The Litchfield County post., 1828-11-13
ISAAC B. DESHA.
N. 7. G0g.

ISAAC B. DESHA.
Extract of a letter from Thomas NJ Duke,
Esq. formerly of Washington,Ky. and now
resident in Texas.
San Felipe de Austin, July "a, 1898.
lsacc b. Desha, who was SD long confined
in Kentucky, for the murder of Baker, is now
IN confinement in this place for charge Of
the same nature. The circumstances are
these.-Last April Desha arrived here on board
the school'er Rights of Man. from New Or
leans, in company with man by the name Of
Thomas or John Early, of Brown County,
Ohio, who visited this country for the pur-
pose of removing his family here. Desha
passed by the name of John Parker; they
arrived in this town early in May, and re-
manned only d few days here, and left this for
San Antonio. When they left here Desha
Was without funds, and EARLY had pretty
smart sum with him. Dtsha arrived in San
Antonio without Early, and spent money
freely. On his return to this place | had
him arrested, and have sent out men TODAY
to examine for the bosiy of said Early. The
evidence that have been able to collect as
yet is very strong against him. and am verv
much afraid that he has murdered his COM
panion. Yesterday he confessed to me that
been idrntifdh b.. gentleman in this country.
| was satisfied in my own mind that he was
Desha, from his family resemblance and his
breathing through d silver tube kentucky
r pub.
So far, says the Frankfort Commentator
the statement given in the letter from Mr. d.
is authentic. Other accounts, which want
confirmation, state that the body of Early
had been found, half consumed by fire that
Desha had confessed the m rider, and the
murder of Baker, and says that these are mi
nor offences compared with some committed
by him.
Kentucky Justice.-u appears from the
Frankfort Commentator, that the Grand Ju-
ry refused to find a bill against john Major,
for the murder of Reuben 5. Gale, an account
of which was given in this paper three or four
weeks since. The evidence before them was
substantially the same as that before the ma
gistrate.-N Y. Spec.
StaUe Irdde.-The August number Of the
African Repository states this hateful traffic
still carried ON to a great extent, and
der circumstances of great cruelty to its I'M
fortunate victims. The La Perle, Gibbon
master. being pursued by French cutter. in
order to avoid detection. threw sixty.fiy
slaves overheard. The French slave trade
appears to be- undimlnIshrd; and the number
Ut Spanish vessels thus employed is immense.
The ravages of disease, from the crowded
state of the vessels, aud the scarcity and
wretchedness of the provisions, though thew
are shocking to the contemplation, are hardly
noticed; they are one of the circu Instances If
the trade. In Spanish schooner of 10 tons
burden, in which 221 slaves were crowded.
50 died, and the remainder We're landed in a
miserable state of disease aud elnaclation,-
These scoundr-ls, the vultures of their race.
sometimes prey on each other, often spizing
slavtrs of an inferior force, numbering the
bites, and taking possession of the cargo
To the BraZlls the trade is carried on with cir
cumstancts of the most Odious barbarity. Out
of cargo of $40, there have been known to
die 70, in passage of 46 days. On another
occasion, 1856 out 446 were released by
death.
The Philadelphia Aurora states as a fact.
that the agent of Prussian Mandatory
lately ordered machinery to the amount Of
100000 to be- made at an establishment in
New England, preferring it to what he could
obtain in Great Britain. We should like to
near some luflner particulars Nn me SUBJECT.
If the circumstances is correctly related, we
should have good Cause for evincing little
National vanity on the occasion.
The recent meeting of the "Noahites," as
the New Workers denominat4 the supporters
of NJ. NJ. Noah for the office of Sheriff. ap-
pears to have been ridiculous scene of con-
fusion and uproaI. The Major had bill Of
six dollars sent in to him, next day, for dam
ages done to turnture.S1 in Tammany Hall,
from whence we infer that his friends were
Supposed to be somrw hat boistprous. Indeed
is recorded in the National Advocate, that
ney laid violent hands on one # the editors
of the Courier-a brother Jacksonian-and
thrust him out the room.
On the 18th inst. young man named Ly-
nan Brown, of Longmeadow. Mass. while at
work on mill belonging to the Shakers at
Enfield, fell upon bed of rocks, below, dis
lance of fifty feet. He struck upon his head
md shoulder, and although apparently life
less when taken up, he was able to walk a.
bout in 4S ursalterwards. He is now near
ly recovered -,