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rid Hit?.* in this' p?*ovH?1f e," puttied j.i i jc tcntn div ot in the year our JLord on,; thousand s:;vew outidrcd ind iortr. 1 t?tU w i >en g^-y p .'rv.m shall be felolli ausly fttruck) wouuda.l poisoned mr otticr injured in ti fcis stale, an d die thereof Vi aiotniT stitc or territory, tno person or persons gniity oi such stiirvin^, ivou^ei i>$, y jisoning, or other injury, and e\orv a c %'jtBary thereto either before or at'tiir the act, sn tli be tried oyand before the court o' thj district where auch stroke., iv j.iud, ?poison or other injury was liad, given or in flicted, and (if convictcd) punished in the tame mode, manner and form, as if tha de ceased 30 stricken, wounded, poisoned im* Otherwise injured, had died thereof in the district where such stroke, wound, poison or other injury happened or was indicted. If any person or persons shail iuveigle, Steal or carry away any negro, or other slave or alftves, or shall hire, aid or council any person or oersonsto - inveigle, steal or earry away as aforesaid, any si>.ch slave or Blaves, shall.be deprived of the use and ben blit oi such slave or slaves, or shall aid any such slave in running away, or departing from his master's or employer's service, be, she or they, upon being thereof convict ed, shall bo publicly whipped, and receive tiot more than thirty-nine tas^s, nor less than twenty laches j and shall moreover pay a fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand cioUars ; and up on defauit or inability to pay such fine., shali be imprisoned not less than one year not tnore thnn two yesra. All and every persooor persons who shall j be indicted and found guilty of stealing any I horse, ntare, gciding, colt, filly, ass, or mule, ^!iatl bo privately whipt, and receive uot ifcss than thirty-nine lasnes, a:rl shall be imprisoned not more than twelve months, nor leas lhah six months. And if such of fender dr offenders shall at any time after Wards cc/mmit or repeat the like ofieiicc, he, ?he or they &h2ll be publicly whipt, and Ceive not less than fifty Uulhea, aiid ? iiail be moreover baiji&hed fronl the suite. Whoever shall be convicted of perjury, ahail pay such fi:'.ev and defter s\ft:h inf prisanment, and reccive as many lashes, as the court shDll, in discretion think fit; and If such offender Khali at any time after wards commit or repeat the like offence, h&orshe shall receive the like punish ment } arid in .addition thereto, shall be ban ished frbm the state. Amt be if further enacted, That the fe lonious taking at id carrying avray the per sonal goods and chattel* ot another, shall in ail cases be taken and adjudged to be larceny without any regard to the distinc tion of grand ahd pejty larceny, or to the tfpecies of the goods and chattels taken, Except in such casts as arc otherwise pro vkled- for by tl^act* And if any person Or persons being indicted tor larr.fv.iy , shall be found guilty thereof, he, she . or ihc> shall forfeit five times the value of the pro perty stolen^ aYid shall be imprisoned not mbs than three rfVontlvs, nor more , than six months atnl upon default or Mobility to nsuch fine or ferfeitrtrc,. shall be -pub >ly whipped, with' fiot le&i than thirty nine, nov more than one hMylred stripes, ai?d if such offender or offender* shall, at any titiie afterwards commit, or be . guilty of the like crime, ht she or they shall be finod and imprisoned in like manner, and V,e publicly whipped with not less than fif ty, nor more than one hundred stHpes, and snail he banished from the state. And be it further enacted, That whoever ahaH tit 7 any stolewgoods or chattels,know ing the same to be stolen, shall in?ur t-He tamo punishment, as by this act is ap pointed for such as be guilty of lafteuy. Every offender who shall cheat or com ?pit any swindling, upon being indicted and outvi guilty thereof, either by common law or by statu t'e, shall be fined and impi is ?onod, and receive such corporeal punr i&hment, as tl\e court, shall in discretion fhfnfi fit : and for the second offence, every if ich offender shall uecoive not less titan fit ty nior more than one bundled lashes, and shall be b&nished from the state. Thecou*| befoitj whom an f offender | rffAli b& indicted and convict z4 of gutting ai bastard child* shall, in discretion^ fix the turn to be paid for the mainteitajtco of the ?hild, and on default in paying such sum, or tiving security for t.;e maintenance of such child) such offender shall he whipped less than thirty-nin j hor more thai) J tffty Wipes. Whoever shall cr.ftceal, entertain or har bor any F?