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'"i ""'"pSi G '- miim. i-i i in mm ii i J ffl A s 9 m m t w f TELEGRAPH M cniTKti Nr rcm.isoiK.i rn Tvt.toa iv TIlpn.ASJ II. PILUP.U. At FIVE DOLLARS per rear, i r 81 V at the expiration of the year. flrXj rtaner discontinued until nil arwwira" V are paid, mile" at the o;tiou of the editor. SnWnptiaiu rcrcitti fur tipd Ann ant jear. ihortcr jre- Tcr:n f Adverllslnr. I linos or le, for the first in r; (wrench additional inscr- ter tin , ten cent per line for the firt per line for each additional imer- t five tion. . .tftV To those who advertise M-rul discount will bo made. by the yeiir,n rv. LIBERTY. kruM;li all the secnes of Nature' varying plan, e1etiul freedom warms the breast of man; Pied by her larling- hand what power ean hind The boundless effort of the Jab'ring mind! "he gotl-like fervor, thrilling through the heart, iives new creation to each vital parti hrobi rapture through each palpitating vein, Jhp tho wiapt thought!, and wnrms the fer tile brain. To her the noble! attributes nf Heaven, Mabitinti, valor, eloquence are given; binds the soldier's brtor with, jareaths sub- her expanding Reeson Harris to climb ; Wo her the tongs of melody belong, She wakes the raptures, of the poet's song. 'Ti cod-like freedom bids each passion live, That truth may boast, or patriot virtue give, From her the arts enlightened splendors own, She gaides the peasant she adorns the throne To mild Philanthropy extends her hand, Give-Truth pre-emincnce,and Worth command. Iter eye diree.ts the path that leads to fame, Lights valor's torch, and trains the glorious flame ; Hip scatters joy o'er Nature's endless scope, flives strength to reason ecutncy to hope Ti iers each pane humanity can feel, And hinds presumptuous power with nerves of rteel; prangles each tyrant phantom in its birth Arid knows no title but superior north! TO MARY. I'v" eca the flowers of spriT; decay, And all their beauty fade iiwav, Wrr-nnt n rl'-ft or friVfj Preheard the mocking bird's sweet song, His notes that echo far and long, Without attentive car; I've wandered in sweet boiv'rs at night, When yon bright moon did spread her light Cpon each lovely flower: But she whom I did seek in vain Win not amid the flowery train, Nor yet within the bower. Her soft bine eye- and rosy cheek, Her lips (that I could funcy(speak !) Were painted in my view, And around her neck her (lurk brown hair Did wave in ringlets richly fair, Upon each streak of blue. 'Tis Mary, dear, I mourn to see, (For I do londlv think hi' thee.) Whilst now, vVft're far apart; And-marly a tear I wipe nwav, With hope that on another day To clasp thee to my heart. But bless thee, Mary, though away, My mind will ne'er forget the day We pnrted with regret: For I du call to mind past hoar", That we hnvespcut within sweet bow'r, Such b'iss I can't forget. Ifl I S C HI, I. A N E O IT S . gAtgw From the .Natchez ''minor. "JONATHAN .HM'l'V.KSON WIMTLAYV. In the sprung of 18M, lite Messrs. Cary, Lea fe Hlanchard, received from England a copy of a work j ist p ihlishnd in London, rnti:lcd 'Jon ilh; ii Jelfersnn W njtlnw,1 by Mis'. Trollono. Tiiesfl petiiloinen, on h; rum!, f mini the work so obnoxious, that tlrey ileclioed pubtislirn," it. As thisisprfe bablyflrte only copy that Iims been rjceivcfl in America, nnd as if is therefore linle know il, allh nigh i pnsiJuralile en. iosii) ii is been excited to pain some knojyledgo of it, it is the object of this paper to show the citizens ol Natchez rttid Adams couiilv in nriieiilHr, tmw nmcti nicy ure iiiueuteu to I irtanie Troll ope. Jonathan Jefferson VVhitlaw is a novel in three volumes, which Amoiican publishers wohld have condensed to two. 