General Intelligence: From Texas--peace With Mexico

Texas papers lo the 24th of June, received at New ürleans, on the Ist instant, bring the most important iii'eillgénce that the anr.istice had been ngreed upon between Mexico and Texas. This is announcd in a'procla mation from President Uouston, issued on t!;e 15th uit. - The armistice is to continue during the penderxy of negocia. ions for a permanent peoce, and until duo notico of its ces 6a;ion sha!I liave been formally announced through the Britisli charge d'offaires. The armistice and the agreement to negocíate have been brought aboul by the Britisli charge d'afiaires in Texas and Mexico. The Uouston Tclegraph gives the folloiving account of the Mexican President's propositions; We have not peen the conimnnication of ihe British Minister, but we understand from a respectnble source thal the propositions are far more favorable to Texas than those previously eent by Santa Annu, and brought by Judffe Robinson. The are, however so vague and indefinito, that we are nt a loss to know whether he is riisposed lo ocknowledge ihe independence ol Texas, or inerely to renew negociations lor Texas to reiurn to the Mexican confederaov, and tgiiin bccomc an integral jart of this country. A Pensinned Kmg.- The King of Hanover, on indepndenl sovereign as he is styled in olficidl palance, reccivcs a pension from the British Government- the same thnt he enjoyedwhenDuke of Cimberlond, viz: L21,000 per annum! We learn from the English papers, that Mr. Hume had given notice of a lesolution in the House ofCommons, to the effect that thip pauper allowancu to a crowned head was a waste to the public money, and njUBtice to the people of the Uuited Kingoom, and that, therefore, the pension granted o the Duke be discontinuetl bo long as hc renains King.About the it of Mny, six nesrroes beloning to Anthony Wilkinson and Henry Parkin son of Washington county, in thia State, ran away from their niasters, persiinded no doubt by nbolitionists, and after much expense and troubie, their owners got upon the trnil of tnem and puraued tliem to Charleston, Coles county, Illinois, where, hao it not been for the aid wluch the nrgioes received from nn abolitmnisf, tliey wou'd now hnve been in the pos.ces8.on of their toasters. To the citizens generally of Charleston, Mr. WUkinson expresses his acknowledgmeiit for the assistance they rcndered hun. The man who aided the negroe to eecnpe was W. VV. Bishop, the Locofoco editor of the Chnrlpsi on Courier. In his paj.er he malíes the following rema-ks: Hiere have been some slave hunters in this vicimty for several days; two negroes who have fled from Washington county, Mo. have mntie their way by night marches, to the neighborhood of this place. We are well known to bo no nboliiiunis, bnt hberty is sweet and we wiéli the poor fullows thi.t success which their courage and resolution deserves.- St. Louis RepubUcan. Ilow tokeepMilk.-A large portion of the milknowuselinNew York city, is received by the New York and Erie RaiJroad, from the sweet pastures of OranrC and the rich dniries ot Uit ter. A spirit of rivalry hs been colled out among the old milkmen against their new competitors,nnd it was insinuated that the Grange milk could not be kopt eweet so long, unless some deleterious chemical prepration was addcd. The folluwing account, glven bv an Orange county farmer, of the rninner in which thfiir ruilk is senL to tnarkel, BjUie&c torily accounts for 's keepinír so well, nince Jure milk, quickly cooled and kept at a Jow :e.r.perature, will be sweet for a long time sven in warm weather: The cows are milked. ;ar!y hl the moruing at Goshen and iis vicinity, lie milk put into cans containing from 60 to rf) quarts, idto which a tin tube filleó with ice s inserted and stirred until the anmal heat is ïxpclled from the.milk. Ii is Uien sent by he Railroad, and arrivés a disíunce of 80 nilcs, at the milk depots in four end a half tours. The tube filled with iceis again in;erted, and the milk thns kept cool and sweet inti! pold. It can be. arTordd to the public at