Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-05-03

IN tn" Hand O tears and boOd.
Such language ought to excite pity rather
than anger towards It's wretched authors.
MAJoa GArEs.-The Court Martal VIII ch
met at Savannah to investigate the charge
against this OFFICER, have ANONYMOUSLY and hon
orably acquitted HIM. 1t is said that the
charges appeared to the court SO trihlng and
frivolous, as scarcely to deserve the formality
of a solemn investigation.-Ch. Courier.
1t will be remembered that Major Gates
name was ordered by prcsiden: Jackson to be
erased from the army for alleged misconduct
in the Indian war, and that heswas, at his own
request, restored that he might have far
trial!
New ORLEANS April 20.-.lIerico.-Thc
pap rs received from MetamoraS deplorc the
desttution to which the army there assembled
is abandoned. It's number is 1900, and they
show that the situation olGen. Bravo becomes
more and more disagreeable, through the lev
ity and trcachery OF the agents OF the govern
ment, thus defeating all his plans and paral.
ling his operations, and Bravo finds himself at
the head of an army without the means of pay
ing or feeding it.
An expedition (says the n. O. True Amer
ican,) is In contemplation by the TEXANS to
proceed against Matamoras, early in May:
The army is to be supported by the navy, and
an attack made at the Brasos st. lago and
Matamoras simultaneously.
News reached here last night (says the same
paper) that Bustamente had resigned the
command Of the army; that part of the troops
had marched back 20 Mexico; that the eXpe-
dition against Texas was given up; and that
although eighty thousand dollars had been sent
to Matamoras tc pay the troops, yet those high
IN authority, as IS usually the case kept the
greater part OF 1t.
The Legislature of Nova Scotia, on the
30th ult passed an act prohibiting, under Sc
we're penalties, the exportatien of potatoes anG
| grain from that province. The act is to con.
! tinue in force, as respects Cape Breton, uni!
July |, and III every Other part Of the province
until June lO.
MARBLE QUARRY.
We have seen a specimen OF stone pro.
nounced to be marble, and which admits OF a
very fine polish, tound some miles South O
Garmanton, In the ncigIDorng county OF Stokes
| Ne sre informed that there Is at the same
pacc, an almost ineyhaus;ibie supply of this
! stone I'he marble is clouded very handsome.
y and We are jold that preparations are ii
p or ssfor an immediate operation IN the quar-.
r.. The owners have kindly promIshed tc
| furnish Us some information respecting THEN
quarry which will be given with pleasure in
some succeeding gnumber.-Greensb0rough Y.
c. Telescope
The corresponding secretary of the n. Y.
Co.onization Society, has received letter
from the Rev. R. S. Finley agent ofthe State
Colonization Society of Mississippi, dated
Natchez, February ~, 1887, informing him
that the societies in the States of Mississippi
and Louisiana, have each resolved to establish
a colony on the coast of Africa, and that each
society will expeni 10000 dollars year for
tive years, in sustaining them; that the Mlssis.
sippl Society has already purchased suitable
territory for then, object, and it ssupposedthal
a purchase has also been made for the Louisi.
ana Society. Mr.. Finley mentions, we have
nearly secured the sum of 10000 for the first
yea-, in the Mississippi Society, and are con-
! idCnt of raising the same sum in Louisiana
Commercial Advertiser.
COLUMBIA, April %.
! COHon.-The receipts of this article for the
last two weeks are 16S bales. Prices range
from TO j cents But little is soldn proper.
ton to the amount brought into market. Plan.
tiers are unwilling to take the present reduced
| prices and prefer storing their cotton.-1ime:
d. Gazette.
Robbery and Murder.-Ne learn that or
Saturday night, the 18th inst, Mrs. Rache
Bromback, an aged and highly respectable
| woman, living at her residence in East Vincent
! township, in this county, was robbed of about
! two THOUSAND dollars, and inhumanly murdered
The ro0ber and assassin entered the house
through the window. Mrs Bromback was up
wards of 20 years Of age. The inhabitants o
the neighborhood have some suspicion Of the
perpetrators of this foul deed.-W Chester
Republican.
1t is stated in the Guernsey (Ohio) Times
| that "BLANNERHAssETT, the friend and com.
panon of AARON BURR, is now residing or
the island of Guernsey, Europe. 1t is said that
his accomplishment fascinating lady is still
living, though at an advanced age.
Emigration to TeraS.-A lette. from New
! Orleans, says"never was the demand for Texas
lands so brisk, or the number Of emigrants sc
considerable; all the schooners leaving here
for the Texan ports carry from 20 to ~ pas.
Sengers.
From the New Hampshire Patriot.
, NERO FIDDLED WHILE ROME WAS BURNING
"GooD News Several large houses in
New York failed last week, and several more
arc cXpectedto follow.
\ heavy failure in the manufacturing busi-
ness has taken place at Taunton (Mass.,)
said to be for million and half.
The City Debt of Boston amounts to nearly
two millions of dollars.
Mr. Mclean, a native of Ireland and father
of tho yrostmaSfer Hon Iohn NJcJ ,aan