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[ ^ From the Boston
IqyTRAGEOUS VIOLATIONS 01" JUSTICE.
^Supreme Court Room was yesterday
the scene of one of the most disgraceful
and outrageous proceedings we ever witnessed
in any Court. It arose from an attempt
made by the agent of John B. il/orris,E$q.,
of Baltimore, to reclaim two runaway
slaves. The circumstances are briefly
these:
Some time in June lusf, one of these
slaves?Eliza Small, wo believe, aged
about 30?fell in love with a free negro in
Baltimore, who asked her in marriage of
Mr. Morris. Mr. M. told the girl that he
had no objection to her marrying, but ad1
vised her to get a better nud more likelylooking
fellow than the one in question?
telling her at the same time that he would
prefer that she should not marry him.
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Thereupon the man pursuaded ooin tier
and one other slave culled Polly Ann llates
to runaway. The brig Chickasaw, Capt.
Henry Eldredge, was to sail lor this jnjrt
on the 19th July, and in this vessel they
determined to come. By some means
they obtained a passage and sailed in the
brig leaving the man behind, to reach Boston
by some other mode. Mr. Morris iinding
where they had gone, despatched Mr.
Matthew Turner to Boston with a power of
attorney to seize them. Mr. Turner came
on, boarded the brig as she was coming up
the harbor on Saturday last, found the two
girls, charged them with absconding?which
they readily acknowledged, and gave the
reasons why?and requested the captain to
detain them on board till he could get a warant
for their return to Baltimore. He went
011 shore lor that purpose, and during his
absence a parry of abolitionists came on
board with a writ or havens corpus, n* i*_served
on the tiro female slices and the
colored man% who, it seems, was expected
by their friends in this place, to arrive at
the same time with the women.
Tl?e writ was granted oil application of
Samuel H. Adams, and by virtue of its aitthoritv
the women were taken away, and
the captain summoned belbre Judge Wilde
to answer lor detaining them 011 board.
[All this?be it remembered ?was belore
the vessel had reached the wharf,
an it was therefore absurd to charge the
4 captain with detaining the slaves;?it shows
however that it was a concerted plan to prevent
Mr. Morris from retaking his property,
and the circumstance of the colored man's
being mentioned in the writ, when he had
not come on in the vessel, is an incontestiblc
proof of this fact.] The captain appeared
before Judge Wilde, who referred
the case to Chief Justice Shaw to be de%
cidcd on Monday.
When the time came, ihr Court R join
was thronged with negroes, with here and
there a sprinkling of white people, nearly
cverv one of whom was a violent abolition
; v ist.
Old and young largo and small, men
and women of every variety of shade, from
the ebony of the full-blooded negro to the
sickly yellow of tho mulatto, were there to
aid in the execution of a plot to rescue the
slaves in question from the Court, should
the decision be in favor of tho owner.
After the Court had organized, Mr. Turner
made a demand for the bodies of the
slaves, which was supported by A. II.
Fiske, Esq., his counsel, in a short speech,
in which he quoted the following section of
the United States Laws as authority:
* * "That when any person held
*o lubor in any of the United States or either
of the territories on the the northwest or
south of the river Ohio under the laws
thereof, sl^dl escape into any other of the
said S ates or territories, me person iu
whom such labor or service may be due,
his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered
to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor,
and take him or her bclbro any judge of
the circuit or district courts of the United
States, residing or being within the State,
or before any magistrate of the county,
city, or town corporate, where such seizure
or arrest sliall be made, and npon
proof to the satisfaction of such judge or
magistrate, either by oral testimony, or by
affidavit taken before and certified by a
magistrate of any such State or territory,
that the person so seized or arrested doth
under the laws of the State or territory
from which he or slie fled, owe service or
labor to the person claiming him or her, it
shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate
to give a certificate to such claimant, his
a^cnt or attorney, which shall be a sufli
o # ...
cient warrant for removing the said fugitive
from labor to the State or territory from
which he or she fled." ?
Laws of the U. S.. chap 51, sec. 3.
.Mr. Sewall opposed the claim on the
ground of its being necessary to obtain n
warrant before attempting to detain the
slaves, and slso on the general ground of
its being contrary to right and to justice.
(This part was greeted with a round of a p.
plause by the blocks, which was with some
difficulty suppressed.)
The Judge then proceeded to give his
opinion, in the course of which he observed
that he did not consider the detention of the
slaves by the captain as legal, bur with respect
to Mr. Turner, the agent of Mr. Morris?
