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THE CAMDEN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME XV. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 20,1854. NUMBER25/ PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THOMAS J.WARREN. TERMS. Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less,) seventv-flve cents for the first and thirty-seven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions. one dollar per square; semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. The number of insertions desired must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. JBirallnnrons. From the Southern Agriculturist. What Should be the Chief Crops of the South ? Com and cotton in the cotton planting States have by common custom become the univer sal crops of extensive cultivaion. Mow tar this shift is correct, is not entirely proved by its universality, nor by the prejudices, which sustain itin the minds of planters. Indian corn indigenous to the soil, was perhaps the most convenient and profitable when the country was first settled, and when an abundant and easily prepared crop, to supply the wants of both man and beast, was a requirement of the times. In this relative value, it still is the most valuable crop grown on the virgin soils of the Middle and Southern of the Western States, for it luxuriates upon the vegetable matter abounding in new soils, and with little preparation and indifferent culture, yields large returns for labor bestowed. Such, however, is not the case in the older States, where the cream ot the land has been stolen away imperceptibly by the most exhausting systems to ??MI-J -?!l Lo onar lioon t UllH. Willi; II lllieu Dull una V. * V.I ava.. j ? , , taking ten years' cropping together, the Indian corn crop is the most uncertain we can plant. It is difficult to grow on any hut virgin or alluvial soil, and the drought of summer, except in extraordinary and most favorable seasons, cuts it off to a ruinous extent. The corn crib is called the store house of the planter in the South, and indeed it is his main dependence.? But this is only because he is not accustomed to interweave other crops with the cultivation of cotton. On improved and well prepared soil, barley and wheat would yield more bush els of grain of more value to the planter than Indian corn. In fact, barley is the most val uable grain which we cultivate at the South.? If sown at the proper season, it readily perfects itself from the winter moisture in the earth, and yields heavily. It is fine soiling for all kinds of stock, and comes into harvest in May, a time when a few days can be spared from t he cotton crop without detriment to its growth or production. Its grain is so well protected that it ifi not liable to be sDoilt by exposure to the weather, and it may lie any length of time in the straw, when dryly housed, without being injured. A barley crop sown with guano, cotton seed, or well prepared compost manure, nf terthe cotton crop is gathered in December and January, would come off sufficiently early to sow th^stubble down in peas to be turned under in autumn, and the rotation of *mali grain with this system pursued, would be the best and most efficient mode of improving our lands. It would also be fitted to the enconomical and easy cultivation of the after cotton crop, by the plowing under of the herbage in the fall, which would be thoroughly decomposed by the next spring. Barley, ground and mixed with the straw, reduced to chaff by a cutting machine, is better food for horses and cattle than any preparation of Indian corn and to those persons who have not mills, simply soaking the grain in water is a fine preparation for feeding to horses Swine fatten and keep in condition more easily on barley than on corn, As an in its favor, more barley can be cheaply grown on an acre of improved dry upland, than we can grow of corn. Wheat sown with guano in like manner after the cotton crop, would come in at a season when the harvesting could be attended to without detriment, and afierthe cotton crop is laid by, and in the interval between that time and the commencement of picking, the threshing and preparing it for market or the mill, could he attended to without hindrance. The middings, shorts and bran or a large wneai crop all mixed together, would go far to feed the plantation stock, and negroes would relish wheaten bread as a change for the corn bread usually allowed to tbem. We would, from these few reasons stated, and many more needless to mention, recommend the reduction of the corn crop to such a degree as would throw all lands not naturally producing Indian