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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-06-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FROM GOVERNOR WALL. —My name is Joseph Wall. I was Lieutenant-Governor of Goree, acting as Chief in July, 1782. I caused a man to be flogged without a trial. I ordered Sergeant Armstrong to receive 800 lashes. He died in five days aftei wards. The Board of Admiralty offered a reward for my apprehension. I absconded, and went to live on the Continent; mostly in Fiance and Italy. In 1797 I returned to England: I was taken up in 1802, 20 years after I had flogged Armstrong to death. I was tried, convicted, and hanged. Colonel Crawley is accused of having hastened the death of Sergeant-Major Lilley, if not of having killed hiss, by illegallyconlining him in a Black Hole. I won't say that Colonel Crawley murdered Sergeant-Major Lilloy. I don't know that he did. Spirits never do know anything of the kind. We cannot tell who did the Road murder. We only know what the papers tell you. They say that Crawl-3' committed a crime that amounts to murder. What they say is corroborated by the Duke of Cambridge. If it is tine, Colonel Crawley ought to be tried for it. Should it be proved against him he would deserve hanging more than I did. The man I caused to be flogged was a mutineer among mutineers. He was not a respectable noncommissioned officer. Mrs. Brownrigg tells me to give you her compliments. Good night.—Punch. • EXTRAORDINARY SuiclDE.—An inquiry was held at the London Hospital by Mr. Humphreys, on Tuesday evening, respecting the death of Charles Oates Biker, aged 23 years, a soldier of the 95th Regiment, just returned from India. Mr. A. Thompson, 6, Ring-street, Tower-hill, said that he was a coffehouse keeper. De ceased and several other soldiers put up at his house last Friday evening. Deceased said that he had got a sunstroke at M how, and was invalided home in consequence. He was not apparently affected in his mind, and be stayed up until 12 o'clock, telling stories about India He then asked for a book which he had in his haversack, and went to bed. It was a book of extraordinary adventures, and had pictures of persons leaping off castle walls. He was not drunk, but he was a little under the influence of liquor. About one o'clock witness heard a crash of glass, and directly afterwards a policeman knocked and said that a soldier had leaped from the top of Gm house, and was lying apparently dead in the street. In the deceased's bedreoin a glass door leading on the leads was found to be licked, but all the glass had been sunislied out, rod there was a trace of blood along the leucite to the parapet, which was seven feet high, and ever which the deoeased had no doubt thrown himself, cleating the area railings, and falling into the roadway. Hu bad dieseed himself in the trousers of one of the 17th Lancers, who was asleep in the same room. He was conveyed to the hospital, where he shortly afterwards died. The jury returned an epen verdict. Tire Hein OF
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-10-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE SON AGAINST TIIE FATHER.—David Davies, an intelligent-looking lad, of about a.dozen years of age, appeared to prefer a complaint against his father, William Davies, a blacksmith, for committing an aggravated assault upon him, on Sunday, the 27th ult. In reply to Nr. Moggridge the boy stated that he did not go to school —he nevrr did. Ile did not go to church or chapel. Some further answers having been obtained the oath was administered; and then, in reply to air. Francis, he stated that sometimes his father taught him to pray, sometimes his mother.—Mrs. Davies, the mother of the boy, said she bad been married 29 yeare, and during the last 20 years of that period the conduct of her husband had been bad both towards herself tied her children. David Davies then said that cm Sunday his father requested him nut to go out of the house. In the evening, however, he went out for a walk, and returned in about an hour. He found his father sleeping by the fire, and he went up to bed. His father EOM afterwards called out "Davie, come down," lied he get out of bed and came down in his shirt. His father told him to bolt the door, which he did, and then went to the grat and, taking a poker, truck witers three violent blows with it, two on the head and one on the arm. He (witness) was stunned and could not speak, but he screamed out. A good deal of blood tlewed. After he recovered himself he went to his bedroom, and lay down upon the boards. Ilia father again called to him to go for some bacon. He went, but did not return for fear his father would kill him. He then went to his sister's. His father was half drunk at the time. Ile had often beaten him before with his fists. —Mrs. Johns, a neighbour living next door, was called as a witness, and said she remembered the case of this boy b..ing beaten. About ten o'clock on that night the boy came to he r door and asked for admission, as his father had "quite finished him." As far as she could see the defendant did not usually treat his wife and children as he ought.