The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-16
The Court took the case

Another murder took place last ngat at the cor
Of Circus an Common streets. II occurred in a
drunken frolc at coffee house. A man by the
! name of McCord killed James Mckinney, and stab
| bed Patrick Farrell in the back with knife The
| fact is, the police Of the Second Municipality is
worse than none. We are SO infested with villains
that it is becoming dangerous to walk the streets
| ut night wit bout being armed.
| The weather cleared up yesterday afternoon, and
| We have sunshine and bril- ht skies once more.
We have late arrival from Tampco, bringing
us dates up to the 18th ult.
| The local news is entirely without interest
| There had been bull fight at Tampco, at which
il was advertised that two bulls to be killed.
| but the manager c,ntentei himself with simply
wounding couple of them, and the few spectators
| present retired in disgust in the very middle of
| performance which FL Defa,sor De Ia'npico says
| was disagrecablc spectacle. The performance
must have been exceedingly bad, else the Mexi-
cans are improving in their tastes, and advancing
towards civilization.
! The Mexican Senate has approved resolution of
| the lower house, establishing lighthouse the
Alncranes. The same body has also approved
| another resolution granting an amnesty to those
who took part in the revolution in Guanajuato,
der Gen. Paroles
ton to all soldiers who have been rendered inca
pable of work by wounds received in the against
the United States, we'll rs those disabled in de-
fence of the established government There must
Colonel VIM. ii. Russell, the Collector of the
Customs at Monterey, California, has arrived here
from Washington, and leaves tomorrow in the
steamer for Vera Cruz. Col Russelis n kentuckan.
and for many years was a practising lawyer in
Missouri. He was among the first Of the emigrants
who left the United States for California. in 1886,
and was Secretary of State under Col. Fremont.
This is his fifth trip across Mexico, from the Allan
tic to tho Pacific. Colonel Russell is accompanied
by his beautiful and accomplished young daughter,
who will cross the country with her father-a bold
Cruz to the city of Mexico, and from thence to
Acapulco, and then take the steamer.
The flibusteros are highly, indignant at the
Presidents proclamation, which styles them plum
derers and robbers They think their patriotism
and love Of freedom deserve a better name and
claim to put themselves par with Lafayette,
Pulaski, and others. | hardly think it a crime to
assist any people in throwing of the shackles Of
tyranny, and to obtain for them freedom and indie
pendence ORpHEUs.
CHARLESTON, S. c., April y, 1851.
a Miscellaneous Epistie-Corolina Psculiarities-
Charleston and the Charleston Narka- bidtures
for searemg1s-Rain Water-Ihe Coast Conn-
ry-The iare Population, &c.
"Avay down in Carolina" vister from more
northerly ATTITUDES will see many curious and re-
markabe things lie will observe-no traveller
has failed to observe it-that from Baltimore, by
the overland route down into the heart of Georgia.
down to Florida the coast country is fat, bar
rem monotonous, sparsey inhabited, lonesome-a
continuous succession Of old fields and pine bsrrens.
lie will wonder where the population is picked up
for the census; where all the tobacco, cotton and
rice which contribute so much to enrich the mer-
chant princes of New York. is cultyated-so dreary
ard sterile is the long distance he has travelled, so
destitute of any satisfactory evidences Of wealth,
population, resources improvement. Unfortu-
natey, through Virginia and North Carolina, the
Southern Central Railroad runs through the poorest
Districts and still more unfortunately, at the low
speed Of ten twelve miles to the hour A 1d the
evidences Of neglect and decay, through these old
settled and wasted lands, easily accounted for.
Virginia and the Carolinas, for the last fifty years,
have been engaged in building up the West and
Southwest. The new States have drained these
old ones of their most vigorous and enterprising
population, and there has been no foreign immigra-
tion TO I'LL the vacuum. But the tide Is turning.
The census of 1850 exhibits it, and the census Of
1860, ii the Union holds together, will show tre
mendous gain in the Southern States the gain
OF the Northern, in population, capital agricultural
and commercial resources, developed and developing.
But, as we were about to say, "away down Ia
Carolina" Northerncr will many remarkable
things. To begin with Charleston; he will be
struck with the apparent antiquity OF the city--its
quaint, sharp four sided tiled roofs--the antique
fashions of many Of the old buildings, the elaborate
gingerbread work some Of the ancient public
cdihccs, and with tho number, masiveness, and
iastefuness Of tho Astounding churches. lie will
be graied with the cleanliness Of tho streets, the
pohteness Of the people, white and black, but he
will be disappointed in the comparative absence Of
ladies from the sidewalks. About noon, however,
+
in the number of private carriages along King
street, in which the fair denZens of Charleston 70
out shopping. This fashion may be very agree
able but 1t ,uld doubtless DO better for tho health
Of the Charleston beGss, If they would walk more
and ride LEES. The climate may be an obstacle,
however, not TO be disrogardod and we must yield
/ the point to the climate.
Among the cuiioatics of Charleston j. the old
citadel built in the notification times Of 1892, for
revolutionary purposes and since, converted 70 pur
poses OF military education And tho railroad sta
tion IL curiosity, from IT. extent, and the iuimense
number OF locomotives, cars, railroad iron, aad the
ruins Of old locomotives, that occupy the premises
for the extent of half milo. This " the great d.
pot Of the great inland artery to Columbis branch
OF which Is being pushed forward to Nashville -
rapidly "a possible, and which, when completed to
that poirt, will bring largo trade to Charles on,
! from Kentucky, and oven from Missouri, in hemp.
hogs, corn, aud cattle.
| hut the greatest novelty Of Charleston ia
| neither the Citadel, nor the Depot, nor the
Battery, which they reclaimng fiOm the and
fixing up after the fashion Of the New York Bat
terry the ples Of cotton upon the wharvcs, nor
the multitudes Of well behaved negroes upon the
streets; the quaint old buildings but IL l. the
city markcthouce, the marketing, the maIkctcrs,
and the scayeugcrs Tho market ho lsos extend in
a stfnght line down The centre Of vide street in
hall dozen squares, terminating ut the wstor side
in the feb market. Negro slaves do the selling Of
cyrrythirg-the butchers, the dealers in provisions
ard vegetables aud fish coloned people, and gen-
ctally slaves. The ncatbcss, cleanliness and oder
~ the market are remarkable. All tho articles
are arranged In rarces, punches, pieces quanti-
ties to suit pure hasers ut fixed prics that there
l. tie centurion aud mo jewing. The purchasers
Lcary all cocicd people; and they do the duty with
that mattcr-otact gravity aud GOODNESS that result
from long experience. TIE market &c Charleston we
believe to ~ ftho most orderly and clearly in
the United states, not excepting that Of Phtladcl
phia aud, notwithstanding, Il II almost entirely
der the practical management Of the slave pcpula
ton. LIT the Northern Nsitcr. accustomed 70 hogs
and dogs and market scaycpgcrs will be struck with
the novelty of seeing this essential business assigned
10 troops Of turkey buFzsrds, or rather black vul.
tues tame rs barmyatd fowl, aud protected by
law. Marvellous expert follows they in cleaning
up The DIAL from the butchers shamblcs. They run
with n peculiar and ludicrous sort q cantcr but
they quick and graceful upon their broad wings,
clc without any pcrceptible motion either OF wings
OK tail. On cool mornings they may be seen
pcrched in clusters upon the chimney tops, In the
rirhhrn..h nr Tic manning Ihnin