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* I fi .. tl' T *? * if marks upon it, left tbe house, earlier and more abruptly than usual. The mystery now increased, and a dark suspicion flashed across the f minds. His agitation had been too obvious not to be perceived ; yet there was' ho defi nable cause for it, on!/ that it appeared to be strongly connected with the picture. True it might have been occasioned by the sudden view of the well known fea ture's o f an endeared and valuable friend, whose remains had for more than three /ears been mouldering beneath the clods of the valley.— But still the curiosity of the family was wrought up to a higher degree of intensity; arid although the gentleman had hitherto doubted the. pro priety of attending the appointment of the unfortunate female, his resolution was now fixed, and he at once determined to visit her at, the time appointed. He did so: and found h er in a retired dwelling, melancholy and sad'as before, but sur rounded by h e r little family, and to all appearance very comfortably situated. She entered into a history of her life and situation, since her brother had entered -the army several years ago. . A few years after his departure, she had received the addresses of a gentleman whom she had known as her. brother’s intimate friend and associate, to whom some six o r seven years since she was privately married. And she was induced to consent that their union should be kept an inviolable secret, in consequence of the represent ations o f her husband, that this privacy was of the utmost importance to his pe cuniary interests, it regarded a large amount of property in expectancy, which would certainly be devised to him if his marriage were not known, but o f which lie would as certainly be deprived, were the fact to come to the knowledge of his aged relative. Another motive of se crecy, he represented to be some heavy pecuniary losses, which would prevent his going to house-keeping in the style he wished, until he should have retrieved his circumstances, which object would be accomplished at no distant day.. For a long time, though deserted by the little circle o f her friends, she bore the seclu sion cheerfully, and her husband often strengthened her resolution, by repre senting the pleasure they would all de rive when her brother arrived, from the agreeable surprise it would occasion him, to find his sister Hie happy wife of his early and constant friend. But from the day o f her marriage she had not heard from her beloved brother; nor was it until long after his death that by some accident, she came to the knowledge of his marriage in this city, and his subse quent decease. Her heart then sunk within her. But although the explana tions of her husband were unsatisfactory, still he had been always kind and atten tive to her, (only that he never dined at home,.) and fearing that the estate would be lost, she bad kept the secret within Her own bosom. And even yet, she said the secret would not have been wrung from her, were it not that her own dissolution appeared to be near, and she was anxious that her children should be able to look the world in the face without blushing at the imputation of unlawful parentage.— While giving this account of herself, she at times was almost overcome with emo tion; and when speaking of the doubt and suspicion which had been cast upon her c h a racter,' in a gashing stream. Don Pedro , the First.* —The Philadel phia Aurora contains a latter from a.house in Pernambuco, under, date of the 19th February, which, if we may rely upon its contents, exhibits the-affairs of Brazil jn a light somewhat'different from that in which they have been represented 'by late accounts. The writer, after speak ing of the Emperor’s \departure from Rio, says', that according to one report, he had left his infant child behind him at the capital, under the title o f prince re gent, and in charge of a commission of nobles, and that according to another, he had left the infant prince with the em press', who was to take the direction of the government; which points were Un certain, though they do not appear to be very important. As to the object of his Majesty’s departure for Bahia, however, which was alleged to be the conciliation of the people of that quarter, the writer continues: ' “ We, however, do not hesitate in say ing, that we think there is another cause, a more powerful motive, for thei engraved by C. C. Wright, and struck by ’elletrau. The whole is neat and ‘ap- iropriate. The medals struck on com- losition will be preEentedto all the invi ted guests of tlie Corporation; silver ones will.be transmitted1 