? ? ' ^ tl?on rocn \
b^cnutLKi- HJ kii* ik AKviii
his place and went to the slaves, at the
same time beckoning to the negroes in the
rear to conic forward. Immediately a
rush was made?the slaves were seized by
their friends and carried out. put into a carriage
and hurried off at full s|>eed. The
doors and windows were immediately
blocked up by the retreating negroes; and
all efforts to stop the tumult proved unavailing.
The Judge commanded every one
to sit still, and seized the door liimself to
shut tt, but he was forced back, and the
negroes carried the day. As die officers
were rushing down stairs endeavoring to
arrest the rioters, they were maltreated by
the blacks and some of them much iujured.
Sheriff Huggeford was caught by the throat
by two negroes, forced against the wall, his
coat torn off, and he himself nearly choked.
Constable Glover was kicked down stairs,
and a gentleman coming up met the same
f u?'. Sueh an occurrence being entirely
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unexpected, there were but two or three of- j
ficers in the building,?a number wholly J *
inadequate to master a crowd of two or ^
three hundred blacks.
A number of officers started in pursuit I.
of the fugitives, hut at the last accounts ! j
they had not been overtaken. They pro- j j
bably took tiie road to Worcester, with the i?
intention ofgettingout of the State as speed- j \
ily as possible. ! (
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State Lixm.?We learn that the Loan of, ?
8400,000, authorized by the last Legisla- 1
ture, has been negotiated at ]>ir?interest ;'
payable in Raleigh. One fourth thereof;
w.is sold to our University, and three- j j
fourths to the Pnited States.?Register. I
The interest payable on the above loan we (
(think is 5 per cent. 1
March of Improvement.?" You see, :1
Grandma, (said a little girl teaching her j
grand mo: her the elements of Philosophy) ; (
before you suck this egg, or more properly ' j
shaking, before you extract the matter j
contained within this shell, by suction, you
must make an incision at the apev, and a j
corresponding aperture at the base." "Ay, j <
dear, how very ingenious ; they only used j'
to make a hole at each end in my time : I
well, I declare, they are making improvements
it) every tiling. The precocity oft;
genius is wonderful. ' <
A YARN FOR Till- WlioU: CLOTH. | ;
A gentleman who hud purchased ail
piece of cloth, was met by a neighbor shop j
keeper, who said to him, 4\Vel! Thrifty, j
you've been buying you a coat, eh! j j
'Yes.' 'What did you pay a yard lor ;
tliat?' 'About soveu dollars.* 'Ah,you'd j i
better have bought of me: I can give vou ;1
O ~ I ]
a good deal better bargain." 'Can you!
(said the purchaser.} let me look at your j
cloth.' Tliey entered the store. The
merchant exhibited a superb piece, and
said, 'There sir, is cloth worth hiving I
| don't you w ish you had come here first!" I
1 -Win?ves?i do, hut will you sell that !
for seven dollarsV 'Yes'?'I declare if I j
had known it I would have come here.*?
'Well you will know hereafter when? you ;
can get a bargain.' 'Hut look here,' said !!
'* _i i.. tie i
1 iinuy, alter examining mure cmjsviv, u i j
you will sell that for seven dollars I will 11
take the whole of it.' 'Hem?ah?here '
?I don't know as I carc about selling the !
whole of it.* *B?it I insist upon it. sir,
your clerk is evidence that you offered it
for that price.' The trader could not cs- j
cape; but measured the cloth, and Thrifty !
paid the money. Before he departed, '
I however, the 'merchant thus addressed .
I him : 'Mr. Thrifty, you have taught me j
a good lesson. The cloth cost me twenty '
dollars more than you have paid me for it; >
and I shall in future know better than to
undervalue my neighbors goods, and shall i
have full contidence in the old maxim,
that honesty is the best policy/
, y'orf oik Advertiser.
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i FOREVr
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A late Havre paper states that the ships sailing
from that port to the United States arc
crowded with emigrants from Switzerland, !
Baden and Alsace lor tin's country.?
Paris, Juno, 29.?Last evening about 6 i i
o'clock, a new attempt was made upon the 11
King's life, which fortunately proved as unsuc- i
cessful as the former. Just as his majesty had 1
entered his carriage, to return to Neuilly, and <
was passing under the gateway leading to the <
quay, a young man who had placed himself on
the side opposite to that of the post of the National
Guard, lifted up a cane in which a pistol ]
barrel had been fixed, placed it on the carriage ^
door, and fired it at the King.
