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0V DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY, NEWS, LIT4 URE, AGRICULUIGNEADTEAT WILLIAM LEWIS, PRPITR;"(- - Ot b=e'' JOHN S. RICHARlDSON, Jw., ROPRIETORS. .EMi-11 ADANCE VOL. VIII. SVMTfERVILLE, S.''t A d, - - .24. THE SUMTER BANNER, IS PUBLISHED Every Wedessday Morning Lewis & Richardson. TE RMI~S, TWO DOLLARS in advance, Two Dollars and Fifty Cents at the expiration of six months or Three Dollars at the end of the year. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are rA In, unless at the option of tie Proprietor. 'Advertisements inserted at SEVENTY FIVE Cents per square, (12 lines or less,) for tIhe first, and half that sum for each subsequent insertion, (Official advertisements the same each time). gr Tie number of insertions to be marked on a I Advertisements or they will be published until ordered to he discontinued, and charged accordingly. gg" ONE DOLLAR per square for a single Insertion. Quarterly and Monthly Advertise ments will be charged the same as a single in sertion, and semi-monthly the same as new ones Thie Irish and the War. A Second Letter Frosn. John. MitchlcI. Letter to the Surrirors of the Irish in Ireland under Forty Years of Age. I believe it is safe enough, to assume tnat, in the war now imminent, En gland being at one side and Russia at another, all your symyathies, my coun trymen, are with Russia. The sole reason and ground of this is, of course, that Russia is the enemy of England. If, in the course of the war, the ca gles of Austria and Prussia. shall hap pen to range themselves against the lied Cross of England, I presume that from ten thousand Irish firesides will rise up prayers and blessings for the eagles of Austria and Prussia. If the present treacherous (and. unna tural league between France and' En gland should, happily, ht.rst asunder on some early day-it is altogether a chatter of course that thousands of our oountrymon will be eagerly soliciting uervice in the French armies, that so i ngay have a chance of dealingE s.dh wnati~tys:nnd.any where mor su: .: U blow. ' Tho-state of feeling in Irishmen may as well be avowed and understood. I should like to see the I ishmen who is enoulgh of .n idiCt a ea . lieve that Ireland has any interest at all in the present confussiuns of Eu rope; save in so far as they may bring about the destruction of o:r. ancient fbe-and may bless us with the chance dfI bearing a hand in that destruction. But if any of you be so foolish as to Suppose that England, in commene ing this war, has any rega' d to right, orjustice, any friendship for Turkey, dt any sympathy with the manifestly righteous cause of Turkey, let him at. tendito some of the considerations here fAllowing : First.-There is no such thing:in all history, since history began, as one nation undertaking a war for the hon or or benefit of another nation. The interest of England in preventing Cnn stantinople from falling into the hands of Russia;.or any other first-rate power, is expressed in the well-known. words of Lord Chatham-" that the mainten ance of the Ottoman Empire is a ques. tion of life- and-death to England. And it is for that interest in the first place, that she has armed now. . Second.-England is the same pow er that, thirty years ago, cont' ived a pretext for burning and destroying, in time of peace, the Trurkish fleet in the harbor of Navarino, which has lhad the effect of leaving Russia in fuil posses sion of the Black Sea ever since. So that you see if England be Turkey's friend, it would be better for Trurkey -to have England for an enemy. Third.