Mechanics', operatives', and laborers' advocate., 1836-11-28

,OsEoLA CAPTURED I've learn by a gen. lleman, (Mr Duushee) who arrived in this city yesIerday, direct from the seat of war n t4orIda, that the celebrated Seminole chief Ose ola had, been captured by parity of Creeks under Gen. Jassup, during an engagement the day before MT. Dunshee left. The indvld> ual Creek who succeeded in first securing th, captive, received 5000 from Gen. J. and w;,> promoted to Ienlenancy. Gen. Jessup sta ted as his opinion that the war could not no last a fortnight. ''
 We had q moments conversation with Mr.
 'unshtt, and dId not learn any farther parlicu. lars. We are, however, satisfied that Inc above intelligence is strictly aulhenlic.-,Suu.
 .accident A man named Cooley, from Vernon Indiana, who was working his passage upon the steamboat Mount Pleasant, was killed on Saturday nIgEt last. The boat had been stopped for q mo- ment-and when the Engineer gave the word ..aI clear! the unfortunate man continued stand inn near the fy-Wheel, though warned of his d,nrer by one of the hands. The wheel startcd-struck hlm on the neck-and severed his head from hi> b1dy y, (wlth the exception of the Windpipe,) and hurled hlm lteleSs into the hold. or course his death was the consequence of his own folly.
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 Lomented Dealh. James H.McCuIIock, col!ec- tor ol the port of Baltimore, recently died in .at cl,y. The old mah was one of the staunchcs dis c'p!rs 'ot Washington, and braveIy aided in fight ing the battles of this country, during the Revo!u- ton especially at North Pond where he had one of hs legs broken and shattered by a shot from the enemy.
 ,lhey intend to lave a real Thanksgiving in Michigan on the lst of December One man has advertised for two cart loads of pumpkns-one hunnred turkies-two hundred chickens and va retyof small game.
 1.-The, N. York Sun insnuates that Webb privat- ly bet against the truth of the assertions abou, the Pennsylvania election published in his own pa- per
 The PMIadelphians have adopted the fashion so prevalent in New ork: of leaving infants at their neIghbors doors.
 A black man lately died lat South Carolina at the advanced age of one hundred and twenty-onc years.
 There is clerk in the French War Depart meut who in various battles, has received no less than S5 wounds, and has been twice ,rtDanned for fractures of the skull. His name, oddly enov4l is Lagucrre-in English, War. The Westchesttr Herald of the 1st inst, say, that the woods of the mountainous regions souiil- west of Stony Point, in RockI md county. ;n this State are on fire-that to all appearances the de- vourng element has already travelsed severa miles, and that it is still raging with unaacd fury. It is said that several barns have been destroyed and it is feared some of the cottages of the humble wood cutters in that quarter.
 Murder in .nrEansas. negro fellow murder ed hls master, named Huskcy from Tennessee. and five negro men. with an axe, in Hot Spring Com ty. He then endeavored to burn inc bodies. and some of them were p1Ft;a|y reduced to cinhrrs. rhe negro fled, and he was last heard of in Miss issippi.
 Steamboat Lost.-The St. Luuis Repuhic4n of the 2d instant says: "'The steamboat Fame. of Cincinnati to this port, win fuIi cargo of mer- chandiSe and furniture, anda urge number of pas sengers, struck Snig. on the night of the 27th ult..near the mouth of Salt river and sunk in 9 or 10 feet of water.
 Such is the sca'city or corI at Qucbcc, that thr daily line of S]tlnbnats 10 Montreal is S,,Sp,YI2d. The cu! is rXcrS@Sr' that thr Ice rlaur oI .," equal at Montreal. Def. B and large quantities Of potatoes h.vc been rrZ l..
 ,Grem Beor. WenIe informed that Captain John Moves, of Greenwooo. rec; nIIv Shot in that town bear, tine Kind quarters of which wejynrd when dressed, 40l pouads-wholA weight 475.-I He sold one hnii p' it for nine cents per Do,pd which was carried 10 Boston and there disposed of at a h ndSome profit. Large numbers of these 'ninalS have beep killed. .thiS tal in the back towns this county. 0 f6rd Dsmocgat
 The New Express Mail, established by inc Post Mister ,Gtner.l between Baltimore. and Pmladtl- pha, went into operation on Tuesday,
 Coal It is proposed in New York 10 form 6iut slrck association for 1ut purpose of obtaining Coal at reasonable rates.
 On Thursday morning, at half past o'clock il fife broke out in Centreslreet New Yorh, and des. royed several buildings of different deScriptions. A number of persons barely escaped from lle fire Inly half dressed.