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HOWZEj Corresponding Editor. ONE DOLLAR! Per Annum, invariably in Adrance. ViL. 3. WILMINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1850 NO. 40. THOMAS LORING, Editor and Proprietor : BENJAMIN I. . ADVERTISEMENTS, O-i li ni extent, wiil be inserted in the Wctky Co n mtci the.followin? rates : s 1 1 ire, I irtioa, 80,50 j I s(pj;ire,2 moi) thg;S2,80 do. i. U j fl do. 3 do., "2,50 fa. ?ao. 1,00 I 1 do. 6 do. 4.00 An' 1 nunth, 1.25 1 do. 1 year, 6,00 iVnlinas.or less, make a square. If in advertisement exceed ten lines, the price will in proportion. l lUertiseaients are payable at the timeofthei nsprtion. rV All advertisements inserted in the Weekly or.-rw.iil ire ?autiel to oaj insertion in the I n Weekly free of charge. for the commercial"! OBSERVATIONS AND ODDITIES. . NO. 1. Wilmington a century ago The improve ments of the age Rail Roads and Rail Road travelling jVilmington as she is. Mr. Editor : " , I have always been a close observer of in cidents and events which were enacting around me, but like'fee poor fellow in the old tale, I always thought for my own benefit, lor my natural diffidence was so great that my philosophic observations were doomed to enlighten only the spot where they were born. My poor father (he's dead now, peace to his u.-vd to Iff 1 the bumps upon, my cra iiuim. 'uhU -pleasure, always winding up i-.is .x.iUiliiatitn: with, the gratifying usu fwurr t.'.-'it I could reason from ctiVct to cause v.i.'ii ivn::trkabSc facility ; and I have at length .N--:tr:ja;ji;d that my light, shall no longer be I - 1 S . .1 . I.. ,!,,.! l-m-w-.I. t1.t JiluilL'll Uiiuer uusiilj, cycu uiuuii mn bushel be empty. And first as to observa tion: I got hold the other day 'of a " Wil mington CentincI," published in the year 17S7 ; it was a sheet of about w-ixteen by twelve inches, containing some half dozen advertisements, ' a short editorial and an "amusing tale," Of about an equal length with the editorial. My first thought was, that the. size of it was owing perhaps to the scarcity of paper ; but it might'be the scarc ity of matter, and I finally concluded that the. Irishman's reply, when asked if he-would hare tea or coffee, might with some reason be applied heje, and that it was " a little of .both." When Wilmington was Newton, and Newton was in fact a New Town, it must I. 1 I A U . , - nave ueeu a rare pjuce. j.. uuz.cu uuue& huddled together upon the river for business purposes, and about an equal number scat tered back among the ponds and sand hills, for dwellings, constituted in earlier times, the famous Newton. Had it been possible for the original settlers to incur the enormous ex pence of moving whole rice fields, and im porting northern lands, the place might have been rendered highly ornamental ; and even as it was, the constant succession of. ponds and sand hills, presented to the eye of the romantic traveller, a pleasing and picturesque view, reminding him, perhaps, of the lakes and mountains-of Switzerland, and by awa kening in his mind pleasurable associations, invested itself with all the beauties of that which it recalled. But in course of time, things began to wear a much more favorable aspect; the wharves were lined with shipping, and Spanish, Por tugese, Dutch, Bremen, English and Ameri cau hulls, were lying side and side in all the confidence of commercial sociability. Stores were erected, dwelling houses shot up, the sand hills were thrown into the ponds, and although much capital, as well as water, was absorbed in the latter operation, yet on the whole, the town was materially improved. To be sure a man could no longer wash his own buggy in his own pond, at his own door, but this inconvenience was comparatively so trifling, that the good citizens, for the most P&rt. submitted quietly to the innovation. And what was the result of all this? Why sir, in the course of time the character of the inhabitants generally assumed a more ener getic cast, and " go ahead" in lieu of " take Jt easy." was inserted as a new principle in their code. Now sir, just see what a place it is ! Our exports are extensive, and our imports I sus pect are something greater, I am led to thU supposition by the fact that there is here, at dl tunes, a very small amount of money in . circulation proportioned to the trade carried on. This would not otherwise be the case," for if Joe has a horse which I value, and I purchase the horse from him, and pay him the money, why Joe has the cash as an exact equivalent for his horse ; and so if he keeps ;': raising "horses amU