Louis Phillip was that moment bowing to i'
the National Guards through the other window. '
j Whether the assassin felt agitated, or, as it is '
stated, was pushed while engaged in taking i (
aim, the ball did not touch the King, who, itn- , 1
mediately after the explosion, made a signal (
that he was not wounded, and ordered the 1
coach to be driven on ta Neuillv. The King 1
was with the Q,ueen, and his sister Madame
Adelaide.
Xt'tp-YorJi, Aug. G.
r i Trn rr>n? 1'i Dnnr
The Gazcttee tie France has been seized 1
for an article on the late attempt on the King's 1
life. <
The Marquis Charles de St. Maurice, res- 1
ponsiblc editor of La France has been condemned
to 3 months imprisonment, and a fine
of 8000 francs, for an article, on the subject of
the National Guards. .
Alibeau the assassin, had made no disclo.- ,
sure and persisted in declaring that he had ,
no accomplices. lie has attempted to com- .
mit suicide. His trial was to be brought on j
with all possible despatch. f
The King was urged to appoint a body I j
guard, but declined. He has addressed a j j
letter to the clergy ordering a Fe Deum to be j ^
celebrated in all churches for his escape. |.
London news doitn t<> Jarif 27.?The debate I,
! in the House of fiords, on the Irish municipal .
bill, as returned by the H(?use of Commons, ,
with the amendments rejected, was to be had ,
! on Monday the 27th. The result was of j j
course looked forward to, with the deepest in- 11
terest.
I/>rd Melbourne's rri/ri. con. case has been j
tried, and resulted in a verdict tor the defend- j,
cut ] lis Lordship had resumed his seat in the
upper house. 11
The Irish tithes bill was still under discus- j i
sion in the house of commons. ! j
I Mr. (Irotes' motion for election of members J1
1 of parliament by ballot was debated on the 23d, 11
j and lost by a majority of 51. The vote was ; ]
ayes, 68; noes, 118.
Advices from Madrid are to the lGth of June )
hut there is no news ofimporianec.
Sundry skinnishes had taken place between '
small parties of the Carlists and tue Christinos, I
with no very momentous results.
The main body oft he Carlists was still before
St. Sebastian.
There is nothing of importance from France. !
The report ot Iiord Melbourne's trial occu- '
I pies tiftoen columns and a half of the Morning I
, lieraid. <
The Spanish Government were negotiating i
a loan of titty millions of francs in London, with '
prospects of success. The revenues of Cuba j i
j were ?fibred in pledge. '
James Mill, the Historian ol British India, ! '
died in London on the 23 of June. i:
The proposition of the chancellor of the er-' <
chequer, that a duty of one penny be laid on all, <
newspapers subject to future regulation by ''
act of parliament regarding the size of the !
sheet, was agreed to in committee of the whole I
on the 20th, by a majority of 33.
In the French chamber of deputies it has J 2
>een determined to issue no more licenses to ! T
gambling houses after the present year. { __
Charleston, Avo. 5. j
Mesiro and Texas.?Late accounts render j =
t probable that the Mexicans will not attempt i
mother compaign against the Texians, until j ^
he fall. The IL S. Sloop of War Warren and
>chr. Grampus had arrived at Tampico, and j
he Mexican Government, through the new j gi
Jommandant, had apologized for the insuit of-j to
ered the American llag and the officers of the I rt
Jefferson. Gomuz, the Commandant who gave j
!he insult, had been removed. The movements j
n Mexico against Centralism, and to restore 01
die Constitution of 1824, are increasing in im- al
portance, and there is a disposition t/i remove
ill the iiigh functionaries friendly to Santa
Anna. A forced loan of two millions had been ;
ileclarcd in the city of Mexico, against which i
die English and French Ministers had protest- j C
.???, railing on foreigners not to contribute. La- hi
for accounts from Vera Cruz represent Santa pu
Anna's party as out of power, the Federal'par- i
-.1...^ ...l.A.n .iltl, Uttlo hliwl_ ! ''
ly aS SUCCfeuillg n win.-, wimiiii'v >. , ,
died, and as indisj>osed to prosecute the Tex- :
an war. Houston had not yet joined the Tex-: ai
lan army, and was not likely to do so. He was j i,,
;nid to be at his residence near Nacogdoches, j n'
Lvmvr. the new Toxian Commander, possess- ; .
