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Charleston —By N, P. Willis. We cop\ T from that most readable of newspa pers, the Home Journal, a brief sketch of Charleston, by Mr. Willis, one of its Editors, during a Southern tour for the benefit of his health. Though shadowy and incomplete, it displays a ready appreciation of our distinguish ing characteristics, and we can but express a hope that, under happier auspices, he may here after have ampler opportunity for the exercise of his rare talent of word-painting, in which he is unequalled, in giving a more elaborate picture of our Ocean City. The extracts at the close of the article are most appropriate and inciting to the efforts now making by our citizens to relieve themselves from the obloquy of neglect and indifference to the memory of the Great Statesman, whose remains have been entrusted to them: With a presentiment (afterwards confirmed) that, by going too early North, I was leading what little convalescence I had picked up in a w armer clime, I embarked for Charleston, on the evening of the sth of May—arriving the next morning, after a rough, cold and thoroughly un comfortable passage. Quite prostrated by sea sickness and influenza, and having more desired to see Charleston than any other point of my winter’s travel, l had never found illness more untimely. We rejoined, here, some of our fel low voyagers in the Tropics, hut the most ad mired and beloved of that happy company lay dying under the same roof with us, and a mel- ancholy sadness weighed upon all who had known her. Altogether, I obtained but an im perfect and clouded view of the great metropolis of the South. i\l y best remembrances of it were suchAas do not come within a traveller’s chroni cle ; the meeting with valued friends and ac quaintances. It must pass for the broken page : of my Journal, to be rewritten, if possible, with better knowledge hereafter. In what little I saw of Charleston, in my j mopings about, l was impressed with tne air it j wears of a town built for gentlemen. It is a lit- j tie behindhand with paint and repairs, but, in the contrivance and character of its private residen ces, there is the original imprint, still legible, of first owners who built exclusively, each one, for taste and comfort of his own. There is none j of the amputated look given to city buildings by ; the more utilitarian taste of the North. Even in houses of very moderate pretensions, it was quite evident that the plan had not been sent back to the architect, shaved of all its superflui ties of elegance merely. In the bay windows,! verandahs, odd angles, porticos and gardens, j and in the unstereotyped variety with which the caprices of ornament had been combined, the look of refinement quite at its case and appre hensive of neither eclipse nor criticism, is very : manifest. Every house looks as if the same fam ily had always lived in it. Without strict archi tectural taste, this atmosphere of household gods may be made to envelope a homo with an indi viduality more attaching to children and more inspiring of respect ; and I must own that, to my eye, it is an innovation upon art worth stu dying. In the days when the North and South were more intimate—the gay society of the two lati- j tudes holding an equally divided empire over j Ballston and Saratoga—Charleston was the un questionable Corinth, fiom which came the best ! models of gentlemen and ladies. With the plan tation conservatism of family—custom of send- ! ing sons to Europe for education—general hab- j it of yearly travel, and prevailing tone of courte- | sy and chivalry handed down from a superior class of first inhabitants—this may easily be for. The marks of it would still im pre&sa stranger in walking the streets of Charles ton jbr looking in upon its society. Shouldered aside* as the city is, somewhat, perhaps, by the currenEjof “progress,” and becalmed in the still water op such respectability and dignity as this “fast” sage will leave behind, its gayeties proba bly assemble, at the present time, a higher-bred class/ol’ men and women than any other capital of oufr country. The epidemic rage, for action j and /contact with the world, which is setting the ! noblemen of England to lecturing, will soon reach her®, doubtless, and lively-fy Charleston up to the/dreg stirring activity of New Aork; but, meantime, its streets are walked by gentlemen yvho look tranquilly noble, and its drives are graced by ladies who si'in their carriages with j the air of princesses at leisure. There is a childish disappointment, (which I j do not find that I outgrow,) in the first visit to ! most large capitals. ‘Until one sees a famous place, its great men form a conspicuous part of j the ideal picture of it. A boy, in going for the first time to Boston, for instance, would feel an unexplainable disappointment not to see Web ster with at least a dome and cupola ; Prescott with a Gothic arch to him; Emerson with a , steeple, and Everett with a colonnade all round —or some equally tangible, visible and imposing ly architectural proof that this is the Boston of j which, as seen from a distance, those men com pose so large a part. 1 had always thought ot Charleston, South Carolina, as a city built not so much of brick as of Calhoun —not so beauti ful for its public walks as for its W ashington