'I he s ;eoo? nro laid in Misussippi and Louisiana. The novel opens with a description of scenery on the Mississippi river, and a brief sketch of the causes that g io make a 'squatter.' In illustralion other remarks, the authoress iiitnxiuces her readers to a squatter, his wife, and sister, who have just landed, (about twenty five years ago,) from a small Jiat hontyin a point nlKMir twenty miles anove Nutchcz. She hern describes very graph- lordly, the progressive steps, from the fel ling of tho fust tree to the rearing of the I walls of their hut, the cultivation of Ihoify land, and gradual but sure advance' toward j prosperity. Whitiaw, which is the name of bo squatter, win is a tall, rawboned, sensi ble Pennsylvania Yankee, at length opens a Til Iter husband wi:frn son. win is n .me I J.MMtlno Jeforsm, and is the hern of ihc novel. lie crows op r.iggo i, mischievous, shrew I, nJ tdtogether a bo n dm!!. A certain during recklessness of charajter, a; long b, na be wool on board of a sic WsAn it, o receive piv wood, when be wn alt.. .it twelve years old, nttraced Ibo attention ol a gciittenvui on board, who, after convers ing vi h him f r a lew minutes, told him ho should some day call on his fithor, and try to do something f.r his idtHacement in ilo world. The aut!ioros his M ivorcd tu make a very mylterkxit lxsin ont of this trinjrer, ulm oventiully prove!" to ho n wWthy planter, wh.i h id ii largo phn:atirv inrwnilcs nn ix'atclicv:. Sho gtvet'itUH lictwcenJliree in I f wr hundred nUve., nnc seems to esioem that lare nmn'oor the or dimxy foreo nf wealthy planters. In the n'hi'e, his fitlier htsau olfjr Rif h;o I ind, and seiN it for several Ihousand dollars, not in vos to a place near Natchrz, which 'tm Mrs. Trolhtjm Vdtfifiption, niiist be a pkee Know n as C Muville, a mile west of VVqphington, in Ad uns county. Here he opens a store, and lives as a tm ill firmer, n his iHtighliotliood is a fierraan e.ile,wh". driven fi.-iin his coin'ry, first took refuse in Pliil;uleldiia. but subsequently p ifchaped an estate in Mississippi. Hc is (,f a no' lo family wealthy, and the father of anin'er esiino family, lli.s daughter is one of the heroines. Tlin (ierman is n coiisoientinns nbolilionisl, and hy the aid nf his sons mid hired laborers of Ins own countrymen, he works his pl.n'ation. iy this procendinj, tuei'ly opposing slavery, he awakens the suspicion of the nSlfrltWi:; planters, win begin to indul y feel'iHfS of hostility again?' him. Mrs. Tniftjba brush has hern di-i- ped in frail in pain'ing the e', 'racterof thes" ntfinlnr.' .....1 i. 1. f . .1 . n i.n.v,.-, nun in uojiuy in urawmj tnat oi the Gei innn nntl his fairiijy. In the mean while, Jonathan Jefferson Whttlaw is taken fis.m his father's botiFo and made the 'factor1 (as the authoress i pleased to term Mississippi overseers) of his plantation; Jonathan Ins now become a tall, good-looking youth of some nineteen years, sports his gold watch, seals, chain, and ritftfed shirt, wears bro ideloatb, arid never condescends to use his (ejrs except to bakince his body in the saddle. He is roiih in Rionners, coarse in his idens. full e! all malice and desperate h rdihood, and above all, a devout hater of bl ickskins, and denies their title to souls, and believing his horse the "better Christian being." Al Aoogh he is a great villain, he is evidently the writer's favorite. He begins his over seership with a c(.'d, deliber ate system of cruelty, and through biiri Mrs. Trollope has given nil 'the horrors, barbarities, and hideousncss of slavery, in the most esar. gerated and false colors. If Southern plan ters were such bs she has represented them, They arc riot w:fTlIyTrfrc npprtffiiroii of men. Hy and by the planter dies, and by a str ike of policy Jonathan secures to himself his whole inheritance. Now Mrs. Trollope has a fair fiold before her, and Jonathan Jefh'jrson VVhitlaw rules his subjects with m hand of a Turkish pacha. His slaves1 livesonly depend upon Iris august pleasure, and with the younger female members of his estate he forms a harem. Now comes the sentimental part of the story. A very pretty negrcss happens to lie in love with another slave, very nobis, u perfect O. hello, whom she prefers to her master. The distresses of the pair who arc end iwcd with tho exalted intelleels. n lined sentiments, a high sense of delicacy, honor and all the nobler ipi i lilies of the human ice. are contrasted with the cruelty and ty- tunny of Whillaw, wliose character, as the representative of all pi inters, is drawn in co us of red and black. The (.ierman and bis. family are interest ed in lb.