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; t- . ’' t Vi'om. the Ontario Messenger. THE REVISED STATUTES— NO. VI. The second chapter of the second part, treats of the title to real property by descent. The rules of descent, v^hich now do not go beyond nephevrs, are extended to the de- acendante of brothers and sisters of the fa ther of the intestate and of his mother. If the intestate leave a mother and a brother' «r sister, or descendants of them, the inher itance goes to the mother during life, and the reversion to the brother or sister, or their descendants. If there be a mother and no brother or sister, or descendants of them, the inheritance goes to the mother in fee. In case of the in t e s t a t e being- ille g it i mate arid having no descendants, the inher itance passes to his mother, if she be liv ing; if dead, to her relatives. Illegiti mate children, and relatives, can in no case inherit. Persons capable of inheriting are not to be precluded by thA alienism of their ancestors. The law of advancement, is extended to personal as well as real proper ty, and the whole is to be reckoned as real estate, and is to be estimated in ascertaining the portion of real property to which a child is to be entitled. The third chapter of tho second part, re lates to the proof and mcordingof convey ances, and cancelling mortgages. The term conveyances includes mortgages, and every Other species of instruments by which the title to real property can be affected, except wills, leases for a term not exceeding three years and executory contracts, The same rales) with respect to the eflhct of record ing will therefore hereafter apply to mort gages as to deeds. Subscribing witnesses are to state their places of residewce,. which is to be inserted in the certificate of proof. Witnesses to deeds may be compelled to ap pear before certain officers, to prove them, and ar.e to be committed until they answer. Certiffcates of proof or acknowledgements are not to be conclusive, but may be rebut ted, and if the witness was interested or incompetent, the certificate is invalid. The certificates are in all cases to set forth the names of the witnesses examined, their pla ces of residence and the substance of their testimony. Without these requisites the cer tificate would he void. Certificates that a mortgage is satisfied, are to be acknowl edged or proved in the same manner as deeds; and are to be recorded at full length ; and in the record of the mortgage a minute is to be made referring to the record of the discharge. If all the witnesses to a convey ance be dead, it may be pn ved. as at law, before certain officers, and if deposited with the county clerk; becomes constructive no tice to su b s e q u e n t p u r c h a s e r s . Povyer o f attorney to convey land, and executory con tracts for the sale of land, may be recorded on being prated and acknowledged, with the like effect as deeds, but their record ing 19 not required. And a letter of attor ney that has been recorded, can not be revoked, without recording the instrument of revocation. The recording an assign ment o f a mortgage is not notice*, so as to invalidate payments made to the mortga gee. In Albany, Ulster, Sullivan, Herki mer, Dutchess, Colombia, Delaware and Schenectady counties, leases for life or lives, or for years, need not be recorded. The fourth chapter treats of the title to personal property in certain cases. The first title, relating to limited partnerships, contains no new provisions of importance.’ T he second title relates to promissory notes and bills of exchange. Notes paya ble to the order of the maker or of a ficti tious name, if negotiated by the maker, have the same validity as notes payable to bearer. Persons within this State can not be charged for acceptances of bills, unless the accep tance is in writing; and if made on any other paper than the bill itself, itisnol bind ing, except in favour of a person who has seen H., and on the faith of it has received the bill for a valuable consideration; but a previous unconditional promise in writing to accept a bill, is to be deemed an acceptance in favour of a person receiving the bill up on the faith of such premise. A refusal to make a written acceptance on request, is to be deemed a refusal to accept, A person to VI horn a bill is presented for acceptance, who shall destroy it, or refuse to return it within twenty-four hours, accep,ted or non- accepted, is to be deemed to have accept ed. The rate of damages to be paid on protest for non-payment of bills of ex change drawn upon any person at any place in Europe, is to be ten dollars upon the hundred, on the amount of the bill; which is to be paid in lieu of interest and all charges incurred previous to giving notice of non-payment, but interest is to be recov ered on the principal and damages, from the time'of demand of payment. If'the bill is payable in dollars and cents, the amount due is to be ascertained without reference to any rate of exchange, but if payable in a foreign currency, the amotuii due is to be de termined by the rate of exchange, t r the value 'of such foreign currency at the time of demand qf payment. The same rate of damages is to be allowed on the protest of a bill for non-acceptance, and interest is to be recovered on the total amount of the princi pal sum and the damages