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London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

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Enlisting in the Confederate Nary—The
Georgia.

The woman streaked right into the house and brought
me oat a piece of bread and a bone with a little meat
on it, and said they should not ax anything from a good
faithful nigger. The man said the news was grand,and then
he told me to go up the very road I had just come down,
and I started, but only went on till I saw him go into the
house, and then turned and went softly the other way,
eating as I went along, and trying to be thankful to the
man for his good intentions, Then about the Ist of May I
began to go about at night to try to find where the S,cesh
pickets were, so as to watch for a chance to get on to Port
Royal. One night I came down to Port Royal Ferry and
hid myself in a ditch—l did not know it was a rifle pit—.
close to the causeway. I had not been there more than two
minutes before two pickets camo and sat down within five
feet of me, so near that I could hear every word they said.
Then I thought my time had come. But they went to sleep
after two hours, and I crawled away, and was getting ready
to go in for a swim to the Yankees. All at once a picket
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dare He did
not fire, but shouted to the other picket to stop me, but be-
fore they were aware of it I was clean gone. So I found it
was of no use to try to get over that way, and concluded to
try another. I got an axe and knife, and I cut a lot of
rushes, and went to work in the wood and made this
boat, It took me two days to weave it after the stuff was
all ready. The pitch I got by cutting into a tree and catch-
ing the gum. The old shutter nailed on to the bottom of
my boat came from Dr Fuller's house. It was three miles
to the water, and I carried the basket alone on my head in
the dark night for fear of pickets. It was so late in the
night when I got all ready to start on the creek that I did
not get down to the Coosa till daybreak, and so I landed on
a little h ammock close by the mouth of the creek, and hid
the boat and myself for another day. But before 9 o'clock
next night I put out and paddled over to Port Royal, too
glad to get away. The Yankee picket was not asleep. but
challenged me before I got over near the shore, and I told
him right off I was a runaway nigger coming ashore for
freedom I The Sesesh picket heard me, and after I got up
the bank he hailed across :—' Yanks, who you get ?' Yanks
say, One your fellows.' What you going to do with
him P" Don't know; what you think best?' Cut him
up for fish-bait ; he is good for nothing else.' "
Jack will prove him a false prophet. I would ask if Jack
Frowers is not as worthy of freedom as his former owner,
Dr Fuller—ay, as any other human being on God's round
earth. lie has shown the pluck, the grit, of an Anglo-
Saxon—the perseverance and heroism of a true, genuine,
and noble man,

CROWN PROSECUTION AGAINST LIVERPOOL
MERCHANTS.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday.
To-day, at the Liverpool Assizes, before Lord Chief
Just ice Cockburn, Messrs John Jones and Robert Highat,
merchants and ship store dealers, carrying on business in
Chapel-street, Liverpool, were charged, at the instance of
the Government, with having enlisted, and endeavoured to
enlist, a number of seamen and others is the service of the
Confederate navy, contrary to the terms of her Majesty's
proclamation of neutrality. The prosecution was laid under
the 59th George 111., c 69, sec 2.
The Attorney General for the County Palatine, Mr E.
James, Q.C., and Mr V. Lushington, instructed by Aieeses
Bateson and Robinson, appeared on behalf of the Crown—
Mr Temple Q.C., and Mr Baylis for the defendant Jones—
and Mr Brett, Q.C., Mr Mellish, Q.C., and Mr Gibbs for
the defendant Highat.
Francis Glasabrook was examined by Mr Lushington.
Ho said---I am a seaman, and was formerly in the Naval
Reserve in the name of Frank Rivers. I signed articles to
go on board the steamer Japan on a voyage to China in
March, 1863. 1 signed them at the Sailors' Home, Liver-
pool. After doing so I went to Messrs Jones and Highat's
office to get my advance note, and received it. I was then
told that I was to go that evening by the Greenock boat
from Liverpool. I went down to the boat, and there I saw
Mr Highat. He was giving cheques to the other men, w ho
were also going our in the Japan. When we got to
Greenock we were taken on board the Japan by a steam
tug. The Japan was lying some distance down in the
Clyde. The following day the Japan left Greenock upon
the command of Captain Hitchcock. When we arrived
off the French coast we fell in with a small stearntug,
which we took in tow. We went with her to Brest ,
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where we came to an anchor. In the evening
affled
alongside of the small steamer, and all night
we were
engaged in taking on board from her stores and
guns,
powder and shot. Mr Jones was on board at the
time.
When Lieut. Maury came on board he put on the uniform
of the Confederate States, and then all hands were called
down into the cabin. I saw Mr Jones there at the time.
He was standing at the time with Lieut. Maury, who told
us that the ship was going to sail under the Confederate
flag, and said that if we would go with her he would give
us £4 lOs per month, £lO bounty. A number of us accepted
the terms and signed articles. The Confederate flag was
hoisted at night, and we left the coast of France, and went
on a cruise as far as the Cape of Good Hope. We took and
sunk several vessels while we were flying the Confederate
flag. We returned to Cherbourg about the month of Octo-
ber, and afterwards I came to Liverpool on leave of absence.
I went to Messrs. Junes and Highat's office, where I saw
Mr Jones. He coked, nee how T liked the Georgia, and I told
him I liked the:vessel very well. On one occasion I told
Mr Highat, and he asked me ii I belonged to the Florida.
1 told him that I belonged to the Georgia, and he then said
that he wanted to send us back to the Georgia, and that we
were to go by way of Dover. I asked him for a month's
half-pay in advance, and he told me to come back at three
o'clock, and bring my wife's signature. I did so, and re-
ceived my half-pay, and was told to be down at the Havre
boat on the following Monday evening about eight o'clock.
On the Monday I went down to the Havre boat, and £3,
part of a month's pay, was given to me by a man named
Wilding, a clerk of Messrs. Jones and Highat's. I did not
go to Cherbourg again. I refused to go. I served as a
petty officer on board the Georgia.
Cross-examined by Mr Temple, Q.C.—When I came to
Mr Jones's office and represented to him that I had got
leave of absence I wished to go back again. I went down
to the Havre boat on the Monday and got the money, and
then I walked away. I had changed my mind before I
went to the boat. I had seen the American consul at
Liverpool before I went down to the boat and got the £3.
Mr Temple—Who took you to the American consul?
Witness--A man named Maguire.
Is he a detective P—l believe he is. When I was before
the American consul he told me that I should have the same
money on shore that I had had on board the Georgia.
Maguire was to be my paymaster. I was to do nothing but
walk about in Liverpool (a laugh). After I had seen the
American consul I went down to the boat and got the £3.
I went to Messrs Jones and Highat after I had seen the
American consul and received money from them. I received
money from both the American consul and Messrs Jones
and Highat. Maguire told me to go to Messrs Jones and
llighat, and ask them to give me money. I have been
walking about since the time I left the Georgia,
And receiving £1 19s 4d a month, I believe, from the
American Consul ?—Yes.
Several other seamen who had also been similarly en-
gaged, and sailed in the Georgia, were next examined, and
corroborated the last witness's statements. The wives of
several of the men were also examined, and deposed to re-
ceiving the £lO bounty and the half-pay from Messrs Jones
and Highat.
Mr Temple and Mr Brett, for the defendants, contended
that there was no case, as the enlistment, if any, was out-
side the British dominions, having been at Brest, conse-
quently not within the meaning of the act.
His Lordship overruled the objection, but consented to
take a note of it.
The learned Counsel for the defendants having addressed
the jury, a verdict of guilty on all the counts was returned.
Judgment was deferred, pending the case being taken to
a higher court on the objection raised.