continue buying he v-V.J in. the er:d have on hand an amount of expended aising, and the amount for But notwithstanding th;a ouvwuence we progress famously. We have Ur Ma'or our Town Commissioners and Commissioners of Navigation, our Magistrate special, and our Pojicfv '-rhen at night, when f&Tweary citizen. has retired to his couch, and stillness reigns supreme, 'tis sweet to hear the voice of some solitary guardian of the tdumberner, with a genteel brogue, 'Twal o'clock, all's well !" Then there's the bustle of the wharves, the noise of the streets, and the dust flying in clouds in ail directions. And there's the Newbern road upon a su fir mer evening; why its a young Broadway ! (tho not quite wide enough for two carria ges to drive abreast.) and any one who doubts the uniform beauty of our ladies, or the skill of their dark drivers, has only to station him self at some point east of Boundary street at from five to seven in the evening and every doubt will be speedily removed. And then, there's the daily train which comes in screa ming worse than forty Indians; and the nec essary bustle in depositing freight, getting off Boats, &c, reminds one most forcibly of the time when the works of Babel were finally suspended. But since interest and pleasure have combined to render railway travelling fashionable, it is astonishing how little incon venience the modern fine lady suffej from being compelled to breathe the same air with common and less etherial persons, or to move along impelled by the same undiseriminating power, which the beggar to her destination. Oh ! shade of Brummei ! has it come to this ! that steam conveys the Beggar and the Prince with equal speed along the self same road? Alas! it is too true; the age has its own ieatures, and this is one; well, if I must why, faith I'll fall in with the levelling sys tem gracefully, and thank the inventive spir it of the age, that we have cars in which we all can ride and take our ease, together. -Now some persons don't like to go at Rail Road speed, but I must confess that I im ex cessively fond of it. When you are going at the rate of twenty-five or thirty miles an hour you can't well enjoy a very accurate view of objects in passing, I know but then thereV the exhilirallon. the kind of wild ex ultation with which you feel yourself borne onward, the blood bounds, the eye dilates, the nostril expands, and you are for the time filled with a bouyancy of spirit seldom attained under ordinary circumstances, by persons the most happily constituted. And then as for seeing what is to be seen, why, if you are very curious, just seat yourself by an open window of the car in summer, and cast your eye as far in advance as the nature of the case will admit, fixing it upon any object of which you wish to ascertain the nature, and by the time you reach it you will find ou whether it's a house or a hay stack. This however, won't do in winter, for even in case you determine to sacrifice comfort to curiosi ty, by the time you get fairly seated at the window, some selfish booby near you will be certain to lower his head as far into his coat as possible, and sing out with stentorian lungs, "why can't you keep that window shut." So much for enjoyment. 1 have been making something of a tour of late, and propose, in a series of communi cations, to make my good friends here acquain ted with what I've seen and heard. But I cannot close this number without observing that if Steam Saw Mills, Distilleries, Steam Planing Mills. Steam Coppering Shops, and iu fact works of all kind driven by Steam, to gether with a population which goes by steam, can insure the prosperity of a place, Wil mington must continue on the increase; tho' I must say I think some folks steam a little too much. PETER SNAPPS. MR. CALHOUN'S FAMILY. ,' - ' Mr. Calhoun has left a wife now in Char leston, and a family of four sons and( two daughters. His first, sort Andrew, is a wealthy planter in Alabama; Patrick, the second son, is in the Army, and was an aid of Gen. Gaines ; the third son, who was with him when he died, is a physician ; the youngest son William, is now an under graduate at College. One of his daughters, Anna Ma ria, is the wife of Mr. Clemsen, our Charged' Affaires of Belgium, an the other has al ways remained at home, having long been afflicted with a spinal affection. , Thd -family are left in affluent circumstances, his proper ty beingesti mated at $ 100,000. He raarried in early life, his how bereaved partner, a lady ot fortune, a cousin bearing the same name he has rendered illustrious. j SHOCKING MURDER