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.
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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.- •