

 and honor to the country, as those sent from neighboring states.

 By gentlemen who have lately arrived here from Memphis, we are informed efthe little, mean and ungentlemanly artifces that are zealously practised by the inhabi- taRsS of that place, to deter emigration to this Territory. Emigrants are closely beset, and the most gite and false islanders respecting the roads, the soil, the morals of the inhabitants, &c. are dealt out to them with an untiring zeal. We are des- eribed as rather below the Savage, h bru- tality of manners-as destitute of moral honesty, reckless of human life, and worse if possible than all this. The climate is de- nounced as unhealthy in the extreme, and whatever else their diaboEicaI imaginations canconceiye, is used as an argument to pre- Eentemigrants from leaving their heaAhti.l shores.

 Some have believed their false tdles and

 

 justly concluding that self-interest was the grand motive, that gave so black picture of new and thriving country, paid no re- gard to the dismal pourtray, but persever- cd until they had full opportunity of stamp ing the seal of faisehood on all they had heard. Ifsuch conduct is honorable, they riorl,4 I1v ! l T,,a they widely swerve from the path of moral honesty. Let them trumpet forth the fame of their own soil-extol its fertility to the highest degree-proclaim the saEubs-ty of their climate far and wide, and point out all the advantages they possess, or think they possess-thus far they may go without derogating from their character as men fprinciple--but when they descend to the pitiabie means of islander and falsehood, to impose on emigrants, it is the duty of all honest men to point at them the finger of scorn, and hold them forth to the obloquy they justly merit.

 

 a gentlemen from Sevier county, that the three Companies of Infantry, ordered to be transferred from Cantonment Jesup to Cantcnment Gibson, while marching thro' Hampstead county, were overtaken by an express, and ordered to return again to Cantonment Jesups in conssquence of the order of Gen. Gaines, being countermand- ed by Major Gen. Macomb.

 The Steamer Waverley, Capt. Pennywit, arrived at this place, from Cantonment Gibson, on Wednesday evening last. After short detention. she departed for New Orleans.

 The Steamer Industry, Capt. Johnson, from the Mouth of White River, arrived at