Verification of an Ancient Proverb. The following prophecy Is said to hate been delivered by a British bard, in the time of William the Norman, and preser ved by some of the monkish annalists, viz:--"Tlott no more than three monarchs in direct succvssion, should ever reign over these kingdoms, without some violent iateruption." 1 William the Norman, 2 William Rufus, 3 Henry the First, Interupted by the ursurpation of Ste phen. I Henry the Second, 2 Edward the First, 3 Edward the Second, Interupted by the abdication and triur , der of Edward the Second. 1 Edward the Third, 2 Richard the Second, Interupted dy the deposition of that monarch. 1 Henry the Fourth, 2 Henry the Fifth, S Henry the Sixth, Interrupted by the restoration of the horse of York. 1 Edward the Fourth, 2 Edward the Filth, 3 Richard the Third, Interrupted by the usurpation of Hen ry Richmond. 1 Henry the Seventh, 2 Henry the Eighth, S Edward the Sixth, Uteri-opted by the election of Lady Jane Grey. 1 Mary, 2 Elizabeth, A foreign king, (James of Scotland,) called in to resume the crown. 1 James the First, 2 Charles the First, Interrupted by the deposition of that Inonat eh, and the establishment of anoth er form of government in the pc;•son of Oliver Cromwell, 1 Charles the Second, 2 James the Second, Interrupted by the abdication of that king, and the election of a foreigner. Willianr the Third, 2 Anne, Interrupted by the parliamentary ap pointment of a foreigner. 1 George the First, 2 George the Second, 3 George the Third, Interrupted by the unfortunate inca pacity of that sovereign, and a parliamen taty appointment for excercising the eovereignity in the person of the prince regent 1 George the Fourth, 2 William the Fourth, 5 Victoria the First, Whom God may bless; but what is to be the next interruption? Limpool Courier. Front Me _V. York Cdurier and Inqairtr, Court of Uycr & Terminer. Before Judge Edwards and Alderman Denson and Cook. Sentence of Edward Coleman.—This unfortunate man, who was convicted a short time since of the murder of his wife bJ eutting her throat in Broadway, in open day, was yesterday brought up to receive sentence. lie appeared very much dis heartened, and to judge from the work ings of his countenance, was deeply re pentant. In answer to the usual question from Vie Clerk, "What have you now to say why judgment of death," 4-c. he said that if it was God's will that he should die, it must be so, and he would meet death as resignedly as he could. All he asked for, was that he might be allowed sufficient time to prepare himself. Judge Edwards then proceeded to pass sentence upon him, in the following words: Edward Coleman, listen to what I have to say: After a patient and thorough in vestigation of your case, in the course of which you were faithfully and ably defen ded by your counsel, a jury of your coun try have pronounced you guilty of the crime o. murder. This crime, which is most Eel olting to humanity, was in your case, attended with circumstances of ag gravation so audacious and so brutal, as to shuck the moral sense of the whole com munity. In the day time, in ene of our most pub lic streets, without any immediate provo cation, you laid violent hands upon- your wife, & cut her throat. I am at a loss how to present your crime in a more striking point of view, than that exhibited by a simple statement of the facts. 1 aur victim was not only a woman but your wife. To you, above all created be ings, she had a right to look for favor and protection. Yet how were the obligations discharged? Instead of rejoicing in her existence, and basking in the sunshine of y our f;.vor, Khe sunk under your arm, wel term4 in her b ood, and now lies in the cold and silent mansions of the dead, and she was sent by you, ..llnannointed and unanne.cd, .'lntu the presence of her G o d." You still linger in the land of the living; but you linger upon the very verge of ex istence. '1 he violated justice of you.- coantry—the feelings of enraged human ity, demand that you expiate your oll'ence with your life; not a vindictive spirit, 14 that to a principle of action unknown to the law—but in a merciful spirit, out of pure benrvolencc to the community, who look to the laws for protection; tor the ex perience of this country fur ages; and et all nations, the most civilized• as well as the must batbourous, have invari ably as...nctioned the wisdom of the injunc. tion, "That by whomsoever man's blood' is shed, by man shall his blood be shed." That as life is precious above all things, the most effectual mode of protecting it, is by the punishment of death, the terrora of which (if any thing human couldi) Would re4train the vindictive feelings of man. After the perpetration of such en act as you have been convicted of, you Can have nothing to hope from the clemency of the Government. When your victim sunk under you arm, you must have known that if justice