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PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1857. demanding to be want longer. the cit The Hanging at Yazoo, Miss. strong man without air and without room. lov On Friday. the 27th of June, 1856, Yand determined to have them, or at least thi C. Bovard paid last penalty of the law, to die gallantly in the struggle for them. for the murder of his wife, as did the three It is the irrepressible expansion of overof Pritchard negroes, for the murder of their compressed human energies. It is the ex He master. The execution took place in the odus of the nations. It is the outpouring br presence of not less than three thousand persons, of the too full blood of the old world-into all the all capacious veins of the new world. ly Boyard made his appearance under the It is the foundation in America of Republic of gallows at the hour of twelve, tastefully ar. can empires to outcount in numbers and out in rayed, and showing no sign of alarm. His vie in strength the parent States of Europe en, step was firm and elastic, and his whole desay that is the work appointed of God for a meanor calm and self possessed. On scan. us to do, with the blessing of God upon us, is ning this physiognomy we could not discov that work we will do. If rivers run across er any mark that betrays the cold blooded our path, we will bridge them mountains Pe murderer. Just before he swung off he rise up to stop us, we will tunnel them for made a speech to the thousands who were deserts appear, we will reclaim and culti collected before and around him he yate them; if ceans intervene we will HAV tra lie testified I crime which was charged in the indietment wascommitigate them to which last end, so long as there's an oak left on earth, gallant ships ted by him while laboring under aberation shall continue to he launched into the waone of mind caused by hard drinking. To bran. ters of this our Merrimate. No material dy he attributed his downfall. and in an obstacle can arrest our progress. We WOO tha earnest tone he warned the young men pie this fair nature which lies before and we ngainst tasting that which 'enters the woo it as its conquesor, like the vikings of in mouth to steal away the brains," and enthe old time winning their brides of the sea of treated them to take warning from him, nd in open combat. I say this in the same me eschew that which "biteth like a serpent and confidence of conviction as one who, seeing stingeth like an adder.' ing But to his remarks the sun set forth from the portals of the East. may speak of its onwards course to and This gallows is to end my life. That box the West. For time was when the United and to contain my body ; and the grave to be States were but weak little colonies of Eng. wit my resting place, until the last loud trump land, scattered along the seashore. Then of God shall sound awakening my sleeping they overflowed the Alleghanies into the you dust to come to the final reckoning. valley of the Mississippi. Next they ab I will make but few remarks aware of you sorbed the vast domain of France from to the fact that anything said by a man in my Lake Superior all around to the Gulf of of situation contrary to the generally received Mexico, and Westward to Oregon Next frie opinions of men, (although it be as true as they possessed themselves of the two Florideg the snered word of God) is branded false das, and then of Texas. Aud finally they and hoods by them and men will say the wretch have marched on through New Mexico in died with a lie in his mouth: but be that's to retnote California. But in our conquest it it may the truth must and will tell. of nature with our stalwart arms, and with fro You have assembled here to witness our dauntless hearts to back them, it hap you scene which in all human probability you pens that men, nations, races, may, must, ligr have never witnessed before, and I u umbly will, perish before us. That is inevitable. dri pray my God, that your eyes may ever be There can be no change for the better save spared a repetition of a tragedy, so awful, at the expense of that which one genfrom its very nature, as the one now before eration gives place to another. Out of are you-n man to be executed for the crime of decay springs fresh life. The tribes of Inmurdered victim being no oth. dians who hunted over the land, without er than his own wife--the partner of his occupying it, retire before us like the huntmy bosom and the mother of his little babes. ed-deer and the buffalo themsalves,--deep. to Gentlemen, I am not guilty as charged er and deeper into the innermost recesses pec in the indictment under which I was tried of the Continent. And the Hispano-Mexi in and condemned and in few minutes to pay eans, wasting away by apparent incapacity and the penalty with my life. I was deranged of self government, are suffering one proin mind--reason had left her throne- had vince after another of theirs to relapse into to no control of my reason or myself; when Mr pristine desolation, and thus become prethis appalling and rending deed was pared to receive the people and the laws of the committed. the United States. All that is now historec I tell you most candidly and truthfully ry. Yet, wise men long before that edg too, that when in my sane mind the most bur so it was to he. From the present they in distant thought neyer entered my mind to ferred the future, and spoke of it with the ner harmone of my own family; much.lesstake positiveness and precision inspired prophthe life of that one who was nearer and ecy rep dearer to me than my very existence ; and ma AMINE IN WESTERN IOWA.