Daily American, Volume 1, Number 100, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 June 1855 — Page 3

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THE AMERICAN.

[From the Marion Miss. Republican, May 26-] Burning a Hegro at the Stake in Mississippi.

THE SCKSX WITNESSED BT THREE THOU

SAND CITIZENS AND TWO. THOCSAXP,

SLAVES. Some time since we published an ac

count of the murder of Miss Thornton,

hisimmediate punishment was seriously

At the late term of the Circuit Court another glass of it.' ofSumptercountv, the attorney appoin-' It

„d by the Court, in the discharge of

per affidavit sustained the application. On Wednesday last the citizens of|

South Sumpter assembled

censure, the conduct of the people of Sofith Sumpter. ^Justice was inflicted by them and a thousand deaths of the kind were too good for a devil like negro Dave.

We cut the above from the N. York

Herald

interesting young girl, residing near ing person, whh

of Sunday last

Gaston, Alabama. Immediately after ,ed coat and a»UM shiny a hat. „n

the murder and detection of the negro,] Produ^d bv the bar-tender,

it green willow stake, selected in conse- manufacture. Tne expected results quence of its indestructibility bv firo. have followed. The- wants of circulaOn the top of the pile of light wood

tlie criminal was placed, and aecuwsly

tempted to violate her person, but hau I

ed him to carry her home to her father,

which ho suffered.

ments the devouring flames were enveloping the doomed negro, his fearful

cries resounded through the air, while the surrounding negroes who witnessed his dreadful agony and horrible contor

tions sent up an involuntary howl of

horrot*. His sufferings, though excrutiating, were short in a few minutes

o'd but

r^nn"VJX^r,,1

14,flMk

nnd he was committed to prison. Hammn's.

Wi*s

n«f.ht

.. ,, nuis'iur said: Pon my word, it is hie duty, moved for a change of veil-

ue to Green the motion was sustained by the pro

me a

selves to sustain each other, a portion towjiVd the door: of them proceeded to Livingston and 1

took the miserable crimnal by force

from the jail where ho was confined. On Fridr.y last, after due preparation,

they carr ed him to the spot where he so cruelly murdered his innocent

victim, and burnt him alive at tin-

About three thousand persons were

present, who witnessed, with various

emotions, the dreadful spectacle. We were present, but hope that we will never again witness a scene like it. The

pvre vas composed of several cords ot

light wood, in the centre of which was

know

Uo'1

chained to the stake. While in this come a drug. People will not tn.ke situation he confessed his guilt, stating it, and the law makes il a legal that he had no accomplice—that be was tender in sums of not over five dolactuated by lust alono-that he had at-! !a,s:

the flames had enveloped him entirely, |and

the fire, grinning as if in hellish triumph at his tormentors. Soou all was over, nothing was left but the burning

flesh and charred skeleton of this human devil, who could thus deliberately per

petrate so foul a crime. The horrid outrage was fearfully avenged, and

though the heavens Were reaking with the stench of burning flesh, yet justice

was satisfied tho law of retaliation was inflicted as nearly as it could be while

no doubt, a [salutary effect upon the

two thousind elaves who witneKRod hiJhas

execution.

We are far from approving of the in

fliction of mob law, yet, in nggravated eases like this, popular ebulition will

manifest itsalf, and in view of the enormity of the wretch's offence, we, as a

public journalist, cannot approve, yet "we have neither time nor inclination to

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^ve been fully supplied butanolh-

er less desirable consequence has eosu-

ed lo

.wil

this

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four 0

Wdl

br^hJ

., •.. ft L.I I WUT, «U UIUSH untiring energy, and a he»rt

v" th*

contemplated by the people of Sumpter ]K. pi^d it'to his lips. Hnviuir finish-j -.u A a a it A a county, but after mature deliberate ed ,t at a swallow, he smacked l,ls hps ,-j

,l°f. ,'}t" u.

mug of

en masse

ff1*®

^ing through it, the con-

gl(p, al(3__^t/per// cl(lft-r ftS

county. -The Judge, as I must have sotno more of that. Give

llarman vt

Madeira.

it."

Mr. William McElroy'sand unanimously passed a series of resolutions, reflec

ting seriously upon the conduct of the Judge, and after having pledged them

The mug was furnished but before putting it to his lips, the imbiber said: D'AOSC ai" did you sav this was?" "Hairaan's," repeated the bir-ton-der.