Alston. To arrive there, and walk through it, and drive round it, without seeing any thing ot them—no sign of the statesman and painter who would still show for Charleston, though the city were sunk by an earthquake—was and is “less of a place” than I had expected—to take out the glory from the picture and put in brick. It is to this feeling (among others) that cities owe monuments for their great men. Willing to pay for gas, they should be willing to pay also for the “nebulous aurora of genius which, shin ing from there, lights them up so that they are seen the world over. The Dutch have an invention’ for helping a . ves*el when she is aground ; placing buoyant floats on each side of her, sinking them till they can run a timber through, and then removing the weight so that ail rises together. Corrobo rative quotation is sometimes necessary to do a similar service and bring a writer safely into port. In the present state of low water in the river of poetry, I have probably run aground in the passage just written, and will, therefore, make sure of a buoyant conclusion, by applying a float or two in the way of confirmatory re marks by greater authors, on the same sub ject. ‘ Foutenelle was never more gratified than when a Swede, arriving at the gates of Paris, inquired of the custom house officer where Eon* tenelle resided, and expressed his indignation that not one of them had ever heard of his name.” A distinguished man, in a eulogy on Liebnitz, said, “The Elector of Hanover united undei his dominion an Electorate, the three Kingdoms of Great Britain, and Liebnitz and Newton.” “Spinoza, when he gained an humble liveli hood by grinding optical glasses, was visited by the first General in Europe, who, lor the sake of tliis philosophical conference, suspended the j march of the army.” “A solemn funeral honored the remains ol ! the poet Klopstock, led by the Senate of Ham- j burg, with fifty thousand votaries, so penetrated ; by one universal sentiment, that this multitude j preserved a mournful silence, and the interfer ence of the police ceased to be necessary through the city, at the solemn burial of the man of genius.” “In Ferrara, the small house which Ariosto built was purchased, to lie preserved, by the municipality, and there they still show the poet s study ; and, under his bust, a simple but affecting tribute to genius records, that Ludovico Ariosto t in this apartment wrote.” “Travellers never fail to mention Erasmus when the city of Basle occupies their recollec tions, so that, as Bayle remarks, ‘he rendered the place of his death as celebrated as that of his birth!”’ “The Grand Duke of Tuscany became jealous of the attention paid to Magliabeccbi, as stran gers usually went to visit Magliabeechi before the Grand Duke.” “We cannot bury the fame of our English j worthies—that exists before us, independent of ourselves; but we bury the influence of their inspiring presence in those immortal memorials of genius easy to he read by all men —their statues and their busts, consigning them to spots seldom visited, and often too obscure to be viewed.” dl fi&mts aiti) ffimimd GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1853. Congressional Election in Alabama. Some short time ago there was much talk in the Second congressional district in Alabama of a conven tion to nominate a candidate for Congress. Hilliard, Chilton and Moss were recommended as the most sui table men for (lie office ; but the claim of Macon coun ty, “the banner whig county in the State,” to the Congressman for the next four years, was very generally conceded. Os late we have noticed that a dead silence i is observed on all hands. Even the babbling Journal is silent. What is the matter, gentlemen ? Are you | scared ? Has the sight of the honest face and strong arm of your bile representative curbed the freedom of your tongues and disconcerted your schemes? Speak out, gentlemen, and let us know whether you are to have j a convention ? Is Mr. i lilliahd tired of staying at home and taking the chances for a Foreign appoint ment, now that the democrats are in power ? Or is the vaulting ambition of Mr. Moss too elastic to, be longer ! compressed ? And more particularly, what has James j Abercrombie, “the honest old former of Russel,” done in his congressional career to forfeit the confidence of j his party ? It is true, that he refused to support General Scott for the Presidency, and thus rebuked ; the profligacy of the whig party, which by his nomi- j nation, indicated a willingness to sail under any flag, provided, they could thereby retain power and share ! among themselves the rich spoils of governmental pat ronage. Is this his sin ? Then are all persons who voted -the Webster ticket to be proscribed ? Or will the vengence of the “trace men 5 ’ of Alabama be appeas ed by the sacrifice of the “Big Captain ?” We are very happy to learn that Captain Abercrom bie has returned home in good health and spirits, and is in good condition for another race. Now, if weave under the necessity of being represented in Congress bv a Union whig, we candidly acknowledge that we would prefer an old farmer like the “Captain,” who is identified with the district and has no ulterior designs to accomplish by his congressional career, than by a mere politician, who looks to the Federal Government