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Jv!;... i.i wilt be rhareed llic Vnteliiiiun. ' rj,,$(a, per yesir.Two Doilaks payable in flat if not paid ia advance. Two dollars " sinrJ at $1 for the fiikt.and 25ets. 9Vlf'.h lu'iaf11 'insertion. Court orders charged l" " . ifrhi-r ihan these rates t'on. . .i.;h.'.,i;lorrrnust be toont DaidL 1(1 III, A liberal deduc- advertise by the, yean trf!- f fit trr filE.ioijUNUBER COUNSEL: 1 Annuo . Hlliuwmi; muiii uiia 4,.. jurl 4i ' t IlVe The subject, of John Tay. . J. J. BRUNER, 1 ' Editor Proprietor. it Keep a check dpoh all voca - Rulers. S HI Do this, axd Liberty is safe. Gen'l Harrittn. new; SERIES." ; ' VOLUME VIINUMBER 23. ivllpfl fl Vlllllll iiriivontv.nna actic aljihejbar of Philadelphia., lie va W j(Ut educated, and: possessed extra Pjiiinry gtiusl The graces of his person, or with the superiority of (lis futellecl. C tt J bi'ti to . win ihe hand bfj fashionable fjjV, Tvtelve months afterwards the hus. Kj was erfipldjed by n wealhy firm ol the . ta c. oi: a1 mission as .laud 4gent to the V st. H'lioavy salary was, oflered, Taylor i 'fiieU'ell to his wife and infant son. lie ruie tack 4yer' wcek ''4 received not a line lgW'cr. Sil months elapsed, when the jVinJ received a letter from his employers ij,UfipiL,K'P Shortly after his departure kftbe 'eifj lh wife and her father removed to Mii'l't' Tl'"cre 600 immediately ob. uiofd ad'irco hy a,i acl f lbe ylegisUture fliirri'! aga'n forthwith, and, to complete the. cJiin.tf if crielly and vrpug, had the name of Xivlor's 84 changed lo Marks that of her f(i.l)nJ matrimonial partner! I his perhility iifirlX drovejTiylor insane. -His career, from that jeriol.j bepa'me eccentric in the last do. f.fC jorncUms he preached, sometimes he pleaded at the Ijar ; until, at last, a fever, car ried him ortat ft comparatively early ag. "AIM cariy bour on the 9th of April 1840, '.ike 'Court loue in Clatksville, Texas, was crowded Jo loffrflowihg. Save in the war time past, hero had never been witnessed litth a .gn.hefing in Red Rrycr County, while ihs frong fejjlitig apparent on every flushed ken throughfcutj the assembly, bctokeneif some grea ocrasifjn,! A concise narrative ol facts will wtuciein'ly-explain the matter. About the close of 1839, George Hopkins, one of the wealthiest planters 'and most inflen iiiUf Northern Texas, ottered a great insult lo Mury r.lliton, the youhg.anri beautiful wife ol his chief bvrrseer. The husband threaten, ft) to chatis0 (tim for the outrage, whereupon ijkiiis loallefl his gun, went to EHiston's touie and shot him in his own door. The mtir derer was r arretted, and bailedio answer the cbirjje THis occurrenre produced intense ex ciiement : aiid Hopkins, in order to turn the tide. of popular opinion, of at least to mitigate the general vfaib, which at first was violent ; ijjiiut him circulated reports infamously pre jiididal to t he character of the woman who had utrcudy suffered such wrong at his hands. She brought hfr iuit for slander. And thus two tiiri, one cr minal, and the other civil, and both out. of ih same tragedy, were pending in the Aprtl Lfrqiut Court, lor 1840. 1 The interest naturally felt by the communi ty ai to the issues, became tar deeper when it was known, that 'Ashley, and Pike, of Arkansas, j and the celebrated S. S. Prentiss, of New Or ' leans each 'ivlth enormous fees: had been re- tained by Ilorikins for his defence. ,The tiialon the indictment for murde, end. d on the 6h,ot" 'April, with the acquittal of llnpkini. : ijch a result might well have been foreieen, )f. comparing the talents of the coun id enpageactn cither side. The Texan law. " s ! ment and eloquence of their opp6ients. It was a jfight.M dwarfs against giants. The ulanar suit was set for the 8th, and the throng of spectators grew in numbers as well a excitemehi ; ind what may seem strange, the current of public sentiment now. ran deci. i dejly for Hopkins. Ills money had procured pointed witnesses, who served most efficiently ! hli powerful i advocates. Inde'ed. so triumoh. ant had beeti the success of the previous day, that when thp slander case was called, Mary Klliitoh wit left without an attorney they had all withdrawn. The pigmy pettifoggers dared not brve again the sharp wit, of a Pike, and the sca'.hing thunder of Prentiss. " Have you no counsel ?" inquired Judge Mills, lookirtg kindly at the plaintiff. ' No, sir they have all deserted me, and I am i oi poo rJto employ any mote, replied they beautiful Mary, bursting into tears. " In sucK a case, wilt not some chivalrous member olthe profession volunteer?" asked the Jude, glancing around the bar. Thethhtjf