Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-10-18
Ep1sro BRIDGE DESTROYED BY FIRE.

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We learn that the Bridge across the Edisto
River, over which the Rail road was construct
ed, was totally destroyed BY fire on Tuesday
night last. 1t appears that it must have been
the act of incendiaries, as fire was communi-
Gated to both ends and to the middle of tho
Bridge at the same time.
We have been informed that measures We're
Immediately adopted, by the use of flats to
keep up the commune alton, so that no inter-
ruption viii take place, nthe transportation of
passengers.
Indian Treaty.-The Philadelphia Herald,
states that Henry r. Schoolcraft, Esq. Major
Whiting, of the U. S. Army, and ]. w. Ed
monds, ESQ.,, were, on the 18th instant, holding
treaty at Mackinaw, with the Chippewas and
Ottawa Indians, for the purchase of the tract
of country lying between Lake Huron and
Lake Michigan, and North Grand river, and
also all the lands lying north of these lakes and
west of the Straits OF st. Mary. The price to
be paid is two millions.
Express IMaa.-The Fredericksburg, Va.
Arena says "the contract for carrying the Ex-
press Mail between that place and Richmond,
has been taken by Jas. A. Beckham at $l3,O65
per annum The mail is to be carried at the
rate of ten miles an hour, and the arrange
ment is to 60 into operation about the lst of
November"
COTTON CROP.
Sofar as we have been enabled to gather In
formation respecting the cotton crop of the
ensuing season, in this section, We are convin-
ced that it will be unusually short. The early
FROST having nearly perfected the work of de-
struction begun by the worms and insects Of
the summer.-Fayetterihe Observer
A new bell weighing 5000 lbs. has been pre-
cured for the City Hall N. Y. to be rung in
cases of alarm by fire.
The elections of inspectors of elections in
Pennsylvania have been held and are said to
have terminated in favor of the Van Buren,
party.
Marylond-One of the Van Buren electors
has gone forward and qualified. 1t stdl re-
quires 2 to make quorum.
From the Charleston Courier.
RIcE-DRY CULTURE.
A sinple border of rice was planted IN
Garden in Cannonsborough, around, several
b6eds-the whole length 2l2 feet. ltproduced,
after being threshed and wmnowed, halt
bushel and peck, good measure. Iftworows
of los feet each (or 2l0 feet) produce this
ouant;tv. then SO rows, the usual number in
duarter OF an acre, would produce 26 l-2 BUSH
els. and two quarts, or for one acre l05 IA
bushels.
Hon. E. Shepley u S. Senator from Maine
has been appointed to ajudgeship in that State
The law of Maryland referred to in the fol-
lowing article provided that if man shall take
to wife Negro, he shall be sold as slave.
at is not generally known that by a law
passed in Ills, and still in force, Richard NJ.
Johnston, were he an inhabitant of this State
and amenable to its laws, would be liable to be
sold to the highest bidder, as slave, for the
term of seven years. Thus, if the conqueror
of Tecumseh had had his lot cast on the north
bank of the Potomac instead of at the Great
Crossings, the opposition might have been u-
der the necessity Of buying their candidate for
the Vice Presidency at public auction. Such
were the notions of our ancestors with regard
to the propreties of life, and their Judgment
has rem aimed nndistiurbed for more than Gen.
tur,,- Nd ErG5nIHer.