for office, and changes his sails with every wind that , blows from the North to be sure to keep his little bark upon the tack cf preferment. If a convention is called, however, and Captain Aber crombie allows his name to go before it, he will commit political suicide. We know somewhat about the 2d ! congressional district, and how it has been managed for some years past. The Circuit Courts are now in ses sion, and we venture that some sly representative of Montgomery is now on the pad attending every court, calling whig meetings, directing the appointment of delegates to the convention, prejudicing the ininds of j the people against Captain Abercrombie, and the re- j suit will be that if a convention is called and he lets his name go before it, he will hardly get a vote out of Rus- j sell county. A word to Post Masters. ! We scarcely receive a mail that does not contain | some letter complaining of the irregularity of the mails. | A valued subscriber at Magdalena, Geo., writes us, that : the Tost master at that office says ote half of the pa j pcrs due there never come to hand, and very properly i concludes by saying, “something wrong—subscribers will dropoff.” Another informs us that while lie lived at Florence, Geo.. he received all his papers regularly, but since he removed to Lnnnahassee, Geo-, he has not received “near all bis papers.” Xow. we use the greatest caution in mailing our papers regularly to every subscriber, and wo are sure no fault attaches to us. We are equally sure that the great body of Post masters attempt to discharge their duties faithfully and punctually, but it is evideut that there is a careless Post master some where in South western Georgia, who neglects his duties, irri tates our subscribers by’ his negligence or mistakes, and inflicts a pecuniary loss and much troubis upon us. If he will inform us who he is, we will double his salary, if he will promise to do his duty in future, provided, the President does not turn him out of office. And he will pardon us for saying that a man who neglects the duties of an‘office which ho voluntarily accepts, is dishonest and ought not to be trusted by his neighbors. The Blue Ujdge Rail Road. —The city council of Charleston has subscribed 500,000 dollars to the Plue Ridce Railroad to secure its charter. Trowbridge, formerly a telegraph clerk at Louisville, Las beeu sentenced to three years’ confinement in the penitentiary for forgery. A Passenger Depot at Last. — We are much rejoic- j ed to learn, spys the Atlanta Intelligencer , that the j officers of the respective Railroads terminating here, have finally come to an agreement, and commenced ar- , langcnients for the erection of a joint passenger depot j n this city. The building is to be three hundred feet j in length by eighty feet in width, affording sufficient j room to accommodate, at the same time, tour different | passenger trains, one for each road, with the necessa ry offices for each company. The work, we un derstand, is to be commenced immediately. | “ j Spireia Pruuifolia. We are indebted to Mr. Charles A. Peabody for a ! sprig of this beautiful flowering shrub, than which noth- | j ing can be more superb. It is a bush of from five to | ten feet in height, with a bushy top; and every limb is ) covered with minute snow white flowers, as double as the most doubled rose. It blossoms early in March, and this fact will commend it to the notice of hlorists. ; It is a native of China and was lately introduced into : Europe by Mr. Fortune, the celebrated English tra i veller. j Steamer Gaston.— This Steamer broke her piston on i the 16th inst., when off St. John s bar. It was • blowing a gale at the time, and the anchor was east outside the bar during the night. Next morning the U. S. Steamer T. Corwin came to her relief and tow ed her into St. John’s harbor. The Gaston Was with in 100 yards of the breakers when the relief vessel reached her. The Steamer Jasper will take the place of the Gaston. The State Register. This Union whig paper published in Montgomery, i Ala., has been discontinued for want of patronage. It is ominous of the fate of the defunct Union whig party | which Sandford, llolsev, et id omne genus, are at- j tempting to re-juvenate in Georgia. The Register says : j We do not deny that it the publication of the paper had been either profitable to ourselves, or called for by the state of parties in Alabama, we would have kept it going. ! But it has never been to us a source of profit; and we I conceive that our polities don't suit parties existing in Alabama at the present time. It is not our purpose here ] to discuss the why and wherefore of our nearly isolated j political position. Suffice it that there has been a “scat- ! location” in some quarter, and that the Union banner, j which we upheld even to the “last extremity,” no longer i waves over a victorious, or even a strong and united party, in the South. Cicero Mehafley, formerly a mail carrier on the route from Atlanta to Carrollton, was arraigned for embezzle ment, and pleading guilty, was sentenced to ten years in the Penitentiary. Small Fox in Albany. We learn from the Albany Patriot that hut one case of Small Pox has occurred in that place, and that the most stringent measures have been adopted to pre vent the disease from spreading. Mrs. Bostwick’s Farewell