to the president,, leads of departments, (foreign ministers, governors of states, &C. three gold medals will be transmitted to the surviving sign ers o f the Declaration 'off American Inde pendence, . Three medals will b e enclo sed in boxes,' made from the'wood of the cedar log which was brought from Lake Erie in the Piofieer boat, ^ 51 and visit; and notwithstanding all the follies commited by the Emperor or imperial government, we cannot imagine, for a moment, that .ie would quit his capital, while a powerful and daily increasing army of patriots are carrying every thing before them, in the southern provinces. We do not hesitate in saying, that Don Pedro, in once quitting his capital, never returns to it. By letters in town, it ap pears that Rio Grande and St. Catha rine’s are occupied by the Patriots. The province of St. Paul’s and the mines not occupied by them, havO cut off all communication with Rio de Janeiro; and here we have a solution o f the pro blem as to the visit to the northern pro vinces. The Emperor, not yet desirous of visiting “ that bourne from dihence h o traveller returns ,” has no security in hi.- capital. It is even said that he will no; visit Baliia, and it is well known hert that that city is not in a composed state. “ We will venture to predict, that hi stay will not be long in j ’emambuco but that when he leaves it,'it will be in 1 very impoverished state. In this pro vince the patriot party are rapidly in creasing, and we have no .hesitation n saying, that the fate o f Pernambuco wi decide the fate of all the provinces to the northward. “ A serious misunderstanding alreadj exists between the governor at arms 111 this place and his troops. The German battallion o f about 400 men are all tha he can rely on,‘should any disturbance take place; and that, it is confidently ex pected, will very soon happen.”— N . Y. Statesman. W a s h i n g t o n , April 15. Yesterday Mr. Webster made one of )is greatest arguments in favour of the Panama mission. It was eloquent and able throughout. He viewed ,it as a statesman, and handled it as a master. The 22d o f May has been to-day fixed upon by the House for Congress to ad journ. Some think this will defeat the mission, as it will enable the opposition, jarticularly in the Senate, to talk it out of house and home. The tean rushed forth from h e r o'ercloiulcd brow, Like mountain mists a t length dissolved in rain.” But she still avoided giving any intima tion as to the name of her husband, nor ebvjid intreaty induce h er to alter h er de- termination, until she had further time find another interview. The .conversa tion having been changed to the affairs ol her brother and his widow, the gentleman with apparent carelessness, mentioned as a piece of intelligence that would natu rally interest her, that the latter was to be married again in the spring, to M ——. But had a bolt been hurled upon her head from the angry skies, the shock up on her feeble frame could hardly have been greater. She clasped her hands in ! \ ap agony of grief, and as soon as her 1 agjitatnto would permit utterance she ex- claimed-^te“ 0 G o d ! he is my husband! Oh!” sheVontinued, “ is it possible!— But I see i t j d l now!” and swooned in convulsions lipoh the floor. The shock • was severe upon the gentleman, and had it not been f i r the mysterious incident of the picture, would have been much more so; but the _ on thiit occasion, had in a measure pre pared him for some strange disclosure. The usual restoratives having been appli ed, the unjfortunate lady was so far reco vered as to speak further upon the sub ject, and the secret having been thus di vulged, she unburdened her h eart more freely, and proved the truth of her repre sentations, by producing;the certificate 01 her marriage from a Resident clergyman, who confirms its genuineness and authen ticity. Governor Morrill is re'elected Gover- ' nor of New Hampshire. Late and important from South Ame rica. —By the brig 'E l b e , Captain A k i n , from Montevideo, we have received pa pers of that place to the 13th o f Febru ary, inclusive. The most important item of intelligence which the papers contain, is the official account o f the sur render of Chiloe: Thus taking from Spain her last foot-hold in the two Ame ricas. The capitulation took place on the 16th Jan. On the 14th a battle was fought, but the loss on either side was not great. On the 13th an armistice was agreed on, and the next day the com mander o f the Royal forces surrendered. — The late hour at which we received our papers, prevents us from publishing the articles of capitulation. The Buenos Ayres Gazette o fthe 1 1th of Feb. contains the official statement 01 Com. Brown, giving the result o f a brush which he had with the Brazilian squad ron, and in which he lest one man killed and four wounded.