-, loves of the slaves, and when Whitiaw is about to rid himself of the lover, lee Gorman, by an underhanded s"heme, gets possession of him, and secretes him on bis plantation, from whence be can pursue his 'dusky love' by stealth. Whitiaw at length learns this fact, but find n door open by which he cm take revenge upon the (jonnan. His sagacity finally enabled him to invent means' of avenging the insult. It was ns follows. A young man, wlio is represented ns handsome, gentle, pious, and full of nil excellencies, with his sister, a fur, ami: Ijle'ui, hmi been l.-.dt orphans in Kentucky, with a few negroes. From con scientious mo ives, they liberated all their slaves, and throw themselves upon the 'w,nrd.ns beggars, and determined to coine to Mississippi, an Iproneh to the slaves, and if need be, lay down their lives in the cause. Af or a series of adventures they arrive in Natchez, an I the sister is placed for a time in n milliner's stoto on' M tin street, ("where in a picture in tluj volume, she and her companions, with a smrr old lady, is seen at work,) while the youth g es l'rtth in tho spirit, and enthusiasm of a martyr to preach to the slaves, lb; by nnl by becomes known to the German, nn l they become bis friends, Bytupithpsiug in the same cailso. The young preacher at length forms a night congregation on Whitlaw's plantation, and meet it every Saturday at midnight. These facts, with tho interference of the Gernjajj, hi relation to bis slave, at length camo lo Whitiaw1!! knowledge, and on the th in : he midst ike a dctor, ind hung uk it with ait norcy. Tlie UNtst m. note and jf the m b, roused rushud with torch ov Uic taste ot bioKl, thev e In ihe (lerman'i h msc. Tliis victim is, however, informed bv tlie sister of the preacher, who happened to oreihear tho rum a- in die alley, u-w known as lJmk alley, in Natchez, ami tlics on f t by night, to warn her brother an I hun. 11 it her brother says, he is 4o-it to be turned frtim hi duty by fear of men,' and deter mines to become a martyr. lis thref uv went to his rendezvous, aod his wli was filly ura'ili I. Tlie Germ in. however, escapes by lmd in his carriage, with his family, to it tdaey, and then! take steainbo:it,(hiding themselves fr.nn observation as they stoo a f.j nSinMOs at Natchez, on their way down.) and pro ceed to New Orleans, Hn thence to E u- rop& where one of the sons of die (iermtn marries tho little milliner. And so ends one of the most bar.'-f iced attempts to im poses upon the Credulity of the um-slave-h aiding Suites ever perpetrate !. In this work, the character of rlie planter i hebl up in die ni isl ddio is light, and be is denied the common attributes of human the character of the slaves such as would be madness in (he mast visionary po et, to venture to paint. They are repre sented by Mrs. Tr illopc,as feeling wi h the most acute sensibility their moral condi tion. Hy the magic of her pen, the whites become d-en ns, and tho bheks suffering angels. In j is ice to the southern popula tion, the character of Mrs. Trull ope's book should In; fully known. Its publication v ml I h ivi) been the commercial ruin of the house which should mi lertakeit. There is not a sentiment, not an opinion, however will, ever advanced by the wildest of nhn li'.ionis s.that is not embodied in these vol umes, wih form and substance given to it, and illustrated by some acts of tho charac ters. The Volumes me ornamen'ed With some eight or ten en.. 