from the time of giving notice of non-acceptance. The dam ages allowed by this title shall be recovered only by the holder of a bill who has paid a valuable consideration for it. The third title relates to the interest money. Promissory notes or bills of ex change in the hands of a holder receiving the same fora valuable consideration, with out notice that such bill or note had been given upon a usurious contract, are not to be affected by the usury. A borrower is entitled to flip his bill m equity for the dis covery of a-usurious contract, without p a y ing or depositing the principal sum, as a condition of obtaining relief! “ For the “ purpose of calculating interest, a month •‘shall be considered the twelfth part of a “ year and as consisting of thirty days, and “ interest tor any number of days less than “ amonth shall be estimated by the propor- “ tion which such number of days shall bear “ to thirty.-’ The fourth title treats of the accumula tion of personal property and of expectant estates in such property. The absolute ownership of personal property can rjot be suspended for a longer period than until the termination of not more thaii two lives in being. Limitations on future interests in personal property are in all other respects to be subject to the same rules as are pre scribed in relation to future estates in lands. Accumulations of the interest of money, or Other profits of personal property, must ter minate at the expiration of the minority of the infants for whose benefit they are di rected. The moneys accumulated may be taken under the order of the Chancellor, for the support or education of the infant! All other directions for accumulations, than sucli as are allowed by this title, are void. Chapter five of the second part relates to title to property real and personal, trans mitted or acquired by special provisions of law; and the first title is concerning the assignment of estates of non-resident, ab- acondiug, insolvent, or imprisoned debtors, and consists of eight articles, in which the yanous uud complicated laws^bn these sub jects are collected, simplified and arranged m Iheir natural order; with numerous al- tcratiojis in th© d6taiisj of which thos© only will be noticed which involve some princi ple. ^ Provision ia made'for trying, a claim to (ffqperiy attached, by the sheriff and a jury^, anff-the cases specified in which he iS to de ta il It notvyithstanding a verdict fpf'^the blaiinant- In case of the seizure of'a ves sel, Or o f any share in her, proceedings may be had to obtain her release, promptly, dr for her sale, in case of no claim being in terposed. Notices.in cases of non-resident debtors, are to be for nine months instead of a year. After application for an attach ment, any other creditor may file a specifi cation of his demand, with the Judge, and shall therefore be entitled to all the rights of an attaching creditor. If a second or Other attachment be issued by any other judge, return is to be made to the judge who issued th.e first, and all the papers are to be transmitted to him; the proceedings are to be the same as iftsuch attachment had been issued by the officer who issued the first warrant, and the creditors are to have the same rights. Assignees of the person.proceeded against, and persons who may have received payments from him, may contest the fact of his being absconding, concealed, or non-resident; whenever con tested. either by them or the debtor, the question may be tried by a jury. If the proceedings be discharged by the debtor’s giving a bond, a suit must be brought on it by the creditors within six muntliSi Trus tees of the debtor are to be appointed with in three months afte.'* the expiration of the time limited for his appearance, and if not appointed within that time, the attachment is thereby cancelled. The appointment of trustees is to be recorded. If the debtor die or become insane before the time limit ed for his appearance, the proceedings are to be\ stayed, and the properly given to his representatives; if he die after that time, the proceedings are to continue. Sheriffs may be compelled by attachment to return atlachlHeiLls. The proceedings may be re moved at any time into the Supreme Court, by certiorari, who are to proceed thereon, remit the matter to the same or any other officer having jurisdiction The sure tie s in bonds offered by th e d e b to r , m a y be required to justify in the same manner as bail in actions. A warrant under this ar-ti- cle supersedes an attachment issued under the poor laws. The second article relates to attachments against debtors confined by crimes, and au thorises similar proceedings, as those pre scribed in the first article, against debtors imprispned in the State Prison for an y term h f e . and ag a in s t d e b to r s im p r is o n ed in a county jail for any term more than one y e a r . A fter p a y in g th e deb ts, th e T r u s tees may apply the surplus to the support of th e fam ily o f th e d e b to r or th e ed u c a tion o f bis Children, until his discharge, when the properly in their hands is to be delivered to him. Connected with this subject, it is proper to remark that by Title 7 of Chap. I, of the 4th part, every person injured by the commission of affelony, for which the offen der shall be imprisoned in the State Prison, is to be deemed a creditor