The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-15 00:00:00

PATE OF SALES OF STOCK, AUG. 31.

$l,OOO Illinois 6's 1870
$l,OOO Indiana Dollar Bonds s 3 55i
20...d0 Manhattan Bank. .......... ...
47...d0 Merchants' Bank ....
25...d0 Bank of Commerce, (full) ..
50...d0 New Orleans Gas
50...d0 Delaware and Hudson
10...d0 Merchants Ex Co 27i
65.. do Mohawk Railroad
100...d0 Paterson
75...d0 Harlem Railroad
50...d0 do
309...d0 Long Island
` 0...d0 Auburn and Syracuse
1 c0....d0 Boston and Providence Railroad ..... 93i
100... do Canton
50..,00 Stonington bthw 35
10...d0 New Jersey Railroad 764
350...de :United States Bank....

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A fair business was done to-day at the Board, princi-
pally in Bank U. S. and Harlem R. R. S'aares, at an ad-
vance on the closing prices of Sdturday, and in which all
other descriptions participated except Delaware and
Hudson, and Indiana S. 8., both of which declined I.
We learn that the one million of U. S. Loan has been
taken by the Bank of Commerce of this city, at par for
5i- per cent. stock, and that the public deposits will
henceforth be made in this Bank. Exchange on Phila-
delphia to-day 97* a 97-1-
The Doric, at New Orleans, from Tampico, brings
$51,108 35e in specie.
The Euvnia, at this port, from Vera Cruz, brings
$Bl,OOO in specie.
The .National encer states that the Secretary of
the Treasury has obtained the loan of one million of dol-
lars, lately- advertised, at 5i per cent. per annum.
ARREST OF' ALEXANDER WILLIAM HOLMES,
ONE 017 THE CREW OF THE SHIP WILLIAM
BROWN„ ON A CHARGE OF MURDER.
(From the United States Gazette.)
On Friday afternoon last, Sally Corr and Bridget
INl`Gee, two of the passengers of the ship William
Brown, wrecked on her passage from Liverpool to this
city—with the horrid particulars of which the reader is
already well informed—appeared before Alderman
Hugh Clark, of Kensington, and made oath that Alex.
William Holmes, one of the crew of that vessel, and one
of the most active participants in the destruction of the
unfortunate passengers, was now in the city, cud they
wished his arrest, and that he be proceeded against
forthwith. Accordingly Alderman Clark issued his
warrant, and it was placed in the hands of Messrs.
Fisher and Sliner, police-officers of Kensington, who
traced the- accused to the Girard Boarding House, corner
of F rout :and Union-sireets, and on Saturday morning
there arre. sted him.

Holmes made no resistance, but the officers experi-
enced mu ph opposition from tbp other sailors at the
boarding-hicuse,-some of whom declared that a man could
not be arreoited in the city by virtue of a county warrant.
To satisfy their scruples, the officers proceeded to Alder-
man Milnoi's office with their prisoner, and he succeeded
in satisfying the sailors that the officers were acting cor-
rectly. The officers proceeded immediately from thence
to the Unite'd States District Court-room, where a hear-
in, was had before his Honour Judge Hopkinson, and the
following depositions taken :
Sarah Core, of Ireland, aged about nineteen years, being
duly sworn, deposes that she took passage on board the
Williamßron fouratl dais,verpool.
tAhte'tepra.syseelnitgiderbsecunporteit about
five weeks
retiring to bed. I. was sitting up. We heard the vessel
strike against the ice. After a little whileesatshseeltrhNeve came a
man to tAh ennsh atce
passengers
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soon
bN lug.yoah tesnT. The
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were clearing Out the
my cloak. When I
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William
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Brown
the longboat was in the
wholumped againstwent
by
the
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ha\ ,e to go out again. I
stayed
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seven
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I was lying down in
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bs passengers .i . h e
not hear anything
saytuh. eer were 'I
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said before they c
The boat wo•masnicernocTidetdh.
rolwidnigd
tAirsriati}n,,
the cook, ca tch held of Frank Askin.
persons its erboard. I saw the black mi
them to spare his
calling to a h 'cotch woman to speak to .
give .
to them if ahoy ahnealirdelFrraynMk
would spiv his life until' morning.
life; he saidh e had five sovereigns, and lie would it
William
overboard were ,llenry Murray and Alexander
He was thrown overboard. The persons who threw him
overboard to throw her also. They threw over _
Holmes. Frank 2lskin's sister said, if they threw
sixteenhim.
of the passengetrs, including the two sisters of Askin. I
heard my cous An, Charles Coulon, go forward and say to
I iolmes, "Holmes, dear, sure ni not have to go over. _
Holmes said, " Charley, you must go." Then a girl of
16 cried out to spare hint,. for he was the last of a family
of fifteen that had gone (town in the vessel. I then heard
the plunge of him in the water. It was Holmes who
helped to throw him over.
The sailors who helped in tht-owing over the passengers
were, as far as I can recollect--and I do not kr.ow the
whole of them—Alexander W. Holmes, Charles Smith,
Henry Murray, the black, and Jack Stetson.
SALLY CORR.