our cents per quart of which the f'irmer gets vvo cents per quart, and is well satisfied, as t 'ields more profit th:in butter at twenty-five :ents per pound.The FighJing Clergyman of Tennessee. We have once or twire recorded the savings and doing8 oflhe modern Bishop of Beaiivois In a lite number of his paper, we fintl the flluwing. Títere is no circumlocution ahout Parson Brownlow: "A Card. - Wliile seated in my house writhg. disturbing no mnn, and without any knowlpdge of any quarrelling going on, Mr. Garlnml was cnlïed on, as I nnderstnnd, by L. C. Hiiynes, to send me down to him, to meet hun in c'ortibnt, I suppose in the slreet. I once called on i hut liase, cownrdly puppy, in a mnnly and honorable way, and he refused to fight; but lied Jike a dog, 'm that he denied liuviiiii any weapon?. I .-nttsf decline the honor of paying him a second visit, hut on the ground thut ns "oue pood turn deserves another," he onght to cali on me. This would be turn-about, and of course fair plny. I now, as hererofore. pronounce Mr. llaynes n lifir, villinin nnd a coward - having1 no other backers in Joneb rmigh than a sel of thieves. And tliis I iníend as personal to all wh consider themselves liis bnckers. VV1LLIAM G. BROWNLOW." Englund. - The New Yo.k Journal ofCommerce contains a Kpg letter frorn Lontinr;, jriving i jreneral view of the aspect of a.ffairs in the United Kingdom. We clip from it the followingf paragraph: This couiüry pretentp, jtist now, a most extnioniinary spectacle. Chartis-m hascrammed the jnil of Rnghnul - Scotlènd etaggers j under a rrliírious uismeinberment - Wales is at Ihe mercy of orpanized predatory bands- Irelund is enuvulsed wiih a "passive" nbeÜion - aml the United Kingdom, after all the tvrancal and oppressive schemesof the Cabinet to buister ui the reveiiup, is on the year, in an awful deficit of two tnUlions and a half sterling! Advocates nnd Clievfs. - An advocate, by the dut.y whioh he owes to his cliënt, knows. in the discharge of tliat office, but oro person in the wo hl - that cüent, and no other. To save that cliënt at ail hazards and costs to all olherp, and aniong others to himself - is the high est and most tinqestioned of his d'ities; and he m.iisf not regard the alarm - the suffering - the lortnen1 - the destruoiion - which he m iy briiig upon any other. Nay, separoting even the dutics of a patriot Trom those of nn advocóte, and casting them, if need be, to the wmd, he must go on reckless of the conseqnences, if his fate should unhappily be to involve his country ín confusión for hisclient's pro'ection. - Lord Brougham. Quere as to ths morality of all this.Cornslalk Svgar and Molasses. - correspondent of the Marshall Statesman, writirp f rom Edwardsbwrgh, gives an nccount of the succeFsful manufacture of Supar and Molasses, by a gentleman of that place, RfV. Luther Hnmphrey, who ha9 been for 12 years a resident of the St. Joseph country, nnd s well known in that región. He calcúlate? that lie can make Molasses to ef,ual the best qnah'lies made from the migar enne at 25 cents a pailón, and sugar ai 5 or C cents a ponnd. The wriler gives the following receipt for making the mnlnsses without nny machinery. Take the cornstalks as soon as they havo tlieir growih, or as soon as the taspel begint lo blossom, cut Ihem in pieces boil thetn in a kettle for an honr or two, press out the jujee in any way to please, and boil it down to a syrup. Gieat FireinFall Meer. - A drstructive fire occurred in the villiage of Fall River, Mass. on Sunday, nt 3 P. Ai. Among the buildings destroyed, were the Custon) House, Poft Office, Methodist Church, Free Will Baptist Church, Universalist Church, Pocasactt House, Mamifiicturer's Hotel, Fall River Bank, and the Loring's Instituí ions Loss estimated from $200,000' to $300,000. Between one and two hundred buildings destroyed. The fire caught by a boy firing a pistol mèthe cabinet maker's shop of Mr. Wesgate, in Union street. The Boston Bulletin has hoisted the fla? of Daniel Webster for the Presidency. We fear he is too great a man, and too Hule of an i intriguer, to be elecled. But there is no knowing hnw the cards may turn up. The very fact of there being so mtny candicates - moet of them ultraists, on one side or the other - may cause the clection of a moderado, phoud the'qucstiort go into the House which is vcry poseible.