under the provi sions of this article, and the amount of his damages are to be ascertained by a suit brought by him against the trustees of the offender’s estate. The third article relates to voluntary as- signments made by an insolvent in conjunc tion with creditors to two thirds the amount of his debts.. Creditors may require a hear ing before a jury, in all cases. If it appears that since swearing to his petition, the in solvent has collected any debts, or trans ferred any pro,perty, before he can receive a discharge, he is to pay the amount thereof, except such as were necessarily expended for the support of himself or family. If it shall appear, that after this article has taken effect as a law, the debtor, knd'wing his in-f solvency, or in contemplation of it, or of his petitioning, has m^de any transfer of any property, or confessed a judgement or given any security, with a view to give a preference for any antecedent debt to any creditor, he shall not be entitled to a dis charge. [The term “ antecedent’’was in troduced in the Legislature, after the chap ter was reported; with the intention proba bly to confine the prohibition to the securing debts then existing, and not to involve Iia- abilities, which might afterwards become debts; although as such securities would operate for the benefit of the existing credi tor, it may be questioned how far the sup posed intanticn has been accomplished.] The finding of the jury on any point in favour of the insolvent, is to be conclusive on the officer and he is to grant a discharge. Contingent interests do not pass by the as signment unless they become vested within three years. The effect of discharges, is very distinctly expressed, in conformity with the decisions of the Supreme Conn of the United States: the insolvent is discharged from all debts founded on contracts made since 12ih April, 1813, within this State, or lobe executed within this State; from all debts owing to persons residing ir, the Stale at the time of first publishing notice; and from all debts owing to non-rosiclonts who unite in the petition to accept a dividend. With respect to contracts made after 1st of January next, the insolvent is also dis charged from alt liabilities as maker or in dorser of notes or bills, made before his as signment, notwithstanding any party to such note or bill may pay the same after the mak ing of the assingment. And in respect to such liabilities, the discharge may be pleaded in bar of any action, and the insolvent is not to be imprisoned on account of them. The fourth article relates to proceedings by creditors i,o compel an assignment by an insolvent. Any creditor having a demand to the amount of ^25 against a person who has been imprisoned in execution in a civil action sixty days, may commence the pro ceedings by petition, on which a day is to be appointed and notice given as under the last article. On the day of hearing, upon re ceiving the affidavits of any creditors, the officer is to direct.the debtor to be brought before him to bo exam ined on o a th co n c e r n ing lllS creditors, the sums due them and the p la c e o f th e ir r e s id e n c e s , and i f he refuses, he is to be commited to close custody until b e c o m p lie s ; an d o th e r p r o o f o f liis d e b ts is to be taken. If it appear that two thirds in am o u n t o f th e cred ito r s , have n o t r e quested an assignment, all proceedings are to cease; but if two thirds have requested it, the debtor is to render an account, &c. and in like proceedings as those prescribed, in the last article are to be had. United States, by theirorgaB,Mr.Hbore, must be grateful to Colombia and the Liberator. It' being the cofastant desire of the govefoinent bf bur republicfc to tnanifesl a sincere frieridship towards all the states bf America, and not to inr terfere in any manner with the internal affairs of other nations, it must be highly satisfactory to. witness from the government of that repnb- lick, which has preceded us in the career of in dependence, the profession of sentiments simi lar to those which form ourmwn policy.^’-— F. JSve. Post. From Colombia — From Captain Sullivan, of the brig Athenian, arrived last evening front Carthagena, whence she sailed on the 18th ult. we learn that all was tranquil there and in the interior. The insurrection in Antioquia was en tirely quelled, a few days previous, by a de tachment of troops sent against the insurgents by Bolivar. Gen. Cordova, the promoter of ilie rebellion, was killed in a skirmish, previ ous to the general surrender. Gen. Harrison, late Minister to Colombia, arrived at Cartha gena on tlie 16th from Bogota, on his return hdme. He was to take passage for the United States in the sloop of war Natchez, which was daily expected at Carthagena. By the arrival mentioned above we have re ceived a Bogota Oazeta Extraordinaria of the 29th of September, containing a notice of the presentation of our Minister, Mr, Moore, at the office of the Secretary of Foreign Relations, with the speech of Mr. Moore on the occasion! which we have already published. The editor ot the Bogota paper, in commenting on the speech, says—“ Tlii.s expression of the senti ments of the government and people of the Mr. McLane, our Minister to England, has Jiad an audience with the King, and wfe are not without hope that our commercial affairs will be benefilted through his exertions. The loss of the Colonial trade, through the blunders of Messrs. Clay and Adams, has been severely felt in New England, as it has injured our market and depressed the price of almost all our agricultural productions. Should Mr. McLane be enabled to perfect a treaty, no part of the cohntry will .be more benefilted by it than Connecticut. It is with more than ordinary interest that we look to the progress of this negociation.