and leaving them to waste in jail; then releasing them before the court sits, and charging the fees to the State; or releasing the poor prisoner on receiving “black mail” for the kindness; giving one man a peace-warrant to oppress another whom he knows cannot get bail; and where a man has served out the penalty of the crime for which he was committed, give a peace-warrant to his adversary that he may continue to vent his spleen upon him.  In this manner, we have known a man who had served seven months’ imprisonment for assault and battery, by an understanding between the magistrate and the plaintiff, continued in jail for several years upon a peace-warrant, issued by the magistrate from time to time, until at length he shot himself in jail.  The man was a peaceable man, and of a social temperament.  He had been offered the alternative of leaving the State, but he scorned to accept it.  To show that we are correct in what we say respecting some of the Charleston officials, we insert an article which appeared in the Charleston Courier of Sept. 1, 1852:—­[For the Courier.]

“Many of the quiet and moral portion of our community can form no adequate conception of the extent to which those who sell liquor, and otherwise trade with our slaves, are now plying their illegal and demoralizing traffic.  At no period within our recollection has it prevailed to such an alarming extent; at no period has its influence upon our slave population been more palpable or more dangerous; at no period has the municipal administration been so wilfully blind to these corrupt practices, or so lenient and forgiving when such practices are exposed.

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“We have heard it intimated that when General Schnierle is a candidate for the mayoralty, they are regularly assessed for means to defray the expenses of the canvass.  Instances are not wanting where amounts of money are paid monthly to General Schnierle’s police as a reward for shutting their eyes and closing their lips when unlawful proceedings are in progress.  We have at this moment in our possession a certificate from a citizen, sworn to before Mr. Giles, the magistrate, declaring that he, the deponent, heard one of the city police-officers (Sharlock) make a demand for money upon one of these shop-keepers, and promised that if he would pay him five dollars at stated intervals, ’none of the police-officers would trouble him.’  This affidavit can be seen, if inquired for, at this office.  Thus bribery is added to guilt, and those who should enforce the laws are made auxiliaries in their violation.  Said one of these slave-destroyers to us, ’General Schnierle suits us very well.  I have no trouble with General Schnierle’—­remarks at once repugnant and suggestive. * * * We are told by one, that Mr. Hutchinson, when in power, fined him heavily (and, as he thought, unjustly) for selling liquor to a slave; hence he would not vote for him.  An additional reason for this animosity toward Mr.