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 Suspicious -Martin Van BuTen was 54 years ofage on Monday the ssh inst. and some Overgrown babies in Litchfed fired cannons in consequence! The smpletons can't make an "old hickory" out of Mar- tn no how and they had better not make another at tempt.-NesD-k kauen PGlladiam. The Pattsburgh (N. Y) Republican says, the only marketable commodity that has not raised in price ths fall is newspapers. The labor of man is worth more, the fruits of the earth higher. eggs are dearer tho smaller, and 1t a shilling for the privilege oflook ing through neat market window yet the price of newspapers has not advanced penny. The oaly way they can be sustained, under such crcumstan. ces, is by the prompt payment of subscriptions; and no real patron of the press object to paying in ad vance.

 FooIxRY.-Tbe Hon. Willie P. Mangum, U. States Senator from North Carolina, has resigned his seat in the Senate because that State voted for Mr. Van Bu- rem, and he cannot agree in sentiment with the people One of the tory members of Congress from Georgia, has resigned his seat for the like reasons because that State has gone for Judge White. That men ofsense should permit the humbug doctrines Of instruction to deprive them of their independence as legislators and drive them from their seats, is most extraordinary- The Hon. B. w. Leigh, of Virginia, has also resigned his sea but not on account of the vote Stats or any instructions he has received. Hs retires solely account of considerations of a private nature.

 PO'keepsie Eagle

 0r There are rmors that MT. Rives declines going into the cabinet if Amos Kendall is to be member of it. Pooh! The contract, us MT. Ritchie knows, is a narrow one :-" Here's tAe vose ef Virginia tor yo" and Here's the Secretary of Siate for you." So that account is soon scttled-Noah.

 meteor, resembling ball Of fire, IS to IS inches diameter, appeared Norwich, Conn on the night of Dec. let. It illuminated every thing in its neighbor hoOd and fell with great rapdity preserving it's bright ness till it dashed into fragments upon the ground.

 Execution ef Creek Iadians.-The sentence of the law enforced on Friday, the 18th instant, by the hanging of SIX Greek Indians at Grard, Alabama, immediately opposite city. Hundreds of persons from the surrounding country attended to witness the execution. -CoEsmbss fGeoJ Hsrald

 MAIL Losr.-The northern mail due as Charleston on the 3Oth ult. lost in crossing swamp on the north side Of the Pedee, owing to sudden fieshet of which the driver not aware, andhe, unfortunate. ly, was drowned. The letters by the Roscee, packet of the 24th October, were in this mail.

 The Hon. George Poindexter met with . serious ac. cident at Natchez, Miss on tho morning of tho 18th ut Missaking the door, he walked out of tho socond story of the Mansion House, and by the al his leg and thieh weve broken. and his s,amsch internally M jussd. Iis has made his will. bequeathing ths whoe Of hs property tssma.od s. eeOaeooD so his wiis. iady q Boston. Hs b Gaes dead. eamusl A. ElIos tWhig). wae elseied Mayer of shs city Of Boston on Monday lssi, by handsome mAqFl iy. The Wkg ticket iO1 kldsHash aselsoaaoceaaia. The lass aoeoamss from washlaston sspsssshs de PseaIdenss haAlih @ improving Iilssiassd h van n#sn papsV, ihal General Jackson has he'd log sons tins pEssshslmsn, ,has hs woala de ea she slh sf JanaaTs