The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-13 00:00:00

LOUISVII.LE.

Ezfree from a letter of so honest end indeiteloes
smith, who lately onsiersted from the U, per Wird of
Clydesdale, dabd at Lnuivento, 25iti J.ls. IRIS :
`r I hare deferred wriiieg )o. no it I saw how we
milted the climate, sad how w• woeld come on. We
reached Lovisville on the Sift /ley of December, ell
well. I began to work at the smith • -irk. and my
bey James my hammermais. I soon Rot pi.c►-weft,
and we mad• IS dollars a week ; and we bee. alone
made 20 dollars a week, over all esprinces. Aries
it sewing, end lies two dollars a week mad her irk•
foals. This is the best cosntry foe limes. they
do nothing wittiest doors, and very little 'Dishier :
if they go eat, they are lying is silks sad mambas ;
they sertee to be kepi for a essecort. The variety of
dress is carried to •greater pitch here thee any place I
ever ore. The common carpenters weer deity relied
shirts, white jorkets and (roomers, and thew hot.
There're many eery wealthy peepli time, and es ,nay
is very plenty. There Is plenty of work for every
men, end good wages. A labo•rer bed If dollar a
day, and /OOP more. Every finds whatever is good;
masons only where stone is. UP country pimple have
all a loons, end make their turn clotbM. A good
weever, that has a little money to purchase yarn,
make cloth, sad sell It In tenni, *mild d• particularly
well. The Eighth enttee goods are of the worst sod
.lightest sort. All cloth and shops ass doubli the price
that they are in Philadelphis. There le ea taxation ea
any home mairefacture whatever, so there an lick.
stick timers here. The above tradesmen kite free If
to 2 dollars a day, and some mote. We intend le work
here, God willing, until thi spring; and by that time
we shall be enabled to perches' a (leerier section of
land of 160 acres. We sever had snow half se inch
' deep, and what, he bad went of immediately : we
bad three times, Iwo or three days, greeter frost them
ever we felt is Scotland. May, Jane, Judy, and
S►ptember. are considerably warmer than with yell.
Aunt was ill of with it at first ; bet is now so sc.
Icennmed to it that it Rises he► no freebie. This ie
counted en enheelthy town by all rho mere healthy
neighbourhood ; bat we may be thankfel wi hews on.
filed good health. The Keutecklaas are the tallest
mos generally I evir ww, many as tell as James
Chapman. There was a good crop this year. TM
wheat was ripe in J,,ne. Apples and pears ere ■ew
ripe: they are as pleas, as the potatoes with y0u...-.
As for yore, you are toe sell of at home ever to seek
a better; bat to all I write I neither sneering. roe
discoed. may. I write a true silts of all I know;
lend if any come to see it, they will find it as I have
wrote. Tow know that from a combination of cir.
constant's we were sore reduced with pre; yet Pre.
videere has provided es with good friends, in health
lead good employ, by which we sow enabled freely
re reimberm, end are now making motley as fast as
ever we lost it."

SOUTH AMERICAN INTELLIGENCIL

[Flow Tilt CM! Or WASHMITON DASITTIt

Two brilliant affairs ►ate lately taken place bus.
tweet' detachments from the respective armies In t►e
neighbourhood of t►e Arawca River, in the previous
of Barbra,; bath of which terminated in fawner' et
the Independents. In t►e fret, Col. Pigott, a foreign
officer of merit, greatly distingeished hiterelf—having
bad two horses killed soder him. Selbc• It to say,
that the Royalists •were driven from their position.
The latter enterprise is one of the mod eatrtordinery
recorded la the annals of modern or ancient warf.re.

General Pain, commander of the emir,' comnseel
of the free people of colour sod blacks of the plane,
called /.la , bad repeatedly solicitedipermission
frees Green' Bolivar to attack the gayety's comp,
with • select bend of volunteers, bet was as often
refesed. The attack appeared too hazardous sod
partial to justify approbation; and that *Seer, in-
eructed by esperience, resnlved not to hazard the
redaction of hi, force by detachment. The Fabian,
or Washingtonian system, in short, was adopted;
sod the President of the Repoblic seemed indraible
in maintaining it. He would sot risk • decides
battle with half his army; bat await the co-opera.
don of the expedition from Margarita. Neverthe-
less, he yielded to the importvoltiln of Pays, and
allowed him for ones to indeleo In his chivslroes
projects. This liceesed. that °Grin required 150
volunteers, his own guard of honosr included. It Is
unnecvs.ary to IWO. that the summons was weaved
with acclamatlon.: f Cr fairret..Colonels,ind Colobele,
and 70 Captrits.immAiatelyjoined their leader. bang
disencumbered of all unnecessary accoutretneols, the
detachment instantly crossed the river in hoot of
Nforillo's main army, who were doubtless serried
at teeetil, so unexampled. Pars approached within
speaking distance, or, es a sailor would saw, within
hail, and challenged his antsenoist to corn* and !eke
him, with his little party. He had brought no more,
lest be shrield alright them ; bet hoped that Module
would II it he Intimidated by • bendsl of lancers, who
had left a river in their rear, and now had an army
before them Provoked by this bantering &nonce,
Morino ordered large detachments defile from del
and left, in order to earrnand the enemy sod cat .4
his retreat. This was the very einveameat which Pars
awaited; en its eincetion be recanted hIaII•CCIPII.
Prompt .1 she arromput, therefore, hr gave laconic or.
dors to has little contemn, who, with hike in reel,
milled directly on the Soaoish line. Op/sing lien
piii•-• to gthe rear, they wheeled aboet, and peso.
trawl again to the front, with prodiglnes slaughter.
The airway's rank. were thrown into vinfearos and
dismay, by *meal and terrible repetitious of thew
daring chances; and YX) of their r..intier were el.ner
killed or wounded. Pars himself is reported to have
lanced able with his own hand; Gwent Great (4