corn, well, into wheat, barley rye and oats. We ^ould then cultivate our tilled crops well and easily, and the avenues the system would open for improvement would soon repay for the experiment. We know that these recommendations will be met with by all the objections which prejudice and the tyranny of custom engenders in those who cleave to old practices and theories, but as they are convictions of true policy, we have no hesitation in making them. Cause Advancing.?The temperance cause is steadily progressing in Texas. "The acces sions," says the Wesleyan Banner, "of influential men in the higher walks of lift-, is making a sure and solid progress." Cheering notes reach us from all parts of the State. One great reason of the rapid advance of the cause in Texas, is due to the unshackeled and magnanimous press of that State.? They have noble editors, men with souls above money, who dare to speak the honest convictions of their hearts. A magnificent country, an independent and dignified press; warm hearted and whole soul ed people, we are not turprised that the cause is rapidly elevated to a commanding position. We h<y>e they will not leave us too far in the rear. On the 14th June, they hold a State temperance convention. In August, the question of license or no license is to be submitted to the whole State. The next thing we expect to hear is, that they have passed the Maine Jaw. t 1 v The Escape. a A HISTORICAL FACT. <1 Early in the spring of 1780, Mr. Alexander ^ McConnell, of Lexington, Ky., went into the 8 woods on foot to hunt deer. He soon killed a 11 large buck, and returned home for a horse, in li oraer to bring it. During his absence a party P i of five Indians, In one of their skulking expe- * ' ditions, accidentally stumbled on the body of 8 the deer, and perceiving that it had been re P , cently killed, they naturully supposed that the jj. hunter would soon return to secure the flesh. * Three of them, therefore, took their stations ~ within close rifle shot of the deer, while the " - .... ti other two followed the trail of the hunter, ana waylaid the puth by which he was expected to 0 return. 1 McConnell, thinking not of danger, rode care- a lessly along the path which the scouts were ? watching, until he had come within view of the b deer, when he was fired on by the whole party, !? and his horse killed. VVhile laboring to extri- . cate himself from the dying animal, he was 81 seized by his enemies, overpowered and borne K off a prisoner. His captors however, seemed . a merry, good natored sort of fellows, and per- ,r rnitted him to accompany them unbound?and v what was rather extraordinary, allowed him to ai retain his gun and hunting accoutrements.? n' He accompanied them with great apparent [ cheerfulness through the day, and displayed his lf dexterity by shooting deer for the use of the company, until they began to regard him with 01 great partiality. Having travelled with him n< in this manner for several days, they at length reached the bank of the Ohio river. Heretofore the Indians had taken the pre caution to bind him at night, although not very 1 securely, bur on that evening he remonstrated v' with them on the subject and complained so ? strongly of the pain which the cord gave him, C( that they merely wrapped the buffalo rug about ^ his wrists, and having tied it in an easy knot ' and then attached the extremities of the rope a to their bodies, in order to prevent his moving . without awakening them, they very composedly went to sleep, leavjng the prisoner to follow a their example or not as he pleased. ~ McConnell determined to effect his escape ( that night if possible, as on the following morn- m ing they would cross the river, which would render it more difficult. He therefore lay qui- e.^ elly ruminating on the best means of effecting ' his escape. Accidently casting his eyes in the r direction of his feet, they fell upon the glitter ing blade of a knife, which had escaped from its sheath, and was now lying near the feet of " one of the Indians. c To reach it with his hands, without disturbingthe two Indians to whom he was fastened, was impossible, and it was v<jry hazardous to , attempt to draw imp with his feet. This however he attempted. With much difficulty he grasped the blade between his toes, and after repeated and long continued efforts, succeeded at length in bringing it within reach J." of hie hands. To cut the cord was hut the work of a moment, and gradually and silently extricating himself he walked to the fire and sat down, lie felt that his work was but half done. That if he should attempt to return home with out destroying his enemies, he would he pursued and probably overtaken, when his fate sC^ would be certain. On the other hand it seem- c' ed almost impossible for a single individual to cm-rtui-rl in n ennflii-f. willi five InrliuilRPVPn h? though unarmed and asleep. He could not a hope to deal a blow with a knife so silently and ?f fatally as to destroy each of his enemies in turn, of without awakening the rest. Their slumbers ot were proverbial!