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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 3, 1855.
“Dead or Sleeping.”
The Georgia Citizen says that “as the State Coun
cil seems to be dead or sleeping” it approves the sug
gestion, made by many prominent members of the
American party of Bibb county, “that a meeting be
held at Milledgeville, during the first week of the ses
sion to consult as to the future course of the party in
Georgia, and to appoint a day for a State Convention
at an eatly period.”
We incline to the opinion that the party in Georgia is
in the same condition with the Executive Committee,
and that it is unkind in the Doctor to attempt to gal
vanize the dead.
Auburn Gazette. —During the last week, Mr. J.
S. .Slaughter the Junior of the Auburn Gazette has
been spending some days in Columbus looking after
the interest of his paper Our business men will find
the Gazette an admirable advertising medium, through
which to bring themselves in contact with the wealthy
planters in Eastern Alabama, among whom it has an
extensive circulation.
Georgia Legislature. —The Georgia Legislature
will convene at Milledgeville on Monday, inst. The
Senior Editor of this paper will be present at the open
ing of thj session, and will make arrangements to keep
our readers posted in the sayings and doings of our
law-makers. The session promises to be a protracted
aud animated one.
Mail Derangements. —Mail failures were never so
frequent. They are principally caused by accidents on
the Railroads. Wc do not see how the Postal Depart
ment can be justly held responsible for these mishaps.
Deferred Articles —The communication cf our
esteemed corresponded Zoiu, and accompanying edi
torial, have been necessarily deferred by press of other
paying matter. They will appear in our next issue.
Kansas.
The people of Columbus, says the Savannah Jour
nal Courier seem to have taken hold of the Kansas
business in tho right spirit. Volumes of fiery denuncia
tion have been spoken and written in regard to the
course of the Northern fanatics in relation to slavery
in that Territory ; but verbiage is not a defense against
active efl'ort, nor can our desires be accomplished, sim
ply by eloquent talking or well turned periods. It re
quires, to give practical efficiency to our protestations,
earnest and continued effort.
We feel that it touches the honor of the South to
meet promptly and boldly the first open attempt made
by Abolition to inflict injury upon of the
South by the arm of violence. The issue presented by
our foes is, that Kansas shall perforce he free soil. Are
we already cowed enough to shrink from a trial of this
issue—ajjvindication of our rights. We trust not. We
hope that the Southern heart is yet sulficiently strong,
sufficiently true to itself, to scorn the idea of submission
to insolont dictation, to prefer to such submission the
struggle even to the end.
If such be our choice if wo would repel insult to
ourselves, injury to our property and ultimate ruin to
our seotion, by defeating upon the soil of Kansas the
fanatics, who threaten snd conspire against us, it is time
we were up and doing. Muscogee begins the work
bravely. Who will be second ?
Thanksgiving Days. —The following days are to
be observed : in Maryland and Virginia November
15th •, Pennsylvania and Ohio, the 23d ; Massachusetts,
the 29th.
Delegate to the Cincinnati Convention. —The
Democrats in the lifth district of Massachusetts, have
chosen the Hon. B. F. Ilallett. as their delegate to the
National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati.
Oglethorpe University.—We learn that 36 students
have entered this institution the present term.
Lecture at Boston. —Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of
Montgomery, Ala., has agreed to deliver one of the
course of lectures at Boston, the ensuing winter, on
slavery.
Convention of Husbands. —The papers state that a
convention of husbands is to be called shortly at Syra
cuse, N. Y., to adopt some measures in regard to sash--,
ion. They say that since they have to support the ex
penses of fashion, they have the right to regulate its
caprices. It is also said that a proposition to raise boys
only, in future, is to come before the convention. The
members are to resolvo themselves into a husbands’
rights party.
From Washington.
Washington, Ojt. 29.
4 Reliable advices received by the Ali-ica, state tliat Mr.
Luchauan would, ere this, have left London for Paris, and
tliat he will probably visit Italy before returning home.
The President has entirely recovered from the chills
and fever, with which he was all’ected.
A circular letter from Denmark, relative to a settlement
of the question of the Sound Dues has been received by
the Government.
In the Court of Claims to-day the testimony taken in
case of Isaae Swam was admitted, thus deeid>ug that
government stores are not subject to impost duties, and
that Government is liable for injury sustained by citizens
in consequence of the improper conduct of its agents.
Ihe argument in the Florida cases was continued.
1 lie Star says that the resignation of Dona Piatt Secre
tary of Legation at Paris, has been received, and that A.
. eiiKins \\ ise, son of Gov. Wise of Virginia, will be trans*
•erred from Berlin to Paris to fill the vacancy.
From California.
New Orleans, Oct. 30.
Tiie steamship Granada, from Aspinwall, has arrived
with dates from California to the sth inst. The news
brought by her is unimportant.
