The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-02 00:00:00

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.-SUNDAY NIGHT,

At the Stock Exchange yesterday, the sales were
pretty extensive, hnt generally at a decline_in prices from
those obtained the day previous. Sales of a large amount
of Indiana Dollar Bonds were made, closing at a de-
cline of / per cent. A small amount of Indiana Ster-
ling Bonds sold at a decline of per cant. $2,000 of
New York State Fives of '5B at per cent. lower than
the last sale. Illinois States of 70 improved per
cent. ; United States Bank Stock fell off 1 ; Delaware
and Hudson, -41-, ; Canton Company, a ; Mohawk HR. h ;
and Farmers' rrust 5 per cent. Harlem RR. advanced
, and Paterson HR. per cent.
During the week past there has been a fair business
done in stocks generally, and prices were a little higher
than at the first of the week.
The prices of State Stocks are far below what could
ever have reasonably been expected, and, from present
appearances, we should not be surprised if they went
lower, before any permanent improvement takes place.
The same doubts, difficulties, and embarrassments, that
now exist relative. to our Western State Stocks, existed
a year ago, and yet large sales are daily made at prices
nearly fifty per cent. lower than they were readily bought
at then.

The mere fact of the present revenue of the Western
States, being insufficient to allow them to pay the in-
terest on their'debts, we do not think is sufficient to
justify the enormous depreciation of their bonds, in this
and European markets, ancl not the slightest apprehen-
sion should prevail as to the Western States ever repu-
diating their debts. We have not, and never have had,
any doubt but that the States will be able ultimately
to discharge all their indebtedness, and the rapid and
extraordinary increase of population and wealth, affords
the strongest assurance that this will be the.ase. There
is no doubt whatever of these States doing everything
to preserve their honour and integrity, and it should be
remembered that the very improvements, for the making
of which their debts were created, are only partially
completed, and consequently unproductive.
RATE OF SALES AT TIIE STOCK EXCHANGE.

MONDAY.
$l,OOO Kentucky 6's
',di Bond

4,000 Indiana _aids
1,000 State 5} per cent
1,000 Illinois 6's of '7O s 30 42
25 Shares United States Bank
26 Ditto Mohawk ditto
125 Ditto Delaware and Hudson s 60 ds 1061
25 Ditto Farmers' Trust s 90 ds 28
50 Ditto Harlem
100 Ditto Paterson
25 Ditto ditto
125 Ditto Canton Co.
25 Ditto Stonington Railroad... 2s+
1,000 Exchange on Philadelphia 95.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14.—There was a large amount of
business done at the Stock Exchan,re on Saturday, and but
little change in the price of any description of stock or
loan. $lO,OOO Pennsylvania s's, 1854, sold at 70; Win-
nington Railroad G's, 1842, at 891 ; 11,000 Cincinnati
bond, G's, at 80 ; United States Bank at 41 ; after the
Board, 41 a 41 ; Philadelphia Bank at 57 ; Pennsylvania
at 140 ; Girard, 181 and 18 ; Camden and Amboy Rail-
road at 70 ; and 0500 United States Bank notes at 68i
cents. on the dollar, exchange on your city.
A fire occurred on Saturday morning, about three
o'clock, in the wholesale grocery and commission
store of Messrs. Montgomery, Shackford, and Ham,
No. 11, South Water-street, which from recent arri-
vals was unusually stocked with articles in this line.
The fire was first discovered in the lower story,
thought by many to have arisen from coals which had
fallen from the stove ; before it could be got under a
large wines,rlhe loss is very consi-
derable, &c. &c., were de-
stroy e
de:.-able, but I believe fully covered by insurance.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 14.—The arrangement with the
amount
or
materially
damaged, fruit,
Franklin Bank has been noticed by you, and it is there-
fore unnecessary for me to speak of it at large. The plan
is for the bank to receive and pay out of the stock orders
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and that accounts
would be kept exclusively in that species of currency,
of which there is about a million and a half out. The
arrangement goes into effect to-morrow ; already have
many persons opened accounts with the bank. So far,
the effect on the railroad orders have been decidedly fa-
vourable, the discount which on Wednesday was 10 a
II per cent., was done at 5 to 7 yesterday. What will
be the ultimate effect time can best tell.
Our money market remains comparatively easy—the
banks taking generally all good notes offered them.
There is some inquiry for Maryland and Baltimore city
stock, and s's of the former are in demand at 80, and s's
of the latter at 85, and wanted.
Exchange on. New York, 3+ a 31 prem.; on Boston,
3 a 34- prem.; on Philadelphia, 1-1 dis:; Virginia Bank
Notes, 3 dis.; Sterling bills, 131 prem. Specie sells as
follows:--1Ialf dollars, 31; Mexican, 4;
1' Spanish, 71 ;
American gold, 3 a 34- preen.
Our Flour Marketers somewhat unsettled, but you
could hardly buy, Yterday, 'Toward-street less than
$6 ; City Mills was $6.25.
(From the Halifax Morning Post of the 18th inst.)
THE BOUNDARY QUESTION.
It is now our duty to announce that the information
we had previously received of an open invasion of British
territory by the Americans, for the purpose of making
an ex parte survey, is beyond all dispute confirmed—and
that, further, the Americans are making the most active
and energetic preparations for the settlement of the dis-
puted territory—that they are penetrating north further
and further every day—that they are cutting down and
carrying away the most valuable timber—that they have
actually opened a channel to connect the waters of St.
John with the: waters of the Penobscot River.
(From the Quebec Gazette of Nov. 1.)
The people of the State of Maine and of the United
States, while large sums of money are paid by England to

