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SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1836. "highly important from TEXAS. . The following paragraphs from New Orleans papers received yes terday, contain information of the highest importance, which cannot fail to produce a great sensation all over this country: From the New Orleans Bee, of May 3. Important from Texas. For tune has revolved the spokes in lier wheels, and now sides with Texas. Yesterday a gentleman arrived from Attakapas in this State, and lie asserts that two per sons had been at St. Martinville immediately before his departure, who stated as a positive fact, with in their own cognizance, that an engagement had taken place be- tween part oi the lexian ana Mexican army. The latter had been separated into two bodies, divided by the river Brassos, whose sudden rise prevented their junction. The larger body con sisted of about 1300 or 1400 men, who being attacked by Houston, set fire to the town of Harrisburgh and retreated; but Houston suc ceeding in overtaking them about 7 miles from that place, compelled them to a pitched battle; in which 700 of the Mexicans were killed, and 500 taken prisoners; among whom was General Coss, whose parole tVhoneur will not serve him on this occasion!! The enemy was completely routed, and the loss of theTexians was very inconsidera ble. Gen. Houston immediately marched in pursuit of the other body, and may have equally cap tured them; but this is not yet as certained. Glorious JVews....$y the steam boat Levant which arrived here last evening, the accounts are confirmed of Houston's victory over the Mexican array. Having conquered the first division (as elsewhere related) he attacked the second division under Santa An na himself the result of which was as hastily communicated in the following circular from the Texian secretary of war to the people of Nacogdoches. Head Quarters, Army , April23. We met Santa Anna on the 21st inst. we attacked him with GOO men'; he had about eleven hundred with two howitzers. We entirely routed his whole force, killing about half, and taking the remain der prisoners. Santa Anna him self and all his principal officers are our prisoners. The history of war does not furnish a parallel to this battle: we had only 6 kill ed and twenty wounded. 1 "have not time or I would send a full report. I will do this in the course of to-morrow. I again call on my fellow citizens. Let us come on and conquer the re maining troops, and our country is free. Turn out at once let us do the work at once. THOMAS J. RUSH. Secretary of War. CfSince writing the above, we heard it stated as if on good authority that General Houston held a council of war on the fate of his prisoners: and that Santa Anna and all his officers had been shot; the privates were sent to Matamoras. h was also stated that General Gaines had written a private letter confirmatory of this account; but we did not see it. There can however be no doubt that Houston has conquered; and that the Mexican army is prostra ted. The day of retribution has at length come; and Texas is free. Letters have been received at the War Office from Gen. Gaines, we understand, which express his confidence founded on various information in the truth of the above news, so far at least as re-! gards the defeat and capture of St. Anna; which information, to gether with the entire guiet of the Indians and the improbability of any disturbance on the frontier, has induced him to countermand the call for volunteers from the neighboring States. This news is almost as important as the oth er. We wait with great impa tience for particulars from New Orleans of the affairs which have produced results so important. JS'at. Intell. CONGHESS. irTTlie Washington corres pondent of the Petersburg Con stellation says: A message was sent to Con grees with an account of the pay ment of the four instalments due under the French treaty to the - w agent of the U. S. The Navy bill as amended by the House was agreed to, with the exception of a portion of the South Sea Exploring Appropria tion, the parts throwing its res ponsibility upon the President be ing stricken out, 2G to 3. The appropriation bills are ra nidi y passing, and the general bu siness is rapidly being disposed of by Congress. The Texas and Mexican subjects now carry all before them, in general interest. Some memorials were presented by Mr. Benton for the recognition of the independence of the former, and 1 suppose to counteract this feeling in its favor, and indeed as a strict measure of justice also. Mr. Clay reported a bill to autho rize the President to appoint a Commissioner and Surveyor to mark the boundary fixed by the Treaty recently concluded, ask ing at the same time, that it should be forthwith acted upon, to evince to Mexico and to the world, that the United States were determin ed to adhere with fidelity to her engagement, as this would be a further proof to Mexico, if any were wanting, that the deduction made by Mr. Forsyth to the min ister from that country, was not were words, and that Gen. Gaines occupied the neutral ground, on ly to be given up, when it would be decided by those commission ers, that we ought, Sic. