Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-05

ed Powers, engaged upon tue ne" STATE
House, at Columbia, ;. C., having given pret
tY free utterance to " sedltiUus sentiments"
on more than one occasion, was lately arres-
ted, taken before the mayor Of the city, and
examined in the presence Of the Commission
er of the Circuit Although it did not appear
that the accused was guilty Of tampering with
slaves, vet it was clearly in evidence that he
was an anti slavery man. lie was thertoTe,
SAYS a writer in the Charleston Mercury or
dcred 10 be escorted from prison to the out
skirts Of the city by the MarshaE. As threats
Of rescue had been made by other stone ma
sons, he was carried through the town at elev-
en- o'clock a m and through the State House
ward. were these men were at work, crowd,
of course in attendance. No attempt at res
cue Vas made, ana at the Charlotte junction
ol the city the Vigilance Committee took him
in hand, stripped him to the waist, and in
ilicted twenty nine laShes and a coat Of tar
and feathers. Hence he was forward .E
railroad to Charleston.
On arriving at Charleston L. continues the
Mercury, walked to the gua" house yliunta
rilv in his unique dress lie relates his al
ventures in the simplest manner, concluding
with the assertion that lie don't care for the
tarrins and feathering, but the ninc-and-twen
y administered to him was little tight.
4 Cargo Of 1fricons-T The Sea Coast Dem
ocrat, published at Mississippi City. L" learns
from good authority that cargo Of African
slaves is expected in the ship Island Harbor,
the latter part Of the present month, They
will, if they arrive safe, be landed without
any attempt at secresy; the consgnees trust
ing to the sentiment Predominant in Missis
sippi as to the necessity Of increasing the
number of laborers for a triumphant acquit
tai in the event Of a government prosecution.
The Richmond va Dispatch says: Ben
iamin w. Heath, formerly n private in
the United States army, was sent out Of Rich
mond, Virginia, for expressing sympathy
for the numbering land pirates Brown and
Cook"
We learn from the papers that there is great
excitement relative to two school teachers
from the North in Williamsburg The great
er portion Of the citizens of that district
seem determined to drive them out Of the dis
trct on suspicion, whilst their employers and
others, believing them to be innocent Of any
designs hostile to our Institutions seem de
tcrmined to retain and defend thcm-C CHarieS
ton s. C) Merc,uy.
a Scotchman named Sandy Tate having
expressed himself rather too freely upon the
slave question and llarper's Ferry affair, IN
the village of Salisbury, n. c., was recently
seized by mob and tarrei and fcathered, af
ter which he was placed upon fence rail and
carried to a neighboring duck pond, where
in the presence of an immense throng of peo-
pie he was ducked until be recanted Upon
being released, the poor fellow took to his
heels, and has never been seen since.-BaU
more AB,eriCTH,
The above arc ioa Of a dozen instan-
ccs Of outrage now to be found in the news
papers. 1t is this Suspicion among south
ern men tnat leads to much of the difficult
ty in the south and to bitter feelings in
the north, for where one tampering with
or interposing with slaves is justly punish
ed nine are maltreated with no better foun-
dation than suspicion. We could instance
this by case which in reality occurred,
but fortunately ended we'll A religious
man years ago, a sound democrat at that,
was called by his business to visit a certain
locality in Maryland, and went there with
the intention Of not say.3 one wvlu Oh
the question Of slavery. His opinions On
that subject were precisely what were then
held by the Pennsylvania democracy, but
some offcious person took care before his
arrival to make it known that an "aboition-
ist'' was coming among them The conse-
quence was he met with great difficulties.
was at first refused even to be heard,
and but for the interference of a few infu-
entail citizens, who declared they would
protect him at all hazards, would have been
driven away by force \ domestic caIam-
ity a short time afterwards gained him
sympathy, and when he left it was with
the good wishes Of the community for his
future welfare. 1t is thus with hundreds
who 90 south. Either some spy or evil
designing person precedes his arrival, and
reports a remark perhaps made in free
state, where most men speak what thev
think almost without annoyance on all ques-
tions Of government Or policy, or else an
intense slavery man presses him for an
opinion which, if unfavorable, results TOO
frequently in outrage. Were southern
men in person and by notices torequost all
travellers to abstain from discussing slavery.
or holding intercourse with s,ayes, and 1t
the same time discourage their own citizens
from discussing the question, or inficting
punishment on mere suspicion, they would
soon discover that not one in a thousand Of
the northern people bears them the SLIGHT,
st ill-wil, or is at all desirous Of interior
ing with their peculiar institution. They
could also then discriminate between "ab,
, ohIonists' and citizens Of our common