Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-06-19
IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT.

IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT.
Mr.. Van Ness has resigned The col.
|lectorship of New York--the resigna-
|tion to take effect on the lst Of July
next. The President has accepted
ibis resignation, and appointed Come
Illus w. Lawrence to this important
office. It's believed no appointment
|could be made, more satisfactory to the
|democricy of all classes, than that of
|Mr. Lawrence. 1t is due 10 Mr.. Van
Ness TO say, that he has discharged the
duties ofthe office. with great ability
and to the satisfaction of The admins.
ration, of which he has always been an
efficient supporter, and retains, in his
retirement, the respect and confidence
|of ali our friends at This place.
The Mormon trials. The trials of
Joe and Hiram Smiths murderers are
lin progress at Carthage, Illinois. It's
stated that the testimony on the part
|of the State has been very lame. A
number of charges forperjury have been
preferred against Mormons who were
Engaged as witnesses in this case
Every body, almost, attending cofs
comes armed to the teeth, and frequN
|ly muskets and rifles will be seen iaS&
out of wagons with as much deliber.
zion as ifthey were attending a court
|of Justice. The Mormons are said TO
have expressed a determination TO take
revenge in case the defendants should
not be Convicted Baltimre Sua.
ECO
Lipans. This tribe, after wander
ling for the last seventeen years from
lone settlement to another on orr wes-
tern frontier, has at length become per-
|manendy settled on small stream
west of Bexar. About ninety or a
hundred Of the warriors, and probably
two hundred women and children, are
located near the Arroyo Honsdo. They
have enclosed about forty acres ofland,
which they have planted with corn,
and the crop promises to be quite abun-
dant. This we believe, is the first at
tempt Of the Lipans to engage in agri-
culture, and we hope that it may prove
successfll.--Houstoa Star.
-aSe
Veg ofthe Tansgressor.-The con-
ductors of newspapers have frequent
to observe the sad result
of a misguided career. One Of the
most impressive that has lately met the
public eye, is narrated in the Cleave-
land Plain Dealer. The substance of
the narration is, that a man committed
perjury in Sheldon, Genesee county,
N. Y, by which he not only, by the
laid of strong circumstantial evidence,
|defrauded his neighbor, out of four OF
five hundred dollars but also threw
the suspicion of crime upon the head
ot that neighbor. 1t rested there. -
Stung by remorse, perhaps, the PERU
rer left that county, and became way
farrer in the West. After many years,
Justice laid her heavy iron grasp upor
him, and sent him retribution in the
shape ofpoverty, sickness and misery.
lie became an inmate OF the township
hospital, the Poor House. Death was
very nigh to him. Moved by the
of that conscience which
doth make towards of US ALL he be-
gan to fear the monster, and to call for
every present help in time of trouble.
A neighooring clergyman fastened to
the dying pegurer's bedside. The
man uttered confession of the crime,
and as feeble repentance, reques.
ted the whole to be noted down, and
sent back to the defrauded and despoil-
en- individual.-B.
-Ssss:Se
Duelling IN Enthusiastically the
new constitution of Louisiana, ausSt-
liens are DISTINGUISHED, both
ting and holding office, who maySssnt
or in any way be connected with fight
ing duel, either in or out of the State.
Is not this the correct courses