The Sun. — 1838-09-20 (London, England)

FROM TIIE FRONTIER--We are informed that an impnri::Ant despatch has been forwarded by Major Mason, of Port Gibson, !o General Gaines, the Commander of this division. The subst..Nl" of this communication is, that the Cherokees have built a1,...:1nci1-house, said to be considerably larger than any hereto 0...' erected by any tribe. They have sent messengers, with thb black and red wampum, to all the tribes from the Red River to the ales and Foxes on the Mississippi—omitting only tha • Kansas and °Ages inviting them t) meet in Council at the.' Cherokee Council-house iu September nest. The tnovemen: is believed to be but an incipient step to further difficulties, an: made with a view of enlisting and uniting all the tribes along the frontier in such measures as may be adopted. They have pro.. ,ceded with great caution at.d secresy in the measure. and h,„:-ft endeavoured to keep all their proceedings from their agents ~"d the officers of the posts. The time proposed for holding the Council is sufficiently late to admit of the ernig ating Cherokee; reaching their country. All the informstien eicited goes to con.fir,:o the opinion expressed some time ago by General Arbuckle of tike hostile intention of several of tl:e tribes, though it is not believed tlizt _any movement is intended by them until the opening oi !he spring. General Games, we arc told, has forwardeJ the despatch of Major Mason to the proper department, with a request that he be permitted to attend the Council with an armed force. This would probably be the most effectual means to awe them into a compliance with their duty, and would effectually prevent the f,rmation of any plans for a general and united rising. It is greatly to be desired that his request should be granted.— Missouri Republican, Aug. 14. __  (From the Morning Herald, Aug. 27.) We arc informed that officers Gilchrist and Thomas M. Lyon arrested the Captain and two Mates of the French ship Alexandre, for alleged piracy. They had engaged passage on board the packet ship Star, Captain Glover, for New Orleans, and were at Fort Hamilton, on the look out for the sailing of the ship. The officers, with a promptitude and energy worthy of al; praise, immediately started in pursuit of them, and found them at that place, at the hotel. The pirates bad locked themselves in their rooms, the doors of which had to be broken open, when, after a desperate resistance on their part, they" were finally secured by the assistance of the proprietor of the !tote:, and brought to the city. The French Consul then sent them on beard the French man.of-war in our harbour, and thearc now os; their way to France, to pay the forfeit of their bloody deeds. The Consul bad their baggage opened T on board the Star. One of the chests contained several thous ind dollars in gold, besic:fg cutlasses and fire-arms, with which they no doubt meditates . an attempt similar to the ono for which they were arrested. he courage displayed by Gilchrist and Lyons in arresting thes‘-. desperadoes is worthy of high commendation, and redounds n;:lch to their credit. The Consul, we understand, presented them with a large reward for their exertions.  A letter from Texas, of the 16th of July, says :—" The lion. James Collinsworth, Chief Justice of thc. Republic, was found drowned in the bay of Galveston a few days since. The body was much mutilated, and there were marks upon it which led to the belief that he had been murdered. He is said to have had considerable money with him when at Galveston. He was a man of extensive research and of superior talents."  By an arrival last night, in six days from Tampico, we learn that the Mexican ports are to be blockaded for six months longer.—New Orleans Picayune, Aug. 17. ( From the Charleston Courier of Aug. 2.) _ _  ,