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Sg From Uie Ihi<j"ftdd Advertise?.
BE Keubcu Roberto*
? Tbir. notorious individual scorns likely to be-1
Become ;,s twuch identified with the discussion and
Battlement of a great ^'Constitutional principle as
jHlIamj den, Pymn, Wilkes, of the host of other
^ tCnrl-Klpa vvli/* Kufa on?l ftiil.rlifr Tor ( 1
IT** " ?v <u^UVU u?v* iwMgi'w ?v? w?i
stitutionul freedom. Yes, a Nassau Free Negro,
yeekiug with the peculiar odor of his race in a
rWcst India Clime, has called in question the
^Sovereignty of South Carolina, before the Su|>reme
Court of the United States, where for
aqhie time to come, it may be expected, be will
mingle with his Peers,?the Abolitionists?and
)?ertume their delighted olfactories.
Y. jArnbtless most of our readers are famailiar
^tvith the history and position'of this Negro in
yegard to the Police Laxcs of South Carolina.? ,
SVe presume it i? equally well known what these
^Police Laws" arc whicli Mr. Reuben Roberts
and his distinguished ally, tin Federal Government,
are about to assail at Washington, that
disastrous battle frround. where the ooor South
B;i* always defeated cither by the strategy of her
Haies, or the treason of her friends. Still at the
O&risk of being a littie tedious, we shall briefly
Hestate the case how pending in the Supreme
ByCourt, between the aforesaid Ruebcn and the
Bfeovereign State of South Carolina.
' The French lie volution, it is well known), gave
jByrise to the horrors of a sen ile war, which resulHgted
in the ultimate triumph of the blacks over
ft&tbe whites in St. Domingo. Thus over half a
'million of negroes suddenly became free to in- 1
HIdulge in all the licentiousness of anarchy upon 1
Hga fertile and neighboring Island within two days 1
pail of Charleston, between which City and Isft
land a considerable commerce was then carried
Bfttn. The Shipping that plied between the two 1
places gave ample opportunity for the free ne- '
B .groes of the Island to visit our emporium, which 1
ftSrmleges they began soou to abuse, both by bad 1
Ksample, and*actually tampering with ourslaves.
BpSims of course alarmed our people, whose fears
ft were not diminished by the presence of many 1
ft "Whites in the City of Charleston that had fled (
B'jbitber in distress from the Island, where they '
B had formerly been large slave owners. 1
ft These facts induced South Carolina as far ?
ft back as 1764 to adopt the policy of excluding (
ft ff^e negroes from landing in her Ports. The (
ft abolition of Slavery in the South-American States 1
ftw the British West Tudia islands, and late- '
ft.jry in the French American colonies together with ^
ft the contiuued agaition of the Slavery question in '
ibe North,.have forced the State to adhere stead- 1
B, fi i i. > i .i' i* i i i - l i
j$jy ana uruuteraoiy to tne policy wmen sue aaop- i
?*ed in 1794, and accordingly we find that our J
' Legislature has passed, from time to time, a se- *
ties of enactments in 1794, 1800, 1801,. 1803, 1
1*20^ '22, '23, '25, and '44, with a view to perfect '
? the law in all its details. By these several Acts '
ifree negroes are not only prevented from land- *
n the Ports and Harbors of South Carolina I
. bat they are also prohibited from entering the 1
State by the Georgia or North Carolina, fron- 1
/tier. In otlier words our laws exclude all free '
negroes, from whatever quarter they come, '
, windier from ar Foreign Nation, a Slaveholding 1
j/8ute oF&non Slave-holding State. Yea, if a 7
free negro domesticated in South Carolina goes 1
abroad op even a temporary visit and in good 1
. frith, he is forever debarrel from returning on
pain being sold into slavery because the low
rery properly suspects that he might be playing
the emissary or spy.
: Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana, we believe, j
enacted similar laws to ours for the exclusion of i
'both foreign and domestic free negroes, and in- 1
deed all of the slaveltolding States, together with
> two of the free States, Indiana and Illinois,.have t
^"adopted the jxdicy of excluding domestic free 1
negroes, while the propriety of prohibiting For- |
veign Free Negroes also from laiidiny on their c
Chores has more than obce engaged the attention 1
of other Maritime Slave State", tlian the four i
which we have named above. Five of the Slave \
8tates, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkan- t
fttts tnd Missouri, as they have do Sea ports, do r
not feci the necessity of Legislating on the sub t
ject of Foreign Free Negroes arriving and departing
in vessels. Mississippi, it iPtrue, has a sbr.l- 1
low Harbor on the Gulf at Shieldsboro', which is v
r a Port of entry, but it has no Commerce. North i f
Carolina, though with six Ports of entry, yet has r
1 a very inconsiderable commerce except through \
the Porte of other jurisdictions. Heretofore Wil- g
: mington was^ supposed to be her only Harbor
with depth enough to admit safely even the small I
; Craft engaged in the Coasting Trade, and Wil- f
k mington from beiug at the mouth of the Caj>e t
i Fear River is like all, or most River Harbors, ob- r
; structed by a Bar which is formed of the sand \
' and mud that are washed down from the cleared t
lands above. But now that Beaufort, another t
1 of her Porte, formed entirely by the Sea, has c
been discovered to be a fine Harbor, it may be e
f expected that North Carolina will yet have an L
r Emporium worthy of her?will yet have more c
y Commerce than $416,000 of Exports, $323,000 ?