The reported murder of Gov. Stephens, of Washington
•territory is untrue.
T,le S [ earns hip Geo. Law sailed for New York on the
21st, with one million seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in specie. J
The steamer Qeorgo Law, that arrived here to-dav
I tom Aspmwal, brought a million and three quarters of
specie, the .John L. Stephens, which connects with the
George Law, brought down nearly five miliious.
-Johnson, the American candidate for Governor, has
been elected by a majority of live thousand. The Legis
■ttuie stands 72 Americans to 39 Democrats. Foote,
1 aiti and Peyton are among the members returned.
v r * , ~ lt ‘ S ‘ ti,te,i ,hat U,e Hon ’ Go - W - Hop’
recpnd,- . Ip^ in ' a * lmcs the very fl. tteri ig appoinment
w,n ‘>>■ Chief J.„.
Os tile JJ.Ltiict of Columbia.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL 0F THfc:
STEAMSHIP ARIEL.
New York, Oct. 30.
The steamer Ariel has arrived.
Since the exhibit of September the Bank of France
has lost $7,000,000.
The condition of the Austrian Government Exche
quer, and also city Bank of Vienna, is prosperous.
Ten thousand French off Odessa. The Allies antic
ipate being able to land.
Gortßchakoff telegraphs that the cannonade against
the northern forts is actively kept up but without no
ticeable result.
It is rumored that there is an insurrection in Sicily.
The cholera is committing dreadful ravages in Ma
drid.
The Congress to settle the Sound Dues is to be held
in November.
From Texas.
New Orleans, Oct. 30.
Late accounts from Texas state that Governor Pease is
in favor of Callahan’s course, and refuses to issue his pro
clamation agaiust it, at Gen. Smith’s request. More ran
gers have gone to the frontier.
Gen. Scott’s Back Pay.
Washington, Oct. 30.
The Cabinet has decided that Gen. Scott is entitled to
back pay as Lieutenant General, since 1847.
Steamer and Cotton Burnt.
New Orleans, Oct. 31.
The steamer Exchange, with 250 bales of cotton, has
been destroyed by fire on Red River.
From the Savannah Jovraal 6; Courier.
Waste —Valuable Discovery.
Messrs. Editors:— At the reqsest of an officer of the
Muscogee Railroad of Georgia, I have experimented on
an article known, by Machinists and all connected with
Railroads, as Waste. This article is the refuse thread of
Cotton Factories, for which Railroad Companies pay eight
cents per pound, for the purpose of keeping clean their
Engines, &c.
The demand and cost of the article havo induced some
to think of some mode of saving this heavy expense to
Railroad companies. To accomplish the woik, it is requi
site that the process should be cheap and quick. When
first spoken to I doubted the work being done so as not to
injure the texture of the article ; in my experiment on spe
cimens, taken from the Depot of the Central Railroad, I
would inform the Muscogee Railroad and all others inter
ested, that success has crowned my efforts beyond my most
sanguine expectations.
Tho article cleaned has been subject to the examination
of the first Machinists of Savannah, pronounce it su
perior to that which has never been used.
I send to you specimens to which l respectfully ask vour
attention, and ali connected with Railroad, 6tc., &c.—
This improvement will be welcomed by those who spend
thousands of dollars for Cotton Waste, which is thrown
away as valueless after being used once. I have not the
least doubt that some of our enterprising railroad citizens
will inform you of the value of the success of my experi
ment.
The cost of reclaiming the Waste used on Railroads,
throughout the country, will not exceed a half cent per lb;
after it has undergone this powerful Chemical process, in a
few minutes it is restored back to its original finish and
cleanliness, and is superior to the new for its intended pur
poses.
The cost for every Railroad to clean their own Waste
will be but a trifle,’ 1 as the work is easy and simple. Those
connected with Railroads, who wish to see a specimen of
the cleaned article, can obtain it by mail,by endorsing pos
tage stamps to the address of your obedient servant,
WM. HUMPHREYS, Chemist,
Savannah, Ga.
Death, of James 17. Norrell.
We regret to learn, that a dispatch was received in
this city yesterday morning from Montgomery, Alabama,
announcing the death, from yellow fever, of Mr. James
N. Norrell, Cashier of the Bank of Montgomery.
Mr. Norrel was born and reared in our midst, and pos.
sessed an urbanity of manner and strict integrity, that
won fr him many warm and devoted friends. To his
parents, who were so justly proud of their so promising
son, this visitation comes with peculiar severity. We
learn that his remains will be brought to this city for in
terment.—Con. <s• Rep., Ist.
Death of Mrs. Susan M. Beil.
