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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.) Saturday, June
ib33.
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in the Legislature. But little progress
however, had-been made at our Inst ad
vices. The election of Judge Wayne
as President of the Convention, by a ma
jority of 68 votes over Mr. Crawford, has
produced some excitement. It is claim
ed in several of the papers as a great Un
ion triumph, while in one or two, the re
sult is attributed to the operations of par
ty machinery. 1
Rise
Runaway Slaves. ..We notice in a Phil
adelphia paper, the report of a trial of
much importance to slave holders in the
Southern Slates, which lately took place
in the District Court of the United States,
sitting in Philadelphia, Justices Baldwin
fud Hupkinson, present. The following
facts were detailed in the evidence.
In the year 1822, a party of four citi
zens of New Jersey, came into the State
of Pennsylvania and look from the ser
vice of the person with whom he was
then living, a black slave, named Jack,
whom they alleged had absconded from
one of the party some time previously;
ami after manacling him, placed him in
a dearborn, with the supposed intention
of " running" him from the bounds of
that commonwealth. On their way from
the house, they were assaulted by "a mul
titude, headed by Mr. Kinderdine, (the
individual with whom the slave was liv
ing at the time) and having been seri
ously injured from missiles thrown by
this mob, the party in the wagon were
compelled to stop, in consequence of a
blow received on the head, by Caleb
Johnson, the master of the negro the
slave taken from their possession thn
gentlemen who had come merely to re
claim their property, were taken into
custody, and the plaintiffin this suit com
mitted to the jail at Norristown, to
answer to the charge of felony, before
the proper county court. His trial took
place accordingly, and he was honorably
acquitted.
On these grounds Caleb Johnson sub
sequently brought an action of damages
against Isaachar Kinderdine et alias,
who participated in the violence, before j
stated to have been done to his person.
The claimant prosecuted this cause un
der an act of Congress, passed to assist
masters in the recovery of their runaway
slaves and demanded as a recompense to
himself damages in the sum of $10,000.
The charge of Justice Baldwin is de
scribed as eloquent and conclusive, and
we hope will teach the insane Abolition
ists of the North the risk they incur by
interfering between master and slave,
lie expressly informed the Jury, that a
master has the right of arresting his slave
without a warrant, and carrying him be
fore any competent tribunal in order to
prove his property; that he is not requir
ed to answer the questions of any one,
except those of the legal Magistrate, and
that parol evidence is sufficient to show
the validity of his claims in the absence
of a bill ofsale. The Jury ave a ver
diet for plaintiff, and awarded damages
at 4,000. Petersburg Times.
in real rstnt nAn;,i..ui
sales of real property (near the centre of
business) says the Petersburg Times
were made at public auction on Friday
last, at an advance of thirty-five percent,
on the asking price six months ago. So
much tor the Kail road, and the brighten.
mg prospects of our Town !
G7A pedestrian in New York, Mr.
Haskett, proposes to walk 2000 miles in
70 days, living on bread and water, and
carrying a knapsack weighing 12 pounds.
Lets to a large amount have been made
on the result of thi
is undertaumcT
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Indictments. We learn, says the
Boston Centinel, "that the Mayor and
Aldermen of this City have been indicted
by the Grand Jury for rendering a false
return of the election for Member of
Congress held on the first of April. We
forbear any remarks on this procedure,
till it shall have undergone a judicial in
vestigation. A Bill of indictment has
also been found against the Masonic
Mirror for a Libel on Mr. Samuel D.
Greene."
Speed the Press. We observed a few
days ago in noticing the reported appoint
ment, of W. J. Duane, Esq, of Phila
delphia to succeed Mr. McLane in the
Treasury Department, that he was the
son of the former Editor of the Aurora:
The Philadelphia Inquirer states that he
was originally a printer worked many
a long and weary day at the case then
studied law, and gradually attained, by
the force of unassisted merit, to the high
standing among his fellow citizens, which
has led to his elevation to one of the
most important and . dignified posts in
the Union. Norfolk Her.