-—ffart/brd ( Conn.) Times. The Pensacola Gazette of the 14th ult. is be fore us, and we have looked anxiously through its columns, in the hope to meet with somein- telligepce concerning the Hornet; but it con tains not a word on the subject. Our fears that she is lost are fast darkening into certainty; and, indeed,' when the length of time that .she has been out, (nearly ninety days have elapsed since she sailed from Tampico,) and the fact that late news has been received from almost every port where there was the slightest probability of her having touched, without bringing any intelli gence o f h e r , are considered, there is scarcely any thing left on which a lingering hope can fasten. T h e m elancholy likelihood is, th a t she has foundered at sea, and that all on board have perished.—JV*. Y. Eve. Post. T a C l R S I > A i r , D E C E M B E R lO . FoRxiQN.-r—By London dates of the 31st Oc tober, the situation of Turkey i? represented to be m o st deplorable. It was at first believed in the Turkish provinces that Russia was waging a war of conquest, and that they w e re never again destined to be subjected to the dominion o f the P o rte. T h e Russians w e re baited as their deliverers and their joy was openly ex pressed at their arrival- But when it was known that the Russian iories were to be with drawn, they were filled with the most fearful apprehensions of the vengeance of the Sultan, from whom no mercy could be expected. The entire Turkish army may be considered as an nihilated. ^ The regular troops have thrown down their arms, and in large bodies gone over to the enemy. The irregular soldiery are dis banded, and have fled for safety with what property they could carry with them Only a few battalions of regular infantry remained to gether, and these had not as yet seen the Rus sian Army. Great apprehensions were m.ini- fested in all the towns and villages at the ap proach of the Russians, Women who had left the privacy of their harems, were seen running with cries of terror to save and secure their children. Gen. Diebitscb had entered the principal Gre.ek Church attended by his staff and caused a Te Deum to be performed. The Sultan is deprived of a great portion of his re venues and it is supposed he will fliut it diffi cult in the present exhausted state of bis trea sury to pay the stipulated indemnities to Rus sia. The Reis Effendi has given notice to the French and English Ambassadors that the Porte must rely on their governments for pe cuniary assistance, but as ^ e t no satisfactory reply had been given. Halil Pacha has been dispatched on a mission to Petersburgh, and is the bearer of splendid presents to the Emperor and Empress. His object is said to be to per suade the Emperor that it is impossible lor Tur key to comply with tde pecuniary requisitions of Russia, and to prevail on him to renounce the stipulated indemnity of 11,000 ducats. The recent treaty between Russia and Tur key is definite in its provisions with regard to the principalities of Moldavia .Hnd Waliachia. The Hospadors are made independent of the Porte and hold their offices for life, unless in case of resignation or expulsion for crime. The enure left bank of the Danube is relinquished, and no contribution.s are to be levied by ttie Porte. The trade of the principalities is here after to be subjected to no restrictions but such as are imposed by their respective govern ments- Hopes were entertained that the Em peror might be prevailed on to modify or relin quish some of the more oppressive articles of the treaty. Recent disturbances have taken place in Ire land which would lead us to suppose that con siderable excitement existed in some parts of the kingdom. ■ Seventeen jiersons have been arrested in the county of Cork, charged with a conspiracy to murder. Four have been ar raigned, found guilty, and condemned to suffer death. Mr. O’Connel was engaged in the de fence of the remaining thirteen. Our streets for the last week have presented a beautifully smooth and glassy surface. A stranger might be led to consider it a happy specimen of internal improvements and suppose the highway was converted. into a canal. But upon a closer inspection be would find that it was nothing more than a precious m ixture of clay and water which we call mud. None can understand our meaning in its full extent, but those who have actually been in it. Standing on a stone or log and looking at it wont do. It’s lop superficial, and no correct estimate can be made of its depth. We do not mean to be understood that it is deep enough for Steam- Boats,—but it is our honest belief that spows and small schponers would get along very com fortably. It is said that a man in the lower part of the village, spent three days in dragging for a swamped wheelbarrow. It may be pro per to mention that our intormani occasionally goes hunting and tells