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Decision of a Fugitive Slave Case in the V. S.
1— Supreme Court.
Richard Hell#, plaintiff in error , vs. The people of
the State <f Rlmois. In the Supremo Court of
the U. 8. Writ of error to the Supreme Court of
Illinois. Mr. Chase and Mr. Dixon, for plain
tiff ; Mr. McDougall for defendant in error.
Mr. J ustice Grier delivered the opinion of the
Court as follows r
The plaintiff in error was indicted and convict
ed under the criminal code of Illinois for “ harbor
ing and secreting a negro slave.” The record was
removed by writ of error to the Supreme Court of
that State ; and it was there contended, on behalf
to the plaintiff in error, that the judgment and con
viction should be reserved, because the statute of
Illinois upon which the indictment was founded,
is void by reason of its being in conflict with that
article of the Constitution of the United States
which declares “ that no person held to labor or
service in one State, under the; laws thereof, escap
ing into another, shall, in consequence of any law
or regulation therein, be discharged from such scr
viceor labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of
the party to whom such labor may be due.” And
also because said statute is in conflict with the act
of Congress on the same subject.
That this record presents a \asc of which that
court has jurisdiction under the 25th section of the
Judiciary act is not disputed.
The statute of Illinois, whose validity is called
in question, is contained in the 149th section of
the criminal code, and is as.follows:
“If any person shall harbor or secrete any
negro, mulatto, or person of color, the same being
a. slave or servant owing service or labor to any
other persons, whether they reside in this State or
in any State or Territory, or district within the
limits and under the jurisdiction of the United.
States, or shall in anywise hinder or prevent the
lawful owner or owners of such slaves or servants
from re-taking them, in a lawful manner, every
such person so offending shall he deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and fined not exceeding five bun
dred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six
months.”
The bill of indictment framed under the statute
contains four counts.
The Ist charges that “ Richard Eells, a certain
negro slave owing service to one 0. D., of the
State of Missouri, did unlawfully secrete, contrary
to the form of the State,” <fcc.
2d. That he harbored the same.
Bd. For unlawfully secreting a negro owing la
bor in the State of Missouri, to one O. D., which
said negro had sccrotly fled from Baid State and
from said C. I>.
4th. For unlawfully preventing C. D., the law
ful owner of said slavo, from re taking him in a
lawful manner, by secreting the said negro con
trary to the form of the statute, &c.
lu view of this section of the criminal code of
Illinois, and this indictment founded on it, we are
unable to discover anythingthat conflicts with the
provisions of the Constitution of the United States
or the legislation of Congress on the subject of fu
gitives from labor. It does not interfere in any
manner with the owner or claimant in the exercise
of his right to arrest and re-capture his slave. It
neither interrupts, delays, nor impedes the right
of the master to immediate possession. It gives
no immunity or protection to the fqgitive against
the claim of his master. It acts neither on the
master nor his slave; on his right or his remedy,
it prescribes a rulo of conduct for the citizens of
Illinois. It is but the exercise of the power which
every State is admitted to possess of defining of
fences and punishing offences against laws. The
power to make municipal regulations for the re
straint and punishment of crime, or the preserva
tion of the health and morals of her citizens and
of the public peace, has never been surrendered by
the States, or restrained by the Constitution of the
United States. In the exercise of this power,
which has been denominated the police power, a
State has a right to make it a penal offence to in
troduce paupers, criminals, or fugitive slaves with
in their borders, and punish those who thwart this
policy by harboring, concealing, or secreting such
persons. Some of die States,, co-terminous with
those who tolerate slavery , have found it necessary
to protect themselves against the influx either of
liberated or fugitive slaves, and to repel from their
soil a population likely tobecome burdensome and
injurious, either as paupers or criminals.
Experience has shown, also, that the results of
such conduct as that prohibited by the statute in
question are not only to demoralize their citizens
who live in daily and open disregard of the duties
imposed upon them by the Constitution and laws,
but to destroy the? harmony and kind feelings
which should exist between citizens of this Union,
to create border feuds and bitter animosities, and
to cause breaches'of the peace, Colent assaults,
riots, and murder. No one can deny or doubt the
right of a State to defend itself against evils of
such magnitude, and punish those who perversely
persist in conduct which promotes them.
As this statute does not impede the master is the
exercise of his so neither does it interfere
to aid or assist him. If a State, in the exercise of
its legitimate powers, in promotion of its policy of
excluding an unacceptable population, should thus
indirectly benefit the. master of a fugitive, no one
has a right'to complain that it has, thus far at least
fulfilled a duty assumed or imposed by its com
pact as a member of the Union.
But though we are of opinion that such in the
character, policy, and intention of the statute in
question, that to** this reason alone the power of
the State to make andenforce such aJaw cannot bo
doubted, yet we would not wish it to be inferred,
by any implication from what we have said, that
any legislation of a State to aid and assist the
claimant, and which does not directly or indirectly
delay, impede, or frustrate the reclamation of a
fugitive, or interfere with the claimant in the
prosecution of liis other remedies, is necessarily
void. This question has not been before the court,
and cannot be decided in anticipation of future
cases. ! j
It has been urged that this act is void, as it sub
jects the delinquent to a double punishment for a
single offence. But wc think that neither the facts
assumed in this proposition, uer the int'errenco
from it, will be found to be erect. The offences
for which the fourth section of the act of 12th
February, 1798,- subjects the delinquent to a fino
of five hundred dollars, are different in many re-
Kcts from those defined by the statute of Illinois.
3 act- of Congress contemplates recapture and
reclamation and furnishes those who interfere with
the master in the exercise of this right, first, by
obstructing or hindering the claimant in his en
deavors to seize and arrest the fugitives, secondly,
by rescuing the fugitive when arrested; and,
thirdly, by harboring or concealing him after
notice.
But the act of Illinois, having for its object the
prevention of the immigration of such persons,
punishes the harboring or secreting negro slaves
whether domestic or foreign, and without regard
to the master’s desire either to reclaim or aban
don them. The flue imposed is not given to the
master, as the party injured, but to the State, as a
penalty for disobedience Os its laws. And if the
fine inflicted bvtho net of Congress had been made
reeoVerJ.lc by indictment, the offence, as stated in
any one of the counts of the bill before us, would
lm't have supportedspeh an indictment. Even the
! a „t count which charges the plaintiff in error
with “unlawfully preventing C. I>. the lawful
owner, from retaking the negro slave,” as it does
not allege notice, does not describe an offence
mini shable by the act of Congress.
