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

sth of September, with a cargo of salt, crockery, and a
few fine goods ; also a hundred and seventh•-five steer-
age passengers. She was driven on shore in a gale-on
the night of the lBth 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. Ile 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 of
Partido of Guanea had taken such steps as he could to
afford them succour ; but all who have perused the city
papers for the last week aro aware that that part of the
island has been submerged by the recent deluge of rain :
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 couutry 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), Bailey, from Newport,
England, 23d September, for Baltimore, put into Bos-
ton, on Friday, leaky. 31st ult., lat. 42 57, lon. 53,
sprang a leak in the run, near the wood ends, in a gale
from S.W., which kept one pump continually going to
free her. 4th inst., lat. 58 40, lon. 57i, fell in with the
schooner Barnard, Gardner, from Grand Bank for
Marblehead, 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 board to assist at the
pumps. 10th, hard gales, split main topsail. From the
10th, kept both pumps going schooner in company till
Thursday evening. The Peru has a cargo of 2,547 bars
railroad iron.

The stern of schooner 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 the head of her foremast. She was
bound to Boston pith wood and bark, and also had several
hundred dollars worth of dry goods, shipped by P. Barry.
Extract of a letter from 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 Scuffleton
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 Quecly Shiel,
Capt. Watlington, out twelve days from Halifax, bound
to Montserrat, put into St. Georges on Thursday last,
under jury foremast, having on the Thursday before
(21st ult.) 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
$5 will be received by V. J. Camma,nn, 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 Tobaseo 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 clew 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.

Moan LYNCillNG.—Another atrocious outrage is re-
corded in the Vicksburg 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
beat, 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, 1341.—MIIRDER.----Captain
John De Hart, a planter of this parish of St. Mary, living
some ten miles from this place, was shot on Saturday
evening last and killed instantly. He had been in town
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.
Flom 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 off 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 Hart was the only white person living
on his plantation. His negroes sent off to the neighbours
for assistance, which, was promptly rendered. A core-
lee'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
.his. The same man was seen to pass the next planta-
tain beiow. 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
'inch other—and several of the men kept away from the
corpse. On Tuesday another effort was made by the
ton. Wm. T. Palfrey and our police-officer, Mr. John
afartin, by whose efforts and skilful management it was
made to appear that the horrid crime was committed by
'ix of Capt. De Hart's negioes. They have been arrested
and committed to prison, and have made confession, so-
, 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 Xtet, 0. lions 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 he 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 steeds 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 he given by the stronger to the weaker banks.
SUICIDE IN PRLSEN—Joseph W. Place, who was
confined in prison at Vevay, Indiana, awaiting his trial
for shooting at and severely wounding two young ladies,
committed suicide on the 16th October by taking poison.
TEMPERANCE AT THE WEST.—The Pittsburgh Intelli-
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 Intelligence,
states that directly and indirectly they represented at
least twenty-fire thousand persons, who have within the
last year joined the Temperance and Total Abstiuence
Societies.
LOBS OF THE BUNKER HILL.—From the second en-
gineer of the steamboat Bunker Ifill, running from this
port to Hartford, Conn., who returned to this city yes-
terday in the Bridgport boat, we learn that the Bunker
11i11,fl , Captain Hunlingdon, ran upon a reef called Corn-
l'eeftd Point situated near Saybrook, in the Sound. She
a a here
tSshoae(tlre:radJay afternoon, with a good freight and
umber of passengers, landed at New London about
10 tem, and
she ra taetroaredseanidseanfodgsucanmk,eboinit,.adtuhr.iinggb w.r,..haiteelri
was broughhtetro the shore. Upon examination it was
ifioeurnbdottht
bottom,
,
and crew, with their and thebackei was
a total loss. The boat is boat, and it is fearerd
and worth from 30,000
—Sun. broken, three holes stove in
deck started up. The passengers
baggage, escaped in safety, but the
to 50,000
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the plantation of W. Smith, Esq.,
Nachitoches on the road leading toei g Opelousas.htn
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andseieiTi fromi
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majestic oak stands in the midst of a
bottom, on the Bayon St. Barb. Two feet fromeatvhe
ground' it measures forty-four feet in circumference :
and at six feet, thirty-two feet. The trunk appears
sovnd and healthy, and its height to the branches is
fifty to sixty feet.
NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 27.—The number of deaths up
noon
ewdaesa deaths weof noticewhich
ofr.
ofSamuel
ftoovyere.sterdAmayonngoot
15, of fever 9.
W. Huff, U. S. Navy. On the 28th the number deaths
27, 11 of the fever; on the 25th deaths
cOaFmeFLtoEsEthTsSoclint3er, days
ago vrassTaHgEenj
tElowmanANDfroHmlSMPoObUireD
citizen of this place. Bail was found ; inexor-
able here was arrested for debt, at the instance of a
family, though he pleaded hard for
able creditor refused to let the sttrhaengimernirnentiutryn,
fetaorilnngs
lest
two
afterhe might
the fa l l a predfaeyv fever,
unfortunatey debtoro the
pestilence.was
seized
with
iltnb
tahe
and on Sunday evening was carried to his grave.—New
Orleans Advertiser.
LIFE IN AREANSAS.—We find the following in refer-
ence to the shocking instances of "Lynching" which took
place some weeks since in Arkansas :—‘4 The last Arkansas
Gazette contains a description of the outrage and whole-
sale murder at Island 64. It is said that most of the
Lynchers were the former associates of their unfortunate
victims, and that they combined to murder them and
drive them off in order to get their property. The Ga...
zefte Publishes the names of the murderers and the mur-