From the Pennsylvania.
SLIDELL MACKENZIE.
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At the instance of several gentlemen of this
CITY, a subscription paper has been placed upon
the table at the Exchange for the purpose OF raIs
ing sufficient fund to purchase sword, to be
presented to Commander A. S. Mackenzie, as q
token of the appreciation felt by the citizens o
Philadelphia in regard his conduct in the affair
of the mutiny on board the Somers. In order
to render the contribution as general as possible
so that many may be enabled to participate, each
subscription is limited to dollar, and no doub
can be entertained that the requisite amount vii
soon be made up, or we are greatly mistaken IN
the feeling entertained in reference to this matter
token of respect would be peculiarly appropriate
from the mercantile portion of the community =
Had the mutineers of the Somers been successful
the blow would have fallen heavily upon oul
commerce, in addition to the disgrace inflicted up
on the country at large, by having one of its ma
tional vessels commanded and manned by an Of
ficer and sailors from the service, converted into
pirate and sailing under the black flag OF rob-
berry and murder.


The ladies of Baltimore, it will be remember
cd, are about to present pair of splcnded epau-
lcttes to Captain Mackenzie, and it is said that the
merchants Of New York intend to dcfray the
heavy expenses to which he has been subjected
since hisreturn


1t may perhaps be thought by some that the oc-
cason is too sad for compliment, and that the dis
charge OF melancholy duty scarcely seems 10
admit of such tributes as those to which we refer;
but it should not be forgotten that, although Capt
Mackenzie has been honorably acquitted by a
Court Martial, continued effort is made to crush
him by the weight of popular odium,-that there
are unceasing exertons to create the darkest pre-
judices against him. so that, although acquitted
by court, he may not be acquitted in public es-
ti1nation, but may be blasted in reputation and be
thus subjected to worse punishment than could be
inflicted by any tribunal. 1t is clear, even yet,
that he has potent enemy to contend with, and an
noyanccs, apparently emanating from the unpun-
ished mutincers themselves, but probably prompt
ed by those who do not appear, are continual
ly thrown in his way. Under such circum-
stances as these, it therefore appears to be both
proper and necessary that steps should be taken
to show that the public approve of the course
pursued by Slidcll Mackenzie and will not suffer
him to be borne down by feelings of revcngelul