of Imports, her quota in 1850, and that she will f
yet feel the imperious necessity of imprisoning \
colored seamen, like her twin sister, South Caro- r
Una whose Exports and Imports amount to niii- t
lions instead of thousands. Florida and Texas, a
tWO Oilier i>ianill[Je oa\e uuin^j, inuu^n utu ui i
soil are yet poor in populatu n and commerce, j
and this may serve to explain the silence of their c
Statute Books on the subject of Foreign Free c
\ Negroes. Virginia and Maryland are the only n
Slave States of any considerable Commerce, which r
have not yet legislated on Colored Seamen, and t
in tlie progress of abolition, it may be presumed i
will drive them to it, especially Maryland, which I
has even now 74,723 Free Negroes within her 1
limits; that is, her free negroes constitute about i
one eighth of her entire population including r
Slaves, aud about ono sixth of all the Free Ne- 1
groes in the United States. This is certainly a
dangerous element in her society, and deserves i
lo be watched, and in passing we are a little cu- j
rious to know why it is, that Maryland shonW \
have so many more Free Negroes than any oth- t
er State in the Union, North or South, and why s
her soil should be so prolific of free colored poo- i
illation. Certainly she had a very great increase \
in this class of jicr people since the last decade.
Was it by propagation or emigration ? Again, 1
we ask why is it that Maryland is the favorite 1
of Free Negroes on ihe North American i
Continent ? Will some brother of the press an- t
awer us ? ]
Any one at all familiar with the state of feel- <
iag in the North, must allow that Indiana and '
Illinois arc not the only non-Slaveholdiug States
whtgh are hostile to the introduction of Free i
N?grnes within their borders, and though such *
hostility lias not as yet manifested itself in the i
rigorous form of law, still we feel warranted in <
venturing the prediction, that ere long, the act- I
tied policy of every State in tho Union, will be
to localize the residence of tho Free Negro, or ?'
fony hi- e-n:L^vi Til-era. The genfraT'i
conviction that Free Negroes are the worst population
which a State can have, seems to be fast
gaiuing ground everywhere. This may be observed
iu the diminished and diminishing facility
with which a slave can be- emancipated at the
South, and the anxiety which pervades both the
North and South to encourage Colonization to
Liberia: The time perhaps is not far distant,
when Free Negroes will be forcibly removed as
the Indian Tribes have beeiu Ihe question of
compelling them to migrate has been mooted
both hero and at the North, and the work of expulsion
is already begun in Virginia, which will,
we think, soon he imitated by other States.
After'these general remarks, let lis return to
the local laws of South Carolina, touching free
opcrmps liv flip Act nf 183:5. which pmlWIips
MVb""?* # , "f """"""
most of the law on this subject, it is made the
duty of the Sheriff of any District, into whose
Ports or Harbors, any free negro or person of
color may arrive, as employee or passenger on
board of any Merchant Vessel, belonging to any
other State or Foreign Port, immediately on the
arrival of such vessel, to apprehend such free
negro, or person of color, and to confine him or
her, closely in jail, until such vessel shall be ready
to put to sea. Under this Act, the Sheriff of
Charleston District, in the performance of his
official duty, on the 19th of May 1852, boarded
the British Schooner Clyde from Nassau, and arrested
the cook, a free person of color, alias
Reuben Roberts, and confined him in jail, as the
law directs, until his vessel was ready for sea.
This caused Roberts to be detained in jail during
eight days, for which he biought an action
of Trespass, in the Federal Circuit Court at
Charleston, against the Sheriff, for assault, battery,
and false imprisonment, la vine: the damages
*t *$4,000.
The Plaintiff based his right of action chiefly
upon the Commercial Convention, concluded between
Great Britain and the United States on
3d of July 1815, the reciprocity Act of Congress
of the 28th May 1830, and the Presidential
Proclamation issued in conformity of said
Act.