lawyers were silent as deuth. JiulgevMtlls repeated the question. " 1 will, your honor," laid a voice from the thickest part of the crowd, situated behind the tar. .1 At the tones of that voice many, started half way from tfceir seats ; and perhaps there waf not a heart! in the immense throng which did hot beat sojhething quicker it was so unearth ly aCveel, clear, ringing, and mournful. The first-'sensation, however, changed into general laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral figure," that -nobody present remembered ever to nave seen oelore, elboweu his way through the crowd,aiid, placed himself within the bar. His appearance was a piobjem to puzzle the sphinx herself. His high; pale brow, and mall, nervously. twitching face, seemed alive with the concentrated essence and cream of genius; but then his infantine blue eyes, hard. Jy visible beneath their massive arches, looked Jim, dreafy, almost unconscious; and bis clothing was so exceedingly shabby that the court hesitated to let the cause proceed uujder bis management. - " Has your name been entered on the rolls of the jSlaTo ?" demanded the Judge, 6uspi- 'ciouly;, L: 1 "It fs immaterial about mv name's beinsr entered) on your rolls," answered the stranger, : his thin, itlootlless lips curling up into tieudisH sneer, , "jt niay be allowed to appear oice, by the courtesy of the Court and Bar. Here is rny li:ense;from the highest tribunal in Arner ica!" andjjhe handed Judge Mills a broad parcbjmenM j Tte trial immediately tyent on. In the examination of witnesses the stranger evinced but little irtgenuitk as was commonly. tbotigM. 'I lie guflered each one to tell his own tory Without interrupiion, though he contrived to mike pcn one of them tell it over two or ; three tirr)is. He put few cross questions, vhicn,jw(tb keen witnesses, only serve tocort feci rnistikes ; and he made no notes, which, in tnlghlyl memories, always tend to embarrass. Tho examination being ended, as counsel for the plainiiir bo had a right lo the opening - a ! j la. -t a m . , lfco, a. wen as tne close ; out to tne as tontihrtiejil of every one he declined the for. neri ani;auoweti the delence to lead oti. then a ahjadovil anight have been observed to flit a. cross the ifine features of Pike, and . to darken in t he bright eves of Prentiss. Thev I 1 - v -9 -9 thejijbad caught a Tartar; but who it SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1850. was, orthow it, happened, it was impossible to Colonel Ashley, spoke first. He dealt the jury a dih of that close, dry logic, which, years afterwards, rendered him famous in the Senate of the, United Slates. The poet, Albert Pike, followed with a rich rain of wit and a half-torrent of caustic ridi cule, in which you may be sure neither the plaintiff nor the plaintiff's ragged attorney was either forgotten or, spared. The great Prentiss concluded for the defend ant, with a glow of gorgeous words, brilliant Taylor will preach here this evening at early candle-light I" , j, The crowd, of course, all turned out, and Taylor's sermon equalled, if it did not surpass, the splendor of his forensic eflbrt. ! This is no exaggeration. I have listened to Clay, Web ster and Calhoun lo Dewey, Tyng and jBas comb; and have never heard anything in the form of sublime words even remotely approxi mating eloquence of. John Taylor- massive as I a mountain, and widely rushing as a cataract of fire. And this is the opinion of all who! ever j heard the mavellous man. as showers of falling stars, and 'with a final! - l A ' . . . - . i - iiursl ol oratory that brought the house down in cheers,! in which the sworn jury themselves joined,' tiotwithstandiogx4he stern order I eveii aw "order!" of the bench.X Thus wonderfully susceptible are the south-western people to the charms of impassioned eloquence. It was the stranger sjurn. He had remain, d apparently abstracted during all the brevf- ous speeches. Still, and straight, and motion less ini his seat, his hale, smooth forehead. shoot ingJWgti like a mountain-cone of snow; but for that eternal twitch that came audi went perpetually in his sallow cheeks, you would have taken him for a mere man of marble, or a human form carved in ice. Even his dim, dreamy eyes were invisible beneath those gray, shaggy eyebrows. But now at last he rises before the bar rail, ing, not behind it and' so near to the wonder ing jury that he might touch the foreman with his long bony finger. With eyes still half shut, and standing rigid as a pillar of iron, his thin lips curl as if in measureless scorn, slightly part, and the voice comes forth. At first, it is low and