bear storieswe don’t believe it. But men, women and children may be seen fishing for shoes at all hours of the day. We have some crossing places, but it will hard ly quit cost to look for them. And even after finding one, it requires a sober, expcrieiited navigator to cross m safety, as they are usually some inches below the surface, Nothing can be more affecting than to listen to the lamenta tions, and cries for assistance from luckless urchins, who would never be able to extri cate themselves,—or to witness the meeting of two unfortunate pedestrians on one of these nar row passes. Neither will give an inch, and away they both go into the mud. Gomplaints are numerom. SonqiB charge our troubles upon the clay beneath—some uppn the water above, and others, to the two united, '■* E. A village meeting was held at the Court House on Monday last, agreeable to notice of the Trustees, to take into consideration sundry matters inseparably connected with^ the welfare and prosperity of our village. A more way ward, stubborn, self-willed, stiff-necked set of legislators were never collected together. It reminded qs of the Rump Parliament, or Gov. Yates extra session- They said nay to every thing until a motion was made fo^adj'ournment, when the utmost harmony prevailed and it was carried unanimously. E. The weather has so far been unusually Warm, A mild and open winter is predicted by many. It is confidently expected that the sufferings of old Bachelors will be less than was anticipated. E. 8i5» The Rev. Mr. L eavitt , general agent of the Seaman’s Friend Society, will preach in the Rev. Mr. WyckofPs Church, in this village on Sunday morning next, and a collection will be taken for the benefit of the society. IT E M S . Court of Oyer and Terminer — ^This court was opened yesterday morning. There was not a single case to lay before the Grand Jury, who were, with the Petit Jury, consequently dismissed .— Courier Sf Enq. We learn’that another person, a young man about 19 or 20 years of nge, was burned to death, at the fire in Roosevelt street. His body was found on Saturday afternoon. I t is r e ported that a third person is still missing.— Id. H e r Royal H ighness, the Princess o f Oi ange- has been very ili, in consequence of a fright oc^ casioned by the sudden appearance of a chim ney sweep in her bed room. She probably thought she was “ come foT.”-r-Id. ! A Baker’s dozen .—^The wife of Mr. Joseph I Whitmore, merchant, of E. Haddan, (says the 1 Middletown Sentinel,) is now the living mofh- [erof thirteen daughters! all sprightly, active I children—the youngest about three weeks old ! —and has never lost one. It is doubted wheth- I er there is any thing similar to this in the,U. I S tates. T h e three e ldest d aughters are married and have families. Mrs. W. never had a son— but we doubt n o t it would be agreeable and pleasing, If tfic next 13 should be sons At the late term of the Supreme Court in Portland, Mrs. Godfrey, vs. Peter Kincaid, re- covered $1111, for a breach of promise of mar riage. Kincaid is abonx Jiffy-three years pf age, and the widow Godfrey twenty-fgur.-^JST. Y. Gazette. Bad Roads .—We learn from the Albany Daily Advertiser, that the roads between Buffalo and Cattaraugus Creek are in such a bad state, that it is impossible for hefses to drag the stagecoaches airng, and.they were therefore taken off, and two yoke o f oxen put in their places. The male passengers were also obliged to work their passage. Dr. Eliphaz Bissel, was the unfortunate gentleman,who was droyvnedfrom the steam' boat M’Doiu ugh last W ^ e d n esday night, when the boat was off Saybrook light house. Doct. Bissel resides in Vern. n, Oneida coun ty, in this state, where he has left a wife and several children. His baggage is in the hands of the agent of the Steamboat Com pany at Hartford.—iV. Y. Ev. Post. A Rogue caught.—'The young man who re cently absconded from the etnpioyment of Mr. J. J. Ryan, of this city, with $1500, has been arrested at Columbus, Ohio, and $lJ00of the money recovered—the balance he had spent. New-Orleans .— It is stated, on what is considered good authority, that during the late sickly seasoff in New-Orleans, the deaths amounted to the enormous number of FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED. The premium of £ f 0 0 . for the b e s t s team carriage for Railways was awarded at Liver pool to Mr. Robert Stephenson, of New- Castle. His machine has been tried again, and drew the enormous weight of twenty Ions, at the rale of eighteen to twenty miles per hour. Edward Lloyd, a very extensive farmer of Talbot County, Eastern Shore, Md. has raised on his farm this year eighty-five thou sand bushels of Corn—all of the best quali ty—a much larger crop than has ever been raised on the same ground Sisterly Affection.—^ boy named Philip, playing on a slab in the Susquehannah, was upset, and apparently drowned. He was taken from the water, and. after neces.sary applications showed Symptoms of returning life. At this crisis, his lovely and loving sister, exclaimed, with a significant shake of tlie head, “ Well, if Phil doks come to I guess he’ll get one darnd lickin.” Beat this who can —Mr. Jona.