Carolina Watchman

              edgefield conit-a black catalogue of crime the carolina watchman were relieved and were filing off to the rear of ' the hill the colonel accidently caught sight of a pair of shoes sticking out lrom beneath a huge pile of sand upon closer investigation a pair of feet with legs to them ihen a body and presently sam's wooly head was disinter red you black villain what aie you doing here said tbe colonel m why look heah colonel i don't care for the pscopet and muskets — much or de six pounders and de^shot ol dat size — bul when de dam mexicans begin lo shoot de reg'lar penn sylbany dutch ovens by golly i think its time for all nigger servants lo hide em diminished heads there was more truth than poetry in sam's idea of the size of a sixty-eight pounder flying machine the practicability of navigating the air by means of a flying machine has been satisfac torily demonstrated and settled as be thinks by mr john taggart of charlestown mass who the n y evening post says is at pres enl to be seen with his invention in dunlap's hotel 135 fulton street the flying machine consists of a car to the front of which is at tached a pair of wings somewhat like the screws used by propellers and a float or balloon fas tened to the car in the ordinary way at an ele vation of six or eight feet the wings which may be moved in any direction so as to assist in the ascent or descent of he machine are put in motion by turning a small axle running through the centre of the car the machine may be guided in any direction by means of a : rudder the slightest variation in which it obeys with wonderful precision the float or balloon which is pear-shaped is thirty-three feel nine inches in height having a diameter of some twelve feel and the whole weight of the machine when ready for ascen sion is three hundred and fifty pounds in ad , dition lo which it will carry with ease over one j thousand pounds the inventor told us that he had already made one ascension in it for ihe purpose of practically testing its powers the ascent was made from the commons at lowell mass in ' the presence of a large number of spectators '■ owing to some fault in inflating ihe balloon a ! quantity of steam was allowed lo intermix with the gas thus greatly diminishing its buoyancy so that when the ropes which held it to the [ ground were cut the machine ascended only to ' the height of a few feet when it fell down to ! the imminent peril of the occupant after two or three ineffectual attempts mr 1 taggart elevated the wings considerably above j the line of the car which had tbe desired ef j feet and away went the machine far above the | heads of the spectators until il had dwindled i in their gaze to the size of a swallow after attaining a considerable elevation mr t pro ceeded in the direction of lawrence whence ; he passed to andoverand bradford over which ' latter place he struck a current of air which j carried him at a rapid rate to redding from this again he passed to salem having crossed a portion of the sea in his passage from red ding and alighted at a distance of nine miles . of lowell accomplishing the whole voyage in ; an hour and twenty minutes mr taggart says that at one time he had obtaioed an elevation where the air became so ! ra rifled that it was with the greatest difficulty he could retain his powers of animation ; his hands and other parts of his body swelled and blood spurted from his mouth and nose the invention he tells us has met with the support and countenance of several ofthe sci entific men in massachusetts it is the inten tion of mr taggart to make an ascent in this city in the course of two or three weeks he has already invited some of our most eminent machinist and men of science to examine bis invention — peg intelligencer the coad wheat our farming readers will remember a short ! notice published in this paper early in the sum j mer of a field of remarkable wheat then rip ' ening on the farm of edwin j c«ad of st j mary's county maryland some ears of which we had seen and the qualities of which we en deavored to describe in consequence of the publicity thus given lo it probably a great de mand has arisen all over the country for sam ples of this crop and for seed wheat from it — in a letter received from the proprietor of the field he mentions one in which iu reply to in quiiies by a gentleman in alleghany county pennsylvania having sent him by mail a small sample ofthe wheat he received in acknowl edgment a letter from which the following is extracted : " i have shown tbe specimens received lo all our millers and to a very large portion of the farmers and with scarcely an exception they pronounce it the finest specimen of wheat they have ever seen i am not surprised to hear that you could have gotten twenty dollars for a sin gle bushel of wheal for had i that much now at the present time i could easily sell it at a dollar per pound i have been offered over and over again jive cents per grain for tbe spe cimen you sent me which would amount to over twelve dollars but its.scarcity makes it valuable c even in mr coad's own neighborhood