South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-09-12
houses, and held high festivals and green
corn dances in their ravaged fields.

u7 Inc OlrCuit CupeTiof Oouit VI
Law and Chancery for Hardy county,
will commence its session in Moorefeld,
ON Monday the 21st inst.
O. A vessel ia expected TO sell from
Norfolk in October or November next,
for Liberia, with seventy-five emigrants
to that colony.
g We learn from the Harrisburg
(Pa.) Intelligencer, that MATTHIAS the
impostor, passed through that place on
Monday week last, and was vending his
way westward.
O. 1t iss,ated that the Dysentery is
very destructive at Bloomsbury, Pa; Sc
ven persons having died. and many more
are languishing on the bed of disease.
$50
o. An account states that Of the
nine representatives 10 Congress elected
last fall, in Georgia, FOUR have recently
resigned, and another is so i'll that it is
expected he will not be able to serve.
o. The Methodist clergy Of Ohio,
recently, recorded their sentiments in OPP
positio to the conduct of the northern
aboltionists.
o. Tomorrow is the anniversary
of the retreat Of the British troops from
Baltimore, during the last war, after al
unsuccessful attempt upon that city, both
by land and water.
0E A man named WAEELER re-
ceived throug h the Post Office in the CT
ty of New York, on the 2nd inst. letter
containing 423 dollars--4o0 of which the
writer says he stole from him four years
ago, aud that his conscience would not
let him retain the money any longer"
O. 1t is proposed that the Mer-
chants of this state hold convention in
Richmond, in December next, to take in
TO consideration the propriety of with
drawing all trade and intercourse from
any city, town. or corporation. where the
are countenanced in their
mistaken philanthropy.
u We find the following extract from
a speech delivered by Harrison Gray o.
lis, at the meeting held in Boston on the
.2d ult. responding to the feelings ofthe
'outh, in some of our exchange papers.
As has been remarked. it is view ofthe
question which should not be overlooked
BY all who are anxious to prevent the for
nation ola political Auti-slayery party.
"There still remains in my mind a
till stronger objection than any / have
Urged to this association. Its evident
direction is towards becoming a politi-
;al association, whose object it will be
and whose tendency now is to bear d.
.ec,ly upon the ballot boxes and to in
luence the elections. Already we
Snow that the Member of Congress e.
ect for this district was Intercepted
lpon bis intended course respecting
slavery in the District Of Columbia, &
with an independence which, apart
rom bis other merit, evinces his quail
ieations for his place, he refused to
pledge himself, aud reserved the right
o act as his judgment might dictate
when obliged to act. And can you
doubt, fellow citizens, that these asso-
stations viii act together for political
ourposesl Is it in human nature for
'uch combinations to forbear? II then
heir numbers should be augmented,
md the success they anticipate realiz-
ID in making poselytes, bow soon
night you see majority in Congress
e,urned under the influence of the as.
ociation? And how long afterwards
would this Uaion lastl Sir, 10 the ear
If imagination, | now hear the to!ling
If its mournful knell."
GT- Will not r. M. JOHNSON be more
acceptable to the abeliticnists and ANAL
,amists than any man who can be named
or the Vice Presidency south of the Po-
omac River, We think SO. Rives will !
lot, cannot, successfully rival him in
heir estimation. Van Buren, done well !
q riveting the support ofthese classes of |