INDELA WARE. A letter in the Delaware Republican, dated Seaford, May, 2d, says : One of the most daring assassinations that history, ancient or mo'dern. ever chronicled, was committed in the village of Middleford, Sussex county, Del.," vhis morning, at about S o'clock. ; ; ' . Capt. John Windsor took his gun and re paired to the garret, where his wife was dili gently engaged in her daily avocation, ply ing at the loom, and informed her of his in ieution in bringing his gun up With him. which" was to shoot her. She ran around and got partially behind the loom, and on her knees humbly entreated him not to do so rash an act. Without heeding in the least her cries, he raised the j musket' to his face and deliberately shot his; wife she to "whom he had vowed, in the presence of Almighty God, to protect and preserve as long as they both should live, became the , victim of his treacherous passion ! The murderer jada hearing before Squire Hazzard, this, trsn- ing. CONCLUDING REMARKS. The following concluding remarks of "At- ticus" we publish because they contain sever al important points connected with the sub ject of which he treats, not before noticed. It is certainly a meritorious composition, and the result of sound reflection and a discrem- inative iudizment. The whole has been em- bodied in an address to the Governors of the Free States. Let the northern press give ; the northern voters the true light on both sides of their southern slavery subject,) and j they are not prone by nature in cold blood and wilful de sign to do wrong. I I know them generally! a3 well as I know the people of the south. There is always something of some sort in which the minds of men are pi one to some '-failing" none are perfect, and iu some cases, iikejlhis sulrject of slaverv. it may extend to communities ami States: it is the nature o f man's frail compo- sition : but it is our duty . . " , ... 1.1 to ourselves, our country, and our future h appiness, to correct it whenever we find we are wrong on any subiect. 1 am now getting old a ever again IVUKII Oil address my northern n.uflvt 'count this subject, but ,. do hope they; will see tnat tiiev are wrong and take lit out oi congress and keep it out. for I havie drawn a true and faithful picture ot the national evils it is now producing, and would, in the end, produce to the country and the Union, n lorced upon Congress any longer against the letter, spirit and face of the constiutioni Let this negro sub ject rest where it belongs, to the management ot the people ot the blates and the btate (jrovernraents and territories. The northern States got rid of their slaves by selling them to the south, because, from their climate and dense white laboring popu lation, they did not want their services. Had there been no south to sell them ' to, they would have been obliged to keep them as slaves, or to have converted their northern Slates into nurseries on allarge scale of pro lific breeding of '"free" hldtck paupers, vaga bonds and negro drunkards ; and to have lost their value and original cost in money.', for, there was then no Liberia to ship them to. This brings me to another matter : We can not now ship free negroes to Liberia against thtir will and consent, even by giving them ttr passage and outfit ; and the Coloniza tion Society, I apprehend, have not funds enough to carry out their philanthropic ob ject for more than the passage of pome one or two hundred, instead of three or four millions of emancipated negroes. Why do not .he frcO negroes of the north and the south all embrace the kind offer of the Colonization Society ? Because they cannot be forced out of the State and coun try where they were born and raised, and they know that, they can live better and get along through life easier in tli'a country, to their notions and nature, even in the South, by depending on the white people, than they could to be shipped to Liberia; with a liee passage, where they would be compelled to depend entirely on themselves. They con sider this their country and; not Africa, because they were born and raised, in the United States, where all their mind arid attachments are centered, whether bond or free. There is no mistake in this fact. It is now time to bring this negro subject to a few closing facts : In the first! place, those persons, in ancient times of the New England colonies, and others who kidnapped negroes on the Continent jpf 'Africa, and imported them to this Continent against their will and consent, to make them slaves in! the colonies, and also, in the United States since the rev olution, I