Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-02-09

PLEASANT HEADING FOR A FREE PEo-
PIE VALUE OF SLAvEs.-Last Saturday,
twenty-one slaves, belonging to the estate Of VIM.
Pendleton, consisting Of old and young men, 100
men and children, and not regarded as above or
binary, were sold in this place at the average
price of 1903. One negro man, without trade,
was sold for STOPS; woman with child ten
m,Rths old, sold for $50; and girl aged eleven
yeas, Uvo. ...-eIa.stand arc ahont
the rates at which slaves have been selling for
some weeks, in this market.
1t was predicted that the passage of the COM
promise measures would have the effect OF cheap
ening, If not rendering yalueless, this species Of
property. Behold the result---Lynchburgh Pr
giniGn.
This is strong argument in favor Of the "com-
PROMISE" The people must be very obstinate,
indeed, if they can any longer oppose law which
enhances the value, and quickens the sale of
"women and children" There must be some
thing potent in the elements of a law which en-
ables the slave-trader to sell E'a avoman acith a
child ten months old for $780, And why
should not all men be denounced as traitors who
refuse to shout hosannas to a series OF measures
which run up the value of ga girl eleven years
DID, to 5000.
At Frederick the demand is not quite so brisk:
VALUE OF SLAvEs.---We attended large
sale ofuegroes in Richmond on Tuesday last,and
were surprised TO find hat the prices were less
than we had been led to believe We saw ne.
gro man, represented to be thirty, {though look
ing old) perfectly sound and of good form and
stature, knocked off at 1910. A girl Of II, tall,
genteeI, and likely, sold for $500. The highest
did not sell above 72O- Frederick .Ne,os
1t is strange that ''a negro man ofthiry'' should
"look DID," 1t should not be animated that the
'dvlue Institution has the tendency to mako
men prematurely decrepid The suggestion has
an ''incendiary odor. We are not surprised
that this man of thirty, but Choking old' brought
only 1910 But how cOnnoissenrs in ''black cat
tie" could permit ''a girl of IL, tall, gentee and
likely, to sell for $500, is mystery which the
'Unon Safety Committee should inquire into.
SERIOUS AND FATAL ACCIDENT FRoM A
SPIRIT LAMP. We copy from the Beverly Citizen
the following account of serious accident, resulting
from the use Of burning fluid. 1t does not appear
from the statement given, that the accident resulted
from careessness, to which such accidents may gem
orally be attributed:
give children of FJohn Whipple of Hamilton,
from the age of two to twelve were shockingy burn
ed on w Wednesday evening, by the bursting OF spr-
It lamp, about which they were sitting, looking over
their lessons for school, The lamp burning dmly,
one of them took it to if it needed filing when
II suddenly exploded with noise like the dIscbarg.
ing OF pistol, and developed them in a sheet Of
fire. With rare presence Of mind, the oldest boy
and plunged himself into snow drift at the
door. Three others seized by different mem
beers OF the family present. and carried to the pump,
where the fire was extinguished, while the fifth was
dipped into tub of butternilk, which very fortu-
nately was at hand.
The youngest child has since died, and one other
seems in almost hopeless condition. The others
will probably recover, though all are vely sadly
burned, their faces and upper extremetes being bis
tered and almost entirely denuded save one, who
fortunately escaped with burnt hands and arms
No reason can be given why the accident should
have occurred. There are ten children in the fam
lily, and al the time of the accident there were four
teen persons in the room. The lamp was shattered
to fragments and the pieces driven across the room
with great violence.
The appearance of the little sufferers is represent
ed as heart fending in the extreme.''