- -Journal of Commcrce.Tempcrrnee cause in EngUtnd.-h, is surpn-Hyr t .at tlus canse has m?de no more 'pogress in hngland, vvith al] the Jight that i,0B been s lied on ft from this country. That wine s .ou d sull be Ifound „ „ie velries JlLL els, lor the ministers o regale thenne.ves with and that ,t sho„ld st!l be furnfeheá to speakers publ.cly at reUgïoOH annlversar.es, are melanclioly fects, open and shameless. A let ter from Dr. Neai duted Liverpool, June 2d, to Mr.Stow of Boston, published in thé Watchman, informa us that he atiended a great union meeting in Exeter Hall, the dav preceeding, where he had the plensure of hennnff Drs. Htrrtaj Cox. J. Angelí Jai.ies and ocher d.st.nguished ministers, hold forth in their happiest moods.' and saw wine pr.vided to refres-h the speakers. That thething may be presenied as it wae, we make tiie following extrncl in regard to it. After noticin tlie kind and able spirit manifesled by the speakers, and the patience with which the people sat, and 'many stood, and women, too, trom 3 o clock in the morning till 4 in the afternoon, hesays- 'There was another circumstouce, thut I rather think would have made our Boston people stare. Ader the hall was crowded, and the exercise about to commence, wlio ghould enter, and advance up to the table on the platform, where the ministers were ttm?, bulasen antgir! with iwo decanters of real oíd Madeira. What woutd our temperance people say to that? Ministers drinking wine during public religious exercise!'- One would suppose that the wonderful propre&s of the cause ir. Ireland would have effectually rebuked such criminal indeceney as this, VVhaL.-in admirable contrivance of the devil, this, io make a clever union meeting. A few glassps of wine nre se well calculated to sett'e difTe.-ences, and íestorc harmony, anc inspire kind and generouseeüngs. It couid i:ot be otherwise than that all wouid become mellow and fnrgiving, if the decanters were passed round freely. The devil ia a shrewd manger for a union meeting, depend upon it JY. Y. Bapttsl Register. The Tomata. - Thomas Jefferson Rando!ph, the protege of Jefferson, in an Address before the Agricultura! Society of Aïbermarle Bounty, Va., latfly delivered, stated that Mr. Jefferson, 'could recoilect when the totnato was cultivated as an ornament to the flower (rardens, cnlled love apples, and deemed poitonous. It was eaten by but one individual, i resident of VV!Hi:injsburp,n foreigner, whose peculiar constitution or the formal inn of who?e ïtomach, was supposed to resist its delectendus effect.Henson's Aerial Machine.- 'We observe by a late Londou paper that the success of this mncliine is no longer doubtful. Mr. Henson, the inventor, lia?, afier the most indefatigable and proise worihy perseverance, constructeci a mode) mnchine on the scnle of an inch to a foot, and succeeded so far in his experiment as Jo leave no doubt of its ultímate adoption At a recent tnal, which took place at the Hippodrome, Ihe machine flew obout 800 yards, and perfect control was niaintined over it, the depression and elevntion being managec skilifully. - lioston Bulletin. Staíislirs f rom an English Author. - Cosí of selj-rndulgence. A single gambling house in London, cosr, nol long since, with iis furniuire, $500,000, and tlie receipts of tlie propiietor in one year amounted to just about the same sum. The money lost snnualij i a! tlie grmblinj liouses i that city exceeds $35,000,000. ín One house alone, $5,000000 was recent ly lost in one night. Une nobleman pays 1500 a year for a single box at the opera. On the two nrticles of tobáceo and ardent spirits, Great Britain spendsmore than f 120,000,000 annually. Anothcr Riot in Ohio. - We find the folluwing paragraph in the (.'incinna'u Message of June 26th: 'We Icam that Ex-Govornor Corvviis