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Mfcliii) (Constitutionalist.
BY J-A-IVIES GAHDyER.
Letter from Kansas.
' Fort Scott, K. T.. March 12th, 185®. I
Editor Cmstitrition n l:d: Yon have no doub: ‘
seen the telegraphic dispatch going <4lie round of
the papers, saying that there were troubles in the
vicinity of Fort Scott again. This is true, and the
Abolition correspondents have already forwarded
their lying budget of news to the philanthropic
population of the Hast, who take so ranch delight
in the awful stories of war and bloodshed which
they receive from Kansas.
The facts of the recent excitement are these:
A paper, signed by 0. P. Bayne, captain in Lane’s
militia, was issued about two weeks ago to the
people of Kansas; it stated that the Missourians
bad gathered at Fort Scott in large numbers, that
they were murdering, robbi.ig and driving off free
State men, and commiting various other outrages.
The paper called for assistance to drive out the
invaders. The whole document was a fabrication,
but it had the effect desired—several companies of
Abolitionists from Ossawattomie marched down
on the Osage, about fifteen miles from this place.
Learning there that there were two companies of
U. S. troops in Fort Scott, they abandoned the
idea of attacking this place. But they we T e in the
field, and of course must do something. On Sun
day morning, 28th of February, they surrounded
the house of Van Zumalt, a quiet citizen, living on
the Osage. lie was awakened just before day by
hearing a knocking at his door. He seized his
wife and attempted to escape out at the back door,
but as he opened it a Sharpe’s rifle was levelled
against him and fired. He fell witii a bad llesh
wound in the shoulder. They then robbed his
house, and left him in his blood alone with his
wife and children.
They then proceeded to the house of Jas. Farris,
an old man of sixty years—a more quiet and or.
derly man does not live in Kanses. They stripped
the old man of nearly everything he possessed,
except his negroes, who hid in the bushes. The
house of Page was also robbed. A company of
U. S. Dragoons, under Capt. George T. Anderson,
started after them. He gave them a hot chase,
but succeeded in arresting only five of them. As
soon as the troops got back to town, we received
intelligence that as st/on as the dragoons left the
Osage, the outlaws robbed the house of Mr.
Spratt, our former representative. The Messrs.
•Steen and Taggart were also robbed. Some sight
or ten houses were the laurels acquired in this
campaign. One of the companies was led by the
Rev. Mr. Stewart, a freedom loving preacher of
the North.
And why this blood and desolation, these ruined
homes and blighted hopes? Because these men
dare stand up for the rights and privileges that
you peaceably enjoy. The pro-slavery citizens of
Kansas have been honestly in favor of peace.
They have on all occasions proclaimed their wil
lingness to be governed by law. But such occur
rences as that named above will spon bring down
on these assassins and plunderers the arm of the
avenger.
Mr. Zumalt, the wounded man, is now in town.
He is recovering. With such men as bo is, the
treatment he has received can never be forgotten.
Yon will hear of him.
It is thought here that our Constitution will be
received by Congress. If it is, it will be resisted
by the Abolitionists in this Territory to & bloody
issue.
Gov. Denver Ims issued a proclamation against
Lane and his militia. He urges all good citizens
to have nothing to do with it. If ever a man de
served the gallows it is Lane; but if his party get
the power he will be elected to the Senate. What ‘
a noble and dignified Senator he will make !
Respectfully, B. F. B.
The Mobile Merchants' Prieto Current of the |
irith inst. contaius the following advice to plan
ters:
In view of the recent severe loss of Cotton by
fires, planters will see the importance of directing
their factors to effect insuruuce on their Cotton
froyi the tune it is shipped until it is sold and de
livered. It is also suggested that the planters’
name should be marked on each bale of Cotton ;
initials of names by their similarity occasion much
annoyance to the factors, and sometimes errors
result in the delivery of the Cotton. *
The custom of packing different qualities of
Cotton in the same bale, is injurious to the inter
est of the planter, for the whole bale brings no
more in value than the price of the poorest quality
contained in it. *
Fatal Affray.
A gentleman at Williston writes as follows
concerning the melancholy occurrence between
Mr. Jacob Kitchen and his son, on Sunday morn
ing last:
March 22d, T*s®.
L-x. i have never before witnessed j
such a melancholy occurrence as transpired yes
terday morning at the house ot Jacob 0. Kitchen,
some six miles above this place.
The circumstances of the case are as follows: It
seems that Jacob Kitchen anyone Herrin had an
altercation about some matter, when Whitfield
Kitchen,-the son of Jacob Kitchen, came out of a
room near by and made an attempt to stab his fa
ther. His step-mother met him, and prevailed ou
him to shut up his knife, and told his father to go
off, which he drd, to the kithen. The son, how
ever. and Herrin, pursued him, and a stabbing
fight ensued, between the father and «on, and Her
rin gathered up a cudgel and struck ihe father, as
bis son left him, the son inflicting a desperate stab
and Herrin a blow with the club, of which he died
in a few minutes. The son also received a wound
: .n the chest, from his father’s knife. He is vet
alive, but there is no hope of his recovery. Her
rin ran after a physician, but on his return found
Kitchen dead. He immediately fled. The above
occurrence was the result of liquor.
B-trnwtU Sentinel, March 27.
Thk Borden Overhauled for a Slaver.—On
Sunday last the schooner N. B. Borden, J. M.
