Mr. Can Buren and Mr. Clay are both on electioneering
tours. They are marshalling their friends.
The Congressional elections are in progress in the States of North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana. In North Carolina there is a probability that the Whigs will gain one member. In Kentucky they will lose one, perhaps two. In Indiana the chances are that they will lose two. The districts that the Whig party is likely now to lose were carried at the last election generally by divisions in the Adminis- tration ranks, which are now healed. There will, however, be a decided majority against the Administration in the next Congressional House of Representatives, and a more decided majority in favour of it in the Senate.—Genevese Traveller.
It is estimated that there are 833 Seminoles left on the Peninsula. The United States have already expended about 30,000,000 dollars in hunting the Indians from the morasses and swamps of Florida. They have not yet succeeded. It will probably cost them as much more to get rid of the remnants of this gallant and savage band.
At Pickensville, Alabama, Mr. W. B. Finley was shot by a man named Gerald. At Selma, Mr. IPMunia was killed by James .Hamil- ton. At Elizabeth, North Carolina, Mr. Sawyer was stabbed to the heart by Mr. -Gregory. At Pike, Mr. Peterbaugh was killed by Mr. Elliott. At St. Louis, Mr. Brown was killed by Mr. Buchanan. An these murders occurred in street or tavern broils ; and I am glad to see that the Southern and Western press are becoming urgent in their calls upon the Legislatures to enact laws against the wearing of secret arms —the one grand cause, united with intemperance in some instances, or so much bloodshed.-11forning Chronicle Correspondent.
It is computed that 1,000,000 of emigrants have landed in the United States since 1819. From that year to 1838 inclusive, 486,036 arrived in the single port of New York.
Two thousand five hundred signatures are affixed to a memorial at Rochester, U. S., for the liberation of Mackenzie. A meeting has also been held at Utica, New York, in which a memorial to a similar effect was agreed upon, and the example of the British Government quoted as to the recent pardon of prisoners, and as a worthy precedent for the United States Government to act upon.
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