Concert. The perfect successor Mrs. Bostuickai Iter last concert, at Odd Fellows’ Hall, when she removed every lingering doubt that may have previously res ted on the mind of any one present, with regard to her real scientific acquirements and the excellence of her remarkable natural gifts, is a gu ran tee that the entertainment a tjiifi this evening, will be attended by one of the most dis criminating and brilliant audiences ever assembled in a concert room in this city, Without the pres tige of a European reputation, and with no stronger claim upon the public notice than the approbation sue had received in New York, and during her re cent Western tour, this gifted American lady was, on her arrival in. New Orleans, ns utter a stranger to its musical circles, as if it had been her original debut in professional life. Her performances, how ever, at her first and second concerts, stamped her as an artist of extraordinary* merit : but it was only subsequently that our musical public cordially con firmed the previous verdict of criticism, and with one exception, she now siands in public estimation as second to no singer who lias ever appeared in our i ity: The piece she is to perform this evening are I well adapted lor the full display of the purity, rich ness, compass and flexibility ofher exquisite voice. The programme will be found in an other column.- ; N. O, Com. BcUelin. Opinions of the press. The Soil of the South. —This excellent journal, for March, comes to us laden with rich fruits from, the garden of agricultural knowledge and practice, j It is an admirable, and we think, necessary in: pie- i menl for our farmers to have on the plantation.— Price only’sl,oo.— Larensvills Herald. The Soil of the Scu'h. —This a publication we cannot too strongly recommend. It lias now reach - , cd its third volume, and is decidedlythe most useful, i delightful and attractive journal devoted to Agricul ture, Horticulture, and the general planting interes ts, published in the South. We have no hesitation ; in saying that ‘‘every Southern man who cultivates a plantation, works a farm or garden, or piuncs a , tree or a flower, will find the Soil of (he South an invailiable companion:— Democratic Aihccate. The Sail of the South. —This truly valuable agricul tural paper, published in Columbus Geo., has lately , increased in size from 16 32 pages, thus giving its ; subscribers a greater amount of informal! >n, at the | same rates as before It is edited by Messrs. ! Chambers &. Peabody, and the valuable informa tion it coni fins in all departments of agriculture, renders it well worthy the faithful and continued patronage of every southern farmer.— Spirit of the Sou’ll. . England and the I . States.— A Vv ashing ton correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, says: j The British Government, as we learn from j late proceedings in the New Foundlaud Legis- ; lature, are solemnly pledged to enforce their ex- i treme construction of the Convention of 1818. j in regard to the fisheries, and we know also that j they will not abandon their occupancy of the I Bay Islands. War is therefore inevitable within a year; and, perhaps, a state of things may that will demand an extra session of Congress during the summer. [From the Constitutionalist & Republic.] The Next Governor. An article in the last Federal l/nion , recom- I mending Col. Henry G. Lamar to the Demo- i crats of Georgia, as their next candidate for j Governor, prompts us to say a few words on ; the general subject. I We have, from time to time, in the last few weeks, received communications, some ot them : written for publication, in reference to the next j Gubernatorial election We have, however, declined opening our columns for the discussion j of the question, thinking it premature, and de sirous of allowing as much time to elapse as possible, in order that past acerbities and un friendly sentiments among Democrats, divided on theCompiomise question, might die away i and be obliterated forever. Time is the great physician in all strifes like this, when no prac tical questions place men in antagonism, and when a thousand practical questions, and the political sympathies and convictions of a life time, counsel them to harmonious action. In these results we are not disappointed, so j far as we have been enabled to ascertain the ! drift of sentiment among the Democrats. W T e are already appris . of many cases where Dem ocrats who were estranged from each other, no longer back than last summer, in reference to the electoral ticket difficulty, are now coming : together cordially, as Democrats, in support of ! the general principles of the party, ami of Gen. Pierce’s administration. Differences of opinion as to the right of State j secession, are not incompatible with co-opera- ! tion and union on well recognized and admitted | principles of Democratic policy. Our country has prospered under it. Under it, and by rea- j son of it, in great part, have been achieved our greatness and power as a nation, et, in that vast aggregate of Democrats, which has made up Democratic sentiment, and established Dem ocratic legislation over the country, there are all shades of speculative opinion as to the nature and structure of our complex system of Govern ment. Such is the constitution of (lie human mind that, in polities, as