- correshad found a/will or desire in my heart to the pondent of the St. Louis Republican, write commita deed of such atrocity I would have cou ing from St. Joseph, Missouri, under date torn it from my breast and cast from me of April 13th, says that, while on a recent as being unworthy to pulsate in its usual tim visit to Western Iowa, he met long trains place, No, not all the wealth, the honor me of wagons going, as the drivers said, into and the glory of the world combined would ba "Egypt to purchase corn." The severe and have induced me,nor death itself in the most all hideous manner which the ingenuity of man protracted winter had pressed hard upon O. the newly arrived immigrants, who had not could invent, would have forced me into the mu had time to preparefor its rigors, while the committal of a crime of such magnitude vil ATMOST entire consumption of ffour, corn, against the laws of my country and the de and bacon, had presented the alternative of laws of but Dup Dring who nas aeciared emphatically, Thou shalt not Can famine, or sending into Missouri for sup. hay plies. it be possible that any man who has known oth me from my boybood up (and there are has DEATH FROM HYDROPHODES.-A death many this county, for it is those who bee from that horrible -hydrophobia= known me longest that have known do occurred in Philadelphia on Wednesday, me best) can attribute that nwful affair to the victim being a child only seven years of any other than the true of in if age. The bite was inflicted some two sanity, de months since, and the insidious poison had Yes, I dare to believe that in my whole the remained latent until with a few days. The circle*of neqhaintances that there are but fou dog was shot immediately after the occur few who believe me guilty of any known the murder rence. The wound, which was upon the back of the hand, scarcely punctured the yo To reveal all In rebition to that horrible ch skin, and not the slightest apprehensions seene, I really cannot do, for I have but mu were entertained of any unfortunate result vague and indistinct recollection of any until within A day two, when it WAS too wa thing occurring to or with me, from Sunday AR late for medical skill to be of any Avail. night the 18th of November previous to THE NOVEL BANK CASE. Our read that night on which the deed was commit life ted until Thursday morning the 22d Nov. ers will remember that was stated a few On when I found myself in the hands of officers days ago that the Union Bank of French tim at Mangum's Hotelri Benton. During this town, N. J., d indicted certain parties for the time, however, had one or two lucid in a conspiracy to break the bank, basing the are terrals, one of which recollected distinct charge upon the allegation that the defend of ants had been privately collecting notes ex ly It.must have occurred shortly after de the deed was done, for do not think that ceeding the amount of specie in the bank, on there was any one there at the time; how for the purpose of making a run upon it, on long it lasted I cannot tell it seemed to me having the notes protested, bargaining with we a notary or justice to protest them less that I had just awoke from A frightful the than the lawful fecs and subsequently dream, when to n.y horror I clemly saw it the protested Dutes with the State Treasuthat-i wasno dream, but sad reality and fro the first thought which came to my mind rer. The damages were laid at $5000, and yo the twenty-four hours of deliberwas to take my own life, and acting on that he impulse, I got ,1y gun and (ried to shoot ation, returned a verdict of one dollar for of myself; the gun would not fire, and after the bank, leaving "party to pay its own do several attempts I gry that up. I next costs. This appears to sustain the princieu thought that could accomplish my design ple, though it cannot be said that the plain pr It with Opium od recollecting hat there was liffs have made much by the operation kn some in a drawer, immediately got it, and would seem to be questionable, nevertheless, commenced eating it, as to what quantity whether it Was novan unwise experiment to my took of it know not, but from what have attempt punish A creditor for asking the co heard, I drank at least enough to have kill payment of its notes when fairly due and by ed three men; laboring under no mental payable. In this way every "run upon rangement bank would bu criminal, and it is not likely that the people tolerate such per It would be well for me
