Republican Advocate Batavia, Genesee County, New York State January 18-1859 The Slave Traders. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 11 A private despatch from Charleston says that the cases of the crew of the Ketch Brothes[sic], charged with Slave trading were taken up in the U.S. District Court to-day, and that the Grand Jury ignore the bills of indictment against them. St. Louis, Jan. 13. Col. SUMNER left for Fort Leavenworth yesterday, under orders from the War Department. It is thought that his transfer has reference to the disturbances in the southern part of Kansas. John M. GUTHRIE, who left Salt Lake Nov. 26th, gives a painful account of the sufferings of men and animals on the Plains in consequence of the coldness of the weather. Men were frozen to death at nearly every station on the route. Ten of Maj. RUSELL's men have been frozen at one time. The snow was very deep and the weather was colder than it had been known for 30 years, the mercury sinking to 27 degrees below zero. * Charged with Robbing the Mail. Mechanicsville, Saratoga Co., Jan. 6th--John MARR, of this village was arrested last evening by Mail Agent HOLBROOK, charged with robbing the mails at the Mechanicsville Post Office. He was committed to the Troy jail. His depredations have been extensive. * Plucking a Buffalonian. The Chicago 'Journal' of Monday has the following: "John BROWN hails from Buffalo, but is not necessarily on that account, over sagacious, as the following exhibit shows:--He arrived in this city on Saturday night, en route for St. Louis, to visit his brother. A hackman, Timothy CONNER, who drives hack No. 11, on the lookout for 'seeds,' espied in John BROWN, one of the most fruitful kind, and overhauled him. Having ascertained where he was going, he invited him to jump into his hack. With infantile innocence, Brown got in. CONNER first drove him to the Commercial House and then requested a settlement as follows: Three dollars and fifty cents for bringing him to the house, two dollars for carrying him to the depot, and to cap the climax, one dollar more, as they would have to cross a bridge where there was a heavy toll. Verdancy paid the hackman six dollars and a half, but before they had left the house, the hackman bragged so freely about doing a seed, that it attracted the attention of a policeman, who took him into custody. This morning Justice STICKNER held him for further examination, in the sum of $400 bail." * Fatal Accidents to Children. Mrs. PEDLEY, of Lockport, put her child, eight months old, in a wood-box, near the stove, for safe keeping, while she went to the village. During her absence, the woodbox took fire and the child was burned to death. A son of Capt. Joseph WETER, of Buffalo, three years old, fell into a keeler of boiling water, on Monday afternoon, and was fatally scalded. A child of Mrs. BRADY, of Auburn, four years of age, was standing by a stove on Saturday evening, and its clothes took fire. Before assistance could be rendered, the child was fatally burned. * Horrible Death. The Wayne Democrat Press says that a man named David BARRY, employed by J. SHERIDAN & Co., as foreman on the public works at Pit Lock in the Eastern part of that county, came to a most horrible death on Friday last. He was engaged in prying off the edge of a frozen bank with a crowbar, when suddenly the earth upon which he was standing gave way, precipitating him into the pit beneath, when he struck upon the crowbar which had fallen with him. The bar chanced to strike end first, and stood perpendicular when poor BARRY struck it. It penetrated his body some nineteen inches, causing death in about seven hours. * A farmer living near Dansville, Livingston county, was awakened some few nights since by a noise in his stable, and seizing a club went out and found two men in the act of stealing his horse. The farmer inquired, "Who is there?" when one of the thieves presented a pistol, but without waiting for him to fire, the farmer dealt him a stout blow over the head which almost instantly killed him. The other thief made himself scarce. There were about $400 found on the body of the dead man, but nothing affording a clue to his identity. * submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************