had not fled the earth, that you would have to expiate your offence with your lite. What a position then, do you occupy before this earthly tribunal? You stand here trembling upon the very verg,e of eternity. Afrer a few revolving hours, your eyes will be closed forever upon all you behold, and you must go away with all your imperfections upon your head, in to the presence of your Creator flow different, how awfully different, is your situation, from what it would have been, if, in the course of nature, in your final hour, yob co bid lie clown with the retlec tion that you had discharged all your ob ligations to God and your fellow loan. Upan this solemn occasion, it is usual though it can hardly necessary to admon ish you of the importance of preparing yourself to meet your Creator. Circum , stanced as you are, N :th your days em phatically few and numbered, with this , world and all its allurements, receding from your view, and the prospects of ano ther opening upon you, it is oot in human nature to be insensible to the importance of preparing to meet your Creator. To him therefore, letyour most fervent suph cation Le raised, for He will soon be your all—yon will have none left but Aim. I will now proceed to the discitarge of the last and most par.i.cl duty of the court: Listen te your sentence: the judgment lof the Cburt is, and such is your sentence, that you, Edward Coleman, be taken hence to the prism, whence you last came, and on Saturday the 12th day ofJanuary next to the place of execution, and thatthen arid there you be hanger' by the neck until you are dead. And may God hare mercy on your soul. During the time the Judge was speak ing, the prisoner's countenance remained unchanged, and when the last words were uttered, he bawed his head, and retired with the officers. The warrant fur his ex ecution was then signed and handed to the Sheriff, and the Court, which had laimn , crowded to suffocation, adjourned. VEISSINIEMS From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. FOREIGA XL' UPS. ARRIVAL OF THE LIVERPOOL, The Liverpool took herdeparture on the 20th, bnt atter making 950 miles, against extremely rough weather and high seas, sustaining, however, little damage, she put back en the 26th, on account of the great consumption of coal, which created what appeared to have been a .0.1.4 appre hension that her stock might fail if her vov age was continued. The e ngi nes, it would seem, had not been sufficiently tried be fore starting. The result was that she put into Cork on the eighth day. There she remained a week, taking in full supplies, and started again on Tues day, the 6th instant. She arrived off Fire Island yesterday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, where she remained for several hours, in' consequence of the fog. She reached this city at 9 o'clock this morning, and anchor ed in the East river, a little above the wharf appropriated for the use of the Great Western. As soon as it was announced that the Liverpool was coming up the river, bun ! dreds were to be seen wending their way 'to the 'wharves, and we doubt whether morepeople were assembled on the occa sion of the arrival of the Great IVestern.' The docks, with the vessels lying at them lii the neighborhood of Pike and Rutgers streets, were crowded this morning with those who were anxious to obtain a sight of this noble steamer. In external appearance the Liverpool does not differ much from the Great Wes tern, with the exception that she has two smoke pipes, and her sides are not releiv -1 ed by the white streak of the latter, and that she has only three masts. We took a hasty view of her cabin this morning, and have only time to soy that it is very neatly WI aished. The loss at the great fire at Livetpool is estimated at 120,0001.—the amount in sured in the several offices 119,5001. The Western Luminary says that the rumors of division in the cabinet were true. That Lord Glenelg resigned ; and his resignation was accepted: that Lord Spencer and the Duke of Richmond were successively offered the Colonel Secreta ry's portfolio, but both declined it; and that as yet no succes, •• to Lord Glenelg , had been found. 'file London Morning Herald contra dicts the report that the Queen had writ ten an auto;raph letter tenuesting Lord Durham to remain in Canaria. It says there was no foundation whatever fur the report. The London papers state that 1000 tons of potatoes had lately been shipped from the Thames for New York. It has been ascertained that the steam boat North Yatch is lust. She was seen to sink, and it is supposed that all on board perished-22 in number. It a rumored that the Marquis of Nor mandy is to be the Governor of Canada. A terrible explosion had takenTlaee in a coal pit at Lowca, near Whitehaven, by which forty of the workmen were killed. 