the 1aw op newspapers , vii subscribers who do not give express notice to j contrary are considered as wishing to continue d i r ifsutacribera order the discontinuance of their pa pers the publisher may continue to send them until ar tlf'x'rlbers neglect or refuse taking their papers fro n the offices to winch they are sen they are held till their bills ara settled and their paper or dered to be discontinued . 4 the courts hav decided thai refusmg to take a newspaper or periodical from the office or removing | and leaving it uncalled for is " prima fecie evidence of intentional fraud , terms of the watchman for sabscription per year two dollars payable in advance but if not paid in advance two dollars and fifty cts will be charged advertisements inserted al 1 for tbe first and25 cts for each subsequent insertion court orders c wrge 25 per ct higher than these rates a liberal deduc tion to those who advertise by the year letters to the editors rnusi in r l iml - ______ not thern liberality the wilmington chronicle of wednesday says : " we published lie prospectus of the washington republic expecting to have at least the courtesy of an exchange ex tended to us two or three of the early numbers of the paper were sent and then its visits were suspended and this is the return we believe that southern editors generally meet with — we are solicited to publish the prospec tuses for papers in northern cities and paff them into notoriety ; but so soon as their prosperity has been secured by the assistance which the country presses have afforded them and they no longer need assistance they almost invariably kick the stools from beneath them which rais ed them into greatness we have long been of opinion that southern editors would better consult their own interest by paving for these exchanges in money than by lending the use of their columns lo pro mote their circulation in many instances to their own prejudice ; even though the u promise of an exchange should be more liberally complied with — ilil/sboio re curdi i caution to parents — we are pained to learn that on tuesday last an inter esting little son of mr abner mccoy an estimable citizen ofthis place was attack ed by a vicious sow as he was trying to drive her pigs with his little whip and that in all probability he would have been literally torn to pieces had not his watchful mother beard his shrieks of a larm and instantly flown to his assistance it was with some difficulty the enraged animal could be diverted from ber savage purpose the poor little fellow received several wounds in his back arm cheek and the side of his head the physician having been called in it appeared that the injury was not as great as it was at first supposed a report has gone abroad that the vi cious sow was rabid having been bitten by a mad dog of which however there is no evidence two or three dogs al leged to be rabid were killed in that vi cinity last week and in this doubtless originated the report of the mad sow — we would not produce useless alarm ; — but we cannot too strongly impress our readers with the importance of taking great precautions at this season of the year to prevent the spread of that terri ble malady hydrophobia by the destruc tion or confinement of all suspected ani mals — lincoln republican the following anecdote is going its rounds in vienna concerning hem for many years he has had forebodings of his death he himself has for many years assigned the year 1850 as the term of his existence during his stay in paris he once dined with the north american am bassador the conversation fell on fore bodings omens and the like the ambas sador laughed at them but bern declared be firmly believed in them nnd related how he had thrice seen when in his twen tieth year his own grave-stone wiih his name and the date of 1850 on it bern received in transylvania several danger ous wounds the physician shook his head but bern answered it quite calmly by saying he had another year to live — on the faith of this vision bern exposes himself in battle to the hottest fire and declares that the ball which shall hit him mortally will not do so before the year 1850 counterfeit threes — we have been shown a counterfeit three dollar bill on he bank of cape fear which is calcula ted to deceive the unwary the filling u p and signatures are hard to distinguish the genuine bills ; but a little atten tion will discover the generally bad exe cution of the engraving in comparison u-iih the genuine the large figure 3 which appears in fwe places on the face of the bill is executed in smaller circles than on the genuine — the circles look pa ler and on close inspection present a dif ferent style of engraving the bill is da ted 1st august 1846 letter m on the fight hand end the thing's looks con demn it if you will observe it closely grei nsborough patriot a lesson from history — it appears easier to huld up a great nation out of the rudest ma terials than to revive the greatness