The mug wnsexhausted, find also the vocabulary of praise and it only remained for the appreciative gentleman to

SHV.

as he wiped his mouth and wont •Harman's ale is it? ry well—I shall see

him soon, and settlo with htm for two glasses and a mug of his incomparable brew! Good mawnincr!

Ouu

SILVER COINAGE.—The

Courier

says:

change has bo

Th.0,,Sh ljw

failed, and to conceal the attempt he had pressed doub:.s of the soundness of the cruelly murdered her by beating the remedy adopted at the time it was proraot innocent creature with a stump P^l- Orders have been issued to sus-

that while he was doing this she in,,.lor-

"'convenience of an

-i inadequate supply oi small change was

a se,.jous ono

prudent financiers ex-

'"T »f ).»f

and the operations oi the mint are much

IV(jU(.e(it

and that she would conceal the violence •. ... _L he had inflicted. He then left, but lrit.V\

won returned, and after again boating rpAKEN up by James W. Mumlell her, he coticcaled her body in the very o'Linton Township Vigo county Indiana, one oslrav 1 ij^ht co'orcd grey tuare, stippo .cd to be eight yunrsold thissprlng.betwvt'ii fifn eu anri sixteen bands high, whh a small lump on the nrtn of the ripht. fore leg mid a scar oil the riifht. hip no olhor ntnrks or bran.Is porrrivablc—appraised nl ninety dollars by Clinton H. McOrcw and ,).*m\cs W. TioSm-r before me tins llUh day of Mav 1^55.'

hole where the stake was planted to

After this confession was made the match was suppied, and in a few mo

DAVID MII.-LER. J. P. IL. S A true copy from the Register. AND. W1LKINS, Cl'k. Mav 31st, l855-w-.lt.

NOTICE.

OTICE is hereby given that on the

'c|0ck(

ling now ana tnen »s they fitfully swayed, hither and thither, his black Honey Creek township, igo county, and burning earcass, like a demon of India™, the underrigned

revealing now aud then as they fitfully the residence of the undersigned, in I

mi) 0 sa

1 O S E S

—OK THE—

DAILY & WEEKLY AMERICAN.

THE undersigned feel gratified in being able to say to the citizens of Torfe-

Haute»

Rad

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the people of Indiana and

noi8'

that

for less than

form«r fucce**

?1 hand present prospects justify thom

"Whose Ale is it!". announcing' the Daily and" ^ekly

««\v in i- ^American as, a fixed Ja&t» and destined Willi you give me aglars *of ale, -to please?" asked a lather seedv-ish look-t i" mi. ..

P^™10™

*^7"*

"«PW* »«f The following sentiments, will embo-

wi mai!U

NATILA„ TIAU&T

the law abiding citizens delivered him and said:—"That is very fine ale—rcry. "uv* ... —o w. j: courtesy towards those who may diuer into the custody of the proper officers,

"It is Hatrman sale. eh'

,v 1st. A just discrimination in favor of

done: and holding it up to the

and

Wash

ington correspondent of .the Saw York

The Treasury is now burthened with the custody of over five millions of dollars in small silver change, from half dollars to three cent pieces. Two or three years ago there was a universal complaint of the scarcity of small coins, either American or foreign. Mr. Hunter's coinage bill was passed slightly reducing the actual vaiue of our silver

Qin and providing fur its more rapid

native bora citiiens, for all oflices of trust r.ad profit, in preferauce to those 5niN of foreign birth. |Cnal!* 2d. The Union of those State?. I

3d. Opposition t? wll local or see tional prejudices. 4th. The Uuited States of America as they are, "oueand inseparable." 5.h. No Sectarian interference in our legislation, or the Administration of Om« n« American Laws. 1 Cbjc^viis Vj* 6th. Hostility to die assumpti.ins of the Pope, through the Bishops, Priests and Prelates of the Church, or by powers of the Old World.

7 ih. Restoration of our Slate natnr-!

alizaliou laws to a correspondence with the Constitution of the United States. 8ih. Free and liberal Educational j® Institutions, for all sects and classcs, with a free use of the Bible, God's Holy Word, as a textbook.