—The magistrates complimented this witness on her kindness in interfering in such a case. The only defence which defendant attempted to make was that his children were in the habit of disobeying bis orders.—Mr. Francis severely reprimanded the defendant fir bringing up his children in so careless a manner—not sending them to any church or chapel, nor to any day-school; and when he Was half muddled with drink going home and inflicting such injuriee as might have resulted in the murder of his son. It was a warn jog to working men of the dreadful depravity brought on by drink. Without being allowed the opportunity of paying a fine, he was committed to the House of Correction for two months, with hard labour.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-09-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FBIDAY.—B.fore Grilßta Llewellyn, Eichard _ _ .  eloaet ; I did so, but he was not able to relieve himself. He seemed in great pain ab nit the bowels. I took him to the room, and again planal him on the settle. Prisoner and deceased were both drunk, and they got more drink in the house. They seemed friendly up to the time they stripped about the dogs, and no angry words passed till the lime-throwing was mentioned. In all hour or so tate:wards Edwa.d Ellis and I suppo.a.rd the deceased to the railway station, and put hint in the train for Aberdare. Edward Ellie, a harpist, who was in the Glen Taff at the time, corroborated John Thomas's evidence. 1 Esther Howells, living at Aberdare, and with whom deceased and his wife lodged, described his being brought home on the Sunday night ; and that he lingered in great pain till a quarter past nine o'clock on Monday, when he died. Mr. Evan Jones, surgeon, described the state in which he found the deceased on Monday; and deposed that he had made a post-mortem examination. He found the bladder and small intestines ruptured, and their contents emptied into the abdominal cavity. Those ruptures were the cause of death. It was impssible deceased could have lived after such injuries. James James: I ani a police-sergeant at Merthyr. On Sunday, the 6th instant, at a quarter past two, I went to the Glen Taff beer-house. I 82W the deceased sitting down bleeding very much from a cut on the right chic ot the nose. John Thomas and another man raised him upon the settle. Ile fell down from the settle, and they again raised him; but he again fell on the floor. I thought it was from the influence of dunk. The prisoner was sitting down with his shirt off. I asked him who had been doing this. Ile said, "I did do it; I struck him a blow down the stairs ; and if he will get up again I will strike his brains out." The prisoner seemed angry. I did not think there was any danger. I apprehended the prisoner on Tuesday morning, and told him, " You are charged with killing John Evans." He said," Well, it can't be helped; we quarrelled about some dogs, and each of us put our jackets down fur them to fight. I was at the Kuv.ng sometime ago when a lot of men beat and kicked me very much, and he was amongst them; and some lime was thrown in my eyes." I know the prisoner  lives with Diana. _ At the conclusion of the evidence, the prisoner, who had manifested the utmost indifference, was cautioned in the usual form, but declined saying anything. The leatned magistrate said he iegretted that he could not take the same view of the case as the Coroner's Jury. There was nothing in the evidence in reduce the homicide to the lesser charge of manslaughter. The primner had received no provocation from the deceased either in word o deed. He must therefore stand committed to the Assizes on the charge of Wilful Murder.  and J. T. D. Llewelyn,lqrs.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-08-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SEIZURE FOR CHURCH RATEB.—A fortnight ago, Mr. Glover, builder, of Blaby, in this county, was summoned before the magistrates—the Rev. H. J. Hoskin& , the clergyman of the village, T. Stokes, and M. Turner, Rags., for the non-payment of church-rates, when he was ordered to pay the rate in seven days. As Mr. Glover declined to take this advice, a warrant was placed in the hands of the police, two members of which body entered his house on Tuesday evening last, and nct succeeding in persuading Mrs. Glover to pay the rate in her husband's absence, waiting his return, they seised and took away in the name of the church .whatever spoil they pleased. The amount decreed for the suppoit of the church of Xpgland was 2s. 9d., to meet which six mahogany chairs, with hair seats, besides one arm chair to boot, a music stool, and stand, with a clock, altogether worth from eight to ten poueds were taken away. As this is the first time, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant of the village, that such a procedure has taken place, it might be well to note, that it occurs under the rectorship of the Rev. Mr. Hoskins, who unites in himself the two offices of rector and magic-, trate.