Attorney General Hayne defended the Sheriff
eiymg upon tnc Acts or the General Assembly
)f the State before cited, as well as the Act of
Congress of 28th Feb. 1803. The case was submitted
by consent,- without argument, when
Fudge Gilchrist, in the absence of Justice Wayne,
charged the Jury to find for the Defnt as he
x>n?idered the Laws of the State under which
Jie sheriff acted as constitutional, under which
liscretion the Jury brought in a general verdict
or the Defendant. The Plaintiff then submit;ed
a u Bill of Exceptions" to the Judge's charge,
xnd the case will accordingly go up to the Supreme
Court of the United States, unless the
Legislature of South Carolina, should arrest its
'urther progress in December next, as we hope it
will. Messrs. Petigru andKiug are Connsel for
Roberts, Attorney General Hayne, Judge Buter,
C. G. Memminger and Edward McCready for
he Sheriff
No one doubts but that the Supreme Court
will affirm the verdict of the Court below, as the
principle involved has been decided before, even
>y the Federal Consolidation Judges of the Sto y
and Kent, or rather Whig School. The quesion
is not what will the Supreme Court decide
ww, but what will it decide a Century hence if
he jurisdiction claimed be allowed. Thi3 is the
question and this the issue.
1
From the Mobile Tribune.
Mexico.
We publish this morning on our outside
>age, enough of the important news from Mexco
to show some of the programme of the new
President.
It seems to indicate that Santa Anna intends
0 consolidate the states, or departments, and
1 tnrrot Ko?' Plila uitK o koavtr knnd ITo is ns\
?*hVg,-WkUVI (MIV ?? IV?I ?? Vfi ? J liUIIU li V l/U*
>ying after the-new Ecnperor of France. In
sontrolling the press he gets rid oi an instrument,
which, in all such countries as Mexico,
3 not the organ of public opinion, but of those
vho are able to bribe it. Unrestrained, it is,
herefore, an evil, which is constantly interfoing
with a?d thwarting measures essential to
be public repose.
The press, as the follower and aider of popuar
development, is an agent of vast power and
irtue. If every people were positively fitted
or a high degree of political freedom, it would
equire no shackles for tlte popular education
rould correct its errors and restrain its disor;ar.izing
tendencies.
In.France, as in Mexico, there seems to be
?ut two great classes, those who desire power
or the government, and those who demand for
he people unlimited democracy. The modeate,
rational, third class, composed of those
vho wish to teach the people, is so small as to
>e of no active influence. It happens, too, that
he writers, those who control the press in these
ountries, are mostly men of an undistinguishd
literary cla*s, who have not the patience to
abor diligently for distinction in their province;
?r who have false notions of popular cnpaciies,
or who crave notoriety, or political preerment.
They fall out with the government
>ecause thev suppose the Government does
lot reward them according to their merits, or
hey construct their theories on the plan that
ill men are equal; fit alike for the same degree
>f social and political position, regardless of
>ast history, and faithful only to what finds its
hief source of respectability in its assumption
>f ultra philanthropy. It is this class of whom
ibolitionists are made in this country, a blunlering,
unphilosophica!, unreflecting class from
he highest to the lowest. In France the press
mder such writers, has done harm, because it
las demanded what is impossible, and, in its
amentable failures, has plunged the thoughtful
nto despair, and provoked them to seek the
epose of tyrranny, rather than fall into the diemma
of choosing the alternate of license.
If twenty honest, thoughtful* experienced
md rational men had control of the French
>ress for ten years, with full power to utter
vhat is true, they would regenerate the connry,
and start it forward as a sound teacher
itarts the pupils whose minds he would mould
nto the best forms of which their various diversified
capacities are capable.
In Mexico, there seems- to us to be no possible
hopi of anything beyond Santa Anna. If
te fail, the nationality will bo lost, and the
>[.inion which Arista has dared to utter?by
he way, not in Mexico, but after he got to
itavanna?will become the next relief of the
liscreet, and annexation to the United States
will be the remedy.
The position of Mexico just now, for this
reason, assumes a new and grave form for us,
mil it is the duty of our people to look into
ind study it, for presently it'may become the
jssential prevailing element of our own na:ional
policy.
Another thing in this news will strike the
lttentioo of the reflecting render. Santa An)H
i-5 vjvjcg the prejudice's agniiuttbo Vnifej
! States. Ho is devising rewards to those who
did ns the most harm in the late war, and punishing
those who'yielded to the force of circum!
stances in that war. This policy may have its
origin in one of two sources?a desire to commend
himself, to popular favor by exhibiting a
quasi patriotism which will pave the way to
absolute power; or a desire to check the *eagerness
with which the people begin to cast
their eyes for relief towards the United States
In the one case ho may succeed in making
| himself emperor; in the other he may succeed
J only in producing a condition of public feeling
i which will lead to a new war with this coun
| try.
from the Southern Standard.
i TIi ft foil ft win rociiilnt.inn-i. ipsnondinor to the
4v,,v " "'o . 7 i o *
j sentiments of a meeting called by the Mayor of
! tbis city on the occasion of the death of the Hon.
j Daniel Webster, were recently passed by theLcjgislature
of Massachusetts, and forwarded to the
| Hon. T. L. Hutchinson, by whom we-have recei|
ved tlie same for publication :
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
j 7
Executive Department, Council Chamber.
May 27, 1853.
To His Honor, the Mayor of Charleston, S. C.
