The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-20 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA.

(From New Yo.k Papers received to the 29th ult.)
(From the New York Gazette )

imfORTANT FROM TIIE FRONTIER--We are informed that
an impnri::Ant despatch has been forwarded by Major Mason, of
Port Gibson, !o General Gaines, the Commander of this divi-
sion. The subst..Nl" of this communication is, that the Che-
rokees have built a1,...:1nci1-house, said to be considerably
larger than any hereto 0...' erected by any tribe. They
have sent messengers, with thb black and red wampum, to
all the tribes from the Red River to the ales and Foxes
on the Mississippi—omitting only tha • Kansas and °Ages
inviting them t) meet in Council at the.' Cherokee Coun-
cil-house iu September nest. The tnovemen: is believed to
be but an incipient step to further difficulties, an: made with
a view of enlisting and uniting all the tribes along the
frontier in such measures as may be adopted. They have pro..
,ceded with great caution at.d secresy in the measure. and
h,„:-ft endeavoured to keep all their proceedings from their
agents ~"d the officers of the posts. The time proposed for
holding the Council is sufficiently late to admit of the erni-
g ating Cherokee; reaching their country. All the informs-
tien eicited goes to con.fir,:o the opinion expressed some time
ago by General Arbuckle of tike hostile intention of several of
tl:e tribes, though it is not believed tlizt
_any movement is in-
tended by them until the opening oi !he spring.
General Games, we arc told, has forwardeJ the despatch of
Major Mason to the proper department, with a request that he
be permitted to attend the Council with an armed force. This
would probably be the most effectual means to awe them into
a compliance with their duty, and would effectually prevent the
f,rmation of any plans for a general and united rising. It is
greatly to be desired that his request should be granted.—
Missouri Republican, Aug. 14.
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(From the Morning Herald, Aug. 27.)
We arc informed that officers Gilchrist and Thomas M.
Lyon arrested the Captain and two Mates of the French ship
Alexandre, for alleged piracy. They had engaged passage
on board the packet ship Star, Captain Glover, for New Or-
leans, and were at Fort Hamilton, on the look out for the sail-
ing of the ship. The officers, with a promptitude and energy
worthy of al; praise, immediately started in pursuit of them,
and found them at that place, at the hotel. The pirates bad
locked themselves in their rooms, the doors of which had to be
broken open, when, after a desperate resistance on their part,
they" were finally secured by the assistance of the proprietor of
the !tote:, and brought to the city. The French Consul then
sent them on beard the French man.of-war in our harbour,
and thearc now os; their way to France, to pay the forfeit of
their bloody
deeds. The Consul bad their baggage opened
T
on board the Star. One
of the chests contained several thou-
s ind dollars in gold, besic:fg cutlasses and fire-arms, with
which they no doubt meditates .
an attempt similar to the ono
for which they were arrested. he courage displayed by
Gilchrist and Lyons in arresting thes‘-. desperadoes is worthy
of high commendation, and redounds n;:lch to their credit.
The Consul, we understand, presented them with a large re-
ward for their exertions.

A letter from Texas, of the 16th of July, says :—" The
lion. James Collinsworth, Chief Justice of thc. Republic, was
found drowned in the bay of Galveston a few days since. The
body was much mutilated, and there were marks upon it which
led to the belief that he had been murdered. He is said to
have had considerable money with him when at Galveston. He
was a man of extensive research and of superior talents."

By an arrival last night, in six days from Tampico, we learn
that the Mexican ports are to be blockaded for six months
longer.—New Orleans Picayune, Aug. 17.
( From the Charleston Courier of Aug. 2.)
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,
THE STRANGERS' FEVER. —No other consideration but that
of the most severe indi,position on the part of the editor of
this Paper, for about ten days past, which brought him to
death's door would possibly have presented him from pre-
viously announcing that the strangers' fever is now prevailing
in this city to some extent, and from the great number of
persons now residents here who are subject to its attacks,
we conceive it a duty the city authorities owe to the people
w her they govern to adopt such measures as may pre-
serve L'a' health of such as haxe not been attacked, aid caution
strangers n,:st to visit us uutil informed that they call do s.
ithout peril.