Brightman, master, left Matanzas for Savannah,
with a cargo of molasses and fruit. She had left
port about four hours, and was in sight of Pan Ma
tanzas, when the British steam sloop-of-war, Styx,
bore down upon her and tired a blank cartridge,
at which she ran up her ensign and continued her
course. The sloop then tired a shot, which fell a
abort distance in the rear of the Borden. The
Captain of the 8., thinking the matter morq seriou9
iban he bad first supposed, Lacked ship, and made
for the sloop to know what was the matter. The
sloop lowered her boat and sent an officer in it,
who told Capt. Brightman that they had suspected
be was a sluver, and were coming on board to sat
isfy themselves. Capt. B. suggested to the offi
cers from the Styx that slavers did not usually load
as deep as he then was, nor were they in the habit
of carrying deck loads of molasses. A short ex
amination satisfied her Majesty’s officer that he had
woke up the wrong passenger, and he soon left for
his sloop, carrying with him the maledictions of
Capt. B. and crew, who felt that it was a senseless
and useless interference. To use Capt. B.’s own
expression, “ I could have eat up the whole boat’s
crew, if I’d had salt endugh ” The occurrence
took place shout 4 o’clock in the afternoon.
Sav. Pep., March 27.
JfmAUf Massacre. —We learn from Capt. Steph
ens, of the schr. Mary, which arrived last evening
4 rntn Ruafan Island, that on the 4th inst, the city
of Kaccalar was surprised by Indians, during the
night, that hundred and fifty of the in
habitants were made prisoners, and were held for
the purpose of extorting ransom ; and that this not
being forthcoming, they massacred the whole
number—mefe, women and children !
Railroads io Texas.
! The Houston Texas Telegreph , of the l7ti» inst. J
and iron laid on Railroads in Texas :
J Mr. ‘jran •id Iron laid.
Houston & Tt-xas Central, 60 48
B. 8., B. <k Colorado, t>o 32
Houston Tap, 77
“ & Brazoria, :•.» none
Southern Pacific, ui)
S. A. A Mo. Gulf, 2 5 5
G. 11. A. 11. 40 25
All others about 10 none
Total. -57 132
Mr. Nosn L. Cloud has been rc-appointed
postmaster at Bainbridge. .
The next annual meeting of the Medical
Society of Georgia will take place at Madison, on
the 14th of April.
The freight on cotton from Bainbridge to
Appalachicola is one dollar per bale, and on Sour
fifty cents per barrel.
The Bainbridge Argus comes to us consid
erably enlarged, printed with new type, and well
freighted with interesting reading matter.
Rev. Robert L. Breck has resigned the
charge of the Presbyterian Church in Macon, and
trill leave immediately for Kentucky’, where lie
formerly resided.
The % Bainbndge Argos says: “ Beverly A.
Sillmons, in an affray at Hawkinsville one day last
week, ahot and killed Elbert Sapi*, and was ac
quitted as having done it in self-defense.
Gen. John H. Rice has sold the Cassville Stand
ard to Messrs. B. 11. Luke and B> F. Bennett.
C. L. Barbour, Esq., for some years editor of
the Atlanta Intelligencer, 19 lying very low of con
sumption at his father-in-law’s, in Lagrange.
Gen. Haskell, for some time a patient in the lu
natic asylum at Hopkinsville, K\\, is recovering
his mental and physical health.
Death has been busy among the Roman cardi
nals—twelve have been called to their last account
since the beginning of winter.
Reading their Speeches.—lt is stated that all
the speeches in the United States House of Repre
sentatives, on Tuesday and Wednesday’, were
read from manuscript.
Released ox Bail.—lt is stated that Mr. Wol
cott, the refractory witness, ha 3 been released on
two thousand dollars bail by Judge Crawpord, cf
Washington city, a. d that he has returned to Bos
ton.
Solitary and Alone, —The Boston Bee claims
to be the only paper in that city which “ unquali
fiedly endorses” the removal of Judge Lormg.
The fact is creditable te the other papers, but not
to the Bee.
Capt. Hunter, and others, of Manatee, who
were for some time supposed to be lost, are now
at home, safe and sound. The occasion of
their delay was the grounding of llieir boat in a
bayou.
Fire in Monyicello.—Wo learn, says the Bain
bridge Argu*, from a gentleman just from Monti
aello, Fla., that a destructive fire occurred in that
place a few. days since, consuming an entire block
of buildings in the business part of the town.
| The Virointa Banks.—The pressure upon the
banks of Virginia, in the shape of public opinion,
I !t is thought may’ possibly induce a resumption of
| specie paymeuts before November next. It is said
that many of the banks are ready and wish to
resume.
A brother of Gen. Bem, the Hungarian patriot,
is in Canton, Mo., where he is sloping for a few
days. He is on his way to visit relatives in lowa.
The Canton Reporter says he is covered with
scars acquired in thirty-t<vo years’ service in
European wars.
There are sixty seaports 10 Cuba, ar.d fast year
there were three thousand six hundred and eighty
coastwise arrivals, and three thousand six hun
dred and fifty-nine clearances. This will give an
idea of the trade of this beautiful island, whica is
not more than half cultivated under the present
regime.
We ha7e reason to believe, says the Albany
Sint smart, that the New York canals will be open
jed for navigation on or before the *2otu of April, j
We believe that previous to the day named the j
water will be let in, and that navigation will not be
commenced until the banks have been tested, and
it has been ascertained that they are sufficiently
strong to Withstand the pressure of water necessary
to make the cauals navigable.
The Bridgeport (Ct.) Farmer says: “We hear
that an interesting divorce case is soon to be tried
before the superior court of this county. The
parties are Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hubbell, of
this city. Mrs. Hubrkll is the plaintiff. She is
the eldest sister of the celebrated General Tom
Thumb, now traveling in Europe. Mr. and Mrs.