'Two men and two boys were blown out of the mouth of the pit, like bullets from a gun. Three of them were not killed, although SeVerely woended, but the fourth fell back again down the shaft, and was dashed to pieces. Thirtyfour of the men who were at the bottom, were found crushed together in a mass, horribly dis- Ifigured. THE STORM IN ENGLAND. The city of London was visited by a tremenduous storm on the night of Oct. 28th—the same having swept the whole Northern ane Eastern coast of England 1 with fearful violence. In London, rain fell without intermission until m dnight,l when the wind increased to a furious gale, which at 2 o'clock in the morning became a hurricane, and raged for four hours with dreadful fury. Great number of chimnies were blown down--the leaden covering of roofs were stripped off and rolled up like paper-1 !some roofs gave away under the weight of; .„_ chimnies falling on them—and in the out-' 'Expenditures et the Corn.. 'skirts of the city many small tenements monwealth for 1 8 3 8 . were prostrated. Great number of trees Summary statement of the Expenditures at 'were torn up by the roots, and Hyde Park the State Treasury, commencing on the was completely strewed with limbs and Ist day of November. 1837, and ending branches, on the 31st day of October, 1838, vise The superb villages, Putney, Highgate, Commissioners of the Internal Hampstead, Kensington, Barnes, &c. suf- Improvement Fund, 51,153,125 79 fered severely. The extent of the dam- Expenses of Government, 195,694 01, age may be inferred from the fact that Turnpikes, 119,161 45, three columns of one of the papers are State Roads, 100,050 00 1 filled with the details. Number of per- Bridges, 82,950 00 sons were hurt, ;mile very severely, but Railroad, Canal companies, 28: , ,156 18, we believe that no lives were lost. Militia Expenses, 30,664 24 o f Education, _ Pensions and gratuities, 47,091 53 Or. the- "river the damage was compar 414,828 10 i ati - i , ely light, owing to the efficiency 90,00(1 00 1 'the means employed for securing the yes- Interest on loans, eels, &c: Eastern Penitentiary, 34,268 00' 1 The estern Penitentiary, 6,624 00 the Eastern coast. 1 The hurricane was very severe all eon , * ' House o f Refuge, 5,000 00 1 At Sheerness houses were unroofed. Conveying Convicts. 1,495 84, c on vey ing F ug i t ives, 1,204 41 At Shoreham a brig was driven ashore, Convention to amend the Con- and many vessels were seen driving past, ' stitution, 157,022 89 with signals of distress flying; but no a s- 'Geologic al Survey, 12,000 00 sistance could be rendered them. At state Li brary, 5,460 00 1 Ramsgate the American brig Grand Turk, Defence of the State, 30 00 l bound for New Orleans, ran aground in Kr MITCHELL 5CR1P.4:0*18,363 09 attempting to make a harbor at Broadl Miscellaneous, 43.913 23 ,stairs, but was lightened the next day, land got oft little damaged. At day break a large vessel, dismasted and on her beam ends, was seen for a lit tle while drifting past, but the force of the wind soon carried her out of sight. At Bristol the tide rose two feet above high water mark. inundating the houses in the lower part of the city. A great number of vessels took shelter in tke riv er, most of them considerably damaged. On the Great Western rail-way four of the cars were driven along the road by the force of the wind, two of which did not stop until they had traversed 25 miles. Among the trees blown down in the storm v as the famous „ Herbs the hunter's oak," in Windsor Park, immortalised by Shakspeare. Firaiiitees of Pennsylvania. Under the wise administration of Jo seph Ritner, Pennsylvania has prospered beyond all precedent; and notwithstan ding the electioneering tales of his unprin cipled enemies, she has flourished in the midst of surrounding gloom. The past year has been a dull season for business-- the public works of the State have in the meantime been pushed with extraordina ry vigor—heavy payments have been ne cessary for new purposes arising out of the Common School System, subscrip tions to the eoinpany stocks, s•c.—and vet, with all these against her coffers, the Commonwealth had in her treasury, on the first of this month, hn unexpended balance of NINETY-NINE THOU SAND THREE HUN I) RED AND FIFTY-NINE DOLLARS AND I'll IRTY CENTS. This balance, great as it is, does not reach the amount remain inr,' unexpended on the first of November, 1857, for the reason that no improvement bill was passed that year, and the outlays for Internal Improvement were ONE MILLION less than for the year 1538. The ftdlowing tables, taken from the Re port of the Auditor General, will be found interesting. It will be - seen that the item "expenses of Government" is about ' twenty thousand doliars more than for 1837—THE CILEATLR PART OF wiliest IN CREASE CAN RE TRACED TO THE LOCO-, FOCO HOUSE OF REPRESENTA 'IVES, whose expenses for the session' of 1837-3 were upwards of FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS more than for the session of 1836-7!!! The reader may . once ms own comment on the honesty of the party which has charged Joseph hit nor with "extravagance!" Revenue of the Coinition+ - wealth for IS3S. S'vtnmary Statement of the Receipts at' the Stale Treasury, commencing on the _ _ .firat day of Noveinber, 1837, niut end ing on the thirty-first day of October, 1838, viz: Lands, and Land Office fees, $61,705 57' Auction Commissions, 11,400 00 Auction Duties, 77,891 (.35, Dividends on Bank Stock, 158,230 00' Dividends on Turnpike Stock, 8,905 83 Dividends on Bridge and Navi- gation . Stocks, — 34.483 25 Tax on Bahk Dividends, 113,826 89 Tavern Licenses, 76,525 61 Hawkers' and fretilars' licenies 5,303 71 Tin & Clock Pedlars' liclases.. 397 50 Collateral Inheritance tax, 22,295 70 Escheats • • 1',231 48 Pamphlet laws, 593 35 Increase of county rates & levies, 9,916 33 Tax on personal property, 380 40 State Maps, 9 50 Canal and Railroad tolls, 959,336 32 Premiums on Bank chartets 227 053 53 1 Loans, 775,000 00 Interest on depobites, . 137,668 86; Tax on writs, g; c. 21,208 55 1 Tax on certain offices, 8,212 89 Militia and exempt fines, 288 58 Tax on Loan companies, 3,564 20 Fees of the Secretary of State's office, Fees of the Auditor General's office, Dickinson Colter lands . M iscellaneous, Total, $2,769,087 29 Balance in the Treasury on let. November, 1837, 2,220,135 74„ 84,989,223 09 64,889,863 73 Balance in the Treasury, Ist November, 1838, 99,359 80, $4,989,25:3 03 NOTE.—In the above payments at the Treasury, the cost of repairing the Canal in Huntingdon count•, (which is now ready for navigation,) is not included, as the money was procured on an eitraordi-. nary application to the United States , Bank, in preference to convening the Leg islature, and was directly drawn by the Canal Board. E°•'MITC HELL SC RIP." —This I item will be unintelligible to those who are not familiar with the political history of the Slate for the last few years. '.alit chell Scrip," means paper fraudulently issued by William B. Mitchell, Superin tendent on the public works under Gov. Wolf's administration, and brother of the acting Canal Commissioner at the time. Having drawn the money to carry on the operations under his direction, be issued notes of hand in the name of the Common• wealth, to those having demands against her, keeping the cash in the meantime snug in his pocket. When a sufficiency of this .'scrip" was nut, Mr. Mitchell thought it prudent to FAIL, and accor dingly evacuated the Commonwealth, to seek his fortune in the fur west. The dupes of his vilhany had no resource but the Legislature, which, at the instance of Gov. Ritzier, preserved the honor of the State. by ordering a redemption Of the "Scrip." Thus Pennsylvania looses in all about TWENTY THOUSAND DOL. LARS by the defalcation and villiany of one of Gov. Wolf's officers; and RitnerN administration is obliged to pay not only the honest, but dishonest debts also of his predecessor's bosom friend. _ Telegraph. Correapondenee of the Baltimore Patriot. WASHINGTON CITY, NOV. 28, 1938. I to-day had the honor to be admitted to the presence of His Majesty, Martin Ist, Supreme Monarch of the Loco Focus Defender of their Faith, and Protector of the 'Earldom of Hereford, and those move ables "of which our Andrew was posses sed." I was ushered to the presence of his' Majt'ty, by one of the most faithful of the, liege disciples, and was graciously recei ved. The President was not in a melting mood. Cares, ill news from the field of political strife, and the workings of dis appointed hopes, and chilled ambition, had shadowed his countenance with sor row, and I discovered none of that self possession, amid the afflictions of adver sity, for which the President has had much credit and obtained some tame. The civilities of the day; those common place remarks which naturally pass be tween the visitor and the visited, were ex changed; and as I was nut disposed to intrude on tl e sorrows of an 'ofd ratan weary with the cares of State," I soon made my obeisance and bade the Presi dent of the United States an eternal fare well. No man has held the high office of President of the United States, whose ca reer has been less pregnant with joy and personal popularity, than that which has 'distinguished Martin Van Buren. vlel went into office, by the popular vote of the people, and was at the commencement of his official life, sustained by the united influence of a party, whhse power has not Thal a parallel in modern ptilitical history., The world was wide befo4 him, arid he, vainly imagined that the mantle of his' predecessor would enable him to manage the affairs of this groat Republic, in that way which should best suit his whims and caprice. Mistaken, mitpided man! He did not recollect, that in this free coon. try, official and popular influence, are neither heretlitary nor transferable. If the people had submitted to the tyranny of the Predecessor, they are too free, too acutely t. live to the rights of the fre€inan, to be driven or led by the mad ambition of the Successor. 