sweet, insinuating" itself through the brain, as an artless tune, winding its way into the deepest heart, like the melody of a magic incantation : while the speaker proceeds with out a gestuie or the least sign of excitement, to tear in pieces the argument of Ashley, which melts away at his touch as frost before the sun beam. Every one looked surprised. His logic was at once so brief, and so luminously clear, that the rudest peasant could comprehend it without eflbrt. j Anon, he came to the dazzling wit of the poet-lawyer, Pike. The curl of his lip grew sharper his sallow face kindled up and his eyes began to open, dim and dreary no longer, but vivid as lihtuing, red as fire globes, and glaring like twin meteors, fn6 whole soul was ii the eye the full heart streamed out on the face. In five minutes Pike's wit seemed the foam of folly, and his finest satire 'horrible profanity, when compared with the inimitable sallies and exterminating sarcasm of the 6tranger, interposed with jestand anecdote that filled the forum with roais of laughter. Then, without so muh as bestowing an al lusion on Prentiss, he turned short on the per jured witnesses of Hopkins, tore their testi mony into atoms, and hurled in their faces such lemble invective that all tremnled as with ague, and two of them actually fled dismayed from the Court House. The excitement of the crowd was becoming I raM .!! ' tremenuous. ineir united lite and soul ap. peared to hang, on the burning tongue of the 6tranger. He inspired thern with, the powers of his own passions. He saturated them with the poison of his own malicious feelings. He seemed to have stolen nature's long hidden se- cret of attraction. He was the sun 16 the sea of all thought and emotion, which rose and fell and boiled in billows as he chose. But his greatest triumph wi3 to come. His eye began to glare furtively at the as sassin, Hopkins, as bis lean, taper fingers slowly assumed the-same direction. He hem med the wretch around with a circumvallation of strong evidence and impregnable argument, cutting off all hope of escape. He piled up huge bastions of insurmountable tacts. He dug beneath the murderer and slanderer's feet ditches ofafilemmas, such as no sophistry could overleap, and no stretch of ingenuity evade ; and having thus, as one might say, impounded the victim, and girt him about like a scorpion in the circle of fire, he stripped himself to the work of massacre ! ; O ! then, but it was a vision both glorious and dreadful to behold the orator. His action, before graceful as the wave of a golden willow in the breeze, grew impetuous as the motion of an oak in the hurricane. His voice became a trumpet, filled with wild whirlwinds, (jeafening the ear with crashes of power, and yet inter mingled all ihe while with a sweet undersong of the softest cadence. His face was red as a drunkard's his forehead glowed like a heated jftirnace--his countenance looked haggard lika on that of a maniac ; and ever and anon he flung his long, bony arms on high, as if grasping af ter thunder-bolts ! He drew a picture of mur der in such appalling colours, that in compari son hell Itself might be considered beautiful. He painted the slanderer so black, that the sun seemed dark at noonday when shining on such arraccursed monster and then he fixed both poitraits on the shrinking brow of Hopkins, and he nailed them there forever. The agita- tion of the audience nearly amounted to mad ness. 1 All at once the speaker descended from his perilous height. His voice wailed out for the murdered dead, and described the sorrows of the widowed firing the beautiful Mary, more beautiful every moment, as her tears flowed laster still men wept, and iovely women sob bed like children. He closed by a slrange exhortatioa to the jury and through them to the bystanders. He entreated the panel, after they should bring in their verdict for the plaintiff not to 1 offer vio lence to the defendant, however richly he (might deserve it ; in other words, "not to lynch the villain, Hopkins, but leave his punishment to God." This was the, most artful trick Of all, and the best calculated to itfsure vengeance. The jury- -rendered a verdict for fifty thou, sand dollars ; and the night afterwards Hopkins was iai;en out 01 nia oeu oy jyncners, ana beaten almost to death. 