The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-12 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

The Asia's news had advanced the prices of flour and
breadstuff, on the New York market, and prices wire firm
and buoyant. The crott.mt market was also I igher. Free
purchases had been made of wheat at 3c. to sc. per bushel
advance.
A.4)14.11 were in fair demand.
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Freights rather firmer, with more offtrieg from Liver-
pool.
The stock market had slightly decline'. Bills on London
were quoted Rol to 1.

The fall trade fa dry goi.da had fairly cantaieced aad
every branch wee more or leas active.

A NEGRO MURDERER BURNED AT THE
STAKE.

The negro man (says the Boonville 04serrer), be_
longing to 11. Franco, of Heath's Creek, Pettis emuty,
Missouri, who murdered the wife of John Rains, I:ein; in
the lame neighbourhood, was burned at the stake in or
near Georgetown on the 13th instant The eireurn‘tanees
attending this murder, so far as we can learn, were as
folio ,r 3 :

The negro man, aged nineteen or twenty, visited kir.
Rains's house on Sunday morning, the ilid of July, wHe
Rains was absent at meetine, for the diabolical purpose,
according to bis confession, of committing a rape upon the
:n: was brutally mur.
person of Mrs. Rains. The consequence was that this lady,
daredwithinwaitfew a weekschib itohfe
nae7r aiu)ti leternrupted to kill her oldest
boy, and fancied he had killed him, fearing, as he saisl, tl.at
he would tell on him; end two younger children were
sadly bruised, and thrown in a fence corner, because, so
the negro said, they annoyed him " by crying about their
mother."

When Rains returned hone he found his wife dead, and
his eldest boy so badly bruised that it was thought be could
not recover, but he distinctly hdd his Esther who it was
that had committed the outrage. This demon in human
shape was immediately apprelunded fur trial, but the citi•
yeas took possession of him to burn him immediately, and
delayed the execution only to ascertain the motives of such
a villunous outrage.
The negro at first said, as we understand, that it was not
him who committed the murder, but his brother; and next,
admitting his guilt, said he was instigated to the act by bis
young master. Ilia young master was immediately taken
into custody, but was released because the negro exculpated
him from the charge, admitting that it grew out of his Ms
tention to commit a rape.

The only cacti.° which can be oW•red for the awful rem-
buti•on of burning this negro, is the nature of the (dente,
and the frequent attempts of late years of negroes to violate
white women—several instances of which have occurred in
this county—and the impression among the community that
it required such an example to protect them from the re.
petition of similar outrages. The negro's crime was horrid
indeed ; hut his punishment will be regarded by many at
cruel, if not barbarous.

Had it been a white man, instead of a negro, there is no
doubt but what he would have ‘hared a sitniltr fate.

The citizens of Pettis county having some suspicion that
the negro was instigated to the perpetration of the deed by
his master, or that he knew more of the murder than had
been disclosed, and in consideration of past offences, held
a meeting on the 13th instant, and passed the following
resolutions:

Resolved, that Henry France and family be notife'd to
leave Pettis county within ten days, and that William
France he notified to leave it at the same time.

Resolved, that Heury France be notified to leave the
state within thirty days from this date.

ltesolved, that we, the committee, guarantee safety to
kirnself and property for ten days—provided be behaves
himself as a whi,e maa should—and fur the following rea-
sons, Ti..:
Ist. For aiding and abetting. as we believe, in the mur-
der of Elizabeth Rains, on the 3rd day of July, 1333.
2nd. For various and divers depredations committed on
the live stock of his neighbours.
3rd. For various threats to commit depredations aol
injuries upon his neighbours.
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4th. Fora bad example set before slaves by elnvcrsing
with tht in in relation to the virtue and chastity of whits
women, and in defamation of their character, thereby
fluenciog them to commit deeds of crime and rapine.
sth. And in view of thesc reasons, we do not fed that

our families and interests are safe whilst they remain in the
neighbourhood.