^ Dearborn, of Exeter, Penobscot county, Me. 40 years old, in six days, last month, cut, cramped, and made 16 pair of thick cowhide boots* Challenging,—At a late session of the Superior court in Wayne county, Georgia, a gentleman was fined $300 for sending a chal lenge to another. There has been found in Medway, Geo., a medal of copper, cast in honour of Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham, the ardent advocate of the Colonies in the disputes, ivhich ended in-the revolutionary war, and their indepen dence. On one side is a head, with the in scription “ Gulielmus Pitt’’—on the reverse —“ The man who, having saved the parent, pleaded with success for her children.”—2V. Y. Gaz. A Pun Legal .—A cause was lately tried which originated in a dispute about a pair of small clothes. The judge, who was a noted punster, observed, it was the first time he had ever known a suit to be made out of a ‘pair of breeches. A t a ‘- gin’ral trainin,” at Dunstable, New- Hampshite, a company of grannydears’* got mad and m arched off, leaving the com missioned officers on the ground. The editor of the Troy Sentinel says, “ what a fine thing good disci pline and military subordination are!”—JV. V. Constellation. A Lady in a paroxysm of grief was said to have shed “ torrents of tears.” “ Poor thing*.” remarked an unfeeling punster, “ she nmst have had a cataract in each eye.”— Id. H'ashington Monument — The following are the iliinensions of the Washington Monument, as given in the Baltimore Anferican: The base is 50 feet square, and 25 feet high; the column IS twenty feet in diameter, and with its sub-base 130 feej, high; the capital is 20 feet square, fhe Statue is 15 feet high, and the whole height of the monumeni, from thepavement, includine the statue, l76 feet __ Id. A Wife made o f Nothing — We learn from the papers, that Mr. Josiah ' Patch was lately married, in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Miss Eleanor Nothing. This is the first instance on record of a wife being made out of nothing. Even the fashionables of the present day, who are as near nothing .is may be at the waist, spread out abuudautiy above and below. Adani was created out of nothing; but when a wife was to be made, noihiug less than one of bis ribs w’ould answer the purpose. How grateful must Mrs. Patch be for tffis surprising change! Nothing now remains for her ^/Votoing-uess; and we liave every reason to believe, that no! thing in the world would tempi her to return again to her original Nothing.-^Constellation. Governors o f f Ae Sftoto*.—!>ThefoUow!ng is st aware of their own danger,-repaired to the-as- list of the actinggoveraors of the sevs^ralstates, sistance of their dog, when a terrible battle en- for MSb'.-^PhU. Inquirer. sued—more dogs were brought into action; not- Nathan Cutler. withstanding the Tigress would have made Beniamia Pierce. dreadful havock among them, if a Spaniard living Samuel C. Crafts. ^he scene of battle, had not interposed— Maine,- New^-Harapshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Noftb-Carolina, South-Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana, * Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, * Levi Lincoln. James Fenner. Gideon Tomlinson. Enos T. Throop. Peter D Vroom,Jr. George Wolf. David Hazard. Daniel Martin. William B. Giles. John Owen. Stephen D. Miller. G eorge E . Gilmer. Gabriel Moore. G erard C. Brandon. H. Beauvais. W ilham Carroll. Thomas Metcalf. Allen Trimble. James B. Ray. Ninian Edwards. John Miller. near iije 9ceuc ui with knife in hand, he boldly engaged the fero- cious animal—he received several severe wounds and the Tigress had him down, and would have conquered him, had not the negroes succeeded in thrusting a large stick in the mouth of the Tigress, and held her until a gun was brought, when she was shot. . She measures 7J feet from nose to the end of the tail; The male was seen afterwards in the neighbouring woods—he ap peared much larger than the Tigress. It is somewhat strange, indeed, that these animals should be travelling in this section of- the coun try. It is probable that they have emigrated from South America by the way of Mexico, Texas, Opelousas, and crossed the Mississippi near the mouth of False river. Some two or three years ago, a- Tiger was killed on the hills near Russellville, in the interior of Kentucky. .The Rochester paper of the 24tb ipst. says-—the country between this and the Niagara frontier was Visited with severe ^ At Buffalo, ■ • the x\iag!3ra irontier vvas vj^ueu vviin severe Poisoning at Madeira.-LetXers from Ma- ft\™® delt a to the twenty-ninth October, have been received in this city by the Howard. it inrhpc of a ‘^6 canal Its cksure, at this early pe- thirteenth regiment of infantry which, in /od, with such immense quantities of produce one of the letters by this arrival is openly on hand ready to be shipped, for the eastward, would be a serious misfortune. The ltfaaca pa! tb^e Other Miguehte authontiea, on account pgr of the 25th inst. says—A snow storm, un- of that regm^nt being inclined to Constziu- parallelled in its severity at this w*y period of tiOTiahsm. The poison was mixed with ffie season, occurred in Erie, Genesee, and the their m e a d , and a h u n d r e d so ld iers soon fe l t contiguous counties, on T h u rsday and Friday the effects of It to such a degree that they of last week. The Batavia Press states, that w e r e o b lig e d to b e .carried to th e h o s p it a l, the s n o w fell in th a t p lace to the