Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-09-26

correspondent of the New York Tribune writes from
Philadelphia of date Friday the Eth giving the following
of the late tragic Chrsana Lancas
ter County, Pennsylvania 1t differs sevcraI particulars
from the statement eegraphed to the presses this city
The writer Is understood TO be eminent divine OF Pha
delpha.
"Sept II, 1851. write great haste, eager correct,
as have the means doing in measure, the accounts
published i'll our morning papers, ofhe bloody battle which
took place yesterday morning al Chrisana in this STATE %
miles this side of Lancaster From indly du Just from
that place, we learn that Shareholders with his son and
nephew from Maryland accompanied by L. ;. officers of
this city and Baltimore, went to Chris,aua after fug
Ves slaves The blacks, having received notice of their
coming, gathered, considerable number of Them in
house which the savecalching party expected
The door was fastened and The blacks retired the upper
part of the house. When the STAKEHOLDER and his company
approached they were warned off. parley took place,
the Shareholder declaring it said and believed, =" will
go to hi or have my slaves" The door broken in
horn sounded out of one of the upper windows
interval company OF blacks, armed gathered Oh the spot
and The negroes IN the house made rush down stairs and
crowded the whites out.
Here the parey resumed the spokesman ofthe blacks
telling the white men away; they determined he
said 10 die rather than 60 into slavery, allow any
their number 10 be taken He declared moreover that the
blacks would fire, but if the whites they
men, shortly, first the nephew, then the slve-Owuer and
his son fired revovers wounding number of the blacks
but not seriousy,onem man had his perforated by ball
The clothes OF others pierced and torn, but the
blacks said aterward the Lord shook the balls their
clothes The fire of the whites returned. The slave
fell dead and his very dangerously wounded The
whites then returned. One of the L. :. officers
ed posse but in vain. Some OF the ncighbors uakers.
ana Ahi-SaNery persons went and took up the wounded
man and carried him To of their homes where while
with him in his acts and abhored the wicked business
which he had been engaged every attention paid him.
Medical aid Instantly sent for the effect of this
upon The young man, informant told may easily
be imagined. He "ept and vowed, if he lived correct
the impression people had at his home about the Adolf
uonsts. The Doctor pronounced his wounds mortal.
People gathered in large numbers at this scene of
blood. The excitement immense. Opinions and feel
ngs concted of course, but there strong feeling
the behalf OF the blacks. While the crowd talking
and during the Torment two blacks brck makers passed
One OF the crowd exclaimed There fellows who
should be shot p The black men paused and faced
crowd and said calmly something this Here we
shoot if you choose suffering people any
how. God made us black: can't help that; shoot if
you WILL The revulsiUn instantaneous and strong
and any who had muttered word against the blacks
would have been Knocked down on the spot
is not true that the blacks had been couuseed resist
They had been repeatedly advised fight but flee
Canada.
Our informant, aged eminent member of the So
ceiy of Friends does testimony cfan
witness. lie had the dead ody of the ehold
He knew the people who charge wounded
He knew that the blacks been counseed against
resistance. The friends Of the slave and the fugitive
neihbUhood Quakers. Further than this the
account OF resident IN that vicinity who gives US what Is
the probable truth OF the according 10 the state
those In the neghborhood best acquainted with
circumstances. In few days it be hoped that the
truth will ascertaned with more certainly Although by
questioned at first which fired first, the settled belief
the place is that the whites fired first stated above.
Yours. for truths sake w. II. +.
In addition TO the facts contained above
the IbaHs learn from another correspondent,
that the in the issued by Commissioner In
graham of Philadelphia, and that the depuied
ecue it was John. Egan commonly known HOss Egan
formerly anOtOrOus member Of the gang hiers and
equally notorious sslaye-cacher under the law.
There twenty in the cOlOred party, and fifteen
whites. Several OF the whites wounded, one Ba-
officer, severely, by balls through both Of his should
There eighteen shots fired by the Shareholders
party