Captain Marryat, who is travelling in the Western States of
America, has been much annoyed by a false report of having intrigued With the wife of a physician in Louisville, Kentucky; and still more annoyed by the receipt of five hundred anonymous letters, (not post- paid,) prompted by the general suspicion that he is collecting materials for quizzing the Americans. Against this persecution Captain Mar- ryat makes appeal, in one of his eccentric, half .serious, half-mystiqing letters.
A sanguinary duel was fought with broadswords between two mem. hers of the New Orleans bar, at Bayou St. Louis, on the inth ult. The combat was dreadful ; one of the parties died of his wounds on the following day, and the survivor had one arm severed from his body. It is a singular fact, that after the deceased was run through the body, he walked from the field of conflict to his hotel ; after which, he was taken to the steam-boat and conveyed to New Orleans, where he died. The cause of quarrel has not transpired.—Standord.
The Society of Friends in New England have published an earnest appeal to merchants and other trading to the Islands of tile Pacific, to abstain from the introduction of fire-arms, munitions of war, and espe- cially of ardent spirits, among the natives of these islands. It is justly remarked, that among savages, who feel not the restraints of civilized society and the Christian religion, the evils occasioned by war and intemperance must be more frightful and extensive than in Europe and America.
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