4 J As the Court adjourned, the stranger made known his name, and called the attention of thei people, with the announcement John MANSLAUGHTER. j A Boston apothecary a short time since, mis taking the barbarous latin of a physicians pre scription, gave out a dose of corosive sublimate which was taken by the patient and resulted in hi death. Thereupon a great excitement ensues the coroner's jury bring in a verdict implicating the poor apothecary -the grand ju ry, opon a presentation of the facts, find an in. dictment against him, and he is duly commit ted to take his trial for manslaughter. Ntil mal. 0 i !; ice, no evil intent, no passion is alleged against the apothecary every body admits that he From the Deaf Mute. 1 AFFECTATION. This term, which is in such general use, is ratherdimcult to define. Perhaps the clearest exposition of its meaning may be found in the proposition that A fleet at ion bears the same re. laiion to manners and style that hypocrisy bears to morals and religion.! Still it must be admitted that the two words, or rather the two ideas are apt to invade each other's domains, as false manners often conflict with truth, and a false moral too frequently countenances the perversion of native good breeding. Mannere have been justly denominated the mirror mor. als, because they are after all but the manifes tation of our feelings in the daily intercourse of life. The prevalence of affectation is an evil we cannot but deplore. It is constantly on the ) increase as luxury and wealth prevail, and threatens to pervade every ramification ol so ciety. Let us view it in several of more common phases. This habit has, according to the general o. pinion, manifested itself most obviously in the behaviour of fashionably educated young la dies. The mincii)2 sail, the lispins pronuncia tion, the smattering of French, and the habit of of remaik had trong!y rrested tny atfentiotu While he was striking v, tie ,ight and leftrhiuf ling those- things that he tM D0t going to! talk to)ut, my curiosity" was loosed, and con: jectttre was busy to firni out what he could bei, aiming at. was cbewingmy huge quid with uni; common rapidity.' and f pitting, and looking unt the preacher lo catch every Avord and gesture ;; and wheo, at last, he pounced on ihe J tobacco,!: behold there I bad a great udJlef tobacco spit ! I quietly slipped Ihe quid out of my raoutbi and dashed it as far as I could under Ihe seats'! tr .1 . . .- . . f rcBunui- ucr again 10 be found Chewing tr- occu in a .ucmoujii church. " - From the JooMal of Commerce. ------- - THE CASE OF JAMES II ALLET. A few days since, we recorded tbe ir rest of a colored man in this city, Jamekv The late lamented Judge Hugh L. While, of j Hallett by name, on a charge of Jeing;a . Tennessee, became conspicuous, at a very ear. j fugitive from service, bis trial antl con1- ly period of life, as a jurist and statesman. He j viction on tbat cbarge, before tbe U. Si. 4 fixed his permanent home near Knoxville, a-j Commissioner, and his consequent surrerj-l midst the scenes of his youthful sports and the der to his owner, Mrs. Mary Brown, rjf 1 companions of his boyish days. Rarely has a ' Baltimore. The advocates of a "higher' young roan, continuing in his own country axd , aw," or rather of no law except such as j Frmn the Wester Sketch Book. - THE PUBLIC REBUKE IMPROPRIE TIES in church; committed a mistake only, and not a very derful mistake either, considering the blind character of the physicians' latin abbreviations but human life is a thing so sacred, to be so jealously guarded, that a mistake which in volves its loss, is to be recognized and punish eel as ciime. This seems a hard case, but we do not complain of it. We wish, however, that Madam Justice, while she is striking at such offences, would slip the bandage from her eyes long enough to see liquor-sellers, who, with active poisons mixed with liquors which would be poisonous enough for homicidal purposes without the mixtures, are daily killing" their fel low men killing, not the body only, but honor, reputation, conscience, hope, affection, man- won- Udughing at every remark indiscriminately are its ordinary signs. The ! young person who wishes to make an impression upon society that she has formed her mariners by the most approved models, forgetting that the most un gainly and homely of her sex are sometimes the shrewdest ol her critics, is apt to go be yond the originals she undertakes lo imitate, and so to exaggerate their supposed refine ments, that the artifice becomes evident to tbe most superficial observers. She talks of no thing but operas and. balls, she singsin a tone and style as foreign as she can imagine, and dresses according to. tbe latest importation from Paris. But these are the grosser and more dis gusting forms of affectation which all easily re- hood killing the very life of life, destroying cognize, and which all sober-minded people soul and body together, ibis Ihey are doing and they know it. Our