The Philadelphia correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing on the

21st of September, supplies the following items of nuseellaueous news— Mr. Chequer, an eminent merchant of New York, was killed by a concussion of railroad cars, on Saturday last. Orders have been given by the Navy Department to fit out the frigate United States, and a new sloop of war, at Charlestown (Boston) immediately.

The Barque George Bedford, of New York, was accidentally burnt, at the mouth of the Mississippi, on the 3d instant.

Two duels occurred at New Orleans last week, and two persons were wounded.

The yellow fever is truly dreadful at New Orleans and Mobile. At the latter city, which has usually 16,000 inhabitants, there aro new only 3,000, in consequence of the people flying from the pestilence.

Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Clay have finished their tours through the country; which, owing to the many public receptions given them, were called " royal progresses." They were certainly very much like eleetoineering.journies. But Mr. Van Buren is sure of his reflection,

The ship Queen Adelaide was totally lost at Abaco, on th17 the ult. Pas- sengers, and part of the cargo, saved; she was front Philadelphia, bound to Texas.

Notwithstanding the pressure of the times, there are four theatres in full blast in New York, and two in Philadelphia; and, what is strange, they were never better supported. The Countess of Westmoreland and a large party are gone on a Visit to Boston. Her Ladyship is in excellent health. As a wild beast caravan was crossing the Cayuga last week, it fell through the bridge. An elephant escaped from the caravan in the water, swam ashore, and seemed highly delighted with his adventure. The Indians continue to scalp, cut throats, and mutilate bodies of Whites in Florida.

A respectable gentleman of Germantown, Ohio, named Bury, while trying to reconcile a quarrel between John James and another, was brutallSm murdered by James, without provocation.

Mr. Kean, the tragedian, is laid up with illness at New York, Dr. Bostick, his physician, has issued a card, saying that "Kean cannot appear with eati!ty before Monday next." 0

Matthew Carey, Esq., formerly of Ireland, but for many years a resident of Philadelphia, where he accumulated a large fortune, died on Tuesday, in the eightieth year of his age. He was one of the most eminent philanthropists Of modern times, and his remains were followed to time grave by thousands of people. Matthew Carey was brother to the late Mr. Carey, of Birmingham and London, so well known for his judgment in the fine arts. Ills son is Mr. Carey, of the firms of Carey and Hart, and Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, the largest publishing-house (Harper's excepted) in America. As Mr. Carey Cor- responded with several of the first men in Great Britain both in philosophy and politics his death will not be passed over by any of them without a feeling of respect for his memory and many virtues.

There cannot be a stronger proof of the scarcity of money, than the feet that all the workmen empleyed in building the New York. Exchange were discharged on Saturday last.

In consequence of the pestilence, the Mobile papers are now only published. weekly instead of daily, and some of the New Orleane journals are printed OA half instead of whole sheets. The mortality among editors and printers has been weeping. The news from Arkansas is really horrible' according to a letter published in the Lonisritte Journal, and dated August 27th. The three men who were hum? by Lynch law for the murder of the 'Wright family (time writer stales) are believed to be innocent, and " suspicion rests upon an individual who was clerk to the Legislature at Arkansas last session.' One 'Wallace, residing at Fayetteville, had murdered one man and stabbed another. Ile WAS bailed out by Judge Hodge, but atools attetnpted to take Win for the purpose of esereis- sug Luvh law. They were repulsed at the last accounts, but were again gathering. Thua you see, that in these thinly-settled wilds, the people Sus osern1-savagc; but I 'sincerely hope that the hanging of innocent men will tarn out to-he untrue.. The *hole fresh; of time Union denounces these atrocities.

In Pensacola, which coutaine 5,000 inhabitants, there were only six, deaths mothi up to September lit, and three of those were from yellOwle`ffer • hoard the Frentli fleet from Vera Cruz. • This year, at any tate,. Penseetila 'may be teemed the Meet healthy place in the world. • •

• Fires have been un-usually numerous in the United States since I last *rote. cast iireek, one at -.Neches' destroyed twenty hourfes, and property -worth 110,000 densest- one at Richmond, 10,000 dollars; one at Charleston, 30,000

dollars ; four at New York ; one at New Orleans, 10,000 dollars. •

• Two New York pilot-boats, with nearly twenty persons on board, are ,be- *red to have been lost in the late gale. • They went out a mouth ago, and hays not been heard of since. The wives and children of the drowned men amount to nearly eighty persons. Poor Mr: Ex-Sheriff Parkins, formerly of London, and not long out of a Now York prison, has been again held to bail for an assault on a Sheriff's bfficer.

Two gentlemen, named Putnam and Stone, have been lynched and much /Mitred at Parkersburg, Virginia, because they were suspected of having fur- nished m mercy to Virginia slaves to enable them to escape into Ohio. r Two thousand one hundred steerage passengers arrived in New York from Europe during four days of this month. Mr. Ferrer, a merchant of Madison, Mississippi, was deliberately shot last week by Mr. King, owing to the latter claiming a Negro in the possession of Mr. Ferrer as his property. • . Mr. Bland, a postmaster, was stabbed through the body on Monday, by a Man named Whitaker, in a quarrel. Mcire than 3,000 miles of railroad are completed in the United States, at an average cost of 20,000 dollars per mile.

• Vincent Decamp, brother of the late Mrs. Charles Kemble, died in July last, at Houston in Texas.

Among the true bills found by the Grand Jury at Montreal, at the late criminal term of the Court of King's Bench, are bills against Papineau, Nelson, O'Callaghan, Brown, and others, for high treason. These proceedings are founded on an ordinance passed by the Governor and Council in March last.