road, and by the side of the road, generally behind trees, which had been resorted to for covers from the enemy's fire. Advancing about two hundred yards further, we found a cluster of bodies in the middle of the road. These were evidently the advanced guard, and in the rear of which was the body of Major Dade, and to the right, that of Captain Fraser.

"These were all doubtless shot down on the first fire of the Indians, except, perhaps, Capt. Fraser, who must, how ever, have fallen very early in the fight. Those in the road and by the trees, fell during the first attack. It was during a cessation of the fire that the little band still remaining, about thirty in number, threw up the triangular breast work, which, from the haste with which it was constructed, was necessarily defective, and could not protect the men in the second attack.

"We had with us many of the personal friends of the officers of Major Dade's command, and it is gratifying to be able to state that every officer was identified by undoubted evidence. They were buried, and the cannon, a six pounder, that the Indians had thrown into a swamp, was recovered and placed vertically at the head of the grave, where it is to be hoped it will long remain. The bodies of the non-commissioned officers and privates were buried in two graves, and it was found that every man was accounted for. The command was composed of eight officers and 102 non-commissioned officers and privates. The bodies of eight officers and ninety-eight men were interred, four men having escaped; three of whom reached Tampa Bay-the fourth was killed the day after the battle.

"It may be proper to observe, that the attack was not made from a hammock, but in a thinly wooded country; the Indians being concealed by palmetto and grass, which has since been burned.

"The two companies were Captain Fraser's, of the 3d artillery, and Captain Gardiner's, of the 2d artillery. The of ficers were Major Dade, of the 4th infantry, Captains Fraser and Gardiner, second Lieutenant Bassinger, brevet second Lieutenants R. Henderson, Mudge, and Keais, of the artillery, and Doctor J. S. Gatlin.

"Е. А. Нітснсоск, "Capt. 1st Infantry, Act. Insp'r Gen."

THE NAVAL MAGAZINE. The first number of a new perodical has been issued under this title during the past month. It is very handsomely got up; and, as promoting the objects set forth in its prospectus, it has our warmest wishes

for success. The work will be under the conduct of the Rev. C. S. Stewart, of the U. S. Navy, aided by an Advisory Committee of officers, and will appear regularly every two months.

THE JEWESS. This "Grand Operatic Drama," as the bills phrase it, founded on Scribe's opera of La Juive, has been brought out with great effect at both the Metropolitan theatres. The display at the Bowery is rendered very striking by the number of persons that throng the large stage of that theatre. But the dresses and scenery of the Park are unrivalled, and the spirited performance of the prominent characters by Mason, Harrison, and Mrs. Hilson, with the execu tion of the danees, choruses, &c., must give the piece a great run at this establishment. The story of the Jewess is founded upon an old English legend, the same which is said to have suggested the plot of Ivanhoe to Scott, and the origi nal of which, if we mistake not, is given in Heath's Book of Beauty for 1835. The denuément on the French stage is dif ferent from that upon ours; and when, in the closing scene, the persecuting father of the supposed Jewess asks the racked and tortured Hebrew, "where is his daughter?" The reply "voila," uttered at the moment in which she jumps into the sething cauldron, to which the judg ment of her own father had unknowingly condemned her, is said to be perfectly appalling by those who have witnessed the scene. The plot of drama is, however, harrowing enough as it stands; though the laws of poetic justice are somewhat violated by altering the catastrophe.

The inimitable HACKETT has just commenced a short engagement at this theatre, prior, it is said, to a visit to Europe.

DIED, near Worcester, Mass., on the 2nd of March last, SERENO NEWTON, (late of the house of R. Hoe & Co.) author of the Engineer's, Wheelwright's and Machinist's Tables.

Mr. N. was a man of great mathematical talents, and united the most winning purity of character and simplicity of manners to the zealous and successful pursuit of his favorite studies. He was the author of valuable improvements upon the printing machine of Lord Napier; and having made the tour of Great Britain for the purpose of examining into the condition of the useful arts in that country, his activity in introducing them into his own was unceasing until the last moments of a life that was consumed from over-exertion when in its prime.