law. makers, our grand jurors, our municipal authorities, our Judges, our prosecuting attornies, know it too- but how marvellously calm and indifferent they all seem about it ! Nay, this murderous business is li censed in nearly every State throughout the Union, and Government derives a revenue from despise. There are, however, certain slighter shades of the same thing that are found every where, and yet are very difficult of detection. All of us are apt to adopt some habit which has pleased us in others, and endeavor in spite of nature to make it our Own. Some elegant movement or some extra sweetness of tone, some form of expression that sounds like an ihe Rala of criminal induli?encies. Not onlv emanation from the refined atmosphere of court- arft fifiv thousand neonle murdered anntiallv hv lj elevation, is almost undesignedly adopted, means nl thft irrnnr shons. licensed and nnli. and becomes a habit of our-own which others censed, but from three-fourths lo nine-tenlhs of see lo be unnatural, and feel to be unpleasant. the crime and pauperism that, afflict communi. ties are justly chargeable to the same source. We ask our fellow citizens to consider these facts for facts they are, beyond denial or im peaebment. If a poor apothecary may be just- ly held responsible tor an error, resulting in the death of a single victim, is it hot time that the reckless and wicked destruction of human life by the spirit-venders, arrested the attention of our civil authorities, and that adequate penal ties be meted out to their crimes against so cietiy 1 Not till the vending of alcoholic pot sons, as a beverage shall be regarded as a crime, can we hope to arrest the evil which we deplore. Temperance Protector. MR. HUNT AND THE BREWERS. I lectured some years ago the poisonous and disgusting ingredients put into malt, and fer mented liquors. Among other things, I men tioned that decayed flesh was used for the pur pose of refining the liquors. The brewers of the place came out in the papers, staling that I had accused them of using rotten flesh, and denied the charge under oath. Atrnv next lecture, I noticed the statement and reminded the audience that my declara tion wa3 only a general one in reference to the tricks of brewers. But since the men had thought proper to make the matter personal, it might not be amiss to call the attention of the audience. I then requested a distinguished gentleman present to relate a conversation held between him and a butcher the evening of my last leeture. He arose and said : " As I was leaving the church, a butcher addressed me, and said, 1 1 wonder how that man finds out every thing V I asked, what thing ? Why, that the brewers put in dead dogs, and cats, and such things.' I inquired, do you know anything about it V 'Yes,' he replied. 4 My boys sell the rotten sheep, and calves heads to the brewers, and they pay them to keep it a secret." As the gentleman took his seat, the butcher, who was present, cried, " I did not tell you so, that is not what I said." I asked, well, what did you say? He answered, " I did not say (hat my boys sold the rotten calves heads, but that they sold the brewers the rotten sheeps' heads." Whether the brewers thanked him for the correction, or not, is not known. But it is cer tain that their sworn to certificate did not strengthen faith in the veracity of men, who, if mean enough to use the ingredients said to be used by the brewers, wine merchants and liquor sellers, would be mean enough lo deny it. T. P. H. MVyomingPa.yJuly'20. - Dreadful Murder. Mrs. Milan, Turner Milan, living near Laurens C. II., on the 27th ult., whipped a negro woman whom she had raised, and immediately went in tbe house, "and while stooping over the fire, the negro slipped up behind her and with an axe broke her skxdl! and knocked her into the .fire, where she struck her another lick, heaped up the fire upon her and burned her in a shocking manner ! Another negro woman and the hus band came up in a few moments to view the awful spectacle, arrested the negro, who laid the murder on a "runaway" but the next morning she confessed the whole. When we passed through the vicinity, steps were being taken to have a Jury and have her hanged. Mrs. Milan was a respectable and worthy wo man, daughter of a Mr. Kirkpatrick. Ashe. rule Messenger, i- Gentlemen are not altogether free from this prevailing species of artifice. The very low bow, the pompous strut, tho air of ease which is manifestly unfell, are familiar illustrations. It must be admitted, however that in ordinary social intercourse the manly feeling rebels a gainst borrowed forms, and indulges itself in