The remains of Mrs. Susan M. Bell, late Matron of the
Savannah Female Orphan Asylum, were borne to their fi
nal resting place in the Laurel Grove Cemetery yesterday,
followed by a large number of friends and the orphans who
had been the objects of her charge. Three weeks ago yes
terday morning, tho fire occurred at the Asylum, by which
the edificefiwas nearly consumed. It was in attempting
to rescue one of the little girls from the burning building,
that Mrs. Bell received the injury that caused her death.—
The tire, which occurred at a late hour in the night, had
almost completely enveloped the upper portion of the buil
ding before it was discovered. In the panic and excitement
of the moment, the Matron had roused the children from
their beds and gathered them in the basement; but with a
presence of mind only equalled by her heroic devotiqp,
she counted her little, terror-stricken flock, when she found
that one—one of the youngest—was missing. Hastening
back to the chambers, now tilled with smoke and flame,
she searched for and found the child. With it in her arms,
she was seen at one of the windows, but before she could
effect her retreat from the room it is supposed that the
smoke became so dense as to cause her to faint. Search
being made for her and the child, they weieboth recovered
but not until life was almost extinct. Mrs. Bell was con
veyed to the House of Solomon Cohen, Esq., from whose
family she received the kindest caro and attention during
the three weeks of her suffering, which she bore with un
complaining resignation. She died on Saturday night.—
Sav. IS'cws, Oct. 29.
INAUGURATION ÜBALL
THE Inauguration Ball will be given at Newell’s
Hall, in the City of Milledgeville, on the evening of tlw
Ttli November next.
Senior Managers.
lion. Howell Cobb, Athens,
“ F. 11. Cone, Greensbprough,
“ Robt. Toombs, Washington,
Capt. Samuel T. Beecher, Milledgeville,
Col. T. T. Long, Brunswick,
“ Joel A. Biliips, Madison,
lion. John H. Lumpkin, Rome,
Col. A. H. Kenan, Milledgeville,
“ O. G. Sparks, Macon,
“ James Gardner, Augusta,
“ John W. H. Underwood, Roms,
“ W. K. deGraftcnreid, Macon,
“ Chas. E. Nisbct, Cuthbert,
“ Allison Nelson, Atlanta,
Capt. Alex. 11. Cooper, Columbus,
Col. John A. Jones, *•
“ T. Lomax, “
Hon. Linton Stephens, Sparta,
“ B. A. Thornton, Columbus,
Junior Managers.
Col. James A. Pringle, Perry,
Hon. G. T. Howard, Savannah,
Col. L. A. Jordan, Milledgeville,
“ John T. Ector, Columbus,
“ John M. Tucker, Milledgeville,
“ O. G. Dawson, Greensborougli,
“ W. A. Reid, Eatonton,
“ J. 11. Brown, Milledgeville,
“ Geo. H. Kimbrough, Starksville
“ M. D. McComb, Milledgeville,
“ B. B. deGraffeuried,
Dr. A. A. F. Hill, Athens,
Col. John Bilbo, Savannah,
•* B. F. Powell, Bainbridge,
“ 11. M. Law, Albany,
“ W. A. Harris, Pennsborough,
“ P. Tracy, Macon,
“ Isaac Newell, jr., Milledgeville,
J. 11. Lovejoy, Esq , Atlanta,
L- F. Choice, Milledgeville.
Milledgeville, Od. 16th, J 855.
Snow’ Storm in Virginia.— Them was a heavy enow !
slwnii on ihe Blue Ridge rpoynuips Wednesday 24t|i.
Free Lovers Discharged.
Judge Osborn discharged all the patties arrested at the
“free love” club on Broadway, declaring that their arrest
was unwarranted. The Mirror says:
The free lovers held a sly session last night—with doors
closed to all but invited guests. Brisbane was present.—
Dancing was the principle order of exercise?, in which
about 100 males and half as many females were engaged
The investigation as to the late arrests was advanced, but
not completed yesterday.
A Plain Spoken Witness —“Facts, are stubborn things”
said a lawyer to a female witness under examination. The
lady replied: “Yes, sir-rce, and so are women; and if you
get anything out of ine, iust let me know it!” “You’ll be
committed for contempt.” “Very well, I’ll suffer justly,
lor 1 feel the utmost contempt for every lawyer present.”
Death of an Army Officer. —Advices’ received from
Texas give intelligence of the drowning accidentally, at
Eagle Pass, in the Rio Grande, on the 2d instant, o! Se
cond Lieutenant William M. Darant, of the regiment of
mounted riflemen. The deceased was a mtive of South
Carolina, and a graduate of the West Point Military
Academy, of the class of 1854. — Star.
A Good Hit.— The Quincey (111.) Herald says: An
abolitionist has the same right precisely to steal a three
dollar Kentucky bill from the pocket book of a Missourian
traveling in Illinois, on the ground that the laws of this
State do not recognize the money of foreign banks, that he
has to steal the Missourian’s nigger, on the ground that our
laws don’t reccgnize slavery.