—Lekester liferc.try. A VIRGINIAN MURDER A correspondent of the New York Tinla writes from Norfolk in Virginia •  " Yesterday, as Lieutenant A. L. Sanborn, of Company B 2nd United States' Coloured Volunteers, was march.  ing his company down Main-street, a prominent citizen and violent Secessionist, named Dr. David M. Vright, rushed from the store of Foster and Moore, and shouted  to the lieutenant that he waa_a-. The lieutenant,  who was about the centre of his company, and on the opposite side from the doctor, gave the command Halt,' and started b pass around the front of his company to where the doctor stood. While doing so, the doctor, unperceived by the lieutenant, drew a Colt's revolver from his pocket, and placed his hands behind him. The lieutenant despatched an orderly for the provost-guard, and advanced opposite the doctor and said, '1 am an officer in the United States' army; consider yourself under arrest.' The doctor presented his pistol, and . „.  standing within four feet of the lieutenant, fired two shots in rapid succession; the first ball passed through the lieutenant's hand, the second entered the left shoulder, passed through the base of the neck, and came out near the right shoulder blade. The lieutenant rushed upon the doctor after the second shot, and bore him back into the store, where he sank to the floor, the blood pouring from his mouth and nose, and immediately expired. The coloured soldiers, with fixed bayonets, followed them into the store, and were prevented from wreaking summary vengeance upon Dr. Wright by Lieutenant-Colonel Flocrl, 155th New York Volunteers, who was passirg at the time, and seized the doctor as the lieutenant fell. Colonel Flood handed him over to the provost-guard."
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-02-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LECTURE AT TILE ROYAL INSTITUTION.  On Monday evening, the fifth of the Royal Institution series of lectures was delivered by Professor Nicholas, of Carmarthen, on "The Fable Writer, as Humorist and Moralist." Mr. John Jenkin, F.R.A.S., of Rotherslade, occupied the chair, and introduced the lecturer in a complimentary speech. Professor NicnoLas said that he had chosen this simple subject, "The Fable Writer," not from any want of appreciation of the intelligence of a Swansea audience, but rather from a consideration of his own capacity and the time he had at his disposal for preparation. There were some people who seemed to imagine that the time for fables had gone by, or that they were only suited to the minds of children. But bow true was it that what was best suited for the child was best suited for the man. Plato, in his ideal Republic, would ha ve excluded the Homeric poems in consequence of their bad moral tendency in ascribing to the gods the faults and weaknesses of men. Ile would have confined the instruction of children to fables, selecting however those fables which were best adapted to teach virtue. This fact showed how important a place the fable occupied in the estimation of civilized nations two thousand years ago. The earliest fable extant was contained in the book of Judges. The people of Shechem had chosen Abimelech as king, who to gain the throne murdered his brothers, three score and ten persons, Jothem, the youngest. alone escaping. The fable, as they would remember, represented the trees of the forest seeking a king. The olive tree, the fig tree, and the vine refused, but the bramble consented, and was anointed king. Of course, the object of this fable was to expose the folly of the people and the worthlessness of Abimelech. The first systematic fable writer known to us was Asop, who ugly as he is said to have been, and slave as he undoubtedly was, was held in such esteem among the Greeks after his death that four cities claimed the honour of his birth-place. The fabulists of more recent times were numerous, the most distinguished being La Fontaine, Leasing, and Richter. After giving some examples of Lessing's fables, Profeasor Nicholas proceeded to analyse and define the fable. The cuter ..,r att,. ru,r directly to . . . . .  