9th. Full U»k*rance to all Religious sects, which do not conflict with the Constitution of the U. S. or the gen-) ius of our free institutions. 10th. The'Monroe doctrine'against

colonization on theAmeric.ua comment by the nations of Europe.

six

lS55

id day, at

Uu!

wHI

OST, on the Gtli inst., in TerreIlaute, a TAPE LINE, in a brass

the example made of this wretch bad, bound Asses' skin case, folding handle KirlCE

with

particular mark to describe it

W.T.GOULD.

Found, .-'w.

NEARMonday

the New Congregational Church, on mormug last, a bundle, which the owDer can have bv calling on Mi. T.Haskill, at the new Church, proving property and paying for this advertis^raant.

Mav 30, 1865 dtf

T»

l'me ..

erre nu

ex,,nse..n

O I

Bargains

lot and

sale at public auction, one Jack, for the purpose of paving the expense of keep- Firecracker*, Cegara, Grocer ies., ,- .u 'wholesale. Call s«»oii for bnrgai ing and leeding the same, the owners COM STOCK A thereof having failed for more than six June 5-dw2w months to pay for the keeping and feeding of said Jack. Amount due to this date 835,00.

A C'ARD— Having sold my establishment on Market street, East of the Senate,

ELIZABETH FOXWORTI1Y, Adm'rxof Wm. Foxworthy. June 1, 1855-3wprsfee82

TAPE LINE LOST.

and purchased Mr. Trru.'s interest in tho firm of OEO. F. RU'I-KT & Co., North of the Square, I shall take much pleasure hereafter in serving my friends, acquaintances, and the

E[ats,

ublic generally, in the line of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoos, Bonneta, &c., The business will continue without a change of firm, and will consist of Mr. G. F, RirLF.Y and the undersigned

_Mr

plates and rollers. It is new, and Warrant business, and the various duties of a

Nolary

bv. Any person finding said lino will diers, their UCNOR children, promptly and ef-

confer a favor on the owner by leaving it at this office, or with June7-dlw

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devo-

raus in wbioh thct eu

(o R)ak

,lui American a most

desirable and readable newspaper.

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with us in setitimenf

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The latest Foreign and domestic general and local news, will be carefully noted, and selections will be made in

All communications of an interest- j5® ing nature, free from personalities, 1*^*3 and unexceptional in language, will bj 6 7 0 10 II 12| 1 2 3 __ ,i rr 1 1 ,,, 1- if a' a S jrt!1own

months, and no paper -,]1E

pi red. unles bv especial an^gement

LIME! LIMJ

1 nish the best of Putnam County Lime, at Wholesale or ... known to bo the best in the Slute. for all pur-! foond in th# city.

Retail. 'I'his lime best in fitted up a lime house on

poses. I have

seventh day of July, A. D. 1855, OCT* Itcsidenee, comer of 5th and Poplar house in lie city ahall underwit ua wo do between the hours of ten o'clock, a. m., streets, where he may lie found wfcen not at

SPil

HOME MARKET.

CORRECTED I.MLY PC® THE AilKEICVN.

^WHOLESALE. Flour bbl $8.50 $0,[email protected]

Wheat Corn Bacon Flaxseed Lard Sugar Counts Molasses Tubaoco Salt Co!»l Wood rnrti Linn* bu. IfVniJiicrs Kico Wlnoky gall liulUT Ej^rv yui. \vhu« Mttckcrvi

RETAIL?

$5,00! 0 Oil

1,13

I0wEJ5

OlV^'U

90@'U

Bnthol

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00 00 Al 10 HO 15 10 if) 10

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10,00 (W

50(|to a.f'O .15 fit'

T.«r Imlisro f»'aU :UU*

welcomed to our columns. 113 14 16 le 19. 4 6 8 9 |0

ftii i(*i tft iliocourtpsios (luf4 ^6.11 12 J3 14 15 16 17 Miict ntu iition ti.ecourtesies one

20 i0 3l

to our cotempoi-aries will be preserved. i25 26 27 26 29 30 1 2 1 E E a 3 4 5 6 7 8 9] 1

Daily, per wiek payable to carrier lCcts.

per annum in advance, §5,00. 17 ifc i«i go 21 22 23j 910 11 12 13 14 15 six months, 2.50. three months, 1,25. Weekly per annum in advance, 1,00, six months, 50,] flATllVTii 11 eol iesmievear, 10.00. LUjAiNU 1.. subscription! refeivod for weekly

LARGE lot of Tea, Twbncco, Bag-Salt, Willow

Wood Ware, Matches, Groceries., etc., etc., at tlR.