at home enormous prices have been offered for il we are glad to learn that he is making prepa rations to seed a large crop this fall ; and if no disaster befalls the crop he will be able lo sup ply a good many demands persons at home and abroad are already engaging wheat for an other year and he has been obliged to make out a list for the purpose of registering iheir names residences quantity wanted r — nat int the wreck of the isaac mead to llie editors of the neve york tribune : if you deem the following notice of the wreck of the bark isaac mead worthy of an insertion in your valuable paper it is at your service i was lying awake in my state room when i heard the watch on deck give orders to the ; helmsman to steer to the windward of a vessel | which order seemed to be obeyed la a mo ment alter the order was countermanded as the vessel appeared to be crossing our track springing up i commenced dressing but just as i took my coat and vest up to put them on the watch cried out lhat the vessel would be into us at the same lime he hailed her lo steer away ; but before the sound of his voice had ceased the vessel which proved to be the steamer soulhernor struck us on our bowsprit which acted as a lever pryed the bow of the bark wide open i called out to learn whether there was any danger and the lirst answer ', came that there was none ; but some one im mediately cried lhat she was sinking 1 was dressed and running upon deck where the passengers were fast assembling several of us engaged for a moment in trying to launch a , life boat which hung on the starboard side but | before she was unlashed the bow of tbe bark was deep under water and none of us were able to stand the ladies were all terrified scream ing for help and mercy ; yet only one man seemed to lose command of himself those who could immediately jumped overboard and commenced swimming to get away from the vessel before she went down ; but no one had time to seize a plank or anything with which to sustain himself the vessel was so nearly perpendicular that i slid down to the mainmast where catching hold of a settee i drew my self wiih all my might toward the stern in or der to jump overboard bul i had scarcely time to catch hold of the rigging of the miz zenmast before she went down and the cries for help were drowned in the rush of waters made by the bark's sinking as we went down i commenced drawing myself up by the rigging and when i had cleared myself from that i continued todescpnd being drawn down by the sinking vessel exerting myself to rise lo the surface till after what seemed to me an age i fell lhat i was no longer descending since the rush of water had ceased although i as cended rapidly i was so long under water lhat i was in a nearly exhausted condition when i gained the surface as soon as i had cleared my slomach and lungs of water i looked a round to see where the steamer was which had floated tar to the southeast about one hundred yards to the southwest i observed sev ] era things afloat towards which 1 started and for the first fifteen minutes had nothing to sup port myself with i then found a board about three feet long and two wide on which i rested for a moment and took the first long breath — , during all this time the cries of those who were trying to sustain themselves were most heartrending and loud above all the others was clearly distinguished lhat of a female i tried to throw off my coat and boots but find ing it impossible turned out off my course to try to render aid to the lady when near enough to see her i called out to her take cour age telling her that i would soon be with her ; also not lo spend her strength by calling for help but to hold firmly lo her plank since she would soon be saved she replied that her strength was almost gone and lhat unless she was soon saved it would be too late at lhat time a man a favr yards from her rolled off his plank but whether he was previously dead or not could not be ascertained ; he neither struggled nor gave a sound but immediately disappeared the sea rolled so heavily i couid scarcely swim against it and il was al this lime thai some one of the floating planks ! or timbers struck against mv side and arm and threw me under water recovering myself however i turned lo look at the lady who was then being carried on the top of a high wave . and holding firmly to her plank ; it rolled v ith her and she went under but by an almost superhuman effort she recovered her position ; on the plank again and commenced calling for ] aid she soon lost her hold again and went down but rising asked me to help her as she ■ should soon go down and when almost near enough lo reach her plank she gradually re j laxed her hold and with one long gurgling cry i disappeared forever for the first time i felt i desolate and disheartened fearing lest ihe ''■ steamer was going lo leave us and looked to i wards the land but none could be seen an ' other man soon afier went down near me cry | ing for help and mercy and i began to think mv last hour was at hand suffice it to say that after being iu the water for more than three quarters of