But admitting that the plaintiff in error may be
liable to an action under the act of Congress, for
the same acts of harboring and preventing the o wn
er from retaking his slave, it does not follow that
he would be twice punished for the same offence.
An offence, in its legal signification, means the
transgression of a law. A man may be compelled
to make reparation in damages to the injured
v.artv, and be liable also to punishment for a breach
of the public peace, in consequence of the same
act; and may be said, in common parlance, to be
twice punished lor the same offence. Every citi
zen of the U. States is also a citizen of a State or
Territory. He mav be said to owe allegiance to
two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment
for an infraction of the laws of either. The same
act may be an offence or transgression of the laws
of boibt Thus an assault upon the marshal of the
United States and hindering him in the execution
of legal process is a high offence against the United
States for which the perpetrator is liable to pun
ishment; and the same act may also bo a gross
breach of the peace of the State, a riot, assault, or
a murder, and subject the same person to a pun
isbrnent under the State laws for a misdemeanor
or felonv. ThaV'-cither or both may (if they see
fit) punish such an offender, cannot be doubted.
Yet it cannot be truly averred that the offender
has been twice punished for the same offence', hut j
only that bv one act he has committed two of- (
fences, for each of which he is justly punishable. ,
He could not plead Che punishment by one in bar
to a conviction by the other; consequently this
Court has decided, in the.caso of Fox vs. the. State ]
of Ohio, (5 Howard, 432,) that a State may punish !
the offence of ottering or passing false com as a
cheat or fraud practised on its citizens; and In the i
case of the United States vs. Marigold, (9 Howard, ]
560,) that Congress, in the proper exercise of its <
authority, may punish the same act ns an offence
against the United States. -■«
It has been urged, in the argumenton behalf of j
the plaintiff in error, that an atfirmauee of the 8
judgement in this case will conflict with the de- £
chioua of this Court in the case of Prigg vs. the c
- Commonwealth of PechSylSSitfa, (IS Peters, 540.)
This we think is a mistake.
The question presented and decided in that case
differed entiroly from those which affect the pre
sent. Prigg, with fall power and authority from
the owner, had arrested a fugitive slave in Penn
’ sylvania, and taken her to her master in Maryland.
For this he was indicted and couvicted under a
statue of Pennsylvania making it a felony to take
and carry away any negro or mulatto for the pur
pose of detaining them as slaves.
The following questions were presented by the
case and decidea by the Court:
1. That under and in virtue of the Constitution
of the United States, the owner of a slave is cloth
ed with entire authority, in every State in the Un
ion, to seize and recapture his slave wherever he
can do it without illegal violence or a breach of
the peace.
2. That the Government is clothed with appro
priate authority and functions to enforce the de
livery on claim of the owner, and lias properly ex
’ erased it in the act of Congress of 12th February,
1798.
f 8. That any State law or regulation which inter
s rupts, impedes, limits, embarrasses, delays, or
f postpones the right of the owner to the immediate
- possession cf the slave, and the immediate com
mand of his services, is viod.
i We have in this case assumed the correctness of
those.doctrines: and it will bo found that the
- ground on which this case is decided were fully
recognised in that. “ We entertain,” say the Court
a (page 625,) “no doubt whatsoever that the States
f in virtue of their general police power, possess
f full jurisdiction to arrest and restrain runaway
- slaves, and remove them Irom their borders, and
f otherwise to secure themselves against the depre
, dations and evil example, as they certainly may
t do in cases of idlers, vagabonds and paupers.—
• The rights oi the owners of fugitive slaves are in
r no just sense interfered with or regulated by such
-a course; and in many eases tho operations of the
police power, although destined essentially for
- othfer purposes—for the protection, safety, and
f peace of tho State —may essentially promote and
1 aid the interest of the owners. But such regula
t tions can never be permitted to interfere with or
to obstruct the just rights of the owner to leelaim
t his slave, derived from tho Constitution of the
; United States, or with the remedies proscribed by
Congress to aid and enforce the same.”
I Upon these grounds wo are of opinion that the
f act of Illinois, upon which this indictment is
founded, is constitution, and thereforo affirm the
■ judgement.
r ' J udge McLean dissented.
Irom the Savannah Republican 4 tk inst.
Arrival of the Conway.
. The British steamship Conway, Capt. Sawyer
arrived hero Saturday from Chagres via King ton
! Nassau, «sec. We are indebted to the officers of
the Conway and to our contemporaries of Kingston
1 and Nassau for papers down to the 22d ult., and to
Messrs. Andrew Low and Co., the agents in this
1 city for Commercial circulars &e.
The small pox was. still prevalent in different
3 parts of Jamaica ; also tho measles—particularly
at Savanna la Mar. The clioleia at Nassau wus
\ creating some apprehension at Kingston, lest it
should visit that port.
' A lecture was delivered in Kingston on tho 19th
ult., by the Rev. Mr. Garnet, (colored) upon tho
origin and results of the Fugitive Slave Law of
the United States. There was a large audience
j present to hoar it. This Mr. Garnet, says tho
‘ Kingston Dispatch, “is the first negro missionary
sent out by the United Presbyterian Church as an
ordained minister of the gospel, lie peon born a
1 slave in Marvland, U. S.; escaped from bondage,
along with his parents, when about nine years of
P age ; obtained, by his own dilligouce and zeal, a
literary and theological education, and was licensed
i and ordained by the Presbyterian Church in Amer
ica, as a Minister in the State of New York. When
1 the Fugitive Slave Law came in force in the States
he fled to England—offered his services to the
Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church
and was unanimously accepted. He was at Kings
ton on his way to Westmoreland, where he is to
bo located.”
The dismantling of estates throughout Jamaica
' still progresses. In every parish “preparations
1 are being made for the abandonment of proper
ties that were once valuable but on which' cultiva
r tion can no longer be continued in consequence of
the evil working of the freotrade policy of Great
Britain on the Sugar question.” In Trelawny
: many estates have been thrown up, and within a
few months there have been exports to the United
States ot America of upwards of 80,000 tons of
copper, which had been used in the island for
the manufacture of sugar.
A vessel of war belonging to Ins imperial ma
jesty Soulouquc, the Emperor ofllayti, was about
to sail from one of the ports of Jaimaica with an
engine for manufacturing sugar, which is of no
longer any service to the property on which it
was formerly used, the same having been thrown
up.