-But England has another weflinterest in armin againt assia--it is to prevent an ] uroapean war, to prevent the consequent upris inig of the crushed nationalities of the Continent, and, Irishmen, especially your nationality, which is the most heavily crushed of all. With all the despotisms of Europe the British iaris tocracy stands or fells, lives, or else dies and goes to perdition. And it, can hardly be needful to remind you that during the European struggle a hat Napoleon I., it was the English Government that paid the monarchs of Europe to fight for their own capi tals and crowns-bribed themi with -borrowed monoey, on which you pay the interest yet out of every meal you eat, out of every rag you wear. Yes. noban Austrian ecuirassier fell on the field of Ulm or Wagram, but you are this mroment paying. interest on the piice of his brea-tplate and sabre. No bearded yager, not a whiskered ppndour, or a fierce hussar, of all who trooped to Jena, or Austerlitz, like sheep (or rather like goats)to the shitngh'ter, but every hair in the creat ures beard in dear to you as-a thread of finest gold. All this to uphold" legiti mate sovereignty "-to bring. abo~ut the Vienna treaty-to flirg Itlaly tunder the heels of her paltry ty. rnt-tr insure hopeless abolition. oif Holan--toimpose. the bsood'ofhBour I. bbus tuponi France anid Spain-int short, to bind down all Eaurope on that bed of pain and shame where she has since been enjoying rest and " peace," with lull five million bayonets at her throat. To hold her bound there still is, I re peat it. the second, or, indeed, the first and, main motive of. Brittain's activity now. Fourth.--England's pretext that she is bound by treaties to maintain the independence-of:Turkey is a falsehood, of course. She was bound by treaty to maintain the dominion of Holland over Belgium, to resist the swallowing up of Cracow by Russia, to respect the neutrality of, denmark in 1807. 1 need not refer to England's deliberate breach of the treaty of Amiens-still less to-her atrocious breach-of the treaty of limerick. What I want to know is, what treaty she has ever kept. Once more I will oite against her the sentence pronounced by her greatest statesman(whom, as usual, Ireland gave her,) Edmund Burke. It is a descripioti of the policy of the English in India: " I engage myself to make good these three positions. filsta, I say that from Mount Imaus, where it touches us in the latitude of 29, to ,Cape- Comorin, in the latitude of 8, there-is not a. single Prince, State, or Potentate,. great or small, in India, with whom. they have come into con tact whom they have sold. I say sold, though some times they have not been able to deliver according to their bar gain. Secondly, I say that there is notg single treaty they have ever made which they have not broken. Thirdly, I say there is not a single Prince or State who ever put any truss in the company who is not utterly ruined; and that non- are in any degree secure or flourishing, but in the exact propor tion to their settled distrust and irre concilable enmity to this nation."* Words that burn ! Words that En gland would erase, if she could, from the writtings of her greatest statesman, at the cost of say half a quarter's in come tax-for they confli't with and -adAydiscredit the system of philai. thropic cant, according to w;'hieb "we have conquered. India in our own de fence." 1Jfth.-You are to observe that neither England nor Fiance has declared any war against Russia. I 'do not believe they wili declare war and if a war take place Russia will declare and make it first. The En glish and French Governments have armed and sent firth their troops and ships, not against, Russia, but; provis ionally against each other--each being apprehensive that the other will get hold of Constantinople. And those troops and ships are to be employed in compelling the Turks to make peace on iguominious terms, and in gaining control of the Turkish Empire, under pretext of securing the riights of chris tians. The intention of the Western Powers, in short, is, that Constantino ,ple and its master shall he swallowed, not by the East of Europe, but by the West. Such, and so chivalrous allies, has the predestined T'inrks. Sixth.