\*^\tiV e or runaway Slave or slaves, tot^Mnjury of the owner or owners ofaueh alave Or slaves, upon conviction thereat, ahall pay such fine as the court shall in dis Civ lion think lit. < ^ .. / ; . Whoever shall wantonfy beat, wound or iTl treat any slave or slaves, or shall punish any flave in a barbarous manner, by rcfu wW necessary* subsistence, or by any other riudite seventy to sucTi slave or slaves, *;>on tyjii*# indicted and convicted thrrep^ shall he ll.icd in such sutft a* the court shutt in rfn.cretion think fit lis it further eriactirl* That in n/l indict ments foi< retailing spirituous liquors, the informal' ?hall be a competent ?ritn<%s, to testify on the pan of tlje f5tate. r , Whoever shall l>? found' guilty of asav.ilt and ? Attery, shall he fined and Lrmpi jBoa&d* not more than two years, ik* lest than one month : aud a;l aucu linos shaft be paid to tme convu isioncr., oi 'the rouis of the * it Mtfh or distrii t 'wherein ?ucn oilincc suull have bwon eamnntud. Anil be it hereby enacted, Thit ? the ftft-iiV. vne.it "f pilio?7, an- 1 burning in thv U&n-.l, hi*, ind trie ~4 v.: a\ ?vre >y ab.lUh *t&\ un4 \^pxK m \v ^ ? ;juii Ishmeut ef p'.il or; :;iJ lu'.V.in ~ ? *3 r.ir have been heretofore u^cd by .iw. ti.e coun aha. i, in lieu ihcr^wt, order aikloirjct such fine ana imprison xient, Li their discre tion may be proper. ^ And be it t'urtoer cnartcd by tl\e author ity aforesaid, That II any of;ej"ler or offen ders shall b t convicted of any frtTT^e, where by svr:h ofVendci' or offenders su-.ii* l>e li-Ye to be banished from this state, it sliali Ik* the duty of the jud'^e before whom such wf foikier or offenders shall be uv<l, to iix a certain day for said ort'etvie'r or <>fr*e;'.ders to 1 ear c the state ; and to cause a descrip tion of sue h'o Bender Or offenders, ijj^eiuer with the judgement of the court, to be puH \ lished three times in every newspaner in i the state ; and if any offender or offenders - b&itislK'd "slwti return into any *^rt of I South Carolina, he or she so returning shall be liable to be punished as any person at tainted of felony without bene tit of clergy. And if any yfiender or offenders sb bunisn ed as aforesaid, be found within this stute after the expiration of the time fixed tor the said offender or offenders to Iftive the stpte as aforesaid, he or she thus found witfcin the sute, shall be liubk* to all the pains and pen alties oi' having returned frbin banishment, and shall suffer death accordingly. And be it further enacted, That upon the arraignment and trial ot any person for returning from bai.ishinett, the cle rk ot general sessions of the district wherein, such offender shall have been convicted' and had judgement of banishment, shall, at the re?[uei*t of thy prosecutor, or ot any other in the statu* behalf, certify o tran indietment airainst such j>erson, aiul the certainty oftlie comidion and judgement, to .the clerk of general sessions wherein s(ic I; person :*.all be indicted* which certi ficate being produced in comt, shall be sufficient jwoof th:?t such person has been legally banished thin tb" st.ite. And be it further enacted by the antlkor my -aforesaid,* Tl?at if any person or per sons be indicted of any orfenccj lor which by virtue of any thins in this act contained, such person or persons are excluded from the benefit of clergy, if he, she or they be thereof convicted by verdict or confession, such person' or persons shall not be ad mitted to the benefit of .his, her or their clergy ;^fhe, she or -they stand mute, or will not answer directly to the felony, or challenge peremptoyi*y more than twenty persons returned to be on the jury. And be it further enacted by the author* ity aforesaid, Thsr- in the c ascs herein be fore mentioned, the punishments ftyscri hv thia o/'i. and lUkTVi^ i >thpr. Kit * : t/rut/j ttlto di!lt IttHtt' tiUl\Tt ^ f r\> Ttititt V"' ' { ' and that all former ncts< fnd parts of nets, | so far only as the same are contWr f to the true intent and meaning of this a'ct, be, and the sanreare hcrtljy repeated. ? ~ j C.1SF. OFV'A.. -J0H.Y4.YD Eli S OA', (tjOMCI.WKU.)' ; U.S. CON<<I<RSS. ? I HOUSE Ob' REPRESENTATIVES. Friday January lf?. | The will of the house was ulti 1 mately conslimated, bv thc passage f of a resolution iiV the following words ; i Resolved, That John Anderson | has been guilty of a contempt ami a violation of the privileges of the house, and that he be brought to j the bar of the hou?e tins /day, and r be there reprimanded by the speaker lor the outrage he has committecf/ and then discharged from the cc* to'dy of the Sergeant at arms. Whereupon John Anderson tfas brought t6 the B*ir of the House, j and addressed by the Speaker ai i follows f . 