an hour i was rescued by ; the steamer's boats yet sad to relate only nine were left to tell the mournful tale twenty four have gone to their final account of these ; one was the child ofthe above mentioned lady i which the steward with praiseworthy humani ty carried through the waves swimming with : one hand till no sign of life appearing he left ' it the steward was picked up in an exhaust ' ed stale the cap'ain was drawn under water by some one who seized him by the hand and who came near drowning him almost immediate ly after this he was seized again by the breast and in disengaging himself had to tear off his clothes after recovering himself however be swam away for the steamer and finding a plank managed to save himself the rest of the crew and ihe remaining passengers met with no particular incidents all being routed from their sleep no one had lime to save any thing and many passengers never got out of ; tbe cabin i we were kindly treated on board the steam ' er which brought us to new york and i take tbis opportunity to express the thanks of all who j were saved lo those who so nobly contributed ; to our wants and whose kindness sinks deep i into our hearts ! in the midst of this gratitude only one cause of uneasiness acls a drawback and that is the long delay of the steamer's boats in coming to our rescue why we were forty minutes in the water is a question which i would not like . i lo press lor an answer three went down who i struggled more than hall an hour yet let a | veil be thrown over the whole ; all was so or i dered by the will ol him who alike ruieth the ! armies of heaven and the children ol men w h.stanton flushing october 7 general cass has been re-nominated for the next presidency by the democralic state con vention of michigan — commercial a inter from an esteemed friend dated edg field c h oct 12 informs us that his honor judge o'neall had been en gaged all the week on the sessions docket five capital cases had been tried — two for killing slaves two for killing white men and one for rape ; all except one for killing a slave a boy by a little boy were more or less connected with intoxi cating drink out of ihis fearful array of capital felonies one of the cases for kill ing a negro and one for killing a white man were found guilty of manslaughter the other iwo cases of homicide resulted in a verdict of acquittal the case for rape resulted in a conviction for an assault with an intent to commit a rape we learn that the subject of this brutal outrage was a highly respectable maiden lady oi j.'i years of age the act was committed in the house where she her brother and two other maiden sisters lived her brother was drunk at the time and hail been during the previous night the perpetrator of the loul crime was his com panion in drink having spent the whole night with him drinking his sister be ing worn down with fatigue and loss of rest had lain down in the evening after dinner to sleep and it was when she was thus situated that the attempt was made in a letter written by the perpetrator in jail to the lady her brother and sisters he says : — '• i cannot think for the life of me what could have got into me for if i know myself i never thought of such a thing before it must have been liquor for irhen in nor is in nit is without one other man was convicted of an as sault wilh intent to kill and murder the the cases in which convictions took place were sentenced on saturday as follows viz : the state vs stonecker the little boy convicted of killing a little boy slave on sudden heat and passion sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and a fine of >. 100 the state vs parker convicted of man slaughter in killing stephen stalnaker — 3 months imprisonment line 6100 we understand lhat this verv moderate sen tence resulted from the fact that the pris oner had been struck in a previous atfray of the same night by the deceased with a stone and stabbed in the back by his brother all parties were drinking the state vs siron convicted of as sault with intent to commit a rape — sen tenced to five months imprisonment and ! to pay a fine of 200 the state vs freeman convicted of an assault with intent to kill col james tom kins — sentenced to be imprisoned six months and pay a fine of 100 and to find sureties to keep the peace aud be of good behaviour we learn that from an inspection of the dockets for a period of ten years past ihey exhibit the startling fact that there have been 21 distinct homicides in edgefield district in that time ! what an awful catalogue of crime is here presented to be accounted for by old edgefield ! why is it that such a district remarkable for tal ent patriotism and piety should be bur dened wiih such a vast amount of crime . the intemperate use ot intoxicating drink furnishes the read answer men other wise respectable sell the hateful thing and lay the foundations of their ruin in their own bar-rooms how long oh ! how long will old edgefield bow down iu abject degradation to the slavish yoke ! &'. c temp advocate the greensboro patriot speaking of the number of persons leaving the state says : a