negotiators, boundary CoMmissioners, surveyors, explo-
rers, &c., have long been taking possession of the " dis-
puted" territory. They first step over " the height of land
which separates the waters falling into the St. John from
those of therivers within the A merican territory,and pitched
themselves at Houlton, near Woodstock, on the waters
of the St. John ;,then they proceeded, in 1839, 30 miles
farthOr "to the north, to the Arostook, also falling into
the St. John, and there erected " Fort Fairfield ;" they
then came to the month of the Fish River, another 30 or
40 miles, and established themselves at " Fort Jarvis,"
on the St.' John's, a few miles above Madawaska, making
roads, granting lands, establishing settlements through
GO or 70 miles of the territory." in dispute," and no part
of which they bad 'ever occupied before the commence-
ment of the negotiations, &c., about the boundary, under
the treaty of 1783, and the treaty of Ghent in 1814.
If we are to believe the New Brunswick papers, the
Maine people are now on the southern branch of the St.
John's, called the Allaguash, about 90 miles south east
from Quebec, where they are lumbering, and have ma-
naged to cut a communication between the said branch
of the St. John and the Keacrbouagan lake, which falls in
the west branch of the Penobscot. We shall probably
hear of them, by and by, on the Etchemin and Chaudiere.

(Further Extracts from the American Papers.)

LATEST FROM FLORIDA.—By the steamer Newbern,
Capt. M‘Nelty, the Editors of the Georgian have receieed
the following, from a Correspondent_
EAST FLORIDA, Nov. s.—Sam Jones' party in the Big
Cypress have separated. Sam is on the Lossabatchie.
Alleck Tustenugge has joined him. Par-sare-i-mi-co,
one of the Chiefs late in co-operation with Jones, has sur-
rendered, together with 36 of his people. 38 of Tiger
Tail's people have arrived at Tampa. Runners have
been despatched by Tiger Tail, in pursuit of the remain-
der. Lieut. Sprague, A. D. C., and Lieut. Roffman, with a
detachment of twenty men, left fort King, yesterday for
.the Vallee Sake, to endeavour to open a communication
with some Indians, supposed to reside in that neighbour-
hood. Alligator and Tiger Tail accompanied them.
Two friendly Indians are now hunting for some of their
people east of the St. John's. Two more are up the Ocla-
waha. Both parties are the bearers of a talk from Tiger
Tail. The movement upon the Big Cypress commenced
on the Ist instant. My word ter it—the war will be over
by the Ist March next.
(From the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin.)
MEXICO.

By the schooner Emblem, Captain Henry, which ar-
rived yesterday from Matamoras, we have received some
items of Mexican intelligence.
A kind of epidemic, very fatal in its effects, prevailed
at the departure of the Emblem. The British Consul had
fallen a victim to its virulence. By some it was believed
that the disease had been imported into Matamoras by a
vessel from New Orleans.

After a prolonged struggle, Santa Ana has succeeded
in overturning the Government. Bustamente, it is
said, is imprisoned, and at the mercy of the conqueror,
around whom have rallied the troops and other com-
manders. This result, from the information we have
received, appears indubitable. Whatever opinion we
may have formed of Santa Ana, his tact and ability are
beyond dispute. Of this, his popularity is perhaps the
best evidence. We anticipated this event almost as soon
as we heard of his having raised the standard of revolt,
and of his efforts to sow the seeds of popular discontent
among the masses.

