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■ r. :■ @§< (®«3<(t<. 1 - - ' .— -■—r —■ ~ ■ ■ MoifTicKLLO, Saturday, Junk 21, 1K3. Having received further information of the man found dead, as slated in our last, we hasten to lay it tfefore the public, in hopes of enabling the citizens of the uper states to detect the monster and bring him to justice. The man found was seen travelling in com pany wnh another of the following descrip tion, who it is believed to have committed the horrid deed!—he was of common size, fair completion, light hair; had on a round-) about coat of pale blue domestic cotton and,1 Eantaloons of the same or nearly the same, e had an old riflfe. I The murder was committed on M mday j the 9th inst. as the said iwo men was met a- ! bout two miles from the place where the [ victim was found, in the morning of that day! by a gentlemen residing in the neighbour hood, who stuped and talked some time with them, and was informed by the deceased that i this was the fourth trip he had made this ' Season from the state of Ohio: he appeared to ha|$ money and the other none, as he paid al! the bills as far at could be ascertain ed bach: he was very unwell, and not able ! to travel more than 15or 16 miles per day.: The other, after committing the murder, tra velled at the rale of 30 or 35 miles per day as far a9 he was heard from, on towards Ken tucky. He had 6 days start before it was ■opposed that he was the murder—and 7 day- start of the gentleman gone in pursuit. It is hoped that editor- of newspapers throughout the states of Tennessee, Kentuc ky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, will publish this, to enable the, goofl citizens of that part of the country (to which it appear- he has made for) to find out this horrid wretch. War —The people of these United States ' ought to be preparing for war in every way, j from the present appeaiances of affairs ini Europe. Russia appear* to l>e determined to j have a part of our North We*t territory at j all events. Spain seems to be determined to ' insult us at all hazards. How our government! Will treat the affair at Port# Rico, we are unable to say at present; but the execute, e having despatched a vessel of war, with a special messenger to the authorities of that island, shows as if they intended to have that! infamous outrage redressed, peaceably if! they can, but by force if they must. The fact seems to be, the more insults we take from the Spanish authorities the more we may. Our citizens have been robbed and butchered by pirates filed out under the eyes of the authorities of their government, and no doubt, by their special permission. Peace is generally preferable to war—but we bad better be at open war with Spain than this indirect war. If we are compelled to go to war with Spain, and England becoming her ally we (hall be at war with England; and if Russia persist tn her unjust claims to our territory, We shall be compelled to war with her— thereby, become the enemy of Russia the enemy of Spain, the enemy of Spain the al-1 ly of England, the enemy of England be-1 cause she's the ally of Spain, the enemy of France because she’s the ally of Russia.— | Thus we’ill be engaged in a very complicat- j ed tvar, unless we mak« use of more than or dinary discretion to prevent H, or tamely submit to insult and aggression. We hope if we base to war with Russia, 'W ghe will be compelled to declare it. We know Com. Stewart, with the ship Franklin, Ic Soma tvKupu in ikp Parifir nr.pan. nrnha* h*y by tV>* time on the N. VV.station, we hope be will VaVe Home of those frigates in tow, that his emp*tial majesty has thought pro per to order u„ tbat station; or we should not be surprised be was to send two or thiee of them tenh* bottom. We do not know to a certainty that h*;, on tha.t station, liut we sincerely hope he \»_a few broadsides from the Franklin would »stonish the slaves of his emperial highness, a*d shift the 6oo». We perceive in the Mississippi of the fth inst. some vulgar aspersions against the editor of this paper, signed “A Contractor,” in consequence of some remarks we thought proper to make in our paper of the 17th ult. on the deranged state of the mail arrange ments. This sage scribler, under this false name, has taken it upon himself to make a false statement in every sentence in his piece. We have not time to point out all his inconsis tent assertions, but we will barely state, to show the fallacy of his meaning, that the di-tance irom New-Orlean to Nashville, via Banton Kouge. St. Francisville and Natchez, is 700 miles, or thereabouts; from New-Or leans via Madisonville, 500 miles or there abouts, the road much the best. If two con tracts is layed out between Natchez and St. Stephens, but one man contracts and carries it:—And if a contractor wrote that piece, or bad it wrote, we would infer that tbe tap fit, when we <aid that the Post Master Genera I might be playing the old two banded game: But we are of opinion it grew out tbe mind of some poor malicious scribler, who wished to take revenge on this “foolish editor,” and “foolish tittle paper.”