H. returned from England Jr few days since in
separate steamers. It is rumored that they have
not lived happily together for some time. The
respectable position in society occupied by the
parties will give the case an unusual degree of
iuterest in this community.
Ta* Losses by Fire on Auger’s Wharf.— she
Charleston Courier of Saturday, says the total
loss on the cotton consumed by the fire on Adger’s
wharf, on Saturday night, 13th instant, is twenty
five thousand and eighteen dollars and fifty cent?,
of which eighteen thousand three hundred and
eighteen dollars and fifty cents wa9 insured m the
following offices, in the specified proportions:
Augusta Insurance and Banking Co $4,109 00
Charleston Insurance and Trust 3,700 CO
South Carolina 3,051 75
Southern Mutual...- 3,127 50
Fireman’s 2,054 50
Valley of Virginia 1,027 25
Philadelphia Exchange 1,027 25
Home lusurance, N. 1 v ;... as 75
Security Fire, N. Y 3} $7
Springfield (Mass.) Fire and Marine 31 88
Metropolitan, New York 31 88
Lamar, New York... 31 37
And six thousand seven hundred dollars was di
vided among the following offices, but we were un
able to learn the proportion : Fireman’s Insurance
Company, Liverpool and London Life Insurance
Company, South Carolina Insurance Company,
and Augusta Insurance and Banking Company.
Fredericks burg, March 25.—Crocker, the negro
who killed Griffin, at Acquia Creek, Christmas ere,
has been sentenced to be hung on the ©oth’of April.
He has made do confession.
Evansville, March 25.—The steamboat Baltie
passed here at 5:35 this morniDg, and the Diatmat
7:85 ditto. Neither stopped here.
A.TTG-USTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1858.
I The Booth Monument.-*— The monument to the :
memory of the tragedian,.!. B. Bcwrn, plfplin- l
in Huston, is »n obelisk trine feet high, upou u
pedestal five feet six inches high, and is rapidly j
advancing to completion. The profile head, sur
rounded with laurels, with which the front of the l
obelisk is to be embellished, is completed in i
plaster. The monument is to be ready Tor ,
delivery next month, when it will be sent to Bal
timore.
Revival of Manufacturing, Bu^ness. — The
Otis Manufacturing Company, at W Mass., will j
commence their new No. 3 Mill about the first of
April, and expect, in a short time, tor their
other two mills, if cotton does wit go ujf'.too high.
Messrs. Stevens & Gilbert, Of’the sanoißt place, ex
pect to start their mills on full time in jkpnt.
Messrs. Charles O. Chapin, of Spriugfffcld, and*
Henry O. Gould, of Russell, Massachusetts, have
purchased the well known paper mill jjjteperiv of
John R. .Smith & Co., at Russell, anif *m! carry
on the manufacture of writiug and bookfpiaper.
The great subject of conversation in Manches
ter, S. H., is the prospect of a g(.*nerd®Urival of
m mufacturing business there. The Amoskfug.
Manchester and Stark Corporations commence !
running full time on last Monday. ]
Paper Mill, employing from one hundfjHtO one,
hundred and fifty hands, will probably start on the*:
Ist of April, full time. For severaLmonths these j
mills have been running only four days per week. »
fST* The nomination of Col. JoiiKSTOf%' com-J
manding the army in Utah, as Brevet Brigadier I
General, was confirmed by the Senate on Wednes
day.
Travel to California.
The Charleston Courier, of yesterday, sayr ♦ %
“ From a gentleman who has just arrived iu obr
city from California via Havana, we learn that the
steamers Golden Age and Orizaba, which lefl.San
Francisco, on the sth inst., for Panama, took down
one thousand six hundred and fifty passenjter.*,
this being the first trip of the (Orizaba) opposition
line. These passengers were met at the Utbjßos
by two thousand four hundred and fifty passengfts
bound to California, from New York, brougbit by
the steamers Moses Taylor, St. Louis and Northern
Light. The fare across the Panama railroad, a
distance of forty-seven and one-half miles, which
is made in less than three hours time, is twenty
five dollars. All the passengers above alluded to
passed over this road.”
A Sensible Woman.
A lady of our acquaintance, who in addition tor
other excellencies, says the Boston Journal * hast
the great and uncommon merit of sincerity, recehfl
ly received an invitation to a fashionable party*
to which she returned the following reply. We
recommend it to others who lack the sincerity and
courage to decline such invitations:
Boston, Jan. 20,1858.1,S
Ily Dear Mrs. T.: Mv l msband and I are tired
of evening parties and morning head aches. I
must be honest. Jane and Mary Ann say that it is
“a horid bore,” but they will “accept with plea
sure. I am sorry that they feel obliged to resort to
such hypocrisy. you know you don’t
want us. You only think you must make a puny
because yon have been invited to others to which
you did not want to go. When it is over, y oiuni
’ your guests will rejoice equally. Allow’’ me to
’ make a suggestion. Why not confer a favor upcu
r those who would appreciate the kindness, Shy
L giving up the party, and by investing tbe nomay
intended for wine, oysters and low-necked dreasqL
in solid nourishment for those ta.jrJiotn a bfiwSf
would he a luxury, and whose bare shoulders would
no longer shiver were they covered with comforta
ble shawls? #
Truly and sincerely yours, *
Most of our citizens are aware that a suit has
been pending some considerable time between Dr. j
Cowper, of Hertford county, and the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad Company. It arose in this
way: Some three or four years since, a military j
company from Norfolk paid a visit to Wilmington.