We have not learnt the details respecting this revolu-
tion, but it is probable that the capital of Mexico has
suffered greatly, as the intestine war commenced within
its precincts, and has been there decided after a contest
of several weeks.

What will be Santa Anna's future course ? Will he
re-establish in all its purity and simplicity the Con-
stitution of 1824 ? Will he convoke a Convention to
form a new Constitution ? or will he seek to create
a military despotism ? If the hero of San Jacinto
be powerful enough, he will undoubtedly prefer the
latter alternative. But he is too skilful openly to con-
tend with public opinion. In the interim, rumour de-
clares that the new Government is about to despatch ex-
peditions for the purpose of subduing those provinces
which have had the audacity to declare themselves inde-
pendent, such as Texas, Carnpeachy, and Tobasco ; this
circumstance would lead to the belief that it is Santa
Ana's intention to organize a strong Government ! in
other words, a military rule. Santa Ana should, how-
ever, remember that if the laurels of victory sometimes
conceal the chains of servitude, his must be a powerful
and practised hand that attempts to gather them.
(From the New Orleans Bee, Nov. 3.)
The Fever, thank God ; has left us for aye. The
reports of the Board of Health may show now and
then an isolated case of death from this cause ; but
as an epidemic, or even as a source of danger to the
new comer, its terrors have departed. We are likely
to remember the season of 1841, as the most fatal
which has for years afflicted our city. There seems
but little profit or pleasure in reminiscences of morta-
lity, and yet the mind cannot help 'recurring to this
direful scourge, and reflecting sorrowfully on its victims
—among which nearly every citizen can number a friend
or a relative. Among the better classes and more valued
members of society, its ravages have been this year ap-
palling. It appeared to seek out with a surprising tena-
city of virulence, every individual whom exemption for
a long series of years had inspired with the confidence of
safety. It spared few indeed—and when we state that
the deaths did not exceed ten per cent. of the sick, and
that the records of the Board of Health will exhibit a
total of about 1,500 fatal cases, some idea may be formed
of the immense number attacked.

But the foe has abandoned us, sated with slaughter,
and driven from its prey by the propitious action of the
elements. Away then with gloomy recollections and let
us rejoice at the return of public health. Business
dawns once more upon us; strangers begin to arrive;
old friends are flocking in; the streets are re-filling; the
thoroughfares wear a busy and thronged aspect; the
cares, bustle, pleasure of the present, and anticipations
of the future occupy every mind, and the horrors of the
past will soon be remembered no more. Forgetfulness
is sometimes a beneficent faculty.

We have heard it suggested that the public authorities
should recommend to the citizens the observance of some
appointed time, as a day of humiliation, thanksgiving,
and prayer. If we have been sorely afflicted, we have
still much that should command our gratitude to the
Giver of all Good. We cordially unite in the sugges:
tion, and hope it will be carried into effect.
CASUALTY.—A man, in a state of intoxication, at-
tempted to go on board the steam-boat Belle on Friday
evening, but being, refused on account of his situation,
he went ashore and this morning was found drowned in
the dock. He came up from New York a. few days since,
and stated that he belonged to Brooklyn. He had with
him twelve boxes of smoking pipes, eleven of which are
now remaining. He was decently buried by the audio-
rides of the town. His name is unknown.—New Haven