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a
certified copy ofa Report and Resolutions, adopted
by a unanimous vote of both branches of the
Legislature of this Commonwealth, responsive
to the action of the citizens of Charleston, at a
meeting called to pay a fitting tribute of respect
to the memory of Daniel Webster, and to request
that your honor will cause them to be laid
before the citizens of Charleston, as an expression
of the high apprecia'ion which is entertained
by the Government of Massachusetts, of their
proceedings on that occasion.
I am very respectfully,
Your Honor's ob't scrv't, i
John II. Clifford.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, >
House of Representatives, April 20,1853. $
The Joint1 Special Committee to which was referred
the communication of His Excellency, the
Governor, enclosing the proceedings of the Legislature
of South Carolina, upon the subjects of
the deaths of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster;
also the proceedings of a meeting of the citizens
of Charleston, called by the Mayor " to pay a
fitting tribute of respect to the late illustrious
statesman and jurist" of our State, beg leave respectfully
to submit their report: You* committee
take a melancholy pleasure in responding to
the voiee.of earnest and deep-felt sympathy from
a sister State, iu the irreparable loss which our
Commonwealth and the nation have experienced
in the death of our distinguished son. We listen
to these words of sympathy as an earnest of
the strength of that fraternal tie which bind us
together in patriotic devotion to the free institutions
of our country, and to the memory and refutation
of those great men who spent their lives
in illustrating and adorning them. A tribute
of respect from South Carolina to the memory of
Dauiel Webster recalls the proud and " pleasing
recollections" of the history of either common ""I'l'
fit-mi,, imiforl in tlio avmnat.hv of rorn
lil IJ..J Uu.vcv. iM ?"<v ? r ^ --
mon suffering in a common cause. Shoulder to
shoulder they went through the revolution, hand
in hand they stood round the administration-of
Washington, and it is now fit that side by side
they should follow the hearse of* the great
statesmen of the century, and guard with, hnli
lowed cure tlieir graves ami their memory. With
| South Carolina we sympathize with the pioneerf
State of the West, in the loss she was called to
meet in the death of her eminent orator and Senator,
Henry Clay, and the nation and the world
in mourning with Kentucky for his death, will
recall the memory of that distinguished sou of
the South, who completed the triumvirate of talent,
eloquence and statesmanship. Nowhere
was the intellectual power and self-sacrificing patriotism
of Calhoun better acknowledged than by
our own Commonwealth. We claim a part in
I his reputation and history ; we would share in
the hono* which he shed upon the State to which
he was so fondly attached. The Committee unanimously
submit the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the Legislature of Massachu
setts has received with melancholy satisfaction,
the resolutions of the General Assembly of South
Carolina, and the proceedings of the city of
Charleston upon the occasion of the death of Daniel
Webster. Differing with our great Statesman,
as most of the citizens of that State did, in
mKiIoiiI Ahiin^nc Iilifl m^flSllIY>a
IllUUjr VI bUC jiuuuvui v|'iiuviiw ?v'v?
which have agitated the country, we receive its
eloquent tribute of respect aud sympathy iu the
fraternal spirit with which it has been offered.
Resolved, That the memory of the great
Statesmen of South Carolina, Kentucky and Massachusetts,
who have followed each other in such
rapid succession to the resting place which "knows
no party," is cherished with fond pride : and the
eloquent sentiments of condolence expressed in
the resolutions of a sister State and fellow mourn
or, are most sincerely reciprocated in view of the
loss which she and the nation have experienced
in the death of him who so tenaciously guarded
her honor, and added so much to the lustre of
her history.
Resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor,
be requested to communicate to the General Assembly
of South Carolina, and to the Mayor of
the city of Charleston, a copy, of the foregoing
report aDd resolutions.
What is Manifest Destiny.?The Concord
(N. H.) Reporter seriously goes in for
annexation of foreign territory without limit.
After treating the annexation of the Sandwich
Islands as " a fixed fact," the editor says :
" Cuba, too, must come in before the close
of four years, and how much more wo cannot
at this time predict. The Mexican States, one
after another, will inevitably fall within the
ample folds of our Constitution; the Central
American and the South American States will
add star upon star to our galaxy, and in due
time the Canadas, Nova Scotia and Mew Brunswick,
which are all fast ripening for the harvest,
are as sure to fall withii. the great Union
as the ripened fruit is to fall in its season. This
is ' manifest destiny.' "
A striking illustration of liberality was exhibited
in the Baptist Missionary Convention
which recently assembled at Albany. Among
the delegates present was a venerable gentleman
by the name < f Thomas, an old sca-capcaptain,
who had grown wealthy in the Indian
trade. He first manifested his liberality by offui-innr
?tm !ibb nf hie nnns' shins for nnv mis.
sionary work to China, California, d:e. He
then to meet a certain expenditure, set down
$100 each for his eight sous and sons-in-law.
But, as this was not enough, when doubts were
expressed whether 8160,000 could be raised
for missions the present year, he pledged himself
to make up, out of his own purse, wljatei'Ci
v as deficient.
