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Miscellaneous
INDIAN WAR.
The Creeks. It appears that
(ie Creek Indians have renewed
thenar. On the 24lh July a par
Jvof liostiles crossed the Chatta
hoochee, and attacked our troops
at Fort M'Cray, and routed them,
killing three and wounding five.
The following is from the Colum
bus Herald of26ih ult.
frcm the Columbus Herald 26lh
ult.
An express came up from Fort
Jl'Creary on yesterday morning
vith intelligence that a battle had
been fought on the plantation of
J!r. Quarles's about twenty-two
miles below this place, between
ihe whites and Indians, the latter
consisting of about two hundred
and fifty, the former of ninety
mounted men attached to colonel
Alford's command: in the begin-nin-iofthe
engagement the whites
pined an advantage and were
driving uie loe oeiore mem; oui
le wily savage had adroitly kept
lick a portion of his force, by
whom he was suddenly joined,
and flanking our troops on the
right and left, attacked them with
sach superior strength as compel
ed them to make good their re
treat. The whites had five killed
-of the enemy it was ascertained
that seven were killed, certain, and
probably a much greater number.
The exnress says:
"The battle was hot on both
side?, for near an hour, when over
inrae by a superior force we were
compelled to retreat."
Mr. Colly, the overseer of Mr.
D. P. Hillhonse, was shot through
the head and killed on the spot, in
tiie early part of the engagement.
TEXAS.
CThe Texian government
bs declared that the bounties of
lands granted to volunteers shall
be as follows:
';To all who arc now in service
2nd shall continue in service faith
My during the war, 12S0 acres.
''To all who shall have served
f'Uthfully for a period not less
tan three months, 320 acres.
'' To all who shall have entered
service previous to the first day of
1 ext July, and shall continue in
service faithfully during the war,
provided the war shall continue
a period more than 0 months,
500 acres.
"To all who shall enter the ser
J,ce afar the first day of next Ju
y, a Quantity proportioned to
llleir service and to be hereafter
Wermiucd."
The Conquest of Mexico. The
Nple of the valley of the Missis
I'Ppi are persuaded that the Tex
,an contest will terminate in the
""quest of Mexico. The Grand
uf!. (1SS-) Advertiser says:
As it is pretty, well understood
ltlal Ihe uprise of Texas is based
JP0 Use downfall of Mexico,
J,,cre will be no lack of volun
crs particularly in the autumn,
ll(?n there will be an open road
ljle ancient city of Montczu-
The Express Mail The Post
,iasi General has invited propo-
sals for carrying an express maill
irom lew York lo Mobile, from
whence it will he carried in
Steamboats to New Orleans. The
time occupied in carrying the
mail from New York to New Or
leans is to be about 6i days. It
now takes 13 or 14 days.
William and Mary College.
The Professors of the College
have determined to afford instruc
tion, free of charge toanv minister
or candidate for the ministry of
tue various denominations of the
State. It is said that this is the
firs; institution in the Union, from
which such a liberal offer has pro
ceeded. Great Failure at Buffalo.... The
news of the failure of Benjamin
Ralhbun at Buffal o, which was
received this morning, caused a
very unusual sensation in Wall
street. Bis affairs have for
months past been the subject of
much speculation, and his notes,
endorsed by some ten or twelve
of the best names in that city have
been crowded upon the market at
the enormous discount of three or
four per cent, a month. They
have served for the quotations of
some of our neighbors in giv ing the
condition of the money market.
The credit of everv body in Buffa
lo of course became deeply im
plicated, and it was said repeated
ly that, if 'Rathbun failed, all
Buffalo must fail.'
Mr. Rathbun's business was
enormously extended. In addi
tion to large operations in real
estate in which he was constantly
engaged, he was a contractor for
erecting the great hotel, and many
other buildings. In his line he
had shops and establishments of
his own for making bricks, and
furnishing and working all sorts
of materials for building. He
had no less than four stores kept
in his own name, three of which
were one hundred and fifty feet
deep, filled with valuable mer
chandize. Be owned the line of
the stages from Buffalo to Bata
via, and in fact almost all the lines
running out of that city, and for
this and other purposes, owned
six hundred horses. He employ
ed twenty-eight clerks, and two
thousand other persons in the va
rious departments of his opera
tions. To pay the million and a half
of responsibilities Mr. Rathbun
exhibits a list of property which
he has conveyed to assignees, val
ued at two millions and a half.