gentleman of this place has kept a cursory count ofthe number of emigrants who have gone through here during the past thirty days the number is«'»l3 — an average of over 20 per day — and the probability is that this falls much short of the actual amount besides we learn that the number passing up the flat hock road on our north are unprecedented — the thorough-fares on the south probably present similar scenes we by no means wish to subject our selves to the charge of croaking over tbis painful and humiliating subject ; but we may repeat the words of the carolinian it is deplorable is there any remedy is it ever to be the highest reputation of north carolina that she is a grail state to go away from ? she must become a great state to come to or at least to slay in before she can assume her proper stand there is but one remedy we must have more attention from the people and their legislators to state concerns and less to federal politics we may shout around hickory poles and log cabins tramp about with polk stalks on our shoulders and coonskinson our heads and throw up our caps to political leaders un til doomsday and all will not raise our state out of the dust we have tried all that ami nothing else and ought to be satisfied that il is unavailing oh that this truth could be indelibly impressed upon the minds of our people — that we must keep parly out of our councils when state improvements are under considera tion and meet only as north carolinians before we can effect anything great and good for the land of our birth ! i but remarks a cotemporary " there is one consolation to those who have had the privilege of legislating for the good of th state and have not done it ; viz : that if we have not greatly increased our own population our stand still policy has cer tainly helped to swell that of other states which have bad more public spirit and thus contributed to a prosperity which in vited emigration georgia alabama mississippi louisiana texas arkansas ! and tennessee contain hundreds ot thou sands of native born north carolinians who have literally been driven from her bosom by the thriftless policy of her legislators j j bruner } t " keep a check upo all yock editor 6 proprietor ) rclehs ( new series do this andliberttis safe < gen i harrison ( volume vii number 21 oi the watchman - , a-riptioii.per year two so__a_s payable in | , ;: if not paid in advance two dollars . wih he charged a'1'1 le:rrs inserted at 1 forthe first and 23 cts j a-vr-rr '., subsequent insertion court orders chirged fo tbc ' higher than these rates a liberal deduc es vt hose who advertise hy the year i,in i0 h • editors must he post paid i n " i r^carolina watchman for the watchman .. editor — i wish to call the attention of uh!ic anil ihal f slave-owners in partic to tin1 practice so common in this com ; , 1 ni"ht earn shucking i am well sat i fi h that the attendance ol slaves on these l,erjngs is often without the knowledge or „■,! nl the owner and ihe manner of their on_-nl "' ' . .... • a rarit'd on is greally injurious to hun — i .; place il is the standing rule iu all - lcases lo give every one white and black « liquor as they can drink ifl inu second place it is the custom to per i . , lje greatest license of speech especially ' ' gongs the grossest obscenity and j ' iv are anil common and what is of far j ,. importance llie prevailing sentiment of,i 0f their set songs is in the highest de i ee rude and insulting towards the whiles and ' i *„ 0fien insurrectionary in their lone il i lpre should ever come a time when danger ; .. as j0 be apprehended from the slaves i know i of no mure convenient mode of bringing their ,. to a head than these nightly rendez it may be said that it looks tin-neigh i i l fuse to let your slaves jjo upon such ons rut neighbors should remember lis work can be done much better in the h can be done without debauching the morals of ihe slave and where there is no ij conspiracies or insurrection | nave a few slaves and these have hereto d the general practice of going to , njohl corn shuckings i have invariably ob ] that chills and fever pneumonia pleuri ! .., r bronchelis ensue about he close of the n season : and i have little doubt thai agreal many deaths among whites and blacks ihutableto the exposure of these oeca i i ihe loss of time from shucking — the st of doctors bills — and the loss of likely j - hy death could bo put together in a view it would be manifest that the pre gent mode of doing ihis labor is by far more i expensive than if it were done in the usual way or even if il were done like mowing and reaping b \ hired hands the chief advantage i iii ibi mode is lhat in the highly excited state : of feeling which prevails on such occasions a j i j!reai deal of labor is done in a short time — , i this is undoubtedly the case but it is often •. i dune at the expense of the slave owner be i ides having the slave stupified all next day \ t from the previous night's revelry and thus in j i capacitated lo render his usual day's work — ! i he is exposed lo vice and dangerous tempta i tion — his morals and his health are endanger