! f Ije (ffnmbm Wfeklij journal
Tuesday, June 6, 1853.
THO. J. WARREN, Editor.
Work at the Grave Yard.
It id desirable that our grave yard should be put ii
order, and it is suggested that all persons who are in
terestcd will send hands on Thursday morning next
Mr. L. W. Ballard has kindly offered to superintem
the work, and will be glad to have as many hands t>
meet him there on that day, as can bo sent. Ou
Council have recently had erected a substantial enclc
sure around the yard, and it is highly important tha
the interior bo put in order. TTo deem it unnecessar;
to say anything: more upon this subject. Surely thos
who have friends buried there will take a mclancliol;
pleasure in assisting in the work.
Change of Time.
Attention is called to the change of schedule tim
on our Rail Roach The cars leave Camden at hall
past four o'clock, A. M.
Moultrie House, Sullivan's Island.
We direct the attention of our readers to (lie Can
of Mr. Nickerson, to be found in our columns thi
morning, announcing that he lias taken a lease of thi
delightful Summer retreat. Mr. Nickeiisoj.", (says th
Courier) has been for many years connected with lh<
"Charleston Hotel," and is now the lessee of "Thi
Singleton House," which will be opened in the Fall
consequently there can be no doubt that under his en
ergetic superintendence "The Moultrie House" wi!
rank second to no similar establishment in the country
Homicide.
?
On Tuesday evening last, an affray occurred, abou
12 miles above Cauiden, between Wm. P. Hunter am
John Love, Jr, in which the latter inflicted severa
wounds on the former, with a knife, of which he diet
in a few hours afterwards.
The circumstances, as we learn them, are as follows
The neighbors had assembled on that morning to assis
Mr. William Clyburn in cutting his wheat, and afte
the luborsoftho day were over, had gone to the house
when a dispute arose between Love and one of thi
company. Hunter interfered, to pacify them, and in i
friendly manner took Love off some distance from thi
bouRe, when a fight ensued between them, durin;
which the wounds were inflicted.
Mr. Hunter was a member of the ralmetto Itcgi
mcnt during the Mexican war.
Convicted.
We learn from the Lancaster Ledger that three o
the negroes, (Winny, Phillis and Ben,) tried for thi
murder of Mrs. Martha Cunningham, have been con
victed, and sentenced to be hung on the third Fridaj
in July. The investigation occupied four days, am
was conductv-d, on the partol the defence, by M. Clin
ton, Esq. .
Monument to Mr. Calhoun.
The annexed paragraph wo take from the Macoi
(Ga.) Telegraph:?"Wo notice by our Carolina Ex
changes, that a central organization has been forme*
in Columbia, for the purpose of erecting a monument t<
John C. Caliiocn. *Wg hope that this purpose mai
not fall to the ground for lack of means. The Soutl
owes to Calhoun" an eternal debt of gratitude?thi
dreams of his youth, and the aspirations of his earlj
manhood were all cheerfully sacrificed on the altar o
her rights. A monument however towering, can con
fer not. honor upon lum. It is only to vindicate tin
living from the charges of indiflbrencc to the mcmorj
of their purest and greatest statesman, that wo desiri
to see it raised. We cannot erect one worthy of him
A t looat lot ita trv in oroot rirtp rrpdiinhlp In niurxphipx'
It is hardly necessary to say that we endorse mos
heartily the sentiments of the same?who does not'
Surely there is not one who will not cheerfully accorc
to the illustrious Southerner the meed of praise whicl
so justly belongs to him. He needs not our feebh
adulation to perpetuate his virtues?no monumen
cither of marble or of brass, however lofty and endur
ing, can confer additional honor upon the pure an(
spotless namo of Calhoun*. Nor
"Can storied urn or animatod bust,
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ;
Nor honor's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death."
But we owe it as well to ourselves and tlio living, a.'
well as a duty to tho dead. When tlio news of Mr.
Calhoun's death was announced?when the bells wer<
tolled?tho thunders of the minuto guns were heard?
the halls of Justice closed, and emphatically tho natioi
mourned?when his remains were brought for inter
ment?what a magnificent array of pomp and pa
gcantry! One might well exclaim, Carolina weeps foi
her departed son! But Calhoun* has almost a name
loss tomb. Is this in keeping with our great proton
sions? Nol
"Let the marble page unfold
All his noble deeds again."
mioajaamni hlortirtn.
We sco by the Madisonian that our late highly cs
teemed fellow-citizcn and former State Senator, Hon
Wm. McWillie, was nominated at a meoting of the
Democratic party to fill the office of State Senator ir
place of Horn 0. R. Singleton', resigned. Col. Mc
Willie is eminently qualified for this, or any othei
position which he may bo called to fill. A clear hcac
and a warm and noblo heart, with superior talents
we think are sufficient prerequisites for any man it
any place, or under any circumstances.