A severe shock of an Earthquake was experi
• enced on the 29th of November, but happily no
serious damage resulted therefrom.
It had been currently reported that the with
drawal of Sir Charles Grey from the Government
• of the island was near at hand, and that his succes
sor would be Lord Harris. It has also been staled
that the place was offered to Ixird Howard do Wal
den, but who had refused to accept it.
The weather had been very sultry, but one or
two fine showers had fallen, and the great heat
which still prevails was indicative of more rain.
From other Parts of the West Indies.— Trini
dad.—The Legislative council mot on tho 6th ult.
The Trinidadian of the 20tli ult. says:
Within the last fortnight the weather has been
very propitious for the approaching crons. We
have had refreshing showers during the last few
days.
Business is beginningto resume a little activity
as the Christmas season approaches. The markets
■ are well supplied with every commodity.
Antigua. —The Weekly Register of the 22d ult.,
supplies the following.
The weather during tho past week was all that
have been desired for the coming crop. The at
mosphere was sultry, and tho heat sometimes op
pressive ; but a change took place last night, and
wo have had heavy showers, during the night and
the morning, with every indication that a heavy
fall of rain may be expected. . -
St. Vincent. —The schooner Charles Elliott was
totally wrecked at Greytown Bay on the 3d Nov.
His Excellency the Lieut. Governor had appointed
Wednesday, the Ist ult., as a day of humiliation
and prayer, for having so mercifully spared Kt.
Vi neon t from the ravages of disease.
Demarara. —The papers from this colony furnish
little information of interest. Fino rains” had fal
len, but these had not been so heavy as to assist in
sugar-making. Want of water in tho trenches
might, it was thought, shorten the expected crop,
but not to any great extent. Health was becom
ing general among the people.
Barba does. —The Barbadian of the 13th ult., says
“The health of the island and the weather are the
chief subjects of local interest;”
The yellow fever still prevailed ; there had been,
however, fewor cases during the previous week,
and those of a milder type, although sonic had
proved fatal.
St. Thorn a*. —Our advices from St. Thomas are
to the 2d ult. Sickness in the form of iafluonza
and mortal fever, was still prevailing over the
island. The papers are full of the speeches of the
members of the newly constituted elective Council
of Danish islands at St. Croix. Much satisfaction
is expressed at the excellent manner in which the
Steamer Plata has performed her voyage. That
vessel, after having made the run home with con
trary wind and weather, in thirteen days and a
few hours, enabling parties at home to give imme
diate replies to the letters she carried) has again
proved her superiority over her sister ships, in a
passage of exactly twelve days from Southampton
to SL Thomas.
Martinique, —The St. Pierre paper La France
d’Outre Mer, says—“ The prevailing edidetnic
seems to attach itself with an awful obstinacy to
the company of artistes dramatiques recently ar
rived under the direction of Mr. Eugene, "it is
scarcely six weeks since these actors landed from
the Duchess Ann; and sixteen of their number
have already died.” W r e find iu the journals sev
eral addresses to the President of the French Re
public, congratulating him on his late escape from
the infernal machine. Taking time by the fore
lock, the colonists do not hesitate to style Louis
Napoleon “liis Imperial Highness.”
Steam on the Rio De La Plata.— The enterprise
of the New York merchants has taken hold of the
project of introducing steam upon the bead waters
of the La Plata, where from the riches of the coun
try, and its extraordinary resources, a valuable
trade may be expected to spring up. The first
steamer of the United States and Paraguay Steam
Navigation Company is advertised to leave New-
York In a short time. The Government survey, un
der the command of Lieutenant page is in a state
of great, forwardness, and will leave the city of
Washington almost simultaneously wit i the first
steamer from New York. It is by sueh enterprise
as this that New York, maintains its high commer
cial character, and contributes so abundantly to
the prosperity of trade in the country.
Bank Directors.— R. R. Cuvier, J. W. Anderson,
Andrew Low, Thomas Purse”, W. Crabtree, Jr., J.
R. Wilder, John Gallie, Joseph W. Webster, and
L. O. Reynolds, were yesterday elected Directors
of the Central Railroad and Banking Co.
George W. Ahderson, John C. Nicoll, Isaac Co
hen, W. H. Cuyler, Francis Sorrell, John William
son, George Jones, and John J. Jackson, were
elected Directors the Planters’ Bank.— Savh. Rep.,
ilk inst.
Commerce of New York The value of tho Im
ports entered at New York in 1852, was $136,599,-
287, against $181,856,952 in 1851. Os these, the
Foreign Dry Goods are valued at $62,892,296; Su
gar, $8,926,690; Tea, 6,398,104; Coffee, $5,249,640;
Hides, $8^05,362; Tin, $8,045,820, Hardware and i
Cutlery, $2,711,236; Railroad Iron, $8,580,888. 1
The Exports for the year are valued at $71,523,- I
609, against $37,658,649 in 1851.. Os these Ex- ]
porta Cotton, our Southern staple, contributed
about one-fourth—the export of that article being
886,679 valued at over seventeen millions of
dollars. i
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. _ AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. ~~
! THURSDAY MORNING .JAJPY «, ISS3.
The finprcmt Oourt—The Fugitive Slave Law.
1 A new days since we published an abstract of a
( recent decision made by the Bupreme Court of the
- United States, in a case which came up from Illi
nois, sustaining the law of that State, which pro
bibits under penalty any citizen harboring er se
creting slaves, and incidentally maintaining fully
- the supremacy of the Fugitive Slave Law. We have
now the pleasure of laying before our readers the
entire decision as delivered by Justice Greer, in
which the entire Court concurred, exoept Judge
* McLean; a fact which imparts to it greataddi-
T tional strength.
The Charleston Mercury copies the opinion and
remarks:
“On a variety of points it seems to us to give
r definite authority to principles of the highest itn
t portance in the intercourse of the States of the
* Union.
* “The police power of the States, to the extent of
l securing themselves from the intrusion of any class
-of persons likely to become a nuisance, or a dan
<’ ger, is fully sustained in this decision; and in re
’ gard to the Fugitive Slave Law, while the Court
i decides that the law of Illinois is legally distinct
3 from the United States law, it guards itself care
j fully from tlfe inference that it would treat as null
1 and void State laws that were enacted for the pur
- pose of aiding and facilitating the execution of the
r United States law. The decision condemns, in all
5 its length and breadth, and in language most une
i equivocal, all State legislation impeding and ob
structing the assertion by the owner of his right
H to his slave. •
3 “There is another aspect in which this decision
is of great interest, and that is in defining the true
force of the decision of the same Court in the caso
of Trigg i'B. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
That decision has been generally interpreted as af
r firming the exclusive jurisdiction of the United
i States in the whole matter of fugitive slaves, and
f lias formed the excuse of all the Northern States
' for enactments refusing the use of their jails for
s the detention of fugitives, and prohibiting all State
officers, from assisting in their capture.