of one which as fallen a new koine could be founded in an j part ol the world with better prospects of success than amid the ruins ofthe eternal city ho has not been disheartened at lhe repeat ed failures of the friends of republican isra to revive the light upon the ancient altars of ro man glory and power—efforts xvhich seem as ru.tless as an attempt to galvanize a dead body to life let us draw a moral from this melan choly scene let us guard well that fire nf tberty which once extinguished is so difficult to rekindle let us shield it wiih unslumber ng care against both the insidious hand of toonarchial tendencies and the fierce gusts of radicalism and lawlessness for buried states re is no resurrection rich republican the carolina watchman bruner & james ) ? kkep a check upon all vour editors sc proprietors ) rulers s new series l»o this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrison ( volume vi number 17 salisbury n c thursday august 30 1849 telegraphed for the baltimore american later from santa fe st louis august 16 1819 a company of traders from santa fe headed by thomas a slaughter arrived hen last evening bring ing sped amounting to 100,000 the party left santa fe on the tib nf july bringing a larrfe mail to fori leavenworth and some 500 letters from california the southern emigrants through texas and el pas si tire reported t.i be suffering much lor the want of wa ter major chcvallie a texan at the head of 25 ameri cans has accepted the terms offered by the governor of chihuahua to tight the apache indians the contract price for the scalp of a warrior is 200 for others 150 and for prisoners 200 each all the captured animals to be retained by the captors c'hevallie and his party had made a treaty to this effect and made one expedition when lust seen by lea and slaughter who have ar rived here ihey were on their return to chihuahua from a hunt they had taken nine scalps four prisoners and fifty-five animals later dates from santa fe which are up to the 9th of july inclusive slate that the indians were commit ting sad depredations on the hth of july two ameri cans and two mexicans were killed twenty-five miles from santa fe lieut thomas had encountered a band of camaches near sawgre christi placer and killed seventeen of them trade was dull and the country free from cholera things in california correspondence ofthe newark daily advertiser san francisco june ig 1849 i arrived here about the 20th of april from valparai so and after four days took charge of a brig on the coast at s.'i'ki per mouth while i was gone i hurt my right thumb and a felon came on the lirst joint it only cost me sr>0 to pay the doctor for curing it i am now clerk in a clothing store i shall probably go to the mines in september dry goods are continually falling and some things can be actually bought at less than new york invoices in my opinion in one year there will be are action and goods will rise ; but at piesent they will not pay for discharging and freight i would turn my at tention to the law hut now there is neither law nor gospel here generally speaking and yet it is the most orderly place that i ever was in i heard rev mr hunt preach on sunday and saw mrs h who had just arrived from the islands vou may believe ihe most exaggerated statements in reference to the mines and in reference to the country in general — and believe me they will fall short of the ' truth s a g san francisco june 12 ( loods of every description can be bought here ; some of them at reasonable prices ; vessels are arriving daily to increase the stock and their freight is lying all along shore with no houses to store them and no market — the few merchants established have a monopoly of 1 trade and charge pretty much what they please pork i have seen sold for s per barrel we have to pay from 20 to 37_j cents a pound at the stores fresh beef 18 cents fresh pork m~4 cents mutton 2 per quarter ! flour 44 cents per pound by the hug beans 2 to 6 | a barrel sugar 2f cents tea 1 50 ham 40 cents i milk 1 50 a gallon butter 1 50 a pound cheese \ 50 cents coffee 25 cents bread 25 cents a loaf like 6 ! penny loaves at home ; vegetables there arc none but ' potatoes brought from else where 25 cents a pound ; board from 9 to 25 per week with and without lodg ings labor is bigh common labor scarce at 1 per j hour sailors 150 to 200 a month carpenters with tools 12 to ki dollars per day c this price of labor i is one thing that makes prices so high and the monop oly of the merchants is another places cannot be had to start stores so that those already established have full 1 swing the gold is there ; but it is only to be had by the hardest work and hardest fare the gold region is j known to extend from the umpgua river in oregon ter ritory to the head of the gulf on both sides of the moun tain and on all the streams running from them people who have been up tell us to take nothing but what we can carry on our hacks and that is a good