ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP "A GREAT EXCITEM ENT! Correspondence of the N. American.

 Pe!ersburr, April 18th,
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Pe!erSOurT, Aprli lotns

 We had quito m excitement this morn- ing at the Monongahcla house. A slave catcher, accompanied by a constable at tempted 10 take slave (so they asserted he was, and we have only their say for it) at that house. don't know whether he wasa waiter 'or not, probably he was. but they caught him and attempted 10 tic him when he cried = murder ? at a tres mcnduos rate. This brought up all the colored people in the hotels around, and in q short lime they attempted to fake him of. when .hey fell on ihcm, carried of :he man, beat the slave caichcrs when they resisted, md finally got o", warrants and arrested them both. be- Iievc this Is pcni!entiary offence under the new law. A,"ll events, they did a very foolish thing 10 come here and try to kidnap man in open daylight.

 saw mos, or all of inc melee. Tho kidnnppers did not stand the hundredlh part of Il cl,ance. l saw one of them put his hand in his coat pocket three times 10 pull out pistol and bowie knife but he very fortunately did not. It would have been his Geuth.

 [ saw no white persons engaged in it. but there was universal indignation nt this outrageous attempt to carry off a man wi,houta a chance to answer for hfn. self. Piisburg is bad plnco to kidndp, especially in daylight. .,