—Little or not. it con tains more matter than any other in the state! We would ask, why a contract from Wash ington to the military road? and if so, is it tme? why not from Natchez to stop at this place, and be renewed? and why make the distance greater than it is? The last para graph in our remark of the 17tb ult. shows that we did not intend to throw any blame on mail contractors or carriers;# the Post Master General was our aim; which your in tellect, if you had any, should have inform ed you. And if but three failures has taken pbice within the last three years, on this rout, two of them happened within two months this last spring! But Mr. Contrator (as you think proper to subscribe yourself.) tbats a lie. FOR THE MONTICELLO GAZETTE. Capt. tVm. Alvllin.—This gentleman be ing a candidate to represent wthis county in ! the popular branch of the Legislature, we! think it justice due to the merits of Capt. M. ] to state, that we have long bad tbe pleasure j of his acquaintance, and that we have a thor- j ough belief, that a man more generally qual-j ified to fill the office, be proposes himself to execute is not now before the public: he be-J ing a man of extreme domestic habits and having a pointed aversion to electioneering tricks, does not mix with the multitude to poreforth^a flood of deception; this course has prevented the citizens of the county from 1 knowing the man. Concious we are, if his ■ independence, powers to discriminate, and his indexable & determined executive mind, was fa riliarlv known, that he Would be hnn. orably supported: it is to be seriously wish ed in a republican country, that capacity and integrety should be the motto for considera tion by the people, to insure the most useful representation. If this principle should pre vail at the ensuing August election, Capt. M. must be elected. It should be known to the voters that he is nerved against that bane of society, increase of taxatian; a rigid opposi tion to the slightest touch of i^e interest of bis constituents, would mark his exertions if elected. A VOTER. FOR THE MONTICELLO GAZETTE. To Messrs. Rugand and IVinborne: Sirs; Deeming it a privilege that every citizen may exercise to inquire of candi dates for publick stations, their political principles in matters wherein the interests of their constituents may be involved, 1 hope you will not think me transcending the hounds of that right, in propounding to you the following questions, (and requesting your separate answers thereto) in which I con ceive the citizens of this county are deeply interested. Questions.—Do you wish a division of Lawrence county?—and if so, in what man ner do you propose having it divided? 1 am, gentleman, respectfully yours, &c. A. VOTER. FOR THE MONT1CELLO GAZETTE. F ell on! Citizens; Observing for a long time a land Firate residing among us, I would ad vise you against some of his piratical tricks, destroy the substantial interest of your re spectable county. (Ittte hi* «o-adgitor I.irfM*. who has lately fallen a victim to his perfidy,) he cares not whosinks so he swims; todevide and destroy the county of Lawrence has been his object for a number of years To go into a minute detail of all his black and in trigueing schemes would blacken our page, the sight of which would be too monstrous for moral society to digest. From the moment be located his famous Galvestown, he has, by interest and stratagem, been engaged to spoil your legitimate commerce, for which purpose he has sent out bis cruisers, who have pre-sed upon the minds of the people [that this Galvestown, was the most elegable spot fix the seat of science, and a proper site i todealout law and justice. But this could not be effected but by dividing your county. 1 will ask every man that has an idea, if he dots tiot see the whole drift of this prowl ing pirate, to aggrandise himself at the des truction ol the good citizens of the county; tliis was hi» course some years passed. Satan like, being ioiled in his first attempt, he ne ver slumbers he never sleeps in his purpos es ol malevolence: be is now out again with his host to divide and destroy upon a new fangled plan, to divide by the river and to get a county on the East side for his sole in terest. This imposition again he has forced upon the minds of some few good meaning men; while he kteps out of view his main object, self. self. self. I will again appeal to men of sense, and ask where did the man ever Jive that occij pied