* “The Supreme Court now very clearly limits that
s decision to such laws as obstiuct the enforcement
t of the United States law, and impedo the master
in the recovery of his property. Mr. Calhoun,
‘ Mr. i lat, and nearly all the great statesmen of the
f country, always maintained that the States could
b constitutionally aid in carrying out the fugitive
D law, and that they were only restrained from
thwarting and. delaying * its execution. The de
x cision before us, by strong implication, sustains
>, tho same positions. It goes far in settling the law
| on all disputed points, and settling it in favor of
1 the rights of the slaveholder.”
i Prosperity of the South.—The New Orleans
j Bulletin says that the present condition of the
3 planters of the South, in a pecuniary sense, is in
i finitely more favorable than at any former time
within the last ten or fifteen years. As a general
> thing, abundant crops of every description have
rewarded the farmer, and plenty, if not a profusion
i of all the necessaries, to say nothing of dispensa
, bio luxuries of life, may be found throughout the
length and breadth of the slave-holding States.
The position taken by the Bulletin in reference
J to Southern prosperity is affirmed by the sales of
property, negroes ahd lands in every section of the
1 country. Negroes have been very correctly de
signated the “ Consols” of the South, hence a cor
rect indicator of the money market.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal of tho 4thiust.
remarks:
' A large assemblage of persons were in town
) yesterday in attendance on the usual January sales.
Keai estate’ negroes, <fce., went freely at high
prices, indicating a prosperous and Improving con
dition in the monetary and business arrangements
of the community. In fact, no section ol the
( world lias more cause for heartfelt thankfulness
and gratitude to the Great Giver of all good, for
tho mauitold blessings of health, abundant crops
and general prosperity than this portion of Ala
bama.
In this city also negroes brought very high prices
■ although sold for cash.
Appointment by the Governor. —Governor Cobb
has appointed the Hon. Edwin R. Brown, of Ame
ricas, .1 udge of the Superior Court oftlie Southwes
tern Circuit, Vice lion. Wm. Taylor, deceased.
An election of a Judge by the people of the Cir
cuit is ordered to take place on Monday, the 28th
day of February next.
We learn from the Recorder that His Excellency
, has also made the following appointments, being
the same as last year, except Mr. James Folk, of
i Madison county, Inspector, who is in the place of
Col. Fair, resigned:
Lewis. Zachary, Trim Keeper, Penitentiary.
Jas. S.GhoJston, Book Keeper “
James Polk, Inspector “
Dr. C.J. Paine, Physician “
Rev. F. Blake, Chaplain “
J.E. Stirk, Military Store Keoper, Savannah.
Benj. Cook, Military Store Keeper. Milledgeville.
A. Newsom, Captain State House Guard.
Board of Visitors to Military Institute, Hon. Jno.
W. Anderson, Col. N. G. Foster, Col. W. S. Rock
well, (apt. B. F. Ross, Dr. Wm. H. Felton and
Col. John Milledge.
Mr. Pelot’s School.—We omitted to mention
yesterday that Mr. Pelot had returned to the city,
and resumed the duties of his School.
A Negro Stealer.—Wo learn from the South
ern Recorder that a man calling himself by the
name of George W. Jones, of Columbia county,
professing to be a negro trader, was arrested by
William Searcy and Thomas Jenkins of this place,
near Monticello, Jasper county, on Friday night
last, with niuo stolen negroes in his possession,
and four others claimed by himself. One of the
latter escaped at the time of the arrest. Jones has
been lodged in our county Jail, and tho seven ne
groes yet unclaimed. Fiye of the negroes—three
men and two women—say they belong to Pierce
Bailey, of Warren, living near Double Wells.—
Another to a Mr. Morrison, of Harris county.
Jackson Statue.—The Washington papers an
nounce that the arrangements for the inauguration
of the Jackson Monument, on the Bth of January
next, have been fully completed. Col. Geo. W.
Hughes, of Maryland,, has been selected as Chief
Marshal; and tho Hon. S. A. Douglas, Senator
from Illinois, will deliver the oration on the oc
casion.
The Floridian of the Ist inst., says: “Tholi
quor bill,” which has been lying on the table of
the Houso for several days, was finally disposedof
iu that body on Thursday last. It received but 8
votes, while 22 were cast against it. This over
whelming defeat wits caused, we believe, by the
cinviction that the hill was unconstitutional. Cer
tainly muiiy voted against it on this ground who
were in favor of the principle embodied in tho
measure. We regrot its defeat, but we feel hound
to respect the constitutional scruples of gentlemen
who could not vote for it.
Tho offer of $606,000 by Messrs. Clark & Mc-
Grillis, for the Maine lands owned by Massachu
setts, has been unanimously accepted by the Com
missioners, and they reported accordingly to the
Governor and Council.
Prior to leaving for Havana, it is reported that
the Hon. W. R. King, the Vice-President elect,
will resign his seat in the United States Senate.—
We are, says theN- Y. Herald, aorry to learn that
apprehensions still exist that he will never recover.
James R. Spalding, Esq., who has been for the
past two yiars connected with the editorial depart
ment of the New-York Courier & Enquirer, has
become a permanent associate with Col. J. Watson
Webb and Geo. H. Andrews, Esq., in the publi
cation of that paper.
The Vermont Liquor Law provides that any
intoxicated man may be arrested and committed
to prison until he is in a condition to tell where
he got his liquor—and, if he refuses to divulge is
locked up till he relents. This law is to to be vo
ted upon by the people, and their adverse decision
is to operate only for its postponement one year.
H«r or Cdn^es-'
sional elections in sixteen States, is ss follows :
Present Congress. New Congress.,
WWgs 68 50
Democrats 79........ ...88
Ab01iti0n....... £
The remaining States are represented in the
Kant Congress by 81 whig* and 88 democrats.
e proportion should be the samft in the new
Congress, the House would comprise 80 whig*, £
abolitionists, and 150 democrats. Democratic ma
jority in the House over whigs 70 ; over whigs
and abolitions 68; which is sufficient for all “prac
tical purposes.”