conceive to have been a sin. because it was done by force against the consent of those kidnapped negroes in Afrfca. But all those persons who originally committed and aided and abeted in doing that thing, altho' they might not at that time have seen and ieh in the heart, that they were committing a sin. they are now all gone "before God ts the higher world, to settle their accoun with Him, and it does not belong to the peo ple of any portion of the United States to follow thern beyond the grave, for fear that Godwill not do them justice according to their respective deserts, as H may think proper and just, and not as we inay think. All those original kidnapped Africans have, also, gone beyond the grave to meet their old white kidnappers beforejGod, as the High judge, to do justice between them, and here we ought to.stop all that part of this negro subject as finally settled in the United States, and never to rake it up any more, like raking up the ashes of the (lead. The offspring of that old African dead stock, we have found here planted and grown up in the country, like native trees from tha' land, as we have been born into; the country by the present generations, and; we have to do the best we can with them, according to their race and, nature : taking great and watchful care that we do not make our own condition a nd the country worsej. In regard to their government, the idea of ;sin" m that, is a mere thing of opinion. There are some things which one man or community of peo ple may not think to be a n. : . stock, have left their posterity far better orl in this world, by being born in he Ui ited States, than they Would have beerji leit. had they been born in Africa. j une tning is certain in tnis present negro subject to wit: li there is any latent sin from the original kidnapping and importing of the old Atncan dead slock ot negroes, Inow lurk ingin the present improved system of south ern slavery (the only best modebyjwhich the negroes can be governed) it is not asin which the present generation of the people of New timgiana ana tne northern states I wni ever have to answer for before God. If they will answer for all their own sins, it is all that God will ever require of them they need not give their minds so jmuch dis tress and fear that, they will, afterj death, be called on by God to answer for othr people's ;sins." all over" the world. j The whole matterin this great black mouse mountain . of slavery as it now stanids. being a 'sin' is nothing else but a mere matjter of opin ion and political bauble of northern mind and imaginary sin,' based precisely on tjhat old co lonial streak of rel igious weakness of the mmd, in regard to their ancient blue laws and imag inary "sin" of witchcraft-,. which wis nothing but a perfect mental epidemic in t ie country and which brought disgrace and a by-word upon New England, (my native jjland) and they are now extending that same mental epidemic all over the United' Sjtates and territories to California, under different name ofimnginary '"sin" of southern slavery, which God will never call on thjtm to an swer for, whether it is now a sin lor not. O, my northern countrymen, take the Bi ble and open it at that place where it tells you If a tree beareth evil fruit (tale an axe) hew it down and cast it into the fine, &c." To little purpose has your northern country been filled writh schoofhouses. Academies, and Colleges, since the j explosion of witch craft and blue laws, for fifty years back, if you cannot raise the northern mind above that old unfortunate streak of delusive rel: gious weakness of the mind of ancient witch craft in so many families, as to produce a mental epidemic all over the countjry, of their present imaginary sin of slavery, wjhich does not concern them in this world, and which they will not be called on by Godjto answer for, beyond the grave, r The very name of self styled i cpuritans" denotes deception, excentricity anjd egotism in its origin. That peculiar race of people, who originnl- lyfled ftom Old England (instead of emi grating) and landed at Plymouth rock and Salem Mass., have always been a distinct race of people in the colonies, and since the Independence ol the United States, to the present day. After landing in this country, they-se themselves up as ''God's elect, by foreordination before the beginning of the world ;" that they were, therefore, tietter than the other colonists people, and whatever they decreed was ';God's will," as to the mode and principles of worship etcetra. the jother peo ple had to submit to, or come underltheir 'blue