CTThe establishment of the Wilminji
ton Advertiser has been disposed of to
Air. Thomas Loring, Editor and Proprie
tor of the "People's Press" in that town,
by whom the united papers will hereafter
te published, under the name of "The
People's Press and Wilmington Adverti
ser." By concentrating the natronarre
of both, we have no doubt that Mr. Loring
will build up a very useful and profitable
otuuiisiuueui. ray. uus.
Georgia Convention. A Convention
is at present sitting in Milledgeville, Geo.
tfie primary object of whose meeting is
to reduce her overgrown Representation
particularly of the condition and pros
pects of the settlements to which they
are invited.
Gambling. The severe law on this
subject noticed a few weeks since. It
appears passed the legislature of Ken
tucky instead of that of Ohio and was
published by the Maysville Monitor in
stead of the Ohio Monitor.
ttT'The Flat Head Indians, living west
of the Rocky Mountains, recently sent a
deputation to the white settlements to
inquire after the Bible. The circum
stance that ed to this sinonlur mni'.
0 . . w
ment, is as follows: It appears that some
white man had penetrated into their
country, and happened to be a spectator
at one of their religious ceremonies.
Me informed them that their mode of
worshipping the Supreme Being was
radically wrong, and that the people away
toward the rising of the sun had been
put in possession of the true mode of
worshipping the Great Spirit. On re
ceiving this information, they called n
national council to take this subject into
consideration. Some said, if this be true
it is certainly high time we were put in
possession of this mode. They accor
dingly deputed 4 of the chiefs to proceed
to St. Louis, to see their great father
Gen. Clark, to inquire of him as to the
truth of this matter. They were cordi
ally received by the general, who gave
them a succinct history of Revelation, and
the necessary instruction relative to their
important mission. Two of them sunk
under the severe toils attending a jour
ney of 3000 miles. The remaining two,
after acquiring what knowledge they
could of the Bible, its institutions, and
precepts, returned to carry back those
few rays of Divine light to their perish
ing, benighted countrymen.
Emigrants. The Rev. Mr. Plummer.
of Pet ersburg, in addressing theAmerican
Home Missionary Society at its anniver
sary last week, in New York, remarked
incidentally that during the last few
years, twenty thousand fewtss and Bel
gian emigrants had settled upon lands
in Virginia and Maryland, which had been
supposed to be worn out and almost
worthless, but which under their cultiva
tion had been made as productive as the
good lands of the West. In consequence
of this, lauds had risen in value, and in
dustry had received a new impulse.
tt?The Legislature of Indiana, at its
late session, passed an 'Execution Law,'
which exempts the following articles from
execution, when the same belongs to
heads of families, to wit: A horse or
yoke of cattle, worth $40; Mechanics'
tools, 850; household goods and cooking
utensils, $25; provisions for three months;
necessary beds and bedding, wheel, cards
and axe: besides all the wearing apparel,
& military accoutrements the whole of
which may be justly estimated at bovu.
African Emigration. An expedition
sailed about a fortnight since from New
Orleans to Liberia, with about one hun
dred and fifty emigrants, principally from
Kentucky and Tennessee. Nearly one
hundred of them had been freed with
the express view of being sent to Africa
Ionization Society. Two per
sons accompany the emigrants, under
the patronage of the Auxiliary Societies
in Ohio and Tennessee, as agents in be
half of the free coloured population ir
the States in order to inform themselves
appearance, and her amiable
hud secured for her a large
warm and admiring friends.
manners
circle of
Aurora
Dorealis. Yesterday eve
ning the beautiful phenomenon of the
Aurora was seen, at this city, shooting in
beautiful corruscations, and enlighening
me northern part of the heavens, while
the souihern was enveloped in darkens.
'I'L . . ' . . .. ..
i II" rays ascended to an altitude of for
iy five degrees, and, after playing for he
space of about ten minutes, merged into
a steady light, resembling that which im
mediately precedes the rising of the sun,
and continued to shine in the north for
some time afterwards. Wash. Tel.