Senate.— The number of democrats already elect
ed to the new Senate, or holding oyer from for
mer years is 28: whigs 19. Vacancies to be filled
by Legislatures democratic in both houses, 9 :
whig do. 1. Vacancies more or less doubtful as to
the result, 6. Leaving these last out of the account
the Senate will comprise 87 democrats and 20
whigs. Democratic majority 17. —Nashville Baix
ner. t
The total value of the foreign exports from Bal
timore for the week ending on Thursday, was $79,-
564. The export of breadstuff's for the week com
prise 2,224 barrels of flour, 476 barrels of corn
meal, 4,586 bushels of wheat, and 400 bushels of
corn.
The inspection of Wheat Flour, for the year
1852, have reached the very large aggregate of up
wards of one million three hundred thonsand bar
rels—being an increase, it will be seen, of very
nearly four hundied thousand barrels over the
large inspections of 1851. Included in this im
mense aggregate are only six thousand two hun
dred and ninety-one barrels of Ohio Flour.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher denies through
the Independent, of the 28d ult., that his lady has
presented him with five little responsibilities in
one year.
Close Sailing.— One of the mostsingularinstan
ces of .close sailing that we remember to have heard
of in a long run was performed by the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company’s ship
Pottinger, from the Bth to the 29th September last.
The distance, by Capt. Gribble’s tables, from Suez
to Calcutta is 4757 geographical miles. The dis
tance run by the Pottinger, by observation, was
4775 miles; only 18 miles abovethe tables, or one
third ota mile in 109 above the shortest possibla
course.
Beauties or the Democracy. —The Philadel
phia Inquirer, as also letters from "Washington,
state that the Democratic majority in Congress
have determined not to vote any appropriations
for any foreign missions which are or may,be
come vacant during Mr. Fillmore’s remaining term
of offioe. There are two or three such now. Nor
will any office be created this session which
would throw any additional patronage into the
hands of this administration. The Democrats are
hungry, and the repast will be small enough for
the multitude, husband the crumbs as they may.
It is rumored that Senator Badger, of North
Carolina, will most probably be nominated to fill the
vacancy in the Supreme Court.
The Florida Legislature adjourned on the Ist in
stant. The charter for tho Pensacola and Geor
gia Rail Road had passed.
Affray at Aberdeen Miss. —Wc learn from tho
Monroe Democrat that an aflVay occurred at Ab
erdeen on the 18th ult., between Mr. Mullinax and
Franklin, both of Monroe county, and that tho
latter was shot through the abdomen. It was at
first thought that the wound was mortal, hut at
last accounts the unfortunate man was recovering.
The Democrat does not know the cause of the
tight, but is exceedingly proud to state that it was
not whiskey.
The Catholic Chubch. —There are in the United
States 6 archbishops, 28 bishops, 1471 priests, and
1545 churches, distributed among 34 diocesses and
2 apostolical vicariates. One bishop and 25 priests
have died ; whence it appears that during the past
year there was an accession of 111 priests. If we
suppose the Catholic population in the diocese of
St. Louis to be 100,000, Boston 280,000, Galveston
80,000, St. Paul’s 2,500, the total number of Catho
lics in the United States will be about 2,096,300.
Individual Banks. —ln speaking of the failure of
the Fanner’s Bank of Onondaga, and Mechanics’
Bank at Oswego, two of the “individual banks”
fostered by the General Banking Law of that State,
the New York Courier and Enquirer says:
Last December there were sixty-four such sham
banks in this State, whose condition was shown by
the Bank Department to be as follows :
Capital, 64 Banks $1,889,000
(Less than $30,000 each.)
Circulation 3,918,000
Deposits 1,269,000
Loans .2,691,000
Specie 76,000
The specie was equivalent to 1 % P er ceut •• of
the circulation and deposits, and the circulation
fifty per cent larger than their loans.
This is a practical commentary on the abuses to
which our general banking law is subject, and
shows conclusively that some further provisions
are necessary for the protection of the communi
ty. Among these we would enumerate, a bona
fide capital of not loss than SIOO,OOO, and the
transaction of a bona fide banking business.
Coal Trade of Pennsylvania. —The total sup
ply sent to market during the year.
1852 was 5,018,346 tons
In 1851 it was 4,895,209 “
Increase 628,137 tons.
Baraooa, Dec. 17th, 1852.—The cholera has di
minished in the city of St. Jago. The deaths
which had at one time increased to 110 daily, now
number from Bto 10. In the surrounding country
tho epidemic still prevails, making fearful ravages.
At the mines of Colve, and in the village of the
same name, also at the village of its violence
has been unprecedented. In the beginning it at
tacked only the negroes, but since it has spared
neither color nor condition. It has extended to
Santa Catalina, and is there deoimating the popu
lation. We have accounts of its presence at Sa
gua Tenanro to the W estward of Baracoa, and the
reports of mortality attest its violence in this un
fortunate province. We have not only to lement
the malady, but also the distressing situation of
its inhabitants. Whole families are dying, desti
tute of medicine or medical aid.
The earthquake of the 26th November was per
haps stronger than that of 20th August. The
shock was felt throughout the Eastern part of the
Island, but occasioning no damage of note except
ing at tho devoted city of St. Jago and the imme -
diate neighborhood. Here its effects were awful.
The greatest shook was felt at about B}tf A. M.,
and notwithstanding the billing of edifices and
walls, cornices and tiles from the roofs of tho
houses, we have not the report of a single fatal ac
cident, although a number Dave suffered contusion
and similar casualties.
Up to the 17th December the shocks had not
oeased, but were of a trifling intensity.
The sugar crop will fall very short, and both
this and the coffee will come into market very late.
Cor. of the JV. Y. Jour, of Com.
Verdict against a Gas Company. —The Lowell
Courier reports the case of Andrew C. Wheeler
vs. the Lowell Gas Company, tried before the
Supreme Judicial Court at East Cambrige, Judge
Cushing presiding. The action was for damages
occasioned by the gasometer. It was alleged that
the air was corrupted by the smell of gas esca
ping from the gasometer, and that the earth, and
water and wells of the plaintiff, were impregnated
with the water from the gas tank, and thus were
rendered nnflt for use. Another count claimed
damage for digging up the street for the purpose
of patting in a drain. The Jury returned a ver
dict for the plaintiff on both oounts, viz: on the
fiist for SSOO, and on the eeeond for S3O. A mo
tion was made for a new trial on the ground of
excessive damages. V
The Florida Indians Refuse to Emigrate.—
By passengers who arrived on Sunday from Flor
ida on the Wm. Gaston, we learn that it was re
ported at Palatka, and in the interior of Florida,
that Billy Bowlegs and his Indians had refused to
emigrate, and that they had gonfi into the ham
mocks. This report it is said came direct from
Tampa ; it is also said that the settlers have for
some time past refused to sell the Indians powder
and lead.