residence, at Lebanon, Ohio, on Friday night last, was stoned, and the windows completely riddled. The rcason assiirned is, that he figned the petition to Gov. Shannon to have a negro pardoned. The citizens have the sheriff of the county in jail, by his own request, likely. Many years ngo a inob was got up in New Jersey: üullets were used asa remedy. There have been no mobs in New Jersey since. It served as on effeclual quietus.' Jlnnval Cosl of a private Soldier in Engbind. - The daily pay of a private soldier Toot) is Is. with ltl. for beer. The daily pay of a life guards-man is Is. lijd. and the annual cost is L74 As. lid. per man, bcside horse nj.d nllowancr, orLl 8s. per week. Footgunrds, L34 6s. or 13?. 2d. per week. A regiment of horse solcHers, of nbout 300 men nnd ofïjcrri:, costs about L35,000 per annum. The w.nges of sea men in the royul nvy are L2 12?. ber month, or 1S.. per week; and L1 12s.or 8s. per week more are allowed for their provisions.L'fe in Havana. - The Havana correspondent of the New Orlenns Picayune, in giving the :iews from that place, describes 'a glorious buil fight' :is having just taken place there. - 'Four glorious fellows feil in the ring; but oefoie the faïal thrusr, well ditl they g'we battle, and four dead horses, four others badly ijoar ed, and a piado crushed between the palings and a dying liorse so badly, that t is doubtful if he will recover,attest how well the indomitable fought. Every mouth is loud in their praise.' The same writer snys. 'we have had three executions within the last fortnight, and an equal number of azotados,or whipped. These punishmens were all within one inonth after the committnl of the offences.' Late from Yucatán. - Captain Wright, of the schooner Denmark, arrived in port yesterday, from Sisal, having leít Merida on the Oth instant. Up to the latest dates, General Ampudia hnd not abandoncd the seigeof Campeachy, althuugli Ihe Mexican soldiers were deserting daily in increastd numbers. The commissioner.s had lolt Yucatán for Mexico, to ogree on a basis for a treaty of peace, but the terms proposed were not known. Business on the coist was dull. Comtuodore IMoore was 'm Campeachj', and the Captain informs us it was the general opinión that he was blockaded there, by the Mexican 6qtiadron. - JYew Or lea na Bulletin. MrSingleton Mcrcer, the y ouög gentleman who shot young Heberton and was acquitted of the murder on the ground of insanity, has commenced the cornmission business at Phüadelphin on his own hook.' Of course he is no lnnger insane, nor is Wood, the man who deliberately shot his own daughter, for having marned against his wish. It is remarkable hov Rome people Iopc uil command oí their sen?efl, and aidilculv rvciwer them again.Mesmensm - Professor De Bonneville, a celc-brated magnctizer, has been for the last two weeks astonishing the people of .this city by hissurprisingfexhibitions of the wonders ot this new science. The exporiments of the rToiassor seem clearly to establish the realily of this science, wilh its almost miraoulous re"sui;B,or Hse he has not less miraculonsly imposcd upon the evidence of the Eenmes of the whole eominiinity- Chicago Citizen. Inlellifrence of the JVinrleenth Ccntury.- L he bella of the Parish Cliurch in Montreal were consecrated on the 29th ultimo. There were present lliirieon goofnthers and godmothers. The bells veredressed in velvet and flowered gold cloth. These dresses cost $2,000!! Music from the operas and an ap propriate sermón concluded the ceremony. Jarins D. Lane, an honest, industrious nnd trnstworthy man in N. Y. has just ben sentenced to the State Prison for the term of 12 yenrs, because iie like a Christian saw a colored woman and her child on board the schooner Empire, of which lie was steward, atid did not betray der. This iu a land which boasts of its liberly. Shame, O shame!- Momiiig Slar. Important Decisión.