The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-08-13

INTO Fuse throughout chrstendo dom, and have be.
come necessities OF life; and African slavery.
which can alone supply them, has also become a
necessary of life, not merely to the nominal
STAKEHOLDER, but to all who use these articles.
who are, in fact, though not in name, also slave.
holders Tor slavery supplies them with large
part OF their necessary food and clothing.
But African slavery is' necessary ill even n
higher sense than tits 1t has stimulated the in.
crease Of population in Western Europe by In
increased supplies Of food and clothing which, il
afforded, until that population has become too
numerous to be sustained il, cut off from its or.
binary supplies of slnveproducts. Great Britain,
ior l'S'ance' imports annually thousand millions
bushels of grain 1t is barely possible she might
rear this additional quantity on her .soi[,e but
quite impossible that sho should in~n,ilition rear
substitutes tor the cotton, coffee, rice moIasses
aud tobncco, which she nov procures by means
of slaves. She and Francc nre bitterly repentirip
the error ofnegro emancipation They see that
negro slavcry has become o necessity, and are
resolved to re2estabIish ifsuntler new names
Romans and Frencl.men hate Kings, butyadoro
E'npercrs-Afiican inimigrantg' will resemble
slaves as much rs Enpcrors, resemble Kings
""'ha."gt0" star. ssssa.:
,Narrow Eseope.-Tho sNhetyS Six and ssAu:
gusta stage coach and passefE ets eane near So
rious accident on Friday 'last;iIPoi, the up trip
1t seems that stepbepg e Creek, ynfnc miles above
this place, had overffawMS baliKs,renderiup tho
approach 10 the bridge asNIfttf6 uncertain. The
driver however took horse from his team ,and
asccrtinned that il was still quite easyto reach IT,
lie tilcrcupon entered with his coach and one
passenger just, at that moment flood of wa.
ter came rushing down from n mill pond above,
the dam OF which liad'given way; and the l,or.
scs We're Mt ONCE subperged. The water was
quite deep IN the coach, yet it fortunately re-
malned stationary, the horses Having been cnt
loose: Mrs. Mocbqough, Of Augusta, who
was inside, succeedsdin getting out at the win
dow and climbing With iassstaneo to tho ton OK
the COACH Soma nhgroes who were upon> the
bank then threw in rope by means.sof which
che got ashore safely: Evenlually,sifis coach.
horses, driver and ucle Sans mail bags were
all sxtricated from their criticat prediean,enS
not however without q complete ducking of the
v wholepafty and y 1drrow escape from a .morn.
fearful fresult--Aage.fcld Adpertiser.,
--a>.-.
THE Pacific -Qasvund Road Pdriy--Seuuticrr
nt., says: - - "THi ..
On Wednesday last, ,.wc btid the pleayure,af a
ew minutes conversation with Col James B.
Leech, who is in chayge Of. the aB6ye company. !
Wd who is engshgod in surveyingEa fonte for:lhe
112rPoss ~ Of carrying the overland mail from tie
mississippi River to tlio Pacific.
The pg consists of forty wagons ahd 100
Iteh, abdsWiu strike an air line from here to
Preston, 1exao; from which point il will travel
lsariy in westerly dires,iom, passing llttls
lofth OF Fort Belknap, twenty five miles north
u Fort Chadbourn, cross the Pecos River at The
'mgrsnt crossing, cross the Llano west or CarIo
~ the north route. and strike the Rio Grande
iftesh miles north of El Pasos Thence the snral
,ey will continue To Fort Yuma and Saus saFfan.
isco, by the best and saost practicable route.