The southern press., 1850-09-06

Dudley, met with detention on account Of the
violence, of the weather, and did not come in till
near / O'clock last night. .,"
The storm has been extensive on land They
send us word that it was severe at Columbia,
and the Telegraphc communication beyond that
place, and between this and Augusta, has been
interrupted by it. 1t can hardly fill to have
done considerable injury to the crops-WH-
mi,,gton (N. CO. Chronicle.
From, the Richmond Times.
IMPORTANT ARREsr.-On Friday last, the
chief Of Police of this city received letter from
New Kent county, representing that the writer
had good reasons for believing that the Captain
OF Yankee schooner bound for Richmond, had
taken on board his vessel two male slaves be-
longing to a couple Of gentlemen residing in
lower Virginia. The writer furthermore stated,
that he presumed the Captainwould secrete the
slaves on board his vessel, whilst lying at our
wharf, for he purpose of carrying them in safe
ty to some one of the Northern free States
The writer likewise gave the name of the
schooner on which the negroes We're supposed
to be secreted
The Mayor Immediately authorized the Off
GERS of police to institute Il rigid search of the
vessels in port, designating, more particularly,
the schr. "Celerity,' Of and from New York.
Officer Wilkerson repaired at once to the wharf,
went aboard the Celebrity, and succeeded in find
ing both the runaways The faithless Captain
had quartcred one of them in the cabin, whilst
the other had been secreted in the hold of the
vessel The negroes, together with their kind
and sympathzing friend, ]. J. Williamson, mas
ter Of the schr. Celebrity, (who is, probably, one
Of Gerrt Smiths emissaries,) were taken into
custody, conducted to the cage, and securely
locked up. On Saturday morning the interest
| ing trio were brought before the Mayors Court
| for examination, but as the owners Of the slaves
we're not present to identify them, the case was
continued till Wednesday next The slaves
wee committed to Jail to await the arrival of
the owners Capt Williamson sharing their cap
tivity.
1t appears from letter in possession Of a
gentleman in this city, written by an owner of
one of the negroes, that Andrew, one of the
slaves in question, belongs to Mr.. J. Fl. Travcrs
of Brunswick county, and that he got on board
the vessel ut Newcastle; the other slave, Col
lier, is the property of Mr.. Braxton Garlick, Of
New Kent, and it is supposed that he went
aboard the schooner at Williams Ferry, in New
Kent. The owners of the slaves will probably
reach the city to-day or tomorrow.
SHAREHOLDERS GOING TO CAL1FoRN1A-We
notice that an extensive expedition is in course
of preparation, to leave Charleston, S. c., in
short time for California, composed of large
number of Southern gentlemen with their slaves;
the object of the expedition being to establish
slave colony in California. The inducements to
make the venture are of course very great and
we see that the subject has already engaged the
serious attention of numerous gentlemen in
Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, and Mississippi
Much has been said about the laws of nature
rendering it ineXpedient to employ slave labor
in California, but it is well known that many
slaves have already been taken there, notwth-
standing the hazard encountered of losing them,
and that thousands more would have been Ia
ken were the owners certain of being protected
in the right Of enjoying this species of labor in
that country Those who have already tested
the experiment, aver that slave labor is n much
better investment there than in the United
States-the labor Of single slave at the mines
being worth ten dollars per day. A slave in
California is now valued ut five thousand dol.
lars.
The success of the enterprize is rendered the
more probable, from the fact that several letters
from influential persons have been sent back to
the United States, exhibiting the proftableness
of slave labor there, and asserting that large
proport on of the citizens have become con-
vinced of its advantages and that there is conse-
quently an increasing desire for its introduction.
Atlanta Intelfig nicer.
Six MEN DRowNEp.-The Mobile Advertiser,
of Tuesday last, says q storm of great violence
was experienced at Pensacola and the Navy
Yard on Friday last, which, it is supposed, must
have extended its destructive influence for some
distance out in the Gulf The waves ran higher
--breaking on the bar and beach as high as forty
feet-than they have done for years.
Wklla tho \yas raniur n S.hOOnpr tO
the west of the Round Fort was observed to be
dragging her anchors, and likely to so ashore.
Seeing her danger, passed Midshipman Dyer, of
the U. S. schooner Flirt, MIR. Hale, Engineer ut
the Navy Yard, and four seamen, jumped into
boat and attempted to go to the rescue. After
getting outside of the bar, they pulled towards
the schooner, but, was supposed by those
Watching them, finding the waves running high,
and their situation becoming critical, they made
an effort to return. 1t was too late. After max
ing every exertion in their powor for an hour,
they We're finally driven among the breakers,
where the hand of man could not save them
from watcry grave. Parties were out on Sun
day, bat neither the bodies nor the wreck of the
boat had been found when the Swan left the
Navy Yard on Sunday evening.
1t was the swell left by this terrible storm
which the Swan met Saturday night on her pas
sage, but she rowed it with ease Several YES
sells were known to have been wrecked, but we
did not hear of any further loss of life.
MORE NEGRO STEALING Saturday
morning last a negro boy belonging to Dr.
Franklin, Of Macon, came to the residence of
Mr.. John Gavin Of this place, and says that he
was persuaded off by a man calling himself
Thomas Calhoun, under the pretence of carry
ing him to a free State BY some means the
regro found out that this was not his inten-
ton, and upon arriving at this place left the
cars. Calhoun passed up the road.--Dalton
Times.