Other persons value the list at two
millions or something under. If
these statements are near the
truth, it is to be hoped that the
affair will not in the end prove
seriously injurious to any one.
Rathbun, and a brother who is
charged with having executed the
forgeries, have fled to Canada.
Mr. Rathbun, we understand,
represented the whole amount of
his debts at a million a hall ol dol
lars, and on more than a million
of his paper acknowledged that he
had forged the names oi ncn
neighbors. On a particular oc
casion he procured L. F. Allen
and eleven others to endorse three
of his notes for 5000 dollars each.
The transaction was generally
known in Buffalo. These notes
with the endorsements thereon, he
multiplied at his pleasure, and the
forgeries passed unsuspected, as
whenever a forged note was
mentioned, it was taken for one of
the well known and genuine notes.
This forged paper was sold in
Wall street, in Canada, and wher
ever a market could be found for
it.
His skill and enterprise, sus
tained by a large number of well
known fortunate speculations,
gave him a reputation for talents
and wealth by which, until now,
he has been able to carry on these
diversified and almost limitless
operations. But he has failed at
last. From statements which are
-is good as can be had in such a
case, we are led to hope that the
consequences will not be ruinous on
so broad a scale as had been an
ticipated if indeed there is any
ruin at all. At any rate it does
not appear that the citizens of
outialo are likely to lose to any
considerable extent.
JV. Y. Jour, of Com.
Ugly reports. There was a
rumor generally spread through
Wall street lo day that Mr. Rath
bun, the great land speculator, of
iiutlalo, had committed various
forgeries to an immense amount,
and had absconded. One note
for $5,000 in this city has several
endorsers on it, all forged. It
will make a great sensation west,
as the amount is said to be above
a million of dollars.
He is supposed to have gone in
to Canada. N. Y. Star.
CyThe Crops generally,
through the country, in conse
quence of the late prevalence of
fine weather, and due admixture
of heat and moisture, have quite
disappointed, as we predicted
they would, the croakings of in
terested speculators, about the
fail ures in Maryland and Virginia.
From most quarters the accounts
of the harvests are cheering.
Even as remote as from Tennes
see, we learn the oats, corn, hemp
and tobacco were never more pro
mising, and the wheat gives a fair
average: so in Kentucky. In fact,
so varied are the resources of the
husbandman, and so diversified
our climate, that where there is a
lack in one quarter and one arti
cle, there is sure to be, by the
wise regulations of Providence, a
superabundance in others. YVe
never need fear a famine. ib
Horrible. Mrs. Sedore, a lady
residing at English neighborhood,
was found quite dead, hanging
from the window of her bed-room
by one of her feet, which was
secured between the sill of the
window and the sash. ib.
CyA person in Coventry,
Conn, was stung on the nose by a
bee, and before he could get home
his head was so much swollen as
to make his respiration difficult
and the pain and inflammation of
the sting extended throughout his
system even to the extremities of
his hands and toes. ib.
OyThere is a great Clothes
Washing Establishment at Bos
ton, 130 feet long by 30 deep,
moved by water power. The fe
males constantly employed in
ironing amount to 50. ib.
Romance of Real Life. Whilst
a party of young ladies. atid gen
tlemen were enjoying themselves
in a boat by sailing up and down
the river at Philadelphia, one of
the party, a Miss Sarah Sheppard,
flung herself into the river and
was drowned. She was incited to
the act from love and jealousy,
being deeply enamoured of a
young man of the party, who did
not return her affection, but was
so close in his attention to a more
favored rival as to drive her to
distraction and this last act of
desperation. ib.
GyA circumstance of juvenile
depravity such as is rarely seen,
occurred in this city on Saturday.
Two little girls the elder appa
rently not more than four years
old, and the other about a year
younger were playing together
near the head of India wharf. In
a few moments they seated them
selves on a timber lying near,
when the elder seized her compan
ion by the neck, and notwith
standing her out cries forced her
into the dock. Fortunately Cap
tain Whitney of the Nantucket
was passing at the time, and he
succeeded in rescuing the child
trom the eminent danger in which
she had been thrown by the delib
erate act of her playmate. The
child who can do a deed like this
when but four years old, bids fair
to reach either the gallows or the
State prison long before she rea
ches the years of maturity.
Boston Atlas.
