The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1818-08-18

Tore me, contains the names % no less a an
eight vessels from the Atlantic states, which
have entered that port within short time,
with three hundred and seventeen slaves.
Now and then seizure is made, and the
slaves are sold for the benefit ofthe United
States. But let me ask, how does this bet
ter their condition 7 They are slaves still !;
and il is an even chance that they fall into
the hands Of a mole creel task mastcr than
1.-THE one who 6rss tore them from their
friends and families, and landed them on
our shores. One hundred and thirty nine
of these poor illfa,ed human beings, some
sick and some we'll, are advertised for sale
to the highest bidder in one lo:. Read the
following description ofthem, and thank
the Almighty that he did not make the CO.
Tor OF your skin black.--Eur- Posi-.
AFRICAN NEGROES FOR SALEo
"s.* VIII be exposed for sale, for cash,a
the Sheriff's Office. on Monday the Goth Of
July, at eleven O'Clock in the morning. is9
Negroes--to wit, 81 men, Is boys, IS wo.
men and . infants, and 81 girls, fifteen Of
svhsr are sick, delivered to me by B. Chew,
Z. Lorrain and w. Emerson, Escs. agree
ably to the act entitled &c An ect respecting
slaves imported into this state in violation
| OF the act of the congress of,he United
States, approved on the I'd March, 1907"
and adjudged by the distric, court OF the
United States for the Louisiana district, to
have been illegally imported in the brig
Josefa I'd. G. w. Morgan, Sheriff"
New-Orleans, July 10.
BALTIMORE, AUGUST B.
Yesterday evening, number OF ladies
and gentlemen attended by invitation at the
seat Of Henry Schroeder Esq. in this city,
and Witnessed the opening Of the Bower OF
the plant Cactus Tyiangulavis or Nighf
blooming CtreHs. The Cover ofthis curl.
Gus plan, blooms only for single nigh.
in the year and. % the plant Is very rare
in this country, being native of the West
Indies, the company assembled were highly
gratihed by this novel and beautiful exhi-
bitions
The flower began 10 open between seven
and eight o'clock, was In Toll bloom about
eleven, closed early this morning, and has
since faded into irrecoverable decay.
Il is calculated in the Washington City
Gazette, that two thousand persons pass
from the Southern states 10 the Eastern, for
the benefit ofthe cir, in the summer season,
and that each Of these persons expends on
the journey 500 dollars, making in the
whole million Of dollars. in single season
II this be correct, it will be considered by
those who reapthe beneh, Of this expendi.
ture, q fortunate circumstances, as far a.
their profit Is concerned, that the southern
seasons are hot, anc the Inhabitants Of that
part Of our country are wealthy. A million
Of dollars year 10 no .rifiing matter for the
boarding houses, stages, steamboats,, hack |
ney coaches, merchants, merchant tailors,
shoe makers, TIC.
The remark. that worldly friends will
hardly give you the time Of day il you fall
into diversity, may have been an idea Dor
rowed from The Dial's only answering
when the Sun shines on it.
Havana, July %, lslE--The Spanish
brig of war San Fernando came into this
port on the afternoon Of the ilh inst. after
cruise Of several days on the coast Of Flor
ida. She brought in with her prize sloop
with her armament Of ~ men, sash sGygo
ora Neyyses II is affirmed by some, that
this sloop sailed from some port in Virgin
ia, bound to New Orleans, and that the Me-
groes are American property, and belong.
ing to plantation in New Orleans, whence
they were bound, after legal purchase in
Virginia ;-by others, i, is said, that the
Negroes have been piundsred from some
Guineaman"
1.-THE above vessel h believed to be, up
on good Information, the sloop Alnyrs,
Capt. Peters, which sailed hence the 9Th
June last, os,ensibly bound to St. Thomas,
and off the Hole in the Wall, fell in with
an American vessel from Norfolk, bound TO
New-Orleans, with Negroes,and piundcred
her Of them and other property. f--cdsYles.
Con Tnrs.