all his anxiety, and ail his time for the happiness of others? must not tbe rottenness uf his principles, be apparent to every mind? We have now the most respectable county in the state, whoes irfduence is court ed by the East and West, a centre county, by wbichi the state revolves. It is the must populous, Jbef* most elegible and the most healthy, and fast approximating to a large increase of commerce; :he village of Monti cello is now the most extensive in the srate; the river is cleanig o v, a steamboat pre paring to enter Pearl immediately; that Montirello will be the empoiium of the river, connot be denied. The obvious consequences of these matters of fact, will be, land on the river and all over the county will rise one hundred per cent, business facilitated and increased beyond our most sanguine calcu lations. Tbe farmer will be enabled to start from Monticello with his produce and be in New-Orleans in two days, purchase his goods there from one to two hundred per cent, lower than at this place, and return in 3 or 4 days to Monticello, or his home, if liv ing within the county. This fact, we repeat, a steamboat is novtfpreparing on the Mississippi for Pearl river. We will now ask' wbat will be the certain result of the divid ing policy, started by this old transgressor, if it should prevail? this fine floorisbing vil lage (Monticello) broken up, the spirit of en terprise in steamboat navigation inlirely cease, property reduced almost to nothing, j the present destructive mode of getting to market grow worse and worse, and finally this section-of country will be nearly desert-! ed. If the divisive scheme should succeed,' two small counties might be established by getting land from adjoining counties; and two obscure spots located for county sites,) one on tbe East to be called Galvtitown, the other on the West, on Dry creek, nearBogue chitto, by which no traveller ever passed, to be named Herberttville. Look at this hasty, picture, drawn up with certainty and truth, and say which interest you will persue at the approaching election, to be united and stand conspicuous in the state, or Le divid ed and dwindle into obscurity, and be forgot too. LAWRENCE, j I i VERY LATE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT.' We are indebted to the politeness of Mr. S. Jayne, direct from New-Orleans, for a file of New-Orleans papers as late as June the 121b, which enables us to lay before our readers the following very late and highly important foreign news: LOUISVILLE, JUNE 4. We have been politely favored, by Capt. Beckwith, of the steam boat Courier, which arrived yesterday from Pittsburgh, with the Pittsburgh Gazette of the 30th, the Balti more Morning Chronicle of the 23d, and a New-York paper of the 21st of May, from which we have made copious estracts. It ap pears that there is at least a strong proba bility of a general war in Europe. It is said that the Spaniards had evinceu a determina tion to defend their government to the last estremity. If they display the same degree of patriotism and valor, which distinguished them, when invaded by Napoleon,. France will soon have to call on Russia and Austria for assistance; and when Russia interferes, it will be the signal for England to engage in the contest—Lou. Pub. Adv. , t VROM THE NEW-VOHK COMMERCIAL ADVER TISER. The Paris Moniteur contains a despatch from General Guillemot, which states that the march of the French army continues._ The brigade of the advanced guard, under1 the marshal de-camp Wallin, is half a march beyond Tolosa, which the duke of Regio oc cupies with the flrst corps. The division of Bourke closely blockades St. Sebastian_ The flag of truce of this general was there re ceived with musket shot. The troops then made themselves masters of the heights which command the fortress, into which they forced the garrison to retire. General Bourke sent another flag; but having returned, the French assailed all the posts which the Span iards had re-occupied on the 6th of April, and overthrew them. The Spaniards sallied out again, but were repulsed by detachments from the 22d, 24tb and 34lh regiments, un der generals Dalbignac and Marguerrye — The French official accounts say they had only twenty killed or wounded; but reports from the army declare the French loss to have been 300 officers and men. The duke ) d’Angouleme has had a very narrow escape. He went to distribute tnililaty rewards so near the guns of St. Sebastian, that if he had remained hall an hour longer, the French ar my must ceriainly have been deprived of its general. j The troops under the orders of general Ronselle occupy the heights which com mand St. Sebastian. The Prince slept on' he 11*h at Tolosa. The advanced guard of he first corps, commanded by general W’al in, was on tbe I lib at Villa Heal, two days narch from Vittoria. 