- -The Sapreme Court of Errors at New Haven Ct. have decided, in effect that the proprietors of the lost steamboat Lexington are responsible for all the freight on board at the time of her dpstruclion, althoiigh notices were pnsted up in the boat, and inserted in the bilis of lading, that all freight was to be at the risk of the owners. Twenty-one Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-eight dollars have been awarded, by the Court of General Sessions of Philadelphia, to the proprelor8 of Pennsylvania Hall, which was destroyed by a mob some years ago. A few moresucnawards will make the city nuthorities a Jittle more enetgetic in putting a stop to all such out-breaks against the public peace. Expense of Cnristening. - The public charge for christening the Prince of Wales was 2,50C., considorably more than $10,000. - Sir Robert Peel was r-bliged to vindicate it in Parlioment against the well deserved censure of Jospph Humo. He paid thai the exppnse was really much greater, bul that Queen Victoria had paid all Uit this s-null sum out of her own pocket Strawberries - The Mercantile Journal statea that from 3 to 500 Luxes of fine strawberries are daily brought into iioston from the gardens attached to the House of Correctior. - Allowing nn average of 400 boxes, and the wholesale price one shilling per box, (they retail now from 20 io 25 cents per box, hey would amount to $66,66 per day. A good business, as ihey are producedn a small bpace.More Humbug. - By a law paesed by the New Hompsliire Legislature, in 1842, which law canic in forcé on the Ist instant, the circulation of $1 bilis is prohibited in that State. The Banks of the State are not allowed to issue tlicm, and any person who take3 one into the State for the purpose of passing it, is Hable tobe fíned$10. Artesian Wells. - We see it stated in a late Frenen account, that the Artesiau well in the Garden of Plants in Paris, is to be bored to the depth of 900 metres, or nearly 1000 yards - wi-h a view of procuring water warm enough for the use of hot honses,and to warm the hospitals and the manogerie. Deatk of John Holmes. - The Portland Advertiser of Saturday, announces the death of John Holmes, late District Attorney of the Uniied States in Maine - and who has been for many years distinguished in other important pnblic stations. For sonie years past he resided at Thomaston. He was in the se ven tieth year of h is age. JYaospapers. - The Salem Gazette contains a list of all the newspapers in Massachusetts, so far os known to the editor, 69 in number. The oldest of them is the Massachusetts Spy, which was established in 1771. Only seven .vere commenced prior to the present centuary In Richtnond, Indiana, two years ago there were sixty di6til!eriee; thcre are now but two, and we sincereiy hope tliat lhe next nes will e that these are used up! A short time ogo there were 8 rurn ehops, now there is but one. "I have Jived," eays Dr. Adam Clark, 'M o cnow that the great secret of human happiness is this: - nevr sunèr your energiea to siagnate. The old adage of too many irons n the fire, conveys an untmth. You cannot ïave loo many - poker, tongs and all - keep them all a going.''Cost of Mob Violence. - The jury appointed by the Court of General Sessions at Phi[adelpliia, to assess the damnges occasioned by the destruction of Pennsylvania Hall, have awarded to the proprietors of that building thesum of $22,658,29. A Duel. - A d'iel took place on the 28th ultimo, near Savanah, Geargia, between Lieutenant Ridgeley. U. á. Navy, and a Dr. Schleigh . The parties er ossed over to the Carolina side of the rive, and at the first fire both vere wounded. - United Stahs Gazelle.' A paper in Texas recommenda to the setlers not to run into debt. Having run from debt to get hore. says he, there con be no greater íblly than running into it, when here beyond which there is no place lo run. The Lawrenceburgh, Ia., Beacon says that two free negroes were recently decoyed to the jail in that place by a constable named Joseph Da rragh. and l henee laken in a boat aeróse the Ohio, and lodged in jail at Lexington, Ky. charged with being runaways. Lovisiana Eleclion. - The election for members of Congress 8tc. was held in this state on the Sd inst. The N. O. Herald