Dr. Cowper accompanied tbe/n. It would appear
that a train ran against the rear of that in which
Dr. Cowper was, while the latter train was station- ;
ary at Teachey’s Depot, and Dr. Cowper, who was j
outheplatform lmd his heel pretty severely injured, :
He instituted suit against the company, laying his j
damages at twenty-five thousand dollars. After j
many delays and postponements the case finally:
came to trial at the term of the Superior Court for
Hertford county, held this week, and the jury gave
Dr. Cowper one thousand dollars.
ff iltnington ( N. C.) Journal. March 27.
The Sub-Atlantic Cable.—A small piece of this
telegraph cubic was shown to us by Mr. Zantzin
ger, of the telegraph office in this city, who also
furnished us with a little bit of cyphering respect
ing the amount of wire employed in the construc
iou. The cable, as is generally understood, is
about live-eighths of an inch in diameter, and is
composed of seven copper wires enclosed in gutta
percha, and the whole surrounded with eighteen
coils of wire of annealed steel, of seven strands
each. These coils make the circuit of the cable
once in about fifteen or sixteen inches-. The short
j piece of the cable which we saw was stiff as an
j iron rod of the same size, but we are informed that
it exhibits flexibility jn pieces of afoot long. The
following are the figures referred to above :
Length of cable . 2,800 miles.
Seven copper wires 19,600 miles.
Eighteen layers of annealed B.eel
wire, seven strands each 352,800 miles.
Total length of wire 872,400 miles,
Or nearly fifteen times round the globe.
_ Mobile Mercury■.
Knowing who to Kick.—The late Col. McClung,
of Mississippi, once got into u dispate in the office
of the Prentiss House, at Vicksburg, with a rowdy,
when, to end the mutter without farther delay, he
took the rowdy by the % “nape of the neck,” led
him to the door and kicked him into the street.
The Lichee picked himself up, walked away, and
here the mu ter ended. Some weeks afterwurds
McClung was iu New Orleans, and when walking 1
up St. Charles street, suw the fellow he had kicked
out the Prentiss House kicking u third party out
of a drinking saloon. McClung walked up to his
old acquaintance, once kickce, but nowthekickor \
and after scanning him closely, said: “Look here, -
my fine fellow, are you not the man I kicked out 1
of the Prentiss House ihe other day?” “Softly, \
softly, Colonel,” replied the rowdy, taking Me- '
Clung by the arm, “don’t mention it—l’m the ‘
man, —but—but— you and I know whom to hick!"
Nesv York, March 24. —Ferdinaod Arledu, of
the firm of Arledu & Wesa, bankers, has been ar
rested, charged with absconding on the Bth of Jan
uary, with a million guilders entrusted to his care.
Wess also disappeared about the same time.
St. Louis, March 24. —A letter from Colone
Johnston, of the Utah expedition, describes his
march' to Camp Scott, compliments his troops,
and says the Mormons have, as fully as words
and-actions can, manifested the intention that
they will no longer submit to any government
but their own, and that the people of the Union*
must either submit to a usurpation of their territo
ry and have a government erected in their midst
acknowledging no dependence upon or allegiauce
to the federal authority, or act witjb vigor and
force to compel them to succumb. He expresses
an enrnes! hope that every may be made
to forward supplies early in the spring under a
sufficient guard of mounted men.
St. Johns, N. 8., March 25.—Last nightone-tbird
of the flooring of the suspension bridge across the
falls, together with ihe stringers, gave way. The
suspending rods are hanging loose from the cable,
un.l the service of wire on the cable over the pil
lars seem to be chafed.
Newport, R. 1., March 25.—Yesterday morning
twenty-one bathing houses, four ticket offices, and
another building, used as a refreshment saloon,
situated on Easton’s beach, were consumed by fire.
There was four hundred dollars insurance on the
property.
f From the Darlington S. C. Family Friend, March 24.
The Trial of Fflty-four Persons for Mur
der.
r Ou last Wednesday, a scene, unparalleled in the
1 history of criminal jurisprudence, was witnessed
jin our court room. On that day fifty-four highly
j respectable citizens of our district, including grev
haired old men as well as tender youths, were ar-
I raigned, charged with the murder of Caleb Free
man and Abe Windham. There were two indict
| rnents, hut by agreement and with the consent of
jthe Coqrt, they were tried together. The pnsoa-
I ers selected the following gentlemen, from among
those presented, who constituted the jury : Hon. L
D. Wilson, Foreman, Col. F. W. Cooper, W. H.
Ilearon, Dr. T. A. Dargan, Col. Samuel il. Wilds,
Geo. I. W. McCall, Robert E. Do Bose, Oliver C.
Coggesball, I). Sidney Law, W. C. Branson. Jas.
L. McCall, Sr., and j. W. Lee. Well might his
Honor remark, as he did in his charges, that never
before had he seen so intelligent a jury empannel
ed. Thus, did the prisoners declare their desire,
to be tried by men whose feelings could not in
fluence them, unless their judgments were con
vinced.
On Wednesday afternoon the State began to de
velope the case. We will not, notice the testimony
of the different witnesses, either for the prosecu
( tinu, or defense, but will content ourself with stat
ing, briefly, tbe circumstances of the case, as ob
tained from reliable and uncontradicted testimony.