2d the entire confidence ofboth the Army and ; 11
the Cabinet.? I sl
St. Martinsville, July 2.1.?Glorious j
w us from Texas, if true.?A gentleman who j
arrived here from Opelonsas on Thursday ! re
veiling last, s ns that a report had reached | tii
there just before he left, that the Mexicans had ti,
igain been routed, "horse, l!>ot and dragoons,"
by the Texians, who killed 800 of them.
fo
The New Orleans Observer says that from
i letter dated Valesia, July 20th, it appears that
the Texian army refuse to receive Gen. Lamar
as commander, and that Gen. Rusk retains the r
command in the absence of Houston. The c,
same letter also states that a detachment has
t>een ordered to Columbia where Santa Ana is j OI
now confined for the purpose of escorting him ' jg
to the army to be executed. 1 ^
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INDIAN WAR. ! ai
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The Colunbus Enquirer of Aug. 4 says. ; 111
The route was complete. Such was the j b(
hurry of their Might that they left behind them j ci
i hi r^e amount ot {roods, upwards 01 twenty- S1
horses, and three of their children, Two of ci
these children they had evidently killed, to ta
prevent th -m from making a noise and betray- a<
ing their hiding place, the other was alive and U1
taken care of. Jernigan had three or four men
killed and several wounded. Their names we is
have not heard. }u
It is ascertainhd through the squaws rap- j jj1
>ured in Lownds county, that the Indians
lost about sixty warriors in their former en- "J
ragement with the volunteers under Col. Beall 0
m tkn r'hi>iL'id3u.K3t?<liio tu-nmn Tt iu nnt
Lit HI'- VIIIVniOUTTIiOVViMV W*? ?V rnmj ?awv J
probable that more than twenty of the entire eI
band will find their way to the Seininoles. j
They have lost their horses and plunder, and 1 .
arc closely pursued.?Ftur'ulian. j
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From tho Columbus Enquirer of Ang. 4. j ^
THE CREEK WAR. j *c
It is a remarkable fact, in the history of the '
recent difficulties with the savages, that the !
whites generally believe the war at end, aboot j ff
the time it fairly commences. Whether this j
arises from a want of knowledge, among the '
commanding officers, of the real character of
the Indians, we do not pretend to say. One
thing is however certain, that Gen. Gaines
made a mistake of this kind, in reJation to the jlv
Seminole difficulty, and recent events have do- ' I*
nionstr'ated that a similar error has been com- j fi<
nitted in reference to the present fetrife with j B
!hc Creeks. A large portion of the actual fight- j cc
ng, during the campaign, has been done since : m
:hose having tlie direction of the war had pro- of
flaioied to the world, that it was over and end- of
*d. j ch
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A correspondent of the American Presbyte- I jp
ian in noticingthe Indian war relates the fol- j p[
owing incidents. 1
A woman with two children found they were j pj
coming and tied; she became exhausted and se
eft one behind?still unable to escape, she left jn
lie other and continued her flight till she reach?d
Columbus. The mail stage arrived next. ;
norning and a crowd assembled around it; the nl
Iriver held up a child that he had found; the th
x>or mother recognized xbcr child, rushed with j)
vild distraction and embrced"it. w
A number of travellers were moving with jj
heir wagons?the Indians fired on them and et
tilled three, the balance took to flight. A \ pr
roung man looked back and saw the Indians |
lraghissisterintothe woods to scalp her; he j m
urned back and said he would save his sister ' to
>r lose his life in the attempt. They have fa
lot been heard of?no doubt both fell victims. j0
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ST. AUGUSTINE, August 2. I v?
Intelligence was brought to town, by ex- j ^
iress,on Friday last, that a Lieut. Herbert
vith a detachment of about lo regulars, landed v"
hat morning from the Steam-boat Essayon,
it the mouth of Black Creek, and observing a ! so
resh trail, followed it, until he came to Rigley's j
team mill, which he perceived to be occupied j *
?? nnrtv nf Indians. He immediately wave ! .
v ~ t j ? ? ' F t at
Dattle, and fought them for an hour, and drove , *V
hem off into a hammock, where he was corn- : J1
>elled to leave them, from the weakness of his ! 1
lumbers, from his* ignorance of the country, j rc
ind on account of the wounded. He had five !
nen wounded?one mortally. The Indians, j S(^
suppoced to ho thirty or forty in number, must : ^
iavehad several killed and wounded; but, from I u
heir uniform practice of carrying off their dead, ! P
t is imjtossible to state how many. j
From the St. I^ouis Commercial Bulletin, July 18. ! ai
A gentleman from Lafayette county informs j ai
is that, in the neighborhood of Grand River, c<
:he Indians have taken the lives of several per- |
=ons. Two men were found dead in a harvest I cr
ield, and, at a short distance off the bodies of ; re
three women were found ; and several children j aj
lave been carried off
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A letter from Lieut. Roberts ot the army to j e{
he Secretary of War, dated Fort Desmonies, ' sr
contradicts the report that the Indian Chief: n(
Black llawk had become hostile.
