The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-05

| SUDDEN DEATH.-Our entire community
was shocked, on Wednesday afternoon last,
iby the announcement of the very sudden
death of one of our most excellent and pub
/ lie spirited Merchants and Citizens, j. b.
G.. Roulhac, Esq. Mr.. Roulhac returned
from dinner to his store in apparent posses
sion of his usual good health. On return
ing, his clerks left for dinner, leaving him
alone in the counting room. Five minutes
afterwards, he was discovered, by gentle
man who entered, sitting in his chair dead !
The supposition is that he died of apoplexy.
t Raleigh Standard.
| THE GRAVE OF MADIsoN.-A bill was
reported in the Senate of Virginia, on Fri
day last, providing for the erection of a
plain tomb, of granite or marble, over the
grave of James Madison. Should the tomb
be erected, it will bear the following inscrip-
ton: James Madison, born March 5, 1851,
| 60. ST. died 28th June, 1886. Virginia
marks with sincere affection the grave of
her son, the author of the Federal Constitu-
ton, the patriot and Statesman"
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| Boston SLAVE TRADERS. horrible
massacre of 900 Chinese, by the officers of
the Boston ship Waverly, is a fit common
tary OH the pretended opposition of Boston
to slavery. The Waverly was engaged,
not in the African, but in the Chinese slave
trade. 1t is true the Chinese slaves are
called Coolies" but the difference is in the
name The Chinese are carried to Havana
and to Callao, to be sold. The Waverly
had 442 of them on board. The mate shot
one of them for alleged mutiny, and drove
all the others down in the hold, closed the
matches upon them, and there being no cir
eulation of air provided or thought of, in II
hours, during which they were thus confin-
ed, PSI of the miserable creatures died 1t
is said, but that is hardly credible, that
boiling water was poured down upon them
while thus confined!
The New England people imported and
sold to the South the slaves with which they
now say the country is ''cursed." It seems
that it only needs the opportunity of pro-
fit to induce them again to engage i'll the
same business, notwithstanding their pro-
fessed horror of slavery and the slave Trade.
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| ExECUTED.-Joseph T. Williams was
executed at Roxboro' N. c., on the Oath of
January, for the murder of his father, Fran
els Williams, late of Caswell county, but a
native of Pittsylvania, Va, and until re-
Gently resident of that county. The young
man never seemed to despair of a pardon,
and died without making confession.
This was a lamentable instance of the
error of not training up child with kind
ness and affection in the way he should go.
The father was better any where than at
home. He was rough in his manners,
and violent in his temper, but true to his
friends and being very wealthy, was, am
| informed, the heaviest endorser in the Dan
vile Banks and his losing by one man, did
not impair his confidence i'll another. When
called upon by the poor in his neighbour
hood, Ior meat or bread, II Iney would pas
sively bear with his chidings for laziness,
Sc, he would give them what they wanted.
Though a sober man, he was very disagree
able in his family and never spoke to his
children except to blame them, and by his
harsh manner, made them dread his pres
ence. At the time of the murder, the father
and son were living together, and the son
being tired of such paternal restraint, and
anxious to get in hands his part of the es-
tate, lay in ambush, where he knew his
father would pass, and shot him.
The Milton On. c. Chronicle has the
following notice of the execution:
On the day of his execution he called a
friend or two in jail, and besought them to
join him in prayer until the last moment Of
his earthly existence; he sent out suppl
cation for the prayers of the vast multitude
then and there assembled. The hour ar
irving for his execution, the sheriff, with a
bleeding heart and tea--moistened eye,
called for him.
Taking Mr.. VIM. Lyon (his fathers friend
and neighbor) by the hand and begging him
to go with him and pray for him, he pro-
ceeded to the gallows, praying all the way
until he arrived in sight of the gallows, when
trembling like a leaf he gave vent to an ex-
preston of feeling that no pen can describe
and which touched the most callous heart.
Arriving at the gallows he sued for the last
moment and begged every christian ON the
ground to pray for him.
| 1t was here that the Sheriff read him a
brief note, reminding him of future rewards
and punishments-of the awfulness of dying
with lie ON mis- lips-and invoking him to
say, while he looked eternity in the face.
whether he was guilty or innocent of the
murder. He replied that she had said all
that he had to say about it-he was not
guilty." So the prisoner protested his in