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London, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

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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 breakfast, the morning being a delightful
one in the latter part of the month of-May, I took
my seat on the box by the side of the driver, and
behind me on the top was seated a bright, intelli-
gent looking mulatto boy, apparently 18 _or 19
years of ago. After being on the road a few min-
nutes I turned about and asked him where he Waft
going. He replied he was going down a few miles
to live with Master who kept the stage-house
at the west stand ; that he had lived with him the
last summer, and that his master had sent him
down to live with him the coming season. Turn-
ing from the boy, the driver lit:marked to me in an
under tone, "The boy is deceived ; I am taking
him down to the slave-pen a few miles on, where
slaves are kept preparatory to being sent to Loui-
siani ; this deception is practised to get him from
his home and mother without creating a disturb-
ance on the place." Shortly after we drew near
to the place where the boy supposed he was to
stop ; he began to gather up, preparatory to leav-
ing the stage, the few articles he had brought away
from his home. The driver said to him in a de-
cided tone of voice, "You are not to get off the
stage here." The boy, in astonishment, replied,
" Yes, I is ; I'se got a letter for Master rge
going to lice there this summer." By this time
we had reached the house, and Master —, making
his appearance, John (for that was the name of the
boy) delivered his letter and appealed to Master --
to be delivered from the command of the driver.
The master made no reply, as this kind of decep-
tion 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 7" This last appeal
brought the response, " Yes, John, you are
sold." The boy threw himself back on the top of the
stage, and, rolling in agony, sent up such a wail of
woe as no one in the stage couldendure ; even theho-
tel keeper walked away in shame and the driver hur-
ried
into his box and drove off 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 ! .
Haley had a' toll 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 bad
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 deer, no doubt with the feeling that it was for
his life. The driver instantly dropped his reins
and pursued the boy. Proving himself no match,
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 bongo, and calling to 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 top of the stage
and taken to the woods. His reply was, "We
will hunt him for you to-morrow." The driver
said ho wished only to notify him of his being in
the woods. As we drove on I made the inquiry,
" How long have you driven a stage on this road?"
He replied, " About 15 years." "Do you fre-
quently 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-pee in hand-cuffs." After a pause,
even his driver feeling his degradation in being the
instrument of such misery, broke out in the ex-
clamation, "This is a cursed 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.

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TESTIMONIAL TO MR. R. W. KENNA RD.

On Wednesday evening, at the London Tavern, a
sumpthous banquet was given to this gentleman, under
circumstances that' deserve to be widely known in the
iron trade, of which he is so influential a member. For
a series of years Mr. Kennard's name has been familiar
to the readers of this journal as. President of the Hard-
ware-Tied Metal Trades' Pension Society, to whose funds
lie has been a most munificent contributor, as well as
taking an active part in the ministration of its affairs. In
commercial ciroles he is known as Chairman of the Tour-
nay and Jurbise, Deputy Chairman of the Northern
and Eastern, and Director of the Pernambuco Railways;
also as Chairman of the Blaenavon Iron Company, head
of the extensive Falkirk Iron Works, and prominent in
many similar undertakings of great maanitude in this
country and abroad, his enterprises in France having
led to his being appointed Chevalier of the Legion of
Honour. The object of Wednesday's gathering was
to convey the sense entertained of his character as an
employer of those in his immediate service. For this pur-
pose there had been purchased from Messrs. Barnard and
Sons, Angel-street, a magnificent 20-light silver candela .
brutu, 4t feet in height, weighing 1,200 ounces, origi-
nally made for the Great Exhibition, at a cost of about
2,000 guineas, and probably one of the most superb pro-
ductions of the kind ever seen, from its combination of
elegance of design, massiveness of material, and
elaboration of detail. In presenting it, Mr. Joseph
Crowther, foreman of the London branch of the
house, in Upper Thames-street, and upwards of a quar-
ter of a century in Mr. Kennard's employ, said it
was the result of the spontaneous contributions
of every class of labour in the establishment,
from the shoeless black-faced boys at the Scotch
works, earning five or six shillings a week, and who had
to be restrained in their offerings, to the various beads
of departments, in the receipt of large salaries, forming,
in the aggregate, with their families, several thousand
persons dependent on the firm. dr. Crowther, in a
speech characterised by equal good taste and feeling,
significantly dwelt upon the length of time Mr. Ken-
nard retained around him those who once entered the
service, saying that that one fact alone' would demon-
strate why it was all in his employ made his interest
their interest, and looked to and reverenced him as their
poofints all
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benefactor, adviser, and friend, not as merely
bound to them by the ordinary relations between
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how entirely his sentiments were appreciated.
Mr. Kennard made a graceful and suitable acknow-
ledgment, in very effective terms, saying that there was
no pecuniary legacy, no possible honour, he should be so
proud to bequeath his sons ['three of whom were present]
as to the memory, symbolised in the beautiful object before
him, of their father having been considered to have done his
duty to the best of his ability by those who hadthemeans
of testing the sincerity of his intentions by constant ass°.
elation with him in the every-day occupations of life. He
then proposed the health of all employed by the firm of
Kennard and Co., Mr. Nottage responding amidst great
applause. Mr. Rose (Alderman of Thames-street Ward)
Mr. J. M. Morris, solicitor, and other visitors, having
spoken to various toasts, the business of the evening termi-
nated, it being remarked by some of the guests who had had
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the other, which such occurrences so frequently abound
in.—Birmingham Journal.