in religion, absolute ! concordance in large masses, united for com -1 mon objects, cannot lie expected. No two j leaves in the forest are precisely alike. So in the world of intellect; no two minds receive impressions and prevent phases identically simi lar. It is a wise law of our nature. It is a lead ing cause of all progress and improvement. Nothing but the infirmities of human temper and the pride of opinion exist now, to keep Dem | ocratsapart in Georgia, who have been divided: and these.causes are gradually declining. It is now getting to be time—perhaps, we should say the time has now arrived—when the Demo crats of Georgia must take steps to consolidate their strength, and make their part y here worthy of its principles and past history, and worthy of the sympathies and alliance of the Democratic parties as they exist in our sister States of the | Union. A State Convention of delegates will be a fitting commencement of the work; on 1 which occasion the nomination for Governor i can be made, and the measures initiated for his I cordial support and triumphant election. Omhe suggestioiTof the name of Col. Henry G. Lamar, we have, at present, nothing to say, i but that he is an intelligent and amiable gentle man, a zealous democrat, and one who, ifnom - inated, will receive from us a very cordial and i earnest support. We take occasion, also, now to state, that the name of Gen. Hugh A. Har alson has been urged in one of the com munications received by us in terms of warm admiration. This gentleman, also, whose tal : ents and high character we fully appreciate, would, in the like event, receive our very cheer ful support. In another the name ot Judge Henry R. Jack son is suggested, and the considerations urged in behalf of this suggestion, struck us with great force, and coincided with views previously en tertained, and fully expressed by us in letters and conversation. We believe the nomination of this patriotic young Democrat, who now wears the judicial ermine as gracefully as he did the soldier’s sword when our country called for volunteers for service against Mexico, would j he a well bestowed tribute to merit, and at the j same time a pledge of mutual mnity and confi- i dence and restored good feeling between Un ion and Southern Rights Democrats. The pa triotic course pursued by Judge Jackson and Judire Johnson last summer, which did ! o much towards bringing the two wings of the party together, first suggested to us the ! name of the former, in connection with this nomination. We have named Judge Johnson j in this connection, as an act of s'net his torical justice, and to say that to him, equally j with Judge Jackson, is praise to he accorded in this matter. We have not mentioned his name to bring it into view for the nomination, j not that we consider him in any respect Jess entitled to it, hut because we desire, in placing the name of a Union Democrat first before our readers, to afford an earnest of the feelings with which we have advocated the re-union of the Democracy and the spirit in which we think every Southern Rights Democrat should meet the Union Democrats in Convention. We should not omit the names of the Jlon. Robert M. Charlton, and of the Hon. Thos. M. Forman, in connection with the patriotic efforts made last summer to bring together the dissever ed wings of our party. -Judge Lumpkin, Col. R. Flournoy, Judge Warner, Col. Chastain and the Hon. Charles Murphy, will be kindly ro-, membered in this matter. We could extend this list much further, but the names of tiiose ! most conspicuous in the good work will readily j occur to the mind of the reader. Both those I that tendered and those that accepted the Olive branch under which Southern Rights and Union Democrats marched together to victory last 1 November, should be remembered with equal ! kindness by every well wisher of the party. We would be unfeignedlv gratified to add to : this list the name of his Excellency, Governor Cobb: but we regret to say we have not the evi dence that he gave his influence and good wish es to the Democratic ticket which cast the vote of Georgia for Gen. Pierce. Ilis sympathies, if not his secret exertions, were strongly suspect ed to be in favor of the Tugalo ticket. The efforts and the votes of most of his personal and political friends whom it was generally presuni ed he could influence, were openly given to that ticket. We should be very ‘happy to be mistaken j n these impressions, as to the course of C|ov. Cobh in this matter. If we have judged him wrong ly, or misconstrued his course and his motives we shall be most happy to make the amende for we utterly disclaim personal hostility or urn kind feeling towards that gentleman. R gave us no pleasure to see him in past days pursue a course by which he jeoparded that influence and popularity that his talents legitimately en titled him to, and which he once unquestionably and deservedly possessed in the Democratic party of Georgia. From the Macon Messenger. Trial of the Robbers of John Jackson. Foksyth, March 14th, 1853. Messrs. Editors .