The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

Lockport physician actually got up a company, char-
tered a steam-boat, and went to the spot for the purpose
of looking into the mystery. The physician reports
that the. noise is really there, but he can no more tell
how the deuce it got there than the poet could account
for the fly in the amber. It is probably an omen of
some sort or other, and we agree in the suggestion that
it ought to be respectfully dedicated to the editor of the
Globe.
Joe Smith, the Mormon, is caught and caged at last,
and we are very glad to learn it. Ile was lately arrested
on his way from Nauvoo to Quincy, on a requisition from
the Governor of Missouri, and carried into that State for
trial. We take it that there is not within the limits of
the United States so finished a band of scoundrels as
these Mormons, and the sooner the leaders are punished
for their crimes, and the vagabondism broken up, the
better it will be for the country.
PIRATES.—The steam-boat Merchant returned yester-
day from her week's cruize in quest of pirates. She
scoured the Gulf coast of the Belize to the Chandeliers,
and including those islands, most diligently —penetrating
with small boat detachmets all the various inlets and
bay no pirates were found. The expedition
performed great labour, and in some cases were subject
to privation, even during this short cruize.
The United States brig Consort, on the same service,
was twice spoken by the Merchant in her cruize.
On Friday, having learned at the Belize that an en-
campment of suspicious looking persons were on Limo
Min Bayou, General Smith and an armed crew started
in search of them in one of the boats. There was
difficulty in navigating the bayou from the shallowness
of water ; and they were frequently up to their middle
and arms in mud in their exertions to haul their boats
over the shallows. A little past midnight the tents
of the gang were discovered, and the party landed
to give them a search. It appears that one of
them was standing sentry, and on being re-
quired, delivered up his musket. Either by the sentry, ,
or another from the tent, the alarm was given;
and a musket was fired which felled one of the en-
camped party. General Smith, as we are informed, then
advanced towards the tent, and (the darkness being in-
tense) becoming entangled in a tent-rope, found himself
suddenly prostrate on the ground near the man who had
been shot, and from whom, before he could recover hini-
self, he received three stabs with a knife, neither .of
which we are glad to say, are at all serious. The wounded
man then plunged into the bayou, whence after a struggle
he was taken out by one of the expedition, and with the
other four, secured. The men there encamped were stran-
gers to the citizens,whu searched them out, were well pro-
vided with arms and equipments of various descriptions
—and represented that they were a fishing party. They
were taken to the Belize and left in charge of the officers
stationed at that place. The person shot is severely
wounded in the side, and it is considered doubtful if he
will recover. He bears marks from sundry cuts and
scars of being a veteran in some rough service.—Neat
Orleans Bulletin.

It is worthy of remark, that a traveller could have come
from the Red Sea to the city of Washington while the
House of Representatives has been organizing, or from
Washington to Philadelphia while an Hon. Member was
making a speech. Politicians in their waste of time
often forget what a busy world we live in.—New York
Paper.
A FLOURISHING COLONY.—The Magistrates of the
Lower Police alone have during the present month al-
ready sent to Blackwell's Island 200 loafers and loaf-
eresses, for larger or shorter periods, under the Vagrant
Act. Added to this number about 100 have been sent
up by the Court of Sessions, and perhaps about the same
number by the tipper Police Magistrates. Should this
increase of population continue, Blackwell's Island will
soon become a very considerable village. Make the im-
prisonment perpetual, furnish the prisoners with the
means of becoming civilized, and they will of necessity
become honest, and thus form a very tolerable if not re-
spectable community.