Public, and will wait upon old sol-

May J9,1855. D. vS. D.

NOTICE.

"XTOTICE is hereby given that the uuderJ\i signed has been appointed Administra tor of the estate of Thomas C. Agar, late of Vigo county deceased. Said estate is supposed tobeselvent.

,B ,9 a, 22 23 24

15 ,cf 2 3 4 5 ^5 7 8

2125 28 27 28 29 30'l6 17 18 19 20 21 22 **une

oontinued.after the subsenr^n has ex- S w«it upon their fiinnds ana customer#

BE0WN & SILVERTH0RN. Publishers «fc Proprietors.

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undemgned it MOW prepared to fur-

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ll0W

nr.|,»i\.d 10

with a full and general aesortmontof Grocorie# and Provinions. Their stock compriaca, in part,, English Dairy Chie»c, Mackerel, Sugar*,

Apices, Coffee, Tea^, Mola*«e*, cttnvasscd lkef, Hams, Shoulders, ^ides, LkWI.Tutatom, Salt in sack*,

Willow aeons, Battket^ Tubs and Washboards,

and in fact every thing that can be desired, is well may be had, at cheaper rates vhan can be

O* Butter, 1%^8, ChicVens, Meal, Flour,

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Fourth, between Poplnr and Swan street#. &c., kept on hand, when they are to bo had where a good supply will be kept constantly jn the country. on hand. O" Vernon's sending children for any arti

Orders from a distance will be promptly to thtH houae, in rely on the correctness filled, on reasonable terms.

weight aiul change.

\VM. H. nOSWELL Give us a call—we are determined that no

put on the tariff when an article i« acarce. JAMISON & TERRY,

BROTHER,

No. 2 Mechanics' Row.

Corner of Market & Walnut #ts.

Mav 18, 1855-dtf

T^OR SALE-—Four good Work Horses, all young and in good condition. Inquire at J. M. ADAMS' Auction Stole.

Mav 21, lP55-dif

A a

Transportation Company. CAPITAL 8900,000. NCORPCRATED under tho laws of the

State of New York. This company have nbundant meansboth in Steam Propellers and Boats, to give auv property, Intrusted to

ood order.

D. SCQTT. Adtn'r.

31,1?55 -d 3t,

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MPRINTING OFFICE,

Welch's Block, Fourth Street,. East of the Post Office, 5f

TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA.

Bivlvn) &

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PRINTERS AND PROPRIETORS.

rpHE Pfoprktoi-s of tl.e "American Job Printing 0 Rice. are pleased to «y

tl^1 they am iio« jm»rai*J to Hit ^forders (on short notice) in the liu« ,o'f

\m\ an J-antg iolj

PRIBITmef

Our stock of typo

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A E N A

3T Kit* T»«n VKAB or ovn Lutn, 1'

and

o*her materially,,

w|90 entirely new, and of the best and?* ',( most fashionable style, purchased witbH a view of doinij all kinds of ,t

JiAlLlJOAT)

'£2

CIRCULAR

SBILL HEADS, HAND-BILLS, NOTE8,

DeodLo, Xoases

233031 jMORTGAGES, &.C., AtotBT^ And in fact every thiug in the printing 5 6 7 8 9 io ii line will be don* in a manner not to bo

2S29 30 :»1 FliBUl'ARV. 1 5 6 7 8 11 IS 1819 20 21 22 23 941(9 90 21 22 23 24 2a fices. 2 26 2i 28 .26 2* 28 29 30 31 Orders fur Printing respeotfu^ 1' lv solicited. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 May 30. 1055. fif

12 13 14 15 16 171213 14 15 16 17 18 excelled by many Western printing of19 20 21 22 2a 2 li 19 20 21 22 23 24 2a fioes.

SEPTKMBKK.