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. Mr. Webster in connection with this, reported the House bill, making appropriation for the defence of the Western frontier, with an amendment that the expenditure should apply to such Militia of the U. S. only as were called out, by the President, alluding to the Constitution and the laws. Congress. A resolution has passed the Senate and House of Representatives, authorizing the President to constitute and ap point an agent or agents, to assert and prosecute, for and in behalf of the United States the claim to the legacy bequeathed to them by the last will and testament of Mr. James Smithson, late of London, for the purpose of founding at Washington under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment (or the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. Five thousand dollars are appropriated to carry the resolu tion into effect. IVil. Adv. French Indemnity. We con gratulate the whole country, and especially the steadfast friends of the administration, upon the re ception of authentic information that all the instalments due from France under the the treaty of 4th July, 1831, have been paid to our agent at Paris. Its amount in all is over three and a half millions of dollars. This is a glorious con summation of the wisend judi cious measures adopted by the President. We understand that the money recei ved is in the course of trans mission to this country in gold, at the rate of about $200,000 in each packet; and that the utmost dili gence is employed in the bureaus of the Treasury Department, so far as consistent with -the pressure of the current business and the calls of Congress, in comparing the names of the debtors to the United States with those in whose favor awards have been made, for the purpose of retaining such sums as may appear to be due to the Government from such claimants. Scrip for the proper amounts will then be issued to all such as are entitled to the indemnity under the awards. If Congress do not pass the bill before them, authorizing an im mediate payment of all the instal ments, the nett proceeds of the whole amount received from France will be paid over as soon as it arrives, as amount due each claimant can be ascertained. It is expected -that the scrip will be ready some time before all the money arrives. Globe.' (T?We understand that the Delegates selected for that pur pose, met on Saturday last, the 7th inst. at the house of Henry Sims, in Nash, and appointed the Hon. Nathaniel Macon, of this county, the Elector to be run on the Van Cureti and Johnson Ticket in this Electoral District. We heartily approve the selec tion. Warrenton Rep. Wilmington and Halifax Rail Road. VVe take great pleasure in stating, that a survey of the Wilmington and Halifax Rail Road has been commenced at this place, under the superitendence of Walter Gwynn, Lsq. Chief En gineer. The high and well de served reputation which this gen tleman has acquired by the com pletion of the Petersburg, and construction of the Norfolk Road, gives to the public the best guar antee, that the work now in pro gress, though of great magnitude, will be speedily and effectually ac complished. Halifax Adv. Distressing. Mr. Solomon Powell, while in the act of fishing in the Roanoke River, about 12 f . t i i ii miles ironi tins place, ieii over board, and was drowned on the 2nd inst. Mr. P. it is said, was a little intoxicated at the lime he came to his untimely end. ib. Federal Court. This Court remained in session but a few hours on Tuesday last, no busi ness being done in consequence of the necessary absence of Counsel. This being the first Court held by Judge Harbour, under his new appointment, the .Oaths of Office were administered to him by Judge rotters, in open Court. Raleigh Register, Editorial Change. We learn from unquestionable authority, that Joshua W. Cochran, a thorough-going Whig, and a gentle man of talents, has purchased Mr. Loring's Printing Establishment in Wilmington, and will give a decided tone to that hitherto neu iiui paper. iir. coring is to come to this City, to take charge ot the standard. w. OCA meeting has been held in Burke County, in this State, at which Resolutions were adopted, calling on Congress to recognize tne independence ot lexas. ib. Guilford Superior Court. Judge Donnell presided. A man by the name of Colhoun was sen tenced to be hung on the 28lh inst. for the murder of his wife...t. From Alabama. The Mont gomery Journal of April 27th stated that orders had been issued by the Governor of Alabama to General Scott and Watkins of the JMihtia of that Slate to draught 2,000 men from their brigades, and to hold them in readiness to act against the Creek Indians, should any emergency arise to require it. The Journal states also that it is not informed as to the circumstances which in the judgment of the Governor, have rendered it necessary to or ganize this large force, and there fore cannot judge of its proprie ty. ib. Creek Indians. The Uchees, (Lower Creeks) are said to be in a starving condition. They are prohibited from hunting on the Georgia side ot the river, me game on their own is all killed up, and they have become desperate. It is not supposed that they medit ate war against the whites, but they will, probably do much mis chief in - predatory excursions to satisfy their hunger. 