'ravines. One ofjphcm re presents the habitation of Whitiaw, the squatter. Another thi 'inteiior of a store in N iche.,' where the loungfriLr customers are putting practical jokes upon the negroes whocomcin to purchase; one spilling to bacco juice in his eyes; another making one keel fir him to got on the counter by step piiv,' on his hack, ate, Ano'her picture represen's the lynching of the young preacher, Another the death of J mil Inn Jefferson Whitiaw, who is at len'ih murdered by his slaves, who rise en masse to avenge themselves upon him for his cruelties. The picture is peculiarly ettilvni . hoven or eight male negroes, luacTt ns night, with axes, hoes, clubs, ifcc. are heating and chopping their master into mince-meat. The object of this work is to represent slavery in a revolting light, at the expense of honor and common honesty. Mrs. Trol lope has, however, by trying todo too much, overdrawn ihe sketch, and so exaggerated what she has attempted to poortrav, that no one but he who is obstinately blinded by prejudice, will place any confidence whate ver in details which carry fulsebooJ in their very face. Home. What is home? A magic word i sound that fills upon the ear like the strain of a bite, as it is borne out on Hw.tfiH I evening :;ir. Whit, is home? Ask the mariner, as he rocks upon the tossed deep. His time-worn brow softens his bosun heaves, with the rush of youthful thought, as he points to the dim line whore the sea and clouds blend t gether, and he tel s vou 'JVsrc' and that, from the roaring reef an.i in the bowling torm, be bethinks him of home that beloved spat, which lies not on tho welcome lec and sighs. Ask the olasrie youth who, just free from his Alma Mater, roams over the wide-spreading prai rie, or climbs tho blue urn intaius 'of I'm west, overlooking f ir-reaching vales and exhausting horizon after horizun, encircling hill, and lake, upland-slope, nnl winding river ask il he thinks of home and be will toll you tint each returning evening speaks of it, and that ns he turns bis eye to the cloud, that, tinged by the fare Well rays of tho departed sun, hangs far in the east, and sootps in the imagination to sloop over tho place of this ' ir i, ho is in an instant there. Oh sacred breathing thought! The soul is lost in n soa of mem ory! Dwelling, grovo mid solemn fnres's, are animated. e manlier scene, asso 'la tum nf er association, come rushing upon the mind, and in a moment his past life comes back upon him. Who forge's the parent's last look tho parting kiss the loved one's tear? The splendid mansion or the lowly coil age--fertile plain or barren rock d are hal owed, ns we look back upon them through the vista of yours. It may be tint the footprints of decay nrc there that tho villain; eh nch is crumb lins tho walls of the paternal dwelling sinking to ruin and arouvi them the woodhihe is clinging; yet there, and wheroever tlie vvikl grass waves over tho graves of our sires, there horns is there wo began to live lliere we love to linger. When much, an trus ourolvcs too loo little when of youth, timid is tho isthmus Manhood moos fir tlie Lremp'iaie as mol ts ihcv are instructive. The loath mm dr.ink ird m always a picture w puy an 1 1 disgus'. me young inebrtate s'eppiHg from an eminence of to'iriety and virtue down to the depths of intoxici ti n is a picture ton sorrowful to look upon w ith otlier than feelings of sincere pain and rojjrct. B it the man of letters, wl.o'c earliest and host d i vs b ivo laen p ised in the acnituiti on i knowledge vhose edu c.ni m has fitted him to become a moral as well as a scicntinc teacher wlioss genius and talents are above th it of the grant in jfmcn nroiind him, and the character of m . . . .... whose exilted mind.sbortened the distmce and brufi4tt nearer, the rcscmbUnca, tc Iwerfl - ii and his Creator; ich a man, a dnmk ird, is a sight altogether Uw horrible for coiitempbuion. We hive been led to this reflection from reading thereeorJs of the Police ( ourts of Boston and Naw York. Tlie reader must have been n tuain cd with Wm, J. S.1M uno, of B sUki, a man whose mind was like 11 good and bcautifd ship driven nlsiut at the mercy of the winds and the waves, with out sails or comnass. He was a liwver aula writer, his litter profession lini- tjuisbed hi:isclf as a keen p iwerful but vin- diclivo satnst his w it, too, was (minted and billianl as his sarcasm, his observation of men and things was quick and vigorous. His "T ill's ol the North Wes," which itA brought jliim into n nice, some ten years since and in short all his prose articles as well as bis poetry, have always f uind a ready p (blication, and numerous and admir iii'JT leaders. All have given him a high in tellectuil character, and a