Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-01
Boxing NegrOeS-Or a new mode Of trans
porting them North.

Nc small circumstance has created so great
sensation in our midst for many years. as the
one we are about TO relate and though no
lives were lost, nor " hair breadth" 'scapes
enacted, we doubt if any other occurrence,
however grave, could tend 10 arouse such
universal excitement, unless its nature were
OF a similar character. The %sup2osition has
been verified that we have abolition emissa-
ries in our midst, poisoning the minds of our
slaves and inducing them to escape from a
life of servitude, (where the negro ever en-
joys the greatest comforts TO northern Sec
tions, where every hand is raised against
him, and where poverty, misery and hunger
continually hang around his neck.
This morning, about 7 o'clock, a dray drove
up 10 the Express Office door, having on it
two boxes, the driver putting the following
ticket in the hands Of Mr.. VIM. b. BarroIl,
the agent:
"May s-Two cases from Fl. Tyler to Adams &
Co.'S Express.
The express wagon being full at the time,
Mr.. Barroll, after examining the boxes, and
having his suspicious aroused, pocketed the
ticket, and ordered the drayman 10 take them
TO the depot. There he made a second ex-
animation, with the aid of Mr.. Morrison, his
assistant, who, on knocking off a board from
one of the boxes, discovered a negro fellow
alive and kicking, snugly slowed away for a
northern trip. The cars being about TO start,
MI. u. whispered the occurrence to the Cap.
tain OF the train, requesting him to arrest
any passenger that might ask for the boxes.
and then, replacing them in his wagon, drove
off to the Mayors Court.
Mr.. Sanford, one of the proprietors of the
express line, TO his credit be it said, had eau
toned the agent in this place against boxes
OF this kind-otherwise, they might have
been put on the cars and carried North but
without doubt, both the negroes would have
sufiocated long before reaching their destina.
ton. The boxes were about 4 feet long, by
Is inches wide, and . feet deep. Each one
had a small hole, intended for ventilation
but once slowed away in a close car, with
plumber Of all kinds around and about him.
sufocation would have been inevitable
Each negro had a bladder of water and some
clothing IN the box with him. So much for
detection. Now as to how they became box
ed up.
Sawney. a negro of good character, and
for many years butler at the Columbian Ho-
tel, asserted that Samuel A. Smith, well
known TO our citizens as the "Red Boot
man, coaxed and persuaded him TO 90 of,
and, for the sum Of 5000 boxed him up and
agreed to take him to Philadelphia. Alfred,
a servant at the Washington Hotel, also as
serts the same thing, save that he only gave
Smith $40. The boxes were directed to Is
Williamson, 80 Buttonwood ST., Philadel-
phia.
On examining a few witnesses, it was as
that the identical dray and boxes
above mentioned, were seen 10 come from an
alley in rear of Smiths residence-that
smith was seen watching the boxes This
~ AFpinn- that he AAI -,
Alfred and Sawney on Saturday last-and
tina, the hand writing on the draw ticket cor
responded with Smiths writing on SteDhen
H.. Fishers book, for whom Smith does bu-
siness.
Samuel A. Smith is a man of notorious
character, and our police and citizens gener-
ally were at no loss 10 believe him capable
OF anything dishonest. He was " headed"
by the telegraph at Fredericksburg, arrested,
and is now in Jail TO await his trial I; and if
Justice is not "boXed up" or "suffocated"
IN some other way, will doubtless, ere. lone.
be cheek-byjowl with his old associate and
and comrade. Blevins, in the State COLLEGE.
Richmond Republican.
The same paper of a subsequent date con-
aims the following additional statements con.
the man who has 4" fallen among
Samuel A. Smith is a man 80 or 40 wears
age. we suppose, about 5 feet Q inches
high, red face, high cheek bones, blue, dan
cling eyes, long nose, dark chssnut hair, and
10 rather a pleasant looking man. lie ap-
peared in Court, dressed in a reddish grew
close-bodied coat of summer goods, striped
vest and %cravat, and grey striped pants, with
gold batons in his bosom.
When arrested in Fredericksburg by Lieut..
and others, he expressed great sur
PRISE at such an event, and could not con.
ceiye for his life, why he was thus seized,
Oh Inc Pahiic highway. After being taken
from the cars Into the Telegraph Office, he
huently with the spectators on va
nous subjects, particularly that Of lottery
and seemed TO enjoy a high aow Of