1 he inves tigation of Indian titles to lands is not yet concluded, anu it i ue lieved that its continuance is high ly detrimental to the interests of all parlies, as it holds out laise hopes to the Indians of recovering their lands. numingion jiav. Indian Hostilities. The Co lumbus Ga. Herald of the 3d inst. says, "A letter now before us from an overseer in Alabama, to his employer in this place, gives information of a small brush be tween a parly of Indians, and a few white men. It occured at the Oswitchee Bend, fifteen miles be low this place. The planters generally have removed their wo men and property from that part of the nation We have not room for .further particulars this week. 'the citizens will hold a public meeting in Girard, Alabama, to consider this subject, to-day. From Florida. The steam packet Florida, Capt. Hebbard arrived yesterday afternoon from Picolata, via Jacksonville. We learn that it is reported at Jack sonville that a large body of In dians had stormed the fortification thrown up by Captain McLemore, on the Ouithlacoochee and mas sacred the garrison of men and their gallant commander. Major Cooper of Putnam, had been sent, it is said, from Fort Drane, with the Battalion from this State under his command, to the point on the Ouithlacoochee,. which Capt. McL. occupied, to ascertain the fact. We trust that they will find these brave men in safety, but we fear the result of their reconnoisance. Volusia, it is said, has been abandoned. Generals Scott and Eustis are in St. Augustine. The steamer Santee had left the latter place, with troops, for Charleston. There is no further intelligence of moment. Lieut. Pope with fifty volun teers from this state, and Lieut. Farr wiih seventy-seven South Carolina volunteers-returned in the Florida. Some of ihese gal lani men are suffering from the effects of their campaign. Sav. Georgian, Florida. A slip from the office of the St. Augustine Herald, dat ed 26th ult. states that an express reached that place on the 24th from h ort King, stating that an order had been received at that post, from Gen. Scott, directing that rations lor 1200 men. and forage for 800 horses must be at Volusia on the 2Gth. A letter received at St. Augus tine, by the mail of the 25th, slates that Gen. Clinch's sugar works, about half a mile from Fort Drane, had been burnt bv the Indians. In consequence of mis, me inuaoitants were retiring from their plantations. Charleston Courier. Petersburg Market, May 16... Cotton. 16 a I8c. dull sales. Virginia Elections. From the Petersburg Constellation we Nam that the complete returns give, for Van Buren 1, Whig 57 -last year it stood, 78 to 56. CTThe twentieth annual Con vention of ihe Protestant Episco pal Church, in the Diocess of North Carolina, assembled in this town on Wednesday, the 4th inst. and continued in session to Mon day last. The number of visitors and lay delegates was less than had generally attended former conventions, but the attendance on the church services, notwith standing the heavy and frequent rains, was numerous and highly respectable. The Right Rev. Levi S. Ives, Bishop of the dio- cess, was present and presided. VVe are gratified to learn that tm health of this eminent Divine has been entirely restored by his trans-Atlantic lour. Oa Sunday, the Rev. Edward M. Forbes and the Rev. Harvey Stanly, of this town, and the Rev. Cameron F. McRae, of Fayette- ville, were admitted to the Order of Priests. Among the visitors at the Convention, we, in common with the citizens in general, were pleased to see the Rev. Richard S. Mason, D. D., many years the faithful and esteemed Rector of Christ's Church in this place, and now President of Newark Col lege, Delaware. The twenty-first annual Con vention will be held in Fayette ville, in May, 1837. jYcivbcm Spec. GjrA few days ago, fa negro was committed to the jatltjf this county, charged with the murder of his master, Mr. Benjamin Ven ters, late a farmer on Swift Creek. Mr. Venters, it appears, had been a I a uuiiig uii vin- jjiv i imo evening, accompanied by family. He had returned home before them, and when ihey arrived next morning they found him dead, lying in the fireplace, shockingly burned. Nearly one half of his head had been consumed. An inquest was convened, and with out examination, the jury came to the conclusion that he had come to his death by having fallen into the fire. Suspicion first rested on the prisoner in consequence of his having denied being at home during the time that intervened between the return of his master and that of his family, as he had been seen on the premises during that time by a white man who was passing ihe house. This gave rise to inquiry, and two ne groes strengthened the suspicions by asserting that the prisoner had formerly made an attempt to poi son his master, and having failed to execute his wicked design, he