Sworn and subscribed in open District Court, August
14, 1841* FRANCIS HOPKINSON,
Clerk United States District Court.
Owen Carr, born in the county of Tyrone, in Ireland,
aged about twelve years, being duly sworn, deposes that
he was a passenger on board the ship William Brown, on
her voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia ; that we
left Liverpool about the 12th of March last ; we had
been at sea five weeks and four clays when the' ship
struck against the ice in the evening, about nine o'clock.
I was just lying down to sleep when there came two
shocks, which some of the passengers said were caused
by ice. The shocks were very violent. The ship was
sailing fast at the time of the shocks, but they stopped
her. One of the passengers went upon deck and said
she was sinking. Then all the passengers went up, and I
amon them. I went up with nothing on but my shirt,
and then went down again and got on my roundabout
and trousers, and shoes, and cap, and came up on deck
again, and was getting upon the side to get into the boat,
and Judy M'Cadden gave me a push and shoved me
into the boat, which was just going over the side. In
getting into her the passengers came down as fast us
they could, striving with each other which would be first
in, for fear she should be shoved off before they could

get in.
There was but one sailor in before the passengers
came, and that was the one putting in the plugs, There
were six sailors and the mate in the boat, and sixteen or
seventeen passengers thrown over, and about thirteen
left. The sixteen or seventeen were thrown over
in the night. Some of the sailors said before they
began, that the boat was sinking and would have to be
lightened. Those who were engaged in throwing over
the passengers, were Holmes, a sailor, and Henry
Murray, the black man and cook, Charles Smith, a
sailor, and ;jack Stetson, a sailor. The black and Holmes
were most active in thrcming them over.
OWEN CAUR.
Sworn and subscribed in open District Court, August
14, 1841.

The prisoner was then, on the motion of Wm. M. Me-
redith, Esq., United States District Attorney, committed
to prison to answer the charge of murder on the high seas.

FROM WASHINGTON.

WAKING UP THE WRONG PASSENGER.—The occur-
rence in the Senate Chamber en Monday presented
a scene amusing as well as solemn in is character.
Mr. Benton, smiling like a toad, and with a face as
red as vermillion, rose with a Illation to arrest " the
Bank ruffians" who, he said, _ had insulted the Pre-
sident of the United States by hissing ins Message.
Mr. Rives, Mr. Preston, and many others protested
that they had heard no hissing. Mr. Benton's frie:lds,
however, were as confident they had heard this mark
of disapprobation, though, as Mr. Buchanan re
marked, it was neither loud nor prolonged. While this
grave and weighty matter was under consideration,
a drunken Locofoco in the straight gallery—better
known at Washington as the black hole of Calcutta,
—was noisy. in his approval of the Veto Message, and
in his approval also of the speeches of Mr. Benton
denouncing the " Bank bullies" and " ruffians" who
had been hired, as he said, to hiss the President. Mr.
Walker caught a sight of t'ie fellow through the crowd,
and rising as high as himself almost, cried out—" there
he is," " there he is now, Mr. President."