— The Commodore says, he was basely deserted by his own vessels, and left alone to contend with his enemy. It appears that he was twice engaged, an hour each time. An American brig had been ordered off by the blockading squadron The Brazilian blockading squadron consisted of one ship of 64 guns, three corvettes of 22 guns each, three brigs, four schooners, and twenty-two gun boats. The American Consul from Buenos Ayres arrived at Montevideo on the 19th / February, with a flag of truce. His object was to see the Commander o f the Shocking. — There seems to have been more mischief go % 5 on at Washington the present, seasdn, than we here abouts are a ware of. In the Missouri Advocate of the 18th o f Eebuary, it wap stated that an attempt had been made upon the life of the Hon. D. F. Cook, member of Congress from Illinois, by a Senator of the United States, who as it: is said, dis- charged a horse pistol at the head of-Mr. C. while lie -was in bed at his boarding House. Fortunately the ball lodged in his pillow. It is intimated that the Sen ator (we forbear to name him) was intoxi cated at the time. The aflair is said to- have taken place on the night of the 13th of January. When this shocking and disgraceful story first appeared, we could not believe it. But the Advocate of March 4, in reply to a correspondent, re-aftirms ihe t’act, fteclar1i'ig Jhat “ ample confirmation of the truth of the report as been received,\ accompanied with Ihe particulars o f tbe occurrence, exceed ingly mortifying to their pride as citizens of Missouri.’! We refrain from a com metit at present, further than to say, that a gentleman of high respectability from Washington, o f whom we made enquiry upon the subject, informs us that there was a whisper at the.capital about that time, that something o f the kind had ta ken place.— Com. Adv. Novel case. — Yesterday in the Circuit Court for the first Circuit,'before Judge Walworth (of the 4th Circuit,) sitting m the place of Judge Edwards, who is ab sent, came on the'trial of the cause of William Crawford vs. Ann Benford, for a breach of promise of marriage. The ilaintiff is seventy-four years old, and he defendant sixty. The trial lasted rom noon until near ten in the evening. This morning the jury brought in a verdict of $200 for the plaintiff. A Re port o f this very interesting trial will be given as soon as it can be prepared for this paper.— lb. ‘ rendered so insensible but that, upon perceiving his clothes to have caught fire, he could plunge into the river to extinguish it.—Merrimack Journal. Alteration of Chancery Term. —We are requested to state, for the informa tion of all whom it m ay concern, that the next term o f the Coert of'Chancery, to be held in the city o f Albany, will com mence on the second Monday in July nexfc Editors of papers throughout the state, will probably confer a favour on members o f the bar, and suitors, by giv ing publicity to this fact.— Alb. Argos. The following extract is taken from a letter just receiv.ed from one of Mr. Jef ferson’s neighbours and \most'intimate friends': ; , “ The Tickets in MivMefferson’s Lot tery will come opt for £ale on the 13th of April, which is his birflr-day. * Now my idea is, that the citizens of the United States might relieve him in thje most deli cate way, b y purchasing up the tickets and burning them. To make it more flattering, they.jnight bum them on the 4th of July-, and remit him the money on the same day. The friends o f Mr. Jef ferson here are delighted with what the people of Baltimore are doing in his be half, and .hang their beads at the back wardness o f his own native Virginia.” T U B F A R M E R . “ OPEN TO ALL— INFLUENCED BY NONE.’ JAMAICA, APRIL 20, 1826. Weunderstand that Mr. William Prince, iroprietor o f the Linnaean Botanic Gar ten at Long-Island, ha8 recently received rom Monsieur Thiebaut de Beraeaud, Secretary of the Lmnaaan Society of Paris, a very perfect and beautiful bust of Carolus Linn us, the immortal pro jector of systematic Botany,' and the pa tron o f that Society. Mr. P. it wilt be recollected, and also one of his sons, have been several years since elected mem bers of that Society, and this bust will be displayed at the future celebrations o f the Branch Linnaean Society of New- York. Mr. Prince has also been honour-, ed with a diploma of membership by the Imperial and Royal Academy of Agricul ture of the Georgofili a t Florence. Com. A dv. % Painful Occurrence .