The grog-shop of Ack Windham, at w hich the
j fight took place, was proved to have been a pest
■fto the community; it was a retail establishment,
4 miscalled by some a grocery, and negroes seem to
|haye constituted his principal customers. Some
Ibf tbe sufferers from his nefarious traffic, not all
members of the Vigilunt'Societv, hail waited upon
||nd requested him to desist from retailing and ne-
Igro trading, telling him at the same time, that
pey could not and would not endure it. He prom-'
ised to do so. Shortly after this, however, perhaps
On Monday before the Thursday on which the hom
: Icicles were committed, three barrels of “bald face”
; were delivered at Cartersville for him. As soon
as this was known, some of ihe citizens of his
neighborhood assembled, for the purpose of wait
ing on him and Mailing the liquor.
This was on Wednesday the 3d inst. Windham
having been notified of their intentions, assem
bled his friends to defend his rights (?); the con
sequence was'that the other party had to desist.
By the next morning, however, the members of
the different Vigilant Societies and others had as
sembled, to tbe number of seventy-five or eighty,
many of whom were armed and proceeded to the
shop. As upon the day before, they found the
. Windham family with some of their friends, pro"
pared to defend the whiskey; they were well
•armed. The Vigilant party was under the com
mand of Geu’l. Carter, and his orders, proved to
■ have been frequently repeated within the hearing
of tbff Windhams were, don’t fire a gun unless you
are fired upon; or strike a blow unless you are
•truck ; if assailed, defend yourselves.”
Si > Before the Vigilant party reached the shop, it
was halted, and two of the geutlemen were sent to ]
j Inform tbe Windhams of their intention. They
* expostulated in vain, and Were called away by
Iheir friends, who, seeing evidences of hostility on
the side of the Windhams, called out to them to
“ stand aside, for if tbe opposite party fired they
Would return it.” The Vigilant party approached
the shop, which the party surrounded. A compa
ny, commanded by Capt, Giles Carter, being tm
rtwdiately in front of and faciug the shop door be
fore which the Windhams were standing. Others
, of the Vigilant party were rearer the house, and in
a very feWAaces of the door. While in this posi
• tion, Gen. Carter informed the Windham party
j that his intention was, “not to injure any of them,
[ unless they began the attack; that his partf’bad
■ §me to empty Ack Windham’s whiskey, ana they
t intended to do it.” At this time, Ack Windham
. told his party to come away and let them have the
■ftkjpkey, and he would law them. This they re-
Ms&d to do, sweiuing they would die rather than
7 give A-up.
While tMy were parleying thus, Caleb Free
man, whom it was proved bad sworn to kill Giles
Carter upon the first opportunity, stepped off from
his company and exclaiming, “ I see you Giles
Carter, you are the first man 1 intend to kill,” fired,
the shot passing through his coat and striking
Sarn’l Robinson, wounding him severely; he en
| deavored to tire a second time, and while in tbe
I act of doing so, he was shot, and falling, discharg- 1
ed his gun in the air. As soon as the firM gun fired,
Gen’l Carterj'ave the command, “take them, men,”
I and a rush was instantly made upon them ; Mr.
j A. N. Stuckey grasped one of ihe Windhams
1 around the body, and while holding him, Abe
I Windham rushed upon him from behind and
plunged his knife into him twice, but before he
j could inflict a third blow, he received one over the
| head with a gun or stick, from which he died. The
Windhams were soon overpowered in the fight—
not lasting, accor ding to the testimony, over a
minute.
Ack Windham was tied, and required to tell
where the whisky was, for, on opening the shop,
it was found to be empty; he gave them his crib
key, saying it was there; here was found a barrel
with u few gallons in it, and this was, he said, all
that remained of the three barrels hauled from Car
tersville three days before. Where was the bal
ance ?
The testimony closed on Friday afternoon, when
the argument-was commenced by Mr. Richardson, :
for the State, he was followed by Messrs. Spain ]
and Inglis for the prisoners, when the Court ad
journed. On Saturday morning the argument was
resumed by Mr. J A. Dargan, followed by Col.
Moses, for the prisoners, who was succeeded by
Solicitor Mclrer. The names of the several speak
ers, is a sufficient proof of the great ability with
which this great case was argued. The judge,
having charged the jury, they retired to their
room, about 3 o’clock P. M., from which they re
turned, after a short absence, having found, in
both cases, a verdict of “ Not Guilty.”
Thus ended the most interesting case ever tried
on the criminal side of the Court. From its com
mencement to its close, the Court room was dense
ly crowded, within and without the bar. Every
place was occupied.
We acknowledge ourself highly gratified at the
result; we believe it will have a salutary effect,
not only in our community, but throughout the
State.
Our statement, condensed as it is, is of course
imperfect; at the same time, it is correct. We
have only undertaken to give the mam points in
the case,’as made by the testimony, aud we think
all, who heard the trial, will say we have done so.
A CARD.
At a meeting of those recently in the custody
of the sheriff’ charged with the murder of Caleb
Freeman and Abraham Windham, held this day,
Henry Wood being called to the chair and Dr.
Christopher Flinn appointed Secretary, the follow
ing resolutions were unanimously adopted, and
ordered to be published in the Family Friend:
Resohed, That we avail ourselves of this method
of returning our grateful thanks to the citizens of
Darlington village and its vicinity, for the many
acta of kindness which we have received at their
hands since we have been in the custody of the
Sheriff.
Resolved, That we also desire to express our
grateful appreciation of the kind and considerate
treatment which we have received from Rueben
Beasley, Esq., S!*eritf', and from Jas. E. Morriss,
Jailor Henry Wood, Ch’n.
