The following exploits of the “Alabama Volunteers,” are recorded in the Florida Herald, Jan. 1, 1838.

“SAVE US FROM OUR FRIENDS.—­On Monday last, a large body of men, calling themselves Alabama Volunteers, arrived in the vicinity of this city.  It is reported that their conduct during their march from Tallahassee to this city has been a series of excesses of every description.  They have committed almost every crime except murder, and have even threatened life.

“Large numbers of them paraded our streets, grossly insulted our females, and were otherwise extremely riotous in their conduct.  One of the squads, forty or fifty in number, on reaching the bridge, where there was a small guard of three or four men stationed, assaulted the guard, overturned the sentry-box into the river, and bodily seized two of the guard, and threw them into the river, where the water was deep, and they were forced to swim for their lives.  At one of the men while in the water, they pointed a musket, threatening to kill him; and pelted with every missile which came to hand.”

The following Alabama tragedy is published by the “Columbia (S.C.) Telescope,” Sept. **, 1837, from the Wetumpka Sentinel.

“Our highly respectable townsman, Mr. Hugh Ware, a merchant of Wetumpka, was standing in the door of his counting room, between the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock at night, in company with a friend, when an assassin lurked within a few paces of his position, and discharged his musket, loaded with ten or fifteen buckshot.  Mr. Ware instantly fell, and expired without a struggle or a groan.  A coroner’s inquest decided that the deceased came to his death by violence, and that Abner J. Cody, and his servant John, were the perpetrators.  John frankly confessed, that his master, Cody, compelled him to assist, threatening his life if he dared to disobey; that he carried the musket to the place at which it was discharged; that his master then received it from him, rested it on the fence, fired and killed Mr. Ware.”

From the “Southern (Miss.) Mechanic,” April 17, 1838.

“HORRID BUTCHERY.—­A desperate fight occurred in Montgomery, Alabama, on the 28th ult.  We learn from the Advocate of that city, that the persons engaged were Wm. S. Mooney and Kenyon Mooney, his son, Edward Bell, and Bushrod Bell, Jr.  The first received a wound in the abdomen, made by that fatal instrument, the Bowie knife, which caused his death in about fifteen hours.  The second was shot in the side, and would doubtless have been killed, had not the ball partly lost its force by first striking his arm.  The third received a shot in the neck, and now lies without hope of recovery.  The fourth escaped unhurt, and, we understand has fled.  This is a brief statement of one of the bloodiest fights that we ever heard of.”

From the “Virginia Statesman,” May 6, 1837.

“Several affrays, wherein pistols, dirks and knives were used, lately occurred at Mobile.  One took place on the 8th inst., at the theatre, in which a Mr. Bellum was so badly stabbed that his life is despaired of.  On the Wednesday preceding, a man named Johnson shot another named Snow dead.  No notice was taken of the affair.”