Wilmington, Del.) May 14. The
Superior Court of this couniy has been
in session since the commencement of
the last week. A case of an unprece
dented and atrocious character unpre
cedented at least in this State was tried
on Thursday. It was an indictment for
mayhem, in which the criminal, named
John Porter, jr. was charged with having
committed an outrage upon a boy, simi
lar to that which was perpetrated a year
or two ago in North Carolina. The jury
found him guilty, and he was sentenced
by the Court to undergo the full punish
ment awarded by law namely, a fine of
one thousand dollars and two years im
prisonment. The atrocity was perpetra
ted in Appoquitninink Hundred, during
the session of the Legislature in January
ast; and the Legislature deeming a
crime of such atrocious character deser
ving of a more condign punishment than
was provided by the existing law, passed
an act making it a capital offence. ..Jour.
Windsor, May 24. The Coroner of
the county has just called, to inform us
that on the 21st instant he held an inquest
over the body of a negro man, the prop.
erty of 31r. Joshua Brown, in the upper
part of this county, who had been found
dead. The verdict of the iurv of inouest
was, that "after due inquiry and strict ex
amination of witnesses as well as of the
body of the deceased, we do say that
there were no wounds, bruist s, nor marks
of violence sufficient, in our opinion, to
cause death; and that he Hied by the visit
ation of God, or a cause to us un
known. He raid.
March of Improvement. The Nor
folk Beacon states that the new arrange
ment of the Baltimore steamboats Co
lumbus and Pocahontas, which went into
operation on Sunday last, proposes to
give a degree of despatch unexampled, to
the conveyance between Richmond, Nor
folk and New York, transporting the pas
senger from Richmond to New York in
41, and from Norfolk to the great com
mercial emporium in 33 hours.
Cultivation of Sugar. The St. Au
gustine Herald informs us 'hat one plan
ter in Florida made, wiih 12 hands, hst
season, 50 hogsheads of sugar, 7000 gal
lons syrup and molasses, and '2000 o ri
els corn realizing upwards of $7.00, or
more than $600 to the hand in one vc !
When a man and wife are not one.-
A Mr. Bostwick and his wife were some
time since thrown from a stage in the up
per part of New York, and received con
siderable injury. Mr. B. instituted a suit
against the proprietors of the line, and
recovered $800 as damages for injury .sus
tained in his head and arms; this sum was
duly paid. Then Mr. and Mrs. Bostwick
isked further damages for injury done to
Mrs. B. and the jury thought if $800 were
given for a man's broken head, no less a
sum would compensate for his injured
rib so $800 were given for Mrs. B. a
wounds. U. S. Gaz.
tt7At the late term of the Superior
Court of Caswell, James Lea, (Hop.) in
dicted for the murder of his negro slave
Tom, was found guilty of manslaughter,
and sentenced to be branded in the hand
and imprisoned far six months.
Distressing. The Philadelphia Ga
zette says: A young lady, about eighteen
years of age, of respectable family, com
mitted suicide on Wednesday last, by
tnkinff a Quantity of arsenic. The cause
for this rash act, appears to be as fol
lows: The young lady was an orphan,
and lived with her aunt. A day or two
previous some property belonged to her
aunt was missed and the young lady, very
indiscreetly,was charged with the offence.
Her virtuous mind revolted at such a
charge, and finding it impossible to con
vince her aunt of the injustice of the sus
picion, she hastened to an apothecary'.
shop, procured the arsenic, took it, and
in two hours was a corpse. The young
lady was extremely prepossessing in her
A publisher of a newspaper in Angel
ica, New York, calls on his patrons in the
most expostulating manner to come for
ward and pay their dues. He says he
'cant live so, nor he wont. He. will
take any thing in payment, from "pine
knots to Dotatoe parings" but his pav
.
he must have. He says, "men who think
printers can live on air, deserve them
selves to live on skunk cabbage tea, fla
vored with assafcetida."
Novel Indictment. An indictment of
a rather novel character has been just is
sued in Boston. It comes at the suit of
the Grand Jury, against the Mayor and
Alderman of that city, for making a false
return of the election for members of
Congress, on the 1st of April.
A Silver Mine. While three young
men were ploughing in a field on the Inl
and of Martha's Vineyard, a shrt timo
since, one of them turned up a quantity
of Silver coins, being part of a deposite
of between two and three thousand dol
lars, supposed to have remained there
half a century at least, and to have been
Joriginaily buried in a bog.