rule all the way through fir spruce and pine trees grow to an enormous height in the country and if a man had a good site for a mill his fortune would be made the expense for getting up to the mines is about 30 for a man 4 per 100 for stuff to suter's fort and 20 to 40 from thence a distance of 40 miles to his mill | mules or your own hack are the only modes of con 1 veyance beyond into the diggings many will be dis appointed and many are returning sick of the prospect it is all a lottery ; a man may be successful anil he may not j the published reports are on the whole generally true ; but they have not told the hardships ; and misrepresent ations have been made al>out the climate of san frau eiseo a cold n v wind blows all the time filling the air with dust : and at this time i am dressed just as i would be for winter at home and have difficulty in keep ing warm at night with two blankets foreigners are plenty and of all nations mr hunt preaches ou sunday to the kanakas i accidently came across one named thomas hope who wasin new ark 30 years ago as interpreter to the foreign mission society what the effect of this excitement has been and is 1 likely to be you can readily see it is bringing togeth er thousands i'roin every nation : it has made and will make many rich while many have suffered loss of ch racrer hopes and goods and who can calculate what the sacrifice will be when all the vessels on the way reach here . the town is tilled with goods and no market — every person has more stuff than he knows what to do with beside the immense amount sent out on specula tion and yet i never saw such chances for making money tin pans which sell at 3 7 j cents here bring as many as ean be made 4 511 ; every man must have one those brought from home are good for nothing for washing gold tell any one who has the fever bad enough to start to bring as many woollen clothes as he wants to wear out iu three months and noihing else but gold silver is only used to make change and to gamble wiih dust cannot be bought with it drinking gambling in every variety with some games not used in the u s and every kind of vice stalks bold ly out here without disguise it is not a strange sight to see illll doubloons staked on a single card the gamblers are coining money there are so many ways to make money that i could scarcely enumerate them a whale boat is worth from 500 to 00 : a small er.ifl of 50 to 75 tons is a sure fortune and is worth from 000 to 111,000 a ship can be bought for about that some less every thing is turned topsy-turvy the smaller a thing is the more it is worth as a general rule the way they bring in cattle is curious to those who never saw it dealers go out and bring in horses and cattle in one drove on ihe full run ihose who make it their business will drive a large herd of half wild ani mals into a common sized gate on the full run the daily business of one butcher in the place amounts to 500 an ox costs him alive about 111 on an average and will weigh from 600 to 800 lbs when dressed lie sell this meat at iff cents a bakei buys his flour for 4j cents a pound and bakes 200 loaves a dav at 25 cts a loaf it is the unhealthy season at the mines the water is very high and 1 am advised to stay here until septem ber but that will not do i am fearful oui machine will not work ii is entirely different from any thing used after taking it up to the mines and paying out 50 i am afraid we shall have to throw it away dr boyn ton advises us to lake it up i have seen several united states wagons built in newark during the mexican war by baker t b pier son d thomas baldwin & thomas c i leave to morrow yours fcc h p the hon william c rives appointed en voy evtraoidinary and minister plenipotentia ry to the republic of france passed through ihis city a day or iwo ago and will sail for eu rope in a few days he takes london in his i way j cedar falls manufacturing company though too modest to boast of our en terprising manufacturing companies wc must be permitted to express our heart felt satisfaction at their prosperity if our friends abroad wish to know how much | we are doing for the public good we ad ; vise them to come among us that they i may see and judge for themselves we will meet them at all times with the hand of welcome extended and promise them true southern hospitality | the cotton factory at cedar falls is the oldest in this country and has been in successful operation for several years about twelve months ago the company deemed their prospects sufficiently flat tering to justify an enlargement of the ! scale of their operations they have now just completed their improvements in a i style which is seldom equalled in this country they have a splendid new brick \ j building covered with tin which in point ' i of durability and taste can be surpassed i j by few if any in the state they have j fifty-four looms in operation one hundred and twenty operatives in their employ j and a capital of sixty