ed—and he is every way rendered a less valu ahle slave forsytbe superior court the fall term of the superior court fur j forsythe county was held last week — juilge manly presiding there was but one case of general importance disposed of lo wit : " the i slate vs jesse mcbride and adam crooks on a charge of circulating an incendiary pub lication the defendants were indicted under the act of 1830 being the 17th section of the l chapter on crimes and i'uni-hmeuts in the re vised statute which is as follows : " if any person shall knowingly bring into this state wilh an intent to circulate or know ingly circulate or publish within this state or shall aid or abet the bringing into this state or the circulation or publication within the state any written or printed pamphlet or paper whe ther written or printed in or out of the state the < evident tendency whereof would be to excite insurrection conspiracy or resistance in tbe slaves or free negroes and persons of color within the state or which shall advise or per suade slaves or free persons of color to insur rection conspiracy or resistance such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of felony aud on conviction thereof in any court having jurisdiction thereof shall for the first offence be imprisoned not less than one year and be put in ihe pillory and whipped at the discre tion of the court and for the second offence shall suffer death without benefit of clergy this case had excited intense interest in for sylhe and the adjoining counties and the trial was attended by a large crowd of anxious spec j tators il was taken up on friday morning aud occupied the whole day and until 9 or 10 i o'clock at night the state was ably repre j senled by john a iltner and hugh waddell | esqs and the defendants by george c men j denhall and james t morehead esqs great ! latitude was allowed by the court to the de i fendanls counsel and every disposition shown \ to give them a fair and impartial hearing ; and i no one who witnessed the zeal and ability of the counsel for the defendants can accuse them of not discharging their whole duty towards iheir clients the pamphlet on the circulation of which the charge was founded and which was read in evidence contained a sort of running commen tary on the ten commandments couched in ihe violent and canting language of the aboli tionists and intended to show rtiat slaveholders live in the habitual violation of all said com ! mandments the essential point of evidence salisbury n c thursday october 24 1850 from the raleigh register ashlmlle n c oct 9 1850 to the editor of the register : the hon t l clingman m c made his appearance today on the public square to give an account of his political stewardship o a large and intelligent auditory such had nev er before been the custom of members of con gress as we are aware from this distict but ; ihe great dissatisfaction expressed pretty gen erally with mr c's course seemed to render such a step necessary on his part we wish to say nothing disrespectful lo the hon m c — but in the estimation ol candid men he sig nally failed with all the special pleading he was master of and all the appeals to sectional feeling that a congressman fresh from debate could devise to satisfy ihe minds ofthe people \ a powerful revulsive feeling has begun against j him which will sooner or later issue in mr clingman's overthrow we are sorry to say so — for mr c is a man of talents and if his patriotism was only as deep as his ambition he would be a valuable auxiliary to any parly — ' but as it is we must in candor say that we have no faith in the politician his slights of the whig party were many and marked in the course of his speech — and his complaints lo ihe worthy democrats scattered about in de lightful profusion dul i must give him credit to say that he still speaks of " our party — meaning i suppose the whig party he thinks lhat old lines of party will be broken up on the late great issues before the country — and he evidently is preparing to be a clingman to the largest fragment but he is plainly mis j taken as to the great conservative national whig party when mr c tr.ok his seat mr baxter of henderson arose in reply mr baxter is one of our most sensible and practical lawyers — his ambition is confined within bis profession and we hope he may one day wear the ermine of the law the speech of mr baxter open ed with an expose of friend clingman's course ; as far back as his abortive attempt to obtain , the senator-ship of this state he playfully j said — " that had mr clingman been an older 1 and more experienced man and no better qual ! ified man had presented himself he would have 1 voted for him had he been a member of the ; legislature in consideration of his great per sonal kindness for mr c this effort of mr b's has placed him high among the friends of the union and the true friends ofthe south — lie showed how mr clingman's votes in con gress were given on the same side with gid j dings seward hale and chase and with j withering effect he charged home upon our ! m c his disorganizing disunion efforts du ! ring ihe past