had sworn that "he would yet he his death." This, they said, he had told them himself. When this information was given, ihe neighbors passed into Pitt county, where Mr. Venters had been buri ed a few days before, had him disinterred, and a new inquest convened; when it was found that his skull had been split, and his collar bone broken, apparently by blows with an axe. An axe had previously been found near the house in which the deceased lay, which was stained with blood. ib. SOUTH AMERICA. Highly Important News from Lima. The Usurper Salaverrj defeated and taken prisoner. By a letter from our correspondent at Payta,21, 1S3G, we have the im portant information that ihe civil war in Lima has terminated by a pitched battle, Feb. 7ih, on ihe heights of ''Alto de la Luna" near Arequipa, in which the army of Salaverry was completely routed, and he taken prisoner while at tempting to make his escape to Islay, on the sea coast, where his vessels of war were assembled. He had 2,500 men, while Santa Cruz numbered 6,000 composed of Peruvians and Boliv ians. The battle lasted 7 days, when Salav erry, after repeated repulsing the assaults of Santa Cruz, was ulti mately compelled to vield. from fatigue and exhaustion to an over whelming force. Our correspon dent adds: "The slaughter is saia to have been terrible, and the field was covered with head less trunks, the dyincr and ihe dead." Santa Cruz acknowl edges a loss of 600 men. On the I8lh of February, Sala verry, together with his Generals and-Colonels Fernandini, Picoa- ga, Mova, Carderuas, and five others were shot. The ofnVprc suffered first, and when Salaverry was brought out to have the ban dage placed on his eyes he dis dainfully refused, saying "I can look my murderers in the fare, for fear is no part of my composi tion," We may admire the cour age but must despise the cruelty, and rfjoice in the fate of this wretched tyrant. U wish to be shot bv a ' his own comurvmon J!'1 complied wiiu.JLTi.: 'ilc! "NaHeou of sl! then carried out the farc Iher, but very iuapproprf T imitating that a 1 p( ,dltHy Grenoble nnd I. ! 1 1 -r- - . t 'I YOU u'!l kill your ueneral. im.i"" . they did. V',...... ' w"kii officers were sentenced to ,U oiiil fil.sv.. inn c MIC! more c;f l: uuuu i i uu more to hard labor, in cha; uuuui iuu more conr ! years on the public works ofP? Among which, il be a splV-n bridge, "ear Arcquipa.vvlne-1,' averry blew up in the Cr!u r ishmem, thus (or uie fil,. r established, will have a 1' effect i suppressing ,fce2 and bloody insurrections , u have desolated that Ccq,u ' .. Hoslrni'A.I I i ""wujui Hi ungniesi nr 1.1 cur . f . r' consequences to Amcric J J 5 J iicpublican A ouinuit'wh. FOP. PRESIDENT, MARTIN VAN ISUKEX.nf s.v FOR VICI3 PHEilDKNT HICHAHD M. JOHNSON If r, FOIl GOVERNOR, mciiAWD i). siuiGur Mr. Howard: Jt has been su--gested, that Dr. I ALL would consent to represent the county tf Edgecombe, in the Senatorial branch of ihe General Assembly, if elected. Believing tijal It will meet ihe wishes of the people gen erally, we respectfully presenilis name lor that oiuce, at the ciisr.in election. MANY VOTERS.5 MARRIED, In this place, on Monday even ing last, by L. D. Wilson, Esq. Mr. Lawrence Henry Hearn to Miss Margaret Ann Bell, daugh ter of Henry Bell, dee'd. In this county, on the morning of the same day by Henry Austin, Esq. Mr. William I lay! cs to Miss Rhoda Bracewell, daughter of Mr. Jacob Bracewell. Also, on Tliursdav evening the lfh ind t.v i . I? n icrrr I T J ' I Mr. Rennet T. Lyon to Hiss I Penelope C. Pittmnn, daughter c: Mr. Harrison Pimn.m. Prices Current, At Tarboro' and Xcic Yorl MAY 16 Bacon, per lb. Hi. gall'n ib. bush lb. yard. "lh!. lb. lb. Sair lb- 'larhuru. A.irlo' 10 12 40 50 Yi l- ." fit) 15 J 20 (2'i 70' soy 4J 5 10 12 n i 60 65 2U 2'" 80 90 45 00 14 Y 30 V. 40 45 ii Sj if 15 Wl 22 24 750 d'- 3 15 ' r. ' 10 12) M 125 13U 37 S Brand v, apple Coffee, Corn, Cotlon, Cut Ion ba'g Flour, supf. Iron, Lard, Molasses, Sugar, brown Salt, T. I. Turpentine, (Vhea(, Whiskey, bhl. bush. I. hi. Slate of North Carolim MARTIN COU.NTT. Court of Picas and Quarter Staitv. APRIL TEKM, 183C- Mrs. Barshaba Andreas and"! Charlotte Andrews I I Joseph Griffin, Adm'r and m right of his wile Arlinusia, I . ,; Allies Sherrod, fY'!i'0y' Ervin Page auJ Susaa Lis wife, I Warren D. Andrews, I Edmund Andrews, ami I Alfred G. Andrews, J THE undersigned made om!i '" Court, in this ca-e, tha Ldi:""1" ' drews and Alfred G. Andrews are not habitants of this State, and tbcreup-'"-' ordered by the Court, that the s"a ' mund and Alfred G. An drews aPPta,'(( this suit for an account of Ihe P"'.1', tate of Warren Andrews, dee'd, f n of kin against the Admiiiiitwtor ' Warren, and defend it at the u "J ,,.f. this Court, to be teld on the w60"";, day of July r.ezt, at ili.amston, o. this petition will be tl" l,r 1 T. :. gainst them and hearudti"' , p;i that thii order be publish" . (ftl(,; successively, in mr iicrt . Tri..r,t, l!pd the fa'1'0'0 1 L within 50davS after the making ' Joseph (r''jF- Sworn to and ijbci ibcJ l'" F Court. ,nc Cik JUS. JJ. tiiw-. Pric- "dv fi 00.
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