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Treasury Department, August 2d, 1830. | w
In conformity with the resolution of the j ai
Senate, passed July 1st, 1830, directing that 6c
14 during the ensuing recess of Congress, the 'pi
Secretary of the Treasury cause to be publish- cc
sd, at the commencement of each month, a j to
statement of the amount of money in the |
Treasury subject to draft, and also the amount ;
standing to the credit of disbursing officers," j p
the undersigned hereby gives public notice,
that "the amount of money in the Treasury
subject to draft," as shown by the running ae- ^
count of the Treasurer, was on the Istinst. p;
$36,554,845 95, and "the amount standing to
the credit of disbursing officers," as shown by
the lates; returns received, was 83.675,730 23.
LEVI WOODBU&Y, a
Secretary of the Treasury. to
'HERAW GAZETTE.
TUKSDAV. Ar?rST 1G, 1830.
I'orrectio.v.?In the fourth column of the
st page under the head "Noble example, far
withy Farmers and Planters," the first paraaph
ought to end as follows : The Conducr
states editorially that the Culvivator is al- *
adv taken at two thousand Post Offices, and !
iat, at the expense of. Mr. Delaven, lie sent a i
>py of the last Xo. to all the other offices, '
)out 70(H) m number;
.
We last week published some of the resolu- j
)ns adopted by an anti-abolition meeting i:i
incinnati, Ohio, and stated that a committee
id born appointed to wait on J. fi. Bimey and I
s associates in publishing'an abolition jiapor '
nbvl the Philanthropist, to warn him of the '
mger of continuing his obnoxious publication, '
ul advise him against it. The committee :
; their Chairman addressed a note to Mr. Bir \\
who referred them to the abolition Exccu- ;
vc Committee. Several notes passed on the !
ibjeet before an interview could be had, and the j
tervicw finally obtained resulted in nothing1 i
itisfactory. The committee then passed a j
solution desiring the abolitionists to say disnctly
hi writing whether they would disconuue
the paper or not. To this they returned
negative answer, assigning several reasons
r their refusal, among them the following: I
The Philanthropist is the acknowledged or- [
in of some twelve thousand, or more, of our
llow citizens of Ohio, who believe, that slave-;
, ?s it exists-in our country* is altogether in- 1
mpatihle with the permanency of her instituhis;
who believe, that the Slavery of the Sbyfh
the Liberty of the North must cease to ext;
and who intend to do, what in them lies to
ing about a happy and peaceful termination
the former?and this as speedily as facts, and .
rrunients and anneals to the consciences and j
o . * * ,
ulerstandings of slaveholders can be made !
strumental to effect it.
We decline complying with your request?
cause, it it has originated among our own
tizens, it is an officious an unasked for intru- i
an on the business of others?if among the
tizens of other States, it is an attempt at'diction
as insolent and high handed on their part,
; a tame submission to it would be base and \
imanly on ours.
We decline complying?because the demand
virtually the demand of slaveholders,?who,
iving broken dottn all the safeguards of liberty
their own States, inordar that slavery may
t perpetuated, are now, for the fuller attainent
of the same object, making the demand
us to follow their example.
The committee then published a statement
nhracing these facts and concluding as follows:
It only remains th^n. in pursuance of their
ctMictinns. tn nnhlisli thpir nroceedinrrs and
Ijoum without t!ay. But ere they j?o thits
iey owe it to themselves and those whom they
(present, to express their utmost abhorrence
' every thing like violence ; and earnestly to
lplore their.feBow citizens to abstain thereDin.
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This publication took place on Snturday t
orning. The sequel is related as follows by '
e Whig of Monday morning, (August 1.)
About nine o'clock on Saturday evening, hereon
four and five thousand people (as is supped)
had assembled round the publication of:c
of the Abolition paper, edited by James G.
irney and printed by A. Pugh, at the N. E.
?rnerof Main and Seventh streets, fn a fcw
omenta the types and printing materials
that establishment were seen dashing out
the windows into the street amid the ?
iecrs of the immense mass of people below.
, a very short time the windows of the build
nr and every thing in the ollice were coui- |
etely demolished ami stTewed about the j
rects. The printing Press was? broken to :
pees, and the largest piece dragged through |
veral of the principal streets and then thrown
to the river. Thus far every thing was done
the most systematic order, and, as is be- !
ved, was tacitly countenanced by a very large
imber of our most respectable citizens. At 1
& juncture, however, the names of Birncy,
onaldson, ColM*, &c. (all leading abolitionists) I
ere shouted by numerous voices, and imme- j
ately three or four hundred of the mob rush- !