session and the croakings of a factious spirit in the midst of our national re joicings buncombe is right side up — and we rather think if we can start any sort of a man the next time somebody will be keel hauled under the shjp of stale by the way the hon m c forgot not to tell us lhat ihe editors of that truly national paper — the " washington intelligencer — were englishmen with eng lisb sympathies — the union newspaper he thought more friendly to the south ; but that would not do — il was the southern press that was the great paper for us to read and we were lacking in our duty lo the south if we did noi read and con over its pages ill they ' were well got by heart and lo heart of all ' presses deliver us from this ' south ern press humbug — soon to be among the things lhat were ' a school-boy's tale the wonder of an hour but good-bye mr ed j ilor till you hear again from old buncombe was the proof that mcbride on leaving thl honse of mr kenedy where he and crooks had staid all night put this pamphlet into the hands of mr k.'s daughter a little girl ten or twelve yeats old after the arguments of counsel and a clear and intelligent charge from the judge admit ted on both sides to be impartial at a late hour ihe jury retired and retrained together all night al the opening ofthe court on saturday morn ing ihe jury came iu with their verdict of guil ti as to mcbride and not guilty as to crooks we may here remark that there was no evi deuce adduced before the court against crooks exeept his association with mcbride the judge proceeded to pronounce against mcbride substantially the sentence prescribed in the statute viz : inprisonment for one year in the pillory for one hour and twenty lashes the defendant took an appeal to the supreme court these men have been travelling in neighbor ing sections for some time in the character of preachers sent herefrom some ecclesiastical bo dy in ohio it is not for us to discern the motives of their mission ; but the effect is evil notori ously evil ; and seeing this fut they can hard ly fail to perceive it they oughl now to desist from their operations among us one of them has been convicted after as fair a trial as any tnan ever had of a wilful violation of our laws dodging the balls we make the following amusing extract from " recollections of a campaign by one i who saw the elephant which we find in the illinois stale register il has reference io the siege of vera cruz : the morning after the flag had been so tri umphantly raised upon the hill overlooking the city was a busy one to those who had kepi watch and guard over that estimable treasure during the night scarce was it light enough ; to recognise your fellow sentinel from a pile of sand ere the " villainous saltpetre was again put in requisition from every fort in the cily from the castle out in the sea and the escopetes and muskets of the lancers and infantry who occupied the hills it fairly rained iron the men dug trenches in the light sand with their hands as a sort of protection from the balls of the foe " dodging the balls was also much in vogue and many were the twists and turns the fall ing down and the rising up the jumps the leaps and the jokes that were practised by the boys it was the most serious game of " cor ner ball i ever saw played this thing of dodging cannon balls may sound strange lothe reader but it is no less strange than irue — now to attempt to dodge or get out of the way of a musket ball or even a six pound shot i admit would be no easy task but to move backward or forward to the right or left and thus escape one of those tremendous 68 pound ers that we were favored with from ihe castle was as easy as " falling off a log the dis tance fired was somewhat over two miles and the course of those monstrous shapes of death could readily be distinguished from its peculiar humming sound and as it neared the hill its black ungainly visage was distinctly visible it was amusing to see the gyration and the ground and lofty tumbling of our black hero sam on this occasion poor sam's heroism at length could stand it no longer as the sharp quick cutting — tsit — tsit — list — of the mushet balls would fly over his head he would throw up the whites of his eyes like a duck in a thunder-storm and cry out : " lord a massy bress dis nigger " good lord dat was close and as a large ball would strike the lops of the hill and throw up a perfect column of sand sam would throw himself flat on his face and lay slill f_|;two or three minu'es for i fear as he said " de black rascal might burst at last sam wa missed from the hill and af ter ihe troops that had remained there all night i am persuaded that on many of these occa i sinns where a good deal of fuss and liquor prevail there is not much corn shucked there i are particularly almut the town of salisbury a number of very drunken slaves who make il • a point to attend ali these gatherings these fellows make a good deal ol noise — are very insolent and do but little work i am satis | tied thai it would be greatly to the advantage ol tbeir owners to keep them at home and no loss at all to the