what is equally annoying, an original tenden cy to eccentricity. It is in public exhibitions of himself that the man most commonly resorts to artificial mannerism, and condescends to copy the excellencies and the faults of others. Nowhere is this evil more frequently met with than in the pulpit. Reading is performed with a measured cadence and a military precision that often violates the understanding and taste of those who listen, and the style of delivering sermons become so much a matter of routine that one accustomed to hear the speaker might almost indicate before band when certain cbang. es of manner might be expected. Whenever it is seen, affectation has a disa greeable effect upon those who witness it. It inevitably betrays the fact that self occupies a prominent place in the thoughts of the actor. It is often indulged from an effort to please, but (hen it is for the sake of self. It never springs from a genuine interest in the comfort of others which would lead us to forget our selves, and be ihoughtful only of those in whose company we may be. All attempts to appear more polished, more witty,: or more learned and eloquent than we are, proceed from an over weening regard to the impressions we may make upon those around us, and easily distin guished, in principle at least from the gentle, ness and sweetness of true benevolence. The poet Cowper, has expressed in strong Iful not loo emphatic language, the abhorrence of a rightly thinking mind, and the aversion of a pure taste, for this deplorable vice. In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in ijiy soul I loathe t All Affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object of tarn implacable disgust. What ! will a man play tricks, will he indulge t A silly fond conceit of hit fair form, And just proportion, fashionable men, And pretty face, in presence of his God? . Or will he seek to dazzle me wjth tropes As with the diamond on his lilly hand, And play his brilliant pacts before my eyes When I am hungry for the bread of life ? If those who are addicted to this habit only knew how unnaturally it sits upon them, and how apparent is ihe vanity which prompts it, they would take care to ascertain their talent for imitation before they would undertake to show themselves off lo advantage in the plumes and habiliments of others. Proficients in ihe art would succeed in deception, and the rest of the world would be content to appear before mankind in their own natural manner. The theatre should have its own, and the line of de marcation be distinctly drawn between the real and tbe feismed. I ruth; is precious, and it is no less our duly to act than to speak in accord, ance with it. - O. they may individually approve, predicted that however many enactments might be passed by Congress, the provision of the Constitution requiring the surrenderor fu gitive slaves could not be enforced in tho Northern States. Yet almost within stone's throw from the spjot whence was issued the declaration, that uno enact ments will be of any use," "every yeo man along the valleys will run the slaVe and trip the shameless hunter,1 James Ilallett was tried and convicted of being; a slave and was removed from the city in the -broad face of day, to the place whence he fled, without the least attempt at resistance on the part of the prophet. or any of his assistants or dependents. j The decree of the Commissioner was ac j cording to law and the Constitution; and j for ourselves we rejoiced that after a ds- gracelul interval, the law and tbe Consti tution were shown to be paramount ; and we said so in plain words. But did We rejoice that James Hallett a respectable man and a member of the Methodist Church, was remanded back to slavery, leaving behind hirn a wife nnd three chil dren to lament his hard fate- and their own? Very far from it. In itself this thing was contrary to all the sentiments of our nature and yet it was a calamity not to be named the same day with tbe sub version of the law and Constitution, and the solemnly plighted faith of the nation. 1 The majesty of the law having been vln dicated, the solemnly plighted faith of ho ; nation having been frowned into silence, and its abettors put to shame we are pre pared to unite in any honoroble efforts fop the liberation of Hallet, and his restora tion to bis family and business. We learn on inquiry, that for the last four months ; he had been in the employ of Messrs. Til ton & Molony, 58 Water street, as a por- : ter, and had been previously in the employ ; of Silas Wood. They all speak of him j as a steady, correct, upright man. The f former gentlemen have written to the ovn er, to ascertain on what terms she vill : part with him, aud find that he can be-re-; deemed for 8800. This is a considerable j sum, but he is in the prime of life tvyen-1 ty six years old and valuable in profW- 1 tion to his good character physical strength 1 and habits of industry. 