Maria Monk's Awful Disclo
sures. We perceive by the Mon
treal papers, that the inspection of
the Hotel Dieu Nunnery in that
city, prove that the Disclosures
are a tissue of falsehood, as far as
regards the localities of that reli
gious house, and that it is quite
certain that this woman could nev
er have been an inmate of it. It
is disclosed, moreover, that she!
had resided at one time in a sort ;
of Magdalen Asylum in Montreal
lor penitent prostitutes, and that j
the names of the pretended nuns !
introduced by her into her work,
were actually those of certain of
the frail sisterhood who were in
the asylum at the very period she
nhabited. The "Refutation"
win appear forthwith, and when
it sees the light, we will give an
anaysis of it to our readers. i
Since writing the above, we,
have been favored with an inspec
tion of the manuscrint conv ofi
the "Refutation," and the pieces
justificatives appended thereto in
the form of number of a affidavits,
the most important of which are
those of the gentlemen who visited
the interior of the Hotel Dieu nun
nery, to compare it with the des
cription given by Maria Monk.
Among those, were the Rev. Mr.
Curry, corresponding secretary
of the Home Missionary Society;
the Rev. G. W. Perkins, nastor
of the American Presbyterian
Church; the Rev. Esson, pastor of j
the scotch Presbyterian Church;
Uenjamin Holmes, Lsn. cashier of
the Montreal Bank, and justice of
the peace; John Ostell, Esq., Ar
chitect and Surveyor; and John
Jones, editor of the Ami du Peu
ple, newspaper. All these gentle
men declare that there is not the
slightest resemblance between
Maria Monk's description, and
the buildings and vaults; and that
hail any alteration been made
since the publication of the book,
it would have been necessary to
alter it from summit to foundation.
Nothing can be more complete
than the sworn evidence of these
gentlemen, who are among the
most respectable in the British
provinces.
There are affidavits of Jane
Ray, so frequently mentioned in
the "Disclosure," Maria Howard,
Miss Reed, Jane McCoy, who
were penitent prostitutes in the
Magdalen Asylum at the lime
Maria Monk was there; and also
of various persons with whom Ma
ria Monk lived during the period
she states that she was an inmate
of the nunnery.
The work will be ready in a
fortnight, and i!l be issued by
one of our respectable publishers.
We, therefore, consider this
most impudent humbug as being
most satisfactorily exposed. A
little time was necessary for this
couclusion; and that lime has been
so employed as to bring convic
tion to the minds of the most big-
otted and credulous.
N. Y. Transcript.
Life in Mississippi. A letter
from a gentleman in Benton.
(Miss.) dated July 6th, to his
friends in this place, contains the
following! Alex. Gaz.
'Our community has been
thrown into a state of excitement
in the last few days, by several
shocking murders. The first was
the case of an overseer who killed
a negro on the plantation of John
B. Pease. Verdict of the inquest
'deliberate and wilful murder.'
The person charged was brought
to town, examined before a jus
tice, and admitted to bail in the
sum of $2000! The second was
the murder of a Mr. Harris, who
was killed by a man named Bird,
and his son Wade Bird. A dis
pule arose about a Tuition bill,
when the Birds fell on Harris, the
old man holding him while the
son stabbed him fifteen or twenty
times with a dirk, till he fell and
expired! Harris fought manfully,
having during the scuffle shot the
son in the abdomen and wounded
him severely in the back, besides
stabbing the elder Bird several
times. The Birds have been
committed to Vicksburg jail.
Two or three days after this, Wm.
S. Eastwick shot a man in Man
chester, named Allen, a mail ri
der but was acquitted on his exam
ination before a magistrate. Pub
lic opinion goes against this deci
sion. Besides all this, there has late
ly been some lynching of some
shop keepers on the road between
this and Manchester, for selling
whiskey to and harboring ne
groes. Each of the lynched re
ceived about one hundred lashes.
One of them has taken refuge here
but has received notice to quit the
state. Many of our citizens are
opposed to this practice, and are
resolved to maintain the suprema
cy of the laws. They have deter
mined, therefore, to resist the ille
gal attempts of the lynchers.
A strapper not an "tnJer"
one. There is a young gentle
man in Louisville (Ky.) only 19
years of age, whose height is sev
en feet six and a half inches, and
it is said he is not done growing
yel! That any man stands high
er in the community than this as
piring youth, is more than we
know or believe.