-Readers of' English books and newspapers have always been taught to regard the Russians as a nation of abject serfs, groaning under despotic rule. Now it, cannot fail to occur to you that these Russians must be in a bad condition indeed if they are worse ofd' than you under your beauti ful constitutional Government, which is the envy of surrounding-. nations. *But the truth is, Russia is niow, in her social and political condition, very much as England was when England was indeed a great nation, under her Plantagenets and Tudors, when she created and won ail that true national greatness, on the mecre credit of which she has been living ever since. Re member, too, that Russia is ruled by a Russian Government, and for the Rue. sian people. No stranger sits on her judgemnent seats--no stranger wvatches at her gates. Hermein, my country men, how deeply you ought toenvy 'the Russians ! 'The peasants of Rus sia are, it- is true, annexed to and in seperable from the land they till. If the Ibish'peasantry had been so annex ed for the last six years, they had lived and not died. In 1847, when famine threatened all Europe, the Russian Government'promptly prohibited the export of rye, wvhich.is the common f'ood of its people. Where was the Government that would do as much for you? It was because our poor countrymen belonged to nobody; be. cause nobody had any interest in keep ing themi alive; because the foreign na tion that holds military occupation of their country desired their destruction --that they were swept fro:ni the face of the land, huddled into poor-houses, starved to death by mnyr'iads and mil lions, or hunted from their own island to the f'our winds. Oh ! believe me, there is not a Russian serf but has cause to pity and despise you. it is worth wvhile, just no.v, to pon der all these matters. When newspa pers and organs of Biritish opinion * Snench 41 nr i'e 's umlia till. everywhe ,. pe. in-' America, are < using all effbrts to puff "John Bull," ( and get up the enthusiasm of free men I in his favor, it is expedient that the t Irish should bear conste;illy in mind the true nature of this Bull, and the I real principles and motive of'the war 1 he is now engaging in. t It might surprise us, indeed, to find t American newspapers praising and .f flattering England ; for Englind is the I sole enemy Arnierica has, or ever had. ( Americans seem to forget how. grand I and august a.champion-of liberty that f power was, which paid Indians for the Ir scalps of their fathers-and mothers, and raised negroes in insurreeion agaidaL e their masters; when her ships of war J landed parties to burn peaceful villa- t ges, and Admirals, blazing in the de- a corations of Grand Cross and Bath and I Ca ter,.led on their gallant tars to the plunder of henroosts on the Chese- t peake. s Yes ! Americans may forget, for i she scourged the Crossed,. and Gar- . tered pirates ; but we, my country- ' men cannot afford to forget what they have done to us and our country just r yet. America drives a prosperous c trade with England now, and naturally i looks on her wealthy customers with [ some indulgence ; but Ireland's trade it with her is death and ruin. c Enough. It is not. without a defi- c nite objeoti. ask.a hearing, that I may n remind you of these things now. I I desire to impress upon all m.y coun trymen, first, that it is base and suici- I dal to enter the British Army ; and h next, that the present position of the t civilized world opens, or is likely to C open, a chance for expatriated Irish- C men to help at least, in doing justice l' and execution upon their enemy-so 9 that mnn -in !re!and' "f,- fighting ag 1: and temper maq find more congenial ( work near home than. fighting with t Russians on the Danube. t Rumors are current amongst gas S sipping, newspapers here in New York r pointing to some definite and organized' a plan new actualjn o Foot iii America,;i for giving expression to this yearning f and passionate longing for a fair and s feasible enterprise in the cause of f freedom and honor. They even indi. a cate the precise design-an invasion ' of Canada by frishmen from. the Urr.i. " ted States. Of course our country. c men will know how much confidence t is to be placed in all this. And they f will ask no more at present than to be b assured that certain Irishmen in New s oArk, men who-kahve the nearest and r dearest interest in Ilie cause, hare resolv- s ed, if a fair occasion arise to avail v themselves of it, and to ask a sui flcient e number of you to help them. a You will not be in a position to help P ifyou are in Turkey, wearing the red t coats o:'Rritish soldiers. 