literary reputa tion which will Ion.' survive him. S ich w ere some of bis virtues and vices but his prominent vices were in re visible and no less numerous. His feelings were strong pasionate and rovcnifiil,and his proneness to censure and ridicule others, and his abund in! ability to dtiso with sue -ess, drew aronn 1 him n host of cnemios, and drove from him his friends. He his paid the forfeit of his follies, and for the two past years basheer, grad ml'y losing his personal character sinking in public cstimatiim. From his ill success in life, his poverty and his disappointment--, he (lew to the last and worst expedient of drowning sorrow bv drinking deep from the bowl of the drunk ard. Itemorso then did its work, and Wm. J. Snelling, the man of genius and educa tion, was fmnd, first n drunkard in the wateh-honso, then a voluntary petitioner at the Police Court, begging'-th it he might be placed out of the public view for six months,"1 The prison is now his home, and the prisoner free from temptation: "S0 (be dark in son! expire. I Ir-l-lik nurwn, grit, by firei So writhes (lie luiild remorse hath given, Unfit for earth, undoonied lor heaven. Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death." Another kis'anc, nearer home and no less mel ucholv, is one we have before neglect ed to publish. It is that of John C. Mossik. the talented 'Improvisator,' who at our ow n Police Cairt made application, some few weeks since, to bo committed to Bridewell, where be might dash from him the cup of temptation, Such is A.? sacrifi .'c, and wo bcitolJ a vol mtary exile to the prison of the criminal to save himself from the demon of in oxication. Mossie, like Snelling, was a man as capable of refinement as ne was prune ;to self degradation. That be was a pan of talents no one will doubt, and in evidence of iho fact we give a chaste pro duction of his pen, which was but. the work of eight or ten minutes The Unreclaimed seems io ue u pie we oi ins mo wnucn ny liimsolr. OUR nRETIIREX. Hast thou a brother nnreclaiiued sister yet in sin, Who. though they listen to the truth, Peel not its power within ! Ob pray tor ttwm! pray day and night, That they may yet discern a right! Thou answere-t : "All my father's house Are servanU of the Lord, They bless the Kather for bis Son, And reverence Ihe Word." Are nil thy father's house, oh youth, Humble adorers oi the truth ! Nay aav I tell thee thev are not; "Ohye's, they are." What all! Wbom dost thou, then, thy brethern term, And wboin thy Father Crtll? Cod is the sire of all men named ; Say, arc rat brVtukkv all reclaimed. iV. Y. Express. Sagacity of tiih IIonsK. Tho Penn sylvania Sentinel relates tho following an ecdote of tho sagacity and humanity shall we call it? of the horse: As the Gcrmantown stage, drawn by four horses, was p issing along Third street, above Willow, a small child endeavored to cros the street in advance of tho leaders, apparently without observing the danger ous proximi'y of the latter. One of ihe leading horses appeared to appreciate the infant's situation, and made every effrt tu avoid coming in contact with it. He swerv ed from the direct lino as far ns he could, and endeavor jd to pass it; but being brought up by the rein, was forced against and pros trated the child. The instant the latter fell, he stopped, as if to allow it to escape; but. being driven f irward bv the hinder horses and impetus of the vehicle self on his hind legs, and he reared him with one bound ; this, either P. on iv the child, wkh 8ttr. j ninj to thn.w their .i.nc an independent banner should be rais ed. Mississippi is able to sustain herself let her do il let her planters meet in con tion on the first M wrtoy app tinted for the uiee.uigol Ihe Legislature. A PLANTER Is ("orviuMvHru 20, 183". The unaiwn mi Ihrlartitioa of the Planter of Mututipjri. When in the course of human even's, i' Iteeoines necess irv for one people to dis solve the commrrrinl bands which have emneced them with another, and ro as sume among tho powers of earth the sepa rrr nod eo wl ulitm to. jrhich ibn laws ot .wi..-.. ...! S 1. -'S i . 