1 he duke of Keggio, with the first corps, occupies Villa Franca, The second corps is place.I In tween Tolosa ind Oyergon. The Garde Rovale supports the movements of the army. His royal high ness enjoys the bent health. The Journal des Debats states, that on the 9th a provisional government for Spain wai entablishedUnd that general Eugea was pla ced at its head. The holy alliance minis'ers are about tq set out. in a few days, lor the camp of the duke d’Angouleme. His royal highness will thus have both the regency of Spain and tbe representatives of tbe great continental pow ers at bis mess. No sooner had tbe intelligence of the pas sage of the Bidasssoa reached Paris, .ban il was immediately given out that Si. Sebas tian and Pampeluna bad surrendered to the arms of bis majesty. The fact, however, turned out to be. that at both of these places the French were, to their astonishment, re pulsed with considerable slaughter, and com- j pelted to give up the idea of obtaining pos session otherwise than by force. They are said to have calculated on bribing tbe officers commanding these garrisons to betray their trust. But according to wbat is stated in pri vate letters, and said to be universally cred ited at Paris, the French commander was not convinced ofhiserror till he lost upwards of 800 of bis troops by the fire of tbe Span ish from the wall of St. Sebastian. It is cer tain that this fortress and Pampeluna were in possession of the constitutionalists when the last accounts were received at Paris. On entering Vittoria and Bilboa, we hear of no fighting with Spaniards, no capture of arms or ammunition. At Guetaria it is tri umphantly stated, that 200 men were taken with five pieces of cannon and some prison* era, whilst it is admitted that “the enemy had abandoned Burgos since the 14tb.” It would appear from these statements; that the Spaniards bad again adopted that Fabian mode of warfare, which bad proved of so much service during the invasion of NapoU eon, and which was also successfully employ* ed by many of our officers during the Amer* ican revolution. The French armies are s'ated to have ta* ken up three lines of march, aud that on the arrival of the duke d’Angouleme on the E* bro, “the decisive blow will be struck.” We presume that this ‘decisive blow’ means the march to Madrid; the occupation of which city, the ruling party in France calculate as equivalent to the subjugation of the pen insu la. The guerrillas had commenced their oper* ations on the rear ranks of the invader*, who are stated to be already feeling the conse* quences of these attacks. The smugglers, to the amount of 50,000 men, well mounted aud armed, are likewise stated to have taken the field against the common enemy. It is added as a rumor, that the French marshal, general Moncey, instead of penetrating into Spain, had found it advisable to fall back on Tout* ouse, in consequence of its having been as* certained that gen. Mina, with 15,000 men,11 was marching into France. Great desertions continued in the army of the faith, under the command of the Baron de Erolles. Before the French entered Spain, the duke d’Angouleme addressed a proclamation from his head quarters at Bayonne to the Span. - iards, in which he repeated the old story. — - --- ...w uu tw toil uui lur lueir mac pen* dence, their happiness and their glory;” and this he makes to consist “in setting free their captive king, in raising again the altar and the throne, in rescuing prists from proscrip, tions, and men of property from spoliations-* The rumor of Rnssia having determined on marching 80 or 100,000 troops to the aid of France, is again repeated. The Morning Chronicle says, that this force was to arrive by the way of Dantzic. Subsequent accounts, however, would lead us to believe, that the British minister at St. Petersburg had sue ceeded in prevailing on Alexander to with hold assistance from France. The Austrian troops which had left the kingdom of Naples, and were on their march for Germany, are stated to have received orders to halt. Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning, in the British Parliament, both discouraged the i dea that G. Britain could be involved in the contest. An altercation between Mr. Can ning and Mr Brougham, in the house of com mons was the subject of much remark in the papers I t is reported that overtures had been made or the purchase of the governors of St. Se lastians and Pampeluna, at great prices; the ormer m the sum of 800.000 francs; also, lhat Mina had been attempted, through the igency of Chateaubriand, who brought holy water from the river Jordan to baptize the ion ol Napoleon. But these things resulted mly in the disgrace of those engaged in the Jirty husiuess. * s