The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-30 00:00:00

A 'CUTE QUARTERMASTER.

The feeling here:is steadily in favour of eman-
cipation, and not a few are praying that the war
may continue until the foul curse is blotted out.
The army is bitter towards this cause of our war,
and few of the officers or men are mean enough to
be willing to return fugitives. A case has just oc-
curred,
which as related by one who witnessed the
transaction shows how any order given for the
rendition of slaves is evaded. It appears that a
fine-looking young slave girl, a light-coloured mu-
latto, belonging to a citizen of Washington, North
Carolina, had been doing house-work for Lieute-
nant Turner of Co. A, and when marching orders
were received expressed great anxiety to go with
the regiment to Newburn and escape bondage. She
took refuge on board one of the steamers on which the
24th had embarked, but just before the time for
starting her owner appeared with au order from
Governor Stanley, which read as follows :
" John Doe has permission to search for his slave
girl Henrietta, and will be protected in so doing."
This (the writer says) he presented to Quartermaster
Wm. W. Hutchins, and demanded the girl. Mr.
Hutchins, seeing the trepidation and anxiety mani-
fested in the countenance of Henrietta, asked her,
"Are you willing to return to your master ? " "Oh !
no, sir ! " she said, "please don't give me up to
him." " Let me see that order, sir," said he to the
owner, and reading it aloud, he remarked, " This
gives you authority to search for your girl; you
have searched for her, and there she is. You are to
be protected in making your search ; you have been
protected. This gives you no authority to take her
against her will. She does not wish to return to
you, and you can't take her. And now the sooner
you get off this boat the better it will be for your
skin. As he said this, with the determination of
a man who was not to be trifled with, the discom-
fited owner beat a precipitate retreat, amid the jeers
and shouts of the bystanders. This Mr. Hutchins
is a resident of Gloucester, some 20 miles from this
city.—A Boston Letter.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE NEAR

THE STEIVPONEY.

On Sunday morning an accident occurred to a
party of pleasure-seekers, which unhappily proved
fatal to one of them. It appears that on the morn-
ing named William Detheridge, striker, aged 29,
residing in the Dock, at Dudley, with his wife and.
two children, and Joseph Dotheridge, of Constitu-
tion-hill, Dudley, his brother, and his wife andd,
child, and a female relative, started with a horse
and trap, it is supposed with the intention of going
to Enville. They proceeded safely until they got
about a mile beyond the Stewponey, at the top of
Stourton-hill. Here it was proposed to give the
horse some water at what appeared to be a small
pond, but which turned out to be an old clay pit.
The horse was guided to the pit and allowed to step
a pace or two into the water when suddenly the
animal fell forward, thereby placing the occupants
of the trap in a most perilous position. BS an effort
which animals often are prompted to make
mo-
ments of danger, the horse managed in
to recover
itself, but in the jerk given to the trap one of the
children of William Detheridge was thrown into
stahvee whiastecrh,
. ildTahned father
succeeded
in
jumped into
wtahse
pushed
thetdo
doing so by hold-
ing it above the water until a board
along, upon which it floated until it was safely
landed. Unfortunately, however, the father be-
came exhausted before assistance could be ren-
dered, and h
drowned. Doubtless the mud,
which is remarkably
surface. thick in the pit, impeded his
movements, and
However this may be,a-hserseucnork;and -
dragged him down beneath the
stated that the trap and altwhe it was
a long time before his body red. It is
occupants were at
one time in the water, and if this was so, it is cer-
tainly marvellous how they escaped, as the pit goes
suddenly deep, and the sides are slippery. It is
also said that when it was proposed to let the horse
drink at the pit the deceased objected and got out
of the trap. He, however, led the animal to the
was the caution with which
ted the accident being more
be readily understood that the
heaterw
did, at
hn
ids ,
tphearthparpes;eint
thea most heartrending character—
sdciesnasetrwoa: disastrous.
character—
the father struggling to save the life of his child,
perishing before the eyes of his wife, while his
and
Ibrother, and relatives were unable to aid
o'clock, just before
is struggles. The accident occurred at
the commencement of
Divineaboutbclllrnildirnei nlbservice,
body was got out of the water.
Another report of the melancholy affair states
that the whole of the persons in the trap were pre-
cipitated into the pit. and that the deceased, after
rescuing his two children, attempted to save his
wife, who was still s'ruggling in the water, and
that while endeavouring to extricate her he was
gradually drawn down by the mud. It is also stated
that there was, some time ago, a proper fence put
round the pit, but that it has gradually disappeared;
and it is further said that the deceased was not suf-
ficiently cautious in leading the horse to drink. The
whole of the facts, however, will no doubt be elue-
dated at, the inquest.—Birmingham Post.

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