—;— Mr. Hennr Woodruff, of West-Stockbridge, while at work in a mill, a few tlay^Knce, was suddenly drawn in among the. wheels, which caused a suspension in the motion of the machinery; and was in that Situa tion from 9 o’clock in the evening until 6 in the morning, before his cries could bring a single individual to his relief.- During\ all this tedious\ and agonizing night, a full Head of water was passing on an overshot wheel, ant^noihing but his feeble frame to stay the progress of the mill. -After bejng relieved from his situation, he lingered in apparent great distress for seven hours, and then yielded up his undying,.spirit. blockading squadron ; but although he had been craising four days, he had not been able to fall in with him.— Com. A dv. N ew -Y ork , April 17. Medals. — T h e medals directed by the Corporation in honour of the Cana Celebration last fail, haVc been struck, and we have had the pleasure of exami ning them. The representation on one side, is Paris’ visit to Neptune—with cornucopia, distant view of the ocean light-house, &c. with the inscription “ Union o f Erie with the Atlantic .” On the reverse, are the arms of the State; on the right the representation of the canal, with its locks, and on the left the city of New-York. The medal was de signed by‘ Archibald Robertson, and Fall of the Castle o f Callao.— We nave at length the gratification to an- announce, says the Baltimore American of Monday last, the surrender of the cas tle of Callao, the last hold of Spanish despotism on the American continent, to the Patriotarros.-^Thisquspiciousintel ligence, which ’will no doubt have the ef fect to hasten the recognition of the inde pendence of the South American repub lics by Spain, was received last night by tfje arrival of the Schoojier Betsey, cap tain Hunter, in twenty-six days from Car- thagena. We learn from the supercar go of the Betsey, that the day before sailing, tbe news was brought to Cartlia- gena by a vessel from 'Chagres, and in consequence a grand salute was fired and get /ral rejoicing took place during the whol- day and succeeding night, which continued when he sailed, Explosion. —A powder-mill, belonging to Mr. Whipple, of Chelmsford, Mass, was blown « p 'n ^ a tu fd n y before last, The explosion is supposed to have origi nated from the friction of one of the 'mdrtars, or from improper substance accidentally intermingled with the mate rials then in the process o f pulverization, It produced a tremenduous report, Looking in that direction we saw an immense volume o f smoke, rising, slowly, and gradually changing its colour from the blackness of .a thunder cloud to white, till at length it melted away in the pure air. The immense force of gun powder is no where presented to our sight in a more tangible shape than in this 'instance. The roof of the .building was carried up whole a considerable distance in the air, and was thus seen at first above the cloud of srhake/ The timbers ant boards were throw* hr CVery direction, and broken and- shattered in every ima ginable shape. - From viewing the spot it would seem impijpsible that a human being could escape instant destruction. Yet we understand that the man was noi; Revivals of Religion .—There has never been a season within our recollection, when revivals of religion were so numerous, and extensive as at the present moment. An increased attention to this important subject commenced in several towns in New-Eng- land, during the last fall, and has been ra pidly increasing from that time to this.— The accounts of revivals, from Maine New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, and the western part of this state, are of tbe most interesting character. In Borne, Qneida county, upwards of 200 persons have been added to the Presbyterian church within a short time past. The work has extended from. Rome to a number of tbe neighbouring towns—large numbers have been added to the several churches in Uti ca, as also in Wbitesbnrotigh and New- Hartford. The Christian Watchman gives a letter noticing revivals in several towns in Ver mont :— “ In Stratton, the work has been general and powerful; and, although the town con tained but.about 250 inhabitants, between 50 and 60 were tbe hopeful subjects of the word. Of these, 40 joined tbe Congrega tional church in that place, and 10 tbe Bap tist church. In the course of the winter the work spread to Wardsborougb, where, it continued, till between 40 and 50 had ex perienced a hope of sins forgiven. About the same time that the work began in Wards- borough it commenced in Jamaica, (Vt.)