Arrest of Pirates.
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David Babe and George Matthews, two of ile
pirates and murderers recently belonging to the
Sarah Lavinia, were arrested at the house OF MI
Knowles, No. Washington-street, yesterday
| morning, and are now in custody OF the 7. >
Marshal. They are both young men, BABE is
said to be native of England and Matthews be-
longs to Maryland. They had an accompice
named William Webster, who has not been ar
rested and is supposed to have gone to Pl!adei-
phia.


The pirates landed about 8 miles below New
port, r. Island, ION the opposite shore on Sat
urday night and gave the boat, the schooners
compass, and S43 in money next morning to be
put over to Newport. Here they remained dur
ing Sunday at the tavern Of Mr.. Knight. At )
O'Clock in the afternoon they took the boat for
Providence, and next day crossed the railroad for
Stonington and arrived here in the steamboat
Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning.


The deputy sheriff of New Bedford, accompa-
MED by Mr.. Knight, pursued them, coming TO
the city in the succeeding trip OF the Massachu-
sets, and arrived yesterday morning. The
pirates left bag Of clothes on board the Massa-
chusetts, which was examined and found to con-
tain articles belonging to the captain and mate,
some Of them having been recently washed but
still wet, and bearing upon them, apparently, the
marks Of blood A man, after the ARRIVAL OF the
boat Yesterday, went on board with ticket to
get the bag, by which means the residence OF the
pirates was discovered. Matthews was arrested
forthwith. and Babe short time afterwards, the
latter having been absent when the officers ar
rived at the house They were separately con-
Quoted on board the steamboat and lnterrOgatcd.
Matthews at first denied all knowledge Of the
transaction He afterwards said that Babe called
Webster, the cook, and himself from the forecas-
tie, told them that the captain and mate had be-
come engaged in scufiie and had fallen over
board-that Babe then took charge OF the vessel,
and few days afterwards, when they ncarcd
land. he directed the cook to do some duty IN re-
la,ion to the sails, and while so engaged nc went
behind him, struck hlm over the head with mar
line spike, and killed him. Babe then directed
Webster and Matthews to throw the body Of the
cook overheard, threatening, if they did not that
he would serve them in the same way. This ver-
sion of the story is strenuously denied by Babe,
who states that he was spectator and the others
actors Babe Is II powerfully framed man.
Matthews is rather the reverse and appears to be
perfectly PROSTATE. He seems anxious to turn
States evidence. Mcssrs. VIM. N. Price and
A. Nash have been retained as their counsel.
After the arrival of the boat on Tuesday, Babe
Whose real name, by the way, is said to be Will
liam Brown exchanged at the store OF MIR. Ink
ham an elegant gold watch which had belonged
to the mate, for a silver one, and $50 in money.
Mr.. T. readily gave it up to Mr.. Rapelje, the T.
S. Deputy Marshal The prisoners were COM
mitted to the Tombs, and will undergo an ex-
animation on Tuesday next.