11. . limn linn n ii'iuim a woo en uie inein. a requires that thev should declare the caus es which irnoel ihem to the separation. Wo hold these fr iths to be self-evident thai all men are bora free and equal, (ex cept n -groti,) and tint Mtuunppuuu Hre possess.-dof certain unalien-ible rights, among mem arc bfe, liberty, and the To secure the l itter. imrauil of icraUlt. commission merchants have been iitstKnred among Ihem for a mutual benetv, and fJte negotiation of certain interests have view ed an equal pn fkto planters and mer chants, but whenever a monop ily of iner chan's becomes destructive to those ends, it is the right of planters to altar (tr abolish it. and to institute new merchants, laving their foundation on such principles, and organizing their powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to secure their rights and liberty Prudence, indeed, will dictate that commission merchants, king established should not be changed on fri Vftl causes Accordingly, tho pest will show that planters have been more dispos ed to suffer Ihc evils inflicted on them thin 'o right themselves by alsdishing the pre sent monopoly. Bit when n long train of abuses and usurp itions ovine a dusign to reduce the planters under absolute servi tude, it is their right it is their duty, to throw off the yoke, and to provide, new guards for their future security. Tim his tory of the prese. f monopoly of commis sion merchants in New Orleans, is a history of repented injuries and Usurpation, all tending to establish a complete system of mastery over M ssissippi plan ers. To 1 1 rove this, let facts be submitted to a can did world. They have refused to grant fa cilities of inimodiulo and pressing impor tance to the Planters of Mississippi afcr having hold out promises of accommoda tion unil the hour cotne when they were aboiu:.Jv HaetUni. TIm-v him fnvoth-tr rolinq lishmoLt of tho right of property which the planter may hive had, and there by under deeds of trtqt have proceeded to sell his lands and tenements at one third their value, nnd have themselves become tho purchasers, turning tho poor hard work ing men out on tho world homeless and penniless, without the means of scarcely subsisting. They have attempted to co erce the payment of all debts duo them, by any and every sacrifice of property, in matter what may have been its value, They ham charged exorbitant interests for their name on paper, and then in secret sharing shops have bought up that paper at wouruHius discounts. Thev have received and sol I our cotton for less than its real val ue at the tiuif, to suit their own purposes. They have had .secret buyers of our rAjgtoft. in their own houses lor WM Uvindling out' a center two mm pound. Thev have effected to render the Ba uk paper of Mississippi under p.ir, an I thereby shaved our verv money. They have plundered our soil they h ive lived nri our la!ir, and grown rich on o:ir j ist dues. They have seized on our" bouusl planters, have cast them in'o prisons an I dungeons to he associates of vile murderers, robbers nnd a.-vassins; they have hel l se cret meetings and entered into disgraceful midnight cnm'uiiations to cut off all acco n ui hI. tions from our planters; and thev have commenced a warof e.xtermin ition against all those who may bo ill arrears. They have openly pronounced Mississippians en masse to be villians and scoundrels; and they have boasted of the number they h ive conveyed to their filthy prison. Thev have taken .. mean, cowardly advantage of h .nei men, when far from home in a city, ofstran gers, and there attempted to force mono on lor eireiimsinn -os no hetfe-r than vile robbery or secret thelt. 