recommend virtue, but indirectly by condemniri'and exposing vice, to recommend its opposite. The lash of the fabulist was always employed against the baser parts of our nature, showing that, before the Bible was given to men, they strove to put down what they recognised as evil. Feeble, no doubt, their endeavours proved, unaided by the Divine power, but although they did not and could not make the world what it ought to be, they prevented human nature sinking so low as it might otherwise have done. The CIIAIRbfAN moved a vote of thanks to Professor Nicholas, speaking in the highest terms of the excellence of the lecture.—The Rev. C. SHORT seconded the vote of thanks, which was carried with loud applause.—Professor Nicaotes acknowledged the compliment, and the proceedings ended.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-10-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PONTABDAWE.  SUPPOSED MURDER.  The neighbourhood of Puntardawe was thrown into considerable consternation on Sunday, by the corpse of a man in a state of nudity, except the trousers and boots, being found by two boys in the Town a little below Graig-tie Banos. It was conveyed t.o the Pheasant Bush and found to be severely injured about the head. The skull was fractured in two places; from which blood flowed copiously, and it was otherwise disfigured by two black eyes. The de• ceased was a tall man fully six feet in height and verS strongly built. The corpse was identified on Monday as that a James Smith, a native of Ireland, and who has for a short time been working on the Swansea Valley Railway at Cwmtwrch. He was seen on Saturday night in the Tredegar Arms, Cwmtwrch, afterwards about 11 o'c;ock he was expelled from the Stag, Cwmtwrch. He had been drinking freely but was not quarrelsome inclined. The police are indefatigable in their exertions to solve the mystery of his death. That he was killed and afterwards thrown into the river is placed beyond doubt. The coroner's inquest may perhaps elucidate the matter.  THE INQUEST  tram warrant' Surely all this is a mockery of worship. We recomTnend the following paragraph from an address delivered lotely at a vestry meeting in the parish of Egliam, by Mr. Hugh Shields, a solicitor resident there, who himself is a churchman. Mr. Shields concluded his tddre=s in the Idlowing words .—" I think that none .if no can consider the subject dispassionately without some misgivin., it the thought of our extorting church. rates from other congregations. The law may allow this, and the magistrates may award accordingly; but conscience requires a higher sanction; and it there be injustice in our dealings with this matter, the consequences must be shocking to every pious mind. The eumnand, ' Thou shalt not steal,' is as much broken by. our taking advantage of an unjust law, 118 by our violating it jit,t one. An covetonsness is idolatr!, in the eye: of God, and hatred is murder, so unfair dealing is theft,. and extortion is robbery. To commit these acts for the support of religious worship, is not to consecrate them, but to add impiety to injustice. `l, the Lord, love julgment ; I hate robbery for burnt offering.' Can we venture, in the face of this solemn declaration, to bring into the sanctuary the proceeds of a church-TRW ? Shall we dare to place them on the Lord's table as synabols of the sacrifice once offered on the Cross? For my p.7.rt, I cannot join you in such boldness; and, therefore, I oppose the levying of any church-rate, though I should willingly subscribe ten times the amount of my rate towards the voluntary support of our Church services.'" We understand that Mr Shields intends publishing it and church people as well as dissenters should possess a copy and peruse it with an unprejudiced mind.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1860-12-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

KIDNAPPLNO AND MIIRDER IN AMERICA.—The Chicago Press and Tribune of the 26th ult, states that Jerry Boyd, an honest, industrious, and inoffensive coloured dmyman of Galena, Illinois, where he had led a sober and reputable life for twenty years; his wife, Mary Boyd, whom he had bought out of slavery with money earned by the sweat of his brow; a girl, also coloured, but also free, aged 13 or 14, who lived in Jerry's family; and a white child that Mary took care of for a poor woman at service, were enticed away from their homes two or three weeks ago by a couple of persons upon the pretence that the three oldest persons of the party were to have profitable and pleasant employment on a farm and in a hotel at Des Montes, lowa. They were last seen in Johnson County, of that State, in a covered wagon, going westward. A few days after their departure from that county, the body of a man was found by the roadside near where they were last seen, and from papers in his pocket it was plain that it was the body of Boyd, and that he had been murdered. Nem s of his death went back to his friends in Galena, and then for the first time a suspicion that the party had been kidnapped for sale into slavery, was excited. That suspicion grew