Herald.
FIRE.—A fire broke out between nine and ten o'clock
this morning, in a barn situated in Grove-street, next
to the old Hillhouse mansion, the property of Messrs.
Wilcox and Co., iron founders. The building was en-
tirely consumed, together with most of its contents,
consisting of a waggon, some agricultural implements
belonging to Mr. T. Fowler, a quantity of hay, &c.,
not insured. Just one week since a similar occurrence
took place in the barns of Dr. Eneas Monson, situated
in the same neighbourhood ; both were the work of in-
cendiaries. Are we to have a renewal of those alarms
which constantly disturbed the city a few years since ?
If so, we may set this down as No. 2, second series.
We trust vigilant measures will be pursued to find out'
these base incendiaries.-1V ew Haven Herald.
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.—The Richmond
Whig says. the Session at this venerable seat of learning
has opened under most encouraging auspices. A letter
of the sth inst. says :—" I take great pleasure in stating,
that in spite of the pecuniary embarrassments of the coun-
try, our College has opened with very bright prospects.
We have now about 90 students, and shall no doubt have
a greater number before the termination of the course.
The Law Department is particularly flourishing—con-
taining a larger number than have ever before entered at
so early a period of the course."
ATTEMPT AT POISONING.—Captain Heath, of the ship
Swanton, from Liverpool, which arrived yesterday,
brought his steward (a coloured man) to this port in irons,
for an attempt to poison his crew, consisting of nine in-
dividuals. It appears that while at sea, on the Ist of
October, the steward mingled corrosive sublimate with
the crew's food. The proofs of this were flagrant, as
the poisonous mineral was found upon his person. The
crew were all exceedingly ill for some time, and one of
them now remains in a most critical condition. The
culprit has been handed over to the proper authorities to
be dealt with as the law directs.—New Orleans Bee,
November 5.
MORE OF THE LATE LYNCHING. It iS said that the
unfortunate man who was lately murdered and found in
the river near the Grand Gulf, was a citizen of that
town, and had resided there a number of years. He and
the others, who were badly beaten, were only suspected
of entertaining Abolition principles. We learn that seven
persons have been arrested and committed to gaol
under the charge of having participated in the murder.
Little love as we have for the Abolitionists—and it
certainly is not very intense—it is impossible to read
such accounts as the above, which we copy from the
New Orleans Picayune, without deep horror and de-
testation. If the mere suspicion of Abolitionism is to
subject people to Lynch murder, it is time to look a
little into the tenure by which every American citizen holds
his life. The truth is, this Judge Lynch must be im-
peached, and either hanged or banished the country.
His adjudications have been submitted to abou
theretlong
enough. It is bad enough, and too bad, that
should be so strong a disposition exhibited in the
shield criminals from the consequences of
country. to
their misdeeds, but it is abundantly Worse that we should
tolerate self-appointed tribunals to punish the susP eeted
without any authority of regular law, and oftene
without any actual offence on the part of tha accused.—
es
New York Paper.

SHIPWRECKS.
(From the Courier and Inquirer of the 15th of Nov.)
We mentioned on Saturday the loss of the ship John
Taylor, of 750 tons, belonging to Messrs. Taylor and
Morrill, of this city. By advices from Havannah of the
30th ult. we learn that she sailed from Liverpool on the
sth of September, with a cargo of salt, crockery, and a
few fine goods ; also a hundred and seventy-five steer-
age passengers. She was driven on shore in a gale on
the aught of the 18 th ult. south side of Cuba, after losing

her sails and masts. Only one life was lost, that of a
steerage passenger, a native of Sheffield. The ship was
valued at 50,000 dols., and the salt at about 20,000 dols.
Both are insured in Wall-street. _ _

Consul Trist at Havannah,. has made an appeal to the
British and American residents in aid of the passengers
of the above vessel. He says—" On the 20th, the vessel
had not made any water, and should the weather mode-
rate, it would be practicable to obtain provisions for the
subsistence .of the people on shore. The captain...9f_
Partido of Guanes.llo-taken such steps as 'he could to
afford them succour Oita all wiM have perused .thr city_
papers for the last wed/ are aware that 'that part of the
island has been submerged by the recent deluge of rain 't
every rill being swelled into a torrent, which has swept
away houses, cattle, provisions, the growing crops and
the soil prepared for planting. This is the condition of
the country at the moment when the disaster to the John
Taylor has occurred ;. the land is flooded, the roads are
impassable, and the dearth of every necessary of life
exists. Such being the circumstances, the situation of
the sufferers from the wreck can be readily conceived ;
and' the appeal which it makes to humanity will be felt
by every one."
The bark Peru (of Gardiner), from Newport,
England, 23d September, for Baltimore, put into Bos-
ton, on. Friday; leaky. 31st ult., lat. 42 57, len. 53,
wood
sprang a leak in the run, near.the ends, in a gale
from S.W., which kept one pump continually going to
free her. 4th inst., lat. 58 40, lon. 57A-, fell in with the
schooner Barnard, Gardner, from 'Grand Bank for
Marblehvad, and requested her to keep company, which
Capt. G. consented to do. sth to Bth, hard gales, leak
increasing, men very much fatigued. P.M. of the Bth,
the schooner sent two men on bOarl to assist at the
pumps. 10th, hard gales, split main topsail. From the
10th, kept both pumps going ; schooner in company till
Thursday evening. -he Peru has a cargo of 2,547 bars
railroad iron. •

The stern of schboncr-'Groton,-of Waldoboro', picked
up May 29, lat. 36 42, lon. 61 15, is the first known of
that vessel since she sailed from Wilmington, N.C., in
April, for Waldoboro' ; cargo, hard pine timber. Capt.
James Yates, of Bristol, was master, and Capt. Wilson
Yates, of same town, mate. The crew were shipped at
another port. The Groton was about five years old, and
was mostly owned by James R. Groton, Esq., of Brewer,
Me, and the cargo by several shipowners in Waldoboro';
no insurance on either.

