St. Mary's beacon., 1858-07-22

ExcrrxMEST IN MARYLAxp-Ag gentleman
writing frvm Eclair, on the 9Th inst. says:
We arr in the midst OF one of the greatest exc
elements that has ever been In this county. IL
grew ont Of the tarring AMI featheFins Of Mtsr
jas. L. Bowers, on last night two weeks. i
am well acquainted with him, and always
found him a. be very clever and obligins; his
wife Is lady who treats every person well.
All they can prove against Bowers Is be Is OF.
posed b. slavery. In the night he sas dccoyed
under false pretsnces, by a stranger who said
he had broken down, and asked Mr.. Bowers
10 get him piece Of rope, and assist him. Mr..
b. in the kindness of he heart went % the
gate and there was raugh. by gang lying in
/ wait. Mr.. Bowers made alarm which reached
his wife. and she ran to his assistance, and
commenced in goOd earnest 20 unmask some Of
the party, for which she was 50 injured that
| DR.. II. Whaling despaired of her life for some
/ time, she being about seven months in preS-
nancy. On the next morning Mr.. Bowers
went to Chesteftown, before Esq. Graves, and
made oath 10 the following persons, and the
Squire put them under bond Of $500 each. 70:
their appearance at next court George II.
! Handy, Josiah Ringold, Harris Beck, William
1 p. Francis, Isaac Perkins. Samuel Baker Will
liam I. Baker, Frisby Brown, being eight In
number.
Report says that there was about thirty
! persons present but Mr.. Bowers could not
identity any iiifsfe. On the SATURDAY. follow
ing the occurrence. there was show In Giles
tertown, and Dir. Bowers friend made rally,
and commenced to yindicate him; the result
was spnae.(x or eight fights. On the 5th.
Richard Hynson, Esq, made an attattta kt IN,
James Mansfield lex) litr Of the Kent News,
and struck Mansfield with his cane, when the
Bowers men made another rally, and before
they stopped knocked down twenty-five men,
ran Samuel Baker and Isaac Perkins. two of
the TAR and feathering men out Of town-thc
officer refusing to act. They say the pro-
slavery men commenced il by taking the law
IN their own hands and they may fight It out
Frisby Brown. one Of the men Mr.. Bowers
held to bail, went TO town on the Goth ult., to
see the show. The Bowers men found he was
IN town and got after him. He got into DR.
Sappingions carriage and went some 10 or Il
miles on Faster Neck Island, and kept hid for
two or three days He has no slaves, and the
Bowers men swear they will fix him yet It
said by men who know, that at least three
quarters OF the people are on Bowers side;
nearly all the iaboring class or non slave hol-
ders, with part Of the shareholders them
selves, condemn it - Wilmington tDel.l Reput-
hcdn.
Ice FROM THE Glowing CRrciBIE.--Thc
article entitled 1.-The First Idea of EVERYTHING
IN our last number, abundantly showed that
there may be, literally and materially. nothing
new under the sun; yet SO many new facts,
principles and laws, are almost daily coming
to light, that the world is in no want of novel;
ties. Thus, new branch of physics has of
late years been inaugurated by the discovery
OF what IS called the spheroiial state of matter.
when we had got as far as st, am and gas, We
fancied we had fathomed the uttcrnlust secrets
OF nature; but now maryels which writer of
fiction would hardly dare TO introduce into
fairly tale or a legend, turn out to be incontes-
tally and dcmonstraLly true For instance, u
bold expcrimentalis--some people might call
hlm an lnpndent quack--set his heart Oh man.
ufacturtng lump of Ice. And where does he
succeed in making it Of all prepostcrous
places in the world, he produc it inside a
glowing crucibie standing in heated furnace;
the heat OF the furnace, moreover, not being
the gentle temperature which bakers Use to re-
duce beef and potatoes to a sayory dish nicely
Drowned aud with the gravy in, but q chemists
white heat; and the bit uf ice, 81 turned cut.
Is not half-mcIted haStoiie, which YOU would
afternoons thunder storm, but diabolical lit
tie lump of such intense GOODNESS that YOU
would take it 20 be the concentration of q whole
Russian winter, or an essential ice.rup distilled
out of the very North Pole itsclf.-Iiousehoh
Words.
The DEFEAT OF COLONEL STEProE.-We
give to-day from Our California files details of
the engagement in Oregon between the United
States forces under Col. Steptoe aud body of
Indians. tie was caught in an ambush the
Indian force amounting to five hundred war
riors, while there was but one hundred and ten
men IN the command Of the Colonel, ill-sup.
piled with ammunition. He had been fore.
warned of an attack, but as the Spokanes, fbe
promised assailaots, were a tribe having the
most friendly relations with the whites. he paid
no attention to the admuniton. The loss of
Colonel SteptOe's command was far less than
previously reported. There were two officers
and eight men. including three friendly IN
dlans, killed, and ten men wounded. The Of
fears killed were Captain O. Fl. Taylor, of
Company o., and Lieutenant w. CASTOR, of
Company II, First Dragons. At the last
dates, Col. Steptoc was at Fort Walla WaIla.
waiting for reinforcemelts Brigadier General
Clark and staff had gone to the seat of war in
" "sH1S"on CeIIiOoTy Ine steamer Senator
arrived at San Francisco on the 18th of June
from San Diego, with some two hundred troops.
destined to the scene of the Indian difficulties.
QUlD Pro QUo.-A letter writer from Italy
tells story of Display of the right sort of
"Amcricanism" by one OF our countrvmen in
Florence. The Church of England has con-
gregation there, the expenses Of which are pai,l
by an ADMISSION fee Of two panls, demanded of
all who enter the church. The receipts from
this source being insufficient TO provide for the
support OF the minister and sexton, the vestrv-
men (all English) had to make il up from their
own private purses. One of the members re-
signed, and an American was requested to take
his place. Knowing very well the object Of
the proposition, our couuiryman determined TO
make the best bargain he could, and consented
b. serve on condition that a prayer for the
President Of the United States and his Cabinet
should be inserted in the service along with
that for the Queen and the royal family. The
terms were accepted; the new vestryman was
installed: into Office; the worthy clergyman and
the vigilant beadle arc now provided for. and
the public prayer is constantly made for the