Washington sentinel., 1854-02-26

act forbdding ,he teaching OF slaves or free coored
persons 10 read and write. The Argus remarks:
"1he jury found verdict OF guilty, and the
law hadfo be sustained. Sympathy was aroused
for Mrs. Douglas II was revolving 10 the citlzens
10 have woman imprisoned In our jail, ana every
inducement offered Mrs. Douglas TO escape
the punishment. The court was obliged 10 ad-
Journ It's Judgment over, and although caplas
was awarded, yet II was the hope and wish oil
every one that she would leave the city. But no,
| "a martyr she would be 10 the cause of benevo-
lence; and, to cap the climax, she brought her
daughter, maiden of some seventeen summers,
VINO had obeyed the injunctlons OF her mother as
child should TO try the realities OF the law,
and to use her own language in defending her
cause, TO glory in works of benevolence and
charity TO race down-trodden.' Then sympathy
departed, and in the breast of every one rose a
righteous indignation towards person who would
throw contempt in the face Of our laws and brave
the Imprisonment for the cause Of humanity.
The Military Court of Inquiry. in
terest attached 10 the proceedings of the Gates
court-martial, in New York on Tuesday, on ac-
count OF the presence of Captain Watkins, of the
steamer San Francisco. The captain was long
while on the witness stand and as expected, his
evidence is strongly in favor OF Colonel Gates.
lie said Ne had all the assistance from Colonel
Gates that he ever desired. The colonel was at
work during the storm, doing all he could TO aid
the hands IN keeping the ship clear The rest of
us III the same cOnntXlUn, was eQudliy
emphatic. In regard TO the steamer herself, Cap
tain said he considered her perfectly seaworthy,
and did not believe she would have foundered had
not her engine given out The storm was the
worst he was ever in on the Atlantic.
Al this stage of the proceedings certain charges
Were presented in writing by Colonel Gates against
Captain Gardiner These charges, the colonel re-
marked, he did not know whether they We're true
or false but he nevertheless felt it his duty to offer
them.
General Scott rejoned, with marked emphasis
Sir no officer should ever bring such charges
against brother officer without being responsible
for them.'
Captain G., il will be remembered some days
since, testified strongly against Colonel G.. The
charges agalnstthe latter were probably intended
as an offset. THE charges relate 10 the brbing OF
witnesses.
w. p. Tunstall.-For weeks past the many
friends of this gentleman have been under painful
apprehensions for his life. The intelligence re-
ceived yesterday leaves no further hope. He died
of typhoid fever in Piltsylvana, on Sunday last,
| For those who knew him well, it is difficult TO
realize the fact, that one possessed of so much
life, SO full of enthusiasm, should 10 exist.
His loss will not be confined TO the wide circle of
his admring friends. As public officer, he was
| invaluable He was rare instance of one, who
IN the discharge Of public duties, never had a
thought for self. To his indomitabe energies and
unfagging zeal the public was in a great degree
indebted for the construction of the Danvlle road
and TO his wise administration of the affairs of that
company, II is indebted for its present usefulness
and prosperity.
As companion, his inexhaustible humor made
| him the delight of every company he was in. But
| there was no malice in his w.t. and we doubt if,
in dying, he leaves an enemy behind him.
/ Richmond Whig.
Sentence of Two White Men for Killing a
siave.-The Charleston correspondent of the
Boston Post, writing under date OF February 1854,
says:
| During this week, two white men of very
respectable connexions have been convicted and
sentenced TO be hung for the wanton murder of a
slave. A third person, who participant in
the lnhuman transaction, is yet TO be tried, and
will probably share the same doom. The sentence
was pronounced by Judge ONea, the presiding
Judge of the supreme court of the State II was
very affecting and solemn sentence. II assured
the convicts that there was hope for pardon, or
any mitigation of the sentence on the part Of the
executive; and'that they must expiate their crime
on the gallows. II was a sublime occasion. and
reminded strongly of the sentence passed
upon Prof Webster by Judge Shaw, some few
years since.
(. The case TO which am now referring in this
State, South Carolina, is beautiful illustration of
the protection which the law affords 10 the hum
blest human being, even 10 those who have been
supposed to be without the pale Of the law as a
protective instrument. Here was poor slave
supposed by his cruel assailants TO be a runaway
mercilessly murdered by three white persons
citizens OF the State Yet the 9gis of the law is
gloriously thrown over him. His murderers have
been tried, two of them, defended by able counsel
but they have been convicted, sentenced, and will
as one OF the Judges himself informed me- with
out doubt be hung. And what is more the moral
sense of the whole community concurs in the
justice of the sentence.
You can hardly do better service TO the north
than by bringing this case prominently before your
readers, and publishing the sentence of the Judge
You will find 1t in most of the Charleston papers
of this week. 1t is short and exceedingly inter
esting. But stop, lest / weary the patience OF
your readers.
Another Great Tornado in Ohio.-HARR1-
SON, Ono, TUESDAY, February 1A-To-day, about
four o'clock, p. M, the town Of Harrison twenty
miles northwest OF CincinnatD was visited by
fearful and destructive tornado, tearing down
dwellings, stables, &c. The course Of the current
OF air was nearly from southwest to northeast and
the width of its track was about one hundred
yards. A thunder shower came on from about
northwest, with indications OF heavy rain, which
was realized. Probably ten or fifteen minutes after
the commencement Of the rain, the tornado came
down the White Water hills, northwest of the
town, leaving in its track prostrated and broken
forest. 1t struck the town in the direction of the
Presbyterian church, and left in its track such de-
structon and desolation as we have never seen.
Houses, stables, fences, trees, and outbudngs,
were Frustrated, and in many cases blown into
the adjoining lots. young man, by the name of
William Pruden, had his leg broken, and Ironas
Homan was dangerously wounded and several
others are more or less injured, but no lives lost
II is miracle too, for there were about fifty
dwellings, stables. and shops either totally or bad
ly injured. The storm, however, passed over that
part Of the town where most were small build
ings. The entire loss will not exceed $4,000.
CincinRdti Commercial
Thousand Dollar Pin.-There is a gentle
man in town who sports breastpin, which we
are credibly informed, cost him thousand dollars,
and the original price of the pin was fifteen hun
dred dollars. There is quite little history con-
nected with this pin. 1t was :" got up" in Madrid
for Spanish grandee; he went to Mexico gam
bed, lost his money. then his valuable banble"
the diamond pin The "sharper" who divested
the Cas,ilian of his byouteyie was gentleman
from New Orleans, who having made his fortune,
retired from the Mexican capital, was robbed and
assassnated near Vera Cruz by the guerrillas, the
guerrilla chief was taken, the diamond pin found
upon him; he was shot, and the pin sold to a gen.