The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-07-28
surmise. have at times been three days
without anything to eat-ragged and cold.

rails on Saturday afternoon, accompanied
by violence and bloodshed. A Mr.. Ste
Phens, OF Alabama, had been stopping at
the Eagle Hotel, accompanied by his wife
and female slave. After he had got seated
IN the cars about leaving for Lockport, be.
tween twenty and thirty colored persons, as
had been previously arranged among them
selves, rushed to the cars and attempted to
take by force the object of their sympathies
some throwing obstruction on the track
while others mounted the cars. They were
resisted by the conductor, engineer and
others.
A general melee ensued--stones and
brickbats were freely used, by which
number were severely injured, when the
train finally got under way. There was
good deal OF excitement during the after
noon but no open outbreak. In the eve-
ming demonstration was made by some of
the baser sort upon Il building occupied by
number Of blacks who discharged two pis-
tolls at the assailant without material iniu-
ry, and then made their escape After this
the attack upon the building was renewed
with lcdoublcd fury and it was Immediately
RACED to the ground. The affair was to
undergo legal investigation today.
ANECDoTE OF GEN. TAYLoR.-The fol-
lowing is communicated by a corrcspon-
dent of the Montgomery (Ala) Journal,
and is one of the most touching incidents VIC
have ever met:
" The General had occasion to visit
Polnt Isabel. after the battle Of I3ucna Vista;
and the Captain of the steamboat had rcser-
x.nI ofe a.
accommodation. There were several sick
and wounded volunteers on the boat, en-
route Tor New Orleans, who had TO take the
waylare incident to q crowded boat, and par.
uculiarly so on this occasion. Gen. Tay-
lor soon saw all this, and ut once ordered
these men to be placed IN his stute qooms and
proper attention paid them. 1t was rather
Il cold and rainy day when this occurred.
The deck hands and many others on the
boat did not know Gen Taylor. The
wind blew high, and the Gremen had raised
a.sail in front Of the boilers to protect them
selves from the rain; and under this sail
there were some old mattresses here Gen.
Taylor laid down and went to sleep. At
supper time great inquiries were made for
the General, and scrvents sent off 10 look
him up. But he could not be found! At
last some one going below inquired of
fireman if he had seen such and such
mantle fireman saidno but added, "thcre
is clever old fellow asleep there, under
the sail in front Of the lrc!" 1t was Gen.
Taylor! Yes, sweet indeed must be the
sleep otsuch man, who has the heart to
change places with the poor sick soldier, as
Taylor did on this occasion such human
ity stands out in bold relief and greatly miti-
gates the evils incident to war;
ANNEXATION IN AFR1CA--A number of
the kings and head men of the country sur
rounding the Maryland African colony at
Cape Palmas, have voluntarily placed them
selves and their people under the iurisdic.
tion of the colony The event affords pra-
ttylng proof Of the wholesome influence
which the colonlsts have acquired over the
native tribes in their neighborhood:
MIR. Webster, it was reported in Boston,
had been severel ly gored by one of his i'm
ported bulls, at Marshfeld, last Saturday.
One account had it he was killed The
report was not credited, though Mr. Flecher
Webster left Boston Sunday afternoon for
Marshfield, to be assured of the truth of the
case Such was the interest felt in the sub
ject matter Of the report, that more than
one hundred persons made inquiries, on
Sunday, at the residence of Mr.. Fletcher
Webster, in Boston, as to the correctness of
the rumor.
REMARKABLE FAcr.-!The Hon. Edward
Bates, of Missouri, the President of the
Chicago Convention, said he had ncver seen
a rail road! When he emgrated, in 1912,
to the French village of huts called St.
Louis, which has now fifty thousand inha-
bitants, he was obliged to hire a guard
against hostile savages to accompany him
across the unbroken wilderness which is
now the State of Illinois, with civilized
population ofsix hundred thousand freemcn! !
DIPLOMATIC RELATION WITH THE PopE.-
1t is now a matter Of certainty, says the co..:
respondent of the N. Y. Herald that the
Pope has intimated his desire, though not
formally, to open diplomatic relations with