1 We are already able to announce some 1 generous contributions, or rather pledges; on condition that his freedom can bdse-' cured. The first is from Isaac Holenbecki a colored man in the employ of the Troy' and Erie line, who has generously offered j one hundred dollars. Another hundred; has been tendered hy a prosperous rher- chant, accompanied by the following riote:; " Having noticed with great satisfaction your repeated success in soliciting funds5 for the purchase of the freedom of slave- of reverencing the majesty of Him that dwell, families, I beg to suggest the case of Hal eth therein, or attending to the messages of bis let. recently and very summarily given op everlasting love, get together in one corner of j to his claimants, as one which, in consid the house, (his finger all this time pointing t eration of his free wife and infant child straight and steady as the aim of a rifleman,) j ren appeals strongly to the sympathies o( and there, through the whole of the service, ! the community, and demands the efforts' keep talking, tittering, laughing, giggling thus : o the hamane. I will give one hundred annoying the minister and disturbing the con- 0uar3 anj more if needful, for the object greganon, anu sinning against uuu. i m sor- , nrnnnsp(i nmv.ded the returned fuiriliva i i ' I - among bis own kindred, so soon attained such literary and political pre-eminence. From his youth the Judge was characterized by profound reverence for the ordinances of the Gospel. He was a regular attendant at the House of worship. And while he was a Presbyterian, that being Ihe church of his father and the church of bis choice, he was benevolent and generous towards other branches of the Chris- j tian family. He gave to the Methodist Church at Knoxville the ground on which their house of worship was built ; and occasionally he would appear in the congregation, aud join with them . . i in ineir worsnip. Now, in those days, there was a notable Presiding Elder in that region called Father Axley, a pious, laborious, uncompromising preacher of the Gospel, who considered it his duty to rebuke sin wherever it should presume to lift up its deformed head within the limits of his district. And while Father Axley was a mati of respectable talents, undoubted piety, and of great miniserial fidelity, he had, moreover, a spice of humor, oddity, and dollery, about him that rarely failed to impart a characteristic tinge to performancs. The consequence was, that amusing anecdotes of the sayings and do ings of Father Axley abounded throughout the country. On a certain day, a number of lawers and literary men were together in the 'town of Knoxville, and the conversation turned on the subject of preaching and preachers. One and another had expressed his opinion of the per formances of this and that pulpit orator. At length Judge White spoke up: " Well, gen tlemen, on this subject, each man is, of course, entitled to his own opinion ; but I must confess that father Axley brought me to a sense of my evil deeds or at least a portion of them more effectually than any preacher I have ever beard. At this every eye was turned ; for Judge White was never known to speak lightly on religious subjects ; and, moreover, he was habitually cautious and respectful in his remarks concern, ing religious men. The company now eipress- ed the most urgent desire that the Judge would give the particulars, and expectation stood on tip-toe. " I went up," said the Judge, "one evening to the Methodist church. A sermon was preach ed by a clergyman with whom I was not ac quainted ; but Father Axley was in the pulpit. At the close of the sermon, he arose, and said to the congregation, 4 1 am not going to detain you by delivering an exhortation. I have risen simply to administer a rebuke for improp er conduct which I have observed here to-night. This, of course, waked up the entire assembly ; and the stillness, was most profound, while Ax. ley stood and looked for two or three seconds over the congregation. Then, stretching out his huge, long arm, and pointing with his fin. ger steadily in one direction, 4 now,' said he, 4 I calculate that rbose two young men who were talking in that corner of the house while tbe brother was preaching, think tbat I am go ing to talk about them. Well, it is true that it looks very bad, when well dressed young men, whom you woulu suppose, hom their appear ance, belonged to some genteel respectable family, come lo tho house of God, and instead ! -r- i; ry for the young men. I'm sorry for their pa rents. I'm sorry they have done so to night. I hope tbey'lLnever do so again. But, howev. er, that's not the thing I was going To talk about. It is another matter ; and so impor tant, thai I thought it would be wrong to suffer O j e the congregation to depart without administer ing a suitable rebuke. 