" Yes, that's nee," said the fellow, " go ahead Ben-
ton," " give it to them !" and all eyes above and below
were directed to the noisy intruder. Again Mr. Ben-
ton spoke, and again the Locofoco in the gallery
gave some token of admiration and approval. The
Locofoco senators below, however, took the noisy
citizen above them to he a Whig as well as a " Bank
ruffian," and the Sergeant-at-Arms appeared and
deagged him below. In some ten minutes, Mr. Ben-
ton found through inquiry that he had caught a tartar,
and that " the Bank • ruffian" instead of hissing, had
been boisterous in his demonstrations of approval,
and particularly in seconding the denunciations. of
Mr. Benton. Mr. Allen gave him a hint to that effect.
Mr. King, Mr. Walker, Mr. Buchanan, and Mr.
Linn, a colleague, all political friends, all asked
the Senator from Missouri to withdraw his motion for
arrest. Mr. B. did withdraw, notwithstanding he had
said to Mr. Buchanan, that " so help hind God he would
not." The Locofoco rowdy in the end of the fray, after
expressing repentance, was suffered to depart, and that
on the motion of Mr. Benton himself. The whole scene
was eminently ludicrous and ridiculous, and Mr. Benton
•for once, at least, found that he had waked up the wrong
passenger.

The following " Ordinance " taken from a New Or-
leans paper is of interest to free people of colour ship-
ping to sail to that port, and to the Captains of vessels
employing them :
An Ordinance concerning Free People of Colour not
entitled to remain in this State, and Tavern Keepers
of Public Houses, and other persons.
The General Council of the City of New Orleans
ordain as follows