Christopher Flinn, Sec’y.
March 20th, 1858.
\\ ashington, March 24. —The overland mail, via
El Paso and Sail Antonio, has arrived, bringing
information, dated Angona, February 7th, stating
that Gen. Gandara, the leader of the rebellion iu
Sonora, has been entirely successful, having de
feated the government troops in several battles.
At last accounts Gen. Gandara had surrounded
Peschiera, the Governor, so as to cut off all hopes
of his escupe. Gandara had massacred all his
prisoners, and proclaimed that he would hang
Peschiera if taken.
Other letters say that the Fort Yuma and El Paso
wagon road was progressing finely.
The people of the Rio Grande are much interest
ed in the success of the Arizona bill.*
The.lndian3 were troublesome in the Mesilla
valley, and a general attack was feared.
Washington, March 25.—Lauriston B. Hardin,
formerly of North Carolina, but for the last twen
ty-seven years Registering and Disbursing Clerk
in the Navy Department, died suddenly last night.
From the New York Brewing Post.
■ j Arrival of the Moses Taylor-Quickest
Pa>s:i£o on Record.
: The United States mail steamship Moses Taylor, j
| John McGowan, Esq., commanding, from Aspin
wali 18th inst., at 5, j>. m., with the treasure, mails j
aud passengers brought to Panama by the Golden j
Age from Nin Francisco on the sth mat., arrived j
at this port this morning, performing the trip in
1 twenty days and fourteen hours from San Francis
co—the quickest on record.
The United States mail steamship Granada left
Aspinwall, with the New Orleans mails, Ac., on '
the 18th inst., at 2, p. m., and the St. Louis was
expected to sail same evening for New York.
From the Steamer Bulb tin, March 5.
The legislature is busily iu session at Sacramen
to, but with the splendid exception of taking the
State Prison from the corrupt management of the
lessee, James M. Estill, have yet done nothing im
portant. An effort is being made by its members
to force the California Democracy to take sides on
the Kansas question ; a large majority of ihe peo
ple, and most of the newspapers, however, endorse
Mr. Douglas’ views. A great deal of ruin has
fallen, and the streams in various parts of the
State are much swollen.
State. —On the 18th of February, a negro named
Aaron Bracey, living at Auburn, Placer county —
who, about a year ago, killed a Chinaman—struck
an Irishman named Edward Murphy over the head
with a pick, which penetrated the skull, and per
mitted a portion of Murphy's brain to escape.
Bracey immediately proceeded to tbe sheriff’s of
fice, in Auburn, informed that officer what he bad
done, and gave himself up. Murphy was found
insensible, as the negro had described, and was
carried home. Bracey was locked up in jail. Dur
ing the night, some two or three hundred miners,
friends of Murphy, being very much incensed, as
sembled, and at daylight surrounded tbe jail, took
the negro by force from the hands of the officers,
and hung him up t<>atree. Murphy lived only two
days after. This aoplication of lynch law excited
the ire of Gov. Weller, who wrote a letter to the
legislature, severely censuring the people, and call
ing for the enactment of severer statutes for the
suppression of mobs.
A rich correspondence has also taken place be
tween Governor Weller and the authorities of Mon
terey county, where the man, Jose Anastasia, under
\ sentence of death, was hung by the under Sheriff,
, though a respite for thirty days had been received
for “Anastasia Jesus.” The Governor abuses the
Sheriff roundly for not obeying the respite; to
, which the latter savs, although as a private indi
. vidual he felt sure the Governor intended to respite
8 Jose Anastasia, as a public officer he was compell
ed to construe the respite strictly, and could not
j presume his Excellency meant one man when he
f named another. As there was no time to rectify
| the error in the names, he proceeded to hang the
, culprit at the time named in the sentence. Jose
confessed to two murders on the gallows. The
Governor laid this correspondence before the leg
islature, and among the letters is one signed by
numerous citizens of Monterey, pray ng tor a par
don of Jose, as he was the only fiddler in the town,
and they could not carry on their fandangos with
out him!
On Sunday, 21st February, a terrible tragedy
was enacted at Grass Valley, Nevada county.
Michael tirenan, an educated and intelligent Irish
man, who has been acting as the President of the
Mount Hope Mining Company, on that day pois
oned his wiftMind his three children with prussic
acid, and then committed suicide by the same
agency’. Mr. Brenan had been unfortunate in his
mining enterprise, and had involved ’him-olf in
debt to the amount of one hundred thousand dol
lars. Brooding over his pecuniary misfortunes,
he became, it is thought, partially insane, and de
liberately planned and carried into effect the de
struction of hi.s family and himself. Mrs. Brenan
was a lady of highly cultivated mind and amiable
disposition, and had endeared herself during her
residence in California to many friends. The CftlT
dren were exceedingly interesting, and bo'h Bren
an and bis w’ifeure represented ns having been de
votedly attached to them. It is supposed that
Mrs. Brenan had no knowledge of the intention of
her husband, or participation in his guilt. She,
from appearances, was poisoned first, and the chil
dren, one after another in succession. Each was
found dead with a pillow pressed over its thee in
different parrs of the house. Brenan wns a grad-
I uate of Trinity College, Dublin. He had been in
* this State about a year, and lias been connected!
I with the New Yor k press. He left several letters, j
' ! disposing of his effects, and announcing fully his
» intention and the reasons influencing him.
[ David Butler was hung at Nevada on Friday,
, 26th February, for the murder of Mr. Moffutt. |
' Butler stated his true name to have been Mason C.