Singular Discovery. We have
read in the Southern papers a
communication from the South
ern Medical Journal of a remark
able discovery made by Signor
Segato, of Italy. The discovery
consists in the art of petrifying or
converting into stone the various
parts of the human system. It
has even been carried so far as to
be applied to blood. An Ameri
can lady wrote to her friends
some time since, that having un
dergone the operation of the lan
cet, she had sent a bowl of the
fluid to Segato, to have it petri
fied, and would forward it lo her
friends cut into rings. The ac
count in the Medical Journal is
transmitted by the Hon. Richard
H. Wilde, of Georgia, and ap
pears to be entitled to credit.
American Beacon.
Spider silk. It is said that M.
Bon, a French gentleman, on one
occasion for an experiment, col
lected about 12 or 13 ounces
of the bags or balls of shorllegged
spiders and after causing the dust
to be beaten out of them, he wash
ed them clean steeped them in
soap, saltpetre, and gum arable,
boiling them in this preparation
for a few hours. He then dried
and carded them thus obtaining
a beautiful silk of an ash color.
M. Bon had stockings and gloves
made of this material, which he
presented to the French Acade
my, and to the English Royal
Society. After some further ex
periments, he was of opinion that
the spiders yielded more silk in
proportion than the common silk
worm; for example, he said, that
it only required two ounces of
spider silk to make a pair of stock
ings, whereas it takes seven of
eight of common silk.
Animal Magnetism seems to be
getting as much in vogue in New
England, as mormonism and tem
perance societies. Air. Foyer, a
French gentleman, is now lectur
ing upon the subject at Portland,
Maine. There must always be
some hobby, or ignis faiths lb
feed the credulity of a people
fond of running into the extremes
of fanaticism. A. Y. Star.
A Good Haul The N
York Gazette of July 2th says?
"Yesterday as the laborers were
digging in the Battery, for the
purpose of regulating the centre
path-way, from which the benches
have recently been taken away,
they discovered a large quantity
of Sovereigns, to the amount of
several hundred dollars, buried in
the earlh. -The spot where the
gold was found, was on the edge
of the grass plot immediately be
hind the large Buttonwood tree
opposite the entrance to CaSlle
Gardem Those in the neighbor
hood, including workmen and
boys, taking it for granted that 'to
the victors belong the spoil?,' re
moved the deposites sans cererno
nie, some obtaining more than
others. These Sovereigns have
no doubt been stolen and buried
at the above place to be removed
as circumstances required."
An Enviable Reputation. Ve
copy the following from the Na
tional Intelligencer:
In the first rank of respectabili
ty, whether of character or abili
ty, in the present House of Repre
sentatives, stands Samuel Hoar,
of Massachusetts. Soirie idea of
his character at home, as well as
here, may be gathered from the
following anecdote, which we find
in the Boston Galaxy:
"A case of a criminal charac
ter was lately tried in Middlesex,
in which the jury could not agree.
They were, as usual, to return
into court, and state th&reasons
why they could not come to a
decision. The Judge asked if
the difficulty was in the law or the
evidence. One of the jurors made
answer that it was neither in the
law nor in the evidence, but in the
plea; for, said he, the law and
the evidence make the man guilty
enough, but Squire Hoar said in
his plea, that he believed upon his
conscience that the man was inno
cent, and as Squire Hoar always
speaks the truth, the Jury don't'
seem to know how to get over it."
Bill of Costs. The Select men
of Belchertown, Mass. have pre
sented the following bill of costs
to the widow of Mr. Kingsley
Swift, of Whatley, who was killed
by lightning in that town, a week
or two since:
Burying iwo dead horses, $3 00
Keeping the corpse one night, 2 00
White pine coffin, G 00
Incidental expenses, 1 00
$12 00
The widow was unable to meet
the demand, and her neighbors
generously paid it for her. Wre
hope people who expect to be
knocked over by lightning, will
keep without the precincts of Bel
chertown. ..Northampton Courier.
Cheap Religion. The Lace
demonians had a law among them
that every one should serve the
gods w ith as little expense as he
could in which they differed
from all the other GreeksJ and Ly
curgus, being asked for what rea
son he made this institution so un
like the rest of Greece, answ ered,
"Lest the service of the -gods
should at any time be intermit
ted;" for he found that if religion
should be as expensive there as in
other parts of Greece, it might
sometimes happen that divine
worship, out of the covetousness
of some and the poveriy of others,
would be neglected.
OyA bad compromise is belter
than a successful law suit.