THE STATE. ) Indictment for Murder.
vs. > Randolph Court,
Thomas Ozmore. ) October, 1855.
Testimony taken in behalf of the State in said case.
First Witness Sworn for the State. —Peter Brown
says:—26th Sept, went from school house with deceased
and Mr. Cristy to prisoner’s Cane patch; as we went up
saw a negro boy and woman hunting with dogsjthey set dogs
on us; Coleman and witness went into the cane patch,and
Cristy staid out-ide of the fence. Each cut two stalks and
set them up against the fence, close to the fence ; went
then some 15 feet into the patch—Coleman nearest the
fence; heard someone say stop; looked up and srw priso
ner—do not think Coleman saw him; Coleman started to
go out where he went in; got nearer the fence and turned;
thinks he was nearly out. Prisoner was at the place of
crossing; did not see prisoner at the moment deceased got
nearer the fence and turned; Witness heard prisoner mutter
something and shoot; after he shot witness started, and
supposed Coleman was following; got out and waited,
when he failed to come; Witness went to the house
and found prisoner there, sitting by a tree, with a gUn in
his hand; Witness saw Coleman next, 14 paces from the
fence, the place where prisoner was when he fired the gun.
This was ten or fifteen minutes after the shot. Coleman
was dead when witness found him; Deceased was some five
feet or ten from the fence when the gun was fired, and
about 14 yards when found dead. This was in Randolph
county, at prisoner’s cane patch. The tree at which pris
oner was sitting was not in the yard. The night was not
very bright; it would have been moonlight, but there was a
misty cloud over the moon; it was bright enough to have
seen a man forty or fifty yards. I have seen prisoner olten,
but am not acquainted with him; knew hitn well enough to
recognize him that night by the light, after it was brought.
Prisoner is the tnan who shot the gun, lor he told me so ; I
could not tell him from his appearance at the time of the
shot. A white boy and negro woman went with the wit
ness to the body; after found deceased, witness went back
to the house—found no one there but prisoner and his fam
ily. Ozmore told me, when I first went to the house, that
he had shot deceased; witness asked if he had killed him;
prisoner said he thought he had. The conversation took
place at the tree, and witness saying to prisoner he had shot
Coleman; Prisoner replied he had shot someone in the
cane patch, he did not know’whom. Witness asked him
if he had killed him; Prisoner replied he thought he had.
Witness then asked prisoner to let him have a horse and
buggy and to get a light to carry deceased home, if alive,
if dead to have an inquest. Prisoner had the lights got and
then refused to go with witness. The boy and woman
went, by prisoner’s orders. No one else came to the house
before we went back to the patch. Coleman was about
witness’ size; don’t know his age; was not fully grown.—
At the moment ol firing the gun, a row ol cane prevented
witness from seeing prisoner ; as Coleman turned from the
fence he was in a stooping position; heard him groan; left
deceased then and came to town.
Cross Examined —Witness thinks it was between 8 and
9 o’clock at night when the shooting took place—was be
tween one and two miles from town. It rained immedi
ately alter the killing—a slight sprinkle; there was a (loud
over the moon. r l’he cane was planted up to the fence
about as near as corn is usually planted; the cane was not
very large nor very thick; don’t know the height; it was
higher than witness’ head; not twice as high again; perhaps
it was 6or 8 feet high. It was not as high at the fence as
in the middle. The two stalks cut by eaffi were off the
first row, and witness went in about 15 feet; Coleman was
not so far in; there was one row of cane between them.—
Witness when he heard the word “stop,” was stooped
down; Saw Cofenaan then; he was about five or six feet
from witness. Witness saw prisoner just as he spoke the
word stop; witness was then some 15 feet in the patch ;
when prisoner said stop he was coming up by the side of
the fence. Witness did not see prisoner when he fired ;he
saw him a moment before; he was then by the side of the
fence. Witness does not know how he was dressed; wit
ness was stooped dawn when he heard the word stop; lie
then raised up and stood still till the gun fired; Witness
then started out of the patch in a walk. Witness walked
down to the path about 100 yards from the patch, waited
there a short time. It was ten or fifteen minutes after wit
ness left the patch till he got to the house. Coleman star
ted to follow alter witness to go out of the patch after the
shot. Witness went across the rows of cane in going out
of the patch ; witness went, as he went out of the pafch, a
direction that led further from prisoner. At the time of
the shot, prisoner was opposite about the middle of the
cane patch; prisoner shot up and down the rows. Wit
ness in going out, went up the rows and across. Witness
was between 5 and 10 feet, when he saw Coleman appa
rently following, out of the patch. Did not see Cristy alter
witness was in the cane patch, till he saw him in the road
near the Baptist College. The tree at which witness found
prisoner, was some 15 or 20 steps from the house. Priso
ner told witness he had shot somebody; prisoner seemed
distressed at it ; witness did not judge this from his words
but by his acts; don’t remember the acts; he was weeping;
did not say anything about inquest; does not recollect the
negro woman saying prisoner’s wife was dying at the time
prisoner refused to go with me to the patch. Prisoner
gave as the reason for not going that his wife was sick ;
does not recollect of his sayingshe was very sick. Witness
had not returned to the patch at the time he had the con
versation at the tree with prisoner, and did not then know
that any one was killed. The body was found 8 or 10
paces further into the patch than deceased was f at the time
of the firing of the gun; to ,get to that spot, deceased
would have gone partly down the rows and partly across.