lawTs" and persecutions of imaginary sins of witchcraft and many other things. Here is the root of the name of ' puritans," and all their subsequent train of error and wrongs, growing out of that original unfortu nate streak of religious weakness of the mind, and' hereditary mental epidemic, from the days of witch raft to the present crusade ? gainst the south. It was neither the work of the Lord nor the Devil, but the wTOrk of their own "weak imagination; for, I have seen and emember, in its latter part, (when a boy of good memory at 5 and 6 years of age,'in 1790 and '91.) fid lers going night and day (employjed by the day) to drive the Devil-, as the-said and thought, out of persons afflicted with chronic rheumatic and other sharp pains, incident to hereditary consumption and' otherj afflictions of the bodily system in that cold and phleg matic climate. I remember it welljon accoun of the fiddles, which delighted me So long as they kept that unfortunate streak of reli gious weakness of the mind and mental epi demic within the limits of their owp northern colonies and States, it was never rebuked as an evil to the middle and southern States ; but, as they have now revived those- old ex ploded "blue laws, and imaginary sins of witchcraft," under a different namejof "south ern slavery." and seem determined to over ride the Bible, the Constitution, thb southern Churches, and thp general Government, (in all which the whole country to California has an interest) to ultimate ruin, dissolution, and civil war : Verily, verily, it is time they were rebuked in Congress and throughout the country. 3 They are my native countrymen, of whom I should be proud, and also the l4nd of my birth, were it not for that one hereditary men tal overreligious propensity to overreach, dic tate, disturb and destroy tnengnts pi oiners, and the nationality of the United States, with that old witchcraft mental weakne$3. revived from the ashes of the colonies, wiich once brought dishonor aud odium on New .Eng land. No w, if that ancient spirit and principle of religious 'weakness of mind, in regarid to imag inary sins of witchcraft and blue Id ws, could not rule the northern colonies anyl better in those days, past and gone, the same spirit of intolerance and religious weakness Ire vived, is unfit, at the present daytorule the general Government and the southern cojuntry and churches, from the Atlantic -to Oijlifornia, This is the great truth X m laboring io ar rive at, and if your Excellency wl now be If a man doesa thing which his! mind and conscience tells him is no sin, who is to be the judge of that thing, but God when that man goe3 before Him after death 1 There is one fact iu this part o;f the sub ject which no Abolitionist or Free4soiler can dispute, to wit: That the old deab African good enough to advise the good people of your State, to turn the Telescope round and look through it the other way, the majority of them will acknowledge I am right. 1 have gone back to the old true ground and turned the roots of the old plant and the pres ent abolition eprout up to the light and inspec tion of the people, and discharged my duty iu a respectful manner ; it is now not for me to say how much or little the northern abolition and free-soil voters 6hall like it, they must be their own judge, after seeing both sides of the root of the old plant and the new. I have found the "Eureka," which has already cost the Public Treasury millions of dollars in ru inqus unconstitutional waste of Congressional lime and pay, within the last 30 years since the admission of Missouri into the Union. From the Christian Sun. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. Dear Sir ; If you should think the following remarks worthy of a place in your paper, I would be glad you would insert them. It is a subject which, at this time, is occupying the mmds of a large portion of our people throughout the State, and one which, I think, fully justi fies the attempt of all i its friends to accomplish J The improvement of the internal condition ! of our State, should occupy our chief alien-! tion at this time. There is no subject which is likely to come before our next Legislature so important. The broad basis of several ad mirable plans has been commenced, and in a fair way of being partly exeeuted and it is all important, that the spirit which has been aroused should not be suffered to abate before the grand work shall be completed. The probability is, that some of the Charters granted last Legislature, will need some amendment, and others extended. That br ing the case, it