neighborhood farmers who are honored with their presence i sugtjesl that a stricter discipline be adopt ed during the corn shucking season thai no i slave be allowed to invite hands to such meet i ii)j that no slave from the town be per j milled lo go into the country and that a patrol ofeacb neighborhood be required to attend and nuke a strict examination of every slave that j goes lo one of these shuckings it would be a very great gain to the community if the fash | ion as it now prevails could be dispensed | with — but il has got so incorporated into the ; customs of society that a sudden reform in this respect cannot be looked lor — but every con i sideration of prudence and safely require that ! more caution and a stricter supervision be had j over these corn shuckings y the fugitive slave bill great excitement has been caused in some portions ofthe country by the ope j rations of the fugitive slave law ar rests of alledged slaves have been made at pittsburg new york and elsewhere the slaves in each instance being safely returned to their masters the alarm a naong ihe colored population is so great lhat numbers have taken up the line of march for more safe and distant quarters i any inconvenience experienced by those " fugitives from labor all excitement threats and outrages against the peace of the country the safety of the union with the increased hardship or anoyance to the blacks here or in the south have all been brought about by those bitter foes of the slave the ultra-abolitionists this is the legitimate fruit of that ultra-abolitionism which in its blind zeal has proved the slave's greatest curse without having yet realized one solitary particle of good either to the black man or the white an evidence of the utter want of every real sympathy with the colored man was seen last week when s00 was raised in the city of new york to restore the fugi tive slave to his family in that city of the sum which secured the return ofthis colored man not one cent was raised by the abolitionists this was not a case of buying a slave to take him out of bondage thereby aid big to strengthen slavery the plea behind which abolitionism always shelters itsell when appealed to but an effort to restore the man to his family and friends in a free state the heartless refusal to aid in ' such a cause shows that discord disunion and anarchy a reckless hostility to the great cause of universal emancipation a«d the rights liberty and hapinessof the human race is more the object with these unhapr»y agitators than any real j sympathy or care for the colored man american courier a letter from san francisco of 31st august mentions an invoice of house frames lately ar rived there from baltimore invoice cost 3 500 freight 1,200 they were sold to pay charges and only brought 550 this is not very favorable io shippers of houses ! it was in evidence that he had publicly declar ed his purpose to persist in the course he had , pursued in his ministry regardless of the law c nothing but that high sense of loyalty to the law which happily pervades the communi ty has saved him from summary punishment ; and if he can with impunity violate the law of i the land would he complain if an outraged community do the same thing in regard to him ! it was remarked that these men conducted themselves wilh propriety during iheir attend ance at court mcbride was bound in a heavy sum wilh surety not to circulate any more pamphlets of the same sort during the penden cy of his appeal — greens patriot another remedy for the south the portsmouth pilot says lhat the enter prise for establishing a virginia ocean house upon the atlantic near cape charles has form ed a nucleus — and that president falls of the baltimore steam packet company with mr wise and several gentlemen of norfolk and portsmouth have reconnoitred and found a de lightful and commanding site for the purpose — one susceptible of the fullest improvement and far surpassing in advantages the celebra ted resort at cape may the pilot urges the immediate erection of suitable hotel building we head this paragraph ' another remedy for the soulh because we look upon every dollar of i southern money which can be kept at home instead of being squandered in luxury and ex travagance in northern watering places as giving so much additional strength lo the south thousands upon thousands of southern money have been spent duiing the past summer at northern wataring places which might have been retained at home the virginia ocean house we trust may be established and we hope it may receive the patronage of southern people the most effectual and constitutional j mode to fighl ihe north is through the pocket \ wil commercial j in philadelphia on friday a man was ar i rested on the charge of having altered the elec ; tion returns of two wards after they had been made up by the proper officers judge king in i holding him to bail remarked : " he looked upon the act of polluting the bai ' lot box as next in heinou-tiess to the committal i ! of murder as it struck al the very existence of i our institutions he therefore would hold him j in 1,500 to answer