of the 4lh claims that the democrats have carried all the members of Congress. The whig papers of the same date seem to think that such niay be the case. A newspaper is now published in Jerusalem in three languape?, Germán, English, aud He brew. It is said to bo uni'er the euperintendence of Di. Alexander, the new Protestant Bishop. The Legislatura of New Hnmpshire adjourned on Saturdny raorninor, lst,after a short session of only 25 days. The number of acts paesed is sixty-fix.Afnca - A Jatearrivol írom this ill fated land, bnngs the intelligence that the elave faetones at the Galenas are rebuilt, and are doing as brisk a business s ever. There were a number of slavers on the coast, one or two of which had fnll cargoesjand weie prepairinc to sail for Cuba. fa VVhen will peop]e learn the sense principie that the slave-trade can be deatroyed only by desfroying S.'avery? As Ion as there is a market there will be a supply. Capt. Siliiman, of the brig Rebecca, from St. John, PoitRoyaJ, reporta that on the lffth May a slaver sniled for the coast of África. She had a short lime previously landeda cargo of 6laves, of 340 and upwards, in a very emaciated state, many not being able to stand whenlanded. The slaver is a sharp topsail schooner, Baltimore built, under Portuguese colors, and said to be a fast sailer. The crew is large, and of the most piraticai appearance. -Cotir. and Enq. The Ene. - Those engageii in arising the wreek oftiie Erie, arp successfully employed witli their diving bell in gettingup the machinery. So accurately were lliey enabled to desígnate the place by means of a compass, and by the ranges, that though the buoys were all moved by the ice last spring, they replaced them, and on the firt time of letting down the bell, it struck upon the boat. The uiility of the compass with which thediscovery was made, is thus fairiy tested. We understand it can be successfully used in discovering beds of ore in mines, and it is so susceptable to metallic influence, that Cpt. Cbapin, its inventor, thinks he will bo able to discover the ron safe which was on the boat. - Fredonia Censor.M. Gulzlatf.-A letter from Berlín, Marcb 2, saya- -The protestant Missionary,M. Gutz laff, who has just been named Consul General of England in China, is a native of Dusseldorf, fPrussia,) and about 50 years of age. He has been twelve years in China, and has publisheü important works on the country. It is he who acted as interpreter in the negoliation between the Chinese and English. He gave a New Testament, in the Chinese language, to each of ihe delegates, who promised to examine it with much attention . He also sent a Chinese Bible to to the Emperor. He receives a' lare' salary from the British Government, whicli he spends almost entirely in advancing the missionary cause in China. He resides, as Consul, in the Island of Amoy, in the gulf of that name, on which is siluated the province of Fo Kion, so famed for its tea." Onondugo Salt.- This ai ticle is now sent to New York and sold at one dollar a barre!. One Commiasion merchanl in that city estimated his sales this season at 100,000 bairels. It is sent to Maine, New Jersey and all other places along the seaboard. Great pams, it is said, are laken by the inspectors to see that the article be of the best quality. - Bvff. Conu Longevity. - Of the 107 glorious old men of the Revoltition, whoattended the Bunker Hill celeb'ation un the 17lh inst, the youngest was 74 andt he oldest 97. There were 22 whose ages were of that number of years and under eighty ; 70 of and ovor eighty and under ninety, and 6 of and over 90.The Canada mission have pubüshed their annual report, in which they slate that during the year 1342, fifteen hundred slaves escapee from their masters in the United States anc are now in Canada. 'l"here are said to be fifí v-one towns ín the state of New iïampshire in which ardent spirits cannot be bought, except for medical purposes. Unevangelical Populatiun of England.- It is stated that three fifths of the popuiation of Knjjland, do not attend any place of vorship.