} light and restless?a nd if he if failed with a single one, he must inevitably be fil overpowered by the survivors. The knife was g: therefore out of the question. After anxious ar reflection for a few moments he formed his plan. . The guns of the Indians were stacked near pr the fire. Their knives and tomahawks were th sheathed by their sddes. The latter he dare he not touch for fear of arousing their owners, hut ec the former he carefully removed with the ex- pr ception of two, and hid them In the woods, vv while the Indians were still sleeping, perfectly he ignorant of the fate preparing for them, and ta- to king one in each hand and resting the muzzles qi on a h>o, within six feet of his victims, and having taken deliberate aim at the head of one and the heart of another, he pulled both triggers at the same moment. Both shots were fatal. At the report of the guns the others sprang "1 to their feet glancing wildly about them. McConnell, who had run to the spot where the e, other rides were hid, hastily seized one of them p, and fired at two of his enemies who happened m to be standing in a line with each other. The rr nearest fell dead, being shot through the centre 8p of the body; the second fell also, bellowing loudly, but soon recovering limped off as fast as possible. The fifth, the only one that re- y mained unhurt, darted off like a deer, with a yell that announced equal terror and astonishment. McConnell not wishing to fight any more such battles, selected his own rifle from u' the stock, and made the best of his way to Lex- " ington, where he arrived in two days. A nlw.ft t A llA AHIllU^rliS M ?n TT..?> I.. ? .-V C T?.l A Miwib Mine auci waiun, tvj I O. L/uiljfij', HI rn ette, who had been several months a prisoner S among the Indians on Mad river, made her es- tl cape and returned to Lexington. She reported a that the survivor returned to his tribe with a g lamentable tale. He stated that they had ta- "< ken a fine young hunter near Lexington, and brought him as far as the Ohio; that while en- ir camped on the bank of the liver, a party of white men had fallen upon them in the night, and killed his companions, together with the p poor defenceless prisoner, who lay bound hand and foot, unable either to escape or resist. k < - n The Fighting Preacher. k The Western itinerants (who were the legis d fi/lminea of* the American ministry of their day) were usually brawny, athletic men; physically, g if not mentally, educated almost to perfection. They had occasion sometimes to preach to i their rude hearers with their fists, as well as h , their stentorian lungs. "At a campmeeting," tl i says Mr. Finley, "a row was raised, on Satur- g i day, by about twenty lewd fellows of the baser d sort, who came upon the ground intoxicated, i and had vowed they would break up the meet- h . ing. One of the preachers went to the leader d i for the purpose of getting him to leave; but this v only enraged him, and he struck the preacher t< , violent blow on the face and knocked him own. Here the conflict began. The memers saw that they must either defend themelves or allow the ruffians to beat them and isult their wives and daughters. It did rot ike them long to decide. They very soon laced themselves in an attitude of defence.Irother Birkammer, an exceedingly stout man, eized their bully leader who had struck the reacher, and with one thrust of his brawny - - - - - t t rm, crushed him down between two bencnes. 'he aid-de-cnmp of the bully ran to his reliel, ut it was to meet the same fate; for no sooner id he come within reach of the Methodist, lan with crushing force he felt himself ground n the back of his comrade in distiess. Here ley were held in durance vile, till the sheriff nd his posse came and took possession, and inding them with ten others, they were carried efore a justice, who fined them heavily for the lisdemeanor. As soon as quiet was restored, iishop Ashbury occupied the pulpit. After nging and prayer, he rose and said be would ive the rowdies some advice: "You must remember that all our brothers i the church are not yet sanctified, and I adise you to let them alone; for if you get them ngr.Vi and the devil should get in them, they re the strongest men to fight