thousand dollars — j the buildings occupied by the operatives | numbering some 25 or 30 are all exceed j ingly neat and comfortable and owned by the company to give an idea of the j virtue morality and industry that prevail there we have only to state that instead \ of that refined place called a " grocery i they have decidedly the neatest and most i comfortable church in the county in which ! service is regularly performed and on the j tables of which may be found a good as sortment of sunday school books " lib erty union industry temperance is their motto there and faithfully do they act in the spirit thereof — ashboro herd catawba factory one day last week we had the pleasure of going out and getting a good view of this fac tory — of its internal and external arrangements the morning was very pleasant and it was a treat duly and highly appreciated by us to leave the dusty streets and pent up air ot the town and get amid green fields the breeze of fanning forests the circuitous and irregular road walled in occasionally by dense foliage which gave a refreshing coolness to the atmosphere and to catch the unembarrassed currents of air ! which swept through the branches and beneath the bowers nature has spread so lavishly abroad the country is broken between town and the factory but varied with hill and dale as it is it is quite picturesque and interesting the roads are tolerably good we found the factory snug j ly ensconced on the side ofthe noble catawba in a very pretty romantic litlle cove the vil i lage of cottages around pleasantly located on | the shady and verdant knolls makes the place wear a cosy air of rural ease and comforl quite ! delightful the factory has turned out some of the best ■ shirting and cotton yarns ever manufactured in the south and it has won so deserved a repu j tation for the quality of ils goods that we be lieve they have no difficulty in meeling a de | mand for all they are able to supply cut \ this factory is so well known that we did not so much intend noticing its commercial pros ' peels as to note merely that we had visited its i locale and found it a pleasant place its spin dies looms and cards in active motion and its : girls — but hush ! that dark haired dark eyed one is ihere in beauty's pride : " of her bright face one glance will trace a picture on the brain and he that's seen her once will wish to see her soon again and persons any ways susceptible to certain nameless but very common emotions had bel ter not encounter her glance the machinery of the catawba factory is of the most superior kind embracing all ofthe 1 most important late improvements we have spent many a less pleasant day than the one on the banks of the catawba at the factory ' messrs neal brown and williams are pro prietors h b d l s williams agents — general neal has a large flour and grist mill i at lhe same place — the hornet's nest more gold a gentleman exhibited to us on satur day last a beautiful lump of virgin gold picked up on the land of mr pringle mc ginnis about 8 miles from charlotte it weighed 21 dwts and 18 grains and is worth 821 50 it was found in the road and had been displaced by a carriage striking against it it had the appearance to us of having been melted but persons more learnt in such matters than we are say such is not the case mr mcginnis in tends to make a further search and see if he cannot find a few more such " depo sites — charlotte journal new paper we learn from mr wm d cooke the ac complished principal ofthe deaf and dumb in stitute at raleigh that is contemplated very soon to publish a paper in the institution to be printed by the mules we are pleased to hear it and hope it may succeed beyond expecta tion as it certainly deserves to be when it makes its appearance we shall have something more to say about it and shall interest our selves in procuring subscribers we have a directory a very neat job which was printed by ihem last winter and we have seen another job executed by them lately in lhe hands of mr cooke agent of the life in surance company which will bear comparison with work done in any office in the state hornets nest from the hillsborough recorder mr editor : — it was my privilege to attend the rail road meeting at provi dence in alamance county on thursday last and i heartily wish every citizen of orange and alamance could have been there our esteemed eloquent and patri otic citizen ex-governor graham was there mr caldwell the legislator of guilford who seeing and knowing his duty to his state dared to do it was there \ and both did good service in ihese de i generate times when most of our politi cians are on the alert to see which way j the popular current is setting that they j may smoothly and quietly glide along with it to places of profit and honor the cardinal principle with them being their ! own advancement to high places in the ! state ; it is indeed refreshing to find here j and there a noble spirit who has the inde ! pendence