depth of more The remainder of the regiment rebelled, and than two feet. The stage came from Buffalo se iz e d th e com m issioner, B a c h ica, w h o had to Batavia on runners. the contract for supplying bread, and Who, it ____ was supposed, had been bribed to tne corn- We understand that the joint Committee ap- missioD of this horrid act. The second regi- pointed at the last New-York and New-Eng- ment o f infantry, supposed to be favorable land Conferences, to consider and report on the to D o n M iguel, u n e x p e c ted ly m a d e com m o n subject o f establishing a C o llege w ithin the cause with the thirteenth, and on the 26th, limits of said Conferences, at their meeting in th e y surrounded t h e p a lace o f th e G o v e r n o r the city on W e d n esday last; decided in favour for th e purpose of arresting a major sup- of Middletoi^D as the location of the College, posed to have had a share........ in the transaction. The Committee will report to these Confsren- E—K n , «v«r A 1 * 1 ^ n A 1.. . « — ^ ^ _ *1 . ^ — __ n V ____ __ _ _ A. ___ ^ 1 ____________ ^ ^ _ _ 1 _ _ _ ____ ___ ; 1 1 V posed to have h a d _____ .................. He, however, effected bis escape, and got on board of a Corvette. Tfiey then repaired, on the same day (which was the anniversa ry of Don Miguel’s birth-day) to the prison and forcibly took Bachica. who was with difficulty rescued by some of the principal officers on t h e ir p led g in g th e m s e lv e s th a t Ju s t ice s h o u ld b e d o n e ; b u t th e y afterw a r d s demanded him again, and he was redelivered in to th e h a n d s o f t h e so ld i e r y . 'N o d e a th had occurred from poisoning; but as many as tw o hun d r e d w e r e s a id to h a v e b e e n affected by it, including a number of poor inhabitants who had purchased bread of. the soldiers.— N. Y. Ev. Post. From the Baltimore Gazette, Pee. 2. We were yesterday made acquainted with a fraud scarcely inferior, in deliberate cruelty, to any imposition of which, in the course of our eifitorial career, we have ever read or heard. A young man, of very decent appearance, ac companied by a respectable contractor on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, came into our office and exhibited a paper in the form of a re commendation, from a person who signed him self “ Nathl, G, Drake, Agent for obtaining la- boureis for the Rail Road Company,” to the President and Directors of the Company, urging the Coinpany'to employ the bearer. The pa per was dated at Boston, and the young man, in company with thirty or forty others, ail of whom had received similar recommendations from Mr. Prake, had been induced to leave his hotne and family in that city, and incur the expense of a journey to Baltimore, under (he hopes of obtaining profitable employment. In return for the information which the pseudo agent gave to the unsuspecting victims of his imposition they were required to pay him a bo nus of one or two dollars each. This circum stance alone ought to have created a suspicion as to his real character. The young man also informed us that one or two hundred Irish emigrants had been imposed upon in a similar mariner, aud had been induced to sell at auction in Boston their pick axes, and other implements of labour, for the purpose of raising the funds necessary to defray the ex pense of their passage lo Baltimore. The effects of this deceit upon these poor la bourers will be almost ruinous, and for the per petrator of It, if detected, scarcely any punish ment Would beftoo severe. The Boston Bnlletin contains a full account of the villain mentioned above, hut the paper has come to hand at too late an hour to allow of our copying more than the subjoined sentences. Abominable irirposition.—Ahom a fortnight since, an advertisement was putilished in some newspapers, stating that labourers of different classes were wanted on the Ches apeake and Ohio Canal, and, thaC if any chose to go, they would be provided with a convey ance. Handbills were also circulated in Broad and Ann streets, of the same purport Tlie day of sailing arri.ved, and the poor delu ded emigrants repaired to the Vessel, and were informed by the Captain, that the “ Agent,” who chartered the Oripn^ha^ absconded with the motley, and he could not proceed. Wheth er he was an authorized agent of the Compa ny, matters not. He has obtained about five hundred dollars from the very poorest part of our population, who were induced by the hope of employment to venture, in some cases, all their possessions. It behoves editors to give as wide a circula tion as possible to this story of an impostor, that the Ignorant may be eflecualiy put on their guard. Awjul death of a Drunkard .—^It is not per haps generally known that the bodies of drunkards are frequently so highly impregnated nuniter tiiu Monument. .