Don’t know the size ot the patch between 25 and
30 yards wide; did not go in irom the .road, nor on the
side next the house, nor the end next the house; did not go
through tho indigo patch, or come out through it ; left the
road at a patch about 150 or 200 yards from the house on
i (he felt ot the road.. On our return we were to meet in
| that path; we agreed to this before we went int o the patch,
i and on going in or coming out we went through no cow
! pen, or any patch; we went in up and down the rows. I
came out not far from where we went in, at least 20 yards
nearer from where we went, nearer the house, further front
the path. Left Cristy on die outside, as we went in the
patch, 15 or 20 feet from the fence; he remained on the out
! side of his own netion; no agreement to that effect be
tween us. In going in the patch, we did not go around it,
: went partly round one side about.to the middle. Sawpris’
i oner after I got intothe patch about 15 feet; he was about
15 feet off’; did not see him until 1 heard him hallo stop •
as soon as the gun fired witness started out and Coleman
after him; when the gun fired witness’ face was towards
prisoner. Did not see Coleman at the instant of the shot;
the cane prevented my seeing him. Coleman was at that
time some 5 or 10 feet from witness, and that much nearer
prisoner; one row of cane intervened; when the gun
fired witness turned his back to prisoner and went out° ot
the patch on i the left of prisoner. In going out of the
patch witness came out to a road which runs by the patch;
does not know where the road leads; don’t know if this
road runs by prisoner’s corn crib. There runs a road by
the patch; in quitting this road to get to the patch where
; w e were to meet, I went to the left, as I then had my face
towards where prisoner was; in going this road I went on
! it jiff after I passed opposite the point where I had seen
prisoner when he shot. As I went from this road to the
patch, did not see, as I went, any turnip or potato patch.
Did not see Cristy again until l saw him by the Baptist
College; did not stay with Christy that night; staid at
home; did not, that night, write down with Cristy the
facts ; wrote down the facts next Jay, with Mr. Cristy; did
not show’ this statement to any one; witness tore it up; there
was but one copy made. Witness did not return to the
patch till we went with the light; we went with the Jhffit
light to where Coleman was; did not have to hunt lor him
—he was lying sideways ol tho rows and sideways to
where the prisoner was when he shot; he was 14 paces
from the fence; did not measure it myself, nor see it
W itness was told the distance. Did not see any knife by
the deceased nor any cut stalk of cane; saw blood at the
place ol the wound; saw none on his clothes or any place
except at the wound. Did not examine the wound. When
prisoner said hie wife was sick, lie went towards the house
and sent nis son and negro with witness to search the cane
pajeh ihe ground of the cape patch tolerably Jgyel ape
side a little lower than the other; it was the side of the
hill, prisoner was on the lower side towards the hollow ;
never saw the patch in the day time. Witness was nearest
the road at the time ot the shot, Coleman to the right of
the prisoner and witness to the left.
State Resumed. —According to witnesses .judgement,
that night he thought the body was 10 or 15 paces lrom
where prisoner was when he shot, not closer than 10 paces
—only saw Coleman start to follow —alter the shot and
heard'him come through thfe cane.
Dr. G. B. Hurd, sworn for the State, says, saw dec’d an
hour or hour and a half after he wasehotas he supposes; he
was dead then ; made an examination ot the wound ; prob
ed it; the wound was the cause of his death, two shot en
tered just at the brim of the pelvis and glanced out; other
shot scattered further up through the spaced K or 2 inches
in width up to between the 4th and sth rib, and then en
tered the cavity ; at the time of examination, the head was
rather on the ridge of oue row and his body across the
rows The wound was in the left side; the shot ranged
upwards and glanced out, the upper shot ranged at an angle
of about 30 degrees with meredian line ot the body. The
shot were common sized squirrel shot; took two out ot the
wound. From the range of the shot, witness supposes de
i ceased was at the time of the shot, stooping and running
diagonally from the spot where prisoner is said to have
stood. The blood run from the wound and trickled down
bis side towards his back ; vvas lying on his back ; blood
run from his mouth ; the clothes were bloody all about the
wound. The body was 194 paces from the fence ; witness
stepped it three times; up the rows the cane was pretty
thick at the spot where the body lay, there was a vacancy
in the cane about three feet wide, where there was no cane.