4' " John Anderson ; Voir hav? been brought before this House up- ' On a charge of having committed a breach of its privileges in attempt ing to bribe one of ? its Members filling a high and responsible situa tion. The,. House has patiently heard you in your defence, f.nd, in . proportion to the pleasure which it ha** derived from the concurrent tes timonies in support of your char-' acter and good conduct heretofore, is ks deep regret that you have de liberately attempted to commits, crime so entirely incomparable with the high standing* ^you have heretofore maintained. You have the less apology for the attempt which you madiM>ecause y?11 had i yourself experienced the justice of ibis house b\it a lew days nefore, by th<^passagd of two bills in your fa vor j founded on |>etition* p resent - td'to the house. Your attempt to corrupt the fountain of legislula-^ tion, to uudermine the itcgnty of a branch of the National Leguta^ tine is a crime of so deep a dye that even you must acknowledge and be sensible 01 it ? And if John Ander son, you could hive bte?m suc.cess .l.ilin sccli Jitempc : if it wsi j*>s sible thai Reprcscnta;i/^s of r c 1 people coukl have been found, so lost to their dur;. as to accept your you mu^ yourself ice die dreadful consequence.\ of such a de plorable state; of -j; kings In your j turn you might fall a? victim; for your rightrs, your liber; , and your property, might in the end equal ly suffer with those of 'others The Houselias seen with pleasure, That at a very early period after ma king your base offer you disclaim ed, with symptoms of apparent re pentance and conuirion, any intcrr tion to corrupt the integrity of a member ; and in directing^me to [ pronouncc your discharge, the house indulges the hope thai, on your return hope, you will be more fully convinced of the magnitude of your offence, and by the futuVe ccitor of your life endeavor to obliterate i as .far as it may be po>iblev the stain your conduct on this occasion has impressed on the high and honor able character you appear to have previously sustained,, Youaredts charged from the cutfedy of the Sergeant at Arms." y. yV hereupon Joi n Anderson was. discharged front custody : And the house adjourned to Mon day. i Miscellaneous . I Drscrt/ifiov nfth~ fimon of the apostle Paul. | ? St. Chrysostom describes him 1 ,ca little man, about three ' cubits j ; (four and a h*lf feet ) in, height." - Lucien says <4 he was rather bald beaded, with an aqi*eline nose, who travelled through the air into the third heaven." Nicephorous Callis tus (Lib. i, chap. 34) says " St Paul, was small of stature, stooping, and rather inclined to crookedness j ) ale* faced# and of an elderly look, bald on the head, hi? ryes lively, keen, and cheerful ; shaded in part 1 by his eye-brows, which, hung a Tittle over. His nose rather lung;~ and not ungracefully bent. His , beard pretty thick of hair, and of ar sufficient length ; and like hi* locks, interspersed &?th grey." * ?? ? ? ? .4 E aTU,4 OPDIJY4JI Y jtCClnEftr. The following extraordinary acci D * dent occurred about 5 o'clock On the morning of Friday se'flight, in Carmarthen 'As a drove of ox- , en were passing through Spilrn:fn street,' one of theai strayeif to the Castle Green, whence in hi* head long course he fell over the preci- ! pice facing the bridge, upon a house r>t which the inhabitants were aslecrp Ln^bed. It will be. naturally sup posed that the terrof and alarm* ex cited on t he-occasion were 'great. Fortunately however, part of the roof fell in, while the ox was ba lancing athwart a beam, 4 Exactly ovjer a bed, m t/hith were t^ro chil dren/ fast asleep, ,antT who were awa- ' kened by* *trer falling upon the bed. Notwithstanding aril the alarm *nd biistle efeated by this occur rence, we are hapoy to add, no per sonal injury was Aisfcalncdon the oc casion, and whati* equally remark able, the o* does not appeal to j Have suffered materially from his, extraordinary descent. Glo uce*tery ( K. A*. Herald. MujapM) '' . ' v? Foote the celebrated Humourist, befog one day at a table next to a gentleman who h*vi helped himself to a very Urge peiece of bread * af | ter he had taken a mouthful or two, took it up, And cut a pice off. " Sir/* said the gentleman "that is [ my bread," ?? I beg ten thousand pardons," said Foofe, i# I protest I took it lor the loaf," $f' ' ? '? ^ . 