The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-05-30

wives, embarked on board the ship Ash
burton, lying at Union wharf, on their
voyage to Ceylon and Madras, as Mis-.
sionaries ofthe American board
Mr. Hoisington, with his wife, now re-
turn to their labors, after stay in his
native country ola few months, TO regain
his health. The other persons have
never been in the field. Mr. Scudder is
the son ofDoctor Scudder, the mssiona-
~, and was born among the Tamul
people, and is the eldest Of four sons,
who are being trained up by their parents
for the missionary work. The 9th of
June next will complete twenty-five
years since DR. Scudder embarked from
this port in the Indus, with six other mis-
sionaries-and in October Of the same
year, the first missionaries sailed from
this port in the Thaddeus for the Sand
qcich Islands. Who can tell what will be
the sum of happiness, of knowledge, of
glory and virtue, to flow from raising up
six thousand children in the schools of
this Tamul people' Some Wicklif'e or
Luther, or Knox, or Washington, may
arise among them!-Bosto@ Courier.
VERY LATE FRoM HAYT1.--Capt.
Hoyt, who left Port-au Prince eth uIt.
and arrived at New York, reports that
the blacks have been entirely successful
in their engagements with the govern
ment troops - President Herard's forces
had disbanded in the north and he took
refuge in Port-au- prince, but was holly
pursued by superior force, and it was
believed he could not hold out many
days. The revolutionists have established
an independent government in the Span
ish part of the island. The French Ad-
miral lay off Port au Prince with three
frigates, waiting the issue of events.
He would probably take possession ofthe
island and the expected failure of the
Haytien government to pay the indem-
nifty due to France will be used as a
pretext for that purpose,
There are now being exhibited in the
city of Wheeling, two brothers, ten and
twelve years of age, who have neither
hands nor feet. but claws like the claws
of an eagle, which they use with as much
dexterity as most children their hands.
Several hundred dollars in gold were
found, accidentally, under heap ofashes,
in the Reading, Penn, jail yard, supposed
to have been secreted by some convict ex-
ecuted for murder.
A pair of beautiful Arabian horses, a
present from the Imaum Of Muscat TO The
President OF the Uuited States, arrived at
Salem on the LIST inst, in the bark Eliza,
from Zanzibar.
MEx1co.-At the last dates from Mex
leo, the rumor of the contemplated treaty
with Texas had just reached the city, and
was the cause OF much excitement. The
government paper. however discredited
the report, and says ''It cannot be true,
and we have reasons for believing it not
so. Our Government has received its Off
cial correspondence from Washington, the
contents of which is ust the con rarv OF
what these papers say. But be it as it
may, our Government is determined not
to lose the usurped Territory, and to that
end she will use her best efforts TO recov-
er it, that the honor and dignity, and good
name of the Nation shall not suffer-" A
passenger reports, that both at Mexico
and Vera Cruz the most determined hos
tiity existed, and it was apparent that
it would lie resisted to the last extremity.
Under these circumstances, it can hardly
fail that rupture will be the result, and
the nation shortl y appealed to to avenge
,-tr .,nt,y 10 H,r~ r..,d
under the smoke of the war excitement
smuggIe Texas into the Union. Such
is the reckless pro- ect.-Burlington Free
| Press.
FROM HAvANA.-lmportant accounts
from Havana have been received by the
Savannah Republican, bringing dates
from that place TO the 7th uIt. The port
of San Juan de Nicaragua has been block
0ded by the Vice Admiral of the white
squadron of Her Britannia Majestys
Fleet, and Commander in chief OF her ma.
val forces in North America. DESPATCH
es, relating to the murder ofthe American
| Consul at Jamaica were sent 10 Washing
ton. The Island of Cuba was quiet
Advices from Mexico had been received
at Havana to l7th April, The Mexican
Congress adjourned on 9lst March On
the 30lh an act was passed extending he
time to three years, for the sale or reship-
ment of goods prohibited in art. A, of the
Decree of l4lh August last.
A battle was fought near Alamos in So.
nora, between gang Of robbers and
company Of militia, from that place. The
militia We're cut to pieces and hung on
trees.
A heavy shock of an earthquake was
felt at Porto Rico on the 10th ut. The
shock continued for about SO seconds
The walls of nearly all the houses were
more or less split and the churches great
Lu damansd The towns Of Pnncn and