Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-05-16

the victim Of your unrelenting persecution
| for four years. You have MARI my
happiness, and cIouded my prospects, and
have attempted 10 stab my reputation"
III sir" exclaimed the President-''lk know
nothing about it," Randolph replied-'l
have your signature in my pocket; and
have nothing left, but TO return the com
plment, and pull your nose;" which be
did with but little effort; whereupon an OF
ficer a Colonel, struck him with
sword sheathed; Mr.. Potter, Clerk m
the Treasury Department, gave him three
severe blows with the handle end Of an |
umbrella. which was followed up by many
other blows, which brought Randolph to
The ground, when he received many more
blows. until his friend DIS kept Of the Co,o
ards. got him on his legs, and pulled him
from the Boat on the wharf; when there a
stout man by the name OF Col: Burroughs
(of monumental fame,} caught him and
held him by the uncrippled hand, striving
to raise a mob on the wharf, or carry him
back on board TO be murdered; but friend
and myself. prevented him from striking
Randolph; when--came up and coilard
the redoubtable Burroughs, who then
dropped his hold, and Randolph without
hat and bis coat in tatters, walked up
10 the tavern, borrowed horse, and left
the District"
An important trial was recently held IN
the u 5. District Court at Philadelphia
before Judges Baldwin and HopkInson, IN
which were involved some interesting
questions touching runaway slaves. The
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Saturday.
II arose out of the seizure, in 1922, of a
runaway slave in the State of PeDnsylya
MIA, by his owner from New Jersey. with
out a warrant The owner took the runa
way by force from his place Of service, x
had put him in a wagon, when the person
in whose service the slave was at the time
employed, with the assistance Of his neigh
bors assaulted the owner Mr. G. Johnson)
and his party released the slave, and at
ter having wounded Mr. j seriously in
the scuffle, took him and his friends prison
ers, to jail, and had him indicted for felo
ny before the County Court, at which he
was tried and acquitted.
The present suit was brought under the
act Of Congress by Mr. Johnson, against
one Kindernine, with whom the runaway
was residing, and who had been active in
the attacks. The damages were laid at
$4,000.
Judge Baldwin charged decidedly in ia
YOUR OF the Plaintiff. and his remarks are
quoted as 'ta striking commentary upon
the recklessness of those who assert that
tho North is interfering with the peculiar
property of the South" He expressly di
rected the Jury "that a master has the
right of arresting his slave ,cithoM war
rant, and carrying him before any com
petent tribunal, in order to prove his pro-
perry, that he is not required to answer
the questions of any one, except those OF
The legal magistrates, and that parol ev
dence is sufficient TO show the validity Of
/, his claims 10 the absence OF a bill Of sale. "
The Jury found for the plaintiff four
J thousand dollars damages -BaA finer.
! Murder On Thursday ewing last,
( Henry Kinder was apprehended and
brought before Esq. Ramsey, of this DO
rough, charged with having committed a
murder on that day upon man ma med
Conrad Feester, in Southampton town
ship, in this county, about fifteen miles
|, west of this place. The bloody deed was
committed with butcher knife, which
the prisoner plunged into the body Of the
deceased, which caused his death instan-
taneously,
The circumstances which led to this
fatal result we have not been able to as
certain, excepting what was elected from
the prisoner on his examination, who con
iessed having committed the murder, and
exhibited the bloody knife with which he
done the act with exultatlon.
He alleged that the deceased, on seve.
raj occasions attempted to create distur-
bance between his wife, and himself, IN
order to entice her off from his bed and
board-and that on Wednesday last, it
appears, the deceased succeeded in bis ei
forts and obtained her consent TO accom-
pany him to the west. The prisoner, as
soon as he found his wife missing, follow
ed after and overlook them at the house
of Samuel Lindsey, few miles from Ship
pensburg, when an alterc alton took place
between the parties, which resulted in the
death Of one Of them in the manner above
, stated.
/ Kinder Immediately returned to this
place, where he has resided for a short
time past. He appears to have made nc
efforts TO escape, and when apprehended
cheerlully went with the Sheriff before the
magistrate, and acknowledged to the a,
bove facts. He was accordingly commit
ted TO prison TO await his trial.
- Carlisle Herald,
! CINCINNATI. April so, 1888.
Another Steam Boat Lost The Steam
err Guyandotte, whilst ascending the Ohio,
las evening, struck snag, few miles
above this city, and sunk almost immedl
ately. No lives lost She was the u. s
Mail packet from this place to Guyandotte