-—The Superior Court of Mon- I roe county has been in session for two weeks past, and as it has been occupied almost the whole of the time in the trial of some of the men who were concerned in the robbery of John Jackson, near the line of Pike, last October, it may not be uninteresting to your readers to have the details of the robbery, as developed by the J testimony placed before them. It appears that about five weeks before the robbery, two men who then passed by the names | of Cooper and Williams, but who now answer ; to the names of Simpson and Copenhaver, stayed all night at Mr. Jackson’s, and on pav ing for their fare the next morning, handed him a S2O bill to be changed. In changing it, Mrs. Jackson got some money out of a trunk in the closet, and thus they ascertained where the money was kept. About midnight, on the 12th of October last year, the door of his dwell i ing was suddenly burst open, and several men entered the room occupied by Mr, and Mrs. Jackson. One, recognised by them on the trial 1 as Copenhaver, a stout, athletic man, went to their bed, and caught the old man by the throat with one hand, and in a threatening manner, would slightly touch his head with a stick in the , other, and upon Mrs. Jackson’s screaming, he : ordered her to hush, and drawing a pistol, told her he could make her hush. Another, since re ! cognised as Dr. Roberts, held a lighted candle in his hand, while the others opened the closet door, and took out the trunk—they immediately left the house. They were pursued early next morning, and about a quarter of a mile from the house, the trunk was found broken open, and ; rifled of its contents, amounting, according to | Mr. Juckson’s testimony, to about $6,500, all i silver, except about SIOO in gold. Their trail was followed into Meriwether county, where : they separated, three going a road in the diree | tion of Tennessee, and two towards Newnan, j Coweta county. These two were arrested late | in the evening in Newnan, and one called him- I self John B. Simpson, and the other at first re | fused to give his name, but afterwards acknow ledged himself to be Dr. Roberts. In their sad ; dlebags were found about $946 in silver—a large i amount of bills, most of which were counterfeit ; two forcepts, for unlocking doors on the out | side, when the key is within —a bunch of skele- TToiTor ialse keys for iff)taking lijitt ks, bureia desks &c., a brace, such as is used by carpen ! ters for boring, two pistols and a slung shot, or a stout piece of leather, loaded at one end I with lead. They were brought to Monroe, and i one of them, Simpson, under promise of being released, made a diseloseure, by which the other . three were pursued to Tennessee, and two of | them, Copenhaver and Clark, were arrested and ■ brought back. Clark, when arrested, made a full confession of the robbery, without any prom ise of being released, and upon the back, con ducted the persons in charge of him to the place in Meriwether county, where more of the money was secreted ; it was concealed in three separate parcels, and amounted to $1,217 in silver. Two bills of indictment were preferred against them and found true—one for Burglary and the other for Robbery ; and Dr. Roberts was indic ted singly as a rogue and vagabond, carrying about pick-locks, false keys, &c. He was bound guilty of the three offences, and sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment in the Penitentiary Copenhaver was found guilty of burglary and robbery, and sentenced to the Penitentiary for fourteen years. He was indicted for perjury, alleged have been committed during the Court, and the case was continued until the next term. Clark plead guilty on one bill; and in consider ation of his full and frank confession upon his arrest, and also of having been led by the in fluence of another man to join in the robbery, he was sentenced to only four years confinement in the Penitentiary, and the other bill was no! prosequied as to him, Price, another of the offenders, who escaped to Tennessee, upon his return there, was arrested and confined in jail j for a murder previously committed Has been i recently rescued from prison hv some of Jiis friends, and is now at large. j But perhaps the most interesting part of the • trial was the examination of Simpson, as a wit | ness, on the trial of Roberts, as a rogue and vagabond. He was told by the Court, at the commencement of his examination, that he was not bound to answer any question which would j criminate himself; and he frequently availed | himself of that exemption, It seems that Roberts become displeased with j him on account of his betraying his associates, and appearing as a witness against them ; and , being pretty well posted up with his history, from his intimacy with him, he was enabled to ! suggest many questious which Simpson refused I to answer ; and as his refusal was based ori the , ground that he was not bound to criminate him ; self, the legitimate inference is, that the questions j propounded to him, and which lie declined to i answer, implied allegations of crime which are | true. When asked his name, he answered to the name of John B. Simpson. He was asked il his true name is not Jonathan Clmlfant lie re fused to answer. Upon being asked where he was bom, he said in Ohio—that he lived tnere until nineteen years of age, and then went to Kentucky. He admitted that he knew ChaHant —that he was born Ohio and at about the same time that he was Upon being shown the slung shot, and asked whose property it was, he re ulied, he supposed he had as much right to it as