Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-05
[FRoM OUR CITY REPORTER.

lFROM OOh III
During the whole of Sunday, Monday,
and Tuesday last very gre at excitement has
prevailed in this city and Georgetown, arr
sing out of the fact that many citizens oil the
two places had been deprived of their ser
wants, and its being ascertained that they had
been taken on board a suspicious vessel
which had brought wood to this city, and
left the wharf at the foot Of Seventh street on
Saturday night, and set sail down the river.
Although among the missing slaves were a.
bout eighteen or twenty from Georgetown, it
was also ascertained there were more than
thirty belonging to citizens of Washington.
The citizens of Georgetown determined
on Sunday 10 give chase to the piratical
schooner; and having procured the steam
boat Salem, Captain Baker, the pursuers, a.
bout thirty in number, armed with muskets
and other weapons, left Georgetown at o.
clock, and as quickly as possible followed
the schooner down the Potomac. There
were various reports in the city on Monday
night that the runaway slaves had been cap
tured, after a desperate struggle, in which
seven of their number were killed but none
of these reports were true. Nothing was
known of either the fugitives OF their pursu-
ers until about seven o'clock on Tuesday
morning, when the Salem arrived at our
steamboat wharf, bringing with her the
schooner and all the slaves prisoners, togeth-
er with EdU0rd SdyreS, a white man, who
was captain of the schooner, and a person
named Daniel Drdyton, of Philadelphia, who
had chartered her.
1t appears that the Salem discovered the
schooner (called the Pearl) lying in Corn
field harbor, at the mouth of the Potomac, a
bout two o'clock on Monday morning. The
fugitives, II in number, were fast asleep be-
low, and Edward Sayres, the captain, Ches-
ter English, a white boatman, and Daniel
Drayton were also below. Tit Salem be-
ing Immediately run along side the Pearl,
the Georgetown party almost instantaneous
" boarded her, fastened down the matches,
and secured the fugitives and the white men
on board. The movement was a rapid and
successful one, and all on board the Pearl
were thus made prisoners without bloodshed,
although it was evident that the slaves would
have resisted if there had been any chance Of
escape.
On the arrival of the Salem and the schoo'
ner at the steamboat wharf yesterday a large
number of persons were assembled, some o.
whom used very threatening language to-
wards the white men who were brought W
prisoners ; and if the latter escaped without
serious personal injury, it was owing to the
prudence and irmness of the guard by whom
they were attended, and their being quickly
conveyed TO Jail in a hack, which was press
ed into immediate requisition.
We called at the Jail yesterday, after tn,
safe Judgment of the prisoners and the fugi
tives, and we learned from the commitment
of Justice Williams, who went down tn
Potomac in the Salem with the pursuing par
} ty, that Edward Sayres, Chester English
, and Daniel Drayton have been committed 70
further examination on the charge of adm!
5 slaves to escape from their owners.
The f~ugitives consist of thirty-eight mer
T twenty-six women, and thirteen chlldren.-
3 They are now all in prison.
1t is certainly very much, as we conceive
: to the credit of the pursuing party that the.
! succeeded in capturing the fugitives and the
aiders and abettors without bloodshed, an
in so expeditions and e%ffectual a manner.