'I It is right to mention that those who c cherish this design know what the law A of the United States art- in this matter v -that they are bound by duty and. .A, afTection to obey those laws -and that s they contemplate nothing which will c violate them, or this country with oth- a er powers. c The possible occasions that may arise are nemerous. Some of them make the heart. bound- to-think of. .a Spain, Cuba, and the Black Warrior f -Napoleon, and the- secret hope of t vengeance for St. Ihelena that he cher- I ishes in his occult soul. Another French Revolution--and a Pr-ovincial 'c Government with, no- mouthing, La mnartine at itshbead. Possiblilities are endless, a.nd Time and Chance wait' upon all muien. . JOLIN MITCH ELL. The Murder of Mr. Craig. We publish the following letter, I which was written to the Newberriaa < ,and published in -that paper urnder- date of the 1st of February, for the infor- 1 mation of those wvho feel an interest in the sad'ioeourieniee which' has aroused. 'i so much excitement in that DIstrict.e Trhe letter is written under the signa-. ture of "Waxhaw :" FRIEND REID :-You wish to know I something about the times 'in Lancas ter. We have just emerged from a perfect tordado of excitement. This ,1 originated in the sudden disappearancei of AlexanderJ. Craig, the overseer of George Witherspoon, on the night of c the 17th December. The negroes re- - ported that he left about moon-up,i going, they know not where; and next t evening his horse returned with the ~ bridle ad, saddle on. is brother left his residence that evening at sun- ~ down, and insisted on his going home c with hi-mr; but' refoised' ot\ the ground ~ that it was for him to remain on the a premises of his employer on Saturday- i night; but he promised, to visit him c next day. This led to the suspicion t that his leaving was not voluntary- ~ And au1 concluded- ifh'e were murdered ~ lhe would be thrown into the river for ~ conceal ment. Searchb- was Immedi ately instituted to msartain if the river had been approached b1 any person, fo~r that purpose. As it had rained ~ heavily' on thn mnorning of tht am lay, this-fact could easily be a d. No vestines of an ap heftiver could be anywhere pr i. Th whole of the surr'' ountry was then closely e )ut no traces of the disappearth ob d' >e found. On the eleventh d when hey were preparing to drag tht River, he body was found on the o r side lye or six miles from His residence in he woods opposite Pride's -place in Thester District-the head :.evered rom the body and scalped- becalp till attached to the back par f.q( the ockh The back, part of the . d had considerable iole broken in it, by blow fropi some heavy in 'lnent. a Uso a blow had been received tween a he point of the shoulder and-- neck, 'i uficiently heavy tb break - t collar one. On the Tuesday night' yevious a e'ilst on his way to the pepott, an at ack was-made on his life,- r the i ame place, whsere the body via found. a t few persons alleged that tl e.deed t -as perpetrated. by Pride's; egroes, ut most believed that it was 4une at 1 Vitherspoon's plantation. On'exami ing the overseer's yard closely, narks t f a scuffle were discovered'; "aso, an i adentation made in the earth by a erson falling heavily on theIbulder, cav.ing the marks of the threidd of the oat plainly to be seen. Sonme hoe. i hops-were also observed ingthe yard, nd on examining the earth titrped up I y the hoe, blood stains were found in . A little further fron.house, a lood was seen on the- lW -some ad drops-and some had a ti as if 1l hey had, been wiped on sni' bloody '1 bject. And. the next moil g after ,raig had disappeared, on n;-e road ading up to Prides, a cotidiaerable uantity of blood was seenin'estony art of tho ;d, 'etweenr.o ton's r Zuarter and Lands's FoinL d on a bat part of the Road pass~iq4 rough ( bie Cup plantation bIl also . een, The road w iquid a iud ahd a drove of assed Ion ibic byin~e au 1 + wonld isv?' e- en )und al along-the road from Wither poon's farm to' where the body was t )und. The body was borne thence t n a horse, the tracks t9ere plainly to t e- seen- from the road to the place t -here the body was, a distance of sixty r seventy-five yards. The blood on I ne road was on the left-hand side; and -om where the horse left the road, I lood was plentifully seen on the sMae side ; and, in the bushes on the ght-hand side was seen mud not quite 1 a high- from- the ground as the blood ,as on the other side. Five of With. rapoons negroes wvere incarcerated nd a day set for their trial, but it was .