"Wo perceive that his Excellency Governor Herri
S. Foote, is stumping it for the United States Senator
ship. In a card he invites "all competing nspirants foi
the Senate, and especially Govern o? A. G. Brown, tc
courteous and frco discussion of their conflicting claims
before the people, and pledges himself to take judg
raeut by default against all who do not appear." This
is what wo might expect from such a redoubtable
Don Quixotto sis General Foote. "Wo hope howevei
that the gentleman will not find it so easy "to take
judgment by default" against his opponents. There
are two ends to the rope?Ifr. Foote has one, and the
people liave the othor- "Wo should be glad to sco him
lowered a feet, although ho has littlo to spare; and il
he is brought down slightly, ho will not bo seon at all
Governor Brown, in a card, gives notice to the pooplo
that he shall consult his own convenience, and
docs not feel undor any obligation to regard that ol
Gov. Foote. Wo quoto a single paragraph:
"My convenience and business arrangements wore
in no wise consulted by Gov. Footo in making his appointments,
and I thcroforo felt under no sort of obligation
to accept his invitation to unite in the discus
sions. He promises "courteous discussion" it is true,
but this was unnocossary. Who that overheard the
Governor speak, doubts for a moment that ho would
bo courteous oven to tho exactest punctilio."
Bishop England's Nephew.?Wo notice by the
lato arrivals from Europe, that tho chair of civil engineering
in the Queen's College, Cork, made vacanl
by tho resignation of Professor Lane, has boon award,
ed to Mr. John English, nophow oI the lato Bishop o^
ri.irt?:toa.
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Tho Southern Agriculturist.
The June numbor, with the usual promptness of this t
excellent monthly, has arrived. We congratulate Mr. f
Stokes, tho enterprising Proprietor of this, iliid the j
Editor and Proprietor of tho Laurensville Herald, on <
. his successful undertaking. The Agriculturalist, we 1
hope, is destined to take its stand ere long among the t
Q first periodicals of its class in our country. The Edi- t
h torial department continues well provided for under f
the direction of Messrs. A. G. and "Win. Summer. 1
^ Price, One Dollar per annum. 1
The School Fellow. c
A Magazine for Boys and Girls is published in Xew v
York by Messrs. Evans & Brittan. at the low price of C
one dollar. This work is cheap, and a dollar thus in- t
^ vested may pay a better interest than twcLty times r
that amount otherwise paid tor the amusement of the J
* young and tender mind. Mr. TV. C. Richards and c
IrOUain AllCU ^airs. i\UiUUUIll'UUU IV/ uuu UiW
School-Fellow. '
? The Princess Achille Murac, who very recently ar- v
rived in Paris from Florida, had a private interview
with the French Emperor on the 14th instant. She ^
married the eldest son of King Joachim, July 30th, ^
1826. She has been a widow since his death, in April, '
1 1846. 1
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8 U. S. Treasury?The net-amount subject to the t
e draft of the Treasurer of the United States on 23d ult
2 was $20,350.23, of which $733.97 was in the hands of
8 the Assistant Treasurer in Charleston. i:
Rev. 11. M. Palmer, D. D.?It will be seen a
1 by the proceedings of the Presbyterian As'sem- t
. bly in Philadelphia, on last Tuesday, that this c
'distinguished andjiblc minister has been celect- t
ed to fill a professorship in the new Seminary li
t about to be established at the West Should I
1 Dr. Palmer accept, which we are inclined to
,1 doubt, the church here would sustain a great (
j loss, inasmuch as he is highly esteemed both as t
a pastor and as one of the most gifted and )
L learned divines which our State has produced, r
t Carolinian. t
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i Another Soldier Gone.?After a short, 1
3 but violent attack, death has taken from our r
a midst 1 hooias Metxee, one ot the few sum |
B ving members of the Palmetto Regiment, and 1
, his friends have performed their last sad of- .
" fice, and committed his remains to the silent \
tomb. He died on Tuesday afternoon last, at 1
about three o'elook He fought through the ^
bloody campaign in Mexico, with a soldier's s
courage, and returned-among the few uho a
were fortunate enough to reach their homes 1
^ Jgain, after the '* battle was o'er." - *
3 Sumter Watchman. 1
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Fatal Rail Road Accident.
It is with sincere regret that we learn that s
between ten and eleverl o'clock on Monday j
night, the Freight night Express train which
left Charleston that afternoon for Columbia, .
was thrown off the track at a place called Cattle
Creek, about 55 miles from this city, the
engine and four freight cars being plunged a .v
depth of 25 or 30 feet, in consequence of some
3 evil disposed person or persons having malici- fi
r ously placed two bars of old flange iron in such f
1 a position as to lead the train off the track.? 1
2 The engineer, Isaac Winters, and two firemen 1
f named Samuel Willis, and W. F. Sneed, were
taken from beneath the engine, and conveyed
" to Branchville, a short distance above, where v
they received every attention that medical P
? skill could suggest. They were, however, so a
J seriously scalded that Winters died in about v
ao hour, and Willis in about four after the oc- Jj
' currenceof the accident. The injuries to Snead
t are also of a highly dangerous character, and P
? we understand that it is not anticipated that ^
i he can survive. ?