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CRYSTAL PALACE.—Half-Crown Day, Saturday, Dec'
6.—Admissions on payment, 349 ; do. by season tickets
1,548 ; total visitors, 1,897.
A MONSTER SHARK,—The New Orleans Picayune tells
the following
:—" We have read many fish stories, and
they are generally of that tenour that the very name in-
clines one to disbelieve them. We have one to tell now,
and, as we know the person who was the main actor in
the incident, we can vouch for its being true, particularly
not expecting
teirg of the fish
as there is ocular evidence of the matter. Sorn2adsasytshargeow,
the captain of a ship at anchor outside the r
overboard a shark hook baited, in the least
as the captain himself says, to catch
'man-eater.'
kind, and as it afterwards proved, .a regular
be his capture could ef-
fected.
tribe. There was hooked, however, a sharkany of the spotted
be imagined from the fact
He had to be harpooned before.
Hissize and weight may .
red 17 feet 11 inches in
the isiainyard. The monster
measured it took 11 men to hoist
and 9 feet in circumference.
mheiruasulD with a double lift on
length, from tail to snout,three of the rows being al-
ums. His liver exactly filled
most hidden in the_llis
uppere" paunchg was found the body of a
up a beef barrel. 1
dstate. So far as could be judged
man in a half decompose
He had seven rows of teeth,
of a well dressed man, of medium
shoes nearly new, of the Con-
silk under
size—shirt white, with
the
shirt, cotton socks,d. pearl buttons, coarse
The shark bad also in his stomach se.
gress gaiter kin
• of old canvass, such as are used
by vessels
veral pieces
The
corpse wasthatand
on their rigging.jawbone of this seapirate
is large has been
ht up to this city. It enough to take in a
brought
sugar barrel."
[ADvEBTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills
certain Remedies for Sore Legs.—Mr. Johnston, chemist,
of Great Howard street, Liverpool, informed Professor
Holloway that Mrs. Jackson, residing
near his establish-
ment, had suffered for many years from an ulcerated leg,
during which time she was applying remedy after remedy
without any permanent benefit ; consequently, as a last
resource, he recommended her to try Holloway's Oint-
ment and Pills, and these medicines have been the means
of effecting a complete cure, to the great satisfaction of
herself and others who had considered her leg incurable.
—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world;
at Professor Holloway's establishments' 244, Strand,
London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A.
Stamps, Constantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E.
Muir, Malta. .

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