< ut off. Another day was set, but the rial was again put of. At last, on 'uesday the 17th ult., the Court pro. t raeded to the investigation of the case. ud you will scarcely give me credence a 'hen I say eleven days were expended t i the trial. But you will not under- < Land mne as intimating that the in. i redible time was nacessary to a full nd fair hearing of the case. It was I aused by * *t * a lawyer. In reference to Toney, one of the ceused,- it was proved before the 'ourt he had made- a' threat against he life of his overseer. And in the ossession of Fanny, Toney's concu. pine, Craig's knife, pocket-handker hief1. and one or more linens were aund. She testifi -d they were given oer by Toney. on Sabbath (I~th Dec.) c-hich wvas the daiy after Craig war nurdered. She alsosai d lie gave her shirt, and a pair of pants which were iloody, and told her to wash them len He als gave her money and uga, wichwasproved to be exactly ike the sugar C., used. Lunn, an ther of the accused, accompanied lrony to tlie place where this interview >etween him and Fanny oooured.. The community was surprised yhen t was announced that only Tony was onvieted. It would- be diflieult for man to be murdered in the rnidst of negro quarter, and but one ,eknow it. lesides, the tracks of two horses were eon at the place where' tho~hody was ound. -But the jury were kinown to eo men of sound prigciple and-sterling itegrity. The community is-considorably ex ited, for Craig'was a highly respeota. >le man, and one of the best overseers a the country; and the murder one~ of he most brutal that Satan could invent. tnd it is possible Chester misinter rets Lancaster on the subject. It is rue some of those immediately con. erned did -make silly efforts. to shift he guilt over-that side of the river, and aid things aboutschester that were otter unsaid. But this is not the work f all Lancaster. A large majority 4 he disinterested. persons -impute no . , uilt, (or unfhiiness) in the evidence 11 a Chester. A great crime has been I ommited, we wish the guilty may bo I unished. The Kentucky- iJgislhture haveji 'assed a law prohibiting the carrying 1. coneeh eapons JLiquor Law Veto. i 5A urey 'le says tliat he a biJj . unconstitutional, unjust and, op- i pressiee in its character, and stibver. rive of well settled' principles of legis- s ation, and that the people, irrespec- t ive of their diff'rent views of-the use 1 )f intoxicating liquors; -*Heti advised if its provisions, will regard them with surpriseand alarm. le concludes his message as follows: s " The oonstitition makes it my duty ,o point out, the objectionable features t )f this bill, bur love it tb- the subject, and to the friends of the- measure, to I dd the expressions of my belief that 1 tabits of intemperance cannot be extir- I >ated by prohibitory laws? They are 1 tot consistent with sound principles )f legislat'on. Like decrees to regu- t ate religious creeds or forms of wor- t hip, they provoke resistance, where s hey are ddsigned'ttenfbrceobedience. a [he efforts to stippress intemperance f ty unusual and' af-bitrary measures, a troves that the Legislature is. attemp t ing to do that which it is not within y ts province to enact, or its power to t nforce. I "This is the error which lies at the E bundation of this bill,.which distorts 2 ts details and makes it a cause of an. V ry controversy. Should. it become at i aw it would render its advocate odi- r meras the supporter of unjust 'and c arbitrary enactments. -Its eviliwould e >nly cease upon its