is all important than men ol liberal views should be selected to represent the several Counties in the coming Legis lature; men who will vote to benefit the State, and not demagogues, who before cast ing a vote will ask themselves, will voting aye lose or gain me votes when I return, without any attempt on their part to explain to their constituents the benefits or injury the State would eventually sustani. Every representative should be a man, who is wil ling to take upon himself any responsibility which he believes will benefit the State, without consulting his popularity at nlf. .11 we should be represented by independent spirits of that kind, we need apprehend no danger of our success in making the Old North Slate what she can and ought to be. I expect there are but few men in the State who feel a deeper iuterest than myself in see ing all the plans in progress, effectually com pleted. But there is one, in which I must confess I feel more interest, than I do in eith er of the others. Not that I believe, that it is of more importance than some others, but I believe that h will beneht a certain class ot citizens more than either of the other plans I mean the farming interest oi the coun try, adjacent to its location. 1 know, sir, it is very hard to divest ourselves of self-inter est, and that may influence my judgement, to some extent but I do think, that to improve our Rivers by locking and damming, so as to obtain a Slack water navigation, will bene fit the Farmers to a greater extent than any other plan in progress in our State; And, sir, the best reason why that kind of improve ment should be adopted, where our streams are susceptible of it is, it i3 the cheapest to construct, and the carriage is cheaper, after it is constructed and it is also more durable. I am by no means condensing other kinds of improvement no sir, I am a strenuous advo cate of Rail Roads, Plank Roads and Turn pikes, of every description. We have many sections of the State, where there are no streams of sufficient magnitute to carry out this kind of improvement. In these sections. Railroads, Plank Roads, and Turnpikes, should be constructed. But where we have lasting streams, that will keep a Pond full ofi water (and it doe3 not require a large one.) the slack water improvement is certainly the most durable economica) and useful. There is no carriage as cheap as that of water, es pecially when steam can be applied. There will be an effort made at our next Legislature to extend the Cape Fear and Deep River Improvement across the country to the Yadkin River ; the distance across by land from Deep River to the. Yadkin is about thirty-one or two miles. This part of the improvement will be a Portage Rail Road, with heayy T Iron rails; or a canal, if a feeder can be procured between the two Rivers of sufficient height to lock down to each of the Rivers. After reaching the Yadkin the slack water system will be'ngain resumed. Perhaps it will not be amiss to ex plain the nature of the passage across thU land route. What are termed Sectional Boats are constructed, in three sections, which are coupled'together in sush way that they can be separated at pleasure and adjusted again without any difficulty. These boats are Towed down and up the River by the steam boats on each of the Rivers ; and they are carried across on the Ra;l Road by an Engine- stationed between the two rivers for that pusposc. The Rt ils of this Road ex tend down into the water of sufficient depth for a Truck car to run down on them under the Boat which is made to fit the boat ; The Extra Engine is then attached and the truck car with the Boat is taken across he land without unloading anrj launched in the oljjer River, and is there attached to the steam Boats on that River and taken up or down, as the case may be. Several of these boats can be towed at one time - by one Steam Boat, carrying as much as the steam Boat. This Improvement is designed, to be extended up the Yadkin River to Wilkesbo roivh and lurthcr. if there u water sufficient to fill and keep filled a. PomJ. The turvey of this improvement, will be commenced about the fifteenth of May, by competent Engineer, and report of thej distance, tho plan to be pursued, the obstacles to be over come and the cost of the work submitted to our next legislature. By4hat time it is con fidently hoped and believed by the contrac tors of the work that tho Impri'Vcjnent, from Fayetteville to the Head of j SrnilicV Falls will be complete -and if the rummer and fall should be favorable, it may be finished to Haywood. ; " ' . The whole of