1 If hi London papers mention that a fourth Canto of Childe Harold, rby Lord By^bH/had bren received from the Continent for publication. The daily consumption of coab in London for producing Gat amounts to aft cha)dron?i, by which 7-6,000 lights are supplied, each . c4u.1l to the light uT six candles. - r .A cerrsin quark wa* s;Mrcs cd by one of his pncicr.cs a^> f ?i->w* ; <c How is ic that when we car r?rvi drink, the mear is se par a:rd fr^ui* x the drink ?" *' Whv, I'll :r II von," i iiaid the quack, %< in the neck tltrrc | are two pipe*' one of them is to I receive meat, the other drink ; at j the top of these pipes, is a lid or clapper, and when we eat, this clap per shut! up the drink pipe, and when we drink, it turns back upon j th* meat pipe \ 14 But Doctor," said ri?e-patient, it f^ccms to me that the clappcr muse plav d ? n sh vrp when we eat pudding and milk !" ? People A^ho are resolved to please always, at all events fre quently overshoot and render | themselves ridiculous being too | good. A lady going to eat plumtv j cake and candy at a friend's house I one morning ran to the cradle ro | see the fine bov, ;*s soon as she cam? r W * % in ; unfortunately the cat hfci taken the babv's place, but before she could give herself time to see her mi>take, ihe exclaimed with- up-% lifted eyes and hands, *c Oh 1 what? a tine chiid ? the very picture of it*! r father ! %* ' ~~~ The sir. all -pox has made its ap pearance in the borough ot Carlisle, (Pcntt,) Scvual pei sons havc^^fled and others are dangerously attacked. FhUud. fiajier. Distressing Accident-? About the 1 4th inst. a distressing accident hap pened in Sevier County? A large beach tree fell an the camp of a tra velling family ; out of ta, five Were killed instantly, five were wounded, and two escaped unhurt. , Of the wounded two have since died, the othei three arc on the recovery. IH* a cei lain truth, thy d man TaT so# easy, or so little impoaecF u^ort, as among people of the best ?cQst,; ^ It cosi^tar more troublcta be admitted or continued in bad company that in good ; as the for*, mer niVe less understanding to be employed, so they have mure van ity to be pleased ; ana to keep - a fool constantly in good humor with other** is no very easy task. ,} It appear? by an official state ment* tlut iromf ths tsc ofjauuary to the 1st of July, 1 $ 17, there were kiQed, in 86 departments of France 24.1$ woive*, 4 Dears and 1 liger. ,The tiger was ?< tiled in the depart ment ot Anuc* t^cx>nly one fpr aj ftgff P4?t. RELIGION IS LOVKT. /n > i *T .. v .^ "1'? ' ' ?' '? " J Extract of a letter from the Iat6 Rev, S. Prarse, of Birmingham,^ w.. to a friend who had lately bceu kcuieci in a new charge. " You sec^n to breath, in a free airland to bd cdnjected #ith sucli'] whttse IhiWianity can fait allied to, t^hdrn*. ? What ..t pity iiich an a\ V \\xricc is not uni ver sal I But I mis take? rrue rhrjstianity,' genuine unadulterc'J Christianity is *11 can dor. Oh ! I hear her tfweer voice whispering from above, M Let e v *ry man be fully persuacftd ttt h^: own, mind/' Ah, , KovG difJeitW the spirit of professing christian* to the cent us of the religion by whiefcr they are ilistmguiihed j Worse thin, the tyrant of Babylon i be sat uj* an image to be worshipped, bill wcT have oufsclvei^and have *ai<r ^ in facjr, Wlmsp, wh*h he heareih out* voice* {illcirti Yiot down and wonhJppeth* u ** worship, be-' licvcniot as we belie vry and gi vet ou'r undesstanding credit as afc ?Cv otiaimanct with the ti tot# however Sonant Ha opinion may be'tooifr own^M thai! be cast into a furnace of fire'#*-- The CSod oflove assumes the tone of severity at such tyranrf^ a % this i and explains, with a kefeny" | I ncss which must pierce to the | heaft, ? Who art thou that judged -.another'* servant ? To his own J jnaster he standeth or falleth.'* Btothcr, 1 am sick of almost every thin^that has been calfed religion