MARCH. 10 1

10 11 \$ 13 14 15

reference to the maintenance of a high ih 19 20 21 22 23 211617 16 10 20 2! 22 tone of morals in our columns. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31:23 24 25 26 27 2fe 29 The markets, of our own and of the 6 principal commercial cities of the Slates, 3 10 11 12 13 14l 1 2 3 5 6 will be correctly reported dailv and jr» 16 17 IH 19 20 21, 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ui i. wocVlv. ,kla 35 26 27 28:1415 16 1? 18 19 90 5rEa«M"»«r*enpitnltheri»k.

MONEY MADE GITICK.

rI",UKRE

1 A a 7' tnou that thry tmuuot get euiptoVni«ot OCTPBM4

great complaint amoug yomig.

that will remunerate them mr their wjrvices, To K«ch, lh«-subscriber -would c*U attention

SoT iio ni ad ot «n r,i "C8* hy which, wiUmut nnv JiS ?n unvoted can lK-d«ubleil thnsc mouthy U0 43 JU .U and by a little extra usertion owrjr two

»OVJ.MBER. siiothii. Ajjentw wx wanted in every city and

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1 G(X The merchants of Terre Haute, and adjacent country, tiro respectfully invited to take the advantages of this tine into consideration

CONSIGNEES.

llubby, Hughes Co Cleveland Brownlee, Pcnclleton and Co, Brown and King, Scott and Co., Toledo. Shew maker and Co., Terre IJaute.

Any information given bv SHEWMAKER CO., Ohio Street between Island 2d. May 24-855 and wtf.

FEW more boarders with lodging, and a number without lodging, wanted at Crain's boarding-house, in Mechanics' Row on accommodating terms.

Terre Haute, May 7, PJfS,

Unmn—you cannot oversiock

,ftrkHajltJ u»er«IS «Uwa

a ready ««1«

Oirculara containing a fall and accural description of the bu-iue**, and all tuatU'M pruining thereto, will be wot free of

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1855-d3m

ex-

ptmac lo any address, on application bv let* ver or otherwise to SAMUEL SWAN. Atlanta, 3a., or Moutgumery, A.lo*

VALUABLE HOTEL AND DWELLINO HOUSE FOR SALE.

WELL KNOWS and popular Hotel in the town of Paris, Edgar Co.. III*. Tha building is at wo atorv fraiii®, large, commodity, aud u#wly renovated,containing fifteeu rwmts, a kitchen and a wash-house, well and cistern convenient, Th«re ia a good stable containing three tier of *ta!k nttatched. Thio bou«a haa a good run of busines, asad will ba sold on very favorable terms.

Also a *paciou» dwelling houae, entirely new, within one aquare of the pubiio nqtutru, Enquire at

June 7, 1P55 dtf. THIS OFFICE.

LOOK. OUT

FOR YOUR SWINE!

"VT I ICL i« IHT' SIV given to the owner« of hoRt in the city'of Terre- Haute, that the und«r».ignoil will toke up and empound all

and that all hogs, that may be so taken up, and impounded for twelve hours, previous to 8 o'clock, Tuesday the 00, Thursday the 14t h, and Saturday Ute 16th dayf of June, IB55, will IKS soldoy rne at said pound, to satisfy the penalty and costs thai may be assessed. Ti orcfi nance for hogs runniug at large will be enforced

S. DODSON, City Marshal.

Juno 6, 1855-d tf

R. .GABBY, M. D.

Graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., ESI1U2S to inform the citizens of Terrell aute and vicinity, that he has opened an office on Cherry, between 4th and 5th sta., for the practice of the healing arts, where he may bo found at all hours, except, when absent on professional duly.

Doctor Gabby has, for several years, boea a successful "prnctioner in Pennsylvania.

jyVUVM ... Vthem,the greatest, despatch and "it* siiali be 'hat his thorough preparation for, care to transport all property safely, and

Rnr'

bis past experience the practice ef his

profeiilen will HOOD secure to nirn a liberal

share of public patronage. Terre-Haute, May 30, 1855-d2w

FRESH LEMONS. Fresh Lemons just received nnd for sale by WESTFALL A TRAPP. June 6, I8.r)5-dtf

Fisli, Fisti.

,^A BARRELS of Mackerel, of the best f)V'

brands, just received and for sale at wholesale, by R. S. COX fc CO., June 5, lf-'55-dtf

KEMOYAL.,

DR.J7square

M. Conuns, has removed

b»»

oruce

one north of tho House. Ajjril 16, dt&