Billy’s foroe ia insignificant in point of numbers,
but in the swamps and hammooks of Florida they
will be cble to make a protracted resistance. If
the Indians are determined to fight, they should
be promptly and resolutely.dealt with.— Georgian.
Weather.— The past week or two has exhibited
almost every phase of weather put down in the al
manac. Bun, wind, cold, sunshine, and squalls
have succeeded each other in ever-changing rapidi-.
ty: and yestarday we had a regular snow-storm,
which for the first time this winter clothed the
neighboring hills in a mantle of white.—Chatta
nooga Ga*., 4tik inst.
'innlvomary of th* Young Mon’. Library
’ Aseociation.
The Fifth Anniversary of the Young Men’* Li
brary Association, was held at the Masonic Hall, on
Monday evening, the 8d Inst., William A. Walton,
Esq. s Hie President of the Association, in the chair.
The.’meeting was opened with prayer bythe
Rev. Mr. Hughes, when the Annual Report of the
Board of Manager* was read by Jameß G. Gould,
Esq., and was accepted by the Association. A
copy of the Report will be found below.
The Annual Address waa then delivered by the
Hon. Henry R. Jaokeon, of Savannah.
The following officers were elected for the ensu
ing year:
R.. H. Gardiner, Jr., President.
Dr. I. P. Garvin, Vice-President.
Managers :
H. H. Cumming, Thos. 8. Metcalf,
John Bones, Chas. J. Jenkins,
Arteuias Gould, A. J. Miller,
Daniel Hand, James G. Gould,
Robt. Campbell, John Craig.
On motion of Jas. G. Gould, Esq., seconded bj
Col. H. H. Gumming, it was Unanimously
Resolved , That the thanks of the Young Men’s
Library Association of Augusta, be presented tt
the Hon. Henry R. Jackson, for his able and elo
quent address delivered before the Association.
Resolved , That the above resolution be commu
nicated to Judge Jackson by the Secretary of this
meeting, with the request that he will furnish tht
Association with a copy of his Address for publica
tion.
On motion, the Association then adjourned.
M. Wilkinson, Seo’y.
REPOET.
Gentlemen of the Young Men's Library Associa
tion:—ln making yon their fifth annual Report
upon the condition and prospects of our Associa
tion, now, more than at any former time, have
your managers to regret a foiling interest, on the
part of ihe public, in the objects of our organiza
tion, and a comparative lukewarmness to its suc
cess and prosperity on the part of many of its sub
scribing members.
True, when the idea of this institution was con
ceived, and the attempt first made to set it in ope
ration j«ome were of opinion that nothing of the
sort would succeed in Augusta, as nothing like it
bad succeeded in time past.
But of those anxious to make the experiment,
enough were found to begin; relying for success
upon the evident utility of such an institution, and
the character for intelligence and practical sense,
so long borne by our citizens.
Our first three years of existence were yea s ol
prosperity; when all who felt an interest i a the
Association, were cheered by the prospect < f al
most certain success. A large list of annual sub
scribers, to which accessions were making from
i time to time, and a groportioiiate number o life
members, seemed to indicate a financial futui a en
suring the permanency and progressive imp ove
ment of the institution. We regret to state, shat,
during the last two years, our list of annual sub
scribers has diminished nearly one-half; anc’ du
ring the last year, no accessions whatever nave
been made to our list of life-members; but a mall
1 addition, comparatively, to our library ; anc our
, receipts have fallen so far short of the expend) arcs
necessary to keep the Reading Room upoi its
proper footing, that nothing has saved us rom
mortification es now reporting ourselves in debt,
but the prompt generosity of some thirty gentle
men, who have, at a word, contributed three hun
dred dollars to our assistance.
In for i icr years lectures delivered by distinguish
ed gentlemen from abroad, had been one of the
firinoipal attractions of the Association; had been
ully attended by the public generally; and so, had
been of little or no expeusfe to the association.
During the past year, the attendance upon t hese
lectures was so slender, and the interest manifested
in them so small, that, after three attempts, it was
thought advisable to discontinue them, as entail
ing a greater expense than the treasury of the in
stitution could bear.
It was originally intended to appropriate the
funds paid in by life members, either to th ; in
crease of our Library, or to the formation of a oer
manent fund; trusting thata capital could be raised
in a few years whose interest would cover a i mte
rial portion of our necessary annual expenditu ms.
During the year 1851, however, it became indis
pensable to draw upon this capital, as the at nual
subscription did not defray the current expent es of
the year; and at the beginning of the present year,
when the last Report was submitted to you, \ lmre
was only $75 in the treasury.
During the year 1849, when our subsoriptio i list
reached its maximum, we had about two nun Ired
and twenty subscribers of all kinds. During the
year 1850, we had two hundred and four subscri
bers. During the year 1851, we had one hundred
and fifty-three subscribers, paying $502. Do ring
the past year our subscription list has fall nto
about one’hundred and thirty subscribers, paving
$449.
Our annual expenses, which, we think, has been
reduced to the lowest point, for newspapers, peri
odicals, rent, fuel, lights, Ac., with the Librarian’s
> salary, amount to sß< 7 29
Our income from regular sources has been. 464 00
Leaving an annual deficit of 8 41 29
At the beginning of the year, thero was in
the Treasury a balance of 75 00
A subscriptian has been raised of 800 00
875 00
So that there is now in the Treasury a bal
ance 0f........ 8171
It was stated in the last annual report, that it
would require an addition of eighty new subscri
bers to put beyond question the continued exis
tence of the Association. Our subscription list, at
present, numbers fewer than it did then; and it is
now obvious that at least that number of new sub
scribers must be had, if the Association is to con
tinue in being.
Your Managers have done all in their power to
make up this deficiency. A committee of our body,
in the Spring, canvassed a large portion of the
business part of the city; but succeeded in obtain
ing only four new subscribers.