' Bolin. There were about three thousand persons
present at the execution.
The National Theatre property in Sacramento, j
which cost forty-eight thousand dollars, was sold
on the 22d of February at Sheriff’s sale, for thir
teen thousand dollars.
There is to be a State convention of the Spirit
ualists in California, held at Sacramento, on or
aoout the 13th of May next.
Later news from the Colorado river informs us
! of the sinking of both steamers used by Lieut, j
Ires in bis exploring expedition up that stream,:
| and the consequent breaking up, for the present, t
iof the undertaking. The Indians on the bunks ot j
j the river were also found hostile and dangerous.
Sin Fraudsw. —The anniversary of Washing
ton’s birth day was celebrated on the *22d, by the
i usual salutes, military parades, balls, etc.
Considerable discussion has been occasioned in
I San Francisco by the action of the Board of Edu
| cation in excluding a child of colored parentage
from the Iligb School. There was much opposi
tion in the Board to the step, and the resolution
ordering it was debated at several meetings be
fore it could be passed. Hereafter all colored
children are to be taught in schools exclusively
intended for them alone.
During the week ending the 27th February there
were 19,821 61 ounces of gold bullion deposited
in the Branch Mint of this city. The value of this
bullion was about #365,000. buring the month of
February 76,647 30 ounces were deposited at this
Branch Mint, worth about #1,400,000.
A large number of the members of the bar of
this city met in the room of the Fourth District
Court, on the evening of the 2<">th February, for
the purpose of organising au association to foster
the interests of the profession and found a law li
brary. J. ]\ Hoge was elected President, and B.
W. Leigh, Secretary.
The French Republican Union, of this city, gave
a banquet on the 24th February, in honor of the
French revolution of 1843. A number of speeches
were made, and appropriate sentiments offered.
On the Ist of March, a large meeting of loval
Frenchmen was held at the French Consulate* to
express their horror and indignation at the recent
dastardly attempt to assassinate Napoleon and the
Empress. An Appropriate address to the Emperor
was drawn up, which will be circulated for signa
tures throughout the State, and forwarded to
France immediately.
Per Oontra, an address to the people of Paris is
being circulated for the signatures of Republican
Frenchmen in California, expressing sorrow for
the wounding of the sixty persons at the time of
the attempted assassination, and expressing the
hope that the cause which leads to these bloody
tragedies may soon be done away with. ~
From the Alta California , March 5.
State. —The legislature has passed an act to con- j
firm the Yan Ness ordinance, which provides that j
alLthe title of the city of San Francisco to lands
wimin her borders, shall be given to the parties in
possession, excepting only such tracts as may be
required for streets, public squares, school houses,
Ac.
The Senate has been busy during the last fort
night in discussing bills to provide for a compul
sory observance of Sunday, and for the incorpora
tion of mining ditch companies. The latter bill
is intended to give ditch companies a right of way
through private property, on condition of paying
the value of the land.
A Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly
tendered a long report on the 2d instant, recom
mending the adoption of a memorial to Congress,
praying for au abrogation of the present contract
for the conveyance of the mails between San Fran
cisco and New York, and the formation of new
contracts with two other companies, each to carry
the mail once in two weeks each way, but alter
nately, so that we shall have a mail every week.
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VOI,. 37—2STO. 14.
I Mr. E. A. Rowe was released on the 23d ultimo.
! from the prison brig at Sacramento, when? he had
J been confined for more than a year for contempt
lof court, in refusing to teli what had been done
with one hundred and twenty-four thousand dol
lars, taken from the State Treasury by Dr. Hate?.
. Mr. Rowe came forward and testified that he had
received the money, and had given it to Edward
! Jones.
On the 20th ult., Henry Bates, late State Trea
surer, was tried at Auburn on the charge ot em
bezzling forty-seven thousand dollars from the
State Treasury, and was acquitted. *
A grand festival is propo>ed to be held by the
legal fraternity of this city, in honor of the "cen
tennial anniversary of the delivery, by Sir William
Blackstone, of his celebrated commentaries on the
English law.
Archy, the slave, is confined in the Stockton
jail,- by order of Stovall, who is his master and
owner, under the decision of the Supreme Court
of the State.
The clipper ship Flying Fish, Captain Nickels,
sailed for Hong kong ou the morning of the 22d,
with a large number of embalmed, defunct, and
living Chinese on board, and two hundred and
eighty-five thousand dollars in treasure.
The steamship Golden Age arrived ou the after
noon of the 2fith ult, in twenty-one days, two
hours, and thirteen minutes from New York—the
quickest passage ever made to California from New
York, and beating that of the Uncle Sam, in 1665,
thirteen hours, which is the next best.
Mods. L. Provost, of San Jose, has presented the
French Benevolent Society of this city with on 4
hundred and fifty ornamental and fruit trees,
which are intended to decorate the grounds.
Central America . —The American Minister Pleni
potentiary, Gen. U. B. Lamar, was formally re
ceived by the Government of Nicaragua on the
22d of February. His address on the occasion has
not been published, but it is understood to express,
on the part of the United States, sentiments of the
kindest nature toward Nicaragua and the other
States of the Isthmus. The address gave muck
satisfaction wherever it was known.
The treaty which was negotiated at Washington
List November by Senor Vrisarri, Minister from
Nicaragua, was still before the Legislative Assem
bly of that State, aud it was believed would n*L be
ratified, except with alterations which would again
open the whole matter at Washington.