repeal, or when it t tecane a dead letter upon the statute c took. Judicious legislation may cor- t ect abuses in the manufacture, sale, r use of intoxicating liquors;' it' can lo no more. I "The experien ^ oi al rtic::: in y II periods,demonstiates that temper nee, like other virtues, i? ndt: prd. a lueed by the law maker, but by the y afluence of education, morality, and ' eligion. r "While a conscientious d' ;age's tle to the friends dfthIse fil equires me to state my objections to e he measure in decided terms, it must 1 tot be understood that I am indifferent C o the evils of intemperance, or wan- L ing in respect and sympathy for those h vho are engaged in their suppression. c regard intemperance as a fruitful a ource of degradeation and misery. I c uok with no favor upon the habits and a ractices which have produced the b rune and suffering which are constant- t y forced upon my attention in the y painful discharge of official duties.- r Uter long.and earnest refleotion,, am r atisfied relitice carshot be pliced tip- s in prohibitory laws to eradicate those a vils. Men may be persuaded, they b annot be compelled to adopt habits of i, emperance. a " I concur with many of the earnest c nd devoted fiends of temperance in ii he opinion that it will hereafter be a t ause for regret if the interest which t s now excited in the public mind up- I tn the subject should be diverthd t 'om its proper channels, and exhaus- F ed in attempting to procure legisla- F ion which must le fruitles's." i The Senate on Saturday tried to t >ass it over the veto, but failed to >btain the constitutional majority. I CANNOT PRAY FOR- FATHER ANY soKE.-She knelt, at the accustomed s our, to thank God for the mercies-of he day-, and praty for care throurgh the o0ming nightl then, as usual, cme he earnest, " God bless dear mnbt;gir,' mnd"--but the prayer' wa stilled ! the ittle hnsunclasped, anid a look of I Igony and wonder met the' mother's I :ye, as the wvords of hopeless sorrow imurst from the lips of the kneeling hild, "I cannot pray forfalher' any nor'e !" Since her little lips had be~n tube to form-the dear name, she hada ~rayed for as blessing upon it ; it had ollowed close after mother's name, for ae had said that must come f*et';-and iow to say the familiar prayer, and cave her father out. No wonder that ~ he new thought seemed too much for ~he childish mind to receive. I waited for some moments that she utght-conque~r her emotion, and then irked her to go on. Her pleadi ng syes met mine,-and with- a voice that 'altered'too much almistifor utterrrome, C he said, "0O, mother, I cannot leave ' uim all out; let me say, 'thank God hat I had a dear father once!l' so I can r itill go on, a'id keep him in my >rayers.' And so -she always does, md my stricken heart learned a lea. ion from the bovmaag ingenuity of my ~ hild.. Remember to th'ank God for nercion pat;, as wiell as to ask bless. ngs for the future.W. ThePresbyterian. REs10ONo.--The- religion of- some . >eop~le is constrained; they are like i >eople that use th'e cold bath-not for fi >leasure, b~ut necessity and their health;. t hey go in with reluctance, and are '. ;lad when they get out.. But religion di o a true believer is like water to a hi ish; it ia-his element, he believes In i t. and ho could nuot tou-at o Slavery and Cotton. O l &# C9., dnly betray ther r n6ra%6e' Ffats shWnt y' Ilm gine that slavery'wddld .be abolished f the cotton culture . of'the i. States vere abandoned. Even if this were o, the notable schemies they rely upon o dispense with cotton are about as vise and practigable a rmighit be ex iected frdn such great philosophers. he East India plan so far is a great tilu:-e, and fog the flax substitute, the oil of the slave States is peculiarly veil adapted:. NeUrly two thirds of he whole flrtk' crop of the country is roduced by Kentucky, Tennessee, 4issouri, North Carolina and Virginia. Jnfortunate philanthropists!. ,Nature 'as conspired with mari tb'tiwa'rt the enevolent spirit of this age ! When these philosophers suppose hat there is no department of indus. ry but the cotton culture in