into a certainty on further developments, and the people who used to see Boyd every day at his work, earning honest bread, offered, though he was a mulatto, a reward of 500 dole. for the apprehension of the villains who had committed a double crime, and despatched two trusty men to follow the criminals up. The kidnappers effected a sale of their victims in Missouri, but before the money was paid over, one of the negroes, Mary Boyd, revealed the whole truth, in consequence of which the kidnappers Goodwin and Peter L. Bolton. One of them, and murderers were arrested. Their names are John he first captured, was committed to gaol in St. Joseph, under a charge of kidnapping, in default of 2,000 dole., bail. The other, Goodwin, was taken charge of by the gentlemen from Galena, who brought him within 40 miles of Hannibal, Missouri, on their way to Galena, where he slipped his irons, and jumped from the car window while the train was running at the rate of 13 miles an hour, and escaped. Mrs. Boyd states that when the party had travelled three days out from Galena, they encamped by night about 16 miles from lowa city. Here some movements made by Goodwin and Bolton excited the suspicion of her husband that all was not right, an he loaded his gun and revolver in the presence of the kidnappers. The next morning, Goodwin and Bolton held a consultation ; Goodwin urging the necessity of getting rid of Jerry by killing him. While Jerry was sitting down near the waggon, Goodwin stepped up to him, saying "Jerry, I am afraid of you," and fired, first shooting him in the breast, and then in the head. The murder was committed in the presence of Aim Boyd and the mulatto girl.  Printed and Published by the Editor and Proprietor, THOMAS CLARE HENLEY, at the Herald Office, No. 22,
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1860-04-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOCR IN: MAIM LANE.  shillings per Quarter. Wheat—Essex & Rent, white, new 43 to 55 old 46 to 66 „ red, new 42 52 old 44 63 Norfolk, Lincoln, & Yorkshire, red .. 41 62 Barley—Malting new Chevalier, new Grinding Distilling Malt—Essex, Norfolk, & Suffolk 49 to 57 fine 60 70 Kingston, Ware, & town made 49 67 fine 60 70 Brown Rye—New Oats—English, feed Scotch, feed Irish, feed, white . Ditto, black Beans— Mazagan Ticks Harrow Pigeon Peas—new, white, boilers 36 Maple they Flour, per sack of 280 lbs. town, households Fine Country, nominal Households  A somewhat similar instance of barbarous inhumanity in Arkansas is related in the New York Tribune :  " In the township Extra, in Ashley county, Arkansas, the discovery was made that a wid ,w, named liii.. and a save woman be.onging to Mr. J L. M—, who lived with her, had been murdered, and the house burnt to conceal tire deed. The alarm soon spread, and an investigation was instituted by Mr. M—, in connection with many of the leading citisens. Suspicion fell upon a slave Ike, belonging to a man named Pei due Ike was whipped nearly to death, in order to extort a confession from him hut he persisted in denying any knowledge of the affair. Mr. hk- then paored upon his blecdinz back spirits of tuipentine, and set it on tire! Ike then confess( d that he ' and a negro, named Jack, belonging to Mr. J. F Norr.ll, were hircd by one Mile to assist in performing the dent. One fact, however,, greatly invalidated the te•tiniony. M and that was that r. M and Mr. Nora ell were deadly enemies, and Ike must h ,ve known that noth ng could have pleased Mr. M— more than to convict Jack, thus suljecting his most bitter enemy to the lost of a favouri e slave, worth from 1,200 to 1,600 dollars. Jack was. however, immediately arrested and brought before the regulators, and certain eitcumstances seeming in some digi ee to corroborat, Ike's statement, sicken were driven into the ground, and the two slaves chaise I to them. A large quantity of fat pine was piled round them, and Mr. M set it on fire. In a few zninutes nothing but chaired and mackuied corp•es remained. A subscription was circulated to indemnify the owiims tor their losses. At the time this occurred I was in the adjoining county of Drew, but during the fall my business called me into the vicinity of the tragedy. I was at the plantation of Mr. Norrell on the 14th oh November, and there heard their sersion of the affair. Mr. Morrell told inn that when the dames were rising ten fret above Jack's heal he said to the dying slave, I have mist d you, Jack, and I never caught you in a lie. You are going to die; nothing can rave you; and now tell toe ti sly, as you hope for II raven, are you guilty Jack answered from the flames, ' Master, I don't know any more about it than you do' Mr. Norrell and all his I amity believed Jack to have been innocent and stud tears as they spoke of hint."  30 . 21 to 26 Potato. .21 27 Potato 26 20 24 fine 24 , 20 24 fine . 32