i The melancholy occurrence took place short- *
5 |y after the train for Hamburg had passed up. .
t The bodies of the dead were brought to this 11
- city by the train front Columbia yesterday, and s
1 an inquest was held on them the same uftcrnoon
at the South Carolina Railroad Workshop,
before J. P. DeVaux, esq., the Coroner, y
when the jury returned a verdict in each case, *
to the effect that whilst on the engine on the S'
road, fifty-live miles from Charleston, on the lj
3 night on the 30th of May, by a bar or flarge tl
of iron being placed across the track by some e
, evil disposed person or persons, the engine was e
thrown from the Road and Isaac Winters and ti
Samuel Willis received such injuries as to 5
cnuse their death, and that the aforesaid evil e
disposed .person or persons, in manner and v
form aforesaid, Isaac Winters and Samuel Wil- o
lis did kill, again-t the peace and dignity 'of h
the State. S'
Winters, we understand, is a Pennsylvanian,
and is represented to have been a very worthy p
man. He has left a wife and children to mourn S
his loss, who are on a visit to their friends in e
Pennsylvania, having sailed in the Osprey on fi
her last trip from this port to Philadelphia.
Shocked as \vc are at the revolting depravi
ty of the fiend or fiends in human shape, who o
1 could perpetrate such a diabolical outrage, we o
> will not trust ourselves to comment on the en- o
ormity of the offence, but direct the earnest IV
r attention of all friends to justice to the follow- 'I
I ing notice, which was promptly issued by the w
, President of the Road: S
' One Thousand Dollars Reward. *
Office So. Ca; Railroad Co. ? l
Charleston, May, 31,1853. $ ^
The above rewa/d is hereby offered for the r,
discovery, or lor such information as will lead
to the conviction, of the evil minded person or g
persons, who placed obstructions on the track
at Cattle Creek, near Branchville, 011 the night
* of the 30th, by which the train was thrown off* .
1 and the Engineer, a worthy man, and a Fireman
were killed.
' We also appeal to the humanity and justice ^
1 of the people along the line of Road, for their
* aid in detecting and bringing to punishment t|
1 the author of so monstrous a deed.
f II. W. CONNER, President. *'
Charleston Courier 2d ins/.
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! Commenting upon the appointments just pro- p
f mulgatcd at Washington, a correspondent of c
the New-York Times writes: g|
i There are ominous growls among the disap- R
* pointed. The Southern ultras share largely in ^
the division?Soule, Gadsden, Crips, Borland, R)
T puprHhIp Mend. Red in per. Leak. De Leon
, and Scott, all belonging to that class, Jackson,
i of Georgia, and Tarleton, of Alabama, are the ?
[ only Southern Compromisers on the list.
Gilmore of Pennsylvania, is much grieved .
that he did not get the Valparaiso Consulate.
s Do Leoii's salary is to be $5000 per annum. J
t Bank of Charlotte.?II. B. Williams,
. Esq., has been elected President, and W. A. ;
f Lucas, Esq., Cashier, of the new Bank, which M
rrill go into operation early in June.
Mkxico.?Santa Annadias ordered the disincniM
ut of the remains of the soldiers who
ell during the American war, and that they be
>la (d n sepulchresworthyofJ>?n#tnerHoMexi*
runs. 'l'liose of the fields of Palo Alto afld"
Resaca are to be taken to Matamoras; those
?f Sacramento to Chihuahua.; those of Angus-..
lira (Bnena Vista) to Sultiilo; those of Alontrey
to that town; those of Cerra Gordo to
/era Cruz; those of ihe valley of Mexico to
he capital; ami those of other places to the
he nearest town. The names of Gen. Van* '
piez who fell lit Cerro Gordo, and Gen. Leon
t lio fell at Molino del Key, are to be inscribed
rrwin tlin li*itinnr?s nt* flio firftw on/1
IJM'II >uv wmiwvisi v? ?MV Mimj, Hiavi IUVJ mo
o be held as having been promoted to the
ank of General of Division before death.
L'hc baliles of Molino del I?ey and Churubus0
have been declared distinguished actions..