And yet, never before was our Association so
worthy to command success. There are regu larly
taken in our Reading Room, twenty-nine newspa
pers, from all parts of the country—of which thir
teen are dailies; we take eleven of the beet of the
magazines and reviews; and we have a library of
over two thousand and fifty volumes. To secure
the services of lecturers of eminence, wc lnve
waited for nothing hut some token that we will be
sustained by the community at largo. The Asso
ciation ißehtirely out of debt; and within the past
vear, gas has been introduced into the Rending
Room by private subscription.
One would think that the advantages of such an
institution would commend themselves to every
mind. Lectures from distinguished men, and ac
cess to a library of over two thousand volumes of
valuable literary, historical and scientific works,
with the privileges of a large and comfortable Read
ing Room, open for twelve hours each day, are
things certainly desirable—and peculiarly desira
ble in this our city. In just suchplaces arc to be
found a large proportion of just that class, who
must need these ad vantages,'and who profit most
by them. ’ » ' <
Pleasantly to spend a leisure hour, is not the
only benefit they offer; were the institution pro
perly supported, supported as the wealth and in
telligence of Augusta ought to support it, a large
and increasing city library would be the result; a
result of immense, at least indirect importance to
all classes ofthe community. Surely, the present
generation could not hand down to the next, a no
bler, or more euduringly useful mortument of their
generosity!
Experience has shown ns, we think, that, until a
fund nas been raised and invested, large enough
to ensure the permanence of the institution, great
difficulty will be found In increasing the number
of our annual subscribers.
It is continually answered to our solicitations,
that the Association will sink, and is sinking, and
that the trifling assistance ol a subscription will
only be thrown away, and not at all serve to pre
vent the catastrophe.
It was suggested, a few years since, that a fund
of SIO,OOO b 3 raised, if possible, by general sub
scription, among the friends or our Association,
the interest of which would ensure, after the lapse
of a year or two, Buch additional advantages as
would cornmaud a full annual subscription list!
Were this accomplished, we shoula entertain no
fear whatever for the permanency and continually
increasing usefulness of the institution. We fully
believe, that, with proper effort, the sum can bo
raised. But unless this, or something equally ef
fectual is done speedily, wo fear that the Young
Men’s Library Association, of Augusta, will soon,
very soon, cease to exist.
In behalf of the Board of Managers, respectfully
submitted, James G. Gould, j
M. W iLxixsoN, > Committee.
Wm. J. Anslxt, >
Giving Him a Dip.—A couple of runaway sailors
yesterday achieved a very decided victory over an
adventurous and ambitious policeman. Seeing
them on the Levee, and devoting himself to glory
he gave chase. They jumped into a skiff, ana he,
at their heels, wae in with them. They pushed
out into the stream. After pulling a short dis
tance, they determined to lighten the craft, and
deliberately seized their unwelcome companion
and threw him into the river. Three cheers her
alded the feat, as the tars dropped down the
stream, and the Knight ofthe order of the Cres
cent making the best of his way to terra firms,
emerged from his bath amid the jeers and laughs
of a crowd of spectators.— N. O. Bulletin.
Rich and Poor.—Poverty ia recommended by
the address with which we overcome it, or by th«
complacency with which we submit to it. Tbe
greatest achievment which man can perform is tho
mastery of jidverty; to exchange her gloom for
glory; her nags and wretchedness for wreaths and
roeee; her penury and perturbation for place and'
power.
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! Wronx»day, Jan. s.—Comois.—The foVan to-da*
e are 1800 bales, at 7# to accents. TheWrketis
e finn and prices fall.
i, Baermo**, Jan. B.—The steam ship Palmetto
L Capt. Jaokeon, has arrived at Baltimore W
Charleston. On Sunday night in the CheaanLVw
she ran into and sunk the brig Ohio, boundfo!
® Mobile. The crew, however, of the Ohio,
all saved. The Palmetto was slightly
i- g= ~ agass sg=. 11
From the Mobile Register, Ist intt.
The Mobile Carnival-New Year’s Bve.
No city in the Union oan compare with Moha.
m masquerading—nay, we doubt if any m th!
known world can in one way equal it—the deaL™
and combination of her veiled exhibitioner!
Paris, Some, Venice, Naples,and a hundred^thS
places, the Carnival is more gay, noisy, general
and vicious, too, but m all of these tho boUontfo!
of characters is gregarious, without design, orab
ject, and each individual pursues hia ownhuuwT
7 irrespective of his neighbor. The gaiety octZl
arum assumes the harlequin’s motley; as thefofc.
s anthrope does the habit ofthe clown. In MobiU
o it is different. Each society adopts a foil dramatic
»- and scenic design, and carries it out in foil
Such was the case last night. The evening waa
t- wet and ill-adapted to the occasion: but resolution
is overcame all impedimenta, and three organised
e societies made a superb display. »■““■***
l- Tho youngest of the trio—the “Rising Genera
tion,” made a splendid exhibition. It wTuld
that a cycle, of five instead of a single year had
Eassed since their last parade, so great an advance
ad been made.
The object was to represent the “Ancient Turk
ish Festival and Fast.’’ The Court of the Grand
[' Sultan, in all its pompous magnificence, waa most
1 happily displayed. V iziers, bashaws—of two tails.
l * three tails, and no tails at all—effendia, beys, jsnj.
6 saries, &c., &c., wero all present, with their armro
-0 priate costumes, and insignia of rank. The gfe*m.
J" ing crescents, the waving horse-tails, the pondei
ous turbans, the short and flashing scimitar* the
picturesque chibouques, all brought before’ the
eye, oriental scenes such as are to be witnessed
only on the shores of the Bosphorus, or among the
K mosques and minarets of Constantinople, the
6 times of their national festivities.
1 Having repaired to the Armory Hall, them cie-
Atlantic Turks soon joined in all the merry
> of the dance—in which the rather un-Ottoman
? spectacle was presented of the men beipg veiled
* and the fair faces of the fair women displayedm
'j unclouded lovelinoss, with eyes brighter than th*
gleam of a thousand scimetars, and forms more h*.
1 witching than enraptured the dreaming Ifo.
0 hammed. They kept up their revelries till king
* after the Muezzin had cned the hour of midnight.
Next came the ‘'Strikers”—a society now of some
n years’ standing. Nothing more gay, diversified,
e or brilliant can be imagined than their proceoaioe
" would have been, had not the pitiless pelting of
" the afternoon storm somewhat marred its eflfoct,
> Yet, though shorn of its glitter, their intent waa
gallantly carried out.
