The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-26

Journal that Mr. Constant Mesncon, young
gentleman widely known and esteemed, was
killed by one of bis negroes on the 26th ult., at
his residence in St. James, about eight miles
below Donaldsonville. The Coast Journal
gives the following particulars of the murder
and death of the murderer: 5az ~
1t appears that Mr.. Melancon had discov-
cred in the negroes cabin q portion of some
things that had been stolen some nights previ-
ously from a store in the neighborhood. As the
slave could give no satisfactory explanation as
to the manner in which these things came into
his possession, his master determined to punish
him, and with that intention took him TO the
sugar house to get irons for him. Arrived
there, he made the negro, Ia blacksmith, it
seems,) forge some manacles for his legs, and
while STOPPING down to try their size, he receiv-
ed blow from the slave which felled him to the
earth. The weapon used by the murderer was
q huge blacksmith's hammer. Leaving his
master for dead, the scoundrel started of, but
had not proceeded far when, CHANGING to look
back, he saw his unfortunate victim esssying to
rise. He Immediately returned and finished
his bloody deed, after which he cast the body
into pond, mounted his masters horse, and
rode of toward the woods. The family of the
deceased was soon made acquainted with the
dreadful deed, another slave having witnessed
the concluding part of the scene. Dogs were
obtained, and the murderer was hotly pursued.
In his fight, he abandoned the horse but the
avenger was ON his trail, and he doubtless felt
the impossibility of escaping. At all events,
he emerged from the woods, ran to the river,
and threw himself in. Before the Witnesses of
his act came up, iS was all over-the murderer
was drowned"
On Friday week, says the Cofeeril1e (Miss.)
Intelligencer Of the 30th ult., the owe rseer on
Mr.. James K. Folks plantation (some eight
miles below this) undertook to whip one of the
hands, when the others interfered and rescued
the culprit. Mr.. Mars, the overseer, then
started out for assistance, and during his alb
sence the negroes armed themselves with
axes, hstchets, clubs, scythes, stones, &C.. re.
treated to the gin house, bid defiance to the
overseer and his friends, and swore they would
die to a man before one of their party should
be whipped. Mr.. Amos Duke, in attempting
to arrest one of them, was struck across the
side of the head with club, and, it is feared,
will lose one Of his eyes from the effects of the
blow. Things continued in this state up to
Tuesday last, when some scventy-6 Eve citizens
of this place and Troy visited the plantation,
and arrested every negro on the place. They
we're tried the next morning on the plantation,
before Judge Fisher, who committed four of
the ringleaders to Jail, to await the action of
the grand jury. The balance, some fifty or
sixty, were whipped according to their several
deEerts. &
Peoria, Illinois, is cursed with low bswdy
houses. On account of an outrage perpetrated
upon q respectable lady at the fair grounds on
the 4th, by gang of drunken prostitutes from
one of the dens, the citizens organized q spon.
kon ,n,lo nxo.<< Il
repaired to the institution, Ia brick building,)
carried all the furniture out of doors, including
the inmates, and then successfully applied the
fre-brand. All right.
The new Governor of North Carolina ia
twice blessed. A Weldon letter to the Rich.
mond Dispatch, dated the 10th instant saws ::
Tomorrow evening, the Governor elect will
lead to the altar Miss Mary NJ Dawes, of New.
bern, daughter of the late John P. Dawes, ESQ :,
of that city one of the fairest flowers of the Old
North State, justly renowned as is the good old
State for the beauty of her daughters. The
marriage ceremony will take place in Newborn,
and the bridal party will start the next day for
the Virginia Springs" ..
From the minutes of the several Conferences
in the New England States, it appears that
there are, in round numbers, one hundred thou.
sand members Of the Methodist Church in New
England and the increase the past year has
been about ten thousand, including those on
probation.
The proposal of the LONDON Missionary So.
ciety to send twenty additional missionaries TO
India within two years was made, says the
London Patriot, scarcely three months since,
and yet four 6fths of the men, and more than
one half of the estimated means, are already at
the disposal of the Directors.
The British and Foreign Bible Society, BY
means of colporteurs, distributed in France,
last year, $4,000 copies of the Scriptures.
The French and Foreign Bible Sociey, by q
similar agency, distributed 1871 Bibles and
67,825 Testaments. The Protestant Bible So
ciety, which confines its labors to Protestants
only, disposed of 1880 Bibles and 1850 Test.
aments.
In Australia. the Methcdis,s bevo e,o
churches and 6S3 other preaching stat;ous
communicates, uny:ards of rs. 900 attend ants
on the Divine worship, nearly 100000. The
number OF children in the weekday and Sab
bath schools, 53,55a.
Last week, little son of Judge Donaldson.
IL Montezuma, Illinois, was bitten on the arm
by spider, while sleeping in cradle. The
arm swelled rapidly, Inflammation spread to
the other parts ct the body, and the second day
after the injury, the child died.
Madame Paleiskof, leader of Partisan 60
ciety, left Paris but short time ago. on a sum.
mer tour to Germany. While stepping from
the door OF the opera house at Berlin, to gain
her carriage, she let fall one Of her bracelets,
close to the pavement. STOPPING to pick it
up, she noticed at the time, laughingly, that
"oae of the horses belonging to a carriage
standing at hand had dropped his head 80
close to her face that he had touched her, and
left moist kiss upon her cheek" In a few
days that unfortunate lady was taken i'll with
that most horrible disease, CHAMBERS, and in q
few days more breathed her last, in spite of the
attendance of the frat physicians of Berlin,
and every resource to be obtained by wealth
or by the ceaseless vigilance of friends.
As we have stated, Miss Elizabeth Curry was
drowned in the Hudson river, last Saturday,
while crossing in q boat from Bnttermilk Falls.
Orange county. friend of the family saws
that her greatgrandfather, her grandfather, and
an uncle, were successively drowned in the river,
within two miles of the same spot, and her
father narrowly escaped drowning few years
since.
The Attaly County Court House, in Missis.
sippi, was recently destroyed by an incendary,
with all the records $l0,0 900 in promissory notes
belonging to the clerks, $4,000 in cash belong
ing to the Sheriff, law library, probate records,
wills, and many other valuable papers. The
building was OF brick, costing $4,000, and the
whole loss is 100000.
The North will gain ten votes in the next
electoral college, as against the number in 1856,
as follows: Minnesota 4, Oregon 3, and Kan
sas 8. The North will then have l86, and the
South 100. 1t will not be q very hard matter