The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-03-10

ers OF the Eastern Shore Railroad Company
met at Princess Anne, Somerset county, Nd,
on the I'D utimo. The commissioners report
ed that two thousand and forty shares had been
subscribed. Isaac ID. Jones, William w. John
son, Jehu Parsons, DR.. Cathell Humphreys,
and Samuel S. Costen, the directors. subse-
quently met, and unanimously elected Hon.
John W. Cristfeld, President. The board then
adjourned, to meet at Salisbury on the 26th
ultimo.
HE MCDONOGH EsTATE.-The sale of that
portion of the McDonogh estate belonging to
the city Of New Orleans, and embraced within
the limits of the second district, took place in
that city on the 23d ult., and produced the
handsome amount Of $l89,270. 1t had been
appraised at only 10000.
The Cheraw Is. c. Gazette gives the follow
ing: One ofthe stationed preachers in Charles
ton states that the colored portion of his con-
gregation pay one third of the expenses of his
church = their contributions amounting to
$1,000 per annum and that the colored per-
sons attached to the four Methodist Episcopal
Churches in that city contribute annually about
$1,000 to missions.
In the lower House of the Legislature of Indi-
ana, majo rity of the Committee on Rights and
isting law which makes negroes and mulattoes
incompetent as witnesses in all cases where
white person is party. The bill was rejected
with very little ceremony, by a vote of yeas 65,
nays 20.
A BRIEF History OF Four BANK CLERKs.-
A writer in the New York Tribune states that
in the winter of 1915, four young bank clerks
used to meet for euchre playing alternately at
tba,r IN,
continued pleasantly for while, the party
keeping early hours, and no gambling being
allowed. A year later the party was, not reor-
ganized, but met accidentally on Christmas eve,
at rattle in Brooklyn. The downward path
was already entered upon. The results sum up
as follows: One of the young men is travelling
in Europe, his bondsmen having paid $4,000
for him, in which sum he was in default at the
bank where he was employed. Another is in
Sing Sing prison for forgery. The third is Os-
car S. Field, the recent defaulter in Brooklyn
and now wandering with the mark of Cain upon
his brow-the murderer of his own peace and
of the happiness of his family. The fourth
communicates these facts, and concludes his
story thus:
"And as the latter casts glance over the
past, shudder creeps through his frame as he
thinks over the fate of his companions, and
abyss into which he had almost plunged him
SELF
"There were other bank clerks among the
party, and ere long their defalcations must
come to light for they have been possessed of
sums which they could not have come by hon.
esily.''
EIGHTEEN SLAVES MANUMrTTED BY THEIR
OwNER.-The entire number of slaves employed
On the plantation of Mr.. Robert Barnett, of Lin
coin county, Kentucky, were brought to the
probate court on Wednesday, at Cincinnati, by
their owner, who executed the deeds of their
emancipation. 1t is stated that he was offered
$4,000 for them on the previous day, but re-
jected the Offer with the remark that he would
not take $4,000, the motive influencing him
being of higher character than that of gain.
IMPoRTATIoN OF AFRICANS. "A letter from
Texas states that six hundred slaves, from AT:
RIGA, have been brought into that State within
the last few weeks, and that more are soon ex-
pected.
LARGE SALE OF NEGRoEs.-On Wednesday
last, in Savannah, Georgia, the first day of the
auction, two hundred and thirty negroes were
sold. at an average of $500. At Gainesville,
Virginia, last week, thirty eight were sold at an
average of Stills.
INDIANA Recommendations, March 5.
The Legislature of this State have passed a
license law, regulating the sale of liquors. and
law for submitting the question of hold
ing Constitutional Convention to the people
at the next October election. Also, an act
directing the commissioners of the sinking fund
to purchase from four to five hundred thousand
dollars worth of > and >! per cent. Indiana
stocks, at New York prices. A bin increasing
the number of branches of the State Bank failed
for want of constitutional majority The Leg
isatnre adjourned finally on Monday.
MORE GoLp HpNrNG.-la Louis, March s.
A Leavenworth commission house of this city
received from the Clear Creek diggings, near
Longs Peak, nugget of gold, slightly inter
mingled with quartz, weighing fifty dollars
The person who consigned it as specimen
writing under date of February 9, expressed
himself as entirely satisfied with his success
thus far and the prospects for the future, Clear
Creek is tributary to the South Platte river
This city is thronged with parties bound for the
mines
DIR. Daniel Lee, many years editor of the
Southern CnltiratOr, and now occupying the
responsible post of the Terrell Professorship in
the Georgia University, is advocating the re-
opening of the slave trade in public letterS,
published in the C9nstihfttanGltst, tAugusta.)
Dir. Lee, says the Southern Citizen, is a
Northerner by birth; and it is a fact worth no.
ting, that hitherto the ablest, most thorough,
and laborious apostles of Slavery have been
Northern men. 1t is enough to mention Fletcher
Studies Of Slare'y,) and Sawyer Southern
hsstitutes.) Those Northerners are truly a
peculiar people.
The SLAVE TRApE.-The Southern Mercuyu
(Wedowee, Ala finishes an article entitled the
Progress of Opinion with these words:
ave do not despair of seeing the time when
to Alabama as it now is to bring a drove of
horses"
IMPORTS or Day GooDs-The imports of
dry goods at the port of New York for the four
weeks ending on Saturday last are $4,958. DOB
greater than for the corresponding four weeks
of last year, 81, 990,406 less than for the same
period of 1857, and 49, l0l ,G0l greater than for
the same period of 1856.
The total imports of foreigt. day goods at the
same port since January lst is now Sl2 ,668, 466
in excess of the corresponding total for last
year, only Sl,8OO,275 less than for the same
period of 1857, and S2,99l ,437 in excess of the
same period of 1856.
AUCTION SALE OF Wool AT BosToN.-Bos-
ton, FEB. 25.-The great sale of wool by auc-
ton came off yesterday prices were good, and
the sales brisk, including 100000 pounds me-
dunn, and 100000 pounds fine quality $500
pounds Modagore were sold at lsA O1 23S !;
$4,000 California fleece at 2l4 (9 35l; $4,000
pounds black tub-washed at 2S5 (d 342
65,OO0 pounds Maine at Al Ii So lot of
Vermont douhle eytra at 81 IG 511. New