Cross Examination. —A gun fired at object 15 feet off
would not scatter as much as these did—witness supposes
so; if not more than 5 or 10 feet, the hole would be more
like that produced by a ball; the skin was broken through
a space ot 14 to 2 inches in diameter. In witnesses’ opin
ion it was six inches from the bottom shot to the top shot;
the upper shot entered the aorta, some others entered the
blood vessels at the point where they leave the heart. The
aorta is the principal artery that leads from the heart; the
lungs were also injured. Witness judges from all the
wounds that the death must have been instantaneous.—
Supposes the phrenic nerve to have been wounded. The
large blood vessels being wounded would cause death qick*
er than if even the heart were wounded. The bundle of
arteries as they go out of the heait, appeared to have been
wounded. It is witness’ professional opinion from the char
acter of the wounds, that the deceased must have fallen on
the spot where he was shot, if making a step might got his
foot down. The blood must have instantaneously flowed
copiously internally, so as to cau*e immediate cessation of
respiration and locomotion. Witness saw the body about
halt-past nine o'clock ; the body seemed not to have been
moved, the external bleeding was small and ran towards
the spine and ground. Witness saw about 14 inches from
deceased band, as it lay on the ground, a closed knife,close
by a stalk of cane ; does not know if the stalk was cut or
broken, it v/as partly trimed ; saw no evidence of cano
having been eaten. Witness in stepping the ground, step
ped as he usually walks in the street; could not say he
stepped three feet; the elevation ol the spot where the body
was, was in witness’ judgement, 5 or 6 feet from where
prisoner is said to have been ; tho cane was very tall and
thick, as witness went up, could hardly see from the fence,
the light that was at the body ; the light was a torch two
or three pieces of lightwood. It would have been almost
impossible, that night, for one in the cane any distance, to
have been seen by a person out side. The plat made by
witness, I have in Court, is a plat of the position of the
patch; knows nothing of the indigo and turnip patch.—
Witness went there at the suggestion of his partner. Pris
oner’s wife was ill with neuralgic pains in the head, at times
very painful, though no danger of immediate death had be
fore that tithe, Witness explained to prisoner his wife’s
condition, and that the knife vvas the only remedy, and
prisoner had expressed despair of her recovery. YVitness
was her attending physician. Witness and another looked
with lights for the gun wad ; at the distance of 10 or 15 Jeet,
the gun would, in his judgement, have carried the wad to
the clothes; there was no sign of burning or powder on the
clothes or wound, and this would have been the case at 5
or 10 feet. In general, a gun shot wound in the upper part
of the body from the shock to the system, causes the body
to fall immediately. This is tho result of the opinions of
Physicians ; the Writers on medical jurisprudence give the
condition of the wound and the appearance of powder
&,c.,as indications of the distance of the shot.
State Resumed. —The shot were pretty much in a line
up and down the body ; the main body of them, about 14
to 2 inches in width. The coat, a linnen one, was torn in
the pocket; it was ragged and the coat must have been
doubled in some way to have been rent as it was, from the
point of the body, as it lay; where the wound was in a
straight line with the fence—there was no cane, it was up a
row —though the leaves of the opposite rows met; did not
notice if any of the cane was torn with the shot; some of
the cane leaves, witness would suppose must have been
. tom wiiii ttioj9tK.il; from me fence to the point wnere me
body was; it was more open, up and down tne row's, thence
across. The effects of a wound of the organs depends up
on the size, and force of tho shot; only two shot
were taken out of the wound ; only a tew entered the cavi
ty ; we could not tell how many entered. The nearer the
shot, the blacker the powder would make the body. Wit
ness has no practical knowledge of the coloring power of
the powder, distance <fcc.; his knowledge is derived from
his medical reading.
Prisoner by leave of the Court.—ls acquainted with
with prisoner; has known him since the Ist September,
1855 ; his general character he does not known.
Joseph Cristy sworn fur the State. — Witness was about
25 feet from deceased when he was shot on the night of
25th September. Coleman, Brown and Witness, started
from the Baptist Chuch ; went to hear the band at Metho
dist Male College. Just before we got to the college, we
agreed to go to Mr. Ozmores lor sugar cane. When w-e
got near the cane patch, we sat down. There were Mr.
Ozmore’s son, a negro woman and boy hunting o’possums.
While there, the dogs came up and barked. Witness told
the hunters to let the dogs come on and he would kill them.
