ened a heart of adamant. How strong are the wife's affections--they are like the rose blossoming in the arid desert, spreading its rays over the barren plain of the human heart -and while all'around is black and desolate, she is still the same confiding friend, even amid pain and peril. Ferguson was immediately taken into custody, and we forbear saying any thing more on the subject, as that retributive justice which the laws of God and man imperatively demand, will no doubt be impartially exercised towards this unfortunate man, who has at an unguarded moment whirled a fellow being into eternity, laid waste an affectonate heart, and left for himself the remorse of a guilty conscience, and in all probability an ignominious death. Just as our paper was going to press, we learn from a gentlemen from the Point, that the brother of Dactor Rivers, who had been sent for, had arrived, and immediately shot lawyer Ferguson.

He at first shot him with a gun shot, upon his retreat, which did not prove fatal; he then approached him immediately with a pistol, an I killed him on the spot. We are sorry that this tragical affair ended thus. We respect the laws of the land, however far the public mind may go to mitigate this course in a brother, whose poignancy of feeling cann be conceive I except by those whose misfortune it has been to be similarly situated. From the New. Orleans True American.

Sight given to the born Blind. -In all the great schools of medicine throughout the world, there has seldom been witnessed a prouder triumph of human art than was achieved in our own eity on Saturday last, by Dr. Luzenberg, in the successful removal of congenital cataract. Among the Seminole prisoners is a female named Mary, about thirty years of age, ani born blind. Her life has been passed in the wilds of Florida, and among its willer natives, -ignorance, and a belief in its immobility, have ever inade her resigned to her affliction.

When arrived here, it was stated to her that her blindness could be removed, -that the great medicine' of the white man, could give her sight. The proposition was referred to her relatives, and the chiefs of her tribe. Superstition naturally entered into their councils, and the result of their deliberations was an oracular decree: -What the great spirit has denied the pale face cannot give; what the Manitto has ordained, it would be bad in his children to wish to change." Frequent importunity, however, induced a better state of feeling, and the patient at length consenting, the operation was performed at the barracks, on Saturday, the 14th by Dr. Luzenberg, assisted by Dr. Labaut, in the presence of several physicians and some of the chief's of the Seminoles.

Many singular difficulties presented themselves; first, from impossibility of prompt communication between the patient and the surgeon secondly, because from habit the pupils of both eyes were thrown in the internal cathus; and thirdly, because meatal agitation caused the eyeballs to rush from side to sile, as if under the operation of galvaoism. But skill and perseverance can overcome all impediments, and the poor savages of the woods prepared to receive from the white man the inestimable blessings of sight. The eves, which in their blind state were additionally affeted with obliquity, will henceforth assume their natural position. Daring the first operation. Cloud, the Seminole Chief, watched it over Dr.

Luzenberg's shoulder, almost as intensely as the surgeon himself; and when in her agony and dread, the poor woman refused to submit again, the chiefassured her he had observed the pale face closely, and was satisfied he could give her sight; that their own great medicine, their prophet, Felix-Hava, could do nothing for her; but fate would submit a few moments longer, the medicines of the pale faces would enable her to gaze upon children and her father, and to look out upon the beauty of the country where they were going to dwell: that she could then mingle in their dances, see how their hraves could defend her wigwam! Bound by habit to obey her chief, and with some rar hope to support her, the patient submitted a to the second operation, which was performed with matchless skill, and well requited success, Mary has a 9 years old, a so burn blind, which will he operated by Dr. in the course of the week. May success again crowa his efforts. Mal Dogs. -Five dugs were killed in the district list Kensingion last Monday, all of them having been also bitten by a dog showed evident symptoms of hydrophobia.

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