The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-05-03
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Dreadful Assassination.

! in lettereby the last overland mail: =
st appearing for some time past that pecu-
lations in the coffee stores Of the Government
in Ponorogo, Madven, had been going on, an
investigation was ordered. The native store.
keeper, dissatisfied or perhaps alarmed and
wishing to be discharged before an enquiry
was Instituted, y in his official correspondence
with the coArolcr, addressed his last letter to
the controller without any othe. title; of res,
pect, rs is usual in the proper style Ola native
addressing European ambtenaar; his lmme- 1
diate chief
On the receiptof the letter, Mr. Barsle, the;
controller, sent for linn and reprimanded him
fer his want of the usual formalty,j and told
him that he would complain 0f it to the As
sistant President, Mr.. Vincent, at whose kan
tore Tor oflice) lie ordered him to appear the
following morning at 8 o'clock. Poor Vim,
cent had already given over his office to MS rs
successor and was to leave at 10 o'clock for a
new appointment, but came into the Office at
the request of Mr. .Barsle, for the purpose OF
completing an official document Barsle then
made his complaint against the st6re.keePer,
and Vincent gave him 10 days arrest with the
usual form of taking away, bis k'is and pay:
ing, ian official umbrella ranking by its eolor,)
both of which he delivered up and requested
permission 10 absent himself fora few minutes.
He went outside where one of his attendants
was waiting with his siri box and also another
kris belonging to him.. which he must have
given him to carry when lie left his home early
in the morning He snatched the kris, told
the-opassers, or attendants" wait, lwish to-
say a. few words to your MASTER rushed into
the kantore and stabbed Barsle through the
heart. He fell dead at his feet without a
groan or struggle. Vincent on seeing, this
took up the chair on which he had been sitting,
threw it at the fellow, knocking him down,
and then escaped out Of his office; the rascal
on getting on his legs wauted to run amok and:
went into the clerks. Office. Altof the clerks
except one had escaped and he was in the act.
of running eway. :-e....7 1850 r.
The assassin pursued, but soon: gave up the
chase, the country born clerks (half hcaste) be-
ing too active for him. On turning round he:
beheld Vincent peeping from the cognersof the
building, and made for him. Poor vincent
ran for it, and would have escaped, but look.
ing round as he fed, he unfortunately. stumbled
over stone, and ,beforeshe could rise the as.
sassin had stabbed him in three places in Sthe
belly, and nearly hacked off the fingers ofahis
right hand His young wife, hearing the
noise. ran out, and seeing her husband on the
ground attacked by Javanesc, earpe up at
the very moment the murderer drew out his
knife from his victims side, and striking him in
the face with her hands, the fellow, Instead of
stabbing her, as he might easily have done; ap:
peared to come to his senses, looked at her
full in the face for a minnie or moro, and then
turned round and went away ri, - {.
Cooley LABOR IN CupA.-A good deal was
said on Change, Wednesday last, in New, York,
about the introduction Of Coolies in Cuba: The
Herald says:
According to the account of a returned mer-
chant, from Havana, an interesting experiment
was making in the island: of Cuba, with cooley
laborers. 1t appeared that they were being IN
troduced from English vessels, and that there
existeda good demand for them. Planters paid
vessels Sl60'a head for aduts-the cost of their
passaec-and then had them bound to service
for eight years at So per month, and found in
food, but clothing at their own expense.
It was believed that very few would ever re-
. cain their former homes-tliat thuse whom hard
work. cholera, and the yellow fever spared, would
be too Door at the end of the eightyears to leave.
In other words, it was slavery of the worst KIND,
in disguise. That while English fleets were yisgi-
liant in abolishing the African sayetrade, and in
preventing tile introduction Of Africans into Gu
ba, who were better adapted by nature for the
cultivation ofsugar, they were toeratng much
more cruel trade in coolies. Their own ships
were allowed to transport inofensve coolies, and
virtually sell them and doom them to slavery
for life and to the worst of all taskmasters, the
Spaniards, whose system of sevitude was alike
successful in exterminatiug Indians, negroes, and
coolies. In Demarara large numbers had been
introduced, but they were prohibited in the En-
glish colony from laboring~in the towns, because
Ii cir services came in competition with those of
free blacks, to whom they were said TO be supe-
rior in such places. The result, as far as English
philanthropy has gone, has been to abolish black
Slavery, and reduce another race, less adapted
for such labor, to a barbarous seryitude in its
place, more intolerable than that Of the African
race.
New DESCRIPTION OF CnTToN.-The editor
of the United States Economist has received
from Messrs J. C. Henderson & Co., OF New
York, a remarkable specimen of Cotton, des:
tined for the Worlds Fair. twas procured
by merchant of Texas, from the "Pino,' ln-
dians. 1t is of texture and strength of fibre
to any ever before offered in that market
To the touch it has the feeling incident to cot.
ton It's long staple and a beautiful clear
white color. The discovercr has procured a
quantity Of the seed and intends to try its cul-
ture.
NEGRO TRAp1HG.-We learn that a day or
| ty, e;poo two mon wore arrested at the I9 mile