[ to Birney's dwelling. The inob were well i
ovided with tar and feathers. On arriving '
Birney's house, the Abolition editor was de- j
anded?his son, a youth about sixteen, came i
the door and assured the multitude that his j
ther was not at home. It was soon satisfac- j
rily ascertained that he had left the city in j
e stage for Hillsborough several hours preausly.
The mob then directed their course
e liousc of one of the Donaldson's (the other
siding in the country) and demanded him to ?
i delivered up to them. Some ladies came to
edoor, and pledged their word that Donald- !
n was not at home, and assured the mulfi-;
de fhat no one but ladies were in tho house, j
he mob immediately departed in search of, |
it did not succeed in finding him.?It was
forwards ascertained that he had fled from j
e house a few minutes before the arrival of1
e mob, and had escai>ed through an alley or
tired street to some unknown place.
The cry of "Church Alley" was now rounded
through the mob. This is a place!
here a quantity of black and white men and j
omen, of infamous character reside, huddled j
omiscuously together in five or six small build- !
gs. In a few minutes the inmates of these J
retched brothels were turned into the streets, |
id the windows of the buildings, and every
tide which the buildings contained destroy[
and scattered to the four winds of Heaven.
Here by the peaceable interference of sev
c.i - U _
ai citizen?, tne progress 01 me inou wax ursted,
(as was supposed finally) every body,
parently, promising to disperse and go home.
An hour or two afterwards, two or three
mdred again collected together and dcmolish1
the window s and all the furniture of 6 or 7
nail negro houses of bad character on and I
?ar tho corner of Columbia and Elm streets, [
the part of the town commonly called the !
ramp. In the course of this attack a gun!
as fired from a window of one of the houses, I
id a young man by the name of Rinsey was !
vereJy shot in the hip and leg with large sized I
gcon shot. The wound we believe, is not
msidered very dangerous, though he was perrated
with twenty odd shot.
No new case of small pox has occured in
avetteville. The case formerly reported has
rminatedfataJly. The infection was taken
the upper end of Robeson county from a
itient who took it in Raleigh.?We have not
;ard of its spreading in that neighborhood..
The Providence (R. I.) Herald says that
slight shock of an earthquake was felt in that
wn on the evening of the 13th of July.
A question has for some time been before
the public in Charleston, whether or not puch
change shall be made in the city government
as to make the Intendency a salaried ollice
and assign the incumbent such duties as would
occupy his whole time. A recent election for
two wardens was made to turn upon this point
?The decision was in favor of the change by
a majority of more than two to one.
Result of the election in Anson county N. C.
For Governor.
Ed. B. Dudley . 1017
R. D. Spaight - 274
Majority - 713
Senate. Absalom .Myers, 731, no opposition.
Commons. John A. M'Rae, 1052,
John Gradv, 660, Dr. T. D. Parke, 569. The
first two elected. Sheriff. V. 11 alien 589, G.
D. Boggan 468, G. W. Little 277.
(Jen. Harrison, and the Temperance cause.
Gen. Harrison, one of the present candidates
for the Presidency, before the temperance reform
had arrested public attention, putin operation
a distillery for making whiskey. In an
address to an Agricultural Society delivered
five years since, he alludes to this act as follows
:
" I speak more freely of the practice of converting
the material oi' the "staff of life" (and
for which so many human beings yearly
perish) into an article which is so destructive
on/I It 1 nnmnce Koeoncn ill fKut U'HV
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I have sinned myself; BUT IN THAT
WAY I SHALL SIN NO MORE."
AMERICAN LITERARY COMPANY.
Gen. Duff Green, proprietor of the U. S.
Telegraph, has issued a prospectus for the publication
of School Books and text books for
Colleges, by a company with the above title.
The object is u to elevate the general standard
of literature in the U. States," and prevent
the introduction of works of improper charac
ter into our Southern Schools. The U. S.
Telegraph, and the Southern Review, which it
is proposed to revive and publish in Columbia,
are to be part of the stock of the company.
A share istolje $oO,for which a stockholder will
be entitled to a copy of the Telegraph or the
S. Review. We shall in some future number
publish the prospectus, supposing that many
of our readers would take an interest in it.
The Post Master General has advertized for
proposals to run an express mail from New
York to Mobile, where it will fall into the great
mail and be carried to N. Orleans by steamboat.
It will reach N. Orleans from N. York
in six days and a half.
The following is a statement of the votes to
which the several states are entitled in the Presidential
election.