and patriotism to take the lead in important measures and to devote their time and their talents in endeavoring to show to their fellow citizens their true in terest and to persuade and urge them to \ do their duty to themselves to each other and to their country the facts and ar guments brought forward on that occa sion and the plain and candid manner in which they were stated could not fail to convince every unprejudiced and inquir ing mind of the importance of engaging heart and hand in the greak work of build ing the central rail road i shall not attempt to give a sketch of the speeches but shall content myself with urging eve ry man who feels an interest in the pros perity of the state his own welfare and the welfare of his children to wake up ! and inquire into the matter — trusting that every one who candidly makes the ! inquiry will not fail to be convinced that j his interest and duly leads the way and j that a strong impulse will induce all our j citizens to come up to the work like men ; — like worthy sons of the old north state — determined to succeed mr editor the central rail road can be built and must be built ; and that too by the sons of north carolina let eve ry man lay hold according to his ability and it is done let us look into the rpat ter we are told that the counties of or ange and alamance must raise 150,000 or the work will fail i say they can do it ; and do it with ease if they will or ange including alamance has 1500 sen ate voters we will take it for granted that one half of these have not the ability to subscribe any thing ; yet if the other half will make the effort it can be done there are surely in the counties 3 who can subscribe 3,000 9,000 10 " " 2,000 20,000 10 " " 1,500 15,000 20 " " 1,000 20,000 30 " " 500 15,000 30 " " 300 9,000 100 " " 200 20,000 400 " " 100 10,000 i 140 " " 50 7,000 ; 8155.000 these are i think mr editor reason i able calculations and if the proper efforts are made i feel confident that success will be the result there is much to be said and much to be learned about rail roads and i hope there will be a general attendandance of the people at hillsborugh en tuesday cf j orange court when they will be address ed on the subject by gov swain and gov graham a subscriber the central road we understand that the directors ofthe wil mington & raleigh rail road company have determined to subscribe fifty thousand dol lars to the central rail road — covenanting to . pay for the same in transportation this is a j most excellent arrangement while it will be j the same as cash to the central road the pay ! ment will not embarrass the wilmington road we hope this step on the part cf the direc tors ofthis road will silence forever the ground less complaints of some persons that cur peo ple are not friendly to the central project — we are anxious for its accomplishment ; and though it would be very important to this road to continue the transportation ofthe great mail yet even the certainty of being deprived of thai service would not prevent our people from de sirin the success of the great state enterprise the citizens here have never been hostile to any general system of improvement there have been cases when projects have been en ; lertained with a view to strike directly at our prosperity without holding out a counlertrav elling good lo oiher parts oflhe state these malicious blows we have endeavored to ward off and have felt the resentment quite natural lo human nature under undeserved hostility — but the " heart's desire of this community is that the central road may abundantly prosper as well as the cape fear and deep river im provement the plank road and all other plans calculated to benefit the laborious and enter prising population of the country and to ad vance the state to wealth and honor wilmington commercial jared sparks in the course of his address made on being inaugurated as president of har vard university stated that for a century and a half after the settlement of this country there was but five colleges in it and now there are over one hundred and twenty he also ex presses his belief lhat there is more money ex pended in collegiate education than any other in the world silence is a gift without peril and a treasure without enemies do 3 the election of judges by the peo ! pie may sound well enough to some ears ; it may look democratic too but we be ! lieve that if the people will see through the low humbuggery which basso far dic tated the proposition they will first re flect as they should do before they form a decided opinion the judiciary of this state and of south carolina elected as they are by their legislatures stand forth as examples to the world of purity and un flinching devotion lo law and right and | patriotism point to the gentlemen who i have been elected to our judicial bench and we would ask where is the man who can asperse their characters ? there are always however individuals whose sole ' chances for notoriety