The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Report of the Calpe (s.s.), arrived here from Lisbon :
Experienced heavy gales from the commencement of the
passage home, ranging from S.S.W. to S.S.E. On the
4th inst., at 4 a.m., the gale increased rapidly, so much so
that the sea had no time to get up, at the same time run-
ning with the wind at S.E. At 8 a.m., gale still increas-
ing, hove the ship,to under close•reefed maiutrysail, with
the head lashed down, it blowing furiously (from 8 a.m.
until 11 a.m.), and at that time was struck by a heavy sea,
which carried away a portion of the port-bulwarks, and
then the sea began to rise, blowing without intermission
until 2 o'clock, with a fearful heavy sea running, when it
gradually declined to a moderate gale.
ARRIVED, Dec. 11.—Jane Raymond, from St. Michaels
—Melaney, Prince Edward Island—Charlotte, Ipswich.
SAILED, Dec. 11.—Margaret, for Cork Christian,
Drogheda.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

TATTE RSALL'S.—LAsT NIGHT.

DERBY.-25 to 1 agst Goldfinch ; 25 to 1 agst Lady
Hawthorn ; 25 to 1 agst Bird-in-the-Hand; 30 to 1 agst
Glenmasson (takea); 30 to 1 agst Ackworth ; 30 to 1 agst
Henry VIII.

SLAVERY IN AMERICA.

While travelling not long ago in one of the south-western
counties in Virginia, the following thrilling incident took
place :—Starting in the stage coach, soon after break-
fast, the morning being a delightful one in the latter part
of the month of May, took my seat on the box by
the side of the driver, and behind me on the top was
seated a bright, intelligent looking mulatta boy, apparently
18 or 19 years of age. After being on the road a few minropa
I turned about and asked him where he was gulag. He re-
plied that he was going down a f:vr miles to live with Master
who kept the stage house at the west stand ; that b e had
lived with him the last summer, and that his master had
sent him down to live with him the coming season, Turning
from the boy, the driver remarked to me in an under tone,
"The boy is deceived; lam taking him down to the slave
pen a few miles on, where slaves are kept preparatory
to being sent to Lluisiana; this deception is practised to get
him from his home and mother, without creating a disturb-
ance in the place." Shortly after we drew near to
where the boy supposed he was to stop; he began to gather
up, preparatory to leaving the stage, the few articles he
had brought away from his home. The driver said to him
in a deoided tone of voice, " You aro not to get off the
stage here." The boy, in astonishment, replied, " Yes, I
is ; I'se got a letter for Master —, I'se going to live
there this summer." By this time we 'had reached the
house, and Mr. making his appearancejohn (for
that was the name of the boy) delivered his letter and ap-
pealed to Master --to be delivered from the command
of the driver. The master made no reply, as this kind of
deception was no new thing to him. After reading the
letter and folding it up, he was about putting it in his
pocket, when it flashed on the mind of the boy that he was
sold, and was bound for the slave pen. He exclaimed in
agony, " Tell me, master, if I'se sold ?" No reply was
made. He exclaimed again, " Tell me if I'se sold This
last appeal brought the response, " Yes, John, you are
sold." The boy threw himself back upon the top of the
stage, and, rolling in agony, sent up such a wail of woe as
no one in the stage could endure ; even the hotel keeper
walked away in shame. and the driver hurried into his
box and drove off in haste to drown the noise of his cry.
The passengers were all deeply moved by the distress of
the boy, and tried in various ways to soothe his wounded
and crushed spirit, but his agony was beyond the reach of
their sympathy. When his agony was somewhat abated
he exclaimed, " Oh, if they had only let me bid my mother
good-bye. They have lied to me ! They have lied to me !
If they had a' told me I was sold and I could a' bid my
mother good-bye, I'd a' gone without making them trouble
—hard as it is." By this time we had passed on some two
or three miles since leaving the last stand, when, drawing
near to a pretty thick wood, the boy became tranquil.
Waiting till we had entered the wood a few rods, he
darted from the top of the stage and ran into the woods,
as agile as a dear, no doubt with the feeling that it was
for his life. The driver instantly dropped the reins and
pursued the boy. Proving himself no match, he returned,
exclaiming, "You see, I have done what I could to catch
him." He mounted his box, and drove on a mile or so,
when he reined up his horses to a house, and, calling the
keeper, asked, " Where are your sons ? " He:replied they
left home this morning with the dogs to hunt a negro, and
would not be home before night. The driver said to him
that Mr. had sent his boy John on the stage that
morning to be delivered at the pen, and that he had jumped
from the stage and taken to the woods. His reply was, "We
will hunt him for you to-morrow." The driver said he
wished only to notify him of his being in the woods. As
we drove on I made the enquiry, " How long have you
driven a stage on this road ?" He replied, " About 15
years.' "Do you frequently take negroes down to the
slave pen ?" " Yes, frequently." " What will become of
this boy, John ?" He replied, "He will skulk about the
woods until he is nearly starved, and will some night
make his way up to his master's house, and in about two
weeks I shall bring him down again to the slave pen in
handcuffs." After a pause, even this driver feeling his
degradation in being the instrument of such misery, broke
out in the exclamation, " This is a cursed bad business ;
but in this case this is not the worst feature in it. The
man who sold him is his own father.—New York Paper.