Brown said if they set on the dogs he would whip them,
(the hunters.) The hunters lelt for home, and we shortly
after went to the cane patch. Coleman and Brown went
in, and witness staid out side about 15 feet, beside a tree.--
In a few minutes after the boys went in, witness saw a man
come up with a gun in his hand, near the boys. Witness
at first thought it one of the boys with a stalk of cane.—
About that time J saw Coleman come to the fence ; sup
posed he saw the man, for he started back, walking fast,
stooping. The man with the gun jumped to the fence, put
his left hand on the fence and his ieft foot in the fence and
raised himself so as to shoot over the fence, and held the
gun in his right hand and fired the gun ; just as the man
got to the fence he said, “God damn you stop,” when the
gun fired, witness left. When deceased turned back he was
right at the fence, ttie man with the gun was about six feet
off when Coleman turned. Coleman turned about the time
the other said “stop,” and the other jumped to the fence
and fired as soon as he could after Coleman turned. Wit
ness saw deceased when the gun fired. Coleman was
about ten feet fiom the man when the gun fired. Witness
left and heard nothing said more; did not see Coleman af
ter the gun fired ; man who fired rite gun was out side of
the fence ; did not see Brown at the time of the fire
ing. Witness was about 15 feet from the man who fired
the gun ; did not know the man who tired ; had never seen
him before as he knows of; did not go back next day.—
Coleman as he left the fence, went stooping, half bent.
Ci oss Pxamiiied. —We went to the patch by a path from
V nla Nova to get behind the patch from prisoner’s house,
we sat down about 150 yards from the patch, sat there half
an hour or three quarters of an hour. To get to the point
where they went in, they did not go round any part of a
patch, there was a corn pen, we went along the back string
P'j’ i . n< - e witness stood by an Oak tree, large enough to
i hide his body, from one coming up the other way, witness
stood still till the gun was shot, witness left alter the
1 straight back fiom the patch into the woods in a run,
j did not see the patch any more, kept the woods, does not
i “now w ,hen he got to town ; next day witness expects he
{ “id Sa y he was not there, and that any man was a damn liar
| who said he was there, did not say this that night to any
; body, witness told several this—told Wm. Cuilhrso. Wit
ness was about 15 feet from the cane patch and 15 feet lrom
the man who shot, and on the right side, not much tho •
the man was nearly north of witness. The cane patch was
also north, while there by the tree witness saw Coleman
come back to fence, witness supposes hi saw prisoner and
turned, witness did not see Brown come back to the fence
witness thought Coleman had come, as he come up to the
tence, as he heard something fall as Coleman got theie
Coleman come to within about four feet of the man who 5
hred, who was walking along the ience, don’t know the
height ot the fence; the words, “God damn the man,” spoke
J 9 st aJ he went to get on the fence, he put his foot on about
u tjt be held the gun in his right hand, not to his
shoulder but in his hand, at the instant of the firing, witness
saw Coleman, lie was about 10 feet from fence, the cane
comes up to the ler.ee as it is usually planted. Witness
wa& n 9* behind the tree at the time; the man was between
me and the boys, at the lime I was beside the tree. Wit.
ness has not told Mr. Goss that he did not see Coleman at
the time ol but only heard a rustling in the cane
did never tell this to Dr. Perkins, did never go to Chatlev
Goss and consult with him about it except to tell him E
1 had spoken to Mr O’Brien, I told all the matter to Mr
OBrienhrct; Witness saw his mistake in supposing the
man was one of the boys when he spoke.
beside the tree, not behind the tree from the patch ibm
horse lot that was fnrther up, as he ieared someone m ain
see him from the horse lot, witness stood stih on the Km
side ol the tree, until the shot. Tne hore lot Wue .i!f
yards oft, the cane was large and thick oe bnn?, fu° r 30
ol the blades -Bor 10 lcet hmh When £i,i PS
man at the time of the shot ”i, e was in mSni C , ole ‘
*ane directly between them, witness could” lie 6 ’i and
row, sup posses the rows were lor 5 leei <>n > a,on g the
, '* d •*** *£
where witness stood wa9 about 2 or 3 feet to the right’of
where the man stood who fired, witness did not go back ;
the horse lot wa9 to witness’ left hand and the man with
the gun a very little between witness and the horse lot.—
Witness next saw Brown at Villa Nova at the Female
College ; there was someone with him, did not know him;
witness went some 50 or 60 yards this way from the Meth
odist College; Brown come to town ; saw Brown next
morning, we talked about the matter, Peter Brown wiote
down the evidence, Brown tore it up ; the same day, wit
ness read it; did not know if the cane patch was lev. 1,
thinks it was level, thinks it was noton a h’ll side ; there
was a hollow behind where witness stood, thinks the cane
patch was on the top of the hill, had seen the patch
in the day time. (State here closed the case.)
Randolphs. Court, Oct. Term 1855, Wed. Oct. 10,’55.
The State vs ) Murder. True Bill. Seaborn A.
Thomas Ozmore. $ Smith, Foreman.