and conquer in ie world. I advise you, if you do not like tern, to go home and let them alone." In speaking of one of his brother itinerants, no in whnm if waR ovvinir "that Methodism is ow the prevailing religion in Illinois/' he says: At the campmeeting held at Alton in theauirnn of 1833, the worshippers were annoyed y a set of desperadoes from St. Louis under ie command of Mike Fink, a notorious bully, ie triumphant bully of countless fights, in none T which he had ever met an equal, or even se)rid. The coarse drunken ruffians carried it ilh a high hand ?outraged the men, insulted ie women, so as to threaten the dissolution of I pious exercises, and yet such was the terror ie name of their lender?Fink?inspired, that ) individual could he found brave enough to ce his prowess. At last, one day when Mr. ascended the pulpit to hold forth, the ;speradoes on the outskirts of the encampent raised a yell so deafening as to drown utrjy every other sound. Mr. M 's ark es shot lightning. He deposited his Bible, ew ofl'his coat, and remarked aloud: "Wait for a few minutes, my brethren, while go and make the devil pray." He then proceeded, with a smile on his lip, the focus of the tumult, and addressed the lief bully thus: ''Mr. Fink. I have come to make you pray." The desperado rolled back the tangled teaotis of his blond-red hair, arched his huge ows with a comical expression, and replied : "By golly! I'd like to see you do it, old soorr." "Very well," said M , "will these gentleen, your courteous friends, agree not to shew ul play?" "In course they will, they're rale grit, and on't do iiothin* hut the clear thing, so they "n't," rejoined Fink indignantly. "Are you ready?" asked M . "Ready as a race horse with a light rider," |iiaring his ponderous person for the coming >mbat. B.it the bully spoke too soon; for scarcely id the words left his lips when M made prodigious bound toward his antagonist and 'companied it with a quick, shooting punch 1.tnU'/iK f^sll ArncKinnr tlio 1119 lit*I i'll Cflll III St, nilitii IV/h viuammi^ ...v hers chin, nnd hurried hini to the earth like ad. Then even his intoxicated companions led with involuntary admiration at the feat, ive a cheer. But Fink was up in a moment, id ru-died up<>n his enemy, exclaiming: "That wasn't fair, so it wasn't." He aimed a ferocious stroke, which M irried with his left hand, and, grasping his iroat with the right, crushed him down as if ; had been an infant. Fink struggled, squirmI and writhed in the dust, but all to no pur>se; for the strong muscular fingers held his indpipe as in the jaws of an iron vice. When 5 began to turn purple in the face and ceased rocief \T slackened his hold, and ill jired: "Willyon pray, now?"' "I doesn't know a word how," gasped Fink. "Repeat after me," commanded M . "Well, if I must, I must," answered Fink, >eoause you're the devil himself." The preacher then said over the Lord's pray , line by line, and the conquered bully resided in the same way, when the victor peritted him to rise. At the consummation, the iwdies roared three boisterous cheers. Fink look M 's hand, declaring: "By golly, you're some heans in a bar fight; d rather set-to with an old he bar in dog days, nu can pass this 'ere crowd of nose smashers ith your picture." Aiterwaras rinK's pariy oenavea wun me [most decorum, and M. resumed his seat in le pulpit. A IIalb Anecdotk.?When our friend, am. A. Hale, was in Fayette county, seeking le suffrage of the people for the office of Judge friend of his, on one occasion, with the great ravity and becoming dignity, asked him to step this way, if you please,' Squire." "They are telling a tale on you Squire, that's 'j'ringyou mighty badly" "Ah!" said the Squire, "what is it" "Why, they say you are a brother of Sicken F. Hale F.sq., of Greene county." "No, I'am no kin to Stephen F. Hale; I now him very well, he is a very'clever gentleten, but if the rumor of which you have spoen, is injuring me, I authorize jou to contract it" You are a brother to John P. Hale, the rent abolitionist in Congress ain't you ?" "Yes sir, I am." "Oh ! well, we don't care a durne about that ut if you was a brother of Stephen F. Hale bat man what run ntrin General Smith for Con ress, you wouldn't git-the first vote in these lippine." Mr. Hale telle this with great gusto, and we ope that he, as well as Stephen F. will par on us for norating it. It was too good to be wasted. We couldn'L help it.? Wett Alabaman. Northern Colleges, Why is it that Southern parents and guar dians will patronise these Institutions, in pre ferenee to their own? We are sure, that fo scholarship and industry, the Professors of th< Virginia