TWOPENNY LITIGATION.—On Wednesday an action was
brought in the County Court of Clerkenwell to recover the
sum of twopence, which the plaintiff had invested in a
purchase at defendant's shop. It was admitted by plaintiff
that the defendant had offered to return the money, and
that the action had been brought to gratify personal feeling.
The judge, without calling on the defendant, dismissed the
plaint, and ordered plaintiff to pay defendant's costs.
No MORE GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGES.—At the end of
the present month Gretna Green marriages and border
marriages will be prevented. By an act of last session it is
provided that, after the 31st December, no irregular marriage
contracted in Scotland by declaration, acknowledgment, or
ceremony, shall be valid unless one of the parties had, at
the date thereof, his or her usual place of residence there,
or had lived in Scotland for twenty-one days next preceding
such marriage.
ConoNEn's INQUESTS.—Yesterday, the Coroner held the
following inquests :—On the body of Owen Lewis, aged
60 years. Ahout three weeks ago, the deceased was hurt
on board a flat, named the George Canning, and since
lingered of the injuries, and died in the hospital yesterday.
Verdict accidental death.—On the body of a child named
Black, aged four months, that died under circumstances
which required an inquest. On the examination of the
body by Surgeon Kemp, it appeared that death was the re-
sult of tubercular disease from natural causes. VLrdict
accordingly.—On the body of an old woman named Sarah
Woods, who was killed in the London road, by a cab run-
ning over her. The driver of the cab was committed for
manslaughter by Mr. Mansfield from the police court. The
jury found a verdict in accordance with the facts.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN INDEPENDENT
GENTLEMAN FOR SHOOTING A MAN SWIM
A GUN. --
BIRKENHEAD PETTY SESSIONS.
BEFORE J. D. CASE AND J. B. SHAW, ESQB.S., MAJOR-

GENERAL SIR E. GUST AND J. E JACKSON, ESQ.
Yesterday the court was much crowded to hear
a charge preferred against a gentleman of inde-
pendent property, named Heys Pyke, residing at
the village of r
Upton. From the evidence adduced
in support of the charge, it appeared that the
prisoner was in the habit of frequenting the
different public houses in the village, and treating with.
beer whoever he happened to fall in with, and on
Saturday evening last was a repetition of his usual
liberality, when be was at a public house kept by a
person named Manley, and while there he stood a
quantity of ale, and himself and some of the party got
rather fresh. After so doing he went home, leaving
those still in the house whom he had so treated..
A. short time after, on some of the party going
home, they proposed to call at his house to induce him.
to stand more beer, and a man named Richard Mark-
leton was one of the party. They went to the back door
of the prisoner's house, at which be (Markieton) rapped
with his knuckles, but not receiving any answer he
rapped again, and immediately after a gun was discharged
from the inside. the prisoner at the same time exclaim-
ing —" I will shoot you, you B—gg—r, whereupon
Markleton said, you have done that Mr. Pyke, for you
have blown my arm off," and the injured man imme-
diately went to the house of Mr. Hewitt, a surgeou, close
by. Mr. Hewitt said that, about eleven o'clock, on
Saturday night last, the complainant came to him with a
severely lacerated arm, produced by shot, and upon
examining it, he found it to be a wound two-thirds of the
size of his band, that he extracted many of the
shots and essed it. Mr. Greatley, who appeared for
the prisoner, e,:fleavoured to show 'that the prisoner's
house had recently i,,en attempted to he broken into ;
and that, at the time of tit:eir going to the house, they
had broken some of his windo:7s by throwing stone!,
This was utterly denied by the co2lPlatnant and his
witnesses, who distinctly swore that no s:bbes. had bee*
thrown ; and that, at the time of the In:ion:Ong at the
door, no one asked from within who was there .before
the gun was fired. .The magistrates said it was a ve.-•
serious offence, and they could not think of disposingef
it summarily, and accordingly committed the prisoner
for trial, at the next assizes , consenting to take bail—
himself in 1-00 with two sureties in A'so each, for his
appearance: The decision of the magistrates seemed to
take the prisoner by surprise, as he was summoned to
answer the charge.