Randolph S. Court Oct. Term 1855, Tfairs. Oct. 11. ’55.
The State ) Furnished John A. Tucker counsel for
vs £ defendant, with a copy of the bill of In-
Thomas Ozmore. ) dictment and list of Witnesses previous
to the arraignment Oct. 10,1855.
The State ) The defendant, Thomas Ozmore lor
vs £ maly arraigned pleads not guilty, Oct.
Thomas Ozmore. ) 11, 1855, Oct. Term, 1855,
John Lyons, Sol. Gen’l.
Randolph Superior Court, Saturday, Oct . 13, 1855.
The State vs ) Mur d er
Thomas Ozmore. $ vluraer -
We the Jury find the defendant not guilty.
1 Samuel C. Scott, ~ E. H. Martin,
2 Henry Nichols, 8 John Yarborough,
3 Eli Aycock, 9 John Ilay,
4 Samuel Dickson, 10 Samuel N. Hurd,
5 John Merkerson, 11 Lewis Sanderlin,
6 John E. Tabb, 12 Thomas Tinsley.
Georgia, Randolph County.— l do hereby certify that
the foregoing is a full and true copy of the evidence as was
given in the case of The State ot Georgia vs 1 homas (h
----more, at the October Term ot 1855, Randolph Superior
Court, and which is of file in my otlice, and also a true ex
tract lrom the minutes ot said court ot the arraignment and
verdict of the Jury in said case with the names of fne Ju
rors attached to said verdict this day
DUNCAN JORDON, Clerk.
OBITUARY.
Depaited this life on Monday, the 22d of October,lßss,
Dowdell Tukbevjlle Samfokd, son of Wm. F. Samlord
and his wife Susan Lewis, at 12 o’clock, M., aged 3 years,
1 month and 19 days.
He is lifted up for a light and carried forward to guide
us through the wilderness to the better home. With the
faltering step of a broken manhood and a heart heavy
with sorrow, I follow my bright,.brave little boy to the
grave—not without the consolations of the Gospel, and
faith in “the resurrection of the just.” His little sister,
Georgia, says she will “always hang up the Christinas
stocking for Dowdell,” and the little negro nurse, Edny,
tells his disconsolate brother Walter that “ Dowdell is
playing with the little Angels .” Death has captured
hint —has bound him with his massive chains and consign
ed him to his prison-house in the grave —but thanks to mv
Savior Friend! immortal honor, eternal glory to his royal
name!—the Hero Sufferer of earth! the Conquerer of
Death! —Death and the Grave cannot hold him.
The,/?rs£ of mv children that has died is in Heaven,
beyond a contingency. How sweetly does Jesus say :
‘‘Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for
I sav unto you that in Heaven their angels do always be
hold the face of my Father which is in Heaven. For the
Son of Man is come to save that which is lost. Even so,
it is not the will of your Father which is in Heaven, that
one ot these little ones should perish ”
•‘Millions of infant fouls compose
The family above.”
A clear, distinct,persuasive, melting voice rise o amidst
the harmonies of heaven, and swelling over the floods of
death, and gliding in soft and sifvery echoes through tho
storms and noisy anxieties of life, cries to mv heart—‘Steer
straight to me,father, steer straight to me[V
Here then, at'thegrave of my dear little boy. whose brow
in life was bathed in baptismal water bv the trembling
hand of my venerable lather, and now sleeps in death with
the smile of God upon it—l renounce this poor worid with
all its “vain pomp.” bind upon my soul afresh the vows ot
God, and avow for my Master and friend, the “Man ot
Sorrows and acquainted with Griefs.”
Oct. 23th, 1855. Wm. F. Samfokd.
COMMERCIAL.
COTTON STATEMENTS.
i2 Cj S-jn ps H ! S-w.'Z rn Stock
.:lsr srg s !*! 3 Si on
!2 ® j §. ‘ ®'2. : r~ 3"5 32- hand
week I a-g ‘ ® So 2 this
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1854. J j 277 2243 6175 8418 1082 2743 3825 ! 7364
COLUMBL’B, NOV. o.
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notwithstanding some uneasiness in reference to the com
plexion of steamer’s accounts now luiiy due-, in some
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quotations, Middlings 7i to 7*, Strict Middlings load
Middlings 7y to 7s, Fair 8 cents.
New York, Nov. 1.
Cotton is dull, with sales to-day of 400 bales.
Flour is firm and unchanged.
Wheat is improving. Southern white is quoted at
$2.25, red $2.10.
Corn is unchanged.
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rie Presiding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal
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verttsement in another column. ect41 —1 1,1
James CJ. Cobb auuouuces himself as a cauda
(or Sheriff of Chattahooche County at the ensuing ’electa’!’ ”
January next, and runs as pu InUepejideut candidate.
Cits Maj UcL 18,1855. od S and