4 Now,' said he, stretching oul bis huge arm and pointing in another direction, 4 perhaps that man, who was asleep on the bench out there, while the brother was preaching, thinks I am .as i 1ST II going to taiK. aooui mm. en, I must con fess it looks very bad for a man to come into a worshipping assembly, and, instead of taking his seal like others, and listening to the blessed Gospel, carelessly stretch himse and go to sleep.. It is not only I In I which we owe to our Creator and Redeemer, but it shows a want of genteel breeding. It shows that the poor man has been so unfortun ate in his bringing up as not to hare been taught good manners. He don't know what in polite in a worshipping assembly, among whom he comes to mingle. I'm sorry for the poor man. I am sorry for the family lo which he of our coast : belongs. I am sorry he did not know better. ' I hope he never will do so again. But, how ever, that is not What I was going to talk about. Thus Father Alley went "on, for some time, boxing tbe compass,' and hitting a number of I can be purchaser! for a reasonable 'con sideration. We are not permitted to mention the writer's name. We have then, already promised, towards the redemption of James Hallet, a donation from J Isaac Holenbeck (colored) of - $100 Merchant - - - - - - 100 We have from M. - - - - 20 6220 If there are others of our citizens' who care enough about the matter to make up a further sum of 8.r80. and will ilo it g to the n essed j t, JameS Hallet huaU come.bacjc lfout on a bench ; . . J. - . fuL L r nroof of great I lo l1,s c ? a FREE m the obligations ! week. We pause for a reply. - I The following pledge has been signed' by seventy-two gentlemen, constituting, according to the Chatleston Mercury, the body of the planters of Saint Helena parish one of the most important portion" i Helena Parish, pledge ourselves most. solemnly never to employ any coasiej owned hv a citizen of the North or ,man. Exactly So.- The very climax of superfluous politeness has been declared to be that of hold ing an umbrella over a duck in the rain.. , THE TRUE POLICY. We are glad to find Southerners at last sup. porting their own papers, as they should do. Tbe Richmond Times boasts of having added 55 new subscribers to ts list within the past two months ; and the Raleigh Register says " we have added upwards of that number to our list within the same time." Within the same time we have added to our list over one hundred si9W subscribers; and we expect to receive thiee or four times tbat number during the uext two months. Southern papers will increase in value to their, readers just in proportion as tbeyare en couraged. Let this fact be remembered and acted on. Standard ' j , r - persons and things ibat he was4 not going to i ned by a Northern crew, to take any part talk about and hitting them hard, till the at tention and curiosity of the audience were rais ed to tbe highest pitch, when finally he remark ed, "The thing of which I was going to talk is chewing tobacco. Now, I do hope, when any gentleman comes here lo church, who can't keep from chewing tobacco during the hours of public worship, thai he will just lake his hat, and put it before him, and spit in his hai. You know we are MelhodUts. You all know that our custom is to kneel when we pray. Now, any gentleman may see, in a moment, how ex ceedingly inconvenient it muet be for a well dressed Methodist lady to be compelled to kneel down in a great puddle of spit. , Now said Judge White, at thif very time I had in my mouth an uncommonly large quid of tobacco. Alley's singular manner and train of our produce to the city of Charleston The second Case under , the Fugitive I jdtw, We learn that the fugitive ,aTf who were apprehended two or (three weeks ago at IIarrisW& n(? VPf?! on a charge ofinciting.a riot wbicbgrep out of. an efTorl to rescue ihem, (wefojr yesterday carried before Judge McAllister; United States Commissionery'whoafter hearing the evidence jrr the case, directed thefugltives to be delivered to their owner, r ... l n..U(t x.viTbontvmoIestation 16 remorc them loTirginia. ; ;'. jV
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