1 hoy have ptt- i'creo our country. Thev have slandered our reputation, and they have attempted in establish a si stem of arbitrary dictation an I authority under circiinistaneea of cru elty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the mo d ha rb irons ages, nnd totally ifnworthv the great City of the South and West. They have proved themselves to be a mo nopoly of .sharers, oppressors, ttiruthrrerx and picayune changers, fit only to receive the execration of all honest, high-minded mid liberal men, and tally worthy to be the tenants of their own boasted stinjting cala boose. i.. ... .!., r ice oppressions we edress in the inos' r petitions have only poated iuiuries.. A have Icon! respect to the opinions of nlnkiii4e'inrjreiU a shiptag Kvti at leaf tofe vc necor'y wm h tlenouiKwowr se n, ami h M them as4 wo knf the rest of swindlers, tueiuit) in trattTBy HI aa env, mewls. hi .i ,. .i i . . f - ne, inorciore, toe punters at aifSW sippi, in conn nl assemSled. sjfspeetif I the sioeeri y and honesty of our intentions. and nrinncss of purposo, in the mm and me mw ana tod penpje of .sippi If bv mo authority ol the food pele of Mis-i-sippi. do tnaU declare that the St absolved from all i lll'TC.I ! ith ttto commission mmmmtt orsf peee is, an 1 ought to he f irever rtissnlriiA iui And fir the opprt of this duel irntru, we mutually pledge our fortunes and odr a red Inn w. Signed this 2d.h day of Mirch, A. Ok 117, Bv a ii mt of Mtssissim PuiTRas, A i!)ir3iKvr8 nr Tti P4BrBTr. Powhatan Ellis, of Mississippi, to he H ivoy I'.xtraonlinary, and Minister Plenipcteotia ry to fne United Mexican States, to be sent whenever circumstances will permit a re new d of diploinitic intercourse with that power. Charles Rllis, to be , Secretary f Legttioft of the the United States, to the L'uited Mex ican fjfcates. fcwrence Bossean, of Louisiana, to he a tl iptain in tlie Navy fromilio Uth Februa ry, 18:17. Henry Dircautel. of Louisiana, te be a Lieutenant in ihe .vy,o.u theBih M trc HIJ7. La tk xm moui.v iswuTtTr itiohC" tii.iok.na. The contest commenced. -Tl Gran idtan ilrig iMareelino, with si valuable c irgo, from In n u; fir C irllngeo t, was cjp Hired off the port of C irtii iiena,by the Brit ish blockading sqaudron. This news reach es ns through a different source ill in.thit tf Jamaica, and our correspondent assures ua th i' he is not misinformed, Caktiiaukva. -The (Sranadian brig M ircelino, I '. -keldsou,, which a tiled from this port in December last for C irlhageua on the 21 Jan. and wis broig'it to anchor hy H. B M. Frigate M.idagin;ar(Oim. Pey ton, and informed that Cirthigena was un der block uie and that she in ist rem tin nt auiuior until t. inner onlers, 1 .ie pissen tr.rh ifn-ir liagaum Mill tine.-' seamen were sent on shore. Thopj were several othur vessels in the same situation which were allowed to await the res dt, and would be nrderod off if they 1 decide to con ine tbeblick ido Er press. GREAT KVBTIUIUAKK iNSY.t f. TheBistmi Patriot Ins udvices frorn Smyrna to January 84. Some alarm was created iit the early part of the mun'h by the rumor of a plague at Smyrna. There proved to bj only two cases. From Biirotit by advices to January 11, we learn that the whole of dy a Ind been thrown in'o cousteruition hy an eartlupmho 1st January, which destroyed several towns and villages. On the evening of the new little before sim:', the towns of nigfiboring m fy this j ruins, and awf d to inhabit ints pnrished. N ithing bad been heard ordain. All file bufWirtl les'royod. At S ude, the wife w is dragged fr ;n the leg crushed. Great d imago has be Smyrna by the rains, which rid Is, Idew down the trees, Col. Chcsncy and his sti Bigdad. Mil' her not the rums with The fiillowing gentleioenhivc twen efeC ted Directors of the B.ao h d'the Planter's U ink at ibis place, to MM tir tin ensuing yc ir. viz: John B. Thrasher, W.h. II O, Anders at, V. S am f, Juo 11. (i. Humphreys, S. C Arch 1'. lrisC"t and !, o, j. t Hioouicj-of i he inni,J. i. "l was .rected Pte-idout Pod "Oi.n .M uitahtv."' MH'Tliom h hum e ail oi- e t a -itoiiie sculpture ot ntr W.il-cr Scott, thi oro.p nf "Old Miirtafity." H r Wal'eris reirt!senfed jis being sealed on it tocehstoise, ill I tiinii ir conversation with th roiiian, whose accustomed din tune suspended. Tbefartist is s executed his work in a fmisliud rable s yle, and to have dme a oi his subject. The pieces cm 'r ve-yard group, Old M rtalil tor and the White Pony, hare m vame re tor tho lustiee iff this chased (lemma, ant nd are Io be j at the gite A head mndata iist teen formed M ktreegly relite, nmo St the osK like mmmm