—At a spacial with spiritous liquor, that they are liable to meeting of the directors of the Bunker Hill take fire and burn like pitch-pine, when ex- Monument Association, in Boston, on Sat- posed even to the flame of a candle. Such, urday last, a committee of seven gentlemen however, is the fact. Several ca?es of this —consisting of H. A. S. Dearborn, Thomas kind are reported m medical works, and the fob J. Goodwin, Ebenezer Breed, Charles Wells, owing occurred no longer ago than the 16th Benjamin V. French, Ezra Mudge of Lynn, Francis Peabody of Salem-were ap- % V - . pointed to prepare apeiition to the Legrsla- minary Lexingtou Lu- ture, for an act, authorizing the associatisn front dooi was shut, and no one invited them to ........... Blit Ail W ,« ailonf ? entered — Mr. Wyckoff, William Schuneman, Jr. of Cats* fhe h S s r w £ Cornelia Hue, of-the city of New- P York. On the 26th Nov., by the same, Mr. to the^hfa on looking David A. Abeel to Miss Catherine Dederick humn beinf ’ On fio ^ ^ 3, by the same, Mr. Eg- founf to b!‘ th h r Schoonmaker of Saugerties to Miss Nelly body had been Wynkoop of Catskrll. Dec. 5. by the same, body com^ consumed by Mr. Jacob Wolfen, to Miss Elizabeth Story. \ r a n t « _ ________ • ’ i - v .. . . f ’ __ ______ ces in May next, when their decision will be confirmed or rejected. Unless some new and important propositions should be made at that time from other places, there is little reason' to doubt that the location of the College will be fixed at Middletown.—dV. Haven Beg. Schem e to obtain G rog. — An evil m inded son of Neptune—we hope there are few such— walking down Market-street, the other day, sud denly lost the centre of gravitation, and fell in to a grog cellar, where he laid some moments^ feigning faintness. A skeptical countryman un dertaking to assist him, used him rather roughly, when he sprepg up, supple as an Indian, and stood stiff as.the clerk of a lime kiln, frowning defiance to all around him. A writ of eject ment was immediately served and executed up on him, and he went away muttering curses.— Providence Patriot. The Baptist Meeting House, on Washing ton street in Alexandria, (D. C.) was burnt down la s t S a tu r d a y morning. The flam es had made such progress in the interior of the building before the alarm was given, that all efforts to save the xneeting house from destruction proved unavailing. Among, the passengers who sailed yester day in the packet ship Corinthian for Lon don, is the Hon. Wm. P. Preble, Minister to the Netherlands, with his lady and three daughters. Also Mr. Davorac, Secretary of Legation. The first and the principal busi ness of Mr. Preble will be to agree the queB.tion relating to our North East bounda ry, which, it will bo remembered, was re ferred to the King of the Netherlands for decision. The commissioner on the part of Great Britain, is Sir Howard Douglas, lato Governor o f Nova Scotia.— Jour, o f Com. Great Fire at Camden, S. C. —A &e broke out at Camden, S. C. on the 23d ult. at 12 o’ clock at night, in a stable on the West side of Doctor Blanding’s apothecary shop, and every house on that side of tire street, except Dr. B’s shop, and a barber’s shop, were burnt to the ground. On the other side of the way, every building, from the door of M’Adam’s tavern to the mdiket, was burnt. The whole of Broad street, on both sides, from York to King street, including the two large and valuable Hotels of Welsh and Goodman, is, with a solitary excep- tiori, a heap of smouldering ruins! The num ber of buildings burnt is eighty-five, without counting the snr.illcr ones. Estimated loss from $150,000 to $200,000. Amount insured less than $20,000. It was the work of an incendia- ry. ^ ----- Liberality. —A black man, by the name of David Johnson, who has been a waiter in the boarding-house of Mrs.Tousey, No. 223 Pearl-street, was claimed on Monday last, by Mr. Douglas, of Loudon county, 'Ya., as a slave. The man readily confessed that he was the property of Mr. D. The Boarders, in consideration of his attention and good conduct in the house for sixyears past, with a liberality which does credit to their feel ings, immediately subscribed the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars, and ransomed him. The gratitude of the slave can be easily imagined. Such an instance of hu manity we venture to assert, has never been evinced in any boarding-house establishment ID this city. In consequence o f the interest manifested for the slave, his master, with commendable liberality reduced the price from $600 to 550.— Cour. Sf Enq. Bunker H ill Monument —At a special . — ....... uiuu.. lui iscYciiii luuuiiig poai, kept a little grocery, in which the principal ar- * DIED—In A lb a n y , on M o n d a y morning ucle was whiskey, and for sometime had been last, Michael Eibridge Gates, aged 9 years is i» solemn warning to all, who indulge in the use of anient spirits. The circumstance of her being so entirely consumed, can be accounted for, only by her system having become highly inflammable by (he excessive use of alcohol. ^ P O R S A L E . r*\**<. A TWO and a half story spacious [n 5 ^ well built Brick Store, situated m H iS the village of CatskilJ, and occupied ■yaJhiiAby the subscriber for some years pa^ as d wholesale and retail Hardware Store, and >^ACKso]y, (Lou.) Oct. 17. as a wholesale and retail Hardware Store, ana ; Dangerous Strangers .—Some time last week, as well situated for that or any other branch of while some negroes were engaged in picking mercantile business as any store in the village- out cotton 10 a field near Thompson’s creek Possession to be given 1st of May next. Terra* .ifaorii 6 or 7 miles below this place, they were of payment made easy. ' suddenly surprised by a Tigress leaping into B- W- DWIGHT, the field, and seizing a dog. The negroes, not CstskU}, D^c. 10 ,1829. ^ \ \