which lave labor is profitable, they commit n egregious error. Statistics now be >re is'show that-Itb-millfons of dollars re invested- in the-Soutlierri States in he manufacture of cottbui, iron and rool, and 25,000 operatives employed; hat the South produces nearly one )urth of the wool grown in the United state;, that its corn crop amounts to 74,000 bushels, about one half of rhe rhole corn product ;-that its-live stock t wdtl-rtore than 4250,000,000, 'or early half the whole produet of the ountry. There are four or five South rn States, either of which produces an times the provisions and live stock f New England. Not more than one bird of the slaves of the South are en. aged in making cotton for market. o it is very clear that the abandon lent of the cotton crop would not in. oivo.the abolition of slavery. Why don't Greeley, Beecher, Stow s co,, set. an example of- dispensing rith the use-of'eotton,. bettthem di est themselves of their cotton gar ients and $4 4h among . ait in n innati paper says: "Oi Saturday ist, while the train of cars was at ,leveland depot, heading. for Colum us, a lady bearing an infant child in or arms, (apparently five or six weeks Id) entered one of the passenger cars, nd going to a young lady of some 16 r 18 years, very politely inquired if he would do her tle faihr to hold her abe until she could step out and see the disposal of her baggage. The oung lady generously complied, and eceived the infant in her arms. The mother left the cars, and has not been Den or heard ofsince. The young lady iso fell'heir towcarpettasa',whibh had ee'plated tinder her charge by the human mother, in which was found note containing a request that the hild should be treated with kindness, i which case it might become a dis. inguished man. Several offers to ake the child were rilade to the young ady, but she refused'to give it to any dt its likwflhI andidatdiial mother. She refered' kedgihg it herself, influenced erhaps by a desire to have a child of er own, whether she over had a hus and or no." AFFECTIN'G CAGE.-The St. Louis epublican says while a gentleman re iding near that city on his way home, n Sunday evening, 4th instant, he was tartled by a moan coming from a ravey arsl-he was passing; and, -search ng for' tie caUse, discoivered'a' young nd' beautiful' dumian Jyii-i on the p-ound and apparently stiffering great drlysicasl agon~y, and there', pressed to oer bbsdin, and wrapped in its mother's attei-ed dress which she had torn from ser person to protect her tender off pring, Jay anewly-born.andi beau~tiful nifant. Her story was boon'-tbldL--ske lad left her home and all the endear nents of social retlation tb' hide he hame and another'sm-rime ; anid, in the acred precincts of'the cemet-y,',-nil larkness anid surrounded by" the' demo: stion of the dead, her infant di-e*- its rst breath under the very shadow of ho tomb.- The 'ntri'ilr and th'e'infant vere con'veyed by the charitable gen leian who found them, to his own ome, where they were properly taken are o" 'The unfortunate cr'eatzre tated that she was from the State of few York, but declined to give her ame. She subsequently gave one by rhui1 h-she might be called, but which s a ficticiuu one ,A'SXriui.An CieR UNDtW'rhn *MA1g ~Aw."-A few days ago, the' Sheriff f Norfolkocounty,. - s. in the die. barge of his oflicial duty, seized. and old under -a -writ of exedutibnu, a quan ty of'goods and mnerchandize, inclu ig two barreter of brandy ; and on~ Vadnesdaty last he was surprised by nding himself arraigned for violating he prohibitory~iquor;aw. Hie plead ot gulty; ,and alleged that he but ischarged his sworn duty. The court, owever, held,' that he had violated so prohibitory law, and he was fined 10 and cost, and ordered~to give bonds a $L 000,not to viol:ttc the liwfn c #he rb pete4ht'IW had acted in this' -case o'nlyin the dToharge of is- dut;' as Sheriff of' the. c'ddrrt v ctf NIiumIt that ho w'a under' $20,'OOborid audi ituder oath to discharge all the oblig*t ons at hisoffice; and'iW'shild th'ertr' re respectfully decline to pay thla fin-t' and cost, or to give the bondA, as r .quired ;-wireupon'h'e whs ordered 'to, be cartrmitted: DFVELOikEN OF A MUaDh .