University and the South Carolina Col lege will compare favorably with any in tin Union. The course of 6tudy which is pursuet by both are of such nature as to improve th< mind, if properly attended to, as much as anj plan which can be prosecuted in the time whicl is allowed for a College course. The Northeri Colleges devote the more time to the study o the Exact Sciences; the South6-n Colleges giv< the preference to Metaphysical and Moral Stu dies. The first only improves the memory anc stores it with a multitude of scientific facts and teaches one to reason, as it has most con clusively been sliown, unnaturally; ihe othei improves :ill the faculties at once, teaching the student, in fine, to be a Philosopher. The lat ter being, in our opinion, by far the more de sirable, inasmuch as it learns us the causes which naturally lead to the effects, and consequently imply the effects, which the other alone inculcates. That this is so. in real experience has been proven by the number of distinguish' ed men which the Southern Institutions have graduated. If one casts his eye, for instance, over the catalogue of the Alumni of the South Carolina College, he will be astonished to find how many members of Congressnnd how many distinguished Jurists dot the list. To entei into an enumeration would be tedious; suffice it to say that she has furnished a number o] Senators and Representatives, only for her own State, but for all the Southern States, compared with which even Yale or Harvard, in the same space of time, must yield. If, then, our Southern Colleges are discipl!n ../I ii?/Iah /. ma i rv\ nc.itiinnr o no 1IIIC1I UllUt'l a UtrilCI illiu IIIWIC liupniting oja? tem, can il be the principles which are inculcated at the North which parents desire their children to imbibe? We hope not. Much as we respect the "Yankee Nation," much as,we desire their energy, their industry and their indomitable perseverance, we do deprecate the man who would t-.ke one of them, untried, into his family as a teacher, or place his children beneath their preceptorage or influence. What is the case at present in those Colleges at which Southern parents place their children? Disunion is rife?disunion, too, not based upon the honorable and soul-elevating principle of secession, but upon the base and degrading dog. mas of Abolitionism.' All of us who were born under the shade of the star-spangled banner, who have read the history of ou. forefathers, iind who are conscious of" the dignity or the Union in foreign countries, must appreciate, love and revere that consecrated bond which holds these sovereign States together, while, at the same time, we must abhor and detest that community which would first raise the sacrilegious hand to tear it asunder. In almost every Northern College, the Professors are the leaders of the Abolition party. In Cambridge, lately, one of the principal speakers against the Nebraska Bill was a Professor. In Hartford tue same thing occurred, and in Princeton College, the old stand by of the South, we are privately informed that the lectures of the Proles sors are replete with abuse of Southern insti tntions. With such facts before us, together with the unjust treatment of many Southern students who go thither, we are astonished to find how many there are who persist in sending their sons to drink of these stagnant pools, Only lately, the Editor of the Charleston Standard received a letter from his nephew, stating that he had been fined most severely for another man committing an assault upon him, merely because he came from the South! Only a few years ago, we remember of hearing ol the expulsion of a Southern student for exhibiting certain insubordinate manifestations, when he was ordered to accept a negro from the West Indies as his churn. These are only two instances of inimical feel'ngs towards the South, out of many that could be narrated. Let every Southern man, then, patronize his own Institutions, where he inay be confident that his boys will be taught properly, not only with reference to the improvement of their minds, but with regard to those great moral springs of action which should govern their conduct towards their God, their country and its institutions.? Greenville Mountaineer. ? ? South Carolina Couserratism. South Carolina has been reproached with being ultra conservative. We are glad she is so. VVe want in the South one or more States which if not a counterpoise in power, may supply, at least, the influence of a reverse example, to the ultra radicalism of the North.? The spirit of misrule in certain sections of the Union ha^manifested itself in various forms of destructiveness. Pioperty