South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-08-13

by the London Patriot that MIR. George
Thompson has challenged "any A
merican Clergyman, or other gentle
man, TO discuss the general question Of
his charges against America g. Amer
icsn ministers touching the subject Of
African slavery! The Patriot states
that Rev. R. J. Breckenridge has ac-
cepted the challenge. He purposes
that the discussion should take place in
Glasgow at any time during the first
three weeks 10 June and that full
report of the debate should be publish.
ed.-Rich. Tel.
O. On the 21st Of July the Rev.
Mr.. Perkins, Presbyterian Minister at
Montreal, and the Rev. Mr.. Curry, Of
the Home Missionary Society, were
admitted into the Nunnery, OF which
so much noise has been made, and
have pronounced Maria Monks book
to be hoax. Her friends and herself
do not appear satisfied viii, the inves-
legation, and charge the above rever-
end gentlemen with being accomplices
Of she priests, who have been admits
ted into the Nunnery, for the same pur.
poses as the priests resort TO that house
Of "ilI fame i" This is indeed seri-
Gus charge against these gentlemen,
and one under which they ought moi
TO rest Gettysburg Sentinel.
We lesrn from the Chicago Ameri-
can, that a man by the name Of Benz.
F.. Norris was executed at the town Of
Concord, In the county Of Iroquois, H.
Iinois, on Friday, the 10Th ult. The
specific crime for which he fortified
his life ia not mentioned, but more
despicabIe villain, we venture to say,
has rarely, If ever, blackened the an
nails of wickedness. "Before his exc
cution," says the American She con-
fessed he had stolen great number of
horses, had assisted in setting fire to
bank, and the Pearl street House in
Cincinnati, had been confined in the
Ohio penitentiary, had shot men in
Ohio, and knocked down and robbed
a man in Cincinnati, and had been
concerned In other crimes with certain
individuals, whose names it would not,
perhaps, be proper to MENTION"
What wholesale rascal tits well
that he is removed beyond the power of
committing further enormi,ies.-. Whig.
rJ The address of the Staunton COM
mittee Of correspondence to the friends
of Gen, Harrison throughout Virginia,
we place In our columns to day, with a
view to excite the friends of that gentle
man in this section OF our state particu-
larly, on the question Of the next Presi
dency. The question with us in this
quarter is Harrison or Van Buren,. We
think meetings Of the friends of Harrison
ought to take place as early as they can
be conveniently effected, as the time is
drawing close upon US when this great
question must be settled. Harrison's
prospects are highly flattetiDg-and let
it not be said that his friends in his natal
state. Virginia. have been remiss in we'll
timed and well executed efforts in Sec
conding those of his friends in other
states. Adopting the language of a CO.
temporary. which we heartily believe.
we say. that "the rise Of Gen. Harrison
as candidate for the Presidency 10 with
out parallel. 1t is not two years since
his name was mentioned any where in
connection with that Office; and yet,
though living in humble retirement, with
out wealth, without official influence, or
indeed any thing but his good name and
his important public services to recon-
mend him--and in despite of the settled
arrangements Of party leaders in favour
of other individuals has passed by
them ell. and become the strongest cam
didate in the field. Nor has it been ef-
fected by any agency of his own-for ne
yer was there in mere man more public
virtue yelled in SO much modesty. Is
no, this fact then, of itself. suficien. to
show whose candidate he is : Is he not
in deed and in truth the candidate ofthe
People Yes. the People. emphatically
the People--Jacksonmen and Anti.Jack-
son They took him up in defiance of
Party orders, and they can and will car