the River ia under contract, and all the contractors nre pushing their work with nergc, from Fayetteville to Han cock's Mill. And I think that it is only nec essary to complete this portion of the work, to insure an amendment to the charter, or a new charter, to extend the Improvement to Wjlkcsborough. In fact. I expect to sec this kirnj of Improvement ramify itself throughout me wnoie oi our state, i ne Maw uiver, the South Yadkin, the Catawba, and many other western Rivers, as well ng our Eas tern, are susceptible of being made for steam boats of shallow draught; and that whch we have heretofore looked upon ns an obsta cle, is now discovered to be an advantage in erecting our work.' 1 allude to the quantity f . f i r; rr i. oi sione lounu in our luver. w ijrsi en quiry an experienced Contractor made, when applying tor Contracts, was jthere plenty of stone in the River? and after pcing told there was plenty at all the dams, except, two, this made a difference in price of fifty per cent asking fifty per cent more for erecting tho dams and locks, where stonp And 1 now look upon tho fiill as an advantage which' we coit'd isot well dis pense Willi. We hkUI isec-d o.ir ir.iiiulactoi in jV.irp'.'.'e;";. water power created will no a much uh the dams will cost. the whale lor' In fact, tho ly 'sell for aa I remain, Dear Sir, Your fnend and hum ble Servant. S. M. FRIGHTENING A LANDLORD. A landlord in Pittsburg, who is well known for his dunning habits, had called several times on a tenant wno owed him money.. The tenant finally sent a note, inviting htm to call on him room of the third story an "in the back receive tho read the Web- money." The landlord had ster testimony and has not troubled his tenant since Strange and Unnatural Outrage at Crlsgs- V vllle, Illinois! Some five or six weeks aince, as a respectable young woman, living near Griggsville, was returning from church, in the evening, in company with a male friend, thi rnir wprn iv,rtn Iron hv in rnffinn. nnm. r" " j p , v.... v.. . ....... ed Hunt, also a resident of the vicinitv of Griggsville, who knocked down, tho young man and by fprce and viojeqcfc hurried away his companion to an unfrequented place, where, by threats of instant death, he- per petrated a most unnatural outrage upon her. Hunt Jthcn forced his victim to accom pany him to the house of hjs father, whore he kept her during that night. On the next day the poor girl returned to tho house of hermother, who was then and had been for some time prosirat?d on a bed of sickness, IJere stye remained for that day, when her destroyer, fearing that legal measures would be instituted against ' him, determined to bear offjthe witness of his guilt. Accompanied by) two brothers,' as desperate as himself, he went in the evening to the residence of the young wo man, and ordered her to acdompany him. rPtio mrtlir .ind-nn nirprl rrm ml mnl hr rA. monstrated, and called in the aid of some young men who. were attending a writing school hard by. The Hunts, however, being well armed, bore off Their vic tim, notwithstanding aifresistance, during which i the grandmother of the girl was' knocked down and shamefully maltreated. The party of outlaws bore tho girl somo three miles distant, and for f several days kept hjer in confinement. Meanwhile a warrant was issued for their arrest, and a constable and his posse proceeded to their place of concealment, but they found the house barricaded, and the jHunts prepar ed to disnute an entranceL . They were ... summoned to surrender, r;ut refused. They ultimately compelled the girl, b threats of further violence, to approach the door, and assure the crowd that she was there )j her own consent. The constable, not deeming that rns authority justified him in proceeding further, retired. Tfext morning, Hunt and the young woman, crossed the river, with the inten tion of taking the steamboajt for St Louis. A party of citizens followed when Hunt, xrnn- ilism n nnrnnchi nir. fled, but was arrested, and lodged in jail at: Pittsfield.. The ruined girl was restored to her moth er. , ' . J- L v 1 Thu3 matters stood, until about a fort night since, when two sisters of the Hunts, who, it is said, reside in Si. Louis, and keep a house of ill-fame, went to Gi irg ville, with the avowed intention of carry ing off the witness1 agaipst thtir broth-, erf This further attempt k o:iti'twra greatly exasperated the cirizens, and tr.e women were unceremoniously required to leave Griggsville with all speed. A pub- lie meeting was then held (with reference
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