are based upon inno vations of old established rules and cus toms — men who would take advantage of late popular prejudices to undermine ' the government itself if it conflicted with tbeir almighty dollar influence — but such are to be watched and appreciated only as their local knowledge should give them weight it is unnecessary for us to pa rade our love for the south — we love her institutions — we respect her chivalry ; — and only wish when a change is to come over the spirit of our dream that it may come from the people the judiciary is i or should be sacred — it has ever met the | requirements of our people — let it at least be saved the piuscrip.ions of party — lincoln courier a poetical genius in a city well known to everybody if they can find out the name a poetical j genius was hauled up before a magistrate j for kissing a girl and kicking v.p a dust ' and the following dialogue ensued : magistrate — is your name john jay ? prisoner — yes your honor so the peo ple say magistrate — we it you that kissed the ' girl and raised the alarm . prisoner — yesyo_:r honor but i thought it was no harm magistrate — you rascal ! did you come here to make rhymes ? prisoner — no your honor but it will happen so sometimes magistrate — be off you scamp ; get out of my sight prisoner — thank'e your honor then til bid ycu good night — n 1 . union pofticcd legislation — the following poeti cal resolution wes recently picked up in the ante-chamber o_*t__e cily council of baltimore : resolved hy ibe 5_iayor and city cu_...-_;i of baltimore that every man wko aells a melon shall be held and deemed a f~k>n ; and the pigs of every size most evacuate their s-yes ; and oi-ic-rs must have in charge to eittc-h them aii if found ut i and lest this wise precaution fails the owners must not soap th.-ir tails a lady aniwer tke q_ie*tiou ai to how thc j trees get their clothes out of their trunks with | out opening thern ?" by saying that " trees lecryc out their-summer dress !" comfam buy bargains bargains ! rr.iif subscriber i now receiving one of the hand jl somest nn cheapest sti • '. i .-" spring vxd summer ever offered iii this market par hased in . and ne york f ._. ••: arrivals and at the lowest cash figu i s asisting apart of bl'k blue golden french adelades and apple t r - - .- 1 cloths black military striped and oih-*r fancy cassimeres and vestings english and french drap <!>- eta handsome children p!aid ar.d stripes ; a large stock of cotton ades ; and a oiher kinds ot gentlemens summer war also splendid bl'k taffeta and gro de rhine silks plain fig'd chamele on pott de soie plain and fig'd silk tissues berages oil silk for iir.iti_r linen charabrays embroid'd swiss robes linen cambric handkerchiefs a large stock bl'k and col'd kid gloves organdy and rir.._hani lawns plaid grenadines fancy and turnitur prints bl'k and col'd al pacca lustres florence plain straw rock rue and al ladin bonnets umbrellas and parasol bolting i linen sheeiin 4 7 loand 12 quarter wide.bro & bleach i drills nss'-.l bi'd and bro cotton shirt : t and sheetings large stock of ready made clothing floor matting b powder mining rope rio coffee bro and loaf sogar crushed and pulverised do superior tea almonds rais ins sole leather lining and binding skin tanned sheep and morocco skins harness leather clover ar.d grn seed saddles bridles and saddle bags leather trunks mackerel in bbls and half bbls white lead.sp'ts turpen tine by the gal or bottie copal varnish tanners oil e by 10 10 by 12 and 11 by 16 glass anvils rices grain and ; grass scythes steel weeding boes shovels and spades mill and cross cul saws sheet iron also a large stock of fixe cutlery carriage springs axles stained glass lamps patent and i painted cloth laces c j.c mills dress boots and la dies shoes fur silk panama leghorn and palm leaf hats and ca s books and stationary china glass and queensware lard lamps very hand ' some nova scotia grind stones sec together with an ' endless variety of other goods not mentioned persons ' visiting this market would do well to call at the ew cash store corner east ofthe court-house before ' buving as i am determined to offer to cash buyers ut . wholesale or retail extraordinary inducement in the i way of handsome and fresh goods and low prices can i and judge for yourselves __,_-._ 1 jos f chambers i salisbvry april 12 1849 4'j ■ ■' » moore county the standard tells its readers that the " gallant caldwell had gained largely in moore and lincoln this is ft piece of lhe standard's wit and it is in imita tion doubtless of that ofa wag in wash ington who once said lhat silas wright and nathaniel p tallmadge drank more brandy and water than any two men in congress the story reached tallmadg's ears and he was highly indignant there at r for he was a member of the temper ance society and he called on the slan derer for an explanation i did say it replied the wit " but i meant that wright drank all the brandy and you all the wa ter