Stales Ao. nf Votes..
Maine, 10
New-Hampshire, "7
Massachusetts, 14
Rhode Island, 4
Connecticut, * 8
Vermont, 7
New-York, 42
New-Jersy, 8
Pennsylvania, - 80
Delaware, f ? *
Maryland, 10 *
Virginia, 23
North-Carolina. 15
South-Carolina, 11
Georgia, - . 11
Kentucky, 15
Tennessee, 15
Indiana, 9
Mississippi, 4
Illinois, 5
Alabama, 7
Missouri, 4
Louisiana. 5
Michigan, 3
Arkansas, 3
Total, * ?11
All the States choose by General Ticket,
except South Carolina, which chooses by the
Legislature.
The X. Y. Star says that measures are in
progress to establish a line of Telegraphs
from Boston to New York to extend ultimately
to Washimrton.
Texas Voluntees.?Lsst night, about
200 inen, under Col. Wilson, bound for Texas
passed this place in the Tuskina, drums beating
and lifes playing; i^OO men are to follow,
all from " Old Kentucky."
Or and Gulf (Miss.) Adr.
Casual'i/. While some men were loading
a cannon to lire in token of their great joy at
the result of a recent election for members of
the State Legislature in Pitt county N. C. the
cartridge exploded and wounded 11 persons,
three of whom died, and the lives of two others
were despaired of.
A book by Mrs. Troliopc entitled " The life
and adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whittan,
or sketches of the Mississippi." is about to be
published in this country.
A new Republic, called South Peru, has
been formed in South America. The territory
it occupies, and especially the }>ort of Asica,
have liitherto been the cause of much contention
between Bolivia and Peru.
Constantinople. An English merchant while
carelessly amusing himself by shooting in the
neighborhood of this city wounded a Turkish
child in the leg with one of his shot. He was
immediately carried before an inferior officer
who ordered the bastinado to be administered
on tiie soles ef his feet, after which, by a for
mal order of the sultan, he was cast into prison
and loaded with chains. The English
Embassador, finally, after 6ome difficulty procured
his release. He will be more careful in
future how he amuses himself with his gun.
Two men in Philadelphia lately anuertook
to settle a quarrel by blows. Tlie first blow
received by one of them was on the neck,
which caused death in the course of a few
minutes. It probable caused dislocation of the
neck.
A man in Mecklenburgh county N. C. recently
starved himself to death. He lived 20
days without food.?
Anthracite Coal in yorth Carolina.-?The
late Danville Reporter says: We were shewn
a few days since a specimen of Coal "pronounced
pure Anthracite, by.competent judges. It
was found about 20 miles above this place, in
the vicinity of Leaksville, N. C. not far from
Dan River. Appearances justify the belief
that the beds of Coal are very extensive. We
understand that arrangements have been entered
into with the proprietor of the land on
which the coal was found, by our townsman,
Paul T. Woodward, Esq. to commence working
the beds in a short time.?Greensboro' B'cn.
Another Victim to Steam Doctors.?
The village of Haverstraw, as we are informed
by the North River Times, has been thrown
iuto great commotion and excitement by the
sudden death of a young man named Eli Phillips,
who had been under the care of a steam
doctor or Thomsonian practitioner, named
Jacob Palraerv An inquest was held o* the \
body, and it appeared in evidence that while
sitting on the portico of his residence, viewing
the fire works, the vile empiric administered
J to him for an asthma three successive doses of
; the tincture of Lobelia within the space of a few
j hours, and that the last proving too herculean
} a poison for his enfeebled frame, he sunk back
| in liis chair and immediately expired. ^
A gentleman in Shrewsbury, N. J. will it is
i said, realize by his peach crop from 10 to
! avjjm
# 7 ? ? The
New-York Erie and Champlain Canal,
which was completed in 1825v at a cost of
87,737,770, has extinguished this debt, and
henceforth its immense revenue will flow into
I the State Treasury.
i Medical College of the State of 8. Carolina. '
?Dr. VVurdeman has been elected Demonstrator
of Anatomy, in the above Institution,
vice John Bellinoer, M. D. resigned. '
Richard PC Cralle, formerly editor of the
1 Jeffersonian and late Junior editor of the
Richmond Whig, has taken the place of
Duff Green, as editor of the U. 8. Telej
graph, to be at his post on the 1st Sept.
! the treasury circular?tor wat ~it
works.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
! Emigration or Specie.?Three hun;
dred thousand dollars of specie passed through
i this city this morning, on its way to Detroit.