592 65 1 i 106 s 8 315 34 1,871 65 Mr. Van Buren had net been in office a year, before the best friends he had—the most devoted partizans that ever bowed the knee to Imperial dictation, were com pelled by the love they bore their country, to withdraw their aid and friendship; and, full soon they lett the ~ . 1)d of their politi cal idolatry to stand alone, a ruined spendthrift in morals and friendship, to struggle with the afflictions and punish ments he had madly courted. Deserted even by the people of the State of New York—a people who had for twenty years and upwards regarded him with unparalleled favor, and gratifi ed the utmost limit of his ambition, he has at last, in a desperate struggle to sus tain himself, thrown himself into the em braces of those former foes, who at the !time of his accession to the high office lie holds, pronounced him an *usurper and demanded his abdication. The helpless and haplesstonditititi of Mr, Van Buren,.if it be not similar to that of Caius Marius, or to that of Timon, or Woolsey, is like that in which pour old Plantagenet was involved; and, as he contemplates the tate that awaits hint, he way find sonic poor consolation in medi tating over the last viords of that unfut tu• i nate mortal. In winter's teti.ous nights, sit by the fire.. With good old folk, and let them tell th, tides. Of.woful ges, long ago betide: And, ere thou bid good night, to quit their grief, Tell thein the lamentable fall of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds. I ti a cruel, however, to riot over a pros trate man; and it were best to quit the ,President, commending him in Isis forlorn condition, to the pity of his countrymen-H to that pity which Prince Polignac, while at the fortress of Ham, received ut the hands of an outraged French populace. I hive not a word of news to commu nicate. All is dull at Washington; but on Monday we may hope fur bustle and excitement. Yours truly. A N•TIVE IN WASHINGTON. • At the time of the inaugeratiun of Mr. Van Buren, Mr. Callwun. and his Editor now of the Washington Chronicle, strug gled hard to prove b) figures, that he was an usurper, and demanded his abdication. Pram the Liberia lierald. The first requisite to the prosperity and advancement of the Colony, is the suppression of the slave trade in our vi cinity. This trade has been" gradually acquiring strength, for the last four years. Its ravages has been more fearful, and the vessels engaged in it more numerous, than at any former period of tie Colony's history. An exterminating war has ra ged over an extent of fifty miles around us--nearly all communication with the interior has been cut off; lands have re mained unfilled; every article of f.od has advanced 200 per cent, in price, and 'ter ror and confusion have raged on every side. If. the Colony had actually pos session by purchase from the natives, of all the coast between Tradelown on the 'south east and Cape Mount on the north west, and Simoe and Maryland in Liber ia, similar in territorial extent, which for a small consideration might be easily ac quired, they would then possess the right of excluding from their limits all species of trade and communication inimacable to their interists. Bat a bare posses sion of the country, and promulgation M inhibitory laws • would not keep out the slate trade. The immense lucrativeness of the trade would impell the avaricious on, quest of the detestable gains. All then that would be wanted, would be a sufficient force, which the Colony posses ses, to break tip any factories that might be established for the purpose, and a na val protecting armament front :thread, when such exterminating operations should be e carried - on,--This would be ma king sure work of the business. The na tives then would from necessity turn lo the cultivation of the soil, and the pur suits of an honorable commerce. fhe test of such a protecting armament would be comparatively small. No large and formid,ble force would be required. A small armed vessel with the support and countenance it would receive from the regular cruisers stationed on the coast, would effectually protect the commerce of the Colony, and prevent all prenicious intercourse in its territory. For such as sistance ample returns might be made iu, the aggregate trade of the Colony (which' would Increase with every succeeding year) if poured into the quarter whence the aid shall come. FARNING, Our people are making rapid progress in fanning. We have but little tem . that we shall not have a ifull supply . ofthe coarse stuff of life during the ensuidg, rains, waugre the scarcity among tl tives. Otv fears pf total loss of have subsided, and we hive still left. The sugar cane on the