and person are hourly becoming more insecure in those sections. The people in the capricious exercise of unbridled power have evinced not only no respect for law, but are extending that disrespect to its expounders and administrators.? All are trampled under foot in the insane ex ercise of mere mob supremacy. There is no check in authority to these excesses. Those who wield it, have not the courage to oppose this torrent of social disorder, or th?y truckle to those who direct it, to acquire popularity. Let the observing note how rapidly this spirit is extending in the North and in parts of the West, and the future must ue traced in scenes of anarchy, requiring severe repression and new reatraints on popular liberty. Now, at the South, we are willing to fore go the enjoyment of license to trample on law and insult magistrates, to break epen prisons and release criminals, in reverence to those old fashioned notions in which our people have been educated, that leave justice to. work its ends by its own appropriate means. What il we at the South are oligarchic in our ideas il not form?if we repose power in the enlighten ed few, nnd not the turbulent many?we run no hazard of, first, a lapse into anarchy, and then, the concentration of power to repress it If, in the distribution of authority, we seleci its depositaries on a limited scale, we are con fident that its standard to be reached tnus combine in those depositaries intelligence wit! the spirit of the reverential. It is wise to liin it to a few that power, which, if unrestrained must in the end become unity aud despo turn. I t We are, therefore, proud at the South of those conservative elements which their institutions make necessary. Social bond are best r preserved where men associate to place power n at an elevation that demagogues cannot easily reach by working on public passions. The e great euise of our country, next to popular li1 cense, is demagogueism. The more limited ? the range of those who live by its frauds, and f are subject to its delusions, the more perfect is i the construction of that society which profesi ses social equality, without the liberty by f which it is prone to run into disorder. But ? the social structure itself?the internal organi. zation?must supply the means of attaining 1 this conversatism. More especially should we , cling to those elements in South Carolina, that - to the destructiveness of other sections, oppo r ses that extreme form of conservatism, which > to the oouth generally is a centre or rallying - point. May it not become, in the future, a . balance wheel in the Southern political and s social system 1?Charleston Eve News. i From Hit Providence Journal, June 6. , Ferocious Elephant at Large. The large elephant Hannibal, attached to s the Broadway Menagerie, which was on exhi, bition at Paw tucket on the 2d inst., got loose i from his keeper on the way from Pawtucket to I Full river, early yesterday morning. Before starting, his keeper made him lift the hinder ' part of a wagon loaded with 3,500 pounds, for the purpose of getting into line. It is supposed f that this, although not unusual, might have ' suggested to him the mode of uttack which he adopted afterwards, i When about seven miles from Pawiuckethe became furious, turned on his keeper, who had to fly for his life, and take refuge in a house, cot free, and rushed alone the road destro\iue every thing in his way. Meeting a horse and wagon belonging to Mr. Stafford Short, he i thrust his tusk into the horse and lifted horse, s wagon and rider into the air. He mangled the horse terribly, and carried him ubout fifty i feet, and threw the dead body into a pond.? 1 The wagon was broken to pieces, and Mr. S. considerably hurt. The elephant broke one of : his enormous tusks in this encounter. A mile i further, the elephant, now grown more furious, attacked in the same manner a horse and wag on with Mr. Thomas VV. Peck and his son.? He broke the wagon and wounded the horse, which ran away. Mr. Peck was pretty badly i hurt in the hip. While the keepers were engaged in securing a smaller elephant, who had not, however, manifested any signs of insubordination, the larger , one got off from them and went through Bam. ville, when Mr. Mason Barney and another , man moui'' their horses and, kept on his track near in as was prudent, giving warn imr of the n ??r to the nasspn/rerR whom tlipv r? - o i o ? ~ met on the way. The elephant would occ'a* ' sionally turn to look at them, but did not at, tempt to molesHhem. Tlie next man in the path was Mr. Pierce, I who was riding with his little son in a one horse wagon. He was coming toward