-A BODY FOUND IN A BARREL OF LIQhOt. -On Saturday last, says the Cincinu. ,nati Gazette of the 3d inst!, a'liArrel of' jwhiskey or' anh'dl' was put dr'board the steamer Alvin Adams at our w'harff !which-was directed, very ellg itly, to' Dr. Kfelly, Ihadngo,' Jhdidris, lthtter. was no entry of it on the receirihg' booleof either of the clerks. Madiso: being the point to which freight to, that place is shipped, the barrel was ,rolled out onSmnday upon' t M*etfi Iboat at tiet' place ;' there teing- no' owner for it and its rolling being pe. culiar, as if some heavy body was in, it, it attracted observation attlie-time;: after the boat left it was taken tb' thr railroad depot, wher the peenliarityof'' Itie case induced those having: it in' 'charge to -open one of the hea'fs, when in the liquor- was fbnnd the naked' body. .of A wan! r: bad' at terrible-gashi across tile throat, and' e, ssevere-truise ton his Hefldi. A coroner's i'hquest' was held, hut' its finding we have not fully learned. Much excitement was created in Madi sun thereby, ghd'rumors- Were startedl that the body was that of W. Stevil; who disappeared from Louisville on the 23d of Januay last..- By dispatohes.. received this morning, we learn that. ,the body foundais not, that- of:Mr. 1Slevih;" mann a o yartf ,- arrivd am Paris a tntnth ago to seek' a' ply;: but, as he was provided' with: a rather large suin of money, he resolved to indulge in debauchery until' it should, be spent. On Timrsday ,vein,- No went to dine witllstnd acqllaintances,. and remained drinking with them un til 4 o'clock in the morning. He then returned to, his hotel; itt the Rue St-. Ilonore, hot' whi so drunk; thlat he' could hardly Walk-tip- stairs. Yester day morning a- person called to see' him, and was directed' to his room,' which was situiated at the bottbm'o) an insolated'corodor. To his athU pishment he foutd' him hanging' by the neck, by his cravat to the handle of the. door. He, it appeared, in trying to' open the door;. lad', lipped, and his !cravat, Whitli he wore very loose, -caught by the handle. The efforts he made to-release himst.lf;'it His state-of' :intoxication,' were fruitless, and he remained hanging until he was com pletely strangled. AARON Bmn's- Wix..-The Paris' !Patrie 'oralate date lias the following-:: -" At the last Tulleriea' ball,- the brills iant toilette of's' straftger With' an'inJ' credible numbier'df' diemcrds- attrot :ed the atterttionf otall' present. In ia monterit'the attention -was -changed to t-he most: inteuiae curiosity, when Lou. ls napoledrl'was observed to accost the' lady and' remnnift' snrne mortiervtA lif' conversation. The enigma was soon' solved. The lady was-the widow of :Mr. Aaron Basrt,- flrmerlys 'Viee Plfe' sident of the United 'States, with whom Louis Napoleon was on terms of inlti may-hltifta omiy n at tile *endrof'fifleen'years he had recognised' 1thewdddfi'diprin-red ~This prb'ably ' alhldels" to adwie Junef!the wealthy second wf'e f" decease. She owns a large landed es. taete on the island of bialta. Litrefihtil Ikttidree; A ROMANTIC AFF'AIn.---A' S anish boy, named'- Josepe Mdward Enie Po. balo, has uratved:I at' Was;'ington, in chatge of' Adams' * Co's Express. It is said'- that' ab'jt ten years ago, while batlhltgt on the coast near the city of Campeachy, Mexico, he, with five other boys, was stolen, by a garg. of French pirates, weho -kepte them for' years, and then sold. them tb a-mere 'chantmantr, wh'o it pt them two year., took'thaem to the city of New Orleana, and there sold them to a Louiaiana-' platnttr for-the term of their minority. Their owner was about to re-sell them. to a shipmnaster, to make-sailors ofihemi' when the boy Pobal, made cis escape and worked-his way to JJafayette,In diatra where he attraoted the noticsof as gentleman who oorresponded with the Mexican Minister at' W'ashington re. gar ding hinV. ~The minister becamhe interested in the story of thie boy, and wrote to have him forwarded, that hi .. might restore him to his' parenta,'lt thev wecre hi' mu.