in this case all lhe gains have been in lincoln and none in moore the vote stands deberry 535 caldwell 537 : and when it is recollected that moore has not elected a whig member of the legisla ture since 1844 and that at the las au gust election reid beat manly 12 votes in that county is easy to determine who drank the brandy and who the water the truth is no other county in tbe dis trict has stood to its tackle like moore — and a thousand cheers to the gallant whigs of our native bailiwick for it say we ! while others permitted themselves to be poisoned with prejudice and distracted with petty jeaousies the good and true men of moore marched up to the polls in solid phalanx and deposited their bal lots of the candidate of their party — their conduct in this respect is worthy of all praise and we trust tbat their breatfa ren throughout the district will honor them accordingly n c argus the president at pittsburg the pricsidkntof the united states arrived at pittsburg on saturday afternoon it is need less to say that he was greeted with a brilliant and enthusiastic reception the address of welcome on behalf ol the people of alleghany county was pronounced by the hon walter forward the procession was headed by the military and its ranks well filled by civil go cielies of eveiy denomination while many thousands of people occupied the houses and filled the streets who in every appropriate way manifested their warm regard for their war-worn visiter the president is in good health and leaves pittsburg to-day for beaver the alleged abduction case we learn from new orleans that the exam ining court has given a decision in the case of the alleged abduction of juan francisco rey alias garcia by which don carlos do espaua the spanish consul tor tbe port of now or leans is held to bail in the sum of 8-1,500 to answer lhe offence charged against him before the united states district court in december next four other persons who are accused a accessories to the abduction — viz james b mcconnell captain of the schooner hary ellen and messrs fulgencio llorente william ea gle and henry marie — are also held to bail for iheir appearance at tho same court in the sum 5u0 each such is lhe information we gather from a telegraphic despatch to the charleston courier dated at new orleans on the 15th instant it gives us pleasure lo learn that the hon robert p letcher late governor ofthe state of kentucky is expected in this city in the course ofthe week it is rumored that he has been offered and will accept a foreign mission as an honorable distinction by his own go vernment few men could be deemed more wor thy to receive it mr clay — wc believe we violate no con iijence in stating that in a letter from mr clay received by a distinguished whig in this cily some weeks since he declared very ex plicitly and emphatically that he deemed it the duty of every whig to give a cordial and earn est support to the administration of gen tay lor and lhat no differences of opinion as to can didates for office should lead any one to forget or neglect this obligation — v y courier the cuiii'ins at new york — the receipts ofthe new york custom house are said to be unusually large at tbe present lime reaching iu the neighborhood of one million a week — on wednesday la»t lhe c_e[w_»iles in the cash ier's office reached two hundred and forty-thou sand dollars from tiie rio grande the brownsville(rio grande flag con tinues to mention serious indian deprida tionson that line of the texas frontier its number of the 2d ins'ant contains orders from headquarters at san anlonia removing company c of the 2d dragoons to palefras and company g of tbe same regiment to larodo thc commanding officer at brownsville is also recommend ed to buy horses for the mounting of at least fifty men in order that his command may be able to pursue and punish any parties of indians that make their appear ance within his reach these orders and recommendations were it seems dispatch ed from san antonio some weeks since hut lhe execution of them has been delay ed by the intercepting or murder ofthe express rider who was conveying them to brownsville drowned — three valuable negro men be longing to iln messrs mordecai of this vicini ty were found drowned in a creek about 12 miles from this city on saturday last it is not known how ihey were drowned but is sup posed that one of them probably got out ol bia depth and that the others were lost in the strug gie for his assistance raleigh register drowned a negro man the property of dr s miller i was knocked off a boat which struck hilton i jrid^e as she passed under it and was drown ' ed his body was found this morning and a coroner's inquest he\<l wilmingion corn mercial the repuhlic slates that general oudinot '-■ after examining by a court martial into the facts ofthe riolalion of ihe house ofthe amer , iean consul at rome made proper acknowl edgments to mr cass the charge mr brown ; j_e consul being absent at ancona