: This is no doubt intended to give to some of
the purchasers of the public lauds the means
of complying with the recent order of Govern*
! ment. , . ':
Gen. Eaton, Minister to Spain has bought
! in X. York, and had shipped to Cadiz a family
carraige. / '
{ '
The Momnons.?A meeting was recetly
held in Clay county, Missouri, in order to
\ adopt measures to avoid the evils likely. to
i arise from the immense influx of Mormofgi
! into the country. The meeting came to the delib !
?rate conclusion, that the onlv means to. avoid *
! a civil war, was a speedy removal of the Mormons
from the State, and recommenced that
j they should go to the Wisconsin Territory.
On this decision being made known to this
strange set of fanatics, they resolved to move
their quarters. They are chargedwith keeping
up a constant communication with the Indian
tribes on the frontier, declaring%Vd&ftom
the pulpit, that the Indiana are a p$ft of God's
chosen people, and destined toimMtitthisland '
in common with themselves.
The 'Warren (R. I.) Star says, that the W
small pox has been making fearful ravages
within a few miles of that town; and that in w
Newport and Providence it has spread to a
fearful extent. ' . v
The Arch-street Prison lot, together frith
the buildings, &c., Philadelphia, was sold lately
for *100.01*). '
Another great hotel is to be erected in KevYork,
on the site of the former Pearl Hnjfcl
and Ohio Hotel, in the burnt district. Height
seven stories. The first story to cohort of
five large stores; thedining room twenty-four
i by one hundred and fifty; four hundred persons
will be accommodated at once, with #
j boarding and lodging, tin his ample establishment.
The Alms House in Cambridge, near Boston,
was destroyed by fire on the night of the
29th ult. the work of ah incendiary. There
were between seventy and eighty inmates of
thp house, all of whom escaped except one
who was burned.
yarrow Escape.?On Friday, morning at 2
! o'clock a stage left Troy for Boston. When
i about a mile and a half eaat-^of the former
i city, one of the passengers sitting upon the
I box with the driver, discovered that the stage
! was out of the road and on the top of an. embankment,
several feet in height andofcon
sideraWe width, designed as a protection from
an abyss of over one hundred feet which
! vawned below. After the inesemrers had
left the stage, and the driver had backed it a
j little farther, the "hind-wheels ran off the book
j the king-bolt came out, and the body of the
J coach was precipitated down the bank and
j rocks about 120 or 190 feet, and literally dashI
ed to pieces on the dry rock by the side of the
j water. The baggage was mostly lost, and
the proprietors, Messrs. Baker & Walter,
| have paid $500 to the passengers as a re!
numeration.
' FRO* A WISCONSIN PAPER. '
Some of our eastern brethren suggest that
u The Frordier" would have been an approJ
priate title for our journal. Not a bad idea.
But then either our wlocal habitation," or our
"name" must have been changed even before ,
j this time. The frontier is already so far be- ' a
I yond us that we know not where to place it. ^B
j - None of the fraternity will be safe in arro- ^B
, gating any such title, till they set up their ban- lB
t ..?? tritkin roanh nf the ftf thfl Pa- 1
UCi n Auiiu ivuvwv* ?
citic. '
We understand (says the U. S. Telegraph)
that the sales of public land in the month of W^^k
June amounted to very near FOUR MIL*
lions! mm
Tiie late John B. Yates Esq. of Albany, 2??
i Y. after bequests to bis wife: and family, ML 4M I
i the remainder of his estate, estimated at from
| from three to four hundred thousand dollars, tor I
; the endowment and support of one or more - fl I
literary institutions.
A letter from Berlin states that the Russian
Government is about undertaking an extenj
sive system of railroads, the profits to go into. ^
I the public treasury.
Contents of the So. Agriculturist, Aug. 1836.
: Original Communications.?An Adj
dress delivered from the Agricultural and
Police Society of St. Andrew's, before the
Agricultural Society of Edisto-Isfand, July,
1836; by Dr. Thomas Legare. On the
Pise VVork; by Bartholomew Carroll. On
Over Planting; by Toogoodoo. On the
Crops, by the Editor. The Nut Grass;
by James Island. On keeping Agricultural
Books; by Alexander M'Donald. Answers
to Queries of P; by J. Enh'm. Bee
Hive; by Thomas C. Gordon. Queries;
by Round 0. On the Cultivation of Land;
by A Practical Planter.
Selections.?Renew of Mitscherlich's
Compendium of Chemistry; by Jas. C.
Booth. Extrac:s on the Culture of the Vn e;
' by the Au'hor of the ^Domesdc Gardener a
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