THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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Grant refused to give them up, or the keys of the 

 prison : he ortered, however, no other resistance, and 

 the people at once broke open the doors. They tiien 

 took the prisoners, placed them in an open wagon, 

 their irons on them, took up the line of march wilh- 

 out tlie least noise or conlusion, (o the spot ol ground 

 where tlie murder was attempted, about tour miles dis- 

 tant. By this time the number assembled was be- 

 lieved to have been at least two thousand. Alter 

 arriving on the ground, Mr. O'Hara, a member of 

 the bar, addressed the people lor some time upon the 



Sropriety of permitting the law to take its course. 

 [e was listened to with the utmost silence and respect, 

 but without apparently altering the determination of 

 a single person present. The preliminaries were then 

 adjusted, and the prisoners were asked if they had 

 any thing to say previous to the closing of their earthly 

 accounts. One of them, May the, addressi^d a lew j 

 remarks to the people, admitted the commission of 

 the act for which they were to suffer, denying, how- 

 ever, that it was his wish to commit actual murder. 

 Religious service was then performed by a clergyman 

 present, and Maythe and Couch were hung in their 

 irons, upon a tree standing over the same spot where 

 their crime was committed. Rude coffins were con- 

 structed, and they were buiied. The crowd then dis- 

 persed in the same perfect order." 



The New York times says that the steam frigate 

 built in New York, by private contract, for the Rus- 

 sian government, will cost less by 40 per cent, than if 

 it had been built at the United States navy yard. The 

 vessels of war built at our navy yards are overcharged 

 at least as much. The steam ship Mississippi, now 

 building, at the New York navy yard, has already cost 

 $700,000, and before finished will cost a million. 



The Mobile Register says that the probable loss of 

 that city by the failure of S. V. S. Wilder is over 

 $300,000. 



•' The Chattahoochee Railroad Bank of Georgia, 

 which has just failed, is said to have been one of the 

 most stupendous frauds ever exposed. The whole 

 country is represented as flooded with its issues, 

 amounting to millions. The nominal capital of the 

 Bank is three millions of dollars, although it is said 

 there have never been three millions of cents paid 

 in, nor had they ever ten thousand dollars in specie 

 in their vaults. The Chattahoochee Bank has been 

 a swindling concern from first to last, from alpha to 

 omega. Its very first step in obtaining a charter was 

 a fraud upon the Legislature, as it is well known such 

 a thing as building a road was never in serious con- 

 templation. Not a dollar was paid in by the stock- 

 holders, but upon the naked charter they went on to 

 issue bills without limit. Now it is said the Bank is 

 broke. How broke .' How could it break, if there 

 was the smallest particle of honesty in all its transac- 

 tions ? For nearly the whole of the time the Bank 

 has been in operation, specie payments have been 

 suspended. They have paid nothing out but bills. 

 How then, we repeat, could they break ? The closing 

 of this Bank, it is said, is the largest fraud ever com- 

 mitted in Georgia, as there are more of their bills out 

 than there has ever been of any other institution 

 which has heretofore failed. The Macon Bank fraud 

 was but a trifle to it. The distress it will produce is 

 incalculable. There is scarcely a man or woman in 

 that section,, who has any bills at all, but has the most 

 of them at this Bank. This, added to the pressure 

 of the times, will make the distress enormous." — Phil. 

 Ledger. 



The bill to borrow $12,000,000 for the government 

 of the United States has passed both houses of con- 

 gress. 



Hostilities have been commenced between the 

 Argentine and Monte-Videan republics. A battle 

 had taken place between their naval forces in the 

 La Plata, of Monte- Video, in which tlie latter had 

 been worsted. ' 



The Texian government was about to send a body 

 of 300 soldiers to invade Santa Fe, and withdraw that 

 ])rovince from the Mexican power. 



Friday, July .30, 1841. 



Slcam navigalionon canals. — Lieut. Hunter's steam- 

 er Germ, made its appearance last week at Elizabeth 

 City, N. C, causing all the natives to stare and won- 

 dei. It passed through the Dismal Swamp Canal at 

 the rate of six miles an hour, "without pioducing as 

 much ripple as an ordinary canal boat," and thus re- 

 moving " all doubts of the practicability of navigatin"' 

 canals by steam, without injury to the banks." Last 

 evening the Germ arrived at our wharves, and at- 

 tracted considerable attention. She is about fifty feet 

 long and nine feet beam. Her wheels, one on each 

 side, work horizontally, and completely under the 

 water, with a projection on either side the depth of 

 the paddle, so that the whole machinery may be con- 

 sidered as entirely confined within the boat. She 

 will make a short trij) to-morrow, with several scienti- 

 fic gentlemen on board. She is now lying near the 

 Navy Yard, and has created considerable excitement 

 among the curious. She is to proceed to New York 

 in a lew days. — Phil. Gaz. July 26th. 



There were recently some executions in Illinois, 

 under "Lynch law," by a band of self-constituted 

 " Regulators," which, in undisguised lawlessness, 

 scarcely fell short in enormity of the deliberate Lynch 

 murders in Kentucky, stated in last week's summary. 

 The following are striking but legitimate results of 

 such acts,and of the state of society which permits their 

 perpetration. "The Rockford (Illinois) Star had the 

 independence to maintain the supremacy of the laws 

 by condemning the recent proceedings" by the mob, 

 in the execution of the Driskclls. The citizens, 

 thereupon, pretending to regard it as an appeal to 

 the horse thieves to rally and retaliate, assaulted the 

 printing office, broke the press, and scattered the type 

 through the streets. From the lawless spirit which 

 these citizens have shown, it is very evident that they 

 would lynch the jury that would convict any one of 

 their number of the murder, and probably hang the 

 judge that would sentence them. Such is the jusiice 

 of mob law, and the regard it shows for the rights 

 of individuals. Those who countenance it do more 

 wrong to society than would ensue from the crimes 

 which it is the pretended object of mob violence to 

 punish and check." 



The rebel federalists of Mexico ^Te gaining ground, 

 and there is every prospect of their success over the 

 existing government. 



Another case for Mr. Justice Wiley. — " An express 

 arrived in town this morning, from Jacksonville, Illi 

 nois, bringing a handbill, announcing the robbery of 

 the branch of the State Bank of Illinois, of about 

 $^■90,000 dollars. We copy it. 



'FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. 



The Branch of the State Bank of Illinois at Jack- 

 sonville, was robbed last night, Sunday, the 11th inst. 

 The doors were entered by false keys. The following 

 is the probable amount taken by the robber, to wif: 

 .'ii7S,000 of paper ; about .f 47,000 of the above was in 

 Parent Bank paper, the balance mostly in notes of the 

 Branches, and Bank of Illinois. About $8,000 in gold, 

 and 3 or $4,000 in silver. The above reward will be 

 paid for the recovery of the money and the detection 

 of the robber. J. P. WILKINSON, President. 



Jacksonville, July 11, 1841.' 



"We learn in addition to what is stated, that the books, 

 papers, and evidences of debt, were cut up, mutilated 

 and destroyed by the robbers — for there must have 

 been several persons engaged in it; and that part of 

 the banking house was occupied as a residence, by the 

 teller."— 61 Louis N'ew Era. 



The facts of this robbery (like most other of such 

 successful and clean jobs) show conclusively that 

 officers of the bank committed or directc<l the robbery. 