the ele pliant, and being warned by Mr. Barney, turned round and put his horse to his speed, but the elephant overtook him, and seizing the wagon, threw it Tnto the air, dashing it to pieces, and breaking the collar bone and arm of Mr. Pierce. The horse, disengaging from the wagon, escaped with the tore wheel", and the elephant gave chase for eight miles," but did not catch him. The elephant came back trom his unsuccessful pursuit, and took up his march again on the main road, where he next encoun tered Mr. J. Eddy with a horse and wagon.? He threw up the whole establishment in the same way as before, smashed the wagon, killed the horse, and wounded Mr. Eddy. He threw the horse twenty feet over a fence into the adjoining lot, then broke down the fence, went over, picked up the dead horse and deposited , him in the road where had first met him. He killed one other horse, and pursued another, who fled to a barn; the elephant followed but at the door was met by a fierce bull dog, !.!? U!n no/I Am 11\ U1 rvt nflT fill WHICH I'll Hid ltT? OIIU iii v e ijiiii t/ii. yaivv vii ' the route, the keeper being ahead of him saw him plunge over a wall and make for a house. The keeper got into the house first, hurried the frighten-d people within to the upper story, and providing himself with an axe succeeded in driving off the furious beast. The elephant finally exhausted his strength, and laid himself down in the bushes, about two miles from Slade's Ferry. Here he was secured with chains and carried over the ferry to Fall River. A part of the time he ran at the rate of a mile iu three minutes. Tiik Latest about thb Elephant.?The elephant that belonged to the menagerie which , exhibited in this city on Tuesday, still continues in an uneasy state of mind. He wa9 con fined with several chains in order to keep him secure, hut soon after the exhibition was closed, he succeeded in severing two of the chains, a third, however, which was fastened to one of his legs and around a rock, he was unableto break. Considerable excitement was cans ed among those who chanced to be upon the ground, and many fled from the place in hot haste. He is, undoubtedly, a dangerous anitMul Tho pmnnnnv Iim* nnid &700 for damn ges June by him on Monday.?New Bedford . Standard, June 7. Palestine Mortgaged. It is said abroad, that Palestine has been mortgaged to the Rothschilds, as security for ' n loan advanced to the Sultan. The rumor i further asserts that, among the possibilies of I the future, is the erection of Palestine, on the ? conclusion of a peace, into a Jewish Kingdom, i under the dynasty of the Rothschilds. That f serious territorial alterations will grow out of f the pending war, is inconlestible; and this sug gestion regarding Palestine, however visionary i it may seem, is, therefore, not quito absurd. , That Palestine should fall into the posses. sion of some other people than the Turks is L desirable on many accounts. Situated as it is, - at a distance from the centra) government and t liable continually to the exactions of Pachas, ) or the indifference of Governors, it offers no sufficient inducement for capital to settle there , or industry to remain. It is consequently in a state of progressive decay. Agriculture is neg- < lected, trade finds little to support it, and ig- j norance, superstition and vice predominate over the land. From the. furthest shores of Nazareth to the southern waters of the Dead Sea, a curse seems to hang oser'the country* blighting it like a pestilence or a flight of Egyptian locusts. There was a time, however, when Palestine was the most nourisnmg region, pernaps, on the face of the globe. Its vallieswere filled with the low of cattle?its terraced hill sides glowed with golden crops, the vine dotted the landscapes with purple grapes; and an almost continuous line of villages crowned the acclivities in sight of each other, from the Desert of ldumea on the south to Mount Libanos on the noi^h. There is reason to believe that at the beginning of the Christian era, the whole land was like a vast suburb. The four Gospels are full of allusions which warrant this conclusion. But now desolation broods over the entire prospect. The footprints of successive invaders have deeply dented the surface of the country. The round, battlement tower* of the Crusaders rise ?mid the ruins of old Homan works, while the modern Turkish fortresses lift themselves above the blackened walla of Roman castles. The axe and fire have gone over this once fair region in repeated surges of > blood and conflagration. Centuries of war and oppression have exhausted the spirit of the people, have 'destroyed the old