The officers and soldiers who have been uju. '
dated iu'the deferfoeof the countryfbave been
resented to the General at a public reception,
vliich is called " the levee of the mutilated," ^
in address was presented in tjieir name by
Jen. Rangel, to which Santa Anna made a
eeling reply. He told them ho, too, was mu-'
ilated in defence of the country, and that hevas
but one of them/ He aft or wards addressed
he soldiers individually, "and told then! that
heir country should not forget then). Our
Mexican Policy.?While Santa Anna
s preparing his forces, ostensibly to resist
1 Northern aggression," but primarily to crush
11 opposition, within Mexico, to "his assurapu)n
of despotic oower. it mav be well to state
mneisely the policy which the Government ot"
he United States will oppose to his craft 6r^lis
intrigues. First, it will .neither trifle nor
liggle with him about the Messiiia Valley,
rhe proper boundnry line, under tbe treaty of
Suadalupe Hidalgo, gives us all of the Yalley
hat we want, and, notwithstanding Mr. Bnrtett's
opinions, or Mexican bluster, our Government
will adhere to the trne meaning of-the
reaty. Second, it will sustain the claim of
ts citizens, sufferers by Mexico's repudiation of "
he Garny Grant; but, at the came time, throw
to obstacles nor discouragement in. the *wy of
he accomplishment of the. .objects proposed
n the Sloo Contract.
These arc the matters, at present, of most
mportance in our relations with Mexico.- But ''
f it be true ibat Santa Anna is.intriguing with
European powers, to effect an alliance defeniive
and offensive, against the United States,
ill minor difficulties may be swallowed up in
he one great issue of American non-intervenion
against Euiopoan intervention?the .Monoe
doctrine against an anti republican combilation.
In this event, our Government will
irmly maintain the policy which rejects the ?
Jea of " interference or colonization on this - *
tide the ocean, by any foreign power, beyond
>resent jurisdiction, as utterly inadmissable."
New York Sun. ^
The New Government stamped letter eh*
'elopes, which will shortly be ready for deivery,
are cut out by aninstrumenUworkedby
team, to the number of five hundred at a
ingle operation. The image of Washington
s stamped on them in white bas-relief and
he rates-of postage printed in red ink. After.? **
pplying the gluten, they are counted in bunlies
of twenty-five and sent to Washington,
rhencc they will find their way through the
ostnmstersto every part of the country. Ttiey
re of white and buff paper, and water-lined
rith the initials of the Postoffic6 Department
>f the United States. About one hundred and
fty operatives, chiefly females, have been emloyed
in the work. Special precautions are
iken against forgery and the abstraction' of
nvelopcs from the manufactory, for which ofjnces
the new postoffice laws have imposed a
ne of not less than five hundred dollars, or
nprisonment not exceeding five years, or both
uch fine and imprisonment
Tub Rain?Accidbkts.?In oar notice
esterday touching the weather, we m^ntiond
that we had a shower?unfortunately it
carcely did more thhn lay the dust, and bard7
that. About two yesterday, however,, a
hunder storm swept over ua, and was followd
by quite a pleasant rain. Several of the
lectriesl explosions were terrific, and one holt
ook effect upon a China-berry tree fronting the
lethodist District parsonage, now in the ocupancy
of Mr. Daniel Johnston. The tree .
as blazed from crown to lap-root. A niece
f Mr. J's, lying sick in bed, was sensibly af-.
jcted by the shock, though she sustained no
eiious injury. _ ,-/ 117
_ ] J _ 1_ - it-. T-v a m Y^k t
t? e uc.ueisutuu uiso mai lsamei 1. jtiaacntie,
amp tender, was killed at the depot of the
outh Carolina Railroad by lightning. A slight
xplosion also took place at the telegraph ofce.?
Carolinian.
Mr. M, C. Mordecai, the Hebrew millionaire
f Charleston, S. C., has been expending some
f his surplus capital here, in the establishment
f an extensive depot, for the Diamond Coal
lines, which he owns at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
'he right to extend their road to tide water, .
hich has been granted to the Baltimore and
usquehana Rail Road Company, will give a
favorable ontlet to the great Southern aniracite
coal fields of Pennsylvania (supposed
y many to be superior to those of theSchuyl-*'
ill region) and enable Baltittibre to enter dijctly
into competition with, Philadelphia in
le disposal of the mineral wealth of its own
tatc.?Baltimore cor. of N. 0. Crescent.
Cherries without stones have beemtroduced1
France, by the following method: In the
pring, before the circulation of the sap, a young
eedling cherry tree is split from the upper exremity
down to the fork of its roots; then, by
leans of a piece of wood in form of a spatnla,
le pith is carefully removed from the tree, in
uch a manner as to avoid any excoriation, or
ther injury; a knife is used only for comlencing
the split. Afterwards, the two secnno
nrp hrnnnrhf tnrrotKoi. >>>J 1
W..W ... ~ rv/guvuvl| (HIU bICU WIM1 WW!'
n, care being taken to close hermetically with
lay the whole length of the cleft. The sap
70n reunites the separated portions of the tree,
nd two years afterwards, cherries are prouced
of the usual appearance, but, instead of
tones, there will only be small soft pellicks.
Death of Harvey Skirner.?The Sumter
1anner notices, among the variousbereavtnenta
o which that District has recently been sub-.
;cted, the death of Harvey Skinner, Esq., the
ite respected Sheriff of that District, whose
cath will leave a vacuum long to be unfilled. _
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The voters of Petersburg, Va., have author>ed
the city councils to expend i 100,000 in obrining
a supply of water fbr the city.