Schooner Moro, of Fremen, towed into Portland re-
cently, had been abandoned by her crew off Seguin, in con-
sequence of losing thohead of her foremast. She was
bound to Boston u ith wood and bark, and also had several
hundred dollars worth of dry goods, shipped by P. Barry.
Extract of a letter fi•dm S. W. Thompson, Esq., to W.
R. Jones, Esq., Secretary of Board of Underwiters, dated
St. Louis, Nov. 2," 1841:—"I have to say that the
steamboat Zephyr, on her way down from Pittsburgh for
this place, is sunk in the Ohio river, near Scittneten
Bar. Cargo mostly'dry goods. As soon as the mani-
fest of her cargo arrives, and I find there are goods on
board insured in New York, shall go to her. The cargo
will be saved, damaged. The river continues very low."
BERMUDA, Nov. 2.—The brigantine Queely Shiel,
Capt. Watlington, out twelve days from Halifax, bound
to Montserrat, put into St. Georges on Thursday last,
under jury foremast, having en the Thursday before
(21st Jilt.) in lat. 35 50, long. 62, during a severe gale,
cut away her foremast.
The Life-boat Association having built a life-boat to
present to the Prince de Joinville, on his return to this
city, have, at the request of several mercantile houses,
consented that it should be tendered in behalf of the
American merchants of New York. A list is opened at
the Merchants' Bank, where subscriptions in sums under
05 will be received by V. J. Cammann, cashier.
ASSASSINATED.—The well-known Englishman who
has long been the leading spirit of the Mexican Navy,
named Captain T. M. Thompson, and who, by way of
contra distinction was usually called Mexican Thompson,
has been stabbed at Tobasco and killed. An officer who
was with Thompson at the time, killed the assassin.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT--On Saturday laSt, Mrs. Childs,
of Philadelphia, lady of Mr. Childs, the dentist, went to
a drawer for a match to light a candle, and rubbing it
upon the board to ignite it, the end flew off and set fire
to a quantity of powder which had been left in the same
drawer, or near it, in the haste of a removal. An ex-
plosion followed, which so greatly injured the lady, that
she died shortly afterwards.
MORE LYNCHING.—Another atrocious outrage is re-
corded in the Vichsburg Sentinel, lately committed on the
Big Black Island, near the Grand Gulf, by a band of out-
laws. Many poor ignorant woodcutters were most inhu-
manly whipped, and a Mr. Kirkwood basely murdered
by the Lynchers. They blindfolded him, pinioned him,
took him to the river bank, and after getting him in a
boat, plunged a bowie knife into his heart, and then
threw him into the river. It is said that the parties con-
cerned in these disgraceful outrages are known in Grand
Gulf, and that some of the leading Lynchers have fled.
FRANKLIN, LA. ,OCT. 20, 1841.—MURDER.—Captain
John De Hart, a planter of this parish of St. Mary, living
some ten miles from this place, was shot on Saturday
levening last and killed instantly. He had been in town
r that day, and on returning home sat down to his supper,
when he told his servant to go out and bring in a seine.
While the servant was out the murder was committed.
From the range of the shot it appears that the murderer
must have crawled up to the edge of the gallery and
shot him through the door at a distance of about twenty
feet. The gun was heavily loaded with buckshot. The
shot in a mass seems to have struck him in the left tem-
ple, and blew oft' the whole of the upper part of his head,
scattering his brains and pieces of his skull about the
room and even among the food he was eating. A more
horridly mangled corpse has never been seen in Attaka-
pas. Captain De Ilart was the only white person living
on his plantation. His negroes sent off to the neighbours
for assistance, which was promptly rendered. A coro-
ner's jury was held next morning, and it appeared from
the testimony of one of the negroes, that soon after the
gun was fired a man was seen to mount a horse and ride
rapidly away. There was other testimony confirming
this. The same man was seen to pass the next planta-
tion below. Thus the matter rested. Considerable tes-
timony was taken, but nothing to direct suspicion to-
wards any person. Several persons remarked, however,
that they did not like the appearance of the negroes on
the plantation. They appeared sullen—said but little to
each other—and several of the men kept away from the
corpse. On Tuesday another effort was made by the
Hen. Wm. T. Palfrey and our police-officer, Mr. John
Martin, by whose efforts and skilful management it was
made to appear that the horrid crime was committed by
six of Capt. De Hart's negroes. They have been arrested
and committed to prison, and have made confession, ac-
knowledging that six of them had laid a plot two months
since to commit the horrid crime, and that three of them
were actually engaged in the fiendish act. Two of them
stood by aiding and assisting while the third aimed and
discharged, with too fatal precision, the deadly weapon.
Capt. De Hart has been for a long time a citizen of our
parish. He was a native of New Jersey, and formerly
commenced the steamboat business, the second or third
boat on the Mississippi. He was highly respected in the
community, and has left a family of children, now ab-
sent, to mourn his untimely end.
RESUMPTION.—The New Orleans Bulletin of the 18th
ult. says :—" It is rumoured that at the meeting of Bank
Presidents to be held on Monday next, the subject of re-
sumption of specie payments is to be discussed, and, if
possible, resumed. The object which is endeavoured to
be attained is most desirable, and the subject itself is
deeply interesting to the whole community. But it is
useless to mince matters; a resumption of specie pay-
ments that stands any chance of being permanent—and
any other would do far more harm than good—cannot
be brought about, without a frank, cordial, and liberal
support be given by the stronger to the weaker banks.