The subject of this pageant was a characteristic
0 illustration of the great Russian Empire in all it*
diversified nations, climes, castes and classes.
r At the head appeared “Nicholas” in his imperial
s robes, surrounded by his staff, and his satraps,
H and followed by repreeentative groups of all the
1 multitudinous nations, grades and people that
l_ form his motley, and most extended Empire;
spreading North to the Frozen Ocean, Soath to Per
sia, East to the sea of Japan, and West to Sweden.
BThe gossamer robes of the Asiatic Russian con
trasted picturesquely with the furs of the Eaqui
* maux dependent; while every degree of latitude
| seemed marked by the costumes of such a diversity
1 of tribes from such oountless localities.
In passing through the streets the Strikers were
| surrounded by a cordon of torches—each member
1 being attended by a light bearer. In front m&rch
-1 ed a brilliant emblem, bearing in bright light th#
initials S. I. S. Attached to each group wae a
transparency with tho name of tbe tribe or nation
—nobles or serfs—and all was glitter and show.
! In the great room of the Battle House the society
received tneir guests, and furnished the amuse
: ments of the occasion—delighting every spectator,
1 and seeming no less pleased themselves
ally and collectively—and with n ost justifying'
cause.
: Had the w cather been more favorable, the pro
. cession must have been for more brilliant. As it
: was, tho display was highly satisfactory; and
> Bloch’s fine party band gave great zeal to tne occa
-1 sion.
But perhaps the greater interest of the occasion
' centered on the for-famed “ Cowbeilions” who
made their twenty-second annual display.
Soon after the clock struck eight the lower pait
of the city became illuminated, and the gay sounds
of music came floating on the air. Preceded by
their gay band, and surrounded by their tore*
bearers, their illuminated banners and a host
of servitors, the ancient Cowbeilions came into
view.
The subject was the “ Heathen Mythology,” re
presented in statuary. Every figure was draped
in marble whiteness, and the whole party looked
1 as if the combined galleries of the Louvre, the
1 Vatican, and British Museum, together with all
private and pubtie collections of sculpture, bad
lormed in ranks, until the whole fondly of tho
gods, celestial, terrestial, infernal, sylvan and
oceanic, together with their many cousins among
tho heroes aud demi-gods of the Greeks and Re
maus, had congregate lon Royal street. Jupiter
Tonans, with his brothers Pluto and Neptune, his
sons Apollo, Mercury and Mars—and all the hun
dred cousins, and relations of that patriarchal hea
then, marched in public view.
In the midst of the rural deities, Pan, Sylvan
uus, Silenuß—the feceus. the satyrs, ana wood
nymphs, moved the symbol of the society—the
huge white Cow! belled—tenanted—and lighted
up—the ancient effigy of the ancient crowd.
The theatre, floored over, presented a splendid
spectacle, when the curtain rose and displayed th*
society in combined form. The classic eye gazed
with transport on the well remembered fignre*
that delighted its early vision; and when after
wards the several groups were formed into tab
leaux, and recalled to the minds of all the sculp
tured pictures that generation on generations have
gazed on in admiration, the measure of delight in
the assembled crowd seemed filled.
Leaving the arena to be enjoyed by tho gay vo
taries of the dance, the Cowbeilions proceeded to
pay a fe w visits to some of our distinguished citi
zens whose strong invitations their Brief leisur*
permitted them to accent. One of these was to
our respected fellow-citizen R. S. Bunker. Esq.,
at whose hospitable home they were cordially wel
comed. After these duties of friendship, th®
whole society supped, as of old, with his Honor
the Mayor. Os this latter visit, we know nothing
personally, but as Macbeth dia—“ wo hoar it by
tho way.” Ofthe other entertainments, we bad
the pleasu re of partaking.
W hen 1853 began to claim dominion over Time,
these modern sons of Saturn melted away.
Whither they went we presume not to enquire;
but knowing their excellence by many years spec
torsion-—ana believing their masks conceal many
a familiar and much valued face, we cordially wisn
them and ail, many, and many “ A happy New
Year."
Liberia.—The brig Zebra, chartered by th*
Colonization Society, will sail to-day. Religious
services will be held on board at 12 o’clock. lira.
Clapp, Scott and other clergymen have been in
vited to be presented and participate in the ser
vices.
_ We are informed that the expedition will con
sist of 140 persons, comprising emigrants from
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, Texas and tho Choctaw and
Cherokee country. The desire to emigrate, and to
trade with this flourishing Republiohaa beoomo
quite eager. During the last four days the society
has been compelled to refuse to take emigrants
who had not applied to go previously. A large
quantity of freight has oeen refused in con
sequence of the vesae! being foil. Should there b*
applications *-.ithcient to make it an inducement
to send another vessel, the society will make sr
rangemenia tor that purpose.— Picayune, let insL.
A Dutchman Consulting th* Rapper*.—“lah
dat you, Mrs. Hauntz V ’ inquired the Dutchman.
“Yes, dearest, it is your own wife, who—”
“Yon lie, you tevil of a ghosy’ interrupted
Hauntz, starting from hia scat, “mine vrow apeak
nothing but Dutch, and she never said ‘teareet’ in
her iifo.. It was always ‘Haunts, you tiofl’ or
‘Hauntz, you dirty skhamp 1’ '*
And the Dutchman hobbled from the room, well
satisfied that the “rapping spirit*” were all hum
bug, aud that he waa safe from any further com
munications with his shrewish vrow on this earth,
MARRIED. _
Is Burke county, on Wednesday, Dec. 29th, by the Bar.
Samuel Simmon*, Mr. JOBHUAMILLKDGB MoOOT, and
Mis* MARTHA PERKINS.
BT The Constitutionalist k Republic pleas* oopy.
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BARGAINS! BARGAINS 1 * ,
THB CNDBMIQRBD, desirous es Postal ap <b*»
business, are aelttng off their sntlre stock es OtOra*
ING and DRY GOODS, at cost. All those whs mr* IndaM
ed to the undersigned, either by not* or account, an
quested to make immediate payment, or their nates aa*
accounts will be put in a train for eodeetioa.
MAYER, BROTH** k CO,
jansrdt*tf Z Aoosi above Mehard** * &>*•_
MEN OF THB TWKI or SkaMna es Living *<*»-
bles; Napoleon in Bxfle: or Voice from Bt. »*«£
The Opinions and Reflection* of Napoleon on the »»**»•
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