The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-16 00:00:00

keepers, and rushed in to au adjacent. thicket ; but before
his steps had measur td many paces over the earth a
heavy volley of musk, :try brought him to the ground, and
there b' lay a lifeless. corpse ; a victim to the insecurity
of our 7aorder protec His body, after being cut up,
Was h nag upon the.:bratiChes of the neighbouring trees,
there to meet the. gaze of the traveller, and tell him of
a power that knows nothing of the bounds of last or.
of h- amain authority ;, but like Vac.. howling boot* of the
wil lerness would snap the frag,i'te chords of life, if in-
terest once stirred up the fatal, ire of their wrath, upon
W.= whose voice dare rise wgainst their iniquities. The
deceased man, whose nem, was Ileatvvright had thus
offended them ; he had wi .th other. of his Tow-citizens
zbe opposed to them, and as
might have been expects
,c,d, in a country like ours, where
fdreocml artehdelscarceness
eonfl) r
ntier population, the avenues to
the wrath of banditti 'a re wide open, the unfortunate man
had to forfeit his life as a ransom for his alienation to
their authority. The. citizens of our border country have
witnessed these mc.n, under the name of regulators and
Moderators, ,Jotraniffing in the territor- of Texas
some of then lost barbarous cruelties of tl-,e 19th century.
The country on our border towards 'the 23d degree of
latitude is principal scene of actions and it itt but a
few years ago, that an American., who had shipped from
grocUdes and dry goods, was routed Heat, and his goods
New 0.-.:leans to one of their to.
forcibly taken off by the gaw,s.
Nothing wee o'er done
w,ns a laetr assortment of
ago, one of the Captains
‘af. the Regulators, and a man
about it, and the act is nor" almost forgotten. A while
that was with him, lAl‘s shot in n small village of the
him h.ad not long h
..fen gone from the store where they
The Captain and the person with
name of Logansport.
Mas.itets was c.eard by the storekeeper. He rushed
a purchase, when a discharge of
discovered the two bodies lying on the
r,,round ; there was no one near, and he was left to
conjecture, the cause of their death. Examining mi-
ihouaci, abnedensooTki-in
mi-
nutely the place around, it was not long before he dis-
covered or, the earth; beneath two fallen trees, the im-
press of Eve or six men ; and it thus appears that these
two men had been shot clown without quarrel or fight—
without and with the most cool determina-
tion. In view of their enormities we cannot wonder why
Boatwright, or any other American citizen should have
expresSed their dissatisfaction. But we shall not seek
arguments to prove what the bare facts evince ; and we
call upon the friends of this man and the citizens gene •
rall:r to bring this act before their Government, and let
it claim their attention. The subject is one certainly
that fight to demand its highest consideration.—.Natehi-
tocieis Herald; Oct. 9.
FURTIIER .17:ROM MEXICO.
Havanah papers, received at New Qrleans, contain ad-
vices from the city .ofllei.e? to the 2d of September, at
which time insurrecti6i). was in full progress. General
Valencia made a grito en the 31st of August, for the con-
stitution of 1824, being at the head of a considerable mi-
litary force. The P .ittrna quickly spread, and a number
of edifices comma Ading
insurgents.
the citadel, were occupied by the

puitanient and his party fortified themselves in the
1t-
s-
,;(1; agcee i
nuspu
rt
go
etnhtes 2hda
do f
be eepnt September nvoaattempt
otnot
edni
n g I.lanself with holding his position until the arrival of
Sf
„ate Anna, and Bustamente not daring to attack him.
fhe students at the military academy had joined Va-
lencia. His force was more than 1,600 men, with 18
pieces of cannon—that of Bustamente about 1,000.
YELLOW FEVER AT PENTSACOLA.—We learti by a
gentleman from Pensacola, that on the 17th inst. the
health of that city was improving. There were only a
few cases on that day. Out of a population of eight
hundred there had been eleven deaths. Of the officers
and crew of the Levant„ every one had been on the sick
list, and no less than fifteen deaths had occurred. And
on board the French fleet there had been ten deaths,
including the fleet surgeon and the 'carpenter of the
Sabine. The squadron had sailed for the West Indies.
One death at the NavyZyard had cast a gloom over the
whole place. On the 15th, Robert Meade, secretary to
Commander Dallas, died after an illness of only thirty
hours. He was esteemed by all who knew him. He was
a son of the American Consul at Cadiz, and brother of
Lieut. Meade, of the navy.—American Paper.
• FROM THE RIO PLATA.—The Arcturus, at Boston,
from Buenos Ayres, brings dates to the 126). of August.
Of political news there is nothing of interest. There
was a report that the British Government had offered to
mediate between Roses and the Monte Videan Govern-
ment ; but the opinion ,was generally entertained that
unless driven by some Serions reverses, General Roses
would never listen to its overtures. The following no-
tice is given to masters of vessels :—" Masters of vessels
coining to this port should be careful to make out their
manifests with black or red ink, as otherwise they are
liable to be much delayed and perplexed on entering at
the Resguardo and Custom-house. Should any of the
papers required be written with blue ink, the officers in
attendance positively refuse to admit the vessel to entry,
until fresh copies are written out in a colour more conge-
nial to their political feelings and taste."
HIGH PRICE FOR A SLAVE.—We quote --the statement
from the Courier of last evening :—A curious scene was
witnessed to-day at the St. Louis Exchange. The city
marshal, at the usual hour, proceeded to the sale of a
female slave, seized in the suit of E. Johns, a free man of
colour, versus Lockwood, a free woman of colour. The
plaintiff, we are told, is either the husband or brother of
the slave under seizure, and showed not a little anxiety
to become the purchaser. The bidding commenced—a
white man in the crowd bidding against the man of
colour, as high as the sum of 7,800 do's- The coloured
man, however, bid 8,000 dols., and the slave was adjudged
to be his property. The bystanders asked what made the
white man go so far ? Had he a pique against the hus-
band or brother? or was it par amour for one or the other
of the females ?---Neui Orleans Bulletin, Oct. 16.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, OCT. 29.
RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE,
$4,000 Illinois, 6's, 1870
3,000 Indiana Del B. snw 44
35 Shares Merchants' Exchange Bank ... 1041
28 Ditto Mechanics' 8ank........ BO
10 Ditto Union Bank
250 Ditto Delaware and Hudson .430 106
6 Ditto State Bank ...
12 Ditto Lafayette 5O
120
10 Ditto Long Island
50 Ditto Farmers' Loan s6O 38
8 Ditto Ohio Trust •••... 67
15 Ditto United States' Bank
25 Ditto Canton Co - s6o 27.
25 Ditto Stonington Railroad
55 Ditto Mohawk Railroad
25 Ditto Paterson Railroad
`2O Ditto Neptune Institution
300 Ditto Harlem Railroad ............. d 15i
.00 Ditto Long Island Railroad 52.
SECOND SoARD. _