who was
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conteuriEn IpNrisFolinisa°tNlT.—evjaoys,ernhdiawna., Place,
ng his trial
for shooting at and severely wounding two young ladies,
committed suicide on the 16th October by taking poison.
TEMPERANCE AT TEE WEST.—The Pittsburgh lntoili-
gencer says that a great Western Temperance Conven-
tion was held at Pittsburgh on the 20th and 21st inst.,
consisting of delegates and members from Western Penn-
sylvania and adjacent portions of Ohio and Virginia.
Forty-five Temperance and Total Abstinence Societies
were
represented in the Convention, and the Intelligencer
states that directly and indirectly they represented at
least twenty-five thousand persons, who have within the
last year joined tho Temperance and Total Abstinence
o.ieties.
Loss OF THE BUNKER HILL.._From the second en-
gineer of the steamboat Bunker Hill, running from this
port to Hartford, Conn., who returned to this city yes-
terday in the Bridgport boat, we learn that the Bunker
Hill, Captain Hunlingdon, ran upon a reef called Corn-
field Point, situated near Saybrook, in the Sound. She
left here on Saturday afternoon, with a good freight and
a number of passengers, landed at New London about
10 P.M., and soon after a dense fog came on, during which
she ran upon the reef aforesaid and sunk, but at high water
was brought to the shore. Upon examination it was
found that her back was broken, three holes stove in
her bottom, and the deck started up. The passengers
and crew, with their baggage, escaped in safety, but the
boat, and it is feared greater part of the freight, will be
a total loss. The boat is owned by Captain Sanford,
and worth from 30,000 to 50,000 dollars—no insurance.
—Sun.

The largest red oak tree in North America, says a
correspondent of the Nachitoches Herald, can be seen on
the plantation of W. Smith, Esq., eighteen miles from
Nachitoches on the road leading to Opelousas. This
majestic oak stands in the midst of a rich and heavy
bottom, on the Bayou St. Barb. Two feet from the
ground it measures forty-four feet in circumference :
and at six feet, thirty-two feet. The trunk appears
sound and healthy, and its height to the branches is from
fifty to sixty feet.
NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 27.—The number of deaths up
notice i
thenumbere
to yesterday noon was 15, of which 10 were of yellow
fever. Am.osn.gNtahveyd-easathnstwhee tce that of Dr.
of deaths
W. Ruff, u
was 27, 11 of the fever; on the 25th deaths 15, of fever 9.
TIIE JEW AND NIS POUND OF FLESII.—Some days
ago a gentleman from Mobile came to this city, and
while here was arrested for debt, at the instance of a
citizen of this place. Bail was found ; but the inexor-
able creditor refused to let the stranger return to his
family;though he pleaded hard for the immunity, fearing
lest he might fall a prey to the pestilence. In a day or
two after the unfortunate debtor was seized with the fever,
and on Sunday evening was carried to his scare.—New
Orleans Advertiser.