— The number o f tbe hopeful subjects of the work is between 90 and 100;—50 of whom have united with the Baptist, and 15 with the Congregational churches. \W e have at this time some hopeful ap pearances in Townsend, where I labour one half the time. 12 or 15 have, withinafew weeks, expressed a hope in Christ, and'a number of others are seriously inquiring.” Extensive revivals have also occurred in Middlebury, Burlington, and Dartmouth colleges. ! The ftgular members of the Legislature, at their caucus in Albany, on Saturday last, considering it inexpedient to make the i^ual nominations for Governor and Lieutenant- Governor, recommended that a Convention be heldfor that purpose, on the first Wed nesday of October next, at Herkimer. Letters from Bucharest, say that the Prophecies of Argothangelos“, the first publication of which was three centuries'\ ago, and which were reprinted at Bucha rest in 1812, by order of Russia, announ ced that Constantinople will be taken in 1827. The death of all the Emperors, down to Alexander, is exactly predicted in the most psitive manner by this pro phet, I s well as the expedition of the Fr^rencnto Moscow. Congress .—Notwithstanding the session is drawing to a close, the members continue their long speeches as usual, so thatjittle or no business is finally acted upon. In the House, the bill making appropriations for the Panama. Mission is under debate. In the Senate, John Randolph occupies the floor for the greater part of the time, deli vering' his denunciations of every matter and thing which has occurred ftbm the crea tion to the present time. The members of the Senate are compelled, by the reprehen sible conduct o f the Vice Predident, to sit hour after hour, and hear this worse than madman, pour out his anathemas not only qpon the President and Secretary of State, but upon every person whose image* may chance to flit before bis diseased brain. - Senatorial Decorum.— The Baltimore Patriot informs us that Mr. Randolph thus commenced one of his tirades a few days since—“ Mr. Speaker! I beg par don, I mean Mr, President of the Senate, and would be President of the United States, which God in his infinite mercy uvertf* —and then went on his' usual strain of calumny and abuse, which Mr. Calhoun suffered without once noticing' the indecorum to himself or others. The Bridgeport, Conn. Courier, gives the following as “ something new.’,’—-A log was brought to the saw-mill of Capt. ., James Johnson in Weston, a few days/ since; after sawing off the butt, they dis- \ covered that they had sawed in two a whole pack o f Cards ; ninety grains were counted from the cards to the outsider o f the log; they must therefore have been deposited there ninety years since; they were perfectly sound and but a very little soiled, and would have been as good as new had they not been, cut in two by tbe saw. The log was perfectly sound all around the cards. . We are authori sed to say that the above cap be substan tiated by numbers of respectable persons living in the neighbourhood. A Mr.' John Anderson and a Mr. John Banks, the first a single mairand the last a man of family, were both accidentally drowned in Oldman’s Creek, on the 36th ult. It seems Mr. Anderson had W en assisting Mr. Banks to move from the neighbourhood of Woodstown, and in the afternoon they got into a boat to fish with seine, the boat upset and they both were precipitated into the wafer. Their bodies had been recovered and interred. How often are we reininded that “ in the midst of. life we are in death.j’ From Buenos Ayres, we learn (bat Government is endeavouring to form a naval force, having for that purpose pur chased several American vessels, which are already iii squadron, under the com mand of Com. Brown, and are said to have offered battle to the Brazilian squad ron. A single privateer, commissioned by the Government o f Buenos Ayres, 1 3 . said to have captured thirty vessels with in a few days. The last Oriental-Herald gives the fol- jowing specimen of the manner in which justice is administered in the East. In Egypt, recently, while a ship was dis charging a cargo o f coals from England, a poor woman and two children stole a few pounds of coals; the officers inqui red what punishment they should suffer; the Pacha immediately ordered that they should be Shot! The Legislature of this State adjourned at 12 o’clock on Tuesday last. The number of slaves taken from the several states south of the Delaware, in the last war, (and for which institution was to be made agreeably to flie terms o f the treaty,) is 3582, amounting*) $1,175, 3?0,on which no equivalent has been yet received. France also owes us nearly $30,000,000 for spoliations on our com merce.