ART. 1. That from and after the passage of this ordi-
nance, any inn or tavern-keeper, or other person keeping
a public house, or house of entertainment, who shall har-
bour in his, or her house, or shall suffer to be harboured in
his or her house, any free negro, grille, mulatto, or other
free
.person of colour being in this State, in contra-
vention to the provisions of the Act of the Legislature,
approved 16th of March, 1830, and entitled " An Act to
prevent free persons of colour from entering into this
State, and for other purposes," shall pay a fine for each
and every such offence of not less than 25 dollars, nor
more than 100 dollars, recoverable before any court of
competent jurisdiction; or in default of such payment,
shall suffer an imprisonment of not more than 30 days.
ART. 2. Be it . further ordained, That all persons
whatever, employing in the capacity of servant, or
otherwise, any free negro, ;rifle, mulatto,. or other free
person of colour 6eing in this State in contravention
to the provisions of the above-cited act, shall pay a fine
of not less than twenty-five, nor more than fifty dollars,
or in default of such payment, shall suffer an imprison-
ment of not more than ten days.
ART. 3. Be it further ordained, That all such free
negroes, griffes, mulattoes, or other free persons of
colour, not native of this State, shall be presumed, as
already directed by the above cited Act, to be in this
State in contravention to said Act, unless they furnish
satisfactory evidence to. the contrary.
D. AUGUSTIN, Secretary.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MORMONS.
(From the Warsaw Signal, July 21.)
MORMON VISITORS.—On last Monday evening Joe
Smith, accompanied by Gen. Bennett and suite, ap-
peared in our quiet, non• excitable village, producing by
his august presence quite a sensation—indeed, he ap-
peared to be a perfect curiosity. In his coach we ob-
served a bowie knife, rifles, pistols, ammunition, &c.,
and a courage raiser, in the shape of a decanter, con-
taining some kind of precious beverage—whether wine,
brandy, or gin, this deponent saith not. However,
something of the kind was certainly called into requisi-
tion in the course of the evening, and early the next day
in the Prophet's chamber. Moreciver, we understand,
that when about half a mile from town, the Prophet and
suite halted and took a regular swig—doubtless by way
of inspiration. But this is nothing to us, only the peo-
ple ought to know what the Prophet of the Lord does, in
order that they may have the benefit of his example.
But why were they armed ? Not with a design to
kill us? Certainly not—for they tried to be as friendly as
possible ; but as General Bennett observed, to be pre-
pared for the Missourians. This was all very well, and
of course we shall not make a bugbear of it.
Their business was to complete the negotiations for
the purchase of the School Section. Well, it is done ;
and the decree has gone forth, for a Mormon city on our
immediate borders. We have not heard whether locks
have yet riz !
BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD.—We neglected to mention
last week that a revolutionary soldier was baptized at
Nauvoo, on the 4th inst., by one of the elders, for Gen.
Washington ; another old soldier was baptized at the
same time for Gen. Harrison. The doctrine of the Mor-
mons appears to be, that those who are living must be
babtized by one having authority from Joe Smith, or
else go to hell ; but those why are already dead may be
brought out of torment by a friend or relation receiving
the baptismal rights in their behalf.
ANTI-MORMON LECTURES.—MF. Wm. Harris, the
Anti-Mormon lecturer, visited our place on Sunday last,
and gave us four lectures, tending to prove the fallacy
and designs of Mormonism. We have but one objec-
tion to his course, and that is, he dignifies Mormonism
too much, by gravely arguing its absurdity. That it is
absurd, we regard to be an axiom ; but still these lec-
tures have a very good effect on those who do not view
it in the same light. On Monday, he proved conclu-
sively the treasonable and wicked designs of this ban-
ditti, from testimony which they cannot deny, being of
their own make. So far as we have heard, the labours
of this man have been of great utility. Weleartily bid
him God speed.
TEMPERANCE AMONG THE MORMONS.—PeopIe at a
distance are apt to imagine the Mormons a very tempe-
rate body of men, because the ordinances of their city
forbid the sale of ardent spirits, unless under very se-
vere restrictions. But this impression is false. It is
true that the saints do not get drunk at home, but they
have only to cross the river at Montrose, and there they
can revel to their heart's content in spiritual luxuries.
Even the prophet himself, although a seeming devotee
of the temperance cause, is a better friend to Bacchus
than to any other God except, perhaps, Plutus. We
have heard of three sprees of his in the last ten months.
In the first he appeared among his followers, and offered
to prove the truth of his mission by a miracle—which
was to climb a hickory pole 60 feet high, bark off, heels
upward ! The second was on loard the steamer Nan.
voo, in her excursion to Bloomington, last fall. On this
occasion his Holiness drank whiskey until he found him-
self on his back, feeling upwards for the ground. So
says our informant. The third was last week. On this
occasion it does not appear that Joe was exactly drunk ;
but it seemed strange to see the Prophet of the Lord at
the head of a champaigne party, crying lustily, " take
away the empty bottles and bring on the full ones."
THE MORMON SETTLEMENT.—The Mormons first
located themselves as a body in Kirtland, Grange
county, Ohio. Some difference arose among their
leaders, on account of certain banking operations which
they attempted, and they separated, and a portion of them
went to Independence, Jackson county, Mi. The people
in the neighbourhood of that location became unfriendly
to them, and drove them away by force, subjecting them
to great sufferings and loss of property. They were at
last entirely and forcibly expelled from the state of Mis-
souri. They afterwards purchased the town of Com-
merce, said to be a situation of surpassing beauty, at the
head of the lower rapids, on the Illinois shore c.. the
Mississippi River. The writer to whom I have alrea.ly
referred, and who has revisited these western Mor-
mons this present summer, remarks :—" The name
of die place where they now reside, they have
recently changed to Nauvoo, the Hebrew term
of fair or beautiful. Around this place, as
their centre, they are daily gathering from almost
every quarter ; and several hundred new houses, erected