The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1848-01-05
From, The LauyensriM HcruLi
kIDNAPPERS Al3ROADi

kIDNAPPERS ABROAD!
CATCH THE TuIEr.-Therc was quite a
! sensation in our village on Monday las, eau
sed by the appearance Of two strangers, who
mas In their possession Il mula,to girl about
twelve years otagc, who said she was free.
and that her mother was white woman.
The pretended owners offered her for sale.
and represented themselves as brothers-in .
law, one Of them by the name of Seaborn
Jackson living in Georgia, and the other
JON" Evans residing in West Tennessee,
aud that they were selling the girl for par
ttions
The girls statement excited the suspi-
cIons OF some Of our most worthy citizens,
that she had been kidnapped or stolrn.-
They therefore entered into private exa-
minaion of the giri-Jackson e. Evans.
and s1on bccanc satisfied that she hid been
stolen from North Carolina. a warrant
was issued, Jackson was arrested, the ether
making his escape through tho forest north
OF the village.
Jacks1n when brough, before the mayis-
tratc, stated that his real name WAS joseph
5. Gibbs of Rutherford Go. y. c., and his
companion In crime, was named William
Wilson OF The same place-!hat the pi in
their possession WAS the daughter of Mrs
Sca:cy ot that County, and that they had IA
ken her from the residence of one Mr. Brown
with whom she WAS living, on Thursday the
25d late at night and brought her to South
Carolina with il view OF making Christ
mas speculation.
Gibbs (alias) Jackson was committed TO
Jail. to await his trial, Il, the next General
Sessions.
Wilson (alias) Evans made his escape
on loot, is about five feet ten inches high,
light complexion, and wears large whisllers
of reddish sandy color.
F The friends of Justice ana humanity,
will be on the lookout for him.
STEPS are about to be taken by Congress
to regulate foreign coins out of circulation.
Ifany measure can be devised for Danish
ing the small and deprecated Spanish coins
the public would be greatly the gamers by
it,
UrwAnDs Of five millions Of acres of pub
lie lands in Wisconsin, Florida, Sc. embra-
cling every variety of soil, climate, &c, are
advertised to b+ sold by the Government in
January and February.
THE population of New York is now cs-
tilnated at nearly half million. Philadel-
phia and ITS suburbs, 35O,OOO Cincinnati,
100000. New Orleans, 10000. Buffalo,
10000.
DURING thunder storm at Vaux, in
France, OH the 10th ult., the ground was CO.
vered with frogs, supposed TO have been ta-
ken up,by water spout, from an extensive
marsh i'll the neighborhood.
HEIGHT OF THE Observation-Disclosures a IL
our Presidents have been tall men, as if we
selected our rulers as the children of Israel
did their first monarch, for his height
George Washington was fully six feet; Jno.
Adams, five feet ten inches; Thomas Jcf
ferson, six feet two inches James Madison
five feet nine inches; James Monroe, full
six feet; John q Adams, five feet ten A..
Jackson, six feet one inch; Martin Van
Buren,, five feet eight; VIM. H Harrison,
five feet ten; John Tyler, six feet; James
*. Polk, five feet ten.
These are heights above the average of
mankind, except in Kentucky and Tennes-
sec.
AN officer writing from Mexico, says
every thing is high in that city, he paid
$40 for new coat; pair of shoes cost S5,
pound oftea S., and every thing in pro
portion.
A SOUND PARAGnAPH-The time is no,
far distant when the merchant whose rent
costs him more than his advertising, will be
universally regarded as one who does moi
understa nd his business, and will not long
have any business to understand
=" BREAD UPON THE WArERs"-The
American Tract Society have recently
started two Coipotteurs, with fiat bottomet
boats, laden with their valuable publications
for the purpose of supplying the numerous
boatmcn. traders, and travellers, on tn,
waters of the Tennessee and Mississippi
rivers to New Orleans with heaI,hful, mo