15 Ditto Delaware and Hudson
25 Ditto Harlem
$l,OOO Indiana
2,000 lllinois

..5.30 43;
3 40,

MILITARY PENITENTIARY OF
ST. GERMAIN.
Two days ago Marshal Soult, Minister of War, paid
a visit of inspection to the Military Penitentiary of St.
Germain, and remained there for some hours examining
in detail all its arrangements. The Messager gives the
following account of this establishment. It says the fol-
lowing objects are aimed at, viz., the amelioration of the
morals of the prisoners, and the covering of all the ex-
penses of their keep, &c., by their labour. The sys-
tem adopted in this Penitentiary is silent, but not soli-
tary labour, cellular confinement during the night, and
also as a correction of discipline, and imprisonment in
dark cells in extraordinary, cases. The establishment
has now existed ten years, on this footing, and is said
to have answered all the hopes which were entertained ;
the morals of the prisoners are improved, their labour
covers all the expenses of the prison, and when the term
of imprisonment is expired,. they leave with habits of
industry, and have acquired a knowledge of some handi-
craft, by which they can earn a subsistence. The Mar-
shal went through every part of the building, examined
the food; assisted at some of the lessons, saw the different
processes of labour, &c.,, and gave orders for the opening
of new workshops, dining-rooms, &c. He was. much
struck with the healthy state of the prison, ;there being
only 14 sick oitt of 500 prisoners, and of these 14 six
were ill when they arrived, and on his return, to Paris he
addressed to Lieutenant-General Count Pajol, the cora-I
mandant of the first military division, who had a.ccompanied
him on his visit, a letter, in which he expresses his high
gratification at what he had witnessed, and particularly
at the pains taken by the prisoners to show by their con-
duct that they were becoming worthy to. return to the
ranks of the army. In this letter he desirEz that they
may be told of his satisfaction, and assured that if they
persevere in the way of amelioration, he will not fail
to recommend them to the royal clemency. The fol-
lowing is an account of- the number of prisoners
now in the Penitentiary, with the period for which
they are confined, and their classification :-3 are sen-
tenced to 10 years, 2 to 8, 3 to 7, 171 to 5, 15 to 4, 90 to
3, .136 to 2, and 30 to 1 ; making a total of 500. These
are classed as follows:--Makers
_of list-shoes, &e., 74;
cabinet-makers, 75;printers, 43; turners, 62 ; button-
makers, 34; shoemakers, 50; lace-makers, 26 ; hatters,
36 ; tailors, 41 ; carpenters, 14—making a total of
455 ; to which are to be added fifteen who -are engaged
for the service of the establishment, and thirty not yet
established in the workshops, making the general total of
500. In 1840 the number of prisoners who entered the
Penitentiary was 115, and 196 were released ; in 1841,
273 hare been received, and 161 released. We are
glad to find that such satisfactory results have been ob-
tained among the prisoners, but we cannot avoid protest-
ing against the Vandalism of converting one of the most
venerable monuments of the crown of France, the resi-
dence of Francis 1., Henry IV., Louis XIII., and Louis
XIV., into a house of detention for criminals. The his-
torical associations connected with the Chateau of St.
Germain deserve for it a better fate. As an architectural
monument it is of the highest interest, and many parts
of the interior, the chapel most particularly, which is of
the time of Charles V., are in the estimation of the
antiquary second to no edifice of the same date in
high time that all acts of
France. But when Vincennes, a still older relic of the
French monarchy, can be allowe,dstt.oobeernamauintimlaatyedwbeii
other country in West-
el Vandalism—thetartait°end'oftlhcteoinal:stnauinraettleyrohfi
spirit—should be put a stop to in France, which has
Corheattehaaun
ofa any other
Germain, if restored
might, with its exten-
sive forest and commanding position, be converted into
'one of the most remarkable Royal Palaces in France; or
it might, at any rate, be turned into a national museum
utli
—the Alusee d'Artillerie, for example—and thus pre-.
sel
Eq
.Veuderrobspyaei itlhe them
not IremFontainebleau
pre-
rved from further injury.

ROYAL. PuNNING.-- ibe jubilant is generally
addicted to the jocular ;. and it is not wonderful that a
multitude of jests are sported upon a late happy event.
Among the best we have beard is the revival of the
worthy old qua3re, why the Heir Apparent was born
Duke of Cornwall ?--Because he was a painoa......
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