improvements, have turned what was once a continuous garden and vineyard into a comparative desertNo man can remember what Palestine once was, and recall what it is at present, without wishing that equal laws and liberal institutions might restore it to its former splendor. The creation of a Jewish Kindom promises the speediest method of arriving at this. There are millions of Hebrews scattered over Europe, who would avail themselves of such a restoration, to return to the lands of ther fathers. Poland and Russia, especially, swarm with them. The oppression under which they buffer, wherever the Czar holds sway, would be an additional inducement for them to emigrate to Palestine. A Jew in Russia cannot wear a beard as he wishes, cannot appear in certain garments, cannot import even the Hebrew Scriptures, cannot enjoy the common rights of a citizen. When we consider the adventurous character of the race, and recall the great Jewish Exodus which is even now going on, we cannot see any difficulty in the way of a Jewish emigration, such as would repopulate Palestine in a very few years. , ' There are difficulties 4n the way, however^ and serious ones. A small kingdom like Pal estine proper would be, would hardly sustain itself against its mightier neighbors. But if, ; x as appearances begin to indicate, the present war will end in the re-construction of Turkeys and if that re-construction should be based on a federal union, under the Sultan, of various independent provinces, then we see no reason why a Hebrew principality may not take its place in such a union, side by side with a Servian, a Russian or an Albanian one.?Public Lidger. AxotiierIjtdian Massacre n? Texas.?Ad-rices from Galveston to the 31st nit, state that five hundred Seminole and CamAnche Indians, under the command of Wild Cat, were within . 3ftmiles of Victoria. The Advertiser, of that pflSe, announces the arrival of an express, and says : "They have attacked a company of mustangers, traders, citizens and soldiers. Several were killed when the express left. He left them fighting, and supposes all will be killed. They first attacked a company of twenty-five ' soldiers and killed all but two, and then immediately surrounded the mustanger? and traders, who were pushing to the relief of the soldiers. The express says he thinks thirty Mexicans and five or six Americans were killed in the company of mustangers, besides the soldiers near by.. The express is a Mexican, who made bis escape by running through the Indians after all hope was lost. He says his horse was killed under him, and he mounted an Indian horse near by and saved himself. Several other scattering squads are also killed in that vicinity, and one family. The Indians were heard to say during the fight that they would kill every tiling and desolate the country to the RioGrande. This report is generally believed here, and considerable excitement prevails." The Feeling in Booton.?Major General B. F. Ed mauds, commander of the military force ordered out at Boston, by requisition of Mayor Smith, has put his name to a petition for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. The editor of the Gazette, an officer of the Boston Light Infantry, says that nine tenths of the' men on duty sympathised with the slave. A < committee has been appointed by the officers of the Light Dragoons to raise funds fer the purpose of securing the freedom ot Burns. The Court House.?Legal notice haa been served upon the United States authorities by the City Government to quit and deliver up the rooms now occupied by them in the Coun* ty Court House. The last day of the present montn is uie lime wnen tne marsnai ana ail other officers .of the General Government must quit the premise*. The memorial at the Merchants' Reading Room for the repeal of the fugitive slave lawr has received several thousand signatures, and their number is eonstantly on the increase.? Throughout the State similar memorials are ire preparation, and will poor in opon Congress, from all parts of New England. Boston Atlas, A Strange Coincident.?A friend of our? a uiuif- tka nrawnt. wont from fnm i cv;ci?cu o niv fvwwMv ovnf ? ??* ** bro'her whom he had not seen for near thirty years. To see them together one could1 scarcely discover any material difference in the two. Walked alike?dressed very much alike, having hats, coats and vests resembling, when they met. Bot the strangest and most striking feature of the resemblance was, when tbey were weighed, it could not be told which was the largest.?Southern- Enterprise. Supposing^lercory were to pitch Pan Into tne Aegean ???, wnai wouia ae Decome t. ^ , dripping Pan. ' v '