The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-08-29
ARRAY AT SARATOGA.


notony OF that great watering place was lately
varied by an incident,-the introduction of new
fashion, not much known out of Arkansas or Tex
as, and rather uncommon even IN South Carolina,
whence the importation came
"When the Company at the union Hotel
were sitting down to tea, yesterday evening, a
young man from Charleston, S. c.. Mr.. Boykin,
with his cousin, Miss Ross, and another lady, his
aunt, proceeded to take possession of three chairs
which had been assigned them, but which the
servant, colored man, who had them in custody,
believed to be, and said were assigned to another
party who had previously occupied them, but
who, it appears, had left without the servants
knowledge. The persons who kept the hotel
books, or who had the arrangement fthe seats at
table, it seems, had omitted to inform the servant
of the change in the occupants, and the servant,
therefore, insisted upon preserving them for the
parties who had left. This misunderstanding led
to serions ARRAY. The South Carolina young
gentleman, with less of that knowledge of the
world and good breeding, which he will have
when he gets older, insisted upon having the
seats, and the servant, probably, with none ofthe
good breeding and suavity of the better educated
servants of South Carolina, as resoutely insisted
that he should not have them. The Carolina
gentleman then put himself on par with the ne
gro, and the war began. South Carolina grasped
the chair, and Cuffee retreated. South Carolina
fees head and ears, and the fair lady cousin,
meanwhile, with Woman's love of peace, threw
herself between the combatants. Cuffee's friends
of Cuffee's color, rushed to the rescue of their
fellow servant on his retreat, when South Carroll
ma seeing the dark cloud gathering, seized a
knife from the table, and in Furnishing it, either
for attack or defence, drew it across the and
cheek, not of the servant who had given the Of
fence, but Of servant who was coming to the
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tel as large as the Union, and table filled with
ladies as we'll as gentlemen made sensation. The
ladies screamed, and rushed to the windows and
doors. Some nearly or quite tainted The gen.
tlemen ran to the scene OF action to insist upon
peace. Indeed, tumult created which can
be better imagined than described. Meanwhile,
the negro, with his nose streaming with blood and
in an agony Of pain, went out of the room, the
blood spouting upon those who were near him.
The injury is said to be of serious character al
though nothing alarming Surgeons in the house
Immediately dressed the wound,
Such freak as this, on the part of South
Carolina young gentleman, which would hardly
be overlooked, in that land of chivalry, was GER
tainly not to be overlooked in this non chivalrc
land of New York. The law officers were at his
side in few moments, with bill of partc ulars,
about manning, &C., that looked rather formidable
in this part of the world, where the negro, in the
eye VI INC law, Is llC GQudI vi Ul6 WIlIe Hldu.-
Indeed such was the excitement for short time,
that 1t was not quite certain but Lynch law would
be introduced into this staid and steady village,
and that the negro would not try the experiment
upon the white man, instead Of as elsewhere, the
white upon the negro. But the active interposi-
ton of the Messrs. Putnam, who were deeply
panied that their quiet house should be thus dis
honored, and OF other gentlemen also, soon resto-
red order and peace The South Carolina party
removed to the ''United States, from the theatre
OF the excitement at the Union, and the law took
possession ofthe Carolina young gentleman, mot,
however, without many EXPLANATIONS from The
young gentleman's aunt, against the injustice of
such laws, and a really chiyalrous defence of the
gallantry and heroism of her, as she thought, in
jured kinsman Bail was procured, however,
without difficulty, and to-day, | understand the
whole matter, through the kind interpositon of
Mr.. Kimball of New York, has been compromis-
ed thus the South Carolinian pays 800 for
damages done to the servants nose, and s. for
damages done to the laws and peace of the State
of New York with which compromise, as un
derstand all parties are satisfied, and so the mat
ter Drops