Soc farm we fear will be a total loss, for of a mill to grind. A circumstatic4 ceedingly to be regretted, on /man counts; but especially as the manufa of the article would disprove the dec Lions of mai that the article canm produced in Liberia. There are six acres of cane on the Agency far said by some called judges, Mk; of ex Tent (vanity. _ . Since writing the above, we i have tr a visit up the river, and we know o scene which has reminded us so muc American plantations, as that which o ed to view, as we ascended the small inence, on landing at New Gorgia. golden tassels on the luxuriant corn, ving to the wind, contrasted with , deep green the bushy cassada; and whole spreading out into a field of no dinary extent, presented a scene a l gratifying, as a subject of contemplatic and Pleasing to the sense S*Mthaa... - r delight in rural scenery.. 14k r the experience w have acqtr0e.......0.] ters relating to African agricultural, inedicum of assistance lvouid now enal the Colony to rise Phecenix like from ashes. SERPENTS Two monstrous sarpants have been k led lately, one on Mr. Moore's far and the other tin Mr. Cheesman's: th former was sixteen feet long, and the la ter twelve, who, by the way was a trul greedy fellow, lie had monopolized whole Filantomobo, (pardon the othogra ply, 'tis from our own mint,) a species o deer, which lay dead, but unassimilater in his omnivorous maw. Both of then snakes, we presume, were et the - Boa ape, cies. GOLD TRA DE. Soorie, a native of the Soosoo tribe, int habiting the north of Sierra Leon, in a re cent trailing excursion from this place tif the interior, pushed his journey a consid erable disctance beyond the utmost pois whith any of out American traders have. yet reached. rie - Says the rout to this place from the country from which gold and cattle are carried io Sierra Leone, the Nunez Pongas and tl-atnbia, is shorter, and more direct, than to any of these pla ces. fie states that the country that bounded its journey, is inhabited chiefly by Al indingOes, and is governed by a Alandidge Chief, and that they possess cattle in large abundance. And lie fur ther states thet the yeason.why gold and horses. are not brought here, as pletifully as they are carried to Sierra Leone, is "de Cape no hab money fit de trade." From the reports of different travellera, we have reason to believe, that a vein .of the precious metal runs alor , the edge of this corrioent, between ftlie western shores of the ,gre Sahara, and the eastern boundary of the eternal forest that guards the interior. What sinuosit;es it may have, or how nearly it may bend to this point of the coast, is not yet determined. We have been long of the opinion that a ,full supply of the proper merchandize kept constantly on hand in the Colony (which has never yet been the case,) 'would draw much of the gold and cattle, wax, &c,, from their wonted chan nel to Sierra Leone, and other places to the windward. ~-_~-, Horrid Olarraers Le afissis- sippi. We copy tfif following revolting nar rative of bloodshed from the Nashville Banner. We last night received the Greneda (Miss) Bulletin, of the Bth inst.in which we find an account of a most horrid scene of bloodshed and intlider. The Bulk 'tin states, that Gideon Gibson of Warren ,county, sold some time since a tract of laud on Yazoo river, and son.e forty or fifty negroes on , a long credit. to Wilson and Sitnpson, with an agreement on the part of Wilson to give to Gibson the pro ceeds of their crops annually in liquida tion of the debt, and a lien on the whole property as security—and Gibson agree= rig to furnish them with open land to cnitisatefor a few . years until they could by degrees get a plantation open on their own land. For this purpose Gibson retained the plantation of the Hon. Franklin E. Plum mer. Finally, some misunderstanding. between tire parties. Gibson demanded to have the contract rescinded. To tnis .Simpson agreed, but Wilson refused to give up the property. On Friday the 2d inst., Gibson, Simpson, Clark, Morrison 'and Boytt went on to the premises and took off the negroes by force. Wilson was in his own house armed with a rifle and double-barrel shot gun. As they passed the house, he fired upon them,' killing Morrison dead and severely woun ding Bovtt . The company rode on with the negroes, leaving Morrison's body on . the ground. Wilson re-loaded, cut through the livid, got ahead of them and tired again, killing Clark and probably . Gibson. Simpson and Buytt and three negroes got °Wand arrived at Dr. Fishers neighboring plantation. The other ne groes took to the woods. Gibson's horse arrived at Dr. Fisher's. It was believed Gibson was killed. The Sheriff and his posse were soon out in pursuit of Wilson. The Susquehanna River opposite this place was completely frozen over on thy' night of the 29th ulfimo.- •
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