Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-15

= "" - - '-SAAo IN DOSToH ARISING
foUT oFtTEIE SLAyE CAsEs.-It was
stated IN despatch in Yesterdays
fAiStIii' that a writ had been issued at
Boston, at the suit of Burton a color.
ed Salem barber, against II. States
District Attorney Lnnt, for false and
malicious prosecution, the DAMAGES
being laid at $l0,OC0. & We find in
the evening edition of the Tribune
The following specialdespatoh, dated
Boston, Feb. 27:
3. q writ was issued about "a week
since for the arrest of Copehart. at-
torney oil aDebree, the alleged owner
OF Shadfach, uuthe has thus far es-
capped the officers. Men are employ
ed to find him, and are to be reward
ed it they succeed. The case will
come before the court of Common
Pleas, in Salem, on the third Monday
Of March.
a writ of attachment has first been
served by Deputy Sheriff Coburn, up
on the goods and the estate of Geo.
f. Curtis, United States commission
er, and Patrick Riley, deputy United
States marshal, for $1,000 damages.
l his suit was brought ON behalf of
Shadrach, the alleged fueitive," alias
Frederick Minkins, laborer. The
suit charges that defendants did ar
rest and cause TO be arrested, and
did then beat and ill-treat the said
plaintiff. g .I
The defendants are held for trial in
$4,000 each, to appear at the April
term OF the court Of Common Pleas.
Several other Government and State
officers will arrested shortly. The
ground upon which these suits are
brought is that the fugitive slave law
is unconstitutional, and that the off
Ger prosecutedacted without author
ity.
pIhe examination of Hayes, the
superintendent of the fremont Tenn
pie, who was arrested for aiding the
rescue of ShadracIl, has sEeen post
pooned IN consequence of the absence
OF one OF the Witnesses at Washing
ton. P a f.i JNI'tr9Fs
Rising g'the BNoys.- Our quiet
and peaceable village was, on Tues
day night, the scene of an amusing
outbreak Of youthful fire and fun.
E A dioramic exhibition, which had
been heralded by flaming red hand
bills, was opened at the appointed
hour, and a goodIy number of young
men about town locked to the show.
They at once saw that they were
most egriousI y sucked in, and deter
mined TO get theworth of their quar-
ters by a little fun of their own ma
king. Accordingly, having permit
tea the lecturer and exposition ofthe
Grand Diorana, to complete all his
performance, they iat once COM
menccd Their bya simultaneous at
tack upon the Revolution, its battles
andEhcroes, with sticks, pocket-knives
and finger nails, The cnchantnent
of art fell before their charge, and in
one brief minute the grand artistic
representation was torn into a hun
dred fragments. The proprietor fled
III dlsmay, and, we are told, was dis
covered this morning perched upon
a ten-pin ALLEY, and epdeavoring to
conceal himself behind chimney.
Poor fellow! His feelings must be
gloomy;. but this will teach him per
haps to beware how he practises such
gross frauds III future. 5,,a ea4
[EdgefeH Aduertiser.
9i!q
n Crisis in Cdifornia.-It is him
ted that matters of business in Cali
iorma are tending to a crisis; great
losses are sustained on impOrtations,
and cargo after cargo must inevita-
ply be forced into auction, and sold
for what they will bring. There is.
an enormous amount of goods in the
harbor; on January 1st the Chill
Flour company had iii bond about
$300,0O0 worth of flour at cost price
IN Valparaiso, and that has been dou-
bled by subsequent arrivals, one-haIf
OF which must sour in consequence of
the humidity of the atmospheric
Buildings that in, November rented
for $l 500 and mDecember for 81 200
a month, now only fetch $700aia5
5la -T-r- Il < 81 ytaBa
Mrs Swisshelm givesthe following
unique character to George Lippards
writing. Lippatd must feoI highly
compllmenied. E o. ~ 'TH'.
YWe know no name for your atyle,
and have not learned. that mVcritic
lnvented,Hpy other than the sLippaFd
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