Mr. Win. Carey Jones, late Special Agent of the
United States in the States of Central America,
took formal leave of the government of Nicaragua
on the 27th February. * It is'understood that dur
ing the latter months of Mr. Jones’ residence in
Nicaragua he had occasion to make complaints ot
several acts of that government in derogation, as
as he views them, of the rights of American citi
zens resident therein, anil opposite not only to.thc
friendly sentiments which he conveyed to that,
State from the Cabinet at Washington, but also to
the spirit exhibited by the authorities of Nicaragua,
! pending the question of the reception of their
Minister (Yrisarri,) by the United States. In his
closing letter, it is understood, that Mr. Jones re
capitulates, and expresses the opinion that the acts
and facts which he sets forth as directly to bis
’ i knowledge, are calculated justly to incense the
American government and people, and ought to
I induce severe retribution and preventive means.
* j A military order, issued 19th December, requir
* | ing “all foreigners,” male and female, resident in
! the department which includes the “transit route,”
c • to present themselves before the Governor within
I a limited time, under penalty, is one of the acts
s protested against. The decree 13 asserted to be in
n ; violation of natural and international law, in the
j fact of its arraying persons by class, ‘or descrip
tion, and without cause specified, instead of by
name and designation, and setting out the mo
tive ; also, in making penal what is not anywhere
else counted an offense—namely, to be a “foreign
(! er.“ Many hardships and abuses, it is alleged, oc
j’ curved to American citizens in the execution of this
-- Vl - _. v
Mr. Jones also mentions a declaration of the
’ President of the Republic (Oeneral Martinez,) as a
* reason why he ordered to be suppressed a judicial
investigation in which a functionary of the govern
ment is implicated in a high crime—namely, that
“ all the witnesses were Americas*.'’? A case is
also stated which will raise tjie question whether
foreigners and neutrals are subject to peremptory
orders to work on public defenses, when no im
mediate danger exists. It is asserted, moreover,
• that according to the declaration of President Mar
! tinez all correspondence, whether public or private,
is liable to be opened, altered, and even substituted,
by whatever authority of the State, and that the
government will not allow any remedy, or even an
investigation into the abuse.
Gen. Maximo Jerez has been appointed Minister
of War and Hacienda, but had not eutered on the
office. Gen. Jerez was a prominent member of the
old Democratic parly, and of those who invited
Walker into Nicaragua in 1355. He was also twice
a member of the cabiuet in the Rivas aud Walker
administration. Subsequent to the capitulation of
Rivas he was associated with Gen. Martinez m the
chief magistracy of the country.
I South America. —Another attempt at revolution
j was nipped in the bud the other night in Lima; it
was to be headed by Dr. Ureta, Ex-President of the
Convention—the Cousejo of Ministers were ad
| vised of it, and immediately arrested all the par
: ties and sent them to prison, excepting Dr. Ureta,
who is banished lor his pains.
•| Later from, the British 1 Vest Indies. —By the
steamship Moses Taylor we have full files of Ja
| rnaica papers to March 13th.
It was supposed at Jamaica that General Scott
j was on board the Star of the West, ou her passage
; out, and accordingly great preparations were made
I to receive him on his landing ; and much disap
: pointment was manifested when it was ascertained
I that he was not on board.
i At Martinique the Governor had suppressed the
• Antilles newspaper, for having re-published from
Le Nord, European journal, a letter indicating the
Trench scheme of African colonization.
The decree for the liberaiion of the thirty thou
sand slaves in the Dutch colony of Surinam, had
.arrived at that island and been published.
Advices fr »rn Barbadoeft Are to the 27th ult.
Weather there was favorable for agricultural pur
poses. The port of Bridgetown was crowded with
shipping.
At Demarara the people were making arrange
ments for the importation of another cargo of im
migrants from the destitute inhabitants of the
Cape de Verde Islands.
There have been several commercial failures at
Georgetown and Berbice, mainly among the Por
tuguese. One of the latter, Antonio D’Aginar,
committed suicide in consequence of not being able
to meet a bill at maturity. American produce
abundant. Weather fine, but rather too dry tor
the sugar cane.
The Trinidad Council of Government have re
solved to make application for the introduction
into that island duriug the present year, of three
thousand sepoys from India, and tive hundred
coolies from China.
At Antigua the labor question was being Agita
ted, and the assembly had passed resolutions in
favor of a Sepoy emigration to that island. The
weather at Antigua had been very dry, and water
for drinking purposes was so scarce that it was
sold by the nail full.
A severe shock of an earthquake had been felt at
Dominica. Col. Harrison, United States consul at
Jamaica, met with a severe accident on the 2nd of
| March, having fractured his arm near the shoulder
; by a fall.
; The Colonial Standard publishes glowing ac-
I counts of the productiveness of the copper and lead
mines m Jamaica, based on the official reports of
Mr. Trening, the engineer.
New Orlbaks, March 25.— The steamer Tennes
see has arrived from Vera Cruz the 21st, and
has dates from the City of Mexico to the 16th.
It was very diffiicult to get reliable information.
Several battles had been fought, which the Zuloa
ga Government claim as triumphs—but they did
not amount to much. Gen. Parrodi had retreated
before Ossoli. Pronunciamentoes are*still the or
der of the day, but the new government seemed
to be gaining ground.
Vera Cruz is under martial law. Zuloaga’s
forces are on the road there. A battle will proba
bly be fought between the'capita! and Vera Cruz.
| Coe es, N. U., March 22.—The Harmony Mills
employ usually eighf hundred operatives. They,
have commenced work this morning. The com-"
pany are now paying twelve and a naif per cent,
more than they did before the strike.